Snow Days

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1:52Hehehehez. It's time for Snow Days. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

2:27remember how it happened somehow I won the last episode which was clearly deserved and I was hilarious so congratulations to me competing today on the episode will be the other two guys who are always here the only other two guys who are always here it's Mark and Wayne hey and I'm bald ha I got a haircut oh yeah see there's like a little curl right here where you're hiding the receding hairline. Interesting, interesting. No. No, please. No, hiding it now. I got a haircut for those listeners.

3:07Sound shorter. Yeah, there it is. Hey, come on, man. No, just your hair. You got a haircut. Come on. You're not rubbing your legs on the mic, are you? I mean, I could, I could, but they feel real long. They sound really long. You sound so much taller than you actually are. This is a sex phone line hey can you rub the phone on your legs i could go down that rabbit hole but i feel like we'd be canceled so i'm not gonna yeah that would get us that would get us canceled oh now my hair is all messed up guys come on it looks great well mark fixes his hair let me remind you of the rules it's there's i give points it's arbitrary let's not pretend i know we have rules we have a constitution it's arbitrary okay let's not uh but also there's some very strict rules and whoever gets the most points wins, unless that's not what happens.

3:54And Mark already has one for sounding so, so short. Well. It's your hair. Mark's hair. Fine, Mark's hair gets the point. Not Mark. Mark's not short. Just Mark's hair. You guys are so big. There we go. That's the one. It's all angles and mirrors, man. That's how I make my boobs look so big. I've been hiding an elephant this whole time. Really small, small elephant. Editors, don't help them. Unless you have an elephant filter on your camera. Do they make those? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's called a VTuber. You can, like, raise your hand and your thing. Never mind, it doesn't work. I lied to you. What are you saying, Wade?

4:30There's, like, two jokes going on. I can't follow the funny. I look like an idiot. Never mind.

4:41Maybe I think of Zoom instead of this. I don't think I've ever seen Wade bail on a joke before. It wouldn't even make me a joke. There's a feature I thought that was here. It's not here. Clearly. How are you guys? Let's do small talk. Oh, man. Final stretch. Uh, yes, I guess. I mean, I've got nothing left to do. Really? I was sitting around last night and I was just, Amy, Amy was, Amy was laughing at me. Okay. Let's be honest. Amy was laughing, but I was sitting around and being like, I am bored. You'd think that I'd be like, yay, I'm bored. I haven't been bored in a while, but I'm bored. I don't want to look at my small rectangle anymore.

5:20I want to get a tablet. Yeah, a big rectangle. That's what's up. No, a tablet's heavy. I don't want to hold it. Get a stand. A stand? They have stands for tablets, yeah. Be hands-free. Could be like a big, long arm. Just holds it right in front of you. Oh, that'd be cool. Okay, all right, I can do that. What about one of those? Have they made smart glasses yet that can project images into our eyeballs? Probably. They have flashlights that can do that. You just put like a little cover over the light and turn it on and... What? You know, like the projectors we had in school, they'd put the thing on and shine a light.

5:57It would like project it. You just do that with a flashlight and shine it right into your retina. Sure. Sure. I know, but I'm just, I'm bored, guys. I'm bored. I don't have anything to conquer. I've achieved all my goals. My dreams are good. What else can I do? Die, I guess. Oh, I've got something that'll suck you in. Die or suck. Welcome to die or suck. That's right. Those are your two options. I mean, it depends on what we're sucking here, but you know, it's, it's compelling, I guess. All right, Wade, suck him in. I was out. I was out for a long time, but my friend Patrick sucked me back in.

6:35New gotcha game came out and I hadn't been in the gotcha games for a while. I'd been out for quite a while. It was nice, but this one, I feel, I don't know if you guys played the Genshin type games. I never got super into Genshin. And I was like, it's okay, but whatever. I never played the original Arknights, but there's an Arknights Endfield that just came out. You know, like a 3D run around, explore. And the world's fun. I enjoy the story. I've enjoyed the world, the characters. Like I've enjoyed it so far. It doesn't have the stupid little annoying sidekick who speaks for you, which I definitely appreciate.

