EP 47 - Upper Pennisula Michigan - Rhombus Lumber

Ned is back on the podcast fresh from his snowbird vacation to Florida . The Upper Pennisula of Michigan Winter Weather update . Logging 

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SPEAKER_02 0:12

Welcome to the Trevor Buck Podcast, episode 47. This episode is sponsored by Rhombus Lumber. If it ain't square, but it's there. Or it might not be there. I'm still waiting for this one by four white tongue and groove cedar, but hey, where are you at, Ned?

SPEAKER_00 0:30

I'm I'm between Amasaw.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

Okay, explain that in English.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

So so on 141 between Coving Covington and Crystal Falls, there's a town called Amasaw.

SPEAKER_02 0:45

How do you spell that?

SPEAKER_00 0:47

A M-A-S-A.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Huh.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

So the legend goes, well, it's not a legend, it's a true story. Okay. There was this guy, this trucker that uh one of the one of his boss would call him, and if he was on this stretch of road, it's like a 35-mile stretch, he would uh he would ask him where are you at? He he would tell him he's between Amasa.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Oh, that's great. So hey, it's it's been a little while. You've uh you haven't been jumping on, but um give us an update on the winter weather up there. I've seen uh you shared some snow blowing pictures, but you guys got bombed this winter, eh?

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Yeah, yeah, it's uh it's been a little bit bipolar lately. It was I got home from Florida on Thursday. It was you know well, I got home Thursday night, so it was cooling off. My whole driveway was ice. Then what was it yesterday, Friday? So we had freezing rain, then six inches of snow on top of that, and today it's beautiful, so huh. So it's gonna thaw out for today and tomorrow, and that's supposed to get down to freezing again. But it was nice to get a break in the weather.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

When uh I'm tired of it. When Zeb made his trip up there, he shared a video. He said you guys are gonna have snow till like July.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

I know. I know. Unless we get some really warm weather, it's gonna take a long time to melt.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

We got flowers blooming out here. We got daffodils and forsethia, and the trees are blooming. It's epic.

unknown 2:30

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Yeah, I keep uh I might have to make a trip out there and get my truck from Andy. Well, that would be epic, and bring bring that uh one by four seater. That'd be perfect. Did everything bring it to you? No. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. So, how was your Florida trip?

SPEAKER_00 2:52

Oh, it was gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Where'd you go? What part what part of Florida were you in?

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Went and saw my mom and dad in Port Charlotte.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Okay. Nice weather.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Yeah, Jake, my brother Jake and his wife and kids were there from Alaska.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Got to see them.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

Good deal.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Yep, so then you I didn't do much. I I went and watched uh uh Tigers spring training.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Where was that at?

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Straight in Port Charlotte.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Okay. So that that's where they do their uh spring training there?

SPEAKER_00 3:28

No, actually Tampa Bay does their spring training there, and Detroit was playing Tampa Bay.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

I think there was more Tigers fans there than Tampa Bay fans.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

Well, you got the uh the snowbirds trying to get out of Minnes or Michigan for the winter, getting down there.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

Yeah. No, they're pretty cool. Yeah, dude they did that up there.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

None of their Yeah, like none of their big name players were playing. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

No, they do that up here too. I think Mariners trained down in Peoria, Arizona, so a lot of people try to get out of the w winter up here and head down there. But yeah. No, that's awesome.

unknown 4:03

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

So then you uh got you were excited to get home and start logging again.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Uh well, I haven't gotten logging again.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 4:15

I was I was going to Friday, yeah, but um I messaged Joe in the morning and he wasn't getting back to me and wasn't getting back to me, and uh it's like I my buddy Chad messaged me and says, Hey, the truck's loaded for you if you want to go. So I went and hauled a load of wood for it.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

Oh yeah. Hey, um, have you talked to Joe?

SPEAKER_00 4:40

No, actually I haven't talked to him.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

He I wonder if he was down at Con Expo.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

No, that was uh Dalen.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Yeah, but I thought yeah, I thought maybe Joe went down there too.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

So Joe wouldn't go down at Con Expo.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

Oh, he wouldn't?

