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Childhood Nostalgia: Snow Days in the 1980s · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Going on?
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  Speaker 2: to throw it over to you before it gets out
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  Speaker 2: of control. But now it's already out of control.
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  Speaker 1: today When I said I have an idea for the
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  Speaker 1: show and you said, okay, run with it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that is always a little bit frightening for me.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, I'm here. I got into the studio, I
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  Speaker 2: beat the door down. Yes, I'm here with the crazy DJ,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm ready to roll with whatever crazy idea comes
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  Speaker 2: out of your crazy.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked before about how I really enjoy just winging it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that is just more than your little brain can handle.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why I went with the opening of
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  Speaker 1: She's Crazy, She's Gone Mad.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm go with the flow gym. I can handle
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  Speaker 2: impromptu type episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Your aunt and uncle who live here in the Metro
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta area with us, they do a lot of traveling,
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  Speaker 1: they do, and I live vicariously through them. Well, one
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  Speaker 1: of their favorite places to go in the US is
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. No it is. They go to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: No, They've been to Las Vegas twice and they hate it.
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  Speaker 1: They like to go for the shows and they go
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  Speaker 1: to the Sphere and they see the shows at the Sphere.
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  Speaker 2: This is a brand new to me, I know, because.
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  Speaker 1: You don't listen. So they will go and they'll just
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  Speaker 1: like fly out for thirty six hours and just go
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  Speaker 1: see a show and come back. Okay, Well I want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. I'm making plans of maybe maybe spring break,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe winter break. Amy's gonna get a winter.
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  Speaker 2: Break, her winter break she is spending in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, would you like to go with me? I'm inviting
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  Speaker 1: you to go to Las Vegas with me. Do you
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  Speaker 1: want to go?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to know why we're going?
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  Speaker 2: I want to know why.
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  Speaker 1: New Kids on the Block their Vegas residency has been extended.
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  Speaker 1: They did a residency last year and it was a
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  Speaker 1: big hit. Not going to Vegas for that, So it's
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  Speaker 1: called big Shocker the right stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say, it's called Old on
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  Speaker 2: the Bayay.
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  Speaker 1: It's at Doby Live at Park MGM. They did twenty
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  Speaker 1: four shows last year, and they've announced they're doing sixteen
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  Speaker 1: additional shows in twenty twenty six, so I'm thinking it's
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  Speaker 1: a great time to visit.
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  Speaker 2: I am thinking.
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  Speaker 1: So many of their I'm just gonna act like I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear that many of their twenty twenty five dates
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  Speaker 1: were sold out, So I wanted to know how much
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  Speaker 1: money they were pulling in for each show.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you'd have to talk to their accountant.
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  Speaker 2: That's ripping them off.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't see exactly like how much each member
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  Speaker 1: was making, but I saw a number that said that
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  Speaker 1: overall each show grossed from anywhere from the high six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousands to the seven hundred thousand mark.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so six hundred thousand times twenty four shows about
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  Speaker 2: twelve million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a ton of money when you
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  Speaker 1: got to split it five ways.
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  Speaker 2: And you know they've got costs and stuff, right, it's
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  Speaker 2: not just for them, right, They've got to pay people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would assume that it would be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cost but what do I know.
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  Speaker 2: So it's about fourteen point four million dollars if it's
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  Speaker 2: twenty four shows at six hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 1: So then I also and you know, the innerwebs.
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  Speaker 2: Don't lie, No, they don't. The inner webs tell the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So I also saw the Backstreet Boys at one point
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  Speaker 1: they did a Vegas residency and they grossed four million
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  Speaker 1: per night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they are a little bit more current than the
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  Speaker 2: new kids on the ball. I think that's so they
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  Speaker 2: may have more that are still alive.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what are you saying. It wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: long ago.
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  Speaker 2: It was forty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: So here's a people dot com article from August of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Backstreet Boys are reportedly making four million
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  Speaker 1: per night during their Las Vegas residency. So it makes
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  Speaker 1: me wonder are Nikodaba are they performing at like some rundown?
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  Speaker 2: They're performing in Reno.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Backstreet Boys are actually in Vegas at somewhere
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  Speaker 1: nice and fancy.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: People go, oh, they're at the Sphere. Backstreet Boys were
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  Speaker 1: at the Sphere.
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  Speaker 2: Why you said New Kids were at the Sphere. No,
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  Speaker 2: they're at MGM. Yeah, or maybe they're at Reno. And
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  Speaker 2: people don't like to go to Reno because Johnny Cash
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  Speaker 2: once shot a man there just to watch them die.
