Weathermen Guess, We Stress, Squirrels Confess

The forecast says chaos, but we’re more interested in how people actually prepare. We kick off by comparing dueling snowfall predictions and a charity wager that turns meteorology into a friendly competition, then ask why predicting winter weather is so hard. That question leads us into memory and infrastructure: closed bridges in the Frankfurt floods, the 1978 blizzard rerouting a family through the interstate, and how school systems evolve from Saturday makeups to smarter time adjustments. It’s fast, funny, and grounded—storm hype meets practical readiness.

From there, we pivot into the modern swirl of sports uncertainty. Hockey heaters, NFL playoff lines that won’t sit still, and a candid spin through the college football transfer portal rankings. The Dabo tampering headline becomes a springboard into NIL-era reality—what counts as tampering, how compliance works in practice, and why the portal rewards speed and clarity. We trade guesses and receipts, emphasizing how to think through shifting odds, evaluate rosters, and avoid getting duped by noise.

We lighten the mood with a producer’s Lima quiz that unexpectedly maps American history: oil discoveries, the M1 Abrams tank, the Lincoln Highway’s seeded mile, and Dean Martin’s early performances. Along the way, a neighbor’s squirrel, bread bags as boot liners, and a shoutout to an oven-meal service become small portraits of winter problem-solving. The heart of it all is resilience: how communities adapt, how fans analyze, and how a good story—like a Ken Anderson Freezer Bowl memory—keeps us warm when the temperature drops.

If this mix of sharp takes, storm prep, and sports nerdery hits the spot, follow the show, share it with a friend, and drop your bold snow total in the comments. Got a smarter winter hack or a better underdog pick? We want to hear it. Subscribe, rate, and leave a review so more curious listeners can find us.

Transcript

Opening Banter And Snow Hype

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Three guys around a table. And by three guys, we're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

And just like our personalities, our opinions vary, and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around. Are we really around a table or are we round a table? I think we're around a table. Can you be around a table if there's three of you? I mean, it's not truly around.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

We're partly well, plus the the table itself is rectangular.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

It is rectangular.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

But I would I would consider us a it's not gonna matter. It's not gonna matter after this weekend. Snow Magadin. This is probably the last podcast ever. We're all there. That's true. We're all done. The end of the world is occurring. This is this is this is it.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

It's been a good run. Can we can we do a nope, too late. Can't do a milk bread alert now. It's over.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

If you don't have milk sandwiches ready, you're wrong. It's over. It's over. Well of course when the power goes out, how are you gonna cook your eggs? I don't get bogged down in details like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

Terrible. Uh I have I have something to play from the uh from the Simpsons about this.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Oh, they about milk sandwiches? They predicted it.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

So let's let me let me let me pull it up here while you're while you're introducing the side.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Can I talk about the old guy across the street? No, not yet. Oh, come on. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Yes. I don't know if you guys have seen this or not, but with regard to Snow Magade.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

I just want you to know you look very dapper this evening.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

I know. I'm good looking.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

That's crazy. I'm still I'm still in work attire.

Weatherman Predictions And Charity Bet

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Oh, that's why. Uh so KSR, did you see that they have done a poll of 11? 11 weathermen in Louisville and Lexington. Okay. And they have one celebrity weather person. They got Jim Cantor from the Weather Channel.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Ah, okay. All right. Who was in Frankfurt yesterday, by the way? I was told just earlier. Thank you very much. I didn't know that. Thank you, friend.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

He was a Buffalo Treats. Uh, but they're predicting how much snow is going to be is going to occur in Louisville and in Lexington. And whoever's the closest, they're going to there's going to be$10,000 donated to their favorite charity.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Pretty cool. Um well we could do the same thing and donate a candy bar to our favorite charity. You know what? Dark chocolate candy bar.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

I'd donate that now. I choose to lose because it shouldn't be eaten. But anyway, the numbers vary dramatically. Yes. What do you think the lowest total of the 11?

