Hello everyone and welcome to the within range coaching podcast.
I'm Ranger, certified holistic success coach, and in this podcast, I'm bringing down the
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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening everybody.
And welcome to today's episode, guys.
We have another special edition of the within range coaching podcast.
Taking a little bit of a break from interviewing the people that I'm meeting along the way.
I've recently had a few great episodes come out and I have quite a few lined up with some
folks over in Fort Smith in Arkansas.
But you guys will hear about that later.
But for now, I am joined once again by my good friend, colleague, chicken lover, ag
teacher.
It's teacher appreciation week.
So tell him he has this 92nd national FFA convention and expo shirt on.
Stephen Concephed, Mr. Stephen Mann, how is it going?
Hello, it's going well.
How are you?
I'm I'm in pain, but I'm here.
We love that for us.
But yeah, no, you're gonna do another walk update.
The last one came out a couple weeks ago.
So I'm glad that will I mean, as soon as we're done recording today, I'm going to send it
straight off to the editor and we should have time.
I'm hoping this one will come out by Friday.
So we'll see if we are lucky on that.
But yeah, Stephen, I don't I'm letting you do it because I have no brain cells right
now.
Okay, wonderful.
Well, first of all, let's do a check in with you.
Where are you?
How many where have you traveled to since we've last chatted?
What's going on?
Yeah.
So last time we chitter chatted for a little bit, I think I was in Tupelo in Mississippi,
which if I remember correctly was like right on the beginning of Mississippi.
And then let me see.
I'm trying to pull up the map.
Yeah.
So yeah, from Tupelo, which was just inside of Mississippi on the East End, I've since
passed through Mississippi and I'm on like the the I don't know the precipice of Oklahoma.
I think I'm I'm only like 10, 15 miles away from the Oklahoma border.
But anyway, I'm in Fort Smith in Arkansas.
So since the last time we've chatted, I've I've walked through two states.
Oh, that's a lot.
Yeah, I am.
Definitely something to I don't know.
It's a weird thing to admit, I guess, but also like, pretty cool.
Yeah, it's interesting.
It's like such a weird concept, right?
It's like, oh, yeah, haha.
Like I drove through the states or whatever, but it's like, no, I I walked through them.
That's cool.
You know, today I was I went to Dutch Bros and I got a little energy drink.
Yeah, you know, the Dutch Bros people, they're always pretty happy to see you and all that
stuff.
And the lady said, well, what are you doing this afternoon?
And I said, well, I'm interviewing my friend.
He's walking across the United States and she goes, oh, my goodness.
And I said, yeah, he has a podcast and I'll be interviewing him on there.
And she must have got confused or misunderstood me or something, because she thought it's
my podcast.
And I mean, I'm just at the drive through and I don't even know who this person is.
So I didn't really correct her.
But she was like, well, how long have you been doing this podcast stuff for?
And I was like, two episodes.
She's like, wow, seasoned veteran.
So this is again slowly turning into my podcast.
I know.
Geez.
I here I am spending all the money on the editors and which is well worth it, Mr. Editor
Man and or Mrs. Editor Ma'am.
And no, that's funny.
But well, I feel like if it if it works out to get more listeners, you can claim it's
whoever's podcast.
I don't have the energy to fight.
What am I going to do?
Walk over there and tell you you're wrong.
Let that be a driving force in your last leg of your journey.
I have to get back to California before Steven takes over the intellectual property of the
Within Ranged Coaching Podcast.
Is this like squads rights?
If I'm on enough, it's eventually just mine.
I listened to a podcast about the whole squatters right situation last week, so I love it.
I'll have to like hire the guy like the the squatter that kicks squatters out for my own
podcast.
Right, right.
I get like my buddy, Brett or Brian to like take it over from you and give it back.
Oh, my God.
How funny.
OK, so you said you're in Arkansas, right?
Yep.
On the west side, like west edge of Arkansas.
OK.
So you're almost outside or about to leave Arkansas then, right?
Yeah.
Whenever I leave, I'm not sure if I'm staying until Friday or if I'm taking another rest
day on Friday and leaving Saturday.
But whenever I leave, I'll be in Oklahoma within just a couple hours.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
You feel some type of way whenever you cross state boundaries?
Yeah, it's.
I don't know.
It's.
The first one felt like a relief when I crossed over from what, South Carolina into Georgia.
But it wasn't a relief of like, oh, I'm almost done.
It was like, oh, like I'm I'm doing it, you know, like I just walked through a state.
And it wasn't like, you know, the very southern tip of South Carolina that was like, you know,
super tiny, like, haha, like I walked through like a pretty wide portion of it.
So I don't know, I felt like that was just like it was very much like a proof of concept,
you know, like I survived my first state and then what from Georgia to Alabama?
That one didn't really feel like a whole lot.
I think it was because that one I crossed it when it was raining.
So I didn't really get to, you know, take a cute picture and set up the tripod until
a few miles down.
You know, like it didn't feel as.
Exciting.
It was just like, OK, like another.
I think I'm more focused on like the next city, the next where I'm staying.
Great.
Alabama into Mississippi, kind of the same thing.
Mississippi into Arkansas.
I think that one like it was barely even really a sign, I think.
No, wait, was it Mississippi into Arkansas?
Oh, yeah, Mississippi and Arkansas was actually kind of the bigger deal.
Alabama into Mississippi.
I crossed where there wasn't like a fancy sign, so that one didn't feel like a celebration.
It was just like the sign was as significant as.
The second street, you know.
But yeah, or Mississippi into Arkansas was a bit.