7:04I don't leave one of those little fucking rabbits with a hat that's like, Hey buddy, let me tell you all the things you need to know. I'm your protagonist. Thankfully, none of that. The character talks. It's crazy. It's a wild concept. I love it. but they mixed in factory building into the game like a satisfactory factorio factory building it's a little bit light especially early on like you know it's not super complex but like there's some decent recipes and i think that they're going to add more but right now i've got three factories going uh getting me the stuff i need to craft gear and make some serious dough so and there's um i don't know what the word for this is like a trading system where you can go and like buy goods at a low price and then on your friends list you can see who has like the best price to resell so there's like a resell trading market to make money so i've been into like buying low saving goods and selling high like i've gotten into it i'm not gonna lie what was the name of it called arc knights end field you before we hit record you mentioned this and i was like nah whatever arc field i went in deep like the characters and the gotcha system the The combat and stuff's fine.

8:12It's fine. How much money are they trying? Like, do you have to pay to win? I mean, maybe to get, like, the best characters. But for all the other stuff, the stuff I really enjoy, no. You can't actually spend money to get, like, faster progression in the base building or the income earning and stuff like that. Like, it seems most of the money systems are just spent around getting characters. And, of course, they have, like, the weapons, so character and their weapon. They've got other packs that'll give you some boosts, but you can grind everything out. The monetization system really, to me, wasn't that bad.

8:44You know what's funny about this is I'm on the Arknights page, and I was looking at the art on the top. I was like, why does this look familiar? And then I looked over at my other tab with my news articles, and there's a big banner ad of that game right on the front page here. I'm like, I knew I saw it somewhere. I don't know if it heard you or something, but it's nice. I had a thought the other day about something. I didn't even say anything out loud. I think it was a restaurant. And then I was scrolling and immediately it was like kind of obscure. And it just popped up and was like an ad for that too.

9:14And I was like, it doesn't even have to listen to me talk. It knows my thoughts. Simulations get real brazen with that. I think it's just a synchronicity, but it felt like mind reading. It's for the simulations forgetting what it should and should not know. I can't tell the difference between thinking things and saying them out loud. It's just going to start to break down from here. We're in the end game, boys. The end game of what? Do we die afterwards? Well the real question is which of us are parts of the simulation Which of us are real Does it have to only be one of us or could all of us potentially be We can debate that to begin with Because I'm still not decided on if this simulation has one person Or if it's like the Matrix where it's like all the people are collectively in it But also there's you know NPC I don't know I'd like to think I'm Neo but I'm much more likely to be the bald guy in the first Matrix Who just wants to go back in to eat steak Oh, you're not the bald guy.

10:07He's bad. He's not bad. His motivations of wanting a steak. I get it. He's kind of bad. He gives them up. He betrays. I learned a funny thing about that scene very recently that I'm surprised I'd ever heard before. You know, apparently that guy does not like steak and that whole scene. He's supposed to be enjoying a very rare steak. And apparently he fucking hated it. and so they're shooting the scene he's like i know the steak is juicy and delicious so i'm gonna eat it now happily okay all right maybe he's not so good because i don't know many people even vegans and vegetarians coming out of like being a vegan or vegetarian eat steak and they cry from the the experience of it but i guess there are probably some people that don't like steak okay well if we live in the matrix then are all three of us real or is Mark an agent or what do we think?

11:02Why would I be an agent? Why do I got to be an agent? I don't know. You just want to see if your body can take it. That's not anything that the agent said or did. Mr. Anderson, I am not a masochist. I remember that. Tweak my nipples, but not in a weird way. What if you didn't have a mouth? Hmm. What if I didn't have a mouth? Now do me, Mr. Anderson. Now do me. It's the smell.

11:35he's actually uh neo actually was not that good of a fighter agent smith was just like i want him to hit me i want him to hit me i'm gonna slow it down and let him get some shots in i want to see if my body can take it he programmed himself testicles just so he could get kicked in the crotch you know what it feels like mr anderson mr anderson i want to rewatch it knowing that he's a masochist and just like seeing how different the vibes are well i'm glad we decided that uh anyway uh is that all the small talk you guys i mean the only other thing is by the time this comes out it will be the official release date of iron lung so that's pretty cool hey that's true i'm very excited everyone gets to go see it and see what a fraud i am movie theaters everywhere can finally be like it's already out stop emailing us i can't believe they just let me put my my let's play of iron lung in theaters like that that would be so funny but just like one theater one theater in a random place just as a let's play and that's it that would be very funny you just re-edit the whole let's play into like a two-hour video and then at the end there's like a link that people can take a picture of that takes them to unlisted youtube video that's actually your movie yes i keep my movies