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Is it 11, Chris? Yeah, but it's split up between Louisville and Lexington. They have two different totals, one for Louisville Airport.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Yeah, and I only care about Lexington. I don't care about Louisville. Okay, for Lexington, I'm not sure. What's the lowest is eight.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

I know the answer. I'm not going to say.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

You're real close. 7-9. Okay. What do you think the top number is? 14. 15-2. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

What did Cantory say? Huh? What did Cantory say? Because he came in late.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

He's low. He's 8-7 in Lexington. My favorite, my favorite meteorologist in Lexington, Chris Bailey. Yep. Comes in at the second highest. 14.2. I'm I'm thinking 14. I'm a Bill Met guy, by the way. What did Bill Meck say? Your boy Bill Mick rolled in at 10.8.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Well, let me just play this from Kent Brockman.

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Death count.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

From the killer storm. Like a shotgun full of snow. Well, Kent, as of now, the death count is zero. But it is ready to shoot right on the door. Oh my God. Damn you snow!

Meteorology Skepticism And TV Comedy Bits

SPEAKER_00 3:45

So, yeah. And I hate to tell you this, but I have a premonition. I can tell you exactly what the total's gonna be. Okay. Within a range.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

I can too. Zero to five feet. Zero to zero to zero feet.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Zero to a hundred and fifty inches. Right, right. You're good. I got that. I'm done. Because here's the thing. I've not watched any of the weather at all this week. I just refuse to do it. Because everybody's got their opinions. And at the end of the day, being a weatherman might be the best job on the planet.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

You can be wrong and say, oh, the cloud moved. Yeah. Oh, the rain didn't come. Oh, the snow weather.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

It reminds me of a curb your enthusiasm episode when the weatherman would say that it was going to rain and he would go to the golf course and there would be nobody there, and it'd be a perfect day.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Can you tell us what that's a good one? What was um what was uh Bob's name on that show? Bob Einstein? Can you tell me the best joke you ever told?

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Mart Marty Funkhauser? Yeah, what's the best joke you ever told? We can't we can't tell that on the on the air. That was on facts. Yes.

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Yeah.

Blizzard Of ’78 And Frankfurt Flood Memories

SPEAKER_02 5:01

Yeah. Was it liver? That's a fact. It was liver. Just watch that curbier enthusiasm episode. But it was liver, right? It caught Jerry off off guard because it was. Am I right? It was liver. Okay. It was. Yes. Anyhow. So, yeah, Snow Mageddon. Now, do you all remember the 1978 blizzard as well as I do? My father was in the hospital with Kenny Snips.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

You were in your mid-50s.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Greg, you weren't even born.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

No, I was born, but I was still in diapers. For sure.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

You were on that couch in the cake.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

I would have been a year and four months old.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

This is a true story in 78 before you go there. Living in Frankfurt was crazy because we had a terrible flood then. Wiped out.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

I mean, did it did it take out some of your servants? I mean, because we know you grew up on a hill on a plantation. The third rolls was washed away. I grew up.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

I grew up in the car. We lived up on a hill and overlooking. I lived actually on a hill in Thornhill. And if anybody listens to this podcast knows me very well and they know where I grew up in my house. You owned all of Thornhill. I understand. And what Thornhill is, but a gated community for the alternative grass is always green. Very similar to Mar-a-Lago. I'll tell you this. Whoever's listening, do not Google Thornhill, Frankfurt, Kentucky. You'll see a lot. But anyhow.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

Well, that's what happened when you sold off the entire state. True. After Mummy died. You sold off the entire state.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

So across the street was ancient ages down Buffalo Trace.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

So you overlooked the distillery. So you owned the distillery.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

It was all underwater.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

And there was a do you have an ownership interest in a distillery, yes or no? That's a good thing. Anyhow.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

I do not. I do not either. Both of us do not own an interest in the distillation.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

I also don't own acreage in another county either. But that's just me.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

It got really hot in here real quick. Anyhow. Facts, facts, optional. All of Wilkinson Boulevard, IGA Hex, and all that were underwater.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

And you saw all of them saying all these people are suffering.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

In 78, the only ways to get from East Frankfurt, where I lived, to West Frankfurt where the hospital was. Helicopter. You had to cross the river. But downtown. Helicopter. Downtown was all underwater. So you couldn't go Capitol Avenue Bridge or the Singing Bridge. And the only other bridge was the railroad trestle bridge to go up uh Taylor Avenue, but it was underwater as well. So the only way in 1978 to get from East Frankfurt to West Frankfurt was to go out and hit the interstate between the exits and get back off. Oh wow. So Dad was in the hospital with kidney stones, and I remember leaving my grandparents' house, having to go all the way up the hill to hit the interstate to shoot over to the next exit and back down to see Dad. Because all of downtown was flooded out. All the bridges were closed.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

Did the grandparents live on the estate as well?

