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Hoodies and Snow Days
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (cold weather, dogs, driving, and toaster ovens); Ron asks why hooded sweatshirts are so amazing; Chris talks about snow days as an 80’s child. 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 Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Introduction and Ron's Pant Aversion
00:00:07
Chris
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Drive podcast. I'm Chris.
00:00:11
swolebro
And I'm a freezing to death Ron I
00:00:14
Chris
How are you freezing to death? You're never that cold.
00:00:17
swolebro
Really not I was up.
00:00:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:00:20
swolebro
Yeah, so last week I We went to the grocery store at work. You know, I guess we do most days.
00:00:27
Chris
yeah
00:00:30
swolebro
And this guy comes up to me and of course I'm in shorts like, cause I wear shorts all year round.
Funny Pant Stories
00:00:35
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:00:35
swolebro
I did wear pants for about four hours other day. It drove me insane. I couldn't do it. I literally was uncomfortable and I, ah yeah, my everything felt, my quads were just restricted.
00:00:44
Chris
but
00:00:46
Chris
What's on my calves?
00:00:51
swolebro
I couldn't, I felt like I couldn't move, I needed to.
00:00:54
Chris
Like a dog that they put the shoes on. and
00:00:57
swolebro
Yeah, it was terrible. And everybody was just like, this looks weird. You're wearing, you know, pants. Like, yeah, I used to wear pants. Anyways, so we go.
00:01:08
Chris
Make it sound like you walk around Donald Duck in it.
00:01:11
swolebro
Oh, I do all the time. All day at work, Donald Duckin.
00:01:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:16
swolebro
Little and Winnie the Pooh, that's me.
00:01:18
Chris
yeah
00:01:18
swolebro
So anyways, we're go we're in the grocery store and this guy comes up like,
00:01:19
Chris
Yep.
00:01:22
swolebro
I had to just walk across and he's like, Oh my God, I can't believe you're wearing shorts. And I was like, yeah, you know, and this is just who I am. And it's not that cold yet. And I said something else. And then he like looked at me funny.
00:01:33
swolebro
And then there was this awkward silence. I was like, well, have a good day. And he looked like he was mad. And Mike, I looked at Megan and I was like, well, how was that conversation supposed to go?
00:01:45
swolebro
What was supposed to be the end result of this conversation?
00:01:45
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
00:01:51
swolebro
I don't walk up to random people and just be like, let's start a conversation about your pants choice.
00:01:58
Chris
Yeah, that's that's that's a choice.
00:01:59
swolebro
Yeah.
00:02:01
swolebro
Yeah.
00:02:01
Chris
That's a.
00:02:02
swolebro
It's my choice.
00:02:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:02:03
swolebro
My legs, my body.
00:02:05
Chris
Yeah. But I mean, it's also a choice to just start a random conversation like that.
00:02:06
swolebro
Yeah.
00:02:09
swolebro
Right. Yeah. It was weird.
00:02:10
Chris
And it's not like you're at a party where you think you have to mingle. I mean, you're just in public.
00:02:15
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:17
Chris
Oh, well, I mean, kind of similar.
Firefighting Misconceptions
00:02:20
Chris
I was on my way home. I had to stop by the pharmacy and pick something up for my wife. So I'm waiting in line. This lady behind me, I'm still in uniform, you know, just left work and she taps me and I was like, yes. And she's like, did they send some of your people out to, you know, California for this? Uh, no, we don't do that kind of firefighting, ma'am. Oh, oh, so just like the local people go out there.
00:02:47
Chris
yeah
00:02:48
swolebro
yeah and i still getting rolled i The news was on for like five minutes while I was sitting around work yesterday, and one of the talking its idiots on the news was like, I don't understand why they don't just hook the engines up to the ocean.
00:02:49
Chris
ah ah
00:03:04
swolebro
Well, because then you're going to have fire engines for about 13 minutes.
00:03:07
Chris
Yes. Yeah, but those are good work for that 13 minutes.
00:03:10
swolebro
ah Yeah, they'll do great work. And then the pumps will all seize.
00:03:16
swolebro
And it's it's a pretty quick process to get a new fire engine, from what I understand.
00:03:20
Chris
It is. It's very quick. Yeah.
00:03:23
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think our new engine is going to be here in four years, if we're lucky.
00:03:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Probably maybe. Yeah.
00:03:32
swolebro
Yeah, I won't see it.
00:03:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:35
swolebro
They don't like that kind of network. I'm like, i face reality.
00:03:39
Chris
yeah I mean, I don't understand why people don't appreciate that.
00:03:44
swolebro
Yeah.
00:03:45
Chris
That's.
00:03:45
swolebro
I'd like, when I say I shouldn't be the one making plans for this thing, there's a reason I won't be riding it.
00:03:53
Chris
Yeah, I guess I feel like what about your legacy? I don't want my name on a fire truck. Yeah, I was part of the committee that picked out this fire truck.
00:04:08
swolebro
Six months after I leave, people are like, who was out here before?
00:04:08
Chris
i mean
00:04:12
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:04:12
swolebro
That's, you know,
00:04:15
Chris
Yeah, well, I mean, when you buy your apartment and start calling 911,
00:04:16
swolebro
And that's fine.
00:04:20
swolebro
Well, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, every day you're doing it wrong.
00:04:24
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:28
swolebro
That's their fault for doing it wrong. To be honest, you know, I did it for 25 years.
00:04:29
Chris
Exactly.
00:04:32
swolebro
You should know better.
00:04:34
Chris
Yes.
00:04:36
Chris
Oh, my God.
00:04:37
swolebro
Oh God. Oh, household is under a pack.
00:04:40
Chris
okay There's danger afoot. Yeah. Yeah, I love that my dogs will react like that, but, you know, or if somebody walks by the other night
00:04:46
swolebro
so
00:04:52
Chris
My wife got home late. She had taken my youngest, to you know, a field hockey tournament in Virginia Beach. And
Quirky Dog Tales
00:04:59
Chris
yeah, the dogs flip out. I'm like, we we know who is here. I just told you who is here. But they're like, you know, spastic.
00:05:08
swolebro
by My my dogs this morning I went outside and then forgot something and turned around and reopened the door and they started freaking out.
00:05:11
Chris
but
00:05:16
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:05:19
swolebro
It's like, hey, I can just see who this is.
00:05:21
Chris
deto grao denum
00:05:22
swolebro
No, they were like barking like stranger.
00:05:24
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:05:25
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. Weird. Dogs are funny. like
00:05:33
Chris
Yeah. Or especially when they, you know, just look in the corner and, you know, just stare and it's like, Oh, that's where the ghost is. That's cool.
00:05:41
swolebro
Yeah, yeah, that's a fun one. Yeah, yeah the the older one does that a lot. ah be in the He'll be in the bedroom just staring at the corner. It's like, hey, so what's up for there, bud?
00:05:54
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:54
swolebro
And now no bark, just staring.
00:05:57
Chris
Yeah. Or it's when it's the stair and then it's like the little shift of feet.
00:06:00
swolebro
Oh, and then the little wolf.
00:06:02
Chris
It's like, what? You reacted to something. What made you react like that?
00:06:05
swolebro
Yeah.
00:06:08
swolebro
You know, they're here to give us heart attacks.
00:06:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:13
swolebro
Especially you. Especially very flighty people.
00:06:15
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Once again, I mean, you know, at one time I was in the shower and they freaked out and I was like, Oh, cool. This is how I get murdered.
00:06:23
swolebro
ah It is your most vulnerable time.
00:06:27
Chris
It is. yeah Yeah. My wife looked at me like I was a crazy person and I was like, yeah, if there's nobody else in the house, like I wash my face, you know, at the speed of sound so I can get my eyes back open.
00:06:43
swolebro
I guess.
00:06:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:44
swolebro
What are you going to do? Fight naked?
00:06:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:49
swolebro
You got a shower gun?
00:06:49
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. No, no. but I mean, I guess I could grab the wand and spray the person with water.
00:06:52
swolebro
Oh.
00:06:59
swolebro
Yes. That is exactly the way to handle that problem.
00:07:03
Chris
No, you're right to end that problem.
00:07:07
swolebro
Oh boy. Now I kind of want to break into your house while you're showering.
00:07:13
Chris
Oh, my God.
00:07:16
swolebro
I won't brick into your house. I don't have to. I mean, your wife will just let me in.
00:07:21
Chris
Exactly. And she would laugh about it.
00:07:23
swolebro
She would definitely laugh about it.
00:07:26
Chris
Oh, my gosh.
00:07:26
swolebro
She is a conspirator against you.
00:07:28
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:07:32
swolebro
I mean, isn't that what marriage is?
00:07:35
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:07:37
swolebro
Somebody's got to be a conspirator against us.
00:07:39
Chris
yeah Yeah, it's yeah, you've got to pick on one another.
00:07:45
swolebro
Yeah.
00:07:46
Chris
Yeah, I walked through the other day and my children were watching Annabelle.
00:07:50
swolebro
Oh, no, I don't- uh-uh. Noob.
00:07:52
Chris
Well, no, I just walked in and I heard some kind of creepy talking.
00:07:52
swolebro
Noob.
00:07:57
Chris
I was like, what are you guys watching the Annabelle's? I'm going in the old room.
00:08:01
swolebro
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I can't- Man, I'm such a- That's the thing, I can't do scary movies at all.
00:08:06
Chris
yeah
00:08:12
swolebro
It's so sad.
00:08:13
Chris
And they're watching it in the dark.
00:08:16
swolebro
Well, yeah, it's fair.
00:08:19
Chris
Hello.
00:08:19
swolebro
You know what used to show you said, give me the TV jibbies, just the opening sequence of X files. If it was dark and I was like, and you had to watch it dark cause you know, it was like eight o'clock at night.
00:08:29
Chris
Yes, it came on late at night.
00:08:31
swolebro
Oh man.
00:08:32
Chris
Yeah, no.
00:08:32
swolebro
Give me the TV jibbies. Yeah.
00:08:35
Chris
Yeah, I'm good. I don't I don't need to bring more terror into my life.
00:08:41
swolebro
No. I don't know why. What's this the evolutionary reason to enjoy that?
Fear and Scary Movies: Why We Love Them
00:08:50
Chris
I guess it's the adrenaline rush.
00:08:53
swolebro
Yeah. Is that a dopamine, just adrenaline?
00:08:58
Chris
Maybe.
00:09:00
Chris
I mean.
00:09:04
Chris
i Yeah.
00:09:05
swolebro
Not for me.
00:09:06
Chris
Yeah. So according to Google, it's the adrenaline rush of being scared. A unique experience that's not possible in real life. Yeah.
00:09:18
Chris
Curiosity about the dark side of humanity.
