B&T Extra: Greg Warren Warren Report on the Appalacian Trail

Summary

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The BOB & TOM Show Extra: Greg Warren Warren Report on the Appalachian Trail

Date: May 20, 2026
Podcast: The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
Featured Guest: Comedian Greg Warren
Theme: A comedic and informative deep dive into the Appalachian Trail

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Episode Overview

This episode of the BOB & TOM Show Extra features comedian Greg Warren delivering his signature “Warren Report” on the Appalachian Trail. The hosts and Greg mix comedy with surprising facts about the legendary hiking route, exploring its challenges, history, quirky traditions, infamous stories, and more. The banter covers everything from challenging terrain, "trail names," odd local history, and even fugitives living hidden on the trail. The tone is lighthearted, playful, and rich in both laughs and trivia.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Appalachian Trail Basics

• Length & Location:
  • The Appalachian Trail (AT) stretches for 2,193 miles, from Georgia to Maine.
    • “2193. That is the amount of miles, goes from Maine all the way down to Georgia.” — Bob Kevoian (09:21)
• Through-Hikers:
  • Each year about 4,000 people attempt a "thru-hike" (completing the entire trail). Roughly 1,000 succeed.
    • “About 1,000 people make it. Wow.” — Bob Kevoian (09:31)
  • Only 22,000 people have ever completed the full hike.

2. Trail Experiences & Logistics

• Duration:
  • It typically takes 5-7 months to finish a thru-hike; record is 41 days by Karl “with a K” Sabbe (from Belgium).
    • “Five to seven months. You have to be real fast. One guy did it in 41 days. That’s Carl Sabby. He’s a maniac.” — Bob (09:58)
• Overnight Stays:
  • Not hotels, but “hostels and huts and lodges” exist along the trail, mostly managed by 31 volunteer clubs.
    • “It’s managed by volunteers, 31 clubs. The main club manages 266.8 miles.” — Bob (10:34)
• Terrain & Challenge:
  • The northern section is more difficult; hikers face rugged mountains and variable weather.

3. Culture & Customs of the AT

• Trail Names:
  • Hikers adopt nicknames — usually bestowed by others, often due to quirks or mishaps (“Crash and Burn,” “Skippy,” etc.).
    • “Usually a trail name is given to somebody by their fellow hiker and is often something they do that they mess up.” — Bob (12:40)
  • Hosts joke about what their own trail names would be (e.g., “Quitter,” “Ruiner,” “Crier,” “Shin Splints”).
• Sign-in Logs & Recognition:
  • Hikers often sign logs at various points. There are places (e.g., at Genevieve Hutchison’s house) where finishing hikers sign guest books and can get a drink.
    • “You can go to her house over in Bald Mountain, Massachusetts, and she’ll give you a drink and you sign the guest book.” — Bob (19:21)
  • Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” book/movie is discussed as a famous comedic account of the AT.
    • “The movie was Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, and Bryson quit, I think, about 40% of the way through.” — Bob (19:49)

4. Danger & Intrigue on the Trail

• Wildlife & Hazards:
  • Rattlesnakes, copperheads, moose (in Maine), bobcats, black bears, and especially ticks (Lyme disease) threaten hikers.
    • “Nine percent of AT hikers have Lyme disease.” — Bob (16:00)
• Crime & Odd Tales:
  • About 10 murders have occurred along the trail; the infamous “Bismarck” fugitive story comes up:
    • “James T. Hams, he embezzled $8.7 million from a Pepsi bottling plant and then took to the trail… Everybody thought he was a nice guy…” — Bob (17:51)
• Historical Oddity: The Hanged Elephant (Irwin, TN, 1916):
  • “They hung an elephant… Murderous Mary was part of the Spark Circus and killed a man. The townspeople got real mad so they hung the elephant.” — Bob (14:59)
  • This leads to banter about the macabre spectacle.

