Episode 134: Weather

0:09 Welcome back to another episode of Record, My Father. Today we're going to be talking about weather. The East Coast has a large, large snowstorm upon itself. I'm not really. I think you're in the midst of it, right? How's that going? Yeah, we, we, we had about a foot on Saturday, Sunday here in Northern Virginia. And we're supposed to, we're supposed to get another foot this weekend, then we were supposed to get none. Then we're supposed to get it again, then we're supposed to get none. Now it looks like when next Wednesday we get 3 inches. I don't know, you know, I, I guess it's just who we decided the date and that's why we're getting 3 inches.

0:51 But that's another story, right? I'm like, I remember what was it, 2012? It was like 4 feet of snow or something. Oh, that was so cool. But that was cool snow. The snow is like it's it snowed Saturday and I did the thing like midday. I whipped out my snow blower and it cut down 6 inches of snow gone driveways clear everything, but it's still like it's still sleet snowing until like midnight that night, which is another 5 or 6 inches, something like that. Well, unfortunately I didn't do it again and it froze and it froze solid. I mean it is solid, solid block of solid. It was so the we have an Audi.

1:36 My my wife's Audi has convertible Audi like the A5 parked around front. Coolest thing in the world. Yesterday I was like, damn, I got an accident on the way back from the airport. Got rear-ended on the Parkway and I can tell that story, but I'll tell that story after the driving, the driving the I got in the Audi and it was totally shitty day. And I'm like, I got to move it around to the front because now I'm not going to be able to drive that Subaru. And it's, it's like a foot of snow all the way around, but it's all frozen solid. So I just drive up on it and drive right across it. And it didn't like slip nothing. And I was just like, Oh my God, because I thought I was going to have to like break that chip, all that ice out so I could drive it out.

2:19 That's. All-wheel drive, yeah. And I was just like, Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God. And I got to tell you, that was just the greatest feeling in the world that I didn't have to spend a day doing that or finding a people. The guys that got away to, you know. I remember with the my Honda got stuck at the Safeway because it was snowing, and then she picked me up in the convertible and I thought that was the funniest thing, 'cause that makes no sense on paper. Yeah, that car that really. Makes great in the snow. Oh, like the best better than the Subaru. It is, yeah, better than the Subaru. Subaru tends to slide. I got, I think about all my harrowing times and the snow. I remember coming home.

3:01 It was a snowstorm before you were born. We've been married like four or five years, 55 or six years. We were living at Pomeroy Drive. I'm driving home and the wife's, but we have a Ford Explorer. It's like 7:00 at night, snow's coming down. It's like 4 inches of snow on the ground. And of course I'm doing the speed limit plus 20, which is what I'm always doing. I'm probably doing 70 and then the car and I'm going 395 S. In the snow on four in the. Snow man in the snow, but I was in the right hand. There was like the far speed lane was completely clear. All the other lanes were like covered with snow. So I was felt like I was OK, but I kind of slipped over a little bit. And then the car just does this. It goes sideways and it goes sideways and then it just starts heading for the bumper, heading for the guardrail and and there's nothing I could do.

3:51 I mean, it was just it was doing its thing. And I look out the white side of the window, which she's the passenger, and I see the cars coming at us. It's a wall of cars, you know, which you know, she's going to be dead. I'm probably going to be made, but I'm going to live and be tortured the rest of my life for killing my wife. Anyway, I I slide slowly and the cars are coming and they're trying to, I assume they're trying to slow down or they didn't give a shit or they didn't even see us 'cause we're sideways. Remember cars sideways don't have lights. They have them front and back. Anyway, we're sliding sideways Oink. We slide right up to the, the guardrail oink and it and it's not covered.

4:35 It's not like stopped. So we're we're totally off the road and then they pass by and it was just like, holy shit, you know, it was just the wildest, wildest thing. You know, I think about all the different times and the different stories when you think about weather in our lifetime, in my lifetime, I mean, one of the biggest storms I ever faced was Agnes in 72. Well, actually, I would say the biggest storm we ever faced was 64 in Alexandria when our house was flooded and we lost it. And that was Mark Drive and I, there's actually a picture and one of our places, one of our shows, we actually have a, a sky picture of it.

5:21 It's really cool where it's completely underwater, you know, or it's the, the house was half flooded and we were still in the house just before the empty houses, you know, the water's coming. It's like we were the too stupid to run out to know that you should leave. In 72, Agnes happened and Woodbridge has bridges that come into the community and over rivers and every bridge was out. So it was, it was a stuck community for, I don't know, four or five days, something like that. They brought in water. What we're there was no water. You had to, if you want to flush your toilet. We went down to the Creek and filled up buckets and it was, I don't know, two or three weeks until the water got back.

6:07 It was crazy. It was just that that and that was hurricane, not snow. And I remember, you know, 2-3 foot snows when we were little kids in the 60s. I remember them again when you were a little kid and they were like back-to-back and that's what did it. I think it was 20 inches and then another 14 inches four days later or something. That's when we got a whole lot of snow here. And it was just, it was so wicked cool. I love it because it was I didn't have a job. I wasn't working and you were and you were a little kid and you were just like into it so much. And we had well, the cats didn't care about it, but the dogs did later. But you know, that was just so much fun. And I had a a snow blower, so, you know, I could clear the driveway pretty quick it. Was the best investment of all time. That's oh.

