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Yeah, there's a Dell day five day five hello, I mean he pandemic for a Dell Yeah, I was really feeling pandemic vibes. I'm like, oh, oh, it's interesting because it's it's like something so specific now that when I do When my body goes back to it. It's like this. What is it?

It's called like sense memory or something like it just right back there You know muscle memory. I don't know but Magic muscle memory Huh, here we are five days stuck inside together no break It's just Yeah, so she's going back to school tomorrow. I'm very we're all we're all excited. Can I can I you reminded me of a really cool line from a captain beef art song Okay, and the line is space age couples.

Why don't you flex your magic muscle And the magic muscle I assume refers to the brain which I think is the best name for the brain the magic muscle because you said muscle memory It is like a brain memory. It's like a Isn't that what they call like how you know how to write a bike? It's your is it your muscle memory? Yeah, it's like how I how I can play dinosaur junior songs That I haven't played without really thinking about it right for many years.

It's it becomes muscle How I could pick up a crochet hook after not crocheting for a year or something just immediately start doing it It's like it's it's funny all the things that we can't remember day-to-day, but the things that we can But that's you're you're thinking that the vibe Adele has been I don't want to use the word trapped But it was a long weekend already Already a three-day weekend and now you had yep Two snow days attached to it more bonus days. I had to shovel that sucked Sorry, I wasn't home for that. That's my that's my job. I know that's your job.

I can work that I can work that our our mini snowblower I wouldn't be I would not be able to tell you how that actually operates I didn't want to get into that either the snow blow me and the snow blow machine because for a variety of reasons I didn't want to hurt myself like trying to get it down the stairs like hurt me back or something Yeah, and then you gotta get back. It's a little it's a little heavy. It's a mini snowblower. I wish we had a much more powerful snowblower But yeah, me too.

I bought the cheapest one at Home Depot You know, I wanted to save 200 bucks or whatever so I got the smallest one I could get and it can barely handle five inches It's so true. It's so true and really less than learned and you know, our neighbors christine andrew across the street or Sissy and fandrew in case we don't want to say their real names Just kidding. Uh, I mean, I don't think they're listening again who knows but um I saw them also struggling with a similar sized snow plow snowblowers ours And I thought yeah, they probably also did the same thing like well, let's just save a few bucks Let's get the smaller one not the thing to do not the thing to do. That's that's a real lesson learned when you say that's a real life lesson You've taught me that lesson many times like don't skip because if you skimp you're gonna end up spending more No, um, it's true because essentially now we'll have bought two instead of one because we will get another one Right, so then you've bought a new bigger full size one But then you also have the dumb small one which you didn't want exactly shouldn't have bought to begin with mothball it under the deck with Other long mowers and shit So I think it's really Oh, I think it's just it's the it's the sticker shock right you get there Like I don't know.

I thought ready, you know, it's like you're never ever ready for that. The big ones the big ones look so big Like really big. Yeah, I don't know if I could fit it back in the minivan big although I'm sure it could to be to be honest Probably could yeah, probably could you know lower that third row. Sure you can take it for sure Sure, you could definitely take it, but you know it Yeah, so it's one of those things where you're like, okay, noted noted noted, you know, here we are grownups and just learning that You know, you're dad taught you all that stuff early on you know that stuff I think when I would assume that when I bought the smaller snow plow snow blower, you were like, oh Maybe nothing.

Oh for sure. Okay. Look at you I'm trying to be a loving partner and let you learn some of those things on your own too like oh, okay Shit, we actually need a bigger one because I knew once you actually handled it and moved and pushed it around through snow You're gonna be like fuck this. This is the wrong size.

I don't know where that that snowball Or it might be good in like I don't know DC maybe Yeah, it's almost like who is this for? Who is this for? I don't even know but yeah, you know, yeah, I I think too. It's kind of like you've had sort of a doubt first trust later Kind of vibe spend less uh-huh.

That's like spend less. Is it all do you think it's all related to money? Yes Well, I feel like it sometimes is just related to like because you just don't understand it, you know, like you just don't like it's something Where you're like I don't there's another point see how what another point here's an Fascinating conversation about snowblower. This is this is the stuff.

