Episode 45 (Walking on a Plane)

Robert is now in Georgia! He takes the scenic route through a national forest before crossing that border. He then meets up with an old high school friend, Brian. Brian takes him out to eat and to gather supplies. Then Robert does some homework before hitting the road again.

Episode Transcript

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gentlemen, Welcome to episode forty fiveof Across America with your host, Jack
Austin and Robert Lamb YEP. IntroducingRobert Lamb. Hello, second set,
I bumped set and you didn't spikeat you whifted hit the dirt. I

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can't do a voice like that.I can't do like the I don't know,
just like that boisterous the announcer voice, just anything that's what I would
think that would be. I can'tdo any kind of Robert Lambs too much.
It's not that I can't do itdo it then, it's that I
don't want to do it. Beforewe get into this, I don't give
into forcible. I don't give intothat. Okay, that's a forcible.

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You're trying one thing that's terrible whenyou do voices, as people always come
and do that voice do the thinglike it's like, no, I'm not
performing monkey right, dance monkey,yes, yes, monkey watch When he
does this, they throw exotic fruitslike dates. Yeah, dragon star fruits

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or what is it? What arethey called? Start? Dragon dragon?
You combined to you know what,if you combine, they're probably like some
cross yeah, pollination, Yeah whatever, I think that's what's called. So
you were enjoyed in Alabama slash Alabama. Well, okay, so where we
left off was Jack is afraid ofsnakes. But also after that whole dog

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incident, I hopped onto um.It was like this dirt road called Dugger
Dugger, Dugger, dountain Road,Dugger mountain Road, um. And it
like passed through um like this four. I forget what the force was called,
but I went through there and itwas just cutting it kind of cut

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down because there weren't a lot ofhighways that were like angling down, and
I was like, I want tokind of cut through. So I was
like, I'm gonna try to takethis trail. But then, like every
time I take like a trail likethat, I'm always wondering, like if
somebody were to kill me, noone would like find my body for a
long time. They might find youbecause you've somewhat documented. I mean I

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called the police station, so theyknow that, so they know I'm around
there. But the fact that Itook like this mountain road that like,
here's the how long does somebody realizethis guy walking across the country did not
make it too right. The nextdestination. I mean, I think for
it would have to be like myparents can't get a hold of me or
something, and then they have tocall someone, and then they call like

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the local authority. I think it'dbe weeks, Yeah, weeks at the
leak before they even like think,like, we told him to kind up
here. This is where we hadour guard dog watch him for hours.
Yeah, but after that we didn'tsee him going. You end up finding
the dog and it's like a Corgi. Yeah, you thought it was one
hundred and fifty pound dog. It'sactually a co it's barking at you.

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Maybe I added a few elements,some story embellishments. Maybe it wasn't even
a dog. Maybe it was justlike a bird with a hurt leg.
Win That's what I meant to say. Where it was a interpretive dance piece,
Yeah it was a guy. Yeah, it was a mime. It
was it was a mime one ofthe dudes from Stop who was trying to
freelance. Yeah, but the wayhe stomped it sounded like barking. So

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but yeah, No, I jumpedon this dugger mountain road and I actually,
like, I do like those trailsbecause it was peaceful and away from
the highways and stuff. But likeI said, it was weird. There's
only one truck I think that thatwent by me the whole time I was
on that trail, and the guyjust waved to me. And then near

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the end, because I was onthis trail for at least like six hours
or something like that. Yeah,and when I got to like the very
end of the trail, there's likethis one path off the trail. I'm
not I'm not around any houses oranything like that, but there's a path
that like diverts and down the pathI just see like tombstones and I'm like,

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what like there's like a little cemeteryback there, and I'm like there's
nobody around here. Like that wasweird, right, And I wanted to
go over there and get weiji board, but I was like, damn,
just find one. I'm trying toreach the ghost of Stonewall Jackson. If
you found like a little cemetery likethat, would you go over there if
there's a weiji board, would youmess with it? No, you're superstitious.