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  Speaker 1: So twenty twenty six dates, They've got some dates in February, June, July,
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  Speaker 1: and October. I'll tell you what. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: Los Vegas in June or July.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, that would be pretty miserable.
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  Speaker 1: So your aunt and uncle went to Vegas to the
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  Speaker 1: Sphere and they saw the eagles.
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  Speaker 2: No they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Who did they see eagles?
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  Speaker 2: There is no the They just saw eagles.
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  Speaker 1: And then they went back and they saw Wizard of
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  Speaker 1: Oz because they talked about how they had literal debris
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  Speaker 1: flying around in.
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  Speaker 2: The arena during the tornado. Yes, really, yes, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: hear any of that. What was I doing?
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  Speaker 1: No, not listening. Apparently, Oh I snorted it. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Did they see any flying monkeys?
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  Speaker 1: But possibly possibly they did mention that some people were
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  Speaker 1: lucky enough to catch Toto. Something is like a souvenir.
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  Speaker 1: They allowed you to catch something that was flying through
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  Speaker 1: the air and keep it as like a souvenir. But
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember what it was.
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  Speaker 2: I hope it was a flying.
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  Speaker 1: That would be awesome. Okay, So I jumped down the
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  Speaker 1: rabbit hole with new kids on the block, and then
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  Speaker 1: I took a little side path. Okay, I made a
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  Speaker 1: signe tunnel like dig Doug.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like the like the video game diggakh you remember?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, So I took it, made a little side
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  Speaker 1: tunnel and read up on your favorite Sammy Hagar.
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  Speaker 2: Oh do you know how old he? Can't? Try fifty five?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how old he is?
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  Speaker 2: Fifty five?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: So, if I had to guess Sammy's about seventy, he's
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  Speaker 2: seventy eight. Holy cow, I didn't realize he was that old.
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  Speaker 1: Sammy Hagar is seventy eight. He is touring this year.
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  Speaker 1: He is taking a keyboardist from Toto out on tour
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  Speaker 1: with him. Wow, I just said that so this whole
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  Speaker 1: story is so I can say.
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  Speaker 2: Toto, Toto in Toto too, It's Sammy in Toto too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But this he mentioned this could be his
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  Speaker 1: last tour. I mean, why that's so mean? He's seventy eight.
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  Speaker 2: Tony Bennett toured when he was like what eighty two, and.
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  Speaker 1: He looked he had Alzheimer's, Like he couldn't move, he
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  Speaker 1: could not do a show without Lady Gaga at the end. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So Haygar's also doing a Las Vegas residency.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, then he's not touring or he's touring and
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  Speaker 2: doing a residence.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's old. Why wouldn't he just do a residency, Like,
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  Speaker 2: why do you need to tour? I mean because people
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  Speaker 2: aren't coming to Las Vegas to see Sammy exactly. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense. Apparently people aren't going to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: to see new Kids on the Block.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little worried about that. We should go to
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  Speaker 1: help boost the sales.
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  Speaker 2: I have committed all the money that I want to
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  Speaker 2: commit in a lifetime to new Kids on the Block.
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  Speaker 2: So mean, I'm not mean, I'm just realistic.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So, speaking of Sammy Hagar being seventy eight.
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  Speaker 2: Is he older than Don Henley?
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  Speaker 1: You will need to look that up.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I do need to look that up. So,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of seventy eight or Sammy or both, what do
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  Speaker 2: you got.
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  Speaker 1: How old do you think Nicky six is of Motley Crue.
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  Speaker 2: A lot older than he should be. Don Henley is
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  Speaker 2: also seventy eight. By the way, they're the same age. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they are the same age.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Don Henley on something the other day and
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  Speaker 1: he looked like his face had stretched as far as
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  Speaker 1: it would go.
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  Speaker 2: That's possible, So nicky six. So if Henley's seventy eight,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that Nicky six is sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, you hit it. Yes, you hit the nail
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  Speaker 1: on the head. So Motley Cruz touring.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they promised that they were they had their
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  Speaker 2: final tour like many years ago, and they weren't going
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  Speaker 2: to be like all the other bands that came out
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  Speaker 2: of retirement to do a tour. And apparently I guess
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  Speaker 2: they lied.
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  Speaker 1: So they will embark on a thirty three date tour
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  Speaker 1: this summer. It not only celebrates their twentieth anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: the original Carnival of the Sentence Tour, because that's what
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  Speaker 1: this one's called. But it also coincides with Mottley CRU's
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  Speaker 1: forty fifth anniversary as a band.
