Armchair Anonymous: Camping
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What camping experiences do Dax and Monica share?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dax Shepard.
I'm joined by Monica Batman.
Hello. Your favorite topic, your favorite activity, camping.
I don't love it.
Yeah. I need to go in a tent. The bus life is fun, but having this prompt made me realize, no, I need to unzip that thing in the morning, crawl out. You're like, oh, fuck, I just woke up in a plastic bag. But then you're like, oh, let's make some coffee. And then everything just starts getting better and better and better.
Now, have you gone tent camping since you stopped drinking?
Yeah.
You have?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, nice. Okay.
Not a ton. You're right. Drinking helps.
It helps.
Camping costs so much.
It helps.
It's almost one of those activities where it's like, is there an activity of drinking? Like snowmobiling. They tried to crack down on drinking and riding snowmobiles in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. I'm like, guys, you're not going to have an activity.
It's all Connecto.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so this is Crazy Camping Stories, and they deliver. Please enjoy Crazy Camping. Good times, take them slow My life, I had them both But one thing you gotta know I'ma keep on shining Hi, Emmy. Hi. How are you? I'm great. How are you guys? Good. Where are you at? I'm in Ontario, Canada. Beautiful. London, Toronto. Where are we at? I live in Orangeville. It's just a small town, maybe an hour and a half north of Toronto. En route to Muskoka? Kind of a bypass, but yeah, it's sort of on the way. Okay. And have you spent any time on those lakes? Yeah, we've been up there a few times camping, topical camping. Camping, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding.
What is the craziest camping story shared by a guest?
Yeah. I have friends with cottages up in that area too. So yeah, I spent a lot of time up there. Yeah, you Canadians got that figured out, lake life. So where does your camping story take place? Tell us. My camping story takes place in Grundy Lake. It's an Ontario provincial park that's maybe two hours north of Muskoka. It's a little ways up. This takes place around 15 years ago. So my husband, then boyfriend, in June will have been together for 18 years. Congrats. You seem very young to have been with someone for 18 years. I agree. I get that a lot. We started dating when I was 17. Our wedding anniversary is January 2nd. Oh! That's a peculiar day to get married, no? I like it. We were going to try and do a New Year's wedding, but nobody would take us because they're all booked up.
So we were like, well, the second is a Saturday. So as much as I feel like you complain about people not loving your birthday, like we made people go to a wedding on January 2nd. After they just quit drinking.
But I love that because then it's like we're starting off the year with a party.
That's nice.
And love. That's nice because beginning of January can be tough mentally.
Also, if one of your resolutions is like get married, you knock that out on day two. Yeah. His name's Nolan. So when we met, he was super into camping. I had done some trips, but not a ton. So he really got me into it. He was more of like a portage guy. Is that with the canoeing? Yeah. And like you would put all your food in a barrel and you have your backpack and you canoe in. Oh, wow. Cool. And I had done a couple of trips like in Ongonquin and we had done things like that before. But in this particular case, we were going to Grundy. So it's car camping. So you would drive up and park your car on the site. Right. And you set up your tent and away you go. So we were used to food barrel, string up your stuff in a tree.
absolutely isolate everything from animals because when you're further north, you have to worry more about the wildlife. So we were kind of more in line with that. But then when you go car camping, you're basically only as tidy as your nearest neighbor. So you can't do a whole heck of a lot there. We've been camping and we've seen like raccoons eating hot dogs at the picnic table. Sure, sure, sure. You're describing Michigan camping perfectly. We always drive right to the spot. You wake up, there's raccoons everywhere. There's empty bags from the hot dog buns that they got into.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What camping experiences do Dax and Monica share?
0:00–1:54
2
What is the craziest camping story shared by a guest?
1:54–4:32
3
How does the camping story unfold at Grundy Lake?
4:32–9:14
4
What wildlife encounters do campers face while camping?
9:14–11:26
5
What happens during a bear encounter while camping?
11:26–18:23
6
How do campers react to unexpected emergencies in the wild?
18:23–26:24
7
What challenges arise when camping with kids?
26:24–26:52
8
What lessons are learned from camping mishaps?
26:52–54:21