12:52the best security in the world you know you know what i want to see is a uh in it what were those let's plays you did where you're like on the treadmill or in the ice bath oh yeah the impossible impossible let's play let's play iron lung in the motion capture set or not motion the full motions set of the thing and whatever happens in the game the thing is like that's that still exists right they're not using that for anything else i mean i don't know they probably trashed after they were done with us probably like an expensive piece of machinery or something i just got got because the uk film rating came out and i was like oh it's been someone just says it updated it's like strong language bloody images threat youtubers mild peril blood claustrophobia loud noises more blood pogonophobia fish so much fucking blood jump scares nudity and more blood wait fish and youtubers have to be acknowledged in the ratings yep that's it they're so silly over there warning content creators are in this film it's the middle of iron lung like and subscribe pops up but think of the engagement i would get i would get so many subs in the middle of the movie like a Linus Tech Tips segue like oh no the segue to our sponsor Ridge Wallets I would make it I mean they do product placement in movie of it I bet I could swing I could sell out real hard Mr.

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16:08Wade and I live in Ohio, and a few days ago, before it all started, Wade and I were probably watching the news, were watching the weather reports on social media or whatever, And everyone was like, you're going to get 20 inches of snow. It's going to be the blizzard. And we were like, okay, so we're going to get like an inch of snow. That's fine. And they're like, no, no, no, it's going to snow Saturday. And then Saturday came and it didn't snow at all. And we were like, I knew it. And then we woke up on Sunday with actually a foot or more of snow in our yards. And it made me think, I want to talk about snow days.

16:40We could talk about snow day traditions. If you have any things that you really like to do or your favorite snow days. I have a couple things. I think I have a couple stories. They're not very long stories, but I haven't told on this podcast, which is hard to find, of things that happened to me or I did on snow days that are like legendary memories for me. We all grew up where there's snow. So even though Mark lives in a tropical paradise where it's 75 degrees every single day of the year. You know snow? You remember snow? Yes. Yeah, I know snow. I know snow. But I can kick it off so you guys can have a second to think about your favorite snow days.

17:16I think my most legendary snow day of all time is growing up. The house that we lived in was we were across the street from like a cul-de-sac. So we were there was a street across from our driveway. Right. And so when it snows, what that means is the plows would take all the snow from that road in front of us and push it into our front yard, which was generally fine. Sometimes it would block our driveway. But there was one time where it snowed a lot, like comparable to what we got this past week where it was like I think we got a foot to a foot and a half of snow it was a lot of snow and they played such a huge pile of snow in our front yard that my friends and I dug it out into a snow fort I did that too like four or five of us could fit inside the snow fort and it was awesome thinking back on it it's a little bit of a miracle we didn't have any cave-ins and nobody got had to get rescued or whatever but like i still remember what it felt like sitting inside that thing and because when you do uh i don't know if it's the same for any glue but when you make like a snow fort when you're inside of it especially multiple people you start to sort of warm it up and you sort of melt the inside walls but then they freeze over again and it turns it into like an icy crust it's a whole i remember how it felt what it looked like what it tasted like What it tasted like Yeah don't mind that I remember after a little while It took us hours and hours to make it And then it was finished and we climbed inside And we were like yeah And then like 45 minutes later we were like Alright this is kind of just like a cold room isn't it Who wants to go inside But like that thing was Fucking awesome That was the best snow day But that's my I have a couple other ones That's my most legendary snow day of all time I'm jumping in do it all right so i don't know if this is a real memory or not because it's always good back when i think back on snow days right this cannot be true like there's no way this is true me and my brother i remember us being huddled around a radio listening for broadcast but there's no way that's true it's but i picture like this big like grandfather clock looking radio with the long slats and the glowing top and it's orange and you're Milford schools yeah sure sure and it's like you know the Milford Christian school damn it god damn it and I'm like that can't be reality that can't be it must have been a tv but in my head it's radio that was definitely when you and your brother were listening to the fireside chats one of those like at your parent growing up in your house or at a at a like a your grandparents house or friends house or anything is it possible but that doesn't mean it can't be real there's a good shot that that did not actually happen I'm telling you man I'm telling you maybe I'm saying maybe you gotta ask your brother see if he has the same memory he would say yes just to make me seem but so you were like huddled around trying to listen for school closings yeah all of us all 10 of us sure sure and the orphanage you grew up in sure sure Oh god am I am I being implanted with someone else's memories right now You've been pretending to be someone else for so long you don't remember who you are Wade I think he's a replicant I think we might need to do the uh Test of your camera that zooms in on his eyeball Did they ever explain what that test yeah you know what just test me Hit me brought to you by apple That was fun though I and honestly we never had as many snow days as I Wanted us to because I hated walking to school in the snow and I had to walk to school for elementary school but sitting and staring at the news and not even registering what the news people were saying and just being like uh-huh uh-huh oh it'll come around again maybe the next time there were always the same schools that you never heard of except for whenever you were watching the school day tracker and it's like oh yeah where where were those schools oh like jack and dell is closed again i don't even know what that is why are they closed they're always closed they ever have school dave's daycare that he keeps in his basement closed dave's upstairs daycare two hour delay there were also two different versions of me to start the snow day there was the you wake up well sometimes you know the night before if you have the day off and it's like oh turn that alarm off sometimes i'd leave the alarm on just to wake up and be like it's a snow day and turn it off go back to sleep what's wrong with you i was a psychopath back then i I don't know.

