Appalachian Trail Practice Live Walk and Talk

Appalachian Trail Practice Live Walk and Talk

How’s it going guys Billy blue here I got a internet plan on my phone uh I got that a couple days ago so I could live stream outside now I’ll do some outside live streams before the trail starts I’m uh going to do a long walk

Today get uh I might I’m not going to stream the whole walk maybe a couple hours of it I’m mostly going live to test the internet but we can hang out and chat it’ be cool I got a microphone on the uh on my iPhone so so if if

Anybody tells me that audio is bad I got a shotgun mic Hey Big Ups guys it’s snowing out here hey how’s it going oh yeah shaved the beard yeah shaved the beard hey Arisa in the chat we got a what time is it there in Thailand oh one

More man you guys are fast let’s see here so I’m going to do a little practice walk today yeah I I got an audio U I got a microphone I can show you well it’s just attached to my phone I got a little cord so the audio should

Be better than normal I’ll probably use this you know every time I live stream microphone yeah my appearance changes a lot with beard and hair and stuff so my appearance has changed they I’m 220 lbs but uh a lot of what I gain I I I’ve gained like massive gains the last few

Months every time I’m back home here and it’s it’s mostly muscle I almost got a six-pack I know you guys probably don’t believe me but I can see you know some my stomach muscles I got I got some fat too but I have if you look at me a few

Years ago I had a lot more fat I had a big belly I was skinny so I put on a lot of muscle man I’m making gains that’s mostly what I’ve been doing I haven’t done a lot of walking one it got real cold like it’s 0 Celsius today

Freezing but uh uh it’s not bad but before it was like 10° Fahrenheit which is very very cold too cold to walk in um yeah today it’s just like zero snow it’s actually snoow you can see the snow see the snow but this isn’t bad I don’t

Got gloves I mean I got gloves in my backpack but I don’t really need uh don’t really need it I might need it later I don’t know I brought them just in case so I might do like a 200 mile Ohio walk before the uh man my legs feel good

Good even though I haven’t I actually haven’t walked in a while I mean I’ve done some short walks but I haven’t done a long walk in a while I think it’s all that training I’ve been doing lunges and squats and uh Bulgarian split squats calf raises tibbi Alis

Raises some ab work here and there a little bit probably should work the ABS a little more was that some kind of bird oh no it’s just some leaves am I going to sleep in the Vivie I’ll be sleeping in a tent on the Appalachian Trail you can still bring it

Bvy I I I I I uh I might actually would take the bivy on the trail I wasn’t scared of bears I don’t want to I don’t want to use the bivy anywhere where there’s uh potentially dangerous wildlife even Foxes or Badgers so I’m a little paranoid about

Wildlife in that bivy but in a 10 I’m not worried about it so yeah welcome guys nice to stream you know I enjoy streaming touching base of you guys talking chatting here’s here’s what’s going to be one challenge of the Appalachian Trail you know I’ve done a

Lot of walking but I’ll live stream like 12 hours a day while I’m walking and the lot live streaming keeps me entertained when I’m walking now on the Appalachian Trail I’m not going to be able to stream that much so I I wonder how that that’s

Going to factor but I I’ve done some long walks not live streaming by myself many times so I think it should be fine hey what’s up guys yeah but bear spray is not going to help you when you’re sleeping in your busy you’re very vulnerable laying on the [Applause]

Ground so welcome to America very kind of Stark this is what winter looks like here in Ohio we might do a winter walk for for a couple weeks for 200 miles before maybe like two weeks before the Appalachian Trail this is just a a daywalk 12 15 miles or

So but you can still the bivy actually has uses you can still bring it CU it only weighs 200 Gr so even if you have a tent you could bring it for one you could use it in a shelter they have these shelters every 5 10 miles along

The appalachi trail cuz they built those at a time before people had tents and stuff on their backpack they people just walked and stay in the shelter wasn’t many people doing it that time back in the ‘ 60s and 70s and 50s see you just stayed in the shelters you know uh when

You wanted to sleep and Camp uh but the thing is like it might be too cramped in those shelters to bring a tent so the bivvy actually serves a purpose for that you can squeeze in with a bivvy a lot easier than you could with a fulls size tent tent has a large

Footprint other thing is um a good thing about a Vivy is that adds a lot of this is more for a Colder Weather but if you’re uh in a colder Colder Weather hike a snake check it out dead snake but snake nonetheless some animal probably got it some bird or some

Animal uh if you’re um yeah if you’re in a tent it can add some extra uh uh warm weather rating it’ll keep your warm like so what you do is you put your your your blanket and everything in the bivvy then inside the the tent and that that’ll add

Maybe 5 degrees of warmth to your sleep system cuz i’ I’ve been in that bivy it’s it keeps me pretty warm uh I’ve been in some pretty cold weather and my blanket isn’t really uh suited for very cold but I stay pretty warm in that thing definitely Health it blocks the

Wind and stuff too actually that combined with the tarp will block a lot of wind there two times I camped one time here in Ohio I had like it was a storm that night so I had like 30 40 m per hour winds hitting me straight on

And I was like in a field like this I had no protection and the winds were just hitting me straight on and the the tarp and the bivy combined blocked all it all the wind I was just fine and then the other time same thing in England I

Was in Cornwall I was sleeping on cliffs right over the ocean that was the second night I was hiking it was the only night I really camped there successful night of camping it was a good night too but I had winds coming off the ocean hitting

Me straight on I was fine as long as you got that tarp in over your bivy the tarp blocks up uh 90% of the wind 80% of it and the baby blocks the rest hey what’s up Nitro freak was on his channel I read some of your guys’ comments

Here copy paste in the chat yeah I just got fed up with the beard uh to answer your question about the beard I didn’t like it anymore I just shaved it that was the longest time I had the beard so hey formula duck in the chat Bangkok

Billy uh yeah copper flask is in my uh is in my backpack cuz I have to bring water on these walks you do get thirsty try to read some of your comments as I’m walking I’m out of out of practice this uh live streaming thing

Yeah guys I like I like England I would like to go back there you know as far as like first world develop countries England is a lot cheaper than the United States and um Australia and stuff for travel it’s more on the same level as Japan because the thing with Japan is

You have like cheap options to travel you know you got trains you got hostels and caps hotels and uh you got cheap options there you know and even some budget hotels are only like 40 50 bucks a night it’s exact same thing in England you got like some cheap hotels or 4050

