Adam Brown

and playing games with time zones and stuff like that.

And they typically, yeah, they're smart people, and they just have a lot to say and don't really have anybody to say it to, so they're very grateful.

They tend to have listened to a huge number of audiobooks.

They have an enormous amount of information stored in their brain, but nobody to tell it to.

Also...

Many of them tend to have had

unlucky romances at some stage in their past that they've never really got over or spoken to.

And I really feel as though many of them would do well to speak to a therapist, but you are the therapist in that case.

So, you know, in many ways, people will tell you things that frequently people will say things like, I've never told anybody else this in my life before.

That's common, not just the truckers, other people as well.

I mean, sometimes it's, you know, family's picking you up and so they're not going to say that, but often it's just,

often it's just, you know, single people picking you up and they'll say, I've never said this before to anyone else in my life.

And, you know, they'll tell you some story of their life.

And I do think it's, obviously I'm very grateful to them for driving me down the road, but I think also it's an exchange and they're also getting quite a lot out of the conversation.

I remember one case going to New Orleans, somebody just meant to only take us,

I think it was just that some state trooper had come along in South Carolina and was going to arrest us because it's illegal in some states to hitchhike in North Carolina.

And so I was just like, I could just take the next ride.

And it was just 10 miles down the road.

And he ended up getting so into it that we ended up driving up, you know,

maybe a thousand miles out of his way by the time we'd gone and he'd had this you know we're having great conversations just absolutely sort of wonderful time and he just wanted to keep going and going and drive us through the night and then we ended up going through the deep south in the middle of the night and arriving in near New Orleans around