THE POX and PUSS PODCAST : An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker Experience

Welcome to our third annual Trail Days show!

If you’ve heard our past Trail Days episodes, you know this is not our typical show. Every year we set up our 10x10 tent in front of MoJoe’s Trail Side Café so we can meet and interview thru-hikers. For some reason this year the crowds on the North side of town were a little bit thin. Usually you can hear people all around us, talking, shouting, playing some weird instrument. We’re always able to grab a few people from the crowd so we can talk with them. This year...not so much. Luckily we had two people lined up to talk with us; our Australian friend “Superfeet” and long-time P&P listener “Too Loud”. Here are a few things we talk about in this episode: Venomous vs. Poisonous

Paul Hogan throws a shrimp on the barbie

Jermaine from Outback

A Trail Angel named Courtesy stops by to say hello

Another Episode where Pox’s Heart Grew Three Sizes!

Australians Love Lamb

Bears in the Smokies decimate some section hiker backpacks

Bay Pride!

“Too Loud” runs into a turkey.

Puss tells us about her “5 Hour Energy” routine.

Obviously I have barbecue and food on my mind in this episode....sorry.

You’ll hear us talk with people off mic as they come up to say hello or buy a t-shirt.

Please visit AppTrials, sign up for the Thru-Hiker register, and when you’ve completed the trail, send Zach Good Badger Davis your summit photo so we can share it with the world.

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Coming to you LIVE from Nanty Greene's in downtown Raleigh, NC!We sat down with the NC Beer Guys to discuss beers you will find along the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina.Beers we drank: Asheville Brewing: ShivaOskar Blues: Mama's Little Yella PilsNantahala Brewing: Noon Day IPA

Our big Appalachian Trail Days Festival announcements are here!Where will you be able to find us? You'll have to listen!We listen to a voicemail....it's about booze.We recorded this episode via FaceTime, and Puss wanted me to tell you that she was drunk. I was at work. On my lunch break.Let's get ready to party folks!!!

This week we discuss various animal stories from the Appalachian Trail and beyond! A mouse nibbles! A mouse runs! A mouse dies! A bear nibbles! A bare ass! A bear runs! Puss watches her family take on a herd of buffalo! Pox is attacked by ZAP from American Gladiators! You can't sit here! A theme song is suggested! Phone calls! Phone calls! Phone calls!

We are only a few days away from celebrating the Pox & Puss Podcast's 10th anniversary. So, in honor of that day, we bring you b-b-b-b-bonus content from In The Pines, where Pox talks about his 1998 thru-hike and the cast of fugitives and bandits he met along the way.

During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, GA, Eric Rudolph detonated a 100lbs pipe bomb in Centennial Park. One person was killed and 111 were injured. Three more bombs went off in the weeks and months following the Olympic bombing. What took place after that was an all-out manhunt along the Appalachian Trail and in the Nantahala Gorge. The FBI was looking for Rudolph as far away as the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. Pox Holiday was thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1998, around the same time Eric Rudolph disappeared into the mountains for almost 7 years. Pox was even questioned by a member of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park because he looked like a fugitive. In this episode, you will hear untold stories about the search for a domestic terrorist and his accomplices that never made it into a newspaper article or a television report. _____________________________________________________________

Sources

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