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Imposters and Snow?
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Welcome back! This week, after the rigamarole (winter, weather, transportation, food, mice), Ron wonders when, if ever, imposter syndrome fades; Chris wants to talk about snow days, and when they stopped being fun. As always, please like, subscribe, and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on BlueSky, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Cold Weather Antics and Nature's Quirks
00:00:06
Chris
Welcome back to another episode the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
00:00:09
snowblindnesssux
And I'm finally well willing to admit that it's cold and I'm wrong.
00:00:12
Chris
Are you wearing pants?
00:00:16
snowblindnesssux
I'm not.
00:00:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:00:19
snowblindnesssux
I have not worn pants... yet. This snowstorm.
00:00:25
Chris
yeah Well, I guess if you're in like Wisconsin or Minnesota, you'd have to almost. because i mean it It was like negative 40 with the wind.
00:00:34
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, that that's... yeah, that's cold, cold.
00:00:37
Chris
Yeah, I mean, I saw like ah something I never heard of before. They had warnings that it was going to be so cold so fast and for so long that trees might explode because the sap would explode.
00:00:50
snowblindnesssux
I have heard of that.
00:00:51
Chris
That's crazy!
00:00:52
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. Yeah.
00:00:54
Chris
Oh
00:00:55
snowblindnesssux
Apparently that happened in 1944 in the War and like people talk about the trees exploding because of the sap. Yeah.
00:01:03
Chris
my gosh.
00:01:05
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:01:05
Chris
And so, yeah, look at that tree. Yeah.
00:01:11
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:01:12
Chris
Yeah.
Snowstorm Woes and Community Challenges
00:01:13
snowblindnesssux
We were not prepared for stow.
00:01:13
Chris
That's stupid snowy. No, no. And my wife had a rant because she, sp her and my daughter were supposed to come back Monday ah from Orlando.
00:01:23
Chris
They finally got back Wednesday night at like 915.
00:01:27
snowblindnesssux
believe so.
00:01:27
Chris
It's about weather. twenty twenty six the northeast should
00:01:31
snowblindnesssux
please go
00:01:33
Chris
no about weather especially winter weather and how to deal with it at an airport.
00:01:40
snowblindnesssux
Yes, you you would think.
00:01:41
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:43
snowblindnesssux
you Well, I worked at Mutual Monday and there was talk that the guy I swapped with was not going to be there for Tuesday morning.
00:01:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:47
Chris
yeah
00:01:54
snowblindnesssux
i be willing And people kept saying, well what are you going to do?
00:01:54
Chris
That's
00:01:56
snowblindnesssux
I said, I'm going home.
00:01:58
Chris
yeah. Yeah. It is clearly written out now. Thank God.
00:02:02
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:02:03
Chris
That, yeah, you do a mutual, as on you.
00:02:06
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, yeah. i I've done my 24. It's up to him now.
00:02:08
Chris
Exactly, yeah, yeah.
00:02:10
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. They were like, well, you know, he might be stuck in an airport. I'm like, cool.
00:02:16
Chris
That's a boohoo, yeah.
00:02:16
snowblindnesssux
he's He's got sick time. i don't know what to tell you.
00:02:19
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:19
snowblindnesssux
this That's not on me.
00:02:22
Chris
Yeah, find a yeah U-Haul that's going north with a traveling Pokeband, I mean,
00:02:26
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. Do what you gots to do.
00:02:29
Chris
yeah
00:02:30
snowblindnesssux
It's only a 16-hour drive. It's not that bad.
00:02:35
snowblindnesssux
It was... I mean, we did get, in my house, we got significant snow.
00:02:40
Chris
Yes.
00:02:41
snowblindnesssux
You guys did not get significant snow from the talk.
00:02:42
Chris
Oh, we got, yeah, it was, yeah. A bunch of rainy slushy mess.
00:02:48
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:02:49
Chris
Yeah. Which I went to like, but the town plowed once and it pushed a giant mound of crud in front of my driveway.
00:02:55
snowblindnesssux
Oh.
00:02:58
Chris
so I was like, okay, I'll go out there and attack it before it freezes.
00:02:59
snowblindnesssux
Oh.
00:03:03
Chris
And my neighbor comes over. He's like, I got it. I got it. I'm like, dude, your snowblower is not gonna be able to this. It's like, yeah, I got a new one. this ah He took it and it made the first pass and it ate it. And I was like, cool.
00:03:13
Chris
I'm going inside.
00:03:19
snowblindnesssux
meanwhile i'm out there with my stupid regular shovel because it was so heavy that my snow snow shovel wouldn't go through the snow break up the ice where they plowed in front of my driveway yeah it was fun yeah
00:03:27
Chris
Oh, really?
00:03:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:33
Chris
Yeah. You don't sharpen the blade of your snow shovel every year.
00:03:38
snowblindnesssux
uh you're supposed to i leave i'm terrible i leave my snow shovel out it's it's basically like june and i'm like oh i probably put that snow shovel away and then i put it away and then it's like oh it's time to pick up because used also use it to rake up the leaves and then it's like it's basically out most of the year
00:03:40
Chris
I don't know.
00:03:57
Chris
Yeah. You should just put a hook on your shed or something.
00:04:01
snowblindnesssux
well my shed's the way in the back okay
00:04:04
Chris
Yeah. I mean, my we have a snow shovel by the front door and another one by the back door outside. So, yeah.
00:04:11
snowblindnesssux
We only have the one, which has been a problem in years past when you break your shovel.
00:04:18
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:21
snowblindnesssux
Yes, I have a rant about the snow too.
00:04:22
Chris
Uh-oh. Yeah.
00:04:25
snowblindnesssux
And it's really it's really set off a giant pet peeve annoyance this week.
00:04:34
snowblindnesssux
So the neighborhood sent out an email saying, The plow guy is going to come through, he's only going to plow a single pass, he's not going to clear up the curbs, so it's going to be down to basically a single lane all out through the neighborhood.
00:04:49
Chris
Okay. Yeah.
00:04:50
snowblindnesssux
Now my neighborhood's pretty big. There's a good amount of people in this neighborhood.
00:04:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:55
snowblindnesssux
so there's a lot of intersections, you know, there's a lot of time. They also plowed and left giant, like eight foot blocks at the intersections. So you can't see get, when you're turning, you had to like pull out before you can see whatever.
00:05:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:13
snowblindnesssux
So yesterday i'm driving home from the gym and there's a moron talking to another moron in the middle of the single lane road at this point.
00:05:24
snowblindnesssux
And they're just having a jibber jabber talk. And there's,
00:05:27
Chris
in their cars or just okay um yeah oh yeah yeah yeah
00:05:28
snowblindnesssux
Well, one's in his car and the other one's standing next to his window. Just right in the middle of the damn lane. Hey, bud, nobody can freaking move because of you. There's four cars backing up and they're just jibber jabbering and jibber jabbering.
00:05:42
snowblindnesssux
At certain point, I think think by law I should be allowed to run you over that point.
00:05:46
Chris
oh yes yes yeah
00:05:48
snowblindnesssux
Because you you have no clue what's going on in the world. And on top of that, like go to the grocery store, and there's this old guy who is clearly waiting for his wife because she's out jibber-jabbering to other people, also in the middle of the aisle.
00:06:02
snowblindnesssux
But he's now in the end of the aisle, in the middle of the you know the little cross-through all the way to the freaking registers.
00:06:07
Chris
what uh
00:06:09
snowblindnesssux
I'm like, you people are taking up as maximum amount of space possible so that no one can get by.
00:06:14
Chris
i think there's like this new rule when people go to the grocery store because i've noticed it lately that people will push their cart like halfway down the aisle turn it at an angle and then branch out from there and just leave it there and go back and forth to get things at the different ends animals yeah
00:06:30
snowblindnesssux
That feels like, you know, ah good punching. it's just It's just the lack of people's awareness of what they're doing around them.
00:06:42
snowblindnesssux
it's It's bonkers.