A bit crazier for sure.
Before you left, you should have printed out one of those like.
Xbox achievement unlocked things and like every time you enter a new state, you can
be like achievement unlocked like that's funny.
I mean, I could just print one of those out.
Or maybe just like Photoshop it into your photos or something.
Yeah, well, yeah, I guess.
OK, I do want to take something back.
I think Georgia into Alabama.
That was cool because of the time change.
So like that was that was cool because I was like, wow, I just walked through a whole time
zone and I think the next one.
Well, shoot, I don't think the next one happens until.
Oh, I think New Mexico.
Sometimes I crossed from Texas, Texas and then New Mexico.
That's the next one that that one feels more significant, I guess.
So maybe I'll be what achievement unlocked one one more hour in the day or something.
So basically what you're telling me is you're a time traveler.
Yeah, that's what it feels like.
That was a crazy day because I was like, oh, I suddenly have a whole extra hour of walking.
And yeah, that was that one also sucked too, because that was the day that I walked.
Yeah, and I had.
I think that was when I stayed in the bathroom.
Yeah, that's.
Yeah, my pursuit of happiness moment, but it was only at like a 16 or 18 mile day.
So I didn't even get to really take advantage of that extra hour.
So I was like, shoot, I need to like plan that better for next time.
Right. You've posted some pictures of like your scenery and things like that.
Yeah. Which, you know, they've been phenomenal photos.
But after a while, don't you just get kind of tired of, oh, it's another forest.
It's another grassland.
It's another.
Has it been? Yeah.
Yeah, that's what I was worried about, and that's what I thought of at first.
But I think I kind of mentioned this in one of the live streams that I did.
It was. Yes, it's a lot of the same thing, right?
Like it's like the same pieces.
It's like cars driving towards me, me on side of road,
trees and grass and whatever, kind of all around.
But I'm starting to notice like the differences, right?
Like I'm starting like I'm getting to the point that I can kind of see different things.
Like I don't think I know enough about like trees to like really notice
the difference in trees, but like the wildlife, like the herpetaphona,
like I've noticed different like snakes and skinks and lizards and differences.
It's very morbid, but like kind of the differences in like roadkill.
So it's like, OK, things are kind of the same kind of different.
But no, dude, there's I think in Arkansas.
Yeah, starting in Arkansas is when I started seeing a lot more snakes.
So it's a lot of the same, but like slightly deeper on.
Yeah, like just enough to like keep me like stimulated
when I'm not talking on the phone to someone or I'm not watching,
half watching a show or listening to a podcast, you know.
You so I one of the things I want to talk about today is the
I feel like there's been an increase of your, I guess.
Publicity and the amount of times you've been in news articles
or recognized or, yeah, those and things like that, would you agree?
Yes. Yeah. No, dude. Yeah.
So how many times have you been on the news now?
How many times have you been in newspapers?
What are the stats on that?
I don't know.
I'll ask Julie.
Julie's been keeping really good track of everything she shared.
I don't know how to use that.
I need to figure it out, but like shared like a shared album on iPhone with me.
Oh, yeah. I just haven't had a chance to like figure out how to use it
because it just doesn't pop up as easily as it does for her.
I think I have a setting I need to fix.
But, dude, yeah, it's it's popping off.
Julie and my mom have been really big on sending all the emails and,
you know, reaching out to newsplaces, this and that, blah, blah, blah,
which was great and super helpful.
And what I did recently was I posted in
when I was walking into Little Rock, like two days before I got there.
I I actually accidentally went to the wrong page,
but I went to the North Little Rock
because I thought it was the north part of Little Rock.
But it was there's two cities.
There's North Little Rock and there's Little Rock.
Like there's Sacramento and there's West Sacramento.
They are not the same thing.
I learned that the hard way.
But I just posted in there and I was like, hey, I'm Ranger.
I'm doing this thing.
Like, would love to like interact with local media or nonprofits
or whatever.
And people were tagging reporters and news stations and this and that.
I know just walking into Little Rock in North Little Rock,
two new stations met up with me within like an hour and a half of each other,
interviewed me, put me on the TV, the TV, put me on TV like that night.
And I think the next day it was funny.
I met up with someone from Bumble BFF, a trio.
And while we were in the bar ordering food in Little Rock,
my news thing came on and the barista was just like, you know,
like the Pikachu meme.
Like she was like, is that you?
I was like, yeah, that's cool.
Yes, I'll sign autographs.
I'm like, that's all right, guys.
I'll do it. And like nobody gave it like cared whatsoever.
I was like, this is kind of cool.
Still charge me full price for my diet Pepsi.
And so walking into Little Rock,
I got two TV spots the next morning was a interview with the Democrat Gazette,
like a print interview.
Then I had a what's my call it.
So I stayed at the Firehouse Hostel in Little Rock.
And they're super cool what they are.
They're like a old it's like Firehouse number two for Little Rock.
And now it's like a museum and hostel.
It's the coolest thing.
I did a tour with them and the guy that gave me a tour was like, hey,
do you want to go get lunch? I'll buy.
I was like, yes, of course. That sounds great.
So him, one of the volunteers and I got in the car and started driving
and a guy, a videographer from the Democrat Gazette was like,
hey, can I meet with you later?
And I was like, yeah, we'll be back around two or whatever.
And then another TV station messaged me right after and was like, hey,
are you available in 30 minutes?
I was like, I am. If you can meet us at this barbecue place.
So that day I had three interviews.
And then I think the next day.
