Grand Canyon

Okay.

This is real, but I can't find some, you know, like there was a, a, a, Pyramid of the Grand Canyon that they found.

And it was in the Arizona Gazette in 1917.

And now I see the Pyramid of Giza.

That's not right.

Google Egyptian pyramid in the Grand Canyon, not the pyramid of Giza.

AI is doing everything.

So the question is, does AI use to eradicate your past? Of course, that's not helping.

It is absolutely stunning.

I actually thought, because we visited Grand Canyon in the same time, we did this sort of loop and around Arizona and stuff.

And oh my God, the scenery was amazing.

But I thought that Bryce Canyon blew Grand Canyon out of the water.

I really did.

That's

He's not a thru-hiker.

He's an upper-intermediate section hiker who logs 1,800 miles a year and has attempted the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim twice, once cramping so badly he had to hitchhike out, once finishing in 27 hours and crying at the bright angel sign.

The name for his company came to him all at once, in his sleep, after fuming on the way home from a hike.

I think when I was fuming on the way home, I'm like, backwoods, back trails, hate people, this, that.

The faster she walks, the more she talks.

Ben's wife is the general manager who keeps everyone in line.

Dave's wife thinks he's an idiot for wanting to run the Grand Canyon again.

These are the people behind the people, behind the gear.

for

them to be like, well, you know, I really wanted to go see the Great Canyon, so I'm just going to go now.

Yeah, I mean, I think for some it will be.

I mean, there will be some of the changes happening.

Third, there are sites of permanent darkness near the poles that never see the light of the sun deep in all those craters.

Shackleton Crater is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.

I know what you're thinking.

Darkness? Great.

But I don't know if I'm now back in that zone where I just don't know if number one, I want to spend 12 days on a bike.

And number two, I, What kind of long-term damage is carrying a bike through the Grand Canyon going to do on the back? Sure.

Is the risk-reward ratio worth it for me on that? Yeah.

So I'm still thinking about that one.

Yeah, I saw it on Instagram.

So you did the... tucson tussle yeah in a mud scenario that was awful

yeah that was the same weather event that took out the grand canyon yeah those people those three guys died that was the same weather event i was just south of it i was so that tucson tussle starts just south of tucson right and then it goes south literally like You're like on Jeep road.

You're like on two track.

Where the pathway is so deep.

I think of it like the grand Canyon, right? Like that, that river of thought process has been like carved so deep over and over again that it's really hard to pull out of it.

And if we have parents who are, Like my grandfather watched Fox News so obsessively that it affected his thought process.

And then my mom watches MSNBC so much that it affects her thought process.

And this is me saying it's not one political pathway, but like if you are obsessively consuming one type of belief, as you described it, about what the world is, then I've noticed it's especially more common in people who are older or who are less likely to have brain plasticity to then be able to navigate like, oh, I'm being fed, I'm being validated in a belief that I already have, and I'm consuming this, and therefore it's creating that river in the Grand Canyon.

But I think that intersection of psychology and the actual physical things that are happening in our brain are so... fascinating and i'm curious like can you talk a little bit about why that happens when we're older or who else might be susceptible to that to be harder to get out of this idea of you were like well i just changed what i was consuming online and it helped i mean obviously it wasn't that easy but for some people it's even way more impossible to do something like that right

Yeah, and I think one thing is you've got to have a compelling reason to.

I need to change something.

Shubh Diwali.

I had met Sam just two years ago on a road trip to the Grand Canyon with our friends, and we had clicked.

Since then, we had done over nine such road trips, from Yellowstone to Europe and India.

But then we decided to do the Australian outback.

We have miscellaneous videos on our website.

You probably all know I do Grand Canyon tours.

I've also done two tours of Jackson Hole and Yellowstone and one tour so far of a place in Wisconsin called Devil's Lake.

I was supposed to do another one this summer, probably a couple of them didn't happen.