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Scott: hyper masculine bro dude guys who just want to do back country or like ride lomers. Like I don't mess around with trails where the public goes, I only ride the secret stuff.

Paddy: ha.

Scott: You know, they'll like give you an exit number off of the highway and be like, meet me.

I, once things got popular, um, you know, people I met in the industry would be like, you want to go ride, exit, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I can tell by that sentence that I don't

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Howdy, pals. I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Every time I walk into a ski shop—without fail and even though I swore right before I walked in that I wouldn’t—I pick a ski off the rack, stand it up with the tail on the ground, place one hand on the tip and my other hand on the middle [00:01:00] and flex the ski a few times. Then I nod seriously, like it just told me a secret, and place it back on the rack.

Why do I perform this bizarre ritual? Because outdoor humans are weirdos, and we do weird stuff. Need more evidence? Every time I try on a new jacket, I rub my hands up and down the chest so it makes that pppftttt pppffffft pppffft sound and think “Yeah, that’s some good waterproofing right there, nothin’s gettin’ through that.” I think it’s perfectly normal to wear a puffy jacket and flip flops at the same time. I have never attempted, nor ever thought to attempt parking my car in my garage. Because garages are for storing outdoorsy gear not cars.

Think this is all just PaddyO-specific weirdness? Then you, my friends, need to meet Scott Losse.

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Scott is an avid snowboarder, cyclist, and [00:02:00] mountain biker, and last year, he posted a hilarious video to his Instagram account. It’s a tour of his local mountain bike park near his home in Seattle, where Scott points out all these intimidating features, like big banking wall rides and huuuuuuuge jumps some people apparently like riding. Then, he slowly pans the camera left or right of the features and explains how you can get around every single one of them without ever taking even the slightest risk. It’s a hilarious example of the kind of video that Scott makes—videos that poke fun at himself and all the weird things he sees himslef and the rest of us doing as part of the subconscious language of being outdoorsy.

Over the last year, these videos have racked up millions of views and transformed Scott’s career as a stand up comic. They also help remind his followers that, if you’re [00:03:00] taking your time outdoors too seriously, you’re doing it wrong. And also, you shouldn’t laugh AT that guy in the ski shop pretending he can tell how a ski will perform just by pushing on it, but you can definitely laugh WITH him.

Paddy: first things first, we always start out with burnt toast. Scott, what's your last humbling and or hilarious moment outside?

Scott: So many, so many. , the worst thing recently, I fell getting on. Like the easy lift at the local hill

Paddy: no. Did the Lifty laugh at you?

Scott: they had to stop it

Paddy: Oh, no.

Scott: And I just ate it and I was like, I got it. It's okay It's okay. Like I tried to make it so they wouldn't stop it like I I go, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, and it was too late, they hit the, they like hit the button, and they're like, are you good?

Are you okay? I'm like, I'm like, I'm crushed right now,

I won't go back there. They know me. They, uh, they probably talked about it in the break room. Later. [00:04:00] You see idiot?

Paddy: Alright, let's get into it.

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are you a funny chairlift companion? Or do you just like, buff up, helmet on, stare forward, absolutely silent,

Scott: I'm a small talker. it's weird to be completely silent, I think.

Paddy: Okay.

Scott: I start in with weather, you know? You start with the easy things.

Paddy: Where did you park?

Scott: Yeah, how's parking? Isn't it crazy how parking is so bad

I try. Sometimes people shut you down,

they give you a one word answer. And you're like, come on, man.

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: that's just me. That's my problem, is that I, I don't like it. If they have a snowboard that I like, I'll try to break the ice. Be like, how do you like, how do you like that lib tech? That's pretty, like, what's that like? Do you like, are you a T Rice fan,

Paddy: You're cool. You're cool. You're a cool guy.

Scott: a cool guy. Are those, what, Vans boots are those? Like, I'll try.

