From Snowed-In Shenanigans To Playoff Hot Takes

Snow piles up, the studio sits quiet, and we refuse to miss a week. We hit record across a phone line and dive straight into the heart of winter life: a weekend of football that swung from gripping to grueling, a city wrapped in powder, and the odd rituals that take over every grocery aisle and gas station queue. It’s unpolished, real, and full of the kind of moments that make you nod, laugh, and occasionally yell at your speaker.

We start with the slate everyone watched and the matchup no one enjoyed. Denver vs New England gets a frank autopsy—sacks everywhere, a rookie who kept his head, and a backward pass that never should’ve left a hand. From there, we look at genuine season turnarounds and what a playoff run feels like when last year was all losses. Hopes tilt toward California, where the Super Bowl’s neutral ground is anything but neutral when corporate seats swallow fan noise. We weigh matchups, talk nerves, and admit that progress still matters even if the bracket doesn’t break your way.

Then the snowstorm seeps into everything. We lampoon the milk–bread–eggs stampede, the 2 a.m. generator “test,” the candle drawer with zero lighters, and the neighbor who predicts 6.17 inches with total confidence and a 0 percent hit rate. The South gets innovative: leaf blowers moonlight as snowblowers, and powder moves with a push. Between punchlines, we trade real tips that save your back and your budget when winter tries to run the table.

The tone turns serious as we wrestle with protest safety and policing under stress. We unpack training, the adrenaline myth of “shoot the leg,” and the risks crowds take when chaos ignites. It’s an honest, imperfect conversation about responsibility, restraint, and why binaries rarely help people get home safe. No grandstanding, just straight talk that respects the stakes and invites listeners to consider the hard parts most shows avoid.

By the end, the thread holding it all together is simple: show up for your people. Remote recording isn’t pretty, but connection beats silence. We promise better audio next time, more of the music talk you love, and plenty of room for your stories. Tap follow, share with a friend who panic-buys eggs, and leave a quick review to help others find us. Got a snow hack or a playoff take? Drop a voicemail at mtaltpod.com—we’ll feature our favorites in the next show.

Transcript

Snowed In And Remote Setup

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Oh, we're finally back. And just to let everybody know, Tom is joining us remotely today. What's up, Tom? Hey guys, what's going on? Uh how's it being snowed in up there in uh East Cupcake?

SPEAKER_05 1:41

Well, yeah, with this. This is my second weekend. I hope I don't have to spend three days in this house again.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Well, this is snow. I'll take this over that damn ice we had last week.

SPEAKER_05 1:52

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:55

Yeah. So so I've got birds all over the place, and I'm trying to keep them fed, and that's costing me more than feeding my dogs.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Well, speak speaking of keeping someone fed, how's old uh squeaking uh the uh what's her name? Emma Louise? Ethel Louise Ethel, whatever her damn name is. Her mother. Her mother How are they doing up there in the hill?

SPEAKER_05 2:20

Well, her mother came and got her because they were afraid they would lose power. Shit, I didn't even know they had power in that hole.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

But well, they're not stealing electricity from you, are they?

SPEAKER_05 2:33

Huh. I don't know. Anyway, uh I'm uh I'm sure he's doing well. He probably isn't even out of bed yet. I heard some kind of music playing last night.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Oh, geez. Well, I doubt either one of them are gonna come out to the studio today. So that's a good thing here. So I guess that you got squeak snowed in with you, and who the hell knows where Pip is?

SPEAKER_05 3:06

Yeah. He's a little wild one. He's he's the wild one of the big things.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

We never know what's going on with Pip.

SPEAKER_05 3:14

Oh, we don't. He's secretive. He likes to hang out with them little fellows in the tree, right?

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Oh, does he?

SPEAKER_05 3:24

Yeah, you know, else make cookies.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Yeah, he doesn't mind them.

SPEAKER_05 3:27

Yeah. Well, Squeak, he he's yeah. I had a pack of cookies in the cabin one day. He came over here and it was like he ran the place. He said, I don't want to see another pack of these T Burrell cookies in this house again. I said, What? Anyway, I had to send him on his day.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

I don't blame you.

SPEAKER_05 3:48

But anyway.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Right. So uh should we talk should we talk about last weekend's games?