Yeah. So when I was walking from the east side of Little Rock to West
Little Rock, I stopped into a radio station and I was on like,
I don't know, like a five minute interview with like a
classic rock host. And then I walked like another six, seven miles,
got picked up by another station.
They took me to the actual studio and I was on live TV.
Like I was in Columbia.
So what is that? Two, five, seven, like seven, just in Little Rock.
So I think that might've doubled the overall numbers from like every
from everywhere so far.
Well, five minutes later,
I was like, I'm going to have to have a full on press conference.
I'm so excited.
It's funny.
There's there's a gal that I met up with in Little Rock and Little Rock
area.
And she walked across the country.
I think she said,
I think before 2010.
And.
You know, her and I were like talking back and forth and her,
her walk, she did it with one of her, one of her late,
late 20s,
late 30s,
late 40s, late 40s, late 50s.
And she was walking back and forth and her, her walk,
she did it with one of her, one of her lady friends.
And they stayed a lot more on the nature trails.
And, you know, back roads, not so much on the,
on the actual roadways like I am.
And we're talking about the differences because I guess they,
they were a lot more focused on, you know, oh, like,
I'm just going to go on and on and on and on.
Not the entire route, but, you know,
the whole thing, right.
Um,
and you know, they had their own challenges.
Like they didn't really have maps, like Google maps,
this and that.
And I was like, Oh my God, that's insane.
Like, I don't know if I could do that without.
All of that.
Um,
when I mentioned to her, I'm like, you know,
I think a different challenge that I'm going to have after I'm done
than you are.
You know, just because it's so like it's cool, right?
Like I'm getting a lot of attention.
You know, I'm checking.
I know I'm falling into like the social media trap, but I'm always checking the analytics.
Always checking the page hits like as soon as I go on the news, I'm logging in the analytics
for my website to see how many hits I'm getting, you know?
So it's it's a big thing.
I send you back to California.
You're be like, I'll have my people contact your people.
My people.
It's just Julie.
It's like, hello.
Every time you ask to hang out, it's like we'll collapse soon.
We'll collapse.
No, dude, it's so cool.
I posted in the in the Fort Smith page and I was like, oh, and if any like local influencers
want to collab, let me know.
And I've had two people reach out.
I was like, no way.
I was like, like, we'd love to collaborate.
I'm like, okay.
That's cool.
You're like, so what do you do?
And they're like, listen up all these things.
And they're like, well, what do you do?
You're like, I walk.
I'm walking.
No, there's one gal that messaged me earlier.
She's like, I don't know if you would want to like work together or anything.
And she has like 30,000 followers.
I was like, oh, my gosh.
My immediate reaction is like, yes, I haven't even looked at her page.
So I don't know if like we align enough to collab.
But you know, it's like that immediate like that's the interesting thing, right?
It's like number chasing, right?
But it's like still balancing like, okay, like, yes, numbers are important.
Hard stop rewind.
Need to make sure that we actually align before we get too too crazy, you know?
One thing I've noticed about the news videos and articles that you've been sharing on Facebook,
which by the way, folks, if you're not following him on Facebook, this is a great opportunity
to do so because he shares all of his his articles and everything on there.
He does a daily blog on there and all sorts of stuff.
But I've noticed that the way that the social media reps are posting about you is very bland,
I would say.
They're really doing this great thing.
You're one walking across the United States, which not many people can say that they've
thought about doing done or even started.
Yeah.
And one, you're also trying to raise money for three really great nonprofits.
And the headlines are like man walks.
Stinky man walks across state.
Stinky man in your neighborhood.
Don't sniff.
No, it's so funny because it's like, yeah, I mean, I'm trying to pull up one of them
right now.
What I've noticed is like the like we we talk for like 15, 20, 25, 30 minutes at times,
you know?
Like they're not short.
We spend a good amount of time together whenever I'm like with anybody for for new stuff.
And it's like they just hit so little.
Yeah.
And I think I don't know what it is.
But you know, like like you said, like because my main thing is, yeah, I want people to see
me.
Ha ha.
Super cool.
Right.
But the main thing, obviously, is like I want people to like donate to the fundraiser.
Like that's like my intention is get the fundraiser out, highlight the nonprofits that I'm working
with, try to get that, you know, Wander Project.
Like I've even said it before, like, oh, if you're an athlete that wants to raise funds
for an organization you believe in, like talk to Wander Project, follow them on social media.
Future Farmers of America.
We love vocational education bigger than the trail, mental health, free therapy.
Love to see it.
Just promise help out the elderly, help out people that are in end of life care.
Love it.
And then they go, yeah, so I'm walking across the United States.
I started in Myrtle Beach and then it cuts me out.
It's like he's complaining to walk twenty eight hundred miles.
Yeah, it's going to be pretty rough.
Yeah, you heard it here, folks.
I'm like, no, you cut out all of the good stuff.
There was one there was one that was really bad.
I again, I appreciate all the attention.
Like any any attention is good.
Yeah, we love to see it.
There was one and I was like.
I think I remember even I super stuttered what I said and I said, OK, and I reset it.
And I'm pretty sure they use the one where I was stuttering.
I was like, are you just going for the more natural look or what?
Oh, my goodness.
Well, again, with your with your fame and stardom that's been happening,
you'll have to start sending.
I forgot what the show biz term is for it.
But when celebrities go and do like gigs and talk shows and things like that,
they have their publicist send they send.
They have the publicist send in like all the needs and wants of the celebrity.
So like maybe by timing back to California, you'll have one of those established.
And you're like, if I'm going to be on your whatever it's called news channel,
these are things I want.