Okay, this is the podcast I know you're gonna say guys because we weren't there on monday or tuesday I was worried that I couldn't put that a bigger one under the deck But then again, that doesn't matter because we have a huge ass fucking basement door. It's only like four steps down It would be it's true hard. I would need assistance to get the bigger one out of the basement You know what I thought about those basement steps what we should put like a big like nail Like a big piece of plywood on it. So it's just a ramp.

You want me to do a little homemade ramp? I don't know if I want you to do it. I'm just saying I'm gonna say I'm gonna say I'm not let's build a ramp directly into our shitty basement. No, that's like that's like hospital visit material like well You built your I mean that that's like you gotta have you don't do a homeowner on that one No, I'm just saying there are many people that would do many people that maybe are even less technically Minded than myself Less manual than me We'll do that like why not don't you think it would be kind of a good idea though to have sort of a rampish touch Or even if it's just half of the stairs or half ramp.

Oh, yeah. Yeah for wheeling out bicycle for sure And that would be a great idea the lawnmower and snow plow that would be great because it's actually looks like it's kind of built for that purpose of I mean, it's if you see if you were to see our back Basement door outside this conversation would all make sense and maybe I'll possibly go take a picture of it for you Much like our front door. It's great. We got a really good front door and a really good back door It's wide.

They're so wide big big door right down right to our basement. It's like five steps. Maybe it's great Yeah, it's like and then you open up that right. It's practically a little barn door.

You open up. It is it's like a huge barn door basically That's not huge, but it's not that big wings open into it. It's like an old door It's probably I mean it's the house is you know well over a hundred years old Well, right because they're probably bringing large shit down there, you know, maybe even like livestock Stock exactly the horse down there I don't know Hey bales coming in and out and and waggins You know what would have been? It would have been coal from some huge fucking behemoth stardom.

It would just be a huge pile. Yeah, yeah coal would Yeah, I who knows? So I skimmed and bought the small snow blower and then also I'll tell you what the whole thing more fascinating facts There's a there's a plastic red key that operates that thing and if it comes in and out It's not it doesn't when it's in there. It's kind of in there So if you lose that red key you then lose all of any chance of even getting it started and also getting it started It's like I don't even know how I do it every time I do it.

I just start I start switching like wow hope this There's almost indecipherable directions directly on the snow blower, which is nice But but I kind of don't know what it means and I just start flipping things and Like revving like you know pulling the chain like you do an old lawnmower or any lawnmower I don't know I guess operated lawnmower. We're going gas with this one. It could be electric apparently It's our electric. I don't know but it's but I don't know guys But a little red key I'm fully expecting like some you know some winter You know, it's the first snowfall and then I go to retrieve our tiny snow blower from the blunderneath the back deck and the red key is gone And I'm like well that's done Push it further back back in the in the mausoleum back in the lawnmower mausoleum Stick it back there.

Yeah, because it's never gonna work and you can't even find a replacement key for that thing. You could look I guess I'm bringing it to the dom. Just a bunch of a pain. I enjoy that.

I'm not gonna lie. I like getting I like getting My dad's pick up and stick in the lawnmower. I'm sticking the snow blower on there and taking it right to the dump I'm happy. I'm happy to dump run.

I feel like happy to pay 25 bucks to have them do whatever the fuck they do those things Scrap it. Yeah, throw it in the hole in the middle of the ocean. I don't know. Oh god.

Don't put it in the ocean I think that's I think that's in the ocean. I think also More and a lot of stories like oh, we're gonna recycle it and we're gonna pull it apart You know they just they just put it in a barge and throw it off the continental shelf or it's like straight into one of those garbage hills You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, dirt on top. No, that's not that is the dump.

It's a new hill. It's a garbage hill That's one of my one of the okay. Well, this this well this this hillside where does come from outside outside of Hartford There is a dump outside of Hartford and it's right off and when you're driving down more fascinating facts folks You're driving down to Hartford from western Massachusetts on interstate anyone to your heart for Connecticut As you are approaching the Hartford skyline as it is to your left There is a dump and it is you know, it's they wear they put stuff and then put dirt on top of it or whatever the fucking they put vents I've seen that thing grow over the years. Yes, it's kind of satisfying.

