April 26, 2019 • 26 mins
Jack is back in this episode of Across America, and the guys talk about walking through Florida, stealth camping, free candy, and for some reason the new Avengers movie.
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Action. When I say across yousay America across the country. Yeah,
I got it. You get atreat, You get a treat. Okay,
thank you, You're welcome. MI won't make mouth noises because you
don't like that. Word of God, I didn't do the shortest episode you've
ever had in your life. Funfact about me. Don't chew around me
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ever, but I mean ever aroundpeople. You've been to a restaurant,
I don't. I don't eat aroundbecause no, no, you always eat
your food to go and then yousit in your closet and just eat alone
with quietly, with hello earbuds.I can't hear my my lips don't smack.
I keep in mouth shut when ortwo Yeah. So yeah, and
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outside the US, I'm not justdiscriminating. Everybody's loudly all over the world.
Somebody did tell me this, umbefore we get into episode forty nine.
Yeah, that chewing with your mouthclosed is a traditionally American custom.
Really, so you are not gonnago to other countries now, Yeah,
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these colors don't run baby. UmNo, but he's from Korea. I
want to say it is, buthe's got a lot of I don't know
I don't know, and I don'twant to, you know, say the
wrong thing. But he always postsabout China and Chinese culture and Korea and
you know, basically Asian culture asa whole. And I said something one
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time about how much I couldn't standpeople eating and he was like, yeah,
you know, I've been. He'sin the military, so he travels
all over the world and he says, yeah, only really in America did
they say something about eating with yourmouth clothed. That's interesting. It is
interesting to me. A lot ofthe things he says about other cultures.
I find other cultures fascinating. Well, you know now that you mentioned that,
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I was hanging out with my friendwho's half Korean and he like he
just started dating this girl and shesaid, like, like we were talking
about family, and she's like,what's your mom's name? And he like
said her name like in Korean,but it translated to Anthony's mom, right,
And I was like, really,so she doesn't have it like a
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name name, and he's like,no, it kind of translates to whoever
your firstborn child is, like,that's her name is she's my mom?
Kind of like that's her name andI'm like, is that always like that?
And my other friend who like studiesthat culture, she's like, yeah,
some of He's like a lot ofit is where the female takes like
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her name translates loosely to her firstborn mom. Now my question all of
Asia, who I know is listening, Yeah, does I hope this doesn't
sound blatantly ignorant after your child isborn, because you're in theory like if
your name named before when you're born, you like, this kid's gonna have
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a son named Jimmy. I knowthey have to have like a game first.
So does your name actually change,right or does you know they add
some sort of like mister or missusor something to the name that alludes to
you being your child's parents. Okay, well, not to add more ignorant
to this, this is general,uh, you know, wanting to know
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us right, we're not yeah,we're not being yeah, no, but
I want to know. Maybe it'ssomething like, uh, like the woman
takes the man's name here, likean American culture like that happens a lot
where they'll take the last name ofthe man. So maybe that's like kind
of what it is, like youhave a name first, but then when
you have a child, you takeon this other name. I don't know,
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very interested to find that out andhow that would work for Asian lesbians
as well. Yeah, yeah,well we almost made it all the way
through. I'm sure there's something forthat. Listen. I don't think they're
I don't think really sex matters asfar as two parents go. To me
personally, somebody who lives with twodads or two moms can grow up just
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as normal as somebody who grows upwith a mom and a dad. Sure.
I actually think in a lot ofcases it's better than people who grow
up with just one parent, whichwas oh for sure, Oh right,
yeah, yeah, yeah, thatwas raised by a single mother and by
by proxy, stn't call it SteveAuston every Monday and Thursday. So if
she's as she as a lesbian,do you think, how has that work
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done? Do you think it wouldhave been better? Oh? I don't
know, Okay, I don't know, just wondering not to get to the
joke just entered my head and Iwas like to shut up, jack um,
Well, you know what we haven'tdone is acknowledge our wonderful, wonderful
listeners. Thank you so much forfor tuning in to listen to episode forty
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nine. Why are you rap out? You know I'm not rapping up?
Okay. I was like, wehaven't even started, did you know?
Because Rob and I have an extremelyloosely wrapped up schedule for this podcast that
we're shooting at fifty possibly being thelast one, that might be the last
episode. So we're hit fifty exactly, So fifty and Rob was telling me
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it's for all fifty states. NowJack is lying right now, he said
that, yeah, verbatim for that, And I was the one who said
I did not walk through all fiftystates, so that would be kind Yeah,
okay, tilt to the jury.Um, there isn't one, so
yeah, okay for our friends athome, is fifty gonna be the last
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storytelling and then fifty one will bethe poop episode? No, just I
think we I think we make episodefifty a little bit longer, just kind
of do like a wrap up.Also talk about like the ending of my
walk and that'll be it. Justmake it like longer and more exciting.
Yeah. Oh, and your yourmother showed up and took p which is
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so cool. I was gonna talkabout that yeah, the last episode,
Uh, my mom came on andI just talked to her about like the
walk. I figured just to tryit. I'll see see what she thought
and what she was thinking and stuff. It wasn't as embarrassing as I thought
it could have been. I thoughtit could have been a lot worse.
Did she follow my notes that Ileft behind her? Yeah? Yeah,
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she very good, even though Itook over hosting duties. But she did,
uh look over your notes and stuff. She did not appreciate the weird
drawings. They're actually they're interpret ones. They're interpretive. Yeah, no,
we knew, we knew what youwere trying to say. It's very offensive.
