00:00The worst feeling in life to have is that you said you were going to do something and you believed it was the thing you wanted and then you didn't really try and then afterwards you have that feeling of regret like what would my life would have been like if I tried to do that.
00:16I've put myself through some like real serious physical tests and one of the things that you learn there is that your body's just capable of way more than what you think or anybody else thinks it's capable of doing.
00:34But one other thing that you learn in gambling is that like there's certain things that sound like a good bet that just aren't.
00:41I got into poker primarily because I loved games throughout my childhood whether it was card games or video games especially games that involve strategic thinking and planning.
00:55I was kind of hooked from the beginning because you know I could go to the casino and make money playing a game.
01:00I'm sorry Phil I have the nuts I called.
01:03He makes the call.
01:04Rasp says he's got the nuts.
01:07The most athletic I kind of ever got was my sophomore year.
01:10I really was practicing and trying to make the basketball team and I was one of the last two kids that got cut.
01:16So I was like I was like okay but no like was I athletic no pretty average.
01:28I met Dan I think in like a poker game in Las Vegas.
01:32It was hard to miss Dan because even back then you know before the fame and the millions of Instagram followers.
01:39Dan was a huge loud mouthed brash guy and you kind of don't think of a fool talking about a bunch of crazy stories with women and drugs and whatever.
01:48That's probably not a guy who's going to be playing good poker.
01:50But I learned pretty quick that Dan was actually a better poker player than it seemed.
01:55I think the bet went down a little bit like this.
01:59Dan was hanging out with Bill Perkins.
02:01I wasn't there and they made this biking bet Dan's bet was he had to bike the Vegas sign to his house in Beverly Hills.
02:10He had 48 hours to do it and Dan did it in like just over 30 hours totally crushed it.
02:17I know that there was some controversy surrounding his bet because he ended up drafting behind a vehicle for a decent stretch of it.
02:25So yeah so what happened is I told Dan I could have done it man I'm telling you I would have done it and Dan's like oh you and my brother you guys all think it's so fucking easy.
02:36And then like he started throwing a bet out at me but obviously Dan he was changing it quite a bit.
02:42Dan had an arsenal of bikes recumbent bike or road bike or whatever I had just a road bike significantly harder.
02:51Dan could draft which does matter quite a bit turns out there's a headwind which sucks.
02:57Dan had somewhere between like four and six weeks to train I had like 30 hours to leave by.
03:06Ras thinks he can bike it there's no way no way and he talks to his trainer and the biking professional is like there's no way he can do it.
03:13No way he has zero percent chance not one percent zero percent chance doing it the winds across the desert and I'm like okay I'll bet he can't do it.
03:22The bike coach was like man you need to try to get out of this.
03:25He's not a cyclist if he does this it'll be a super human feat.
03:29I called up Dan and tried to get a buyout I would have bought out for like five maybe like 10,000.
03:35And they were like no.
03:36One of the last things Nate told me is well you might as well give it a college try.
03:40Because like he just literally told me I had no chance so yeah I was I was super nervous about it at this point.
03:46First leg went smoother than I thought it would.
03:58Biking out of Las Vegas I was making good time I was feeling good.
04:01He actually fell like when he started he fell and we were like oh my god he's never he's never gonna make it.
04:08It was going smooth I felt like I was biking strong I got down to the border which is right before you kind of start going up towards Mountain Pass which is the biggest climb of the whole journey.
04:18Ras plows through this steep hill and he keeps going he keeps going and I'm like I don't like our bet.
04:24That was a great moment top of Mountain Pass I was like super charged up super happy I'm like I got this.
04:38As the headwind got stronger the pace we were going at was getting glacial.
04:45I started having to take breaks more frequently.
04:48My ass was super sore my legs just like jello.
04:53I was not making the kind of time where it was like I was gonna be able to finish right so I wasn't in a good mood.
05:02There was a moment where I went in the RV to take a break at one point and maybe I was like a little bit snappy.
05:08You know my wife was like kind of snapped back at me a little bit for for being snappy and I just kind of like broke down crying.
05:17He can't go anymore his legs are seizing his prostate is swollen he can't pee he has to stop and walk and he lays down we figure oh we won.
05:26We're counting the money we're about to spend the money.
05:32I was giving it everything I had I just wasn't sure I was going to be able to do it.
05:36It wasn't going to be because I wasn't going to try that was for sure.
05:40But you know just because you try hard in life doesn't always mean that you can get it done.
05:44Sure enough he lays down for like an hour and a half maybe maybe two hours gets up and starts plowing again.
05:56And I'm like we are dead.
06:00I had mental moments where I was literally telling myself that I was never getting off this bike.
06:05I would have to fall off the bike and like break legs for me to stop going on this trip.
06:11I turned to Dan I was like you can have all my action if you want.
06:14He's like really?
06:17When I was biking down through the canyon I started to have a really big problem with my left knee.
06:22Antonio who made a big bet on me himself found a doctor who actually met on the side of the road and just gave me a cortisone injection in my ass and I kept going.
06:32At this point I had a decent amount of drugs inside me. Caffeine from the coffee or Adderall or Percocet.
06:41At some point in LA between the heat and the exhaustion and probably whatever cocktail I basically had some weird overheating moment that kind of like turned into a panic attack.
06:54That slowed me down quite a bit. I needed like 30, 45 minutes off. My wife who had already been on her way to Dan's house in the RV because like basically they were expecting me to show up.
07:04Rode back and I was just sitting waiting on the side of the road. My wife has had panic attacks before and she was able to kind of like talk me through it.
07:13Those last 20 miles I knew I was close and my mind mentally was starting to let my body break down a little bit or something.
07:20But the very last part literally the last like five miles before Dan's he lives in like Beverly Hills. So there were some crazy hills.
07:28Dan drove down and tried to talk me into some kind of last minute buyout.
07:33Oh man I know you're tired and fucked up. It could be over now. You still might not make it.
07:38I was in some weird state of mind too. I just need to just push a little farther just make it to the goal.
07:44So Dan coming down there and processing that and just being like buyout like there's just like no way.
07:50There are some things in life which happen over a very long period of time and so I don't want to compare that to something like this.
08:06Like the amount of effort I put into my job or into a marriage or like raising a kid.
08:11But in terms of like I'm doing this for the next day or two you know I'm putting myself through the grinder on it.
08:16No this was like by far bar none the hardest thing I've ever put myself through.
08:21It's a weird thing like after I did this experience for the next couple weeks I was super sensitive and with like raw emotions like all the time.
08:31Like if I would watch like anything remotely sensitive like with my wife like a movie I'd be crying.
08:38I was just ready to just like connect and emote which was cool in a way but it's different.
08:44It's like a different experience.
08:45How much money did you win?
08:46On the bet with Dan I won 600 minus expenses.
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