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I'm your host here at Texas Wild and I'm live in the studio with Diana Yurick, my trusty and ever-so-present co-host and lead diver with Blue Diver Search and Recovery. Tonight, we're going to dive into the heart of what it means to seek, discover and embrace the unknown. We're going to explore the multifaceted concept of adventure, whether it's trekking through dense forests, navigating the complexities of a new career, or embarking on a personal journey of self-discovery. Adventure calls to us in all manner of unique ways, doesn't it? Yes, it does. So tell me a little bit, Diana, what does adventure mean to you when you think about adventure? What does it mean in your mind? Well, you asked me that earlier and I've kind of been thinking about it and I still don't quite have an answer. For years, I've just kind of lived my life with the attitude of living, not just surviving life. Right. If you ain't living, you're dying. And I guess that that has made me an adventurous soul, but I never once thought I'm going on an adventure, or here, let me seek out adventure. You've never thought that? No, not really. Huh. I can't relate to that. Ever since I was a kid, whether it was on the river or just riding my bicycle with my friends, it was all adventure. And that was what the allure was, you know, there's no parents here. I can do whatever I want within reason, of course. There's nobody breathing down my neck. I can go do whatever I want. It's an adventure. Yeah, I mean, and that's very true. It's just, it was never how my mind framed it. I mean, growing up, I did shooting competitions. And for a lot of those, we're often other places. And kind of, you know, in the woods where we get to go wander an adventure with or without parent supervision. And looking back on it, then I had a childhood full of adventure for that reason. But, you know, at the time, it was just life. That's just what we did. My family didn't really go on vacations. We went to shooting competitions. That's an adventure in itself. Exactly. They are adventures. I just never thought of them that way. Every day I leave the house, no matter what I'm doing, could very well turn into an adventure because it means different things to everyone. In fact, a good example was when my grandfather was still alive. He was declining mentally, and you could kind of tell. But every time he left the house, he didn't know where he would end up. It was a very much an adventure for him. Yeah, I remember I was in Denton one day. On some side street in the middle of nowhere, just completely at random that day. And I saw my grandfather drive by in his white Old Mobile station wagon. And I thought, "What the hell is Paul doing in Denton?" And I called him later that day. I said, "I saw you up in Denton today." And he goes, "Yeah." I said, "What happened? How do you wind up out in Denton?" He goes, "I'm not sure." It was off the highway. It was on the access road, and I was facing the highway. And he drove through the intersection. I was going the opposite direction. I had a work call or something to do, but he said, "I don't know. I mean, by definition, he was on an adventure. He may not have realized it, but I mean, he was." He quit driving shortly thereafter. Yeah, I can imagine. When we think of adventure, our minds often drift to images of grand expeditions, scaling towering mountains or skydiving or scuba diving into the depths of the ocean. But adventure is not confined strictly to the physical realm of action, right? No, not at all. It could be found in the pages of a book. Yes, very much so. It could be the challenge of learning a new skill, or the courage it takes to start over in a new city. At its core, adventure is about stepping outside of our comfort zones and embracing the unknown. Yes. That is, in my opinion, in my definition, that is what step outside your comfort zone and do something you've never done, or even do something you've done before, but maybe you're not 100% comfortable with it. The adventure is here. It's in your heart. It's in your mind. Yes. It means different things to different people, if you will. Let's start by defining adventure. The word itself stems from the Latin "adventura," meaning a thing to happen. It signifies the anticipation and excitement of future possibilities. Adventure involves risk, uncertainty, and the potential for discovery. It's a pursuit of experiences that push our boundaries and challenge our perceptions. It really could be everything and anything. It's a matter of perspective. Yes. We've had countless calling guests and guests in the show who recount various different adventures, whether it's mountain climbing or skydiving or, like what we do, scuba diving. But it doesn't mean that to everyone. No, I mean to some people, an adventure is just the next town over. Right. Especially, I mean for millennia, an adventure was the next town over. That's right. Even in biblical times. Yes. I mean, you rode donkeys, right? Or camels, if you will. They probably had horses back then, but I wasn't there, so I don't know. Yeah, can you imagine what high quality their sandals had to be? I bet you they lasted longer than the ones from Walmart do today. Well, the ones from Walmart, yes. This is definitely true. But what class you are, or were, depended on how good your shoes were, or if you even had them. Right. Most people just were used to walking without shoes. That would have sucked. Can you imagine being without shoes completely? Yeah, definitely in extreme temperatures with really hot or really cold. That sounds absolutely horrible. As far