00:09:18
swolebro
but is
00:09:22
swolebro
It's like the maniacs that watch the serial killer shit.
00:09:22
Chris
Learn about fear and push boundaries. No, no.
00:09:29
swolebro
Like, hi, what is the upside of that for you?
00:09:33
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:35
swolebro
I do not want, I mean, knowing those people exist already is enough to mess with my brain.
00:09:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:44
swolebro
And that they all get away with it because cops screw up every case.
00:09:48
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:49
swolebro
You know.
00:09:51
Chris
But again, it's always, you know, when they interviewed like the neighbors, the friend, oh, he was a quiet guy.
00:09:55
swolebro
Right.
00:09:58
swolebro
but was I just saw, you know, with Carter passing away, somebody posted, there's a picture of his wife with John Wayne Gacy.
00:10:07
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:10:09
swolebro
Yeah. Giving him, I don't know, some speech. I don't know when he was there.
00:10:13
Chris
ah
00:10:16
swolebro
and sir That guy was a real, real prankster.
00:10:21
Chris
Yeah, that's ah that's a way to put it.
00:10:23
swolebro
Yeah. Real real rascal. ah
00:10:31
Chris
Rapscallion.
00:10:32
swolebro
Rapscallion.
00:10:33
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. that's My kids and I watched Squid Game.
00:10:40
swolebro
Oh, yeah.
00:10:41
Chris
That's weird.
00:10:43
swolebro
I tried to watch it. I got like a few episodes in.
00:10:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:48
swolebro
Eh.
00:10:48
Chris
it's It's a total, you know, commentary on the greed of humanity.
00:10:54
swolebro
Yeah, totally.
00:10:56
Chris
But of course, you know, my oldest was like, well, we have to watch it in Korean to get the full effect with subtitles.
00:10:57
swolebro
Uh.
00:11:03
Chris
I was like, Oh, this is delightful.
00:11:05
swolebro
I didn't want to read. That's not why I use my brain flower.
00:11:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:13
swolebro
My thinking app.
00:11:15
Chris
Yeah. But yeah. We're all caught up, so now it's just waiting for season three.
00:11:23
swolebro
I didn't finish season season one so I didn't really need the season season two ah I've enjoyed the fact that the city that I work in
00:11:26
Chris
yeah so Have you enjoyed the ah motorists driving around like there's still snow everywhere?
00:11:44
swolebro
plows with what I assume must be, I was going to say baby's first plow truck.
00:11:48
Chris
reckless abandon.
00:11:51
swolebro
I don't know what's going on. I mean, I know I, I tout my home state as one of the best in the country, but the streets are plowed and they plowed the shoulders.
00:12:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:12:04
swolebro
So the snow doesn't like come into the middle of the street. There are main streets and I know if it's still this way today, but when I worked, Wednesday, there were still streets in Salisbury that one of the two lanes was not plowed at all.
00:12:19
Chris
The street that the fire was on today was a complete sheet of ice.
00:12:26
swolebro
Yeah, yeah, so.
00:12:27
Chris
Yeah, and that's because they didn't plow it and it froze over.
00:12:32
swolebro
Mm hmm.
00:12:34
Chris
Or I'm sorry, they put salt down the day before, then didn't plow it in a timely manner, so it just froze.
00:12:43
swolebro
Yeah. And people have, you know, have to drive on it after three or four days.
00:12:46
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:12:47
swolebro
So just going to get worse.
00:12:50
Chris
Yep.
00:12:50
swolebro
Yeah. I was shocked at the, and and people are always like, well, you know, we all we're not used to salt, you know, snow down here. It's like, you're not in Florida, you know, snow happens in our area, you know,
00:13:03
Chris
yeah Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:08
swolebro
If people in Bahamas are like, we don't know how to plow, man. I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. You don't know how to plow in the Bahamas.
00:13:13
Chris
Right.
00:13:14
swolebro
Right?
00:13:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:14
swolebro
Like, uh, it drives me bonkers.
00:13:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:23
swolebro
Yeah.
00:13:24
Chris
Yeah. Well, and I mean, I saw so many of them driving around with their plows up and it's like, that's not doing any good. Drop that down.
00:13:31
swolebro
Right. Yeah. Right. My mother, you know, she lives in Alabama. They got snow yesterday. That I get, like, she's like, yeah people don't know how to drive snow in here.
00:13:44
swolebro
I'm like, yeah, because it's the South. Makes sense.
00:13:46
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:13:50
swolebro
But I will give them credit. There were no wrecks as far as I know, or maybe one or two. There was nothing crazy on my shift. So.
00:13:59
Chris
Yeah. it We, I mean, knock on wood, it wasn't horrible. So I think a lot of people stayed home, stayed off the roads.
00:14:07
swolebro
Which is the correct thing to do, people.
00:14:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:11
swolebro
Yeah.
00:14:11
Chris
Which my children. So they said there's a state emergency. Yeah. So we're not supposed to drive. Right. Are they going to arrest me if I walk across the neighborhood? Absolutely.
00:14:21
swolebro
Wha- What?
00:14:23
Chris
Yeah. Yes. And this was the college one.
00:14:27
swolebro
Wha- What?
00:14:31
Chris
Yeah. I said, no, dear, you're going to be fine walking over to the neighbor's house to play in the snow.
00:14:37
swolebro
They also don't arrest people for driving. You know, they should, but they'd help.
00:14:41
Chris
I. ah Yeah. Yeah. No, what they should do is arrest every one of these jacket apes that's out here playing on their damn phone while they're either driving or even stopped at a stoplight. You people know who you are and I don't like you.
00:14:59
swolebro
That's fair too.
00:15:00
Chris
god
00:15:02
swolebro
Uh, yeah. Yeah. I uh I don't mind that so much it's the people that are smoking way too much weed and driving now because boy oh boy it's a lot and it's fine because they're doing 12 miles an hour they're not gonna hit anybody I hurt them but
00:15:16
Chris
Well, yeah, that too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, anymore, you've got to ride down the road with your car on recirculate. So you don't get the outside air in.
00:15:37
swolebro
boy
00:15:37
Chris
But my problem is when you're like. I get behind them sometimes on my way to work. So it, you know, six, 20, six 30 in the morning and they're blazing up and they have safety vests on.
00:15:50
Chris
So, you know, they're going to work somewhere around traffic.
00:15:53
swolebro
Boy Yeah, yeah The There's a neighbor a house in my neighborhood that we because we got walks in the morning and I don't know
00:15:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:06
swolebro
most days 630 it's just like wow cheech what is what's going on over here um no i mean yeah i guess they just don't care which is fine you know your choice no yeah that's that's only my only robot with it
00:16:11
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, I don't get it. And as bad as it smells, then you have to smell like that. ah I guess.
00:16:27
Chris
You do you, but again, I don't I don't want to smell it.
00:16:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:35
swolebro
You know, I don't want to smell cigarettes. Just as much as I don't want to smell weed.
00:16:38
Chris
Right.
00:16:39
swolebro
You know, so it's, it's not that I'm against your weed, it's I'm against the smell.
00:16:39
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:16:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:46
swolebro
Yeah.
00:16:47
Chris
that' like okay right well it's It's decriminalized, not in public.
00:16:51
swolebro
No, no. Delaware, it's in your home only.
00:16:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:56
swolebro
Yeah. Just the fact that they haven't opened weed bars, you know,
00:16:59
Chris
All right. You've probably just stumbled upon something.
Cannabis Lounges and Snack Pairings
00:17:06
swolebro
I probably have to stumble. Cut that part out.
00:17:08
Chris
Yep.
00:17:12
swolebro
Cut this.
00:17:13
Chris
ye
00:17:13
swolebro
Close it down.
00:17:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:17
swolebro
Yeah, I probably just stumbled on nothing. You're right. But you'd imagine that'd be something people would do. I don't know. I don't partake of the wackiest of wackiest.
00:17:28
Chris
No. Yeah, I. Let's see. um Oh, there are called places called cannabis consumption lounges.
00:17:42
swolebro
Oh.
00:17:44
Chris
Um, let's see. Wow. There, there's one in Maryland.
00:17:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:51
swolebro
Well.
00:17:52
Chris
Uh, Alaska, California, Colorado, DC, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts hasn't implemented it yet. Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri. There's a lot of M's.
00:18:02
Chris
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Nevada.
00:18:08
Chris
yeah
00:18:10
swolebro
Man, I would not want to work there.
00:18:13
Chris
Oh my gosh. You have to wear a respirator.
00:18:17
swolebro
You have to wear a respirator.
00:18:19
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:20
swolebro
Yeah.
00:18:21
Chris
But if you're smart, you open up a Taco Bell right next to it.
00:18:24
swolebro
Yes. Or, uh, all you can eat brownie or all, all night brownie shop.
00:18:29
Chris
Oh, yeah. What's that, the cookie famous Amos or whatever?
00:18:36
swolebro
Oh, we have Insomnia Cookies in Newark that's open 24 hours. Or maybe they're not open 24 hours. I think they're open from like 3 to 6 a.m. 3 p.m. to 6 a.m. or something like that.
00:18:47
Chris
Yeah, they know exactly what yeah demographic they're going after.
00:18:51
swolebro
Oh, there's a Shamboli place in town that, again, opens up at like 11 o'clock at night. Yeah.
00:18:57
Chris
Now that one a.m.
00:18:59
swolebro
They know exactly what's on there.
00:19:00
Chris
Stromboli.
00:19:02
swolebro
uh somebody who you used to party next to the stromboli place the 1am jamboli is pretty nice it's not good for your to walk oh
00:19:12
Chris
and with did with next door He didn't have to like drive or walk or anything. just
00:19:19
Chris
Yeah. Well, I did see that the Wendy's that's across from the college in Salisbury is going to be 24 hours a day starting next week. Yeah.
00:19:31
swolebro
Makes sense.
00:19:32
Chris
Yeah. So people can get their 50 packet nuggets and yeah.
00:19:34
swolebro
There are... I'm surprised they have an open of 7-Eleven down that side.
00:19:42
swolebro
You know, a Bahama Mama and a Slurpee.
00:19:46
Chris
Yeah. Get one of those tequitos fresh off the roller.
00:19:49
swolebro
Yeah.
00:19:50
Chris
Fresh being, you know, it was there yesterday.
00:19:53
swolebro
Oh. It's fresh off the roll. It's fresh to you.
00:19:57
Chris
Yes.
00:19:58
swolebro
It's, you know, it's new to you.
00:19:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:03
Chris
like I look back at some of the stuff I ate when I was either on shift on the medic or just in general, I'm like, how did I not have just explosive diarrhea?
00:20:16
swolebro
Well, the fun fact is because we never ate anything with fiber in it.
00:20:21
Chris
But I guess so.