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  Speaker 2: So you want to hear something. Yes, I was at
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  Speaker 2: that show twenty years ago, and it feels like it
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  Speaker 2: was just like seven years.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's crazy, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gods. So here's the deal. They weren't good, then,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way twenty years later they're any good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way it would be. So McK mar just
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  Speaker 2: stood there like he was dead, and he just stood
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  Speaker 2: there like the grim Reaper playing the guitar.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny that you say that, because when we
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  Speaker 1: watched the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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  Speaker 1: just recently, and we saw who did we see? And
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  Speaker 1: I said I would run off with him if he asked.
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  Speaker 2: Who was that?
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  Speaker 1: Joe Perry? He still looked great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and he's getting up there too, he's I
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  Speaker 2: would guess he's seventy five, seventy six, if I guess.
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  Speaker 1: He still moved like he was a younger guy.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Perry is seventy five.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've always liked him older.
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  Speaker 2: That much older.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I don't know that I should be in
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  Speaker 1: charge of episodes.
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  Speaker 2: They go a little out of control, you know what.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Perry is starting to look a little bit like
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  Speaker 2: Steven Tyler. It's like when married couples stay together so
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  Speaker 2: long they start looking like each other.
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  Speaker 1: Am I going to start to look like you?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe if you're lucky.
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  Speaker 1: It's scary. Oh my goodness. I never would have thought
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  Speaker 1: you said he was seventy five.
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  Speaker 2: He is seventy five. I think he's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: older than Steven Tyler. Steve, Oh no, Steven Tyler seventy seven,
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  Speaker 2: So Steven's a little bit older than Joe Perry.
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  Speaker 1: Steven Tyler looks like he's made his transition.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's looking a little strange.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I don't get that, which is fine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to get it. But Joe Perry still
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  Speaker 1: looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: For being seventy five. He did, he did. He was
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  Speaker 2: still out there. Uh, he'd still out there rocking at fifty. Really,
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  Speaker 2: you would have said he's younger than me. You'd have
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  Speaker 2: said he moved the whole man. Joe Perry is he
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  Speaker 2: than me?
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  Speaker 1: He moved without breathing heavy.
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  Speaker 2: That's because he weighs about seventy eight pounds. If I
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  Speaker 2: was emaciated, I could move without breathing heavy too.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, do you have anything you want to talk about? No,
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  Speaker 1: you got nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I've got nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, lucky for you, I got a little something. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead. This is a podcast that looks back on
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  Speaker 1: the decade of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things
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  Speaker 1: that were important to us as children and what we
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  Speaker 1: look back on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this
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  Speaker 1: is a nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what we're getting nostalgic about to because I
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  Speaker 2: haven't a clue.
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  Speaker 1: So we had a conversation this morning. This is a
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  Speaker 1: rare holiday where neither of us had to go into work.
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  Speaker 1: So we had this conversation this morning while we were
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  Speaker 1: drinking our morning coffee, where I told you that we
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  Speaker 1: need to prepare because the second half of this week
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  Speaker 1: into this next weekend, we're supposed to have an ice storm. Supposedly,
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  Speaker 1: you very quickly hopped on your phone and came back
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  Speaker 1: and gave me all the reasons why that was BS.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it is, and So this has been in a
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  Speaker 1: conversation that we've kind of had off and on all
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  Speaker 1: day with Emmy involved, because, of course Emmy, this would
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  Speaker 1: be exciting to Emmy, even though she does not understand
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  Speaker 1: the seriousness of a possible ice storm, she just hears
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  Speaker 1: maybe schools canceled. So what I decided we would talk
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  Speaker 1: about today ice storms, snowstorms of the nineteen eighties and
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  Speaker 1: the fun that we had as kids, and the memories
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  Speaker 1: it brings back and all the nostalgia that goes with it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that sounds like fun.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we loved having we loved having snow
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  Speaker 2: days at school, you know, when we were in school,
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  Speaker 2: not at school. It was always a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: You'd get the day off, you'd obviously you'd be awake
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  Speaker 2: early because you didn't know that you had the day off, right,
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  Speaker 2: so you'd wake up ready to go to school, and
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  Speaker 2: then you'd get the greatest news of all time, school
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  Speaker 2: was canceled. There's a bunch of snow outside and you
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  Speaker 2: can go play in it.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, so what did you do? Did you go
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  Speaker 1: play in it? Or did you go back to bed
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  Speaker 1: and say it'll be there.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit later we went and played it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we grew up in two totally different places or
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  Speaker 1: part of the country. Yes, so snow was much more prevalent,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure in Saint Louis, Missouri than it was in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: where I grew up. But I feel like we had
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  Speaker 1: a lot more snow in the eighties than we do now.