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No, I'm not superstitious. Ithink it's pointless. You're like Stevie
Wonder. Maybe. Okay, Idid sing the song isn't she lovely?
Isn't she lovely? Beautiful? Um, you wouldn't mess with it? No,
Okay, I don't need that.I don't need that question answer.
You know, so you are alittle you might I mean, not no

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superstitious, but you like maybe likemaybe a little a little stitious, Not
super but a little stitious. No, I just it doesn't it doesn't grab
my attention. I'm not like,oh man, I need to see if
some dead people would talk to methere, super got and I'd be like,
hey guys, you got any change? Yeah? Anyway, I don't

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know. I I didn't mess withit. I just kept walking. But
like when I saw those things,they're like creepy, like those kind of
instances, is especially like in themiddle of the woods. Yeah, but
eventually I made it to um,whatever that road was, I don't have
it written down here. If youcheck out my blog, you'll see all

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this stuff, which I think,Yeah, I got half of it up,
I think on our website right now. I need to get the rest
up for sure. But um,it goes into a little more detail with
the actual roads I took and stuff. I figure that's kind of boring,
so I try not to go tooin depth on here. But I hit
Georgia and they're welcome sign was likea little stone statue that said George on

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it. Like cool, so Iyawn that and then I I text Brian
and I was like, hey,man, like, I'm in Georgia now
if I see one more weird thing, screw George. Yeah, but uh
um, Brian, I think Idon't remember where he was coming down.
But he's like, oh, I'mstill kind of far away, but I'll
drive to you and like pick youup and stuff. I'm like, that's

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fine, but eventually, as longas you drop me off right here,
So right here, dude, Iwas like, that's fine. I'm like,
just I'll be on the side ofthe road. So I was a
question, yes, questions, yes, genuine question here screwing with you.
He picks you up with that spotright, he takes you back in the
opposite direction and you start walking.From back there are you okay with that?
Or does he need to drop youoff in that exact spot? You

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mean if he takes me further back. Yes, No, that's fine as
long as the big thing is Idon't want to go ahead. So if
he drops me off further behind wherehe picked me up, I'm fine with
that. Okay, good because thelady in Washington, there's a couple of
people who did that where they woulddrop me off not exactly in the same

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spot, but a little bit behind. I'd be like, oh, this
is fine right here or whatever,because I knew it was further back,
and I'm like, I'll make upthat that right that space. So but
I will say that Ran actually didn'tdrive me back to that spot. He
Um, when he picks me up, I had my car and everything,
so we had to like take itdown and like shove it into the back

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of his car, right, andhe drove me too. I think it
was Jellystone Park based off of YogiBear. Right. Yeah, there's like,
um it's like a camp campground.So we went there first and he's
like, I was like, I'mgonna just camp here for the night,
and he's like all right. BecauseI hadn't found like a campground in a
while. So he's like, well, i'll drop you off there and then

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we'll go get food. So Iwas like okay, So he dropped me
off there, we went and gotfood and you know, we hung out.
We talked, yeah, normal stuff, caught up. I hadn't seen
him since high school. You know, he moved up there after that,
so we just hung out. Wewent to I can't remember where we went.
I don't remember. I think itwas like, is this little Irish

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burger joint? No McDonald no,no, nope, nope, no,
no. It was like a Mexicanplace, I think, I think.
But we went there and then andthen yeah, yeah, that's it.
That's it. Yeah, that's theone. Now, I got it.
Now, I know, Brian,if you're listening, tell us what the
restaurant was the Mexican restaurant in Georgia. Do you think Brian listen to us.

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Brian confided in me and told menot to tell anyone, but I'm
gonna tell everybody now, Okay,that he listens to a lot of podcasts,
but a lot of our podcasts,no, No, just podcasts in
general. So he's happy to listento stuff like this, Brian, your
secrets out there in the world,and I'm sorry and I love you and
I didn't mean for this to comeout today in this podcast. But uh,

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Rob is shirtless and asked me totell him something I never told anyone.
So that's uh, that's that's howthat came about. That's how I
get my kicks on Root sixty six. Baby. I just like people to
I I touched myself and I'd say, tell me a secret about someone else.
Currently he's touching the skin right beforethe armpit. Yeah, that's not

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man. I don't mean like iwheresomewhere backing you up doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter where. I just Ilove the no secrets. Yeah, Um,
he should listen to our podcast.He does. Okay, you said
he didn't, but that's no,like he doesn't listen to us exclusively.
Well, I didn't mean that.You can listen to other stuff. We're
not like a jealous significant other.I try to go gender gender neutral there.