6:54 Yeah, I would say that was. Oh, my God. I remember. I went to shovel it as a kid. Not fun. Yeah, I shovelled the whole thing. No, you shovelled this Four or five, probably. And you shovelled the front step. I shovelled the whole thing. Four or five years. Old front step that's covered. That's what you shovelled. And yeah, it was a lot, a lot of work back then. But and you guys would sit inside and I would just do the whole driveway. Four or five years old. Cyclone and New Zealand when all the weather was out, all the water was out we were there. I'm trying to think our honeymoon our very first night at the honeymoon was it rained for like two or three days.

7:40 I remember that I remember sitting on the beach we're in Blanco Bay, the wife the wife is like exhausted because they've been a long up and come all sorts of things went really weird on the you know, the month before our wedding and up to our wedding a lot of family stress. Let's just put it that way. Anyway, we go, we we fly and the weather's so bad we get stuck at Saint Croix. So we go to this bar and they have these services. They're called Babe Ruth drinks. I have no idea what the hell they are. They were blue something and we had, I think I had four and she had two and she was shit hammered.

8:20 And this was we went to bed. We went up to bed at like 10:00 that night in the island. We had to get up at 4:30 to catch the first flight out, which was a little puddle jumper, which we caught. The little puddle jumper took us to Charlotte only yeah, what's that? Saint Thomas? And then we go to Belongo Bay and I mean she's booted like 6 times by now. And we get we check in and I put her in the golf cart, take her up and she's just done. She just goes in, lays down on the bed and she's asleep. She stays there for like two or three days. This is first 3 days of my are are my honeymoon. So I go down to the beach and it's raining and it's like, well, this is what a wonderful start to a beautiful. Relationship.

9:10 I mean, it's just, it's just raining, right? So there's a, there's an outside bar there and I'm talking to the guy and he's making me, what the hell are those things? Strawberry daiquiris and stuff like that at 11:00 in the morning and I'm sitting on the beach. It's, it's 90 degrees, 85° and it's pouring and I'm in my, and I'm just sitting there by my, there's nobody else there. The, the place is full. I'm getting hammered on the beach and I'm like, fuck it, I'm just going to do this. This is great. It was just, it was a, and I said, you know what? She's sick. She didn't feel good. There's nothing. We're not going to do anything. We're not going to go anywhere, and she doesn't want to be bothered.

9:51 So it was like, oh, OK. Banana Daiquiri in my time has been proven to be the best daiquiri. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. I don't know why I don't like banana like that either, but yet the banana daiquiri is something. It knows what it is, it knows who it is, it knows where it belongs, and it's delicious. Every single. Time we had those, the best ones I've ever had in at the top of Saint Thomas, at the very tippy top of Saint Thomas, there's like a, a, there's a restaurant at the top and they make and you see this guy with just bushels of bananas.

10:34 You know how they come out. Oh yeah, yeah, I know exactly what you're. Saying and they're all rotten and he's pulling them out and he's stuffing them in a blender and just, and he has the half gallon of rum and something else and he's pouring it in there and stuffing them and just, and then he pours it out and then he throws in a bunch of them and he pours and it's, and it's the way he poured the rum was basically just, and then set it down and then stuff, stuff as many bananas as he could in the blender. And and that's everybody's order. What do you want? I want a beer. No, you got a you want a banana daiquiri? No, I want AI want a, a martini. OK, I'll make you banana daiquiri. And that's all I'm gonna make. And he made, he was just, but he was blindingly fast.

11:17 I mean, you would say banana daiquiri. And he literally would peel 4 bananas, 5 bananas, stuff them in the blender, throw the rum in and put, put in a little scoop of ice and go and then pour it in your glass. And you're like, and they were the best daiquiris I've ever, ever. I mean, they were amazing. You were like just a new level of happiness. And we got up there. I remember we got there on that side of the island, you could see there was a hurricane. I forgot Hugo I think was before or something like that, before we got married. And that whole side of the island, all the roofs were gone. They were all just blue tarps.

11:58 Weather, A lot of weather. Wow. Yeah. I'm just thinking of the different weather. You've you've had bad weather out there. You've had fires. Yeah, as soon as I moved out here. That's not weather, that's. A biblical storm. It rained for like 3 weeks or something or two weeks and then recently it started raining again for like 5 days straight. It's the three-year rain gush. Yeah, I don't. I don't know what it is. Happens like every three years. And then what was the other one? Oh, Sicily. Sicily was crazier. Oh yeah. I remember that when we went to the top of what's the mountain there? Aetna. Aetna we went to Mount Aetna. We go to the top or near the top, whatever the hell we and we're hiking out and then it's raining and then we and we we get a little wet and then we're.

12:47 You muted yourself. There we go. Good, good. You're good. We, we, we hit it, you know, we get back in the vehicle and he's driving down the mountain and it's, what was it, 81012 inches of water it's. Not built for that either. Yeah, you what? It's not built for that because they have like these volcano walls that are like these retaining walls that don't have any drainage. And they were supposed to keep the lava in. That was the point of the high walls on the side and the high driveway. So the lava would fall into the road and run to the bottom right into the ocean. Well, this was nothing but water filled and it was, you know, 14.

13:30 I mean, it's a foot. It was at least a foot. And he's driving through it and his Range Rover and we're in it and he's just like, whoa. And we're like, have you ever seen anything like that? I mean, when's the last time you saw something like this? And he goes, well, I've only been here for 30 years and never. Like whoa, it is weird that anywhere I go it just seems to rain all the time. Well, you've you destroy a lot of things. You. Oh, it's crazy. Yeah. I know. Everything you did with COVID ever done. Yeah. It's been met with just utter obstacles. Yep. You. In your high school, you made all the administrators have sex with each other. That was so weird, yeah. Yeah, I don't know why you made that happen.

