SPEAKER_01 0:00

Alright, I'm done. I am done with this week. Enough. It has been fifteen days since Monday to get to this today Friday. This here today Friday.

SPEAKER_00 0:09

This is true. Jesus. But yesterday was so cool.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Yesterday was very cool and also a huge display of idiots. Oh, really? You should have seen it. So you yesterday for Big Boy! Mm-hmm. You and I thought this was actually smart after after you said uh you were staying in Corning. I'm like, well, this is actually kind of a brilliant idea. You're gonna get angles of Big Boy that we wouldn't have gotten here uh on the Miracle Mile in Elmire Heights. So okay, this all makes sense. I mean, it also makes sense because you have a house guest right now.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

And well, that was the thing. Originally I was gonna come back here, but then my house guest said, No, I I want to see this train. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

So it kind of hits you like that. You're like, I kind of want to see it.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Yeah, exactly. So she said, but will you come get me? Of course I will. So that's what I did, and that's why I stayed in Corning.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Because you look like you had a great view.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Oh my god, it was fantastic. Where we were was, you know where Walmart is in in the Corning Painted Post area. Oh, sure, yeah. There's this little like service road that goes it's across from Canada Road. Yep. So there's this little service road that goes down it and it's along the Shemong. Well, we and a ton of people were there.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

I was just gonna ask. I asked. I was just gonna ask. Was it packed?

SPEAKER_00 1:26

It was packed. And the way what I did was I parked actually closer to Walmart because I said, You guys, we gotta have an easy exit to get out of here.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Oh my god, I got a story about that.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

I don't want to get bottlenecked by the train. And we got out so smoothly. It was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Oh, that's nice. An excellent view because it was coming right through the depot over there. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Apparently it stopped at the depot because we're like, we're well aware.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Yeah, somebody had a tracker and they're like, uh we all did here, and we're like, why is it not leaving Gang Mills? Because whoever the ding dong is that said, it ought to be in Elmira Heights somewhere around 3:30, quarter to four. Boy, were you all dead wrong. It was five o'clock.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Oh, was it? Oh my god. Oh man. And what time did you get back here? Three?

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Uh yeah, I I went and even see, I didn't realize uh we had been told all week, uh, you know, they're moving on time. They left Hornell on time and then for whatever reason hung out in gang mills at the depot for uh uh quite a period of time. More water? Yeah, yeah. Maybe I don't know. That's a good question. So uh you know, we're following the tracker. I picked Lydia up from school thinking, oh my god, we'll miss it if she rides the bus or I can't get back here.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

You could have had dinner and came back.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

My God. So here we are running around. The kids are playing with Baxter, the station dog that lives here half the time. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, so that's fine. Well, that's fine. We finally went to the roof because what time? We knew it was getting close. Actually, we were up there probably about 4:30. So it was hot. It was very hot. And this is where I I mention what an exercise in stupidity.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Did anyone's parents ever tell them don't play on railroad tracks? Oh, we had adults who were on railroad tracks and courting. I'm like, get off the track, you dum-dums.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

The heights police are driving through with their loudspeakers going, get off the railroad tracks, please, get off the railroad. These parents, and this is what really kills me. If you're an adult and you're playing on the railroad tracks and something happens, I like to call that thinning the herd. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

But when you're a parent and you have kids that you're letting run around on the track, teach them right. How did you yes, that's it? Run faster. How did you not how at one point did you ever think, oh, maybe another train could have ripped through even quicker? Yes. Because this is a that's a long stretch from paint and post all the way, you know, past Elmira Heights. I mean, it was just it was it was insane. People were lined up here at three o'clock, uh both sides of the railroad tracks. So if you went over to the Elmira Heights side or, you know, our side, uh-huh and and the Valero gas station across the street had more people in that parking lot than they've ever had. Yeah, yeah. So it, you know, and it great view. And it was really cool. We did get to see it from that very high angle. I got a video of that. It's cool. Yep. It moved pretty quick. It was not yeah, it was a short train. Yeah, it was, it was, it went through pretty quick. It was the getting out of here. So at 5 30, Gavin had a haircut appointment that I had already missed one, so this was the make good, and I'm trying to get out of here, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me explain what happens on the miracle mile. First of all, you have people that don't normally they're not normally it's a busy road, but now it's like super times 10 busy.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Oh, the traffic was backed up.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

You have people all over the place. Then somebody gets in an accident further up the miracle mile past Ferrario Ford. Everything's at a dead stop. Scott's in the mode of like, I'm texting with Steve at Bella Capella going, I'm trying to get to you. He's like, well, as long as you can get here by 540. At one point, I turn around, had to go over to Grand Central to get on the highway to get out there. Then I get on the highway, Mother Nature drops a flipping bomb on us.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

And also the traffic was backed up because after we had watched Big Boy in Corning, we were gonna try to chase it to Big Flats or me. Sure. And we just couldn't because the traffic was bumper to bumper.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Oh, it was nuts. It was the the storm that hit right after the train went through was nuts. Oh my god, the dogs didn't fare well at home either yesterday, the puppies. It must have been bad in West Elmyra yesterday because they shook it up? Uh they were in a weird state yesterday, you know. Oh, that's really sad. I actually had to mop the kitchen a couple times.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Oh, these poor little guys.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Well, and you know, it it just was one of those days, you know. But at any rate, thank God it's Friday.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Thank God it's Friday. But one other thing about the big boy thing, which I thought was fascinating, was and we had asked this on the air, could anybody actually be in the train? Yes. Never knew the answer until I stood by a guy who's in the railroad industry and he said his brother was trying to buy a ticket. His brother, who he's like, my brother's a doctor, he's got so much money. Oh, but his brother stopped at $17,000 when they were auctioning off these seats. So it's like the elite were in that train.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Yeah, because they had all those passenger cars, but it that was obviously not for your average person.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

No, but $17,000. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

I'll tell you what though, cool experience. Moved everybody to do something. I would that was the cool part about it. And it felt like New York City trying to leave here yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

I have a question in a second. That uh that's about big boy and my idea I feel like you have to do it like Big Boy and my idea from yesterday. Okay.