Episode 46 (Laundromat)

Robert talks about the rest of his trek through Georgia, which included cheap motels, cold nights, and a laundromat.

Episode Transcript

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Action. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcometo Across America. I'm your host Jack
Austin with me as always Robert Lamb. Hi, I don't know why you
chose to be so loud. Idon't know. That's rude and abrasive and
our listeners don't appreciate it. I'llask you. I didn't know why.
I didn't know why you were tryingto be so quiet. I'll ask you

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not to do it again. Thankyou. I just raise your How the
hell are you everyone? How iseveryone in across America? Land? Across
America? Land? Yeah, I'mso sorry that I have not been able
to be here more often to dothese work in life and children as ye
thing excuses it just full on excuses. Who cares about their development and our

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further ring of our lives? Yeah, I mean like you're really worried about
the future and what the future holdsfor your children. Hopefully this is the
future, right, I mean that'swhat we want. You want them to
walk across the country. Yeah,okay, only I don't want them to
call me ever, Oh right right, right, Well, they might like
once or twice you might have togo get them. Yeah, So last

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we talked you just got off theairplane in Washington with your friends. Starting
from scratch, you know what,I think I missed some stuff. So
let's start to start at the beginning. Right now. This is episode one
of Across America. We're gonna changethe title a little bit, right,
all right, we're gonna call America. No, we're gonna call it wallet

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Guy Heads South. Okay, yeah, but the wallet guy thing plays into
it later. I'm just saying itdoesn't make any sense in the beginn all
right, We're gonna do a pollon Twitter. Sure should we rename wallet
guy Yeah, across America or walletGuy head Self. I think we should
just call it Across America to thesequel, Across America to the Sequel,

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or wallet Guy head Self. I'mtweeting that right now as Rob continues to
talk about his thing that he did. Yeah. Yeah, so it's been
a while since we recorded. Ifeel like I do that a lot,
say that, but people know,so I'm going to probably, you know,
repeat some stuff. I'll try notto, but I do. Remember
I talked about Brian and meeting upwith Brian and Brian I'm in Georgia right

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now, and uh, I'm likelooking over my notes. Um, so
basically I wanted to avoid Atlanta,which is why I stayed south of Atlanta.
But you know, Brian came visitedme. I stayed at that Jellystone
campground, did some homework, andthen took off. I headed through Lagrange,

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which isn't oh wow, Sadlnge.I don't think that's based on that.
Isn't that town. No, Idon't think so that'd be cool though,
although you know they are Southern Rock. It might be Home Alabama that's

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skin Top. And I'm saying,like, you know, Southern Rock.
Maybe they just pick like different towns. I don't know, but anyways,
I headed through Lagrange and then Iwent over to US nineteen and US nineteen
I may have talked about a littlebit, but is also known as thirty
fourth Street here in Saint Petersburg wherewe're recording it, where we live,

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and it's not too far from myhouse, No, it is quite literally
five minutes in the truck. Yeah, and I can get into thirty fourth
Street exactly, so it's not thatfar. So I thought, yeah,
I could just head down thirty fourthStreet or US nineteen for pretty much majority
all the way, although I didn'twant to come into Saint Petersburg, but
I could eventually divert through Tampa.That was my goal was just to head

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down US nineteen all the way intoFlorida. I still had a lot of
Georgia to walk through, and I'lltread lightly not to talk bad about any
of the towns that I did walkthrough in Georgia. I will say that
when I looked for campgrounds or RVparks or even motels, most of them
were getting like a one and ahalf star review, and a lot of

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it was like dirty, scary,like certain towns like just like these small
towns that I was walking through,yeah, weren't like the nicest of towns.
But also US nineteen is kind ofknown for that. Especially down here
in thirty fourth Street is very likewell down here, it's like really commercial,
but it's not like the nicest youknow areas. Yeah, but whatever,

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So that's everywhere We've talked about thisseveral cities, Yeah, exactly.
So I just remember like going throughthere and be like, oh, I
need to find like someplace, youknow, every once in a while to
like either camp out. But eventhen he just put the on the seventh
limb Twitter, Twitter, you putthree of them. I did put three

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options. What's the other one?I put, walle guy, head south
across America to the sequel, andplease don't do it over I think a
lot of people, please don't dothis. And actually, before I actually
got to US nineteen, I walkedthrough UM Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park,