SPEAKER_00 8:31

The grandparents lived a block and a half up the street. So you owned a city block. I mean, so they lived on the same street, but about who was your driver at that point? Was that Jeeves at that? Mama Dad had one vehicle in 78, and it was a Monte Carlo.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

And it was somehow I'm not sure if it's a silver with black leather and tear.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Of course it was. That doesn't surprise me. And we pulled our boat with it, and it would pull that boat out of the water better than most trucks would.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Pulling a 60-foot yacht is pretty impressive for a Monte Carlo. There's there's lots of non-truths being shared right now. Am I you're not?

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Yes, I remember the 78 snow terribly. I do not that went into the flood.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

But the 94 snow was the best one. So the 78 snow was ridiculous. Uh I remember it um so very well because we had so much snow that I mean it was waist deep. And this was on your way to work.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

You had to take the train that day.

School Closures Then And Now

SPEAKER_02 9:37

The uh the school system was shut down for the entire month of January. Wow. Two weeks because of the snow, and two weeks because of a horrendous flu outbreak. So, I mean, literally, there was no school for a month. Uh, I remember that very clearly.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

But in 84, I'm gonna go one for you. In Frankfurt, Kentucky, in 1984. 84 or 94? 84. Okay. We went to school for 14 days minus the Sundays straight. They made us go to Saturday school for two Saturdays in a row. And I remember the teachers are like, this is nonsense. We don't want to be here, you don't want to be here. So we'd we'd we'd watch like court cartoons in the morning, and then if UK played basketball, they put the UK game on. Wow. But we went to school on a Saturday, and you talk about the most ridiculous thing ever. There was nothing ever done with that. So I'm gonna ask you, Mr. Superintendent, would that ever happen in today's time?

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Um i I mean, I I think what uh what you would see more likely now would be the elimination of spring break. You'd see time added to the day. Uh right. I think it's a time added to the day. I don't think you'd see a weekend situation.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

And by the way, uh like even in ninety-two. It would I sure wouldn't do that. There's no way I would make that in ninety-two we had so many snow days. Graduation was June 9th.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Now in 94, when we were supposed to get a dusting and we got 14 inches or whatever on the 14th. Yeah. That stuck around until like the 24th. They actually, when I was in college, UK hadn't canceled classes in 40 years or whatever, and they canceled school two days in a row.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

So think back to 2014, 2015, that year. Um, we had a really significant snowstorm. I remember 15. Um, because I was living in Elizabethtown at the time, and we had over 20 inches. Yep. That's right. Um, I I remember that measured by who? No, no, I mean it was it was legit. Um, it you know, it just kept coming and coming. I had the uh little uh Toyota Tacoma, my little truck. I like the truck truck. And uh I remember driving that through the snow, and that you know, I had to come and I had to drive carry to and from work.

2014–2015 Storms And Why People Stay North

SPEAKER_01 12:04

So I believe I was in Florida when that happened. I think we were at a dance competition because we flew we drove up to Cincinnati the night before it started, so we could get on the plane earlier and get to Florida, and it was all gone by the time we come back. Yeah, it went away quick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

I can tell you I remember literally, I can tell you right here, it was um March 5th of 15. And I remember walking out into my side yard and I'd shoveled my driveway and there was so much snow, I just kind of laid back and just poof right in the snow, and it was so deep, it was ridiculous.

