No Carlo, Too Much Snow & Good Neighbors to the Rescue : Episode 19

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We discussed at length at a couple episodes now your original statement and then some reaction from Trina about the hose my wife down.

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Are we still talking about this?

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The only reason we are is I will say that this is my single favorite comment from anyone on anything that we have done.

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Okay.

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Is that we did a little short that was on TikTok.

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Right.

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And of course TikTok is bigger with the younger folks, some of whom are your sons.

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Yes.

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And the comment was very succinct.

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It was brief, but it was on the one where we discuss hosing, hosing, hosing Trina.

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And it was just Nikki and his comment was what just the, just the word.

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What?

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I almost died.

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I loved the comment immediately.

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That made me laugh.

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So I literally, I'm looking at my phone, laying in bed.

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Kelly's, she's like, what are you laughing at?

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I'm like, Oh God.

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Yeah.

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So I thought, just what?

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This is the gray hair and daycare podcast with a combined age of 111 years and a combined IQ in that same range.

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Your hosts Frank Cereo and Carlo Russo.

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Okay.

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We are back.

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Here we are.

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We're back.

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Frank, you you're back because you deserted me.

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I did.

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And went to Florida for, you were gone for two, two weeks, almost two weeks.

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Yeah.

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I had to do some work out there and I got out at the right time.

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Yes.

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Well, by which he means we were buried under mountains of snow for like, it seemed, what seemed like forever duration of my sending pin pictures of please, you left me, please come home.

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It was horrible.

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But yeah, but I'm back.

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We are back.

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So we're playing a little bit of catch up, but we are here as always.

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I am Frank Cereo.

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I'm 55 years old.

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And this episode, my wife is 36 weeks pregnant.

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We are getting close.

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It is a, it's a crazy, crazy situation.

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Things have just feel like it's moving really, really fast, which is, which is good.

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It's very exciting.

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But so as, as usual, we have something new.

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I'm not sure if this is something I've ever had.

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Okay.

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From a produce standpoint for a size comparison.

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I'll let you know.

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And I'm interested if you loved every produce product you gave me.

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This week, little baby Josie is the size of a Swiss chard.

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I don't think that's been said.

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I don't know.

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I don't have any idea.

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Pictures right here.

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You're out there, Phil.

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And you have cooked some Swiss chard recently.

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Let us know what the hell it is.

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That's the size.

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So it's size of Swiss chard.

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She right now, according to where we are 36 weeks, looks like a newborn.

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It looks like a baby, but lungs and brain still developing.

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It sounds like everything else is largely there.

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Like mine.

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That's exactly it.

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Still developing.

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I still got time.

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That's a genius.

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So that's where we are for the baby update.

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So this episode and next, what you're going to see is we normally have been trying to do it a week at a time.

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And, and there's a little about a couple of weeks lag between when we record and when you guys see stuff.

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Right.

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But what we're going to do is probably we're going to cover week 36.

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And then next episode, we'll probably catch up with week 37 and week 38.

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Sure.

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But we're trying to even it out because a lot has happened while you were gone.

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We have lots of updates.

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I can't wait.

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So we're going to, we're going to get right into it though.

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Okay.

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With well, unless is there anything, was there anything super exciting about your, your trip or any of that stuff?

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Nothing really exciting except weather wise.

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Obviously it was a nice break.

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Nice weather.

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The only time I called Trina was when it was raining.

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Cause I didn't know.

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It was tough.

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It was tough to call back home while you guys were dealing with all that snow.

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I hated being away from the house.

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I left, my dad was in the hospital.

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My son just got the test back that he had the flu.

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Oh man.

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And Trina was stuck with all this.

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Right.

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And then I left.

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So I was feeling kind of like, and you left me and I left Frankie and I felt, you know, kind of bad because I was home for the whole month of January.

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Yep.

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Nothing like this happened where I could have helped.

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And the minute I started working again, everything went to complete crazy town.

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It was something.

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So that was it.

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It did make me feel better.

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Cause I would be like on my back in snow, trying to dig my Jeep out.

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And I would just, when I would be ready to give up, I would open my phone and there'd be a video of you and Frank Spadone walking down the street in Florida.

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That's right.

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He's in a tank top.

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I'm like, okay, at least Carlos safe.

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Yes.

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I was doing, I was doing our daily vlogs, which I kept up with the whole time in Florida.

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Yeah.

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So I did that.

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So nothing, nothing major.

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I feel like I'm piling on and making you feel worse.

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Everything went well.

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You were working, you were there working.

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I was working and everything went well.

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Yeah.

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So I'm back now and I'm ready to get into baby talk.

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Okay.

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Well, where we're going to start is our next installment of the silver Fox mailbox.

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So this time we just got a couple.

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So, and these were on some shorts that we put out there.

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There was a short, one of them that we talk about how I have a tendency when you come to record to send you home with various treats, popcorn and chocolates and the moose punch.

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And one of our fans that we see commenting and liking stuff a lot, Gina Marie, Gina, Gina said moose munch is yummy, which she is.

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I was, you are a hundred percent correct.

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It is very, very yummy.

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So we had to yell at you about giving us, yes, Trina did.

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She did say, please stop.

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Please stop.

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Yes.

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So there is that.

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The other one that I thought was a little more funny was we discussed at length at a couple episodes.

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Now your original statement, and then some reaction from Trina about the hose, my wife, are we still talking about this?

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The only reason we are is I will say that this is my single favorite comment from anyone on anything that we have done.

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Okay.

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Is that we did a little short that was on tech talk.

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Right.

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And of course, tick-tock is bigger with the younger folks, some of whom are your sons.

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Yes.

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And the comment was very succinct.

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It was brief, but it was on the one where we discuss hosing, hosing, hosing Trina.

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And it was just Nikki.

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And his comment was what?

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Just the, just the word.

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I almost died.

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I loved the comment immediately.

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That made me laugh.

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So I, we're literally, I'm looking at my phone laying in bed.