00:20:23
swolebro
So it's just all backed up in our guts for years.
00:20:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:28
swolebro
The dietician I'm working with, she was talking about like sodium, like watching sodium.
00:20:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:34
swolebro
She's always about, it's all about inflammation with her, like trying to reduce inflammation.
00:20:37
Chris
yeah
00:20:38
swolebro
She's like, you know, you really got to watch out for sodium. And then like, this conversation in like a week later, she's like, I was 100% wrong. There's apparently studies about firefighters and how much sodium they should be in taking and they should be eating more sodium than the normal people. I was like, that's weird.
00:20:56
Chris
I guess because it retains water and.
00:20:58
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. And probably it's so hard to make those kinds of statements because I might have five fires in one shift and then I might not run another fire for
00:21:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:10
swolebro
That's why I tried to explain to her. I'm like, my diet at work is like a trash panda.
00:21:16
swolebro
Because you never know. Like it's so impossible to plan for.
00:21:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:21
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:21:22
swolebro
If you eat, like you're going to have five fires every day. It's a rough time.
00:21:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:30
swolebro
You gotta always have some sort of emergency food.
00:21:34
Chris
Well, it's like today we, the training guy and I rode with the chief to the deputy chief's brother-in-law's viewing. Pair of respects. We got done that and the three of us are riding back and there was that fire. So we went to that, but it was, I was like, my, my, my,
00:21:54
Chris
Water jug is back on my desk and my snacks are in my drawer. I don't, I need something. So one of the medics there, she's like, would you like a peppermint Patty? I was like, God, yes.
00:22:09
Chris
And I didn't even really do much.
00:22:11
swolebro
yeah just well it's 12 degrees outside too you know standing outside in the cold get those calories back up it's fun times yeah yogurt i'm on this whole like my snacks are just yogurt high protein yogurts now with pumpkin seeds
00:22:12
Chris
Cause I didn't have gear.
00:22:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:19
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. So, but yeah. Yeah, gotta have a little snacks and drinks and things. Hmm, that's good. Have you tried the freeze dried yogurt?
00:22:40
swolebro
I don't really like things that are freeze dried. It takes away my spittle. I need that.
00:22:48
Chris
Well, you have to drink water.
00:22:51
swolebro
Yeah, no, it's a two step process. Oh, terrible.
00:22:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:57
swolebro
I don't really even like yogurt.
00:22:59
Chris
Oh, I love yogurt.
00:23:00
swolebro
Like I had really, it's.
00:23:02
Chris
As long as it doesn't have fruit in it.
00:23:05
swolebro
I think for somebody that makes it palatable.
00:23:07
Chris
See, no, that weird texture in it. Nope.
00:23:11
swolebro
Well, like I had my own fruit. I don't use their fruit.
00:23:13
Chris
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, I will do that.
00:23:15
swolebro
Yeah.
00:23:15
Chris
I will add like fresh cut up fruit or some granola or yeah, chia.
00:23:17
swolebro
Yeah. yeah
00:23:21
swolebro
Chia seeds, little cranberry, homemade cranberry sauce, and some pumpkin seeds. That's my, yeah.
00:23:26
Chris
pumpkin seeds, pepitas.
00:23:30
swolebro
That's that pumpkin seed in Spanish.
00:23:33
Chris
It is.
00:23:34
swolebro
Oh, this is fun.
00:23:39
swolebro
I don't know the word for pumpkin in French.
00:23:41
Chris
I told my oldest about your story where the individual said that you need to speak better French.
00:23:41
swolebro
It's probably like gourd. I don't know.
00:23:50
swolebro
Yeah.
00:23:50
Chris
Her exact words were screw that guy.
00:23:52
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:54
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:57
swolebro
Wasn't a guy, but that's fine.
00:23:58
Chris
Okay.
00:24:01
swolebro
Yeah, screw them.
00:24:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:04
swolebro
um I'm not one of those, you should 100% learn English, but don't expect me to learn better French.
00:24:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:10
swolebro
I'm working on it.
00:24:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:13
Chris
And you're making the attempt.
00:24:13
swolebro
Personal growth.
00:24:15
swolebro
Yeah, personal growth here, people.
00:24:16
Chris
Yeah. You just speak loud and slow and they understand you.
00:24:20
swolebro
And put O on the end of things, I get it.
00:24:24
Chris
Where do you live though?
00:24:28
swolebro
Do you have a driver O, license O?
00:24:36
Chris
ah Yeah.
00:24:39
swolebro
It's fun.
00:24:43
Chris
Well, ready for topic one?
00:24:44
swolebro
Well, sure. My topic is a very personal, very deeply important to me topic.
Ron and the Hoodie Dilemma
00:24:55
Chris
Okay.
00:24:56
swolebro
And that is hoodies.
00:24:58
Chris
Ooh.
00:24:59
swolebro
Why? i I'm in my hoodie era, right? I've become a full, I'm the dude, right?
00:25:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:06
swolebro
i wear gym shorts and hoodies all year round now but i don't put the hood up i don't by the way i only wear hoodies when it's weather appropriate but i never put the hood up why can't i have a hoodie without the hood no
00:25:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:17
Chris
Great.
00:25:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:24
Chris
Well, you can't. It's a crew neck sweatshirt.
00:25:26
swolebro
but i want the pocket in the front i've never seen it i but i don't think it's the same
00:25:28
Chris
You can have that. There are crew neck sweatshirts with the muff in the front.
00:25:37
swolebro
There's something about how the hoodie hangs on you.
00:25:40
Chris
Oh, no, I agree.
00:25:42
swolebro
Right. That's a different feel than I don't like crew next door. I hate them. They they're constricting, but a hoodie makes me feel. I don't know we're ready to fight.
00:25:53
Chris
Well, I think that's part of it. The hoodie, the neck hole in it isn't that elastic crew neck style.
00:26:01
swolebro
Yeah, that's that's the thing. So we need to make the hoodless hoodie.
00:26:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:08
swolebro
Yeah, because with
00:26:08
Chris
Yeah. Well, and some of the the hoodies that some folks have on shifts now.
00:26:14
swolebro
the zipper, I know I'm so, I'm so, I am so mad that I didn't get the one with the zipper.
00:26:15
Chris
Yeah. That's like a whole nother game changer. I saw that and I was like, I should have gotten this shirt.
00:26:25
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:25
swolebro
Every time Megan and Kristin come to work, I'm like, you sons of bitches, goddamn.
00:26:30
Chris
Steal theirs.
00:26:33
swolebro
That would really look good.
00:26:37
swolebro
Yeah, I was, uh, they are eventually, I'm sure, but they, well, the problem is that the one with the zipper is the heavyweight one.
00:26:38
Chris
Wait, are they just not going to order anymore? Okay.
00:26:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:50
swolebro
I didn't want the heavyweight one for reasons of an exothermic person, but I do want the zipper.
00:26:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:59
swolebro
I'm so angry that I don't have the zipper one, but what I really want
00:27:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:27:05
swolebro
is the zipper with the neck with no hood.
00:27:10
Chris
So a job shirt.
00:27:12
swolebro
But I want the muffle front.
00:27:15
Chris
So a job shirt with a muff.
00:27:16
swolebro
Yes, but without the collar. I want the collar. The collar job search is stupid.
00:27:24
swolebro
Remember the dumb ones with the the jean elbow pad?
00:27:27
Chris
Yes.
00:27:29
swolebro
Ugh, so ugly.
00:27:31
Chris
What are you talking about?
00:27:33
swolebro
I do
00:27:33
Chris
They were stylish.
00:27:35
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah, they weren't. They weren't. The best ones we ever had were the ah dark blue, aka black ones with a really short color with no gene on it, no denim.
00:27:49
Chris
Yeah, or the old EMS ones.
00:27:49
swolebro
Those are the best ones.
00:27:53
swolebro
I didn't have one of those. I wasn't cool enough.
00:27:54
Chris
Yeah, they were the fabric collar. That was, yeah, like a very short collar. Yeah, it was like a it was almost like a mock turtleneck or a mock collar, but it still had the zipper in the front.
00:28:13
Chris
Actually, no, I think they had a zipper. It was just like two buttons in the front or something. And then. Yeah. Yeah, it was.
00:28:18
swolebro
No, no muff.
00:28:19
Chris
They were great. Eh, it didn't have a muff.
00:28:23
swolebro
I just want this. This is what we need. Come up with our own line of clothing.
00:28:30
Chris
Yeah.
00:28:31
swolebro
People love the muff.
00:28:33
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:28:34
swolebro
You know, you can have a.
00:28:36
Chris
The muff is enough.
00:28:39
swolebro
so really I mean, really, what's the hood for?
00:28:42
Chris
Nothing.
00:28:44
swolebro
Every time you put the hood up, the wind just comes into your hood and inflates it. You walk around like a goddamn balloon.
00:28:48
Chris
Yeah. Yep. Oh, yeah.
00:28:51
swolebro
you know You're gonna wear your beanie anyways.
00:28:53
Chris
And then if you have it up, you've totally lost your peripheral vision.
00:28:57
swolebro
Yeah. I cannot defend myself from a tiger at that point.
00:29:00
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:29:01
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:02
Chris
Because I got news for you. I have a couple lightweight hoodies that I wear that are like um the wristlets don't have cuffs.
00:29:13
Chris
So, you know, they're like three quarter sleeve.
00:29:16
swolebro
Hmm.
00:29:16
Chris
They're nice.
00:29:18
swolebro
That does sound kind of nice. I have a really, really lightweight hoodie that I have. I love that thing.
00:29:23
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:23
swolebro
Yeah. And it's just, it's just enough, you know, for a nice 58, 60 degree day.
00:29:31
Chris
Oh yeah.
00:29:33
swolebro
You know, cause I don't really like long sleeve t-shirts. I wear them occasionally now, but then you get in a situation where it's too hot is, you know,
00:29:40
Chris
Yeah. Yep. That's the last couple of days where it's been cold. I've worn long sleeve polos at work and I've felt so weird.
00:29:52
swolebro
Yeah, I couldn't do that.
00:29:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:55
swolebro
Every time I wear long sleeve shirts, especially t-shirts, because I just end up pushing them up, you know, up over my like forearms, I end up like with stretched out wonky looking wristlets.
00:30:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:05
Chris
Yep.
00:30:08
Chris
Yep.
00:30:09
swolebro
Yeah. I have a baseball shirt, you know, talking about like the baseball shirt where it comes down to like your mid forearm.
00:30:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:17
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The three quarter or whatever.
00:30:19
swolebro
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty nice.
00:30:23
Chris
As long as it's the right size.
00:30:27
swolebro
Well, you should be wearing the right size clothes anyways.