You got hostels you got trains so you can get around that country you know pretty cheap I mean it’s not nowhere near as cheap as southeast Asia Thailand and Vietnam but you know sometimes I like to see and do new things I’ve I’ve been in Southeast Asia a lot in my life

I like to I like to go back to England see more of that uh United Kingdom Ireland Europe I don’t know about other E I think some other European countries are um like I know Ireland definitely is more expensive it’s more Ireland’s on par with Australia United States as far

As travel travel costs in Canada but UK is uh quite a bit cheaper now food is uh food can be a little expensive remember the pound the pound is worth 20% more than the do dollar so that kind of works against you pretty hard but even factoring in the the

Stronger pound it’s still a lot cheaper like the Canadian dollar is very weak you know the Canadian dollar is like 40% weaker than the American dollar and then the pound’s another 20% stronger on top of that yet Canada is like more expensive than all these countries so it’s not always about the

Currency it’s just about like the uh internal economics of the country there’s a lot that goes in factors into different cost regulations and all kinds of things tax structures and I’m still wearing these shoes I bought in uh I bought these shoes in England in bodman Cornwall town called bodman

And bought these shoes from a guy that’s been selling shoes for I think he said night since 1955 he was like in his 80s he sold me these shoes I paid like 80 or 90 pounds for them so they weren’t cheap I’m going to try the only thing I

Don’t like about these shoes is uh they’re a tad too big but uh I I’m wearing two socks hopefully that’ll fix that but they’re Amazing shoes cuz they’re somewhat like weather resistant they’re fairly comfortable and it’s supposedly gortex I’ve actually walked in the water it’s like yeah it’s

Not going to protect your feet completely you know if you submerge your feet in a stream but it will protect your feet from like Splash puddles and stuff you know like Splash and just walking in a little puddle here and there um cuz when I was in Cornwall with

Rio for example Rio beardmore I had my uh H ones on you know there’s no protection like Meed you just get any kind of contact with water in the ground you Fe immediately what now I had wool socks on so it wasn’t a big deal but you

Can wear wool socks and better shoes but see these aren’t really boots but they’re not really like tennis shoes either they’re kind of in between but they got a lot of uh heft and strongness to them so I I might try to use these shoes in the entire Appalachian

Trail cuz a lot of people they get these uh they call Trail Runners they go for like uh you know they say they can last 500 Miles they’re very lightweight shoes designed for like hiking you can even run on the trail you know Hoka ones is one example but there’s other other

Brands many Brands uh Ultra Peaks I think it’s another a lot of people use these kind of shoes but they say they only last like 500 miles and they cost like $150 so I don’t want to spend $150 and have to replace the shoes four times on that trail

That’s $600 right there that’s ridiculous if these shoes can last me the entire Trail which I think they might um that’d be sweet but the the uh the question is if they’re good for you know massive amounts of walking now I did I did walk

Um 25 miles one day in London in these shoes that was pretty good my my hands are starting to get a little cold but we’re going to tough it out yes I got some uh yeah pretty nice shoes see these are the wool socks I got

These wool socks and then I got like just some cheap socks over it I got the shoelaces tied pretty tight but hey big up studi see here 50 years of selling shoes well well he he only had two options but I I told him what I was

Doing I was doing a lot of walking and Hiking I said uh so he got me these weatherproof shoes he said they’re made in Italy and they’re fantastic shoes but uh it kind of more my fault but they’re not like that they’re still suitable uh you know they’re not they’re

Not that uh they’re not to that big but I just can’t call it the perfect shoe because it’s like you know maybe a 10% it 10% reduction and size would be perfect but uh it’s close to a perfect shoe hey what’s up auditing London I don’t need ankle support man I don’t

Need ankle support I know a lot of people like that but I used to play basketball and just I can even play basketball on flip flops I got strong you get strong ankles by doing that if you if you baby your ankles you’re uh yeah you risk a

Sprain but uh that’s the only way you develop those ankle strength I got really basketball is a sport that gives you really strong ankles because you have to move side to side all the time you know like a guy’s driving to the right on defense you’re guarding a guy

If he’s got the ball and he’s moving to the left or the right you’re you’re you’re back pelling right so on basketball you’re like this and you got to go like this so it’s you’re constantly like putting pressure on your ankles so I got like you know really

Strong ankles and achilles heels and stuff just from uh basketball I haven’t played basketball in a while but that doesn’t really once you get that it doesn’t really leave you you know if if you don’t do it for years so I’m not too worried about my ankles

That’s always a threat like your ankles can sprain you can break your ankle you know it’s always the possibility especially hiking hiking too no I’m not uh I’m not doing the appalachi trail until um late March or early April so this is just like a walk

And we’re going to chat we can talk about whatever A lot of my audience if you’re new to the channel I’m I’m a travel live streamer so i’ I’ve traveled a lot of places around the world and live stream but uh my next adventure is the appalation trail but it’s not for

For a little while a month and a half won’t be starting so this is just like a practice walk getting some miles in uh get my legs going I’m in the state of Ohio which appalation Trail doesn’t go through Ohio but yeah we’ll be starting in Georgia at the uh Springer

Mountain hey Manel K Big Ups Big Ups Manel K thanks for the three Canadians thank you thank you man man elk man elk a thank you very much a lot of you guys are live streaming addicts I’ve seen seen you guys all over the place I’ve been watching too much

Live stream myself because it’s been very active on YouTube we got every everybody’s traveling right now I mean we had Jeff travel fun69 I was watching him he went to drove to Texas for like um uh kind of a trucker Meetup got people in Thailand lots of people in

Thailand streaming right now all kinds of uh stuff going on but I had I was spending too much time I had to I had to set that aside I got to get back on uh get back to business here hey what’s up truth Warrior wig

Alert wig alert says I met him In Paya Thailand he’s a very strong Walker it was difficult to keep up with his Pace when I walked with him ah thanks wig alert I didn’t even uh realize that that I was going too fast I was actually going to make a vlog

About like travel news but I’m out here cuz I I have a new internet plan on my phone so I wanted it’s a cheap internet plan I wanted to test it out and uh you know just just nice to stream today too pick up man elk auditing London and the

World looking good like a friendly Incredible Hulk hey thank you for the two British pounds auditing London thank you very much B UPS Chris Cotto says grow the beard back I’ll talk about that in a minute but uh hang on a second yeah think Up’s auditing

