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Favoriting April 25, 2022: Paul Salopek is walking "Out of Eden" and around the world

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Today: Paul Salopek is walking "Out of Eden" and around the world

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• Last week's audio has been corrected. Listen to it here. (The original glitchy live version will enter history as legend...)

Elon Musk and Twitter Reach Deal for Sale (NYT today, April 25, 2022): glad to say I haven’t logged in since last week’s show.

Links to Paul Salopek

Out of Eden Walk (on National Geographic's website): “Paul Salopek’s 24,000-mile odyssey is a decade-long experiment in slow journalism. Moving at the beat of his footsteps, Paul is walking the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age and made the Earth ours. Along the way he is covering the major stories of our time - from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival - by giving voice to the people who inhabit them every day. His words, as well as his photographs, video, and audio, create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news. In this way, if we choose to slow down and observe carefully, we also can rediscover our world.”

From this post by walking partner Yang Wendou in Yunnan province, China (January 19, 2022): “Looking back on the more than 200 miles I walked with Paul, I came to an unexpected realization. Walking for its own sake, while healthy and admirable, is only a small part of the benefit of moving with our feet. A deeper reward is rediscovering the world around us, shortening the distance between each other, deepening mutual understanding, and sharing each other’s cultures.”

About Paul Salopek: “Born in California in 1962, Paul Salopek was raised in central Mexico. As a writer and journalist, he has traveled to more than 50 countries and earned most of America’s top print media awards, including Pulitzers for his reporting on human genetics and the civil war in Congo. In his past lives, Paul worked as a commercial fisherman in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, mined gold in Australia, and managed a ranch in Mexico.” See also Wikipedia.

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Listener comments!

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DanFA:

I am currently in talks with Station Manager Ken to buy WFMU for $666 trillion dollars. I will begin to institute ads every 15 minutes and require all DJs to play Limp Bizkit's epochal anthem Rollin' once per show. You will also have to pay $10 a month to listen to the station and create yet another account to access it.
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chresti:

Hi!
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TDK60:

I'm going to walk this one off. Hi Mark.
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dreamyandseedy:

really excited for this interview with Paul!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Mark and all!
  6:01pm
Rolando:

Morning here in Oz. Hello friends.
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sbw:

Hello from Los Angeles! Do I delete all my Twitter accounts now?
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Handy Haversack:

Mark and all the Techyon Drives! Very glad to be here!

Hey, chresti, TDK60, DanFA, James, dreamyandseedy, all!
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DanFA:

@sbw you should've already
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ultradamno:

Mark! Techtambulators!
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DanFA:

Glitches and pops make the show sound like an old timey radio show.
  6:03pm
David in London:

Evening Mark and all Technoids.
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herb.nyc:

Hola. Tuning in live; heard last wk’s 3 hrs ago. Gotta be chronologic.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

With Mark Hurst, listening is a snap! Hello!
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Handy Haversack:

I have an NFT of last week's original audio for sale. Shall we start the bidding at US$2 trillion?

ultradamno!

David! How have you been, me Runza?
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ultradamno:

Hiya Handy, DiL!
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DanFA:

@Handy sold
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alanSixº:

hi yall - glitch free show ahead
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-жеи:

Love the chipmunk voice Mark!
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tim from washington:

Hi Mark! Hi folks! I'm very excited about today's show.
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ultradamno:

I think the tech was finally sick of being badmouthed and fought back
  6:05pm
David in London:

Hello Handles. All good ta. Been away for a week’s holiday, so back feeling zesty and in high spirits. How’s yourself?
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Franco Twinkie:

This I like!
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-жеи:

just kidding. i DID enjoy last week's chipmunk voice. Acorns!
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herb.nyc:

Wotta walk! Let’s hear what he has in his samsonite.
  6:07pm
David in London:

Ultradamno, Tim, ahoy!
  6:07pm
Dean:

He *has* to stop in Solvang!
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Will the Sound Guy:

Hi Mark and all!!!
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tim from washington:

How-do, DiL!
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Sonderangebot:

Long-distance walking is an underrated way of traveling!
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TDK60:

I wonder how many borders he has to cross.
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Franco Twinkie:

I loved In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. He just walked around in South America, but he ate all kinds of disgusting stuff I seem to remember.
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tim from washington:

@Franco - Have you seen Herzog's doc loosely themed on Chatwin's walkabouts?
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Franco Twinkie:

Dean, it's the law. You MUST stop in Solvang.
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herb.nyc:

I emailed Olivia 10’ ago:

Oops, yr show is about to end. And I JUST tuned in. But I wanna be part of the world when outside. I listened to music on my WALKMAN (bk then) but quickly learned I was uncomfortable. Anyway, mark hurst is on now…
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Franco Twinkie:

No I haven't Tim. But I'll put it on the list of movies I'll probably never watch.
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Mark Hurst:

Here's my interview with Steve Elkins about his documentary "Echoes of the Invisible" from December 2021: www.wfmu.org...
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herb.nyc:

Q- did you consider riding a bicycle instead? (I’m half serious)
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Handy Haversack:

Hanging in, David. Passport renewal dispatched, so the dream of seeing you in the Smoke this year is not quite dead!

The internet just happened to go out at work this morning on the day that I wore my Techtonic shirt. Coincidence? I bet SOMEone wishes they'd got off Google before now!
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🇺🇦 Ike 🇺🇦:

@DanFA@6:00, LOL
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Mark Hurst:

@Ken yes I need to give some credit to the chipmunk-voice section of last week's show! Pure entertainment.
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Mark Hurst:

@Handy that's a powerful T-shirt
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Handy Haversack:

Mark Hurst: can't wait to get the new one so I can shout at the Phone Drones, "This is YOU!"
  6:15pm
David in London:

I’ve got the kettle on already Handy.
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tim from washington:

@Handy - The internet did the ol' "call in sick" ruse instead of going head-to-head with Mark.
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Mark Hurst:

@Handy I'll certainly be thinking that as I walk around...
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herb.nyc:

Ok. He answered my question. But if Paul rode a bike, we’d all totally understand
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Franco Twinkie:

Herb.NYC. Walkman can be dangerous. I had mine on driving thru Big Sir. I thought heard something funny and finally realized I was throwing a rod in my Volvo.
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Sonderangebot:

5km that's a brisk speed!
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Webhamster Henry:

This sounds like a fantastic project!
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Mark Hurst:

@Webham it really is. It's linked at left, but here's the direct link to the Out of Eden site - fascinating posts & photos: www.nationalgeographic.org...
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Handy Haversack:

I think about that quotation about the speed of information absorption a lot.
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TDK60:

Walking through the Middle East might've been daunting. All those wars or recent ones.
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joe mulligan:

even hiking vs. biking you see everything around you completely differently. things are your front of your eyes that you'd miss at 15mph on a bike vs 3mph walking
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MarciB:

We found the film Paul was in (Echoes of the Invisible) so fascinating - so pleased to hear this interview. Thanks @Mark Hurst!
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Mark Hurst:

@Marci glad to hear it!
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Mark Hurst:

@joe mulligan so true
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Webhamster Henry:

On foot, the dogs bark at you longer than on a bike.
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Franco Twinkie:

I'm a troubled person so I walk around a lot.
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joe mulligan:

hahahaha Webhamster Henry!
  6:22pm
Tom from Stirling:

3 miles an hour is kinda slow, isn't it? When does Paul plan on finishing this trek?
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herb.nyc:

“Moving faster”- I only recently realized you can speed the talk rate on a podcast. Tried it. Didn’t like
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joe mulligan:

@Tom I bet with all the elevation gains factored in, that keeps the average at around 3. e.g. hiking in the Adirondacks 3mph is a fast clip
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Handy Haversack:

Sitting is the new (old) smoking.
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Franco Twinkie:

I regularly walk around The Rose Bowl in Pasadena. It's 3.3 miles. It's enough for me. After, I always want to drink coffee.
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Webhamster Henry:

Related: Go seek out the book Stranger In The Forest by Eric Hansen: he walked across Borneo through forests where all the natives themselves had rarely encountered each other, much less have some white person walk through their territories. www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
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tim from washington:

Handy - Stop sitting while I'm smoking!
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ultradamno:

I'll believe that when there's no sitting allowed in bars
  6:25pm
Dean:

I practice extreme sitting.
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Sonderangebot:

Another great book about walking and gifts - A Time Of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Takes place in Europe right before WWII.
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arb:

Shout out to Eric Hansen's "Stranger In The Forest: On Foot Across Borneo" one of my favorite travel books
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arb:

Oh hey Webhamster, you beat me!
  6:27pm
Tom from Stirling:

Love this idea of Walking. People rarely walk anymore. If they do walk it's for a cause. They want you to give them money. For the simple act of walking.
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Mark Hurst:

"A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson is a good walking book, too. (on when he hiked part of the Appalachian Trail)
  6:27pm
Dean:

Shout out to Missing Persons?
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herb.nyc:

There’s the book by a city college of NY person, who walked on every street in nyc
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Webhamster Henry:

@arb it is indeed stranger and stranger!
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arb:

WH, I visited him at his house a few years ago, kind of a super fan
  6:29pm
The Butterman:

This guy is my hero!
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Franco Twinkie:

Rebecca Solnit wrote a great book about walking around. She's not always making shrill pronouncements, sometimes she's enjoying herself.
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Webhamster Henry:

@arb [jealous] what did his sneakers look like?
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arb:

empty kleenex boxes
  6:30pm
Tom from Stirling:

Mark, "A Walk in the Woods" is a good book. Yes, was thinking about that book too. Good old AP. You meet some cool people on the AP
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chris in the redwoods:

here for the second-hand sitting.
Mark, loved that Bill Bryson book. enjoying this conversation very much!
also, hellos all around!
  6:30pm
Dean:

I suspect Paul understands that another message of his project is that Earth isn't all *that* big. An individual can circumnavigate it without technology to speed it up artificially.
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Franco Twinkie:

I like to walk around and look at front yards.
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TDK60:

Franco @ 6:29- Hee. I got those walkin' blues too.
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Mark Hurst:

@chris hi, thanks for joining!
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joe mulligan:

since we've moved to the burbs, whenever we arrive home in a car the cats are watching us from the windows, they look at us like we came via spaceship because when we were in Brooklyn they could see us walk to the walkup
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Webhamster Henry:

Walking is good, I used to just walk around foreign cities not really knowing where I was going (although I have a pretty good sense of direction) Best was walking around Budapest in the dense fog: people speaking an unknown language, hearing snatches of pop music, and the smell of gulyás.
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ultradamno:

I've been stopped by the police for orderly walking on more than one occasion
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WR:

Considering the significant life style / life choice to be on this multi-decade journey. Equal to going to Mars or some such journey.
  6:34pm
Tom from Stirling:

Ha! Walkers are suspicious.
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Webhamster Henry:

Don't get me started on car culture.
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alanSixº:

two very good friends are on massive, several month hikes right now - one is hiking the florida trail, 1000 miles, the other the arizona trail 800 miles
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Sonderangebot:

I was scolded last week by a government employee because I do not know how to drive at 40.
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Zinn The Mood:

Hey folks. Catching snippets, and loving it.
Has anybody mentioned Thoreau’s “Walking”?
Seems to me many of my favorite historic writers deeply value and use walking as a way of facilitating the creative muse.
Great conversation!
  6:36pm
Dean:

For some reason I'm reminded of Reyner Banham's marvelous book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
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Franco Twinkie:

I walked from Maxwells in Hoboken to West New York in the snow. I got to my friends house at six in the morning. It's one of my favorite walks in my memory.
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TDK60:

When I go back to my old suburban town just to walk around, the cops show up, look at me as if there's something wrong. Hee.
  6:37pm
MKT in Inwood:

I remember a "run around the world" which took place in the 1980s. Or almost did. They started in Europe heading East and had made it all the way across North America and then, in New York, had all of their photos and film stolen from their car. It's a formative memory of the Bad Old Days in New York.
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joe mulligan:

car culture is strong. once the government mandates self-driving and/or EV cars there will be a "motorists lobby" that will emerge to "protect their freedoms" of driving combustion engine vehicles on their own
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arb:

women walking alone get extra suspicion as well as pity
  6:39pm
Dean:

"A journalist walks into a bar in Uzbekistan..."
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Franco Twinkie:

Webhamster - walking around in Budapest is a special kind of weird. I loved it.
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joe mulligan:

@arb, truth! we saw a woman walking by herself in Marin and first someone rolled up to ask if she needed help, then someone said "she's probably a picker" (weed bud picker)
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Many abandoned railroad lines are being turned into rail trails for walking and biking.
  6:41pm
Dean:

Closing tune to this program, something by Scott Walker?
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Webhamster Henry:

@Sonderangebot I only learned at 46 , my sister (and kids) never learned.
  6:41pm
GC in Baltimore:

very cool about memoirs from the 19th century American west—the way that natives knew their way around based on the geography—directions and destinations are spoken of in terms of rivers and hills etc. Makes me wish for a modern set of maps that emphasize this, and deemphasize roads.
  6:41pm
gauche knee:

Fantastic talk, reminds me of friends zine “ The Long Walk Back to Myself”. https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/1834?wholesale=1

She’s currently working on Richard Hunts’ (Sesame Street puppeteer who was openly gay) official biography.
  6:41pm
Tom from Stirling:

There's an effort to create a hiking trail across the U. S. coast to coast. Sections are already complete.
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Webhamster Henry:

The Empire State Trail has been open for a short time - a little isolated compared to this kind of walk, but in theory you can walk to Buffalo or the Canadian border on it from NYC.
  6:43pm
P-90:

If you grow up in Manhattan, you grow up a little bit insulated or apart from the car culture that reigns elsewhere in the country. Walking remains a more “natural” activity wherever you go, whether for recreation or just to get to a destination.
  6:43pm
The Butterman:

Where does he sleep?
  6:44pm
MKT in Inwood:

Perhaps he's leaned to sleep one hemisphere at a time, like a dolphin?
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chresti:

San Francisco is a good walking town.
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Webhamster Henry:

@P-90 when I was in NYC, I walked all the time - rarely even took subways, busses, or taxis.
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Zinn The Mood:

Of course the great irony (surely not to folks here) is that many people believe the suburbs are “better for you.” But health-wise the most walking suburbanites get is generally walking from the front door to the car in the driveway to the store and around then back to the car and into the house again.
City dwellers probably walk a few miles a day (I try to make sure I do).
  6:45pm
castor:

I’ve walked so much when traveling I gave myself toe arthritis. I never learn lessons about getting good footwear.
  6:46pm
MKT in Inwood:

Lots of experiences with having to walk to from places where I'm getting a car serviced; makes you realize how large the distances are and how in many places there are simply no sidewalks -- and sometimes grading and landscaping covers only the roads. In Maryland, I almost rolled down a hill while climbing an embankment between two shopping plazas.
  6:47pm
P-90:

Yeah, let’s “end on a hopeful note” FOR ONCE
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ultradamno:

@chresti I imagine the hills train you well...you could go to Kansas and outwalk anyone
  6:48pm
Dean:

I don't believe that suburbs are "better," but I do feel they get a bad rap (setting aside the racist foundations). I grew up in one. I spent a lot of time on foot focusing on its patterns, luxuries, attractions...
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Franco Twinkie:

Me too Dean!
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Webhamster Henry:

Even biking is a very different experience from the isolated experience of motoring. You feel the hills (even more than walking), real weather, and have a real sense of place.
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chresti:

ultra, yeah it can be a workout.
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Zinn The Mood:

Webmaster Henry, is there a good link for the Empire State Trail you speak of?

As a family we quite enjoyed the Mohawk Trail when we were upstate for a bit after the pandemic hit.
I’m very intent on getting my young children to embrace and look forward to walking, around the city and on trails, as much as possible.
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ultradamno:

It Follows taught me walking in the suburbs is how the sexcurse demons get you
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dreamyandseedy:

If anyone wants to hear more interviews with Paul, there are several over the course of his walk where he talks with Anna Maria Tremonti. I just love the way he speaks so clearly.
www.cbc.ca...
  6:51pm
P-90:

Give us his FACEBOOK PAGE Mark?
  6:51pm
Dean:

I disagree that a walk around the world is "not scientific." Of course it is. It's a source of data. What makes it scientific is the rigor of control applied to it in the service of description and, perhaps, generalization.
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dreamyandseedy:

such a great interview, thank you Mark!
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chresti:

The problem I have with suburbs is lack of public transportation.
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Franco Twinkie:

I use to ride my bike to work when I was sixteen. I got so much shit from the cops that my parents let me take the car. It was a great thing. After that I could stay out all night.
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Webhamster Henry:

@Zinn : here you go! empiretrail.ny.gov it makes a detour to go over the Walkway over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie, snakes up through Kingston, comes bacK over the Rhinebeck bridge
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tim from washington:

I hope the outro music is "I'm Walkin'" by Fats Domino.
  6:52pm
Dean:

Well, shoot, chresti, you should walk.
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Webhamster Henry:

Thanks for the reality check today, Mark & Paul?
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DjLorraine:

Literally walking the walk. Thanks for the info.
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Fredericks:

This has been such a positive and inspirational interview. I feel a little less gloomy and a little more hopeful.
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joe mulligan:

that's crazy Franco!
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alanSixº:

cant wait to send this archive to my friends on their long walks
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Dale Bozzio: No one walks in L.A.
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Handy Haversack:

That last point of hopefulness is a great reminder that we don't live in the "Anthropocene" (that glib phrase that elides consent) but the Capitalocene -- where the few thousands of people who will kill for profit are the determinors of the world we have to deal with and correct. "We" did not do it, and it was not done in our name -- but it's time to take back the agency that allows it and make hospitality the rule of the land.
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TDK60:

Happy Trails, Paul. Thanks, Mark!
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chresti:

Thanks Mark

Dean, I did (and hitchhiked) when I lived in a suburb of Santa Maria, but you're right.
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Webhamster Henry:

I used to bike 4-5 miles to college, was the only one awake at those early classes.
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Zinn The Mood:

Empathy…
Empathy and compassion are the twin engines of society.
So relieved that my kid’s 1st grade teacher talks frequently about empathy.
Thanks all - really great stuff!
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Franco Twinkie:

I guess I'm going to take a walk now. It's still ninety degrees outside, but I don't care.
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Blobs:

Excellent interview, Mark - thank you!
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tim from washington:

Very enjoyable conversation tonight Mark! Thanks for connecting with Paul.
  6:54pm
Dean:

National Poetry Decade, goddammit
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joe mulligan:

great interview Mark! thank you for always drawing out excellent discussions
  6:55pm
P-90:

Wendell! Great choice.
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ultradamno:

@Tim I was thinking The Way I Walk by Jack Scott
  6:55pm
Tom from Stirling:

This show was so cool. Thanks, Mark
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Mark and Paul! Another winner, Mark. Another mitzvah. Many thanks!

Stay Toniced, Technoids!
  6:56pm
Dean:

Recently read Freud's Civilization & Its Discontents. Worth rereading, folks.
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arb:

Awesome interview, thanks Mark!
  6:56pm
Quinn02:

Thank you Mark! Great show!
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chris in the redwoods:

thanks, Mark!
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Franco Twinkie:

The other night I threw my phone on the kitchen table so hard I broke a dish.
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Zinn The Mood:

Literally out for a walk now!
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Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone! Great discussion tonight.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks for walking us through this, Mark. Time to drive to the gym, circle the parking lot several times to get a spot by the door and do a mile on the treadmill while I check up on news and email on the phone.
  6:58pm
P-90:

I’m often out walking while listening to FMU…
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Will the Sound Guy:

Thank you, Mark and Paul!!! Be well everyone!!!
  6:58pm
Sam:

Wow! This was an insanely awesome show Mark. Thank you from a fellow walkaholic!
  6:58pm
David in London:

Thanks Mark.
Night all.
  6:58pm
Rolando:

Thanks, have a good week.
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Joe McG:

I see what you did there! :)
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Ken From Hyde Park:

*and pick up a cheeseburger on the way home.
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Fishtown Mike:

Great show, Mark! Thanks!
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Mark Hurst:

@Joe you got me :)
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Zinn The Mood:

This is about the only version I can take of this song.
15 yrs ago playing in a Celtic Rock band throughout the metro area drunk lads would be pestering us about not playing it.
Pretty good , or at least more tolerable.
  7:00pm
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Thank you so much, Mark Hurst for your generous interview with Paul Salopek.
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Mark Hurst:

Thanks, @?
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Webhamster Henry:

This theme could actually make for a nice regular hour long show. I live in a place where if I walk out the door, I run into neighbors, but even a few blocks away, the only time you see neighbors is when out shovelling snow. The isolation predates electronic attention grabbing, but it's obviously lots worse now.
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Mark Hurst:

Another good book about a walking journey I'd recommend: "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry," by Rachel Joyce.
  3:29am
Listener Abroad:

Check out:

https://www.walksydneystreets.net/

Many of the photos on this website were taken as Alan Waddell, 94,
walked every street in 292 suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
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