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When the South Freezes Over: Our Snow Day Spectacular! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to the Tigs Bit Snow Day Spectacular.
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Whether you're bundled up by the fire or you're still digging out
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of your driveway no matter where you're at, it's time to
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celebrate everything snowy with a fun and a cozy twist.
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This was inspired by the very rare Gulf S Blizzard because
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let's face it, us southerners don't exactly have snow days
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figured out. So we're going to dive into all
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things snow. So today we we will explore the
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most unexpected places snow has fallen, dream up the ultimate
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snow day wish list, countdown the top snow songs and movies,
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and share the best and funniest snow day and funnest to snow day
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activities. Plus, we'll talk about some of
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the struggles that come with the snow and how to make the most of
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a cozy day indoors. So grab a mug of hot cocoa, wrap
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yourself up in a blanket and get ready for a fun filled adventure
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on this little snow filled journey that we're going to go
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on. And I'm joined by none other
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than my esteemed colleague and Co host Mr. Chad Blasey AKA
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Blossy the one man posse. What is going on, brother?
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What's happening, Tigs man? Snow.
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All things snow man. All things snow.
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You know what, after the events of the Gulf S Blizzard, I think
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it number one, it's raised questions for us as southerners
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of, you know, if something like that were to ever happen again,
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which it's rare it had not happened in 100 plus years,
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probably will not ever happen again in our lifetime.
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But if something like that were to happen, what would you do
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different? That's the question that I
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thought about that made me start thinking what if we just did a
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Dang show on the snow? That's what we're going to do.
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So it's going to be more, look, I know that there's going to be
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folks that are out there that can, they can attest to snow a
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little bit more than us probably are going to laugh at us,
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Blasey, like these days, idiots. They don't know about this.
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They don't know what the heck they're talking about.
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But, and we kind of don't in a sense 'cause we're not used to
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it. But man, wasn't that fun
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whenever we got to have that whole event.
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So it got me to thinking, what are some rare places on this
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earth that have seen snow? And so I've got a, our friend
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ChatGPT looked that up and tell me a little bit more about that.
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So got me 10 places that are insane that they've had snow.
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Vietnam. They had snow in Vietnam.
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Oh wow. They've had snow in Dubai.
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That's surprising. That is very surprising.
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They've had it in Chile, in the desert in Chile, Cape Town,
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South Africa. Interesting.
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Bangkok, Thailand. I know that they don't ever get
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snow. I think it's only snowed one
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time there, if I remember right when I was looking at that.
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Monterey in the northern regions in Mexico, very rare for Mexico
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to to get snow. Australia, and it snowed in
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Australia, which that's kind of surprising.
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The Sahara Desert. It is snowed in Africa and then
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Hawaii. Wow, Hawaii it.
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Is snowed in. Hawaii.
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Think Hawaii? That's crazy.
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Yeah, I didn't know it had ever snowed in Hawaii either.
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So, you know, so that's that's that's crazy.
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And then of course, you have to add to the list at number one, I
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do believe you have everything in the United States and since
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the dawn of the Internet and the dawn of television for sure, and
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especially cell phones and being able to share pictures and all
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the Gulf, I'm going to call it the Gulf S Blizzard that that
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has happened because that's that is a as rare as it gets to get
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10 inches of snow on the Gulf Coast on towns like New Orleans
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and Biloxi and Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, Destin, Panama
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City, to get that kind of snow directly on the coast, something
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that just doesn't ever happen. Absolutely insane that it's
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happened. You know, it's, it's never
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happened since I lived here in good old Freeport, FL just on
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the north side of the Bay. So it's pretty wild.
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It's pretty wild to see for sure.
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It is, and hopefully one day again, we'll all get to see it.
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But if not, you know, that is it is a sight to see and and y'all
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let us know if there's any places that we kind of left off
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this list where some unusual places that you've seen that it
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snowed. We are going to go into the
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ultimate snow day wish list. I mean, I can think of a few
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things that I wish that we would have had down here in the South.
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Whenever you know this all happens, you sleds you know we
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don't really, no. We don't really collect sleds
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around. Here we don't have sleds that's
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not that is no certainly interesting enough.
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Whenever I was a kid lived growing up in north Louisiana.
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It did snow and for some reason and it's still there.
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My dad does have a sled, a old school metal sled that had yet
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narrow yes, he's got one of those.