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  Speaker 2: Really, I mean, I mean, I know I did than
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  Speaker 2: I do know because I don't get anything right.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, I think so? I mean it, Hey, young kids,
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  Speaker 1: I used to be right, I think, I think if
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  Speaker 1: I remember it correctly, Yeah, I just remember having like
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  Speaker 1: a one good snowstorm a year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you did.
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  Speaker 1: You don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you did. I would be shocked if
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  Speaker 2: you did.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna have to ask my friend mister chat
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  Speaker 1: later on if it can tell me what kind of
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  Speaker 1: snowstorms we had in the nineteen eighties. But even though
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  Speaker 1: snowstorms weren't prevalent in Atlanta or in the northern suburbs
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  Speaker 1: of Atlanta, we were always prepared.
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  Speaker 2: You were.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we had our sled.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have your bread and your eggs and your melts?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, we did. We were prepared. We had our sled,
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  Speaker 1: we had our our gloves and our hats and our
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  Speaker 1: we were ready. So it never it was never one
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  Speaker 1: of those situations where we had to grab like a
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  Speaker 1: trash can lid.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can I since we're talking about snow and snow
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  Speaker 2: days and whatnot, can I talk about the idiots that
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  Speaker 2: live here whenever there's a threat of a snowstorm.
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  Speaker 1: They are you turning this into an old man ringin? Yes, okay, get.
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  Speaker 2: Off my lawn. Did you hear me?
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  Speaker 1: I said, get off my lawn.
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  Speaker 2: Now, get off my lawn. I'm not happy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like this chair, and I don't like this dish,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't like beanies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a grumpy old man. I don't like everything. The
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  Speaker 2: wind is now compared to on.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be.
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  Speaker 2: These people whenever there's even a thread of snow, they
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  Speaker 2: immediately run to the grocery store and buy up all
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  Speaker 2: the bread, as if we're going to be trapped in
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  Speaker 2: our houses for three months.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, like.
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  Speaker 2: If anything at all. You're inside for three days at
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  Speaker 2: the most. If you can't have a loaf of bread
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  Speaker 2: last three days, you have a bigger eating problem than
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  Speaker 2: I do. I couldn't possibly get through a loaf of
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  Speaker 2: bread in three days. It would be it would be impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I could absolutely get through a loaf of bread
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  Speaker 1: in three days. Listen, how let me tell you how
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  Speaker 1: I would do it. Cinnamon toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch,
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  Speaker 1: and cheesy bread for dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever. Seriously, they go and they buy up all the
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: bread and milk as if they're going to be trapped
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: inside for three four months.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I don't even drink milk like they're.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: In a bomb shelter. Yes, there's no threats of nukes coming.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: We're past the eighties. Why are you buying up all
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the bread and the milk and the eggs. It makes
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: zero sense. Okay, you're gonna be trapped for a couple
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: of days at most, and you and where we live.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: If you're trapped more than lately, your power's gonna be out.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's a huge concention.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: You don't need all that milk and eggs because it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: gonna spoil unless you put it outside in the snow
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: and ice, and you're not gonna be able to cook
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the eggs.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, the aunt and uncle that we mentioned a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: few minutes ago, that travel a good bit. Emmy has
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: already called today and asked them if she can come
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: stay with them this weekend, because there it's just this
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: area that we live in that for some reason we
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: lose power all the stink and time. And so when
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that is the downside that I used to not worry about,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: but now when they say ice storm, I go, well, shoot,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I wonder how long we'll be without power. But I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: love the anticipation of what's going to come. Now most
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: of us, depending on I guess not if you're a
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: doctor or a nurse or something in that profession, but
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: most of us now have the ability to work from
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: home if we need to.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: So that's unfortunate. Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: So it's not even like, oh I get the day off.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: You know, probably you're still going to have to work.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: But to me, there's some like childlike excitement that comes
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: with tracking the weather for a couple of days to
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: see if we're going to get five snowflakes. I will
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: go out and catch all five on my tongue.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you and Emmy the snow. And I don't blame
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: you because you don't see it very much. I, you know, whatever,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I've seen enough of it. In my life too for
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: it to go forever. Now, what I would like to
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: do is to have you and Emmy up in Saint
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Louis when we get a good snowstorm and you go
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to the best hill there is to go sledding, and
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: that's Art Hill. Yeah, and you guys would have a
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: blast doing that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Oh that I think my neck probably wouldn't allow me
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to do it. I don't know that. I feel like
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: post cervical fusion, I might not should do that.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe maybe not, I don't know, but I mean
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it would be a good way to go.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So Nanny had a great hill in her backyard, so
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: when it snowed, we always went to her backyard and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: we had our little like it rolled up like a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: yoga mat.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But it was slick as Yes, you would just fly
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: down that Clark griswall in Christmas vacation.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: You would pick up speed in no time. And when
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you got to the bottom of the hill, she had
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: like a row of like I don't know what they
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: call it, but like the thick grass greenery that kind