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I didn't want to offend anyone.How'd that go? Maybe not mentioning
that I tried to do that wouldhave been better anyways. Um. Yeah,
I hung out with Brian and thenhe actually drove me to I think
we went to Walmart and you know, I bought some like cliff Bars and
Gatorade. I think I think hehelped chip into like help buy me some.
I just had a stock up.I'll say this for all the people

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who are so curious about Brian outthere. Every one you are, everyone
is, everybody wants to know aboutthe big boot Brian. Yeah, that's
part of his last name. Heis genuine human being, very thoughtful,
very real, very real, verynice guy. Can't say enough about Brian.

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Good dude. So it does notsurprise me that he took you to
lunch and did all that sounds.And I think he had to drive pretty
far. I don't think he doesn'tlive or at least he didn't. He
didn't live in Atlanta, but helived like on the outskirts, and I
think he had to drive about anhour or something to get where I was.
But he was on a he wason a sorry he was not an

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office call. But he goes outand like does calls or whatever because he
does the prosthetics stuff. Yes,so he was doing that, and I
think he was like around the area. So he's like, yeah, I
can meet you after I finished that. Yeah, he's a good he Actually
the house I grew up in helived across the street from me, Katty
Corner across the street. Nice.So yeah, grew up around him,

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played soccer with him. And that'sactually for people wondering, like me and
Jack met because Brian in contact withme. It was like, hey,
man, I know a guy wholikes to do like voices and stuff.
If you were always posting about itfor the podcast, why don't you get
a hold of him, or yeah, you should talk to Jack. He
said, yeah, so that isthat's pretty much it. And then we
became friends and now we do thisstuff and and we were like, screw

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Brian, get him out. He'snot part of our Like we're like,
Brian can go die. Yeah,and we don't even care. We got
this friendship now. I wouldn't callit an upgrade. We're just friend brod
Uh. No, Brian, you'recool, dude. You should come down

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and be a part of an episodeof something something, Yeah, if you
haven't already. Actually was in SaintPete recently, I think, yeah,
for the holidays. So that wasa missed opportunity. Doesn't missed opportunity.
Definitely message already. Oh wow,but yeah, he I mean, he
helped me out. He drove meto the Walmart. I stocked up on
stuff because you know, it's alwaysgood, especially because I don't think I

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like I was able to like reallystock up on anything except for like maybe
at a couple gas stations or whateverfor the week prior. So Sabo Walmart,
got some cliff bars, some gatorade, and then he drove me to
the Jellystone campground. And what Idid was that day, I was like
I need or not that day becauseit was nighttime at that point, I

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was like, the next day,I need to work on some homework.
So I'm like, maybe what I'lldo is I'll just because I didn't want
to make Brian have to drive backto where he picked me up or whatever,
because he left that night and itwas nighttime. So I was like,
I'll just walk back the mile ortwo that he drove me, and
I'll just do it the next day, except that the next day started to
rain, so I ended up doingit in the rain. But I walked

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back to where he picked me up, which was close to like the border
of Georgie, Alabama or whatever,and then walked back to the campground,
and then after that I just didhomework for a while and then I don't
think I don't think I stayed anothernight though I think I actually left because
I wasn't gonna stay in the night. But my homework didn't take us long
as I thought it was going to. And that was like the end of

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my thesis. So I'm like,I'm pretty much done with my whole thesis.
That was like the conclusion part thatI had to turn in. So
I did that and then I waslike it stopped raining, and I'm like,
you know what, I think I'mjust gonna start walking, so I
did. But I do want tosay this, Georgia's well and Alabama's their
roads suck for walking on they like, I mean, they stuck for driving

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on too. I think like alot of them are just old roads.
They're just really old. There's noshoulder there. Most of them are two
lane. Some of them are dirt, yeah, some of them are dirt
or gravel and pushing my cart.Like especially there's like some roads in Georgia
where like I would I jump ontolike a road and they wouldn't have a

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shoulder or like the shoulder would belike a foot wide, so I'd be
like one wheel of my cart wouldbe on that and the other wheel would
be in like grass. And thenI was like this isn't working, Like
I'm like using so much energy topush this shit. So then I'd go
in the road and then i'd haveto pull to the side every time cars
came by, and like I heldup traffic a few times just going over

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a little like bridges, like overa creek or something, because there's no
shoulder at all. So I'd runacross and they're just like I remember one
time there was just a line ofcars just going through and I'm like it
never stopped. So I'm just likeI'm just gonna go. Yeah, I'm
like I can't do anything. Ican't get the minutes come on. Well,
I remember there was like a smallbreak and I'm like I got this,