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And I I think when I was 5 or 6 years old, I got pulled around
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on that thing one time when it when it snowed.
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But yeah, sleds, we don't have them toboggans.
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That's no, no. I'll tell you one thing that I
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did wish that I had Blasey whenever all that happened.
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Better gloves. Oh, you got to have good gloves.
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So here's the thing. I was actually fully prepared
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for this because we go skiing. And so I went to the attic, got
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the whole suitcase with all the ski stuff in there.
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Oh yeah, pulled it out. Oh, we had gloves.
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We had ski bibbs on, pants, ski jackets on.
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I mean, so again, I mean, you're too hot, you know what I mean?
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And you're dry, which is most important.
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These are all waterproof stuff. So that's the thing, I guess you
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got to stay waterproof in this action.
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It ain't about the warrant. That's about staying dry.
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And dry. Yeah, I had the kids I had extra
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stuff out of, you know, had three of them.
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Mine was fully dry and I had two, two more that was turning
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down some stuff. I'm like, you're messing up,
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son. Like you're out there in those
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sweatpants and you're messing up by not taking what I'm giving
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you, which is these ski pants. You know he.
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Really. He really was that.
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That reminds me too. Whenever I was a kid, mom and
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dad went skiing. We all went skiing somewhere and
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we had all that puffy stuff, you know?
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I mean this is 19. 85 overall looking thing, yeah.
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For sure, for sure. And we had it.
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I remember that because once it when it did snow up there one
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time that that stuff came in super handy.
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And it's not things that we think about a whole lot 'cause
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you do get wet in the snow. Yeah, at least when you come in.
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For sure you may not totally while you're out there.
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Yeah, you will. You will.
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I had so many layers of clothes on though, that it didn't, it
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didn't never seep seep to me. Boots.
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I had good boots. So.
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And I think, I think. I have good boots.
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I think you got to have good boots.
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That's one of the the biggest. I think you got to keep your
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feet. Dry and warm, those feet and
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hands go. You're done.
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You're toast. You know what I mean?
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That's true. Finally found my wool socks
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after the first couple of days of being in that snowpocalypse.
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I was wearing cotton socks and even though they're fine walking
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around in the snow, in those they they're not insulated
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boots. Those wool socks man, they just
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wool socks, hold it in, you know what I mean?
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Like just they keep that heat in there.
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As do hand warmers and foot warmers.
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Hand warmers are clutch. Such an interesting invention.
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Wonder how long hand warmers have been around?
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Oh, you mean like the hot hands? Yeah, the hot.
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I mean, as long as I can remember my whole life.
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There's something you can pop in there.
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Yeah, absolutely. What's What are those things
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made of? They're kind of magic because I
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used them this past weekend. We went hunting and it dropped
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that morning. On the Sunday morning when the
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temperature started dropping, we got in the tree stand at like 5
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and or whatever on that day and then and it started just it got
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colder. It was like 48 and it dropped
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down to like 36 within like 2 hours.
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We had to pull the hot hands out, you know, sitting in that
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stand, you know, like, but dude, they're amazing.
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You know, that's like, how do they continue to get hot?
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That chemical reaction with the air, I don't know what it is.
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That's something new. Magic.
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Any gunpowder? Isn't there some gunpowder in
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there? I know I've never looked at the
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ingredients. I just trusted it.
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It won't give me cancer. Kill me.
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I don't know. It works.
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I know that you you mentioned the ski and snowboard gear that
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was on chat GP TS list. You came accommodating with
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that? A bag of salt or sand for icy
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areas that would be That'd be very clutch.
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Jr. talked about on our Tigs Tonight Show that y'all can
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catch 3 or 4 nights a week on YouTube.
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Go check it out. Snow shovels.
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Snow shovels come in would come in handy especially.
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Especially making igloos or making a big snowman, those
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types of things. That's something that I wish I
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would have had a snow shovel though.
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I only need it once every 100 years.
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Generators I had that didn't have to use that in our event,
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thank goodness. But I would think anywhere else
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where you get snow generators a big deal.
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You know, if you lose electricity, ice is the problem.
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Snow is generally fine. Ice, power outages, I mean, a
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generator would be very big. The generator or at least some
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sort of a gas heater, you know what I mean?
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Something off the electrical grid, you know what I mean?
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Like some kind of propane or gas or something.