5. Funny Moments & Memorable Quotes

• On Hiking Difficulties:
  • “Even the Proclaimers quit halfway through.” — Josh Arnold (13:47)
  • “Because they only walk a thousand miles.” — Bob (13:51)
• On Preparation:
  • “You gotta not only have endurance and be strong, but you need to have balance. They said one way to do this is go put on a big backpack and walk on a balance beam.” — Bob (16:37)
• On Trail Customs:
  • “Some of the nicknames I saw were Maple, Tin Man, Belch, Seeker, Skippy — there’s a guy I’m not hanging out with.” — Bob (12:21)
• On The Dangers of Mosquitoes (Lyme Disease):
  • “Man Lyme disease. 9% of AT hikers… that’s what they call people that are in the know at the Appalachian Trail, nine percent… have Lyme disease.” — Bob (16:00)
  • “It’s no joke. Remember Daryl Hall had Lyme disease. It was debilitating.” — Greg Warren (16:16)
• On Movie Adaptations:
  • “Bill Bryson wrote the book, A Walk in the Woods... It’s about him attempting to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend. The movie was Robert Redford and Nick Nolte…” — Bob (19:40)

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Notable Quotes & Speaker Attribution

• About Trail Culture:
  • “Usually a trail name is given to somebody by their fellow hiker and is often something they do that they mess up.” — Bob (12:40)
• On Endurance:
  • “I think some people do prepare, some people don’t.” — Bob (13:42)
• On Local History:
  • “They hung an elephant… Murderous Mary was part of the Spark circus and killed a man and the townspeople got real mad so they hung the elephant.” — Bob (14:59)
• On AT Dangers:
  • “Lime disease. 9% of AT hikers... have Lyme disease.” — Bob (16:00)

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Segment Timestamps

• [04:42] — Greg Warren joins; banter about careers, TV, and comedy.
• [08:45] — Greg introduces the Appalachian Trail topic.
• [09:21] — Trail stats: distance and number of hikers/finishers.
• [10:34] — Trail management, accommodation details.
• [12:03] — Trail names; hiker nicknames; fun discussion about what their nicknames would be.
• [13:42] — Preparing physically for the trail; hosts joke about "the Proclaimers."
• [14:59] — The hanged elephant story in Irwin, TN.
• [16:00] — Most dangerous things on the trail: ticks, Lyme disease.
• [17:51] — The “Bismarck” fugitive story.
• [19:21] — How to document/verify your AT hike; Genevieve Hutchison’s house.
• [19:40] — Book/movie adaptation ("A Walk In the Woods").
• [20:23] — Closing out the AT discussion; jokes, goodbyes.

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Tone, Style, and Chemistry

The episode maintains the usual BOB & TOM Show blend of irreverence and fascination. The cast riff off one another quickly, mixing obscure facts, playful roasting, and classic “dad humor.” The chemistry between Greg Warren and the regulars is easygoing and sharp, with comic tangents and running gags (trail nicknames, “the Proclaimers,” futility of hiking with heavy packs, etc.).

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For New Listeners

This episode delivers everything BOB & TOM Extra promises: a funny and surprisingly educational dive into an unlikely topic. You’ll walk away knowing more about the Appalachian Trail, laughing at its odd stories and traditions, and enjoying the crew’s back-and-forth camaraderie.

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Skip recaps of ads, intros, and outro chatter—jump to [04:40] for the start of the podcast’s real conversation.

Transcript

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[Unidentified Storyteller]

Hi Bob. Hi Doc. True story. This guy is coming out to Whiskeyville crossing the Whiskey Desert, which I'm sure you're familiar with. Heard many great things about it. Well, he's been out in the Whiskey Desert. On his way to Whiskeyville for some six months. All he's got are a couple of camels and. And his supplies. Well, he's been out in the desert, like I said, for six weeks. He's starting to get just a little bit horny. In fact, one of his camels is a female. And she's starting to look pretty good to him. Well, at night, he sneaks up behind her, his better judgment lost to lust. She swings her head around, gives him a little nip. Well, he decides he's not gonna do it. About four months later, he's out of control again and starts thinking about that camel. You know, she. Camel swings her head around and bites him. Better not do this. Anyway, he heads back on the trail and he sees something funny off in the distance. He arrives at the scene. He finds a young lady buried up to her neck. He says, what happened to you? She says, well, I was buried up to my neck by some engines. Zoe digs her free, and she's standing there looking real tasty. She says to him, I'm so grateful. I'll do anything for you. He goes, really? Well, could you hold this camel's head for me? It was an Armenian, obviously. Rather unusual request. Well, that concludes our true story from the Old West.

[Tom Griswold]

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[Bob Kevoian]

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[Tom Griswold]

It's the man in the Otis Elevator hat. Comedian Greg Warren. I was watching on the TV the other night. Greg.

[Bob Kevoian]

Hey, Tom. Hey, guys, how we doing?

[Josh Arnold]

Hi, Greg. Great seeing you, buddy.