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Kelly's I was, she's like, what are you laughing at?

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I'm like, look.

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Oh God.

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Yeah.

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So I thought just what, what that, what that would be.

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This is the beauty of the internet.

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Imagine if we, when we were kids, your father, somehow there's video of him in the coffee shop talking about something with the coffee, the coffee shop podcast.

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That would be great.

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Actually.

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A lot of stuff that they couldn't be beeped out.

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That's true.

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Oh my God.

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So Nick, my son, Nick, my youngest.

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Yeah.

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I started him.

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He's on his way.

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He's a young man.

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He's 18 now.

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I have a feeling he'll survive, but I did when I saw that.

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That's funny.

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I did not know that.

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That's funny.

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That was fantastic.

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Yeah.

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So he's, he's watching at least the reels.

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He's watching the short.

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He's watching us on TikTok.

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That's it.

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So that is the silver Fox mailbox.

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And now since we have so much to get, to get to and through, we'll go right into what just happened.

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So, well, before I start, I know what just happened now.

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You made me a lovely cup of coffee in your new coffee machine.

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Now I said this jokingly a couple of episodes ago, Frank's going to buy a new coffee machine.

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And sure enough, I was, was I in Florida when you shot something or was I here?

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He was right before he came back maybe.

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And sure enough, he sends me new, a new cast member of the podcast or new equipment for the podcast.

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And so we had a nice cup of coffee.

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So that just happened there.

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That's true.

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That did just happen.

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I decided, look, it's all about the baby.

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It's all about the baby.

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Everyone keeps talking to me and laughing, saying you're going to be exhausted.

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You're going to be tired.

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Now I, I am a coffee drinker and I usually, I will make a pot in the morning.

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I get up early six o'clock in the morning.

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I make a pot 10 cups and I will drink that gentleman.

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I will drink that.

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It's half calf.

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It's not full calf.

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And I will drink that over the course of the morning.

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I'm usually wrapping up about 11.

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So over the course of five hours, are you like me?

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Do you let the coffee get cold?

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Cause I'm not just, it sits around or do you, do you drink it?

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I try to drink it when it's hot, but the only, it doesn't stay.

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So I'll hit the, hit it in the microwave to warm it up if it needs it.

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But so, but I'm not going to make a pot if I'm not on a, if I'm not going to be on a regular schedule anymore, I'm probably going to end up in caffeine withdrawal.

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And I really don't, I've had an espresso, one of the ones that uses the pods.

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I'm not a big fan.

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So I found one of the ones that you basically put the beans in and it does a cup at a time, grinds the beans fresh, does it, it does cappuccino and all the milk.

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It's fantastic.

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It's like you swipe through, you pick whatever drink you want, how intense, how big you can do two at a time.

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It's awesome.

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So I'm going to rely on that to keep me alive.

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I think you're on the right track.

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I think it was a good investment.

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So we did do that.

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But so anyway, so we started with going back now, I was trying to remember this morning.

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I'm like, okay, it feels like it seems like forever since you left.

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But really this all, you know, this week started with a checkup and a fetal stress test or non-stress test.

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Do we talk about, I think we talked about that already once.

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Yes, we did.

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Yeah.

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So basically we're getting these weekly now to make sure things are on track the right way.

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So again, we go in now we kind of know how this works.

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They put the two sensors on a little bit easier time.

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Josie was not avoiding the sensors as well as she had previously and everything looked good.

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Heart rate variability is good.

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Everything's fine.

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Nice.

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So we did that, but we're kind of, you know, it's week 36 all along.

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They've been telling us probably we'd be induced in week 39.

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So it's only three weeks away and we're thinking, okay, when are we going to hear about this?

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And again, nothing.

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They're like, okay, we'll see you next week.

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So, okay, we'll see you next week.

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So then we kind of move into Kelly's going to work.

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She's been working there several years now.

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She has some of her coworkers that are very nice.

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And they, as a surprise, threw her a baby shower.

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Oh, really?

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Really?

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Yeah.

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So now this is the third one.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So there was a few items like straggler items left on the registries because we had the one in Buffalo and we had the one here in town and now this other, so they like cleaned out the rest of the baby registry and really some very generous, nice gifts.

250
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She's a kind of a more private person with work stuff.

251
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She keeps work at work, but I think she was really surprised by how, yeah, how, how nice it was.

252
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So that was, you know, that was really cool.

253
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But it was also around that time, that part of the week, she started, she noticed that she started to see some little flashes of light in her vision.

254
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Okay.

255
00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:12,360
And she didn't really mention it, but I was around when she was talking to her sister about it.

256
00:13:12,460 --> 00:13:12,740
Okay.

257
00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:16,540
And her sister of course was like, well, did you mention anything to the doctor?

258
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And Kelly said, well, no.

259
00:13:18,820 --> 00:13:22,160
Well, you should, you should call your doctor, talk to them about it.

260
00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:32,740
So she was at work and she called the doctor and they said, well, you know, have you noticed anything different with, you know, is your blood pressure?

261
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Well, not sure.

262
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So she went in, they took her blood pressure and her blood pressure was a little bit high.

263
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So those two things, the combination of this visual phenomenon of the, the seeing flashes or a flex like flex, she describes it like a chandelier effect.

264
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I don't know what that means.

265
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Like she's like, maybe.

266
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Yeah.

267
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So she sees that and then her blood pressure is a little bit high, which it has not been.

268
00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:10,500
So the doctor's like, okay, we're going to do a bunch of blood work and see what's going on because what they're worried about is what we talked about previously, a little bit, the preeclampsia.

269
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Yes.

270
00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:11,460
Right.

271
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Which can be, is very dangerous.

272
00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:13,840
Gotta be careful.

273
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So they, they did that.

274
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And now when she came home and we were kind of waiting for the, the results with the blood test or the blood work that they did, I was, I, I, I know, I tried to, I think I know Kelly really well.

