Episode 50 (The End)

Here it is! The final episode of Across America. So sit back and enjoy this extra-long episode where Robert tells Jack of his time in the Florida Keys. It was the final stretch and the last hundred miles were bittersweet, just like the ending of this podcast.

Thanks for listening! Hope you enjoyed!

Episode Transcript

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Hey everyone, Robert here. Ijust want to thank everyone for listening to
Across America. It's been a funtime. I can't believe we recorded fifty
episodes all about my walk. I'mglad Jack stuck around and helped me through
this series, and I want tothank all the other guests that have joined
throughout its run. Obviously, thisis the last episode, so we won't

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you enjoyed this last episode of AcrossAmerica. Hello and welcome. This is

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the moment you've all been waiting for. Is it the culmination of a long
journey that one of us has takenphysically but all of us have taken spiritually?
At this point, I don't haveall the people have been waiting for
mentally walked across the country with you, Robert. I don't know if that's

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accurate either. What do you know? I don't know not much. I
know how to walk across the countryand that's about it. That's all.
They barely know how to do that. We've had a lot of shenanigans,
a lot of fake stories told,right, wallet Guy, probably more of
those than actual story. Yeah,yeah, wallet Guy, the Gtalope,

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the Gtalope, the actual story ofthis, Yeah, the dramatized story is
finished, right Gaston. Yeah,I don't forget about Gaston, can't forget
about guest on Um. And nowwe're circling the the end of this story.
I've also learned that we talked aboutSeinfeld and Golden Girls, we did
Avengers, and I think Alabamas allclowns. If we talked a lot about

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would fight wild animals? Yeah,yeah, that's true, different animal.
Yeah, we talked about a lotof different stuff on this play. Every
single person that you've met in yourjourney that I have own. That's true.
That's true. I know, Iknow everybody. That's true. Our
friend Brian, Yeah, mutual friendguys who was very upset with us after

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the first episode that we mentioned washe yeah, no, probably not really.
I mean at least I was like, stick around for episode two.
Man, it's good, just relax. That's true. And finally he was
like, Okay, that's cool.I love you man. I mean,
if it wasn't for him, wewouldn't be together. Yeah, that's one
hundred percent. I mean we wouldn'tbe doing this podcast. We wouldn't be

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dating either. Yeah, we wouldbe lovers. Thank you, Brian.
Thanks Brian. Uh yeah, weget to be miserable like everybody else.
That's true. So, yeah,this is the last episode, episode number
fifty five zero. I remember wetried to guess how many episodes are.
Yeah, and you I think you'reno. It was much more conservative than

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no. I think the number thirtysix sticks in my head. I don't
know why. Maybe that's what yousaid. Maybe anybody, all of our
Twitter fans, please let us knowwhat we're our originals. Those two people
will let us know, yeah,all three of them. So one thing
I know for a fact, Ihave no way of confirming this. We

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have a lot of fans in Beijing, m Yeah, that listen to the
podcast all the time. They wantto know, you know, they followed
this story from the start very closely. Right. So to all of our
Chinese fans, I know you haven'tunderstood a word we've been saying this whole
time. They probably had the subtitleson, isn't it. Probably that's a

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good point. Didn't even think ofthat. But we appreciate you. Yeah.
Of course. Of course, allour fans in the UK, I
know we have one specifically, onethat's reached out, who's yeah, but
no, I mean, if youlook at our download numbers, they're Australia,
the UK, Beijing. You saidAustralia, in my mind instantly went

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up out of Austria and dumb anddumb Austria. He's like, good,
you might put another shrimp on theball, babe. Let's let's not all
of our fans, dan Enda.It's really great to hear from you.
We're really hippie that you've tuned inweek after week. You know, I
listen to us. The only youguys are great. The only thing I

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can say with an Australian accent isuh when I need to talk about a
knife, and if like something's notthat kind of utensil, I can say
that. So I can do mostof the accents. Where I get in
trouble is when they're they're slang wordsthat they would use. Right. Conan

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actually went over there and learned someof the I saw a couple of his.
It was pretty cool. Yeah.But anyway, our Australian fans,
you're awesome. Please watch out forall the venomous snakes that live there.
And if you decide to walk acrossAustralia, oh my god, start a
podcast. Come here, let's talkabout it. Yeah, maybe I'll join
you. Yeah, that'd be awesome. That would actually be a pretty if
somebody called me. If if MickDundee told me to morrow and said,
I Jack, I'd like to walkacross the app back I walk a bat

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with you? Would you like togo? You would do it? I'd
say, I'm on the way man. Yeah, what a what a pair?
Yeah? Yeah, that would bethe only reason why I wouldn't walk
across Australia. Is uh wildlife.Yeah, that's true. It's scary.
Every venomous snake that's ever lived hasbeen born in Australia. And the Spiders

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Man the Spiders. Oh god,no way, Yeah, you know what,
I'd risk it. I'd still riskit because Australia looks so beautiful.
It does a lot of a lotof never no, but in buctures,
in pictures and movies and Chris Hemsworth, I mean everything you know about as
although Crocodile dundee right, actually no, I watched The Rescuers down Under.