[Tom Griswold]

You know.

[Greg Warren]

Good to see you. You know, Tom loves your show, but he also loves the fact that he can say things like, it's on ABC television. Yeah, that's something he can put on anchor in.

[Tom Griswold]

Don't you mean Wednesday night on abc? Nate Bargazzi.

[Greg Warren]

Or anytime at all, Wherever you are and whatever. Any. Whatever you're streaming.

[Tom Griswold]

Watch this. Watch this. In the role of Derwood Kirby, it's Greg Warren.

[Greg Warren]

Derwood Kirby, the sidekick to Gary Moore, everybody. And that is Gary Moore. Carol Burnett.

[Bob Kevoian]

How about that chick? You know how I end my. My sets now on stage. No, I. I throw down the mic and I say, check your local listings.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, baby.

[Josh Arnold]

Do you ever give it some spice? Like check your local list?

[Greg Warren]

That's right.

[Bob Kevoian]

Well, I never thought of anything like that. That's very good, that. That man ought to be in television. And I know, you know. Now.

[Josh Arnold]

You guys do a great job. Greg, you, Nate, Julian McCullough. He's real. He's real good.

[Tom Griswold]

The best stunt. They did a thing in which you know how when you go grocery shopping, you have the cart and they've got the cart corral in the parking lot and it's always, how far can I go away?

[Greg Warren]

We all do it.

[Tom Griswold]

By the way, part two of this, and I don't know if you mentioned this, but never park next to the cart corral because you got it. Some joker 40ft away shoves it. And then you have to get a new light for your car where they knock out the brake lights.

[Greg Warren]

Do you remember that was a campaign for the PGA Tour not that long ago? They had.

[Bob Kevoian]

Oh, wow.

[Greg Warren]

They had the. Pushing the carts to see if they get into the crowd farther. And the tag was, these guys are good. Or something like that.

[Josh Arnold]

I have become. And let me. You guys can call me as crazy as you like.

[Greg Warren]

You're as crazy as a loon.

[Josh Arnold]

I have become a cart corral.

[Greg Warren]

Okay, go ahead.

[Josh Arnold]

A cart corral organizer.

[Tom Griswold]

I.

[Josh Arnold]

If I.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

If they have the small card in

[Bob Kevoian]

the large part,

[Josh Arnold]

I do some. I move some things around. It's like in a progressive commercial. I could have the doctor.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes. Yeah.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yes.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Very good. Very good. Yeah, I do that too.

[Josh Arnold]

You do all. You do it also.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay. We don't have to, Tom. We don't have to.

[Tom Griswold]

No. Do you have a technique for loading the dishwasher that's also a little bit anal retentive?

[Josh Arnold]

A little bit anal retentive? I mean. No, I have Very specific.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay, me too. Now, Greg Warren, what's the latest with your life? Everything going great? I know you had your great homecoming show. I heard great about it.

[Greg Warren]

I hear great. Thanks.

[Bob Kevoian]

Thanks, man. Yeah. Thanks, man. Yeah, it was pretty awesome. I did. Before I do have a topic today, but before I do, I'd like to say that, you know, Bob was very, very good to me. I still remember two or three times. Once when he emailed me and then once once in the showroom when. When Bob stood up after a bit. It was maybe the greatest moment of my life. And then. And then doing a live show one time he came up and talked to me. But one of my favorite things that I remember about Bob was when. How upset he was when Tom got one of his favorite dishes at a restaurant. Discontinued broccoli cheese.

[Tom Griswold]

Broccoli cheese soup. I had no idea that Bob liked it.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Absolutely true.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

That's a true story, my friends. And you're the first one to mention that since the sad death of Bob. I'm sorry.

[Bob Kevoian]

He was this. I was in the studio when this was revealed. Was not Happy about it at all?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

You.

[Greg Warren]

You still can't believe that whole scenario, but it's absolutely.

[Bob Kevoian]

It happened, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yes.

[Bob Kevoian]

It's incredulous. Bob was not happy about it, man. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

I didn't realize that was his favorite,

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

but it was somebody's favorite.

[Greg Warren]

That restaurant eventually folded. It's no longer there.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Bob Kevoian]

Sorry.

[Greg Warren]

I'm sorry.

[Tom Griswold]

But once again, Greg Warren comes to us with a topic that typically most people don't go deep on, but. But Mr. Warren chooses to. And what is our topic today, Tom?

[Bob Kevoian]

It's the Appalachian Trail.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh.

