Send us a text The night goes quiet when the snow starts to fall—until the trees begin to crack. We open with the 2003 Colorado blizzard that sealed doors and turned roofs into playgrounds, then jump to the eerie 2021 freeze where waterlogged branches snapped like glass and crushed cars in the street. There’s levity too. A quick, honest take on Predator: Badlands—surprisingly fun, PG-13 cleverness, some iffy CGI—and a running birthday gag. If this hit your nostalgia, made you rethink winter...

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The night goes quiet when the snow starts to fall—until the trees begin to crack. We open with the 2003 Colorado blizzard that sealed doors and turned roofs into playgrounds, then jump to the eerie 2021 freeze where waterlogged branches snapped like glass and crushed cars in the street. There’s levity too. A quick, honest take on Predator: Badlands—surprisingly fun, PG-13 cleverness, some iffy CGI—and a running birthday gag.

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00:00 - Snowstorm Ambience And 2003 Blizzard

06:18 - Snow Tunnels, Slush Traps, And VHS Nights

13:28 - Sleeping In A Snow Cave: Safety And Awe

23:16 - The 2021 Breaker: Trees, Cars, And Cold

29:51 - Bomb Cyclone 2019 And Property Mayhem

36:11 - Whiteout Drive, Semis, And Survival Choices

42:31 - Duck Hunt In Negative Seventeen

48:41 - Precious Cargo And The Road Rage Mirror Tap

56:41 - Predator Badlands Review

01:03:01 - The Dave Matthews Birthday Bit Escalates

01:11:11 - Butt Rock, Creed, And Music Nostalgia

01:18:41 - Communal Music, DDR, And Early Viral Internet

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You hear the ambient snowstorm?

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I do.

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Is it peaceful?

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It's fitting.

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We finally had ourselves a snowstorm.

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Alright.

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This is one of the later ones.

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Later what?

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Snow s like first real snow.

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Yeah, but it's supposed to be a bag big one.

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Supposed to be uh Nina, like heavy, heavy snow this year.

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That's what the farmer's almanac says.

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Those come in like those like late February, March ones.

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Yeah.

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The like final angry one before April.

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Because it was it was 2021.

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When we had that last big one.

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It broke everything, all the trees and stuff.

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And we had it was that one was one of the biggest ones in like the last 15 years.

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It was like the here it was was it 30 inches here?

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I know in Cheyenne it was 42 inches in Cheyenne, because I had an employee who lived there and he couldn't get to work for four days.

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Where were you in the year uh of our Lord 2000?

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Actually it would have been 2003.

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I had just moved to Colorado Springs.

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Oh, so did you I had I got the big one.

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You got the big one.

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That was the that was awesome.

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That was the best childhood memories of like winter I've ever had in my life.

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Oh yeah.

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My dad was just out there shoveling for hours, and we were digging snow caves, and it was it was great.

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Yeah, I was I was down in like South Denver area at the time for that one.

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And I remember my mom coming downstairs telling me, like, all right, let's say a prayer for some snow because it's supposed to snow heavy enough that you know you might not have to go to school tomorrow.

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It was a Sunday, it was the Sunday before spring break.

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Like the week, the next week would be spring break.

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And so I was like, yeah, that'd be cool.

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Snow day.

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And then I have to go to school one less day this week before spring break, that'd be great.

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And then we woke up and like the doors were sealed.

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Yeah, it was five feet where we were in Denver.

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It was drifting up in spots like that's crazy.

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Dude, yeah, it was it was to the point where like because we had a single story house with a basement, and so it was a low-sitting house too.

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Like it was not a very tall single story.

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Um and so the snow went all the way up past the gutters from like how how far the roof sloped down on the sides.

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And so that was that was pretty cool because I could just like we should shut the roof.

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Yeah, we shoveled out stairs basically and then climbed up those onto the roof.

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My grandfather worked for Channel 4 News, and they were stuck down at Channel 4 for like two days.

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Oh man.

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And they had to walk across the snow that had built up in Denver.

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Um it was funny, like, because like the they couldn't get out the front door, so they like had to again shovel upstairs so they could climb up onto the street and then walk across, you know, the four or five feet of snow on the street to the Mexican restaurant, and they had called and they were like, Hey, is anyone there?

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And they're like, Yeah, we're snowed in.

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They're like, if we walk over, can you make food?

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And he was like, Oh yeah, for sure.

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And so they walked over to the Mexican restaurant across the street and like climbed down into the Mexican restaurant and ate food there.

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And like, I just think it was crazy because like in my head, I thought that was uh that was like the movie of uh the day after tomorrow, you know?

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Uh-huh.

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Snowstorm just annihilates like most of the most of the northern hemisphere.

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And I just remember thinking, I was like, oh, this is it.

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This is this is the thing they tell talk about in school.

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This is the global warming.

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Yeah.

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And then it was like a week later, all of it was gone.

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Compl classic Colorado, all five feet, melted away.

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And then it was a week of spring break, and it was baller.

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I loved it.

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I had two weeks off of school.

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Because I had just come here from Texas.

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And my I'm glad you experienced that.

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It was awesome because that was like once in a century.

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It was, it was it was so crazy.

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And my my parents had gotten with my one of my best friends from Texas and flown him up here.

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Oh nice.

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Until he got here, and then that storm hit.

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So they surpr I remember too, they surprised me at school, like getting out of school, like he was there with my parents, and I was like, they surprised me.

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I was like, what the heck?

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Hunter's here.

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And then we uh went home, then it snowed like crazy.

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And yeah, we just and then because he was standing up with us for all spring break, and it was so fun to have that wild storm.

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So was that so it was the week of your spring break on the springs, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So we uh it was probably like a week earlier than yours because we had basically we went right in the spring.

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That was the way they all were, but it was different counties.

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We just I just remember making t snow tunnels.

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Yeah, dude, that was good.

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That was we did snow tunnels uh trying to get across the street to our neighbor's house.

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Um, my neighbor across the street was my babysitter, but she was also like really cool tomboy in high school, was teaching me like how to skate ball uh skateboard and like you know play baseball and stuff.

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I I in my head I remember her being like very conventionally pretty, but she was so tomboy that like I also remember her just kind of being more like a very cool older brother almost.

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You know what I mean?

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Yeah and she was the single she was the only daughter of like a war vet dude and stuff, so like she he had pretty much just raised her to be like very, you know, independent.

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Um but anyways, so we were like, oh yeah, let's go, let's get across the street and see like what they're doing if they want to hang out.

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This was like two days of us shoveling, trying to navigate these tunnels and like popping up periscope-wise, and then giving feedback to one another to try to get across.

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This is my stepbrother and I.

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And uh, I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna try to sled across.

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And so I like go to the top and I sit on one of those like circle sleds, and I start pulling it across on the snow with my hands.

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And I'm like, I remember seeing the van, our van that is parked on the street.

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It was like a big camper van.

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So it had like, you know, I could see just through the uh tops of the windows, the curtains of the back of it, and the ladder going on to the top.

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And that's how I knew I was like at the street.

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And I don't know why.

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I don't know if it was the heat, the like stored energy of the heat and pavement, or if it was like the sewer system and stuff, but when I hit the street, I fell through the snow.

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Oh no, like a like less than a foot of it, like it was snow on top of water.

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And I went into like the slushiest, wettest snow.

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Like it was it, I felt like I was very wet.

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Oh, it felt like I was in water, like liquid water, right?

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And so I like remember going and flaying my hands around and finding the sled and like holding onto it, and I couldn't pull myself back up because it kept on sinking into the slush with me.

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It was like quicksand snow.

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Yeah, and so I found the like I kept on like struggling to get over and grabbed a hold of the ladder to the van.

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I climbed on top of the van.

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And I was like, what the hell?

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And I was looking and like it kind of didn't move super liquidly, like, but the snow, the way it packed down on it again on the slush, it just looked like it wasn't there at all.

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There was like, yeah, there's no way to tell.

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And I was like, oh my god.

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And uh my my stepbrother, we'll just call him V.

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I was like, V's about to hit that, and so like I started like heavy foot stepping off the van back into our yard and going back to the tunnel entrance.

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I started crawling through, and I was like, V, stop, stop, it's all water, and like I remember he's like, What do you mean?

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And I get there, like, don't dig any further, it's gonna, it's water.

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And he's like, No, dude, it's snow, look, it's right, it's snow.

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He like hand scooping with like a beach shovel, you know what I mean?

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Like a little like sand castle shovel, scoops the snow away, and it just like starts spilling out, like vomiting, this dirty, wet, slush snow, splashes past him, starts like flooding him in the face, and I'm like, Oh, we gotta get out of here.

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So he turns around, we start crawling out of the tunnels as they're filling up with water and just like collapsing behind us.

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And when we got out, it was it looked pretty cool because you could see the tunnel system, how it collapsed from the slush from the street just spilling into it, right?

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But that was like in my brain, did you ever see that movie Ants?

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That's what it was.

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Oh, yeah.

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It was like when they hit the like the pond or whatever, or the sprinkler system while they're at the ants are digging and the whole all the ant tunnels flood.

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In my brain, I was like, we're gonna drown down here's like the movie Ant.

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But it was such a good time, dude.

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It was that was easily like one of the most amazing, magical because I also was just like, whenever we were done, we were just watching home recorded video VHS tapes.

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Yep.

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So it was like everything we had recorded on VHS from like over the years, so it was like I had Dinotopia.

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That was a great one.

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Dinotopia, that was a good one to watch.

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It was like so long as a kid that it couldn't keep my attention, but like it was great to put on and then play with my dinosaur toys while I was playing.

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Watched uh I'm trying to remember, um, we VHS recorded Oh, we VHS recorded the um uh Batman movie with um Oh, you got his name in my head right there.

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I know, but I got both their names.

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Um Birdman.

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Birdman.

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Actor who played Batman.

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He was a great Batman.

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Um then the guy who played the Joker was um Jack Nicholson.

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That one was almost like a horror movie to me as a kid.

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Like, because Jack Nicholson was so scary in it.

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Mm-hmm.

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It was very scary in that movie.

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Yeah.

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Um Yeah, those are those are great, that was a great time.

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Did you guys did you and your buddy do anything crazy?

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Like anything like borderline dangerous because of the weight of the snow and like how much there was.

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I mean, just the also being from Texas, it was just like the the sheer amount of snow was just incredible.

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Can't comprehend it.

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And just and being in what's crazy about when you do make a snow tunnel, when it does collapse in, you are kind of stuck in there.

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People that's how people die.

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Yeah.

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And like that's how people die in avalanches.

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Or like the next day when you come into your snow tunnel, and it's got smaller.

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It's like because it shrinking, it's collapsing.

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Yeah.

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Have you ever slept in a snow cave?

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No, never.

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It's uh I've done it before and it's it's pretty wild.

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We uh I would I mean I get the concept and I think it'd be cool.

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But I'm also just like it's not really realistic in Colorado, you know, like but you'd have to go into them hills to really do it.

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And I think like if you were to do it, it'd make more sense like further north into like Wyoming somewhere where they get, you know, we we just don't get the same amount of snow drift because we have so much to break it up.

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Yeah, yeah, you definitely have to go up in the mountains for it.

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But the um we went to this spot that had these like 15-foot-tall drifts.

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That's crazy.

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And uh we we hiked in there and dug into it, and uh it is it's like probably I bet it was like dried drifts, like packed dry ice borderline.

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Yeah, it was it was it they were pretty packed, and it was we worked up a sweat make it.

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What the crazy thing about digging a snow cave is how much you can get yourself in trouble is one, you work up a sweat digging it.

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And so if you don't fin if you don't like unlayer while you do it and or get it done in time, like you're just gonna be you're gonna be freezing cold.

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And so we where we were, it was the it was starting to get uh towards the end of the day, like we weren't quite done with it yet.

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Me and my cousin were just getting sweaty.

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It was like, man, we gotta finish this thing up.

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And then a cross-country skier came in there, and really we had hiked in where there's really gonna be nobody back there, but there is a trail through there, and a cross-country skier came and he was coming, and he came over to us.

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We're like, hey, hey, wait, wait, because he was coming over the drift where our cave was, and we're like, Oh, wait, hey, could you stop right there?

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Like, don't go forward at all.

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Because we just built a snow cave just beneath where where your where your skis are.