But she got over it. Okay, but no, she she liked
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it. Yeah, she got through. And uh yeah, we just talked
about the walk and mostly like Florida, because that's what we're talking about probably
today too. Who are your buddieswhere they like finally an episode where they
stay on track. Yeah, justtalk about the walk, and especially with
this episode where we're already like sixminutes in and most of it's been about
Korean culture and lesbians. Okay,so you were walking, right, So
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I think because when I did theepisode with my mom. It wasn't really
like a continuing of the story.It was kind of how she felt about
the walk and and and how shehelped me along the way in Florida,
which I mentioned with you earlier inthe episode prior. So I think where
we left off is I was justleaving Tampa, and I stayed with my
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dad for a couple of nights,to stay with my mom for a couple
of nights, and then um,my mom was helping me to Tampa,
and then my dad, like,I stayed with him a couple of nights,
and then after that I left andI stayed one more night with my
mom and she drove me back tolike where she picked me up, and
I think we had dinner at Sonny'sBarbecue. And then right after that I
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got my cart out of her vanand took off down the road. So
I was back with my cart,which is fine, but I did get
a lot. I got most ofmy homework done so I didn't really have
to concentrate on it. I stilltook my laptop with me just in case
anything popped up, but I kindof figured, like, you know what,
it's getting close, like to finishor I'm getting close to finishing.
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I can kind of not have allthis strain of like the homework and everything
like that on my back. Idid contact my teacher before I left my
house and just said, Hey,I know I have to present this thesis
that I'm working on for my bachelor'sI don't know if I'm going to be
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back in town in time because I'mwalking across the country at the time.
And she was like, wait,mean you're walking across the count You've been
walking across the country this whole semester. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah,
I have and I'm almost done,but I don't know if by the
time I get to Key West,I don't know if I'll be back in
time to present it. And she'slike, well, you got to present
it to get the credit. She'slike, if you don't do it,
you're gonna have to do it forthe next semester and just wait to present
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it at the end of the nextsemester. I'm like, ah, crap,
Like, well, hopefully I getdone in time, but we'll see.
So I took off down the road, I headed for Arcadia, and
I do I have it written down. It's November nineteenth at this time,
and I'm headed to Arcadia, whereI stayed at like a RV park,
and actually most of the most ofthe nights in Florida, I was able
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to hit a motel or RV parkor campground because it's Florida. Yeah,
it's Florida. They're like all overthe place. And when I stayed,
like, I stayed at this RVpark it's called Toby's RV Park. He's
just one guy named Toby and hejust had one little plot of land for
an RV sick No, He's like, So I stayed there, and uh,
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he let me stay for free.I went to pay like the next
morning. He's like, no,you're good, just go and he actually
just get out wallet guy. Yeah, we don't watch your kind here.
And he said, I have acouple of people that I know that work
at other RV parks south of herethat will probably let you stay for free
too, so I'll contact them.I'm like, awesome, So then I
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can you just gotta walk back toAlabama? Yeah, met him. You're
heading north right, Yeah? No, no, although I think I mentioned
that right where I was like walkingdown this one road because it went across
the state and some guy pulled tothe side of the road and was like,
hey, what are you doing?And I'm like, I'm walking across
the country. I'm hunting to KeyWest. He's like, key West isn't
this way. I'm like, bro, I've been at this point Washington.
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Know what I'm doing. I know. I was like, no, I'm
heading this way, and then Itake it right down this street. He's
like, no, no, no, that's not gonna get a Key West.
I'm like, I'm on my GPS, brow I made it this far.
I'll be fine, trust me.That's where you just go. Okay,
let him drive away, Okay Idid. I was just like all
right. He just was very adamantabout it, and I'm like, okay,
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turn around, dude. Yeah,let me turn it around and backtrack
thirty seven hundred miles, try adifferent route. Jokes on us. This
is actually gonna be a hundred episodeseries because rob at that turned around and
goes back because of that guy.Okay, and turned thought. I was
walking the right way the whole time, right, Oh wow. So I
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stayed a lot. I stayed forfree at a lot of RV parks.
Was heading across Florida because I waswalking straight across it and then down to
avoid the everglades. Let me askif you passive aggressively got to one that
did not let you stay for freeand mumbled under your breath. Oh,
So, like, I don't knowif you guys do this here, but
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like I'm walking across the country rightand it's just like I don't know if
you guys know me. Well,I guess kind of like it's along a
walk. Yeah, I like,yeah, I don't know if whatever,
But I mean i'll pay. Idon't know. I mean i'll play.
I'll pay. You'm gonna sign yourpicture? Yeah, I pull out a
head shots. That's how my backpackwas full of head shots. So actually,
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there was one campground that I stayedat that by the time I got
there because it was nighttime, they'realready closed, like the front office was
closed. So I found a plotof land just camp there. And then
the next morning I woke up earlyand they still weren't there, and I'm
like, I'm just gonna leave.Yeah, I'm just gonna leave, like
thirty yards down the road. It'snot like I used their bathroom or their
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amenities. I just used like alittle plot of land for my tent and
left. So you know what,I didn't pay, So I didn't pay,
So sue me, you sue me. You wait untill episode forty nine
to let us know you're a criminal. Yeah, pretty much. I call
it stealth camping, you know,Yeah, sure, that's what it is.
Yeah, I'm just saying, listen, I would have I supposed to
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do slide some cash underneath the door. No, I didn't even have cash.
Maybe I did, I don't remember. I don't remember what campground that
was either. I just know Iwas heading down when I got to UH
twenty seven, I headed down that, which like I think twenty seven is
the one that goes along like nearLake Cocachobe. So I was heading down
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that and uh I ended up hittingum fish eating creek outposts. That's what
I've written. And that place isthe owners there also own I think Gatorama.