SPEAKER_05 3:56

Yeah, we can do that. We should.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

I think there were some were some good games except for one. Yeah. Okay, watchable games, let's put it that way. Yeah, there were many watchable games except for one. Right. Could people guess which one we thought was a crappy game?

unknown 4:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Tick tock. Tick tock. Yes, folks, it was a Denver New England game. A slot fest.

SPEAKER_05 4:22

It was terrible. It was horrible.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

It was. Like I said to you at work this week, Tom, if that game would have started out in a snowstorm like that it did, it like it ended, and then it ended 10-7, that's a different game.

SPEAKER_05 4:34

Right. They had a whole half to score forwards.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Yeah, both teams did, Tom. Both teams did. The only problem, the only difference is finally Drake May didn't make a mistake in this game. Yeah, exactly. He got sacked a shitload of times, but he never fumbled the ball or got an interception. Almost, almost an interception.

SPEAKER_05 4:52

And I really ain't saying nothing bad about my quarterback, the backup we had, because I do like him.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

There were some drop crop drop catches, too.

SPEAKER_05 5:03

There were. There were.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

I mean, not a lot, not a lot. And somewhat pretty difficult, but I noticed that. And that running back at the at that play there with the backwards pass. I watched it over and over, and I could see what that running back was supposed to do, and he just didn't do it.

SPEAKER_05 5:18

He looked like a crowd out of the water with diarrhoea.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

I mean, it's it was gonna be a quick release for the defense to come in anyway. So that was the outlet. Let them come in. I'm gonna throw the ball to you. Don't go trying to block because you can't do it.

unknown 5:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

But anyways.

SPEAKER_05 5:35

It was a crazy game all the way around.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Yeah. Well, Patriots move on, and now we hear that uh rumblings of Dre Mays, Drake Mays shoulder. Supposedly. Yeah, yeah. You haven't heard that?

SPEAKER_05 5:49

Oh, I haven't heard that.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Oh shit. Yeah. All weekend.

SPEAKER_05 5:54

I don't get a lot on the Patriots, but they are saying that. Right. I just love football.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

One of them stories I figure everybody's like, uh-huh. I don't geez, I don't know how this game's gonna work out next week, but we'll find out, I guess. It doesn't I'm already a little nervous, but you know what, Tom? I said it before we even played you guys. If we lost to you guys, I'm still happy for the season because both of our seasons. We were four and thirteen last year. That that's a big turnaround. I'm happy. Everything else is uh you know, frosting on the cake there, whatever you want to call it, however you want to say it.

SPEAKER_05 6:27

We won five games last year, I think.

Weekend Football Recap

SPEAKER_01 6:30

What's that, Tom?

SPEAKER_05 6:31

I think I think we had won five games last year.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

I think you won eight last year, Tom. I think I looked it up and it was eight. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Because I thought you were I thought you were guys with bad. I think it was the year before.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

It made it to the playoffs.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Yeah, so you had at least nine wins then. Eight or nine wins last year. Because you lost in that first game, right?

SPEAKER_05 6:56

That's the wild call game, that's what it was. Yeah, sure it is.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

So, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:03

But Super Bowl 60, California. It's gonna be some safe.

unknown 7:10

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 7:11

I hope Seattle comes and just forgets what a football looks like. You know some people.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

Yeah, I know, but Seattle's that's a tough team. Let's be realistic. But the good thing is it's on you know neutral ground, so but you never even the fans in the audience are never your fans really, you get a couple little spurts of Seattle fans or Ingram fans, because everybody else gets the tickets, all the Richie folk and everything, the people that don't give a shit just want to be seen at the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_05 7:49

Exactly. Exactly. And I wish I would have remembered to do a little research, but I heard sometime this week that a Dallas cowboy was killed in a car accident. Yeah, I can't remember who it was. I'll have to look that up and bring it up later on, but Lamont Francis What's funny to me is Lamar's real name was Grady What did I just say his name was? Come on, Grady Lamont Wilson is his name.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Right.

SPEAKER_05 8:37

Well on the show, Grady was Fred's best friend. So that's pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Yeah. Yeah, I'm just looking out the window here at the snowfall.

