Morning 6-Pack - Back from 1998? Here’s 6 quick catch-ups

We start with the jaw-dropper: Carl Bushby walked away in 1998 and literally circled the globe — 28 years and about 31,000 miles later he shows up at his mom’s doorstep in 2026. I crack open the Morning 6-Pack to run through the top things he’d gotta catch up on after being gone since ’98. We roast the idea of him having to binge all the new Star Wars flicks (like 47 of ’em), dust off a resume, and maybe settle an $86,000 Blockbuster late fee on Armageddon. Along the way I remind y’all how wild the trip was — frozen Bering Strait, Caspian swims, arrests, wars, wild animals — so the whole “maybe I’ll live in my mom’s basement” bit is peak sitcom. I keep it snappy and sarcastic, save the number-one punchline for the countdown, and basically wonder aloud: how do you catch up after 28 years of walking?

Takeaways:

• We tell the wild Carl Bushby story — left in 1998, walked about 31,000 miles and returned after 28 years.
• I joke about the emotional catch-up: his mom hadn’t seen him in a decade and he’s never met his granddaughter, so family reunion awkwardness incoming.
• We run a speedy Morning 6-Pack of things to catch up on after being gone since 1998, like bingeing new Star Wars movies and updating a resume.
• I roast the bureaucracy — planned 12 years turned into 28 thanks to visas, paperwork, and border nonsense slowing the whole epic walk.
• We marvel at the bonkers physical feats: crossing the frozen Bering Strait, swimming the Caspian Sea and English Channel, and surviving 30 different countries.
• I keep it silly and snarky while pointing out reality checks — arrests, wars, wild animals, and the odd chance he might end up back in Mom’s basement.