There's a song or there's an artist like Linkin Park, right?
Mike Shinoda, one of the lead singers of it.
He did a spin off band called Fort Minor.
Love to see it.
There's one song that he did that he's like calling out the media.
And he's like, you guys put a twist on everybody's words
and they could seem like we said some like crazy BS.
And even one of the things he says, like I only do email responses
to print interviews.
And I'm like, damn, like I thought I whenever time I have an interview
with people, I always think of that.
So I think it's funny that you're like, here's exactly what you are to say.
Thanks.
Because, yeah, like I'm looking at one right now.
It's one, two, three, four, five, six, six sentences.
And I saw it was just one sentence.
Really? Yes, I'll be honest.
I don't read most of them.
I just see them and I just reshare it.
I think I click it sometimes just to double check to make sure
like they get my name right sometimes.
But half the time I'm like article share article share, you know?
Yeah. But I think.
I think part of that, the news stations, not really.
This is harsh of me to say, but not giving your walk justice
or at least advertising it appropriately is you're getting some hate.
You're out here doing the Lord's work and people are like, look at this bum.
It's crazy. OK.
I've obviously I've done a lot of thinking on it, right?
So one, thanks for watching.
One, thanks for all the troopers in the comments section of those
that are responding to people for me, air quote for me,
because, dude, it's it's crazy how people really just see the headline
or they see the photo.
And for the business folks out there, I think it's a crazy testament to branding.
So branding is the process of association.
So like when people think of like McDonald's, they think of yellow
and, you know, tasty food.
But they also think of like, you know, diabetes and like bad for you.
You supersize me, right?
So like when people out here see California,
their immediate association is communist tax dollars to waste,
like daddy, like stealing money.
It's crazy, right?
So I don't know, I think I'm like more interested in it
from that perspective almost of like the man.
How do people have this such a strong association with where I'm from
that they're willing to low key threaten me in the comments
of a post of a guy raising money for charity?
You know what I mean?
But I don't know if you know, but I think it's a really
I don't know if you have more specific questions,
but the other thing that I notice I think is so funny is.
There's people make the comments like, oh, like he should be walking to a job
or he should be walking to work like, oh, another homeless bum or whatever, whatever.
And people on my side, quote unquote, are also vicious in the comments back.
Like, did you not even read the article like you're illiterate?
Like they're like going off.
And like, I kind of want to it's like it's like a dogfight, right?
Like you can't really break it up.
So I don't know, I guess for like.
I don't know. Love it.
I love it when people defend me,
but I also don't think it's like right to fight like angry with angry.
And sometimes there's just people that you just can't.
That they're just going to believe whatever they want, no matter what.
And also these, what are they called, the keyboard warriors or whatever?
Yeah, they don't really listen to reason to begin with.
No. And, you know, it's kind of funny that if they're so
if they're behind the keyboard so often, you think they would have a high
reading competency, but I guess not.
No, definitely not.
Here's one that I saw online.
It said, I've been walking since I was one year old, almost 70.
I saw that one, too. Yeah.
You know, it's like.
I don't know. I, I, I, I
here's the thing, I don't know if it's like the coach in me or maybe
I'm just like a glutton for punishment, but I so badly want to talk to these people.
Right. I'm going to be like, why are you so angry about this?
Like, let's let's let's set me aside for a second.
What about this makes you so mad?
That you want to like belittle it and like talk smack.
And like, there's one guy I saw that was like,
oh, I don't think this is real. This is fake.
You know, it's just like,
do I don't know how else?
Not that I feel like I have to prove it, but there's like that thing.
It's like, oh, no, this is real.
Like, you know, 100 percent like here are the blisters.
Like, here's here's the money I've spent.
Like, this is real. This is a thing.
Like, I, you know, it's like that immediate, like
defensiveness to defend myself.
What was it when Trump was in office?
Everybody wanted to see his his tax records or something like that.
Yeah, it's like everybody want like everybody wanted to see Obama's birth
certificate, everyone wants to see Trump's tax.
They're like, show me, Ranger, show me your feet.
Oh, yeah, you're walking across the country.
Take them dogs out.
You're like, and there's a different link.
I'm like, oh, there's a different one.
OK.
Someone else also commented, so he can walk.
I don't get it.
You see, and that's like the funny thing.
And like, I want to explain, it's like, yes.
That's the point of the walk, like that's almost insinuating anybody can walk.
Why is this guy so important?
And that's so funny, because that's like the point of my walk, right,
is I had these stories I made up about why I couldn't do it.
And here I am doing it, you know?
So it's like you're proving my point, like anybody can walk,
but you're kind of being a jerkapus about it.
Yeah. And yeah, it's just so funny that it's like it's.
It's interesting for sure.
Someone also wrote not not quite as angrily, but they wrote,
don't bring that smog with you here.
OK, so that's the thing I have a hard time with.
I can assume everybody's tone, right?
Like there's some people that comment, keep going, period,
or keep going, exclamation point.
And, you know, keep going was Mike Posner's thing.
Like you have the end of his podcast now, he says, remember,
like it's about making the decision to keep going.
You know, Andrew Kivett, the one of the other guys, his book is Keep Going.
My Walk Across America, you know, like that's it's like such a common
freight, like in my world for walking.
So people were commenting, you know, keep going, period.
I'm like, I don't know if you're like on my team, like if you're like,
keep going, like cheering me on or if you're like, get out of here, son, you know.
I don't like your kind.
Yeah. And I'm like, we don't like your kind Californians.