00:06:44
Chris
yeah yeah
00:06:45
snowblindnesssux
And then, as yesterday yeah yesterday, on my way to the gym, I go out start, you know, I have my car started and get the mail. That's how they're delivering my mail.
00:06:56
snowblindnesssux
It doesn't seem like it's not been any of this week, which by the way, don't care.
00:07:00
Chris
Yeah.
00:07:01
snowblindnesssux
And the Amazon guy is blocking the road, which whatever he's go to make delivery. He makes his delivery.
00:07:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:07:07
snowblindnesssux
The guy's another guy's trying to get by his honking at him. Guy runs back to his truck, gets in there, pulls it forward three feet right in front of my my driveway. like Son of a.
00:07:21
snowblindnesssux
So I get nothing done in my life, because dealing with these minor inconveniences.
00:07:28
Chris
When you talk about the mail, I, uh, what was it? Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday. don't know what, on one of the days I got the mail. I got home from work and noticed in the mail, there's a little piece of paper. I'm like, what is this?
00:07:45
Chris
And it has a picture of a street and a mailbox and a lane and yeah.
00:07:49
snowblindnesssux
Oh! You didn't clear enough for the
00:07:52
Chris
Yeah,
The Cashless Society Debate
00:07:53
snowblindnesssux
maleion?
00:07:53
Chris
we encourage you to properly clear and free. I encourage you to get out of your goddamn little mail truck and do your job. and Because it used to be neither snow nor rain nor sleet nor hail.
00:08:08
snowblindnesssux
Well, I just think they just i've stopped delivering to my neighborhood because I haven't seen them once. But where do they want me to put the snow?
00:08:17
snowblindnesssux
Where would you like it to go? There's nowhere for it to go at this point. it's
00:08:21
Chris
I mean Atticus could eat it.
00:08:24
snowblindnesssux
ah He's not having the best time walking on it, because now it's it's like a thin coat of ice and then snow, and he just stomps through it.
00:08:33
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:33
snowblindnesssux
He's really not enjoying the effect.
00:08:35
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:37
snowblindnesssux
yeah But honestly, I feel like Kramer and Seinfeld, when's the last time you got these email that mattered?
00:08:41
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
00:08:46
snowblindnesssux
I got a piece of mail the other day before the snowstorm. It was, well, it was like notice of class action lawsuits that you're involved in thing, whatever.
00:08:56
Chris
Yeah, that you could get like 17 cents.
00:08:57
snowblindnesssux
But it was, yeah, yeah. But it was, it was addressed to someone who hasn't lived in this house in 20 plus years. Cause I've lived in this house since 06 or 07. So 19, 20 years, this person has lived in this house. And I don't even think that was the name of the person that lived here before me.
00:09:18
snowblindnesssux
useless the mail is useless i oh i'm sorry i have to get my uh yearly updated insurance card which is exactly the same as my other insurance card and could just be an app at this point
00:09:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Or just yeah log in and print it off if you need a physical copy.
00:09:41
snowblindnesssux
why would i ever need a physical copy
00:09:43
Chris
Because there are some places it like I need to make a copy of your insurance card.
00:09:46
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, mike I worked my dentist the They did the same thing. i'm like, can't you just put my member ID number in there and just pull the information up from the insurance company? Why are we using physical cards this crap?
00:09:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:59
snowblindnesssux
This is 2026, sakes.
00:10:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:02
snowblindnesssux
Everything's digital.
00:10:03
Chris
Should be.
00:10:04
snowblindnesssux
Should be at this point.
00:10:05
Chris
yeah yeah which i saw the other day it got was cvs yeah there's a nationwide shortage of pennies so if you have pennies we'd like them otherwise we encourage you to round to the nearest nickel it's like why why why is there a shortage of pennies
00:10:21
snowblindnesssux
Well, they stopped producing the penny now. they don't open it's why Why do we even do cash anymore, to be perfectly honest?
00:10:24
Chris
yeah because it's worthless well yeah
00:10:30
snowblindnesssux
It costs us more money to print cash than it's worth. Why are we doing it?
00:10:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:37
snowblindnesssux
Just go digital. Be done with it. I guess not how Grandpa fought the war. Fought the war with cash.
00:10:49
Chris
My grandmother would go down to the five and dime with her checkbook.
00:10:53
snowblindnesssux
ah yeah oh yeah does your grandmother have a cell phone jack aces
00:10:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Travel Convenience: Trains vs. Cars
00:10:58
Chris
Yeah. Did she have a way that she could take her phone or her watch and just tap it to something and pay?
00:11:04
snowblindnesssux
yeah my grandmother was my great-grandmother was born in a time when there were horses and no electricity she drove a car and used electricity all the time people adapt stop living in the past because your grandparents did it your grandpappy wanted you have a better life than the life you got now you have morons
00:11:13
Chris
yeah yeah yeah yeah and do i feel bad that some people will lose jobs yeah but again that's progression
00:11:29
snowblindnesssux
Do you know what the number one job in 1901 in the Americas was?
00:11:34
Chris
printing paper money horse handler
00:11:36
snowblindnesssux
Horse handler. you many people work as horse handlers now?
00:11:41
Chris
God, there's there's a handful of maniacs, but yeah.
00:11:42
snowblindnesssux
Like four. yeah that's it's not a it's It's fine. We move on.
00:11:49
Chris
Horse handler.
00:11:50
snowblindnesssux
We find other jobs for those people.
00:11:52
Chris
Yeah.
App Efficiency in Modern Life
00:11:55
snowblindnesssux
It's a crazy world. Particularly now. Yeah.
00:12:00
Chris
Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, but yeah, yeah. I'd say my daughter and her boyfriend, which, yeah, she's still not going back to college.
00:12:05
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:12:11
snowblindnesssux
What?
00:12:12
Chris
Yeah, so they're, they had a major steam, steam plant failure. That's how the University of Maryland heats its buildings, steam.
00:12:23
snowblindnesssux
I'd say University of Delaware does it too.
00:12:26
Chris
Are they on a geothermal vent that I don't know about?
00:12:31
snowblindnesssux
I think this is just my very, very limited understanding is it's super cheap because they like there's all kinds of steam pipes underneath the campus already.
00:12:44
snowblindnesssux
So they can just like generate steam and it's super cheap for the university.
00:12:48
Chris
yeah well they yeah so yeah first they had the freeze and icing and all that and then their steam plant failed so yeah they're they're going back yeah classes are officially starting on monday february 2nd
00:12:49
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:13:02
snowblindnesssux
I'd be like, ah you got to go, kiddo. This your house no more. You're out.
00:13:08
Chris
yeah yeah yeah
00:13:09
snowblindnesssux
Once she says, well, where do you go I guess hotels?
00:13:15
Chris
ah Yeah, yeah, but her and her boyfriend were going out to lunch and I was like, oh, well, you know, I've got that an app. Yeah, you can just you know, you could if you you punch in through my app, you can get such as such. I don't want to do that. That's a hassle.
00:13:31
Chris
Pay full price then like an idiot. God.
00:13:37
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, I'd rather use an app for everything.
00:13:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:40
snowblindnesssux
You know why? Because I don't have to rely on some moron forgetting what I said getting more than wrong.
00:13:46
Chris
right yeah that's like yeah yeah and there's so many places now that you know they bring you the receipt and you just scan it and pay it glorious
00:13:48
snowblindnesssux
And I still get it wrong, I get mad.
00:13:57
snowblindnesssux
never seen that, but I see the ones where they just bring up the thing and you just pay little thing and done.
00:14:02
Chris
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the least interaction i have to do yeah that's like
00:14:02
snowblindnesssux
Also glorious.
00:14:06
snowblindnesssux
Exactly. That's all my life is. The least amount of interaction with peepins I have to do.
00:14:11
Chris
Yeah, the the Korean barbecue joint here in Salisbury, they've got one of those little robots that comes around. i was like, this is great.
00:14:17
snowblindnesssux
Oh.
00:14:18
Chris
I don't have to talk to somebody. No, no, no. They have someone walking beside the robot.
00:14:28
Chris
They must feel just barely less useless than the idiots that work at ModWash.
