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Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis,

joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Hi, and thanks so much for coming back again to Mighty Blue on the App Action Trail,

the ultimate midlife crisis.

Well, we've tried to follow my journey in 2019 of the App Action Trail.

And this was always intended to be the last day.

So to keep some sort of similarity with what we've done before,

this is day number 179, Cotardin Stream Campground,

mile 2186.8, back to peak, mile 2192,

and the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.

Let's, as I told you yesterday, let's hear my kind of impromptu recordings that I've made.

While I was on the way up, I've made, I don't know, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, something like that.

Different recordings, some as little as 30 seconds, some

much, much larger. Just trying to give you some feeling of what it's like to do the

trial. I'm sitting in a hotel room tonight, or motel room tonight, waiting for my flight

tomorrow. I feel a bit flat after this. It's exhausting.

And I'm by myself and just had plenty of food and drink and probably for the last time I can do

this without putting it or any weight. But let's hear what happened, the very first thing this morning,

because we had a complete, or I had a complete disaster,

as you're about to hear.

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