21:54Yeah, freak. What are you, a freak? Even I was used to getting up early. So there were times where you'd wake up, like, go to see if you have a snow day. And then, like, you'd see if you have a snow day. And later, I was like, I'm going back to bed. When I was a little bit younger, it was like, I could go back to bed. But I don't want to waste my snow day. I've got all day for this snow day. But those two-hour delay days were so weird. Because everything was compressed. Like, I forgot about the delays. It was just, like, every class. But faster. instead of 50 minutes of literature you have 20 minutes go that must i never thought about it ever until just now that must have been such a pain in the ass for the teachers oh god teachers have they have a lesson plan they're like all right i got a 55 minute period or whatever every single minute is like okay and then we'll get this all in and raise the bell rings i'll be like and thanks have a good one bye and then it's like all right two hour delay you have 38 minutes what are you teaching them some of this probably wasn't important was it good question yeah i don't know that that would have been awful though for ah they deserve it we're distractible hate teachers take that nerds that's us mark bob and me tyler we hate teachers hey tyler has it been you the whole time love sports he does say that a lot we we took tyler out for his birthday um and we went and this is not related why am i jumping off on a tangent was it a snowy day no it wasn't a snowy day i'll allow it tangent away okay all right so he he wanted duck you know tyler he has his whimsies he wanted he loves ducks he heard that this place had ducks so we go to this place it has duck right i've never heard him talk about duck before in my life okay this is new tyler so it was fine it was good i i liked it it was it was smoked i i don't i haven't had duck i don't know if i've ever had duck actually um but it was it tasted like a ham bird it was like a bird made of ham what kind of was this like a french restaurant what kind of no korean it was a korean plate and it was a smoked duck and it was just a huge plate of it and it's like already cooked but then you stick it in the fryer after you've been cooking all the other meats because cream barbecue kind of place it was great it was fantastic and we kept being like as soon as the duck came out we were like full but then we just kept pounding it um and then john's car got locked in the garage next door and um we couldn't get it out we go back to the restaurant owner he's like oh big problem big problem oh look through his phone for like five minutes there's like a thousand numbers and no names i'm looking at his phone too it's just numbers in his context but no names he's like uh yeah calls oh he's in arcadia he's like an hour and a half away and we go we'll wait okay i guess we could go to a coffee shop or somebody he's like nine nine percent people no wait okay i guess we'll come back tomorrow he's like oh good anyway so that car john's car got locked there anyway that's my story and then we bought him furniture john or tyler tyler you know gyler gyler we got gyler is that their couple name well it's because all right maybe we're being a little mean but we were in we're in tyler's place and it he hasn't gotten anything new since he moved in he's gonna be mean but i'm gonna say it anyway we said it looked like if he brought a girl over it would look like a serial killer lives there because it's bare walls pure white super modern there's like a fold-out plastic table in the front this makes it sound bad grates on the floor plastic down everywhere chainsaw on the table that's what we were there was plastic knives and instruments arranged just so on the counter yeah so we got we take them to home goods and i we'd start grabbing random shit off the shelves like we filled two shopping carts plus holding like a lamp and like paintings were like we're gonna fill this place up it was like we grabbed a handful of knickknacks and chucked it in there it didn't look any different like it was nothing we had everything was set up we're like all right the coasters i got these jars of decorative olives and artichokes and shit you don't have to eat them you just put them in your kitchen they'll think you're fancy and and it looked like nothing happened in there to shop i loaded my truck up with stuff anyway another story doesn't matter hey by the time he turns 40 you're gonna have a perfect wall we got ice cream afterwards that's how snow relates did you go to that cool that cool place what's it called honeycomb west went to baskin robbins okay so not the cool place yeah we went to um bob's right there was a place we went it was good yeah i remember that place yeah i do it's it's the one ethan can go to because they don't use nuts or something it was near one of the theaters we went to to watch improv right yes man i can't remember what it was called but man you hyped it up and it lived up to it thanks mark man good good i brought i did that okay huddled around radio got it wait snow day stuff mine's similar to yours bob but i didn't have like a roof we we built a big walled fort but we built it to play army we had like toy guns and stuff and we used to play army we didn't have any like snow colored fatigues but we did have like normal army fatigue so we would dress up in our normal army fatigues running around this snow fort that we built and our version of army was basically like you see someone you're like got you they're like no i got you for and then you'd argue then one of you would win and you would capture the person and like take them back to your base then people had to come rescue them i don't know or understand how the rules worked but as kids they made total sense but we build up these huge walls then we had like you had to go through the first walls and around the other one they weren't that tall you could probably hop over them but we honored them as if they were fortress 30 foot high walls was this in someone's like yard or was this in like a wooded area my grandparents yard is my grandparents yard because we used to play the we lived two houses away from our neighbor that we played with and the neighbor in the middle didn't care so it was like us neighbor not involved friend neighbor not involved they had like a fenced in backyard we didn't go in that but the rest of their yard we were allowed to play in So that was our full battleground where our three yards combined minus the neighbor's backyard.

