The Reklaws lost their mom 4 years ago, then walked down the aisle a month later and played their biggest summer tour anyway. Jenna and Stuart sit down with Matt August on the eve of the Okanagan Dream Rally to get real about grief, fame, and why you should never sweep it under the rug.

From Stuart hearing their song on the radio for the first time while stuck at the bottom of a pool, to labels telling them a brother-sister party band was impossible, to the America's Got Talent song for their mom that blew up around the world, this one hits hard. Plus, what it means to headline the stage they grew up watching from the $15 lawn seats.

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Show: ⁨@AugustAfterDark⁩ (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCKERmmGjC8YAigk0fb4Y5lQ)
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Matt August: @ mattaugust

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 INTRO
00:58 Inside the Okanagan Dream Rally
04:58 The Car Ride That Changed Everything
08:27 Cleaning pools when His Song Hit Radio
10:35 Working With Your Sibling Every Day
11:43 "A Brother-Sister Duo? Not Possible"
12:30 "I'm Always Expecting Something Bad"
16:31 Never Feeling Like Enough
24:59 Losing Mom, Then the Biggest Tour Ever
27:08 How Their Mom Named the Band
30:33 Stop Sweeping Grief Under the Rug
34:12 Headlining Where It All Started
37:05 Life as New Parents (and Uncles) on Tour
39:19 Why Matt Lives for Cars

In this episode of August After Dark, Matt August sits down with Murray Wilson, a retired professional forester turned filmmaker, whose documentary BC Is Burning is pulling back the curtain on what's actually happening inside our forests.

Murray spent decades on the front lines — from a helitack crew in 1977 to managing BC's forests as a professional forester — and he's watched the system quietly fail.

In 2023 alone, Canada emitted 2.4 billion tons of CO2 from wildfires, making wildfire smoke our single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The smoke in the Okanagan that summer was the equivalent of every person — kids included — smoking 7 to 15 cigarettes a day.

In this conversation, Murray breaks down why decades of reduced forest management, mountain pine beetle outbreaks, and policy gridlock have turned BC's forests into a tinderbox — and why "just letting nature take its course" is actually making things far more dangerous. They dig into the economics (we spend $1.3 billion a year fighting fires but the true cost to our economy is 10-20x that), the carbon release hiding in our forest soils, why Canada stopped prescribed burning, and what BC could learn from California and Finland to actually fix this before it's too late.

This is the conversation nobody in government wants to have — and the one every Canadian needs to hear.

Watch the full documentary and take action: bcisburning.ca
August Group: augustmotorcars.com

Timecodes:

00:00 – INTRO
02:15 – Why he is making this film
05:40 – BC's worst fire year explained
09:20 – The beetle secret in our forests
14:10 – "Leave it alone" is a myth
19:30 – Why burnt wood just rots
24:50 – The carbon bomb underground
31:05 – We stopped doing this on purpose
38:15 – $52 billion spent on the wrong thing
44:30 – What California figured out first
50:45 – His 3-step fix for BC
55:20 – "The bullet's still in the chamber

August After Dark: www.instagram.com/augustafterdarkpodcast
August Motors: www.augustmotorcars.com

87 years old, built and sold companies worth hundreds of millions, once owned a 42-car collection, and he's still not slowing down.

In this episode of August After Dark, host Matt August sits down with Peter Thomas — author, entrepreneur, and creator of "One Minute Mentor" — for a raw conversation about what it actually takes to build a life you're proud of.

Peter shares the story of buying his first car in the Canadian Army with the help of a sergeant who vouched for him, why he bought the Century 21 Canada franchise rights when every person in his life told him not to, and how that one decision turned into tens of millions of dollars. He breaks down his "superpower vs. kryptonite" framework, the exact sales discipline that took him from broke to successful, and why mentorship isn't the same as coaching.

You'll also hear about his 7-year sabbatical to Switzerland, how he uses fractional airplane deals to fund his love of aviation, 40 years of marriage advice, and why giving back has become the core value driving his life today.

If you want a real, unfiltered conversation with someone who has lived an extraordinary life and has zero interest in slowing down — this is it.


TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – INTRO
02:15 – The $300 car an army sergeant risked his own name for
07:40 – Building a 42-car collection... and the one Ferrari he loved most
12:30 – "We are each our own Ferraris" — his philosophy on self-mastery
18:50 – The art of delegation: recognizing your own deficiencies
26:10 – Buying Century 21 Canada when EVERY person in his life said no
33:45 – The sales discipline that made him unstoppable (18 calls a day)
41:20 – A $9 million deal that quietly turned into $150 million
50:05 – Why he took 7 years off and moved to Switzerland
1:00:30 – The difference between mentoring and rescuing someone
1:12:15 – 40 years of marriage and the Bahamas story that started it all
1:20:40 – His final "one minute mentor" lesson nobody's heard before

What do you do when hope feels impossible to find? In this episode, Tyler Hall — host of the Roller Coaster Podcast — joins us ahead of this year's Dream Rally to talk about the hardest stories he's ever heard, the trauma he's survived in his own life, and the three simple things that keep people from giving up.

We get into his Dream Rally co-pilot's story, some of the darkest interview he's ever recorded, surviving his wife's accident, and the exact framework he uses to fight back against hopelessness — including a 10-minute exercise anyone can do today. If you've ever felt lost, stuck, or like you're carrying too much alone, this episode is for you.

Tyler Hall Instagram: @tyler.hall
Tylers Podcast: ⁨@rollercoasterpodcast⁩

Timestamps:
00:00 - INTRO
04:12 - Why all this hits different
09:35 - 12-year-old Tyler sees this car
14:20 - Co-Pilots Dad's in a coma
19:48 - The knock at 1am...
25:30 - How he doesn't fall apart
30:15 - Why he built his podcast
35:02 - He almost lost his wife
39:44 - The stat that should scare you
43:10 - 3 things that stop the darkness
47:25 - 10 minutes that changes everything
51:00 - Ask them this today

Dylan Loomer's first car was a 1988 Toyota Cressida his parents made him buy off his grandma. He drives a GT3 RS now, and he'll tell you the job that paid for it is one of the loneliest things a person can do.

He built a personal brand in crypto, founded a prop trading firm called Breakout, and sold it to Kraken. Matt caught him the week of the Okanagan Dream Rally, days before he met his co-pilot Ryland, a kid who had just beaten Hodgkin's lymphoma. Why he showed up on the start line instead of writing a cheque, and what he'd tell a young person with no plan.

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Okanagan Dream Rally: @okanagandreamrally
Dylan Loomer: @TraderMayne

0:00 The goals that are supposed to scare you
0:34 They met 20 years ago at Big White
1:09 Posting online for fun, then selling to Kraken
3:10 He wasn't a car guy. Then the goalposts moved.
5:00 The 1988 Cressida and the GT3 RS
6:11 "People need a dream"
6:55 He's about to meet a kid he's never met
8:21 What Ryland already survived
8:49 "Every dollar I make, someone loses"
10:23 Who actually gets more out of this
11:08 If you're young and have no idea what to do
13:29 He had the car in Lego first

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JUSTIN PASUTTO
Instagram: @justinpasutto

He was 3 years from the Olympics. One skier. One collision. It all fell apart.

Justin Passuto — ex-Team Canada boardercross racer, husband to Jillian Harris, dad, founder of Scrub Captain — sits down for the most unfiltered conversation he's ever had. We go through the crash that cost him his Olympic shot, 6 concussions, meeting Jillian Harris at Rose's Pub, the 14-year wait to marry her, near-death overland trips to the Arctic Circle, and the bachelor party that changed everyone who was there.

This isn't a polished press-tour interview. This is two best friends of over a decade going where most podcasts don't.

Timestamps:
0:00 – TEASER
2:22 – The Olympic dream that ended in a crash
8:41 – Why he walked away at the top of his sport
13:16 – What Justin actually does now
16:32 – Meeting Jillian Harris: "She was cougar hunting"
22:02 – The Arctic trip where they faked a search & rescue
28:01 – The storm that nearly wiped them out
35:26 – Why it took him 14 years to marry Jillian
40:59 – The hardest year of their marriage
45:25 – The iPad confession every parent's afraid to make
52:54 – Jillian ditched her phone for 9 days — then got sick
56:07 – Inside the bachelor party that made him cry
1:02:20 – What he hopes his kids will say about him one day

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DREAM RALLY
Learn more & get involved: https://www.okanagandreamrally.com/

DAN MARTELL
Dan's YouTube: @danmartell
Dan's Instagram: @danmartell

Dan Martell built and sold three companies, became a multimillionaire
before 30 — and then realized he wasn't happy.