SPEAKER_05 8:54

It's pr it's pretty.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 9:01

I'm talking about seven eight inches already, and it's just not stopped.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Okay, nobody likes a bragger. All right?

SPEAKER_05 9:09

Oh, no, it's no, no.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

SPEAKER_05 9:14

Yeah. Yeah. And I would tell you how how big he is, but I've not seen him lately.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Yeah, well, with with this weather, I understand.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

So this is a little strange. Uh talk to talking to you on the old phone.

SPEAKER_05 9:35

Yep. And I'm hoping that we can kind of control this over talking together. It's hard to see, and it's it's hard to tell when somebody's gonna say something. So if I over talk, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

So uh and I apologize in advance too, because I know I've done it.

SPEAKER_05 9:56

Yeah, this is kind of tough. We've we've only done this one other time, and and this is a tough little situation, but we love you guys. We thank you for listening, and we're we're gonna just make sure that we have this stuff out.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Yeah, we just you know we wanted to get something out. We last week we had the ice storm, so it was no podcast then. This week we got this snowstorm, so this is the best we could do, but I we definitely wanted to get something out. Hopefully, it sounds all right. Obviously, you know the circumstances now, so if it sounds like shit, oh well.

unknown 10:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:29

Of course most of us sound like shit.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

We're trying.

SPEAKER_05 10:36

Yes, sir. We you guys try to come in every week. We're gonna try to be here.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

So to the best of our ability.

SPEAKER_05 10:45

I hope you're having as much fun listening as we are doing.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Oh yeah. Well, I'll be tweaking this stuff and uh getting different setups here, getting something different uh accessories for the old Pod Track eight. Maybe we can if we have to do this again, we can make it sound a little better.

SPEAKER_05 11:01

Yep. And maybe maybe this is gonna sound all right. We we don't know yet. We haven't learned.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

So no, once I put it on and edit and go through everything, fine-tune it, we'll see what happens. But I mean it is what it is right now, Tom. So Yep.

SPEAKER_05 11:18

But it is awful pretty.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Yeah, exactly. And like I said, I just felt like we needed to get something out, anyways. I just it was important to both of us. So this is the best we could do. That's what we're doing, bud.

SPEAKER_05 11:36

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

So, anyways, do you think we'll be working Monday, Tom?

SPEAKER_05 11:41

I doubt it.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

I doubt it too. This isn't supposed to stop till later on this evening. I don't mean late this evening, but later on this evening.

SPEAKER_05 11:54

And 10 o'clock here.

SPEAKER_01 11:59

Yeah, I think I think you're wrong, my friend. Well, watch I watch ch I watch your little stupid channel nine today, and the you're supposed to we're all supposed to be done.

Playoffs, Super Bowl Hopes, And Fans

SPEAKER_05 12:09

That's what I'm saying. I'm not wrong. The phone is, if I, you know.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

Oh, my phone's always wrong.

SPEAKER_05 12:15

That's my music. It it tells me it'll say it's 40 degrees outside, it's 12. No, it's not 40.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

Yeah, or or no rain. I walk outside. What's this?

SPEAKER_05 12:30

Yeah, why is everything wet?

SPEAKER_01 12:32

You'll get rain in about four hours. Yeah, I'm getting rain now.

SPEAKER_05 12:37

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Yeah, I was watching your old Channel 9 there, watching the idiots all out in a storm. Look, it's snowing. Yes, I can see. It's the same thing up north. They do the same thing. You don't need to be outside in it. We can see.

SPEAKER_05 12:51

That's like the old timers. They all have the weather stoned. If it's wet.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Oh God, here we go.

SPEAKER_05 12:59

If it's dry, it's sunny. If it's moving, it's windy. You know how that is.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_05 13:10

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

So we got some weird stuff, not to bring up anything weird, but we had some we had stuff going on in Minnesota. Still.

SPEAKER_05 13:18

Yeah. They said it was 4th of July, I think.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Well, they think it's something. But you know, it's all peaceful. Very peaceful.

