Episode #20 - Brandon Jacob (The Dude)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Jacob, AKA The Dude, became something of a social magnet on the Appalachian Trail in 2016 with his Dudefests. Straight out of the corporate world and seemingly out of place in the slightly less genteel life of the trail, he embraced it, and its characters, with relish. There were two Dudefests; one at Trent's Grocery in Virginia, with Dudefest #2 attracting quite the crowd at the Inn At Long Trail, in Vermont. I've circled the Dude in the bottom left-hand corner of the picture. I chatted with The Dude while he was driving to a weekend away. The audio isn't great but the conversation was fun. The Dude can be contacted at Brandon@contractorscfo.com, while he can also be found on Facebook as Brandon Jacob. His blog is at http://trailjournals.com/jakethefake and for those of you who may have met him, he has a great picture collection of the people he met on YouTube at this link, https://youtu.be/8H_ZemBZl4U Jessa continues her preparations for her start date next month. This week, she learns how to navigate around a car park. It makes much more sense when you listen to Jessa explain it! Please keep the reviews and emails coming, as well as suggestions for Jessa's trail name. Remember, the email address is steve@mightyblueontheat.com and don't forget to check out my books, which are linked here on Amazon. See you next week.

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0:00.0	Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, join Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:26.7	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:28.6	We've reached episode number 20, quite the landmark,
0:32.1	and we're celebrating this landmark by having a dude fest.
0:36.6	What's a dude fest, you may well ask? A dude fest is the gathering of
0:40.5	no let the dude himself tell you the dude is this week's guest. He also goes by the name of Brandon
0:47.2	Jacob though once you hear him you'll understand why he's so comfortable with his trial name.
0:52.4	I spoke with Brandon several weeks ago, and despite never having met him,
0:56.8	I immediately understood what he was described as a social magnet by one of our listeners.
1:01.9	Man, he can talk, and we had a really great chat.
1:05.4	Unfortunately, we were talking on a phone as he was driving for a weekend away,
1:09.2	so I had plenty of editing to do to make it acceptable for the podcast.
1:13.3	I hope it's okay, it sounded okay to me.
1:16.1	While I remember, I have to let you know that the presentation that Grizz was going to
1:20.1	give about Lyme disease this Saturday in New Jersey has had to be cancelled.
1:24.6	Though Grizz assures me that it will take place later this year, so watch this space.
1:29.8	Talk about presentations, thanks to those of you who caught my recent experiment with
1:34.2	Facebook Live.
1:35.5	I mentioned in La Hoseweek's podcast that I'd be doing this, and the results were gratifying,
1:40.0	well, at least to me.
1:41.9	There were 70 people in the room, and another 256 were either watching live or have since watched the presentation.
1:49.3	To be honest, this was a bit of an impromptu exercise,
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