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of grows up and you would hit that bump of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that greenery and you would go airborne.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: In your sled or just by yourself.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: On your on your slick.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Uh on you your slick sled.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Your slick sled like it was greased up, like it
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: had crisco on it. And you would go airborne when
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you hit that grass, and it was like how far
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: could you go in the air before you landed? It
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: still to this day just brings back the best memories.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: You were like Evilknievel. Absolutely, yeah, that was that's good stuff.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: That's good. But I mean, how often would you get
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: to slide down that before the snow just disappeared? Because
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I felt like the no never here, at least when
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I've been here. It's almost like once you trample over it,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: it's it's gone and it turns back into leaves and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: mud and dirt.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the weather was different in the eighties.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: So you got more snow, you didn't just get an inch,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and then people freak out and buy up all the
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: bread and eggs and milk.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: This is like, this is before the government did weather modification.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So Ronald Reagan didn't allow that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: He didn't allow weather modification.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, he did not. He did not. Kim
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Trail was not a thing. But and you know there's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: no cold like snow. Cold like your fingers even with
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: gloves on your fingers. Oh yeah, would be so cold
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: they would they wouldn't like want to move. And it
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: didn't matter. Now if I had to go to school
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that way, I would be crying, yes, But playing out
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in the snow so really.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we could only play out in the snow
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: for a couple three hours, and then eventually you had
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: to come back in and warm up because you're, like
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: you said, your fingers were frozen and your toes were frozen,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: and you didn't want to come in with mister Deed's blackfoot.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I know you didn't, So tell me what would you
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: do as a kid when it snowed?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: So we did all kinds of things. So first off,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: we'd get all bundled up like a Randy and a
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Christmas story right where you could hardly move. But you'd
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: get your goloshes on, and you you know, you'd because
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: we had snow boots, right, we had snowsuits, we didn't.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: You'd get your long underwear on, you would, you know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: because you didn't want to freeze death. You'd get your
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: heavy coat on, your hat, you know, maybe a scarf.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't really like wearing a scarf, but I'd have
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: a hat, or maybe we'd have one of those ski masks,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: like we're gonna go rob a bank yours. But yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: we'd go running outside, immediately start a snowball fight. Yeah
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: we build an igloo or a fort. Yeah wow, or
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: a fort. You know, we would certainly play football in it,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: because there's nothing funnier and cooler than getting tackled in
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the snow. One time, it snowed so heavy that they
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: hadn't plowed the streets, and so we always played football
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: on the street. We always played touch football on the street, right,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: But there was so much snow that you could actually
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: play tackle football in the street and not get hurt.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So we would do that snowball fights. Build a snowman
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: when I was real little, build a snowman. As we
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: got older, it was just like, yeah, let's just play.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Let's see what else will we do? Ghost ledden Right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: We had a you know, kind of a hill in
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: our backyard that we could slid down, but it wasn't
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: that fun because it wasn't that steep. Although it seemed
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: like in the springtime, if we were playing wiffotball, it
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: was super steep, but if there's snow on the ground.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But we would go up to our local school. So
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: there was a school, you know. I mean we lived
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: in a community where there were like three or four
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: schools within a mile or two of us. And so
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: we would go up to an elementary school that had
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: a big hill and there would be hundreds of kids
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: up there. Oh wow, and you just got everybody'd be
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: sliding down that hill. And of course it right in
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the center. Somebody would build a ramp like you were
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: talking about, right, and so you'd go flying on that
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: lamps ramp. So we might go up there, but that
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: usually involved a car ride. It wasn't close enough that
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: we could walk. Oh okay, so you had to have
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a parent take you up there. See what else would
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: we do? We would pull down icicles from roofs, you know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and treat them like popsicles. Oh yeah, we just might
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: play hide and seek in the snow. I mean we did.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: We just we just did all kinds of things. I mean,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: it was so much fun.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: When it snowed. Why did it feel like there was
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: some sense of like adventure or like fun freedom or
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: you know, some fun danger ahead? Yeah, like when it snowed,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: because you know, we had a good bit of property.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I would go places in the snow that I wouldn't
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: go when there wasn't snow. But for some reason, with
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: snow on the ground, it suddenly became like some place
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to investigate.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, Yeah, you would go other places.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: So we also had a creek right behind our house, right,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: so if it snowed and there happened to be water
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: in there, it would be ice, right, so we would
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: go back in the creek. We would go down in
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: certain places where we wouldn't go when the vegetation was
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: grown high, like you said, right, and kind of climb
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: all over that you go to a friend's house, you know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: or because the way our block worked was there's one
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: side that you know, is lower, and one side that's
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the houses are built up higher, and so they're on
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: big hills. So you might go to your friend's house
