“I TRAIN HOPPED AMERICA FOR 12 YEARS”
Therapy Gecko
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
A caller tells his life story of running away from his religious family at age 16 to hop freight trains across America for the next 12 years. It’s one of my favorite calls from this podcast. He discusses some of his most intense moments from living on the streets, as well as what caused him to finally put down his nomadic lifestyle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | Hello? |
| 0:07.3 | Hey, what's up, man? How you doing? |
| 0:10.1 | I'm good, man. Yeah, it's my day off from work. |
| 0:12.6 | Just hanging out. |
| 0:14.4 | What's your name, sir? |
| 0:16.9 | My name's Steve. |
| 0:18.4 | What's going on, Steve? |
| 0:19.9 | What are you doing with your day off? |
| 0:25.5 | Uh, right now I'm just feeding all my animals. |
| 0:29.5 | And I'm going to go, there's like this natural spring that I go to to fill up water jugs. |
| 0:35.9 | So I'm going to go fill up my water. Oh, cool. How many jugs do you think you're going to fill up water jugs. So I'm going to go fill up my water. |
| 0:38.3 | Oh, cool. |
| 0:39.2 | How many jugs do you think you're going to fill up? |
| 0:42.4 | I got these glass five-gallon jugs, and I got three big glass five-gallon jugs, |
| 0:49.6 | and then I got five, one-gallon jugs. |
| 0:53.9 | So how many gallons is that in total? |
| 0:57.6 | It's like 20 gallons. |
| 1:00.1 | Dude, how big is a five gallon jug? |
| 1:03.2 | That sounds huge. |
| 1:05.4 | I mean, yeah, and it's made a, they're all glass. |
| 1:08.5 | So, yeah, they're pretty heavy. |
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