28:13And you had army fatigues. Is that what you said? Like, yeah, yeah. There was like an army clothing store that we would go to as kids and we got like kid size. Yeah. For all those army kids, they have green and brown and light brown and slightly darker shade of green army colored clothing. Yeah. And we ran around playing army. We were like 10. Sounds fun. One of our friends was super into it. Like we all were into it, but like he would like in the fall bury himself in leaves, have nothing but like a little sight line for his scope so he could see out or he would hide under people's vehicles or like we never knew where he was.

28:50Was anyone else playing with him when he was doing this or he just do this just to set it up and then see if he could catch you? We were all playing, but we had a theory that he was always out there hiding somewhere ready for the next game. That's comforting. He's probably still there now under someone's truck waiting for us to emerge. Yeah, that's the one I remember was that and some sledding trips. Yeah, that was one of the other memories I have is I did not live near a good sledding hill. And we always ended up going somewhere either really disappointing to go sled or really, really dangerous.

29:24And there was no in between. And one year in particular, we decided it was like an icy snow. So there was a lot of hard pack ice or whatever. And we had a friend who had a really long, really steep driveway. So instead of going to find snow on top of grass or something, we're like, let's just do the driveway. Be fine. He lives at the end of a street like there won't be traffic. And I tried to do the old hold your sled up on your chest, run, jump, go get maximum speed. And it was icy. And the sled stuck to the ice and pulled my chest backwards and my face down. and I slid down his whole driveway, I think exclusively on my nose.

30:05And so then for the next few months, my whole nose was just absolutely fucked. Like it was my entire nose was just scabs. And like my face had like some scab scratches at scab, but like my nose, he lived a couple blocks away. So we did this and I stood up and I was like bleeding profusely. And I was just like, I got, I got, I guess I got to go home. And I like walked home face dripping blood and walked in the house to my dad. It was like, help. And he was like, what the fuck? I thought you were going sledding. Oh my God. So yeah, that was my sled. Did you guys live near like a good hill? Mandy always talks about growing up.

30:45They lived here a hell of a sledding hill. That was like awesome. I had a hill and I'm pretty sure we were allowed to sled on it. But it was one of those hills where it was someone's house was up there and technically it's on their property. We would like go there in the summer and we'd roll our red wagon, you know, down with the sides off for speed. And then, you know, I don't think we owned a sled. So we brought the wagon in the snow and we would go in the wagon, which is functionally the same. And I know that there's no difference, but it felt like sledding, right? So it was different. And I never knew if we actually had permission or not.