00:14:28
snowblindnesssux
Christian.
00:14:36
Chris
Have you ever been to a ModWash around here?
00:14:36
snowblindnesssux
Oh. I've never been to it, but I know the difference.
00:14:38
Chris
oh my god there's a car you pull up and there's a kiosk it's touch screen tip tip tip put your card in or whatever off you go there is a human and i'm using that term loosely that walks up hey what do want today a cheeseburger i'm at a fucking car wash oh yeah yeah well you just push it yeah i can push the button well here no let me hit that for you and what do you want any other
00:14:55
snowblindnesssux
The thing I already paid for.
00:15:05
Chris
I am here at this type of car wash, so I don't have to talk to a jackass like you.
00:15:11
Chris
And then you pull around when he finally gets done his little job, and there's somebody, which there's a red, yellow, green light to tell you how far to pull up. Oh, no, but he's also standing there with his hand.
00:15:25
Chris
little bit, little bit. Okay, start stop, stop. No, the red light told me to stop. Ah. And then they point there's a flashing link that says hands off the wheel car in neutral parking brake off and they point to those three things as they light up.
00:15:35
snowblindnesssux
I mean...
00:15:45
Chris
Useless job.
00:15:49
snowblindnesssux
Wow, really touched a nerve here in this one.
00:15:51
Chris
God.
00:15:53
snowblindnesssux
I was going to go back to the robot thing.
00:15:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:57
snowblindnesssux
Christiana Hospital, which is the local trauma center, even though Maryland doesn't believe that they're a trauma center, but you know, whatever.
00:16:04
Chris
no they do they do now yeah I'm pretty sure yeah anyway
00:16:06
snowblindnesssux
Do they? Do they now recognize as level one trauma center?
00:16:12
snowblindnesssux
years there was ah Anyways, they had a robot at one point. i don't know if it's still there as a customer engagement robot and they had someone who had to follow the robot around. Or instead of for robots, let's just hire nurses so that you can get people through this hospital quicker.
00:16:30
Chris
yeah yeah yeah let's say ah the what is it um what are the taxis that don't have people
00:16:41
snowblindnesssux
Oh, way away.
00:16:43
Chris
will you yeah way you know wait waymo whatever it is yeah bring it on and somebody worked the other day oh my god how would that work magic yeah yeah yeah much better than ah you know
00:16:44
snowblindnesssux
Something like that. yeah
00:16:53
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. You hit the app, you get in the car and you say, take me to this location and the car takes you.
00:17:04
Chris
The idiot that's working for Lyft or Uber that, you know, probably hasn't slept in three days is high on meth. And yeah. Oh, God.
00:17:15
snowblindnesssux
Or take a train.
00:17:15
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's not that's not an option around here.
00:17:18
snowblindnesssux
God, if we could just live in a world where you could just take a train.
00:17:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:25
snowblindnesssux
My mother, the maniac, she's going on a trip in March. She's flying into Philly.
00:17:35
snowblindnesssux
to then fly out of new york airportport airport so she's coming up philly she's gonna hang out with me for a day and then she's going to newark airport whatever that's you know it's fine i would have just flown to new york but whatever a and she says i'm gonna rent a car so that i can get to the airport i said why would you rent a car
00:17:46
Chris
Oh. Okay. Yeah.
00:17:56
Chris
Why?
00:17:59
snowblindnesssux
Well, how am I going to get to the airport? You're not going to drive to the airport um No, I'm going to take you to the train station, get your ass on a train, and then you go to the airport.
00:18:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:07
snowblindnesssux
Oh, I didn't i didn't think that. what What do I do when I come back? You get on another train that's going south, and you get off the train when you're at your stop.
00:18:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:25
snowblindnesssux
well How's this... How's this work? Well, it's magic. The train runs up and down the track, north and south. You just get on it and you get off it.
00:18:36
Chris
Golly.
00:18:36
snowblindnesssux
What about my luggage? You take your luggage on the train.
00:18:39
Chris
What about my... What...
00:18:42
snowblindnesssux
Does it go right to the airport? Yeah. The train goes right to the airport. They have a train stop at the airport.
00:18:48
Chris
oh god oh but what about my luggage
00:18:53
snowblindnesssux
It just blew her mind because she was like, i was just going to ride a car. I'm like, Well, she gets into and she's like, look, and she's like, it's only 45 minutes by train. I said, yeah, but it's an hour and a half if you drive.
00:19:04
snowblindnesssux
ha How does that work? Magic. It's magic.
00:19:14
snowblindnesssux
She was going to rent a car and it was going to be like 500 bucks a day for take an $8 train.
00:19:17
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:19:22
Chris
The math is not mathing there.
00:19:24
snowblindnesssux
Math is not math.
00:19:28
snowblindnesssux
I would never drive to New York City anymore. Ever.
00:19:31
Chris
Oh, my God.
00:19:31
snowblindnesssux
Anywhere near New York City, I wouldn't drive.
00:19:32
Chris
ah Yeah. Why? Yeah.
00:19:36
snowblindnesssux
have a train.
00:19:37
Chris
Yeah, I get angry enough around here.
00:19:40
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. And you guys do not have traffic.
00:19:42
Chris
No. Which, oh, my God. ah I lost my shit. last saturday dropped the dogs off at the groomers was like you know what i'm gonna grab a breakfast sandwich at chick-fil-a i'm a treat myself i haven't done this in a while it was a saturday it was saturday morning but i but i was like i have the app so make my order and they're like we will start your order when you pull in it's okay pulled in
00:19:57
snowblindnesssux
Let's go. Was this a Saturday? Oh boy. Oh boy.
00:20:09
snowblindnesssux
No, start my order now. Why would you, what?
00:20:13
Chris
well no that way it's fresh because i ordered it you know like 15 minutes away from the place
00:20:18
snowblindnesssux
I'd rather them start it now, so they want to get there.
00:20:18
Chris
Yeah, I mean, they're fast. Yeah, but Chick-fil-A is super fast getting food out the door. But anyway, I pull into the...
00:20:24
snowblindnesssux
Well, you're putting out crappy products, I'm sure it is fast.
00:20:29
Chris
There's a single, you know, line around and it splits to two and that goes back to one, which whatever. i was like, well, I'm sure that most of these humans are using the mobile order and have already placed their order. So this will be nice and fast.
00:20:44
Chris
Hell no. I guess these people had to ask 8,000 questions. What kind of jelly do you have? What kind of... And the asshole in front of me that was taking the longest, do you know what he ordered? A goddamn jug of iced tea.
00:20:58
Chris
That's it.
00:21:03
Chris
Ugh. There should be a line for maniacs and a line for those of us who know how to use an app.
00:21:12
snowblindnesssux
That's fair.
00:21:13
Chris
Huh.
00:21:13
snowblindnesssux
Or just a suggestion. You hit the app and then you pull in the parking lot and you walk in and you walk out 36 seconds later.
00:21:18
Chris
walk-in that's what that's what I typically do but it's like you know what it's a chilly winter day I want to stay in my nice warm car no evidently it's not worth it bunch of mania all that ice tea who wants a gallon of iced tea in the winter
00:21:28
snowblindnesssux
It's not worth it ever. It's never worth it.
00:21:35
snowblindnesssux
I mean, I drink ice tea constantly, but you know, I, I cannot wait for the new check for late open and just completely fuck up South Salisbury.
00:21:38
Chris
that make that this guy can make his own
00:21:46
Chris
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you see there's three drive through lanes in it?
00:21:50
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. And where are those cars going to turn into?
00:21:55
Chris
Magic Ron.
00:21:57
snowblindnesssux
Like, it's crazy that they're allowing them to do that, where there's no turn. There's like, there's no light there.
00:22:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:06
snowblindnesssux
It's going to be bonkers.
00:22:07
Chris
Yeah. But you know how the hillbillies are around here. They will probably up staff police to like escort people or something.
00:22:16
snowblindnesssux
Well, the maniac on my shift, I can't, I can't wait for the Chick-fil-A down south to open up because then the one up north will be emptier. I'm like, that's not how it works.