SPEAKER_05 13:27

Yeah, it's a peaceful protest. That's what they call that.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

And then they get this this dude here that got shot. Maybe shouldn't it get shot? Maybe, you know, whatever. I don't know the whole story. But all I know is them making him out to be a saint when you see him at another protest, spitting on people, breaking the uh rear taillights on these cars of ice. Yep. See, the problem is, I'll tell you what the problem is. Don't wait, don't hesitate. Anyone does anything, just lock their ass up. Yeah, it don't I mean that'll take care of all this problem, too. So start putting these people away.

SPEAKER_05 14:05

Yep. Radicals. I mean protesting Go ahead, Tom. They're putting themselves in danger.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

Right.

SPEAKER_05 14:15

They're putting other people around them in danger. Because you know, if a cop has to shoot to save his own life, he's gonna how many people is gonna be around that a stray bullet could hit? There's just a lot of stuff going on. A lot of stuff can be so it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

Some of these cops aren't the best shots either, so now did he did the guy have to unload like seven rounds in him? Maybe not. No, little overkill.

SPEAKER_05 14:48

Yeah, yeah. That's pretty expensive.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

But when I hear people, why didn't you just shoot him in the leg? No, you're trained to go for the mask. That's what you trained for.

Weather Rants And Local News

SPEAKER_05 14:57

Yeah. I mean, it's hard enough to hit a when your adrenaline is pumping, it's hard enough. I don't know how many people out there listening are hunters. But when I'm deer hunting and I see that big guy coming through the woods, my heart starts pounding, my breathing gets I can't hardly breathe. I mean, it's hard to hit a certain party at somebody. You get somebody coming at you, your life is in danger. It's probably ten times worse than a deer. But I'm just saying, you don't have time to, oh, I'm gonna go for a kneecap. No, I I can't hardly hit a chest at this, you know. I just don't see people. I just don't understand why people have to put their lives in danger like that. Just leave the cops alone, let them do their job.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Yeah, I feel the same way, Tom. And trying to like I like you said, it's impossible. I don't care. You had to be a crack shot. This isn't the movies. Where you just boom, I got him in the leg, boom, I got him in the arm. Nope. Yeah. That's work that way. It's too bad. I mean, like I said, uh I agree with a lot of it. I don't want to see anybody die. I mean, but don't put yourself in stupid situations either. Exactly. What are we really protesting?

SPEAKER_05 16:22

Yeah, don't pick up a flashbang. Why did you do that?

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Oh, that was another dumb thing, right? Before it even goes off, pick it up.

SPEAKER_05 16:32

Yeah, and the sad part is I can tell you why she did it. Because from school age, she was pumped so much poison and rhetoric of hate and all this other stuff, and how your pronouns mean something and your rights are being dangerous. They're silly. She had so much hate when she came there, she put her life and her limbs in danger because she wanted so badly to pick that thing up and throw it back at them.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Well, here's the problem. Here's the problem, and it's because of Trump. No one likes Trump, so anything Trump does, they're gonna be against. When Biden and Obama were getting rid of people left and especially Obama was getting, I shouldn't say Biden, but Obama was getting rid of people left and right over three million, no one squawked. And when they ask them, well, nobody said, Well, because they did it this way. No, it's because you guys didn't protest it. That's why it was easy to get them and get out.

SPEAKER_05 17:32

Nobody protested you, you know? Well, and the other thing was I seen somewhere on social media picture of Obama putting the medal on the dude that everybody hates now.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 17:48

For doing what he's doing now.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

We'll move on from it.

SPEAKER_05 17:56

No, he uh one last statement. He can eat it all just by saying it is bad or it's good to breathe. And they'd all just quit breathing because Trump said to breathe. I'm not gonna breathe. He could get he could just eat it all. They'd all stop breathing. Just go spiding. That would be good. Anyway, that's my right.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Well, you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna pause this for one sec, Tom, because we're gonna do uh important PSA. So I'm gonna give it a little pause.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

This is a public service announcement regarding the upcoming snowstorm. Residents are advised to panic responsibly. Please buy all available milk, bread, and eggs, even if you don't know why. Fill your gas tank completely. Test your generator at 2 a.m. so your neighbors remain informed. If power is lost, light every candle at once, then immediately realize you forgot where the flashlight is. Remember, four inches is nothing. Six inches is a disaster. Eight inches will be disgust for the rest of your life. This has been a public service announcement. Good luck. And remember, you should have bought more milk.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

All right, we're back. Where do we find these people that do these PSAs and ads? Jeez. Oh, yeah, they're fun. Fun, all right. There you go. So, you know, you know, it's kind of weird not having the old little dudes in the studio. Yeah. So quiet.

