Nick Detty is the lead vocalist of metalcore legends Wolves At The Gate on Solid State Records. In this episode, we speak with Nick about dad life, balancing touring and a traditional job, and the band's most recent covers album "Lost In Translation." Nick is also kind enough to share some details about what's next for Wolves At The Gate, along wit…

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Multicultural Night 2023

HHS RAD Course

If you live anywhere near the Great Lakes, you know about the gales of November and some of the shipwrecks they've caused. But throughout history, and the 6,000 or more ships lost on those Lakes, we often never find out what really happened because nobody lived to tell the story. But in this episode, we have a startling exception--the sole survivor…

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Mr. Gates, HHS Veteran

HHS Today Episode 104

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It was entirely too long since I've been back home, waiting out a global pandemic, among other distractions. In this episode, I'm homeward bound, reuniting with friends and memories--like on board the restored US Coast Guard Cutter Sundew, or just having a pizza at Sammy's. And Duluth always seems to have something new to me happening these days as…

My guest on this episode is talented runner and thru hiker Joe McConaughy: a multi-FKT (Fastest Known Time) holder of many prominent routes such as the Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, John Muir Trail and most recently a film has been produced about his 2021 800-mile Arizona Trail produced by Pilot Field called "Racing Arizona" : https://you…

My guest on this episode is Hilary Matheson, a very talented female creative in the sport of trail and ultrarunning as well as an accomplished ultrarunner in her own right .She also just happens to be my girlfriend and adventure partner. In today's conversation, we talk about her start in the creative space from her typical 9-5 corporate life, how …

Now with the pandemic slowly fading away, I've started traveling again--and getting back to Duluth, my hometown! I'm working on a full-length episode about the trip but as I finish that, I thought I'd share this segment from it as a sort of preview. It's about the retired US Coast Guard Cutter "Sundew," that's been restored to operating condition a…

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My guest on this episode is Jeff Browning, one of the most durable and successful male athletes in American ultrarunning. In this conversation, we discussed some of the keys to his longevity, race stories from Hardrock, HURT 100, UTMB among others and how a change in diet to one of a more paleo/keto/OFM one helped with race recovery and much, much …

Twenty miles off Minnesota’s North Shore in Lake Superior lies Isle Royale. It’s a lonely, rarely visited place, even though part of America’s National Park system. Now, new research is revealing that a mysterious civilization began 9,000 years ago on that island and started a mining operation that thrived for four millennia. We still don’t know ex…

Duluth is a port city and the sights and sounds of all those ships coming and going to and from all over the world are just part of every Duluthian's heart and soul. But for me, it goes even deeper. I grew up out there. My dad was the Chief Engineer of a Great Lakes freighter and, thanks to a shipping company that was determined to keep families to…

My guest on this episode is Hayden Hawks, one of the greatest talents in the sport of American ultrarunning. Today, we explore a myriad of topics including his competitive mindset, his professional approach to ultrarunning, what it was like competing against the likes of Jim Walmsley and Zach Miller, how ball sports athletes influenced his own appr…

At the height of the Cold War, in the midst of a standoff between the world's nuclear super-powers, it wouldn't have taken much to set off WW III--and in fact, it almost happened one night all because of an incident in Duluth. At the time, Duluth was one of America’s most important strategic assets in case of a Russian nuclear attack. It was home t…

Canada's Jazmine Lowther has been taking 2022 by storm in 2022 with her podium finish at Chuckanut 50K and most recently, her course record win at the Canyons by UTMB 100K. Today, I sat down with her to talk about her emerging ultrarunning career, her goals in the sport, the mindset of an elite athlete and much more. We also welcomed back Jamil Cou…

Not everybody knows that the place we call Duluth used to be part of France, and that the Boundary Waters Canoe Area was once a bustling thoroughfare, creating fortunes as a supply line for the European fashion industry. Who was our namesake, this French guy Sieur Du Luht, and how did he end up here anyway?…

No matter how far I may roam, I will always be a Duluthian. My name is Jim Hayden, and even as the accent continues to fade, this place where I grew up has left an indelible impression on me. In this edition, a little background about the concept of this series and some chapter headings and highlights of what we'll explore in the episodes that foll…

My guest today Michael Wardian has long been on my list of athletes I've wanted to converse with because he very well might be the new Most Interesting Man In The World. Beyond his running resume and achievements - of which there are many including running 7 marathons in 7 continents in 7 days (all under 3 hours), being the last man standing at the…

On his 30th birthday, Dean Karnazes decided to walk out of his birthday celebration to run 30 miles on a whim in search of adventure and renewed purpose. Today on the podcast, we talk about the book that initially put Dean on the map "Ultramarathon Man: Confessions Of An All-Night Runner" and his excellent follow up "A Runner's High: My Life In Mot…

First episode of 2022 and we welcome back repeat guests and fan favorites Sally McRae and Jason Koop to answer YOUR questions via a live YouTube broadcast (originally aired January 11, 2022). We cover a wide range of topics including sleep, heat training, training for races at altitude, mental toughness, long runs and much, much more! + Our Convers…

In this episode, I sat down with ultra endurance athlete Timothy Olson for a conversation about his record setting run on the famed Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). We unpacked all that went into his 51 days along the 2,653 mile route (averaging 51+ miles a day!) that runs from the southern terminus of the Mexican border to the Canadian border traversing…

In this episode, I sat down with ultra athlete Zach Miller talking running and racing, coming back from injury and some of his overall life philosophy. The conversation picks up where we last saw Zach in his film as a caretaker at Barr Camp to a now, a life on the road in his converted bus traveling through North America. We cover our summer at Har…