Yeah, I'm that guy, so if that's not what you like, I apologize

Paddy: No, no, no. You know, like I'm a professional chitchatter, so I will chitchat,

Scott: [00:05:00] Sometimes I can tell people don't want to talk to me on the lift , and then I

Paddy: Is that when they give you the finger or how do you

Scott: They go, you're that asshole from the internet. Go,

Paddy: you get recognized when

Scott: Yeah.

I ride with my nephew a lot, and we'll be on a chair talking, and I've had a few people, you know, stop in the middle of a conversation I'm having and go, I'm sorry to interrupt, are you Scott? I'm like, yeah.

Paddy: Is that just snowboarding or is it also like in the bike park?

Scott: You know, snowboarding, more people at mountains, snowboarding, say hi than mountain bikers. For, I don't,

Paddy: Is it something culturally about the difference between snowboarding

Scott: I think so. I don't know if mountain biking is more solitary or they just kind of are there for their zen moment in the woods and they don't care to talk. Or like, I mean there's not, I guess unless you're climbing a hill together, there's not, you know, or standing at the top of a jump line or something, there's not as many opportunities to just shoot the shit with

Paddy: they're like zipping by you on a wall, ride? They're like, Hey, are you Scott?[00:06:00]

Scott: But snow more, but I think there's just more sitting around Drinking beers by the chairlift or whatever,

Paddy: I'm huge on the apres scene

Scott: Yeah, I'm he I'm super popular at apres scene locally like Washington State Hills, I'm just like Dominating the other day. I was up there with my nephew and we were walking back to the car And he goes how many people are gonna talk to you today? And literally, within five seconds, a dude walking the other way goes, You're Scott!

Paddy: \ were you like, I'm paying these people to your nephew?

Scott: he's like, it was so funny.

Paddy: About a year ago, you posted this hilarious video, , that's like a tour of your local bike park, and it kind of blew up on the internet. How did that feel?

Scott: Bizarre, very strange. I posted that video kind of because I thought, a lot of mountain bike content regarding trail systems was all geared towards the coolest thing you can do. [00:07:00] Like most of it's based on like extreme rock and roll stuff, or like stuff that most people don't want to do.

And I was like, would it be funny if I had a trail video where I just talk about how you can avoid challenge? I Never thought it would be popular.

Paddy: Did you think like, oh, if this makes me laugh, maybe it'll make a couple other people

Scott: yeah, because I thought it was super dumb. And I,

Paddy: It's not. It's really funny. The setup and timing is, is really great.

Scott: I think it's funny, but also in like a really stupid way. And I was like, well, I don't know if anybody's going to like this. But, you know, I edited the video and put it out, I don't track views a lot. I think it keeps me kind of sane as a content creator to not do that.

But, I know when something goes well because people talk to me or friends and they're like, You should check that mountain bike video out. Cuz I think it hit but it was just kind of taking the piss out of like serious mountain bike videos

Paddy: Do you see yourself as this like every [00:08:00] man observer pointing out kind of like goofy or funny things?

Scott: Yeah, I mean, I think like having a stand up background. It's like I'm just constantly watching for the absurdities in things and when I got back into riding my mountain bike and spending a lot of time at bike parks and on trailheads, it was like a lot of things became abundantly clear that were kind of silly within the scene and within mountain biking.

Things that are, you know, people take seriously or that were kind of ridiculous

Paddy: what made you stop mountain biking and then what made you come back to it?

Scott: So I did it a lot in my, you know, when I was a teen, and like in my 20s a lot, and then, life got pretty busy. And, I just had a lot of years where life wasn't very easy. And where I kind of fell out. I wasn't You know, the things I love to do that were recreation, or more potentially luxury things, , just went to the wayside.

Paddy: As you've gotten back into it [00:09:00] and you've also, become this internet sensation, has that inspired more biking? Has it made it more fun and lighter and also like more of a desire to get out there?

Scott: Yeah. I'm out all the time. Like, I bike a lot. I think that's the thing, like, I wouldn't want to do the content. If I wasn't, I feel like it would be funny. But um, you know, people see me locally, I'm out at the trail, I'm out at Like, I made a video about Doothie Hill, Mountain Bike Park, and Issaquah.