London um that beard I had my beard is growing really fast so like when I was in London I had it like trimmed and that that was just in November it wasn’t that long ago and within two months that beard was uh massive so even if I want

To grow it back it doesn’t take that long but I like the uh I I just I didn’t like it that long it was really getting on my nerves after a point I’m still growing my hair out so I’m growing that out have big UPS Big Ups STD we got a Daniel

Ye yeah that’s a good a good trip uh people they have a like a bomb there’s different kinds of products uh there’s a bomb you can bring for uh chafing it’s called it’s when you know like when you’re walking 20 mies a day all day 12 hours you got chafing which is basically

Your like underwear and stuff it’s chafing against your the material is just constantly scratching the side of your skin so you can develop blisters and doesn’t just have to be in your groin area it could be anywhere you know you can get chafing anywhere but that’s

One area is very sensitive to that so so uh it’s that constant abrasion even though it’s very slight over the course of a day you know it can can develop issues so yeah there’s products you can use I mean you could just use old Vaseline or you could use like coconut

Oil I’m not sure I haven’t put too much thought in it like I do have that problem a little bit sometimes but uh I I just if it I just bring some tough acting to acting and then that’s the main thing make sure I always make sure I have that on I’m

Traveling I had a really bad case of Jack it um I was about eight or nine years back about 2015 about maybe 10 years ago I don’t know wasn’t that long ago but I was in Thailand at the time and even went to the hospital try to get

It cured it took me a long time to get rid of that I was trying everything I was eating Garlic and uh putting like oregano oil on it and stuff and I couldn’t get rid of it the thing that got rid of it was and they gave me some medicine in

Thailand that didn’t work the thing that got rid of it was tough acting to actin to get these little blue bottles so if you’re a man especially you could be doing anything you could be doing any outdoor activity if you’re doing any kind of physical activity especially in

Hot weather you can get jockage so that little tube of tactin can uh Save the Day so I always make sure I have some on me when I travel hey uh stee chip inside the game thank you for the 2 lbs thank you very much Stu cheers man is that the real

Stew cuz I know there’s a lot of fake stews make oh it’s got to be the real stew he super chatted usually the fake the fake accounts don’t ever Super Chat big up stew thank you very much orchadia how’s it going we were on live stream with uh

Nitro freak and orchadia for a couple hours I left the panel those guys stayed live for like eight hours um on Nitro freaks Channel I’m going be going back on Ross and rang’s channel uh probably this weekend so keep an eye out for that big

UPS to Ross and rang he’s an expat in Thailand about time you got all that nasty hair off see here hey man cheers Billy love your walks thank you we weirdo in the chat F spotted look out for the Bears there’s no bears in Ohio who’ll be

All right but uh really like there’s really nothing to be afraid of uh in the midwest as far as hiking like there might have been bears at one time in this in this part of the country but they went extinct a long time ago but there’s a lot in the

Appalachians because the Appalachians were never really tamed like most of it’s just mountains and Forest so like yeah there’s towns and settlements there has been since the birth of America but it’s a huge area that’s just mostly you know mostly nature but in this this all area it’s

All farmland and stuff and cities and towns roads it’s uh not really a great place for wildlife most wildli you see is different types of birds like Canadian geese uh let’s see a cardinal or blue jay different kinds of birds hawks they got raccoons squirrels groundhogs any of those kind of forging

Type animals but nothing uh nothing really to be scared of out here as far as animals goes the worst thing you encounter out here is that is a is a dog it’s not a stray dog with somebody’s pet that goes berserk or it just could be a dog with a

Rabies you know doesn’t even have to be a dog a raccoon with rabies can be uh come after you cuz once they get rabies they’re just basically uh they they’re insane and they get real aggressive and that’s how the disease spreads itself because it’s it’s it spreads itself

Through a bite so somehow the disease programs the animal to go bite something or someone so it can keep spreading it’s a pathological virus rabies and if you don’t get if you get bit by something with rabies you don’t get a shot or medicine for it’ll kill you too and

You’ll be roving around like a a maniac and wanting to bite something so that’s a scary scary disease or virus or whatever it is but it spreads through the bite and the saliva into the skin and that’s how it spreads so it turns them it like it

Takes control of the animal rabies and uh makes it mad wiggert said that happened to me yeah it can happen yeah it can happen to anybody I mean they say if you get bit by a dog even if you don’t know if it had rabies

Or not to get a rabies shot so even even if you don’t know cuz you can get bit by a dog it might not have rabies you know probably probably doesn’t but if it did yeah you could be in trouble Richard Donaldson got me on the big screen all

Right yeah but that’s that’s weird how viruses can be huh that can just uh completely take control of the animal so it can propagate and spread hey what’s up ambient wander I haven’t been doing like I said I haven’t been doing much walking I got

Uh sick for like a almost a week not real sick just a little little cold I haven’t really got any sun in two months you know it’s uh this is kind of what you have out here in Ohio in this time of year it’s just a complete clouds and

Kind of I I don’t I don’t mind the win but a lot of people get depressed this time of year I I don’t mind it at all but I I do like to get sun too and uh you know vitamin D and stuff and uh I

Don’t really get that here in Winter I think this is the first winter I’ve spent in a few years because I was uh I think since 2020 cuz I was in Mexico 2021 I think what was I where was I in 2022 I think I was here yeah I was here

In 2022 2023 I was in Thailand so uh yeah but yeah I don’t know I don’t know about winters a lot of people they they they make their travel trip for the year they do it during winter you know December and January but that’s when everybody’s traveling so I kind of like

Low season travel Hey Big Ups blow the ladies a kiss yeah we have a few ladies in the chat Big Ups to Big Ups thank you for the $2 thank you very much big UPS guys hey Kelly cwell in the chat Big Ups Kelly how heavy is my backpack uh right

Now my backpack’s like uh 15 lbs but it’s going to be a lot more than that I I don’t have everything in the backpack I’m going to be traveling with so you can see here got my pack on I got the uh got the copper

Flask got water in there I got a camera on a tripod and uh it’s not a lot right now it’s like 15 lbs maybe but uh eventually it’s going to be 25 30 lb going to need ankle support I’ve never used ankle support for anything man for years I wore nothing but flip