SPEAKER_05 19:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

Hey, you know, I still have Well, it's quiet because you're not here either.

SPEAKER_05 19:28

Well, I still have all my snacks.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Oh, yeah. Well, just don't let Squeak in.

SPEAKER_05 19:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

He's a little he's like a little ninja. You gotta watch out for him.

SPEAKER_05 19:40

Yeah, he'll come over here and go through the doors.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

All right. So Tom, keep him keeping with our snowstorm theme.

unknown 19:49

Right.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

I looked up a few things. Some like weird shit that, you know, in our in our MT alternative fodder, would as you'd say. Things that happen during snowstorms, what people do. Either prepare or their activities or whatever. Right? All right, here's number one. We can all agree on this one. Milk, bread, and eggs panic ritual. What the hell's up with that? Explain that to me.

SPEAKER_05 20:15

Boy, I don't know. Here's the thing. What are you gonna do with milk, bread, and eggs? To keep you alive if you're for two days. I mean, why would you pick that? You know what I pick?

SPEAKER_01 20:30

What's that?

SPEAKER_05 20:31

I picked ramen noodles. I picked ramen noodles.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

You pick ramen noodles.

SPEAKER_05 20:39

Yeah. It may last forever.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Well, yeah, that's all right, but I mean, why panic? You what? You're gonna be out for what? How much bread and milk do you need in two or three days?

SPEAKER_05 20:49

Yeah. I just bought the regular two loads. Well that's always that's my point.

Policing, Protests, And Public Safety

SPEAKER_01 20:54

You know, I need uh if I get a gallon of milk, that gallon of milk's gonna last me. Now it's just me drinking it. It'll last me two or three days. I don't need to buy five gallons of milk. And then uh exactly.

SPEAKER_05 21:06

I only have I only have two and a half gallons in my refrigerator right now.

SPEAKER_01 21:11

So I didn't well and here's an you know, bring it up to this. Okay, we just had the ice storm last weekend, correct? Right. Stores were cleared out. We have a snowstorm new. We're talking a week. Where did everybody all that stuff that they packed up or whatever and hoarded, where did it go?

SPEAKER_05 21:28

Okay, I'll tell you where it went. Here's my theory. Everybody, three days before that storm ever hit, shelves were already empty.

unknown 21:40

Right.

SPEAKER_05 21:41

Three people had that stuff before the storm ever hit. They ate it before the storm got here.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

Dumbasses.

SPEAKER_05 21:47

Idiot. You can't just what you could do, save it a whole week.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

Right.

SPEAKER_05 21:55

Come on, man, don't be stupid, people. It's snow.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Just do your normal grocery shop and you'll be fine. It's not the apocalypse. And then what gets me too, Tom, is why are we buying all kinds of toilet paper?

SPEAKER_04 22:11

Well, because you gotta shit 15 times for all the stuff you bought.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

There you go. There you go. I'm always on the toilet. Yeah. I'm always making. Let's move on to the next big one. This is the the smart people. Let's test the generator during the storm. My power's out. Let me get the generator. Shit, it's not starting up. What happened to it? Well, I haven't started it since the last storm. That was two years ago. Oh, yeah. Oil looks like sludge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and what about the gas station? Everybody's got to run to the gas station. If you're not going anywhere during the storm, how much gas do you need? Okay. Generators, I get it. You know, you lose power. I get it. But other than that, I don't understand.

SPEAKER_05 23:10

I understand that if your power goes out at home, you always have your car to crank and charge your phone and stay warm or whatever. And you do need to make sure you got a little bit of gas. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

I understand the filling up, but the full the full panic mode, everybody's there at once. Does everybody get gas at all at once during a regular snowstorm? No.

unknown 23:34

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

So everybody knows the storm's coming. And you get these people who hardly go anywhere. Oh, I I I drove eight miles. I better go top it off. You don't need to top it off.

SPEAKER_05 23:43

What happens to these people that get hit all of a sudden with a tornado? They don't have time to go shop for that.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Come on, even if they did, where's the stuff gonna go after? Once that tornado hits, you don't have that anymore.