Especially in the spring and summer. I'm there , almost every day. There was a time when I couldn't, and then I got back into it, and it's, great to be able to go out. There's something , so peaceful about being in the mountains

Paddy: has it translated into. Stand up gigs , or other type of, comedy jobs.

Scott: More than posting stand up clips ever did.

Paddy: amazing.

Scott: I'd say especially after I made some mountain bike stuff, that has given me more of a career than I ever had before. From mountain biking!

I feel really lucky. I had, I booked some shows and all of a sudden things were [00:10:00] popping off and I'd go, I'd ask people in the audience, like I'd mentioned bikes and like half of the audience would Like, yell.

And I'm like, oh my god. They're all here.

Paddy: They're wearing, like, Yeti shorts and,, like, fox, gloves.

Scott: I've said this to people before, but I can tell who it is. Like, they, they dress all the same.

Paddy: How do they dress?

Scott: Well, the dudes, it's always like, they're wearing, like, a tech polo, and like, tech pants.

Paddy: You're like,

Scott: But they'll wear, like, skate, they'll, yeah, but they'll wear, like, skate shoes, but everything else is super, like, tech fiber.

It'll be like, I can, I can see what you're doing.

Paddy: is your watch tracking you right

Scott: Yeah, and they, they'll have a hat. They'll have a five panel hat from a brand. You know, or something. But they all dress the same. But um, you know, God bless them. But they all look the same.

Paddy: That's a funny observation to make , and [00:11:00] I want to know like, what are some more kind of quick hitter, funny observations about the outdoor community that you have,

Scott: gosh. Strava's funny. I think Strava's really funny. I live on a steep hill in Seattle. I started to see an uptick in people riding their bikes on it, and I was like, there, there must be like a king of the hill on this thing or something. And there was, I looked it up and it was like, all of a sudden it was like a hot thing for people to try to do it.

But it's, I think that that culture is so hilarious that we're

Paddy: Oh, the digital dick measuring

Scott: Yeah. Battling who did it the fastest. It's like, why? You know what, mountain bike has its own, like, apres culture, , just like snow, snow does, you know? I think it's hilarious any sport where people smash beers in the parking lot before or after.

It's such a strange, , thing to watch you see it a lot out here You see everybody's standing at their Toyota Tacoma trail hit, you know, their hitch and they drink in the IPAs or whatever Everybody's has the same [00:12:00] truck That's always funny to me. Everyone has the same truck and the same rack and the same, like, the same tailgate protector.

Paddy: And it's almost like, you know how there's like a jeep wave? It's like there's a like a knowing nod amongst like the, people on the in of the outdoors of like, yeah, I know what the good gear is and I ride hard.

Scott: Not Mountain biking, but there's like a Baker look, like a Mount Baker look, all the core dudes at Baker dress exactly the same, and it's like

black Pants, Black Jacket, One Ball J Backpack. It's like everybody looks the same, everybody has the same avi kit.

Cause they all like, they all saw one person. It's like they all saw one guy and were like, I need to look like

Paddy: He looks cool, and if I don't have that, I can't It's such a funny It's like high school cafeteria cool kid table all over again.

Scott: Yes! Or if, if they're tattooed, they don't have the backpack. they Have the poacher vest.

Paddy: I did it! Dude!

Scott: poacher vest. [00:13:00] But only if you look like you smoke cigarettes. If you look like you smoke cigarettes, you don't have a regular backpack. You have, like, a leather poacher vest.

Paddy: And if you're in the ski world, like you have your volley strap, you strap your skis and your poles together and then you kind of like drag the tail because then you let everybody know that you're gnar enough to constantly go heli skiing

Scott: yeah.

Yeah, they're like, I get a hundred days, but most of that's on, on the, in Heli. Or in a cat, you know? I don't like to touch chairs, really.

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Paddy: What are the roles that mountain biking and snowboarding play? In your life. Obviously, they are these things that you love to do, and you love to like, poke fun, , at them. Do they provide you with other things? Or different things? Do they provide you with the same thing, just different seasons,

Scott: Yeah. I think it's pretty similar in a lot of ways, , snowboarding and mountain biking. At least to some degree, certain aspects of it are very [00:14:00] similar.