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Oh okay, see, well everythingthat I've ever learned about New York I
got from the second half of Crocodile. Same. Yeah, everything I know
about New York. And if wehave fans from New York, you're probably
awesome. Nah. Most movies donot make me want to come visit.
You. Well, everything bad happensin New York. Like there's a lot

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of like alien invasion, alien invasions, things blowing up. Whenever somebody wants
to, yeah, blow up something, they blow up New York. And
always go for New York. Yeah, you know that movie would suck.
We're going for Montana. Yeah,we're gonna bomb Butte in Montana. Yeah,
we're gonna we're gonna bomb Boise,Idaho, you know, not to
bring us down. But when nineto eleven happened, and I was at

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Northeast High School and I was inmy trade at the time, Yeah,
and I remember all the students ora lot of students when we were like
at lunch, people are like,oh my god, did you hear?
Like, oh, what if theycome for us next where they come from?
Like, relax, buddy, They'renot gonna bomb the World Trade Centers
and then come right for Northeast HighSchool after see, Yeah, that's that's

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kind of far fetched. But yeah, that was terrible. Everybody remembers exactly
where they were. If you're fromthe United States and you were I don't
know, maybe not Australia, butwell not not them specifically, but anybody
outside of this country. I'm surefor us it was. I knew the
very exact place that I was forsure. Anyway, we're not gonna go

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go down that road. Jesus,Robert, sorry, way to derail us
Episode fifty And you're already in yourown feeling already getting good Lord really bringing
this down. It's like, yeah, well, um, now do you
want to talk about the Holocaust?Now? Yeah? Right, you want
to bring up Katrina Jesus w Wtwo whatever you know? Good lord.

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I'm just saying I want to makethis like an epic podcast. I want
to talk about everything. I wantto talk about all the stuff, all
the troubles, right, I don'tknow anyway? Left off anyway? Yeah?
Um, I left off where Igot to the keys. Yes,

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so we left off where you foundyour keys. I found my keys,
and I got my car. FinallyI drove home. No, I got
to the keys. There's one hundredmiles of bridges and keys like once you
get past Miami. So I stillhad, you know, several days left,
but I was gonna make the mostof it. And my mom was

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down. She drove down for likethe week, and she was doing that
thing where she picked me up andstuff. And I was like, all
right, so this this final weekof walking is going to be pretty chill.
I don't have to have my cartanymore. I gave it back to
her once I hit like Miami,like right next to Miami. Gave her
back the cart, just had mybackpack, and I'm like, I'm gonna

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just kind of just taken the scenery, listened to some podcasts, listen to
some audio books, and walked thelast hundred miles, which I did,
and I went through Key Largo andLong State, Key Park and Marathon like
all these different islands. I hadn'tbeen to the Key since I was like
twelve years old or whatever. Thatwas like the last time. But I

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do like, I do like theKeys. I've never been there. Really,
I'm not a fan of super brightsun. But what about like you
don't like the ocean breeze Nope,the salty air, the fish jumping splashing,
nope, smells terrible. You getsand everywhere and sunburns sucks. Sucks.

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Here I was talking about, I'llwalk across Australia. Yeah, and
a long sleeved shirt and a widebrimmed hat. You could also wear that
to the beach jack you just useBut then why then why am I there?
Because you're going in the water andI'm not. Why not you don't
sharks? Yeah, Okay, we'vehad that discussion on this podcast as well.
Yeah, what was it the alligatoror the crocodile. Crocodile or the

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bear or the shark, which wouldyou least want to deal with? Right?
Yeah, shark hundred airs first forme, and then crocodile is a
second, And you'd rather deal withthe shark? No, no bears bears
first with me that I would rathergo, Yeah, easily. Yeah,
I mean I'll probably still die allthree very efficient killers. It's very good

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at it. I just I can'tsee the shark, and I can't see
necessarily the crocodile, and I don'twant to get in that death roll with
eat any of them. Uh,folks. I also want to bring your
attention to a movie that's coming outby Sam Rami. Yeah, he's not
directing it, he's producing it.He's producing it. Right, Um,
if you see this movie, whatis the name of it? I know

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what it is. What do youwant to know? Yeah? I do?
Or do you want to guess?No? I don't want to guess.
That's not a fun game. It'sCrawl. Crawl, Thank you.
Crawl is a movie about a familyin a flood zone or a flood area.
It's like, yeah, hurricane,and they're being harassed and attacked by

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alligators. But it's weird that it'salligators. Now, let me go ahead
tell you this depiction of these animalscould not be further from three. Uh.
That movie is the height of ridiculousness. It's just weird. Like these
alligators are just help bent, helpbent, getting after these two people and
killing them. Yeah, in anarea that's flooded, where there's probably plenty

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of food around, you know.One time I went to there's a park
that I lived by called Sawgrass Park. Yes, Sawgrass Park has hundreds of
times. It's a lot of youknow, a lot of wild life and
stuff. It's a smaller park,but it's like a nature park on the
boardwalk. It does have its hassnakes, it has actually alligators, bobcats,

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it even has some coyotes. Yeah, it's got like a lot of
like it's just a large section ofwoods. But uh, I remember one
time going to the park and therewas a lady with a stroller and she
had like a baby in the stroller, and she saw an alligator and she
went, oh, look, honey, it's an alligator and then like push

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the stroller towards the alliator and actuallynudged it with the wheel of the stroller,
the front wheel. And I'm justthinking to myself, like Now,
alliators aren't usually like you know,they're not gonna like really attack you unless
they're hungry, and usually they attacklike smaller prey or territorial you know,
if you're around their mommy alligator,that's where they'll be overtly aggressive for no

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reason. Yeah. So, like, I'm not usually scared when I see
an alliator, but uh, whenshe's like pushing, I'm like, what
are you doing, lady? Yeah, like what you And then somebody was
like, hey, don't don't dothat. Stop doing that, you idiot.
Your baby's right there. They willeat a baby. They will eat
a smaller creature. Here's how bigwas the alligator. I don't know,

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it was a while back. Igonna be five feet or something like.
Still, so you're talking, you'retalking two and a half feet of body,
two and a half feet tail.Yeah, I don't care. It's
still big enough to take a Theycan break your leg with their tails.
Yeah. Um. Actually, somelady had her dogs loose, so you're
not supposed to have they're supposed toa leash. Her dogs were loosing.