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so I like I started running andthen like I like turn around and
there's just like a huge semi behindme, and then behind that it's just
like a road like just car,car, car car. I'm like,
oh my god, and like theyjust had to stop and wait for me
to pass. Yeah, I'm sorry, but there's really no way for me
to get across. So I alwaysfelt bad. But man, the roads,
the road. I just remember theroads being really bad that and there

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were a lot of dogs just loose, specially in Georgia. I mean in
Alabama too, but in Georgia,I mean I saw, I felt really
bad. I saw a poodle withlike one eye. I saw like like
the pit bulls. I saw likeum, I mentioned, what's his name,
Ruffels, Yeah, just just cameout of the woods. Yep.

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It's just like, I don't know, letting their dogs loose there. It's
a country man. It's not likeyou're gonna let it go and it's gonna
go to your neighbor's house right nextdoor. And ye, so right.
And I didn't I didn't want towalk through, um, Atlanta, so

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I stayed south of Atlanta because Iwanted to avoid the big, big cities.
So I'm walking through like these smalltowns and I just remember, like
in Georgia, like I there's acouple of times where I would cut through
like some small roads or whatever,and they would be dirt roads, and
like I'd go down the dirt roadand they'll just be like trash everywhere.

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And stuff like that. I'm like, you know what, maybe I should
stick to the highways, Like Idon't want to go some areas in Alabama
and Georgia and Florida. Florida too. Yeah, actually, you know,
in every state in the Union,although I'd give Hawaii a pass, that's
sure. There's plenty of wonderful places. I'm sure in Hawaii that anyway.
Yeah, but that you didn't walkacross actually Hawaii, No, really,

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I wanted to. You missed out. I just couldn't get there by foot,
right, Well, I mean Iguess if if a boat took me
there and I walked on the boatthe entire time, the entire time,
does that count? Yes, absolutely, you think so? Yeah, that'd
be a lot of walking down.How long do you think a boat trip
takes to get there? The problemis a couple of days. I don't

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know, a couple of days fromCalifornia. I don't know. How how
long does it take to get there? Well from California, Like, yeah,
I mean that i'd have to leaveout of San Diego or whatever.
Yeah, I don't know, likethe closest I think, so, I
don't know, I don't know howlong it takes. But what if I
was on a plane and I walkedback and forth? That counts. Do
you think you're walking the exact samedistance, only at a much higher rate

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than your step because it's going faster, it's going That's exactly what I'm saying.
Yeah, so I don't think itreally step for step, You're good
man. It's just one step isgoing to count for like a hundred yards.
So you're saying if I was ina truck bed and I just walked
around the truck bed as they droveacross the country, box truck, you
did it. You did any truck. I'm just saying any truck. I

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just walked back and forth. Iwas thinking of your safety with the box
truck. Well, yeah, butI like to live dangerously, So even
if it was the back of atruck, I'm just saying, that would
be the same as walking across thecountry. In your eyes, yep,
Okay. If I knew that anyold moron could do what you did,
anybody I agree with? Anybody?I agree with that, not even there's

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no physical significance to what you've donein this no spoiler alert listen listeners here
episode forty Body, What Robert did, is not special at all. Nope,
and you guys have been listening thewhole time. Sucker. Yeah,
take that to the bank and cashit. No, but anyway, sorry,
I don't work at a bank.You work at a bank. Oh
I do? Yeah, yeah,manager at a bank. Yeah. I

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felt like that might have hit youhard. No it didn't, Okay,
cool, Yeah, I mean anyway, I just try to stay. I
eventually got onto some roads and Ieventually was trying to make my way over
to US nineteen because US nineteen cutsright down into Florida, and actually I
live right off of US nineteens rightthere. It goes past my house and
stuff. So spoiler alert, notto give away my address, but I

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live off of US nineteen. SoI was like, I can just get
to you, you know, USnineteen and the follow that all the way
south. But to get there,I had to take all these stupid side
roads, and like some of thetowns I was going through, like they
were not the best of towns.Not to say anything bad about Georgia,
because I do like Georgia. Someof the towns weren't that great, and
I'll get into it more in thenext episode, but yeah, alert,

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I'm just saying this one's over.Just trying to keep you on your toe,
ladies and gentlemen. That was episodeforty five of Across America with Jack
Austin and Robert Lamb. Yeah,this has been a seven Lamb production