Producer’s Lima Quiz Mayhem

SPEAKER_02 12:37

So literally, uh this is uh for our forefathers question. When the people rolled into Kentucky and they or Ohio or anywhere where there's snow, what made them stay? What made them say, Yeah, you know this is this is great. Seriously, and why aren't we all in Florida? So it was eighty eighty degrees in Orlando today. Yeah, yeah. Mellon, I talked to producer Mellon, and uh he uh he was rubbing it in because he was walking in shorts and a t-shirt to the gym today, and um yeah. Yeah, but can't he can't have a snowball fight on Sunday. Yeah, that's that's true. He can't build a snowman. Um what he can do is continue to send us these these quizzes. So we got one. We we do have one for either now or later in the show. We'll do it now. Who sent it? So this is producer Mellon. Doctor. Doctor, doctor. And uh he has sent us a quiz. Uh pull it up here. I'm kind of excited about this one.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Well, while you're pulling that up, I have a question for you. Excuse me while I pull this up. Yes. This is according to 24-7 Sports. Okay. So that's my source. They rank the portal transfer teams in college football. Who do you think's number one? Miami? That's just a guess. I'm not sure. If you think about it, you would know who's number one.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Texas Tech?

SPEAKER_01 14:08

No. No. No, when I tell you, you'll be like, yeah, that makes sense. Florida. LSU. Okay. Oh, yeah, we can have it. That makes sense. Yes, there's two. This is the one that won't make sense. Texas Tech? Chris? Uh Florida. Old Miss. That's dumb. Why? That's really wild. I thought so too.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

He's never coached there before.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

They got 27 commits. Ridiculous. Um LSU's one and Old Miss is two. I thought that was interesting.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Did you see Dabo uh all mad at the current Old Miss coach uh trying to poach one of his players and is and is now suing? That doesn't surprise me.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

Yeah, that was uh Would you like to know where Clemson is in the portal transfer? Oh, you know it. They're not in the top 50. That's not a shock. Um let me see.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Here they are. I found them. 71st. Uh let me f let me find this because I think I've got an audio clip of this.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

But Chris, do you know where your Kentucky Wildcats are? Well, here's what I find interesting about it, okay? I'm going to tell you nine and ten. Okay? Just for fun. Kentucky is number nine. Okay. They have 29 commits. And the average is 87, whatever that means.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

That's the rating of it.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

Right. Do you know who number 10 is? Notre Dame. Their average rating is 92.9, they have seven commits.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

So higher rank commits with less.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Correct. Where's Ohio State in there? Ohio State is number four. Okay. 16 commits. Okay. Um the average is 89.14. They have zero five stars, five four stars, and nine three stars.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

Let me read, let me read this from Dabo. Yeah. Clemson's Dabo Sweeney accuses old Miss and Pete Golding of tampering with linebacker Luke Farelli. Sweeney says, Golding texted Farrelli, quote, I know your sign, but what is your buyout? And then this is what Dabo says. I am not going to let someone flat out tamper with my program. If you tamper with my players, I'm going to turn you in. There's a lot more I can say, but I'm going to let the NCAA do its job. What exactly is the NCAA's job? They don't even they shouldn't even exist anymore at this point, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:53

Yeah, I mean this they're they're they're they're either employees or this is a professional league.

SPEAKER_02 16:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Yeah. One or the other.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

Yep. So I I did pull up the quiz if you all are ready. I'm ready. I think Professor Dr. Doctor Doctor. Producer Mellon is uh having a little bit of fun with us because we've beat him down in the last two quizzes. We we did lay the smack.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Uh he has given us a quiz about Lima. If it's all about Lima, Ohio, we're a good show. Is it Lima, Peru, or Lima Ohio? In the uh I'm not sure. In the late 1880s, Lima became Mark, this is your area because this was your teenage years. Lima became a global hub for which industry after Benjamin Farrow accidentally discovered it while drilling for water? Coal, salt, oil, or natural gas? I must say natural gas. I I'm I'm down with natural gas. Let's hit it. Incorrect oil. Oh, oil in Ohio? The discovery of oil in the U.S. It's not Lehman Ohio had to be Lehman Peru. Okay. No, it is Ohio. The discovery of oil in 1885 led to Lima being one of the largest oil producers in the world for nearly a decade. Who knew? Who knew? While Ohio had gas booms, the specific discovery in Lima that transformed the city was liquid petroleum. Who knew? Who knew? All right, number two. Because we're south of Lima. Lima is home to the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center, JSMC. What iconic military vehicle is exclusively produced there. The Apache helicopter, the Bradley fighting vehicle, the M1 Abrams tank, or the Hum V?