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One of her dogs ran down tothe water and an alligator started coming up,
and she ran down there I rememberreading this in the paper like five
years ago. She ran down thereto grab the dog, and she grabbed
the dog, and the alligator goingfor the dog actually bit down on the
lady and bitter leg. She felland it let go and then went and
said to the water, crap,I got the wrong thing. Yeah,

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so, like they don't normally justattack people crazily. Sam. I know
you listen, mister Ramie. Iknow you listen to this podcast. Give
me a call, buddy. Yeah, let's talk about it's not too late
to make this some sort of othercreature. Yeah, I just yeah,
that's really weird. Speaking of alligators. I actually saw like in the Keys

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there was alliators like just uh,they actually sometimes are known to be in
like the salt water kind of travelingand brackish kind of Yeah, but they're
like right on the edge, likewhen you're just going into the Keys,
you can see them like in thewater and stuff, kind of kind of
in the salt water, but likethey prefer the freshwater. Now they'll swim

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through it, but not often dothey like stay there, but they're known
to be down there. And Isaw a lot of wildlife like in the
Keys there there's iguanas everywhere. Yeah, and that's that's an invasive species.
Yes, but now like yeah,they're South America. But you know,
because people bring in animals or letthem loose and stuff like they they actually
prospered in the Get an animal thatthey're not supposed to be taking care or

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don't know how to take they don'tknow how to take care of, then
let it go. That's what happenedin the Everglades with the pythons. People
were getting pythons and they were gettingtoo big, so they were just like,
I can't take care of them loosein the Everglades and they were like
killing alligators and ship. Now thatit is an official there's a python hunting
season yeah, where you can goout and kill as many as you can.

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Yeah, because they're just they're destroyingthe wildlife. Yes, they're they're
beating the alligators currently. Yeah,there is Sam, Hey, Sam,
Yeah, what about pythons. Yourpythons in there, buddy? Yeah.
No. I thought it was coolthough, because I I really like the
island nature, like the island's environment, so like seeing you know, the

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water so close and like walking alongthese bridges and then seeing iguan dude.
I even saw like a bald eagledown there. Yeah, and it was
just like fin. I'm like,I didn't know they come this far south.
They do, and I was like, that's pretty cool. And then
and then jellyfish. You just lookover the railing you see like jellyfish and
manna raise and or maybe sting rays. It sting rays. It wasn't mannas
but sting rays. And then Ieven saw a sea turtle. I was

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like, oh, that's all nice. Yeah, this is cool. I
I like visiting it. I don'tknow if I could live in the keys,
but it's nice to see. Yeah. Um, it's it's a very
beautiful place. Again, I've neverbeen, but my wife has been several
times. She rans and raised aboutit. I know plenty of people that
have been there, all have pictures. Gorgeous. No, it's really pretty,

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and it's it's definitely that island lifewhere there's not a lot there.
There's restaurants and bars and stuff,but there's not I don't even know if
they have a movie theater there orlike anything like that. Like it's right,
I mean there's these are like smallerish islands. Yeah, apart now
the only one that's really far.Is that one bridge, the seven mile
bridge that I had to walk across, and there's actually there's a shoulder and

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there's actually a sidewalk pretty much alongthe whole stretch of the hundred miles.
So I was on the sidewalk orlike i'd get on like the shoulder of
the road across the bridges. Butit was really easy, like miles,
Oh my god, look it's walletguy News Travels. It's us. They
heard you to destroy the town upthere. They have family in Wyoming.

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You'll stop the oh my god,oh tents. Yeah, we talked about
how tents are just a legal everywheretoo. You know. The thing about
this whole story, all fifty episodes, is the story about the people doing
really cool shit and helping you outfar outweighs the people being dicks. Yeah.
I didn't really run into like thatmany Like well, that's another thing

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is walking through the keys when Igot to uh Big pine Key. When
I stayed at that gator Rama,like people who own the gaid Rama and
let me have like the free johnfood and start my best friends. Yeah
yeah, yeah you know them,You're you just added them on. I
did book, right, I addedthem on my LinkedIn plenty of Fish.

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The married couple. They told methat they knew somebody who lived in Big
pine Key and I think he wastheir principal at like a school that they
went to. And they're like,go, like, you can talk to
him. His name's Mickey. SoI was like all right. So when
I actually got to Big pine Key, I was walking along. I just
got over like this bridge, andas I'm walking I see this guy taking

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pictures of me and I'm like,okay, I'm like maybe he's a reporter
or something. He's like I'm yeah, and he did. He's like,
I'm Mickey. He's like I heardabout you. I heard about you.
And he's like this older guy sohappy with himself that he found you.
Oh, wearing his Hawaiian shirt.He's he was loving it. He said
he loves the keys. Yeah.I just watched that today. That's a

