The Gnar Couch Podcast

11-year-old freeride phenom Wes Lukens is the youngest person to ride Freeride Fiesta, the Cam Zink invitational, the Reece Wallace Invitational, Swatch Nines, and the Backyard Battle. This week on Gnar Couch, we're joined by Wes and his dad, Shawn. Wes has been sending ridiculous lines, throwing massive tricks, and generally riding like he forgot to download the fear update for a couple years now...

Seven years after Rampage tried to kill the dream, Johny Salido is back for unfinished business. @johnysalido joins Gnar Couch from the Utah desert as he prepares for his return to Red Bull Rampage in 2026. The last time Johny earned his way to Rampage, he was a 19-year-old Mexican kid trying to figure out big-mountain freeride. A massive crash, a ruptured spleen, and one extremely shitty hospital...

Five freeriders. One podcast. Absolutely no responsible adults. We're loading up the Gnar Couch with Bienvenido Aguado-Alba, Chelsea Kimball, Connor Gallart, Tylor James, and CJ Selig for a Red Bull Rampage roundtable featuring more talent than our podcast hosts have accumulated on their bikes in six years. We're talking big-mountain freeride, Rampage, digging in the Utah desert, pushing boundarie...

The Mallen Twins are back on the Gnar Couch, and somehow Luke and Alex have gone from terrifyingly fast Utah groms to terrifyingly fast World Cup downhill racers while the rest of us have gotten older, angrier, and developed health and attitude problems. We get into life racing the UCI World Cup, traveling the world chasing tenths of a second, representing Outlaw INTENSE Racing, the reality of try...

The Deer Valley Dig Crew joins Gnar Couch to break down what it took to build the 2026 Fox US Open Downhill course, a track riders were calling the steepest, loosest, and most savage downhill track in the country. We get into the whole process, from the original design and build complications to changes requested by Clay Harper and the Monster Energy Pro Downhill Series, the infamous moon dust, wi...

We caught up with @nekomulally at the @usopenmtb to talk about the track, life as a World Cup racer, and what happens when you decide racing bikes isn't enough work, so you start @rideframeworks and manage @frameworksracing too. Neko gives us the rundown on building Frameworks, running a race team, and somehow keeping tabs on an absolutely ridiculous roster featuring @aarongwin1 , @asavermette and...

We're getting TAKEN. Taken Cycles' Jeremy McGlathery, Matt Mundy and Chris Canfield join us to talk about the Boise-built Taken Encounter, CBF + i-Track suspension, and how to make a bike climb well without ruining all the fun on the way back down. This week, we've also included the second hour for free, which is usually reserved for Patreon. Thanks to Chris Canfield for sticking around. Hear his...

Connor Gallart joins Gnar Couch today. Connor grew up riding the legendary Aptos Post Office Jumps, stepped away from bikes for six years to serve in the US Coast Guard, then apparently decided normal life was overrated and came back to freeride. Now the Evil Bikes rider is headed to Red Bull Rampage as a rookie rider after going absolutely enormous in his Fair Winds submission. This week, we've i...

Welcome back to the Gnar Couch Podshow, where mountain bike conversation, industry insight, and complete adult supervision failure all collide like a guy casing a jump he definitely told everyone he had. This week, we’ve got Jason Moeschler on the couch. Jason is the CEO of Evil Bikes, a former pro rider, and one of those rare bike-industry people who actually knows what he’s talking about, which...

We tried to be professional, but it turns out we're all smooth brain idiots who will never get their shit together. That said, we had Peter Salido on with us and he was damned entertaining and fun. Definitely one of the coolest guys in professional mountain biking! Guest info: Peter Salido Got to our Patreon and give us money. We've added old episodes, downloadable songs, and give you early access...

Welcome to the Gnar Couch Podshow, where the intros are confusing, the hosts are unqualified, and the only thing steeper than our local trails is the price of a Deer Valley cookie. In this episode, we prove once again that no one should be taking mountain bike life advice from people whose greatest accomplishment is surviving a group chat roast. This week, the crew kicks off with the usual banter...

Welcome to Episode 200 of the Gnar Couch Podshow, where mountain bike culture and idiocy crash together like two bros going for the same gap without checking their speed. If you came here for hot tips on how to shred harder, don’t worry, you’ll probably leave dumber than when you clicked. This week, our special guests are Dillon Butcher (alleged trail wizard, possible cult leader) and Cole Nichol...

Why aren't you as good as Tylor James? Because you didn't hit Crabapple Hits your first time at Whistler then move to Virgin and start hucking your meat of cliffs. It's okay. Most of us are pussies. He's not. Tylor is a 43 year old dad who started MTB about 4 years ago and he's hit some of the biggest features in Virgin, where he now lives with his wife and four kids. He's one of the nicest dudes...

Welcome to the Gnar Couch Podshow, the official headquarters of half-baked mountain bike wisdom, questionable life choices, and a healthy mix of potty humor. This week, we're stoked to have slopestyle legend and Rampage veteran Cam McCaul stopping by the virtual couch. On this episode, we get into: 

The glory days of freeride, the existential crisis of realizing you’re a Millennial, and why sendi...

Welcome to the Gnar Couch Podshow, where mountain biking meets middle school humor, and none of our intros ever go according to plan—thanks in advance, Rob. This week, we welcome the one and only April Zastrow to the show: former pro motocross racer, mountain biking content creator, surfer, and the kind of human we’d totally trust around our children, if we weren’t such bad influences ourselves. W...

Welcome to the Gnar Couch Podshow, where mountain bikes, questionable humor, and barely functioning attention spans all pile onto a metaphorical homeless couch and roll down a metaphorical hill. This week, we’re joined by San Francisco legend and urban bike ninja Teddy Hayden, whose riding and viral videos have gotten him more attention from the Forest Service than Rob’s last attempt at a show int...

JP showed up late tonight, most likely after seeing Cheef deadlift so much last week. We had absolutely no plan tonight so we made a top five list of the dumbest types of people. We talked about bikes for a little bit before completely devolving into one of the most Gnar Couchish Hour 2s in a long time. Silly banter mostly, with .69% actual insight. Check out our store for sick shirts. Got to our...

Hot damn, welcome to episode 194 of the Gnar Couch Podshow, the only podcast where your IQ drops faster than a mountain biker with a whiskey throttle and daddy issues. No Jimmy tonight—he’s busy dealing with "morning sickness" or maybe he’s just constipated with his own bad takes. Meanwhile, Boston Rob is flexing a purple jersey like some kind of sexual lumberjack who lost a bet, and Cheef is sing...

We disappeared for almost a month and somehow came back louder, dumber, and more confident than ever, which frankly shouldn’t be possible, but here we are. The show is back and firing on all cylinders, and if you disagree that’s fine, but you’re wrong. We’re joined by @trackstandmemes, who dug up our 2023 feud with Girls Whose Dads Should Have Pulled Out like an unsolved cold case, managed to some...

This is not a typical Gnar Couch episode. Tonight, the boys focused on Jaxson Riddle's real story and the challenges he’s faced early in life, many of which mirror struggles listeners have shared privately with the hosts over the years. After watching Buried Alive, the importance of hearing directly from him felt immediate. The conversation went deeper than riding, touching on mental health, perso...

There's a reason everyone on the show rides TRP brakes and has long before we knew people who work there. They're powerful, they feel fantastic, and they'll lay down a great skid when needed—just like Boston Rob's "substantial a$$." We got the another long-haired blonde boy—TRP marketing guy Nate Silberman—to join up with Cheef this episode to talk about TRP, it's long history in biking, the compa...

We love Reece Wallace. Not so much because he rides bikes, but more because he pisses off large corporate entities by posting clips of himself in excavator bucket hot tubs. It's also pretty cool that he bought the wings from a plane in which the pilot was beheaded so he could use them at his homemade bike park. Another cool thing about Reece Wallace is that he worked hard to build his career as a...

On today’s Gnar Couch Podshow, the boys somehow tricked freeride legend Tyler McCaul into a raw, questionably-legal look at big-mountain biking. Tyler opened up about the highs, the lows of Rampage. We got into what it’s really like behind the scenes of the Rampage broadcast. He talked about dad life, athlete life, and attempting to keep a career alive while the bike industry plays musical chairs...

On this week’s Gnar Couch Podshow, we went deeper than Sponch's mom with the one and only Braydon Bringhurst. The dude’s basically part philosopher, part bike Jedi, and part anti-gravity climbing machine. We talked about rebuilding your mind (and body) after you eat sh*t, launching the Hard MTB League, and somehow raising a family while still hucking your meat into heretofore unrecognized Moab tra...

We went full send with a freeride legend and another in the making this week with Cam Zink and surprise guest Chelsea Kimball on the show. Cam talked about what changes, if any, are needed at Rampage, launching world-record backflips, a decade of Rampage, and his motivation for starting businesses. He broke down the art of gambling your shoulder and your bank account in the name of passion. Chelse...