SPEAKER_05 23:58

I mean, they they get hit all of a sudden and they tough it out. Come on, people.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Right. Oh, this is true. It's okay. I guess we got people who also argue about snow shovels and snowblowers. Some people believe shoveling's better than a snowblower. Uh I'm gonna go with the snowblower people.

SPEAKER_05 24:18

Yeah, me too. You know how many people have shoveling snow?

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Exactly. No one I ever know was shoveling and said, This is great. No one's ever said that. Well, this is fun. Nope. First of all, not fun at all. In the cold. Okay, here's another one. We might lose power, so let's buy out all the candles.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

But yet we get all these candles. Anybody got a lighter? Nope. Lighter? Match? Nope. Somebody? Nope. Oopsie. We got all these candles and nothing to light them with. And that's why these people buy powdered water. What?

SPEAKER_05 25:02

Yeah. Those three kinds of people buy powdered water.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Powdered water. Here we go again.

SPEAKER_05 25:10

Powdered water. Very odd.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

So how do you all right? So what do I do with the powder? How do I make water out of that powder? You gotta put water in it. Oh, well, wait a minute. Well, wait a minute here. All right, how about truly odd snowstorm behavior? Oh, then you get the people too who don't care. They put this stuff out in the freeze of the freezer to put it outside, you know. And then they'll forget it exists till spring. Oh shit, I put that burger out there, the hamburger. But, anyways, outdoor furniture panic. People rush to secure their patio chairs. If a snowstorm is going to steal them and sell them on a Facebook marketplace or some shit.

SPEAKER_05 25:49

Yeah. I fold mine up and put them out there in the garage.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Well, you gotta fold them up. That's fine, but just not go secure them.

SPEAKER_04 25:57

Yeah, let's tie them down.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

We got one for you, Tom. Okay. Random acts of pre-storm drinking. If we lose power, I want to be halfway there already. Storm hits, everyone's asleep by 7:45 p.m. What are you doing? I'm getting lit, man. We're gonna lose power. I'm ready. Yeah, I'm ready. Woo! All right, how about layering like the crossing the Alps? Three hoodies, two coats, shorts, flip-flops, socks.

SPEAKER_05 26:30

Only in the south.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Let's get all the stuff on. Let's see. Then we have the neighborhood weather expert emerges. Oh, red. Right. I was thinking the same. Knows the exact inch amount. Predicts heavy snow at exactly 3.17 a.m. Yep, that's what it said. Has been wrong. Has been wrong since 1998.

SPEAKER_04 26:53

That's red. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

Oh, speaking of emergency meals and noodles and whatever, snowstorm delusional prep. Emergency meals that will never be eaten. Canned beets, crackers from the Carter administration, and one mysterious one mysterious soup labeled chicken-ish. Chicken-ish. Chicken-ish. It's chicken-ish.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

Chicken be, man.

Satirical Snowstorm PSA

SPEAKER_01 27:23

Oh, here's here's my wife charging everything except for what matters. Phone's at 100%, laptop at 100%, smoke detector still chirping.

SPEAKER_05 27:35

Every first of the month I put I che I test mine. Change the battery, test it.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

I just do it the twice-a year thing.

SPEAKER_05 27:43

Yeah, I've got one. I've got one smoke.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Or or it'll tell me sometimes in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping. It'll just tell me like beep. Oh, son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_05 27:54

Yeah. Now when we lived in the house in Hudson, it was it was like that. I had two and they just beat the I'd go nuts. Three o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

Oh, I freaking hate it.

SPEAKER_05 28:07

What that?

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Let's see. Oh, here we go. This is probably either one of us, Tom.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

I'll run out real quick, little lie. I'll be back in five minutes. Gone for two hours. Returns with one bag of chips and a story.

SPEAKER_05 28:24

You should have been with me. I was just somebody came across the highway and hit it, and I couldn't go anywhere. I was stuck in the middle of it. Then the helicopter came. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

It just goes. It just goes on. Then there was an ice raid right next to the house next to me. Yep, things people do before snowstorms that make no sense, man. I just don't get it. Yeah, that's pretty crazy, is right.