as just walking through the woods, I grew up doing that. I love just going and walking. And it didn't matter, stones, stickers, whatever. As long as you are pretty flat-footed, then it doesn't stick in it too bad. I remember when I was a kid, I was in the woods with my brother. And it was funny, because I remember my brother would always walk to this little spot where we would go. And I was always on rollerblades, because I loved rollerblading. Rollerblading was my thing. I used to get kicked out of the skating rink every weekend for going too fast. Oh. But they let you fighting or what? No, no, no, no. Just going too fast. I like going fast. I always have. But my mom would send us down there to pick blackberries. And we'd bring home a gallon jug, milk jug full of blackberries. And she'd make us a blackberry pie. Brand new, fresh, yummy. Oh, that's the good stuff right there. But I remember walking through the woods with my brother. And, of course, on rollerblades, you're walking through the woods on rollerblades, right? Because I didn't bring extra shoes with me. I wasn't going to carry my rollerblades around my neck. But I asked him how he managed to keep from sinking in the mud, because he's a much larger fella than I was. Nuke said he was old school on the quads. That must be Jeff out in Australia, because he said morning night. But anyway, Stefan laid it out for me. He made it very clear. He took a stick and he dropped it on the mud. And nothing happened. And he took another stick and he poked it into the mud. It's a matter of physics. See, if you walk on your heel, you're going to make a mess. You're going to get stuck in the mud. But if you go flat-footed as you walk through it. Yeah, they need to just stay right on top. Same day with bed of nails. Do what? Same day with bed of nails. When people lay on or walk on the bed of nails, the reason it works is because they can distribute their weight. The exact same thing. One of the most profound aspects of adventure is its ability to transform us. When we venture into the unknown, we often encounter challenges that test our limits. And that's what it's all about, is to go out and test yourself, you know? These challenges, whether physical, mental, or emotional, require us to adapt and grow. Adventure fosters resilience, creativity, and a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Because when we go out, we experience things we may not have ever experienced before. A good example would be when I was in East Texas with my best friend's dad years ago, there was one bird out there in the woods, and I never found out what kind of bird it was. But his chirp always sounded like the word "fereño" and it was "fereño" over and over and over again. But now I hear it every now and then in my adult years and it reminds me of the adventures I had as a kid. That's probably a snipe. Yeah, you know, snipe season just opened. Oh, did it? Have you been snipe hunting? Not this year. Not this year. Ah, okay. I didn't realize that this was the time that this season opened. Yeah. There's an open season on snipe right now. That's right. There's a bag limit of four snipes per person, and you can only use burlap and pillow cases to catch them with. Used to be you could beat the brush with a big stick. They don't let you beat the brush now because now it's taken out endangered plants. So they don't let you beat the brushes anymore with the big stick. No, it's bag only. Yeah, well, it's feet only. Jeff said he wants to try snipe one day. It's a really tasty bird. They're ugly as sin, but they're tasty. And they actually nest on the ground. They don't, they don't lose roost in the trees at all. I've never seen a snipe in a tree. It's true. I haven't either. But they are a goofy looking bird and they're easy to catch. They're so stupid. They're so stupid. You just beat the brush and say, "Here's snipes. Here's snipes." And you flush them down to the other person. It's the other end of the field that's got the bag holding open. And then you just-- They fly right in. Well, they don't fly. That's the point. They're a flightless bird. It's a glide. No, Jeff, you can't use a gun for snipes. You're not allowed to use a gun for snipes. Snipes have to be taken alive and whole. That's the rule. We ought to bring them out here and experience sniping with them. I think you'd have a good time. Definitely. Jeff, you have an open invite to Texas anytime you want to come out to the woods whether some go on a snipe hunt. We'd be happy to take you. It'd be a blast, man. You'd have so much fun. And then you could go home and tell all your mites back home that you went on a real Texas snipe hunt. It'd be great. I went sniping once when I was a kid. Only once. But it was fun. And we had-- he said he'll get over here one day. It was an exciting time for sure. I think we caught eight snipes that night. It was four or five of us out there. Yeah, but we had a good meal the next day. Put it to eat, but nowhere near the bag limit. What's that? Said plenty to eat, but nowhere near the bag limit. It works out. Yeah. You don't want to take too much. Exactly. You don't want to take more than you're going to eat. Exactly. That's what I was trying to say, just kind of failed. That's right. Dove season's coming up, too, on September 1st. Yes. You've known me long enough to know that few things take precedence over the opening day of Dove season, whether it be-- He'd be assured neither of us will be injured. You know, that would be wonderful, wouldn't it? It would. I would love to not be injured for Dove season. Last year, I had seven splinters in my foot. Made it really hard