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Strassic Park, uh, but yeah, he was wearing that, and he
had like a one of those bigcameras and he takes a lot of yeah,
a lot of wildlife shots. AndI'm friends with him on Facebook and
he's always posting pictures of like thewildlife and at big Pine Key. They
have like a kind of like areserve, Like there's a deer there that
are only specific to the Keys calledkey deer, And you have to drive

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like a certain mile per hour withinlike these two islands, and if you
don't, like you'll get ticket ifthey like really pull over because they don't
want you to kill any of thedeer because there's only so many living on
this island. So we saw andwe actually fed some of them because they
come up to like your the housesthere, which is like, it's interesting.
They're all like very like style.Yeah, but they're the natives,

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you know what I mean. Theyknow what they're doing. So uh.
I ended up me and my momstayed with Mickey uh that night, and
like, but prior to that,we were actually staying at like motels along
the stretch. And whenever my momwould get like a motel or like staying
at RV park, she would tellthem my son's walking across the country blah
blah blah, and they would justbe like, all right, you're gonna

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have like we stayed at a motelfor free and stuff, and my mom,
Oh my gosh, moms are alllike that. All you moms listening
because we got hundreds and thousands ofmost there's you know what, I don't
know this for a fact because Igotta do research, but I'm pretty sure
everybody's got a mom or I hada mom's at one point or another,

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there was a mom involved in yourlife. Um My mom was actually would
always want me to go shopping withher because I'm six foot something. It's
like yeah, and she'd be like, what do you think can we can
we haggle a little bit on this? Yeah? That's She's like, that's
why I bring you because I wantto haggle for the price. My mom

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would do the same thing, butshe didn't need me. She would just
go there and she would just belike, I remember one time going She's
the only person I've ever met thatcould go to Target and find some pants
and be like, I'll give youfour bucks for these. I'm just like,
this isn't a groad sale because itdid it work? They did one
time. One time I'm taking yourmom shopping. She I remember there's like

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there's either like a rip or somethinglike the bottom and she's like, hey,
these are ripped. This won't work. Can I do four dollars.
Just do four dollars. I'm likeJesus, mom, and she got it.
She got it. Manager the typesaid like, I talk to your
manager. Let me let me justsee. She also shut it down one
time Black Friday. I remember beinga kid, I'm black friend day we

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went. It was it was thenight before Black Friday and being in a
Walmart and they didn't have this onething covered all the way, like uh,
like these toasters or whatever it was, and they were on sale for
Black Friday. So my mom goeslike, oh, so the guy was
walking by. She's like, oh, I'll take one of those, and
he's like, oh no, no, no, we're covering these up.
She's like, well, no,no, I covered right now. I
want one of these. She's likeno, this is for Black Friday.

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She's like yeah, I don't getit. Right here, it's on sale.
She's like I'll take one, andI'm like, mom, you're so
embarrassing. And then she was justfinally just haggled her way. Manager came
over all right, just give herone, and then I remember her going,
actually, I'll take two. Likeright after I'm like, god,
dang it, mom. She's oneof those people and she got away.
She wants she's always wants to talkto a manager. She's that type.

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Sorry, Mom, no, no, no, don't apologize. Go get
it, mom, Hey, mom, with it. Mom. Next time,
it's school shopping season. You,me and the boys, two little
boys. Yeah, let's go.Let's just go get some stuff. You
you do the haggling. I'll dothe intimid dating. Yeah, and the

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boys will do there running around,getting on the nerves. Think about how
much stuff you'll get for free.Oh god, you two combined. Yeah,
yeah, that doesn't stand a chance, doesn't stand a chance. We're
not even going to the bargain sectioneither. No, no, you're just
going right, and you're gonna likeelectronics. I clearly have a box cutter
in my hands. These jeans areripped. Yeah, yeah, excuse me,

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you're like ripping, man. Lookhow easy these jeans ripping. I'll
take three these uh, these jeansare not as box kind of resistant as
I would like them to be.Yeah, I'll take four. I'll take
four, please for free? Please? Yeah, factually, if you can
give me five dollars for taking theseoff your hand, accuse me, sir,
if you want to hand me thatprice gun as well. He's going
around the store repricing stuff. Yeah, so luckily, you know, my

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mom's there. So we stayed ata motel for free. It's awesome.
But Mickey. When we stayed withMickey, we had dinner with him and
his wife at the time, shepassed away sadly not too long ago.
But we stayed with them, andthen we stayed with uh and then and
their neighbor was over and we alljust kind of like eight talked about the
wall. I talked about you know, life and stuff, and then you

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all talked about that. We alltalked about No, we all talked about
it. But I remember after weate, we were all like, we
took some pictures and stuff. Andthen I was like, I have eighteen
miles left from here, because hewas on Big Pine Key, so there's
eighteen miles left from Big Pine Keyto the southernmost point. So I was
like, you know what I gonnado this, it's gonna be about six

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hours. I'm gonna leave early.And just finished the walk and my mom
was like, all right, wellI'll meet you at the southernmost point.
My mom during the day, likeshe would just um, you know,
drive around and go visit like littlestores and stuff like that while I was
walking, and actually on Thanksgiving,which I didn't mention this because Thanksgiving was
like two days prior. She endedup buying turkey at like Publics or whatever

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was down there, whatever restaurant.She bought some turkey and then brought it
to me while I was walking,and then we ate like in the car
for like Thanksgiving, and then Iafter lunch just got up and started walking
again. Yeah, but on itwas November thirtieth when we uh stayed with
Mickey. So the next day,which was December first, I was like,
all right, this is the lastday. I'm gonna finish my walk,