00:22:25
Chris
the one up north is closing yeah but i'm saying it's going to be closed for a while so yeah it's going to push all those idiots down south
00:22:25
snowblindnesssux
It's just going to Well, they're going to redo it. urban Yeah, yeah. But even when they're both open, you're just going to have a bunch of idiots go in there and get their mediocre chicken sandwiches and their terrible fries.
00:22:35
Chris
oh yeah yeah oh yeah well it's just like when best fries in the world it's just like when people
00:22:42
snowblindnesssux
They're the worst fries in the world.
00:22:44
Chris
When they opened up that Wawa on the North end, everybody's like, oh yeah, no, South Wawa. It'll be so much easier in this and that. No.
00:22:52
snowblindnesssux
You just get doubled
00:22:52
Chris
That's... Yeah. Yeah. Now I gotta get my Wawa cappuccino. No. It's... It's a hot chocolate pack. That's all you're getting. Ugh.
00:23:03
snowblindnesssux
Now look, you start treading on Wawa territory and you're not refuting.
00:23:10
Chris
Look, I...
00:23:10
snowblindnesssux
Wawa Meatball Sub is still one of the best things you can get conveniently everywhere in the Northeast region. Three o'clock in the morning, you can get a Wawa Meatball Sub and it's damn delicious.
00:23:20
Chris
Not around here. They
00:23:23
snowblindnesssux
You're not running here.
00:23:24
Chris
don't know. They stop serving things at certain times.
00:23:27
snowblindnesssux
No, they do not.
00:23:28
Chris
The hell they don't.
00:23:30
snowblindnesssux
You wake up at 3 o'clock this morning and go get yourself a Wawa Meatball Sub.
00:23:36
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:39
snowblindnesssux
And their chicken salad, also delicious.
00:23:40
Chris
No. Chicken salad is so gross.
00:23:44
snowblindnesssux
Because you've had bad chicken salad.
00:23:45
Chris
No, because I don't like mayonnaise. And I don't really like chicken.
00:23:49
snowblindnesssux
You can't taste the mayonnaise. Oh my god. don't like tomatoes. I don't like turkey. I don't like chicken.
00:23:58
Chris
Although I will tell you that I have had a chicken wrap at least once a week for the past like three weeks.
00:24:06
snowblindnesssux
Interesting.
00:24:06
Chris
Yeah, I've been trying to, that I was like, you know what? It's hidden in buffalo sauce and wrap. It's fine.
00:24:17
snowblindnesssux
I've been eating a lot of falafel wraps.
00:24:17
Chris
Ah.
00:24:20
Chris
oh i like a good falafel
00:24:22
snowblindnesssux
I like a good falafel. I don't really like them on their own, though.
00:24:26
Chris
yeah yeah yeah and some places make the falafels too big yeah yeah yes yes
00:24:28
snowblindnesssux
It's that's a little dry. it's the i'd rather have it in a wrap. Yeah.
00:24:36
snowblindnesssux
Yes. Yeah, yeah. And tzatziki is freaking delicious. Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:46
snowblindnesssux
Now we're just talking about what we're going to have lunch.
00:24:48
Chris
Yeah, right? Yeah.
00:24:51
snowblindnesssux
Skip my meal for tomorrow and go to the pita place.
00:24:54
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:55
snowblindnesssux
Which... I've only been there like four times, but it's all been four times in like the last two months, and now the guy's already like, hey! I'm like, hey! Hey!
00:25:05
Chris
Oh, he loves the fire department.
00:25:06
snowblindnesssux
Oh, he does. Yeah, yeah.
00:25:07
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The one guy that's like the owner, whatever I walk in, i guess we introduced ourselves one day. He's like, hey, Chris, how are you? I'm like, I'm fine.
00:25:17
snowblindnesssux
Oh, I always order on the app.
00:25:17
Chris
How are you?
00:25:18
snowblindnesssux
So that's you his name.
00:25:22
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. Or on their website, whatever.
00:25:24
Chris
Yeah. yeah yeah
00:25:27
snowblindnesssux
Well, have we palavered the palavering?
00:25:31
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's time for topic one.
00:25:34
snowblindnesssux
Topic one. This is a deep philosophical
Imposter Syndrome and Personal Incompetence
00:25:38
snowblindnesssux
topic. Let's drop in.
00:25:39
Chris
Ooh.
00:25:42
snowblindnesssux
Do you think there'll ever be a time where I don't feel like I have imposter syndrome in everything I do?
00:25:50
Chris
um no because you're not a narcissist i think so i think the people that don't feel it at all there's there's i think it's something wrong with them not us
00:25:55
snowblindnesssux
Is that what it is?
00:26:06
snowblindnesssux
don't think there's a time where you're like,
00:26:10
snowblindnesssux
I never give myself credit that I know something.
00:26:13
Chris
yeah
00:26:14
snowblindnesssux
Ever. I never want to understand. I hate the word expert. I hate the word even knowledgeable.
00:26:20
Chris
yeah
00:26:21
snowblindnesssux
you know And I've got people who tell me this. I'm like, that's not me. You guys have a the wrong person.
00:26:26
Chris
yeah yeah yeah yeah i can yeah yeah I mean I I to this day don't feel like an adult yeah yeah yeah like I I was in a meeting with you know city administrators and finance directors and you know elected officials and i'm like why am i in here with them yeah
00:26:29
snowblindnesssux
It's getting worse, I think.
00:26:39
snowblindnesssux
Well, still don't feel like an adult. 46 years old, don't feel like an adult.
00:26:54
snowblindnesssux
Right. They're not in here with... I'm not here with them. They're in here with me.
00:27:00
Chris
but oh there was one point i wanted to oh god yeah
00:27:05
snowblindnesssux
What we talking before, like the conversation, one of the people at work wants me to come teach for his whatever company. And I'm like, I'm not your guy, man. Like you got to find somebody who knows what they're talking about.
00:27:17
snowblindnesssux
Like, I just, done I'll never, I don't know that I'll ever get over this.
00:27:23
Chris
Well, I think it's because you're humble. And many of us in the fire service are humble. And it's, yeah.
00:27:36
snowblindnesssux
it's
00:27:36
Chris
it's Yeah, yeah.
00:27:37
snowblindnesssux
It's weird.
00:27:39
Chris
Yeah, I mean, I, yeah.
00:27:39
snowblindnesssux
But I mean, it applies everything. Almost everything in my life, I'm like, nope, I don't know what i'm doing.
00:27:45
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that.
00:27:48
snowblindnesssux
It definitely feels like it's worse now that I'm over 46. It's like now I feel like I should be...
00:27:54
Chris
Yeah. Was 46 the tipping point?
00:27:58
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, I kind of think so.
00:27:59
Chris
ah
00:28:01
snowblindnesssux
I'm closer 50 now.
00:28:04
Chris
her
00:28:04
snowblindnesssux
right like I'm the age that my grandfather was when I was born.
00:28:12
Chris
Wow.
00:28:12
snowblindnesssux
Right? that And that's kind of weird to think, but I think that's right.
00:28:15
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. no Oh my gosh.
00:28:20
snowblindnesssux
I'm maybe a little bit younger, but I'm close. I'm getting close to where I am.
00:28:22
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:23
snowblindnesssux
And I never felt like my grandfather didn't know what the hell he was doing.
00:28:27
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:28:28
snowblindnesssux
He always knew... He might have just been a great bullshit artist, but...
00:28:32
Chris
Yeah.
00:28:32
snowblindnesssux
it's always perceive is perceived him no e i'm I'm older than my father was, right? And same thing. Except for carpentry. That guy could not build anything.
00:28:43
Chris
He cut carpenter.
00:28:44
snowblindnesssux
Oh my god, no.
00:28:47
snowblindnesssux
Terrible. Which is like, i just I've never felt, still to this day, like confident in anything. Ever.
00:28:54
Chris
Hmm.
00:28:57
snowblindnesssux
Ever.
00:28:58
Chris
Well, I think it's because we work in a job that, you know, at least when we started, you know, we're told, yeah, yeah, you get cocky, you get confident, you die.