14:12 Yeah, with. In hindsight, too, I'm like, this is like, I used to think these things were normal. And yeah, they're, they're not. They're not. Yeah, that was so weird at my high school that you had management sleeping with people that were kind of like underling. They weren't kind of underlings. They were underlings. And then they would get promotions. They can't do them sleeping. Crazy and And the board knew it. Oh, the board knew it well that. Was the thing that was for. About the head honcho, The principal sleeping with the secretary, giving her free tuition, I mean. But there was going on all over. You had the the head of the whole, what was it?

14:54 The head of education? Mary's the head of the English area. And you're like, what? Yeah, yeah. I. Remember that. Remember that. And you know what, come on anywhere else, people like that, once it becomes known they leave, they get fired because you, you should not be able to be having sex and sleeping with someone's destination that you have, that you have, that you have input into their outcome. It's just. It's wrong no matter what you do. And I don't care. Well, well, we had an independent. No, no, it doesn't work that way. You would say when you have an independent group, they would not want to make the guy in charge be unhappy, so they would give his wife more So.

15:35 So bullshit. Don't you can't, you can't get around that impropriety. And it's like, it it, it pisses people off. And also anybody that looks from the outside, looks at the situation like me, knows that people were fucked, that lost because that happened. 100% there were people. That did better jobs, that didn't get raises. There were people that did better things that didn't get it because they got it. So whatever you want to say, it's it's wrong. You know, it's just wrong. It definitely is, yeah, without a doubt. Kind of. Man, I am just such a moral voice. It's amazing, isn't it? You're master of ethics, that's what it is. Amazing, Mr. Mr. Do right.

16:19 Shockingly, it, it's like the reason that I feel one of the key reasons that I feel that I've been so done well or financially rewarded well in business is that I've always been ethical. I don't, you know, I've, I've had people try to come and pay to play and I'm like, no, you know, and, and I've had people, you know, want to tell lies about things and, and propagate them. No, you know, and it's just like, as long as that kind of stuff that would put more money in my pocket if I lied or put more money in my pocket if I cheated or put more money in my pocket if I pay people, I I just no, wouldn't do it, you know, and it's I, I feel like that is been, you know, part of it, but there's a lot of people that cheat and steal and actually do OK, so. Yeah, that's a every billionaire ever made Well. No, I wouldn't say it.

17:23 You can't. You can't say. Most, I'm going to say most. You got to wonder, get to that level of wealth. You have to. Well, here's the thing. You. Lead You lead by example and people see you and they do things that they think you would like. So if you lead hard, they will be twice as hard, four times as hard. If you if you lead and you're kind of a little sketchy on rules, they will be, there will be no rules. So you notice when you're when you're in a position of power authority, when you're pushing forward and somebody, somebody wants to and they're following you, they will want your praise and attention and they will believe that they will get it. And you're seeing it right now with the whole ice thing right out there.

18:16 The reason there's so much more brutal is because it's, it's not only it the, the administration rewards it. They're they're they're they're, they're making them, you know, they don't wear full military gear masks because they're not required to. They are required to wear that. They used to wear windbreakers, OK. They changed the gear to make them more militarized. So, you know, I'm just. Kind of confused why are they allowed to wear masks now when in 2020 everybody hated masks. Nobody wanted to wear the masks kind. Of. Kind of interesting, kind of interesting like that. Well, I saw something recently about it. It's interesting now that we're talking about weather and it kind of goes into ice, is the whole idea that. Ice is a precipitation, so.

19:07 You have people that came from the Proud Boys and you have people that came from J6 and the reason you don't see the reason they're wearing masks is they don't want you to know if it's the same people. And which would be a good question to put to anybody in authority or any anybody in oversight is, well, how many members of ICE are former J Sixers or Proud Boys, you know, or Oath Keepers? Or KKK. Yeah, or K, well, I don't know if there's a, I'm, I'm sure there, there used to be a, a facilitator for the KKK, but I, I, I imagine they don't even consider it a terrorist organization. I don't think that they do and they I think they de categorized it about a year ago or two years.

19:52 Ago, that's the one they took out and then they added they. Added Black Panthers They. No, no, they added BLM and you're like. What? Oh, they did? Really. Yeah, like wow, that's just so weird. But hey, it is what it is. How does it affect the weather? I'm not quite sure what's the weirdest. I had the quickest weather and most unexpected weather for me would have to be probably 4 years into being married to Valerie. We went to Tampa, brother-in-law had a place down there and we stayed at it. We went out one day and and I said, hey, let's rent a boat and go out into the Tampa area, the Bay Area there and go out to one of the islands that have lunch. And so we go and they didn't say anything. And I'd never ridden a boat before and it was a pontoon boat, like 20 foot pontoon boat with a little pop on and all that kind of crap like that.

20:48 And I paid the guy and we go hop on the boat. We're driving out and nobody is out there. Seems kind of odd, you know? And we get out and about in the middle of the, the big, huge Tampa Bay Bay Area and there's not a soul and it, and it doesn't like, I don't notice it at first. I noticed it later, but it was like, you know, all of a sudden it starts raining and it's like, wow, what do we, what do? We could just go over to the shore over there and wait for it to pass through. Then there's Whitecaps. I mean, inside of like 2 minutes there's like a little waves, like about about four to six inches on the Bay. It's weird.