Flops when I was uh living in Thailand you know sandals flip flops whatever you want to call it do I still have the coat I brought in England yeah I got it right here it’s a rain jacket actually I have two uh two coats I brought in England I brought

Like this puffy this is a uniclo puffy this is one I bought on eBay but I also bought like a uniclo vest when I was in London I haven’t been using that much cuz I prefer this jacket but I bought a rain jacket too you guys remember that $200 rain jacket

It’s very good and I got it here so if it starts raining I’m prepared you know wouldn’t be very comfortable started raining in this sort of temperature freezing but it could happen hey Will I am boo thank you uh thank you will um he’s got a question thank you will thanks for

The big ups for the $5 have you researched how we can send gifts to the post office along the way um what I would have to do like I’ll be daily vlogging so you guys will I don’t know if it’s going to be real time though

Like I might be a few days or even a week behind so uh you would have to I don’t know I would like you would have to see where I’m at and then see up upcoming post offices cuz even the rural little towns on the trail have a post

Office and they’ll hold stuff for hikers like if you want to send a bunch of food you know but I think if I if I did that like people would send me too many Snickers bars I would get a delus I would get a delus of Snickers

Bars and really I don’t I I told you guys I don’t even really like Snickers that much I like it on occasion with coffee I prefer other things like pastries and stuff so if I get a box of 100 Snickers bars I guess I could give them to other hikers because everybody

All those hikers eat Snickers but but yeah you would have to like research the post office up ahead of me it could even be like two weeks ahead and sents in a box in my name and uh and they’ll hold it for you like they’ll hold hold the

Stuff darl P says says most Appalachian Trail hickers ain’t actually Appalachian Trail you have to eat whatever you can get your hands on because uh there’s there’s not a lot of uh grocery stores or any kind of store once in a while you get a little Talent with a store and you

Can buy some stuff but you end up eating a lot of junk food they eat a lot of ramen noodles and Snickers bars and you’re also burning four or 5,000 calories per day so you get this thing called hiker hunger sets in you know you’re you’re doing 15 20 miles a day

Walking up hills you get a ravenous app appetite and you just eat anything you get your hands on so yeah trust me they’re eating a lot of mostly eating junk food you know and even when you get to town all they might have is like a Walmart you know you’re lucky if they

Got a Walmart I mean it might just have a gas station or something it’s not like there’s a lot of big towns on the Appalachian Trail the biggest town I think is Damascus it’s only like 15,000 people Damascus Virginia so now there’s some bigger towns if you go off the

Trail 20 miles or something but very near the trail itself there’s very little towns so you kind of have to uh you know buy when you get access to food stock up for four or five days 3 days depending on how fast you’re walking but the appalachi trail of the

Big long trails in America it’s actually the easiest for food the food situation and and water situation is rougher out west there’s two big Trails out west uh the Continental Divide trail goes from New Mexico Mexican border to Canada Border goes from New Mexico to Montana

And a lot of that is uh especially in the southern part of it is is Desert or semi desert like you actually have to get water from uh cuz it goes through a lot of cattle land and what the cattle ranchers do because there’s not enough

Water to to to keep the cows going they have to put these big tubs like these big giant circular tubs full of water and the cattle drink out of that yet cattle still perishes in that sort of environment because you’ll see you’ll be walking on a trail and see like these uh

You know bones of a of a of a cow of a bull or something but so you have to drink this algae nasty cattle water you filter that and uh so the water situation and the food situation is much more difficult out west and also those

You got to go much longer distances a lot of times between towns and stuff it is much more much less densely populated in western United States no it’s just it’s they’re they’re they’re for cattle they it’s like a giant tub if you watch IBT when he did this Continental Divide Trail he start

He start off in New Mexico by The New Mexico border there’s just nothing out there it’s very Aid it’s not complete desert but uh you know they got cattle roaming around there’s enough grass for the cattle there’s not enough water so the the cattle just drink uh all these

Big tubs they got to keep filled up giant tubs yeah so I I uh I sort of wanted to do those Trails like more because I haven’t been out west you know I’ve spent a lot more time in the East than I have in the

West I want to see some new stuff but I think that’s outside of my uh I I would be biting on too much more little under two miles how’s the audio working I got a I got a new microphone s new it’s an old microphone but I got it attached to my

Phone quick audio check yeah so anyway the Appalachian Trail there’s plenty of water CU it’s you know it rains a lot there’s plenty of streams Creeks uh there’s plenty of places you can collect water it’s not going to be a big problem but it’s still something of a challenge

Because you still have to you have to plan like you don’t want to run out of water and there’s not always water available so you got you know like not every sometimes the water sources are five or 10 miles apart you know which is not a lot but it’s

Still you you have to factor it in what you do every day says audio and video looks great well I’m testing out a new uh I’m testing out a new uh internet plan I just got it’s a cheap internet plan supposed to be good that’s one of the reasons I went

Live today testing out this internet and then usually I don’t live stream with a microphone but today I got a microphone attached to my phone uh MTO says three maybe four nights Max for me yeah I really wanted to do the CDT the continent Divi trail that looks

Amazing I mean I just like the the different environments you go through and stuff like New Mexico and you go through Colorado you go through the Rocky Mountains then you’re in Wyoming Wyoming looks really cool it’s like w is the least populated state in America it’s just like I don’t know that vast

Emptiness is just like to me is very uh like you know I don’t know I just it’s it’s it’s uh something I like to see but waming has some uh nice stuff too like they have a mountain range called The Wind River mountains which looks amazing

Like and then you get through Idaho and then Montana that whole stretch looks amazing Pacific Crest Trail also that goes through California Oregon and Washington along the west coast that looks pretty good too but uh the CDT is one I really wanted to to but that’s like the considered the most difficult

Of the three Appalachian Trail is considered the easiest and it’s the shortest like the CDT is 3,000 miles whereas the at is 2200 it’s a big [Applause] difference Kelly Codwell is going live later Big Ups Kelly yeah I haven’t been on in people’s chat you might notice I haven’t

Been in your chat much I’ve uh last four or five days I haven’t been watching a lot of streams because I’ve just been uh I was spending like too much time on live stream so I just had a cut back so I I kind of like tuned everybody out not

Any not any person in in in particular is everybody so if you don’t see me like cuz sometimes you’ll see me when I’m on streaming I’m chatting a lot and other people’s live streams if you’re not seeing me it’s just because I’m just I’m doing other stuff or I’ve tuned out you