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Let's. Jump into some of the top snow
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songs that have ever been made and this is always fun.
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We'll countdown some of the best themed wintery songs of all
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time. Blasey what comes to mind
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immediately? Like what's the first song you
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think of? I'm.
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Dreaming of a white Christmas, So that's got to be it, right?
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Oh, yeah. I mean, it's #2 on this top, I
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got a top 25 list. We're not going to cover all 25.
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It is number two, number one, which we're not making a
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countdown list here. Number one on it, frosty.
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Let it snow, Let it snow, let it snow.
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Yeah. Of course that's true.
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That's true. Makes sense.
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They're right there. Yeah.
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What I find interesting here is number 3 and a song that I can,
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I can tell you I've never heard it in my whole life, but it's #3
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Do you want to build a snowman from the Frozen soundtrack?
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Oh wow. I've never seen frozen, hot
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take, never seen frozen. I have a boy that would be that
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age and he doesn't care. And my girl, my daughter, she
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saw it whenever she was younger. I didn't have to take her to see
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it because she was a little bit older.
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She wasn't like a little girl. So I didn't ever.
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I haven't experienced Frozen, not against it.
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We'll watch it, but I, I don't know the song.
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I was trying to. Think of it too.
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I thought, I thought I knew it, but I wasn't.
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That was let it go. So yeah.
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Yeah, Let it go is what I that's the only song I know from from.
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Yeah, that's it. I do know that Winter Wonderland
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is number 4. I mean walking in a winter
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Wonderland. Of course, a lot of these are
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Christmas songs. Sure it is.
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It all goes. Of course.
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You know what's interesting though?
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America doesn't really get packed with snow until January
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like it may be it used to, But the Christmas songs?
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It doesn't really snow in that many.
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Places in America push Christmas out to like mid to.
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January. January. 20.
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January. That'd be perfect.
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Day before my wife's birthday, she would love it or not.
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Two days after my son's birthday.
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That's great. Yeah, that's a good idea.
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Maybe we start a petition. More white Christmas is
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guaranteed, Bill. You know, the, that we may get
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some pushback from the Roman Catholic Church and others on
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that, but I mean, for us to be able to truly have an
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opportunity for snow, it is better, you know, But so many
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Christmas songs that are that are on the list, Snow, Red Hot
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Chili Peppers, my boys have made the list.
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And I love the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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And that's some of the Instagram stuff and videos and things like
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that. I use that song fairly often
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because it's just, yeah, I love it.
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Oh, yeah. I've pulled, I pulled our
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Facebook audience on this too. I want to go like, what?
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What did what did they think? And a consensus song.
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And this, this isn't just snow songs.
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This is also includes cold, winter or ice.
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You know, I mean, winter songs, I guess you could say more so
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than I call them all snow songs. Yeah, cold as ice, foreigner.
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Oh wow, yeah, how can that not? Be, I mean, that's got to be it.
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Paradise. And no.
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Well, that that's the Dana Carvey version.
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Yeah, but remember. End up feeling.
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Was a nice Dana, which should be on the list.
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The Dana Carvey version should be on the list.
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Yes, baby, it's cold outside. Dean Martin can't go wrong
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there. A hazy shade of winter.
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Simon and Garfunkel, also the Bengals, covered it.
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OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Ice, ice baby. Oh yeah.
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See, I never think about that. I think I don't think about
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that. Yeah, I know.
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But I'll take it. But it's ice and it's ice, and
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his baby Frosty the Snowman comes in at #10.
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Kind of surprised it's not a little earlier in the action,
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Frosty. 'S number one for me.
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It's way up there. It's. #1 for me.
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When I said two, I said one. I guess frosty.
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I was like, it's got to be frosty then because I just put
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that that those are 1/2. I think it just became my
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obsession with making a snowman in the Gulf S Blizzard that I
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just kept hearing frosty through my head the whole.
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Time. It's the first thing I wanted to
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do. You know what's crazier than
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anything? I never did it.
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I want to do it so bad, like I want to.
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I thought about it immediately. I want to build a snowman.
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I was going to go buy carrots before Publix closed and
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everything. I was like, I was, I already had
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coal pieces here. I was going to use charcoal and
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break it up. I planned it out but I never did
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it it. Just happens I know, but next
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time you that's that's part of what this show is it's like what
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do we. Put on this big and I realize it
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was going to take a lot of work and I was like, you know, a lot.
