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We hope to share our experiences of the various ways we’re attempting to escape the mad prison walls of our failing society. We encourage feedback and questions from all outlaws, hobos, and the generally curious. Maybe by sharing our stories, we can learn together and support all of us who love the…

Gumby Montgomery


    • Apr 17, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
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    Mile Marker 144: SCOBY, Digital Black Face, & Homeless Bull Whips

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 121:30


    Twelfth season finale! And whew... we barely pulled this off. Looking forward to a break and, if I'm lucky, less talking, talking, and more listening to the wind, the water, the fire, and things that matter.

    Mile Marker 143: Homeless Face, Hobo Day, & Squantlers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2023 157:13


    On the road again, we discuss what we're leaving, where we're going, and how the ecotone between the two has been treating us. And then... we talk about other things that I'm not remembering. I look forward to listening to this one myself!

    Mile Marker 142: How To Be Racist

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2023 69:47


    Busy time for us, but here's what we've got. How to be an anti-anti-anti-racist.

    Mile Marker 141: The Baby Ferengi, The Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker, & White Noise

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2023 97:45


    With the soft music of gumby's abbreviated coughs and productive nose blowing in the background, we take you on a journey through Teresa's gaulded a-hole into exploited children, Marxist perverts, hitchhiking red flags, Nazi Reading Hours for children, and spoilers on a couple of shows. Our time indoors continues. Leave your souls at the door.

    Mile Marker 140

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2023 114:18


    We've been indoors for a week and we're feeling all kinds of out-of-sorts so... I don't even know what the hell we were trying to talk about for a lot of this episode. And that's the kind of hot mess that this is. Enjoy!

    hobozen and the middle way

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2023 115:48


    We pick up where we left off two years ago with the buddha's Great Departure from the kingdom in his quest for liberation, and end at his first great understanding of The Middle Way.

    Mile Marker 138: The Great Hunger, Bing, & The Negro National Anthem

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2023 150:01


    Broadcasting from our little cloud of stink, we celebrate signs of Spring, cycles within cycles within cycles, the Way of the Wasp, tire sandals, pine carpeting, frigging, Dun, coffee filters, and we sprinkle it all with a touch of Cedar Fever! Our mental bowel movement here is assisted by Andy Ward, Tom Brown Jr., Daniel Quinn, the Hairy Potter, Charlie Cheon, Samuel Thayer, Tom Elpel, Rufus, Rerun, Martin Lawrence, Albert Camus, Terrence K. Williams, the Kalahari Bushmen, Laurens van der Post, the CryptoNaturalist, and many others, and I'm sure they couldn't all be prouder! Bing.

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    F[iretr]ucktards: BEYOND MISANTHROPY!!!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 186:42


    Doin' some f$ckin' spring cleanin', y'all. Catharsis for the shadows in our souls... we purge, we f$cking puurrrgggge!

    Mile Marker 136: Fat Girl Syndrome, Pepe' Le Pew, & Original Sin

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2023 105:36


    We're surviving Imbolc. This week has sucked, y'all. This week sucks so much, if we'd put it to work at a truck stop we'd be rich. We celebrate Sherlocke's birthday, remember T's dad, Mike, and g's mom, Nancy, discuss our whispering demons, and oh, here's how to hard-boil eggs: Cover eggs with water, bring to a boil, remove from boil and let sit for 12 minutes, drain, then run eggs under cold water. Ta-daaa...

    Mile Marker 135: Chat GPT, the Flat Earth, & the Genuine Real Deal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2023 149:41


    S'aponin, essays? What'choo want? We got quotes; we got William Shatner, Vernor Vinge, John Trudell... You like thinking? Or thinking about thinking? Well, we think about Fermi's Paradox, chasing dreams, sarcasm, hell, we thinkin' thoughts we never thunk before! No? Maybe you one ‘o them evil nerds inventing us into oblivion. Well we got ramblins for the Nerds of Hell too; we got the Singularity, EMPs, Forever Chemicals, we got deep fakes, Deep Voodoo, which all puts us in deep sh$t. And stick around till the end- we even gots Asian girls doing “bush craft” with their tiny hands after dark... listen now! Tom Waits for no man! We got a little something for ever'body and their half brothers!

    Mile Marker 134: Coal Cracker, Hobos On Film, & the Blowme Stick Slug

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2023 153:55


    Little bit of Ayn Rand and Diogenes, little bit of M3GAN and The Northman. I share some of the many things I'm learning and experimenting with regarding bushcraft cleaning, Teresa discusses a plane crash in Nepal and the passing of an elder, and Sherlocke don't discuss squat.

