What's going on everybody? Welcome to the backpacking
podcast as always John Kelly is here with Jeremih Stringer.
The man whose face makes this thing, look a whole lot better
as we had to stare. At me the whole time she went
out immediately. Well luckily since his pockets
they don't have to look at either of us, if they don't want
to, this is true, this is true. All you're only seeing it if
you're on YouTube. So I had this little idea and it
could be a terrible idea. So it is 100% possible that
nobody has ever heard this but me and John but if you're
listening right now I must have thought it was okay enough to
actually follow through. So here goes we have these live
streams on Monday nights and typically we take a little break
around the holiday season gets really busy around Christmas New
Year's and then we hop back in normally end of January,
beginning of February somewhere in there and do the live streams
and I thought Since we're not doing live streams and we
haven't been for a little while, it would be fun to just go
through and laughs have a good time.
Give her opinions, elaborate some on some of the comments
that you guys you leave on YouTube now John and I we answer
all these comments and we have our own YouTube channel.
We try to November was a fail for me.
So if you come in in November, hopefully by the time you hear
hear, Miss your, you got responded to throw that out
there. So I was like, oh no worries.
So we both have these YouTube channels, and sometimes we have
to text each other. These ridiculous comments that
we get, like, let me read one. Let me, I thought it'd be fun to
just go through on this episode. We could read to them.
I've got one that's really bad. Okay, so that I'm waiting till
you read yours. This comment is from my YouTube
channel. Share my Stringer hikes.
Jada this is from That's versus name is Darkness exposed.
Okay. Darkness explode, love this
comment by the way, I absolutely loved his comment and you know,
I don't know who this person is Ivan.
Look at their none of these people.
I don't know. I would assume.
I don't know. Most of them.
The ones that we're going to read, maybe it's some of them.
I do know. Some people, I've met in person
of hung out. We've had a great time and
actually went back and said yeah.
But most of the comments you get, you don't actually know the
people and a lot of the time it's Anonymous and if you're if
you're somebody that watches YouTube I'm not telling you
anything new because you all have access to the comments but
these people can say whatever they want.
You don't know who they are. And you know, in the name of
anonymity. You can literally just say
anything you want, you can you can we make this content and
people can say anything they want about it.
Give their opinion, they can insult you.
They could tell you how ugly I stupid, how dumb your content is
what you look like. They can insult you all that
this person Darkness exposed. I don't know what their real
name is. Just people who like camping and
Hiking are fools. They like taking unnecessary
Chances with situations, which could go Horribly wrong,
thrill-seekers who've got a death wish, and don't know how
to be still now, I will credit Darkness exposed grammar because
it's very well written. Yes, I would 100% agree with you
on that. A lot of the comments.
A lot of the bad ones that we get there, terribly written.
And you can just tell you're like what is what is the deal
with this person? Yes like they're obviously
uneducated or very poor. Trotting spelling grammar Etc
and it feels like their thoughts are not well thought out and
They definitely not considered any other counter argument.
But I just, I just responded with I'll drink to that most of
the time. The best response you can have
for that. Honestly, most of the time, if
it's a bad comment, I just delete it.
You know, I don't give it to the, you know, even a thought.
Yeah. You don't want to take up your
time with negativity and dealing with people that you're never
going to meet in real life, right?
And they shouldn't really affect your life.
Yeah. So buddy.
Way that that's just an example of a funny comment that I
thought you know, I could share but what we want to do is talk
about some comments from the backpack and pocket, some good
and some bad, and some funny and some that are just questions
that we could elaborate and answer could be gear questions.
It could be personal questions, could be anything, but John, you
got one too. So we do live streams.
Yeah, we do them all the time. We do, basically we doing from
January through May, and then we started back up in August, we do
them through the end of November, beginning, December
doing every year. Here and we do now since 2020,
we started doing those in the fall 2020.
Yeah. So we've been doing it for over
two years, and we've become known as the question that
always comes up at the end of our live streams is, do you have
a good group story? Yeah, and so we got this comment
from someone named Fern walked ever.