I think that's what's calling. Sothey have like the alligators and everything,
and they do like I remember thisfrom our accompanying pod story story.
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That's why I don't know if I'mlike repeating myself on this podcast or if
it's just because I wrote it,said Gatorama, and I was like,
I know about Gatorama, right,So I stayed. It was funny because
I stayed at the Fishooting Creek outpostone night, and I actually got there
a little bit earlier. It's likefive o'clock. I'm like, I'm just
gonna rest here. It's a campground. I'll quit early. And I went
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there in Florida. Why not?Why not? Why not? You know,
I'm almost done. Yeah, SoI like stayed. I stayed there.
I paid for my site, andthen after I was like getting my
cart. I was like about toleave, and like the owners were like
they introduced themselves and they saw mewith the car. They asked what I
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was doing. I told him Iwas walking across the country. They thought
it was really awesome. So theythey're like that's really cool, Like yeah,
like if you want to stay,You're welcome to stay. If you
want to stay longer. I waslike, no, I'm just gonna stay
for the night. I'm like,I got a camp site over there,
Like yeah, that's cool. SoI went u set up my tent,
came back to get food. Iwas gonna get like some snacks or something
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or a little store and that's whenthey were like, take whatever you want,
Take whatever you want, and Iwas like, I just remember asking
him. I was I think Ipicked up like a soda and like some
like a candy bar or something,and I brought it up and they're like,
that's all you're gonna get. Likewhy don't you, like you know
what, just grab whatever you wantfor tonight it's on us. And I
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was like, oh, like likeanything, and they're like, yeah,
just grab whatever you want. Sothen I grab like two more things and
put it down. They're like comeon, come on, They're like man.
So they're like, come on,you just no really take take whatever
you want, like, grab anythingyou want, just give it to our
front desk. There was this ladywork in the cashier. He's like,
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yeah, I just have her writedown everything you take for inventory purposes.
And they're like really like go hogwild. So I was like okay,
yeah, So I like grabbed likeyou who's and Gatoray, I don't I
just grab a bunch of stuff becauseI'm always hungry on this walk. So
I like I got that. Igot chips and candy bars and like Rabbioli's
and all this kind of stuff,and then I turn it in and then
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they wrote down all the stuff,and then March the fron inventory they bagged
it up and they let me takeit. And then that night I ate
a bunch of junk food and watcheda movie on my laptop in my tent.
And I did feel a little bitsick because I'm supposed to mix,
you who, with like candy barsand gatorade, and gatorade that's definitely a
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left turn there, and like raviolisor whatever. How about the fact that
you've been eating all this stuff andthen all of a sudden you're filling your
body with junk food you Buy's like, whoa, whoa, What's what is
this? Especially that I wasn't eatinglike candy bars and stuff on my walk,
Like maybe I would eat some likecrappy food at like a gas station
every once in a while, butnot like a Snickers bar and not Twizzlers,
but like, you know, likejust gummy bears and stuff. I
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don't know, I was like akid in the candy store. Literally literally
literally, that's super super cool thosefolks that did that. I mean,
you know, it's that's one ofthe greatest things about talking about the walk
is finding all the people who uhstopped and helped you out. Shout out
to uh, Alan and Patty,I'm free. I'm Facebook friends with them.
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They listen to the to the podcast. They don't probably, but that's
okay, no hard feelings. Idon't even know if they know I'm doing.
Suddenly looked up Alan and Patty lookhim up and started, Uh.
They posted a lot of pictures aboutalligators and stuff and started messaging them instantly.
Why aren't you listening to the podcast? You shouldn't. Maybe they could
call in on a later episode,even the we're almost done. Yeah,
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no, they were. They werenice people and I took pictures with them
before I left, and then uh, they told me I could go see
like a show at Gatorama. Butyeah, I was like, okay,
this place sucks. Yeah yeah,one star review on Yelp. Yeah I'm
out. Now there's there alligator showsand stuff are like they look pretty cool.
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I mean, we have a lotof those gator places in Florida,
Like I think in Cassemi there's onelike gat or Land or whatever, uh
that you can go see where theyjust have like huge gators and they do
like live feedings and you can.I don't want to say any names.
Is it one of those people?Uh no, look up Alan, I
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already said his name. You didn'tsay his other I know who it is.
You know what you need to tellme. Jack's trying to find them
on Facebook. I've already found him. You don't know that's him. I
do know. Let me see becausehe's like got a gator. Like,
how about this sentence right here?That's that's it? Oh, that might
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be him. Yeah. So afterthat, like I continued heading south,
walked by La Cocachobee. Um.I think it was like November twenty second,
when I was getting close to likeMiami and my mom because it was
getting close to Thanksgiving. She waslike, I want to spend time with
you. I am off for Thanksgiving. I'm taking a few more days off
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earlier. She's like, I'm justgonna drive down there and I'll just help
you for the last leg of yourtrip. And I was like that's fine.
So she like drove down right whenI got past like Okachobee, and
then there was like one more daywhere I walked and then she picked me
up and we got a motel room. I put the cart in her car,
and then I was like, youknow what, for this last stretch,
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I'm not gonna have my cart.I think I'm just gonna kind of
just kind of relax a little bit, put on a backpack, and walk
the rest of the way and bangit out, because she was taking off
the week the Keys are like anotherhundred and thirty miles or from like Homestead,
which is like the last big citybefore not even a city, but
like the last town before you hitthe Keys and stuff, Like I it's
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another hundred thirty miles, you know, I think I'm at that point.
I'm doing like twenty five miles aday only because it's getting darker sooner.