00:29:05
snowblindnesssux
Well, that's fair.
00:29:07
Chris
so it's like, I guess I'm not ever supposed to feel that way. But.
00:29:12
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. I mean, there is a right yeah You never want to be complacent part of that.
00:29:18
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:19
snowblindnesssux
But then it's like, was I'm not going to get involved on a side of this conversation. But the conversation in our department now about training, right?
00:29:28
Chris
ah
00:29:28
snowblindnesssux
like
00:29:29
Chris
uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:29:30
snowblindnesssux
i'm like I'm not getting involved in that side of it, but I'm getting into the conversation. I'm 22 years on the job.
00:29:38
snowblindnesssux
Shouldn't there be a point where i'm just like, yeah, I'm good. I don't need extra training anymore.
00:29:41
Chris
yeah right yeah yeah yeah i signed up for this webinar
00:29:45
snowblindnesssux
But I don't feel that way.
00:29:49
snowblindnesssux
Like, I feel like the day before I retire, I'll be like, well, I still don't know this. I don't know, you know.
00:29:58
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. And um these are all skills I'm never going to need again.
00:30:02
Chris
Yeah. oh Yeah.
00:30:05
snowblindnesssux
as i i tell my wife all the time because she's like, you know, going have a job after you retire. I'm like, what am I going to do? I have zero job skills.
00:30:13
Chris
Right.
00:30:14
snowblindnesssux
She's like, you all these job skills.
00:30:16
Chris
No.
00:30:17
snowblindnesssux
Is it on fire? What are they hiring me to do?
00:30:20
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Is it on fire? Is it actively leaking something? Is it a human that has something in them that shouldn't be there or not in them that should be there?
00:30:27
snowblindnesssux
Do they
00:30:33
snowblindnesssux
they need a sort of okay-ish, kind of bad-ish paramedic?
00:30:33
Chris
That's.
00:30:37
snowblindnesssux
Cool. I'm um' on board. I thought about that the other day. I was like and like, maybe I'll go work part-time as a paramedic when I retire. And I was like, there's no freaking way. I don't know this shit anymore.
00:30:50
snowblindnesssux
I'd have to go to paramedic school again. You
00:30:52
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:56
Chris
It's it's tricky.
00:30:59
Chris
i do know one thing that I'm definitely not a master at, and that's catching mice.
00:31:05
snowblindnesssux
still haven't caught a mice, huh? Uh-oh.
00:31:06
Chris
Well, I haven't. the wife The wife did.
00:31:10
snowblindnesssux
She caught one.
00:31:11
Chris
She caught two with one trap.
00:31:14
snowblindnesssux
Whoa.
00:31:14
Chris
She is the mouse hunter. But this woman took what of course me, i went out there, and for like the fifth time, they had...
00:31:18
snowblindnesssux
Well.
00:31:26
Chris
ripped all the cheese or peanut butter off of the little trap without setting it off. So I was like, there's gotta be something wrong with the trap. I barely touch it and it goes off.
00:31:38
Chris
So it wasn't that. I walk in with my achy finger after that, because of course I didn't use a stick or something. No, no, no. I used my finger. Yeah. But I come in and and my wife's like, there's gotta to be a, way yeah. She's like, here, let me see them. She took and put a little bit of peanut butter on the thing and then put a piece of dog food on it and then use dental floss to tie it in place.
00:32:03
snowblindnesssux
and I never have thought of that.
00:32:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then literally got to, I guess they were going to untie it. So I don't know, but yeah, she got them both. And I was like, okay. Yeah. And then she got back from Orlando. Finally, i was like, well, good news. I haven't seen any, you know,
00:32:22
Chris
remnants of the mice so I think you got them or like or you scared the hell out of the ones that are still here yeah god yeah yeah yeah
00:32:27
snowblindnesssux
Made an example.
00:32:31
snowblindnesssux
Well, the good news is that's a job you don't have to do anymore. She's now shown proficiency. You are incompetent.
00:32:38
Chris
o but yeah yeah god like um I shouldn't even be allowed to set the things laughing
00:32:39
snowblindnesssux
You're out of it.
00:32:46
snowblindnesssux
It's kind of been my whole system of life is, you know, showing competency. Somebody else handles it.
00:32:52
Chris
yeah
00:32:52
snowblindnesssux
I don't have to worry about it anymore.
00:32:57
snowblindnesssux
Speaking of imposter syndrome, that's my hope that's my whole scam.
00:33:01
Chris
That's my scale.
00:33:09
snowblindnesssux
thats
00:33:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. There are some things I think I do just a little too good a job with. But then it's like I'm expected to continue to do that.
00:33:22
snowblindnesssux
I can't think of one thing I'm good at Ever.
00:33:24
Chris
no painting miniatures
00:33:26
snowblindnesssux
Name one thing.
00:33:30
snowblindnesssux
No, I'm like... I'm amateur at best. You...
00:33:37
Chris
historical facts no shit no a pair of medicine no yeah
00:33:39
snowblindnesssux
Amateur at best.
00:33:44
snowblindnesssux
Really amateur at best.
00:33:48
snowblindnesssux
I've always thought I was good at EMS. ah Very good at one point. And my philosophy doesn't change, right? But the skills have gone away.
00:33:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:00
snowblindnesssux
Which, boy, that is a heartbreaking analysis of yourself when a moment you're like, oh my god. I don't know what's going on anymore.
00:34:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:10
snowblindnesssux
That's a tough one.
00:34:12
Chris
yeah
00:34:13
snowblindnesssux
And then yeah you have the conversation and the conversation has to be had. It's like, you can't put me on a paramedic unit. I would be a danger to others.
00:34:24
Chris
yeah yeah i yeah
00:34:29
snowblindnesssux
You need somebody to start an I'm 60% there. somebody there intubate somebody in the old school way ah got you but should i be doing those things yeah as i had that conversation with
00:34:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:42
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Come on. You could run through an ACLS algorithm like it's nothing. I'm sure you could.
00:34:52
snowblindnesssux
i could know one algorithm that i couldn't run through correctly because i screwed it up the other day and i had to be scolded by my paramedic who's 20 plus years younger than me
00:34:57
Chris
Ah.
00:35:07
Chris
what you gonna give the patient procanamide isopraterinol isoreterinol yeah um
00:35:10
snowblindnesssux
atropine we don't give atropine anymore you idiot it
00:35:15
snowblindnesssux
give it linda king we don't do that either yet you know there's this is but and well that's a conversation i had with one of the people on my shift i'm like you have to understand that that's not an officer's job anymore right like that's not the job set anymore well they should still be a profession no my job as an officer is to make sure that my people are safe
00:35:29
Chris
right
00:35:39
snowblindnesssux
to run the scene, to make sure you guys are proficient.
00:35:41
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:43
Chris
Right.
00:35:45
snowblindnesssux
You can't expect somebody who doesn't practice to be proficient, ever.
00:35:48
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:50
snowblindnesssux
Just like I don't expect you guys to be watching your back, because that's my job. I'm watching your back.
00:35:56
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:56
snowblindnesssux
you know it's it's It's a different job set.
00:36:01
snowblindnesssux
well that's just not the way it is that is the way it is i'm not even as proficient at pulling hoses more anymore as i was right like i keep in practice but it's not my job anymore
00:36:05
Chris
yeah
00:36:14
Chris
oh god the other day they were packing hoes and i was like i'll help them out i had no idea what i was doing yeah yeah
00:36:19
snowblindnesssux
well that thing they're doing at 16 i don't know i just feel like every time i get it down what they're doing at 16 they're like we're gonna change a hose load i'm like right, guys.
00:36:30
snowblindnesssux
Cool.
00:36:32
snowblindnesssux
It's the TikTok generation.
00:36:35
Chris
so i will say was it it was yesterday yeah um they had our new people plus uh the mifree academy cadets or whatever they are um so they were all out there and they're like pulling lines and doing this stuff i'm like yeah you know checking out and they were doing like the different hose rolls and they they were doing that weird what was it the butterfly where you like you roll it up and then you tuck the loop through so you throw it on your shoulder and i was like wow but then they did the one and it was a double but they like spun it opposite ways when it wound and i was like
00:37:00
snowblindnesssux
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:37:11
snowblindnesssux
Yep.