Real burn, Lon Fern Wog. Okay, I don't know what that
interesting night, but it was another great episode of the
pooping pod. Now, the reason I'm putting that
either. Because somebody we talked about
some different gear things in one of the Q&A video, we did
back in November, Jeff Cheeseman, I don't know what we
were talking about at the time, but Jeff Cheeseman makes this
comment. Watch the series Spartacus and
they show public Trappers that a person is waiting outside the
bathroom with a mop to wipe your butt when finished.
Whoa, what what, why? That's I feel like we're in a
public place talking about this, but Like like what in the world
like that? I'm glad I'm not Roman or wasn't
coming back. Then, let's move that, I don't
think to do with that nowadays, but, you know, Spartacus
Spartacus. Okay, so, so the comments and
the comments, you break up some, sometimes the cabinet's.
Let's hear your next one. Okay, I'm just scrolling through
here. so John, we had a We had a podcast, you where were you?
I think maybe you're on the Foothills Trail and Jason was my
guest co-host. I was supposed to be on the
Foothills Trail. Yeah, yeah.
So, in that episode, I don't know if you heard or not.
I'm pretty sure that we've got to talk about it on there with
you as well but we're talking about Fireballs.
Yes guy, yes, did you see? Yes, so you saw that part.
Okay, so this oh my goodness. This is also from firm.
Vlog isn't really another comment from firm.
Well, perfect. Okay, so firm long must be from
around here because it says, I was out at Hanson's point or it
says that Hansen's, which is a location in the Red River.
Gorge. John absolutely loves it is.
My happy place. Fern wand says I was out at
Hanson's during the perseid meteor shower, one year and my
brother and I were toward the top a crew of four to five guys
were down at Tip of the point. I wasn't I wasn't looking at.
I was cooking or something, and I hear the guys at this point,
go Look at that. It really says that this is all
in quotes super hyped up. And my brother is like to do it
was a fireball and now it's an ongoing joke on how I missed the
fireball. So we got a few comments about
this Fireball situation from this episode.
I don't know if you've seen any of them.
Yes, this is a real phenomenon and if I remember correctly,
it's like every so many years. We travel through an asteroid.
Belt that some people. And if you want to quote me on
this, you need to go watch Ancient Ancient Aliens.
Ancient apocalypse Jibber watching today.
Aliens, I love ancient aliens. That is some messed-up crap but
it's funny. So Ancient Aliens.
That's on History Channel, right?
Yeah. Okay.
Let me tell you that. That long hair, dude, that like
really believes that aliens created the Earth.
Yes, yeah. That guy's great.
Okay, dude, let's talk about hh4.
Just saying. We'll get back to the car.
Okay. Okay.
One of my guilty pleasures is
downloading things that are about astronomy about like
ancient aliens, that kind of stuff.
I already Universe shows like that I like to download them and
whenever I go back bagging will hammock camp and I'll bring my
hangtime hook. Okay.
Yeah. And I put my Hang Time hook on
my Ridgeline and I put my phone up there and I like to lay there
and watch those kind of shows. Are you serious?
I always Dude, sometimes I'll need to record a video on my
phone like trick video and I can't do it because I've
downloaded so many things from Netflix and other apps so I can
watch them on trail. I always have a surplus of
different documentaries and that kind of stuff to watch him a
hand. A chain is really good.
Me, that's hilarious. So anyway, what I was going to
say is Graham Hancock and you know, Graham Hancock It's not a
clue. Okay?
Graham Hancock. He is a.
What's people that archaeologists then, he's like
an archaeologist but like Indiana Jones like Indiana
Jones. He's gonna be cool.
Yes. Okay, so some people think he's
crazy. Okay, we'll think any of those
is crazy. I feel like, Now, the story
won't be a waste of time. It's entertainment, right?
Okay. Just talk to us, talk to us.
Okay? Always second-guess myself here.
So Graham Hancock, he's an archaeologist, but a lot of
people discredit his beliefs. Because if you have a mainstream
narrative on archaeology that you've been taught that you have
went through school, like you have degrees, you're literally
out here, digging stuff up and write like procuring history on
this and then you Graham Hancock comes along and says stuff that
is different than that narrative.