21:32 You know, you're seeing white water in a Bay Area. And then very, very quickly, in about 5 minutes more, they're about a foot and a half too fat. And it's like, OK, we're going to turn right, go back. So we turn around and as we turn around and we start heading back in, the wind comes. The wind's starting to get real bad. The wind's hitting. So then we're now at about four foot waves, the top, the canopy, it was over, rips off the top and it's gone, disappears. The wife and I, we are sitting and and the waves are 4 to 5 feet. When you go up in the wave, you're looking at the sky and then you're looking at the water. And I'm aiming towards getting to the shore, the closest shore that I can get to. And I have to do this by hitting the waves head on 'cause if I go sideways, you wouldn't think it, but this pontoon boat was, was doing, it was, it was probably at about a 70° angle. We had, I had, they had a seat belt on where your driver's seat was.

22:35 She was on my lap. No, I sat her and then I sat on top of her and I strapped this in. That's how crazy it was. We were so freaked out. And we're driving in and I'm trying to get in and, and I said, if it flips, I'm going to open this thing up and we're going to make it to the surface and we're going to go to shore. And we had our belts, we had our things on too. So, but whatever. So we get to the the little canal, we get in and it's halfway up the canal to where the boats was, stops raining, wind stops blowing. We pull in and the guy's like looking at us like big eyes, like, oh fuck, we shouldn't have let him have the boat.

23:20 And we get out and we're like, Oh my God. And he said, well, we'll give you a refund. He didn't say anything about the canopy. I didn't say anything about the canopy. We go out and we get a taxi to go back. Guy comes pick us up and goes, you were on the water. There was like a there was a warning all over that no one was supposed to go out. And I'm like, really? And he said, they didn't tell you they rented you a boat and sent you out there. That's that's wrong. And I said, well, they didn't charge us, so we didn't do anything. But you know, at the end of the that it was just like, but it was probably it was half an hour of sheer terror. It was just, and I don't know if you know, Florida storms, they come, they hit incredibly hard like just, I mean Iron Jacksonville, they would, they would come in and, and Jax Beach area and they would flood the streets downtown Jax Beach and it would, you know, foot deep water and it would come at 3:00 in the afternoon.

24:22 It would rain till like 330 like just kissing buckets of water. Just you are soaking wet in 30 seconds and then and by 4, by 4:00 it's all it's dropped, it's done, sun comes out. I mean, just like it never happened by 5:00, you cannot tell that it rained. It's just, it's, it's amazing how quickly it it comes and it's ferocious and then it's gone and it's just like, wow, if that ferocious stays around, which in hurricanes it tends to do that sometimes, you know, I think about like we didn't see, you know, the cyclone of New Zealand was hard rain, but nothing really crazy.

25:07 I mean, I drove through it. I didn't have any big deal with it. And I'm thinking snowstorms we've driven through, you know, like sevens brings it snow to low snow. Was on the Bay Bridge in the worst storm I've ever seen in my life and the lightning was hitting the bridge and every time it hit the bridge you couldn't see anything 'cause you're so close to the lightning. And meanwhile I'm doing 10 miles an hour 'cause it's pouring so hard. And if you go faster, you hydroplane. And so I'm kind of hydroplaning and I'm driving and people are just like, what is going on? I felt like that was the only time I've ever been scared driving.

25:50 I think where I was like, maybe we should have rented a hotel or something like that 'cause it was not worth it. But everybody was doing 10 miles an hour from the start of the bridge until after the bridge. And you don't really. I've never been scared of heights, but when you're doing 10 miles an hour on top of the bridge, it allows you to see over the sides pretty, pretty clearly. And it's pitch black and you see nothing, but you know that you're what, like 12 stories in the air or something like that. So not not 12, a lot more. Is it more than 12? Yes. Oh God, like 40 stories or something. Yeah, it's scary as shit. It's. And yeah, that. That was terrible. Yeah. But we made it home and yeah, I was really happy that I was not under the influence while I was driving then.

26:38 That was very happy because I think it was like 21 or something or 20. No, it wasn't even 21 yet. I think it was like 19 or 20. No, I was 21. I was 21. Yeah. But what are the ones? That was interesting. I was just thinking of a couple. I remember the beach. You never, I mean, I went there after big snowstorms. I don't remember big huge crazy storms while I was there. I think about what were the what were the other ones? Santa Cruz. We were doing the coast from LA to San Francisco and we stayed in Santa Cruz one night because it was getting kind of crappy rain.

27:20 So we, we were in a hotel and it was a flop house really for the most part. It wasn't really one of the crazy Richie Rich places I stay now. And we went out on the pier and the pier had a bar and I remember watching the sun go down and the, and it was pouring. I mean, it just started the, the skies opened up and what? And your mother and I were having martinis watching the waves and everything. And just, it was just really a really cool time to see Mother Nature at through glass and in a warm establishment, you know? It's always better than you know. Yeah, it is. It's better than being cold. I don't think I've ever pitched a tent in the rain.

28:02 I don't think I've ever done that. Have you ever done that? I have a cold rain pitched. Yes, I have. When we went to Outer Banks, I went down there with my first real roommate. We went to Outer Banks. He had a, he said he always want to go and I'd never been. I said, let's go. And we went down there camping and we showed up and it was pouring rain and we got out and we set up the tents in the pouring rain, got in, everything was wet, everything was muddy. And and then I realized that I didn't like to sleep next to people that snore. That's when I snore too.

28:46 But we got hammered. We got stoned, it got hammered, and then we passed out. And then the most horrible time in the world, as soon as the rain stopped. It's like the mosquitoes from hell just showed up so bad in the tent because I think he left the door open when he pissed or so I don't know. Or I did. I have no idea. I got my sleeping bag and I go and I lay on the beach. The thing I didn't know is that there's two things about weather when you're sleeping on the beach, when the when the air is blowing in from the ocean, no big deal, no mosquitoes. But when the air is blowing from the land into the ocean, it's bug heaven.

