 I feel like I'm in Silent Hill. Oh, it is a dreary ass day today, but I'm out here, man. I'm out here and I'm walking. I'm in a pretty good time with it, too. Okay, so what you just saw is a video of me walking in the rain with a much shorter beard, much shorter hair, all that, because that video was back in December before I fell off my porch and injured my back and my leg. Actually, I just injured my back. My leg is part of the back injury. What I have is something called Quata Iquina, which literally translates to horse's tail. It's the branching of the nerves, the S1 nerve root in the back and the coccyx right there at your tailbone. The L4 and L5 discs, they rupture and they pinch the nerve and it paralyzes my right leg. It can cause incontinence, all different kinds of wacky shit. But when that happens, when the back injury happens, then it exacerbates. That's a funny word. But anyways, it makes the leg worse because the leg won't act right. And the stuff that you're about to see after we get done with this stuff, which is something that I've been putting off for a while, my apologies to everyone when we are not even there yet. But this is very awkward for me to talk about. I don't like talking about my personal life and my health and all that stuff. So the walkie-talkie vlogs are well outside of my comfort zone. So the stuff that you are seeing is from May to June, I think, and the stuff coming up after this part. And then right now it is currently the end of June. But we're going to get into a letter from my buddy Jim Herbert. Another thing is I wanted to apologize to Steph over there at Wicked Junior Reads, to Angela, to Mark Pelletier. I can't remember. I got all of your guys' letters written. I even got some back melody. Several of you, I started a pin pal thing. And unfortunately, right after I started it with you guys, I ended up getting a project come through that I actually had to do and I just don't have the time for it anymore. I ended up with writing the project and the YouTube stuff. I just don't have the time. But Jim's letter especially says, suggestion, open on camera. I asked everybody if they would mind, I was going to do like a pin pal project, whether or not they wanted to or not, I was going to write back and forth to them. But what I was going to do, I just wanted to start something tactile, you know, something that I actually, is that even the right word? That I could actually hand write letters to people. And once life slows down, that may happen again. I don't know. But my apologies to anyone who asked to do it, either I didn't get to you or I didn't return the, I'm trying to get this out of here, or I didn't return your letter. So my apologies right off. I'm going to open this, attachment, oh my God. Okay. This is Jim, Jim Herbert, if you don't know. It says attachment, GIF on the back, it says attachment GIF. So I can just picture this as a GIF. Oh my gosh. What does this, what does this look like? Oh no. It's happening. I don't know. This is so weird. Can you all hear the rain? It is pouring outside. Oh no. Not this one. This is one of his best. That's me putting on it, or David Caruso and me putting on the, the thug life, well it's not actually thug life. I mean, depending on what generation you grew up in, you would, if you knew, know this from, what is it, CSI Miami, if you knew it from there, the music would start playing. Oh my gosh. This is great, Jim. I think this is the last one. Yep. Me looking like a fat white morpheus. Look at that. Jim, that's awesome, man. That is absolutely amazing. Now if it cuts out here, I don't know Jim's letter is, is something that he once read. So I'm going to go ahead and read the letter and then we're going to, if it's something that I didn't, that I shouldn't be reading to you guys, then I will cut the video and you'll just never see this part. Hey, E, hey, this is from 5, 3, 19, so May 3rd, 2019. Sorry I didn't get back as quickly as I said I would. Dude, you ain't got anything to apologize for. So far, 2019 has been my year for falling behind on every damn thing. I feel you. And our letter exchange has been no exception. Enough preamble right to your questions first. One, I've always been into animation since, since a kid. When I first saw Monty Python at the age of 12 on TV, how did I know they were an inspiration for you? My favorite parts were Terry Gilliam's animations. It was always an unfulfilled dream to do my own until three years ago when I realized I could use Windows Movie Maker to create cartoons. I will put a link down to Jim Herbert's channel. He does fantastic, like really quicky reviews. The animations are amazing. One of my favorite ones is one involving me where I blow his head off. It's amazing. I destroy all the pins, oh, that was on