Episode 8 Ryan Lepore

10/31/19 Happy Halloween! Our guest today was Ryan "Crash" Lepore. He's a CSULB alumni working on getting hired as a firefighter. He's a huge sports fan and has played sports his entire life, including professional ultimate for the L.A. Aviators. In our intro we introduced our first sponsor (thank you Emily Harrington!), discussed our pumpkin carving with youth group last night, a fire across the street yesterday morning, and talked a little about the Nationals winning the World Series (0:00-13:00). Then we looked at this week's football schedule while getting sidetracked with a couple other topics including Gatorade, Nike, Adidas, and geography (13:00-49:55). We briefly mentioned Steph Curry's injury and the KAT-Embiid fight from last night, then followed a Rootstown, Ohio rabbit hole highlighted by aardvarks and armadillos (49:55-1:00:20). Ryan then filled us in about his history with sports, including being a fan of the Packers, Braves, and Kings, and growing up playing soccer, hockey, baseball and ultimate (1:00:20-1:29:15). Then we got to talk about Ryan's family and upbringing and his elongated pursuit of a firefighting career (1:29:15-1:48:20). Lastly, Ryan discussed his faith journey with us, including being the least-informed kid in youth group and having a heart-breaking breach of trust with a youth leader that had lasting repercussions with Ryan's family (1:48:20-2:24:00). Join us on this and future adventures by connecting with us on Instagram, Twitter, Spotify and iTunes! And a big thank you to Emily and Maddie for the sponsorship!