Paddy: The specifics, right, of the idiosyncrasies that you point out might be different. But, , generally, , mountain culture is ubiquitous, in a way

Scott: Yeah, and there's dudes that ride tech lines in snow, and there's dudes that just wanna ride jumps in snow, and then in mountain biking there's guys that wanna ride flow and jumps, and there's dudes that are like anti jump, but just really wanna ride steep

but they're, yeah, It's funny, cause they're, there's like the same kind of bro, attitude. there's like hyper masculine bro dude guys who do both of them, who just want to do back country or like ride lomers. Like I don't mess around with trails where the public goes, I only ride the secret stuff.

Paddy: ha.

Scott: You know, they'll like give you an exit number off of the highway and be like, meet me.

Paddy: Let me drop you a pin, like, I don't think that we're on the same level

Scott: No, I, once things got popular, people I met in the industry would be like, you want to go ride, exit, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, [00:15:00] I can tell by that sentence that I don't

Paddy: How does your observational humor come to you? Do you sit down and have blocked off time on your calendar to write? Is it like you're just out there on a trail or on a chairlift and something just like comes to you like you notice something funny and you're like, huh? What's that?

Scott: I am not a sit down writer. That's what I've learned over the last 10 plus years. I can't do it. It has to be like, if it comes to me, I have to write it down. Or if I'm riding my bike, or if I'm, you know, I have to like, do it, make a note then. It's hard to explain this without sounding, like, being like, It just comes to me, like, magically.

Paddy: The muse just zaps

Scott: My brain's just so good at making jokes.

Paddy: guess it's just like, I'm extremely talented

Scott: I just like, so, that's what sets me apart from other people who aren't good at [00:16:00] this. I guess the way I view the world maybe is just kind of through like an absurd lens.

So I'm always kind of like

Paddy: Cracking one liners and

Scott: Yeah, whatever comes to me.

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Paddy: well, what's funny about your humor is that you're lovingly poking fun at things, when I think of humor, I think that there's a huge difference between making fun of them and making fun of us.

Scott: And you're a human who exemplifies making fun of us. Now, I don't mean to say that like I think that Every joke needs not offend. I don't believe that. But the audience is sure more responsive and receptive when they feel like in on the gag. So how do you walk that tightrope? How do you make sure that your humor is building a big tent?

I think it's really important to do that. Some people don't, you know, it's like personal opinion. , I never try to make fun of anything that I'm [00:17:00] not also passionate about in some way. Because people don't like an outsider talking about the thing they love.

Paddy: Someone like peering over the fence and being like, You suck! And then disappearing, like, You're like, that's not funny

Scott: Aren't mountain bikers stupid or whatever? I Think it's just important As a comedian to do that and it also doesn't come from like a superior place where I think I'm better than everybody

Paddy: Right. Yeah.

Scott: no, we're all stupid this way.

Look at how we're dumb , it's something that has come about like as like a philosophy. I think as I've created more stuff I will never present myself as being good at it

I will never drop a clip of me being good at something. I will never say I'm good. Because, yeah, who's gonna fight you?

Because you know what the number one comment is on videos of people, , who talk about their prowess in something? It's like, you suck. Like, you're

Paddy: Yeah, yeah, totally.

Scott: Well, I already took that away. You can't say I [00:18:00] suck, because I already said I suck.

People enjoy that about it, I assume because it's like, yeah, I'm not like, oh, look how gnarly I am.

Paddy: So the self deprecation. It really is top of mind then.

Scott: In humor, I feel like it's really important to, look inward.

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: You know? Like, observational comedy is great. But, observational comedy that's actually from a place of, like, experience is better. Examining your life.

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: Comes from a more genuine place where you're not poking fun. You're not you're never punching down that's a thing. I think I've done in stand up the whole you know Pretty much well since I became like more of a professional for sure is like I I don't want to punch down I'm not trying to make fun of people before making fun of myself first,

Paddy: you know, If you're not laughing at yourself, you're missing out on the world's funniest joke.