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I'll just throw this at somebody.
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So I just started throwing pretty much what pretty much
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what happened on my end too. I just, I'm not a quit.
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I don't know how to do it. I learned that other people saw
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a kid. Rolling 1, he got one real big.
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He was rolling it literally like a snowball downhill fix up snow.
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That's what you got to do. But man, I rolled a ball around
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that was bowling ball sized for hours.
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It felt like it just never got any bigger.
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It was just like, what am I doing?
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It's not working. Anyhow, we'll finish up a couple
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more songs here and then we'll take a break.
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Colder weather, Zac Brown Band, can't go wrong there.
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Snow blind, Black Sabbath probably #2 I love that song.
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Oh yeah. I wouldn't put that in the list
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mentally, but until you said it, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Then.
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Then here's some others that we got.
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My sister, Mandy Gibbs, winter time Steve Miller Band.
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I'm not very familiar with that song, but I love Steve Miller,
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our friend and the prettiest hat wearer out there, Amber Rucker.
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My December by Linkin Park. Of course, that's a cold.
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That's a cold one. Long December Counting Crows.
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I thought about that one today. That one always makes me think
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of winter and cold. And then the last one, do we?
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Do we consider this a winter song?
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November rain. Dude, I was about to say the
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coldest song out there. How funny you just said that.
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It's got to be cold November rain, because that's the worst.
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It's not cold enough to snow. It's you know what it feels
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like? You know exactly what it's all
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it's. You know exactly what it.
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Feels that's the coldest experience there is.
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Is rain and cold together? That's right, That's right.
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We're going to countdown the top snow, ice, winter, cold,
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whatever. I'm calling them snow movies of
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all time. Blasey thinks he may have a
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guess immediately on what number one is.
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So what is it? Yeah, during the break it had to
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it. It just makes the number one
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list for everything die hard, right?
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Die hard that is flat out perfect.
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What I'm fine interesting about that Die Hard is not on chat GP
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TS top 25 list Die Hard 2, which was way snowier with the airport
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and all of that way snowier because there's more inside and
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die hard, you know, inside the the building.
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So it kind of makes sense. But yeah, Die Hard 2 came in at
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#15 on this list. Well, it made the list.
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It made the list. It made the list coming in at.
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Let's just quickly go down the top 25.
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I said 25. We're going to roll down them
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#25 Cliffhanger, The Sylvester Stallone and Icy Peril in 1993.
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Yes. You remember that?
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Yes, for sure. The hateful 8/20/15 Tarantino
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Western it was. It was definitely snowy snow
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falling on Cedars. A mystery of mint snow covered
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landscapes. I don't believe I've ever seen
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that. Never heard of it.
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Serendipity 2001 A snowy love story again.
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Never seen that one. Frozen 2 They have two of.
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These I didn't know there's two frozens.
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Apparently so. I guess so you.
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Learned something big franchise. Showing my age a little bit
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here, I do believe, But it comes in at #21 #20 Baalto in 1995, an
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animated tale of a heroic sled dog.
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Think I vaguely remember seeing that.
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Vaguely. Yeah, I think so.
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Too, now that you say that. Yeah, yeah #19 The Thing.
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The 1982 alien terror. Terror in Antarctic snow 18 The
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Grey survival against wolves in snowy Alaska I've seen I
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remember that when I've only seen it once, that.
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Was not to be confused with Gandalf the Grey.
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Do not confuse it for a second. Number 17, The Chronicles of
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Narnia. I guess that's how you pronounce
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that. The Lion, the witch and the
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Wardrobe. Going to have to say I missed
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out on that. 1 #16 The Polar Express.
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Love that movie. Yes, great great Insta classic.
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Insta Classic. Total insta classic.
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And yeah, I mean, that's a very snowy movie, as we said #15 Die
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Hard 2A number 14, Ice Age 2002's prehistoric adventure in
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the ice and snow. And yeah, that's a perfect one.
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Number 13/8 below a survival story was sled dogs.
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I remember that one 2006. That's.
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The one I think I remember. Yes, Yep, Yep #12 snow dogs.
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Another comedy was Sled Dogs like they went into.
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Big sled dog deal? Yeah.
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Easy to capture dogs and stuff. I mean, I think it's because of
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the way it is to to film #11 The day After tomorrow.