275
00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:42,980
I know when she's upset and when things were out of her and I knew when she was on her way to work that day, we were talking about work stuff for her work stuff and she was pretty worked up.

276
00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:45,860
She was a little upset about work, about work.

277
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Right.

278
00:14:46,780 --> 00:14:52,260
So I'm, and I know that, and I was asking her how her day was going up until she had to go to the doctor.

279
00:14:52,820 --> 00:14:53,880
Sounded pretty stressful.

280
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Right.

281
00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,740
And she has a job that can be very stressful.

282
00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,660
So I, I'm like, you know, your blood pressure has been good all along.

283
00:15:02,740 --> 00:15:03,920
Every time we go in, it's good.

284
00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:04,800
It's been good.

285
00:15:05,420 --> 00:15:09,080
So, you know, maybe you were stressed, like maybe you're stressed out.

286
00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,940
I know I've had that happen to me more than once.

287
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I've gone, I went one time, I'm going for a physical, I sit down in the waiting room, I get a work text that was just, just all right.

288
00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,280
I'm so, and I go in highest blood pressure they've ever taken on me.

289
00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,740
And I literally, I told the nurse, I'm like, look, just take it in a little while again.

290
00:15:29,740 --> 00:15:34,800
Cause I know it's not like when you're doing like a procedure, they know your blood pressure is going to be high.

291
00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:35,500
You're nervous.

292
00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:36,600
Yeah, absolutely.

293
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So obviously do that.

294
00:15:38,460 --> 00:15:40,360
So I'm thinking, I'm hoping it's that.

295
00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:40,660
Sure.

296
00:15:41,140 --> 00:15:43,400
And luckily we get the results.

297
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They don't call.

298
00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:50,500
So the blood, the, the blood work, whatever they were worried about finding, they didn't find.

299
00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:50,860
Okay.

300
00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,040
So felt, you know, felt like, okay, relieved, relieved.

301
00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,020
We can kind of set, we can kind of set that aside.

302
00:15:57,020 --> 00:16:03,000
But then, so this is around the time you, you desert me and I'm all by myself.

303
00:16:03,660 --> 00:16:06,680
My wife, my kids, your whole family.

304
00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,460
We're all just like, where did he go?

305
00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:09,880
I was on the news missing.

306
00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,480
So this is, so this is Thursday.

307
00:16:13,660 --> 00:16:15,260
This is like the week of Valentine's day.

308
00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:16,440
We're talking about, right?

309
00:16:16,820 --> 00:16:19,240
So Valentine's day is Friday, Thursday.

310
00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,420
We go to bed, the weather's fine.

311
00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:24,600
There's nothing wrong when I left.

312
00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,700
It's winter in Syracuse, right?

313
00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:30,240
So it's not great, but there's no, nothing to worry about.

314
00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:31,520
There's no chaos happening.

315
00:16:32,140 --> 00:16:36,520
We wake up and we get up early Friday morning, 6am.

316
00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:46,060
And I'm looking at, I can't, I'm looking at the, the, the doors in our bedroom outside and I can't see.

317
00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:52,000
And I look and there's just snow on the window, like stuck to the window.

318
00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,000
And then I'm peering over that and there's drifts of snow.

319
00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:57,940
And I'm like, what's going on?

320
00:16:58,540 --> 00:17:00,080
I go to the, I go to the front.

321
00:17:00,260 --> 00:17:06,760
I look and there's easily three, four feet of snow everywhere.

322
00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:07,280
Wow.

323
00:17:07,819 --> 00:17:12,000
And it's drifting in different places, windy, still snowing, still going.

324
00:17:12,060 --> 00:17:12,859
And it's still dark out.

325
00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:14,380
So you really can't appreciate it.

326
00:17:14,380 --> 00:17:15,900
Yeah, you're not seeing the whole thing.

327
00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:23,079
The first thing I'm seeing is, you know, when you walk out our front door, we have two posts and two big coach lights.

328
00:17:23,579 --> 00:17:25,900
They're covered, right?

329
00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,920
So completely, you know how when the snow is so heavy, it just coats everything and it kind of grows.

330
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:32,140
That's what it's like.

331
00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:35,400
So I'm like, okay, I know this is going to be a long day.

332
00:17:35,420 --> 00:17:36,860
This is going to be a rough day.

333
00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:46,940
I'm like, okay, I go and I get, look, a couple of Christmases ago, one of my presents was a pair of heavily insulated Carhartt overalls.

334
00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:52,920
I put on my Moodons, I put on my overalls, I put on my parka and I go out there.

335
00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:57,620
I can barely get to the Jeep, to the plow.

336
00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:04,800
I put, now I have a V plow on a Jeep Wrangler, not the heaviest plow, but we're far away from the road.

337
00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:06,740
We're like 600 feet from the road.

338
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,500
Got a big, long kind of quarter circle driveway.

339
00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,340
So it's a long ways.

340
00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:15,520
And I'm like, I'm just going to try to, you know, cut a path.

341
00:18:16,020 --> 00:18:19,280
I put it in the V position because I've never, ever had a problem.

342
00:18:19,460 --> 00:18:20,920
You can get through any depth of snow.

343
00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:22,860
It's just because it just pushes it out of the way.

344
00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:23,960
You're not trying to push a lot of snow.

345
00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:25,200
It just moves it away.

346
00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:37,800
I get maybe a third of the way and the snow is building up in front of my plow so deep that the Jeep can't move.

347
00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:39,280
You made yourself a wall.

348
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:39,720
I'm stuck.

349
00:18:39,940 --> 00:18:46,240
So then I thought, okay, so then I start backing up and I'm just running up ahead of steam and hitting it.

350
00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:47,080
You're ramming it.

351
00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:57,920
Trying to break through because the drifting, I'm thinking, okay, if I get through this, I could see the snow was a little lower, but it's also so white and still snowing.

352
00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,820
And so kind of smooth.

353
00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:01,320
You're giving me anxiety right now.

354
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:01,880
It was horrible.

