Hello, hello, hello, you're listening to Trail Tales, episode number four, and I am super, super stoked to bring you guys this one.

I have a good chat with my friend Mikey Brinkus, trail named Mullet Mike.

Mullet and I hiked almost the entire Appalachian Trail together.

That's right, we met on the very first night of our hike on top of Springer,

and like I said, we made it almost the whole way together.

We're going to talk about what happened there.

We're going to talk about a lot of other stuff.

We get into a fundraiser that Mikey did.

He raised a lot of money, which is really, really fucking cool.

We talk about some of his food choices, which, in his own words, had a very negative effect on his through hike and we even get

into a bit of a controversial topic in the hiking community that is the topic of yellow blazing

or skipping sections of the trail and still counting it as a through hike. I gotta say,

Mikey comes out kind of strong at the beginning of that part of our conversation and he kind of has an

aggressive comment at the beginning there and if that pisses you off at all, if that offends you at all,

I urge you to listen to the whole part of that conversation before you judge, before you make any

judgments because we do give credit to the other side of the issue as well

and I think we talk about it pretty thoroughly and I just really hope that doesn't alienate

anybody from listening to the rest of the show. To be honest, I almost thought about not including

it in the episode but I'm trying to keep this as real as I can. I'm trying to just put this shit out

there for everybody, so I decided at the end of the day, I was going to leave it in. He said it.

I didn't tell him to say it, so it is what it is. Anyways, before we get into it, like every single

episode, I got to say, if you want to contact me for whatever reason,

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