And I'm like, I don't know if I like my kind either,
but like with that comment, what was it like?
Don't bring that smog.
You it's like I am like 95 percent certain he knows I can't bring smog with me.
You're right.
Only for you. I have some in a jar right here.
Jokes on you.
Not only am I stinky, I have smog.
I'm like Gargamel from the Smurfs.
You're like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,
you're like, I actually brought Pandora's box with me.
I'm like, it rips off mask.
I'm Dr.
Dupin Schmertz. I'm like, here's my smoginator.
To ruin the Little Rock community area.
I think I've responded to that question.
I was like, I promise I left it at home.
You know, it's like I'm like, I don't know.
Like, I want I want to like meet people like I without assumption.
Right. Because if I assume that every one of those comments
that could come off as angry are angry, I think that's playing into like the
opposite again of what the walks about.
Right. Like there's good people out there.
And that's like the lens I'm looking at everything through.
So it's kind of hard for me to like, do I let this lens sit on my eyes?
Do I replace it with a different one?
Like what when do I know to shift that?
You know, and like with comments, it's always hard because
text, even like when you and I text, it's like impossible to know
what the other person is like.
I mean, albeit we've been friends for like, what, 10 years now.
So it's like, like nine, nine.
Yeah, we're almost like a decade old.
Twenty.
Twenty fifteen.
No, twenty fifteen. Yeah, because well.
No, we met winter. We met like January of 2016.
The real answer is in eternity.
Yeah, it's lived a lot of lives and you've saved mine a couple of times.
That's for a different episode of the podcast.
That's for when I'm back in California, then we can talk about the ties of times.
I've almost perished around Steven.
But anyway, so back to the comment thing.
Yeah, it's like.
I don't even know how people can make it so negative to the point that they get
upset about it.
You know, like, like as coach, I'm like, what?
Do you want to feel like this?
Do you just want to be angry?
Does that feel good?
I can't imagine it feels good.
Well, I know their blood pressure must be through the roof.
Yeah, I mean, have you seen the size of these containers here?
Dude, I'm like, but Julie came out to visit in Georgia
and we got a large ice tea thing was bigger than our head.
They are one angry text message away from a triple bypass heart surgery.
Oh, my God. It's insane.
I mean, hell, dude, after.
Yeah. Yeah, I went to Brahms.
Shout out Brahms down the corner from my hotel.
Got a friggin like lifetime supply of milkshake right here for four bucks.
Are they are they a chain or a local?
Yeah, they're a chain.
I know that they're a chain.
I know that they have I think they have one in Oklahoma
near where my Nana and uncles are,
because when Julie and I went to go visit them,
I was super hyped because we drove past them and it advertised bag of burgers
for like five bucks.
I was like, what do you mean a bag of burgers?
How many burgers are in this bag?
How big is this bag?
They're like, oh, there's like.
Yeah, it was like six or seven burgers in there, dude.
I was like, how much was it?
It was like six, seven bucks.
It was crazy cheap. Yeah.
Well, let me tell you, Wendy's four foot four.
They're shaking in their boots right now.
They're shaking their boots.
Hear that, Wendy's?
Brahms is coming for your bag.
Before we get to I do want to talk more about food before we get to off topic.
I do think it's interesting, even with all the haters,
you know, as a teacher, especially a middle school teacher,
I tell the students all the time, I said, it does not matter what anybody says.
The only thing that matters is what you believe in yourself.
And like, don't worry about what other people are doing.
Stay in your lane and everything will be OK.
And that's quite literally what you're doing.
The haters are out there.
They'll always be out there.
But you're just you're quite literally in your lane, just walking across the United States.
In my lane and the lane of oncoming traffic, you know, whichever.
Well, yeah. And that's the thing, right.
Is so there's a creator.
My podcast is just me literally plugging everybody else's podcast.
There's a creator, Alex Hermosie, and his thing is like,
if you if hate comments bug you, it's because there's a part of you that believes they're true.
Right. So when people are like, oh,
like, oh, like, how does this actually help anybody?
How does this actually do any good?
You know, and they're like kind of angry about it.
It's like they could be commenting.
Why does this guy have purple hair?
It's like I'm not even going to even look at that.
I'm like, I don't know what's wrong with you or like the DNA and eye doctor.
Like they're like, again, it's like, I feel bad for you almost.
Like, what's wrong?
Because like, I know I'm helping people.
Like, we've already raised almost five thousand dollars.
That's going straight to free therapy for people,
like paid expenses for people in hospice and FFA grants.
Like, I've had people come up and talk to me and, you know,
I make them laugh or giggle or whatever.
Even just today, walking in, there was a gal that that pulled over,
ran up to me, gave me a donation and was like, I saw I had such a crappy day.
And I just want to come and say hi. And this made it so much better.
And I'm like, I haven't even said anything yet.
I told somebody else the things that people tell me on the side of the road
have been insane.
Like there was this there was one person that pulled over.
And after just a couple minutes of talking was telling me about how
they're in an abusive relationship and they don't know what to do.
And I was like I was like 15 miles in.
I'm like, I can barely see straight.
But thankfully, you know, they kind of mentioned like
self deleting thoughts, like kind of alluded to it in a way.
And I was like, OK, way out of my wheelhouse.
Thank goodness I'm working with bigger than the trail.
Here's here's a couple of their cards.
Here's the contact. Here's the therapy one.
Like, you know, like I'm like, if you're in crisis, call.
What is the S hotline number?
I almost don't want to look it up.
Because I'm nine eight eight.
I'm like nine eight eight.