SPEAKER_03 18:49

I wouldn't think it's a helicopter. Tank.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

Let's go tank. I'm good with tank. Let's go look at it. We got that one right. The M1 Abrams tank. All right. It's the boo that we got right. Maybe the Lima Locomotive Works was famous for producing a specific type of steam engine used in logging and steep grades. What was its name? The Iron Horse, the Shea locomotive, the big boy, or the Zephyr.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Remember the Zephyr at Kings Island? That thing made me sick one time.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

I didn't get to go to King's Island. I couldn't afford it. We went to Camden Park. That's what we could afford to do. I could rock some Camden Park back in the day. You remember when they got that upside down the roller coaster where it would go and it would do a loop and it would go and then you would go backwards. That was it. That was it.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

Did you say the iron giant?

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Okay, it's the Shea locomotive. Since neither of you uh you know, I got distracting it by Camden Park. Yeah. All right. The haunted house. Lima gained national pop culture fame as the setting for which fictional high school in A popular TV musical series. Degrasse High, Bassot High, Ridgemont High, or William McKinley High.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Well, I can tell you it's not number two or three. I know both of those. I know. So it's either one or four. No, I know this one. So it has to be Baymont. I would go or McKinley.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

It's William McKinley High. For sure. I'm going to click it. Boom. That's right, because William McKinley's from Ohio. Yeah. The TV show Glee was set at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima. All right. Number five. Which notorious American gangster was broken out of the Lima jail in 1933, resulting in the death of Sheriff Jess Sarber.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

Chris Disponet.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Oh! Babyface Nelson. Too early. Babyface Nelson, John Dillinger, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, or Chris Disponet.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Chris Disponett. There's a reason why we haven't been able to go back for a while. That's true.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

I would say Capone.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

I'm good with it. John Dillinger. Has to be Dillinger. I'm good with Dillinger. I'm going with Dillinger. Boom! John Dillinger. Members of Dillinger's gang freed him from the Lima jail in 1933. An event that became a significant part of FBI.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

We should have got them involved when you were in jail.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

No kidding that would have helped out a little bit. What is the name of the large man-made bodies of water in Lima that provide the city's water supply? I was thinking Lima waterworks. That's pretty it that you know. I'm I'm just gonna buzz through this because these are some horrendous questions. Brestler and Ferguson Reservoirs is the answer. All right. The QP hamburgers chain, which started in 1923, is a Lima staple. So when you started getting Social Security. What is unique about its mascot, the QP? K-E-W-P-E-E. He's got a little curly hair on top. It's a doll-like baby, it's a dancing cow, it's a giant burger, or it's a smiling chef.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

A little baby.

SPEAKER_02 21:59

It's a doll-like baby, is correct. Yeah. The QP doll was the inspiration for the name and the cherubic mascot of the burger chain. Is that chain still around? I guess it is. I I've never been there. Number eight, we're mercil mercifully almost through this. In 1912, Lima was the site of the world's first superhighway project, known as what? The Dixie Highway, Route 66, the Lincoln Highway, or the Interstate 75.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

It has to be Dixie because 75 doesn't go through. Yeah, no, no. It was not 66.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

I say 75 as well. Nope. The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental road, and its first seeding mile of concrete was built near Lima. Number nine, which world famous comedian and singer, known for his king of cool persona, performed frequently in Lima early in his career. The comedian and singer. So I would go with Jerry Lewis. Dean Martin was the king of cool. I think so too. Let's go, Dean Martin. Boom, yes. Originally from Steubenville, Ohio, Dean Martin was a frequent performer. It's over in the eastern side, over by Pennsylvania. Eastside? West Number 10. Lima is the county seat of which Ohio County? Auglaze, Putnam, Allen, or Harden? I go Putnam. We'll go Putnam. It is not, it is Allen County. And thankfully, that is the end of the Lima quiz. Thank you for giving us a quiz that was uh it was very close to to home. You know, that was that was good. I I actually enjoyed that except for the questions and the answers.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

We failed that one.