00:30:27
Chris
Well, yeah, but i'm saying if the sleeve isn't like tapered the right way, because if that's loose and baggy, it's like wearing a burlap sack around your arm, I don't like it.
00:30:34
swolebro
Hmm, that's fair. Yeah. I wonder if I could like convert my long sleeve shirts at work to three quarter sleeves.
00:30:46
swolebro
How long do you think it would take for somebody to say something to me?
00:30:49
Chris
ah On your shift, not long.
00:30:53
swolebro
Really?
00:30:54
Chris
Yeah. Well, I don't know the one that would say something you never see. So.
00:30:58
swolebro
Yeah, I never see that one.
00:30:59
Chris
Yeah, you probably get away with it.
00:31:01
swolebro
But isn't that better looking than like a bunched up long sleeve shirt pushed up?
00:31:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:07
swolebro
Because, you know, my wrist don't get hot. It's my wrist don't get cold. It's like my elbow area.
00:31:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:16
swolebro
I also do need to get my t-shirts hem so that like, you know, my guns pop.
00:31:21
Chris
Yes.
00:31:24
swolebro
Yeah. it's It's just so hard being a man and not having choices in clothes. Hope my wife heard that one.
00:31:33
Chris
You, uh, you know, they do make five 11 makes baseball, Jersey station shirts.
00:31:44
swolebro
Oh, there's a 5-11 store right next to my house.
00:31:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:51
swolebro
Well, not right next to the house. There's a little bit of it. I can walk there.
00:31:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. There you go.
00:31:58
swolebro
Hmm, might have to go check this out. Not that I've ever really been impressed with 5.11.
00:32:06
Chris
No, not at all.
00:32:08
swolebro
That was nice how my YouTube just started playing randomly.
00:32:15
swolebro
Side tangent to just annoyances in life. Does your car, when you turn it on, just randomly start playing things over the Bluetooth?
00:32:24
Chris
yeah Yeah.
00:32:25
swolebro
Yeah, it's really annoying.
00:32:30
swolebro
thanks explore
00:32:30
Chris
Well, it only does if I hit the Bluetooth button.
00:32:33
swolebro
Well I always leave light on, Bluetooth usually.
00:32:37
Chris
That's not an option in my Jeep.
00:32:38
swolebro
Oh really?
00:32:40
Chris
Yeah. It automatically defaults to FM radio.
00:32:45
swolebro
Huh.
00:32:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:48
swolebro
Huh.
00:32:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:50
swolebro
Why?
00:32:51
Chris
I don't know, but yeah, then when I switch it to Bluetooth, it's like, well, I know that you were just listening to, you know, pocket casts or something, but you know, this time let's go to Spotify or let's go to YouTube.
00:33:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:05
swolebro
Well, that my problem is that like it's cold right now, so I'll go out there and I'll start my car up. And it will be, it'll start playing the podcast that I'm still listening to.
00:33:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:17
swolebro
If I don't catch it, I've now got, you know, missing part of my podcast.
00:33:23
Chris
Yep. Yeah. Yeah. It's like car. I didn't tell you to do that.
00:33:29
swolebro
Right. Yeah. Stop being annoying.
00:33:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. You think you're being helpful. You're not learn.
00:33:35
swolebro
I don't see this. I'm looking for the station shirt.
00:33:42
swolebro
That's so nice.
00:33:43
Chris
Maybe it wasn't five 11. Maybe it was the fire store, but one of them had. baseball shirts for station shirts.
00:33:51
swolebro
but so nice
00:33:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:56
swolebro
If I got it in gray, no one would notice.
00:33:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:00
swolebro
Yeah, it's fun.
00:34:06
swolebro
Yeah. I want that and I want, uh, nicer men's shorts that aren't Bermuda shorts or cargo shorts. It seems like those are my only options.
00:34:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:20
swolebro
I don't want, I too want to buy a Bermuda suit. It is on my list of things to get. I don't know if I've talked to this conversation I had.
00:34:28
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:29
swolebro
Um, We were, we were going to Cape May and I was wearing my kilts. I was like, you're such a maniac. Why are you wearing a kilt? I'm like, ah, you know, whatever. It's not that cold.
00:34:38
Chris
yeah
00:34:38
swolebro
It was like 12 degrees outside, but you know, whatever. And, um, they were like, well, we're talking, somehow we talk about his, my buddy's wedding. I was like, well, if you get married, I'm gonna, I'm gonna wear my kilt.
00:34:51
swolebro
He's like, you should wear a armuda sort ah suit. And I had never heard of this thing.
00:34:56
Chris
Yeah. i be Yeah.
00:34:56
swolebro
I had heard of. Bermuda shorts, but I didn't know there was a suit to go with it.
00:35:01
Chris
What is the suit?
00:35:03
swolebro
It's just, uh, it's a Bermuda short with a matching suit top, basically.
00:35:08
Chris
Huh.
00:35:10
swolebro
And, uh, I want one really bad because I'm going to wear it to all of my formal events.
00:35:12
Chris
Yeah, that sounds nice.
00:35:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:18
swolebro
All one every decade I go to.
00:35:20
Chris
Yeah. Oh, we should make a proposal. That's the new class A.
00:35:24
swolebro
Oh, please.
00:35:28
Chris
ah
00:35:28
swolebro
I would be so happy to wear it.
00:35:34
swolebro
We would make, you know, we would stand out because right now our class A is pretty boring.
00:35:36
Chris
Yes. Yeah, it's just like everybody else's.
00:35:41
swolebro
It's it's the worst of the everybody else's. We have the worst cap with like the most sad sack uniform.
00:35:51
swolebro
Like Anna Rundle with their like, there their class A looks nice.
00:35:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:56
swolebro
You know, with a hat and a tapered suit jacket. Or it's just like a sack that you put onto yourself.
00:35:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:36:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:36:04
swolebro
It's disappointing. Yeah.
00:36:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:36:07
swolebro
And the hat's dumb. Our hat is so dumb. I don't know where the bell cap idea came from, but...
00:36:13
Chris
Devon Clark.
00:36:18
Chris
Good old Dewey always had his bell cap.
00:36:19
swolebro
people ye Yeah. Yeah. Thank God we don't have to do that stuff anymore.
00:36:25
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:36:28
swolebro
gonna have to wear our blue shirts I don't have to well we don't actually you don't either you wear a polo shirt every day yeah I was gonna say I admit people you guys never wear your blue shirts well is it still called a blue shirt I guess it's a white shirt now for you chiefie folks hmm you got your own admin talk
00:36:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:36:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:36:44
Chris
We just put our B.
00:36:49
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I had my button up today to go to the viewing.
00:36:57
swolebro
well come on dorko you're trying to try to be cool or fireman yeah that time for
00:36:58
Chris
That we left that and as we were on the way to the fire, I ripped my tie off and unbuttoned the top button.
00:37:04
Chris
Yeah, Twilly looked like such the studious man out there. He has glasses on, his tie still on and everything. He's like, hey, what's up there, dork?
00:37:18
Chris
Yeah. But Mazzak left his on. I was like, why do you have your tie on? I'm going to lose it. But in the chief's car, I mean.
00:37:28
swolebro
And he does have a history of running people off the road and getting his car towed. So, you know, you gotta watch out.
00:37:34
Chris
Magic.
00:37:35
swolebro
No, the chief.
00:37:38
Chris
Well, that one time. God, that lady was in such tears when I got there. I made her cry now.
00:37:49
Chris
Hmm.
00:37:50
swolebro
Yeah, I believe it.
00:37:52
Chris
Hmm.
00:37:52
swolebro
Started looking at
00:37:53
Chris
Yeah. But yeah, Bermuda suit, that's a yeah.
00:37:59
swolebro
Yeah, they look nice.
00:38:01
Chris
Hmm. Yeah, it sounds like it.
00:38:02
swolebro
I don't know that I have the body type for it yet. I got to like work on my V, you know, but I'm in for it.
00:38:11
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:13
swolebro
It's on my list of 2025.
00:38:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:15
swolebro
Get a Bermuda suit.
00:38:17
Chris
Get Bermuda suit.
00:38:18
swolebro
Do a handstand. Get Bermuda suit.
00:38:21
Chris
Do a handstand in the Bermuda suit.
00:38:23
swolebro
Sure. I mean, you sure. I'm in.
00:38:26
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:27
swolebro
I hate working on handstands at the gym. Oh my God.
00:38:30
Chris
You just feel judged.
00:38:31
swolebro
It's my little, well, my little gut shows too. Cause you know, can't keep your shirt up.
00:38:36
Chris
Tuck your shirt into your shorts.
00:38:36
swolebro
You know, ah then you look like a dork.
00:38:41
Chris
but then don't complain about your gut falling out.
00:38:44
swolebro
I'm allowed to complain and not look like a dork. This is America.
00:38:48
Chris
Yeah. Well, if you would just start working out in a singlet, you wouldn't have that to worry about.
00:38:54
swolebro
That is a very fair point. I have two singlets right now.
00:38:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:59
swolebro
We're ready to go.
00:39:00
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:02
swolebro
It's almost time to bust them out. It's going to warm up for bike weather.
00:39:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:06
Chris
God. Can you imagine if you went to work out in a singlet and you had the like the wrestler's ear cup thing on?
00:39:12
swolebro
Yeah. Well, it'll be your headphones.
00:39:15
Chris
Yes.
00:39:16
swolebro
It'd be amazing.
00:39:17
Chris
Oh my God. Yeah.
00:39:20
swolebro
No one would talk to you.
00:39:22
Chris
Exactly.
00:39:22
swolebro
Ever. It would be amazing. You'd be like, can I get on that? Yep. Yep. You can have whatever machine you want. Get it. Whatever weirdo.
00:39:31
Chris
ah Yeah.
00:39:33
swolebro
Sounds good.
00:39:33
Chris
Somebody just orders like a drink or something. Hey, are you going to drink? Nope. It's all yours. Take it. Take it. Yeah.
00:39:40
swolebro
yeah
00:39:43
swolebro
I'm all in for this.
00:39:44
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. But you got to have the tube socks pulled up to your knees.
00:39:47
swolebro
Well, you got to protect your shins.
00:39:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:51
swolebro
Yeah. You got to be wearing those nice flat top wrestling shoes.
00:39:55
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:39:56
swolebro
I'm on board all this. Yeah.
00:40:01
swolebro
Oh, God.
00:40:05
Chris
All the stuff you need to order.
00:40:05
swolebro
Excited. Yeah.
00:40:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:08
swolebro
Well, I got to figure out how to get the headphones into the single earpieces. That's the big one.
00:40:13
Chris
Well, if you just You know, you blew earbuds and then the earpiece goes over top of it.
00:40:21
swolebro
Yeah, but then it's like, that would hurt my ear canals.