Scott: yeah and that's more genuine. I think and more I think people find that just to be more relatable.

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PADDY VO: Jokes of course are great becuase...well laughing is fun. But according to Scott poking fun at ourselves can accomplish much more than a few giggles. That bit of wisdom and more humor from comedian Scott Losse, after the break.

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Paddy: What is your own social media diet like when it comes to the outdoors? , do you prefer to see your pals getting after it or having fun? Or do you love watching, , the best of the best athletes doing those wildly bonkers things?

Scott: The funny thing too. Is like, I I follow a lot of core dudes, too. Like, I watch all the Bragi Vestavich videos, like the dude going down glaciers and whatever, like just random stuff. Like, I watch stuff that is out of my wheelhouse completely. , same with snowboarding, I consume that core, core stuff.

Paddy: Do you like that stuff? Do you find it aspirational, or interesting, or [00:20:00] inspirational? Or is it just like, I don't know, they're top athletes being great and I just like it?

Scott: I like to watch the top, top tier stuff in mountain biking, I think it's just insane. I don't relate to it at all.

Paddy: Yeah, totally. It's like when I watch, , Candide Thovex, doing something absolutely insane, I'm like, This is incredible. I am not gonna try a single

Scott: rock arch

Paddy: Yeah, don't. Yes.

Scott: feet down a hill.

Paddy: Super chill. And then, and lands like he's stepping

Scott: barely gonna bend his knees. He's not gonna bend his knees. He's I don't

Paddy: He's a robot. He's actually not real. He's not a real human

Scott: Have you ever seen him?

Paddy: No. And nobody has. He's always fully masked up. With the buff, the hat, the goggles.

Scott: He's a secret person.

Paddy: Or it's like multiple people. You know how, like in the comics, like Batman passes it on, you know, the mantle is passed on. Candida is just passing it on through the years.

First one, he was born in 1903. he had leather boots.

Scott: He's the guy I watch that I'm like, [00:21:00] oh you're the only dude that makes snowboarding look like it sucks,

But he's like on that level where he's like, oh, what's Candide doing now?

Oh, he's riding on the Great Wall of China. Oh, he's in the, he's riding in Switzerland on grass.

Paddy: Or on a wave in the ocean, and then on a beach, and then he's in the desert or something.

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I guess what I mean by asking you about your social media diet and what you think about the professional athletes like we watch all these super rad videos on our social feeds and then we get super excited and we go out into the world and are essentially faced with these opportunities to kind of, you know, Emulate, or step up in a

Scott: Oh Sure. Yeah

Paddy: of these things that we've been inspired by and then, you know, if you're a normal human being, uh, you get scared.

Do you find the gap between those things to be funny? Is it a bummer? Or is it goofy?

Scott: no, it's funny

Paddy: Yeah. I think,

Scott: I was talking to a friend the other day who went to bald face [00:22:00] in Nelson and he's like first run they test you by making you jump a 10 foot cliff I was like, I might have to go back to the lodge Like

Paddy: going to check out the breakfast burritos guys.

Scott: It existed a lot in skateboarding, uh, too, where it's like the, the levels between casual and pro is huge, and they, they build skate parks out here that we jo I always jokingly say it looks like they built it for like a Thrasher demo, and then they just left it up, but nobody can skate the parts that are huge.

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: It is funny, I think that's part, like, part of what I do is probably, you know, response to that culture too.

Paddy: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Scott: look how big and huge everything is. Like, watch this guy launch an 80 footer. Or do like a whip where he's backwards, you know, like, I don't, I can't do that.

Like, where do I even, where do we begin to do this?

Paddy: No professional athlete is posting, a video of them [00:23:00] taking a bank turn, like I take bank turns on a mountain bike, which is to hard brake, screeching brakes

Scott: I hate shralping videos. I hate those videos.

Paddy: Do you think that stuff, the value of that stuff is overrated?

Scott: Yeah, but it's like,

Paddy: Is that what you're poking fun of because it's like so unattainable?