00:37:12
Chris
I remember when we tried to put that in the high rise packs and the assistant chief on duty who we worked with at the time on C or D whatever it was, was like, yeah, he was like, yeah, you and Ron had that.
00:37:20
snowblindnesssux
eastern yeah
00:37:24
Chris
and It worked great up on the training tower. I'm like, oh my God, people remember that? Yeah.
00:37:31
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, my own I still think it would've worked great.
00:37:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:35
snowblindnesssux
think worked better than the shit we got now, but whatever.
00:37:38
Chris
Two 50 foot single rolls and that, split double that you can just go either way it was perfect and it fit so nicely yeah oh my
00:37:42
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:45
snowblindnesssux
was so nice. Fit a bag.
00:37:50
snowblindnesssux
Now we have to rejig our engines the way we deploy our freaking high rise packs, which we've not used ever.
00:37:53
Chris
gosh
00:38:00
Chris
yeah you know why because we have a damn good fire marshal's office
00:38:04
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. No, that's that's a a very valid argument. I had that conversation with something other day. I'm like, you guys have to understand that that change in having a fire marshal's office is going to fundamentally change firefighting in your area.
00:38:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:21
snowblindnesssux
And it's not it this is not on even on him. this is The changes in the state and the code are so crazy compared to what they were.
00:38:25
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:31
snowblindnesssux
And now they force buildings to come back into compliance. like You know,
00:38:38
Chris
yeah No.
00:38:38
snowblindnesssux
it's the always.
00:38:39
Chris
Yeah. yeah what It's grandfathered now.
00:38:42
snowblindnesssux
no, no, not anymore. a it it was It was crazy. We let people get away with shit forever.
00:38:46
Chris
Yeah. Right.
00:38:49
snowblindnesssux
You know, somebody was bitching about Freon the other day. Like, oh, like my system's grandfathered in. What should it be?
00:38:57
Chris
no
00:38:58
snowblindnesssux
Like, there's a reason we changed that code.
00:39:01
Chris
yeah yeah that's like i know when my air conditioning unit finally dies not for a while um i gotta totally replace it because they don't make the the refrigerant and the other parts for that and i know that yeah i'm sure i could go i don't i don't know some back alley where these people will do their free on exchanges but i'm not going to do that
00:39:02
snowblindnesssux
Update your system.
00:39:26
snowblindnesssux
No, and you shouldn't. Yeah. It's also like my conversation, i this was a ah weird conversation, but about cars. I think we talked about it, right?
00:39:37
snowblindnesssux
Like, old
00:39:38
Chris
Yeah.
Safety Evolution: Cars and Firefighting Apparatus
00:39:40
snowblindnesssux
cars are unsafe.
00:39:40
snowblindnesssux
Should we really let people drive them anymore?
00:39:46
Chris
Some are unsafe.
00:39:47
snowblindnesssux
No, they're all unsafe. There is a significant difference between a car built in the last 20 years and anything before that.
00:39:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I'm just thinking some of those old ones with the. Well, yeah, because I mean, yeah, they had that steel frame, but then it just transferred all the energy to you, not the crumple zones.
00:40:04
snowblindnesssux
Right, yeah. The car was fine.
00:40:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:06
snowblindnesssux
You're dead.
00:40:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:10
snowblindnesssux
Cool.
00:40:10
Chris
But. But it's also were having this. Conversation the other day in logistics that, you some of these. You know, newer fire apparatus, they just don't last because the parts are just not.
00:40:25
Chris
the same as they used to be and there's so much computers going on that it's it's ridiculous i mean it used to be that oh it's not running right you pop the hood you listen to it you jiggle a couple things and you're good to go yeah
00:40:42
snowblindnesssux
yeah i mean that's a conversation but also those engines were terribly unsafe had no role protection had no safety features for inside right
00:41:00
Chris
They had great exhaust systems though.
00:41:04
snowblindnesssux
no they just didn't have death
00:41:07
Chris
As we sat in the box with the motor.
00:41:10
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, and you kept your lunch hot by putting it on top of the motor that if you touched, you would burn yourself in the summer. Yeah.
00:41:18
Chris
No, no, no, no, no. We had those felt covers over them. Yeah.
00:41:23
snowblindnesssux
yeah
00:41:24
Chris
God. Do you remember? you remember the uproar when it was like, yeah, They have to have enclosed cabs and doors.
00:41:31
snowblindnesssux
Oh, yeah.
00:41:32
Chris
ah
00:41:34
snowblindnesssux
Well, it's funny because you and i our careers have spanned the very old school to the, because really the fire department didn't change for like 40 years.
00:41:44
snowblindnesssux
And we were right at the end of that 40 year mark, right?
00:41:44
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:41:47
Chris
Yep.
00:41:47
snowblindnesssux
Because I came in with this side, open cabs, no seatbelts, bench seats, you know, like stupid shit.
00:41:53
Chris
Riding the tailboard. Oh,
00:41:54
snowblindnesssux
but that that ended right before i started mostly mostly because they killed a guy up here yeah yeah but there were no rules you know and now all of the things i think back like yeah that stuff was fun but it was never safe you know it's what we did back then we would never allow
00:41:57
Chris
I did it once. It was terrifying.
00:42:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:13
Chris
Oh, yeah. No, no.
00:42:18
Chris
Our turnout gear was lined with flannel.
00:42:23
snowblindnesssux
not ah that far off I mean, our boots were just basically galoshes.
00:42:27
Chris
Yeah, it's just.
00:42:32
Chris
Yeah. yeah.
00:42:33
snowblindnesssux
You know, and i remember days of not wearing SCPA on car fires and using booster lines on car fires and, you know, just, it was all, it was all stupid.
00:42:41
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:50
snowblindnesssux
You know, this I'm glad that these kids never had that so they can't they can't look back on it right but also like the worst part is they do look back on it so they they look back go oh those guys had so much fun in the 90s it's like yeah
00:42:58
Chris
yeah right
00:43:10
Chris
yeah got shot yeah
00:43:12
snowblindnesssux
the wild west was real fun to you like you know step on a nail and die and you know and get shot whatever and die like was just you think those things were fun they were just really sketchy and dangerous
00:43:27
snowblindnesssux
We just did sketchy things.
00:43:30
Chris
yeah and we're very lucky
00:43:32
snowblindnesssux
We're very lucky. And that was, that's the same conversation we just had at work the other day was like talking about, oh, I didn't have car seats when i was a kid. You just, you know, the strong survived. No, the lucky survived.
00:43:41
Chris
Yeah, exactly.
00:43:42
snowblindnesssux
You were just lucky.
00:43:45
Chris
The strong survived. It's not the Thunderdome.
00:43:49
snowblindnesssux
right you weren't five years old going oh i'm strong enough to hold on to this seat so i don't get projectile out the window it's just lucky you know we're just we're lucky we were the lucky ones thank god
00:43:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:02
Chris
yeah yeah yeah
00:44:08
snowblindnesssux
well that discussion nothing got resolved i'm still gonna have imposter syndrome until the day i retire from the fire department
00:44:09
Chris
yeah yeah
00:44:15
Chris
yeah Even past retirement. Yeah. Because then I think it's going to be, ah do I deserve to be retired?
00:44:24
snowblindnesssux
Well, I'll think about that when I wake up at noon and stroke my beard.
00:44:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Well, you ready for topic two?
00:44:40
snowblindnesssux
more than ready.
00:44:42
Chris
than that. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, we dabbled into a little bit early, but you know where you've you have the mighty snowstorm. We had some around here. i saw children out, you know, sledding and things like that. i mean, it just what what are the things as a kid you like to do on a snow day? and at what age did you get tired of snow?
00:45:07
snowblindnesssux
Oh, I can tell you the moment I got tired of snow. The moment I owned a house and I was required to get the the sidewalk clear.
