Transcript
Chris: Welcome back to another episode the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
snowblindnesssux: And I'm finally well willing to admit that it's cold and I'm wrong.
Chris: Are you wearing pants?
snowblindnesssux: I'm not.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: I have not worn pants... yet. This snowstorm.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, that that's... yeah, that's cold, cold.
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.
snowblindnesssux: I have heard of that.
Chris: That's crazy!
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Oh
snowblindnesssux: Apparently that happened in 1944 in the War and like people talk about the trees exploding because of the sap. Yeah.
Chris: my gosh.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
Chris: And so, yeah, look at that tree. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: We were not prepared for stow.
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.
Chris: They finally got back Wednesday night at like 915.
snowblindnesssux: believe so.
Chris: It's about weather. twenty twenty six the northeast should
snowblindnesssux: please go
Chris: no about weather especially winter weather and how to deal with it at an airport.
snowblindnesssux: Yes, you you would think.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: yeah
snowblindnesssux: i be willing And people kept saying, well what are you going to do?
Chris: That's
snowblindnesssux: I said, I'm going home.
Chris: yeah. Yeah. It is clearly written out now. Thank God.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
Chris: That, yeah, you do a mutual, as on you.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, yeah. i I've done my 24. It's up to him now.
Chris: Exactly, yeah, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. They were like, well, you know, he might be stuck in an airport. I'm like, cool.
Chris: That's a boohoo, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: he's He's got sick time. i don't know what to tell you.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: this That's not on me.
Chris: Yeah, find a yeah U-Haul that's going north with a traveling Pokeband, I mean,
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. Do what you gots to do.
Chris: yeah
snowblindnesssux: It's only a 16-hour drive. It's not that bad.
snowblindnesssux: It was... I mean, we did get, in my house, we got significant snow.
Chris: Yes.
snowblindnesssux: You guys did not get significant snow from the talk.
Chris: Oh, we got, yeah, it was, yeah. A bunch of rainy slushy mess.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Oh.
Chris: so I was like, okay, I'll go out there and attack it before it freezes.
snowblindnesssux: Oh.
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.
Chris: I'm going inside.
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
Chris: Oh, really?
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. You don't sharpen the blade of your snow shovel every year.
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
Chris: I don't know.
Chris: Yeah. You should just put a hook on your shed or something.
snowblindnesssux: well my shed's the way in the back okay
Chris: Yeah. I mean, my we have a snow shovel by the front door and another one by the back door outside. So, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: We only have the one, which has been a problem in years past when you break your shovel.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Yes, I have a rant about the snow too.
Chris: Uh-oh. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: And it's really it's really set off a giant pet peeve annoyance this week.
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.
Chris: Okay. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Now my neighborhood's pretty big. There's a good amount of people in this neighborhood.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
snowblindnesssux: And they're just having a jibber jabber talk. And there's,
Chris: in their cars or just okay um yeah oh yeah yeah yeah
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.
snowblindnesssux: At certain point, I think think by law I should be allowed to run you over that point.
Chris: oh yes yes yeah
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.
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.
Chris: what uh
snowblindnesssux: I'm like, you people are taking up as maximum amount of space possible so that no one can get by.
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
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.
snowblindnesssux: it's It's bonkers.
Chris: yeah yeah
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.
snowblindnesssux: It doesn't seem like it's not been any of this week, which by the way, don't care.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: And the Amazon guy is blocking the road, which whatever he's go to make delivery. He makes his delivery.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
snowblindnesssux: So I get nothing done in my life, because dealing with these minor inconveniences.
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?
Chris: And it has a picture of a street and a mailbox and a lane and yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Oh! You didn't clear enough for the maleion?
Chris: Yeah, 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.
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?
snowblindnesssux: Where would you like it to go? There's nowhere for it to go at this point. it's
Chris: I mean Atticus could eat it.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: He's really not enjoying the effect.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: yeah But honestly, I feel like Kramer and Seinfeld, when's the last time you got these email that mattered?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
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.
Chris: Yeah, that you could get like 17 cents.
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.
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
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Or just yeah log in and print it off if you need a physical copy.
snowblindnesssux: why would i ever need a physical copy
Chris: Because there are some places it like I need to make a copy of your insurance card.
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?
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: This is 2026, sakes.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Everything's digital.
Chris: Should be.
snowblindnesssux: Should be at this point.
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
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?
Chris: yeah because it's worthless well yeah
snowblindnesssux: It costs us more money to print cash than it's worth. Why are we doing it?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Just go digital. Be done with it. I guess not how Grandpa fought the war. Fought the war with cash.