Scott: it. I don't care how fast you go around a corner. That's not even cool. Who cares how fast you, there's like whipping, like it was cool the first time and now it's been done so many times. It's boring, right? It's boring. Sometimes people are so good.

It's boring.

Paddy: Is that the joke?

Scott: I think part of the joke is that there's not

a lot of content for 80 percent of people who do the sport.

Paddy: And this is why I think walking into a gear shop of any type of sport is the It's more intimidating than standing at the top of a line that seems vertical before

Scott: my god, , I walked into one the other [00:24:00] day,

Paddy: I hate it.

Scott: core, core place,

Paddy: One, they're gonna be pissed that you're bringing in your thing to work on, whether it's skis, snowboard, bike, and you're like, I don't know, man, like, it's, you got all the tools, like, this is part of the

Scott: they're always like acting like, why are you here

Paddy: Yeah. And you're like, I don't, I don't know, like, would Jiffy lube do that to you?

And you're like, I need an oil change. And you're like, you idiot.

You try to. Drop a couple hints to the gear bros and bras that are in there and you're like, please think that I'm cool and like, Hey, did you see my worn kinkos? My gloves?

Scott: Oh, yeah, I think I'm gonna re bake these with beeswax next week.

Paddy: Do you feel that?

Scott: Yeah, I feel like a phony. I'm like, what am I

Paddy: Yes, yes.

Scott: I walk in, especially now, actually, I walk in, I'm like, they think I'm that asshole from the internet. They're just like, they hate me. Most of the time they don't know who I am because I'm not in their demo. So it doesn't matter. Like a 25 year old dude at the shop doesn't know why they don't know who I am.[00:25:00]

Paddy: Are you like, oh, thank God?

Scott: Yeah, to a degree. I'm like, Oh, but I immediately enter into like, I have to act like I, I'm like, oh, you, oh, you guys got the new Fox

Paddy: I know. Yeah. Right. And you're like, do you see? Check out my shoes.

Scott: Yeah. Just see, you got

Paddy: five tens. They're,

Scott: the,

Paddy: I'm cool.

Scott: I do not wear five tens. I wear shoes that are so not bike shoes that people on trail ask me questions.

Like they're concerned that I'm wearing the wrong

Paddy: Like, what are you wearing? Like Keds or Crocs or something?

Scott: and America

Paddy: You're like, well, I need these mountain bikers to know that I also skateboard.

Scott: Yeah. I just want you guys. I'm not, I am. Yeah. Is that what I'm doing? I'm like virtue signaling. I'm like, I want you to know I'm, I'm different than you.

Paddy: Do you skateboard in your snowboarding boots? Like how do you do that

Scott: Day I went to the mountain and I had my Adidas clip pedal. Clip velo.

Paddy: I just want you to know that I'm part of this, but also [00:26:00] not because I'm in a cooler, better thing

Scott: I have SPDs on my bike.

For as much as you poke fun. at Outdoor Culture, same, I feel like I do that too, In a loving way, you also participate in it because you love the thing, because you are of the thing. What are the parts of outdoor culture that you earnestly enjoy?

The communities, mountain communities, so cool. , snowboarding and mountain bike, mountain bike people, like the people are great. Like they're passionate and pretty inviting. people too. That's what I found by getting more popular online with like those things is that like people are stoked on it and they want to share their passion and so there's like a warmth with the people there.

Scott: And that's something that definitely, like, I wasn't always a part of it, but now that I'm a guy from the internet, it's more experience, you know. I was never part of a scene growing up, really, but now that I'm a dude from Instagram, I'm, I feel like I've been, I've been sucked into, [00:27:00] like, these communities, and it's rad.

But, like, also, like, I don't meditate, but mountain biking is like my peaceful time. I ride alone a lot at like six in the morning, like, because the sun will start to rise here, you know, in a couple months really, really early, and I'll go to the trailhead and I'll ride alone through the woods, and it's like the most clarity I think I get.

In such a busy world, you know, like just going through the woods and just in enjoying a sunrise

Paddy: Yeah, yeah.

