Amtrekker: Recent Episodes
Amtrekker
I'm an unemployed vagrant. All I have is a backpack full of technology, a shoestring budget and a very important list. When everything is crossed off my list I get to go home! Check out the list at www.amtrekker.com and come live vicariously!
Amtrekker travels to Beulah, MI to create a crop circle!
Failures and ethnically insensitive impressions ensue.
Amtrekker travels to Caruthers, CA for the Caruthers Nationals flattrack dirtbike races where he manages to (of course) crash multiply times and show the crowd why people should get on a bike for the first time for a race.
Amtrekker meets up with Brian Brushwood and CJ Johnson to explore Wolfe Manor, one of the most haunted houses in America!
Nervous laughter and fear induced cursing ensue.
Amtrekker and Dr. Tiki travel into international waters under cover of night to show you how to distill moonshine.
Mistakes are made...not the least of which are actually tasting the booze.
(Part two of a two part series!)
Amtrekker travels to Atlanta, GA where with the help of Grayson from CNN's News To Me team, Betty Ann, Ginger, Chase and a horse named Danket he finally gets to live out a cartoon!
Flaming pumpkins ensue.
Amtrekker travels to international waters to meet with the famed Dr. Tiki for some moonshining hijinks!
Uncertainty ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Virginia City, NV to take part in the 49th Annual International Camel Races (Specifically the ostrich racing portion of the weekend)!
Watch as a terrified Brett mans up and falls down.
Amtrekker travels to Frankfort, MI to sleep in the 150 year old Point Betsie lighthouse (one of the most photographed lighthouses in America). Watch as he offers up a Cribs style tour of his overnight digs!
Hip-hop ensues.
Team Amtrekker travels to Grand Canyon National Park on a three day journey to the world's most famous hole in the ground!
Immense beauty and heavy breathing ensues.
Amtrekker travels to the small town of Huron, SD (where he seems to be a really for real celebrity) and drives a race car for the first time!
Autographs and trophies are tossed around like candy.
Amtrekker travels back to Charleston, SC to get dragged face first through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to "try his hand at kiteboarding."
Calamity ensues.
Amtrekker travels to New York City of all places to learn to sail in the Hudson River courtesy of the Atlantic Yachting Association! In two short days he manages to break sailing and earn his keel boat certification!
"Heaving to"ensues.
Amtrekker travels to the Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, SC to see if he can't find a way to help out. You be the judge of how helpful he actually manages to be.
Amtrekker travels to the Chattooga river in South Carolina to go river kayaking, get soaked and try not to die.
...that's pretty much what happen.
(Scenes from Deliverance were roundly avoided.)
Amtrekker travels to New Market, VA to take part in the cleverly named Battle of New Market!
Reenaction of discomfort ensues.
Amtrekker takes a week off to answer those mounting viewer emails. Lots of walking and talking ensues.
Amtrekker travels to New York to see a live taping of The Colbert Report but his podcast is foiled when security takes away his video camera!
What are they hiding from America?
Canned laughter ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Boston, MA to take part in the madness that is the 112th Boston Marathon. Ladies beware...
Sexy Man-leg ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ to redeem himself after last October's failure! Watch as even the weather fails to stops him from reaching his goal!
Precipitation ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Mapleton, UT to get his first fly-fishing lesson in a local pond. After numerous battles with local shrubbery he emerges victorious yet again!
Entanglement ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Lafayette, LA and takes part in a swamp tour sponsored by the Atchafalaya Experience!
Pretty picture and no cohesive narrative ensues!
Amtrekker travels to Lakewood Park in Florida. Does he scale the lowest highest point in a state? Maybe. Does he act like a little sissy about it? Of course.
Complaints ensue.
Amtrekker visits the crazy town of Pigeon Forge, TN to be part of a stage illusion at the Magic Beyond Belief Theater with Terry Evanswood!
Superstardom ensues.
On the Amtrekker's last day in St. Louis he finally takes everyone's advice and checks out the City Museum. A magical land of wonder and recycled architecture.
Thanks to everyone that recommended that place. It was, in a word...Incredible. I doubt this podcast could ever do it justice.
Incrediblocity (it's a word...look it up) ensues.
Amtrekker's first educational video! Learn the in and outs (mmm...In-N-Out) of the great billiard-table-using game of SPLASH and watch the fall and rise of an Amtrekker in this epic tournament of wills.