355
00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:02,620
You're killing me.

356
00:19:02,620 --> 00:19:03,500
I couldn't even see.

357
00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:15,140
Now I have put out stakes on either side of my driveway all the way to the road, four foot tall, four foot tall stakes with orange, like orange hazard stakes.

358
00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,100
They're gone.

359
00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:17,860
Cover.

360
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,580
You can't, you can't see that.

361
00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,000
So I'm doing this.

362
00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:22,860
I'm backing up.

363
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:23,960
I'm doing it.

364
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,660
I'm not, I'm not even sure where to aim if I get through it.

365
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,520
So I'm like, okay, I'm going to walk out a little ways to see.

366
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,140
So I start walking.

367
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,800
It's up to my waist.

368
00:19:35,420 --> 00:19:40,940
I can't do more than six steps and I'm winded trying to push through this snow.

369
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,320
It's heavy, heavy snow.

370
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:44,780
So I'm like, okay, turn around, go back.

371
00:19:45,140 --> 00:19:46,100
Long story short.

372
00:19:46,580 --> 00:19:49,600
I try to the point where my Jeep gets stuck.

373
00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:50,920
So now it's stuck.

374
00:19:52,380 --> 00:19:53,900
So I can't even go back anymore.

375
00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:57,780
I can't, I back cause I, when I'm backing up, I can't see the only way I can back up.

376
00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,120
Can't look in the rear view of the backup camera.

377
00:20:00,220 --> 00:20:00,820
You can't see anything.

378
00:20:00,940 --> 00:20:06,500
I have to open the door and stick my head out and try to go back and I get off a little bit stuck.

379
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,600
So now I'm laying on the bomb.

380
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,500
It's 20, like 23 degrees.

381
00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:11,780
I'm in a park.

382
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:26,960
I have to climb over the snow into my, into my garage to get a shovel and I'm on my back in the snow next to the Jeep digging snow out from underneath the Jeep because it's kind of bottomed out.

383
00:20:27,060 --> 00:20:28,240
It's settled on the snow.

384
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,520
I get it unstuck and I'm like, there's no way I can do that.

385
00:20:31,980 --> 00:20:39,460
And I think, okay, uh, the only thing I could do is rely on the kindness of my neighbors.

386
00:20:39,740 --> 00:20:40,080
Yes.

387
00:20:40,460 --> 00:20:42,900
And I have a, we have some great neighbors across the street.

388
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,840
Chris and Ashley, I, I messaged him.

389
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:50,760
I'm like, Hey, is there any way he actually has an excavation business called Northern Atrax?

390
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,960
If you need any, any work like that, call him up, call Chris at Northern Atrax.

391
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,860
I think he took my car out when I got stuck.

392
00:20:58,620 --> 00:21:00,440
He's a great neighbor.

393
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,480
They're really, they're sweet people.

394
00:21:02,780 --> 00:21:04,040
So I call him.

395
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,740
I'm like, Hey, just, can you cut a path for me with your plow?

396
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,640
And then I'll, I'm thinking, then I'll be able to push the rest of it out.

397
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:10,880
Right.

398
00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:18,420
So he comes over with like a, he has a full, like a three quarter ton diesel full size pickup with a plow.

399
00:21:18,620 --> 00:21:19,520
You ain't scaring him.

400
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:24,800
He's plowing and it's coming up over the plow onto the hood of his, his truck.

401
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:31,740
There's so much snow, but he gets through and I now have a path and I'm like, okay.

402
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,060
So then I get out there with the little Wrangler and I'm trying to widen it out and do it.

403
00:21:37,220 --> 00:21:42,460
But I'm basically just stemming the tide because it's still snowing more and more.

404
00:21:42,460 --> 00:21:50,800
So I'm just basically keeping his path that he cut for me, which is a plow blade with, I can't make it any wider.

405
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,940
The banks are so high that when my plow, my little plow tries to push snow up, it hits and goes back.

406
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,200
So it's, it's, but at least by this time I can get out, we're not trapped.

407
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:08,220
So it comes down to, this is Valentine's day and we had made reservations.

408
00:22:08,220 --> 00:22:13,840
It's kind of our, our last Valentine's day without, without kiddos.

409
00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:18,920
So we, as, as a couple, so I didn't want to miss that.

410
00:22:18,980 --> 00:22:22,060
So we were able to, we, we didn't take the other cars.

411
00:22:22,180 --> 00:22:27,080
I went in the, in the Jeep, we went and had dinner and we'd had a really nice dinner.

412
00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:28,160
We went to Texas to Brazil.

413
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:28,760
It was nice.

414
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:36,740
And, and that was good with Kelly's current dietary restrictions, lots of protein, didn't have to worry about carbs and stuff.

415
00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:42,960
But the thing that killed me was now this is the weekend of, you know, it's like Valentine's day weekend, president's day.

416
00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:43,260
Right.

417
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:43,580
Right.

418
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,180
So long weekend.

419
00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:46,960
I'm thinking I'm going to get a bunch of stuff done.

420
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:53,140
No, no, because the snow would not stop.

421
00:22:53,360 --> 00:23:01,520
I was plowing four and five times a day just to keep a way to get to the road.

422
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:01,960
Right.

423
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,500
Like just to keep it clear enough.

424
00:23:03,780 --> 00:23:04,300
Yeah.

425
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:05,660
You're just to get out.

426
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:12,100
You're maintaining and the whole time, never even approaching 30 degrees high winds.

427
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,700
So Saturday plowing four or five times, keep it just enough.

428
00:23:16,780 --> 00:23:29,940
We go to church, we come home Sunday, same to all day long plow four or five times and either Saturday or Sunday, then it also, it warmed up just enough for it to be freezing rain and ice.

429
00:23:30,060 --> 00:23:30,480
That's what I heard.

430
00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:47,860
So now it's, now it's there's feet of snow covered with a hard, crusty shell of ice, but I'm still just stemming the tide the whole, the whole time I am feeling like, and this is, this is how it relates to a child and pregnancy.