31:28No one ever came out and yelled at us. But I have distinct memories, much like the radio, that people did yell at us. But I don't think anyone actually yelled at us. Because there were also other kids occasionally, especially during the winter that were on this hill. But I had this sneaking suspicion that we were not supposed to be there the entire time. So I never really had fun. So I'd always tell my brother, we need to leave. We got to go. We're going to get in trouble. We're gonna die and then uh I was pretty much I was I was the worst Probably I was the worst I only ever got yelled at by neighbors whenever I tried to build a tree House in their yard wait Huh that's the only time I ever got yelled at By neighbors you built a tree house In someone else's yard tree house is A strong word we brought a bunch of like Sticks and limbs into the like from our Family's garbage piles And we were like we could build our own Tree fort in these pine trees Why wouldn't that be okay let's do it so we just started dragging a bunch of sticks and limbs and like putting them in wagons like you were talking about like other shit and we literally just drove like in the middle of the street so we lived on the opposite end of the street we went to the middle of the street this neighborhood a line of pine trees because they wanted like their privacy we were like nah this is for our tree fort and so they looked outside just saw a bunch of kids bringing shit into their yard and like climbing in their pine trees and uh they weren't very happy about it I mean I don't see why maybe they're a bunch of assholes sounds like their problem to answer the sledding question though I did not have a good hill.

32:51What was that park? Mark the park that we played football. It wasn't Miami Meadows and Milford. It was the other one Huh, I don't know the names of parks. You think I know the names of parks what parks? I don't I don't know one name Anyway, there's a park in Milford that had like a good hill But the problem with it was that if it was too good of conditions it ended in a creek So if you went down the hill Yeah I know that one I can't remember the name of it but we used to go there and play football when we were older But as kids we would go to that hill and it was relatively busy So sometimes you had to like take turns with other kids It was always a bit scary because if you had a really good run on the sled You were getting or the sled or whatever the word is To inner tube we brought sometimes You would end up right on the edge of that creek And it was not like a small fall when you were a kid It was a if you went down you were you were dropping a little bit Sounds like you should just always ride the inner tube Then you're ready for the creek Things never work out as the way they think they will in your head.

33:43Like you with the nose. Like you run and jump on the sled you think you're going. Sometimes you have too much momentum and you just slide off of the sled. Then you're just tumbling down the hill and your sled comes behind you and hits you in the back. Things just never quite go the way they're supposed to in your mind when you're sledding. I mean, what are you really thinking? Because all I'm thinking is we or and then I crash and die. I was a panicky kid, so I was always thinking of what happens if things go wrong. I was a panicky kid too. I was always like, oh, we can't be here. We gotta go sneak out.

34:13Even on the sled, I was like, what if someone else's foot comes flying down and hits me in the face? So I would, like, land and, like, duck and cover for a second until I knew it was safe. Like, just the foot? Like, you chucked a grenade behind you and... I don't know, man. Weird, random, fearful thoughts. Hmm. All right. Well, I mean, that's for the best. You know... No, that wasn't a snow day. That was just skiing. That doesn't qualify. There's snow in skiing. That's close. It was water skiing. Insane. I've never gone water skiing Have you gone water skiing? Never done it No, my family did, but I always just Rode the tube, I like the tube Like every person, like my parents' age I've ever talked to about water skiing They're like, ah, water skiing's great Ah, we used to do that when we were kids Yeah, so my buddy had a boat or whatever And that always ends with, yeah And this one time, they were like Doing sharp turns and whipping me around And they whipped me right into a dock And I hit a metal pole face first at 35 miles an hour.

35:11I can't believe I'm alive. Like, I swear to God, my dad and Mandy's dad and a couple of my uncles all have the exact same story. And every time they tell it, I'm like, okay, don't go water skiing. Got it. Yeah, there were some scary moments watching my dad and other people be pulled behind because down in Lake Cumberland, it's really rocky and cliffy around the edge of the water bank. So watching them like be whipped around toward the rocks, if they had let go or gone flying, They would have landed like just in a pile of Giant sharp rocks and probably be dead Maybe that's why I didn't do it because again I was a terrified Kid yeah tube Was the same thing though if you go flying off on the Tube you could very easily end up Those videos of like inner tubes with like five Kids on them on a windy stretch Where the thing just goes And turns into a kite and then The kids just launch into the Air like that it looks kind of fun But that would be so terrifying Is this what it means to get older when we just don't have any childhood wonder and fearlessness in our soul just afraid of everything fear pennywise was an idiot he should have gone through adults we're so much more scared as adults like tax season pennywise popping up like hey you're bobby got some taxes hey you're bobby bobby i'm afraid the lemonati has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything, even our music.