SPEAKER_05 28:55

Yeah. Well, what's funny is North Carolina here lately. I've been here since 82. And we've had like two major snowstorms and a major ice storm since I've lived here. And then we've had some pretty good snow. But this one falls under the pretty good snow. It's nowhere like it was in, you know, when Josh was a baby and it snowed two and a half feet.

Snow Panic Habits And Prep Fails

SPEAKER_01 29:29

No, but Tom, the good thing is, I mean, it's that the the good thing, if there is a good thing, it's that light powdery snow.

SPEAKER_05 29:35

Oh, I know, it's real light. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:38

And that's, you know, yeah, it sucks. It's piling up. Yes, that does suck. But the good thing is it's if you have to even shovel, you just push it and you can move that shit out of the way. I've been using my leaf blower. Yeah, that's what I've been using.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

And that makes more sense in the winter than it does in the fall when you're trying to blow leaves around, stupid people.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Well, see, right? What do you call that's my snowblower? No, that's a leaf. No, it's my snowblower.

SPEAKER_05 30:01

Yeah. I don't blow my leaves. I mulch them.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

Wait a minute. You blow?

SPEAKER_05 30:08

No, I don't blow my leaves. I mulch.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Oh, okay. Well, what do you blow?

SPEAKER_05 30:14

Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Okay, all right. Well, you just say you don't blow your leaves. I'd left that open for a lot of I have blown a few job interviews.

SPEAKER_05 30:28

I probably won't tell you why, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Oh, well it is. It is what it is, Tom. Sometimes your stories are left uh best left unsaid. We don't need we don't need to hear some of them.

SPEAKER_05 30:42

I don't know. Okay. Okay, I'll tell you.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Oh crap.

SPEAKER_05 30:50

Yeah. He said what do you think your best quality is? You said uh honestly. You said that's a good one. I didn't get that job.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

No, I wonder why.

SPEAKER_05 31:14

I was being honest. Ah He wanted to know.

SPEAKER_01 31:21

Oh, he knew.

SPEAKER_05 31:23

Uh-huh. And then I got fired. Before I ever got hired.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Just as well, Tom. Just as well.

SPEAKER_05 31:30

At least I didn't fart in cut seat though.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Oh no, that's that's a good thing. That's a real good thing. I'm also I'm a little sorry we didn't get to talk about any bands, but the situation for what it is. We'll s see how our little experiment works.

unknown 31:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

But if it works, it sounds good. Maybe we can do more of this. Little stuff that we if we can't, you know, if we can't get to down to the studio together or something.

unknown 32:04

Right.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Yeah, we'll figure it out. But uh, I think I'm gonna get going, Tom. Ooh, oopsie, oopsie daisy. I'm gonna listen to this, see how it sounds, bud. Folks, we'll be back hopefully next week in the studio together. And uh hopefully we'll have the little dudes with us.

SPEAKER_05 32:25

Yeah, maybe they'll come back around since they become big stars.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

Oh, no, yeah, that's right. It definitely went to Squeak's head. We discussed that already, but uh folks. I just want to throw in uh please listen to us on all our platform, all the platforms. We're on iHeart, Amazon Music, Deezer FM, BuzzSprout, Buzzsprout's one that helps us out with our podcast. So shout out to them. And uh most important one is mtaltpod.com. That's our website. Please check that out. You can leave uh little messages, a little microphone on the bottom right-hand corner. Click that. You can leave a voicemail, tell us uh how great we are, how sucky Tom is, or you know.

SPEAKER_05 33:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

Less less pip and squeak. That'd be awesome. No, no, kidding.

SPEAKER_05 33:18

They they are pretty good teams. I mean they opposites of fact, you know, they they're just as different of each other as you and I. You know, you like your your rock and roll, and I like my country and get together and yeah, become friends. It's just crazy how people less. Yep. And uh we always again would like to thank God for the gift of gap.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

Everyone, appreciate you listening. Sorry about the way this uh podcast ended up, but hopefully it's still listenable, you know, and you enjoy it. And we'll be hopefully back next week with, like I said, back in the studio. Tom, it's been great. Yeah, everyone again. Thanks for listening. And uh take care. God bless. Later.

SPEAKER_05 34:09

See you later.