431
00:23:48,340 --> 00:23:59,320
The whole time I am in what I could only describe as a low grade panic attack because all I can think about is my wife is 36 weeks pregnant.

432
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:06,260
She could go into labor at any moment and I can't get her to the hospital, let alone, I can't even get her to the road.

433
00:24:06,380 --> 00:24:06,600
Right.

434
00:24:06,780 --> 00:24:08,120
If this gets closed up.

435
00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:09,600
Yeah, that's the, yeah.

436
00:24:09,780 --> 00:24:12,680
So Sunday it's still coming down.

437
00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:14,620
It just still coming down.

438
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:15,620
Won't stop.

439
00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:16,360
There's so much.

440
00:24:16,460 --> 00:24:20,660
No, the, the, the, the deck in back is just a drift.

441
00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:23,840
The dogs go literally.

442
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:32,380
And my dogs usually like the snow and cold rumple goes out the door, just gets just outside the door, does her business and comes back in Watson.

443
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:32,880
Same thing.

444
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,200
They don't want to like it.

445
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,380
They want nothing to do with it on nothing to do with it.

446
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:42,000
But now I'm thinking I'm worried because it's coming down hard into the nighttime and I'm going to sleep.

447
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:48,180
So I go out at 10 30 at night and I plow on Sunday night, 10 30.

448
00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:49,800
I get it as clear as I can get it.

449
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,360
Whatever happens, happens.

450
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:52,360
I'm up.

451
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,160
I get up at five 30.

452
00:24:54,980 --> 00:24:59,100
I go outside and there's another foot, foot and a half.

453
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,480
And again, I can't get through it.

454
00:25:03,060 --> 00:25:04,040
I'm stuck.

455
00:25:04,180 --> 00:25:11,060
And I'm like, now, and now this is a day that it's a Monday and we typically have our appointments for the OBGYN.

456
00:25:11,660 --> 00:25:13,720
So I'm like, okay.

457
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,560
Uh, the, you know, that's kind of where we are.

458
00:25:16,580 --> 00:25:18,280
Five 30, five 30 in the morning.

459
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,160
We got an appointment at eight 30 and I can't get to the road.

460
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,000
And, and I have to come back in after trying for two hours.

461
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,040
I have to come back in and tell Kelly.

462
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,260
So now it's like seven 30.

463
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,440
It's like seven o'clock, seven, seven o'clock.

464
00:25:33,540 --> 00:25:34,880
So it's probably out there for an hour and a half.

465
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,920
So I'm like, look, I don't think we can make it to the doctor's appointment.

466
00:25:40,180 --> 00:25:43,780
Why don't you call and see if you can reschedule to the afternoon.

467
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:58,260
And I'm going to call, I'm going to call Chris and see, cause Chris was like, obviously people with equipment like he has all weekend long, he was out doing stuff and he's doing stuff for businesses.

468
00:25:58,380 --> 00:26:10,440
One of the things he posted was he was up in Brewerton and he had cleared a parking lot for somebody using his skid steer, which for people who don't like a skid steer is like a small bulldozer.

469
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,940
It's like an eight foot blade, eight foot bucket.

470
00:26:14,180 --> 00:26:17,680
So you can, he could scoop the snow up and put it where he needed to be.

471
00:26:18,060 --> 00:26:26,340
So I'm like, is there any way, like, is there any way you could come over and just clear my drive, clear the whole thing for me?

472
00:26:26,380 --> 00:26:27,320
I don't care what it costs.

473
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,140
And he's like, yeah, absolutely.

474
00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:35,760
I told him Kelly was able to reschedule to like later to one o'clock.

475
00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:36,380
Right.

476
00:26:36,980 --> 00:26:38,360
But he's got things going on.

477
00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:40,040
I'm like, yeah, we've got a doctor's appointment.

478
00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:43,040
We really want to make to help a pregnant woman.

479
00:26:43,140 --> 00:26:43,460
Right.

480
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,420
And I mean, that's dangerous to not have a way out.

481
00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:52,620
No, first of all, he tried to charge me probably less than what he spent on fuel.

482
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:53,660
Right.

483
00:26:53,820 --> 00:27:00,040
And I was like, no, I'm not, I'm not going to pay you that, but he said, don't worry about it.

484
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,000
And he comes over now, this is a huge piece of equipment.

485
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:03,600
Yeah.

486
00:27:03,860 --> 00:27:09,000
It took him about an hour and a half hour and 45 minutes to clear.

487
00:27:09,380 --> 00:27:11,840
It's just so much note to, but he widened it out.

488
00:27:12,420 --> 00:27:14,240
So, so yeah, that was it.

489
00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:17,260
But it was just as chaos.

490
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,280
It is the most, it was the most horrible feeling.

491
00:27:20,340 --> 00:27:27,600
I told Kelly because Kelly is one of those people that loves, she grew up in Buffalo on the top of a hill, right?

492
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,480
This is tons of snow all the time.

493
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,360
And she just loves to look at it.

494
00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:37,340
And I'm like, you cannot say you can't say the snow is pretty for at least a year.

495
00:27:37,660 --> 00:27:41,500
It was just absolute, just an absolute nightmare.

496
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,660
It's totally different in your case.

497
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:52,740
Cause you have a pregnant wife at home that if you woke up and it was a year ago where nobody was pregnant and you're just like, what do we got in the freezer?

498
00:27:52,860 --> 00:27:53,120
Right.

499
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:54,500
Let's cook something.

500
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:55,620
We didn't lose power.

501
00:27:55,660 --> 00:27:56,780
A lot of people lost power.

502
00:27:56,940 --> 00:27:59,360
Thousands of people had no power in the area.

503
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,140
We were lucky we didn't lose power.

504
00:28:01,460 --> 00:28:04,480
You know, we're warm and safe inside.

505
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,600
If we didn't have to go anywhere, you'd be fine.

506
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,860
And the crazy thing was, correct me if I'm wrong.