It's huge now. It was really small back in the day It's like a mountain and it's it's just growing and growing so it's like there's downtown Hartford and there's its pile of its growing mound It's historical mountain the mound that some some days in the future decades Centuries from now they will excavate that thing and find so many interesting things including including by tiny snow blowers What is this you know speaking of trash and the environment in the ocean? I definitely had some sobering I don't know what's word thoughts feelings when I finished my book Unraveling I think it's called the one by Peggy Ornstein so one about the one who makes her own Yes, she makes her sweater from start to finish and I finished the book which I'm real proud of and I liked it a lot. I have to say towards the end of it.

I found myself kind of like crying a lot Because she's you know, she's a little bit younger than you I think so it's like she's in my pocket of like gen X buddies You know, she's on the like the little bit of the higher end and I'm on the lower end and and just A lot of kind of her commentary to on like her father getting older and how hard it was being away from him because she's you know She's from Minnesota and so he was in Minneapolis and like You know what? Yeah, she wrote this all the way back around to the beginning of this conversation This book was what took place or was conceived during the pandemic Yes, exactly, which is kind of funny because like I said, I just had my my mini pandemic weekend five days But she so I've kind of been like rolling around in this pandemic vibrating after reading this book and stuff But and boy Yeah listening to her talk about kind of that that ache and that pain of being distant from someone and being helpless to care for them, you know, you're sort of just seeing them through a screen and Ah, it's just so intense But so I was crying a lot about that and then she was talking just about all of all that she's learned about the process of what happens with You know clothing. I mean fast fashion is truly one of the worst offenders to the environment and Um, it's so so complicated because there are so many reasons why Cheap clothing exists and I won't get into all of that on here This isn't like that podcast specifically, but I'm just gonna say that the dying of Thread and yarn and your fabric What happens to the people having to handle the dye? What happens to the earth and the rivers like in india are just The colors that the rivers are now because of all of the dye runoff is She said it's just like a sight to see.

I mean, I It's it's it's intense. So I was just thinking a lot about that and just kind of consumerism and like Thinking wow what a for me It made me go. Oh, I really really want to pause before I buy myself a piece of clothing You know and ask myself like do I really need this like I want to make sure I'm being a very mindful consumer because the impact of just It's just so much. It's just so much and again that I feel like what am I?

I'm just one person And I can't make a difference if I'm just making that pause before all my purchases and blah blah blah and and you know and even trying to say like I'm only going to use natural dye and all of the stuff and The truth is there's complications with that too because it all requires water And so you have to use so much water The good news is if you do use natural dyes It can be repurposed and that water can be reused again And it can actually be regenerative and go into the soil in a positive and healthy way and like nourish the ground so there is definitely Good news with that. You just hope that whoever's doing the natural dyeing is able to actually I harness that you know what I mean? Yeah, dispose of it. Um, so Yeah, whoo Debbie down I'm just thinking a lot about this guys snow blowers and like every little thing I'm looking at now I'm like wow so this black sweater.

I'm wearing this black cotton sweater, you know, okay Let's move on. Let's move on. Please move on. Okay.

No, I just I care loo, you know, I know I know you do I care so much. Goodness Let's get to know that you also care about people like me. It's good to know that you care about me Sometimes people sometimes people can care a whole lot more about other stuff than they do people so That is true. That is true.

You can be even gel the caught up in their cause. They forget the humans. Yep I like that your care starts at home. It starts in your own Yeah, thanks.

I guess it's true You know, just when you think you can't care about one more thing you can the heart is expansive Another magical sir True True. I think the parenthood has been the biggest lesson for me with that just how Uh You can never possibly know how much you can care I just and then you have this person and you're like, oh wow. I care so much more than I ever thought I could care about something Scary caring scary. It's so scary.

It's so scary to care Scary to care Yeah, so I am um, I am in Seattle, Washington Loo's oldest daughter handler. Yep. She's with is with loo in Seattle. Yep, which is um Pretty awesome.

That's nice. This is like your first father daughter trick. Yeah, um, any but any is uh wanting to do some sightseeing here in Seattle Which is cool with me because I haven't done sightseeing in Seattle for decades. I just come here and do my thing Yeah, um, I haven't I don't do those things and go to the public market is so fun, right?

And there's a ton of little shops in it that are really fun and it's like cute Restaurants nestled in it too. Um, really cool. And we thought we walked right in on a fish throwing demonstration. It was perfect It was poetic.