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and Mickey actually was like, doyou mind if I accompany you.
I want to go. I wantto try it. And then Barbara's like,
you can't walk that far. Youcan't do eighty buddy, And He's
like, yeah, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try.
So I was like, yeah,that's fine if you want to join
me for the last night. Ohyeah, six hours. Having on this
trip for how long Mickey you weboth did it this, we both walked

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across the country. Can you imactineif he did. Me and my friend
here, and you're just like what, Yeah, he just pushes me aside.
Yeah, go ahead, take picturesof me. Kids there story with
him. He's like, Hi,a wallet guy, fear me. Hear
me. Everybody's walt starts trembling inthe back. Thy Sorry, they do

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a whole new story on him.He now, he was like, I'm
just gonna join you. I'm likeall right, Like that's cool. So
he actually did. Uh. Hedidn't walk the whole way though, so
he did not make it all theway to southernmost point, but he made
it. I don't remember how manymiles he walked, but he walked with
me for you know, several hours. And finally he's like, all right,

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I'm getting blisters on my feet.He's like, this is pretty cool
because we just talked about like schooland stuff because he was a principal and
my degree I was going into educationalstudies. So we just talked about like
schooling and teaching and all that kindof stuff. And you looked at him
and said, you're deadweight, Mickey. Yeah, it's like I gotta gotta
go. I gotta walk faster thanthis. You're out, Mickey, you're
deadweight, And I tied a concreteblock to his leg and just push it

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over the bridge. He just satthere and makeing sense. Yeah, yeah,
he looked at me as the ropestraight down. Yeah. So actually,
uh, I don't remember if mymom picked him up or Barbara did,
but he got he was, Ithink, because he just sat at
like this place. He's like,all right, I'm gonna wait here and
they'll pick me up and I'll meetyou at the southernmost point. So I

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was like, all right, SoI kept walking at the end, yeah,
the very end, like how hewatched for a few miles. Uh.
When I got to Key West,though Key West is a lot bigger.
It's like the biggest sideline or whatever. Yeah, and uh, but
it's the last one and the southernmostpoint actually technically isn't like the southernmost point,
but it's like the touristy area withthe fake booie that's kind of sitting

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there that everybody takes pictures by.So I was like, that's like a
good enough spot for me to kindof end this walk because I started at
the Peace Arch, which was kindof like you know something that I can
say I started at and then sayingthe southernmost point, sou as I walked
along um key west like I walkedalong the water, which some of it

(28:03):
was like this a sea wall,and then the rest of it was like
beach and there are so many peopleout there, and then uh, like
you walk through there's like a neighborhoodarea. And before I got to that
point, I kind of just likesat on the sea wall and looked out
at the water, contemplated my walk. I was like, I'm almost done.
Took a little break, and thenI was like, all right,

(28:25):
and uh, I guess it's timeto finish this up. So I got
my uh um iPod or whatever puton the song. This is so stupid,
but I put on the song walkof Life by the Dire Straits because
I always wanted to play that's agood song. It's a good song.

(28:45):
No no, no, yeah,no, no, no no no no,
it's so good. Love that songtoo. So I was like,
and he didn't the song wasn't tiedperfectly. So finishing the Walk to the
Sultans of Swing, yeah it was. Actually it just went through went through

(29:10):
their greatest hits. Yeah, SoI put on that song and listen to
that on my last walk. AndI remember walking down this like neighborhood street,
seeing the buoy at the end,and then I see like all these
people and they're all like cheering forme, right, and I'm like,
who the hell are all these people? Why are they here? But my
mom and Mickey and Barbara and Christiegot all of them. El Roy,

(29:37):
Yeah, everybody I met throughout thewalk where that is a dream. This
is all a dream. I wokeup like Bob Newhart at the end.
It's all just a dream. Sickman. No. I but they're all
cheering and there's actually just people visitingthe buoy. But my mom being is
everybody, yeah, my son,she's like my son, he's come on,
cheering on. So they all likecheering. And then like I did

(29:59):
when I got to the buoye,I just touched the buoy. I've done.
That's it. And I remember likeeverybody who was taking pictures there,
like they all came over and like, uh um, we're just like congratulating
me and add my mom uh insteadof staying there. This was the other
thing is because I was still goingto school at the time, I had

(30:22):
my thesis which I finished kind ofwhen I was in Georgia, and then
a little bit like I finished,I tweaked everything in like Florida. But
then I was like, all right, I'm done for the last few weeks.
But I had to present my thesisin front of the class. But
I tried to talk to my teacherand say, hey, I'm walking across
the country. I don't know ifI'm going to finish in time, but
if I don't, can I presentmy thesis At different times She's like,

(30:45):
no, you have to present itin front of the class. She's like,
I'm sorry, but you can alwayswait till next semester and do it
that. Yeah, not do theclass again, but just present. So
I was like, all right,well, if that's the case, I'm
not going to rush through it.But if I get done in time,
then i'll do it. The thingwas I had to present it. I
think he was either on the secondor the third. So when I finished

(31:06):
on the first, I was like, you know what, I'll go present
it. I'll go do it rightnow. I was like, it's all
done. So that night actually,because I finished it, it was like
two o'clock and you didn't I didn't. We went out to eat and stuff
like that with Mickey and all ofthem like afterwards. But the next day
we drove up and drove back home. I got my thesis ready and I

(31:26):
went to the tarp And Springs campusand presented in front of there. And
I remember before I went to gopresent my thesis, the teacher because it's
an online course, I never mether, but I talked to her through
emails. She came up and said, oh, so I was talking to
Robert like during the class. Yeah, we're married. Now that's another thing
I proposed to my teacher after thewalk I've been This was for you.

