Episode #237 - Bill Tickner (Mr President)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Bill Tickner, or Mr. President, is a hiker we've been following for some weeks now. When he wanted to respond to the points made by Sandi Marra from the ATC in last week's show, I realized that it was too good an opportunity to miss, so I turned our expected ten-minute catch up into a full interview about both the 2020 hiker's push back to the ATC and more of his hiking and life journey.
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In the show, I referred to a hiker I met in 2014, No Pain. He has been missing for nearly a year, so I thought I'd share the poster below in the hope that somebody may recognize him and even know where he is. Please call the numbers on the poster if you know where he can be found.
Instead of Bill in the middle part of this week's show, I caught up with Bounce, who is settling, for the time being, in Rangely.
Finally today, Fozzie is nearer to Katahdin than he is to Springer, always a magical and awe-inspiring moment.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:34.1 | Hi, thanks for coming back once more to the show. I'm Marty Blue or Steve Adams, and you are listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate middle-life crisis. |
| 0:44.1 | Now, this show isn't actually the show I was intending. I'm afraid I got my wires crossed a bit this week, and the person I'd been hoping to interview wasn't available and by early |
| 0:55.3 | Tuesday morning I didn't actually have a main guest. That morning I'd schedule my weekly call with Bill |
| 1:00.7 | or Mr President and he mentioned in a text the previous day that he'd like to respond to some |
| 1:05.4 | the points made by Sandy Mara from the ATC on the podcast last week. And by the way, we got some great reaction and we got some not so good reaction to my interview |
| 1:16.0 | with Sandy. |
| 1:16.8 | And, you know, this diversity of view is great, is terrific. |
| 1:21.1 | I wish people will keep it slightly more respectful sometimes, but they just don't. |
| 1:24.8 | But that's the way it goes. |
| 1:27.3 | But anyway, he wanted to respond to one or two of those points from Sandy on the podcast, |
| 1:32.5 | and of course I'm always up for another point of view, so I thought nothing else other |
| 1:36.0 | than fine. |
| 1:37.3 | Well, once we started talking, I realised that Bill not only has something significant to |
| 1:42.0 | say, but he also has quite the personal story himself. |
| 1:45.8 | And it was when I was about 17 minutes into our 10-minute chat, |
| 1:50.6 | that I thought to myself, this is the interview for this week. |
| 1:54.1 | I hadn't prepared for this, and neither had Bill, but we were just chatting, |
| 1:57.1 | and I think you'll find it interesting, and you'll learn what an accomplished bloke Bill |
| 2:01.1 | really is. So instead of spending just 10 minutes catching up with Bill after our main interview, |
| 2:06.8 | Bill will be the main interview. So without Bill, there's no middle section, right? Wrong. |
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