the third. He wrote that on the third. Then on the seventh, four days later, he says, I destroy all the pins in the house because of my constant sketching and note taking. Sorry. In my research for, in my search for a pin, I found another, I found other distractions to focus on. Two animations that elude completion. Anyway, I don't use any animation software. I use the computer to create images but compile them manually in Windows Movie Maker. It's labor-intensive, but I like the grubby, beat-to-hell look of them. Very garage-ban for a band that practices in the garage with the door down and the car engine running. That was great. And then the next part of it is I actually dislike puns as a form of humor, but social media, especially Twitter, lends itself to it, and I lower myself to the occasion. Less so in a personal letter, which is witty, which is, I think it's witty, which is why, I'm sorry, which is why, which is why I haven't asked you to forgive my messy penmanship. Feel free to read this aloud and feel free to share the attached gift I'm sending as well. This should be fun, best Jim Herbert. I'm so sorry, Jim. I hope you watch this. I hope you get to this. I know social media isn't for people like us. It isn't. It's for the extreme-minded people. It's for the people who want to share every single note of their lives, the people that take that shit way too seriously. So I feel you, man. I understand completely. We've discussed this in private. It's just one of those things where, for me, it's a nature of the beast. I have to be a public persona, and there's been several times when you told me that I'm the only, one of the only reasons. One of the only is a bad, is a bad, bad, don't write that. One of the only. Don't write that. Don't put that in your writing. Anybody. But you're, that I'm one of the reasons that you hang around Twitter as much as you do, which isn't anywhere near as much as the rest of us do. But anyways. What's coming next is an extended video tour of parts of my town, a cemetery, and a park. So I hope you enjoy it. Jim, once again, man, I'm sorry that I didn't write you back to everybody else who wrote me a letter. I'm sorry I didn't write you back. It doesn't mean that they're never coming. I still have them. But yeah, I'm just so far behind right now that I can't actually find the time to sit down and write to you guys a letter, and I don't want to have to type it out, which is, you know, it's much easier for me to do that. I want it to be more personal. So yeah. So have some patience. It may be coming. It may not. I must stand on the side of wishy-washy. Anyways, on with walkie-talkie. I'll see you guys on the road. Bye-bye. Oh. You a big guy, ain't ya? That's the way I came in. Every day you mess around, just come across a cemetery. The walls are all falling down. Nothing but woods over there. I think I know where this is. Yeah. I definitely know where this is. Hey look. Listen. Hello. This is a gage. The gage. It's not creed. Let's see. Let's go over here. That big one says Northington. I think the road into here says Northington. Pretty sure. Samuel Northington. All these are Northingtons. William Northington. This one has a fence around it. It says something nummy. That's weird. There's a car way out of the distance. And that's the entrance way over there. That's where I usually come in. I had no idea this had a back root. It's very cool. Let's go check this out. Y'all coming with me until my leg gives out and then I'm going to call my ride. There's a little urn right here. It says H. See him? We got another one with a fence around it over here. Wow. Oh, did you see the squirrel? Squirrel. I mean, kind of pointless to have a fence around there. It's just going to fall apart. Falling down. You want to go in there? Let's go in there. Is any of this good to step on? I hope so. My leg gives out of me now. I don't know what I'm going to do. This dirt is soft. We got a huge step down. Hang on. Down with the good. Oh, it fell. And here. Y'all see this? That's creepy. I don't know what that says. I can't read it. In Edward T. Miles. An obelisk over here. Let's get out of here. It says public notice. Cemetery maintenance and improvements to begin November 2nd, 2016. Okay. The obelisks. All right. Interesting. If you come up real close, you all see that? See the chain link? Sacred to the memory of Dr. H.C. Hillhouse, who was born July 4th, 1820 and died. He was only, what, 35? He's a doctor? May 17th, 1855, erected by the members of Autumn Lodge. I can't read that. Number 17 I-O-O-F. Interesting. All right. Let's say that's all. I'm going to walk us out of here now. If you turn and go this way, that's the way out to the main road. I'm going to take us the back way. So, that's the way I came in that I didn't