Know the live streaming for the moment you know I come back and come back every once in a while check what’s going on but if you don’t see me in the chat for a while don’t take offense or it’s something personal it’s nothing to do with you or anybody it’s just uh just

I’m not trying to not spend too much time on YouTube hey Aaron P Big Ups Aaron thanks for the $2 for giving us content good luck on the trail soon thank you Aaron cheers I saw I think you were on Nitro freaks channel right I think I saw you

Aaron Big Ups yeah we we’ve all all the live streamers been helping each other out like uh so look I’m getting super chats and people from from from his community and Kelly’s so we were kind of collabing I like to collab with more people a little bit you

Know but uh we got a good Community going here you know with the uh whatever you want to call this genre it’s it’s getting bigger and more diverse and a lot of people hey St D big up stew thanks for the 2 lbs used to be called

The thaan genre but I really think it’s becoming more of just a a live stream we got orchadia here you know she’s in Canada she travels around the world we got a lot of streamers and a lot of people we’ve all helped build this community so big UPS to the the genre

Just call it the genre people are calling that anyways hey big up St d man thanks for the two British pounds big up stew thank you thank you stu cheers man uh BB bolty met him in uh exer pick up bolty thanks for the three pounds I was one night in

Exitor England I keep forgetting what’s the name of that County it’s in uh Sumpter or what’s the name of the county that uh the the city is called exitor that’s where the cathedral is but the county is called something else I think Edward Sweeny is from the same Devon that’s

Right yeah Devon I think that’s where Edward Sweeny is from I wanted want to see more of that County cuz you can go walk along the coast there’s some really nice trails and areas it’s right next to Cornwall I just didn’t have uh I was

About to stay in Devon longer but uh I was I was going to walk south along this trail to the river and there was a town there but some reason I decided just to go to London I could have spent a few nights in Deon I should have we’ll have

To go back another time Big Ups Big Ups bolty Big Ups uh stew thanks guys we’re going to go on a hike here I think uh for 200 miles not today but before the Appalachian Trail we’re going to do a 200 mile walk here in Ohio it’s not

Real beautiful it’s just uh it’s nicer in the summer because everything’s green all these trees and stuff boom Nitro freak big UPS man a little support for the trail buddy thank you very much I appreciate that thank you Nitro thank you everybody the super chats hey big up Nitro freak oh

Man yeah I missed your uh birthday stream but I clicked back on it saw it later you had a you were alive for like 10 hours I didn’t know you were alive cuz I wasn’t paying attention at the time and I saw I saw a lot of people on

The panel you had a lot of big panels going for like 10 hours I I I I think Nitro freak runs the longest panels of anybody like he’ll he’ll cuz I I was on his panel for two hours and then they he kept going for like another eight hours man with uh

Orchadia and stuff hey Sr Sr thanks for the 10 Canadians Big Ups Sr cheers thank you Sr cheers guys so we’re doing a little walk here this isn’t really uh you know I don’t know man I like what there’s something that’s I’ve really been getting into

Uh like the science and studying of a physical fitness and muscles and stuff and there’s something really magical that happens with like muscle memory and stuff cuz like you can walk like once you get like you cannot walk for two three months and then you walk and it

Just I I don’t know uh like I’m way stronger of a walker than I was three years ago even if I don’t do it for two months like I haven’t really walked that much for the last two months so it was real cold and also uh I was

Doing a lot of weightlifting and training that way but I wasn’t doing much walking but yeah you don’t lose these things that’s the great thing about training is like even if you don’t have to stop training for a while you retain a lot of the benefits and that that to me is uh

Whether it’s Aesthetics or just a physical aptitude you don’t lose that so you it’s you know even if you don’t train for 2 three months what you did do before carries over I’ve been you lot I’ve been watching a lot of stuff on YouTube about like uh the science of

Uh Fitness and muscle building all that kind of stuff Hey Big Ups auditing London Big Ups Sr hey there’s Ross and rayang I’m going to be on Ross and rang’s channel this weekend I was on his channel a couple weeks ago so he’s going to be

Live uh he said he’s going to be doing a drinking stream so I don’t drink but he’s going to be drinking a bottle of wine he’s going to be asking a lot of uh um Off the Wall kind of questions about anything so make sure you tune in to that subscribe to rosson

Rang well yeah um uh Aaron or who said uh Sage Brush I’m going to be doing camping I’m going to do a 200 mile walk like a week or two before the Appalachian Trail here in Ohio and I’m going to be doing camping then but if

You look at the train of Ohio look at this stuff I mean it’s not it’s not easy to Camp here this is what you see in the summer when I was walking this is all over grown right green plants and leaves you know and it’s like swamps and stuff

And then in the winter it’s not much better you so it’s a little it’s a little easier in Winter I think but this is all just one big swamp you know down here and like same thing over here and over there is a farm you know then then you got like

Somebody’s house or something so this is what you get in Ohio it’s like it’s not a good place to Camp there’s no campgrounds so this isn’t a big camping or hiking state but we got these bike trails which are pretty awesome we got a lot of trails but nowhere to

Camp you don’t want to camp down there you wouldn’t have a good night if you tried camping down there but uh I’m going to do it anyways like I’m going to camp Camp some before I go on the trail well yeah you could camp on a farmer field like that that’s a farmer

Field there but uh you’re risking the farmer coming out and getting mad or something you probably get away with it but like I I had this happened to me in that one walk uh I was camping on somebody’s property it was like a side Trail it was kind of

Weird this was in Southern Ohio so it was like this uh was you had you had the rails of trails this then you had this little side Trail it was like a nature walk or something but it was all private it was this guy old guy like Managed IT

And took care of it so I went down the side trail and I camped there but it was like his private property he woke up in the morning I woke up real early like you know 6:30 or something 7 rise of the uh right Sunrise i w wak up but he was up

Earlier I think he saw me cuz he he saw me leaving the trail he didn’t really say anything but then I had this kind of guy following me and people even were saying once I was back on the main trail people were saying like oh dude there’s somebody following you or something cuz

They keep seeing me behind me it looked kind of pissed off too I even went back looked in the video so I think that might have been his son or something kind of seeing what I was up to what I was all what I was doing I was like

