What is going on, everybody. My name is Kyle O'Grady. You're listening to Trail Tales, episode number 19. This is the podcast where I, a through hiker, peakbacker, and just avid hiker, a dude who really likes to walk around getting sweaty in the woods, chats with other through hikers and peakbangers and other people who like to walk around getting sweaty in the woods. It's a great time.

Today we have our very first repeat guest, my good friend, Mikey Brinkus,

otherwise known as Mullet Mike.

Some of you might remember him from episode number four.

He's on the show today, and we kind of had a fun little game going on with this one.

Instead of the normal, like, interview style, we decided that we were going to each rank the states on the Appalachian Trail.

Because Mikey and I hiked together for pretty much the entirety of the AT.

And yeah, we just decided to rank the states from least best to best, best, I guess, is kind of how we did it.

And we just kind of reminisced about our hike as we kind of went through our rankings.

And it was a lot of fun.

We just told a lot of random stories.

And it's really not a traditional episode of Trail Tales, but I think you guys are going to like it.

And I had a lot of fun with this one and Mikey when you hear this thank you so so much for taking the time to come on the show a second time that's amazing

and yeah I just really really appreciate it we're going to get into our conversation and our

rankings in just a second but first I am so excited to say that after asking you guys

repeatedly on multiple episodes to email me some hate, some shit talk.

I finally got some shit talk this past week.

It's from a guy named Jack.

I'm not going to say his full name because somebody might retaliate.

Actually, no, no one's going to retaliate because it's all a joke.

And he told me it was a joke at the end of the email

but he made up for the fact that nobody has sent me any shit talk until now because he absolutely tore into me

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