SPEAKER_00 4:57

No.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

I mean I guess he I mean I I if a company sent him down there and paid for it, but he wouldn't he wouldn't go down there just for kicks.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Rhombus Lumber wouldn't send him there?

SPEAKER_00 5:12

No, not this year. Yeah, yeah. We couldn't get everything unburied out of the snow in time to get it on the Con Expo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

We were gonna do an exhibit, but can't feed a snow. Gita went down there. He met up with uh Peter Tappio at the show. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Yeah, that's what he told me. Yeah, that's awesome. How did he know it was Pete?

SPEAKER_02 5:36

Uh I I think I had shared their their contacts. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pete was uh representing Trevor Buck down at Con X, but it was awesome. It was so awesome. He was going around to all these exhibitors, hey Trevor Buck. It was great. It was awesome.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Yeah, yeah. So did Pete have an exhibit down there?

SPEAKER_02 6:00

No, no, he's just he's just in that industry and he's staying on top of equipment and blah blah blah. You probably go see what the latest and greatest machinery is. I would like to go maybe next year.

SPEAKER_00 6:12

It would be cool.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

It'd be super cool. I think it's every three years, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Every three?

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Every three years, yep.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Yeah, if I wasn't building this house, this house is an epic excuse for everything. I get to escape everything.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

I know. You you haven't been doing anything for that house.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

I'm starting to resent this house. I hate this thing.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Just sell it as is. You don't need a house. All they do is pin you down.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

I know. Then when when it's done, I'm gonna be like, no, I can't go. I gotta stay home and mow the lawn.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Exactly. I gotta weed my garden.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

I gotta clean my gutters.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

But hey, uh I want to look into uh the hunting regulations up there. And I want to see if uh when bow season is, but it would be awesome if you and Zeb came over. We sat on my back patio and we shot a few deer right off the back patio.

unknown 7:18

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

With with bows. I don't want to shoot guns because there's neighbors like, you know, within a few miles, but it'd be epic to plunk a couple with bows.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Can we bait them with massive cornpiles?

SPEAKER_02 7:31

That's frowned upon out here.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Is it legal though?

SPEAKER_02 7:36

I don't think so. No, no, no, it's it's illegal. You get busted.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

Oh yeah. Well, I just get a kick out of people that rip on the UP for baiting because then it it's probably one of the hardest places ever to hunt if you don't bait. You know, and there are there are people that do it without baiting, but we have so little deer, and uh like I mean your longest shot you're ever gonna get with a bow is forty to fifty yards, you know, or even a gun most times.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Yeah. But that's that's hardly hunting. That's hardly hunting when you're just baiting and sitting in a tree stand. I'd be embarrassed to even talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

But you still, you know, you're that close to the deer, and you still have to draw back without them noticing. They have to get in there without smelling you. Because like the big deer, they know like if there's a bait pile, they know there's a human around, obviously, right? Right. So they'll they'll circle, you know. A lot of times you'll just that deer will come close and you'll just never see them.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

They'll come in, um, you know, circle your bait pile out a hundred yards or so, and if they smell you, they're just gone.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

So that's pretty challenging.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

And and uh to do it without bait, you just have to be so patient, you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

You in other parts of the uh world where ninety percent of your deer population doesn't die off in a winter because you have three hundred and fifty inches of snow, you know, there there's so many deer, your chances of just seeing a deer walk by are good, you know?

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

But up here it's yeah, I don't I don't have the patience for it.

SPEAKER_02 9:33

Yeah, I don't either. I have a question for you though. So when you when you shoot a deer and then you eat the the meat, what do you call the meat?

SPEAKER_00 9:40

Venison.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

What what is that what what's that word even mean?

SPEAKER_00 9:45

I deer meat.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

I know, but when you catch a fish, you eat fish.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

That's a good point. I'm gonna have to look into that. You're gonna have to Yeah, but if you kill a cow, you eat beef. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

So the origination of the word, I don't know, but if you kill a chicken, you eat chicken.

unknown 10:12

Right.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

Venison's a dumb word. Yeah, I'd like to know who came up with that word and never thought of that. That's that's brilliant. You should you should look into that.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

Yeah. Venison's not not good anyway.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Is it really not?