to walk around on uneven territory. I didn't enjoy it at all. I still did it. I was still there. I'm not going to miss opening day for anything, no matter how much pain I'm in. But it sucked. It hurt like hell. Oh, yeah. We're not there with you once last year, just briefly. Well, we have another place to hunt in Saginaw. It's a lot closer, and there's more birds. I like both of those things. I do, too. I can't wait. I'm getting both of my shotguns tuned up this month. I'm going to have a trigger job done on one of them. I'm going to put in some new O-rings on the Remington 1100 and get it-- Oh, yeah. It's going to fire like it's brand new, and I can't wait. I just need to get mine out and clean it. Huh? I just need to get mine out and clean it. I'm not going to do anything fancy to it. Just clean it. Jeff, this is Diana. She's my lead diver, and she's my co-host on the show. Have a look at the camera. I think we're on that one. Oh, yeah, we're on that one. Yeah, Jeff has never seen you on the show before. I guess he doesn't like our show that much. I guess he doesn't tune in often enough to know who you are, even though you're here almost every week. Almost. I've been out of the studio for a little while. I've been adventuring myself. We've been doing a lot lately. We have. Why don't you tell us a little bit about what you've been doing? A whole lot of recoveries. Talk about some of them. You've been a busy lady since the beginning of the month. Yeah, there was one day that I managed to do three recoveries in three different lakes. Which lakes were there? I started my day with Lewisville, and then came back. What did you recover in Lewisville? For Lewisville, it was a wallet, actually. I remember that one. Yeah, so it was a wallet right off of a dock. They actually filmed me do it, and I managed -- it was definitely less than five minutes. I think it was under two minutes for me to find that wallet. The second one was back at just kind of our home base, Eagle Mountain Lake. And what was that one? Oh, wait, no. That was a different day. Sorry. Different day. Wallet was not a big thing. They're all starting to run together, aren't they? Yeah, when you're doing three plus in a day, those days start to run together. Wait until you do six or seven? Yeah. The first one at Lewisville was the -- or off of the guy's boat. What was it? A fender or something off of the guy's boat? A fender? I don't know. It wasn't a fender, those float. Okay, so it wasn't a fender, but it was something that fell off of that guy's boat. Oh, it was a vent. A vent? Yes, it was an exhaust vent. Oh, okay. And the manufacturer had stopped making them, and they were, I mean, obsolete as far as buying one new, and you couldn't find them used anywhere. Oh, no, he said the chances of finding a used one were so slow. Absolutely zero, almost. Mm-hmm. I've had that problem before. Yeah. So, yes, I was able to find that one, and then -- Straight down, right? It flooded a little bit. It was a larger piece, and it didn't have holes in it, which is one large piece of plastic. So it flooded a good bit. I found that one probably about five, six foot away. Yeah. And then after that was the bracelet. It was the titanium bracelet. Oh, that was an interesting job, wasn't it? Yes, that one took me a little bit longer. It's that tiny little piece that you're looking for versus a large plastic piece of a boat. And it matters when you can't see what you're doing. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. And, well, let's talk about that for a moment. I won't give you too much of a hard time about the hour it took before you came to ask for advice from the guy who started this whole shebang. But let's talk about it for a moment. Yes. You're hunting a titanium bracelet, which can't be anything bigger than what's in the palm of your hand right here. Right? Sure. I wouldn't know. But yes. Well, you know because you saw it. Well, I mean, after I pulled it up from the bottom of the lake, I knew what I was looking for. Other than that, I was told titanium bracelet and -- But you know it wasn't going to be this big, right? Well, no. It's got a piece of a boat, no. So the whole idea in a job like that is to pare down your search area to the smallest area possible every time you kick your fins. Now, it's a big no-no for any of my divers, our divers, to go down without fins on. But on this particular dive, I would have probably sent you down on a plum rope with an anchor and no fins. I would have done on a plum rope three different times. It helps when they put the plum rope in the right place. I'm not talking about a piece of twine with a fish and sinker on it. I'm talking about an anchor on a rope so that you could pull yourself up and maintain your scent rate, the correct scent rate, as told to you by the computer in your vision. Right? Yes. I would probably have sent you down on that dive without fins. Even though that's a huge no-no, you're over a thousand dives now, Diana. You've done over a thousand dives in a year, which is absolutely incredible. I feel like you are capable of going down without fins now, even though I don't usually let anyone do that. But I feel like you're capable enough to be able to get down and get back up, knowing what you need to know to keep from hurting yourself underwater. That's the most important thing, because every dive that we come back from, whether we were successful in finding whatever we were after or not, if we come back from a dive, we're successful. That's the important thing. We did do that on the Arlington salvage job. That one I did without flippers, because I was only in