even know existed. All right. Oh. Down the hill. Hang on. I'll follow. That's where we're going. We're going out that way. So, another thing. I don't know if you guys watch my old walking vlogs or not, but this bamboo is just everywhere in this town. Very weird. Prattville, Alabama. It's just bamboo everywhere. Anyway, this is the back way. I'm going to go ahead and go just in case. I don't want to film somebody on accident. Who that is? No fishing. I see. Yeah. Tire swing. How'd you conquer it? Did you murder it? Cool. All right. No fishing. Dang. Cold-blooded. Oh, that's nice. That wasn't here last time. They put a bench around the tree. So, no fishing. No fishing. That sucks. I mean, not that I ever went fishing here, so, I will. So, this is Pratt Park. This is the walk. Not the walk, but the which we call it. This is the trail in the darkness. Down there, you guys can see, is, I don't know if that's a creek, a river, or what, but let's go down there. Y'all want me to go down there one of these days, show you. I mean, there's a whole bridge and everything down there. Y'all gonna have to let me know. But right now, we're going down this way. This goes pretty far. I think this is about a two-mile trail. It starts at the Prattville Public Library or upwards around there, around downtown. And then, it goes all the way. It just keeps going. Let's see, but also, we can go over here real quick off the beaten path. And you can look down here as I walk by. I'm not going to pay too much attention because I don't want to fall down off the side. So, we can just go back around. Family's over there. Way over there. We can keep going. This is where the Prattville Lions play. I think it's a high school. I could be wrong. But we got all these bird feeders and whatnot. The main thing is this really cool path. So, I don't know, it's not a nature trail, I don't guess. But it goes back. Mine's around back there. Once I get to some place of note, I'll stop and let you guys see. But right now, that's where I'm headed. I'm going to be a kitty. Did y'all see it? Look. Look at your kitty. Hey, kitty, kitty, kitty. No. I don't get hellos. Oh, there they go. All right. I'm not coming after you, demon. All right. I didn't get very far before I saw the kitty. So, I'll be right between them in a minute. So, maybe you're wondering, hey, why are you able to walk so well? Well, legs just started working. It's been doing pretty good. And I'm not taking a risk coming out here. This is I got someone who can come pick me up just a phone call away. So, if I get to a point where I can't no, look at it. If I get to a point where I can't walk anymore, which eventually will happen, my leg will just give out of me. At least it's been happening. After about 30 minutes, an hour roughly around there. Then I just call and they come pick me up. It's got a low battery. I'm going to go ahead and go, but yeah, I'm going to turn around anyways. This is where I'm at. The trail keeps on going, but I'm going to turn around and head back so they don't have to go too far to come get me. Chris, we just bought those shoes, man. This boy. Say hi, Dan. I'm coming. What you find? A mini cave. They found a turtle. Where is it? I think it's dead. I don't think it's dead. It's such a vlogger. Look at its face. It's a goldfish. I think massive. It's got to be as long as my arm. Okay, so here I am and there's my car back there. Since my leg was working, I went ahead and decided I was going to come down to and drove down to the track. If you guys have been watching, if you guys have watched, get my hand out of the way here. As I watched the walkie-talkies, the first three, this is the same track that I always come to. It's a gazebo. They train horses out here, ride horses out here. Then there's the restroom and the old church. Then there's the new church. So, yeah. So that's where I'm going. I'm on, I think, lap 11 right now. Every five I've been checking on my app. Every five revolutions is a mile. But I'm going to stop here. And we're going to go sit down. I don't know if you guys can see it, but at that bench, I'll talk to you guys more in a minute. Alright, so we're going to chill out here for a minute. Sorry if I wasn't looking at the camera then. The sun was in my eyes. I didn't know where the camera was on my phone. But, yeah. This is the third day I'm walking this week. I did Monday, no. I did Sunday and Monday. Sunday is the day that I got out of bed. And I just wanted to go for a walk. And I didn't take the phone that had the good camera on it. I didn't feel like trying to enhance like 2 megapixel camera on the phone that actually works. I'm actually really glad that I, what was that? I think it was a spider. Anyways, I'm really glad that I took the other phone with the crappy camera