[Josh Arnold]

You ever been on it?

[Bob Kevoian]

I have not been on. You've been on it, Josh, Maybe. I think.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, I've stomped around.

[Bob Kevoian]

Just wandered around over there.

[Josh Arnold]

Around that area.

[Greg Warren]

Just tells you how exciting and important it is.

[Josh Arnold]

I mean, I love the Apple. The Appalachians.

[Tom Griswold]

Are you a lap Appalachian or Lapalacha?

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, I'm a latch. All day.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah. 2193. That is the amount of miles goes from a main all the way down to Georgia. Wow.

[Greg Warren]

I had no idea.

[Bob Kevoian]

4000 people try to hike this thing. The distance they're called through hikers. 4,000 people every year try to do it. About 1,000 people make it. Wow.

[Greg Warren]

Huh.

[Bob Kevoian]

Apparently. But there's only about 22,000 people that have ever made the whole deal.

[Josh Arnold]

About how long does it take?

[Bob Kevoian]

Four or five months. Oh, wow.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Yikes.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah. Actually. Actually, I'm sorry. Five to seven months. You have to be real fast. One guy did it in 41 days. That's Carl Sabby. He's a maniac.

[Josh Arnold]

That's a weird Kenyan name.

[Bob Kevoian]

Belgian, actually. Josh. S, A, B, B, E. Carl with a K. Are there hotels all along the way?

[Greg Warren]

No, there are some hostels and a Bucky and.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah, there are. There are. I didn't get that. There's like hostels and huts and lodges. So, yeah, you can, you know, you're going to do a lot of camping, but you can get a break.

[Josh Arnold]

Wow.

[Bob Kevoian]

But I think you have to. These things fill up pretty fast. It's managed by volunteers, 31 clubs. The main club has manages 266.8 miles. That's the biggest club. But they sort of. They're the ones who clean it up and take care of it.

[Josh Arnold]

You never think about it going all the way up to Maine.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah. Right.

[Greg Warren]

No. Is this a thing like. You backpacked across Isle Royal, right?

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, I did a.

[Greg Warren]

Would you have thought of doing this, the Appalachian Trail or.

[Tom Griswold]

I would never in my life have had that kind of time.

[Unidentified Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

How's the cell phone Service, I would

[Bob Kevoian]

imagine you get some here and there.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

There. Yeah, I wouldn't.

[Bob Kevoian]

You are going through towns on this thing, you know, not. Not every day, but you'll hit.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You know, you're good to mention that because I. I picture desolation and when I hear trails.

[Tom Griswold]

But can anybody. Can you sort of at random do a couple days, or do you have to sign up and have a permit?

[Josh Arnold]

No, you can go just do a small segment.

[Bob Kevoian]

Sure.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, yeah, I do that. Certainly.

[Greg Warren]

Can you do it in bits and pieces like do every other weekend?

[Josh Arnold]

Is Greg frozen? His zoom is frozen.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah, he's frozen.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I found him emotionally on.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah, right.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

At some times.

[Tom Griswold]

That's a good angle, though. He looks like a superhero.

[Bob Kevoian]

Lost you guys.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. Yeah. We are making fun of you.

[Bob Kevoian]

Oh, I got it. Yeah. Okay, guys, I lost you for a second there.

[Tom Griswold]

We're back.

[Bob Kevoian]

Was it pretty good? Oh, yeah, it was great. You know, when you go. When you travel on the trail, if you're a through hiker, often you take a nickname. Oh, yeah. Basically, these people, they. They sort of want to react. They want to adopt a whole new personality. We're out there. Some of the nicknames I saw were Maple, Tin Man, Belch, Seeker, Skippy. There's a guy I'm not hanging out with.

[Tom Griswold]

Do you create a jerk? You create your own name. Or do you have to pick it out of a hat? Or do you have a. Oh, this

[Bob Kevoian]

is a great question, Tom. Usually a trail name is given to somebody by their fellow hiker and is often something they do that they mess up. Oh. So if somebody, a couple of people, knocked over a stove and started a fire, they were crash and burn.

[Josh Arnold]

Gotcha.

[Bob Kevoian]

So. So any of you guys know what your mine would probably be? Quitter.

[Greg Warren]

Well, actually, we found one for Josh today.

[Bob Kevoian]

Is that right?

[Greg Warren]

He is known as the ruiner.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah, Greg.