Like if you're actually, you know, like.
And I don't know, I think I think there's a part of me that made that kind of felt like
and it was a gentleman that told me about it.
There was something in the way he said it made me feel like he's like
not said it out loud to someone else before.
You know, so I think like me being there and him being there was like
maybe what he needed.
To get out in order to get the help he needs, you know.
So I don't know.
I think I'm going to just trauma dumping almost.
But what I'm getting at is like I like when people are like,
oh, how does this help anyone or this doesn't do anything?
It's like I know for like I have this proof.
That says I am who I say I am.
It doesn't matter what you say.
You know, I mentioned, you know, some I mentioned like I'm a life coach.
Like I mentioned like, you know, within range coach,
like, oh, it's my life coaching practice.
Like I kind of like, hey, like all my walks through my business page,
you know, what I like, that's why.
Or like I mentioned, you know, bring up therapy
like makes people think of that.
And they're like, oh, safe.
Like it's a safe space to talk about this.
Right.
Hospice.
I've had a ton of people tell me about loved ones that have passed away recently
or are like in the process of passing away.
And I think they're just something that's actually really powerful about
aligning yourself with organizations like that.
Like kind of what we were saying earlier, like that branding.
Right.
Like now people are kind of like associating me with mental health,
with hospice care, with youth development, you know,
so they're much more willing to when I bring those topics up.
Oh, this guy knows something about this.
I am in X, Y, Z position.
I want to talk about it.
And I also think that there's like a weird level of anonymity.
It's like the things from Finding Nemo that they get in or something.
There's like that sense of like, I'm never going to see this person again.
You know, it's like what gives people strength to say crappy things on the internet
is sometimes what gives people strength to say, I need help.
And I think that's yeah, I think that there really is something like powerful or
like really interesting there.
Mm hmm.
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Do you feel like you've done?
I don't know.
I like you said you've been like you said you were walking like 15 miles that day.
I don't know if I'd be in the right mindset to even have that type of conversation.
Do you ever feel like you've done that conversation justice or injustice or?
Yeah, I mean, I mean, that's a that's a heavy conversation to have when you're tired,
mentally and physically.
Well, yeah, I mean, even just, you know, I've talked about it before,
but like the million micro decisions I make every single mile, you know, like it's it's taxing.
But I definitely think that in that moment, there is kind of a rush of like adrenaline
that is like, OK, this is serious, like push out how my feet feel, push everything else to the side,
like be present with this person.
Right. And went like with that gentleman, I wasn't I wasn't like, oh,
I'm going to solve your problem right now.
It was like I cannot solve your problem.
That is internal work that you need to do.
All I can do now is say, hey, man, you're worth more than this.
You do not deserve this kind of treatment.
I don't really know what's going on.
I don't know the whole story you do.
Like I'm it's up for you to decide what's best for you.
Here is someone that can help.
And that's, you know, I gave him the bigger than the trail card.
Like contact them if if they ask, like, let them let them know that Ranger sent you.
Not that it would really change.
It's not that they're going to make it more free, you know, but I don't know, maybe like have him
feel like there's more of a connection to it, you know.
And that's one of those things like I will never know if he actually reached out.
I will never know if he got the help he needed or got out of that situation.
So I guess to answer your question, like, I don't know.
It's like a lot of the time I'm on almost autopilot when I'm walking.
But in certain situations, it's like something triggers it and kicks me out of it.
And it's like, OK, focus, be here.
You're here right now.
You know, well, I mean, I did you expect for this for your walk to have this effect on people?
I guess not really.
I wasn't expecting like that kind of stuff in person.
I mean, I guess what I hoped more so was like through the online stuff,
I talking about mental health or talking about hospice or et cetera, et cetera,
which I do think I could do a better job about.
Like, maybe that's what I need to do to like, you know, raise money and talk about like talk about
those causes more specifically.
But no, I don't think I would have thought that I would.
I mean, I guess I wasn't really expecting to see it in person, you know.
You're probably more concerned about leaving the smog behind.
Yes, definitely didn't want to bring that with me.
I don't know if you're being serious.
I'm like, dude, like, but.
But yeah, no, it's it gets heavy and there's definitely lighthearted moments, but there's there's been some heavy stuff.
And I'm like, I don't know how I'm supposed to.
Field this one, but.
You just kind of do the best you can.
I think also people, if I were to not say it 100 percent perfect, like, and they caught onto that,
I think that they'd also be forgiving enough to understand, like,
I think that's the thing about mental health.
And they caught onto that, I think that they'd also be forgiving enough to understand, like,
oh, this guy has, you know, mush for brain from the sun and his dogs are all beat up.
And yeah, speaking of dogs, how are your feet doing?
They hurt today.
Are you having calluses formed yet?
Yeah.
So you're like.
So all of the above, right?
It's been rough.
So I don't have any blisters right now.
I think I had one on the top of one of my feet a few weeks, a couple of weeks ago.
It started to form.
So what I did was I shaved that area, like with a razor blade, like got the hair out
and I put a blister bandaid over it.
And then within a few days, it was like totally fine and gone and like whatever.
I just took my shoes off from today's 38 mile track.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Yeah, dude, I'm in pain.
And like curling my toes kind of hurts a little bit.
Like I can definitely feel it.
I haven't really looked at them a whole lot, but I can't imagine standing up from this
table to go shower when we're done in whatever 20 something minutes is not going to feel great.
The toenails falling off yet.
One is in the process of falling off.
Well, your friends at home are betting on to see how often the toes, the nails fall off.