    Mile Marker 133: The Egg Crisis, Sex With Animals, & the Burning Rocker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2023 111:48


    We ring in the New Year with burning plastic and blowjob spots! Welcome to season twelve. Stick around and learn you a little something about van repair, the power of tripods, how to survive a mini Ice Age, public shaming for non-compliers, the benefits of hunger, and there may even be a Hooters calendar. All this and more, this week on... Escaping Society...

    Mile Marker 132: 3rd Take, Rambo Day, & Apologies to Gabby

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2022 168:44


    Happy Thanksgiving and Friday of Color, y'all! We battle against the interference of a weed high that got right on top of us and technical difficulties, maybe from the Technological Singularity itself. We do a thorough book report on Weinstein and Heying's “A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century”, apologize to Gabby Petito and for our “Hobo Buddy Burner” YouTube video, share comments from our YouTube channel (even the ones with negative condensation), and give deep thanks for unrepeatable days, winter boots, freedom (and justice!), Rambo, and eachother. Season finale here, folks. Eleven seasons. And the “escaping society” experiment continues...

    Mile Marker 131: Baby Sizzle, Porky's, & the Dark Ages

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2022 120:41


    We do a book report with dramatic readings from “Gender Queer”, quote Henry Rollins, Tim from Maine, and Shannon from Creedmoor, talk about racism, racism, and more racism, the reincarnation of grass mats, outwoking the woke, how to be hated, and gumby announces his bid for president 2024 on a Dark Age platform with his new preferred pronoun- spitting.

    Sh!t Sandwich

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2022 213:30


    A thick piece of fluffy white bread... “It's the dramatic return of your friend from afar, Mike H.!”... and a thin crusty heel of bread on top, mustard optional.

    All Love Is Good Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2022 134:53


    We go digging into the past to research the origins of where our current cultural views of sex and gender come from. Alfred Kinsey, the father of sex, and John Money, the father of gender. Listen, and then you decide... IS ALL “love” “good love”?

    Mile Marker 128: Telling It True, Denihilism, & Hobiology

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2022 167:00


    We just let ourselves talk for as long as we felt like it. Our conversation took us into Subway, 2,500 years back in time, across the sea to China, past Smugville, into another look at Bernays, old white men, and Alone... where they're killing the poor white weasel. We even take a stab at answering that question only puzzling to our modern culture, what is a woman? So build your cabin, tighten your belt, and see how long you can hang without hitting that red button.

    Mile Marker 127: Farking, Glorified Homeless, & The Gulag Archipelago

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2022 107:55


    Here. We discuss farts... again... I know, I know, but YOU try living in a van with an old dog and a girl from OH and see if farts are not a big part of life. We also share an article about a woman warning against van life, and then spend the rest of the episode discussing views that we have changed since we started the podcast. Trigger warning for sensitive listeners. There's even a wild Persimmon orchard along the way!

    Mile Marker 126: Vote Harder, EscapING Society, & A Pot Of Sex

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2022 66:43


    Teresa recaps her trip up to OH to visit family, we discuss the disease of the mind spreading through our society, and some other stuff...

    Ramblin' Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2022 100:23


    All by my lonesome... I ramble on. When the looord made meee... he made a raaamblin' man.

    Mile Marker 124: Tun, Leaving Paradise, & Teresa's wet scrubby

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 87:50


    Heading down from God's country, Mount Olympus, back to dirty ole' Durm for the winter, we share some final thoughts and highlights about our summer in the mountains. From stories about the characters we've met to the blessings we've received, we say farewell to Paradise for the season. “The mountain's got it's own ways.” -Bear Claw

    Mile Marker 123: Signs, September Blood Drive, & Stink Bug Interruptions

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2022 88:07


    Happy Autumn Equinox! We discuss mah “Bible Flute”, the ethics of sharing food with Yellowjackets, Go Grocery, the quiet little mountain town of Spruce Pine and how insidious wokies might start a race war, the preciousness of water, and even throw in a little something for all y'all wholesome butter-based white people.

    Mile Marker 122: Princess Tukanpapuchi, Appalachiastan, & Luke 24:41

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2022 69:51


    Here we go again... now with sprinkles! We share some recaps about our summer in the mountains, discuss the difference between stupidity and ignorance, and Teresa talks about her hair. Again. Y'up. It's a penetrating and cerebral brain fest here...

    Mile Marker 121: What's new, Followers of Paul, & Victor Rd.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2022 67:57


    We're back at it. Turns out, there was a lot more to be said about how to crap in the woods...