So I'm like, you know,but when I don't have my cart,
I can walk a little bit more. So I'm like, I can probably
get through this, and at leastfour days I can get through the Keys.
So like when my mom got downthere, I was put everything in
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her car and just took what Ineeded for the backpack, and she actually
was like, I haven't been tothe Keys in a long time. So
she just drove around during the dayand I was like, I'm just gonna
go visit places and go to thebeach and do all this stuff while you
good. And I'm like, yeah, that works for me. So I
diverted onto nine ninety seven, whichheads down and then hits US one,
which is to the left of Miami. That way, I didn't have to
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walk to Miami. And then onceI got on US one, after Homestead,
which is the last town, itwas the Keys and I had about
one hundred miles left at that point. Who walked through the who walked to
Miami, learned Spanish and became addictedto cocaine yep. And then I Stami,
yeah, yeah, have you seenScarface? That's based on me?
Even though it was made for fiveyears earlier. The original name. People
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don't know this at the original namefor Scarface was walleck Ey. Oh really
that's cool. I thought it wasscratch. No, it's yeah, yeah,
that makes sense. Uh yeah,pretty cool, man. So undred
miles left, one hundred miles left, damn in a world where where Robert
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needs one hundred miles. One man, Robert, you got specify which man?
Yeah? Yeah, thank you,wallet guy. Coming to a theaternew
coming to no I mean I willbe the last episode. I think we
could wrap up now and they're justtalking about the last episode would be the
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Keys. Yeah, my last stretch, let's do it, my last my
last um week of walking. Whatis all of America? And let's be
honest, most of the Asian community, Eastern Europe and Australia are gonna do
in South America. What are theygonna do right when this podcast is over?
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They'll probably write us letters? Yeah, definitely thank us, even though
we don't give them addresses to writeus letters. No, but I think
if you just put across two acrossAmerica, yeah, podcast, it just
gets to us. Yeah, sothe mail and the mailman gives that solemn
look. Well, the mailman's ourfriends off to two o'clock, like we
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know, Roger, Yeah, ohyeah, he delivers both of our mails.
Ye, both our mails, bothof our mails. Keep it together,
rob By. The way, Idid not get a lot of sleep
last night. Oh so oh Robertgot to go see Avengers end game.
Yeah, that's for us. That'sup till four am. Younger. I
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would have been there right with you, had I know you wouldn't know.
I would have. I was gonnainvite you, but I was like,
there's no way Jack goes, there'sno way. I was like, there's
no way, he goes. Iwas like, I know, you guys
already bought tickets too, Like Isaw have tickets for Friday afternoon, so
like as soon as I out ofwork, and then we have tickets again
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for Sunday and just a little bonuscontent. Yeah. When we went to
go see Infinity War, we didthe same thing, all right. And
I think Infinity War has been outlong enough to where I can talk about
it without people getting upset. Ifyou don't like spoilers and you're the only
person Jimmy who hasn't seen it inInfinity War, turn off the podcast.
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So he went and saw it.And then the second second time we bring
it, we bring the boys right, and that movie starts off with a
bang. Yeah, it starts offreally fast and it really doesn't end.
Yeah. And my son was sittingnext to me, was so terrified of
Thanos because there it's kind of alreadybad. He's beat up Thor, he's
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carrying him around like he's a chewtoy. And then Hulk shows up,
and Hulk in the original Avengers,my son was much younger, get up
and ran scared of the Hulk.Wow. So the Hulk comes out.
First thing he does is do abig scream yeah. Jump starts Julian,
his little heart starts going right,and then uh finals proceeds to beat the
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snot out of the Hulk and knockhim unconscious. When that happened, I
thought my son's heart was going toleap out of his chest. Really,
he was so terrified anytime that bigpurple bastard showed up on screen. His
heart was going really like. Isat him on my lap, right and
I had to keep whispering his earIt's okay, man, it's it's a
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movie. It's not real, right, okay, And he was breathing so
heavy. Man. Now he lovesthe movie. He wants it all the
time. Things is great, right, but the initial yeah, watch,
I can't see that. So Ilike the new one, and I think
they'll like the new one too.Do you think the new one is better
than your other one? It depends, Like I like, I think it's
a better made film in the senseof like the character development and stuff.
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But I will say it's a littlebit slower and it's not as actually as
Infinity Ward. Let me go ahead, and say this just for my personal
thing, the series, uh series, the two film Stint of Kill Bill.
I far much more liked the secondone than the first reel. Yeah,
so I'm excited, right because wellthe second one. Yeah, of
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course she's not chopping, yeahs notfifty guys coming after him. But the
suspense is much more real in thesecond one, I think, Yeah,
the dialogue and everything, it's likea little bit slower, but it's like
more intense. Yeah, I agree. Cool. Yeah, well, I
guess that's good. We talked abouta lot of stuff, so now we're
going to talk about all of endgame and what happened. Alright, let's
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get into it right now. Alright, alright, alright, uh, wonderful,
guys, you're great. We'll seeyou back here. Episode fifty whoo
whoo a k A, the poopepisode. That'll be our end game.
Yeah, that's the last episode.That's right, it'll be across America.
Colin right, endgame? Right,yeah, co Colin, end game?
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Get it? I get it?All right, guys, becauld you like
calling? See you later? Yes. This has been a seven LAMB production.
Action. When I say across yousay America across the country. Yeah,
I got it. You get atreat, You get a treat. Okay,
thank you, You're welcome. MI won't make mouth noises because you
don't like that. Word of God, I didn't do the shortest episode you've
ever had in your life. Funfact about me. Don't chew around me
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ever, but I mean ever aroundpeople. You've been to a restaurant,
I don't. I don't eat aroundbecause no, no, you always eat
your food to go and then yousit in your closet and just eat alone
with quietly, with hello earbuds.I can't hear my my lips don't smack.