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which I didn't know what that was, and it was very mountainous,
which is like in Georgia. Imean like it got pretty high up there.
I don't know what the elevation is, but I remember walking up some
pretty steep inclines and then I tooksome pictures of like the overview of like
the forest and stuff, and Iwas pretty high up. Yeah. I
was like, I did not expectthis. I know that the Appalachian Trail

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does start in Georgia. Yeah,I always thought it was like more in
northern Georgia. It goes from Georgiaall the way up through Tennessee. I
think it goes all the way toMaine, but yeah, Tennessee too,
and then it drifts over to RhodeIsland and that's not Tennessee too. The
sequel what, Yeah, it RhodeIsland too. Wow. But yeah,

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I went through this park. Andactually when I was walking through this park
was when this like cold front hitand I think it got down to yeah,
I wrote down twenty nine degrees thatnight, so it was quite cold,
and I remember waking up to justfrost all over my tent and I
was like, I'm in Georgia,right, this is almost like Washington and

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Idaho, like when I was upnorth. I'm like, this is ridiculous.
So I remember that was like thefirst time, I think, out
of the whole trip, even whenI was in the snow, the first
time where I was like I mightmake a fire. I was like,
this sucks. I was like itwas freezing, and I again I was
wearing like all my clothes and Ieven put like the cart in my tent

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at this point just to like,I don't know, I was like putting
like blanket, like um clothes likeover the cart and me like just to
make like this little tent inside thetent. Yeah, I was just like
freezing. And then in the FranklinD. Roosevelt Park, you can't it
says no camping on the side ofthe road and you have to find like
designated areas. So I'm like,all right, So when I was walking

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through the park, I looked forthese designated areas and all of them were
like two miles off the road,like hot dirt paths. So I'm like,
there's no way. I'm like,I'm not taking my cart down some
rocky path, Like, there's noif I were to walk the Appalachian Trail,
I'm not taking a cart, youknow what I mean. Yeah,
it would be actually like if somebodywas trying to take a cart like up

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the Appalachian Trail and stuff, that'dbe cool. Hey, I'm gonna climb
Everest, what are you bringing withyou? Cart? This wagon wheel,
this radio flyer? Tight around yourwaist and just pull it up, that's
right. Yeah. I also justread something recently not to divert too far.
But I didn't know that on Everestum and a lot of like certain
mountain climbs, you're not You haveto take your um like a little uh

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bag for your waste that you yeah, okay, and then you tie it
up and you carry it with youall the way up and then back down
the mountain. I did not knowthat either, you're not allowed Apparently,
Um, you can not allowed toduke on the mountain. Yeah, because
because especially they said it's a problemon everest, is that mountain climbers were

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doing that and it doesn't degrade,like, it doesn't decompose it. Yeah,
it's frozen shit everywhere on the mountain. And you figure, like people
are climbing it, maybe they landin a bunch of frozen shit. But
see how hard is that turd?Is it like petrified rock at that point?
I bet you if you landed itface first into it, you'd like

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break your skull. I mean,I had a cerebral hemorrhage falling on frozen
duke. Like, how long doesit take to climb my on everest?
Like you got to carry a lotof that's a long time. Yeah,
that's a lot of shit you're carrying. Yeah, that's all right, all
right, here's a new question forthe end of the podcast. If Robert
had carried his shit around his waist, Oh no, I wouldn't. At

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the end of the walk, Iwouldn't have walked. Then I would have
just had like bags of it.No, but I can like for me,
luckily I didn't climb any large mountainswhere h feces doesn't decompose. Yeah,
all right, lucky for me.I don't know. Yeah, but
I just thought that was interesting.I read that you were we What we
don't know is you were doing atest the entire time to make sure that

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your poop was melting where you were. So you would poop, wait after
I would wait about two hours,and I would pour some water. You
know. Another dangerous thing is thatwe're getting really close to finding out the
poop stories, right, all right, yeah, but that's near the end.
You're almost Florida, almost almost inFlorida. But it means we got
at least another six months. Yeah, six months probably, but yeah,

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So I thought that was interesting.But to bring it back to the state
park, I didn't walk down anyof those trails. I ended up just
camping on the side of the road. I'm a rule breaker, yeah,
and an outlaw of sorts. Andno cops stopped or state shugars or park
rangers showed up, so I wasgood and I ended up getting onto US