Neighbor’s Squirrel Saga And Snow Shopping

SPEAKER_02 23:52

That was terrible. Not not really good. What else is going on in our world besides Snow Magedding? Have I told you about the old guy across the street? Yeah, please. The old guy across the street.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Two things.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

Daddy!

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Step daddy!

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Number one. I've uh seen a legal document that has been written by the police in this good city of Frankfurt that says father.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

Number one, I sent you all a text message that he sent to me.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

And if you could if you could please translate anything he said in that.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

If you can find any punctuation, I will punctuation is overrated.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

And if you can find a complete sentence, uh I think he said the word ladder in there at one point, but I'm not quite for sure.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

He got the little ladder and a squirrel. So apparently he has a squirrel in his attic. And he knows it because there's insulation laying outside. In his yard. Yeah. So I'm trying to.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Squirrels are bad. Yeah, except for Peapod the Pocket Squirrel. Do you know who Peapod the Pocket Squirrel was? That was Bob. That was Bob Ross's little pet squirrel. Nice. Peapod the pocket squirrel. Yep. I've never heard that in my life.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Well, you're not a Bob Ross efficient on it. I've watched him paint pretty little trees, happy little trees, but I never saw him have a pocket squirrel. Oh, yeah. Was that code for something else? No. You and your gutter mind, no. Anyhow, the guy across the street's got a squirrel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

Apparently somewhere in his house, and he's afraid it's going to Do you really, honestly, do you really think that he has one?

SPEAKER_00 25:33

He's gonna no, I think probably what happened, it was on his roof, and there was some insulation from somewhere. I don't know. But he he heard it and he's afraid he's gonna chew up his drive.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Now the people who moved in behind him took out all their carpet and stuff, so it could come from there, too.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

That very well could be that. And but you know what's funny? I'm not gonna say a word. I'm gonna let him let him hear what you do to your family. I have to take him tomorrow to get his groceries before Snow Mageddon. You're waiting until tomorrow to do that? Everything's gone, dude. No, no, here's the problem. He he tried to do it on the app and have them delivered. Oh my god. And he didn't do something right. Of course he didn't. And it didn't get delivered. And then he's like, I've got plenty of groceries, don't worry about it. But yet he complained to me and my brother about it.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

I'm glad you and your brother are talking again.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Oh so then I had to uh I'm just like uh uh and he calls me and I'm like, uh what do you want me to do? So I had to get involved and because he wanted it done right then and there, and and now he wants his groceries, but they don't deliver, they've shut down delivery until yeah next Wednesday.

Hockey Chat And Playoff Lines

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Look, I I um I actually went to uh Walmart this morning before work just because they were the Walmart because I there were a couple of things I forgot to buy on Wednesday night when I went for Snow Mageddon Groceries and uh it was decimated and bombed at you know, this was 745 this morning. Uh tons of people in there. Every line was, you know, I mean, there's no lines because shampoo and deodorant. Uh no, I was getting canned pumpkin for the dogs. They have intestinal problems. Uh Gunther, he gets a little backed up if you don't give him the oil. Well then, it's like Gunther will be drinking prune juice this week. I I was able to procure six cans of pumpkin. So we're we're we're how backed up is he if you have to get six cans. It's for an extended period of time. Three days, he gets a tablespoon with dinner every night. Okay. So one can will last a good week. Day. Yeah. Day and a half.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

You got me worried. I'm feeding him a can a day. Big spoon. I'm like, is he on a diet or what?

SPEAKER_02 27:48

So uh we should also talk about hockey because obviously this is one of your all's favorite sports.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

I gotta tell you, I'm sitting here watching hockey right now, and this is awesome. I absolutely positively don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

Well, uh the the key thing that we need to keep in mind is the Tampa Bay Lightning are, yes, I mean they are they are on a heater. Uh they're I think 31, 13, and four for the year now. Wow, that's just but but crazy. Also, the the entire Atlantic division of which they are a member is on a combined heater right now. That's insane. Uh tell me more. Yeah, well, this is riveting. If you would if you would ever uh you know uh embrace hockey is a sport that I like to watch a person agreed.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

It is not one I like to watch a person.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

As opposed to telling us about hockey, tell us about the last episode of Perry Mason you watched. Uh oh okay, I will.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

So it was it was today. Imagine that. Yep, and it was the episode where um so there is a uh there's a a little old lady. I was just kidding. That's every episode.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

I was just working. Look, we got we got NFL playoffs this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 29:04

Uh playoffs season one, episode 30. It was it's she's uh she's a housekeeper and the the the guy is trying to get her to poison his wife for her.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Can we turn this off?

