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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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
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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
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DAN MARTELL
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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

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What happens to a family when their child is airlifted to BC Children's Hospital with nothing but the clothes on their back?

In this episode of August After Dark, Matt sits down with Richard Pass — CEO of Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon for nearly 20 years — the man who transformed a small charity serving 13 families into the largest Ronald McDonald House in the world.

But tonight, Richard isn't just here to celebrate what's been built. He's here because there's a fight happening — and it might be the most important conversation we've had on this stage.

Right now, 700 families a year are being turned away from Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon. Families who have left their jobs, their homes, and their communities to be beside a critically ill child. Families who have slept in cars. Families who have lost everything.

A new 12-story, $100 million timber house is ready to be built — one that would serve 150 families at a time, with private suites, a healing centre, a rooftop space, and the kind of dignity every family in crisis deserves.

The federal government is in. The Yukon is in. The City of Vancouver is in.

BC still hasn't committed.

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You hear "AI" 50 times a day. Nobody actually tells you what to do with it.

This week, Cory Silva sat down with Host, Matt August to fix that. Cory's the co-founder of Six Summit, an AI software agency building real tools for real businesses. He went from a failed tech startup and 10 years in corporate retail to founding an AI company — all in the last three years, while becoming a dad and nearly running out of money.

We get into what your business should be doing with AI this week, the conversation you need to have with your kids, what your job actually looks like two years from now, and the one habit that puts you ahead of almost everyone still typing into ChatGPT like it's Google.

If AI feels like it's moving too fast and nobody's slowing down to explain it, this is the one to watch.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
02:15 - The AI Founder Who Wants a '67 Mustang (Meet Cory Silva)
05:45 - He Was Down to His Last Dollar — Then This Happened
13:30 - What Is AI? The Answer Nobody Explains This Simply
18:30 - The Scary Question Everyone's Afraid to Ask About AI
26:30 - The 20-Minute AI Hack That Changed How Everyone Works
33:00 - 41% of Code Is Now AI — Here's Why That Should Wake You Up
42:00 - What Your Sunday Looks Like in 5 Years (It's Wild)
48:00 - The Hidden Cost of AI Nobody's Talking About
56:00 - These Jobs Are Gone by 2030 — And the Ones Replacing Them
68:00 - The AI Talk You NEED to Have With Your Kids
76:00 - AI Is Lying to You — Here's How to Make It Stop
81:00 - You're Using AI Wrong: What an "Agent" Really Does
86:00 - Should You Give AI Access to Your Email? The Honest Answer
93:00 - The Daily AI Setup That Saves Him Hours Every Morning
99:00 - Do This ONE Thing This Week to Beat 99% of AI Users

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What if a device on your kitchen counter could track every pill you take, alert your doctor in real time, and flag opioid addiction before it takes hold? That's exactly what Shane built.

In this episode of August After Dark, we sit down with the founder of Custom Health — a UBC pharmacist who rewrote Canadian legislation and is now taking his company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Shane shares the story behind Spencer, Custom Health's smart medication dispenser that replaces a cabinet full of pill bottles with a single daily pouch — connected to a 24/7 clinical team that actually monitors whether your medication is working.

We talk about the opioid crisis in a way you haven't heard before — the full-image tracking of a tablet from pharmacy shelf to patient hand, and the AI that flags opioid use disorder before a doctor's appointment ever happens.

If you want to understand where healthcare is actually going — this episode is for you.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:44 - Dream Cars, What's in the Garage
05:43 - From UBC Pharmacy Grad to Healthcare Disruptor
07:44 - Building Western Canada's First Central Fill Pharmacy
10:29 - Why Guessing your Medication has to STOP
13:14 - The Parkinson's Story That Changed Everything
16:04 - How the Dispenser Works
19:04 - Tracking Every Opioid From Pharmacy to Patient
22:58 - The Hidden Danger of Opioids After Surgery
25:35 - How AI Catches Addiction Early
30:22 - The Future of Pharmacy in the Next 5 Years
33:08 - How to the Dispenser in your home
35:52 - The Growth Plan & Going Public on the TSX
38:28 - What Keeps a Founder Going When It Gets Hard
40:48 - Why Disconnecting Outdoors Keeps You Sane
47:46 - What Patient Care Looks Like 3 Years From Now

This podcast episode lives at the intersection of hope, community, and the quiet heroism of parenthood.

It is not a cancer story — it is a story about what human beings are capable of when everything is stripped away.

On Canada Day 2019, Janelle Stanley's 2.5 year-old son Finley was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. His platelet count was 9. He could have bled out internally without a single warning sign.

Within hours, Janelle was on a Learjet to BC Children's Hospital — no wallet, no change of clothes, no plan. Just her son, and the terrifying unknown.

What she didn't know yet was that the place waiting for them — Ronald McDonald House BC and Yukon — was a place she had helped design.

In this episode of August After Dark, Janelle shares the raw, real, and deeply moving story of what it means to let go of control, lean on community, and watch your child not just survive — but thrive.

Today, Finley is in remission, approaching five years cancer free. He describes his time during treatment as the best time of his life.

This conversation is for every parent who has ever felt helpless. Every family who has sat in a waiting room not knowing what comes next. And everyone who wants to understand what Ronald McDonald House truly means to the families inside its walls.

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