I keep in mouth shut when ortwo Yeah. So yeah, and
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outside the US, I'm not justdiscriminating. Everybody's loudly all over the world.
Somebody did tell me this, umbefore we get into episode forty nine.
Yeah, that chewing with your mouthclosed is a traditionally American custom.
Really, so you are not gonnago to other countries now, Yeah,
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these colors don't run baby. UmNo, but he's from Korea. I
want to say it is, buthe's got a lot of I don't know
I don't know, and I don'twant to, you know, say the
wrong thing. But he always postsabout China and Chinese culture and Korea and
you know, basically Asian culture asa whole. And I said something one
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time about how much I couldn't standpeople eating and he was like, yeah,
you know, I've been. He'sin the military, so he travels
all over the world and he says, yeah, only really in America did
they say something about eating with yourmouth clothed. That's interesting. It is
interesting to me. A lot ofthe things he says about other cultures.
I find other cultures fascinating. Well, you know now that you mentioned that,
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I was hanging out with my friendwho's half Korean and he like he
just started dating this girl and shesaid, like, like we were talking
about family, and she's like,what's your mom's name? And he like
said her name like in Korean,but it translated to Anthony's mom, right,
And I was like, really,so she doesn't have it like a
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name name, and he's like,no, it kind of translates to whoever
your firstborn child is, like,that's her name is she's my mom?
Kind of like that's her name andI'm like, is that always like that?
And my other friend who like studiesthat culture, she's like, yeah,
some of He's like a lot ofit is where the female takes like
(02:55):
her name translates loosely to her firstborn mom. Now my question all of
Asia, who I know is listening, Yeah, does I hope this doesn't
sound blatantly ignorant after your child isborn, because you're in theory like if
your name named before when you're born, you like, this kid's gonna have
(03:19):
a son named Jimmy. I knowthey have to have like a game first.
So does your name actually change,right or does you know they add
some sort of like mister or missusor something to the name that alludes to
you being your child's parents. Okay, well, not to add more ignorant
to this, this is general,uh, you know, wanting to know
(03:42):
us right, we're not yeah,we're not being yeah, no, but
I want to know. Maybe it'ssomething like, uh, like the woman
takes the man's name here, likean American culture like that happens a lot
where they'll take the last name ofthe man. So maybe that's like kind
of what it is, like youhave a name first, but then when
you have a child, you takeon this other name. I don't know,
(04:06):
very interested to find that out andhow that would work for Asian lesbians
as well. Yeah, yeah,well we almost made it all the way
through. I'm sure there's something forthat. Listen. I don't think they're
I don't think really sex matters asfar as two parents go. To me
personally, somebody who lives with twodads or two moms can grow up just
(04:30):
as normal as somebody who grows upwith a mom and a dad. Sure.
I actually think in a lot ofcases it's better than people who grow
up with just one parent, whichwas oh for sure, Oh right,
yeah, yeah, yeah, thatwas raised by a single mother and by
by proxy, stn't call it SteveAuston every Monday and Thursday. So if
she's as she as a lesbian,do you think, how has that work
(04:51):
done? Do you think it wouldhave been better? Oh? I don't
know, Okay, I don't know, just wondering not to get to the
joke just entered my head and Iwas like to shut up, jack um,
Well, you know what we haven'tdone is acknowledge our wonderful, wonderful
listeners. Thank you so much forfor tuning in to listen to episode forty
(05:12):
nine. Why are you rap out? You know I'm not rapping up?
Okay. I was like, wehaven't even started, did you know?
Because Rob and I have an extremelyloosely wrapped up schedule for this podcast that
we're shooting at fifty possibly being thelast one, that might be the last
episode. So we're hit fifty exactly, So fifty and Rob was telling me
(05:32):
it's for all fifty states. NowJack is lying right now, he said
that, yeah, verbatim for that, And I was the one who said
I did not walk through all fiftystates, so that would be kind Yeah,
okay, tilt to the jury.Um, there isn't one, so
yeah, okay for our friends athome, is fifty gonna be the last
(05:55):
storytelling and then fifty one will bethe poop episode? No, just I
think we I think we make episodefifty a little bit longer, just kind
of do like a wrap up.Also talk about like the ending of my
walk and that'll be it. Justmake it like longer and more exciting.
Yeah. Oh, and your yourmother showed up and took p which is
(06:15):
so cool. I was gonna talkabout that yeah, the last episode,
Uh, my mom came on andI just talked to her about like the
walk. I figured just to tryit. I'll see see what she thought
and what she was thinking and stuff. It wasn't as embarrassing as I thought
it could have been. I thoughtit could have been a lot worse.
Did she follow my notes that Ileft behind her? Yeah? Yeah,
(06:36):
she very good, even though Itook over hosting duties. But she did,
uh look over your notes and stuff. She did not appreciate the weird
drawings. They're actually they're interpret ones. They're interpretive. Yeah, no,
we knew, we knew what youwere trying to say. It's very offensive.