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nineteen after that, followed it down. US nineteen actually had a shoulder like
the roads I was followed before.I didn't have any shoulder. There were
like these drainage ditches though, likeon the side of the road, like
these huge, like wide ditches.Now, I would actually just go into
the ditch and just walk along theditch for a while, really, yeah,
because it was just like easier towalk on that than it was because

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the road had like in Georgia andAlabama, there's literally no shoulder on so
many of the roads. It's justlike you're just in the ground. Yeah,
So I'm just in the grass andwith a cart just a pain in
the ass. So I didn't meanfor that to rhyme, but I went
into the drainage ditch and just kindof followed that until I got to US
nineteen, and then that actually openedup a little bit. Was there like
good grass on the other side ofthe ditch. Would it have been worth

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it for you to lug your cartall the way over there? There's no
good grass like the grass that Iwalked through. And Georgia was very like
the grounds really uneven, and there'sparts like you know how like the road
sometimes will be higher up than likethe lands, like like the grass is
kind of like on an incline.That's how it was sometimes too, And
I was like, this is impossibleto walk on and I don't want to

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walk in the middle of the streetor like on the side of the road,
because you know, I don't wantto die. But I also wrote
a town that when I got tothis town or close to this town called
Ellaville, it was October twenty six, and a cop stopped me and asked

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if I was all right, andI was like no, I'm like,
yeah, I'm fine. I'm justtrying to get to Ellaville. And he's
like, yeah, just head there, um, you'll find something, uh
to sleep or talk to the copsthere and they'll find a place for you
to camp out. So I waslike thinking, Okay, I'm gonna camp
out behind the police station like Inormally do, right, But I didn't
get to the town until like ninepm, so it was like already dark,

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and there was another cop at thepolice station and he was like,
oh, you know what, youcan sleep at the laundry mat. And
I was like the laundromat and he'slike yeah, yeah, it's no one's
going to be in there around thistime. He's like, so just just
head down to the laundry mat andyou can stay there. So I'm like

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all right. I mean that's fine. So as the dryers going, so
um, I headed to the laundrymat. But when I got to the
laundry mat um another cop showed up, a different cop, and he was
like, what's going on. Iwas like, oh, I was told

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I just need a place to sleepin the night. I'm walking through you
know, I'm walking across the bythe way, I'm I'm walking across the
country here in Georgia. Yeah,let me tell you about it, you
know how it is. Yeah,And then he made some tea and then
you're that guy that destroyed that town, Yeah, who carries his feces.
So I um, I was like, all right, well, I'm just

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gonna sleep here because the guy saidthe other cop said I could. And
he's like, uh, sorry,but you can't. Yeah. No.
That cop was raw. So Iwas like get up. I'm like really.
So I didn't even get into thelaundre mat. I don't even know
if it was actually open or ifthey were going to open it for me.
I don't know what's going on.The lights were still on his side,
but obviously it's like late at night. So I was like, okay,

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I'm like, well, where shouldI stay. And this cop was
like totally disinterested in everything. SoI was like okay. And so the
original cop that told me that Icould sleep at the laundromat shows up and
he just like, hey, um, sorry about that. Apparently, like
I don't know, he wasn't supposedto tell me to sleep at the laundromat,

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even though that's what they originally taught. I don't know what it was,
but he was like, I'm sorry, there's some ship going on.
Uh there's a killer, yeah,the laundromaculate. There's a laundromat killer.
We're expecting a local fagavon slash here. They're actually going to use me as
big like going there, sleep there, and then you know, swarm the

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building. Hey buddy, can yousleep with your your breeches down just a
little bit more? Show off thegoods. Listen. I'm glad he uh
he called it called an audible andtook me out of that situation. Yeah.
So he's like, yeah, sorry, um, how about I just
take you into Americus, which waslike the next town. Yeah, And
I'm like, uh sure whatever,Like that's fine, but I gotta walk

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the whole way. He's like,well, you're not gonna hit it tonight.
He's like it's way too late.I'm like, well fine, He's
like, let me drive you inthere. I'm like fine. I'm like,
Gus, they're a cheap motel orsomething. He's like, yeah,
I think there's like a couple ofmotels. He's like, we'll find you
one. You can stay there.And then I'm like fine, So what
I'll do is I'll do the backtrackingthing again like I've done previously. So

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I was like all right, whichis mainly the reason why sometimes I just
was like, you know what,I just sleep on the side of the
road, like it's just easier.Sometimes when I asked, like cops or
you know, try to sleep inlike a town, and sometimes they don't
know if they have a motel orif it's cheap or a campground or whatever.
And some of the campgrounds when IGoogle mapped it, sometimes they just
they would show up on Google Maps, but they were like closed down years

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ago. Right. I would getthere, by the way, there's a
campsite here. Yeah, you showup and it's like an estate. Yeah,
this new camp site here, dearboy, sorry about that. Google
Maps this wrong again. Shot rulesWe've got another Googler at the door.