SPEAKER_00 10:33

I don't like it.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

I mean, it's really good for you. It's super lean, there's no fat in it, but I mean, when there's no fat, there's no flavor, the back straps are unbelievable. The tender lines.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

But other than that, not a fan of it.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Have you been playing hockey?

SPEAKER_00 10:54

No, I played once this year.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

You were gonna get back into it with the speckies.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Yeah, I was gonna go full time, but I never got a specys jersey, so I just hung it up.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Well, I wanted to uh wait until you're proved your point, not just once.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

I needed I needed an excuse to play to go show off my jersey. I mean, If I get you if I get to go show off my skills, they all know I'm NHL caliber, you know. If I get you one, you I just wanted to show off a jersey.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

If I get you one, will you play regularly?

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Uh if I move somewhere warm and it's I don't have to go outside in the freezing cold, I would.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

Oh, that is awesome. Hey, the uh the the Houghton Gremlins. Shout out the Gremlins. Huh? What do you have to say about that?

SPEAKER_00 11:52

Oh, that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Isn't that cool?

SPEAKER_00 11:55

Didn't really follow them. Um they were uh they were turning it turning into a really good team by the end of the season. Right. Yeah, they pulled it off.

SPEAKER_02 12:05

Pretty cool. Take that, Andy Mac.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Yeah, yeah, take that, Andy. Go go cry to your uh downstate team.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Maybe Andy should go coach them downstate teams so they can win some state championships.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

They should, but I do think that the Minnesota high school hockey is better than Michigan.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

I do prove it.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Well, yeah, just look at their uh the YouTube Minnesota Hair Channel. They got the hockey hair, the hockey hair YouTube channel? That's epic. They don't do that in Michigan.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Yeah. Uh we're too modest for that. Oh, right. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

How about uh USA winning the Olympics with what, eight, eight guys from Michigan on the team?

unknown 13:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:05

That was pretty good. But you know what? What?

SPEAKER_00 13:07

They didn't they didn't let Russia play, so I don't even care. Oh, really? Don't it don't count?

SPEAKER_02 13:14

Right. I like this. Tell me more about it.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Well, they didn't let them play. I it doesn't count.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

I know, but they're in a war.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

So so are we. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

Who's making these rules?

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Right. Exactly, huh?

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Yeah, no, it would have been nice, it would have been nice to see Russia there, because uh I like Ovi.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Uh he's you know why he would have made the team just because uh of his legendary scorer. Right. He doesn't deserve to be on it anymore. Yes, he does. No. He's uh he's a one-dimensional player that stands in the top of the circle and takes one timer.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

He snipes.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

I mean, his yeah, his plus-minus is probably negative, I would imagine. Because he's a liability on the ice. He's not like Theo Fleury, like that guy could do it all.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

Right? So Theo Theo played a two-way game.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Yeah, no, I don't know. He was just the best there is. Uh you can't be 5'6 or 5'7 in that league, especially in that era where there was clutching and grabbing and hooking, all that was just totally legal.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

Right.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

And still put up 150 points a season and not be the most talented player in the league.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

Right. Theo's way better than McDavid.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Oh, easily.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Could you imagine McDavid playing in those at that era? He'd have the LeBron crying face the whole game.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

He would. He would. He'd just be laying on the ice. They're picking on me. Uh begging the NHL to change the rules for him. Right. Like they did for Crosby.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

Oh, so hey, I have something I need to ask you. You you weren't a big fan of uh the direction the podcast was going. Too much business stuff.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

Yeah, yeah. No, I mean I get it. It's awesome. They get their exposure and everything.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

Right.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

Like, I'm I'm not uh I don't live on the West Coast, and I'm not I'm not doing business with those people, so to me it wasn't interesting.