36:33That hit song named after the color of lemons? Not a coincidence. Big Lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years. Think about it. But now, 7up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda. Now lime comes first. 7up. Flip the sip. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast instead of doomscrolling, smart move another smart move getting help from one of state farm's 19 000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling just another way to save with the personal price plan prices are based on rating plans that vary by state coverage options are selected by the customer availability amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state i think the only other thing that i that i thought of when i was thinking about the snow day there was one year well there's one time when we were in i think maybe around the time we would have been seniors in high school there was like a really bad ice storm and i remember this because i had my audition at uc we drove down and i was supposed to play my instrument to audition to get into music school on the day when there was like a half inch of ice all over everything and they shut the campus down and it was crazy but there's a time when we were younger like elementary school where a similar thing happened it snowed a couple inches and then there was a solid like maybe almost half inch of ice on top of it and they fucking my district didn't close the schools and i had to walk to school on top of ice like i literally have a memory of like going out down the driveway kind of slipping sliding down the driveway and then stumbling along the sidewalk on ice and it was so bad that a neighbor was driving their kid to school and saw me and was like do you want to ride are you okay and i was like i'm good no almost there like i because you're not supposed to get in the car with strangers and i knew that but it's the fuck i the whole walk there to school i was like how the fuck is school not closed today what is this bullshit what do you guys remember that or is that more i don't know but you seem to have turned into an old man in that I was very grumpy as a child when I was in third grade I was basically already 70 years old and then I d-aged a little bit and now I'm where I am now I was lucky I never had to walk to school I never really had to deal with that aspect so I don't remember that specifically when we were younger I remember the one when we were in high school I don't remember the one we were younger with the ice no I don't remember that either well never mind you you get all the way to the school and the school's up a hill and it's all ice and you just can't get there and then you get in trouble for missing it was up a slight hill somehow it was literally uphill both ways i'm not it sounds like i'm doing it it's it was it wasn't uphill the whole way both ways but there was a hill you know what would have been cool is if there was like a snow day but there was a new category where it's like if you can make it show up because i i always thought that it would be fun as a kid like if i because when i was in junior high i could walk to school i walked just through these little woods and and right to school um but it would be super cool if you showed up and all the teachers were there and they expected to teach it but you were like the only person you're like the only kid you like extra credit or something like what's the reward no no no everyone else fails you just get your credit just to see if your body can take it no there's nothing to my body that's taking it i'm just at school okay no there's nothing masochistic about this is it just you and your teacher or just you just a teacher and whoever actually made it.

40:08Everyone else is frozen outside in a ditch and I'm I made it. Because there's a horror movie that came out not too long ago called Weapons and one of the earlier scenes is a kid showing up to class and he's the only student in his class that shows up with just him and the teacher. So that's what made me think of it. But it's a very different scenario there than just a snow day because all the other kids are missing. When you said other types of snow days I thought you were talking about like how they have like exploding tree warnings in the plain states because of how cold it's been i want to see a video of that but all i get are a the ai videos of exploding trees which is like as if someone put a debt cord on a tree the guy running through the woods like you're saying those aren't real no well they're real to somebody there must be videos of it i swear i've seen a video it wasn't like a super dramatic one i swear i've seen a video of a tree just like, and part of it popping off.

41:05I think it was real. If it wasn't real, it was the most boring thing anyone's ever used AI to generate. Maybe that's a good competition. Who can make the most boring AI video possible? What would it be? Let's all sign up and start to find out. Let's crank out those AI videos. Let's start generating. It's going to take over 70 ,000 prompts to make this three-second clip. I know what it'll be. YouTube is allowing us to make shorts using AI, making images of our own likenesses. So I'll just make a short of one of my own videos. I'm glad I consented to that program. I haven't heard of that. Is that a thing?

41:40Yeah, six days ago, there was an announcement. YouTube will soon let creators make shorts with their own AI likeness. Oh, good. That's probably fine. It's what people want, right? People are just screaming for it. Everybody wants that. I haven't heard anyone say anything different. Oh, man, this article is so funny. Okay, Mohan, is that the CEO? Oh, yeah, Neil Moan, who I have not met, and I don't know if I've ever had a chance. Today, once odd trends like ASMR and watching other people play video games are mainstream hits. The fuck? Odd trends? Yeah, that was super weird. Of people playing, watching people play video games.