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I like that movie. A Client 2000 and Fours when
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that came out. Climate disaster brings snow to
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New York City. Shocking there but it was
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apocalyptic snow #10 happy feet Penguins in this.
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I mean how? Yeah, of course I like most of
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these top ten Lao. I mean, these are pretty much,
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these are classics #9 though I think this should be higher,
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maybe even #1 White Christmas, the Bing Crosby holiday classic
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from 1954. Hard to believe that.
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Just probably ages aren't just against it these days, you know
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what I mean? Just the time.
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It's just I'm just slowly start fading a little bit.
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This one should be up there if you're thinking about cold
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weather and cold stuff. The reverent with Leonardo, me,
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my God, that's just the whole movie is a struggle of ice snow.
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I think that should be #1 honestly.
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Too much. What, what is more of a snow
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movie than that? Maybe not a good family movie to
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hang out with the heroes and watch #7 We'll wrap it.
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We'll wrap this up. Groundhog Day coming in at #7
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Love that movie. Number six, Home alone, very
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snowy, of course #5 Fargo. Oh, yeah, Fargo is a great one.
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Number four, cool runnings, the Jamaican Bobsledders classic.
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I don't know if I'd put it at #4 #3 and I've not seen this one.
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Snowpiercer, a train and a frozen post apocalypse.
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I think I want to see that now. There's a movie you're #3.
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That was number three, yeah, OK. Keep going.
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There's a movie I can't believe has not been mentioned yet.
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It better be mentioned the next two.
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Two left #2 The Shining snowy terror at the Overlook Hotel.
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I've been there. Great place.
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It makes sense it does. And then #1 frozen.
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Wow, Frozen number one, that makes sense based on the
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franchise size, but. Yeah.
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What was left out? What do you think was?
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Left well, you know, you mentioned the shining, but in a
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real life scenario into the wild to me just was such a like I was
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put there and like just felt so bad for this guy, you know what
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I mean? And like him living that and
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just dying in the woods in a bus, frozen.
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Much like the reverent of just uncomfortable.
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Yeah, very. Uncomfortable, Uncomfortable.
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Movie, we're going to go over the top snow activities that you
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can do whenever you have that amazing snow day.
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Some of the things that we kind of wish that we would have done
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as well, and we're going to start out right at #1 Blasey,
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what do you do when it snows? You build a snowman.
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You build a snowman, Blasey. Yeah, you do.
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You're supposed to. Yep, you.
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Are you're supposed to? We just had this conversation in
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between the break and unbeknownst to either one of us
24:18
of the list. I like to keep it a little bit
24:19
blind too. We're both talking about that
24:22
whenever we had that great event, the one thing and
24:26
probably my biggest regret of the whole deal is that made a
24:29
snowman, just didn't make the biggest of snowmen and just
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frankly don't think I know how to build a snowman very well.
24:38
And that's a little kind. Of did you think of that?
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I mean, you go to ChatGPT for everything these days, Brantley.
24:45
Did you go there to ask how to build a snowman?
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I did. I also watch YouTube videos.
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I did I and I still couldn't do it.
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I feel. And I think I'm Dumber because
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of it. I feel so bad.
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I've seen, I've only seen a couple of snowmen around my
25:01
neighborhood during that time that were big enough to impress
25:05
me. You know what I mean?
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Like, that's what I was looking for.
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That's what I wanted to do. How did you do it?
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Oh, I my husband's from Michigan.
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Well, there you go. That explains it.
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He knew how to do it. We didn't know how to do it.
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So what I. Found education on that from
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somebody you know. I can tell you right now the
25:26
YouTube videos that are out there not made for people in the
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South. So hopefully someone has done a
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video that can teach southerners how to make a proper snowman
25:41
'cause there was enough snow during that gulf gulf S Blizzard
25:47
that you could have made a House of a snowman, you know, during
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all. Of that, we could have made
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multiple snow. It could have been like a
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snowman army out there, you know?
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Totally, totally could. So I mean, that's the biggest
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activity. Build a snowman.
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Second biggest sledding down a hill.
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Sledding, Yeah. Couldn't find it unfortunately
26:06
during that run. No hills around my house that
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were big enough to to slide down.
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Didn't have access to four Wheelers or anything like that
26:14
to be able to pull them around. But yeah, if you got a hill and
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you got snow and ice, ain't nothing better.