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He's like, Oh, okay, and like he's talking to us for a second, and like our plan is we had hiked like it was a mile or two from the car, and we were gonna sleep in there that night, and it's like the sun's starting to go down, and this guy's coming over, and after we get done talking with him, we're like, hey, but like just reminder, like, there's a snow cave right in front of you if you could go around, and he was just like, Yeah, okay, and goes straight over it.

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And it was like thinking about it, I was like, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, like maybe he just completely did not understand what we were talking about.

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Yeah, or but then also he thought it was closer, or maybe he's just a like he's a road biker of the snow, yeah, just a D-bag.

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All skiers, yeah.

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Just well, just the cross-country skiers, you know, whatever his deal was.

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But then I realized I was like, if he had collapsed that, it was starting to get cold enough and windy enough, and we were soaking wet from working, I was like, we could be all of a sudden in a really big pickle.

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Like, it's time to hike back to the car quickly before we freeze.

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But we we crawled in there and we got in, and we'd actually we'd built it with um two shelves to sleep on, and we dug in some like little tiny uh uh little alcoves around it, and taken our ice axe and we connected a hole down, or we did about five holes around the edges, and we put candles in there, survival candles in there and lit them, like an eight-hour candle, and then lit them.

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And um first with an ice cave, you you get it real, you get it, you light a fire in there, get it hot, and then or you light candles, get it hot, and then take them out, and then you let it freeze and it forms like an ice barrier.

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But then, and then when you light those candles, one you gotta have the scary thing about snow cave is yeah, you gotta be careful like expending too much energy to make one.

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If you're in a real struggle situation, it's like you spend a lot of calories, two, you gotta ventilate it.

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So like those holes are super important because you can um just die from using up all your oxygen, having no oxygen in your cave.

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Um, and then but then two is like if it collapses, it's like most of the night I was like kind of waking up like, is it getting closer?

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Is it gonna because we had this snow cave, we had about at the peak of it, we probably had five to six feet of snow on top of us.

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And I was like, That's a lot more than you need.

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It's more than you need, but it's so but it's also like that's a lot of if that thing falls, we're gonna be in a pickle.

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Yeah.

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That's what I mean.

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Like, that's why like there's like a rule or something about I remember reading it for like when you're making your own igloo, essentially, like about like how much weight you should have on the top third or something like that.

00:18:46.179 --> 00:18:47.779
There was somewhere ratio.

00:18:47.939 --> 00:18:49.299
I'm sure someone can look it up.

00:18:49.619 --> 00:18:52.659
But it was so quiet and warm in there.

00:18:52.819 --> 00:18:53.299
Oh yeah.

00:18:53.460 --> 00:19:02.740
And then when I woke up in the morning, I opened up our little makeshift door and the wind was whipping like uh 50, 60, 70 mile an hour winds.

00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:02.980
Whoa.

00:19:03.299 --> 00:19:08.019
Which makes sense why the snow drifts were there in this area because of how windy it is.

00:19:08.339 --> 00:19:11.939
But in the cave, dead silent.

00:19:12.099 --> 00:19:12.500
Yeah, yeah.

00:19:12.740 --> 00:19:18.659
Which also, if it collapses on you, your screams will also be dead silent.

00:19:18.980 --> 00:19:19.220
Yeah.

00:19:19.539 --> 00:19:20.659
So you gotta be careful.

00:19:20.740 --> 00:19:24.979
But um, it's a pretty fun experience to go go sleep in old snow cave.

00:19:25.059 --> 00:19:38.419
So, but yes, but my my uh imagination or my uh wonderment about you know making snow tunnels started that day back in the 2003 spring break, just being like digging a cave and going in.

00:19:38.499 --> 00:19:39.059
It was pretty fun.

00:19:39.299 --> 00:19:41.059
You ever been able to do more?

00:19:41.299 --> 00:19:45.059
Well, I guess yeah, that was one that was a snow cave you did because you said you guys drove in there.

00:19:45.219 --> 00:19:50.739
Because I just don't think there's ever been a weather like a snowstorm big enough for us to do anything similar to that.

00:19:51.059 --> 00:19:51.939
Not in town.

00:19:52.099 --> 00:19:55.139
You gotta go under the boonies out on the sticks.

00:19:55.539 --> 00:19:57.859
And we did build one once.

00:19:58.019 --> 00:20:03.139
This is the it's a you if you pile the snow and then dig it out, man, that's a hard dig.

00:20:03.299 --> 00:20:03.699
Oh yeah.

00:20:03.939 --> 00:20:04.739
Because it's so compact.

00:20:04.819 --> 00:20:06.499
But we have done that once.

00:20:07.299 --> 00:20:14.739
But that one also is like if you do it, you know, when you don't have enough snow, just looks ugly.

00:20:14.899 --> 00:20:15.139
Yeah.

00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:21.459
Because you just got grass poking up through where you removed it all, and then you got like this weird, abominable pile of snow.

00:20:21.859 --> 00:20:31.379
Um, okay, but that one in 2021, 21, 2021, um, I remember that one because it had been so cold.

00:20:31.539 --> 00:20:35.139
It was so cold that like no one was expecting the that snow.

00:20:35.299 --> 00:20:38.419
It was like well, well, well below zero.

00:20:39.219 --> 00:20:51.859
And um, I remember I woke up because I heard while it was snowing that night, the like cracking popping of the trees because it is so quiet.

00:20:52.019 --> 00:20:56.259
It was you you know, when it's snowing like that, it's so silent and it's a dampener.

00:20:56.579 --> 00:21:05.139
And so then when you hear something as loud as like a tree limb snapping or splitting from the weight, it's pretty loud.

00:21:05.699 --> 00:21:09.779
And I heard it and I wake up and it's like 2 30 a.m.

00:21:10.339 --> 00:21:18.419
I think it was actually like three, and I get up and I go outside and I hear this limb snap and crash into a car.

00:21:19.139 --> 00:21:27.219
And I'm looking around our street to see like which one just had like a limb fall in it, and I start hearing all the other limbs kind of snapping and cracking, right?

00:21:27.299 --> 00:21:29.459
Like they weren't breaking entirely yet.

00:21:30.019 --> 00:21:34.099
So I go and I woke my roommates up like, guys, we need to move all of our cars away from the trees.

00:21:34.259 --> 00:21:34.499
Yeah.

00:21:34.659 --> 00:21:41.459
And like while we were going out there to get our cars and move them, limbs were like snapping and falling down onto other cars.

00:21:41.939 --> 00:21:43.139
And this is the crazy thing, too.

00:21:43.219 --> 00:21:52.739
It was so cold that a ton of cars, I like I think their batteries were dead because their alarms weren't going off after the trees fell on them.

00:21:53.379 --> 00:21:56.339
And uh, or fell through the windows, right?

00:21:56.419 --> 00:22:14.099
And it was it was one of those things that was pretty crazy because I remember my roommate uh call him Jay, and he was moving his car, his car did not have four-wheel drive when we were having to push his car to get it started to get like out from the snow, um, packed around it and get it enough traction on the street.

00:22:14.259 --> 00:22:24.659
And as we were doing that, we had just pushed him and he's kind of curving around to a spot where there's no tree limbs hanging over, not big ones, like if they broke, they wouldn't break his car.

00:22:24.819 --> 00:22:38.499
And as we were like stepping back on the sidewalk and kind of directing him, probably like 30 seconds after we had moved, the tree right above his car essentially, you know, split down the middle and like just crushed into the street where like he would have been.

00:22:38.659 --> 00:22:42.019
And it was such a it was like that was like the last week of spring.

00:22:42.419 --> 00:22:48.499
The other one back in like 2003, that snowstorm was like beginning of spring.

00:22:48.659 --> 00:22:50.739
So that was like first week of March.

00:22:51.059 --> 00:22:59.379
This one came after like all the trees had gone real rubbery and already were blooming and their leaves were in full bloom.

00:22:59.459 --> 00:23:07.459
And so like they were full of just liquid, and when that freezing temperature came in, they started like.

00:23:08.099 --> 00:23:15.059
Actually, like freezing themselves, like in the interior of the limbs and stuff was freezing because they were so wet.

00:23:15.219 --> 00:23:18.179
And then the snow came and that just made them brittle.

00:23:18.259 --> 00:23:20.579
And they were snapping and breaking like glass.

00:23:20.659 --> 00:23:22.019
I remember that was like the weirdest thing.

00:23:22.099 --> 00:23:26.019
The way they were like breaking and falling off was super strange.

00:23:26.739 --> 00:23:28.819
Um, but the sounds were crazy, dude.

00:23:28.899 --> 00:23:41.779
And I remember we like we're like, whose car just got crushed because we heard the glass shatter and like walked down the street and we found this limb going through this car's like sunroof into the like you know back of it.

00:23:42.339 --> 00:23:45.379
And uh I was shocked.

00:23:45.459 --> 00:23:46.819
I was like, all right guys, we should go back inside.

00:23:46.899 --> 00:23:47.379
It's pretty cold.

00:23:47.459 --> 00:23:51.299
And I didn't realize, but like in pushing the cars and stuff like that, I had cut my hands up.

00:23:51.379 --> 00:23:51.699
Oh, right.

00:23:52.099 --> 00:23:57.939
It was so cold that like your skin like felt like tissue y.

00:23:58.179 --> 00:24:06.739
And the blood, I didn't know my my hands didn't sting from cutting them, pushing on the bumpers and stuff, but they were so sticky, and that's how I noticed they were bleeding.

00:24:06.819 --> 00:24:09.299
Because I was like, what is that weird, like tacky stickiness?

00:24:09.379 --> 00:24:10.739
Because your blood was freezing.

00:24:11.299 --> 00:24:15.139
And I looked at my hands and they were just covered in like icy sparkly blood.

00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:19.459
And my buddy's hands too, because you know, just we were both pushing on the same car bumpers.

00:24:19.699 --> 00:24:22.819
And that was like, I was like, maybe we should get inside.

00:24:22.979 --> 00:24:28.339
Like it was if it's that cold, like you're actually at risk of like getting a frostbite pretty quick.

00:24:28.659 --> 00:24:47.299
But it was magic, I mean it was very beautiful, but it was very eerie looking around, and everything was perfectly still and there's no sound, and because of how cold in like the time of night it was, there's no one out, but everything was glowing from the reflection of like the lights and stuff off the fresh heavy snow.

00:24:47.779 --> 00:24:59.459
And it was like you'd hear something snap and fall, you'd turn around and there'd be no movement, but all of a sudden there'd just be an extra branch, and it was it was very creepy, it kind of felt like the trees were attacking you almost, you know.

00:24:59.859 --> 00:25:05.379
It was crazy, and you know it's a big storm when a road grader gets stuck.

00:25:05.539 --> 00:25:09.459
Yeah, like there was like it was just like stuck on side of like things like that, just couldn't move.

00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:31.539
And I was I was kicking myself at that storm because oh literally four weeks before, I'd almost pulled the trigger on putting a plow on my truck and getting contracted, and I was like, man, it's gonna just like it's just like two, too much money, like it was like five grand for this whole setup that I don't want, and I was like, I didn't do it, and I was like, I would have paid that off in one day.

00:25:31.699 --> 00:25:40.179
Oh yeah, just going around, yeah, just backdraging people's driveways, whatever, but um, and that storm was crazy.

00:25:40.259 --> 00:25:53.539
I shoveled out the shop here, and I just got done shoveling out the shop, came inside, and then all the snow off the roof fell off, and then I opened the garage door and it was the white wall.

00:25:53.699 --> 00:25:55.139
Yeah, five feet tall.

00:25:55.299 --> 00:26:00.099
Yeah, but this was the avalanche snow, so it was and it was like I was like, oh my god.

00:26:00.419 --> 00:26:01.459
It would have killed you, dude.

00:26:01.539 --> 00:26:02.179
It filling you.

00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:02.659
That's true.

00:26:02.739 --> 00:26:04.499
I was glad I wasn't out there, but it would have squished me a bit.

00:26:04.659 --> 00:26:06.019
I was like, oh, time to start shoveling.

00:26:06.099 --> 00:26:13.699
We shoveled so much because at that time I had about 40 VRBO properties that I was in charge of maintenance on.

00:26:13.859 --> 00:26:14.259
Oh, really?

00:26:14.499 --> 00:26:16.259
And we were shoveling our butts off, dude.

00:26:16.899 --> 00:26:19.459
Oh my gosh, we were just shoveling forever.