SPEAKER_02 29:16

I'm sorry, okay. Seriously, I do have a I do have a question about the playoffs. Yes, NFL playoffs.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

How has the line in the Denver New England game shrunk?

SPEAKER_00 29:30

I don't know. I'm assuming the Patriots are still a favorite.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Patriots the line opened at five and a half Patriots because Bo Nix is out. Right. Yep. It's now at four and a half. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Well, people are talking up Jarrett Stidham or whatever, like he's some he's terrible. Terrible. Terrible. Uh look, New England's gonna beat him in any, it's not gonna be close. Uh Denver is is well coached and they've got a pretty decent defense, but they're they are not going to beat New England. I'm I've been I don't think so either. I've been so impressed with the job that Mike Vrabel has done. And uh boy, New England's what do you what do you think about the other game?

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Seattle. I I agree. I think Seattle, the Lions two and a half.

SPEAKER_02 30:14

It's in Seattle. Yeah. Uh that that in and of itself is is worth some points, you know. So uh those that those crowd, that those fans are going to be. They're wild up there. Yeah. It's gonna be 120 decibel, you know, kind of a kind of a game. So, and by the way, this is this is hockey right here. Tampa Bay is completely outplaying Chicago. And they're losing. And they're losing. That's and they got hosed on a call. No, he didn't have control. He did have control. Chris, did he have control? He tapped it in with his with the yes, he did. No control. It was clearly off.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

He's hooking.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

Yeah, that that's a hook and ladder. Yeah, exactly. That is a hook on Chicago. And so the bolts lightning. The bolts will be going to the power play. No control. Right. So, um, yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

So are you are you prepared for Snow McGuin?

Snow Prep Shoutouts And Bread-Bag Hacks

SPEAKER_02 31:09

I think I am. Uh look, I I want to give a shout out to a product that needs to sponsor this podcast, and that is Tovala. Tovala is the uh Tovala is a uh it's a new-ish, not completely new, uh meal service that uh are we being sponsored now? They send it. It seems like we're trying to. Look, they send you an oven, and then they each week you get meals, and the oven cooks the meals, whether it's convection, air fry, uh steam, it does all these things. You scan the card, you get you put the things in there, in 20 minutes or less, you have a wonderful meal, and it has been a lifesaver. We got our new round of Tovala meals today, so we are set for Armageddon, Snow Magedddon.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

I'm showing everybody right now a picture of two loaf of bread bags empty that said, I've got my snow outfit ready. If you know, you know. Can you guys comment and tell our listeners why two bread bags are part of your snow outfit?

SPEAKER_02 32:16

You you can you can jump all over that.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

Look, it's waterproof on your feet, all I gotta say.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

That's terrible.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

Um hey, my voice is sounding better, right?

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Yeah, yeah. Um, so so I'm gonna I'm gonna no I'm gonna share two two TikToks that unfortunately can't be seen until we use video.

SPEAKER_00 32:39

We don't we don't Greg and I don't watch them anyway because that's just Chinese data mining.

SPEAKER_02 32:43

But this one is great because of the picture. I want you to look at the picture and listen to the sound. Ready? So glow.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Now that's funny.

Freezer Bowl Nostalgia And Ken Anderson Stories

SPEAKER_02 32:55

So glow coming to America. That's awesome. It's a it's a dog that's got a wig on. And this is, of course, all this week.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

So we know what we know what the superintendent does on snow days. That's funny. Yeah.

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I I I truly want to know why you all what you have against TikTok. It is not Chinese dynamite. Chinese dynamite.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

I mean, how old are you going to be on Sunday?