507
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:10,400
I wasn't here.

508
00:28:10,580 --> 00:28:11,420
I was on the beach.

509
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,080
That's not right.

510
00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:19,580
What I heard was everywhere.

511
00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:25,040
Didn't, I mean, everybody got snow, but some places got nailed while other places just got snow.

512
00:28:25,220 --> 00:28:25,380
Yeah.

513
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,480
Like, well, and it was, yeah, it was very different.

514
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:37,700
Like the day, the first day he cut through and just cut the first half Friday on Valentine's day, his wife, Chris's wife, actually works in the city.

515
00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:38,940
She was in the city and there was nothing.

516
00:28:39,180 --> 00:28:39,400
Exactly.

517
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:39,940
That's what I read.

518
00:28:40,460 --> 00:28:41,560
And it was different.

519
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,300
We had to go over the weekend.

520
00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:45,680
My sister and her husband were traveling.

521
00:28:45,820 --> 00:28:47,040
They were also away.

522
00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:48,600
They missed all the weather they were in.

523
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,660
They had gone to London and then Paris.

524
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:56,660
And so we had to go water her plants and there was snow there, but not like here.

525
00:28:56,660 --> 00:28:57,980
And that's just up the road.

526
00:28:58,220 --> 00:28:59,700
Like literally my brother and sister.

527
00:28:59,940 --> 00:29:08,740
I know this is very detailed information here, but my brother in Cicero, not too far from Liverpool just nailed and everybody else was like, Oh, okay.

528
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:09,620
We got some snow.

529
00:29:09,820 --> 00:29:11,640
It was very, it was very localized.

530
00:29:12,020 --> 00:29:13,420
Thank God you had the neighbor.

531
00:29:13,740 --> 00:29:14,220
Yeah.

532
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:14,880
Without a doubt.

533
00:29:14,980 --> 00:29:16,520
Chris and Ashley are awesome.

534
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,000
They're a beautiful little family.

535
00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:25,160
They have a boy and two little girls and a absolutely prime age for babysitting in the future.

536
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,180
By the time we meet, like we're going to be perfect.

537
00:29:29,820 --> 00:29:32,040
But, uh, and I know Chris travels for work.

538
00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:35,540
He has his business and he has an, he has a, another guy just started a new job.

539
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,900
And I know he listens sometimes when he's driving.

540
00:29:37,980 --> 00:29:38,460
So hopefully.

541
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:39,560
Thumbs up.

542
00:29:39,780 --> 00:29:40,560
Yes, absolutely.

543
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:41,840
Huge thumbs up.

544
00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:44,020
Again, Northern eight tracks coming your way.

545
00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:49,720
If you are in Syracuse area and you need any of that stuff, I'm going to, I'm going to sponsor him.

546
00:29:49,980 --> 00:29:50,620
Look it up.

547
00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:52,220
Look him up.

548
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:59,500
Give him some So yeah, without that, I would have been, I would have just felt like a complete failure as a man to be able to take care of my wife.

549
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,860
I mean, you have a, a good walkway or driveway.

550
00:30:04,060 --> 00:30:05,380
You have a long, Oh yeah.

551
00:30:05,580 --> 00:30:05,800
Yeah.

552
00:30:06,020 --> 00:30:10,000
One of my favorite things about this house is that I have a driveway that you can get up to 30 on.

553
00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:13,820
You can get a ticket.

554
00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:17,340
Yeah.

555
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,540
There's the GPS works on my driveway.

556
00:30:20,540 --> 00:30:21,840
Take a left at the garage.

557
00:30:21,860 --> 00:30:22,480
It is funny.

558
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:23,500
Yeah.

559
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,540
We're, we're a ways from the road when you're stuck like that.

560
00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:29,560
When you wait, especially when you wake up to that.

561
00:30:29,780 --> 00:30:30,180
Yeah.

562
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,860
Your whole day is dictated.

563
00:30:31,980 --> 00:30:32,600
You're done.

564
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,540
You're, you're, you're, you know, I have to figure this out now.

565
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:37,060
Yep.

566
00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:38,380
You don't have any choice now.

567
00:30:39,020 --> 00:30:41,020
There's no cup of coffee and there's no break.

568
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:41,360
Right.

569
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:41,980
There's right.

570
00:30:42,060 --> 00:30:43,160
There's no like, well, I'll do it.

571
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:44,100
No, it's, yeah.

572
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:45,640
You start struggling.

573
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:46,700
You start worrying.

574
00:30:46,820 --> 00:30:47,240
You start.

575
00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:48,700
Oh yeah.

576
00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:51,880
And what was, it was cute about it was Kelly.

577
00:30:52,780 --> 00:30:57,540
She's like, let me come out and how I'm like, stay inside doing that.

578
00:30:57,540 --> 00:30:59,080
And she's, we're talking about it.

579
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:06,040
And I feel horrible that if we can't get to the road and she's like, well, if we had to, we could just walk to the road.

580
00:31:06,140 --> 00:31:11,480
And I'm like, no, I couldn't walk to the literally six steps.

581
00:31:11,580 --> 00:31:12,980
And I'd have to stop over your waist.

582
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:13,800
You're not walking.

583
00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:14,160
Yeah.

584
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,080
There's no walking.

585
00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:20,380
It was just, I literally, at one point you were in Florida.

586
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,640
My sister's in Paris.

587
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:23,760
My brother's in London.

588
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,600
I messaged my brother.

589
00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:32,760
I'm like, find me something under $800,000 with two acres in, in Franklin.

590
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:38,460
And he jokingly says, he jokingly comes back with, that would be fine if you don't want a house on it.

591
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,820
And of course I look and it was true.

592
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,880
I'm looking at like where he lives in Syracuse.

593
00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:45,620
Yes, sir.

594
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:46,380
Yes, sir.

595
00:31:46,380 --> 00:31:47,120
He says, okay.

596
00:31:47,380 --> 00:31:48,200
That's one thing.