(31:51):
Yeah. So she was like,yeah, she just Robert is going to
come present, but he has actuallybeen walking across the country, I guess
while he's been doing this class.So what's your excuse for a CI Why
didn't you finish your reports? Whydid your report suck? Yeah? And

(32:12):
it was funny because I had topresent in front of the dean and uh
like all the schoolheads and everything likethat. So I was like pretty nervous
because I'm not good in front ofan audience. I'm pretty shy. That's
what you got me for. Yeah, exactly. That's why you're the host,
and I'm not so God, Hey, I'm here to present Robert's thesis.
Over there, Roberts say, Hi, hey Jack, he goes he's

(32:35):
gonna do great. Let's jump right, let's go right into this. I
hear somebody wants a tickle attack.Oh yeah yeah. But it like the
greatest thing about presenting this thesis wasthat when I did it, Um,
I saw the the dean like makingnotes like the whole time, like as

(32:57):
I'm presenting, and I'm like,she didn't do this for anybody else presenting,
Like what the hell she writing down? So I'm like nervous the whole
time I'm presenting. Finally I finishit. They asked me some questions.
I'm done. I think I didit, like my my whole project was
about like technology and like the classroomand stuff like that. And uh,
afterwards, I go to sit down. Everybody's like a good job. And
then the dean comes over to me, and I'm thinking she's gonna like ask

(33:21):
me something more, but she didn't. She just came over and she's like,
hey about that walk, Like,can you write down your email so
we can write this up and putit in like the school paper, and
I'm like, oh, yeah,yeah, of course, of course I
will. I did that, kissher goodbye, and then she walked away.
But that was the Other thing iswhen they asked me questions about my

(33:42):
thesis. It started off like okay, well, how did you, you
know, conclude this study and blahblah blah. But then like after about
three questions about my thesis, itwas like when did you finish? Like
how did you do it on thewhere did you have time to do it?
Like all this kind of stuff.So I'm like, oh, this
is awesome, Like I just getto talk about the walk and not this
report that I'm like barely know whatI'm even talking about kind of thing.

(34:04):
So I like ended up answering questionsand even like some of the schoolheads were
like asking me like, well,that's awesome, like that's cool that you
did, but I'm proud of you, Robert. Yeah, and then I
was like good and then we huggedand it was which Another thing is after
my walk, after I presented mythesis, I finished school, I got

(34:24):
my bachelor's or anything like that.I didn't go back to work or whatever
right away, and I was spendingtime, like I went hang out with
friends that I haven't seen in awhile, and then also like went to
hang out with my dad and becauseit was around Christmas, like Christmas coming
up. Yeah, he's like,what do you want a cookie? Trying
to Robert. He actually he actuallywas like okay with the walk. And

(34:46):
I remember going there and my stepmom and her son and like I said,
mom's son's wife and her family werethere. They were all there,
and I remember they said like likecongratulations on the walk, like we to
your dad while you're away, andhe was not happy about it. And
I was like, no, Iknow. And they're like, what made
you do that kind of thing.I'm like, I just want to do

(35:07):
it. They're like, well,I think your dad's like okay with it
now, I'm Mike, Yeah,he has to be. I'm done.
It's over, I'm done. I'mback. It's good. Yeah. Yeah,
now he jokes about and doesn't care. But it's just funny that after
I finished it, it like,you know, everything subsided and everything was
good, so you know good andand now my mom's not sad anymore,

(35:29):
and yeah that's not angry. Yeah, she's bargained listen. All I know
is that after the walk, Iit wasn't a spiritual journey. No,
it wasn't for me. And Ididn't really like feel like I learned anything
about myself other than I have perseverance. I guess that's it. Right to

(35:52):
me, it was more And thisis kind of weird, And um,
I bring up my friend Tony becauseI think he didn't like when I said
this. But for me, itwas like a challenging vacation. Yeah.
I don't know how else to describeit, Like it was a challenge and
there are some times where I waslike this sucks, yeah, but for
the most part, I was like, yeah, it's kind of cool.

(36:13):
Like I liked it. And eventhough I did have to eventually start doing
school work and stuff like that,like that's all I did walk and do
school work that like, you know, I had time and I didn't feel
like I rushed through it, right. I liked walking, So that's why
I always did as much as Icould, and because I just wanted to
do it. Yeah, I couldhave stayed out there longer if I wanted
to. It's just I liked walkingthe amount that I did. Right in

(36:37):
your next walk, is along Russia. Yeah, if I ever had to
walk across another country, it wouldprobably be some European country, but not
Russia. Yeah, not Russia.Maybe the UK, but it's not like
a challenging than any country to walkacross. That would be a tough one.
That would be a tough one.The US is pretty big though.

(36:58):
Yeah, that's why cool as walkingacross Japan from the top to the bottom,
that'd be cool, Like Japan wouldbe all right. I don't feel
like that would be quite as bad. I don't think it would be that
bad. Yeah, yeah, Imean there's still like some villages and stuff
like that you'd have to go through, and I don't know how to find
seven eleven and I don't convert,Like I'd have to learn the language a
little bit to be able to figureout where I want food and water.