Chris: My grandmother would go down to the five and dime with her checkbook.
snowblindnesssux: ah yeah oh yeah does your grandmother have a cell phone jack aces
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did she have a way that she could take her phone or her watch and just tap it to something and pay?
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
Chris: yeah yeah yeah yeah and do i feel bad that some people will lose jobs yeah but again that's progression
snowblindnesssux: Do you know what the number one job in 1901 in the Americas was?
Chris: printing paper money horse handler
snowblindnesssux: Horse handler. you many people work as horse handlers now?
Chris: God, there's there's a handful of maniacs, but yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Like four. yeah that's it's not a it's It's fine. We move on.
Chris: Horse handler.
snowblindnesssux: We find other jobs for those people.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: It's a crazy world. Particularly now. Yeah.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: What?
Chris: Yeah, so they're, they had a major steam, steam plant failure. That's how the University of Maryland heats its buildings, steam.
snowblindnesssux: I'd say University of Delaware does it too.
Chris: Are they on a geothermal vent that I don't know about?
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.
snowblindnesssux: So they can just like generate steam and it's super cheap for the university.
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
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: I'd be like, ah you got to go, kiddo. This your house no more. You're out.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah
snowblindnesssux: Once she says, well, where do you go I guess hotels?
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.
Chris: Pay full price then like an idiot. God.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, I'd rather use an app for everything.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: You know why? Because I don't have to rely on some moron forgetting what I said getting more than wrong.
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
snowblindnesssux: And I still get it wrong, I get mad.
snowblindnesssux: never seen that, but I see the ones where they just bring up the thing and you just pay little thing and done.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the least interaction i have to do yeah that's like
snowblindnesssux: Also glorious.
snowblindnesssux: Exactly. That's all my life is. The least amount of interaction with peepins I have to do.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Oh.
Chris: I don't have to talk to somebody. No, no, no. They have someone walking beside the robot.
Chris: They must feel just barely less useless than the idiots that work at ModWash.
snowblindnesssux: Christian.
Chris: Have you ever been to a ModWash around here?
snowblindnesssux: Oh. I've never been to it, but I know the difference.
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
snowblindnesssux: The thing I already paid for.
Chris: I am here at this type of car wash, so I don't have to talk to a jackass like you.
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.
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.
snowblindnesssux: I mean...
Chris: Useless job.
snowblindnesssux: Wow, really touched a nerve here in this one.
Chris: God.
snowblindnesssux: I was going to go back to the robot thing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: no they do they do now yeah I'm pretty sure yeah anyway
snowblindnesssux: Do they? Do they now recognize as level one trauma center?
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.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah let's say ah the what is it um what are the taxis that don't have people
snowblindnesssux: Oh, way away.
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
snowblindnesssux: Something like that. yeah
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. You hit the app, you get in the car and you say, take me to this location and the car takes you.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Or take a train.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's not that's not an option around here.
snowblindnesssux: God, if we could just live in a world where you could just take a train.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: My mother, the maniac, she's going on a trip in March. She's flying into Philly.
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
Chris: Oh. Okay. Yeah.
Chris: Why?
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.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Golly.
snowblindnesssux: What about my luggage? You take your luggage on the train.
Chris: What about my... What...
snowblindnesssux: Does it go right to the airport? Yeah. The train goes right to the airport. They have a train stop at the airport.
Chris: oh god oh but what about my luggage
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.
snowblindnesssux: ha How does that work? Magic. It's magic.
snowblindnesssux: She was going to rent a car and it was going to be like 500 bucks a day for take an $8 train.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
Chris: The math is not mathing there.
snowblindnesssux: Math is not math.
snowblindnesssux: I would never drive to New York City anymore. Ever.
Chris: Oh, my God.
snowblindnesssux: Anywhere near New York City, I wouldn't drive.
Chris: ah Yeah. Why? Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: have a train.
Chris: Yeah, I get angry enough around here.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. And you guys do not have traffic.
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
snowblindnesssux: Let's go. Was this a Saturday? Oh boy. Oh boy.
snowblindnesssux: No, start my order now. Why would you, what?
Chris: well no that way it's fresh because i ordered it you know like 15 minutes away from the place
snowblindnesssux: I'd rather them start it now, so they want to get there.
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...
snowblindnesssux: Well, you're putting out crappy products, I'm sure it is fast.
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.
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.
Chris: That's it.