SPEAKER_02 15:51

Well, you started the business stuff by sponsoring episode one with Rhombus Lumber.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Yeah, yeah, but there's still no actual rhombus lumber.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

It was it was business driven from episode one.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

Yeah, these guys, these guys actually have legit businesses. We're just a fake business uh with a model. You know, because we made uh rhombus lumber.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

You know, one one guy that came on the pod, he told me, he said, hey, just to be honest, when you first started this pod, I hated it. And I said, why? He goes, because I hate hockey and I hate the UP. He said, All the all the youpers out here in Washington, all they can talk about how great the UP is. He's like, Well, move back there then.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Yeah, none of you live here, and here I am living here, and it's the last place on earth I want to be. Especially I mean, I love the summers, obviously, but oh the winters are awful.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

Yeah, but between the summer then you got mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Right, yeah, exactly. That's it. You just sit there and think of how nice the summer is gonna be. Then you're sitting there in the summer getting eaten by mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

So does the does the heavy snowpack does that affect the mosquitoes? Like, does that keep them at bay or does that make them worse?

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Uh I don't know. I mean, it all depends like how long the water sits around.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Um because uh you know they they lay their eggs in those pools.

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SPEAKER_02 17:41

I know, but if they're 350 inches of snow, they might not be able to lay their eggs till who knows when.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Yeah. I don't know. All I know is there there no matter what happens, there's never any less mosquitoes in a substantial. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

They're all the same.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Pretty modern. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

So you are you done uh snowblown for the year?

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Uh I snowblowed yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

Right? You didn't send me a video.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

Just because I was bored.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

You're chucking chucking snow.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Yeah, I probably didn't really need to snowblow because it was supposed to be 40 uh today and tomorrow, but you know, like the old youper say, you need the new snow to melt the old snow. Where they came up with that, I don't know, but what a dumb saying.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

That's a cool saying. I I like youper sayings. You got any others?

SPEAKER_00 19:04

Yeah. You know that if you drink coffee in the sauna, it helps to keep you cool.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Does it really work?

SPEAKER_00 19:17

I could I uh I bet it does, eh?

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Hey, we gotta we gotta talk about this. Um, your your sauna shorts. They worked pretty epic in Florida for swim trunks, too, eh?

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Oh man, yeah, they are. They're awesome.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

Aren't those good?

SPEAKER_00 19:30

Yeah. Dual my wife, my wife thought I would have to wear my manchini under them because they'd be see-through, but I went with all.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Oh, that is awesome. Yeah, thanks, thanks for supporting down in Florida. That was epic. So is is that was where where was that pool at?

SPEAKER_00 19:51

That's at my aunt's house down there.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

That looks awesome. I could just hang out there for a week.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Oh, that's that's pretty much all we did. Yeah, I mean, we went to the beach one time.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Not a not a fan of the salt water.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

You don't care for saltwater?

SPEAKER_00 20:09

No. It just you get all sticky and gross.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Saltwater rules. It does.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

That gives it tastes like crap.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

No, it gives you surfer hair.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

Oh well, I don't have any hair, so it don't help me at all. The stuff tastes awful. It burns your eyes. But it was nice and cool.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

Oh, that was awesome.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

It felt like like Lake Superior on a warm Lake Superior day.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

What's the uh what's the closest beach there where you were staying? What'd you say that was Port Port Orford? Port Port Charlotte.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Port Charlotte.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

Where's Port Orford?

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Orford, I don't know. Somewhere in your imagination.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

I think that's in Washington somewhere. Port Charlotte.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

Oh yeah. So so Port Charlotte's on the Charlotte Harbor, which is it's a huge harbor, but it's there's not really beaches on it.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

So yeah, we probably have to drive like twenty miles.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

Oh yeah. That's not bad.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

So Polca Grande or Englewood or Port Myers or Okay. It's not too terrible far from Sarasota.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Okay, now are you on the uh Atlantic side or the Bay side?

SPEAKER_00 21:33

The Gulf side.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Okay, the Gulf side. What do they call that? The Gulf of America?

SPEAKER_00 21:39

The Gulf of America, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

That was a little uh controversial there.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

A little bit, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't know why it's controversial. I mean it could be both, right?