(37:22):
Year about the water guy and you'rejust like galop They got like like I
don't even know pandas. They don'thave pandas there. That's yeah, I
don't know. All of our Japaneselisteners out there, please let us know
what probably have to Just animals wouldRobert run into walking across Japan? Now

(37:46):
Japan doesn't have a lot of guncrime, so maybe it wouldn't have a
galope. They have almost no crime, so he would probably have like knives
of some sort, maybe sort oflope sort of sort all right, so
you know, I really don't wantto. I don't want to, you
know, kind of get you offthe topic here, right, Where to

(38:07):
poop? Buddy? Tell tell,Tell the young kids that have stuck around
this long listen, find out whereyou pooped. I had to go wherever
I had to go, and usuallyit was on the side of the road.
And usually, I mean if Icould hit the McDonald's and stuff like
I would. I always hated havingto go to the bathroom like McDonald's or

(38:28):
like a Walmart or something and leavingmy cart and stuff outside because I was
always worried that I was going tocome out and like everything would be gone.
Now you start to feel the urge, yeah, to go, dude.
There's like one time where I hadto pee really bad and I was
like on a busy street, there'snowhere else to go, and I'm like,
if if I don't reach something soon, I'm just gonna pee trouble bend,

(38:51):
Like I just I have to.I was even trying to think of
things to like do, like withjust like opening up my leg pants,
like just like sitting down behind mycar, like acting like I'm just sitting
there and peeing out there like you'relooking for something. Yeah, because I
just had to go so bad,but there's nowhere to go. There's no
bushes. It was like I thinkit was in like Nebra Aska. I

(39:12):
just had nowhere to go, andI'm like, I don't want to get
like called for a decent exposure orsomething by I'm like I could just I'm
like, you know, at thispoint, I'm just gonna go. Honestly,
you could have explained that away.No, what are you doing peeing
against side of the road. I'mwalking across the country? Dat Like where
am I supposed to I forgot tobring my porta potti? What do you
want? Yeah? I gotta doit. Okay. So here's my question
that I was starting with. YeahI didn't. I did not finish.

(39:36):
Um, you're walking down the highway, you see gas station whatever five miles
but you're feeling it coming. Yeah, are you more inclined to walk off
the side of the road and uhmake some fertilizer? Or no, are
you you pushing those five miles?If I get sure that turtle stays in

(39:58):
its shell, Yeah, I push, I go if I can hit a
gas station. In fact, forthe first like three weeks. Yeah,
I didn't even go outside once forthree weeks for like the first like until
we hit maybe not three wait,maybe like two and a half way to
wait for that bombshelt episode fifty.Yeah, before we hit Um No,
Actually, even when we were inthe North Cascades, I didn't go because

(40:22):
there were still bathrooms at certain campsites, so like not not like actual great
bathrooms. How cool were they tosay, Hey, I'm walking around the
country and as a campsite, butI gotta pe. Well, I mean
I would pee on the side ofthe road, but I just wouldn't do
number two. Oh until finally itI just had to do it, and
uh couldn't wait. There's nothing elsewe could hit, and you know what,

(40:45):
crouching to do it. That's whythe squatty potty is so popular.
It actually is better. It's betterfor you, so um yeah, I
once you start doing it, it'sactually not that bad. And you know
what, I like it so muchthat I got rid of my wet in
my bathroom. Yeah, that's actuallythe studio we're in right now. It's
the old bathroom I just got side, which is really weird. Yeah,

(41:06):
it's not fun for parties. Peoplehave to get used to it. But
there is no boys and girls room. No, it's just outside. It's
just the outside outdoors. And itdoes suck when we are playing like cornhole
outside and people have to go.But yeah, if people are like I
thought, this was the no,it's not okay, Yes, sorry,
yeah, any bad number three's outon the road that you had to worry
about number threes both. Oh no, the diet of rias. Uh.

(41:31):
One time I had already already goodquestion I had. I think this was
when I was with Tony Still.I got like a sandwich from subway.
It was like a breakfast sandwich.R oh, and it did not sit
well with me. Eggs we'll dothat too. Yeah, And that was
That was a pretty bad night.My stomach was not too too good.

(41:54):
Went out to the bathroom for awhile, which is not great when you
have really thin toilet paper and onlyso much of it. That's awful.
It was. But other than that, I mean, like it wasn't too
bad. And I will say thatthere were a couple times, I don't
want to admit this, but acouple of times where there would be like
an overpass and I would walk upthe overpass, Sure, what the dirt

(42:17):
is up there, and I'll justgo up there because I had to.
There was no other place. LikeI'd be out in the middle of nowhere
and there'd just be one overpass,no trees, no nothing, like,
I just gotta make it there andI leave. I remember one time I
left my cart and a car likeslowed down. I was like, and
then they like I came down fromthe overpass and they saw me and they
drove off. Yeah, okay,good. I don't know if they were
trying to steal my shit or theythought I had a baby in the cart

(42:40):
or whatever it was, but theydrove off rail fat yeah, yeah,
trying to blow up that overpass.But in beaute. Yeah, and Montana,
you know, sorry, Montana.You guys are important. We don't
mean to be no, but justjust not you know, a lot of
people there, So that's the joke. Yeah, I mean, not as

(43:01):
much as it's like New York,you know what I mean? Right,
but that's why it's funny. Now, are we going to dissect anymore comedy
on this podcast or are we gonnaslowly wrap up? Yeah, we're slowly
wrapping up. Okay, I didn'tslowly wrapping up since minute fifteen. Yeah,
I think so pretty much. Yeah, I mean that's it. I
mean that was the keys and thatwas then to my walk. Yeah.
After the walk, I decided tostart doing podcasting. And uh, I