Scott: climbing a mountain, there's like a piece there and I, you know, think mountain biking more than snowboarding, snowboarding, there's always more people around, but in mountain biking, there's a lot of opportunity for you to be completely alone

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: in the, you know, even in a place where the parking lot's full, like people spread

Paddy: Yeah, yeah. I also just want to point out that it's like very funny that you're like, I love the community, and then getting as far away from them as possible. Ha,

Scott: the people, [00:28:00] and then when I get to the trailhead, I like that you can pedal away

Paddy: ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha.

Scott: Uh, I have no I do not want a crew, but I do like the apres.

Paddy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be, I'll be social. Do

the serenity of being outside.

I think that taking what you do seriously and seriously loving what you do is incredibly important.

Paddy: But I think it's also equally as important to not take yourself seriously. Is that at the core of all of your gags?

Scott: Never thought about it that way, but Yeah!

Paddy: I mean, do you feel like part of it may be like, well, I find this very funny and I'm making fun of myself, but ultimately, , I kind of want to shift the culture of these sports of the outdoor world to like, not take ourselves so seriously.

Scott: It's fun to make a [00:29:00] video where I talk about my bike, but I don't know what I'm talking about,

Paddy: I know what an allen wrench is, I don't know what these screws do, I don't

Scott: know what this does.

Paddy: don't know how this cassette works, or this derailleur works,

Scott: What is rebound exactly? What does this do? I don't know what that

Paddy: I know that Dennis Rodman did it for the 90s bulls, but I don't know what it means for my mountain bike.

Scott: I was at a trail a couple months back, and this guy's like, How much travel does your fork have?

Paddy: You're like, I don't know, how long is this trail?

Scott: Yeah,

Paddy: Is it a couple miles, I guess? I don't know.

Scott: a bunch? I think I just squished it. I was like, it seems fine.

Paddy: I know, and you always need to make that face too with it. The like, lip curl,

Scott: yeah, what?

Paddy: like, mm, you know. I guess it's like pretty, mm, squishy. I

Scott: I think there's so much, like, gear obsession that people don't go ride. I don't know, like, stop worrying about it.

Paddy: Is that the gate that you're trying to open up,

Scott: Sorta, [00:30:00] yeah.

Paddy: just go ride. It's whatever. I'm a big idiot too. I don't know how any of these

Scott: Yeah, you don't need to know how it works. And you don't And I don't know the difference between why I need a more slack angle or

Paddy: Are we going full suspension? No suspension? What's core? What's not core? Is it a 29er? 27. 5? Yeah.

Scott: Singlespeed. Rigid. That's the only pure way to ride.

It's so funny. But yeah, I think like, That's totally something I would like to make Say to people. It's like, just go. Go ride. Don't Stop. Stop thinking about it. I

Paddy: Do you see the whole point of this marriage of your love of the outdoors, your career in standup, your observational humor, the Instagram videos, lovingly poking fun at the outdoor community. Do you see it all as a way to use the outdoors for the simple but incredibly impactful pursuit of a damn good giggle?

Scott: Yeah. I never saw that before, actually. Probably [00:31:00] not until this year. I never really I always loved the outdoors.

Paddy: Uh huh.

Scott: You know, it did stand up, but I never thought, like, they would ever, uh, crash into each other and become something.

Paddy: And it seems like, to me, that, crashing into one another has, like, been not just in terms of your career, but your own, like, heart. Just, like, very impactful.

Scott: Now outdoors has become part of my career. Whereas I never, you asked me that a year and a half ago, I wouldn't, I would have been, I would have laughed at you. I would have said, are you joking? You know, there's no way. But like, now I get to take this thing that I find, you know, hiking and biking and mountain, and you know, snowboarding, and this thing that makes me feel at peace, and now it's like part of , a greater cause, which is rad.

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A lot of it is about like inviting people into a community where they might feel intimidated to do, to, because the prevailing image is gnar, [00:32:00] an aggression.

Presenting these things in, a soft way is kind of inviting and, making these scenes more inclusive to more people, you know?