00:26:19.699 --> 00:26:24.739
Dude, that is a that is a one thing too that is such a young man's job.

00:26:25.059 --> 00:26:32.179
Yeah, like shoveling snow in the middle of the night, like no one realizes how insane that is until you do it for like eight hours.

00:26:32.419 --> 00:26:32.899
Mm-hmm.

00:26:33.939 --> 00:26:34.659
Yep, yep.

00:26:34.739 --> 00:26:37.699
And if you're an old man doing it, you've made some poor life decisions.

00:26:39.619 --> 00:26:49.379
Do you remember that the one of the craziest that was a crazy amount of snow, but the craziest storm I think I've seen here was the bomb cyclone in 2019.

00:26:50.739 --> 00:27:04.659
It was March in uh early March 2019, and it dumped like 10 inches of snow in like no joke, like like 30 minutes.

00:27:04.979 --> 00:27:06.179
Yeah, I mean I was here for it.

00:27:06.339 --> 00:27:07.299
I guess I just don't remember it.

00:27:07.619 --> 00:27:10.819
It was the only reason I remember the reason I remember those because I was a maintenance man.

00:27:11.059 --> 00:27:28.659
Similarly, I had a bunch of properties that we had been out shoveling and taking care of, and it or or we were just not doing maintenance, but then all of a sudden this like it was like all hell broke loose because we had typically when snow snowstorm happens, you you go out at night and you shovel all the properties and the morning starts and then everybody's stuff's clear.

00:27:28.739 --> 00:27:28.979
Yeah.

00:27:29.139 --> 00:27:34.339
But these were all commercial properties, and like everybody's calling, like, where's the snow removal guys?

00:27:34.579 --> 00:27:42.739
But it was like it was we were driving down the road and it went from just like kind of a little bit of a cloudy day to literally white out condition.

00:27:42.899 --> 00:27:43.059
Yeah.

00:27:46.819 --> 00:27:55.139
Similar to the trees break, this one had broke a lot of trees too, and a one at one of the properties, one of those 200-year-old cottonwoods.

00:27:55.219 --> 00:28:01.699
Oh, yeah, like can't wrap your arms around big, fell just across like five cars and like just flattened them.

00:28:01.779 --> 00:28:08.979
And I'm and I was I I've been out and I was taking pictures of all these things and showing my boss because he was like, Hey, could you get out there and clean some snow up and clean some branches up?

00:28:09.139 --> 00:28:10.339
Hey, could you get out there and do your job?

00:28:10.499 --> 00:28:12.499
Yeah, hey, can you clean the snow up and clean the branches up?

00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:20.259
And I was like, I texted him these pictures of like the war zone, and he was like, uh just kind of do it.

00:28:20.739 --> 00:28:21.219
Don't die.

00:28:21.379 --> 00:28:25.219
Yeah, it was kind of like, well, put some ice melt on the injuries, get out of there.

00:28:25.379 --> 00:28:27.459
I was like, Yeah, dude, this is crazy.

00:28:27.619 --> 00:28:39.059
Um, I think I do remember that one because uh um that was the time when I was working uh at the jail where I had just left the jail.

00:28:39.299 --> 00:28:42.019
Uh yeah, I think I actually had just stopped working at the jail.

00:28:42.499 --> 00:28:44.419
It's hard to it's hard to keep track of.

00:28:45.459 --> 00:28:46.979
But anyway, oh no, no, no, no.

00:28:47.059 --> 00:28:47.459
No, it was.

00:28:47.539 --> 00:28:48.899
I was I I was working at the jail.

00:28:49.059 --> 00:28:51.219
But yeah, it was that was a stressful time, dude.

00:28:51.379 --> 00:29:04.259
That was uh that was definitely a stressful time because I remember just how many trees were broken on my drive to work and how many cars were in town just spun out.

00:29:04.499 --> 00:29:07.699
It's like everyone woke up the next morning and was like, oh, I guess I'll still go to work.

00:29:08.179 --> 00:29:19.459
And it was like, hey, bud, like if like it, if it, if the streets aren't plowed yet and it's still white out, like you can you could call your boss and be like, I'm gonna be late.

00:29:19.619 --> 00:29:21.699
I guarantee you your boss is gonna be late.

00:29:21.859 --> 00:29:22.659
You know what I mean?

00:29:22.899 --> 00:29:27.379
But I that was a crazy because I had to go, you know, law enforcement, you just have to go.

00:29:27.539 --> 00:29:29.059
Yeah, like there's just not a choice.

00:29:29.619 --> 00:29:33.699
So, and I remember going and just seeing how many cars are spinning.

00:29:33.779 --> 00:29:34.499
It was crazy.

00:29:34.739 --> 00:29:37.139
And okay, look at this picture though, real quick.

00:29:37.299 --> 00:29:42.659
This is the bomb cyclone from the um Oh yeah.

00:29:42.819 --> 00:29:47.139
It's literally a hurricane snow across the whole country, but look at where Fort Collins is.

00:29:47.299 --> 00:29:47.939
Yep.

00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:49.539
Right in there.

00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:51.139
It's crazy.

00:29:53.459 --> 00:29:55.779
Yeah, that was a crazy time.

00:29:56.259 --> 00:30:00.099
Um last night though, dude, I was driving home from the movie theaters.

00:30:00.339 --> 00:30:01.219
Oh yeah.

00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:22.739
Um, and I was uh driving north on the highway, right, and I see the snow plows, and like if you live in any like town or any city, not city, I guess, if you live in a state that has like a dedicated snowplow service for the highways and stuff, you often see them getting rolled out, and sometimes you're like, Really?

00:30:22.819 --> 00:30:24.099
They're rolling them out already?

00:30:24.339 --> 00:30:25.539
Like, there's nothing.

00:30:26.019 --> 00:30:30.099
And there had been flurries for several hours, but nothing sticking, dude.

00:30:30.179 --> 00:30:40.179
And in one mile, it went from flurries and nothing sticking to complete white out, and I couldn't see the highway anymore.

00:30:40.339 --> 00:30:45.219
And I got like ran off the highway by a semi that didn't know where the road was.

00:30:45.459 --> 00:30:46.099
Oh my goodness.

00:30:46.259 --> 00:30:51.459
Yeah, dude, he like he was coming up behind me so fast, and I was like, dude, I I can't see anything.

00:30:51.939 --> 00:30:53.619
I couldn't see exit signs.

00:30:53.859 --> 00:30:57.619
Like that's it, that's how that's how blacked out it was from the snow.

00:30:58.099 --> 00:31:16.739
And uh, I remember going slow enough, and he was coming up pretty quick and went to I think trying to pass me, and I s I noticed the semi itself starting to tilt because he was going off the highway on the easement, and then he came back and kind of corrected.

00:31:17.059 --> 00:31:30.339
But he corrected too sharp, so I had to break, and I just got over until I felt it wasn't like the snow didn't wasn't so thick that like on the it didn't fill up or stack up, I guess, on the pavement enough that you couldn't feel the the bumps, right?

00:31:30.419 --> 00:31:31.459
You know, from the shoulder.

00:31:32.259 --> 00:31:35.779
So once I felt those, I just kind of stopped and let that semi get ahead.

00:31:35.859 --> 00:31:42.419
But I swear to God, Pat, like probably 20 feet in front of my car, his taillights were gone.

00:31:42.579 --> 00:31:43.379
It was unreal.

00:31:43.459 --> 00:31:50.339
It was the it was like it was probably the craziest I've seen, like not in the mountains from like nothing to like absolute blizzard white out.

00:31:50.419 --> 00:31:54.259
I was probably I just went 25 miles an hour and four-wheel drive the rest of the way on the highway.

00:31:54.739 --> 00:31:57.459
And uh then it's scary about someone coming up behind you.

00:31:58.259 --> 00:31:58.659
That was the thing.

00:31:58.739 --> 00:32:01.619
I was like, I was like, I don't know if they could see me, so I just threw it on flashers.

00:32:01.699 --> 00:32:03.539
I was like, hopefully they'll see the pattern.

00:32:04.339 --> 00:32:11.939
But um the uh I mean you you know like my exit pull-off for my little town just north of us, right?

00:32:12.499 --> 00:32:20.659
And I it was so dark and so white out, dude, that I couldn't tell if I passed that exit and was on my way to Wyoming.

00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:24.579
So I I had to like pull over again and put on maps.

00:32:24.739 --> 00:32:25.139
Oh man.

00:32:25.379 --> 00:32:27.539
Because it was like, and I you just couldn't see.

00:32:28.019 --> 00:32:30.499
And you couldn't see the streetlights on overpasses.

00:32:30.579 --> 00:32:31.619
There was nothing, dude.

00:32:32.019 --> 00:32:33.379
It was surreal.

00:32:33.459 --> 00:32:37.619
I debated, I was like, maybe I should just like four-wheel drive off the highway.

00:32:37.779 --> 00:32:42.899
I know there's a county road, and it's a lot safer to be on the county road at night than on the highway in a white out.

00:32:44.659 --> 00:32:47.699
But it was it was also like by the time I got home, it ended.

00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:52.739
Like by it, so in that like usually it's like a 15-minute drive home.

00:32:53.539 --> 00:33:01.539
In that like 45-minute drive home going super slow on the highway, it was there and done.

00:33:01.699 --> 00:33:07.299
It was it went from nothing at all to 10 inches of snow dumped to being over.

00:33:07.779 --> 00:33:08.419
Yep.

00:33:08.899 --> 00:33:17.859
It that happened to us one time when we so when you duck hunt, bad bad weather is good weather.

00:33:18.019 --> 00:33:19.859
And this big storm was coming.

00:33:20.019 --> 00:33:23.379
It was um But don't the ducks not want to fly in bad weather?

00:33:23.619 --> 00:33:26.979
No, it gets them all gets them all horny, gets them all turned on.

00:33:27.059 --> 00:33:27.699
They want to be fine.

00:33:27.939 --> 00:33:28.819
They want to have sex?

00:33:29.219 --> 00:33:30.499
Uh not really.

00:33:30.819 --> 00:33:33.379
They want to they want to get out, they want to fly around, they want to flock up.

00:33:33.619 --> 00:33:35.779
It gets their migration instincts going.

00:33:36.099 --> 00:33:42.899
When cold, wet weather, windy weather, um it'll give it'll it usually stirs up the wildlife.

00:33:43.059 --> 00:33:52.899
And so um all the all the lakes and ponds around here were frozen, and there's this spot out east where the there's these sloughs where the water doesn't freeze.

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:57.379
And it was like negative 17 um out.

00:33:57.699 --> 00:33:59.379
And we it's too cold, bro.

00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:04.339
How do you how can we I can imagine some of that shotgun ammo isn't gonna fire?

00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:08.500
It's uh we so so we we load up the truck, we're like, all right, we're gonna go.

00:34:08.579 --> 00:34:19.460
Um, we're gonna drive late at night, we're gonna drive over the drive there, we're gonna actually get it, we got it, we're gonna drive east, get a cheap hotel, sleep for 10 minutes, wake up, go hunt.

00:34:19.619 --> 00:34:24.019
Um, but on our way out, we're going out 34, out of Greeley.

00:34:24.739 --> 00:34:28.099
And this it was the craziest drive.

00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:34.659
First of all, we were um Instagram Live had just literally just become a thing that week.

00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:35.059
Uh huh.

00:34:35.219 --> 00:34:42.500
So like lots of people were using it, and it was and and it was easy to get a lot of people watching you because it was just it was so fresh.

00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:58.500
And so we were in these we load up with all the duck stuff, and we're in the truck, three of us, and I'm driving and we s and the roads were true white out on the the snow was coming down so hard there was just no road.

00:34:58.739 --> 00:34:59.139
Yeah.

00:34:59.460 --> 00:35:03.619
And once you get out past Greeley, it no lights, no nothing.

00:35:03.699 --> 00:35:05.300
Like it's just there's nothing.

00:35:05.460 --> 00:35:06.259
You're just blind.

00:35:06.579 --> 00:35:17.539
But there's 18 wheelers trucking, and so similar to how you're saying the visibility is horrible, but there's these 18 wheelers that are coming and passing us in the snow and just hauling balls.

00:35:17.699 --> 00:35:24.420
But we so we had to be going I had to keep it going like 60 just so we if we wouldn't get run up on.

00:35:24.579 --> 00:35:27.219
And so we just got flashers on going 60.

