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Hank Patterson's Outdoor MisAdventures

The Pointless Joys Of Hiking

Hank Patterson's Outdoor MisAdventures

Travis Swartz

Comedy, Sports, Wilderness

4.9914 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The only thing more meandering and off the beaten path than actual hiking is this episode!  Hank is, once again, joined by Kevin and Alex for an in-depth, in-correct and off the rails discussion on all things hiking.  Enjoy! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

My dad. I've decided dad's stories should happen a lot. Yeah, and so but this I'm not this isn't an official dad story because we're not even we haven't even started yet

0:10.3

Delbert's a character. He is. We should exploit four sponsors. No. I told the story about the fact that he has his name misspelled in a tattoo on his arm when you weren't here. You know that don't know yeah yeah his name is del de l e he has D a l e tattooed to his arm because he was drunk in the army and got that done

0:30.7

but I'm talking to him the other day and he's in Costco and I'm like hey what's

0:35.4

going on he's like I'm in Costco having lunch which means I'm in Costco hitting the

0:40.3

free samples over and over again.

0:43.2

He does like three or four or five laps.

0:46.2

He doesn't go and buy a hot dog or get a piece of pizza.

0:49.1

He's not at the food court at Costco.

0:51.9

He's literally hitting all the free samples until he's full.

0:55.4

And now does he have like some like a few fake mustaches, some new hats?

0:59.3

No, no, no, no, no.

1:00.3

He's not ashamed.

1:01.8

And they know him. And he's not the only one. I think there are other people that do this. So this is a thing for older people, I guess. You retire, you have nothing better to do than kick around to Costco and eat the free samples. I think it's expected and he's just one of many, but he's got it figured out to the point where he says to me, hey, so if I'm ever homeless or if I'm ever, you know, without money, I know where I can get a free meal.

1:26.0

Well, you still need like a membership to get in the door, don't you?

1:30.0

He's got that figured out.

1:31.0

Oh, does he?

1:32.0

He's got it figured out. Yeah, because that's what I said. I said,

1:36.7

well dad if you're homeless you got no money or whatever you're not gonna have the

1:39.5

money to get your membership and he said oh I got that figured out you get a $5 gift card they

1:45.6

let you through the door with a $5 gift card so I can eat four or five dollars in

1:52.0

perpetuity at Costco. But so it was it's alarming to me a that he's at

1:57.2

Costco and this is what he considers a meal free samples. Right like one one

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