Who's betting on it?
Oh, you know.
Is it just you and Trevor?
No, I mean, I know.
Oh, I told Brett and Brian in our group chat with the boys, they should start just,
you guys should just start making bets on my suffering.
Um.
Yeah, I have lost actually three pairs of sunglasses since I've started.
I don't know why that is on the thing I wanted to talk about right now, but it is frustrating
because I bought a three pack so I would have it the entire time and I've lost all three freaking
pairs, dude.
So I don't know, maybe that's just the thing that I'm suffering with the most right now is
the sun in my eyes.
And your body is falling, literally falling off of you and you're like my sunglasses.
My sunglasses, my three pack of my seven dollars for three pair of sunglasses from Amazon,
sunglasses are gone.
Whatever will I do?
But yeah, no, so yeah, one of my toenails is in the process of falling off.
Which one is it?
Do you have like, you have like specific bets on the toenail?
I should do one of those like charts with your toes on it and like every time a toenail falls
off, just put an X through your toe.
Have you seen this thing where it's like, like old people like cross off and like people in
their yearbooks from high school whenever they pass away.
It's like that, but with my appendages, it is the index toe on my right foot.
So you're sick and to in?
Sure.
Oh, that one causes me some trouble every now and then too.
I can see what happening.
What the hell is wrong with you?
What are you doing?
I will say ingrown toenails are the bane of my existence.
The walk or because of the walk?
Both, honestly, like I've always had issues with it.
Actually, almost less now during the walk.
I think what it is is the shoes I'm wearing, like the shoes, the the what are they called?
I think I threw them on the other side of the room.
When I took them off, I'm going to do like a shoe review, I think tomorrow or something
and be like these, these bad boys are primo, but they're like wider toes.
Like it's almost comical how big the toe pad is.
So I think it gives my feet room to move around because I noticed like the little
whatever pair I would get from Costco for running.
It's more closed.
And I think it would like push my feet together and cause issues.
But yeah, I know every once in a while, I'll get like an ingrown toenail and you can feel
and you can't do anything with it during the day, you know, because like, what am I going to do?
Stop dig it out or pop it or what?
And then it's like an open wound on my on my foot, like with all the gross of the day.
But yeah, then I have to like take care of it at night.
And it's like, it's just gross.
And it's like, you know, it's like sanitize and I don't trust myself.
You know, I got time for some stuff.
I don't trust myself.
You know, I got time for sanitation.
Nobody says the guy that like, yeah, the things I do during the day.
You know, I got to my host family's house last night and they're like, you know, they
have like a 17 year old and 13 year old daughter.
And I got there and they're like asking me a bunch of questions like they're curious,
like they're curious kids.
Do you want to go shower, you know, like saving me from a bunch of questions while
I'm standing there.
And I'm like, yes, I would, because I fear I am making your home stinky and I am going
to go shower to become less stinky, not zero stinky less.
Do you still smell after showers?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I think everybody out here is just too polite to actually tell me I smell bad, but I also
the longest I've gone without a shower is maybe 48 ish hours.
So like I've been really lucky to have access to showers very often.
Andrew Kivett, I guess he was he was saying that he went a while, I think Mark did too,
but they were also a lot more of like of the roughing it variety.
And I'm much more on the e-begging side of, you know, places to stay.
You know, Julie and I have the hotel thing, so that helps a lot.
But yeah, so I haven't gone like several days without showering or anything.
So I don't think I'm as stinky as I say I am, but I can I can feel it.
Like I feel like gross right now, you know, your business too.
Ouch. You're like, well, I say I'm used to it, but I did live with you for a while.
Yeah. But but yeah, no, I don't just mad chilling at this point.
Good. How is your diet, your dietary situation?
You mentioned that you got some takeout today.
I said earlier when we first got on the call, you're looking a little skinny.
Yeah, I have not weighed myself in a while.
I do know that about two and a half, three weeks and I was I was down like 13, 14 pounds.
I definitely have lost some weight.
If anybody wants to get on my program, let me know.
It is one thousand dollars per month and I will walk you through it.
But I'm step by step.
But I'm. And I won't even remove one of your toes.
And I won't even remove one of your toenails.
You get to keep all 10 of your toenails walk 30 miles a day.
It's going well. I think the biggest thing for me, you know, I
I have my meal plan from Marisol and Mark Coach Mari.
And I'm trying to follow it as close as I can because she gives, you know,
she gave me like, you know, what vitamins to take every day,
what baseline stuff to eat, this and that. And that was only two thousand, three thousand calories,
which is great. That's the baseline of nutrients.
And the other advice from her was calories, right?
Like whole food still like eat as much real food as you possibly can.
But it's it's difficult to find in some places like real good whole food.
Like I stopped in a gas station the other day and they literally only had processed junk, you know.
And the hot dogs that have been rolling on the rollers for three weeks are not
high on your nutritional list right now.
No.
No. So, you know, I try to eat those as much as I can.
And I have been lucky enough to have a lot of home cooked meals.
But yeah, like I was telling Steven before I went on the Taco Bell app before I got to my hotel
and I went under combos and I found it was like the six dollar Chalupa box or whatever.
I was like, OK, and then I clicked check out and I was like,
maybe I want to add something else.
And I scrolled back down through combos and I found the combo called meal for four people
and I bought it.
So now your boy has like.
Ten things from Taco Bell for 20 bucks.
I'm like, this is a fire deal.
I'm drinking at what a large milkshake from Brahms,
cotton candy or birthday cake or something, you know.
