Long Run 275 - Andy Mathews

Scotty (0:01)

All right, you guys, it's going to be a long run episode of me and Andy Mathews. Who is Andy Mathews? Well, he did the Badger 100, first of all, but I don't think that defines him as a person. He also is a racetracker. Him and his wife, Amy, put on a whole bunch of races, including but not limited to the Long Haul 100 And he also has a race called the Long Play Trail Run 33.3, which is a record adjacent race. Anyway, he came, we did the Badger, he sent me an email before the Badger asking if we wanted to talk. And it took me like eight months to respond because I'm just too backed up on email. But then I finally did and I scheduled him for an interview. So we're going to talk, we're going to talk about his Badger, his races, his race directing, his 33 and a third album race and anything else that comes up. So I'm excited to meet him.

All the races, our races are all open for registration. I'm expecting kind of a push after the Western States Lottery. Nothing is in danger of selling out, but I don't know how this works. I mean, there could be 250 people that crash into the Badger 100 the day after Western State. So we have a generous deferral policy for any reason or no reason, any race that we put on dollar for dollar credit. So if you're thinking about it or if you're planning to do it, there's no reason not to sign up, I wouldn't wait. Don't be that person that emails me once we're full and I say, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do for you. But nonetheless, sign up if you can. We also have the Torch Eats Taco Run coming up in Austin, Texas. If you need information on that, email me at tenjunkmiles.gmail.com. We also have the World's Longest Turkey Trot from Milwaukee to Chicago to Milwaukee this year. So if you want to get involved in that and then you can donate. You can donate, it's a great cause, Band of Runners, they send Gold Star families and veterans to camp. You care about Gold Star families and veterans, you have a little bit of extra money. Tax time is coming up. I'm going to put a link in the bottom of the show notes. Kick them 5 bucks. If everybody listens to this podcast, gives them 5 bucks. Liza will cry and all the veterans will be at camp and it'll be wonderful. They could go out and take the extra money and maybe hire Def Leppard to play for them. No, they get Anton Kropitschka maybe or something. Anyway, just think about it, please. It's a good cause and I'm not going to waste any more of your time. We're just going to rip right into Andy Mathews with the improper intro. We've been doing that in almost every other show. I don't know why.

I think it's because I'm getting old, just pushing the wrong button.

A little Brady Bunch intro is nice too until I get the copyright notice from them.

Sometimes people tell me they have a felony conviction they don't want to bring up or stuff like that.

Andy Mathews (3:02)

I'm proud of all my felony convictions.

Scotty (3:04)

All right. Well, then we will definitely put that on the list to circle back to at some point in time. Welcome to the podcast, Andy Mathews. First, I want to just apologize. Usually it, I don't want to say it's never take, it's taken like eight years to schedule some people, but it usually doesn't take as long as it took to schedule you. So I saw the email and I was like, oh, and then that, you know, it's in the list of the millions of emails. And then when I get done with race directing season, then I'm going through all these emails. I'm like, oh, oh, this would have been a good thing to talk about. Like, cause I met you at the Badger.

Andy Mathews (3:33)

Yes, you did.

Scotty (3:33)

Yeah. I remember the conversation. You were sitting in a chair with your wife at the finish line.

Andy Mathews (3:37)

That's exactly right.

Scotty (3:39)

Right. But at that time, I had no recollection of that email.

Andy Mathews (3:44)

You know what? I hate email. I get so many emails and I am retired from the business world. So I can't even imagine how many emails you get.

So yeah, I mean, grace for me, that's for damn sure.

Scotty (3:57)

Well, the race to podcast and then obviously as a lawyer, I get a lot of emails too.