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You can get on a boogie board if you're in the South, which is
26:23
what we would do, or an inner tube.
26:26
Or something. But they do the same thing up
26:28
north though. Hey, I saw a thing on TikTok the
26:33
other day where this guy had like an impact drill, like a
26:36
strong, nice impact drill. You know what I mean?
26:39
For drilling or impact wrench, that's what you call it.
26:42
But dude, he's got it rigged up where his daughter would go down
26:45
in a sled and he had this thing coming off the drill and he
26:47
could we and he was reeling her in with a line with his drill
26:51
with his handle just sitting there, we pulling it right back
26:54
up the hill. Then she'd take off again and
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then, wow, bring it right back up.
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That's crazy, daddy. That's a.
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That's a. That is a definite snow day
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activity, dad engineering. And you can go to social media
27:07
on those days and I don't think it matters where you're at in
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the country. That'll be what's trending and
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that's what'll be in your algorithm.
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And it's going to be full of dads doing amazing engineering
27:18
things for the kids, like building a snow Fort that's up
27:22
there or an igloo. You know, you could take those,
27:26
you could take boxes. And I saw other I saw folks
27:29
around here that would do it. Take boxes, pack the snow in
27:32
there and make bricks out of it and then make a Dang.
27:35
Igloo. That's pretty Dang cool.
27:37
It is pretty cool and inside the igloo is actually a lot warmer
27:41
than you think. It is because your body heat
27:43
starts putting off in there and you actually heats up pretty
27:46
quick in there. The winds shielded from you
27:48
everything. Shout out to my neighbors during
27:52
the during that snow event. They had this, we were inside, I
27:56
called it an and we were an inverted snow globe.
27:59
It was snowing on the outside. We were inside this plastic deal
28:02
that was like a tent, but it was all clear.
28:05
It's made for soccer field so that you're sitting there and
28:07
you don't get wet. But we put a heater in that
28:11
thing and we just sat out and watched the snow.
28:14
I mean, that's something that you can do is it looks like it'd
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be great for ice fishing as well.
28:19
You northerners look them up. I'm sure it's pretty inexpensive
28:22
on Amazon. Get you one of those.
28:25
And then of course, man, I think one of the biggest activities,
28:28
something that we did, there's so many snowshoeing, ice
28:31
skating, snow sculptures, photography, tubing.
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But one of the biggest things we did make snow ice cream.
28:39
You got to do that in the South. You can never go wrong with it.
28:43
Condensed milk snow, vanilla, a blender to blend it all in if
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you've got that fantastic little treat kids love it adults love
28:55
it you can freeze it for forever so you can eat on that snow all
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year long if you make enough of it.
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Why wouldn't you why wouldn't you but man that's everything
29:06
you can cross country ski baking, all that kind of stuff
29:10
man there's all kinds of stuff place you let's talk about some
29:13
snow day struggles I mean that's.
29:17
Are they real? As beautiful as snow can be and
29:21
as beautiful as it is. And man, my favorite thing about
29:24
snow is when it's falling and you walk outside and you hear
29:30
nothing else but your thoughts and even they seem to get
29:33
muffled, which is great. You just hear nothing to
29:37
silence. No cars on the road if you're in
29:40
the city like me, no cars anywhere, no sounds.
29:45
It's just so still and so calm. There are no struggles in that,
29:52
Lacey. None.
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But there are plenty of struggles and coming in and now
29:59
I got a top 25 list for this this first and #25 couldn't
30:06
think of a better one. Biggest problem for me
30:08
personally, frozen windshields taking forever to defrost.
30:12
Not just frozen windshields, just the pack of snow that's on
30:15
it. If it starts to defrost becomes
30:18
a whole layer of ice. How do you get it off it's it's
30:23
worse than frost? We're used.
30:25
To frost, not snow. I'll tell you something funny on
30:28
that. There's this car over here
30:30
parked in the parking lot and everybody's like, hey, get your
30:33
windshield wipers up. You know what I mean?
30:35
Like all these pros, this dude has windshield wipers up, but he
30:38
was missing his front tire was sitting on a Jack.
30:40
I was like, I think you got bigger problems in a windshield
30:42
wipers sticking to your windshield there, buddy.
30:44
Like get that car off a Jack dude.
30:47
Joke. No joke.
30:50
Fortunately, man, this is something we don't have to deal
30:53
with. They may have to deal with it in
30:55
a lot of other places. We don't.