00:35:27.380 --> 00:35:30.500
We literally cannot see any, you can't see more than 20 feet in front of you.

00:35:30.739 --> 00:35:30.980
Yeah, yeah.

00:35:31.219 --> 00:35:32.259
That's how it was last night.

00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:50.019
And we're just hauling, and we had our Instagram live going, and we had like like I think we had over 100 people, just randos, just watching us, asking us questions, and when these 18 litters would pass us, it would put you in a snow cloud, it would last for about 30 seconds, you just couldn't see anything.

00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:53.699
We just hold it straight and hope you don't run off the road, keep going.

00:35:53.780 --> 00:35:53.940
Yeah.

00:35:54.179 --> 00:35:59.860
And we ended up, we did end up going hunting um out there, but uh it was cold that morning.

00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:09.619
It was so cold that we uh um it was cold enough that the the guns started to not work after your first couple shots just from condensation.

00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:16.259
And it was cold enough that when you get out of your waders, you can hold them for two seconds and let go and they stay standing up.

00:36:16.340 --> 00:36:16.500
Yeah.

00:36:16.659 --> 00:36:18.179
It just it was a cold day.

00:36:18.259 --> 00:36:25.380
But the the drive out there, it was one of those drives too where it was like did that in my 20s, I would not do that probably now.

00:36:25.539 --> 00:36:28.420
Yeah, that's how I am with a lot of a lot of the drives I've done.

00:36:28.500 --> 00:36:30.980
I'm now like, I'm like, I have precious cargo.

00:36:31.539 --> 00:36:34.579
Like in my 20s, I was like, so what if I die?

00:36:35.059 --> 00:36:48.019
And nowadays I'm like, if I die, that will seriously set back all of my wife's plans, that will ruin my family's plans for retirement, that will destroy many lives.

00:36:48.579 --> 00:36:54.019
And it's okay to want to kind of live yourself now that our that our prefrontal cortex is fully developed, you know.

00:36:54.259 --> 00:36:55.779
Just kind of like some self-preservation.

00:36:57.619 --> 00:37:01.379
I still don't have a ton of self-preservation of like I need to live.

00:37:01.619 --> 00:37:09.379
But you're probably not as like as gung-ho to like go rock climbing and get real hot and like or drive 110 or 100.

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:10.420
I tell you what though, too.

00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:31.460
Like I also am like when I'm driving Billy Jean or my dog or any like friends or or family, my mindset has just completely shifted of like I don't want to be the person who has to tell any of these people's families that uh they're dead from a car accident I was responsible for.

00:37:31.859 --> 00:37:39.460
Yeah, you can't do you can't do jack dick about like someone else you know flattening you, but I'm just like, you know, I I got precious cargo now.

00:37:39.779 --> 00:37:41.059
And I see it that way.

00:37:41.379 --> 00:37:48.420
My my catch 22 with that for me is that when I'm driving by myself, I don't get road rage.

00:37:48.980 --> 00:37:50.819
But I get road rage now.

00:37:51.299 --> 00:37:52.900
Yeah, if I'm by myself, I never get it.

00:37:53.139 --> 00:37:58.179
But when I have people in the car I care about, yeah, I get a little I then my road rage comes out a little bit.

00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:03.940
Which is therein more dangerous for the people I'm trying to protect.

00:38:04.179 --> 00:38:09.699
It's like so it it just sometimes it messes with you gotta yeah, I gotta slow down and remind myself why am I mad?

00:38:09.859 --> 00:38:11.299
Oh, because I want to keep these people safe.

00:38:11.619 --> 00:38:14.819
That's why I'm actually mad right now, because that wouldn't have pissed me off before.

00:38:15.139 --> 00:38:38.739
So take your foot off the gas, don't chase them down, like just like just like don't get in the whatever it is, it's just it's a funny thing that the very thing I'm trying to do gets excuse me, gets messed up because you your your whatever, the your brain, my lizard brain takes over and then that protective instinct.

00:38:38.980 --> 00:38:40.420
Yeah, I I mean I'm the same way I do.

00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:50.099
Like if someone almost runs me off the road without using their blinker and cutting so far over that like they would have hit my front tire with their passenger door.

00:38:51.139 --> 00:38:53.779
I just break and I'm like, oh, oh gosh, man.

00:38:54.019 --> 00:38:55.460
Uh I bet they weren't paying attention.

00:38:55.619 --> 00:38:58.980
I honk, but it's not like the screaming while I honk.

00:38:59.219 --> 00:39:00.019
Let you know I was here.

00:39:00.179 --> 00:39:05.619
And I'm just like, yeah, like well, it's the reactionary, like, please don't hit me, please don't hit me, as you're trying to merge over.

00:39:06.659 --> 00:39:09.539
But then it's like, I'm like, I wonder who it is.

00:39:09.619 --> 00:39:13.139
And I'll kind of speed up just to see who the driver is, but no aggression or anything.

00:39:13.940 --> 00:39:17.859
And then I'm like, alright, like, well, glad that didn't happen.

00:39:18.019 --> 00:39:19.059
That would have been crazy.

00:39:19.460 --> 00:39:28.900
And then as soon as Billie Jean's in the car, or like oh yeah, any any any other person, my mom especially, because my mom almost died in a car accident.

00:39:29.139 --> 00:39:38.019
And so, like, anytime I'm there and someone does that, I'm like, it might have better it's fucking I'm I'm riding them off the road.

00:39:38.259 --> 00:39:45.460
Like, and I'm like, I literally, while I'm driving the car, I'm never like you know what, you know what, you know what I should do in response to that?

00:39:45.619 --> 00:39:47.299
Hit their car with my car.

00:39:47.699 --> 00:39:55.539
And then illogically, yeah, absolutely illogically, when I have someone in my car, I'm like, I'm I want to make sure it's a is safe.

00:39:55.859 --> 00:40:02.179
When someone almost cuts me off and you know crashes on the highway going 80, I'm like, I'm gonna end you.

00:40:03.299 --> 00:40:06.339
Your decisions have rendered your life forfeit.

00:40:06.579 --> 00:40:10.500
I've never been more okay about sacrificing my vehicle as an asset.

00:40:10.659 --> 00:40:12.019
Like oh yeah.

00:40:12.179 --> 00:40:19.460
I've may or I may or may not have um uttered some of the most heinous uh homicidal language in front of my wife and kids.

00:40:19.619 --> 00:40:20.019
Yeah, yeah.

00:40:20.099 --> 00:40:22.019
I've never done anything stupid in the world.

00:40:22.099 --> 00:40:24.420
I've done it, but I've said some things I regret.

00:40:24.579 --> 00:40:31.699
Yeah, no, but like, I mean, I I see like some people's road rage, you know, it's just insane where they actually are like pulling their gun out of their console or something.

00:40:32.019 --> 00:40:50.099
I'm like, you I've never been there ever to that point of anger or like boiled like red vision, the red mist where I'm like it is out of my control how I'm going to like take a step towards violence.

00:40:50.739 --> 00:40:58.980
And the most of it ever is is like I just actually am really swearing and cussing, and that's really all it is.

00:40:59.139 --> 00:41:02.900
Like I've never I've never been in that thing because I but I have seen some people.

00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:09.619
I have been in the vehicle with some dudes who were like, I'm gonna fucking shoot this guy.

00:41:09.779 --> 00:41:16.739
You know, I'm just like, bruh, like dude, chill the fuck out, you know, and it's never who you I thought it was gonna be.

00:41:16.819 --> 00:41:23.460
It was never my homies who were like out-of-state students from Texas, and they had their they had their M9 in the glove box.

00:41:23.699 --> 00:41:36.179
It was always dudes who were like, it was always dudes who are business majors and like kind of like more fratty boys, and I was just like, bro, like I've seen you shoot.

00:41:36.259 --> 00:41:40.019
You should not be reaching for that gun and trying to shoot it while going 80.

00:41:40.500 --> 00:41:53.059
And uh so about I will say with road rage and snowstorms, one of the times I did I I did come off the handle a bit, uh, and I did not have someone in the car.

00:41:53.460 --> 00:42:04.420
The um it was one of those one of those mornings where it's early morning, not a lot of cars on the road, and the snow has covered there's no lines on the road.

00:42:04.579 --> 00:42:08.579
There's so everybody knows the rules of when there's no lines on the road.

00:42:08.900 --> 00:42:15.779
Rule one, kind of do your best and stay in the tracks that have been established, you know.

00:42:16.099 --> 00:42:23.779
And so we're coming up to a um like I'm I'm following the 18-wheeler cutout before it's covered up.

00:42:23.940 --> 00:42:39.779
Yep, and so we're on a it's on a it's on a city street but a main road in the city, and we're coming up to a double turn lane, and so I get over into the first turn lane, you know, like get over a little bit to the left into the first turn lane.

00:42:39.859 --> 00:42:47.539
There's a further turn lane further left, and I guess I guess I was maybe a little bit in the middle of the two of them.

00:42:48.339 --> 00:42:50.980
Like I said, it's all white that's like whited out.

00:42:51.059 --> 00:43:03.940
So then I'm on the phone with one of my employees, and this guy is I'm stopped, and this guy's coming past me, and he comes to my to my left to get in the other turn lane, and he just he bumps my window.

00:43:04.099 --> 00:43:07.219
Which I'll say, I actually I knock windows with other big trucks.

00:43:08.179 --> 00:43:08.980
Quite a bit.

00:43:09.139 --> 00:43:10.259
He bumps your window.

00:43:10.339 --> 00:43:11.379
Or sorry, bumps my mirror.

00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:12.420
So I'm saying window.

00:43:12.500 --> 00:43:12.659
Sorry.

00:43:12.739 --> 00:43:13.619
He bumps my mirror.

00:43:13.859 --> 00:43:14.739
Our mirror slap.

00:43:15.139 --> 00:43:16.980
Oh, because you got you got mirrors that stick out far.

00:43:17.219 --> 00:43:18.179
Their mirror sticks out really far.

00:43:18.339 --> 00:43:29.940
So when I'm in the when we're like there's tight traffic and like something happens, like I've tapped mirrors with other guys or they tap my mirror and it's kind of like you just look at each other and you're like, peace sign, like hey, like, yeah, keep rolling, you know.

00:43:30.019 --> 00:43:32.019
We got the big big truck mirrors, all right.

00:43:32.099 --> 00:43:34.659
So well, and those mirrors can bend out that way.

00:43:34.819 --> 00:43:35.940
They can bend out without breaking.

00:43:36.099 --> 00:43:41.379
Yeah, and it's just not like you're like most people's wondering, they're like, how does that happen without your mirrors exploding?

00:43:41.539 --> 00:43:41.699
Right.

00:43:41.779 --> 00:43:43.379
Because most mirrors don't go that direction.

00:43:43.619 --> 00:43:45.299
They're made, they're made to be tapped a little.

00:43:45.379 --> 00:43:45.539
Yeah.

00:43:45.619 --> 00:43:47.699
And so a little mirror tap's no big deal.

00:43:48.019 --> 00:43:56.099
But he taps, he he it's not that there was no other cars around, and he had room to get further left.

00:43:56.339 --> 00:43:59.779
But he wanted to stay in his what he thought was the lane as much as possible.

00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:01.779
And I was I thought it was the lane as much as possible.

00:44:01.859 --> 00:44:09.779
But he hit my car, which everybody knows the hitter is guilty of the hitting.

00:44:09.940 --> 00:44:10.179
Right.

00:44:10.420 --> 00:44:12.579
So I don't even I don't even care.

00:44:12.659 --> 00:44:15.539
He he whacks my mirror, I'm like, ah, whatever, I'm on the phone with my guy.

00:44:15.619 --> 00:44:17.539
And then he rolls his window down.

00:44:17.859 --> 00:44:23.859
So then I pull up because I'm like, oh, this guy wants to talk to me to well, if somebody's he's gonna wave you down.

00:44:24.019 --> 00:44:25.699
He's like, hey, let's pull sorry man, let's pull up.

00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:39.299
What would somebody say, yeah, if uh if someone taps your mirror and you see their them roll their window down, probably just a hey, sorry, or you know, you know, what you know, just just a quick apology, hey, you know, sorry about that, everything good, you know, whatever.

00:44:39.619 --> 00:44:46.900
So I pull forward a little to where his window's down, and he just looks over at me and then goes, I don't know what to tell you.

00:44:46.980 --> 00:44:54.420
I was in my lane, and then something in my brain just snapped and flipped.