But she got over it. Okay, but no, she she liked
(06:59):
it. Yeah, she got through. And uh yeah, we just talked
about the walk and mostly like Florida, because that's what we're talking about probably
today too. Who are your buddieswhere they like finally an episode where they
stay on track. Yeah, justtalk about the walk, and especially with
this episode where we're already like sixminutes in and most of it's been about
Korean culture and lesbians. Okay,so you were walking, right, So
(07:29):
I think because when I did theepisode with my mom. It wasn't really
like a continuing of the story.It was kind of how she felt about
the walk and and and how shehelped me along the way in Florida,
which I mentioned with you earlier inthe episode prior. So I think where
we left off is I was justleaving Tampa, and I stayed with my
(07:51):
dad for a couple of nights,to stay with my mom for a couple
of nights, and then um,my mom was helping me to Tampa,
and then my dad, like,I stayed with him a couple of nights,
and then after that I left andI stayed one more night with my
mom and she drove me back tolike where she picked me up, and
I think we had dinner at Sonny'sBarbecue. And then right after that I
(08:16):
got my cart out of her vanand took off down the road. So
I was back with my cart,which is fine, but I did get
a lot. I got most ofmy homework done so I didn't really have
to concentrate on it. I stilltook my laptop with me just in case
anything popped up, but I kindof figured, like, you know what,
it's getting close, like to finishor I'm getting close to finishing.
(08:39):
I can kind of not have allthis strain of like the homework and everything
like that on my back. Idid contact my teacher before I left my
house and just said, Hey,I know I have to present this thesis
that I'm working on for my bachelor'sI don't know if I'm going to be
(09:00):
back in town in time because I'mwalking across the country at the time.
And she was like, wait,mean you're walking across the count You've been
walking across the country this whole semester. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah,
I have and I'm almost done,but I don't know if by the
time I get to Key West,I don't know if I'll be back in
time to present it. And she'slike, well, you got to present
it to get the credit. She'slike, if you don't do it,
you're gonna have to do it forthe next semester and just wait to present
(09:24):
it at the end of the nextsemester. I'm like, ah, crap,
Like, well, hopefully I getdone in time, but we'll see.
So I took off down the road, I headed for Arcadia, and
I do I have it written down. It's November nineteenth at this time,
and I'm headed to Arcadia, whereI stayed at like a RV park,
and actually most of the most ofthe nights in Florida, I was able
(09:48):
to hit a motel or RV parkor campground because it's Florida. Yeah,
it's Florida. They're like all overthe place. And when I stayed,
like, I stayed at this RVpark it's called Toby's RV Park. He's
just one guy named Toby and hejust had one little plot of land for
an RV sick No, He's like, So I stayed there, and uh,
(10:09):
he let me stay for free.I went to pay like the next
morning. He's like, no,you're good, just go and he actually
just get out wallet guy. Yeah, we don't watch your kind here.
And he said, I have acouple of people that I know that work
at other RV parks south of herethat will probably let you stay for free
too, so I'll contact them.I'm like, awesome, So then I
(10:30):
can you just gotta walk back toAlabama? Yeah, met him. You're
heading north right, Yeah? No, no, although I think I mentioned
that right where I was like walkingdown this one road because it went across
the state and some guy pulled tothe side of the road and was like,
hey, what are you doing?And I'm like, I'm walking across
the country. I'm hunting to KeyWest. He's like, key West isn't
this way. I'm like, bro, I've been at this point Washington.
(10:52):
Know what I'm doing. I know. I was like, no, I'm
heading this way, and then Itake it right down this street. He's
like, no, no, no, that's not gonna get a Key West.
I'm like, I'm on my GPS, brow I made it this far.
I'll be fine, trust me.That's where you just go. Okay,
let him drive away, Okay Idid. I was just like all
right. He just was very adamantabout it, and I'm like, okay,
(11:13):
turn around, dude. Yeah,let me turn it around and backtrack
thirty seven hundred miles, try adifferent route. Jokes on us. This
is actually gonna be a hundred episodeseries because rob at that turned around and
goes back because of that guy.Okay, and turned thought. I was
walking the right way the whole time, right, Oh wow. So I
(11:33):
stayed a lot. I stayed forfree at a lot of RV parks.
Was heading across Florida because I waswalking straight across it and then down to
avoid the everglades. Let me askif you passive aggressively got to one that
did not let you stay for freeand mumbled under your breath. Oh,
So, like, I don't knowif you guys do this here, but
(11:56):
like I'm walking across the country rightand it's just like I don't know if
you guys know me. Well,I guess kind of like it's along a
walk. Yeah, I like,yeah, I don't know if whatever,
But I mean i'll pay. Idon't know. I mean i'll play.
I'll pay. You'm gonna sign yourpicture? Yeah, I pull out a
head shots. That's how my backpackwas full of head shots. So actually,
(12:18):
there was one campground that I stayedat that by the time I got
there because it was nighttime, they'realready closed, like the front office was
closed. So I found a plotof land just camp there. And then
the next morning I woke up earlyand they still weren't there, and I'm
like, I'm just gonna leave.Yeah, I'm just gonna leave, like
thirty yards down the road. It'snot like I used their bathroom or their
(12:41):
amenities. I just used like alittle plot of land for my tent and
left. So you know what,I didn't pay, So I didn't pay,
So sue me, you sue me. You wait untill episode forty nine
to let us know you're a criminal. Yeah, pretty much. I call
it stealth camping, you know,Yeah, sure, that's what it is.
Yeah, I'm just saying, listen, I would have I supposed to
(13:03):
do slide some cash underneath the door. No, I didn't even have cash.
Maybe I did, I don't remember. I don't remember what campground that
was either. I just know Iwas heading down when I got to UH
twenty seven, I headed down that, which like I think twenty seven is
the one that goes along like nearLake Cocachobe. So I was heading down
(13:26):
that and uh I ended up hittingum fish eating creek outposts. That's what
I've written. And that place isthe owners there also own I think Gatorama.
I think that's what's calling. Sothey have like the alligators and everything,
and they do like I remember thisfrom our accompanying pod story story.