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: across the and slide down his hill with your with
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: your sleds.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, yeah. So after we would have a
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: good two or three hours out in the snow, and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: we always made a snow woman, okay, not a snowman. Right,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: You can picture what we did to make it a woman.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, my the the uncle that you talk about
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: down here, actually helped me make a snow woman when
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I was like four or five, and he explained why
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: it was a snow woman, and I giggled, and then
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I wasn't embarrassed until I went back inside and my
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: grandma was like, I heard what you guys were talking
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: about outside, and then I was embarrassed.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, but once we went back in, my mom would
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: have caught some snow when it first fell, and she
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: would have put it in the freezer and we would
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: have had snow ice cream.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, we did that sometimes, not all the time, but
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: we would do that sometimes. It was always maybe the
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: first snow. It couldn't be done in the first snoe.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I don't remember, but there was something about difference between
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the first snow of the year and then the rest
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: of the snows of the year.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You could do snow ice cream, or sometimes she would
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: do a snow cream coke float. That's weird type contraption. Okay,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: snow cream, there you go. That's what we called it.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Snow cream snow cream and there's just nothing like it. Yeah,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would do that now.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: No, that's disgusting, right, yes, but you know what, that
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: made us stronger as kids.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: It didn't taste disgusting.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: No, it didn't taste disgusting. But I just can't imagine
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: just eating something that fell from the sky.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So when I think about snow in the nineteen eighties,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of course, then I'm going to gravitate to are there
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: any nineteen eighties movies with any good snow scenes? And
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I always come back to the Christmas story.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course, a Christmas story.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Grimlins, yeah, Grimlins. Well I have to know before you
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: get too far down the list, did you ever try
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: sticking your tongue on the pole like they did Christmas?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Because we knew?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Is that a real thing?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: That is a real thing. Yes, you will get your
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: tongue stuck if you try to do that, So I
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: would recommend highly that you do not. Okay, so any
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: kind of pole, and if you do, make sure that
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: you have a cup of warm water with you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And then, of course I love you. Already mentioned him
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Randy in a snowsuit. I mean that thing. We couldn't
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: even put his little arms down. He was like a starfish.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that and that's how it was back in
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the eighties. You know, your parents would bundle you up.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I mean we let emmy go out. I mean it's
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: it's it's a shocker that she doesn't get pneumonia each
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: year that it snows, because she goes out with a
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: coat and some cloth mitten snow boots. I ordered her
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: a coat. Okay, Well she didn't even own a coat. Yeah, no,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: because she's never outside in the cold.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So I didn't have a snowsuit, of course, because there
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: wasn't a need for that. It was always my pajamas
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: on would be the bottom layer, right, because I would
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: have had like flannel pajamas, and then I would have
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: had my blue jeans on top of that and a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: T shirt and then maybe a sweatshirt and then my coat.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, we certainly dressed in layers. We had
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: long underwear, like thermal underwear, right, and then we'd have
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: jeans or sweats or whatever. You might have sweats over jeans.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: You would have an undershirt and then a shirt, you know,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: something heavy sweatshirt or whatever, and then your coat, your hat,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: maybe a scarf. You'd have gloves. It may be the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: mitten kind, right, which kind of stunk because you didn't
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: have fingers. You couldn't have individual fingers. Or as we
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: got older, when Dan Marino did the isoton or commercials,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: we got us some isotoner's. Uh but yeah, I mean it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: It's just something you look forward to. And there was
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: something about school being called off which made it more
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: fun than when it snowed on the weekend.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, because.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: The weekend, Yes, because you would have friends, right, your
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: friends were off school. You were off school, and so
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: you would go out with your brothers or sisters or friends,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and you would find something to do, whether it's sledding,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: whether it's football, whether it's making up a game, snowball
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: fights for sure. And let me tell you something, unlike here,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: where it snows and then the snow's gone the next
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: day or the following day. In Saint Louis, it would
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: stick around for weeks, and that those things would turn
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: into ice. Oh yeah, and then two weeks later you're
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: nailing somebody with an ice ball, and somebody's going home crying, right,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: especially if you get them up in the face, facial area.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: In the facial area, yes.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: You can get them in the ear, you get them
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: in the face, in the back of the head whatever. Yeah,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I mean many a kid went home crying because they
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: got drilled with an ice ball.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Well there's no pain like cold pain.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, for sure, for sure. And now we
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: get the fluffy snow that doesn't hurt when the snowball
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: hits you. But we got the good wet snow where
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: you could really, yeah, you know, do a good snowball
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: and just nail kids with it. But like I said,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: once it became like ice like it, it hurts.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it hurt bad. So I got us off
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: track a little bit. We mentioned a Christmas story. It
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: was a good movie from the eighties and had snow
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: in it. What else did you say?
