Woody Creek

20 years? Where is that?

Woody Creek, Colorado.

I invited you out there last time you were, uh, we were talking.

Yeah.

There's also Citizens Against Bigger Planes.

Whereas Fly Right's tactic is to function as a nonprofit that advocates for its preferred redevelopment alternative, Citizens Against Bigger Planes wants the electorate, the roughly 13,000 registered voters in Aspen, Snowmass, Woody Creek, and beyond, to help make the choice.

And to do that, they've put it on the November ballot.

The group collected enough signatures for a successful citizen petition that asks to amend the county's charter, taking away the county commissioner's right to approve the runway expansion and instead handing that decision to the voters, making them the only ones with the power to approve an expansion.

And we're getting on a plane and we're flying to Aspen, Colorado.

And Keith is going to be interviewed by Hunter S. Thompson at Hunter S. Thompson's house in Woody Creek, Colorado, which is in the mountains overlooking Aspen.

We meet in Denver at the airport.

We get on a plane.

We fly to Aspen.

We all had really nice rooms at the Ritz Carlton.

And we all dropped our luggage in a room and we went back to the lobbying, got in a limo, went up to Woody Creek.

We walked in the door, and they had two chairs set up.

And we're getting on a plane and we're flying to Aspen, Colorado.

And Keith is going to be interviewed by Hunter S. Thompson at Hunter S. Thompson's house in Woody Creek, Colorado, which is in the mountains overlooking Aspen.

We meet in Denver at the airport.

We get on a plane.

We fly to Aspen.

We all had really nice rooms at the Ritz Carlton.

And we all dropped our luggage in a room and we went back to the lobby and got in a limo, went up to Woody Creek.

We walked in the door and they had two chairs set up.

So Stranahan's began with a literal disaster.

In 1998, volunteer firefighters Jess Graver, or excuse me, volunteer firefighter Jess Graver responded to a massive barn fire in Woody Creek, Colorado.

The barn belonged to George Stranahan, a physicist, philanthropist, and founding of, founder of Flying Dog Brewery, which- I'm sure you're pretty aware of that, Jim

Yep, yep

He was always the smartest guy in the room, probably the funniest human being I've ever met, a wild animal that could be dangerous, but a very loyal guy.

So the relationship, I mean, I went out to see him at Woody Creek a few times and very memorable stories.

like would you see him turn like from like no no no he was always uh he was always great it was just like when he picked us up at the airport you know he was in one of his cadillacs and then he drove in he said oh okay but you know you see that car on there the car over there if you could just grab that and follow me to the um follow me to the farm so right off the bat it was like he had me steal like glenn fry's car so it was like right off the bat like grand theft auto Not even out of the airport, just out of the airport.

And then when we got there, he's like, do you play golf? Do you shoot? I was like, sure.