So I'm like, I'm trying to pack in calories because, again, 38 mile day,
I don't even know how many calories that's burning.
But what I started doing during the day and again, I've never felt fatigued or like I
never felt like I wasn't eating enough.
I think if I kept on keeping on with what I was doing those first few weeks,
which was kind of only eating what was directly on that meal plan,
I'm sure would have hit more.
But, you know, I've been supplementing like what those those honey bun things,
dude, I whenever I find those, I've been getting them in the gas station.
They're like four or five bucks in the gas station.
Walmart, they're like a buck 20.
I'm like, I need to remember to like stock up on these because they're like five, six hundred,
seven hundred calories.
Oh, you could be a honey bun peddler.
The honey bun peddler.
I'm just walking across the country.
Hey, kid, want a honey bun like.
Honey bun like.
I'm like the new like cryptid.
Mothman Sasquatch, honey bun peddler, the honey bun peddler.
Yeah, dude.
So it's like.
You know, it hits a point where it's like it doesn't even matter what you eat.
Like I go in there and I look at like when I before I left, when I was like,
you know, I look for protein to count like calorie count.
Right.
And now I'm just like whatever is highest in calories, that's either sweet or savory,
whatever I want in the moment.
And I just chop it down.
And when I was leaving Perryville, I think towards whatever when I was in Perryville,
which is in Arkansas, people gave like one person gave me like
a box of like a little Debbie like snack cakes.
I was like, you are probably the greatest person in the world right now.
I'm like, this is probably like seven, seven, eight thousand calories right here.
You know.
Yeah, so diet, I guess, is good.
Like, I definitely still have a tummy, which is so funny, right?
I'm like, I definitely feel skinnier, but I'm like, I don't feel like I look at to myself.
Which, again, isn't the point.
But yeah, I think it's definitely like more in the face and arms and.
Yeah, I think I still got tree trunk legs, which is nice.
So.
Well, those are definitely not going to go anywhere as you're walking across the United States.
Yeah, no.
I did I tell you guys that last time that I was in a restaurant once and some gal said I had tree
trunk legs and I was like, I have a fiance.
Don't talk to me.
Like, thanks. I've been walking for three months.
Thanks. I've been walking 30 some miles a day.
Yikes.
So before we leave our session today.
Yes.
What are the new projections for when you'll be back in California?
How much longer you are going to be doing this?
For.
So let me account for my next two rest days.
Okay, so with my next two rest days put into the calendar thing, my Excel sheet that Brett made for me, my predicted end is August 25th.
Which means I have 110 days remaining.
I believe.
And you expect about what?
50 ish days now.
I am currently on day 59.
Okay.
So yes, about 60 days in 110 left.
So I'm well over a third.
Yeah, because.
Well, let me look at something really quick.
So for my current location.
To Pismo.
Oh, it's already loading 1746.
1746.
So it depends, because I round up just to make sure I give myself like.
Extra whatever, because my my my miles are only 2800 ish.
Not 3000.
So at the 2800 and knocks it down to my predicted end being August 13th.
So like almost what 12 almost two weeks.
Different.
But I like keeping it a little bit higher for my own projection, just to make sure that I'm like.
Looking at it, you know, on track.
But yeah, I am taking four or five days off in the next couple of days or sorry, I think.
Excuse me.
So it should take me about four days of walking to get to where my Nana lives.
So.
Let's say we account for that, so.
I'm like doing math in front of people on the podcast.
So after I do those days of walking four days in a row of like 30 ish mile days.
It brings actually, I don't think it did it correctly.
I don't know how much is actually matters for what we're talking about right now, but I'm like hyper fixated on it.
So I'm just going to kind of.
Does that work? Yeah, that fixed it. You're like, it's your podcast, man.
You do whatever you don't know what I'm doing.
I actually don't know if my viewers, my listeners are going to be into this.
I mean, your listeners.
I feel like that.
But I feel like the Green Goblin and Spider-Man.
Like, you can't do this.
This is my company.
Well, well, the the.
Board director is a ball. You can't do this to me.
Do you know how much I sacrificed?
So I'm going to take, you know, like four or five days off maybe, and that's going to push me.
Into September.
So yeah, that'll push me into September by the end of my rest days.
Which.
I don't like looking at like.
That, you know, but I also think that a lot of me walking through the hot states, like I'm not going to be wanting to take very many rest days just because it will be so hot.
And I would be aiming to do higher mileage days just to kind of get out of those areas.
So, well.
I don't know, man, how to frickin.
Frick frack, but diddlywhack figure it out, I guess.
But anyway, that's all I got.
Alrighty. Well, once again, it's been a pleasure being back on my podcast and.
You can tune in next week when I have my next host.
It's good to see you.
It's good talking to you and I'm glad you're here.
It's good to see you. It's good talking to you and I'm glad that you're still doing the thing.
I appreciate it, brother. Yeah, thanks for coming on, making me laugh a little bit. I'm going to go.
I should shower and I should finish my.
You can just kind of soak in and like the lizards.
Just marinate in my own gross. No, I'm good. I'm going to shower. I'm going to go to bed.
Thanks, Steven. I appreciate it. Yeah, no. Happy teacher appreciation week.
I hope that the middle schoolers don't make you want to pull your hair out of everywhere.
Today, one of them was throwing those puppets in my class.
Anyway, folks, thanks for listening to the deconstruction of the within range coaching podcast.
Walk Across America update number two edition with your host, Steven Consofid and guest Ranger Keelak.
This is important.
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I'll answer whatever at this point. I don't really care anymore.
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