In this episode of Area 27, we sit down with entrepreneur, investor,
author of Buy Back Your Time, and one of the most impactful voices in
the business world — Dan Martell — for one of the most honest
conversations we've ever had on this show.

We're not talking about business tactics or AI hacks today.

We're talking about what actually matters. What money will never be
able to buy you. And why Dan Martell — a man who has coached
thousands of founders and built a $100M+ empire — believes that
sitting in a supercar next to a struggling kid is the greatest thing
he's ever done.

Dan opens up about growing up in a broken environment, the days he
didn't feel like he deserved to be alive, and how one caring adult
changed the entire trajectory of his life. That experience is exactly
why he's been running youth programs for nearly 20 years — and why
he's the title sponsor of this year's Dream Rally.

Dream Rally is the Okanagan's most powerful charitable event — 250
of the world's most incredible supercars drive with children who need a
special day through a full police-escorted route, lined with thousands
of fans waving checkered flags. What looks like a car show on the
outside is something far deeper.

We've had parents tell us this event gave their child — who had
attempted suicide multiple times — something to look forward to every
two years. Something to live for.

Dan gets it. Because he was that kid.
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Welcome to the Race Track & Introducing Dream Rally
01:26 – What Is the Dream Rally?
02:05 – Why Dan Martell Joined As Title Sponsor
03:28 – A deep-rooted story of a Kid Who Chose To Live
04:44 – What The Kids Experience Beyond Just The Cars
05:32 – "Every Kid Is One Caring Adult Away From A Success Story"
07:36 – What Would A 12-Year-Old Dan Martell Have Felt At Dream Rally?
08:09 – Growing Up Broken: Dan's Darkest Days
09:00 – Selling His Company At 28 & Feeling Completely Empty
10:43 – The Mentor Who Changed Dan's Entire Philosophy
12:31 – "The Ultimate Flex Is Not The Cars"
13:50 – Why Dan Has Run Youth Programs For 20 Years
14:28 – How To Give Back Before You Feel Ready
15:01 – "Start With Your World Before You Try To Change The World"
15:45 – Why Time & Presence Matter More Than Money
16:05 – See You On The Start Line

What does it actually take to build a life with someone?

Not the Instagram version. The real one, with near-death accidents, broken bones, a brain bleed, fertility struggles, and the kind of storms that either break a couple apart or make them unbreakable.

In this episode, Matthew sits down with his wife Adria for one of the most honest conversations we've put on record. They go back to the beginning: six years of friendship before anything romantic, the moment everything shifted at the Dream Rally, and what it actually felt like to choose each other.

Then they get into the hard stuff.
Ryder's snowboard accident, which left him with a broken neck, bruised organs, and a lost kidney, and the moment Adria stood at the bottom of the ski hill wondering if her son was still alive. Months later, within the same year, Adria's own near-fatal horse accident: 14 crushed bones, a brain bleed, a punctured lung, and being dragged through the forest. Matthew flying through a lightning storm in a helicopter to reach her.
The long road back, and the small wins that rebuilt her, from passing her real estate exam when everyone said she'd fail, to the day she swam across the lake and sold her first home.

Through all of it, they talk about what they learned about love, vulnerability, community, and what it really means to choose the right person to walk through life with.
This one will stay with you.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 – The accidents that tested everything
3:19 – The Dream Rally that changed how she saw him
8:56 – The test begins: Ryder's snowboard accident
11:05 – "Is he dead?" — the moment at the ski hill
18:58 – Adria's horse accident: 14 crushed bones and a brain bleed
20:40 – Flying through a lightning storm to reach her
31:40 – Passing the exam everyone said she'd fail
35:12 – One day: the swim and her first home sale
44:57 – Full circle: 23 weeks pregnant
59:00 – What it all comes down to: Community

1:00:53 – The most important decision I ever made