Andrew McCarthy, WALKING WITH SAM: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Zibby interviews actor, award-winning travel writer, and New York Times bestselling author Andrew McCarthy about his intimate, poignant, and funny new memoir Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain. Andrew reveals why he walked across the endless Camino de Santiago with his 19-year-old son: he wanted to have a meaningful relationship with him. He shares all the details of this life-changing experience with Zibby and then discusses his transition from acting to writing and how it all relates to his profound love of travel.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
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0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
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0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.5	Andrew McCarthy is the author of Walking with Sam, a father, a son, and 500 miles across Spain.
1:10.6	Andrew is a director, an award-winning travel writer, and an actor.
1:15.0	He made his professional debut at 19 in class, and has appeared in dozens of films,
1:20.5	including such iconic movies as Pretty and Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Less Than Zero,
1:25.7	and Cult Favorites Weekend at Burnies and Manikin. I have seen all of
1:29.0	those movies about 57 times. His memoir chronicling this time, Brat and 80s story, became a New York
1:35.3	Times bestseller in 2021. Andrew has directed nearly 100 hours of television, including the Blacklist,
1:42.1	Grace and Frankie, New Amsterdam, Orange is the New
1:44.3	Black, and many others. For a dozen years, Andrew served as an editor at large with National
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