Then you call it, cancel culture.
Well, people archaeologist understandably.
Yes, they would want to discredit that.
Now, I don't know who's right or wrong.
I'm not arguing. I'm just telling you situation.
So they will discredit the things that he says, even if
there's evidence that supports what he says some things.
So thinking, and I think we live in a time right now where
Finding new evidence of things or seeing a way that doesn't fit
the mainstream Narrative of it is, is less except now than it's
ever been. Yeah, it's not just archaeology,
I mean that transcends, all kinds of Foxy gets everything
right now. Yeah, so understandably, you
would want to, you know, you actually believe that all this
stuff that you learn in school and that you are out working to
support that field, right? If he's coming along and trying
to destroy that because it so he has a show on Netflix and A lot
of people, I'm sure if seen it because it was in like the top
10 on the TV shows for a while. Yeah, it's called ancient
apocalypse again. The basics is archaeology
timelines a little bit wrong. There was nature apocalypse.
There may have been very sophisticated technologically,
savvy people, that lived thousands of years ago.
They got wiped out in this apocalypse.
Like, I don't know, 10, 12, 13, thousand years ago, okay.
And then we kind of had to restart and those people
traveled around Taught some of the hunters and gatherers, and
those kind of people Agriculture and some technological advances
that would have taken them a long time to figure out.
And the reason that those people survived, the people that were
hunters and gatherers and stuff is because those are the only
people that would survive if we had an apocalypse today, right?
You know right. If I don't have the survival
skills to care for myself and to help myself survived, then I'm
either going to have to learn from the people that do or I
die. All right, so apparently Gently,
he thinks that some of these people that had the
technological advances found, some of these hunter-gatherers,
they help them survive in exchange.
They help them technologically. Okay.
So anyway, the whole point of this is, I'm curious what the
point of all this. I don't know where we're going.
The whole point of this is on the show.
Let's show this mini series on Netflix.
He talks about how every so often We go through this Veil.
Sorry Bill. Yeah, I don't know if it's
really an asteroid belt though. It's like some some stuff that
he thinks that could have caused this apocalypse.
Okay? Quote, unquote, apocalypse 1015,
thousand years ago and we travel through it and that wiped out a
bunch of people and create these massive floods and stuff.
Okay. In the Fireballs are coming from
that that we travel through every so So often.
So what Jason was seeing out on that point and what weren't
hawk? Or whatever his name first Vlog
Vlog? Yeah.
What a bad. I know.
It's a good thing. I love about their actual name
is so burn. Log shout out to you.
You get to the double comments on here but Fireballs, that's
what it was. You got another good one?
Yeah. The knife and fan.
Left us a message. Okay, I don't know what an eye
pin fan is, but we have the knife and fan and he said, well,
this is going back to when we had Jesse on Jesse Manti.
Yeah, show. And he was talking about grizzly
bears and he referred to them as the Bumblebees of the
backcountry. Oh, yeah.
And we got a lot of live comments on that, but this one
was, it was after the video is over.
It says, bumblebees of the back country, except that instead of
a quick sting name, all your face, almost the same.
Little bumblebees. So I totally disagreed with
Jesse on that comment on the Bumblebee.
Oh yeah, yeah and here's another one that was right after that,
this is from. Holy cow.
I'm gonna take my glasses off for this one, to read it.
Okay? Chris women whore, stir my
sister. That's the username Chris ribbon
horse term. I stir.
We're sounds like a Monty Python.
Question wasn't an African bumblebee or european bumblebee
LOL. Also, how dare you steal your
children's candy? Ha, ha.
Buckets of candy? Every Halloween.
I turned out fine. LOL?
Well I love the key. Oh yes, we were talking about
Halloween and how like my kids can't eat.
There's so little if they eat that my son literally last week
ate too much candy. I threw up in And his bed.
Oh my God, last week, but you get the Candy Christmas time.
Oh, he's just a skate. These kids nowadays, their
classes. They come home from school with
like buckets of candy and gifts. And all it's crazy dude.