597
00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:52,060
That's one advantage that we have most normally had in five years.

598
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:53,560
They said, I think so.

599
00:31:53,640 --> 00:32:00,180
Honestly, you like in our lifetime, the blizzard of 93 was this, and that was a lot.

600
00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:01,240
This was worse.

601
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,600
At least it for my situation.

602
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,360
Now I remember back then I was stuck in silo when that happened.

603
00:32:08,420 --> 00:32:08,980
You were still in silo.

604
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:09,820
Okay.

605
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,720
I had to go to his house because I couldn't get home.

606
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,020
You couldn't get stuck actually in the road.

607
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:16,640
I had to leave it.

608
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,760
I was working at Leechmere at destiny and I didn't go over to Leechmere yet.

609
00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:23,000
And I was driving my Camaro.

610
00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:28,640
I remember that trip home and my Camaro, my brown, my crap brown Camaro.

611
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,200
I made it home and make it.

612
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:31,540
Oh yeah.

613
00:32:31,740 --> 00:32:31,940
Yeah.

614
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:39,480
It was fun because with rear wheel drive, you basically didn't, it was like, it was like a rudder steering.

615
00:32:39,740 --> 00:32:44,780
You store with the, you steer with the accelerator and I was blown by jeeps.

616
00:32:44,860 --> 00:32:45,620
Like it didn't matter.

617
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:51,740
And I got home and I was just, I just stayed home for three days and that was, that was a lot of snow.

618
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,260
Cause I remember we were on the third floor of an apartment building in a complex.

619
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:57,240
You could just jump right off.

620
00:32:57,380 --> 00:32:57,880
That's what we did.

621
00:32:57,980 --> 00:32:59,820
We were literally, we would jump off the deck.

622
00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:00,540
Are you serious?

623
00:33:00,660 --> 00:33:00,880
Oh yeah.

624
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:01,680
And land in the snow.

625
00:33:01,780 --> 00:33:02,040
You were fine.

626
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,800
Cause it was like five feet of snow.

627
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,460
Oh, that is hilarious.

628
00:33:05,820 --> 00:33:08,460
But there wasn't any, I was, this time there was no jumping.

629
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:09,040
No.

630
00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:13,840
There was laying in the ground looking at the sky saying, please, please make it stop.

631
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,720
I mean, I never ever get that lucky.

632
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:23,740
And again, I feel horrible because my whole family is sick and my wife was alone and this, that, and the other.

633
00:33:23,940 --> 00:33:28,320
And I'm like, not that I planned it, but yeah, I would have been the same way.

634
00:33:28,380 --> 00:33:29,360
I mean, we would have had to.

635
00:33:29,620 --> 00:33:37,580
It was, yeah, no, this was absolutely the worst winter weather I've, I've experienced in my lifetime.

636
00:33:37,740 --> 00:33:39,220
It was crazy.

637
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,840
It just, it just wouldn't stop.

638
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:43,720
It just kept coming.

639
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,060
So that was, that was it.

640
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:52,900
So we basically that week, the rest of that week was just maintaining survival.

641
00:33:54,120 --> 00:34:01,820
That was the other thing that kind of sucked was if you were a kid, that was one of the things my, my wife always trying to find the bright side.

642
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,420
Cause she's like, if you're a kid, this is absolutely magical, right?

643
00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:08,580
You out there, you're building forts, you're digging tunnels.

644
00:34:08,659 --> 00:34:10,179
It would be perfect for that.

645
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:10,659
And I agree.

646
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:16,179
But the thing that was sad was the kids were already on vacation that week.

647
00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:18,219
So they didn't even get snow days out of the deal.

648
00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:23,040
They were just trapped in the house, which for kids today, that probably isn't as big a thing.

649
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:23,820
It wasn't probably bad.

650
00:34:24,139 --> 00:34:28,900
It's probably not bad for kids like in like, I don't know, sixth grade.

651
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,620
But I have a teenager at home and he has a car.

652
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:33,139
Yeah.

653
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:35,960
He doesn't want to, he doesn't want to build a fort.

654
00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:42,940
But with him, he had the flu and his girlfriend was in Spain for the school trip.

655
00:34:43,060 --> 00:34:43,719
Isn't that crazy?

656
00:34:44,540 --> 00:34:45,699
Everybody was gone.

657
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:46,500
Yeah.

658
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:47,760
It was, it was something.

659
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,080
And I get home, it's 41.

660
00:34:49,620 --> 00:34:50,080
Oh yeah.

661
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,000
It was sunny a couple of days ago.

662
00:34:53,260 --> 00:34:58,060
I was talking to my sister when they were still, it was still nuts.

663
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:58,980
Hadn't stopped.

664
00:34:59,100 --> 00:34:59,220
Right.

665
00:34:59,340 --> 00:35:03,820
She came home with kind of like the middle of this next, the middle of that next week.

666
00:35:03,820 --> 00:35:05,820
And I was like, stay in Paris another day.

667
00:35:05,820 --> 00:35:13,620
They ended up making it home, their flight into, I think they flew into DC and then DC here.

668
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,340
Their flight in was, was delayed.

669
00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:22,180
And then the flight back was delayed, but they made it home on the same day.

670
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:23,600
A couple hours late.

671
00:35:23,780 --> 00:35:25,320
This is, I think, entertaining.

672
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,740
My intrepid brother-in-law, traveler.

673
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,920
He's, he worked in a job where he traveled all over Europe.

674
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:32,500
He's retired now.

675
00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:33,800
They travel all the time.

676
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:37,200
My sister's been to Paris more times than I've been to Utica.

677
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:39,960
I've done it a bunch of times.

678
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:43,000
They got hung up in customs.

679
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,400
Why do you think they got hung up in customs when they came back?

680
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,060
They brought, well, they had something on them.

681
00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:50,480
They had something.

682
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:50,900
A plant?

683
00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:51,320
A fruit?

684
00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:52,800
Fruit?