about seven foot of water, but I really didn't like it, honestly. I came back from that job saying, I always knew why you said don't do it, but now I even more agree with, I don't even want to do it, because it's just hard to get around. Right, because your muscle memory has you kicking your feet, nothing happens. It's kind of pointless. All you have to do on those dives is just kind of pull yourself around. Yes. Keep your feet from moving, because it'll stir up the gunk, and just use your arms, pull yourself around a little bit. I like to find landmarks underwater, like a beer can, or a bottle, or a particular branch, or sometimes you'll even find a wagon or a dolly, but those things take a mental note. That one was the chair. Yes, that was where I kept finding the pole for the chair. Of course, you have a heads-up display compass now. You didn't have that before. You had a console computer where the compass didn't work, but we're past that, aren't we? You did have analog gauges at one time, right? Yes, we started off with the analog, er, yeah. You started off with a computer, and then you started off with the Oceanic Pro+2 dive computer. You killed it. You killed it. You killed that. I did not. And then you went to the... I went to get a new battery, and the inside of it had been corroded for so many years, that the guy was just like, "Ah, I mean, you can try, but this is probably not." This is probably not going to work. Right. That was long before I had it, is when that got corroded. I don't know, because I used it for a number of years before I got my heads-up display, and even before I got that other one that I gave you, I used that one for a long time. I mean, granted you couldn't see it below 20 feet deep, but, you know, get up to 20 and check everything and you'd be okay. I mean, it was not new corrosion. That's a fact. I mean, it was possibly still making a connection while it was also corroded, but that was not new corrosion. So you're saying it had one leg left, and it was on it? Yes. Yes, that is definitely what we found whenever I went up there. Well, it's a good thing you never tried to use it beyond that. Chase still has it. I know he said he's going to try and fix it, but I don't know. Chase, if you're listening, I need those 18 pairs of sunglasses back from three summers ago when you said you'd clean them up with vinegar, and I never saw them again. They're probably in a bucket somewhere underneath a hatch on his boat, untouched and unventigred. But that's all right. It's not like we have any shortage of sunglasses, is it? No, we are constantly pulling it more. So tell me about another dive you did since the beginning of July. Well, the third one that day was actually kind of fun. It was just a cell phone dive, but it was in a building. So it was actually on a dock. You had to walk out and it looked like a shed on this dock. Oh, that was a fishing barge dive out at Weatherford. Yeah, so I had to go into a room with just a giant hole in the floor that I guess people use for fishing. But it was very eerie. You're so used to having just all of the normal noises, having wind, having birds. You're just so used to having noises. And then you're just in this perfectly quiet room with water that is also not moving. You're used to having waves. You're used to having fish or whatever, plopping the water, making little waves. And it was just eerily silent, the water, the air. But it was one of the clearer dives that I've done. Those are nice, aren't they? By how clear Lake Weatherford is. I've always wanted to dive there and never got a chance to. Every time I drive over that lake when I'm headed out to the hunting place, the home place, the old home place to do dove season to hunt dove, I always look at it longingly like I wish I could dive there one day. And the only thing that stops me from diving there is having time to do it. And to be honest, I don't go diving for fun. I don't think I've ever been diving for fun. I mean, people ask me, you know, what was your, you know, where's the coolest place you've been? And I'm like, I work. Lake Weatherford. Probably not. Maybe. It was pretty cool down there. What was the temperature, do you remember? Oh, let me on your dive computer. If you do one click toward you on your, on your button, it'll tell you the water temperature. Oh, okay. Yeah. I was wondering how to, you've mentioned before that it does temperature, but I hadn't taken the time to figure out how. Well, it's not on your main screen. Exactly. It's on the second screen. I've tried going from the main screen, but by just like pressing it, not by turning it. Sounds like a bop it. Jeff, that's good to change the dog's water bowl, especially in down underwear. It gets so hot dogs are drinking hot water and doesn't help anything, but we're happy to have you back. So what do you do the next day? The next day I rested. You're asking? Yeah. That comes very seldom during the summer, doesn't it? Oh, yeah, I was definitely diving for several days solid and I think it was just coincidentally that we didn't. I got knocked, everything knocked out that day and we didn't have much the next day. And then the most recent one was the anchors at it, Possum Kingdom. Tell me about that. Apparently it's winter time in Australia and it's cold, cold, cold, cold. I wish it was winter time here. It's the opposite here right now. You and Junior are going to be busy this winter. Oh, yeah? Why? Because I don't want to do it. Oh, is that different from last winter? Yes. I have a dry suit that fits this winter. So you have wet here and just die? No, I'll be there and I'll be underwater and I'll be working, but I don't want to. Okay, anyway. Any of us want to be in the cold. Possum Kingdom is a different dive entirely than what we typically are used to. And I've been telling you for the last month, I cannot wait for you to get out here and die. Yes. Yep. And it just happened that I was out of town. The dive came in. Diana was available in on call. And so tell us what happened. Take it away. So yeah, we got called out for a couple of boat anchors. One, they lost recently on the 4th of July and one had been a little further back. So the one that they lost on the 4th of July, they had general GPS location. Was that the big one or the little one? I guess the big one. The expensive one. The expensive one, yes. That they lost more recently. Those anchors, some of those anchors get ridiculously expensive. This happened to be one of the ridiculously expensive anchors. I heard it was a several thousand dollars. But if you saw their boats, you would understand. I spoke to her this morning and she was telling me that you were out on the 44 foot boat and then her and her husband have a 40 foot boat. Yeah, they were docked right next to each other. Are these cabin cruisers like mine or are they cigarette boats? What are they? You'll have to ask Junior, he knows more about what type of boat it was. Well, did it have a cabin with their condition? They did have a cabin. I didn't go with it, but it did have a cabin underneath because they brought some coolers and stuff out of it. Right on. But it was an extremely fast boat with I think three motors on it. Three outboard engines. I think so. Probably a cigarette boat. I bet. Loud too, huh? 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Just give me a good example. I don't know. You put me on the spot. Well, I mean, you're on a radio show. You're going to get put on the spot a lot. I don't know, but that's something to take some thought. You've got to ask me that one ahead of time. Do I? Yes. You know, I'm like a deer. It could be something as simple as checking your fin straps to make sure they're not going to snap on you during a dive. Well, I mean, there's really no way to test that they would snap. No, there is. If you see a rip in your fin strap, it's time for new fin straps. Yeah, that's true. Something simple that you learned in the course of hanging out with another diver that you now incorporate into your everyday procedure. Um, always having a knife. Hey, that's a good one. Having a sharp knife is even more important because what are you going to do with a dull knife under water? Been there, done that. Track bare kudos. That's right. So I had been carrying a knife on my leg and it got brought to my attention that there are times that you get wrapped up that you can't even reach your leg. So now I have a knife in two different places attached to my BCD knife squared. Yes. Um, that are both a lot easier to reach than the leg sheath that I'd had before. I like those leg sheath and when you go to the bar after a dive, they look cool, but yeah, but they have their, their place, if you will. They also have their not place. I won't use one anymore for that exact reason. Yeah, I mean, because it's not a bad thing to have, but always have a backup that's handier. Right. Honestly, you treat that as your backup. Honestly, I like to die with a pocket knife in my pocket. I started out doing that. Yeah, because it's just, it's muscle memory. You reach down, the knife is right there, pull it open, flip it open with your thumb and do what you need to do and pull away with a good pocket knife. I can operate it one hand completely underwater without ever having to worry about dropping. Oh, yeah, that's exactly what I did before I got the dive knife is I had my pocket knife whenever I did the cell phone recovery and recovery with the crappy dock that was very sketchy. I cut myself free of that one a few times with a pocket knife. Right. Well, go ahead and finish telling me about your possum kingdom dive. Oh, yeah, so possum kingdom. It was just a day full of first. So first time on that facet of a boat and then as far, and then even just first time in possum kingdom, which is a lot clearer at the lake that I'm generally used to. A lot busier, too. You got to be really careful. Yes. Luckily, the client was really amazing about that. She made a point of saying if any boat comes around, I'm going to yell. I'm going to scream. They're going to get away. Well, and that comes back to touch on our dive buoy and our dive flags. Despite the fact that we use them all the time, nobody cares. Nobody knows what they are. Every year I make several different posts on Facebook about them, you know, give us 150, 100 to 150 feet, et cetera. And no one ever does. They blast past our dive flag within sometimes 10 to 15, 20 feet. Doing 40, 50 miles an hour, like we're not even there. And the state law is 50 feet. You can't pass within another boat of 50 feet if they're sitting still. Yeah, people really just don't know boating laws. And that's one thing that I am positive about because there is no requirement. There's not a driver's license like a car has. Well, there is after a certain year. If you're under 16 years, if you're a child. No, no, no, no. If you're born after a certain year, you have to have a boaters education course if you're going to be driving a boat. That's new. It's not new. It's been the rule for years, but nobody abides by it. Okay. Nobody abides by it. And I hate that. You and I are beyond the curve. We don't have to have that. I forget what the cut off your is. I had mine. Whenever I was in high school, I took a course. Well, it's a lifelong thing. You don't have to do it again. Boating certificate. So I actually do have one. Good. Good. Well, then why can't you drive the pontoon boat now? Oh, you just dug yourself a hole. Now you're going to learn how to captain that boat. I've let you drive it a few times, but there's a lot of stuff we need to go over. That was a big part of it was having a few little hiccups with the engine. You know what I've learned about that particular boat? I don't think it matters what engine I have on it. There's going to be hiccups with it. I don't know what it is, but it's been giving me trouble for a while. And I've just accepted it. There's going to be problems. Yeah, it's a big one. I called it a hiccup for just that reason. It's like the engine likes to just hiccups sometimes and not want to do what it's supposed to. Jeff, I don't know what a Gibbs rule is, but I see you said it means to always have a knife. Is there some story in Australia about a gentleman named Gibbs that required you? I don't know. Tell me. I'm curious. Call in if you want to. Is that an NCIS thing like Gibbs from NCIS? I don't watch NCIS. My dad loves that one. I grew up watching that one. Is that one of those cop shows? The military ones, yeah. Oh, that's right. Naval Criminal Investigative Services. Yeah, my dad, way back in the day, we grew up on JAG and then JAG stopped airing, so we switched to NCIS. There was a girl that I knew in the Navy. Her name was... Oh. "Siro" or "Siro" or "Siro" or something, and that was all she did was watch JAG. We got a customer. We got a call in. Awesome. Call in guest. A thousand, two thousand dollars. Good evening and welcome to Texas Wild with Ryan Prigmore and Diana Yurick. Who do we have? What's going on, Ryan? It's Randy. My mountain climbing buddy. How are you? I'm wonderful. How are you doing today? I'm doing good, man. We're having a great show. We've had a great week and it just, you know, things couldn't be better right now. It's the middle of summer, so, you know, businesses picked up, personalities are picked up. I love summer. Summer's my favorite time of year. How are you? You know, I'm doing great. Just got back from a trip out from Washington State doing some camping and backpacking for a week. And I feel nice and refreshed and ready to go for a couple more weeks. It's amazing how the psychological aspect of adventure has a way of washing out the cobwebs, doesn't it? It does. It does. And, you know, you're out in a place where the theme show, you know, the theme of your show, you know, no cell phone signal, no nothing out there. Just you in nature and nothing better. It's the thrill and the excitement that come with new experiences that triggered the release of dopamine, isn't it? It is. I would rather replace my cell phone with a free-flowing dopamine any day of the week. Come on, hit me with it. Yeah, you know, it's, you know, you're talking, what is adventure? And, you know, it is different from anybody. You know, you got your buddy here, Jr., actually getting his first dives and getting his open water certification. That's pure adventure and adrenaline for him. Someone like you, a 10-foot dive, that's not so much an adventure. You know, it's different for everybody. But it's, you know, just to feel that joy and, you know, alive, get your senses awakened and, you know, just be free for a little while. That's right. In today's fast-paced technology-driven world, it's easy to fall into routines and comfort zones. But adventure calls to us to break free from these patterns and seek out new experiences. It invites us to rediscover the world with a sense of wonder and curiosity. And as we get older, we seem to lose that sense of wonderment that we're born with, you know? Oh, definitely. We are. I think that's true. And, you know, I don't know if it's a fear of, you know, as you get older, you're afraid, well, what if something happens? What if this and, you know, like anything else, you have to prepare yourself. You have to prepare your mind. You have to prepare your body. You have to prepare your equipment. You know, it's not something that you can just do, you know, on a wimp. You have to prepare for it. And if you do, there's no reason you cannot experience adventure into your 60s, 70s, 80s. I've met some incredible people out on the trails and elderly people, and... My favorite story about that was that guy you met on... There's no age limit to adventure. My favorite story of yours about that was that guy you met on the bicycle. Yep. Yep. Adventure is not only for the young. Adventure is not only for the young. No, it's not. It's not. And you know what? Adventure to somebody else might be going for a walk out in the park or, you know, going to the woods and taking a walk or something. And that's fine. It doesn't always have to be, you know, going down a class five, white water rapid or climbing this mountain or doing this. You know, it's whatever adventure is to you. Take it and enjoy it. Enjoy it while you can because it's not going to be there forever. Perspective really is everything, isn't it? It is, it is. And it's great to hear other people's what they consider adventure and, you know, and take it for what it is and congratulate them on their accomplishments and encourage them. A lot of people follow me on Facebook, you know, just because it says that they live vicariously through my trips and my expeditions and things like that. And I hope I can encourage them and encourage other people to get out and do some of the things that I do or see the things that I can see. So tell me about your mountain climbing adventure recently. Well, it wasn't