So he he snuck some candy and eat too much one night.
Threw up in his bed. And so I was making the comment
during the video during that live stream that I don't let the
kids eat all the candy because it does make them sick.
Yeah. And so we do a parent tax and so
we get some of that candy you've sucked.
Kids game called apparent. Yes, really.
You know, it's really funny. What's really funny is when I
open like my kids have a little bag of like Scooby-Doo gummies
or something like that, and I open them Tego basically a
parent tax. I'm like, yep.
Now, pull one out, eat it. Dad tax is what I call it.
That's parenting 101. Yeah.
So my kids are cool with it. I'm so glad that we had this
conversation today because you're having kids in a few
years. Maybe I won't ever I have kids.
Yeah, I could parent tax, everything, all dad, Taxman dad
tax, the crap out of that stuff, you know?
No. I'm a teacher and I'm always so
jealous of the elementary. My wife, she does.
She's had an elementary school. She's a teacher as well and she
always brings home. All these gifts, dude, we went
to Starbucks a couple of days ago.
Yes one of her gift card. She has 15 dollar gift card to
Starbucks and this is not the only one, you know, how many
Starbucks gift cards that myself got for Christmas.
Zero that's not right man. Is it is it because she's better
teacher than I am? Or is it because every
Elementary School teacher gets all these gifts in the high
school theater or something? You know what here's the thing.
Elementary school kids love their teachers.
Yeah high school kids act like they love their teachers.
Get good grades but really could care less.
Yeah. Yeah.
They just care less. Yeah, makes me sad but I know
what jokes on those kids because I use some of my wife's $15
Starbucks card and got myself a coffee.
She knew about it. That's right, that's right.
You're married. It's yours.
It's yours and hers. That's right.
I heard probably who one flesh. So, therefore hers is yours
right? That's right.
That works at legally. Yes.
But realistically. No in the house, all that and
absolutely not. I got I got here at Jeremiah
never looked better. It must be a go next issue.
Well, you know, my hair styling profile and today, she's that go
decks hair gel filled. His eyes were for people who are
listening or tuning in for the first time ever.
This is like a two year old joke.
Yeah. The government I went on a
backpacking trip. It was Jeremiah Jason.
They went with the shield brothers.
Another really good podcast but they went out backpacking and
Jeremiah had this backpack from a company called go necks.
Yeah, I know and they sell a lot more stuff than backpacking.
Yeah. But Jeremiah or this go next
backpack and never lived it down.
So you are so you are a beginner Backpacker.
Yes. And So I wasn't beginning
Backpacker. I was a beginner YouTuber, I
don't even know if I was anybody here into it.
At that point. I still think I'm a beginner
YouTube, even though it's been a few years.
It's working on Five Years, bro. Yeah, I don't know, takes a long
time to get good at stuff, but in my case, it'll never happen,
I'll get out of here. So I was with the Shields and I
decide to take this backpack because, you know, these
companies always offered a sin. You stuff.
But they always want a video or something in exchange and I was
trying out this backpack but now, after being in the YouTube
game for a while, I don't make any guarantees when it comes to
products, right? Let's it's like something like,
if it's something that I'm really wanting like a really
nice tent or something like that, then I will do it.
I'll do a video in exchange for product but that cheap like
Chinese knockoff stuff. I'm not a bad.
It no no you don't like it. I'm going next.
Okay, we talked a lot the past couple weeks about the winter
and the winter backpacking. In the cold weather can begin
all. Okay.
And we were talking about the gear from 2022 that we
absolutely loved and I told you if I remember correctly, on that
episode, that I really have been using the Not sired.
They make saw your squeezed right, the Platypus quick-draw,
right? And I made the comment on there,
I don't know if those things sprees.
Now, the fibers that filter that are like the same setup as the
theater. Squeeze the be free.
It's the same filter, basic idea.
No, I think they're different. I think the squeeze is a
different inside, then the be free.
Are you sure about that now? I'm not sure, but I'm pretty
sure it's almost the same thing. No, I thought that Sawyer I
don't know, it looks to me like the quick draw, it has like the
fibers, like the be free. You know how it almost looks
like. You take it.