00:44:54.500 --> 00:45:02.739
And it was the the arrogance on this guy's face and like just the the the douchery that you that you can't put words to.

00:45:02.900 --> 00:45:52.339
And when someone says something, it's not the words he said, it's how he said it, and the things he and the he the fact that he took the time to roll the window down to anti-apologize was just like it it boggled my brain so it literally snaps me and I'm on the phone with my employee, and I proceed to yell a few things out the window about um uh my you know a phallic nature and where I'm gonna put my stuff and what he can do with his mouth, you know, and I'm just screaming this out, you can do it, fucking just letting him have it, and my employees going, and the other side's going, oh dang Pat, get him! Yeah, get him! And I was like, and and then and then the dude just peels off, and the the roads are packed with snow, it's super dangerous.

00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:57.219
I'm like, but I just at this point I had my flip hit switch, and I was like, oh my gosh.

00:45:57.379 --> 00:46:01.059
And so I did try to, I was like, I was like, I'm gonna find this guy, you know.

00:46:01.219 --> 00:46:06.179
I tried to follow him, and he was because I also I decided late to follow him.

00:46:06.420 --> 00:46:10.019
I was like, I'm gonna f oh definitely I'm following him.

00:46:10.099 --> 00:46:12.099
He was and he was too far gone at that point.

00:46:12.579 --> 00:46:21.779
But um the emotion that overcame me in that moment, afterwards, like debriefing with myself, I was like, I was trying to figure out why did that make me so mad?

00:46:21.859 --> 00:46:26.739
And that's what I was talking about, just the fact that it was like go out of your way to anti-apologize.

00:46:26.819 --> 00:46:28.099
It just it just got me, man.

00:46:28.259 --> 00:46:31.059
It got me right in my honor, honor issues, I guess.

00:46:31.139 --> 00:46:32.420
But yeah, oh my god.

00:46:32.819 --> 00:46:41.940
No, yeah, there's nothing it I think, especially when you're like already mentally there of like, you know what, this guy's gonna make peace, and I'm gonna make peace too.

00:46:42.099 --> 00:46:42.659
It's no big deal.

00:46:42.980 --> 00:46:48.500
You've already broke you've mentally reached the journey that like I am also gonna be the big man and make peace too.

00:46:48.659 --> 00:46:50.259
This was not even a big deal to me at all.

00:46:50.339 --> 00:46:50.900
Yeah, yeah.

00:46:51.139 --> 00:46:58.179
And then and then like when they're cut, it's like as someone's coming up and they're like extending their hand to shake yours and be like, bygones be bygones.

00:46:58.259 --> 00:46:58.500
Oh, yeah.

00:46:58.579 --> 00:47:04.579
And instead of like that, they like you know smack you across the face with it.

00:47:05.219 --> 00:47:08.980
They he told that's he told me it was my fault that he hit my car.

00:47:09.219 --> 00:47:12.420
And I just was like, Where you get off?

00:47:13.460 --> 00:47:18.420
Um anyways, road raging, dude.

00:47:18.579 --> 00:47:24.099
The reason I was driving home last night was because I went and saw Predator Badlands for a buddy's birthday.

00:47:24.819 --> 00:47:25.940
And it was really good.

00:47:26.339 --> 00:47:27.379
It's actually a good movie.

00:47:27.539 --> 00:47:33.699
It's definitely like how I will soft introduce my child or children to Predator.

00:47:33.859 --> 00:47:40.659
All right, and then I'm going to show them the actual Predator 1985 movie with Arnold.

00:47:41.299 --> 00:47:42.980
But I'm not gonna let them see what it is.

00:47:43.059 --> 00:47:49.139
Like, I'm gonna go put it on and start playing it and just skip past the intro with the Predator ship come coming on to Earth.

00:47:49.299 --> 00:47:49.460
Yeah.

00:47:49.619 --> 00:47:53.940
Just so that way when they sit down to watch it, they're like, Oh, an Arnold action movie, yeah.

00:47:54.339 --> 00:48:00.579
Maybe I'll have like put on commando before that, so they see the movie Commando first, and they're like, This is what Arnold does.

00:48:00.819 --> 00:48:02.420
And then they'll be like, What the hell?

00:48:02.579 --> 00:48:04.099
What is killing all these people?

00:48:04.819 --> 00:48:07.539
And then it'll be revealed to be the predator, and they'll be so shocked.

00:48:07.699 --> 00:48:15.619
Because in in Predator Badlands, uh your your main character, your protagonist, is a predator.

00:48:16.420 --> 00:48:23.460
And I genuinely think it will be a predator that has that will win over hearts and minds of children.

00:48:23.619 --> 00:48:24.980
It's a PG-13 movie.

00:48:25.379 --> 00:48:35.779
I was about to say everything in it is tailored to be very violent without being uh like violent against humans.

00:48:36.019 --> 00:48:39.619
So like all the people who get killed in it are like synths.

00:48:39.940 --> 00:48:40.980
And that's how they get around it.

00:48:41.059 --> 00:48:45.059
They're like, it's not actually blood, it's just a bunch of white goop coming out of these synths.

00:48:45.539 --> 00:48:54.259
And when they get their heads taken off and they get you know flayed into pieces and you know, body parts ripped off, it's not people, it's robots.

00:48:54.739 --> 00:48:58.099
And it's uh I call it the the samurai Jack effect.

00:48:58.179 --> 00:49:03.139
Uh samurai Jack was able to kill everything and everyone in a Y-7 show.

00:49:03.619 --> 00:49:11.139
Yeah, in a Y7 cartooneric primetime show because everyone was a robot and just like spewed out oil instead of blood.

00:49:11.859 --> 00:49:13.299
Uh and it was awesome.

00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:15.779
Um, and that's how this movie is, too.

00:49:16.019 --> 00:49:22.980
And uh it actually had some really good comedy in it that wasn't cringe comedy, like Marvel comedy.

00:49:23.539 --> 00:49:23.859
Good.

00:49:24.019 --> 00:49:26.739
Um, the acting was, you know, not great.

00:49:27.379 --> 00:49:35.059
Uh, but part of me thinks that's more because uh there's no humans, so everyone's supposed to act like a robot.

00:49:35.619 --> 00:49:42.579
So maybe that's just why the acting, like acting like a robot felt kind of hammy and I don't know.

00:49:42.659 --> 00:49:44.739
But it was it was good, it was it was well done.

00:49:44.980 --> 00:49:50.019
Um at some points the CGI was a little too much.

00:49:50.659 --> 00:49:52.980
Like, did you ever see the uh Black Panther movie?

00:49:53.139 --> 00:49:53.619
Mm-hmm.

00:49:53.859 --> 00:50:04.579
You remember the final fight scene in that movie where there it's just a hundred percent CGI fighting in Wakanda subway, and they're just they don't even look like remotely like actual people.

00:50:04.659 --> 00:50:08.259
They're just like CGI cartoon fighting.

00:50:09.460 --> 00:50:17.699
That's like uh there's like stuff like that in the opening where some predators are fighting, and you're just like, This doesn't even look like people in costumes.

00:50:17.859 --> 00:50:26.099
Like this looks like too the the way they're moving is too fluid that it takes me out of it when I see them moving in costume.

00:50:26.259 --> 00:50:26.980
You know what I mean?

00:50:27.460 --> 00:50:39.059
Like, oh, that's not how that's not how um smooth and fluid the user is the w the character is when it's a guy in a costume running with a mask on.

00:50:39.299 --> 00:50:39.699
Right.

00:50:39.940 --> 00:50:47.539
And he's not jumping like that, you know, when he's in costume, it's a lot more stiff and you know, big guy a guy in a costume.

00:50:47.699 --> 00:50:51.460
And so it was just there's a couple parts like that, but it was alright, it was tolerable.

00:50:51.619 --> 00:50:54.980
Um the movie overall, I'd get I'd give it like an eight out of ten.

00:50:55.460 --> 00:50:55.859
Nice.

00:50:56.179 --> 00:50:59.379
Um, but anyways, so that for my buddy's birthday.

00:50:59.859 --> 00:51:02.259
This buddy of mine, he you know him.

00:51:03.699 --> 00:51:30.099
But uh every year for his birthday now, for three years or so, I think two or three years, another friend and I, we've come up with a very harmless, very hilarious bit in that uh we know our we know our friend is like a classic rock kind of guy, 80s, 90s rock as well, he enjoys it.

00:51:31.059 --> 00:51:48.980
Um but we like to really over-emphasize and uh act like somehow like at some point he or someone else, like his wife, told us that he's a Dave Matthews band fan.

00:51:49.699 --> 00:51:53.299
And every year we get him Dave Matthews band stuff.

00:51:53.619 --> 00:52:01.139
It's like we started out small with like just getting him a shirt and signing like hey, to the biggest Dave Matthews fan we know, happy birthday.

00:52:01.779 --> 00:52:08.739
This year was his 30th birthday, and I like asked his wife, I was like, Do you guys have a record player?

00:52:08.900 --> 00:52:09.940
Because I we have forgotten.

00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:15.619
I was like, the only thing I could find that's Dave Matthews is like this uh double set vinyl record.

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:18.259
And she's like, No, we don't have one.

00:52:18.420 --> 00:52:20.259
I was like, damn.

00:52:21.699 --> 00:52:26.739
I guess he he would if I bought him this and gave it to him and he's like, Oh, I don't have a record player, then we'd have to take it back.

00:52:26.819 --> 00:52:28.019
And it could spoil the bit.

00:52:28.420 --> 00:52:32.980
Because while we take it back, he could be like, you know what, I'm happy you're taking it back as well, because I'm just not a Dave Matthews fan.

00:52:33.460 --> 00:52:34.819
And I'm sorry I haven't told you sooner.

00:52:35.139 --> 00:52:37.059
Oh, so he's he hasn't said that he's not a fan.

00:52:37.460 --> 00:52:38.420
And you know he's not.

00:52:38.579 --> 00:52:39.940
Yeah, that's the funny part.

00:52:40.019 --> 00:52:40.179
Right.

00:52:40.420 --> 00:52:52.500
Because he's playing like kindness, he's just kind of he's just being kind, so nice and kind, and can't he can't bring himself to tell me and my other buddy that he's not a Dave Matthews band fan.

00:52:52.739 --> 00:52:53.219
Oh my god.

00:52:53.379 --> 00:52:56.019
And so we just keep getting him stuff and signing the cards.

00:52:56.099 --> 00:53:00.179
Like, uh, there's a Dave Matthews band song called Samurai Cop.

00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:08.579
So on this album I said, you know, happy 30th birthday to our favorite samurai cop from Jay and Mick.

00:53:09.219 --> 00:53:21.379
And I was like, I also like I read I was like, and Botchi this vinyl before I found out you didn't have a like record player, so we got one too.

00:53:21.699 --> 00:53:24.819
And so now he we bought him like a record player.

00:53:26.900 --> 00:53:35.299
And his only record is named Matthews like double set album, and it's like it's just big enough, you know, of a thing.

00:53:35.460 --> 00:53:39.299
Because it's it's like a modern-day record player, it's not like it's like a four thousand dollar vintage record.

00:53:39.779 --> 00:53:40.739
Like, where do I put this thing?

00:53:40.900 --> 00:53:49.539
It well, it's a portable one, and it can also be used like as a Bluetooth radio and stuff, so it's got like actual reutility, which is kind of nice to give him that as like a 30th birthday gift.

00:53:49.859 --> 00:53:55.379
Because I kind of feel bad if I gave someone like on a milestone birthday, an actually completely useless gift.

00:53:55.619 --> 00:53:56.259
That's true.

00:53:56.579 --> 00:54:09.460
But so we we got him that in the record, and now like his wife's kind of in on it, and I'm just like, you know, don't have to lie, but I do need you to like make sure he doesn't tell us that he doesn't like Dave Matthews.

00:54:09.699 --> 00:54:11.699
Like, if he's ever talking to me, he's like, this is too much.

00:54:11.779 --> 00:54:14.659
Like, I gotta tell him so they can get take this back and get their money back.

00:54:14.819 --> 00:54:18.500
You have to be like, no, like they they they asked me about it.

00:54:18.819 --> 00:54:21.779
Like they clearly really put a lot of thought into this.

00:54:21.940 --> 00:54:27.539
Like, so what we at least have a record player and we just won't play the Dave Matthews album.