Splashing ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Salt Lake City where he pow wows with Heather and Spence Babcock to learn some survival skills. And by "learn some survival skills" I mean "try desperately to start a fire."
Rather than pack all the trap making and lecturing into one ten-minute podcast I decide to just focus on one new skill. Enjoy.
Death in the wilderness may ensue.
Watch as Amtrekker perseveres against terrible odds and finally completes the self proclaimed "toughest objective on the list!" He talks. He climbs. He sweats profusely.
I don't have anything else to say about this podcast. I'm just so freaking ecstatic it got crossed off the list!
Amtrekker spends 17 hours traveling by train and by bus to make it to Salt Lake City. Take a peek into his life in the first Wednesday at 6pm PST installment!
Be wary...boredom ensues.
Amtrekker gets a birthday surprise in the form of a trek to Sand City, CA and some Sandboarding good times! Watch the grace, watch the falls, watch people desperately trying to spit out a never ending mouthful of sand!
PLUS, amazing handmade sandboards!
Amtrekker vs. Cue Ball the cow. I'm not so sure Amtrekker came out as the victor this time around. Watch as our intrepid hero tries to soothe the savage beast with dead grass and a falsetto voice.
Improvements abound and cow riding ensues.
Amtrekker earns a spot as a guest on Fox Business News' "Happy Hour" and manages to destroy host Cody Willard in a hotdog eating contest despite the cheater's best efforts!
Gag reflexes ensue!
Amtrekker travels to Austin, Texas to cross #46 off his list and go see a movie at the Alamo Drafthouse. Does he see a great new movie?
No.
He sees Home Alone.
Hilarity ensues.
Amtrekker visits the great mud pit that is the Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park and spends the day looking for diamonds, talking to strangers and talking to himself...a lot.
Searching ensues.
Amtrekker ventures forth into the unknown and daringly wades through boredom to SUCCESSFULLY (finally) hitchhike from Charlottesville, VA to Nashville, TN!
Bad sound ensues.
Amtrekker visits Charlottesville, Virginia and hunts down one of those elusive geocaches.
Little to moderate fun ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Wareham, MA to wade through a cranberry bog, drop his pants...and cry like a little girl. Who knew a bog in Massachusetts could be so cold in November?
Sissy-ness ensues.
Amtrekker spends Thanksgiving with the Fiamingo family in Mansfield, PA. Awesome people that know how to cook and know no bounds to the kindness of strangers.
Deliciousness ensues.
Amtrekker traps himself in a car for six hours with three girls, the day before Thanksgiving, to travel to Mansfield, PA for turkey with the Fiamingo family. Singing and dancing ensues.
Amtrekker travels to Portland, Maine where he meets up with an awesome old lobster boatman, (who I remain unconvinced actually speaks English) sees a blue lobster and can't get the B52s out of his head.
Enjoy.
And now for something completely different: Let me know what you think about these new shorter "here's what I'm doing today" videos.
Amtrekker takes a road trip to Easton, PA to tour the Crayola Factory and exercise a couple dormant creative muscles. Guest starring Ace the wonder monkey and Mr. Rogers' shirt!
Amtrekker visits Salem, Massachusetts for Halloween Festivities! Thanks to everyone who wrote in with their recommendations for coolest Halloween locale!
Come see Quail Man, a flying pig and the Master's of the Universe!
Amtrekker doles out a double scoop of failure on a hot fudged Sunday. (nothing is misspelled, just lots of bad puns)
Don't come here if you're looking for some hitchhiking and roller coaster riding.
Watch as Amtrekker and his co-host/camera man/particle physicist/couchsurfing host Mike, explore the wonders of the Biketoberfest motorcycle rally in Daytona Beach, Florida.
In this tale from the Wayback Machine we follow our intrepid traveler as he delves into the legoland of the Amish in a cow milking dramatization sure to astound the emmy nomination committee. (Astound and confound, sometimes I get those two mixed up. You can figure it out.)
Amtrekker visits Toronto, Ontario where he learns the fine art of Urban Golf, doles out awards and barters for help.
Amtrekker goes on a sloth petting adventure the likes of which have not been seen since-- What the hell is a sloth petting adventure?
Amtrekker goes on a tubing adventure down the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta, GA with Team Member, Robin! Watch as out hero floats through the river of life and tries his own patience.
Amtrekker is in small town Illinois crossing #30 and #38 off the list! Watch as our hero stalks fireflies and dodges umbrellas! PLUS, mud volleyball. Don't miss out!