Squatting on their property so I didn’t really realize it at the time cuz it looked like a side Trail but it was somebody’s property so when you camp on somebody’s property like a farm you know you risk running into problems you know and and see here in Ohio it’s like

If it’s not a farm it’s like this so either got this or it’s a farm or somebody’s house there’s 12 million people in Ohio that’s like you know the size of uh the size of uh like Ireland and Scotland put together there’s a lot of people here you

Know and a third a third of the state is Appalachian Mountains over nobody really lives over there so everybody’s kind of condensed into a small part of the state the Eastern Third Estate is like Appalachians you know where they had that oil spill uh that or that chemical

Spill a year ago East Liverpool it’s called that’s by the Ohio River like nobody lives over there there is some industry and stuff some steel factories and some coal mines but it’s just a rough it’s pretty poor area you know it’s kind of like West Virginia that

Third part of I’ve been through that part of the state but uh yeah there’s nothing over there you know there’s some little towns and stuff a little bit but now if I was walking through that part of the state I probably have a lot more places to camp that’s just like

Walking through the Appalachian Mountains it is actually part of the appalation mountains that part of the state continuous continuous with uh West Virginia and Pennsylvania it’s the Ohio river that separates the two but only a third of the state is mountains then or Hills and the rest is all like densely populated

Farmland or east pales that’s it yeah East Palestine um why there is a town called East Liverpool I don’t know why I got the two mixed up yeah was that bad chemical spill yeah that’s all pretty rough uh it’s just that whole that whole area

Like along the Ohio River it’s a lot of industry it’s just like various like chemical Industries and it’s a lot of uh like like like uh they do a lot of frack in there so it’s very environmentally it’s not even though it’s not very populated it’s not very environmentally

Uh nice like can you drive through West Virginia like you go through there a highway that cuts through it and you go through the capital Charleston it’s not a very big city but West Virginia is not a very populated state to begin with but all you see is these big chemical

Factories and stuff and the reason they went there is no other states wanted them so they you know West Virginia had always had a bad Economy based around coal mining they didn’t have much jobs so the government welcomed them in but it’s kind of the same thing with uh you

Know Eastern Ohio that stretch and parts of Pennsylvania too that whole Ohio River stretch like once you leave Cincinnati you go further towards Pennsylvania that whole stretch is uh yeah it’s kind of kind of rough poor it’s poor it’s trailer you lot trailer parks people are very poor a lot of

Drugs you know Fentanyl and stuff and uh and like decaying Industries decaying little towns yeah West uh there is there is a town called East or West Liverpool but yeah Ohio is like the fifth or sixth biggest state in America there’s uh it’s California Texas and Florida surpassed

It but for a long time Texas and Florida were smaller than but anyways it’s it’s now like there’s 30 million people in Texas Texas is huge cuz I looked it up when Jeff was there some of the stats but uh you know for a long time there

Was only 5 million people on Tas so it’s just all cattle land back in the 50s and stuff but uh farms and stuff but uh yeah the biggest state is California then Texas then Florida then New York then Illinois then Ohio so the sixth biggest State Illinois because of

Chicago there’s not much in Illinois outside of Chicago area it’s just mostly farmland and then New York was for a long time the oh Pennsylvania is sixth I think Ohio is seventh yeah I think Pennsylvania is just ahead of Ohio so it’s like sixth or seventh but for a

Long time in American history New York was the biggest state Pennsylvania was the second and Ohio and Illinois were like tied for third those are the those are the three or four biggest states like throughout the 19th century a lot of the 20th century too there was a time even

Indiana was like the sixth biggest state like back 100 years ago you wouldn’t think Indiana is a it’s actually geographically pretty small state but it’s just densely settled you know a lot of little towns and hey Mark diesel Big Ups thanks for the five pounds Big Ups

Mark Mark diesel links for the five bucks we got a lot of nice uh super chats today 50 $50 in super chats a lot of people contributing thanks Big Ups but um yeah for a long time Ohio was the third biggest state right behind uh New York was the biggest in Pennsylvania

So three in a row three states I think California maybe surpassed it in the 40s or 50s I don’t know in a long time there wasn’t a lot of people like back in 1900 there was only 100,000 people in Los Angeles so it it was an amazing boom

City uh in the 20th century you know there wasn’t that many people San Francisco was actually a lot bigger there was a lot more back then there in that city than there was in LA that’s why you know San Francisco an older City but the state as a whole

Didn’t even have that many people but it was booming in the 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s that’s why the Civil War people look you look at a map of the Civil War like the South looks like three times the size of the north because the north all you have is New England which

Is like really small states like Massachusetts and Connecticut then you got New York State and Pennsylvania and Ohio that’s pretty much it and Indiana too because Michigan back then and Illinois they weren’t very settled like there wasn’t much people living there were some but there were some farmers

And stuff so it was pretty much like five or six states and then you look at the South it’s this giant all the way from like Texas Florida Virginia yeah we they’re ass in the Civil War because uh you know we had all the industry all the

Trains I me they had some trains in Industry too but they were not nearly as developed their whole economy was a slave economy based on agriculture and stuff you know whereas North didn’t have any of that we were much more prosperous and developed and uh much more organized military they were actually supposedly

They said the South was much better like the generals were a lot better they had these genius generals like Napoleon type generals uh lee I think his name was so they were like and they were like on Horseback they were really you know tough dudes but like we were just come

In on train with like 100,000 troops who got to kick their you know kick their ass so it wasn’t a you know they they they they never really had a chance the South against us cuz that that’s a huge geog to conquer that’s like going into Russia

What the the union did the United States north in the Civil War was the same thing as Germany going into Russia the same land territory had to be conquered remember because when Germany was trying to attack Russia they had to go that’s a huge land mass huge distance to cover

And they couldn’t do it but the union you know back then the entire population of all the United States was only 35 million back then in the 1860s so but that was was just even at that point we were such a industrial Powerhouse that and really just on the

Cusp of what we were going to achieve in the next 50 60 years you know the Golden Age of the the West I think was really you had you had a few wars in the eight in the middle of 19th century you had the uh the Caribbean war with UK and

France against Russia that was in the 1850s you had uh the formation of Germany and Italy in the 1860s so you had these major events in the Civil American Civil War you had all these big events in 1850s and 60s a lot of turmoil