(13:48):
That's why I don't know if I'mlike repeating myself on this podcast or if
it's just because I wrote it,said Gatorama, and I was like,
I know about Gatorama, right,So I stayed. It was funny because
I stayed at the Fishooting Creek outpostone night, and I actually got there
a little bit earlier. It's likefive o'clock. I'm like, I'm just
gonna rest here. It's a campground. I'll quit early. And I went
(14:11):
there in Florida. Why not?Why not? Why not? You know,
I'm almost done. Yeah, SoI like stayed. I stayed there.
I paid for my site, andthen after I was like getting my
cart. I was like about toleave, and like the owners were like
they introduced themselves and they saw mewith the car. They asked what I
(14:33):
was doing. I told him Iwas walking across the country. They thought
it was really awesome. So theythey're like that's really cool, Like yeah,
like if you want to stay,You're welcome to stay. If you
want to stay longer. I waslike, no, I'm just gonna stay
for the night. I'm like,I got a camp site over there,
Like yeah, that's cool. SoI went u set up my tent,
came back to get food. Iwas gonna get like some snacks or something
(14:56):
or a little store and that's whenthey were like, take whatever you want,
Take whatever you want, and Iwas like, I just remember asking
him. I was I think Ipicked up like a soda and like some
like a candy bar or something,and I brought it up and they're like,
that's all you're gonna get. Likewhy don't you, like you know
what, just grab whatever you wantfor tonight it's on us. And I
(15:18):
was like, oh, like likeanything, and they're like, yeah,
just grab whatever you want. Sothen I grab like two more things and
put it down. They're like comeon, come on, They're like man.
So they're like, come on,you just no really take take whatever
you want, like, grab anythingyou want, just give it to our
front desk. There was this ladywork in the cashier. He's like,
(15:39):
yeah, I just have her writedown everything you take for inventory purposes.
And they're like really like go hogwild. So I was like okay,
yeah, So I like grabbed likeyou who's and Gatoray, I don't I
just grab a bunch of stuff becauseI'm always hungry on this walk. So
I like I got that. Igot chips and candy bars and like Rabbioli's
and all this kind of stuff,and then I turn it in and then
(16:00):
they wrote down all the stuff,and then March the fron inventory they bagged
it up and they let me takeit. And then that night I ate
a bunch of junk food and watcheda movie on my laptop in my tent.
And I did feel a little bitsick because I'm supposed to mix,
you who, with like candy barsand gatorade, and gatorade that's definitely a
(16:25):
left turn there, and like raviolisor whatever. How about the fact that
you've been eating all this stuff andthen all of a sudden you're filling your
body with junk food you Buy's like, whoa, whoa, What's what is
this? Especially that I wasn't eatinglike candy bars and stuff on my walk,
Like maybe I would eat some likecrappy food at like a gas station
every once in a while, butnot like a Snickers bar and not Twizzlers,
but like, you know, likejust gummy bears and stuff. I
(16:48):
don't know, I was like akid in the candy store. Literally literally
literally, that's super super cool thosefolks that did that. I mean,
you know, it's that's one ofthe greatest things about talking about the walk
is finding all the people who uhstopped and helped you out. Shout out
to uh, Alan and Patty,I'm free. I'm Facebook friends with them.
(17:08):
They listen to the to the podcast. They don't probably, but that's
okay, no hard feelings. Idon't even know if they know I'm doing.
Suddenly looked up Alan and Patty lookhim up and started, Uh.
They posted a lot of pictures aboutalligators and stuff and started messaging them instantly.
Why aren't you listening to the podcast? You shouldn't. Maybe they could
call in on a later episode,even the we're almost done. Yeah,
(17:32):
no, they were. They werenice people and I took pictures with them
before I left, and then uh, they told me I could go see
like a show at Gatorama. Butyeah, I was like, okay,
this place sucks. Yeah yeah,one star review on Yelp. Yeah I'm
out. Now there's there alligator showsand stuff are like they look pretty cool.
(17:52):
I mean, we have a lotof those gator places in Florida,
Like I think in Cassemi there's onelike gat or Land or whatever, uh
that you can go see where theyjust have like huge gators and they do
like live feedings and you can.I don't want to say any names.
Is it one of those people?Uh no, look up Alan, I
(18:14):
already said his name. You didn'tsay his other I know who it is.
You know what you need to tellme. Jack's trying to find them
on Facebook. I've already found him. You don't know that's him. I
do know. Let me see becausehe's like got a gator. Like,
how about this sentence right here?That's that's it? Oh, that might
(18:37):
be him. Yeah. So afterthat, like I continued heading south,
walked by La Cocachobee. Um.I think it was like November twenty second,
when I was getting close to likeMiami and my mom because it was
getting close to Thanksgiving. She waslike, I want to spend time with
you. I am off for Thanksgiving. I'm taking a few more days off
(19:00):
earlier. She's like, I'm justgonna drive down there and I'll just help
you for the last leg of yourtrip. And I was like that's fine.
So she like drove down right whenI got past like Okachobee, and
then there was like one more daywhere I walked and then she picked me
up and we got a motel room. I put the cart in her car,
and then I was like, youknow what, for this last stretch,
(19:22):
I'm not gonna have my cart.I think I'm just gonna kind of
just kind of relax a little bit, put on a backpack, and walk
the rest of the way and bangit out, because she was taking off
the week the Keys are like anotherhundred and thirty miles or from like Homestead,
which is like the last big citybefore not even a city, but
like the last town before you hitthe Keys and stuff, Like I it's
(19:45):
another hundred thirty miles, you know, I think I'm at that point.