00:40:23
Chris
Yeah, I am sure that you could figure out a way that.
00:40:25
swolebro
you
00:40:29
Chris
Yeah, they they have to have something like that.
00:40:33
swolebro
I'm sure. I mean, the maniacs that wear the, yeah remember like in the eighties, the crazy big headphones that people used to wear with the antennas on them.
00:40:43
Chris
Yes.
00:40:44
swolebro
It feels like we've brought that back. people walking around with the big like Beats by Dre, like huge ass headphones. I don't know how that doesn't just drive you nuts the whole time you're in the gym. They kind of get sweaty and really gross, right?
00:40:57
Chris
Oh, yeah, you have to.
00:40:59
swolebro
Yeah, and could you imagine being on the treadmill running with that thing?
00:40:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:02
Chris
No, it's like 10 extra pounds on your head.
00:41:03
swolebro
Yeah.
00:41:05
swolebro
Yeah, that's crazy.
00:41:07
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:08
swolebro
I'm not in for it.
00:41:11
Chris
So there is a US patent. Two zero one five, oh, oh, five, nine, oh, six, eight, a one wrestling headgear with integrated headphones.
00:41:21
swolebro
Damn it!
00:41:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:23
swolebro
Somebody's already beat us to it.
00:41:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:26
swolebro
Is there a hoodie-less hoodie?
00:41:28
Chris
A hoodie-less hoodie. It pops right up.
00:41:37
Chris
Hoodless sweatshirts. And the first picture is a sweatshirt with or a hoodie.
00:41:43
swolebro
I don't want a crew duct.
00:41:43
Chris
And then that's a crew neck. I don't want a crew neck. No, this is not what I want, Amazon.
00:41:46
swolebro
Yeah.
00:41:48
Chris
Go away.
00:41:48
swolebro
Yeah. See?
00:41:52
swolebro
I don't want like the Henley one either, though that is nice.
00:41:53
Chris
More commonly called a round neck sweatshirt or round sweater. What?
00:42:02
Chris
Now.
00:42:03
swolebro
no I know, I put hoodless hoodie in and everything they show me is just hoodies.
00:42:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:12
Chris
OK, I don't want to shop anywhere. Oh, good Lord, these are like full size hoodies like from your neck to your ankles.
00:42:26
swolebro
For your what?
00:42:27
Chris
Yeah, they had a hoodie that was like a ah robe.
00:42:34
swolebro
that's That's... Terribleang?
00:42:39
Chris
Yeah, I don't know.
00:42:41
swolebro
That's a comfort level that I'm not in for.
00:42:43
Chris
Yeah, well, the thing is, if you got to go potty, you've got to hike all that up.
00:42:47
swolebro
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:50
swolebro
Well that's a nice thing about the kilt, you just have to...
00:42:53
Chris
Yeah. Squat.
00:42:59
swolebro
Definitely not oh Sometimes You know, you gotta try it out sometimes, you know, it turns out cold the weather is too, you know Because sometimes if you're not careful You know it sit down on something very cold and
00:43:03
Chris
You don't go commando. I'm just I'm not a commando person.
00:43:12
Chris
ah Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:20
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:43:24
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. You want something in between.
00:43:28
Chris
Yeah. You got to control your manhood.
00:43:33
swolebro
Yes. That's a probably the most important rule a man can learn in life is control your manhood.
00:43:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:40
swolebro
Yeah.
00:43:45
swolebro
Well, I think we've gone over the hoodie list hoodie.
00:43:49
Chris
yeah Time for topic two.
00:43:52
swolebro
Yeah.
Snow Day Memories
00:43:53
Chris
Well, with the weather, the way it's been and everything, and since my children, well, my youngest is never going back to school because, you know, four inches of snow locks this area down.
00:44:04
Chris
You got to be thinking about, you know, the old snow days we had, you know, like, you know, Was there a did you have like a rhythm or certain things you always had to do on a snow day or foods you had to eat?
00:44:15
Chris
Because I know I felt bad because I grew up on a farm. So I would pester my parents to drive me into town to be able to, you know, go sledding and everything with everybody else.
00:44:20
swolebro
Had to go kill a horse.
00:44:30
swolebro
we um our neighborhood had hills i don't know if you know what those are because you know yeah okay uh we had to go we we would uh the statue of limitations is up on this we're okay um we would sneak onto the golf course that was behind my my neighborhood but it was it's not like there was like
00:44:34
Chris
Yeah. We had a hill in Sharptown.
00:44:39
Chris
yeah
00:44:46
Chris
Yes.
00:44:56
swolebro
a good space of woods between us and the golf course when we were sitting on the golf course the golf course had a great hill to sled on except you had to be really careful because the sand traps were uh you know covered and that would be a big drop yeah yeah my brother ate real shit doing that one time yeah
00:45:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:16
Chris
ah
00:45:19
swolebro
And then in, uh, it was a 93 that we had like the storm. We had a snow storm that lasted like, I don't know, six or seven days.
00:45:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:45:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:45:27
swolebro
We had a lot of snow that time. And, uh, we actually, because we're dumb, we made a hill, like luge thing where we would actually like pack the snow a certain way through the woods.
00:45:42
swolebro
So we like used trees to deflect our sled.
00:45:43
Chris
Oh,
00:45:48
swolebro
Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How we didn't die. Uh, I'll never understand.
00:45:54
Chris
but You have the invincibility of youth.
00:45:57
swolebro
Yes. Yeah.
00:45:58
Chris
That's the thing.
00:45:59
swolebro
We also, we had a ice storm one time that turned to the street into ice. We were just slide down to that the street.
00:46:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:07
swolebro
It's real smart.
00:46:08
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:46:09
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:10
Chris
We would drag each other behind four wheelers.
00:46:13
swolebro
We didn't have four wheelers cause I didn't grow up with sticks.
00:46:18
swolebro
You know,
00:46:18
Chris
Yeah, you take a disk and yeah hold onto a rope and off you go. Or if you want to have two or three people ride, you take the hood off a car and you drag that behind.
00:46:30
swolebro
Oh.
00:46:31
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:33
swolebro
Isn't the guy who owns the car get mad?
00:46:35
Chris
That is an old car.
00:46:38
swolebro
Yeah, you know, the old neighborhood car that just sits around.
00:46:41
Chris
Every neighborhood had that one car that just sat there.
00:46:46
swolebro
I'm trying to think when I was real young where we went and have gone sledding.
00:46:50
Chris
Yeah. And I mean, the sleds that like I remember the the what's called radio flyer.
00:46:58
swolebro
Yeah, the radio flyer, the flood of death.
00:47:00
Chris
Yeah, that. Yeah, it had those handlebars that made you think you were steering.
00:47:06
swolebro
Yeah. Yes, it did. Yeah. Turn left.
00:47:07
Chris
actually Yeah.
00:47:10
swolebro
didn't that's Oh yeah.
00:47:11
Chris
But again, we were maniacs. We would wax those things and yeah.
00:47:16
swolebro
I thought, I mean, the, the, the radio flyer, that thing was metal.
00:47:21
Chris
yeah
00:47:22
swolebro
You took a radio flyer to the face. You were in trouble.
00:47:25
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:27
swolebro
We had the.
00:47:28
Chris
Or the kids that would like wreck and they would break the wooden frame of it. Oh, yeah.
00:47:28
swolebro
Um, yeah.
00:47:35
swolebro
Or the real cheap plastic, the real cheap plastic disc you had that you would get on.
00:47:37
Chris
Oh.
00:47:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:42
swolebro
And I, I tried it like sides.
00:47:42
Chris
Mm hmm. Yeah. You would just spin around.
00:47:44
swolebro
I'm trying to remember.
00:47:45
Chris
You wouldn't go straight down.
00:47:47
swolebro
No, no, no, no.
00:47:47
Chris
You were just like a top.
00:47:49
swolebro
you You're definitely a top. Yeah. You were, you were out of control.
00:47:52
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:47:53
swolebro
There was no sense of control.
00:47:55
Chris
Oh yeah. Those handles were just there so you could vaguely hold on.
00:47:56
swolebro
Yeah.
00:47:59
swolebro
And you basically broke a plastic disc sled every time you went out.
00:48:05
Chris
Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:48:06
swolebro
but I don't think I remember ever having one for more than one snowstorm.
00:48:09
Chris
Yeah.
00:48:11
swolebro
I do remember um when it was very little we had snow in my front yard that was pretty high and I took my GI Joes out there and made a snow fort for my GI Joes and then lost the snow guy from the GI i Joes because of course he blended in with the snow.
00:48:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:48:23
Chris
Oh yeah.
00:48:33
Chris
Oh yeah.
00:48:33
swolebro
yeah
00:48:34
Chris
What was that? Was it Arctic Cat or Snow Cat or something like that?
00:48:38
swolebro
I think the snow cat was the vehicle. I think his name was Blizzard or something like that.
00:48:40
Chris
Oh yeah. A lizard. Yeah. Oh yeah, that was the fun though. Take your toys out there and yeah, get them lost.
00:48:49
swolebro
yup and We would always eat ah bagel pizzas.
00:48:53
Chris
Ooh.
00:48:54
swolebro
That was our food of choice. Pizzas made out of crappy marinara, crappy cheese, and crappy bagels.
00:49:03
Chris
Yeah. Snow job was his name.
00:49:05
swolebro
Snow job. Yeah, I got a job in 99 one time.
00:49:07
Chris
Yep. ah um We didn't have we didn't do pizza bagels. We would always do grilled cheese and tomato soup.
00:49:19
swolebro
Hmm.
00:49:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:21
swolebro
My buddy had a toaster oven because he lived in the fancy house. So we would, we would bloody duh.
00:49:25
Chris
Oh, la di da.
00:49:28
swolebro
So that's how we would make pizza bagels.
00:49:29
Chris
Hmm.
00:49:31
swolebro
oh Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:32
Chris
The side tangent is today's air fryer, our toaster oven of our day.
00:49:40
swolebro
It sure kind of feels like it.
00:49:41
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:42
swolebro
I mean, I was jealous of him because he had a, a toaster oven.
00:49:47
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:49:48
swolebro
You know, I had a, just a crappy toaster, you know, this kind of.
00:49:51
Chris
Yeah, yeah, I had a crappy toaster in a crappy oven and it's like, oh yeah, you want to cook something in the oven? Well, you got to wait for it to preheat.
00:49:57
swolebro
Yeah. I mean, I mean, my, my air fryer is a toaster oven. Basically it's a convection oven, toaster oven, air fryer combo. Now, you know, that thing's amazing.
00:50:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:10
swolebro
I don't even use my oven very often, and I i don't even have a microwave anymore.
00:50:17
Chris
o
00:50:18
swolebro
What was that? Are you going to attack?