00:54:27.699 --> 00:54:29.699
We'll just we'll just go get other records, you know.

00:54:29.779 --> 00:54:36.980
And I just wanted to keep on digging in because like sometimes I'll like we'll go over and we'll see the Dave Matthews shirts in his closet.

00:54:37.619 --> 00:54:40.019
She's like, I bet those never get worn.

00:54:41.859 --> 00:54:49.859
You know, and like the whole point, too, is that we're working up to the next time Dave Matthews goes on tour to get him tickets for his birthday.

00:54:50.099 --> 00:54:57.859
And so like he's like so insanely like accountable to keep with the bit and just play along.

00:54:58.500 --> 00:54:58.980
Who knows?

00:54:59.139 --> 00:55:02.739
I would there's nothing more I would love than if we were at the Dave Matthews band concert.

00:55:02.900 --> 00:55:05.619
He's like, you guys, you know, I got his own is kind of funny.

00:55:05.699 --> 00:55:10.659
I really wasn't a big Dave Matthews band fan until you guys like kept giving me stuff year after year.

00:55:10.739 --> 00:55:14.420
And now I'm just happy to be here with my friends, and the music makes me think of my friends.

00:55:15.139 --> 00:55:16.739
That would be the best part, you know.

00:55:16.980 --> 00:55:23.379
Kind of like, you know, uh Pavlovian uh or uh what's the one where you come to love your kidnapper?

00:55:24.019 --> 00:55:24.819
Yeah, Stockholm Syndrome.

00:55:25.059 --> 00:55:29.059
Stockholm syndrome, a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome with Dave Matthews band and his buddies.

00:55:29.219 --> 00:55:45.139
But I think it's so funny, and I when we were Billy Jean was wrapping the record player and the record up in like you know, some Christmas wrapping paper because his birthday's so close to Christmas, and uh I could not keep it together, dude.

00:55:45.219 --> 00:56:00.099
I was like crying laughing every time because I tested it out, made sure everything worked, but I was just like, this is such an insanely harmless, but hilariously like funny uh bit.

00:56:00.579 --> 00:56:04.900
And oh dude, I like I still I get watery eyes just thinking about it.

00:56:05.059 --> 00:56:05.940
Um that's great.

00:56:06.099 --> 00:56:15.619
So he's he's trapped in that, and I've been getting messages, he just opened it, and the and his wife just messaged like the first thing he said to me is like, what the fuck is up with this Dave Matthews bandit?

00:56:16.019 --> 00:56:18.900
Like, what is going on, like what is going on?

00:56:19.139 --> 00:56:21.219
And so I'm like, that's perfect.

00:56:21.379 --> 00:56:25.859
Yeah, like you don't even have to you you'd be like, you don't even have to be like, what honey you told me?

00:56:25.940 --> 00:56:26.819
Because like, don't lie.

00:56:27.059 --> 00:56:36.420
Because if he's like, I've never told you that, like, don't do that, but just be like, well, it's still thoughtful, even if you don't like Dave Matthews band, like that's so and those are some there's some good songs on that album, you know?

00:56:37.219 --> 00:56:39.299
So it's excellent, dude.

00:56:39.619 --> 00:56:40.420
I love it so much.

00:56:40.659 --> 00:56:41.940
Here's some things I've found.

00:56:42.179 --> 00:56:44.099
Dave Matthews bobblehead.

00:56:44.339 --> 00:56:45.219
That's a good one.

00:56:45.299 --> 00:56:46.339
Um that'd be interesting.

00:56:46.500 --> 00:56:48.099
Get it, get it for his desk.

00:56:48.179 --> 00:56:49.139
He works at a desk.

00:56:49.379 --> 00:56:54.980
Uh Dave Matthews band album cover Woodburned onto a cheese board.

00:56:56.019 --> 00:56:57.619
Like a charcuterie board?

00:56:57.699 --> 00:56:57.859
Yeah.

00:56:58.500 --> 00:56:59.619
That's funny.

00:57:00.019 --> 00:57:02.739
Then we have uh we do have a Christmas ornament.

00:57:02.980 --> 00:57:10.819
You have wrapping paper with Dave, it's Christmas themed wrapping paper with Dave Matthews' face on it wearing a Santa hat.

00:57:11.619 --> 00:57:16.819
So that one I feel like would be hard because I don't think his wife would want that aesthetically underneath the tree.

00:57:17.059 --> 00:57:18.339
Yep, yep.

00:57:18.659 --> 00:57:20.659
But you could wrap his present in it.

00:57:20.980 --> 00:57:21.859
Well, then he would know.

00:57:22.019 --> 00:57:23.059
Because here's the funny thing.

00:57:23.219 --> 00:57:26.179
I think he opened up the record player first.

00:57:26.259 --> 00:57:26.339
Oh.

00:57:26.739 --> 00:57:27.619
Because it's a lot bigger.

00:57:28.099 --> 00:57:30.980
And I think he was like, Wow, they got me a record player.

00:57:31.059 --> 00:57:34.259
That's kind of random, but that's really nice and sincere.

00:57:34.659 --> 00:57:36.980
And then he's like, Oh, I wonder what the first record is.

00:57:37.059 --> 00:57:39.859
And he opened it, it is a double zette Matthews.

00:57:40.579 --> 00:57:44.099
He's probably like, This is all bit, this can't be real.

00:57:44.659 --> 00:57:47.699
What you could do, this is a great, we used to do this just for fun.

00:57:47.779 --> 00:57:59.460
And like in high school, we had a band room, and we'd buy like broken instruments from pawn shops, and then sign them with like rock stars names and just put them on the wall.

00:57:59.699 --> 00:58:00.179
That's cool.

00:58:00.339 --> 00:58:06.179
But you could get a guitar that's jacked up, just get a$30 guitar from a pawn shop.

00:58:06.259 --> 00:58:31.059
It looks all used as a pawn shop, and just like sign it with Dave Matthews and make a fake like authentication, like form with it, and and just be like, and and and and make it make it like don't don't say how expensive it was, but make it clear in the authentication that like this is from his, you know, what the guitar from his peak to or what like it's like and just uh that'd be insane.

00:58:31.539 --> 00:58:35.539
Just see what he oh man, but uh also Dave Matthews concert.

00:58:35.619 --> 00:58:38.019
I mean, hey, you'll enjoy yourself at that.

00:58:38.179 --> 00:58:39.219
It'll be a good show.

00:58:39.539 --> 00:58:39.940
Yeah.

00:58:40.420 --> 00:58:42.179
Um that is a great bit.

00:58:42.420 --> 00:58:43.619
Oh, that is hilarious.

00:58:43.779 --> 00:58:47.859
And then by then he will have enough t-shirts that we've bought him that we can all wear him.

00:58:48.259 --> 00:58:50.339
You can all wear his ban shirt, yeah.

00:58:51.299 --> 00:58:53.219
Oh, that is hilarious.

00:58:53.539 --> 00:58:55.859
Is this the same guy you did the mint thing to?

00:58:56.500 --> 00:58:59.859
No, no, that was that was a dude in my Bible study that I was a disciplining.

00:59:00.019 --> 00:59:01.539
He was a that guy was a lot younger.

00:59:02.019 --> 00:59:05.219
This is a dude who I like was peers with in college.

00:59:06.259 --> 00:59:12.500
But anyways, it's such a classic, classic, harmless thing.

00:59:12.819 --> 00:59:18.819
And like I want to start learning the other band members of Dave Matthews, like their names.

00:59:19.539 --> 00:59:23.379
Just start getting him like inside jokes like about like the band members.

00:59:23.859 --> 00:59:33.460
It's like like get him a coffee cup or something that says like don't talk to me until I've heard the black guy who plays a saxophone.

00:59:34.420 --> 00:59:43.699
He's a ginormous, like dreads black dude that plays a saxophone and hands go marching.

00:59:46.500 --> 00:59:47.539
What is his name?

00:59:51.460 --> 00:59:52.980
His name's Rashawn Ross.

00:59:53.460 --> 00:59:56.819
Don't Oh wait, no, yeah, he's the trumpet player.

00:59:57.859 --> 00:59:59.139
Who's the saxophone guy?

00:59:59.379 --> 01:00:00.179
Jeff Coffin.

01:00:00.500 --> 01:00:01.619
Jeff Coffin, yeah.

01:00:01.940 --> 01:00:08.099
Don't talk to me until I've heard Coffin play the sax and I've had my coffee.

01:00:08.179 --> 01:00:09.539
Like, imagine that on a mug.

01:00:11.059 --> 01:00:12.019
So niche.

01:00:12.659 --> 01:00:14.339
And someone would be like, what is that?

01:00:14.659 --> 01:00:22.819
There's no way he could explain it to anyone who asked him about it without sounding like a mega Dave Matthews bad nerd.

01:00:22.980 --> 01:00:23.139
Yeah.

01:00:23.299 --> 01:00:25.539
He'd be like, I'm not that big of a fan, but my friends got it for me.

01:00:25.619 --> 01:00:28.819
And everyone, anytime he would say that, people would be like, Alright, buddy.

01:00:29.059 --> 01:00:32.739
Sounds like you're a big fan, but like it's not anything to be ashamed about.

01:00:34.900 --> 01:00:36.900
Oh, that is hilarious.

01:00:37.299 --> 01:00:39.059
Oh, that's a good bit.

01:00:40.420 --> 01:00:40.659
Oh.

01:00:41.139 --> 01:00:42.659
And it's rather cheap, you know.

01:00:43.059 --> 01:00:51.299
Like, I think all said and done for his 30th birthday, we spent like 130, 150 bucks with a real record player in it.

01:00:51.859 --> 01:00:56.819
Real record player and a double set, you know, best hits album.

01:00:59.219 --> 01:01:00.099
That's funny.

01:01:02.900 --> 01:01:03.859
Those things bring joy.

01:01:04.739 --> 01:01:05.779
They do good cleaner harm.

01:01:06.099 --> 01:01:06.900
Good clean fun.

01:01:07.139 --> 01:01:08.259
They're harmless.

01:01:08.579 --> 01:01:09.059
Mm-hmm.

01:01:10.259 --> 01:01:13.779
I bet you could get on the Dave Matthews band Reddit.

01:01:14.579 --> 01:01:15.460
I was debating that.

01:01:15.539 --> 01:01:19.859
I was debating like, hey, does anyone got any like stuff they want to get rid of?

01:01:21.779 --> 01:01:22.739
Oh man.

01:01:23.699 --> 01:01:25.859
Why is there a Reddit feed for everything?

01:01:26.099 --> 01:01:26.980
Dude, there really is.

01:01:28.099 --> 01:01:29.460
Whatever you want to go learn about.

01:01:30.500 --> 01:01:37.059
People right now on Dave Matthews Band Reddit feed are sharing their because Spotify Rap is coming out.

01:01:37.139 --> 01:01:37.460
Yeah, yeah.

01:01:37.859 --> 01:01:39.379
There's lots of Spotify raped coming out.

01:01:39.539 --> 01:01:42.259
People bragging on here about him being their top artist.

01:01:43.619 --> 01:01:52.099
This person spent 41,000 minutes listening to Dave Matthews band this year.

01:01:52.339 --> 01:01:54.099
That's more than how many days is that?

01:01:54.259 --> 01:01:57.619
That's more than my wife's total combined Spotify rap play.

01:02:02.019 --> 01:02:04.500
That would be 29.17 days.

01:02:05.059 --> 01:02:05.539
That's crazy.

01:02:05.779 --> 01:02:08.019
That's someone who listens to it 24-7.

01:02:08.579 --> 01:02:10.259
A month of their life.

01:02:14.819 --> 01:02:21.940
You know, when I think about it though, I've probably spent over a month of my time this last year listening to audiobooks.

01:02:22.659 --> 01:02:23.539
You know what I mean?

01:02:23.779 --> 01:02:24.420
Yep.

01:02:24.659 --> 01:02:25.219
That's right.

01:02:25.619 --> 01:02:29.219
I was in because I I I wish I had Audible wrapped.

01:02:34.579 --> 01:02:37.299
This guy's the 89th top listener.

01:02:37.460 --> 01:02:40.179
So there's 88 people for him to pass this year.

01:02:40.500 --> 01:02:42.420
Who's the top listener?

01:02:43.139 --> 01:02:57.779
You need to get his login for his Spotify and just every night on one of your devices play Dave Matthews on nonstop and make him the top listener of the year on Rap.

