Brad Blanks
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1,992 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Yeah, I I I took a voy something I always wanted to do.
I walked across England.
I did the uh coast to coast walk.
Yeah, uh I've been eyeing that off for about ten years, and then earlier in the year my son, who's seventeen years of age, said, Dad, I'll join you.
And uh yeah, he has mild cerebral pal palsy, so it's quite difficult for him to walk around the streets of New York where we live.
Um so I was like, Jeezy, you're gonna be able to walk two hundred miles, three hundred and
twenty kilometers across England and he said, Dad, I'll be fine.
And uh we we turned up there on St B's, which is about three hours north of Manchester, and we got in there, beautiful coastal town, and we just started walking.
I took a wrong turn on the first mile and it took us about you know uh it's five K's off track.
But uh this kid showed great resilience and I was very surprised what he did and it was an epic, you know, we did it in twelve days, which
which is big for a couple of sl uh slow characters like us.
And I was very proud of my son Harvey and he was uh amazing.
Tough days, a lot of arguments, but um to walk across England uh was madness.
It was a lot tougher than what the brochure suggested, Jared.
Yeah, my uh parents I married an English lady and uh her parents did the walk uh uh uh you know about ten years ago and I'd love to do that.
I'd love to challenge myself and uh I yeah, we we ended up staying with them the weekend afterwards and they said, Oh, you did it in twelve days.
We did it in twenty one days and it was the hardest walk of our lives and I went, Why didn't you tell me that beforehand?
Because the first three days we're sc scaling mountains and actually rock climbing.
I'm
Like, what the heck is going on here?
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