because that one has cell service. It's actually shells, it's not mine, but I just knew I was going to give out at some point. So, and I did. Is this tilted? It's tilted. Whatever, let's talk. It's not like this is a Thursday theorist or anything. It doesn't have to be framed up. But, so I'm just going to take so far it's a minute. I'm going to take a 2 minute break and then I'm going to do 5 more laps. Finish up this lap and do 4 more. So I will total out at 15 laps and 3 miles. So that's what I'm doing. I did 4 miles on Sunday, 3 miles on Monday. I went into town on Monday. On Sunday, I walked. I just left my house and just walked and stopped when I got tired. You guys have been following the blog, I've been talking about this. If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you know all this stuff. But I figured I'd do these also because some people, hi Wayne, hi Sarah, some people have been asking for them and if not everybody likes them oh well, that's fine. But, yeah. Also, I'm listening to an audio book as you can tell. I'm not listening to it now. I also have my wire tucked under my shirt. But I can't listen to the audio book and record at the same time. So I figured I'd stop and give you guys an update. We are exactly at 2 minutes as of now. So, bye. So I did my copyright so I did my I did my 15 laps you can look at this one. It is currently it is currently May 22nd I've done my 15 laps you want to check I guess I can put it up here on the somewhere up here. I don't know. We'll see how I go. Let me try and get my hand out of the way of the camera. I'm trying to balance this joker on the steering wheel. I forgot how to blog y'all and if you hear a hissing in the background that's the air conditioning because it is hot. Take this thing off. Look at that. Look at that hotness. That's a sexy bitch right there. Oh, good God. I think I'm losing weight like in the top of my head. No, it's just because my hair is like that. Anywho, I did the 15 laps which is 3 miles. I forgot that when I you know it says 2.75 in the picture I'm going to throw over here. But I forgot that when I vlog it pauses every other app. So it uses all of the memory or whatever. It only allows me to use the camera. I did actually do 3 3 miles though but I am extremely extremely tired. I am still listening to usher's passing. This book seems like it will never end. In fact I don't even think I'm halfway through it. I looked at the page count. The book's only like 404 pages man. It feels like it's about a thousand. I don't know if it's the tone that he uses. The really dry tone but it is probably it's, no it's not probably it's easily the worst macammon book I've ever had to read. Oh and by the way before I forget this is Wednesday I know I was talking about how it was I did Sunday and Monday and then yesterday I did strength training so I did the arm workout so that's why the dates might not match up so it's not 3 days in a row just to clarify. sleepy dude no you can't touch my phone it's just far enough away for you you can't touch it why are you so incapable of touching the phone why why he has shit I look like I'm motherfucking dragging yo this is what I really think is hot that's raining today the video I hopefully started off with I was walking in the rain also that was months and months ago before I hurt myself I think that was back in December I'm not sure I haven't been keeping track today it is rainy I just got through walking 2 miles it is Thursday June 6 I think but I like when things go full circle and it feels like it's gone full circle so from the point that I started this video to now I'm back on my feet so I've been walking every single day for the past I want to say 2 weeks and I've been maintaining that so the leg is acting fine and I'm just taking advantage of it while I can I would have shot some video while I was out I don't trust my phone in the rain it's an electronic so that's it for this round of walkie talkie it's nice to be doing these again it's for the simple fact that I am out and I am walking they are a lot of work it takes me anywhere from 6 to 7 hours to edit these so I I enjoy the process but it's a little much so you probably won't get another one for a while probably be I don't know a month if not more also not too much interesting happens in my life and I know you guys some of you guys like these videos there isn't a whole lot that goes on I write and I read and I write some more and I walk when I can family doesn't want to be videotaped and I prefer to respect that anyways thank you guys for watching I appreciate you all my cheerleaders out there you guys have been great to me thank you so much but until next time I have been E, you have been U it's been another walkie talkie I'll talk to you guys later bye bye