A lot of Wars a lot of chaos a lot of change of society but once that was over between the 1860s to like the 1930s until the Great Depression before World War II that was like the world Golden Era of uh of America and Europe and Industrial and uh economics and just

Growth and everything you know it’s like I mean you look at New York City like pictures of it in 1870s and you look at pictures in the 1920s when they’re building the Empire SC all these amazing skyscrapers and stuff it’s a completely different place and it all

Changed just within 50 years and that was just one city of many you know the same transformation happened in Berlin happened in small cities like you know Chicago well Chicago was bigger than Berlin but you know happened in even happened in London and London was the

Most uh biggest city in the world at that time yeah New York City is uh you know the Heyday there’s a lot of times I think you could have lived there and had a really liked it like uh and and even been broke and lived there like I think

The 80s were good early 90s but there was a lot of crime they had the crack crack epidemic and stuff it was but it was was a cheap actually in the ‘ 80s New York was cheap you know it was a cheap City the’ 70s were kind of cool and maybe back in

20s and then uh you know Paris had its times London so all these cities but the the problem is yeah they they’ve kind of just been conquered by Capital so it’s uh you know all this money flew into the real estate and it’s not just people moving there it’s not everybody that

Lives there has a lot of money A lot of people are just living day by day they make yeah they might make like 70,000 a year but that just gets them by you know and that expensive environment but yeah these there’s just not enough like all these CI they developed in a

Very particular time frame so there’s not like new cities so the supply is basically fell behind the demand there’s a lot of people that want to live in these cities and do business and travel there there’s just not enough of them you know these big kind of megapolitan

Cities so that’s why Paris and London are the most and New York are the most touristed cities in the world there’s but there’s has been a new New York created in the west or a new Paris created those were all created 1002 200 years ago the new big cities being

Created are places like Jakarta you know DCA Bangladesh but nobody wants to go to those places maybe maybe Bangladesh you want to get there but you know there’s there are new cities but they’re in the third world you know and even then like with the population growth kind of

Stagnated so like there hasn’t really been a lot of the last big Bo urbanization was in China the last 30 years that was really and there’s some in the third world but even the third world organization has really petered out maybe only in Africa a little bit in the

Middle East and cuz there’s populations growing pretty good in the Middle East right now and Africa too but the last big urbanization push was in China and that’s already now their their population is declining and they got ghost cities of skyscrapers that they build all the stuff during the boom and

Nobody ever lived in them you know hey Big Ups to the super chats guys uh thank you very much go Mark diesel I I have a strong tolerance for the cold you see my it’s 0 degrees out here it’s actually this is snow flying by me but it don’t bother me

Man I have I have a good tolerance for both heat and cold cuz I was I was living in a fan room in Thailand during hot season last March in April I did move out of the fan room cuz my fan broke but I I was in there for a good uh

I was that room for like 4 months but in December and January in Thailand it’s not very uh I mean it’s it’s warm but it’s not hot it’s like high 70s 80 maybe in daytime low 80s that’s was pleasant actually very pleasant but it starts to get really hot in February it changes

Quick cuz you only have two months like their cool season is like 80° the rest of the year it’s either rainy season or very hot season so I was in there during hot season I didn’t really bother me that much man I wasn’t there was days it

Was like 98 Degrees every day almost 100 and I was living in that room and fine the fan was enough keep me uh keep me I had a big ceiling fan that just flew around really fast and uh that was enough cuz it cooled down at night a

Little bit and got down to 80 at night so high 70s 80 at night 100 in the daytime am I worried about poison oak or poison ivy some people are very sensitive to uh that stuff I had an uncle who was very sensitive to poison

He get these breaks like of poison o and Ivy but I’ve never had it so I don’t know if I’m that sensitive to it poison sumac is another one you will get them all one day see him he look like a cauliflower you know he just had this

Big uh all this this poison poison ivy poison oak but I’m sure I mean I could get it but the main thing I’m worried about the Appalachian Trail is uh not really that much worried about it but it’s ticks like tick are just just to pain in the ass like so

Uh cuz those can give you Lyme disease a lot of people actually get Lyme disease like there was a guy I was watching last year who likked the at he got Lyme disease like all he had to do he had to go to the hospital and uh he got some medication

But that’s something that can affect people more than others so some people get Lyme disease really bad some people just get it you know it’s not that bad they take some medicine you don’t know how bad it’s going to affect you it’s better not to get it at all you

Know but you get it from ticks and there’s loads of ticks out there in those woods uh Nigel no I don’t have the big bag of rice I just have a normal kind of backpack KK’s travel and education Vlogs Big Ups Big Ups KK think that comes from the Nitro free

Crowd I think I seen them there he Big Ups yeah we like I said we got a good community of live streamers you know everybody from uh Jeff travel fun 69 orchadia the guys in Thailand right now like wander and uh Big Shot travel and be Moran Jonathan North we got guys

That do you know like streamyards like Nitro freak and you know stude and uh Club fillers there’s just a big it’s a really big audience like it’s a big Community with all sorts of live streamers some do an IRL some doing you know more like chat kind of like a

Community chat type stuff and panels and it’s it’s all it’s all Loosely connected like you know when Jeff does his thing Trav fun 69 he’s he could be in Canada or America doing the trucker stuff but you’ll still see people from our community but he’s got

His own thing going too with all these truckers like a a whole new audience I I might get a little bit out the appalation trail I might get a lot of new people to the appalation trail so like we could actually all expand this community too in

Genre it’s kind of it’s kind of a weird down though with all these uh people coming from different areas you know different directions yeah roson rang he’s uh he’s he’s getting in live streaming there’s literally like uh 50 to 100 different streamers Loosely connected travel streamers uh IRL streamers streamyards

See I could probably camp in there somewhere that’s not too bad in the summer you wouldn’t be able to it’ be too much you could clear a campsite there but if you camp there it’s some Farmers field that’s a problem you know I mean you could it depends sometimes it

Depends how close their houses that looks like a pretty big farm sometimes the house is like right there see you know if you’re just back in the corner but you know a lot of times those Farmers they get up early they know every square inch of their property so there’s a good chance

Even if you’re there in night they’re still going to see you they get up early in the morning you know they they probably won’t get mad but you know you never know you could get one get real mad come out with a shotgun or something get off my property

Trespassing even you who knows s stick the dogs on [Laughter] you yeah orchadia she has she has her own following developing so there’s people that like are in her streams that I haven’t seen anywhere else there’s uh but like recently we had these two guys Kelly Codwell and Nitro freak they