[Josh Arnold]

I'm very capable of ruining any given thing or moment.

[Bob Kevoian]

Oh. Any situation. Yeah. Everybody just, well, you know, it's time to go home.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Mine would be crier.

[Bob Kevoian]

Crier. Yeah. Crybaby.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Come on.

[Bob Kevoian]

Crybaby.

[Josh Arnold]

Mine would at least be shin splints.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Are most people prepared for this? They physically fit if you're gonna walk, what is it, 2,000 miles?

[Bob Kevoian]

Think I. Yeah. I mean, I think some people do prepare, some people don't.

[Josh Arnold]

Even the Proclaimers quit halfway through.

[Bob Kevoian]

Oh, yeah. Because they only walk a thousand miles.

[Josh Arnold]

Five hundred.

[Tom Griswold]

Five hundred miles, right?

[Bob Kevoian]

Oh, yeah, That's. That's a quarter.

[Josh Arnold]

But there's two of them, so they

[Bob Kevoian]

did very good job.

[Greg Warren]

Nice, nice recovery because you almost ruined that.

[Bob Kevoian]

Ruined that. Yeah, that's a very good.

[Tom Griswold]

So is it pretty? Is it, is it fairly hilly?

[Unidentified Storyteller]

I'm assuming it's the mountain.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yes, it's the Appalachian. They have a mountain range I'm not sure if you're familiar with. Yeah, but, but much more difficult in the north part. Some people go north to south, some people go south to north, as Tom would say.

[Greg Warren]

Greg, let me ask you this. Is this a prescribed path that you take like signs and the suggested way to do this?

[Bob Kevoian]

There's markings all along the way, specific markings.

[Tom Griswold]

Are there stats on people who have disappeared?

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Oh yeah.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Or eaten by bears, I'm sure.

[Bob Kevoian]

I think there's. There's been like 10, 10 murders.

[Josh Arnold]

Sure, sure.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah yeah, yeah. You go through Irwin, Texas. I'm sorry. Irwin, Tennessee. Do you guys know what happened there in 1916?

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

No.

[Bob Kevoian]

Well, they hung an elephant.

[Josh Arnold]

Really?

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

That was on the trail.

[Bob Kevoian]

No, no, no. Murderous Mary was part of the Spark circus and killed a man and the townspeople got real mad so they hung the elephant.

[Tom Griswold]

How do you do that?

[Bob Kevoian]

I. With a crane. And they feel bad about it. They, they have, they've done stuff for elephant conservation since then. But yeah, the.

[Tom Griswold]

Can you imagine the mob as the crane lifted the elephant? Oh, the fecal fountain.

[Bob Kevoian]

I couldn't imagine it until now. Yeah, no.

[Josh Arnold]

He's kind of forcing us to, isn't he?

[Greg Warren]

The elephant's scared. The elephant doesn't know what's going on. Right.

[Bob Kevoian]

This is, this is where I'm out on the, on the, the whole through hiker business. The most dangerous animal on. On the the trail. What do you guys think?

[Josh Arnold]

Rattlesnakes.

[Tom Griswold]

Snakes?

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah, they have rattlesnakes. They have copperheads. There's moose way up there in Maine. Black bears, bobcats.

[Tom Griswold]

But you guys haven't hit mosquitoes.

[Bob Kevoian]

Man Lime disease. 9% of AT hikers. That's what they call people that are in the know at the Appalachian Trail. Nine percent of AT hikers have Lyme disease. Wow.

[Greg Warren]

You know that it's not, it's no joke. Remember Daryl hall had Lyme disease. It was debilitating.

[Bob Kevoian]

I, I can't go for that chick.

[Greg Warren]

No, no can do nicely, John. This is why, this is why Greg's

[Tom Griswold]

Warren is on ABC television night.

[Bob Kevoian]

Don't bring your dog. They say Tom, you were asking about preparation. I read one person said a good. You gotta not only be. Have endurance and be strong, but you need to have balance. They said one way to do this is Is go put on a. A big backpack and walk on a balance beam. Oh, yeah. Dad ruined gymnastics practice again.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Oh, dad, get off my beam.

[Bob Kevoian]

Dad. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

How much guy does it give you a typical weight of the pack these people are carrying?

[Bob Kevoian]

Man, I was thinking, I thought I saw something around £80 they could carry everything. Everything.

[Josh Arnold]

You need to practice with like a. A rucksack and get yourself all prepared.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah, I mean, I, you know, I. I was at the military academy. We had a fairly heavy backpack when I was hiking.