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Grimlins? Of course?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: What about Ghostbusters?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Did Ghostbusters have snow?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I thought they did? Did they not?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I mean they had the staypuff marshmallow Man that looked
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: like it's the snow ning funny.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I thought I remembered snow, but maybe not.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: The Shining had snow, right, because that's how Danny escapes
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: from Jack.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: What about the Thing?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: The thing had snow, because that's I think in Antarctica,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: better off Dead had some snow. The Empire strikes back,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: The beginning of Empire strikes back had snow because Luke
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: gets lost in a snowstorm when they told him not
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to go out there.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I got one for you, what planes, trains, and automobile.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, that had some snow. For sure. That was a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: good one.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: So does this conversation? Doing this episode, has it helped
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: you change your feelings at all about the upcoming snowstorm?
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: No, because it's not going to happen because the the
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: weather guy down here is a fear monger.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he is.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, he is a fearmonger. Every year. He's like, this
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: is going to be the worst snowstorm ever, you better prepare.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: And he scares all these people into going up and
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: buying the bread and buying the milk. And I go
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: to the grocery store. I can't get a thing to
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: eat unless it's like, you know, frozen meat patties or something,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: resent me, Patty, and you know it's it's it's like
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: it's like a grocery store in the Walking Dead. Well,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: everybody goes through it, through picks through everything, and there's
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: nothing left and most of that, most of that ends
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: up spoiled because we're not stuck inside for eighteen days
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: like this idiot acts like we're gonna be and so, yes,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: he is a fear monger, always has been.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: So Okay, settle down just a little bit, knock it
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: back just a tad whatever that scowl on your face, uh.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Huh, yeah, because he's a fear monger.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: The one thing that Emmy will never understand is the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: excitement that we would feel when we would get up
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: early to see if school's going to be canceled. Yes,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: as you're watching and waiting for your school name to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: scroll across the screen of the TV or your county
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: or your city or however it was ADVERTI I mean,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the anticipation and the excitement, yes, I mean there was
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: nothing like.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: You would just sit there and watch and watch and watch,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: and if you like blinked, or somebody called you or something,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: it rolled past your school and you didn't see it,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: you'd be mad and you'd have to wait another five
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: to ten minutes for it to scroll through again.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah. That was a blast, except for the fact that, seriously,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: my school district was the last or one of the
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: last school districts to ever call off school, So we
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: went to school a lot when other when other schools
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: were out and that stink and I hated it. I
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: remember one time, like it was it was snowing when
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: we went to bed, and my dad came down and
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: woke us up. The next morning, was like, okay, time
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to go to school. And I'm like I looked outside
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: the I'm like, what, We're not called off because of snow.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: He's like, nope, you're going to school. And I'm like,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: are you kidding me? I feel like it had snowed
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: like four to five inches overnight, and off and off
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: we went. So unlike here up there, you know, we
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: had snowplows and we had salt trucks and everything else.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: So if they knew a big storm was coming, they
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: would go out and they would salt everything, all the
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: highways and all the major roads, you know, to try
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: and keep the ice off of it. Yeah, and then
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: it would, you know, eventually snow would come. And if
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: it's just snow, you can drive on it. I mean,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: you gotta be careful, but you can drive on it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: But there is so many snowplows and then so many
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: people up there with trucks that had their own snowplows
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: that would get paid by the city to go out
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and do it that, you know, it was very rare.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: It had to snow a lot for even our street
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: was just a little side street to have snow on it.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: So we were always going to school. But it's funny
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: because you mentioned an ice storm coming, right, There was
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: one time where we did have an ice storm where
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: we we thought snow was coming and it wasn't, and
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: there was just a sheet of ice over every and
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about just the sidewalks in the streets,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: like the grass, the creek, everything had just pure ice
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: on it. And so we went outside and played hockey.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: And that was the best hockey you've ever played.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: It was awesome because the puck slid like a hockey
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: puck is supposed to slide across the ice. We skated
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: even though we didn't have skates, right, but you can't
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: run on ice or you're gonna fall and eat it, right,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: So we'd just kind of push off and skate with
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: our tennis shoes or our boots or whatever. And it
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: was a blast, and I mean, we had never seen
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: anything like it. It was all foggy and just covered with
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: like an inch thick of ice, and it was just
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: so cool and so different. And so awesome. I think
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: we were a little bit bummed that we didn't get
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: snow right, but it was just something that was just
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: so different than what we had ever seen. It was
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: really kind of cool. And I remember that that one
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: year and it was, Yeah, it was a blast.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Ice storms are much more down here than snowstorms, so
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I definitely have a lot of dicey memories of ice storms.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: But either way, I think the anticipation is an awful
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. And in a world that's so serious
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and heavy these days, my goodness, if you're keeping up
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: with the news right now, I'm sorry, just give me this,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Give me this little little piece of joy.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: So you're excited about the potential of snow coming or
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: ice coming this weekend.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: So I have already looked on Amazon to find out
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: if I can buy a little like percolator. I'm not
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: even sure if that's the right word to make coffee.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: If I don't have power.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Well, we do have a fireplace.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: It's gas.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. I think it'll work
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: just fine.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: We have a fire pit. I thought about that.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: We have a fire pit. I couldn't I could you
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: could bring the fire pit inside I.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Can make my coffee outside on the fire pit. What
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: is this little house on the prairie? Like, what are
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: you talking about?