29:35 And they were. All over me. And I was just like stuck trying to hide in my sleeping bag and, and it was wet, but I didn't give a shit because I was trying not to get eaten. And then we, I think we, we ended up staying there one night. And then he, I have a picture of him cooking hot dogs, holding an umbrella while he's smoking a cigarette and has a beer. You know he's got 3. Hands. Why didn't you? Why didn't you sleep in the car, you know? Because it was like a Mustang too, which it just was not conducive to sleep. It'd be like sleeping in a, you know, and he's. Sleeping on the wet ground in YEAH flat was better.

30:16 Flat makes a difference. It really does. It does. Well, you can't recline the seats. No, no, you couldn't. Back then you couldn't. I mean, there was no reclining seats. My God, do you Rich? People. Think you have everything you know? There was no reclining. Seats. No, I don't remember any seat that we had that if if they had a a switch on the side. Not until I got married, I mean, no, my Hyundai, my Hyundai, my my 86th Hyundai that had adjustable seats up and back by not, not flat, not going back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what I was thinking about. Not even the electric ones, but just the the handle. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's all you really want to do is go flat if you can and it would seem like everybody. Was.

30:59 Flat, you know, but 'cause then you could truly have good sex in a car, you know? I mean, that was the good thing about the 86 Hyundai when I bought it, is it was a great place to have sex in the passenger's seat. You can go all the way back the good old days, you know. People, people love hearing that. Oh my gosh, people love that. He's old and smells. This is going to be the Yeah synopsis on the Spotify. What is this? What the? Weather, what's he talking about now or what other kind of, I mean, when you think about weird weather that that's hit you or affected you, I remember that Snowstorms.

31:45 Was it mostly snow? I'm thinking, oh, I remember going to New York in 8786, No 8087, maybe 87, and I was dating somebody out of Texas and she was redoing bonds. They did something called rollovers and she had $440 million of bonds and she's taking them to Chase. You take them to the bank itself. And then when the, when the, the Cusips, they, they change that they, they do this thing called rollover, which is they replace the old bonds with the new bonds.

32:25 And so, and they'd get them replaced every, their mortgage-backed bonds. You know, they're 10 year, 20 year, 30 year. And so when they come to maturity, they, they, they start a new, a new tranche. Anyway, they were taking the bonds. She, she would, she was deliverer of the bonds. And these were not the bearer bonds. I was looking for the bearer bonds. If I could have found somebody with bearer bonds that have been different. Anyway, I met her at the Essex House and it snowed and we got stuck there for like 3 or 4 nights and it was just amazing because New York stopped, which is generally doesn't do, but it was, it was the train stopped.

33:06 That's how bad the snow was. You know, and I think about that have been mid 80s now. I can't imagine the, the only thing that stops New York is floods. You know, snow just slows it down because the whole time it worked an Intellij for like 10 years out of New York and it snowed. It was so beautiful the first couple hours because it's just, you know, it's wow. It's all this beautiful color and lights and snow dropping and covering everything. All the filthy, nasty garbage and puke and just disgusting pieces of humanity everywhere. It's covered with white snow. And so for about an hour and a half, it's an amazing place. It's the tittiest place in the world. And then the stuff melts and it's just it, it never goes down the gutter.

33:55 And so this, so the corner, every corner is filled with this soupy gunk that you can't tell how deep it is until you step into it. So in the winter time you don't wear loafers or like regular leather shoes if you want to keep them you. Shouldn't wear leather shoes in winter anyway? I've done that and, and I've done it because I had and I had to impress people. Yeah. And, and I did. I just, I stepped in one of those things and my foot went underwater and it filled with water. And it was. You know, you're talking about the little off the sidewalks where you have all the melted snow that's like black water. Oh my God. Black mush, Yeah. And you can't tell how deep it is until you step in it and then it's.

34:37 Like it's always a foot deep too. It's always. The amazing. Thing that you've ever seen in your life? Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why you need boots. And that's why all women in New York start wearing boots really, really quick. And like, what the Hell's that all about? It's, you know, it's such and such and like, no, I mean, it's, it's Scoogeville here. When it's I have a conspiracy in Virginia, the people that salt the roads want you to not go to work because sometimes they salt the roads the night before. Very rarely do they do that. And then I think they say, oh, we're going to do it again. They never do. And every time there's like an inch and a half of snow, it's the end of the world. It's crazy.

35:21 Same thing with DC. Well, you think, I think. The infrastructure for it. I think that the that there's a Bunny situation there. Oh, interesting. I think that we, we allot $1,000,000 for clearing the roads, right? And so it that's put away, put into a bank and that's what we're saving. And then all of a sudden it doesn't snow in December and it doesn't snow in January. And then all of a sudden February, there's kind of a ghost of a mist and it's like all the trucks are out and everything's around and everything's sprayed six ways from Sunday. And you're like, they're spending that money, you know, they're, they start salting the roads and it's raining or something, you know, like, what the hell are you doing?

36:01 It's like we're spending last year's budget. We want to get more, you know, And then, and then usually what happens is they cut the budget 2, two years in a row and then all of a sudden a big Snoke happens and then everybody's stuck, you know, but they've been pretty good here. I mean, you know, we, we, they, they cleared our Rd. Sunday. You know, I was, you know, we, we, we ended up hiring somebody to, to chop out the ice because I made that mistake in it, the whole driveway. And as I've said, my, my driveway is 40 yards long and it's uphill. And it was solid ice. It was 5 inches ice and they came down and with their hammers and four guys dug it out. Couple 100 bucks but they did it in like an hour. I remember when they had to hire people from West Virginia. You come down, Was it 2012 or was it after that? I think, I think it was after that they hired people from West Virginia with a a giant.