I'm doing like twenty five miles aday only because it's getting darker sooner.
So I'm like, you know,but when I don't have my cart,
I can walk a little bit more. So I'm like, I can probably
get through this, and at leastfour days I can get through the Keys.
So like when my mom got downthere, I was put everything in
(20:07):
her car and just took what Ineeded for the backpack, and she actually
was like, I haven't been tothe Keys in a long time. So
she just drove around during the dayand I was like, I'm just gonna
go visit places and go to thebeach and do all this stuff while you
good. And I'm like, yeah, that works for me. So I
diverted onto nine ninety seven, whichheads down and then hits US one,
which is to the left of Miami. That way, I didn't have to
(20:30):
walk to Miami. And then onceI got on US one, after Homestead,
which is the last town, itwas the Keys and I had about
one hundred miles left at that point. Who walked through the who walked to
Miami, learned Spanish and became addictedto cocaine yep. And then I Stami,
yeah, yeah, have you seenScarface? That's based on me?
Even though it was made for fiveyears earlier. The original name. People
(20:53):
don't know this at the original namefor Scarface was walleck Ey. Oh really
that's cool. I thought it wasscratch. No, it's yeah, yeah,
that makes sense. Uh yeah,pretty cool, man. So undred
miles left, one hundred miles left, damn in a world where where Robert
(21:15):
needs one hundred miles. One man, Robert, you got specify which man?
Yeah? Yeah, thank you,wallet guy. Coming to a theaternew
coming to no I mean I willbe the last episode. I think we
could wrap up now and they're justtalking about the last episode would be the
(21:36):
Keys. Yeah, my last stretch, let's do it, my last my
last um week of walking. Whatis all of America? And let's be
honest, most of the Asian community, Eastern Europe and Australia are gonna do
in South America. What are theygonna do right when this podcast is over?
(21:57):
They'll probably write us letters? Yeah, definitely thank us, even though
we don't give them addresses to writeus letters. No, but I think
if you just put across two acrossAmerica, yeah, podcast, it just
gets to us. Yeah, sothe mail and the mailman gives that solemn
look. Well, the mailman's ourfriends off to two o'clock, like we
(22:18):
know, Roger, Yeah, ohyeah, he delivers both of our mails.
Ye, both our mails, bothof our mails. Keep it together,
rob By. The way, Idid not get a lot of sleep
last night. Oh so oh Robertgot to go see Avengers end game.
Yeah, that's for us. That'sup till four am. Younger. I
(22:41):
would have been there right with you, had I know you wouldn't know.
I would have. I was gonnainvite you, but I was like,
there's no way Jack goes, there'sno way. I was like, there's
no way, he goes. Iwas like, I know, you guys
already bought tickets too, Like Isaw have tickets for Friday afternoon, so
like as soon as I out ofwork, and then we have tickets again
(23:02):
for Sunday and just a little bonuscontent. Yeah. When we went to
go see Infinity War, we didthe same thing, all right. And
I think Infinity War has been outlong enough to where I can talk about
it without people getting upset. Ifyou don't like spoilers and you're the only
person Jimmy who hasn't seen it inInfinity War, turn off the podcast.
(23:22):
So he went and saw it.And then the second second time we bring
it, we bring the boys right, and that movie starts off with a
bang. Yeah, it starts offreally fast and it really doesn't end.
Yeah. And my son was sittingnext to me, was so terrified of
Thanos because there it's kind of alreadybad. He's beat up Thor, he's
(23:48):
carrying him around like he's a chewtoy. And then Hulk shows up,
and Hulk in the original Avengers,my son was much younger, get up
and ran scared of the Hulk.Wow. So the Hulk comes out.
First thing he does is do abig scream yeah. Jump starts Julian,
his little heart starts going right,and then uh finals proceeds to beat the
(24:11):
snot out of the Hulk and knockhim unconscious. When that happened, I
thought my son's heart was going toleap out of his chest. Really,
he was so terrified anytime that bigpurple bastard showed up on screen. His
heart was going really like. Isat him on my lap, right and
I had to keep whispering his earIt's okay, man, it's it's a
(24:33):
movie. It's not real, right, okay, And he was breathing so
heavy. Man. Now he lovesthe movie. He wants it all the
time. Things is great, right, but the initial yeah, watch,
I can't see that. So Ilike the new one, and I think
they'll like the new one too.Do you think the new one is better
than your other one? It depends, Like I like, I think it's
a better made film in the senseof like the character development and stuff.
(24:57):
But I will say it's a littlebit slower and it's not as actually as
Infinity Ward. Let me go ahead, and say this just for my personal
thing, the series, uh series, the two film Stint of Kill Bill.
I far much more liked the secondone than the first reel. Yeah,
so I'm excited, right because wellthe second one. Yeah, of
(25:19):
course she's not chopping, yeahs notfifty guys coming after him. But the
suspense is much more real in thesecond one, I think, Yeah,
the dialogue and everything, it's likea little bit slower, but it's like
more intense. Yeah, I agree. Cool. Yeah, well, I
guess that's good. We talked abouta lot of stuff, so now we're
going to talk about all of endgame and what happened. Alright, let's
(25:41):
get into it right now. Alright, alright, alright, uh, wonderful,
guys, you're great. We'll seeyou back here. Episode fifty whoo
whoo a k A, the poopepisode. That'll be our end game.
Yeah, that's the last episode.That's right, it'll be across America.
Colin right, endgame? Right,yeah, co Colin, end game?
(26:07):
Get it? I get it?All right, guys, becauld you like
calling? See you later? Yes. This has been a seven LAMB production.
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