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When I was doing the late-night show, I talked to a lot of people. Some of them became my friends. That's the category we're in today. Ariel Tweto first came to my attention when she was on a TV show called Flying Wild Alaska. But the minute I met her, I knew we'd be friends, and then when she became friends with my wife, then I knew it was compulsory.

- For those of you who are not familiar with your story, I'm just going to take you back a little bit. I know you well, and we've been friends since I met you in the late night show. 10 years ago.
- I think it's more, I didn't have gray here back then, you didn't either.
- Yeah, I sure did.
- And you don't have any now.
- I have a lot, but I don't mind it. It’s gray, it is okay, but it's getting really white now.
- I like it - silver fox.
- No, it's not silver fox anymore. It's Santa. It’s the battle when you get old, because I'm nearly 62, Jesus, the battle now is to not turn in a Santa. That's, that's my last mission.
- Well, you look good. Well, that's in a Santa way.

- I first heard about you because of “Flying Wild Alaska”, the show that you did for discovery, right? Which is about you and your family's airline, because your dad ran the airline.
- Well, it was my dad and his buddy, they started it.
- You were in these Bush planes, since you were a baby.
- Yeah, we flew everywhere. And then the only way in and out of our village in Alaska is by airplane.

My dad got a hockey scholarship and moved up when he was 16, and then played hockey, and was really, really good. He was a goalie, and he was like, he was amazing, apparently. And then he became a welder. After that, he had really crappy hips, and so he stopped playing hockey, became a welder, and started building all the boats in Northwest Alaska, all the crazy crab and fishing boats, and he was obsessed with welding, he loved welding. Half the village, it seemed like everyone had his boats. And then, I don't think he ever got his pilot's license. He just started flying.

- My mom's wild. I can't wait for you to meet her. She's feisty. She carries a bull whip.
- Yeah, I don't know if I want to meet her now.

- I haven't seen you since your dad's accident, right? That was really intense. Well, obviously, it was really intense because we lost your dad during that.
- Yeah, in June, June of last year. So it's gonna be a year soon, but it doesn't feel real still. And I think that's why I just don't want to be at home. It's hard. I still dream about him, which is good, and I write him letters all the time, and so I'll just be like, “Hey, I haven't felt you in a while or something.” And then he'll show up in a dream.
- I have that with my parents now, yeah, that that goes on forever. That’s okay, you know, you don't worry about that. He's not going anywhere in that sense, you know.
- Yeah. Once I was surfing, and I caught this great wave, and I heard him, I heard him say, “Good job, dude.” And then I felt him. I felt him everywhere, and that's when I knew. I was like, “oh, man, he's still here,” and then I started…, I couldn't stop crying, but they were like, happy tears.

- When you experience grief, I've had it, you clearly have had it very recently. Nobody knows how to deal with you, sort of thing. It's kind of like, you got something on you a little. No one knows what to say.
- It's super awkward. I don't know how to respond. How are you doing? How do you think I'm doing? And I'm like, “Yeah, good.” But now I'm realizing that I'm taking it every day. Today, I'm good. A couple days ago, not so much. This made me realize, though, how I thought I was a compassionate, empathetic person before all this. Now it made me realize, like, what a ding dong I was. When my friends were going through loss or something, I'm said “let's just go hiking. Come on, get over it.” And now I'm like, if someone said that to me, I would punch them in the face, right?

You live outdoors. You’re outdoors and outright all the time. Because in the summer in Alaska, you gotta get as much of sun as you can. You're outside all the time. But in the winter, we're outside all the time too. Just dress warmer. But I'm like an animal, I have to be outside. If I'm inside too long, I’m getting itchy, I'm gonna start like, ripping things here soon.

Change is the law of the universe. You gotta change. Everything changes all the time, and people don't like it even if they want it, it's difficult.

People use quotes in order to make them sound as clever as the person who said the thing. But really, they're just showing off that they can remember a quote.

You feel good when you're improving, when you're growing and evolving and changing.

I have children, and I have to instill in them the idea that sometimes, if you want something, it's difficult. You have to go through difficult. If you want to learn how to play the guitar, you have to practice playing the guitar. If you want to learn how to surf, if you want to really enjoy surfing, learn how to surf. And every now and again you might break your fingers.

It seems to me that it's quite difficult for young people to talk to people they don't agree with. It’s much more difficult than it used to be, if you don't agree with someone, you immediately get away from them. They’re so afraid of confrontation, they don't even approach someone. It seems weird to me. Clearly, that's something they've been taught. it seems like an error. I think, I got friends. I've got friends, good friends that I think they're idiots. I have friends that I don't like anything about them much, except they're my friend. I don't know. I can't really explain it. you can like someone and disagree with them, and not be threatened by a different point of view.

I need to clear this up. So everyone assumes, because I'm flying wild Alaska, that I know everything about airplanes. I know nothing. Oh yeah, I can fly and stuff. But then, like, when it comes to anything else, no.

- So are you having fun with this podcast?
- Yeah, I wasn't sure for a little bit at first, because everybody has a podcast, but I've got this really strict rule about guests, I only have guests if I want to talk to them. If you're doing a late night show, if you're doing an hour every night, two guests a night, five nights a week, you're going to talk to a lot of people that you don't really fucking care about. But once you're doing it for only one hour a week, I can keep it to just people I want to talk to, and I think it makes a difference to the conversations as well.

Everyone’s so angry. any news that you get, I'm talking any news outlet, even the reputable ones, the the big now, everything, everything seems to be based in fear, the hyperbole, even the fucking weather. you can't even say, “oh, there's a cold front coming in, so get your jacket.” Instead, it's like “the storm, watch out, danger to life.” Sometimes it's a real storm. Then you have to say that. But if you say that for every piece of weather, then what's that? Nobody's gonna listen.

In the corporate world, I always felt there it was like you were in the court of some fucking mad Austrian emperor. And there was a set of manners that you must follow, you've got to have kids by then. You got to like this kind of sport. You've got to wear these kind of pants, you've gotta do this, and I was like, “I can't fucking do it.” And what I started to realize is that the people I gravitate towards have the same difficulties. When I was 36 years old, I had no fucking idea what I wanted to do. I'm nearly 62 I have no fucking idea.

He was the best dad. He made me believe that I could be in the NBA. When I told him goals and dreams of mine, I loved telling him goals that I wanted to set and he was so supportive, even if it was something as crazy as getting into the NBA.

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