30:57
Snow plows burying driveways after they're cleared.
31:01
Dude, that would piss me off. That's what this whole thing is.
31:04
These are the these are the not so fun things of the snow and
31:10
the ice and the cold. Poor, poor snow gear like gloves
31:17
that aren't waterproof. We talked about that lack of
31:20
traction on shoes or tires. I can tell you one thing.
31:24
Don't walk out to go. Don't go out on a sidewalk to
31:27
walk your dog in house slippers. Oh, bad combination.
31:32
I learned that one the hard. Way did you go down?
31:35
He did out yeah, little 8 LB dog drug me right down.
31:41
That's what I'm that's my story. I'm sticking to it.
31:44
Wind chill making it feel even colder.
31:47
Of course, blowing off that snow, it does make it feel a lot
31:50
colder. Clearing sidewalks and driveways
31:54
multiple times, even in the Gulf S Blizzard.
31:59
We didn't have to do that. You just had to do it one time.
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It would get old man. If that's what you're doing with
32:06
all that's over, yeah, it's terrible.
32:08
You got to get up. It's more than cranking your car
32:10
to warm up. You got to go shovel snow just
32:12
to get out of the driveway. Ice damming on roofs.
32:15
It imploded the mobile Civic Center.
32:18
As we've seen in that old deal, it did.
32:20
I did not see. That they were already taking it
32:22
down. Yes they were.
32:23
But but that that finished it just cancelled plans, man.
32:27
I mean, cancelled plans can suck, especially in the South.
32:31
Everything shuts down, so everybody understands.
32:34
Up north it just kind of screws you, losing balance or control
32:40
while driving. We don't drive in it in the
32:42
South, which is smart. We shouldn't.
32:45
Some people have chosen to, though, and they don't ever.
32:48
It never ends up good. You see them on the news.
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Why don't you just stay home? We're not equipped to do that.
32:55
Just stay home. I drove all over.
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You're used to it though. You know how to do it.
33:00
I've driven. And I had all-wheel drive too,
33:02
so that helped. It ain't like totally helps, but
33:05
it helps it depth. I just drove in the neighborhood
33:07
like I didn't go far. Like, you know, I had to get to
33:09
props, right? You know, so got to get to.
33:11
Props our friends. But I did a couple times you.
33:15
Know, and that's exactly it #1 the number one struggle is icy
33:18
and dangerous roads. Oh yeah, Shoveling heavy snow
33:22
coming in at #2 of course. Yep, frozen car doors and locks.
33:27
That is annoying, especially if it rains.
33:30
Oh, man, it was it was it? I had the same thing during that
33:33
Blizzard that came down here on the Gulf Coast.
33:36
Man, I had could barely get my car door open.
33:40
What was worse for two days something when I was dropping
33:44
underneath and I could never figured out.
33:45
I took all the ice move stuff around.
33:47
What's this? And it's like some like a piece
33:52
of a flap sitting like a plastic hitting the tire.
33:54
But it was something to do with ice near my I think like the,
33:59
you know, like the drive shaft or something.
34:02
And it was just dude, it was banging faster eyes go, the
34:06
louder it was. It sounded horrible.
34:08
For two days I was convinced I destroyed something in the car,
34:12
but it finally stopped today. That's good.
34:15
That's good, dude. I say it just screws everything
34:19
up, man. It it's, it's terrible.
34:22
It's terrible. Look, no doubt snow struggles
34:25
are real, but we're going to end this on a cozy little note with
34:29
some indoor snow ideas. One thing that I can tell you is
34:34
a fact is after a certain point in time, no matter how many
34:38
clothes you have on, if it's snowing hard enough, it's 2025,
34:42
thirty degrees out there, the wind's blowing.
34:46
Yeah, You don't want to hang out there.
34:47
It ain't a tailgate. You don't want to be out there
34:50
for eight to 10 hours just enjoying the snow.
34:53
You going to want to come in dry off, hopefully, unless you're
34:58
smart and wearing nice ski clothes, you're going to want to
35:01
come in dry off, warm up a little bit.
35:05
And that's where some good cozy ideas can kind of come into
35:09
play. And that's something that I
35:10
always enjoy. You know, you're with your your
35:13
friends, your family and you can only play in the snow and freeze
35:18
your toboggans off so much. So let's IS chat chief
35:25
GTPGPTGTP. It's going to be GTP.