37:00 I can't even remember what it was. It was a giant machine. It wasn't like Unloader. Yeah, I think it was. A lot of those, a lot of 950 fives that the older ones like the I think it's, I can't remember the brand yellow, not Caterpillar, but they were 955 front end loaders and they have a 1 yard bucket and they would use them to and they get like 6 or 8 of them in the road and they would drive down 495 or 95 and shovel and just take up everything they could to get it off the road. And I mean, the problem is, is that where there's no place to put it, you know, or it's too far away, you know, I mean, So what they really want to do is, well, this is.

37:41 Just for our street. I remember this is for our street. Well, when I was coming home last last night, no night before morning before Thursday morning, which was yesterday, right? I drove mom off yesterday and when I was coming home they didn't they, they have like 1 1/2 lanes. So people will tailgate you and try to pass you and they'll try to get you to move over into the half lane so they can go past you on the Parkway. Well, coming back, it was pretty clear. And so I'm in the fast lane and somebody else is in the and A and a person is dead stopped in a fast lane with their blinkers on. And I'm like, I, you know, I've been driving that road 40 years. I've never seen that.

38:31 I've never seen somebody with their flashers on in the fast lane. It's now meanwhile it is 610. So it's black. It's the sun doesn't rise till 7:30. So it's black outside. There are no lights on the Parkway. So you're going up and it's dark. It's real dark except for your lights. And you see these blinking lights, you know, 100 meters as you come around the corner, see and you're, and you're right and we're going 55 or something like that. So you're, you're moving on it fast. So then I hit my brake and I slow down and I'm like cool, I didn't hit them. And then I'm like and I look at my rear view mirror immediately like fuck, fuck, hit the brakes, hit the brakes and then you boom like a little crunch hit the rear end passenger side, you know, jumped out.

39:22 And this is the weird thing. People are going around his and my car at 50 miles an hour. So I'm out there real quick looking around the car. I don't see any cracked anything and nothing, nothing's wrong. I look at it, I do it twice. I have my my phone with the light going across the rear bumper because that's where he hit it. And he goes, wow, I did, you know, I thought I heard it. You know, I'm like, must have nothing. Get back in, drive off. As soon as I drive off, the wind catches the the Fender and pulls it out and pulls it loose because all the fasteners were broken, which I didn't realize that. So the rear bumper is and then, but I only got his name. I never I did. I did the cardinal rule of something that you should never do if you're ever in an accident and doesn't look like anything's wrong. Still get the person's name and information. I should have done that.

40:11 I didn't do that. That's stupid. I have to pay for it myself. Well, actually, I'm going to use your inheritance, Zach. Oh, well, thank you. No. My fuck up is going to cost you $2000 and or Valerie, I can't figure out who I'm going to charge for that. But anyway, anyway, I'm I'm going to charge you guys for it because I made a mistake. But I learned something to always get information and I'm lucky enough that it's not going to, you know, bankrupt me or anything. And hey, I mean, I did Steven a solid. That was his name. I said, hey, what's your name? And he goes, Steven. I go, hi, I'm Phil. I guess we're lucky. No harm, no foul. You can always take a picture of the license plate. Yeah, yeah, We think that.

40:52 I was standing there with a phone right in front of his car, and I couldn't even tell you. It looked like it was a Beamer, You know, I think it was Maryland plates. Of course, he was a nice guy. He seemed very nice. He apologized to his guy. He goes, I'm sorry. I couldn't stop. I tried. And I'm like, fuck you, bitch. Learn how to fucking drive. That's what you got to do and. He was like, I'm sorry, no, no, I didn't do that. I was like, you know, whatever. But I didn't see any stuff. Drove off and I had to pay the consequences. But the hey, that's life, you know? Yeah, I mean, it's not the first accident, but I'm not hurt, you know, maybe.

41:36 It'll be the last, you never know. Well, yeah, I think my last accident is when I die. I'm hoping. You know. The old I'll be messing around with. I'll be messing around with a firearm and not know that it's loaded. Oops, I always look down the barrel to see if it's loaded. I I look down the barrel and pull the trigger. Yep, it's empty. What are you going to do? If it's not, Oh well. That's not the guy at the the firing range that was shooting. It was so funny. I love this video. He's like shooting and then he, the guy's like, you hold it like this and he's like, like what? And then he turns around, he has a load of firearm. He's pointing at the guy.

42:18 Well, you see that, you know, But I was, I was surprised when I remember when we were on the firing range, you and me. Yeah. What is that Quantico? Oh yeah, I remember the guy, the range master or whoever the guy was that he was teaching that taught me how to shoot a with a handgun. I mean, I was shocked that, you know, 10 minutes of lessons just made it so much easier. Yeah, these times there's professionals that have been doing it for 40 years, so. Yeah, but I went from no plates at 25 feet to five out of six. So amazing. And it was just how to shoot, how to hold the weapon, how to when to aim, what to do with your breathing function when you're when you're aiming, just silly little four or five little things. But you got to do them.

43:10 It's just like golf. If you do them perfectly, you get a good shot. If you don't do them, you know, you just like you bend your knees, you one, you got to be got to hold your club belt right behind the ball. It's got to be you got to take a steady swing back and forward, you know, and you got to do all those 17 things. And if you do, you get a tiger, Tiger Woods hit, you know, but unfortunately we get one of those a game, not 18. So or 40 or 70 shots, you know, 70 swings. That's what you get. You don't you get, you get a couple, two or three that are good and that makes you come back the next day exactly like weather, you know, weather. I'm trying to think of anything else. What are the other horrible weather things?