I was poetic and I but I think both hand it's nice that we just uh, it's nice There's a nice vibe that my teenage daughter and I are having right now We're just kind of walking in situations and and uh going hey, I love it So yeah, but we realized what we realized when we were taking the uber home from after walking we walked uh, we walked capital hill and Coming up from downtown and we did a lot of walking and we took the uber back home As we reached the end of broadway on capital hill and uh, we were going back in the cabinet was dark We realized that that would that would have been the time to go to the space needle like in the dark I think that the darkness would have helped the uh acrophobia assuming that's the correct term I think it is if there's acrobats are you gonna do it in the dark then though? We can't really because we don't have time right? We don't have time um, okay Because I it's tomorrow so tomorrow's the last day. Yeah, it's the first show with our Okay, the two Seattle shows.

We're gonna do some stujas tunes with mark arm the lead singer Munt honey, who's like the perfect guy to do it. That's so cool. These stujas influence fan munt honey and our very stujas influence Fand dinosaur junior meeting on stage, which is cool. Is hanler gonna go to tonight's show?

I don't know Yeah, probably No, i should say this gonna be a big one. It's gonna be a big one daddy. What daddy's like. Yeah, you don't want to go That's fine.

I don't know. Yeah, it will be boring. It will be it will be boring. I'm not gonna lie to you It's gonna be a yeah, it's gonna be a lot of well and she did go to one of the shows in Portland right?

So she went to my solo show last night, which was like way, uh-huh how was that? It was cool, but I mean, she was stranded in an industrial area of South Seattle. No, I mean, how was the show? The show was fantastic.

Thank you to everybody. Any listeners who went to that show, thank you. Because it couldn't happen without you. Because I felt very, very, very welcome.

And I felt some really, I felt safe, I would say. It was about a hundred people there, and I felt safe. And safe enough to do really dumb, say really stupid things, but good nature. Okay.

Don't worry. No, she knows what that means. She knows what stupid can mean. It can mean anything like I know what you're capable of.

The secrets I could have divulged. No, God. The depths of embarrassment. Shut up.

No, but I was saying it was in a good way. It was good. All right. Well, you better ski down.

You got to go meet Dave Matthews. I'm going to be there until five. Now I'm getting nervous. Now you got me nervous.

I'm not nervous. It's going to be great. He's going to put you at ease because that's what really, really successful people do. Is there so successful that they I actually heard that about Taylor Swift that she is legendary for when people are very nervous to meet her.

She apparently is extremely conscious of that. And she's like, I saw this thing with Stephen Colbert, where he was talking about when his daughter got to meet Taylor Swift because she was like on the Stephen Colbert show and his daughter who doesn't normally, I guess care about any other guests was like, Oh my God, you're going to have Taylor Swift on. And he was nervous for his daughter and all of this stuff. And apparently was extremely shy.

You know, his kid was really nervous. And anyway, of course, when she goes into the green room or whatever to me, Taylor Swift, just turns around, opens up her arms and is like, Oh, hi, like I've been waiting to meet you. How are you gorgeous, beautiful thing? Come right here.

Like she immediately swooped her up and just made her feel completely at ease. And Stephen Colbert was like, Holy shit, I'll die for this one. What you just do? Like you just saved my ass.

I'm now a hero. It can be really, really awkward. And that's really for people. People are very vulnerable meeting.

That's I think what you have to remember is the vulnerability on the other side. They're very vulnerable or aggressive. So they're either vulnerable or entitled. Aggressive.

I don't know. I don't know. It takes it takes like that part because someone in between just doesn't bother coming up to you. Either you're like, I'm going to risk it all or you're like, I'm owed it all.

On some ways, I hope the crapsidoc does not break us nationally because I don't know if I could handle that the level of that kind of fame. It's a lot of pressure. The level of you're frozen. But anyway, I'll be able to tell you all about my meeting with Dave Matthews.

But he might go like sort of breeze in and breeze out like Jason Eastbell. He breezed in and breezed out and just left in this cloud of clove. He's frozen. You're frozen.

I can't hear anything. Flash over jewelry and a scent of fine cologne, Jason Eastbell. Stepped on stage, killed it, and stepped off stage. And went into the night.

Maybe Dave Matthews will do the same. I don't know. You're frozen. Your face is frozen.

Very interesting. Really nice. Look. Do I lose you?

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