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: You're not gonna go outside and make your coffee on
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: a fire pitee?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, would you rather do that or me not
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: have my coffee?
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, if if if the power goes out
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: and you can't have your coffee and we can't get anywhere,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I look forward to the sweet victory of death.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. I think it'll be a time when
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: neighbors will come together and we will all pull our
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: resources and we'll make it work.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: I hope. So, because you can't drive anywhere when you
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: get snow or ice down here, I mean it literally
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: shuts down the entire city. People get out of their
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: cars and walk home because because traffic's bad here anyway.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And then you get snow and ice and
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: people can't go anywhere and they just stop. I mean,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: snow was just fun as a kid. I'm sure you
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: know many of the many of our listeners in the
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Midwest and the northern Midwest. I'm sure they've got plenty
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: of memories and plenty of stories of what they used
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: to do. I'd like to know what they used to do.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I can tell you what we used to do when
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: we were older and stupider.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Oh what.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: So we'd be, like, I don't know, eighteen nineteen, be
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: riding with a buddy who had a stick shift. We'd
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: be going downhill. The street had snow on it. Now,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: it was a it was a wider street than most
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: everything else, and it was a side street, so there
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: weren't a lot of people on it. So we'd go
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: down the middle of this road. He'd put the car
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: in neutral, My buddy'd put the car in neutral and
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: then pull up on the emergency brake.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: And we would just go spinning around in a circle.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: That was fun until the one time we literally almost
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: ended up in somebody's yard, which was almost kind of
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: like a ditch. And then I'm like, okay, dude, we
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: got to stop this, Like we can't keep doing this.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's just stupid teenagers, right, I mean, guys
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: are dumb, and then when they get to be teenagers,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: they're really dumb. And then when they're teenagers in a group,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: they're really really really dumb.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: They compile their dumbness.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's like a dumbness multiplied. It's a factor of dumbness,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: not even multiplied. It's like, uh, you know how they
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: do like three squared or three cube do so much
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: more than anything else. That's what guys dumbness is like
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: when they get together. One guy's dumb, two guys or
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: twice as dumb. Three guys are like eight times as dumb.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: You know, four guys are like sixty four times dumb.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: And the more you add it, it's it gets up
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: into the millions and trillions. It's almost like our national deficit.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: That's how dumb we get that awesome? All right, Yeah,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: so why don't you go ahead or do you want
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: me to go ahead?
• 43:58
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• 44:00
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• 44:02
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• 44:08
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• 44:53
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• 44:56
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• 45:03
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• 45:06
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• 45:09
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• 46:02
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• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, well how did I do? Uh?
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: You know what? You picked a fun topic that brought
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: back a lot of good memories. You know, I just
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: remember getting super dressed up and then coming back in
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: and your toes are just freezing your hands in this treason.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: And we had an indoor porch and my mom would
• 47:16
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• 47:18
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• 47:22
  Speaker 2: And then I remember just going and putting my hands
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: and feet by the heat register coming out of the
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: you know, the wall, just trying to warm up and
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: just being miserable, and then her making us hot coco, yeah,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: to try and warm us up. So, yeah, you did
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: a good job. Unlocked a lot of cool memories. So
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you did that. You are welcome, and I
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: was able to keep up. I didn't have to have
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: notes in front of me. I'm here with no computer on,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: no notes, no nothing, so I'm evolving.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, you are.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, thank you so much for listening. Let
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: us know what some of your snow day memories are.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: What did you do to have fun? Did you do
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: anything different than we did? Love hearing your stories. Let
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• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Until next time. I'm Jim and I'm Lindsay and we
• 48:12
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