[Tom Griswold]

Didn't you hike? Didn't you get kicked out for changing the word rucksack? Okay, I did not get.

[Bob Kevoian]

I was.

[Josh Arnold]

I have, I have.

[Bob Kevoian]

I was honorably discharged. Get kicked out. I quit.

[Greg Warren]

I'm a quitter. Nobody folded shirts like Greg did.

[Josh Arnold]

Right, Greg?

[Bob Kevoian]

I was very good at it. Thank you, Chick.

[Greg Warren]

You're welcome.

[Bob Kevoian]

This guy, James T. Hams, he embezzled 8.7 million from a Pepsi bottling plant. And then he took to the trail and somebody. He was like a. Everybody thought he was a nice guy out there on the trail. His trail name was Bismarck. Somebody saw him on America's Most Wanted or American Greed. And that's how they wound up getting. But Bismarck was out there hiking the trail for years.

[Josh Arnold]

Nation of rats. We live in a nation of rats.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah, Bismarck,

[Greg Warren]

keep your mouth shut.

[Bob Kevoian]

That's who you have a problem with, Josh, is the people that told on him.

[Josh Arnold]

That's right.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Man was out there minding his own business.

[Bob Kevoian]

Damn right. Yeah, Christy. But yeah, Bismarck, yeah, they liked him out there. He was able to sort of hide. Bismarck e. Could not hide on that trail at all. Exactly. They heard him coming every time. Yes, yes. I have what you need. Just. Would you move through?

[Tom Griswold]

Once again, we're speaking with comedian Greg Warren. The topic is the Appalachian Trail.

[Josh Arnold]

I bet it's gorgeous. I love that part of the country. Especially fall foliage.

[Tom Griswold]

Do they give you a. If you do do it, you become a member of some club. Is there like a pin or a

[Greg Warren]

jacket or a plate?

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

And how do you prove it?

[Tom Griswold]

I assume you check in at the

[Bob Kevoian]

beginning, and there are, like, a lot of places where there's, like, little logs that you can sign in at. There's this one lady, Genevieve Hutchison. You can go to her house over there in Bald Mountain, Massachusetts, and. And she'll give you a drink and you sign the guest book.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, Genevieve Sweet. Yeah, she's there.

[Bob Kevoian]

Yeah. That guy wrote a book about it and they made a movie about it. I like the movie. Bill Bryson wrote the book, A Walk in the woods.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, it's about the Appalachian Trail.

[Bob Kevoian]

It's about him attempting to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend. The movie was Robert Redford and Nick Nolte and Bryson quit, I think, about 40% of the way through.

[Josh Arnold]

I had a great time filming that.

[Bob Kevoian]

Hey, is. Is Nick Nolte in there? Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Bob Kevoian]

Greg, I'm a big fan.

[Greg Warren]

I had no idea, you know, how

[Josh Arnold]

long it took me.

[Bob Kevoian]

I don't.

[Unidentified Storyteller]

I don't either.

[Bob Kevoian]

48 hours.

[Tom Griswold]

At least. It was in English. Now, Greg, we're gonna say goodbye.

[Bob Kevoian]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

On that note, sorry, I really.

[Bob Kevoian]

Congratulations. I hear you got married.

[Christopher (Producer/Announcer)]

I did.

[Tom Griswold]

Over the weekend.

[Bob Kevoian]

Outstanding.

[Tom Griswold]

Thank you very much.

[Unidentified Female Speaker]

Yes.

[Bob Kevoian]

Great talking to you guys.

[Christopher (Producer/Announcer)]

That's it for another Bob and Tom show. Extra. Catch us on itunes, Google play and stitcher for Bob and Tom. Extra. This is Christopher. Take care, everybody.

[Bob Kevoian]

The Hammer ALLEY podcast. An 80s flashback mockumentary. Back in the 80s, there were a

[Tom Griswold]

thousand bands trying to make it in the world of rock. But there was one band that had it all. Hammer Alley.

[Bob Kevoian]

Whatever happened to Hammer Alley? How did they go from top of the rock? I'm looking for a music video. They're a band from 1987, Hammer Alley. Ever heard of them?

[Greg Warren]

To rock bottom.

[Bob Kevoian]

Dude.

[Tom Griswold]

I was born in 1987.

[Bob Kevoian]

Oh, I can't believe he's doing this. Hammer Alley. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.