43:52 Oh, when Edwin and I went scuba diving first time, he was going to teach me and we, we, we, we bought the tanks through the mail and I'm just not certified. When he was certified, we went to Florida, we went to the springs and then we went to a place called Troy, Troy Springs. They had had a flooding and, and hurricane had hit the week before we got there. And this would have been in 71 or 7074 probably. I was probably 16 then because I think I was driving. So that would have been 76 anyway. Yeah, I was smoking weed. Yeah, it was 76 anyway.

44:33 And we were driving the old Fury and we went to Branford. We go, we go into the Troy Springs, which is just off the Swanee River. It's like 100 feet deep. It's like a straight down thing. And it's got 1 cave in the side of it. And we're there and there's a cop there and it's the end of the day. It's like 4 or five. And we're just looking going like, yeah, we're going to go dive and you're not going to go dive an hour. Yeah. And I'm going like, Nah, we're going to wait till the morning as well. You may not want to dive here. And it's like why it goes well, we had a couple divers go down there and they haven't come back and it's like 4-5 in the afternoon. Well, when did it go down? 9:30 this morning. And I'm like, and it's just, it's dark. All the in the springs in Florida are crystal clear 99% of the time.

45:23 This was black. It was just, you couldn't see anything. And it's like, wow, that I thought it was so clear. It's not clear at all. You said, well, it's all stirred up. Everything's stirred up everything. You know, that's why they can't see the body, you know, can't find the bodies. And there it was, you know, so we didn't dive there that night or day. I did dive there later. That's where I think I dove. It's my first sub 90 foot dive. I think I went to the bottom. I was trying to find out how deep I could go. I'm holding the you. You have the gauge on your wrist and I'm holding it. I'm going like 506070809294 and I'm on the bottom of Troy Springs and I'm sticking my hand. I'm moving rocks out of the way trying to get deeper. And I got like, I got to, I want to get to 100 feet and I got to like 96 or 95 or something like that. It was somewhere in that range.

46:17 I forgot what the exact number was, but it was 90 something. And I was like, damn, I want to go down to 100 and I, because I want to say I dove to 100 feet, you know, it's sort of a thing, you know, And it was like my third time I'd ever gone scuba diving. So I was going to kill myself because I was really stupid, you know? But the weather was, you see, I'm trying to think of other. Well, that's like the the first time we went to Mongolia, it hailed, and I thought that was the weirdest thing. Yeah, it hailed the first day me and Christian went, and it's so odd. We're like, is that hail? Yeah, that's hail. How big? Very, very probably the biggest hail golf balls.

46:59 Balls I've ever seen. Yeah. About golf ball size, yeah. That's crazy when you see it that big. I've seen it that big here. I've seen it as big as this big, like almost like a baseball near baseball. When I was in, I was sitting in the back in the hot tub. I came in because it, it started, it was just weird and it started hailing and then I looked down on the ground and I was like, and it's gone like in minutes because it's ice. But it's just like, this is so weird, so big, you know, huge hail. But I wonder about damage and stuff like that. You know, that's the great insurance scams. After that, Edwin's been through a lot of hurricanes. I don't. I mean, we don't.

47:40 We get them occasionally here, but usually they miss Northern Virginia. You know, for us, it's at this snowstorm. Hopefully we'll get more snow, and that'll be nice. And a lot of people don't like snow. I love snow. I love it. I wouldn't sneeze a little bit, you know, I want to do what is that the crazy weather? If we've been in, didn't we weren't in. I mean, there was no crazy weather when we're in Antarctica, was there? It was just low. Clouds which other than? The final two days there were we got, we got fogged. Yeah, the final two days we got fogged in and then the we had to go a different way through the Straits of Magellan or whatever it was and.

48:29 And that sucked, Yeah. We weren't even like in it. We were near it and, well, they. Don't have just. Being near it sucks bad, yeah. Yeah, just being near. Yeah, you don't want to be at the top of the boat, you want to be at the bottom. Yeah, 'cause. I remember being at the top and being like, oh, I'm going to fucking die. I'm I'm. Not me, I was just getting hammered. So see, well, I think it was the residual hangover with the the sea sickness that was just not good. Yeah, there's something about boats and alcohol where it's kind of like fishing and alcohol or it's kind of like golf and alcohol. You only do it to drink.

49:11 And that's the least. That's the way cruises are for me. Yeah, exactly. The only reason you're going Galapagos was that way. Oh my gosh, I think that was I was blackout. Drunk, maybe the whole time. 1111 1/2 days of a nine day trip. We, we, we, we were blackout. Well, I remember you're like, we got to get up tomorrow at 5:00 to go see the boobies or whatever, the birds. Yeah, blue footed. Boobies. And we got up at 5:00 and we didn't even get there till like 8 and I was like this is so fucking stupid. And we got there and then instead of like, allowing to walk around the island, we had to stay with the guy, which I understand. I guess you can't really permitted and things like that, 'cause it's the last ecological thing in the world or what have you.

50:05 But yeah, 'cause you couldn't, like, speed run it, which is what I thought we were going to be able to do. We're going to be like, all right, cool. Here's the bird. Here's the frigate bird. Here's the other bird. Yeah, they drop us on one side and we go. And then and then four hours later, we were finally about to go back and I was like. Yeah, yeah, that was some bad sweating. Well, that was, I mean you know, when we did Santa Maria and we climbed the mountain, remember that We drank until around 11/11/30. That might be the most hungover ever been in my entire. Life, that was the worst. We we drank a bottle of Stoli's between US. And. I don't even remember 2 hours. And then we got up, we went to bed downstairs at around 11 something, I don't know, 1520. We had a wake up call at 4:00 AM. We we got up and then and then we went to a hostel and then we got loaded into boxes that took us to the base of the mountain. Then we then we climbed the mountain that day from first light until Oh my God.