Paddy: Yes, I do know, because it's, because it is, very intimidating, because of the quote unquote cool kids or this sense that you have to be the best at the thing in order to claim that thing as part of you, as part of your identity.

Do you think that your humor, the mission statement is , no, you can be a beginner at this thing and it's still be a part of you.

Scott: Go do the thing. Yeah, get on the bike. Mountain biking is whatever you want it to be. You don't have to be at a certain level to enjoy it, to call yourself a mountain biker. Just go do it. I'm using Humor in a way to like welcome people in, or like show people a lighter side of something that they might be intimidated by.

, I want to influence the culture so that it feels like more of a welcoming place where people can just be you and not worry about a certain [00:33:00] expectation,

and just get out there, whether that's a level of ability or fitness or whatever things that block people from engaging in the outdoors,

Just being welcoming, in creating a culture that is one of sharing and not one of excluding and not one that overly celebrates, trickery over just, the normal person who's going out for a nice ride because they're trying to clear their head, you know? Just trying to show people, like, the other side. I think that's it. A lot of it.

Paddy: Has anyone done that for you

Scott: no!

So maybe this is, in all, this is kind of a reaction to my intimidation, my personal feelings of being intimidated by

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: that I didn't feel I belonged to. And the funny thing about that is, like, the more I get involved in it, the more people I meet, the more I realize that there's really good people in it. There's core, the core dudes are just, are super nice too. It's just like, there's an image that I think is scary to [00:34:00] people or that's kind of like, I don't know if I belong there, we're all like, just people like struggling with . Our own problems and our own, , voices in our heads telling us that we suck

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: and our own imposter syndromes or whatever maybe I present a softer side of all these things that are traditionally considered core activities and it's like something people can relate to and then feel like less scared Or more more like I belong that guy's

yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I'm always trying to look towards, , the absurdity of everything in my life, you know, or just the ridiculousness of, of life in general, even the troubles we go through, , or the things that we stress out about or the things that are outside of our control that we freak out about that you can't change.

Scott: I guess you have to laugh at it, because if you're not laughing at it, even at the shittiest things that you go through, then you're just stressing about it, and that doesn't help anyway. So you should try to find things that are funny.

Paddy: They get too heavy.

Scott: yeah, yeah, they just weigh you down.

I think at the end of the [00:35:00] day like, this is corny, right? Well, I don't, I think it's,

Paddy: Oh, Scott be corny.

Scott: I'll be honest dude, I'm here to make people happy. That's kind of how I feel about it. Like if if that's all I accomplish, you know, cool

if they bike rad if they get into snowboarding, that's cool.

But if I just made him laugh, you know, that's Awesome. And I feel like spreading happiness is like in a world where people actively choose the opposite of that, where people actively choose to troll people and make fun of people for not being good at stuff. People need someone to be kind

Paddy: Yeah.

Scott: and funny, you know, there has to be an opposition that's just as strong.

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Paddy: Alright, before I let you go, we have our final piece called the final ramble. One piece of gear you can't live without.

Scott: I was gonna have a joke answer, I was gonna say Bluetooth speaker,

no, multi tool, all the screws come loose when you're out,[00:36:00]

Paddy: Smart. Smart moves. Best outdoor snack.

Scott: bacon, pocket bacon,

Paddy: True. Facts. I can back this up. What is your hottest outdoor hot take?

Scott: oh, The internet ruins cool trails by letting people know about them.

Paddy: Is that your next video? Or are you going to post a bunch of trails on

Scott: Yeah, I'm gonna drop a bunch of pins at Lomer's at 590. You get all right.

Paddy: Perfect. So.

Scott: Socail Media destroys everything. Anyway, I

Paddy: Anyways, my Instagram handle is

Scott: thank you.

Paddy: OUTRO

PADDY VO:

Scott Losse is a mountain biker, cyclist, snowboarder, and stand up comedian. Watch his latest hilarious takes on outdoor culture on Instagram At Scott Losse, that's L-O-S-S-E. And find out more about him and his upcoming stand up gigs at his website, Scott Losse Dot Com.

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