And it's like a bunch of rubber band, not living beings, but
like a bunch of strings and you take it and you make a you out
of it. I think it pack, it all
together, screw the filter on top.
Okay? I don't think that's the way the
squeezed us. it has a check this out because I feel like I feel
like it's the same setup. Well, it could be your own under
the Hydro Blue is the same thing.
The Hydro Blue filters are the same way.
Yeah. So I feel like the Sawyer's, the
same, I mean, we got find out, we don't maybe that's the next
episode. I really just have to cut when I
was just look at by will buy for filters term all open and see
what they look like on the inside.
Well, it may have already been done.
Might be more cost-effective, doesn't need to be nearly as
entertaining as when we do. It could be way more
entertaining because I say he's a small Chain Saw to open.
Them. If you think it's a good idea,
would you leave a comment below? Like, leave us a message and let
us know if you think this would be actually very entertaining
for us to take a small Chain Saw and trying to open up filters.
Well, the reason I'm telling you about it is because I got this
comment on here, okay? And they said that the Quick
Draw will this is by Stone, Dave did Ventures.
Okay, quick Trot will definitely freeze, I've done it twice, LOL.
Dang. Yeah, the most common issue, I
think, with the failure of the filters, it's freezing.
It's freezing. Yeah, because here's the, here's
the problem. Once it freezes You don't know.
I will say I will say though that the Platypus quick-draw
they have a way that you can test your filters.
See if it's good. Still only saying, what if you
not seen this know about this? They post about it on their
website and everything, but there's a way you can you can
push water through. And if you see bubbles come out,
the top, that means the filter can't isn't filtering, right?
Yeah, because doesn't the Doesn't water whenever it
freezes it expands, and that ruins, and it cracks.
What it does, it attaches to the fibers, then cracks the fibers.
And then those fibers because water, expands and contracts
opposite of everything else on the planet, not everything.
But almost everything just about everything.
Yeah, everything. We typically would use.
Yeah, typically something freezes it shrinks.
Yeah. Except for water water expands.
Yeah, but wow, I don't know. I'm not a scientist, it's the
molecular structure. Well, that's great.
Whenever it freezes it creates a Crystal Crystal strike crystal
shape structure, which takes up more space now, could be making
that up, I could be making that up, but I'm pretty sure that
that's all I know. Is it?
Expands it contracts? Yeah, it's a big do it because
of that, it takes up more room inside of that filter which is
like squeezing and pulling and tugging and doing all the stuff.
So they decided filter and eventually it's a cracking the
fibers. And once those fibers are
cracked, They're not doing the job anymore.
Yeah, it's light and all the nasty fill through.
Yeah, that it should be filtering out.
Yeah. And so so I know the Sawyer or
not, the Sawyer. The Platypus quick-draw allows
you to test for that. Well, every every filter shift
system, they should integrate that.
It's another problem that we could solve.
Well, my favorite thing about water expanding whenever it
freezes. What's up?
I think about this every time I passed one of those giant rocks.
That's crap. It off the face and all and
rolled down the hill. I mean, massive.
So we'll sounds, I'm buying some by water.
Usually. Yeah.
I think it's the erosion and then the water gets in there and
then it freezes and slowly cracks whip cracks whip cracks.
Yeah, I think about it. Every time I see one of those
just Standalone rocks. That's Fallen.
I'm like, thank you water. You created this?
Yep. You've you're destroying our
landscape. Okay.
So we got a comment from Ben McMillan that I gotta put on
here says now. We know how Jeremiah 1 over his
wife, freaky discrete? Mathematics.
You know, my wife, she did not had to take discrete mathematics
and I am so jealous of her. I had one of the coolest
professors. I better not say his name that I
already tell you about him. No no no, no super cool guy.
Took us out for around after the final Went to a local local like
college. Dive Bar.
Yeah, and to celebrate bought us all around.
Really, I got to be in that class, keeping the GPA alive.
Discreet. Nice, I got one for you.
You gotta go and see, we got time.