00:50:20
Chris
That was a child being stupid. Yeah, ah we still use the oven. We very rarely use the microwave. yeah Yeah, we got a nice new tea kettle.
00:50:34
Chris
And my youngest goes, why do you have that? We have a microwave.
00:50:40
swolebro
But yeah.
00:50:40
Chris
Trying to explain to her how much better hot water from the kettle is.
00:50:46
swolebro
And it's, you know, you put the kettle on and then you have, you may have time to prepare your tea, you know, and do your, you know, get your breakfast already.
00:50:51
Chris
Yes.
00:50:56
swolebro
And by the time it's whistling, you get your tea and less chance of it blowing up in your face.
00:50:59
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
00:51:04
swolebro
Yeah.
00:51:05
Chris
yeah Yeah, which the first time we used it, my darling wife said, well, it's not whistling yet. I thought this was a whistling pot. I said, well, there's always going to be a little bit of steam that comes out first.
00:51:15
Chris
It's got to build up the real pressure before it whistles. And then it started whistling. OK.
00:51:22
Chris
Patience woman never used a kettle.
00:51:23
swolebro
The patience is a virtue that people don't have.
00:51:29
swolebro
Well, I mean, you know, she's from fancy pants town. So they probably, you know, they probably had somebody brewing their tea for them.
00:51:32
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:51:36
Chris
Yeah, Jeeves was making the tea.
00:51:38
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. They never saw the work that went in and they probably had to bring it up from the servant's house.
00:51:42
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Right. This tea is tepid. Take it back.
00:51:48
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:53
swolebro
Yeah.
00:51:53
Chris
Which side tangent to that, our fire chief, the maniac, was making a cup of hot cocoa.
00:51:54
swolebro
Oh.
00:52:01
Chris
Was the tap water hot enough to make hot cocoa?
00:52:04
swolebro
no
00:52:07
Chris
Messick and I looked at him like, what is wrong with you?
00:52:12
swolebro
At the very least, lose the hot water out of the coffee maker.
00:52:15
Chris
Are our coffee makers down right now?
00:52:17
swolebro
Oh, my God, you guys.
00:52:19
Chris
Well, the pre-pipe part is down.
00:52:19
swolebro
okay
00:52:21
Chris
You can still make a pot of coffee by pouring water into it. But yeah, you can't use a little tap right now.
00:52:28
Chris
but Well, I was convinced there was a ghost because like for four days in a row, it came in and there's water everywhere.
00:52:28
swolebro
surprise
00:52:32
Chris
And turns out it was just slowly leaking and then building up.
00:52:36
swolebro
ah
00:52:36
Chris
So, yeah. Oh, I mean, I was about to put like a camera on it so at night I could see said ghost.
00:52:44
Chris
I don't know what I was going to do once I found said ghost, but.
00:52:46
swolebro
right yeah but What's the upside for you to find out if there is a ghost?
00:52:53
Chris
Early retirement.
00:52:54
swolebro
right because then you know there's a ghost right like that doesn't seem like an upside for you hmm
00:52:56
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:53:00
Chris
I don't know. I mean, you know, better to know your enemy, see your enemy. ah
00:53:10
swolebro
not sure i agree in your specific occasion
00:53:12
Chris
Well, because at first, you know, the fire marshal and I were talking about it. He's like, man, maybe it is a ghost. He was like, I can't imagine, you know, there are times I stopped by here late at night. I don't want to think about that. He's like, God, and you get here. You know, sometimes, you know, either David's here first or, you know, you. man dark with a ghost around. I was like, shut up. Just shut up. Yeah.
00:53:41
swolebro
That's fair.
00:53:42
Chris
yeah
00:53:42
swolebro
I mean, it has been long enough for the ghost to migrate over.
00:53:46
Chris
Oh, I'm sure. Yeah.
00:53:48
swolebro
So, you know, that's, that's fair.
00:53:48
Chris
Well, God only knows what that building was built on. Yeah. no Yeah.
00:53:55
swolebro
There's probably a lot of people buried underneath that little bog. Yeah. And the building's sinking into the bog, so you're getting closer to the ghosts.
00:54:03
Chris
That's the thing. We're angering them.
00:54:04
swolebro
Yeah.
00:54:05
Chris
Yeah, they were fine.
00:54:05
swolebro
Yeah.
00:54:07
Chris
And then, you know, start pushing. And when that water main broke.
00:54:10
swolebro
Mm-hmm.
00:54:11
Chris
Oh gosh, that angered them too.
00:54:13
swolebro
Mm-hmm.
00:54:15
Chris
Is that why there was a flock of like 40 Ravens the other day? Man, see now I'm in my head.
00:54:20
swolebro
What are the ghosts around your head?
00:54:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:26
swolebro
I'm not sure who.
00:54:27
Chris
Yeah. gosh See, all it's going to take is like, I'll be at work Monday and, you know, somebody will startle me or something. Yeah.
00:54:37
swolebro
Was it really a flock of ravens at the station?
00:54:39
Chris
What's that?
00:54:40
swolebro
Was it really a flock of ravens at the station?
00:54:41
Chris
Yes, there was um a literal murder of Ravens.
00:54:44
swolebro
Hmm.
00:54:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:45
swolebro
That's a real bad sign.
00:54:47
Chris
ah Or a good sign.
00:54:49
swolebro
No, I think it's always a bad sign.
00:54:50
Chris
No, Ravens can be lucky.
00:54:53
swolebro
I think historically seeing ravens where you don't normally see ravens is a bad sign. It's a bad omen. I don't think that's lucky. There's a whole Morrigan thing.
00:55:04
swolebro
I don't know. I don't think this is gonna go well.
00:55:08
Chris
yeah
00:55:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:13
swolebro
Yeah. You're looking up like...
00:55:14
Chris
That's I am looking things up and it's like, yeah.
00:55:14
swolebro
but Raven's never good.
00:55:18
Chris
Yeah. but In some traditions, Ravens represent wisdom, intelligence and connection to the spirit oh connection to the spirit world. Damn it.
00:55:28
swolebro
Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying.
00:55:32
Chris
Yeah. Oh, a sign of yeah misfortune. okay
00:55:39
swolebro
yeah i don't think it's ever good just you know like i think like the morgan you know the the nords it's not always bad it's never good news oh it's a murder of a name
00:55:55
Chris
Oh, I'm sorry. It's a conspiracy of ravens. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.
00:56:05
Chris
yeah
00:56:07
swolebro
What a name. Conspiracy Ravens.
00:56:11
Chris
Yeah, or an unkindness of ravens.
00:56:14
swolebro
Ooh, that's a cool name.
00:56:16
Chris
Yeah, that's yeah, but it's still. Yeah. It's still not good.
00:56:24
swolebro
No, no, no, it's all bad.
00:56:26
Chris
No. Oh, gosh. um Did you ever make snow cream?
00:56:33
swolebro
Now, I grew up near Dupont.
00:56:34
Chris
No.
00:56:37
Chris
Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah.
00:56:40
swolebro
Yeah, I didn't do that stuff.
00:56:43
Chris
Well, I remember my mother always said that you couldn't make snow cream with the first snow of the year because the first snow filters everything out.
00:56:43
swolebro
You know.
00:56:50
swolebro
Right, because if like...
00:56:53
Chris
And then after that, all the snow is clean.
00:56:53
swolebro
Yeah. I also heard that maniac talk as a kid. Don't ever eat the first snow, only eat the second snow.
00:57:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:01
swolebro
Like, um I don't think that's how science works.
00:57:07
Chris
yeah Neil deGrasse Tyson is just like shaking his head at this point.
00:57:11
swolebro
Our parents were really dumb.
00:57:13
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's calling up Bill and I going, do you hear these two?
00:57:17
swolebro
Yeah.
00:57:20
swolebro
Well, we didn't say it there.
00:57:22
Chris
No, yeah, we're just repeating the idiocy that our parents told us.
00:57:23
swolebro
It's just what was. Yeah, it's what we were told.
00:57:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:28
swolebro
And you can't blame us.
00:57:29
Chris
No. Yeah.
00:57:30
swolebro
You blame them. They're the dumb ones.
00:57:33
Chris
I mean, there are some things to live by, like don't eat the yellow snow, but.
00:57:36
swolebro
Well, yeah.
00:57:39
swolebro
I mean, you can.
00:57:40
Chris
Oh, yeah, I mean.
00:57:41
swolebro
Extra nutrients.
00:57:42
Chris
You do you.
00:57:47
swolebro
and We, uh, I think it was a real small kid.
00:57:48
Chris
yeah
00:57:52
swolebro
I don't remember a lot of snow days, but man, you remember the tradition of just like you got up super early and listened to the radio till you found out if when your school was called and it's really easy for you guys because there's four schools.
00:58:00
Chris
yeah Yeah Yep, yep I've shut up. There were more than four other five
00:58:08
swolebro
No, there's not because you have you have one school district and then you have four private schools or whatever, three private schools.
00:58:14
Chris
Yeah, well, at the time we didn't have private schools.
00:58:17
swolebro
Oh, so you had one thing you had to listen to.
00:58:19
Chris
Yeah, but they would always say like Sussex and Somerset and Dorchester and Worcester.
00:58:26
swolebro
I had to listen to like, and then nothing sucked more. than if your school wasn't one of the ones listed. When I went to a private school for a couple of years, um, that school would not close and every other school would close.
00:58:33
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:40
swolebro
Man, that sucked. That was a disappointing day.
00:58:41
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:45
swolebro
Your dumb ass is freezing in the weather, waiting for this stupid bus.
00:58:47
Chris
Uh-huh. Yep. Yeah.
00:58:51
swolebro
Yeah.
00:58:52
Chris
Or if your parents let you watch the TV to see, you know, a little ticker across the bottom, you're watching that like the stock market and you're like, you're looking at, it's like, okay, it's an alphabetical order.
00:58:53
swolebro
Yeah.
00:58:58
swolebro
Mm-hmm.
00:59:01
swolebro
yeahp Yep Yeah, yeah Yeah Boy they are spoiled.
00:59:04
Chris
So I'm coming up, I'm coming up and we'll be right back. And they cut the picture youre like, and then they would start over in the AIDS. so Yeah. Kids. Now they get a robo call the night before.
00:59:20
swolebro
I don't remember them ever Canceling school the night before it was always the morning of decision Yeah
00:59:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:26
Chris
Yeah. I think they did that. So everybody had to still wake up and be miserable.
00:59:34
swolebro
I remember that when I was a real small kid, we had a Catholic school that didn't have air conditioning and we would go to school sometimes and the school would be boiling and they would make us go into the basement.
00:59:46
swolebro
Kids would literally pass out because it was so hot in school and we would just go to school. That was just, it was acceptable losses.