Chris: Ugh. There should be a line for maniacs and a line for those of us who know how to use an app.
snowblindnesssux: That's fair.
Chris: Huh.
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.
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
snowblindnesssux: It's not worth it ever. It's never worth it.
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.
Chris: that make that this guy can make his own
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you see there's three drive through lanes in it?
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. And where are those cars going to turn into?
Chris: Magic Ron.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: It's going to be bonkers.
Chris: Yeah. But you know how the hillbillies are around here. They will probably up staff police to like escort people or something.
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.
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
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.
Chris: oh yeah yeah oh yeah well it's just like when best fries in the world it's just like when people
snowblindnesssux: They're the worst fries in the world.
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.
snowblindnesssux: You just get doubled
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.
snowblindnesssux: Now look, you start treading on Wawa territory and you're not refuting.
Chris: Look, I...
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.
Chris: Not around here. They
snowblindnesssux: You're not running here.
Chris: don't know. They stop serving things at certain times.
snowblindnesssux: No, they do not.
Chris: The hell they don't.
snowblindnesssux: You wake up at 3 o'clock this morning and go get yourself a Wawa Meatball Sub.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: And their chicken salad, also delicious.
Chris: No. Chicken salad is so gross.
snowblindnesssux: Because you've had bad chicken salad.
Chris: No, because I don't like mayonnaise. And I don't really like chicken.
snowblindnesssux: You can't taste the mayonnaise. Oh my god. don't like tomatoes. I don't like turkey. I don't like chicken.
Chris: Although I will tell you that I have had a chicken wrap at least once a week for the past like three weeks.
snowblindnesssux: Interesting.
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.
snowblindnesssux: I've been eating a lot of falafel wraps.
Chris: Ah.
Chris: oh i like a good falafel
snowblindnesssux: I like a good falafel. I don't really like them on their own, though.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah and some places make the falafels too big yeah yeah yes yes
snowblindnesssux: It's that's a little dry. it's the i'd rather have it in a wrap. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Yes. Yeah, yeah. And tzatziki is freaking delicious. Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Now we're just talking about what we're going to have lunch.
Chris: Yeah, right? Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Skip my meal for tomorrow and go to the pita place.
Chris: Yeah.
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!
Chris: Oh, he loves the fire department.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, he does. Yeah, yeah.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, I always order on the app.
Chris: How are you?
snowblindnesssux: So that's you his name.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. Or on their website, whatever.
Chris: Yeah. yeah yeah
snowblindnesssux: Well, have we palavered the palavering?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's time for topic one.
snowblindnesssux: Topic one. This is a deep philosophical topic. Let's drop in.
Chris: Ooh.
snowblindnesssux: Do you think there'll ever be a time where I don't feel like I have imposter syndrome in everything I do?
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
snowblindnesssux: Is that what it is?
snowblindnesssux: don't think there's a time where you're like,
snowblindnesssux: I never give myself credit that I know something.
Chris: yeah
snowblindnesssux: Ever. I never want to understand. I hate the word expert. I hate the word even knowledgeable.
Chris: yeah
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.
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
snowblindnesssux: It's getting worse, I think.
snowblindnesssux: Well, still don't feel like an adult. 46 years old, don't feel like an adult.
snowblindnesssux: Right. They're not in here with... I'm not here with them. They're in here with me.
Chris: but oh there was one point i wanted to oh god yeah
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.
snowblindnesssux: Like, I just, done I'll never, I don't know that I'll ever get over this.
Chris: Well, I think it's because you're humble. And many of us in the fire service are humble. And it's, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: it's
Chris: it's Yeah, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: It's weird.
Chris: Yeah, I mean, I, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: But I mean, it applies everything. Almost everything in my life, I'm like, nope, I don't know what i'm doing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that.
snowblindnesssux: It definitely feels like it's worse now that I'm over 46. It's like now I feel like I should be...
Chris: Yeah. Was 46 the tipping point?
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, I kind of think so.
Chris: ah
snowblindnesssux: I'm closer 50 now.
Chris: her
snowblindnesssux: right like I'm the age that my grandfather was when I was born.
Chris: Wow.
snowblindnesssux: Right? that And that's kind of weird to think, but I think that's right.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. no Oh my gosh.
snowblindnesssux: I'm maybe a little bit younger, but I'm close. I'm getting close to where I am.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: And I never felt like my grandfather didn't know what the hell he was doing.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: He always knew... He might have just been a great bullshit artist, but...
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: He cut carpenter.
snowblindnesssux: Oh my god, no.
snowblindnesssux: Terrible. Which is like, i just I've never felt, still to this day, like confident in anything. Ever.