We get two more two, more comments will be done.
Okay. Okay, I'll go first.
Then this is from James Fort. James Thornton that sounds A
real name not Anonymous. Yeah, I want that for winter.
I use a pulse lid. You know what that is, right?
Only, if I were so yeah, he pulled behind you.
Okay, we don't have those in Kentucky.
All of my gear goes into my sled.
My pack is used for my quilts hammock and clothing.
Just the things I want to keep dry.
I want to talk about the slave for just a second.
I know we don't have a whole lot of time left here.
We gotta go to pack out. This place is closing up pretty
soon. Yeah, we're closing up here in
about 15 minutes and you Are still pack everything up and get
it out of here. Yeah.
So what wrap this up pretty quick, but that was my last
comment. And I want to tell you real
quick about this later. Okay.
A few years ago, Jason and I
went to Pennsylvania Oil Creek, Oil Creek, Pennsylvania.
And I would suggest anybody that's on the East Coast.
If you can get a troop in there, try get a trip in because you
rent out shelters ahead of time. And by the would they provide
firewood? And it's split for you already.
The shelter's have a fireplace in them and there are three
walled. It's got doors on each side and
bunks in there. So you can bring your sleeping
pad and there's bathrooms. It's awesome.
Okay. Here's the best part.
It was snowy. Snowy snowy whenever we were
there, Jason, I stopped and got a hotel.
We got the next day and everything was covered in snow
and which white-knuckle drove all the way Tha campsite dude
we'd already driven, I don't know, eight hours or something.
Tenant. This is a pretty long drive and
we still had several hours of driving left on the interstate
in the snow and ice still pouring the snow.
We got there. Y'all check out my video on my
YouTube On the internet. I didn't treat me World Wide
Web. Yeah, I do trip video of it and
it was super, super fun. Because we brought Slade's, we
said I hiked, it was only a mile hike in, I hiked it in.
What's the boots called everybody wears them on the farm
and for hunting stuff? It's all good.
Keep going. I wish I could remember.
I got a terrible memory Muck Boots.
Look, I'll warm up boots to hike, okay?
And pull the sled behind me, instead of wearing a backpack,
we brought containers and everything, dude.
The sled backpacking. If we could do that in Kentucky,
will be so awesome. Because you know what we did
with the sleds after we got to the shelters What'd you do?
We went sledding as he did. We went sledding.
I wrote on the same slide with Jason.
We crashed it. It's all the videos.
Yeah, it was fantastic. It was hilarious.
And with this one, this comment is from Brian wenberg.
Who's actually from here, in Central kentucky, funny story.
About Brian, wonder if I'm not mistaken, we have some friends
in common that have nothing to do with backpacking.
So, yeah. So he he put on here and this
reason we're to leave. This is the last one we had
left. Our my Iran, which is always one
of the funniest It's anytime, we have Jeff jumped on her three
times. Please Don't Steal three times.
The Tiger King. We got to bring them on.
Again, this next year we have to it's just no way around it.
Yeah. But he said hashtag are my
challenge pee yourself? Oh, if you heard the episode
great, if you did go back and listen to it.
Yeah. Jeff was talking about him doing
the unsupported FK t for John Muir Trail.
I believe this is John Mayer. He was coming down the mountain
at the end to the end. Of the trail and he had to go to
the bathroom and he was gonna just he knew he was only like
minutes from having the record. It was going to like pee off the
side of the trail. There were some old lady's
coming it's so instead of doing that he just let himself you
know they say that you're not real through Hawker.
Unless you're know they say you're not a real.
Hiker was less. Yes people pants.
Yeah unless you poop your pants on trail?
Yeah. But with Jeff HP yourself, bro.
Wow, both of those things are so gross, so gross, but I, you
know, I honestly think that's poop would be easier to clean up
depending on how messy it was. Look at that, look at those
talking about poop. It had to come back.
It has been here for a few weeks.
I'm sure there are people missing it.
But Phuket, if we are the poop cast and for the Pooh cast,
thank you for tuning in and we will catch you on the next one.
Adios, folks.