00:59:55
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:59:55
swolebro
ah You know, but we lost four kids today, but they did learn about Jesus.
00:59:58
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:00
swolebro
So, oops.
01:00:00
Chris
Yeah. And the fires of hell.
01:00:03
swolebro
Yeah. Oh my God. I have vivid memories of the hottest time I've ever had. My life was in that school. school You, you, you wanted to go to the art side because it was like a separate building that had
School Discomforts: Heat and Refineries
01:00:18
Chris
Oh, windows.
01:00:18
swolebro
windows.
01:00:19
swolebro
So great. Music class was great at windows.
01:00:21
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:25
swolebro
Now who doesn't put air conditioning in a school?
01:00:30
Chris
Uh, why Comico County didn't for a while.
01:00:32
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:36
Chris
Because, because again, it's one of those pass down things where I was a kid, we didn't have air conditioning. They don't need it.
01:00:42
swolebro
That is, I'm the opposite of that. I'm like things that weren't invented when I was a kid.
01:00:45
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:48
swolebro
I want you guys to have all the cool crap because man, we had all the, we had shit, everything, everything sucked.
01:00:50
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:56
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:57
swolebro
Nothing we had was better.
01:01:01
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:01
swolebro
Can you name one thing that was better one than we were as kids?
01:01:04
Chris
yeah No.
01:01:06
swolebro
No.
01:01:07
Chris
No.
01:01:08
swolebro
TV sucked.
01:01:09
Chris
yeah Yeah.
01:01:11
swolebro
ah Books were fine. They haven't changed much.
01:01:13
Chris
Books haven't changed, but I mean, like you want to listen to music. Oh, here's your Walkman.
01:01:18
swolebro
Or you got to listen to the stupid radio that is going to be music that you don't care about.
01:01:20
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:24
swolebro
Yeah.
01:01:24
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:24
swolebro
Here's your Walkman.
01:01:24
Chris
Yeah. You couldn't just say, Oh, I want to listen to this song. No, that's not how that worked.
01:01:29
swolebro
And you're a poor ass kid. You got to listen to. two tapes you own, you know, uh, and then, and then, you know, we had CDs and he had a CD player that you had to carry around, but you had to carry it around.
01:01:34
Chris
God. Yeah.
01:01:41
swolebro
Like you were serving a pizza dish because ah it would bounce and you'd lose the seat, you know?
01:01:42
Chris
Oh yeah. Yep.
01:01:46
swolebro
Yep.
01:01:46
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:47
swolebro
Um, cars sucked.
01:01:48
Chris
Yeah. Oh my gosh.
01:01:50
swolebro
Um, everything sucked.
01:01:52
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:53
swolebro
Everybody who goes back and says, Oh, everything was better.
01:01:53
Chris
Yeah. He Intel electronics. They were with a tiger electronics or whatever.
01:01:57
swolebro
Oh yeah. Stupid Namco football game.
01:01:59
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:00
swolebro
Get out of here. ah Stupid, stupid frog game.
01:02:04
Chris
I won.
01:02:05
swolebro
Yeah.
01:02:06
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:07
swolebro
Everything sucked when you were kids.
01:02:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Walkie talkies.
01:02:12
swolebro
Ah, walkie talkies are cool.
01:02:14
Chris
Yeah, but they only worked like room to room.
01:02:16
swolebro
Yeah, yeah. But they're still cool. I mean, my wife said, we wait here got the RV. She's like, we should get walkie talkies. I said, we have phones.
01:02:28
swolebro
We don't need walkie talkies. It's just like, well, what if I need to get ahold of you call my phone?
01:02:34
Chris
Call me.
01:02:36
swolebro
What are you talking about? I'm not going to carry a walkie talkie and a phone.
01:02:39
Chris
Lone Shepherd to Bo Peep, Lone Shepherd to Bo Peep.
01:02:41
swolebro
Yeah. yeah
01:02:44
Chris
Well, then you get a cool handle.
01:02:47
swolebro
Yeah. Sure. I guess I had a CB radio one time.
01:02:49
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
01:02:52
swolebro
Also terrible.
01:02:54
Chris
Yeah. Oh, we would play CB tag.
01:02:57
swolebro
Yeah, that sounds like something you guys would do.
01:02:59
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, I had ah what was it? Like a 90, I didn't have a, I didn't ride a horse.
01:03:03
swolebro
Where did you put the CB on the horse?
01:03:08
Chris
I had a 92 Pontiac sunbird that had a CB in it.
01:03:12
swolebro
Oh boy, you were cool and sunbird.
01:03:13
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. All the ladies want nothing to do with me.
01:03:21
swolebro
When I was a kid, we had two colors, brown and yellow.
01:03:25
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:25
swolebro
That was it.
01:03:26
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:27
swolebro
We liked it.
01:03:28
Chris
Yeah. Well, anything about like everybody had, an Afghan that their grandmother made that was that brown and like off white.
01:03:37
swolebro
Brown, orange, and yeah.
01:03:38
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:39
swolebro
yeah by um My mother's station wagon was yellow outside with brown interior.
01:03:40
Chris
Yeah. It's like they didn't make other colors of yarn.
01:03:51
swolebro
So ugly.
01:03:51
Chris
My mom's topaz was brown exterior with yellow interior.
01:03:56
swolebro
Oh, nice.
01:03:57
Chris
Yep.
01:03:57
swolebro
Yeah.
01:03:58
Chris
Yep. It was like driving around in a Hershey kiss.
01:03:58
swolebro
Yeah.
01:04:03
swolebro
What happened for those decades?
01:04:04
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:05
swolebro
a no one had And then I remember my dad, when it was like the eighties got a Buick, I think that had red interior.
01:04:14
Chris
Yeah. Woo.
01:04:16
swolebro
Ooh, it was fancy.
01:04:18
Chris
Yeah. And that interior that would melt your skin.
01:04:21
swolebro
Yeah. Well, yeah. My mom's ever had a, had vinyl and hot silver metal seat belts that if you sat on those seat belts, you had a mark for the rest of your life.
01:04:29
Chris
Yep. yeah Oh, yeah. Yeah.
01:04:32
swolebro
Yeah.
01:04:32
Chris
And then once it got a little bit old and that vinyl would crack.
01:04:37
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:37
Chris
So then you're slicing your leg open. Yeah, it was delightful.
01:04:39
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:40
Chris
Yeah. Well, I think we did. They didn't use the colors because they used all the colors in the clothing.
01:04:47
swolebro
Yeah. That's fair.
01:04:48
Chris
There was no color left to use in vehicles because they used it all in the. Yeah.
01:04:52
swolebro
Yeah, that's very fair.
01:04:55
Chris
Yeah, which. Yeah, you talking about shorts earlier, have you seen some of the shorts that people wear nowadays with like a two inch inseam?
01:05:05
swolebro
Like the old school, like gym shorts, like, like, like your gym teacher that had shorts that were basically his balls.
01:05:09
Chris
Yes. That's what these kids are wearing nowadays.
01:05:15
Chris
Yes. Yeah.
01:05:16
swolebro
Yeah.
01:05:16
Chris
That's what these kids are wearing.
01:05:19
swolebro
kids these days hey they are really they're really screwing it up like they're looking back at the 80s going those guys were cool we're looking like the 80s going that stuff sucked they're they're bringing it back it's like mullets are back and freaking it's terrible it all sucked people oh god everything was windbreaker material everybody sounded like
01:05:20
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:31
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:39
Chris
Yep, next thing you know, windbreakers will be back. Oh my gosh, yeah. ah hello them man Yeah, it was an upgrade from the corduroy pants we wore before that.
01:05:54
swolebro
Yeah, oh God.
01:05:55
Chris
yeah but that ah Yeah, nothing breathes like corduroy.
01:05:59
swolebro
Corduroy pants.
01:06:03
swolebro
Yeah, nothing makes you look cooler than brown corduroy pants.
01:06:08
Chris
Those, that yeah, they were always brown.
01:06:09
swolebro
Oh yeah, everything was brown.
01:06:10
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were a very monotone brown, yellow.
01:06:18
swolebro
I feel like until like 1993,
01:06:21
Chris
Yeah.
01:06:22
swolebro
I lived my entire life in shades of brown or are yellow.
01:06:25
Chris
Yeah. It was like being in sepia.
01:06:27
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:29
Chris
Yeah. Would you put a filter on these pictures? No, that's how we lived.
01:06:32
swolebro
This is how we lived.
01:06:33
Chris
This was the brown age.
01:06:35
swolebro
And we wore sweaters. Oh, like big gross sweaters all the time.
01:06:37
Chris
Oh, yeah.
01:06:40
swolebro
Oh my God.
01:06:40
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:43
swolebro
Sucked. Everything sucked. Everything sucked.
01:06:46
Chris
Yeah.
01:06:46
swolebro
You know, maybe we're the worst generation.
01:06:50
Chris
No.
01:06:53
swolebro
It wasn't our fault, we didn't have any control over it.
01:06:55
Chris
Right. We already proved that our parents were idiots. They believe that snow filtered the air.
01:07:00
swolebro
yeah like And everybody's parents believed that.
01:07:04
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:05
swolebro
Everyone's parents said the same thing.
01:07:07
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:07
swolebro
Well, you can't, you know, it knocks all the pollution out because it gets cold and it grabs all the pollution, it knocks to the ground.
01:07:15
Chris
a God, we were dumb.
01:07:17
swolebro
God, yeah, it it was was real bad.
01:07:20
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:22
swolebro
Yeah, we never did s snow cream because of that reason, though.
01:07:25
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:26
swolebro
Yeah. Growing up in northern Delaware, you knew not to, you know, drink anything that was natural.
01:07:30
Chris
Yeah. That's, I can, I can appreciate that.
01:07:37
Chris
Has this been filtered four times? No, not during it.
01:07:40
swolebro
Yeah, no, no. Did this come out of the state of Delaware? Not eating it. Not happening. Yeah.
01:07:47
Chris
ah
01:07:50
swolebro
We all grew up under refineries.
01:07:52
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:53
swolebro
With our brown houses and our yellow shutters.
01:07:55
Chris
Yeah.
01:08:00
Chris
Brown furniture.
01:08:01
swolebro
Brown furniture.
01:08:02
Chris
Floral pattern sofa with brown, orange and.
01:08:05
swolebro
Yep.
01:08:06
Chris
So.
01:08:07
swolebro
Everybody had the brown and yellow flowery sofa.
01:08:09
Chris
Yep.
01:08:12
swolebro
um My grandmother had.
01:08:12
Chris
Yeah.
01:08:15
swolebro
She thought she was so special because in like 88 she bought pink. pink everything she made a pink i'm sorry rose colored room it's called the rose room in our house you weren't you weren't allowed to sit on anything it had pink carpet with rose colored um sofas and chairs with
01:08:29
Chris
Oh.