Chris: Hmm.
snowblindnesssux: Ever.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Well, that's fair.
Chris: so it's like, I guess I'm not ever supposed to feel that way. But.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. I mean, there is a right yeah You never want to be complacent part of that.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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?
Chris: ah
snowblindnesssux: like
Chris: uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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.
snowblindnesssux: Shouldn't there be a point where i'm just like, yeah, I'm good. I don't need extra training anymore.
Chris: yeah right yeah yeah yeah i signed up for this webinar
snowblindnesssux: But I don't feel that way.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. And um these are all skills I'm never going to need again.
Chris: Yeah. oh Yeah.
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.
Chris: Right.
snowblindnesssux: She's like, you all these job skills.
Chris: No.
snowblindnesssux: Is it on fire? What are they hiring me to do?
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?
snowblindnesssux: Do they
snowblindnesssux: they need a sort of okay-ish, kind of bad-ish paramedic?
Chris: That's.
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.
snowblindnesssux: I'd have to go to paramedic school again. You
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: It's it's tricky.
Chris: i do know one thing that I'm definitely not a master at, and that's catching mice.
snowblindnesssux: still haven't caught a mice, huh? Uh-oh.
Chris: Well, I haven't. the wife The wife did.
snowblindnesssux: She caught one.
Chris: She caught two with one trap.
snowblindnesssux: Whoa.
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...
snowblindnesssux: Well.
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.
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.
snowblindnesssux: and I never have thought of that.
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,
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
snowblindnesssux: Made an example.
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.
Chris: o but yeah yeah god like um I shouldn't even be allowed to set the things laughing
snowblindnesssux: You're out of it.
snowblindnesssux: It's kind of been my whole system of life is, you know, showing competency. Somebody else handles it.
Chris: yeah
snowblindnesssux: I don't have to worry about it anymore.
snowblindnesssux: Speaking of imposter syndrome, that's my hope that's my whole scam.
Chris: That's my scale.
snowblindnesssux: thats
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.
snowblindnesssux: I can't think of one thing I'm good at Ever.
Chris: no painting miniatures
snowblindnesssux: Name one thing.
snowblindnesssux: No, I'm like... I'm amateur at best. You...
Chris: historical facts no shit no a pair of medicine no yeah
snowblindnesssux: Amateur at best.
snowblindnesssux: Really amateur at best.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: That's a tough one.
Chris: yeah
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.
Chris: yeah yeah i yeah
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
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Come on. You could run through an ACLS algorithm like it's nothing. I'm sure you could.
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
Chris: Ah.
Chris: what you gonna give the patient procanamide isopraterinol isoreterinol yeah um
snowblindnesssux: atropine we don't give atropine anymore you idiot it
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
Chris: right
snowblindnesssux: to run the scene, to make sure you guys are proficient.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right.
snowblindnesssux: You can't expect somebody who doesn't practice to be proficient, ever.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Just like I don't expect you guys to be watching your back, because that's my job. I'm watching your back.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: you know it's it's It's a different job set.
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
Chris: yeah
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
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.
snowblindnesssux: Cool.
snowblindnesssux: It's the TikTok generation.
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
snowblindnesssux: Oh, yeah, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Yep.
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.
snowblindnesssux: eastern yeah
Chris: and It worked great up on the training tower. I'm like, oh my God, people remember that? Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, my own I still think it would've worked great.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: think worked better than the shit we got now, but whatever.
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
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, yeah.
snowblindnesssux: was so nice. Fit a bag.
snowblindnesssux: Now we have to rejig our engines the way we deploy our freaking high rise packs, which we've not used ever.
Chris: gosh
Chris: yeah you know why because we have a damn good fire marshal's office
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: And now they force buildings to come back into compliance. like You know,
Chris: yeah No.
snowblindnesssux: it's the always.
Chris: Yeah. yeah what It's grandfathered now.
snowblindnesssux: no, no, not anymore. a it it was It was crazy. We let people get away with shit forever.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
snowblindnesssux: You know, somebody was bitching about Freon the other day. Like, oh, like my system's grandfathered in. What should it be?
Chris: no
snowblindnesssux: Like, there's a reason we changed that code.
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
snowblindnesssux: Update your system.
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?
snowblindnesssux: Like, old cars are unsafe.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Should we really let people drive them anymore?
Chris: Some are unsafe.
snowblindnesssux: No, they're all unsafe. There is a significant difference between a car built in the last 20 years and anything before that.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Right, yeah. The car was fine.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: You're dead.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Cool.