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Oh de honey, is that oneof them? Google? Honey love tell
him to go off with you,Google boy, enough of your kind.
We have some aristocratic British folks havehad several Googlers at the door. Yeah,

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So obviously because of that whole scenario, Googler at the door, that's
why I didn't stay. Yeah,I can't do that. Yeah, I
can't do that kind of stuff.So I always had ask cops and even
them, there's all that inner turmoilwithin their precinct. Can you or can
you not sleep out of laundromatic?Can get that one hyped up cop?
He's like, uh, yeah,I'm walking across the country. Fuck with

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you, boy, h you messwith me me, She'll be your hants
Like, no, it's just acart pushing a cart. Let's go right
for me. Cust and shot intoyour cart. Yep, plants a gun
on me, turns the other way. He shoots himself in the leg,

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right in the knee cap. Yeah, he fired first the cart like Jerry
the launcher. Matt has an extensivesecurity camera system. We literally saw you
shoot in an out of an objectand then yourself. You shot not only
the cart but him several times.Turn around, shot yourself in the back
of the knee cap and then U, why didn't call that for backup,

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you idiot? The kid was mouthingoff to me. We'll still give you
paid leave for now, but whenyou come back spending investigation, we're gonna
have a stern talking to you.Be a note in your file. Johnson
and the poor boy never made itto Florida, but anyways, I um
the gatalope sends his with God he'llreturn to so uh. I ended up

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going into Americus and I got amotel there and I did backtrack, did
some homework. I ended up stayingthere for two days, watched some Gilligan's
Island on TV there two television thatdidn't get too many channels, and then
uh it didn't No, I thinkI did. I think I did watch
a World Series game though, sothat was maybe it got TVs or something,

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so I don't know if that wason TBS at that point, maybe
it's Fox but whatever. Watched thatand then did some homework, did my
backtracking one day, and then Iwent to um like a lot of dollar
generals, restocked on gatorade, andall that kind of yeah, of course,
And uh, I do remember thatthis motel that I was staying at,

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it was a little rundown like alot of the motels and RV parks
and some of these towns, southerntowns, And I remember there was like
another door that led into like anotherroom. It was like another room like
adjacent, but the door was itwas a shared bathroom. So I was
like, I didn't know if someonewas going to come into my bathroom.

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So I was like, this isweird. So like I would I closed
my side of the bathroom door becauseit was like a corner room too,
so it had like the bathroom wasin the corner, so I could enter
from the left side, but thenall the right side there was another door
that went into the other room.So I'm like, I don't know if
this is a shared bathroom. SoI was really nervous taking a shower at
that time, but I did itquickly and then shut the door on my

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side and then put like a chairin front of it just in case,
you know, just in case ifanybody knocks on the door, You're like,
come back with a warrant. Yeah, yeah, Well, and the
windows I think every window in thismotel was cracked or shattered somewhere. I
don't know if they were bullet holesor someone threw an axe at it,
but yeah, they were shattered andnot replaced. Munding me of like hotel,

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real aggressive shower in there. Yeah, it wasn't just a shower.
It was like those power tools I'mshowering. I'm just saying. Gordon Ramsey
would have been upset. Oh man, he would have. He would have
shut that place down as he does. Oh of course. So then after
Americus, it was a pretty like, you know, normal track through the

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rest of the towns, which wereLeesburg, Albany, and uh Thomasville and
then Jack on Halloween Day, Octoberthirty, first I hit something. Do
you know what I hit? Ithink I know what you hit. I
hit, not physically, but Idid hit a new state. In that

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new state was Tennessee. I wentthe wrong way. Oh no, If
I did that, like actually headedthe wrong way, that would be the
Google maps on it, not thatthey followed me to the Florida border.
That way to the big city.Google the big city, bright lights in

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the big city. So yes,I hit Florida on Halloween Day, which
was kind of cool suck. Soyou know, starting November first, I
think I like went into Florida,and then it was I ended up camping
on the side of the road,like not too far like into Florida.
So we'll talk more about that onthe next episode. But I do want

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