Had their own sort of community and audience and they really like kind of just smash join together with the Thailand genre like so like not everybody goes in that deep you know like so they’ve like but I think that’s a good thing that and that’s one of the reasons I wanted to go

On their Channel and kind of give them some promotion and uh because I I think the more the marrier you know the uh when you got a when you got a community a YouTube or social media Community it’s just only two three people that are four people kind

Of carrying it that’s that’s not good the community could die out really quickly but when you got like 30 people that’s a community built to last you know anybody if I can like help out any new streamers or Nigro freak is not a new streamer but he’s you know like I

Said he’s in another kind of thing so it’s Kelly so whether it’s an old older streamer that’s been around for a while nitro’s probably been on YouTube longer than me but whether they’re another Community they’ve been around for a while or they’re new all allog together somewhat

New you know I’ll help out anybody uh needs a shout out or uh or wants to do a panel or anything like Ross is getting into Ross is been on YouTube for a while but you know he’s he he’s getting in YouTube for the fun

Of it and stuff I’m going on his uh panel some Hey shinoki Big Ups uh thanks for the two what currency is I I forgot what currency that is I think that’s Swiss yeah big up shinoki thank you very much yeah there’s no there’s no competition on these YouTube streets it’s all the

More you the more of a community you have the better everybody does everybody thrives like I think some people like there’s a thought to be competiting competing for like donos or Don but man if you get into that that that’s a very vicious mindset so if like where you

Want to control people who who super chat or what like your your Super Chat thing the way you got to look at it it’s just a free-for-all you know like sometimes people come in they donate to or $20 sometimes they don’t and uh you don’t think much of it if you try to

Start like well how come this guy hasn’t donated me in a long time or something you start thinking like that that’s a very bad you know you got to get that out of your head bad mindset it’s just uh you know you get you get some bucks

Here and there as you as you live stream but it’s just a free-for-all and also as a streamer don’t really it’s not a good idea to promise don’t make don’t make like uh your your super chats contingent on doing things like like okay I’m going to

Go to bar and I want I want you guys to Super Chat me to ring the bell a bunch of times you know let’s go have a party if you do that that’s that’s like a trap don’t do that so like it works both ways you know people super chat whenever they

Want and the streamer does whatever he wants to do he’s not controlled or manipulated by the super Chatters so that’s it’s a then it’s a beneficial you know it’s a beneficial for everybody but if the super Chatters are trying to control the content or the the trying to

Control the person or vice versa the the the the guys trying to control the super Chatters that’s not it’s not good for either either either people you know involved that’s my take on it but the the the live streamer can kind of set the tone and and dictate that you know

If he’s on his channel where it can get it can get toxic quick depending on what the live streamer does this is something I’ve learned over four years so I did have a little bit of that where like hey you you guys can ring the bell you know

In the bar you know send a super chat I did when I first started out I had some of that but I uh I I immediately saw it was kind of a problem I veered away from that and now we have a good sort of live streaming ecosystem where you know

Everybody’s on the same page now like we can do things to try to grow the community outreaches uh we can all whether you’re a smaller or bigger streamer because you know the community only grows through our own our our own efforts so we what we can do and I think

Everybody does kind of in some way grow the community but you also have a rate of attrition and this is true whether you’re a vlogger or a live streamer like people might tune in like this happens a lot with travel streamers like they might go to some country they get like a

Lot of excitement a lot of new people tune in but then 80% of those people have end up tuning out they don’t or they just don’t really come back they forget about it and it’s not really on their radar like even though they may still be subscribed to the channel uh

It’s very casually maybe not even big YouTube Enthusiast to begin with so there’s a rate of attrition as well so even if the community is growing with new people you got people following by the way there’s people I haven’t seen the chat for two three years you know a

Lot of people so it’s it’s uh yeah it’s there’s a goes up and down hey Ash thanks for the two bucks two British pounds thank you Ash cheers Ash thank you very much some of that depends on the content like people got to be entertained like uh but that’s also like content means

Many things to different people some people just like to relax and have a YouTuber CH in the background chatting they’re not paying much attention they’re on their computer they’re driving a truck you know and they just want to that’s like kind of like listening to the radio so content means

Many different things to many different people that’s why the more streamers you have the more diversity of streamers the more there’s something for someone there’s there’s there’s something for everyone you know the more uh there’s some guys doing wild crazy content in Thailand right now drinking like drama

With with bar girls and stuff and there’s other people just doing casual travel and walking down the streets or some people chatting there’s some gossip channels so there’s a little bit little bit of everything going on right now but I think we can get a lot better I think

We could uh grow this community a lot more all right guys uh this a nice little u high Billy Sonia from Nitro liked And subscribe hey hey Sonia how’s it going all right guys I’m going to focus on walking it’s just a quick little stream we got a nice audience

Here nice super chats it was nice chatting with you guys I’m going to I’m going to get some walking in here this is the first time I’ve walked in a while so I’m going to probably try to walk uh at least a couple times a week in addition to weight weightlifting

Weight training and then before I do the appalation trail I’m going to do like a two we perhaps 200 mile live streaming across part of Ohio just to kind of really get strong trail legs before I I want to get really strong my legs they call them Trail legs

Like when your legs are really in shape for long distance walking and a lot of people they just get it on the trail as they start but I like to have my trail legs before I get on the trail I don’t have now Trail legs is basically you got

Trail legs you can walk 15 20 miles no problem like but I don’t have that now I kind of had that in London when I was walking around England for a month I was starting to get good trail but I want to try to get that before the trail and

I’ll probably be streaming as well but that could be a few weeks off and then the appalachi trail should be starting in about 6 weeks or so I’ll see you guys uh Big Ups talk to you later peace out thanks for the super chats

Billy Blue working on getting trail legs back in shape for the upcoming Applachian Trail, just 6 weeks away.

I firmly believe that one can travel as a minimalist, Cheap Charlie style and have a great time. For those of us who love to travel, the joy of it is the new experiences, exploring new places, meeting new people, experiencing difference cultures. To do these things a lot of money is not required, in fact by spending a lot there is the real possibility that money can get in the way of these things. I keep my backpacking ultralight, bringing as few things as possible so I can also explore and move around as much as possible. I do a lot of walking on my travels.