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.
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
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
Chris: They had great exhaust systems though.
snowblindnesssux: no they just didn't have death
Chris: As we sat in the box with the motor.
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.
Chris: No, no, no, no, no. We had those felt covers over them. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: yeah
Chris: God. Do you remember? you remember the uproar when it was like, yeah, They have to have enclosed cabs and doors.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, yeah.
Chris: ah
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.
snowblindnesssux: And we were right at the end of that 40 year mark, right?
Chris: Oh, yeah.
Chris: Yep.
snowblindnesssux: Because I came in with this side, open cabs, no seatbelts, bench seats, you know, like stupid shit.
Chris: Riding the tailboard. Oh,
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
Chris: I did it once. It was terrifying.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah. No, no.
Chris: Our turnout gear was lined with flannel.
snowblindnesssux: not ah that far off I mean, our boots were just basically galoshes.
Chris: Yeah, it's just.
Chris: Yeah. yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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
Chris: yeah right
Chris: yeah got shot yeah
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
snowblindnesssux: We just did sketchy things.
Chris: yeah and we're very lucky
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.
Chris: Yeah, exactly.
snowblindnesssux: You were just lucky.
Chris: The strong survived. It's not the Thunderdome.
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
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah
snowblindnesssux: well that discussion nothing got resolved i'm still gonna have imposter syndrome until the day i retire from the fire department
Chris: yeah yeah
Chris: yeah Even past retirement. Yeah. Because then I think it's going to be, ah do I deserve to be retired?
snowblindnesssux: Well, I'll think about that when I wake up at noon and stroke my beard.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Well, you ready for topic two?
snowblindnesssux: more than ready.
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?
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.
Chris: exactly yep yeah yep yeah 6.97
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.
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...
Chris: yeah
Chris: six ninety seven
snowblindnesssux: think it even before. think there was an earlier than that.
Chris: but no no No, there was the one that was at 94, 93.
snowblindnesssux: It was like 93, 94, somewhere in there.
Chris: Yeah. in the 1900s. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: So we had a terrible ice storm and like the streets were just ice in the the nineteen hundreds
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: back in the nineteen hundreds
snowblindnesssux: yeah So what did our dumbasses do? We grabbed our so our plastic sleds and just slid down the the road.
Chris: so yeah
snowblindnesssux: Just like maniacs. Like crazy.
Chris: We would tie sleds to four wheelers.
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
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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.
Chris: Right. Jesus. Hmm. Hmm.
snowblindnesssux: By the way, at the bottom of that was just water.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: that was So you were sledding into frozen water.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. right It was frozen. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. Oh, man.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Again, talk about the lucky frozen water.
Chris: Which side tangent to that frozen water.
snowblindnesssux: Okay.
Chris: When I talked to my oldest the other day.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, boy.
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?
Chris: What? It gets cold.
snowblindnesssux: it does
Chris: I said, it does.
snowblindnesssux: that's
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.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, it's not it's not so much when it's cold that's a problem.
Chris: It's when it thaws out.
snowblindnesssux: It's when it thaws out that's a problem.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: So, yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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?
snowblindnesssux: Oh, yes.
Chris: That, the front would kind of move a little bit.
snowblindnesssux: yep
Chris: like to make you think you could steer, i guess.
snowblindnesssux: yeah yeah
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.
snowblindnesssux: we we had one it's called i think it's it was a radio flyer was the brand right
Chris: I think so.
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.
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
Chris: yeah oh no
snowblindnesssux: and probably dropped eight feet at speed. And you just hear,
Chris: you run home your parents are like where's your brother i don't know uh yeah yeah yeah
snowblindnesssux: I think he died. No, no. Yeah. He got chased off.
Chris: It's like we would try to take that radio flyer and, you know, going down the hills, that was fine.
snowblindnesssux: so cool
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.
Chris: But would we stop? Oh, no, we were laughing and let' do it again.
snowblindnesssux: first For some reason, you thought you were a bulletproof because it was snow.
Chris: yeah
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
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.
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.
Chris: We would take four-wheel drive vehicles and take the hood off another vehicle and drag it behind.
snowblindnesssux: Yep.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, why did do the hood thing? That's <unk> a good way to mess up your hood.
Chris: yeah no, no, like an old, like a scrap car.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, right, because I forget that you country people just have cars that scrap sitting around your yards all the time.
Chris: Well, you never know if you need a starter out of it. Yeah,
snowblindnesssux: You're right.