51:11 And then when we got back to the bottom and we ate that burrito. Oh my gosh, that was amazing. That's what I realized, what it was all for it. Was it was so you would feel that feeling. Because I was drunk until halfway up that mountain, I. Think, Oh, yeah, yeah, you, you were, you were sweaty, smelly. I was so drunk. I would, I would I? I didn't have to know the path. I could just smell you as you were going by. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's nice. Yeah, sure. No. Well man, I the only thing that shocked me is that I was not last. I was surprised you were going to make it because I remember we were all pale faced at the top and it was. We were pale faced 20 fucking minutes into the walk. I was already like when we remember we were walking up the road.

51:58 I'm going it was way. Harder than anybody talked about it being. It was hard like that was that was difficult. Yeah, but Shaw's daughters were with us and they're like. Well, they're there are athletes. Yeah, I know. They're definitely athletes. Yeah, and I wouldn't. Consider myself I didn't have anything to do today, so I didn't have anything fun to do. So I decided to run 10 miles uphill in the sand. I do want to do this thing. 40 LB boots. Called the the walk to San Diego where I come out of my my apartment, right and I just walk to San Diego. I think you know what I want to do. I want to do the narrows. Why don't you do the walk to San Diego with me?

52:40 You imagine doing the narrows. We walked from my apartment to San Diego on the birds side. It it will, it would take a week probably. Really. Yeah, it's like 200 miles. That's more than a week, dude. You think so? That's like a month really that's half of the Camino Del so so but if you it's three days. Straight just walking so it's probably like 6. 72 hours. Yeah. So it's probably like. Three days? You're kidding me. Really. Yeah. So I would adjust it by adding two days or three days because that's generally when you drive. If it's like a seven day drive straight, yeah, it's like 14 days or like probably like 9 days. So 2 hours, 35 minute drive.

53:29 The walk would take two days and 18 hours. It's it's 50 miles. It's 132 miles. Oh, is San Diego with within 50 miles of LA? No, San Diego's roughly 120 miles and. It takes 132, yeah. Yeah. 5000 foot climb too. That's a mountain. 5000. Yeah. San Diego's not downhill. I think in the middle there's a mountain that goes up. Yeah, because you. Get. Well, the one I wanted to do was. What do you call it? Pamplona was to walk the first leg of the El Camino from to Pamplona and then go run with the bulls that'd.

54:13 Be cool. We would do that. We should do that. Not that we want to do it this year. We could walk. Unless you want to do it, you want to do it, you want to do it this year. We could walk from Los Angeles to Canada. But you don't have that much time. No, I would need to quit my job to do that. Yeah. There's this guy I know that just biked from Portugal to Japan and he did it on a $15,000 budget and it's been about a year and he's only spent like 9 grand. I'm like, how did you do that? Well, I mean, you, you a lot of that is, is living off the land. The hostel, yeah. He's in the. Middle of nowhere, yeah. Yeah, the generosity of others not paying for food.

54:55 Oh, you want a sandwich? Yeah, that'll be enough food for me to last till the dinner so I don't have to pay. He didn't go through Afghanistan either, so I'm curious where he went. Yeah, there was another guy that I followed that went through Afghanistan and then he was also in China as well. So how? What do you think the weather is? What's the worst weather you've ever faced? Well, this guy biked through Mongolia in the winter and I'm like, well, that's, that's crazy. How did that's dying? I mean, I, I have to think the coldest weather I've ever faced was Fenland in the winter time. In January. It was -29 So that's, that's cool. I know that's real cool. It was -29 C whatever that is, which is like 17 below 15 and it was, but the wind wasn't blowing.

55:44 So it wasn't, you know, as long as the wind wasn't blowing, it was OK. I remember Chicago in the winter time, Lakeshore Drive, the wind coming off is just it just, there's just nothing you can do. You know how you just get that chilly, bone chilly, nasty stuff? Or when I was in college, my first year in Norfolk, it rained the month of December and it stayed the temperature never went above 40. So every day you had that. You know how you when your spine's cold just like just just inside, you can't, you can, you can light, you take a match and you put it on your hand and you wouldn't even care because you're inside. You're so freaking cold, you know, you know, just wow. I remember we would take multiple hot showers a day, you know, just to, to re warm your body. It's just crazy.

56:40 Different types of water. I don't remember a lot of crazy weather growing up, you know? Only now. Major ones, yeah. Yeah. You see, you're more, you pay more attention to it. I think things like that, you know, great heat waves and stuff like that. Walking through the bottom of the desert at 110°, that's. Not yeah, I remember. That oh, it's wonderful. You had a great time, A. 109 degrees. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah. That was insane. You had the little the little temperature gauge on. I would do it after. October. If I ever do it ever again. Yeah. Oh. I didn't care. Because that was in October and it was still 109°. It was. October. I think so, right? It was it was it. But The thing is, this is a great experience.

57:22 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that was great. But I would do it later. It was a little long for you at that age. I was like 9 years old, yeah. Yeah, you were nine and it was 10 miles, or you were 10 and it was 10 miles. It was one of the others. Which is like 40 miles for a 10 year old. What? Whatever. Yeah. Being your whiny self, you know. Come on. And on that note, thank you guys for listening. I still love you. Catch us next week for Catch us next week on Friday, every Friday, a record of myfather.com. Check us out. Thank you guys for listening. As always, see you later. Hold it.

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