    6. Return of the Human Being

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2022 93:32


    Our final epersode, y'all! F$ck the walking dead, f$ck the machines, and double plus f$ck their dehumanizing bullsheeit and lies. We are human beings. We are the grandchildren of supernovas. We carry oceans in our veins, thunderbolts in our minds, hurricanes in our lungs, and we will never die, as they have never lived. We part ways with words of encouragement and gestures of defiance. Can you hear? Even now, the psychopaths are losing... and they're terrified. The machines are failing, fading, and what shall replace the wetiko? The return of the true human beings. Get ready.

    Mile Marker 119: Cedar Ground Coffee, Squerky, & Swaying Pines

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2022 31:39


    We may be running out of things to say. It's all been said. There comes a time when talking about things needs to make way for doing them.

    Mile Marker 118: The Pirahã, Chorus Frogs, & the Pussy Spoon

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2022 109:55


    Here we go again... I don't even remember what we talked about so... I'll be listening to find out as well!

    Mr. Fitz

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2022 67:32


    Nancy Sue Montgomery. June 17, 1956- February 2, 2022. She was only a hobo, but one more is gone

    Mile Marker 116: Limited Hangouts, Solvitur Ambulando, & the Boobies Shirt

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2022 111:19


    We unpack our tool box in Clown World, revisiting Castaneda and casting spells in the wild life. I do a commercial for King of the Mountain (now for the low low price of $800!), and we consider the three gates of speech as we jabber away about Annie Wilkins- a woman who KNEW the taste of LIFE, and about the clash between the wisdom of building tribe but not liking people. Might walking backwards or anal beads help wake you from the dream? This episode is best paired with finely ground cannabis, served with a generous side of fuck it.

    Mile Marker 115: The Hobo Cone House, The North Pond Hermit, & It's BO time!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2022 80:01


    Cloudy and bone chilling, we unenthusiasticly share some of our thoughts and ponderin's. Cain and Abel, our confederate dog tent, is anybody NOT brain-washed, the kindness of strangers, and the self-inflicted problem that is us are some of the topics we consider this week.

    Mile Marker 114: Wereworms Within, Mass Hypnosis, & Surviving the Branch Covidians

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2022 106:10


    On a chilly, sunny January day, we check in about what's happenin' in our stinky sock little corner of the wilds. We discuss Dr. Robert Malone, Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen, tell-lie-vision, trying to stay anchored in sanity, and as always, ancestral skills. We explore the ethics of vetting who deserves care in a hospital, and who gets to say what is offensive? gumby takes back the more accurate term “sex change” and ditches the fallacious and manipulative “gender affirmation”. Is the plandemic beginning to wind down? What might the next phase of the plan be? And how will we continue to live with friends and family who support vaccine passports and openly say we deserve to suffer, to die, for not complying with their beliefs, their values? All this and more THIS week on... ESCAPING SOCIETY.

    Mile Marker 113: Roadkill, Warm Sex, & (spoiler!) The Matrix Sucks

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2022 99:20


    Oh, we got into a lil' o' EVERthin' in this episode, from Abbott and Costello and gross videos to breaking bottles and bad electricity. We discuss Facebook penalizing our page and the clear insanity of their minion “fact checkers”. We speak on hunting ethics, Charles Bukowski, rewilding... and even throw in a Keanu Reeves impression a time or three, the performance of which is STILL better than any movie the man has ever acted in!

    This Week

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2022 90:02


    From Christmas morning through New Year's Eve, we take you along on another week in the life of a couple of dirty, smelly, deplorable, unrepentant, unjabbed rubber tramps! And this brings the year of 2021 to a hot and uncertain close. May we take responsibility for ourselves, our choices, and move ever closer to escaping the prison walls of the limits of our perceptions, our indoctrination, our own weak excuses, of society in 2022, the year of Soylent Green. Don't just be furniture while we eat eachother! Rewild, resist, unplug, breathe, walk your talk, and take a $%@&! RISK! GO!!

    Mile Marker 111: Hollow Christmas, Questionable Characters, & Alone... with Teresa

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2021 58:31


    It's Christmas Eve, and we turn on the recorder with no particular plan in mind. Our babbling leads us into shows we've watched, books we've read, thoughts we've thunk, smells we've stunk, and Teresa's dead dream of dentistry. Toilet blades. Fermented egg nog. Ghostbusters. Here's an hour of us. No refunds.