Chris: yeah, yeah.
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.
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.
Chris: I knew of at least three hoods I could get right now. No.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, no doubt. They probably you know used as tombstone markers for the horses.
Chris: now
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.
Chris: yeah
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
snowblindnesssux: Just drunken idiots everywhere. And boy, was fun.
snowblindnesssux: yes oh
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
Chris: Oh my gosh. Okay.
snowblindnesssux: i I'm living in a a townhouse.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: So it's ah two up front, three in the back.
Chris: Okay.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: That's the bedroom I lived in.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
snowblindnesssux: ah
Chris: Mm-hmm.
snowblindnesssux: And the one one perk of living in the super illegal converted bedroom was that I got to park in the back.
Chris: mmm nice okay
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.
Chris: okay yeah jettis can clear that no problem yeah
snowblindnesssux: iri Oh, yeah, yeah. i i And behind the these kinds of townhouses always have like a little alley behind them.
Chris: Okay.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: So I clear my car, shovel out the snow, get on the alley, go to work.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Took me an hour to move on that snow. I'm so fucking tired.
Chris: Hmm.
snowblindnesssux: Then I had to go to work a 12-hour shift.
Chris: Hmm.
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.
Chris: o
snowblindnesssux: That was the moment I was done with snow.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
Chris: but it was snow and ice you could just push their car out of the way yeah
snowblindnesssux: I should have just pushed their car out of the way into the field and set it on fire.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
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
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
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.
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.
snowblindnesssux: Well, can't you work from home? Yeah. We do remote firefighting now. The latest thing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. yeah Everything's robots now. Just robots.
snowblindnesssux: It's all robots.
Chris: Oh, robots.
snowblindnesssux: Jackasses.
Chris: Yeah. God.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. Every one of them.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, we're just home for the day.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Must be nice.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: i Meanwhile, I had to get a hotel room to keep myself safe from dying so I can get to work.
Chris: It's dedication.
snowblindnesssux: It was dumb what it was.
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.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah yeah
snowblindnesssux: And I was completely correct. completelyly correct Yeah. Yeah. Stupid weather.
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
snowblindnesssux: Whatever.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. And it's supposed to start tonight. Yeah. Awesome.
snowblindnesssux: The good news is it's all in the south.
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
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
snowblindnesssux: Yeah. Yeah, there's just a hop, skip, and a jump from where you live and I where I am.
Chris: there's a body of water that'll break it yeah yeah well you know when
snowblindnesssux: Is that how that works?
Chris: See, if they had just done the offshore wind farms, they could have turned them on and blown the storm away.
snowblindnesssux: Oh, that's... See? See, now you're thinking. I like what you're thinking now.
Chris: Oh, my God. almost lost that other bit the day about that. God. There's such an eyesore.
snowblindnesssux: I, uh...
Chris: If you can see them clearly 10 miles away, go work for NASA, you jackass. Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: Great. And...
Chris: ah
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.
Chris: Right.
snowblindnesssux: You what looks really nice?
Chris: You also have a fucking chicken coop probably in your backyard.
snowblindnesssux: Coal plants.
Chris: You don't bitch about that.
snowblindnesssux: Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. And coal plants look...
Chris: Three broken down cars.
snowblindnesssux: it's Three birds with birds missing because we were sledding.
Chris: Coal's the fuel of the future though.
snowblindnesssux: Technically, the fuel of the fast of the past. Oh, Jesus.
Chris: No, no, no. Isn't that what it, coal fusion?
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
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
Chris: Some of us believe in dinosaurs.
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
Chris: Some of us do.
Chris: No, it's wood. yeah
snowblindnesssux: Carboniferous period? All the like crazy giant trees that live and they just basically all the coal is that.
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
snowblindnesssux: Yeah, oil is called dinosaurs.
snowblindnesssux: It's got to be a better way to do oil in cars, right? It's got some other better system.
Chris: Yeah. Well, you got to stay away from the seed to oils because they're very dangerous. um
Chris: Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.
snowblindnesssux: I wish our life wasn't a satire of what the real world should be
Chris: It's... I know. I just... Oh, God. ay
snowblindnesssux: well on that note I think we should probably end it before we say something we shouldn't say stay warm
Chris: ah Yeah. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Yeah.
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.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Whoo, man. Break out the Bermuda shorts.
snowblindnesssux: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
snowblindnesssux: And just remember, kids, if you see a bear outside in the winter, they're cold. Bring them inside.
Chris: Yes. Yeah. Take care, folks.