SPEAKER_02 33:33

108. I'm gonna be double nickels, 55. 55. I will be. Second time around. E bingo. Plus 10. 55 to the second power. Right, absolutely. 110. Now, hey, can I can we hearken back to something else from my childhood? That's a term for me. That's the the intro to the it was, I think, January 20th or so, 1982. This everyone, Dick Henrick with Merlin Olsen in Cincinnati.

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Just simply the meteorologist put it this way.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

I remember that. Snowball. The freezer bowl.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

Excuse me, freezer bowl. I didn't play in this cola window.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Minus 59 degree windshield. Was that Anderson was the quarterback? Yes. And and he was in short sleeves. It was 84 degrees in Miami the week before for San Diego. Minus 59 minutes.

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That's about the difference today between the temperature.

SPEAKER_02 34:31

And as soon as the Bengals walked out and their offensive linemen had short sleeves on, San Diego was done.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

Is that kind of like when Tennessee walked out at the Ohio State game first?

SPEAKER_02 34:43

Pretty much. Pretty much. Yeah. Ken Anderson should be in the Hall of Fame. Why is he not? Dog gone. The guy was a two-time league MVP, uh, multiple-time all pro, pro bowler. I mean, he had the single season record for highest completion percentage until like six years ago.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

Um I'm gonna give a little tips and tricks of the trade per name. If anybody wants to go hang out with Ken Anderson at his tailgate, he's behind the stadium on the riverside prior to every game. And anybody that wants to show up can. There's always food and games. He has his own beer that gets canned by one of the breweries. Yes, he does. Yep. And Ken Anderson's always just hanging around. It's his tailgate, and he welcomes everybody.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

So I got a I got a Ken Anderson story. So Carrie and I had uh been together for a couple of years, and um This was after the Great Depression. Yeah, and so he he was having a uh a signing in Columbus, Ohio at a sporting goods store in uh one of the malls. So we drove up from Shilakathy to go, because I was like, man, Ken Anderson is one of my heroes. I want to go get assigned football. So we we we roll in there, we're walking to in the mall towards the sporting goods store. I'm thinking there's gonna be a huge line. No one, there's literally no one. I go in and there's Ken Anderson standing there with a couple of employees in the store. There's no one else in the store. And I I just walk up and I was like, oh my god, Ken Anderson. He was like, Hey, how are you doing? And so I just started talking to him, and again, no one else was there. I got a ball signed, and I was like, Would you would you throw me a pass? And he's like, sure, give me a ball. I went over and got a ball off the shelf, handed the ball. Ken Anderson threw me a pass and I caught it.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

Nice. Where's the ball he signed?

SPEAKER_02 36:42

Um I've never seen a signed ball around here. There's one in there, but that's not it. Um but it looks just like that one. Is that one signed by um the Campbell kid? Uh no. That one is just a uh that one is one that I got uh that one is one I got at the Bengals training camp. That's terrible. Yes. Which one? I mean, look, that's almost like vote for me.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

Vote for me.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Well, on that note.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

What about Larry? We haven't talked to Larry this week.

Guests Teased, Safety Notes, And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_02 37:12

Uh I talked to Larry twice today. What are you talking about? Larry didn't want to come on? Larry, Larry is he is very willing to come on, and I told him we would be bringing him on. Uh so he's he's ready to go. And Dr. Smirski wants to come back. Doctor, doctor. He wants to be uh, you know, phoned in. But I think we need to bring Producer Mellon in. You know, since we missed him when he was here in December, he will be here again in March, by the way. Uh Doctor, Doctor. Uh good. I like it. Yeah. So y'all check out the picture I sent you. Everyone, there's gonna be 200 million people that are gonna be impacted by this snowstorm. Stay safe, stay warm. Sounds like I'm doing a one call.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

I was gonna say, absolutely you canceled school all next week. No, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

This is Superintendent God.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

You know what? Can I tell you this? I don't miss that at five in the morning. Oh, that's fair.

SPEAKER_01 38:07

Did J. Vion Campbell go either? Hold on now.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

I got it. We're still recording.

SPEAKER_01 38:11

Here we go. Why, bro? Stop. We're Javion Campbell.