01:02:58.500 --> 01:02:59.779
Number one Dave Matthews.

01:03:02.579 --> 01:03:04.739
He wouldn't even know what is happening.

01:03:04.980 --> 01:03:05.539
Yeah.

01:03:05.859 --> 01:03:07.059
Oh my gosh.

01:03:10.819 --> 01:03:24.339
The uh you know, another another band, like it's kind of like a Dave Matthews band, like there are a lot of like people like love him or hate them types, and there's been this big resurgence with like Creed.

01:03:25.139 --> 01:03:34.420
But yeah, because of that Running Up the Hill song by What's Her Faves, that Creed covered, and Creed's cover is pretty good.

01:03:34.659 --> 01:03:37.779
It's a good cover on uh Kate, what's her name?

01:03:38.019 --> 01:03:39.699
Kate something.

01:03:39.859 --> 01:03:43.379
She's the original artist who did Running Up That Hill.

01:03:43.940 --> 01:03:44.739
I don't remember her.

01:03:44.980 --> 01:03:48.019
Which all that became popular again because of the Stranger Things.

01:03:48.420 --> 01:03:52.179
But but there also there's also like resurgence in dad rock in general.

01:03:52.339 --> 01:03:52.659
Yeah.

01:03:52.819 --> 01:03:54.900
Or butt rock is what it's also called.

01:03:55.219 --> 01:03:56.099
Why butt rock?

01:03:56.259 --> 01:03:58.339
I forget why it's called butt rock, but it's called butt rock.

01:03:58.900 --> 01:04:01.219
A bunch of dads with their plumers crack out at concerts.

01:04:01.460 --> 01:04:02.819
I can't remember why it's called butt rock.

01:04:02.900 --> 01:04:05.219
But oh, sit on you, you sit on your butts the whole time.

01:04:05.379 --> 01:04:09.539
Like you're there at like the field, the stadium, and you're just sitting in chairs the whole time.

01:04:09.779 --> 01:04:10.500
I don't know.

01:04:10.739 --> 01:04:16.259
But um the deal with it too is like Nickelback and Creed got so overplayed.

01:04:17.299 --> 01:04:18.179
When when we were young.

01:04:18.339 --> 01:04:21.059
Yeah, it's it's part of what ruined it for so many people.

01:04:21.619 --> 01:04:22.900
And now it's gonna happen.

01:04:23.059 --> 01:04:26.339
It's like, I wonder if these bandwidths like, oh my god, it's gonna happen again.

01:04:26.420 --> 01:04:34.339
Because it's on every TikTok video, every YouTube short has has these these Creed songs in it and like Creed memes and all this stuff.

01:04:34.420 --> 01:04:37.699
And it's like, I'm just like, and I've I've always stayed loyal.

01:04:37.779 --> 01:04:42.019
I've always listened I like Creed, I like, I like Nickelback.

01:04:42.099 --> 01:04:42.739
Hey, get at me.

01:04:42.980 --> 01:04:45.219
You said that, and now I'm gonna weaponize it against you.

01:04:45.460 --> 01:04:46.099
That's fine.

01:04:46.339 --> 01:04:49.619
But now it's like it's coming back around, and now it's like they're gonna do it again.

01:04:49.779 --> 01:04:53.859
They're gonna freaking ruin butt rock again.

01:04:54.099 --> 01:05:02.179
And butt rock uh likely originated from the 90s hard rock radio campaign with the tagline rock, nothing but rock.

01:05:02.420 --> 01:05:04.739
So now they call it butt rock, nothing but rock.

01:05:04.819 --> 01:05:07.940
Now it's people call it nothing, yeah, but butt rock.

01:05:08.259 --> 01:05:10.579
And so that's why it's called butt rock.

01:05:10.739 --> 01:05:14.739
Because of your, you know, your dad's your construction worker dad's radio station.

01:05:14.819 --> 01:05:18.819
Just 9999, nothing but rock.

01:05:19.619 --> 01:05:20.099
I get it.

01:05:20.659 --> 01:05:21.299
There you go.

01:05:21.699 --> 01:05:32.739
Yeah, I think I mean I like that as resurgence because I truly do think that there's less good music than there was in the 90s and 80s.

01:05:32.980 --> 01:05:35.940
Like, I still listen to 80s hairbands.

01:05:36.500 --> 01:05:48.659
Like, I don't think I truly don't think there's a band that has come along that has produced better music post 2010 uh than Van Halen.

01:05:49.379 --> 01:05:54.579
Like, I think Van Halen music is so insanely good for almost any vibe.

01:05:55.859 --> 01:06:08.420
And I think that just because like I didn't grow up listening to Van Halen, like I discovered them, you know, when the ability to stream music started coming on, like post iTunes.

01:06:09.379 --> 01:06:12.099
And so, and I I mean I had heard their songs before, right?

01:06:12.819 --> 01:06:14.900
But I didn't know them, and that was their song.

01:06:15.059 --> 01:06:28.579
Same thing with like uh, you know, ACDC, Metallica, like all of them were stuff that I heard at times playing in the radio as a kid growing up, but I never knew I couldn't tell you an ACDC or Metallica or Van Halen song.

01:06:29.619 --> 01:06:33.779
And uh then I was like, dude, this is good music.

01:06:34.019 --> 01:06:39.219
And I remember like that was when I went, like, I just stopped listening to like modern hip-hop and rap.

01:06:39.460 --> 01:06:47.299
And I pretty much like that was also when I was phasing out of modern country because like modern country just felt a little repetitive.

01:06:47.619 --> 01:06:49.539
It already it AI'd itself.

01:06:49.699 --> 01:06:49.940
Yeah.

01:06:50.099 --> 01:06:58.500
Like even before it was like like uh uh country song, top country song hit uh this last week was an AI song.

01:06:58.739 --> 01:06:59.699
Hit top of the charts.

01:06:59.779 --> 01:07:00.579
What the heck's up with that?

01:07:01.859 --> 01:07:03.779
That's also fake news.

01:07:04.019 --> 01:07:05.059
Is it fake news?

01:07:05.219 --> 01:07:14.179
Well, it's not fake news, it's fake because the top of the to be the top of the chart only requires a count of streamed.

01:07:14.579 --> 01:07:18.739
So and you can fake how many times it was downloaded on stream by just having it.

01:07:19.139 --> 01:07:21.859
It might have been the numbers might have been the books might have been cooked a little bit.

01:07:22.019 --> 01:07:22.900
Well, it's also low numbers.

01:07:23.059 --> 01:07:24.259
Someone did the math on it.

01:07:25.059 --> 01:07:26.659
It only takes like 3,000.

01:07:26.980 --> 01:07:40.500
To hit it and to hit it for like if it goes viral, people look at it, that doesn't mean it's been that's that's true, because it's different than like in 2002, if a song was on the radio for three months straight and being played.

01:07:44.179 --> 01:07:44.339
Right.

01:07:44.739 --> 01:07:45.299
But yeah.

01:07:45.619 --> 01:07:58.339
But the um But yeah, yeah, modern country got so canned, like it just canned music, it's all everything, it's all it's all the same, it's all the same stuff and down the hill for sure, and and that.

01:07:58.420 --> 01:08:08.179
But the um and I think with I mean they've been using you know autotune, drum machines, different things for a very long time now.

01:08:08.259 --> 01:08:11.299
And that's where those old mu those old songs don't have any of that in there.

01:08:11.539 --> 01:08:17.539
And they also just to me feel like uh, you know, they do feel like a time capsule in a way.

01:08:18.180 --> 01:08:28.100
Because it to me makes me feel like I'm listening to the music that my mom grew up with and you know, bought her first cassette player to listen to, right?

01:08:28.260 --> 01:08:29.300
And stuff like that.

01:08:29.460 --> 01:08:33.619
So I enjoy listening to that experience because there's like some nostalgia to it.

01:08:34.579 --> 01:08:43.940
But it's also like I just genuinely believe there was like overall better songs at a higher quantity than there is today.

01:08:44.260 --> 01:09:02.900
And don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of bangers that get made like to today and like over the last 10-15 years, but I just don't think there has there's as many consistently like good songs, or songs of today, how long do they stay at that level of being a banger?

01:09:03.220 --> 01:09:06.819
About three weeks, you know, till something else pops up.

01:09:07.539 --> 01:09:09.300
Consumption too has changed though.

01:09:09.539 --> 01:09:17.940
Like I you used to buy an album to share it with your friends and play it in the card together, right?

01:09:18.180 --> 01:09:28.020
And nowadays, like you send a link to a song that you like on Spotify to a friend and they open it up at their house away from you.

01:09:28.340 --> 01:09:31.859
It's not as much of like a communal thing together, you're experiencing it.

01:09:32.020 --> 01:09:39.460
Like there was a there was a this band called Family Force 5.

01:09:39.779 --> 01:09:46.659
And they were like this kind of like oh like borderline like disco rock, techno punk.

01:09:46.739 --> 01:09:59.060
They're kind of like daft punk to a degree, but like uh more um like kind of goofy, silly songs, um, and they really like niched out a little bit of themselves for it.

01:09:59.140 --> 01:10:05.460
But I remember they released this album, Dance or Die, and my buddy had bought it, he's like, You guys gotta hear this.

01:10:05.539 --> 01:10:06.260
This is crazy.

01:10:06.420 --> 01:10:09.140
And I remember he was playing it in his Honda Civic for us.

01:10:09.380 --> 01:10:12.180
We were like, dude, this this music is baller.

01:10:12.260 --> 01:10:18.340
And we were just like dancing to that song in a parking lot playing out of his speakers of his car.

01:10:19.460 --> 01:10:28.020
Um, you know, it was at the time when that this word came into existence called krunk, and it was like we're getting crunk, dude.

01:10:28.260 --> 01:10:32.659
Like, like, dude, uh dude, I'm getting I'm getting crunk on this right now, dude.

01:10:32.900 --> 01:10:38.980
Like uh, it was so but that was like no when's the last time you saw a group of kids?

01:10:39.220 --> 01:10:41.539
It's when crunk hit the white people, yeah.

01:10:41.860 --> 01:10:49.060
When's the last time you saw a group of kids like dancing to car, like a music blasting out of a car in a parking lot?

01:10:49.539 --> 01:10:53.060
Like I haven't seen it since I was the kid doing it.

01:10:53.300 --> 01:10:54.420
Yeah, yeah.

01:10:55.539 --> 01:10:56.340
No, for real.

01:10:56.420 --> 01:11:01.860
Yeah, I have not seen or like I'll say in college once, it was like a Tuesday morning.

01:11:02.579 --> 01:11:08.660
I'm riding my bike from one of my classes, I'm a freshman, and I'm passing one of the sophomore guys' houses.

01:11:09.539 --> 01:11:12.420
And there's just loud music coming from in there.

01:11:12.980 --> 01:11:14.420
Like, loud, loud.

01:11:14.579 --> 01:11:16.340
I'm like, what's going on in there?

01:11:16.660 --> 01:11:26.900
And well, everybody's like, well, everybody's in uh, you know, para-church youth ministries, you have access to large speakers for youth events.

01:11:26.980 --> 01:11:33.140
So they had taken all these speakers and rigged them up, and they were just they're playing like Lil Wayne or something.

01:11:33.220 --> 01:11:38.980
Yeah, but and Lil, I'll also say Lil Wayne was one of my like he was one of my sunset rappers.

01:11:39.140 --> 01:11:39.460
Oh yeah.

01:11:39.619 --> 01:11:46.260
He like as I was losing my interest in rap, he was like one of the last ones I really like enjoyed listening to.

01:11:46.820 --> 01:11:54.660
And so I walk in this house with this raging music playing, and there's just there's no girls.

01:11:54.820 --> 01:12:01.940
It's Tuesday morning, and there's like 25 guys just dancing their faces off in this house.

01:12:02.260 --> 01:12:09.619
That might be the last time I I saw such an impromptu dance party, strong impromptu social dance party breakout.

01:12:09.940 --> 01:12:16.900
With no um, like, and the fact that like in general, like, why do dudes dance at the clubs?

01:12:17.220 --> 01:12:20.180
It's an act of peacocking and prospecting.

01:12:20.500 --> 01:12:20.820
Sure.

01:12:21.060 --> 01:12:28.900
This was while the lyrics may not have been so pure coming out of out of the speakers that we use to tell people about Jesus usually.