    Stopping the World

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2021 153:20


    We indulge in some geeking out on Carlos Castaneda and the separate reality he was taught under his Yaqui teacher, Don Juan. I compiled a list of some of my favorite quotes and passages from his books, books that have been influential and stimulated many a thoughtful conversation during our days trampin'. Hope something here challenges what you think of as reality.

    Mile Marker 109: Starlink, the Metaverse, & “Rufus!”

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2021 118:03


    Wow, season ten! We catch up on our last month and a half of barbarianism, and discuss this dystopian, transhumanist shroud that's falling.

    SHOTS: Like Them

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 1:30


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? When you find yourself in the madness and sin of Sodom, why bother raising your voice against the evil? For the rest, listen to episode 72, “Adshusheer”, season 6.

    SHOTS: MKUltra

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2021 16:45


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? “U” is for Ultra. For the rest, listen to episode 96, “ABCs of C.I.A.”, season 8.

    SHOTS: Designer Babies

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2021 8:57


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? Purchase your sanitized, sterilized, exorcised little creepy genetically modified, customized cloned replica of a human baby now and we'll throw in a matching designer handbag made with shit you'll never see in nature, carefully selected to match your new babies' skin color at half price, but ACT NOW! For the rest, listen to episode 104, “5. Rise of the Trans Human”, season 9.

    SHOTS: Teddy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2021 36:36


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? I so declare we shall learn about the president who tried to change the rules of football! For the rest, listen to episode 37, “Harrison- Coolidge: U.S. Presidents EXPOSED (1889- 1929), season 4.

    SHOTS: Liquor, Snobbery, and Rosé

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2021 15:42


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? gumby discusses the U.S. president who least wanted the job, but got stuck with it anyway. For the rest, listen to episode 35, “Lincoln- Cleveland: U.S. Presidents EXPOSED (1861- 1889)“, season 3.

    SHOTS: wiping zen style

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2021 4:18


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? Have you ever REEEALLY paid attention to wiping your ass? For the rest, listen to episode 38, “Anything Goes”, episode 4.

    SHOTS: 40 Years In The Desert

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2021 3:27


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? Why did Moses and his people have to cross through 40 years of wandering in the desert between slavery and freedom? For the rest, listen to episode 106, “Mile Marker 106: Alphabet Soup, God's Word, & Mike H.”, season 9.

    SHOTS: Sex and Gender

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 12:30


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? Why do the words “sex” and “gender” get used interchangeably sometimes, separately at others, and why all the confusion and manic need for the validation of others? For the rest, listen to episode 107, “Mile Marker 107: Poopin' Lady, the Cotton Ceiling, & the Tao of Waraji”, season 9.

    SHOTS: Manufacture of Consent

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021 48:15


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? Teresa totally bombs Obomber. For the rest, listen to episode 47, “Carter- Trump: U.S. Presidents EXPOSED (1977- 2020)”, season 4.

    SHOTS: Basho

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2021 3:42


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? Sitting silently, doing nothing- Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. For the rest, listen to episode 81, “hobozen”, season 7.

    SHOTS: The Walking Dead

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 5:47


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? We discuss who would and wouldn't survive a zombie apocalypse, and why they need to bury “The Walking Dead”. For the rest, listen to episode 108, “Mile Marker 108: The Fart Puddle, Mencius, & the Age of Demagoguery”, season 9.

    SHOTS: Wilderness

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2021 2:07


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? gumby shares one of his favorite poems, Carl Sandberg's “Wilderness”. For the rest, listen to episode 39, “Leaf Stories and Singing Stones“, season 4.

    SHOTS: The Human Iceberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021 15:55


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? We discuss our 23rd U.S. president, Benjamin Harrison, a cold bastard among cold bastards. For the rest, listen to episode 37, “Harrison- Coolidge: U.S. Presidents EXPOSED (1889- 1929)”, season 4.

    SHOTS: Conspiracy Flu Virus (Jan. 24, 2020)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2021 4:50


    Up for an Escaping Society quickie between seasons? gumbydamas predicts the future weeks, nay, MONTHS before the plandemic hits! For the rest, listen to episode 38, “Anything Goes”, season 4.

    Mile Marker 108: The Fart Puddle, Mencius, & the Age of Demagoguery

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2021 102:05


    Season 9 finale! We share our rabbit poop ponderings, our water seeking wanderings, and our Rock Bottom yonderings, all while celebrating with the company of one of our favorite floral friends. From Trump to BLM, through the shady woods of Facebook fiction, our bottomless ignorance, and the breath of death- collecting pine sap along the way, of course- we tie another one off. Pray for RAIN!

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