00:45:14
Chris
exactly yep yeah yep yeah 6.97
00:45:16
snowblindnesssux
was the moment I was tired of snow. um Man, we did the dumbest shit as a kid. I can tell you two crazily dumb things that we did.
00:45:27
snowblindnesssux
First, I lived ah in a neighborhood out of hills. there was a bunch of hills made up in the neighborhood. And we had that ice storm in the ninety s like 90...
00:45:32
Chris
yeah
00:45:36
Chris
six ninety seven
00:45:38
snowblindnesssux
think it even before. think there was an earlier than that.
00:45:39
Chris
but no no No, there was the one that was at 94, 93.
00:45:40
snowblindnesssux
It was like 93, 94, somewhere in there.
00:45:43
Chris
Yeah. in the 1900s. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:45:45
snowblindnesssux
So we had a terrible ice storm and like the streets were just ice in the the nineteen hundreds
00:45:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:45:49
Chris
back in the nineteen hundreds
00:45:52
snowblindnesssux
yeah So what did our dumbasses do? We grabbed our so our plastic sleds and just slid down the the road.
00:46:01
Chris
so yeah
00:46:02
snowblindnesssux
Just like maniacs. Like crazy.
00:46:07
Chris
We would tie sleds to four wheelers.
00:46:10
snowblindnesssux
yeah it's also crazy we we we also had behind the my buddies in our house there was uh woods but it was a valley and so there was a pretty steep hill so we were like well that's good sledding hill who cares that all these trees we'll just build up snow banks to you know to swerve you around the tree so you won't run we broke
00:46:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:34
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:46:36
snowblindnesssux
How we didn't break ourselves, i don't know. We broke like 12 sleds trying to go through this run through the trees.
00:46:39
Chris
Right. Jesus. Hmm. Hmm.
00:46:44
snowblindnesssux
By the way, at the bottom of that was just water.
00:46:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:48
snowblindnesssux
that was So you were sledding into frozen water.
00:46:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:52
Chris
Yeah. right It was frozen. Yeah.
00:46:55
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. Oh, man.
00:46:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:58
snowblindnesssux
Again, talk about the lucky frozen water.
00:46:58
Chris
Which side tangent to that frozen water.
00:47:03
snowblindnesssux
Okay.
00:47:03
Chris
When I talked to my oldest the other day.
00:47:06
snowblindnesssux
Oh, boy.
00:47:07
Chris
um Cause she was like, well, what will happen since the college doesn't have the steam and the heat? I said, well, what happens if water's in a pipe and it freezes? Do you know what her response was?
00:47:21
Chris
What? It gets cold.
00:47:24
snowblindnesssux
it does
00:47:25
Chris
I said, it does.
00:47:25
snowblindnesssux
that's
00:47:25
Chris
It gets very cold. What happens when water gets really cold and freezes? It's cold. i said, it expands. Oh yeah. So thank God that you're going to teach music education child.
00:47:38
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, it's not it's not so much when it's cold that's a problem.
00:47:41
Chris
It's when it thaws out.
00:47:42
snowblindnesssux
It's when it thaws out that's a problem.
00:47:44
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:45
snowblindnesssux
yours Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this cold snap breaking and then, you know, just running people's lecture ah water leagues all day.
00:47:45
Chris
So, yeah.
00:47:50
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:47:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, but your whole sledding through the woods and everything. We did dumb stuff like that. Did you ever, did you have the sled that was the, like the the metal blades with a wooden top?
00:48:04
snowblindnesssux
Oh, yes.
00:48:06
Chris
That, the front would kind of move a little bit.
00:48:11
snowblindnesssux
yep
00:48:11
Chris
like to make you think you could steer, i guess.
00:48:14
snowblindnesssux
yeah yeah
00:48:16
Chris
But yeah, and we had two versions of that. We had one that I don't know, like one luge size and one longer bobsled size. i don't know, but yeah.
00:48:26
snowblindnesssux
we we had one it's called i think it's it was a radio flyer was the brand right
00:48:32
Chris
I think so.
00:48:33
snowblindnesssux
I think it was. we So we had pass the valley. There was a there was a golf course. So there was like woods and then there was a golf course. And can't remember what hole it was on this golf course, but it was a swanky golf course.
00:48:46
snowblindnesssux
And they had a hill going down into one of the holes. and we were like this is the promised land you got a hill nobody's using it so my brother and his idiot friend from the neighborhood were like we're gonna go first so they go down on the radio flyer and you just see them go crest like the hill and then just drop because they had they had hit a bunker a sand bunker
00:49:04
Chris
yeah oh no
00:49:16
snowblindnesssux
and probably dropped eight feet at speed. And you just hear,
00:49:25
Chris
you run home your parents are like where's your brother i don't know uh yeah yeah yeah
00:49:29
snowblindnesssux
I think he died. No, no. Yeah. He got chased off.
00:49:34
Chris
It's like we would try to take that radio flyer and, you know, going down the hills, that was fine.
00:49:35
snowblindnesssux
so cool
00:49:40
Chris
But eventually when, you we saw people getting pulled by a four wheeler or something, we're like, well, we do that with a radio flyer. It's great when you're moving straight. Those blades lock into a straight line. So the four wheeler would turn and you would just blink get flipped over.
00:49:58
Chris
But would we stop? Oh, no, we were laughing and let' do it again.
00:50:03
snowblindnesssux
first For some reason, you thought you were a bulletproof because it was snow.
00:50:07
Chris
yeah
00:50:08
snowblindnesssux
ah you just You were like, no, I'm cool. It's cold. Cold makes it so I don't break my bones. it's just And somehow
00:50:16
Chris
with a cold it solidifies the bones to yeah oh yeah oh yeah yeah it's about to say yeah yeah i mean when it yeah like high school college age if it snowed Yeah, we were even dumber.
00:50:19
snowblindnesssux
and somehow it worked. cause it never We did such dumb shit. and I can tell you, we did that in college. like Even when I was in college and it had snow, we were going sledding.
00:50:36
Chris
We would take four-wheel drive vehicles and take the hood off another vehicle and drag it behind.
00:50:38
snowblindnesssux
Yep.
00:50:43
snowblindnesssux
Oh, why did do the hood thing? That's <unk> a good way to mess up your hood.
00:50:47
Chris
yeah no, no, like an old, like a scrap car.
00:50:50
snowblindnesssux
Oh, right, because I forget that you country people just have cars that scrap sitting around your yards all the time.
00:50:56
Chris
Well, you never know if you need a starter out of it. Yeah,
00:51:00
snowblindnesssux
You're right.
00:51:01
Chris
yeah, yeah.
00:51:02
snowblindnesssux
right I wouldn't be able to be like, if somebody gave $100, go get a hood to a car. think like ah I can't. I don't know where to go.
00:51:13
snowblindnesssux
You want me steal it from my car? I don't know. what i would Then I would be like, I don't know how to take it off the car. I don't know you're talking about, sir.
00:51:21
Chris
I knew of at least three hoods I could get right now. No.
00:51:26
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, no doubt. They probably you know used as tombstone markers for the horses.
00:51:31
Chris
now
00:51:35
snowblindnesssux
yeah we we College, it snowed and the college, because I always stayed over winter session anyways, but if it like if the college was closed, oh my god, it was pure maniacs.
00:51:43
Chris
yeah
00:51:50
Chris
yeah yeah because alcohol and a snowy slippery surface is always a good mix with with the built-in know mental invulnerability that comes with you know that late adolescent age
00:51:50
snowblindnesssux
Just drunken idiots everywhere. And boy, was fun.
00:52:00
snowblindnesssux
yes oh
00:52:12
snowblindnesssux
i officially know the moment i was tired of snow the year is 2002 it's december the 17th i believe somewhere around there
00:52:25
Chris
Oh my gosh. Okay.
00:52:27
snowblindnesssux
i I'm living in a a townhouse.
00:52:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:32
snowblindnesssux
So it's ah two up front, three in the back.
00:52:34
Chris
Okay.