so much mountain climbing. I was just camping and backpacking out in North Cascades National Park. I was out there for five days. It was phenomenal. It was June 29th through July 4th. And I tell you, I didn't see more than two people on the trails. It is one of the least visited national parks in the United States. That must have been glorious. It was phenomenal. And they said it was a light year for snow. They only got 20 feet this year. Only only 20 feet of snow. Only 20 feet. Yeah, it was a light year. But you hiked over 6,200 feet elevation and you hit a good six, seven feet of snow and you lost all trails and all sense of direction about yourself. If you don't have snow shoes or communication gear, you turn around. You'd be smart about it. That's the whole thing about going into the backcountry. You go unprepared, you have your 10 essentials, communication device, something to keep warm, signaling device, things like that. But if it doesn't look safe, turn around. There's nothing wrong with it. You can come back another day. Right. Don't risk your life for it. No, it's not worth it. It's not worth it. What type of emergency beacon do you use? We had Shane Davies. He's a river guide that I hung out with before and he's been on the show a few times. But he was telling us recently about some of the emergency gear he keeps and he uses, I think, a Garmin emergency beacon. Yep. A Garmin in reach. Many too are phenomenal. They do great in the backcountry. They do great out. You're going to be in the middle of the ocean. They work on satellite. There's other companies that have them also. But Garmin is really the go-to, I think, right now. You can buy one and then just pay for a month. So I think they cost about $275 for a mini. You buy it outright and then you can just go ahead and sign up for that one month or whatever you're going to be gone. And activate it for that one month and then turn it back off again. Right. For the month you need it. Yep. Yep. So you're not overpaying for a service that you're not using? Exactly. Exactly. My Apple Watch dive computer is much the same way. Are you aware that the Apple Watch Ultra 2 doubles as a dive computer? No. When I had one, it did not do that. And again, the watch I had was probably eight years ago. I'm pretty hooked on my Garmin MK2, but they've got the MK3 now where you can do underwater messaging. That's kind of a pretty neat feature. Oh yeah. I have the Garmin 5 Phoenix 5 Sapphire. And that's been an absolutely indispensable piece of equipment for me. And I also have the Apple Watch Ultra 2, which doesn't connect to a transmitter, but that's okay. I have a dive computer, you know, a heads up display for my air pressure. But man, it does compass. It does depth. It does bottom time. It does GPS locating. It does almost everything. I'm really digging it. Garmin is really top notch when it comes to everything. You know, now they're into diving. They've got the dive computers. You've got your, like we just talked about, your satellite communication devices. You know, you're running. They've got pods for your shoes that'll actually tell you your stride length and how you land if you over pronate under pronate or neutral. And it's such a great company. I really would love to get sponsored by, you know, like Red Bull or Garmin or something like that. That'd be cool. You know, you see some of these TV shows, you know, and they have normal people on there. It's like, how do I do that? And I've tried to contact them to see if I can get some sponsorship, but I'm still working on it. Maybe one day. Right on, right on. So I think the last time you called in, I think we had like a minute left and I asked you about DB Cooper. Do you remember that? About DB Cooper. Yep. Yep. We're talking about him. Yeah, because you had a pilot on. Yeah, Doug, one of our customers and one of our good friends. So tell me a little bit. What do you think since you just came back from Catskill? Was it Catskill? No, no. Catskills are down south. That's North Catskades. North Catskades, thank you. Was that anywhere near where he was supposed to have jumped or landed? I am not 100% sure. I thought it was in Washington and there's some barren area. I was up by the Canadian border there. You can go for a long time and not see anybody in the backcountry. So it would surprise me. So what do you think happened with him? Do you think he escaped with the money and lived out the rest of his days? I think he's got it and is gone. I think he was successful if he asked me, but maybe that's the romantic in me. You know, hoping, you know, kind of hoping he got away with it just because it is so outlandish. Right. But yeah, I think he got away with it just like the guys who escaped from Alcatraz that they didn't think had happened for, you know, you find out 40 years later that they really did escape. So there was an update about that one recently. Did you hear? No. Yes. You heard about the update? I don't know about the update. I know they found somebody sent a letter and saying that with pictures saying they did escape, but I'm not sure if I heard anything after that. The one I'm referring to, I forget the gentleman's name who sent a letter, but he sent a letter to the federal government and he said my name is so-and-so and I was one of the people who escaped in that homemade raft from Alcatraz and I now suffer from cancer. And if I can get government health care to help me with this, I will tell you everything. And I guess since it never blew up and became a news story, nothing ever came of it, but I mean, it would be, I would like to hear the story just to see if it's the