(43:24):
will say, because I listened toso many podcasts on the walk, was
kind of like, you know what, I'm going to write my stories,
which is kind of what story thepodcast about this book is, and it
was I wanted to write. Andnow that we do audio dramas, we
also decided to do this one.And I like podcasting and I think it's
you don't really need to explain yourself. No, I know, but that's

(43:45):
what I'm doing. After the walk, you're like, okay, guys,
like this is why I'm doing it, all right, No, but I'm
trying to say, said that explainswhat story is about. Yeah, And
that's kind of the character development becausethat was kind of how I was feeling
when I got back. I wantedto always write and I felt like podcasting
seemed like an easier way to getmy stuff out there. I think for

(44:05):
somebody with the artistic talent that youhave, oh my god, and maybe
not stop, please shut up,and maybe not the means to distribute it
right like everyone else, Like youdon't have high def cameras and you know,
grips and sound and all this kindof stuff. I think you do
the most with what you got,and I think it's great. Not just

(44:30):
because I'm a part of it,no, but because of Brian, you
did become a part of it,and I met you through him, and
you started voicing characters for me.And I was doing the podcast with some
other people and they kind of droppedout and we went our separate ways.
So when I decided I'm going togo and continue with this and do more
audio dramas and then eventually do thispodcast, I asked you if you wanted

(44:52):
to join, and you said yeah, and You're like, I'll host it,
and I was like cool, yeah, and I was like, at
least then it's not just me talkingabout my walk by myself for thirty minutes.
Yeah. Yeah, this is oneof the things I love doing.
Man, not necessarily just the talkingtalk radio style stuff, but the voice
acting. I never thought without like, I guess this is weird, like

(45:15):
hiring an agent or somebody who wouldknow how to get me into that,
Yeah, how to do stuff likethat. Yeah, for sure. And
I like doing this with you becausewe have we you have one percent control
over what happens. Yeah, whatkind of conflict will we do? What
comes out and then how much weput out? And I'll say we've met
some pretty awesome people on the oldinterwebs, and there's a lot of people

(45:37):
who have been following this podcast,a lot of people who yeh, they
like commented and said I listened tothis whole thing and kind of said that
this is the last one. Yeah, so there's not gonna because I don't
think I'm gonna do another Walk atleast anytime soon, right, just because
I like doing this podcast and we'retrying to like make that something. So
we're gonna keep pushing with all theaudio dramas we do. We might come

(45:58):
out with some new stuff soon.And uh, basically, this episode or
this this series is done across America. But if not done seven Lamb's not
done. And if I ever doanother walk. You could be damn sure,
I'll put it on this feed.We'll do across America basically part two.
Hey, man, if my kidsare old enough and self sufficient,

(46:21):
we'll do it. Man, let'sgo, We'll walk across one city.
Yeah, let's just try it out. Yeah, why not? No,
it'd be awesome. But um again, you're all wonderful people. We really
appreciate you taking times out of yourday to listen. Hopefully we're entertaining to
a certain extent. I think,yeah, and we tried to make it
funny and fun yeah, not notjust I was in yeah, Washington,

(46:45):
and after that I took like anMPR radio show. Well, and like
I said, we still have otherstuff coming out. So if you do
like audio dramas or you're you alreadylistened to some of the other stuff,
we're gonna have a ton of contentcoming out. And we appreciate it.
If you were listening to Story,which is the fictionalized version of this walk,
and and thank you for listening tothis story. My story, Yeah,

(47:08):
our story. You know what.I feel like you're just as much
a part of my walk. I'vehad enough fabrication into it. I mean,
you know enough about it that technicallyyou could just start telling people that
you did it. I'm gonna doall the data that I gave you.
I'm the actual wallet guy. Andthen I'm like, no, I'm wallet
guy. And then the cop withthe gun doesn't know who's the real Walt

(47:30):
guy. We have to say afact about ourselves to make him see who
he's gonna shoot. He's like,I don't know which one's a real Walt
guy, which one's a real one. And then he ends up shooting and
I just whisper my wyoming and hekills you. Yeah, and then later
on while you're like at home,he goes home and he's like sitting there
and he's thinking to himself, andthen he starts to realize that he killed

(47:52):
the wrong guy, and they cutto me laughing in with wallets. Anyway,
you guys are awesome. We'll endit on a stupid note like you
like usual, I think, yeah, right, I'll say if you want
to follow us seven lamb dot comand we are on pretty much every podcast.
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(48:15):
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oh yeah, we're gonna start goingthrough spreaker. Yeah. I looked it
up and instantly had every single episodeof anything that we've done. It was

(48:36):
pretty impressive. Oh yes, yeah, it's on. You can find all
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It's really easy to just click throughall the different ones that we do.
And if you ever have any questions, you can message us on Facebook.
We're really tweet at us. Getthose notifications and I jump in and respond
to almost everybody. Boom. ActuallyI think I have responded to everybody.

(48:59):
Yeah, I think we've already.Yeah, like we're pretty we're talking to
seven Lamb. Chances are you're talkingto me, that's true. I love
you. Yeah, Hey, guys, thanks for listening. And I think
Jack just died, so he's gone. So I guess i'll just say a
final goodbye. Thank you Jack.I'll miss you, buddy, Bye buddy.

(49:20):
He's back all right, guys,thanks for listening and uh, stay
tuned for more seven LAMB podcasts anduh we'll see you around. Okay,
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