Mike Diaz: [00:00:00] But also like we went into it without like a real backup plan. If it felt we were get, we were gonna make it work. Yeah. Right. And I see that a lot. I see a lot of times, you know, guys will go out and they'll be like working their full-time job and the juujitsu on the side and that's great. It's like a safety net, right? Like if you fall, you're, you, you're able to be caught. But, um, I don't know. There's something to say for like, when you don't have a safety net,...
Mike: [00:00:00] when your back is up against a wall, like, and you have no choice, every decision you make leads towards actually making traction in accomplishing your goals. Riley: today I have Mike Howell, the owner of Wild Things Coffee, Meridian, Idaho, and several other locations also. Um, I, I invited Mike on the program today because he's got a just a cool business story and I, I, I've got to see the beginnings of this and kind of watch it grow. Um, we're jujitsu buddies from back in the day, and, and so [00:01:00] that's where...
Merle Long: [00:00:00] You know, uh, trees and the river do not mix well. Um, and there's been plenty of stories of, of good friends of mine paddling down, uh, rivers where they once again were just here the day before. There's a tree, uh, after some sort of feature, it could be some sort of drop, waterfall, whatever, uh, they do the waterfall, they drop, they get in, and then they go, you know, deep. You do go under the water right before you pop back up. They go under the water, and they don't pop back up because...
Daryn Colledge: [00:00:00] that's, that's that 30 seconds that we just talked about, right? The play did not go my way. It wasn't the way I thought it was gonna go, right? I'm a former professional athlete. I've been to war. I've been back. I've done all these things. I've lived a healthy life. I, I roll, I eat right, I run. I'm as healthy as a horse. I don't get colds. And all of a sudden, um, he says the word cancer, and I'm like, "Hey, that's not what I thought you were gonna say, and not what I...