80s Fashion and Home Decor
01:08:39
Chris
Hmm. Oh, yeah, you got to protect it.
01:08:39
swolebro
with the plastic over them pink pink painted walls with rose pattern uh
01:08:50
swolebro
wallpaper, I don't know what you call it. It was like, it was just like that small runner of wallpaper on the top.
01:08:54
Chris
Mm hmm.
01:08:55
swolebro
You know, um so ugly, but and but not as welcoming.
01:08:55
Chris
Mm hmm. It's like you walked into a vagina.
01:09:04
Chris
Yeah, because the plastic.
01:09:05
swolebro
It was so ugly, but she was so proud of that room.
01:09:09
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
01:09:11
swolebro
Like she was, and you know, to her credit, it wasn't Brown. So she probably was like, this is amazing.
01:09:17
Chris
That's true.
01:09:18
swolebro
Yeah.
01:09:21
swolebro
But boy, oh boy, everything was brown and yellow.
01:09:21
Chris
Yeah. Hmm. Yeah.
01:09:26
swolebro
Our snow suits were like purple and green.
01:09:29
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
01:09:30
swolebro
I had a shirt. I had a jacket. ah I had a ski jacket.
01:09:32
Chris
With weird stripes on two stripes, that was it.
01:09:35
swolebro
I had a ski jacket, even though I never went skiing my entire life, but that's what my mother thought was appropriate for a child to have was a ski jacket.
01:09:43
Chris
Yeah.
01:09:43
swolebro
And it had, it was purple, like Prince purple.
01:09:48
Chris
Nice.
01:09:50
swolebro
with neon green highlights and weird squiggles the the green was in weird squiggles all over the jacket it was the ugliest thing i've ever seen in my entire life it
01:09:55
Chris
Yeah.
01:10:00
Chris
what But in the eighties, it was awesome.
01:10:05
swolebro
was as cool as you can get couldn't be cooler than having a ski jacket because for some reason in the 80s we loved skiing yeah
01:10:13
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My family went skiing all the time.
01:10:19
swolebro
yeah
01:10:20
Chris
We would go up to the Poconos and then we would go every year for a week in either New Hampshire or Vermont.
01:10:25
swolebro
Yeah Huh Did not know this about you.
01:10:26
Chris
Yeah. Yep.
01:10:29
swolebro
I Never went skiing until I was in college But I just remember like always thinking skiing was the coolest thing ever because it was on all the movies Yeah, I mean we had a whole series of ski patrol movies for God's sakes Because nothing was cooler than being in the ski patrol.
01:10:29
Chris
Oh, yeah.
01:10:38
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yep. Yeah.
01:10:46
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:10:47
swolebro
I
01:10:48
Chris
Yeah, there's wraparound Oakley's.
01:10:50
swolebro
Oh, yeah.
01:10:53
swolebro
With the headbands.
01:10:54
Chris
Yes.
01:10:55
swolebro
Because headbands are cool.
01:10:57
Chris
Oh, yeah, you don't want to wear a knit cap that would cover your hair.
01:10:59
swolebro
No, no, you'd be a loser then.
01:11:01
Chris
yeah You know, show off that mullet.
01:11:04
swolebro
Wow, you got the mullet.
01:11:05
Chris
Yeah.
01:11:05
swolebro
You can't contain that kind of power.
01:11:07
Chris
Now.
01:11:08
swolebro
Yeah.
01:11:09
Chris
Now.
01:11:12
swolebro
It was really bad. It was a bleak time.
01:11:14
Chris
It was.
01:11:16
swolebro
We should get like shirts and say, I survived the eighties and I don't want to go back.
01:11:18
Chris
Should. Yes.
01:11:21
swolebro
But okay. Music good.
01:11:24
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah. Definitely better than today's music.
01:11:26
swolebro
You know, yeah, the music was good.
01:11:28
Chris
Yeah.
01:11:29
swolebro
I was talking to my brother at the time of the other day, the best time for you for music was like early seventies, like that Vietnam era music.
01:11:38
Chris
Yeah.
01:11:39
swolebro
They really nailed the times.
01:11:40
Chris
Oh yeah. Yeah.
01:11:42
swolebro
Yeah. Eighties music. It's good runner up. 90s was all right.
01:11:47
Chris
Yeah.
01:11:47
swolebro
You know, had some good, some good songs.
01:11:48
Chris
Yeah, it's moments.
01:11:50
swolebro
Yeah. 90s is when we woke up to color. Maybe it's because we didn't have color TV.
01:11:57
Chris
Maybe.
01:11:57
swolebro
So we didn't know any better.
01:11:58
Chris
Yeah.
01:11:59
swolebro
Oh, I think we're onto something here.
01:12:01
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:03
swolebro
Everything wasn't in black and white. Everything was in brown and yellow.
01:12:06
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:09
swolebro
Yeah.
01:12:12
swolebro
I remember my dad had a brown suit. My dad got married in a brown tuxedo.
01:12:15
Chris
Really?
01:12:17
swolebro
Yeah.
01:12:17
Chris
Huh.
01:12:18
swolebro
Yeah. and I think my mother's bridesmaids wore yellow.
01:12:22
Chris
Oh, I thought you were going to say her and her dress was yellow, but the bridesmaids.
01:12:25
swolebro
No, two wore white, but bridesmaids wore yellow.
01:12:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know why brown and yellow were so popular.
01:12:32
swolebro
tell My dad's tuxedo, if I remember the picture correctly, was brown with brown highlights. It was like a light brown and the trim, you know how like that that had that line, the trims, the lapel and everything?
01:12:43
Chris
Oh, yeah, you got to have the line.
01:12:45
swolebro
Yeah, that was darker brown.
01:12:50
swolebro
Yeah.
01:12:50
Chris
Hmm.
01:12:52
swolebro
What was wrong with those people?
01:12:54
Chris
Yeah. I don't know.
01:12:55
swolebro
Do you think Brown was just super cheap?
01:12:59
Chris
Probably.
01:13:01
swolebro
Yeah. Man. People.
01:13:06
Chris
Yeah.
01:13:06
swolebro
What were you doing?
01:13:07
Chris
Yeah.
01:13:08
swolebro
I haven't thought about my dad's tuxedo in 20 years. Stupid Brown on Brown. I always thought, even as a kid, I thought that looked dumb. Because they had the coolest person in tuxedos.
01:13:21
swolebro
they're in Like they had a role model for tuxedos, right? The coolest person in tuxedos was James
The Disco Era and Color Critiques
01:13:27
swolebro
freaking Bond. He never wore a brown tuxedo.
01:13:28
Chris
Right. Yeah.
01:13:30
swolebro
That would have been a really bad movie if Bond shows up in a brown tuxedo.
01:13:32
Chris
Hmm. Oh my gosh. He shows up in that Dr. No just laughs at him.
01:13:37
swolebro
Yeah, it would not have been cool.
01:13:41
Chris
Yeah. I'm here to stop you. No, you're not. Go away.
01:13:45
swolebro
And they brought disco in, and disco was terrible.
01:13:48
Chris
Yeah.
01:13:48
swolebro
Yeah, they really, they really screwed us up.
01:13:51
Chris
Yeah.
01:13:52
swolebro
Yeah.
01:13:52
Chris
Thanks parents.
01:13:53
swolebro
Thanks, parents. Yeah. You should go to your kids. You're lucky I allow you to have colors.
01:13:59
Chris
I'm going to, when we get done recording this, I'm going upstairs and I'm yelling at them.
01:14:03
swolebro
Yeah. You don't know how lucky you have it.
01:14:05
Chris
Yep.
01:14:05
swolebro
You have more than one color and your cars aren't ugly.
01:14:07
Chris
Yep. You keep it up and all you'll have is brown and yellow.
01:14:11
swolebro
That's right. I'm taking all your stuff, throw it away and get your brown clothes. so
01:14:20
swolebro
Wait, wait till your youngest goes to the prom next year. Well, here's your brown dress.
01:14:25
Chris
With your yellow corsage.
01:14:27
swolebro
Hello, of course, because they're the natural pairing brown and yellow goes with everything. Even, even your dishes were brown and yellow. My grandmother had false craft brown and yellow dishes.
01:14:36
Chris
Oh, yeah.
01:14:39
swolebro
Oh my God.
01:14:39
Chris
Yep. Yeah.
01:14:40
swolebro
What happened? hi Yeah, everything was brown and yellow.
01:14:41
Chris
The Rubbermaid. That giant yellow pitcher.
01:14:45
swolebro
Yeah. The salad bowl was yellow.
01:14:48
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:49
swolebro
yeah
01:14:50
Chris
That's how you could tell salad win in it. It was yellow.
01:14:52
swolebro
Mm-hmm.
01:14:55
swolebro
Yeah.
01:14:57
Chris
ah
01:14:58
swolebro
Brown and yellow.
01:15:00
Chris
Yeah. Folks, be glad you don't have to deal with brown and yellow.
01:15:03
swolebro
Yeah. Yeah. I think the only ones who didn't experience this were the hardcore Italians. Like if you went to little Italy when I was a kid, like you walked in and first off, there was carpet in the bathroom.
01:15:15
Chris
yeah like Yeah.
01:15:15
swolebro
It was red. And then you would go into the kitchen and the kitchen was carpeted green.
01:15:22
Chris
Sticking up for the flag.
01:15:25
swolebro
You know, I never put the connection together until this moment.
01:15:27
Chris
Yeah. And the hallway between was white.
01:15:34
swolebro
Yep. There you go.
01:15:38
Chris
Yeah.
01:15:40
swolebro
Oh, we had a brown toilet.
01:15:40
Chris
ah Yeah. How do you clean that?
01:15:45
swolebro
You know, just burn it.
01:15:46
Chris
Yeah. Just burning.
01:15:50
swolebro
Just burn it.
01:15:55
Chris
Well, folks, I hope you've ah been enjoying your snow time and being safe out there and enjoying colors.
01:16:02
swolebro
Enjoy your college. Think about colors. The next time you're you're down and you're like, oh, man, everything sucks. No, it doesn't because you're not in the 80s.
01:16:09
Chris
Yep. Yeah.
01:16:11
swolebro
Yeah.
01:16:12
Chris
Yeah.
01:16:12
swolebro
Yeah.
01:16:14
Chris
But yeah. ah Like, subscribe, share, share us with your friends, yell out the window, Mythic Giraffe, leave us a review, find us on Twitter.
01:16:25
swolebro
Don't hit any trees with a sled.
01:16:27
Chris
Yeah, definitely don't do that. And yeah, just enjoy the color.
01:16:31
swolebro
Yeah.