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🗓️ 14 January 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Scooter Tramp Scotty has been drifting for twenty years, dipping in and out of people’s lives along the way. The road has become his home. As far as he's concerned, living life the way it should be lived.
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0:00.0 | From the independent producer project in KCRW.com I'm Bob Carlson and this is |
0:07.0 | unfictional the program of true stories personal, and radio movies. |
0:13.6 | And today on the program, Eyes Back on the Highway. |
0:17.0 | On this episode, we're highlighting a story |
0:19.8 | from the talented producers at the podcast |
0:22.0 | called Everything is Stories. |
0:25.0 | This one is about Scooter Tramp Scotty, or that's what he calls himself anyway. |
0:30.0 | He's a drifter and he has been for about 20 years. |
0:33.5 | He's traveled three continents. |
0:35.3 | It's never stayed more than two months in any one place. |
0:38.9 | Just drifting through other people's lives. |
0:42.4 | As he says, living to the extreme. From KCRW.com it's |
0:47.8 | unfictional and from the Everything Is Stories podcast this is called Eyes Back on the Highway. |
0:55.0 | Most people have their own reality. |
1:00.0 | They have their home, their job, their wife, their house, their car, and they enjoy |
1:05.1 | their dog and they enjoy these familiarities. But the drifter, he doesn't have any of this. |
1:10.2 | Everything around him is in a state of change. |
1:17.0 | I stay in places for up to two months. |
1:22.0 | One time I'm down in the keys with friends who live on boats and I'm fixing scooters for a living. |
1:25.0 | I just came from Texas living in that bike shot with those guys. |
1:28.0 | I worked on some of the customer bikes while I was there. |
1:30.0 | The reality before that, my friend in Kansas, with the ranch and all that, and |
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