01:12:29.220 --> 01:12:33.380
The the act of this man dance party was was very pure.

01:12:33.860 --> 01:12:34.900
Yeah, which I get that.

01:12:35.220 --> 01:12:39.300
Reminds me of a the Bruce Willis SNL skit, boy dance party.

01:12:39.539 --> 01:12:40.260
Did you ever see that?

01:12:40.420 --> 01:12:41.380
I don't think I ever saw that one.

01:12:41.539 --> 01:12:42.579
I'll show it to you later.

01:12:42.740 --> 01:12:43.300
It's a good one.

01:12:43.380 --> 01:12:45.860
It's basically the same premise, just it's a boy dance party.

01:12:46.020 --> 01:12:46.260
Yeah.

01:12:46.420 --> 01:12:48.420
And it's uh that's it.

01:12:48.579 --> 01:12:49.380
It's just pure.

01:12:49.619 --> 01:12:51.380
Those are some of my best memories as a kid.

01:12:51.700 --> 01:12:52.820
Boy dance parties.

01:12:53.140 --> 01:12:57.780
Dude, also, this is one I thought about this at the movie theater last night.

01:12:58.420 --> 01:13:04.340
But I remember Friday, school's over, waiting for someone to pick me up so we can go to the movies.

01:13:04.500 --> 01:13:07.940
We would get to the movie theater like two hours early.

01:13:08.260 --> 01:13:24.500
So me and my friends, who are you know, we were all arriving in like different cars because we lived across like different areas of South Denver, and we'd get there so we could dance to um on the like DDR machines and compete.

01:13:25.060 --> 01:13:29.860
And uh we would do that for like two hours before the movie started, right?

01:13:30.260 --> 01:13:32.420
And that was exhilarating.

01:13:32.579 --> 01:13:33.300
It was so fun.

01:13:33.460 --> 01:13:40.100
Even if you weren't good at DDR, you were there to just be hype for you know the the ultimate like kind of bracket challenge.

01:13:40.340 --> 01:13:48.420
There would always be the Randos who like were like in their 30s and they were like at the movie theater and like, hey, let me get in on this.

01:13:48.500 --> 01:13:51.140
And like they come and dance against you, and it was so fun.

01:13:51.300 --> 01:13:52.660
It was so funny and fun.

01:13:52.900 --> 01:13:53.940
Yes, it was.

01:13:54.340 --> 01:13:57.140
That reminds me of one of the first viral videos.

01:13:57.300 --> 01:14:10.980
This is when, you know, this is like early YouTube and like beginning of this is when mostly like uh um most viral videos were being sent by um email, right?

01:14:11.140 --> 01:14:11.539
Yeah.

01:14:11.860 --> 01:14:14.020
Was fat kiddr.

01:14:14.420 --> 01:14:15.380
Dude, I remember that one.

01:14:15.460 --> 01:14:16.340
Yeah, that was a good one.

01:14:16.740 --> 01:14:23.539
And just it is the incredible speed with which his feet are moving, but his torso is not moving.

01:14:23.700 --> 01:14:28.420
Yeah, it's hips down, stomping, gyrating, yeah, and then he's just focused.

01:14:28.500 --> 01:14:33.940
And then he he messes up and falls at the end and pushes the machine and it moves under him.

01:14:34.100 --> 01:14:34.260
Yeah.

01:14:34.420 --> 01:14:34.820
Oh my god.

01:14:35.220 --> 01:14:38.340
The best of dancer in our group was a kind of fat kid too.

01:14:38.500 --> 01:14:41.140
He was he was lightning on them steps.

01:14:41.460 --> 01:14:41.940
Mm-hmm.

01:14:42.900 --> 01:14:43.780
Oh man.

01:14:44.020 --> 01:14:47.940
There's a lot of good old the uh used to not take that much to go viral.

01:14:48.500 --> 01:14:50.180
Maybe it doesn't take that much now.

01:14:50.820 --> 01:14:52.420
Say in uh in effort.

01:14:52.579 --> 01:14:56.579
Well, or in like uh I'll say silly things go viral for no good reason.

01:14:56.740 --> 01:15:01.619
I don't think you well but but there's so many people trying to go viral, it is very hard to go viral.

01:15:01.780 --> 01:15:08.740
Yeah, you know, I do think back in the day, too, it was also like you could never plan a viral video like on early YouTube days.

01:15:08.980 --> 01:15:12.420
Like the Hide your kid, hide your wives guy, you know.

01:15:12.660 --> 01:15:14.420
Yeah, Charlie bit my finger.

01:15:14.740 --> 01:15:16.500
Dude, no one ever was prepared for that.

01:15:17.300 --> 01:15:18.180
They weren't ready for it.

01:15:18.340 --> 01:15:19.460
I smell like beef.

01:15:19.619 --> 01:15:20.260
Yeah.

01:15:21.300 --> 01:15:24.260
Oh uh good stuff.

01:15:24.660 --> 01:15:34.579
Well uh good, good, good nostalgia episode of just remembering childhood stuff and stories and harmless, harmless bits.

01:15:34.820 --> 01:15:38.260
Um going into the the holiday season.

01:15:38.579 --> 01:15:48.340
We uh we we should talk about, you know, in an episode here again, like kind of the recommended holiday gifts for you know the man you know in his 30s.

01:15:48.500 --> 01:15:48.980
Yes.

01:15:49.220 --> 01:15:50.500
And do something like that.

01:15:50.579 --> 01:15:56.660
Because we did we did a gift giving episode last year or like recommendations going through stuff.

01:15:56.900 --> 01:16:03.380
And honestly, like in the last year I've gotten a lot of those things either from people as gifts or like for myself.

01:16:04.180 --> 01:16:07.380
And so now it's like, okay, kind of gotta come up with a whole new list.

01:16:07.460 --> 01:16:08.500
And I'm actually struggling.

01:16:08.660 --> 01:16:10.579
Like Billy Billy Jean is on my case.

01:16:10.660 --> 01:16:12.900
She's like, You haven't made your Christmas wish list yet.

01:16:13.060 --> 01:16:13.539
Oh yeah.

01:16:13.780 --> 01:16:16.980
I need to know what you want so I can send it out to you know the family.

01:16:17.380 --> 01:16:30.180
It is hard, like, where it's just like the and we'll get into it when we talk about the episode, but it's like you but mostly you just want some somebody to get you something that's meaningful that they put things that they put thought into.

01:16:30.420 --> 01:16:32.020
No one ever buys me bullets or guns.

01:16:32.180 --> 01:16:32.340
Yeah.

01:16:32.420 --> 01:16:34.340
Well, there's the thoughts I want.

01:16:34.579 --> 01:16:44.660
There's like the some of the the things on my like as a kid, your largest desires could be met on a birthday or Christmas.

01:16:45.460 --> 01:16:49.300
Now I cannot ask for a$3,000 shotgun.

01:16:49.539 --> 01:16:52.579
I cannot ask for a hundred thousand dollar ski boat.

01:16:52.740 --> 01:16:54.340
I cannot ask for a hunting ranch.

01:16:54.660 --> 01:17:03.380
If you really love me and are happy that I'm a part of your family, then just like commit to shelling out like enough for dual dual nods.

01:17:03.619 --> 01:17:03.780
Exactly.

01:17:04.020 --> 01:17:04.980
Like, just give me dual nods.

01:17:05.060 --> 01:17:08.020
Just a quick 15,000 dual nods.

01:17:08.180 --> 01:17:08.420
Exactly.

01:17:08.900 --> 01:17:09.619
Don't you love me?

01:17:11.300 --> 01:17:15.539
No, no, it's it is that that is the dilemma of like, I don't want Knickknacks.

01:17:15.700 --> 01:17:20.579
It was so funny because we were in the line to buy the record player and record from Barnes and Noble.

01:17:20.660 --> 01:17:26.500
And Barnes and Noble, the front of the line is like the same as any store where it's just trash.

01:17:27.140 --> 01:17:30.820
And Billy G was like, I just love uh what was the word she used?

01:17:30.980 --> 01:17:33.060
She used this word that I never heard.

01:17:33.380 --> 01:17:34.900
Uh Totskis.

01:17:35.060 --> 01:17:36.740
She's like, I just love Tchotskis.

01:17:36.980 --> 01:17:40.340
Like I like to look at them in the assortment and how cute they are.

01:17:40.420 --> 01:17:41.780
I'm like, but it's trash.

01:17:42.340 --> 01:17:43.860
She's like, yeah, but it's so cute.

01:17:44.020 --> 01:17:46.340
And I'm like, don't buy me any of this, please.

01:17:46.500 --> 01:17:48.420
It's like such disposable trash.

01:17:48.660 --> 01:17:49.700
Are you 85 years old?

01:17:49.860 --> 01:17:51.780
Are you are you my grandma?

01:17:52.100 --> 01:17:59.380
But you know, I mean it's it is super sweet that like because I never look at that stuff while I'm in line and think like, oh, this would be a good gift for so and so.

01:17:59.940 --> 01:18:06.980
But like that is how she thinks, and like I think that's very sweet and innocent, but I'm also just like, don't spend our money on any of this.

01:18:07.060 --> 01:18:12.660
It's disposable Chinese garbage or like poison candy.

01:18:12.820 --> 01:18:13.700
Like, you know what I mean?

01:18:14.579 --> 01:18:34.660
So the uh my grandparents uh well it was like like great great-grandparents' chotskis were as a as an assortment of uh salt shakers, salt and pepper shakers, but they were all like African American, um with some of their features um exaggerated, exaggerated.

01:18:34.820 --> 01:18:42.260
Yeah, it was like and there's like they like it's one of those things they had, you know, for and then like when they pass away, you're like, We gotta throw these out.

01:18:42.500 --> 01:18:43.220
We can't have these.

01:18:48.980 --> 01:18:53.060
I did tell her I was like I was like, don't spend any money on tchotskis.

01:18:53.380 --> 01:18:56.260
Instead, spend money on a gift card to Schlotskis.

01:18:56.660 --> 01:18:57.860
Because I love Schlotskis.

01:18:58.500 --> 01:18:59.460
Love me a circle sandwich.

01:18:59.700 --> 01:19:00.900
Albuquerque turkey.

01:19:00.980 --> 01:19:01.460
Yeah, dude.

01:19:03.460 --> 01:19:05.700
Anyways, thanks for joining us, Ken.

01:19:05.860 --> 01:19:19.380
Hopefully, you're thinking about, you know, childhood snowstorms and stuff and fun things you got to do when you had snow days or impromptu, unplanned, fun times with friends, music from your childhood, dancing with your buddies.

01:19:19.619 --> 01:19:22.500
Uh yeah, and be thinking about what you want for Christmas.

01:19:22.579 --> 01:19:23.700
Because honestly, here's the truth.

01:19:23.780 --> 01:19:24.420
Here's the truth.

01:19:24.660 --> 01:19:34.420
It is an act of service and love to go out of your way to make a list for your loved ones to then get you those things.

01:19:34.740 --> 01:19:45.780
Because then they get to relish in the moment of I got you something that you wanted, and I got to deliver that to you, and I get to now see the joy on your face.

01:19:45.860 --> 01:19:49.940
And that itself is a gift you can give them that gets given back to you.

01:19:50.100 --> 01:19:50.740
So do it.

01:19:50.820 --> 01:19:54.980
Uh my opinions changed because I was such an anti-Christmas gift person.

01:19:55.619 --> 01:20:02.820
I know we've talked about that before of like, don't give me anything because I don't, it's not what I want, and then I have to fake like I want it.

01:20:03.220 --> 01:20:14.740
And nowadays I'm in the mindset of like, all right, I will buckle down and I will really do the research and digging to find something you can get me so that way you get to experience the joy of giving me something I actually want.

01:20:15.619 --> 01:20:25.060
Um, and I encourage everyone to do that because it does show consideration and love for your for your uh friends and family when you do that.

01:20:25.220 --> 01:20:29.300
So uh, anyways, be thinking about that, Ken, and start making that list.

01:20:29.780 --> 01:20:34.260
And uh I guess, Pat, you got anything else?

01:20:35.220 --> 01:20:38.340
Don't forget to get crunked listening to that Dave Matthews music.

01:20:38.579 --> 01:20:40.660
Yeah, get crunked and listen to Dave Matthews.

01:20:41.300 --> 01:20:41.619
Yep.

01:20:41.860 --> 01:20:43.140
Till next time, folks.