00:52:34
snowblindnesssux
right So it's on a hill. yes It's got a garage in the back that was converted to a bedroom, completely illegally unsafe.
00:52:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:43
snowblindnesssux
That's the bedroom I lived in.
00:52:44
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:52:44
snowblindnesssux
ah
00:52:45
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:52:45
snowblindnesssux
And the one one perk of living in the super illegal converted bedroom was that I got to park in the back.
00:52:54
Chris
mmm nice okay
00:52:56
snowblindnesssux
So I could park my car back there. So I have to go to work. in my In my 1997 Jetta that barely had brakes, there's at least eight inches of snow on the ground.
00:53:08
Chris
okay yeah jettis can clear that no problem yeah
00:53:14
snowblindnesssux
iri Oh, yeah, yeah. i i And behind the these kinds of townhouses always have like a little alley behind them.
00:53:25
Chris
Okay.
00:53:26
snowblindnesssux
so that if there's two rows of townhouses, you'll have a big alley with, you know, driveways, but driveways, basically enough room for one car on each side.
00:53:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:34
snowblindnesssux
So I clear my car, shovel out the snow, get on the alley, go to work.
00:53:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:42
snowblindnesssux
Took me an hour to move on that snow. I'm so fucking tired.
00:53:45
Chris
Hmm.
00:53:46
snowblindnesssux
Then I had to go to work a 12-hour shift.
00:53:48
Chris
Hmm.
00:53:48
snowblindnesssux
Get up to the hospital, work my 12-hour shift, come home, pull down the alley, slipping and sliding. The fucking jet is all over the place. Get to my spot and some asshole is in my spot.
00:53:59
Chris
o
00:54:00
snowblindnesssux
That was the moment I was done with snow.
00:54:06
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:54:06
Chris
but it was snow and ice you could just push their car out of the way yeah
00:54:10
snowblindnesssux
I should have just pushed their car out of the way into the field and set it on fire.
00:54:16
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:54:17
Chris
i don't know about setting on fire but yeah yeah i think yeah once you actually had some responsibilities like yeah you didn't just get to goof off during the day in the snow you had to go to work or you know something like that that's that's when it sets in
00:54:19
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:54:29
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. Oh, well, this freaking week when I'm at work on Monday and every asshole friend mine is what are doing? You want to hang out? No, I'm at work, you fuckheads.
00:54:40
snowblindnesssux
Well, I got more off work today. I don't. I'm an adult. I have a real job. I have to go to work.
00:54:49
snowblindnesssux
Well, can't you work from home? Yeah. We do remote firefighting now. The latest thing.
00:54:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. yeah Everything's robots now. Just robots.
00:54:58
snowblindnesssux
It's all robots.
00:54:59
Chris
Oh, robots.
00:55:00
snowblindnesssux
Jackasses.
00:55:00
Chris
Yeah. God.
00:55:02
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. Every one of them.
00:55:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:04
snowblindnesssux
Oh, we're just home for the day.
00:55:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:07
snowblindnesssux
Must be nice.
00:55:09
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:09
snowblindnesssux
i Meanwhile, I had to get a hotel room to keep myself safe from dying so I can get to work.
00:55:15
Chris
It's dedication.
00:55:18
snowblindnesssux
It was dumb what it was.
00:55:22
snowblindnesssux
I should have just got a hotel like halfway down. Because I had this real feeling that i was like it's not going to be that bad down there, but it's going suck up here.
00:55:25
Chris
yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:55:30
snowblindnesssux
And I was completely correct. completelyly correct Yeah. Yeah. Stupid weather.
00:55:39
Chris
well at least like i said at least this weekend it's only supposed to be like an inch or two which probably means we'll get like yeah a foot and a half yeah yeah
00:55:44
snowblindnesssux
Whatever.
00:55:47
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. And it's supposed to start tonight. Yeah. Awesome.
00:55:55
snowblindnesssux
The good news is it's all in the south.
00:55:55
Chris
but it's all to the south it's to the south yeah yeah into it yeah yeah yeah yeah it's gonna start like in norfolk
00:55:58
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. So I'm driving. I live in the north. Which way will I be driving? Oh, south, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, great. great
00:56:09
snowblindnesssux
Yeah. Yeah, there's just a hop, skip, and a jump from where you live and I where I am.
00:56:14
Chris
there's a body of water that'll break it yeah yeah well you know when
00:56:19
snowblindnesssux
Is that how that works?
00:56:23
Chris
See, if they had just done the offshore wind farms, they could have turned them on and blown the storm away.
00:56:27
snowblindnesssux
Oh, that's... See? See, now you're thinking. I like what you're thinking now.
00:56:31
Chris
Oh, my God. almost lost that other bit the day about that. God. There's such an eyesore.
00:56:39
snowblindnesssux
I, uh...
00:56:40
Chris
If you can see them clearly 10 miles away, go work for NASA, you jackass. Yeah.
00:56:44
snowblindnesssux
Great. And...
00:56:46
Chris
ah
00:56:47
snowblindnesssux
Also, if you look to your left, you can see the Salem Nuclear Power Plant. I don't think that... You complain about that as much. You jackaninnies.
00:56:54
Chris
Right.
00:56:56
snowblindnesssux
You what looks really nice?
00:56:57
Chris
You also have a fucking chicken coop probably in your backyard.
00:56:58
snowblindnesssux
Coal plants.
00:57:00
Chris
You don't bitch about that.
00:57:01
snowblindnesssux
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. And coal plants look...
00:57:04
Chris
Three broken down cars.
00:57:06
snowblindnesssux
it's Three birds with birds missing because we were sledding.
00:57:14
Chris
Coal's the fuel of the future though.
00:57:17
snowblindnesssux
Technically, the fuel of the fast of the past. Oh, Jesus.
00:57:19
Chris
No, no, no. Isn't that what it, coal fusion?
00:57:23
Chris
Oh, cold fusion. Oh, okay. See, maybe that's where everybody's getting mixed up. They think it's cold fusion, so they think cold's better. Yeah, see. Uh-huh.
00:57:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:36
snowblindnesssux
it's just dinosaurs which you idiots don't believe in anyway so i don't understand what you guys think is going on
00:57:42
Chris
Some of us believe in dinosaurs.
00:57:44
snowblindnesssux
yeah some of you do actually i found out side tangent that cole's not actually dinosaurs it's wood it's it's from the like this this giant carpet
00:57:45
Chris
Some of us do.
00:57:52
Chris
No, it's wood. yeah
00:57:57
snowblindnesssux
Carboniferous period? All the like crazy giant trees that live and they just basically all the coal is that.
00:58:01
Chris
yeah yeah yep now like oil that's dinosaurs yeah let's say it's funny this mechanic i watch on youtube sometimes yeah he's he's like oh yeah i gotta add all the dinosaurs to this one
00:58:10
snowblindnesssux
Yeah, oil is called dinosaurs.
00:58:23
snowblindnesssux
It's got to be a better way to do oil in cars, right? It's got some other better system.
00:58:28
Chris
Yeah. Well, you got to stay away from the seed to oils because they're very dangerous. um
00:58:37
Chris
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.
00:58:39
snowblindnesssux
I wish our life wasn't a satire of what the real world should be
00:58:39
Chris
It's... I know. I just... Oh, God. ay
00:58:48
snowblindnesssux
well on that note I think we should probably end it before we say something we shouldn't say stay warm
00:58:49
Chris
ah Yeah. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:57
Chris
Stay warm, folks. It's yeah, because it's only supposed to be like oh right now it's 19 here. So I'm sure up with you, it's like eight.
00:59:06
snowblindnesssux
It was like 18 this morning. Or it was 8 this morning. It's like 18 now, I think. Supposed to get up 20 this weekend.
00:59:10
Chris
Yeah. Whoo, man. Break out the Bermuda shorts.
00:59:14
snowblindnesssux
Yeah.
00:59:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:15
snowblindnesssux
And just remember, kids, if you see a bear outside in the winter, they're cold. Bring them inside.
00:59:20
Chris
Yes. Yeah. Take care, folks.