35:29
Now IS ChatGPT. I was confused.
35:33
I was just trying to say it. I was like which one is it GTT?
35:35
I know it it is. GPT.
35:37
It's a weird name to begin with. So strange, so strange.
35:40
I still don't understand the origin of it.
35:41
That's another story, another day.
35:43
Yes. We'll dive into that one day,
35:45
don't worry, I asked ChatGPT. What are some of the top things
35:50
that you can do starting at #25 host a tea or coffee tasting?
35:56
How are you going to do that in the South?
35:58
How are you going to get people over the to your house?
36:00
They're I stand you don't want them driving No build Lego
36:05
creations. Yes, if you have little kids,
36:09
I'll get that I'll tell you something funny.
36:11
Speaking of little kids, I felt terrible during that storm, but
36:15
I was out walking. I just liked walking around the
36:17
neighborhood looking at everything talking to people.
36:20
You know, everybody's a little more chipper and happy.
36:24
And the one question I just kept asking, besides what do you know
36:27
about Bubba the Love Sponge was, was are you having fun?
36:33
You loving this? And I saw this dad who was
36:36
kicking a basketball with his son.
36:39
It was a toddler. That little dude probably wasn't
36:43
a year and a half old. And then they were walking
36:46
around and I made the mistake of asking him, are you having any
36:50
fun? He ran square into the kid,
36:53
knocked him down face first into the concrete.
36:56
That dad wasn't happy with me. Like he immediately blamed me
36:59
and was just being nice. But you know, like, maybe you
37:03
don't need to talk to people. Dads that have little infants
37:06
running around. Anyhow, bad deal on that little
37:10
kid. But.
37:11
Do you have footage of this? Do what?
37:13
Do you have footage? I do not, unfortunately.
37:16
I felt so bad, man. I felt so bad.
37:21
Had to tell that story. About ratings, you know.
37:24
It would have helped. It would have helped.
37:26
You could listen to a podcast or an audio book, and that makes
37:29
sense. I wouldn't listen to an audio
37:30
book. I would 100% go to Tigs Bits on
37:34
YouTube and go to Tigs Bits podcast.
37:37
They're all there. You can listen to all of them in
37:40
order. That'll take you through three
37:42
to five days of your life, and that's what we're here for.
37:47
Yes. You can start a puzzle.
37:51
I'm going to do that. This list is.
37:57
This list sounds like hell. Torture is what?
38:00
This list sounds terrible. Yeah.
38:02
You could build a blanket for it.
38:03
Blasey. It's like.
38:05
Karen's List. I don't know who made this list.
38:09
Chat GTP made it. It is.
38:13
You could host a virtual hangout.
38:16
What is it 2020? This is the worst list.
38:19
Yet yeah, it really is. I feel the shows coming off the
38:23
rails here at the end and this. Is it's fine it?
38:26
Is we're sorry, we're sorry for this last segment.
38:30
I mean, watch some movies, play some games, you know, play some
38:32
video games, record. That is on the.
38:35
List or a podcast. Basically, just do what you do,
38:40
but just do it indoors, you know, So yeah, play board games,
38:44
read a book by the fire. Not everybody has a fireplace in
38:48
the South. I'm to all of this is a whole
38:51
general discussion about what it's like for snow in the South
38:56
and what it's like for us in the South as opposed to everybody
39:00
else. And I know that we're everywhere
39:02
in this country, so I think people are going to get a kick
39:05
out of this placey. They probably will.
39:07
They're going to be like. Show they see snow for the first
39:10
time and forever and they make ATV show out of it.
39:13
Yes, we did. We did, we did, and that's that
39:18
is what we do here at Diggs Bits.
39:20
We love to talk about stuff like this whenever you get these kind
39:24
of big events. But look, don't don't hesitate
39:27
to let us know if we left something out.
39:30
Thank y'all for tuning in y'all share your Snow Day experiences
39:35
with us. Let us know some of your wish
39:37
list items and some of your favorite songs and movies.
39:40
And again, don't forget to go to Tigs Bits on YouTube, Facebook,
39:45
Instagram and go to tigsbits.com.
39:49
And of course, stay tuned as always on Right Now TV for more
39:55
fun content for us. We'll see y'all next week.
40:00
Later. Yeah.