685
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:54,620
This is what kills me.

686
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,700
That's the first thing you think of.

687
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,240
What's the first thing you get hung up on?

688
00:35:58,460 --> 00:35:59,180
What did they tell you?

689
00:35:59,220 --> 00:35:59,840
No fruit.

690
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,560
No, no, no, no, no cocaine.

691
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:01,880
Right.

692
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:02,400
Right.

693
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,560
He said that he was trying to smuggle a couple bananas into the country.

694
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:05,980
You can't do that.

695
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:06,540
You don't.

696
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:07,420
Yeah, not everybody does.

697
00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:10,940
So they had to go to the, talk to the agriculture people to get.

698
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000
I wanted bananas.

699
00:36:12,660 --> 00:36:13,420
Go to Wegmans.

700
00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:14,460
Have you ever had a French banana?

701
00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:17,720
No, but I will go to jail for it.

702
00:36:18,020 --> 00:36:19,500
I will be deported.

703
00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:21,080
That held them up a little bit.

704
00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:21,880
That's funny.

705
00:36:22,340 --> 00:36:23,080
I can just see him.

706
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:25,160
Just have these bananas and grapes.

707
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:25,860
Yeah.

708
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,280
They're asking him like the, the beagle is sniffing the bag.

709
00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:29,000
What's in the bag?

710
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,500
We're going to make a banana split when we get home with these French bananas.

711
00:36:33,780 --> 00:36:34,660
That's funny.

712
00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:35,700
That was fun.

713
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,240
So, but that is, uh, that is week 36.

714
00:36:40,980 --> 00:36:42,060
That's what happened.

715
00:36:42,340 --> 00:36:44,640
That is, that is what happened.

716
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,280
That is what happened.

717
00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:51,540
So we will hopefully, uh, we'll catch up again.

718
00:36:51,620 --> 00:36:52,380
Next episode.

719
00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:57,520
We'll, we'll go through, uh, and bring you guys closer up to date with us.

720
00:36:57,900 --> 00:36:58,640
We're going to catch up.

721
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,640
We're going to, we are going to, we're going to catch up.

722
00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:05,260
We kind of started in episode one and two where we were covering those first few weeks.

723
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:13,200
And now as we approach episode 20 with this one's 19, as we approach episode 20, we might catch up a little bit too.

724
00:37:13,420 --> 00:37:14,020
We made it.

725
00:37:14,020 --> 00:37:15,940
Well, hopefully you'll make it to 20.

726
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,220
That would be nice.

727
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:17,860
We said 10.

728
00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:19,020
Remember 10 was our number.

729
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,580
We're going to have 10 episodes.

730
00:37:20,660 --> 00:37:24,160
We're going to now we doubled that or hopefully we'll know.

731
00:37:24,580 --> 00:37:25,720
And, uh, who knows?

732
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:26,560
Who knows now?

733
00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:28,880
Maybe in a couple of months we'll get to 21.

734
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,500
That's where the rubber really meets the road.

735
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:39,040
You know, we always, we always do something, you know, the baby's going to be here right now.

736
00:37:39,060 --> 00:37:39,800
It's all fun and games.

737
00:37:39,860 --> 00:37:43,620
We're talking about it, you know, Hey, how's that crib coming?

738
00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:46,560
And Hey, it really, it really is.

739
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,580
Like I'm forcing you to test out ridiculous products.

740
00:37:49,780 --> 00:37:51,180
It is all fun and games.

741
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,020
It's about to really, yeah, it's about to really change.

742
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,640
I'm going to be like, it smells like puke.

743
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,100
Are you, did you change yet?

744
00:37:58,420 --> 00:38:00,140
Is there sour milk in the studio?

745
00:38:00,540 --> 00:38:02,000
Yeah, it's going to be something.

746
00:38:02,260 --> 00:38:02,940
That'll be fun.

747
00:38:03,060 --> 00:38:05,660
It will be fun to you for people to watch too.

748
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,220
Don't forget if you're listening right now, you want to see this chaos.

749
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:09,820
Yes.

750
00:38:10,180 --> 00:38:12,140
Oh, go to the YouTube channel.

751
00:38:12,260 --> 00:38:13,920
Please subscribe, comment.

752
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,000
Oh, you'll love it.

753
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:17,640
Get your, hit that bell for alerts.

754
00:38:17,820 --> 00:38:23,060
For alerts every Tuesday at 7am when the new episode comes out.

755
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:24,480
Yeah, absolutely.

756
00:38:24,820 --> 00:38:25,140
YouTube.

757
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:27,160
It seems like it goes back and forth.

758
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,720
Some weeks the video does better.

759
00:38:29,820 --> 00:38:31,260
Some weeks the audio does better.

760
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:33,020
But absolutely.

761
00:38:33,340 --> 00:38:34,560
However, yes.

762
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,240
However you listen, we're, we're thankful that you do appreciate it.

763
00:38:39,260 --> 00:38:41,760
But yeah, like and subscribe and do all that cool stuff.

764
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:42,300
Absolutely.

765
00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:43,220
Okay.

766
00:38:43,460 --> 00:38:44,900
We will see you next time.

767
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,780
Well, folks, that's another episode of the gray hair and daycare podcast in the books.

768
00:38:51,340 --> 00:38:53,720
Thanks very much for tuning in and spending this time with us.

769
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:54,940
We hope it was fun.

770
00:38:55,460 --> 00:39:02,040
If you enjoyed this week's descent into the madness of dadness, be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any of our future adventures.

771
00:39:02,580 --> 00:39:10,640
While you're at it, give us a like and share the cast with your friends on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, carrier pigeon, whatever you crazy kids are using.

772
00:39:11,580 --> 00:39:23,520
Have any hilarious parenting stories of your own questions about navigating fatherhood later in life, or even when normal people do it, email us at ghdc.podcast at gmail.com.

773
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:24,840
We'd love to hear from you.

774
00:39:25,180 --> 00:39:27,120
And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed.