Stupid Questions with Seth Hill

Robbie Deckard is a pro triathlete and longtime coach who has spent years chasing aero gains, first to keep up with Rudy von Berg on training rides and now through his company, Freaky Fast. But this conversation isn’t really about watts. It’s about what happens when a garage obsession turns into a real business, and the person behind it has to grow up with it. We talk about molding his first monob...

Parker Spencer is a USA Triathlon coach who leads Project Podium, the federation's donor-funded men's elite program, while finishing a PhD in exercise science and coaching pros like Sam Long. But his real story isn't the World Cup podiums. It's about a coach who once told his wife he was done, and who has come to believe that faith in his athletes matters more than any number on a...

Luke Tasker is a full-time Vancouver firefighter, a former Team GB modern pentathlete, and one of the newest names in pro triathlon. He won Ironman Victoria in his debut and took fifth at IRONMAN 70.3 NorCal against a stacked field. But his real story isn't about how fast he's climbed. It's about a man who knows exactly what he's living for, and isn't shy about saying it. We ta...

Cole Kynoch is a first-year professional triathlete racing for Roka Standard Racing and an after-sales area manager for Lamborghini's Americas region — one of the more unusual day-job-and-side-hustle combinations on the pro circuit. But his real story isn't about supercars or race splits; it's about a self-described "jack of all trades, master of none" learning, later than he...

Benjamin Randall — known to most of the internet as Triathlete Benny — is a professional triathlete and a staff writer at Colorado State University. But his real story isn't the run splits people argue about in the comments; it's the shy only child who just wanted friends, and the years he spent training close to 40 hours a week trying to outrun something he couldn't name. What he'...

Tegan Phillips is a South African cartoonist, adventure writer, and creator known for her women's cycling comedy — and for riding 11,000 kilometers across Africa with her family. But her real story isn't the big adventures. It's the quieter, less glamorous choice to stay put and build something sustainable when running away would have looked braver. We talk about growing up in Cape Tow...

Mike Reilly is the legendary voice of IRONMAN finish lines—the man who has called thousands of athletes across the finish line with four iconic words: "You are an Iron Man." But after decades of defining his life around announcing races and chasing the next event, Mike grapples with what it means to step away from the role that made him a household name in endurance sports. His real stor...

John Mollura spent 15 years leading mission-critical field testing for NASA and elite US military units. But his real gift—the ability to read people and see exactly what makes them tick—nearly destroyed everything. This is the story of how he learned to wield that power as a tool for connection instead of control, and what it cost him to get there. We talk about the moment a spiritual awakening f...

Peter Stetina is a professional gravel racer, former World Tour cyclist, father of twins, and one of the early architects of modern professional gravel racing. In this conversation, we dive deep into his career transition from the pressure-cooker of European road cycling to the emerging gravel scene—and what that journey taught him about identity, sacrifice, and what actually matters. We talk abou...

James Cunnama is a former professional triathlete who finished top 5 in Kona, won Challenge Roth, and made a career of endurance. But his real story isn’t about race results—it’s about who he became after crossing the finish line. In this raw and honest conversation, James opens up about losing his identity when he retired from pro sport, struggling with suicidal thoughts, and learning that presen...

Jeremiah Bishop has spent over 30 years racing bikes at the highest level — national titles, ultra-endurance expeditions, and the Impossible Route , a documentary series he created that's racked up millions of views chasing unfinishable rides across deserts most people would never attempt. He just turned 50, and instead of slowing down, he won every race he entered this season. In this convers...

Mango Fetzer is Luke Fetzer's mom — and one of the most vibrant, well-lived humans I've ever had the privilege of talking to. She's spent a decade sailing across oceans, worked as a private chef around the world, survived a beaten-bound-and-bagged home invasion in Panama, and taught her kids to see life as a gift, every single day, no matter what. This conversation went places I didn&#...

Elliott Teller is the founder of People's Endurance — a cycling and running apparel company built on a simple bet: that quality doesn't have to come with a brand tax. He's also a former director of photography, a tech sales guy turned entrepreneur, a new dad, and someone who spent his first two years running the business on virtually no sleep while juggling APAC hours, a newborn, and a...

Andrew Vos is a husband, father of two, endurance athlete, entrepreneur, and former Guinness World Record holder for the fastest mile while pushing a stroller. But this conversation isn't really about the world record—it's about the life behind it. Andrew shares how becoming a dad completely changed his priorities, why he no longer cares what other people think, and how his definition of success s...

Alex Wormuth is a software engineer, dad of two, and the founder of Transition — an AI-powered triathlon training platform he built in his nights and weekends because the existing tools weren't quite right for triathletes, and because he had a hunch that large language models could actually coach people pretty well. Turns out he was right. Alex sits down with me to talk about growing up in Riv...

Ari Klau is back for round four — and this one goes places we haven't gone before. Fresh off a second-place finish at Chattanooga and building toward what may be the best season of his career, Ari sits down with me to talk about what's actually changed and what hasn't. We get into the mindfulness practice he picked up at a swim camp earlier this year and how it's quietly become the...

Dr. Cory Rich has spent 40 years trying to understand one thing — what brings out the very best in the human condition. As a mental performance coach, he's worked with elite triathletes, Native American tribes using equine-assisted healing, addiction recovery programs, and everyone in between. And at the center of all of it is a question he first started asking when his father died in a car ac...

Night one of three at Tulsa Tough and Team Cadence Cyclery came in short of the win — but not short of heart. Lucas Burgoyne, Luke Fetzer and the crew sit down with me courtside for a raw, unfiltered recap of how the night went down. We talk about Boldy crashing 15 minutes in and getting back up, Cesar carving through the peloton like an assassin, the two-lap moment where it all almost came togeth...

Eric Zaltas grew up in a 75,000-person apartment complex in the Bronx, winning spelling bees and getting pushed around on the playground. He needed to prove there was a body connected to the brain. So he became a competitive cyclist, raced in 47 states, rode through Harlem and the South Bronx on Saturday mornings to get to Central Park, and eventually turned a passion for sports science into a car...

Kyle Cokinos holds the Guinness World Record for the most holes of golf played in 24 hours — 810 holes, 98 miles on foot, one club, one summer solstice, and a hundred thousand dollars raised for kids with cancer. But that's just the headline. The story underneath it is a lot more interesting. Kyle sits down with me to talk about growing up as the oldest of six in a big loud Greek family in Hou...

Lucas Burgoyne and Luke Fetzer are back, this time together. Fresh off their win at Athens Twilight — one of the biggest criterium races in America — the dynamic duo behind Team Cadence Cyclery sat down with me still riding the high, freshly arrived in Boulder, and already plotting the next block. This conversation is everything you'd want from these two. We got into how the Athens win came to...

Colin Szuch is one of the most quietly compelling athletes I've had on the show. He dropped out of aviation school at 19, moved to Spain to chase a triathlon dream with next to nothing behind him, and has been methodically building toward one goal ever since — winning Kona. He hasn't won a full Ironman yet. But he's getting close. In this round two conversation, Colin sits down with me...

Kelly Wetteland is a senior at the University of Arizona, a rising triathlete on the World Cup circuit, and someone trying to figure out how to grow up without losing herself in sport. In this conversation, we talk about identity, ambition, spirituality, burnout, and the strange transition from being a college athlete into the “real world.” Kelly opens up about breaking both arms in a bike crash,...

Liv Dietzel is a professional triathlete, engineer, and coach who races in places most people can't find on a map — the Himalayas, Patagonia, Norway, Brazil. She's won four extreme triathlons and is chasing every one of the fifteen that exist. But underneath all of that is a story that starts somewhere much quieter — a small Catholic farming town in Wisconsin, a dad who ran all over cross...

Gabrielle Suver was four months out from her best season ever as a pro triathlete — fit, focused, and ready to race Ironman Cozumel. Then on a routine shakeout ride, a truck hit her and drove away. Twenty plus breaks, open fractures, a month in the hospital, and the very real possibility that she might not walk again. Four months later she's back on her road bike. Gabby sits down with me to ta...