real guy or not, just to see if he knows, you know, details that weren't released to the public, et cetera. And I want to find out what really happened. Oh, yeah, and I'm surprised it did not blow up in the media. Right. It should have. Next week, I'll tell you what, next week when I come back, I'll have my research done about it and I'll bring you what I find. And I'm also going to do a little bit more about DB Cooper too because, man, ever since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with Dan Cooper. I mean, just the audacity that it takes to go onto a plane with a supposed bomb, not that I would ever do this, but to go onto a plane with a supposed bomb, pass a lady a note and say, this is what I want, and this is what you're going to do, and to get away with it. Yeah. Dude. That's an adventure right there. It is definitely an adventure. That is an adventure in itself. All right, so I'm going to start winding this down a little bit. Maybe you can comment on my closing statement, if you will. In conclusion, adventure is a state of mind as much as it is a physical journey. It's about embracing the unknown and seeking out new experiences and allowing ourselves to be transformed by the journey. It's a reminder that life is rich with possibilities and that every day holds the potential for discovery and growth. What do you think about that? Let me have some commentary on this. How were you enriched by your trip to the Cascades, Randy? You know what? There were two times when just the beauty of it brought me to tears. I imagine the stars was one of them. On this trip, you take it and you don't really realize what is out there and the beauty of nature and how green the lakes and the rivers. When there's so many waterfalls, you can't even count them. You keep losing track and you have to start over. That's the beauty of nature and that right there to me is an adventure in itself. That's incredible. Do you film these trips? I'm sorry, I didn't hear that. Do you film these trips? Do I film? No, I take a lot of pictures. I took like a time lapse of just straight overhead with the trees straight up and the clouds going by for about two minutes. I'll sit there and I'll just watch that when I need to decompress. It just takes me back to that spot there and you just relax and remember all those feelings coming back to you and it helps you decompress from a bad day. I would imagine it helps you decompress from any situation. I'm jealous of you to a degree. Granted, I get to have my own adventures too but oh man, there are certain places in there few and far between where there are stars from horizon to horizon. Yes. That's my all time favorite when you can see the Milky Way. That's the most beautiful place I've ever been to is up in the Apostle Islands during the Perseides meteor shower. Where are the Apollo Islands? It was like a fireworks show. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and I haven't seen anything yet that compares to it. Where are those islands? Those are up in I think the UP, the Apostle Islands UP in Michigan. Yeah, that's the UP in Michigan. I was there in January, I think I told you about it when we met. Yep, yep. I've never heard of the Apostle Islands. If you can get up there during the meteor shower and even you see the northern lights up there and just incredible and something I wish everybody could experience. I got to see the Perseids once on a back road out in New Mexico just literally in the middle of nowhere and it was a completely happenstance circumstance that wound me up there. And I'm telling you there must have been 200 an hour and I've never seen that again ever since then. But you experienced it and that's all that counts. It was breathtaking, it was incredible. You couldn't watch the entire track of one of them without seeing five more. It was amazing. It was absolutely amazing. Good for you. I'm glad, you know, I'm glad somebody else gets to experience these things and that's encourage people to get out and search these things out. Find your own adventure. That's exactly what this show is about. Put your phone down, put your tablet down, turn off the TV, get off your computer. There is adventure just on the other side of your front door. I wish I could share on your website or something some of the pictures that I took or places that I go to to, like I say, to help encourage people. Just show them what's out there, what's available to them and hopefully get them to take that first step. All it takes is one step. You follow my Blue Diver page, right? I do, yes sir. Go post them on my Blue Diver page. We're thankful for every interaction we have with followers, fans, customers, call in guests, whatever. Go post them on my page and I'll share the hell out of them. You've got it. Thank you for joining me on this exploration of adventure. I hope today's episode has inspired you and everyone out there listening to seek out your own adventures, big or small. Remember, the world is full of wonders waiting to be discovered and the greatest adventure is the one that lies ahead. We appreciate you calling in Randy. We're going to wind the show down and feel free to call in every Thursday. We love talking to you. My listeners love hearing your stories and next week I want to ask you about strange lights that you might have seen in the sky on some of your adventures. I like talking about UFOs. Alright, sounds good, Ryan. Man, I'm looking forward to it. We'll talk to you next week, Randy. Alright, thank you so much. You have a great week and dive safe. You too, sir. Thank you. Alright. 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