SPEAKER_02 21:54

Yeah, who cares? People just like making up drama over stuff that doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

Yeah, or else just making up stupid stuff that doesn't matter to create drama.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

Exactly. Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Uh so what else is new, John? How's the house going?

SPEAKER_02 22:13

Um I finally got my electrical signed off. So I hopefully I get my uh interior panel energized this week. And then uh shout out Kevin with Country Restoration. He's gonna come on and put in some uh heaters or fans or whatever he does because he's a specialist at drying stuff out. Okay. So we gotta make sure the wood is nice and dry, and then we're gonna insulate and drywall and hopefully it's on the downhill from there. Sick of this thing.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Um dehumidify the house before insulating and drywalling. I suppose. Is it because of the rain or what?

SPEAKER_02 22:57

Well, it was it was pretty wet when uh they framed in December. The the wood was wet. We did measure the moisture content, and I think it was at like 18%. And I think they like to get it to like 10% moisture content. Really? I but that's what I understand. Okay. So, and then uh they're gonna spray foam the the roof deck. And I think that that's pretty um sensitive to moisture, that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

If it's if it's too uh too wet, I think it just traps it in, and then your roof just molds, I think. Or rots or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Yeah. Yeah, I would imagine.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Yeah. So, um, yeah, and I still have a few little things to do. I had a couple of nephews come up last Saturday. They're awesome dudes, young, energetic, and uh they're into tech. So they started pulling uh data cables while we're telling me what they can do with data cabling these days. Oh, that was so funny. So uh so one of so one of them, I tell him, I said, Kate, when you get home, send me your setup. Because I had helped him wire his house. And uh so he sends me the picture of his closet. He's got like this I mean, a full-blown network rack in his closet.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

I thought wires were becoming obsolete. What's up with that?

SPEAKER_02 24:20

I think wire is always better. I mean, you can do wireless anything, but I think uh a wired system is always better.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

So yeah, I mean it's definitely more uh what we more reliable.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Yeah, yeah. So uh no, who knows? So we're I we pulled some uh data cables in, who knows what I end up if I finish it out or not. But it's got uh fiber internet to the house, kind of like DH up there up there on the UP, yep.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Oh, you're you guys are catching up to the UP finally. Finally.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Oh, shoot. So no, and I think there's a few cameras you can uh hook up to the network or whatever, but we'll we'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, then you just need to get rid of that house so you can be a fun guy again.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Exactly. Stay in the hood.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Right. Yeah, just go do fun stuff, have someone mow your tiny little lawn that doesn't hardly exist, and you just go do fun things.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

That wasn't so bad, was it?

unknown 25:26

No.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

I know. When uh yesterday I did a podcast with uh shout out the listen line, and Charla told me, I told her I said I need to go after we were done, I said I need to go up to the house and do some things. And she kind of implemented that it was about time I start adulting in my life.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

So she knows me, so never, never start adulting. It's so boring.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Right? Yeah Yeah, I'm I'm fighting it, but yeah, it is what it is.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

I saw that uh that podcast you did, and I I meant to listen to it, but which one? Because uh the the helpline one?

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Yeah, it comes out this week. Oh, okay. And it's it's it's a really cool story um in the service that they provide, and uh they're actually doing an auction and businesses help fund it, but no, it's it's a super cool service. So yeah, that that comes out this week. I still got to edit it, but I was uh it was a nice conversation, and they uh they're passionate about helping people. And uh and that's one thing about this podcast. If you're passionate about something, come on and talk about it. I mean, I don't care if you're passionate about collecting pine cones, come on and tell your story. I don't care, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

I'm passionate about hating winter, and uh Cleve's sister was ripping on me for it. She works on it over there at Fast and Stuff, uh ripping on me about hating winter, so she can just screw right off. Because I believe she's down in Florida right now because she can't handle the winter either.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

So Oh, I love the youper smack talk. I'm gonna try to get uh Nolan back on today because he said he had a few things he needed to refute with you guys, so this is great.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

I wanted to listen to the Nolan one because I don't I don't ever take notes, you know. Okay, sure. I had a few things that I had to talk to Nolan set him straight on. Of course, I can't think of them right now. Right.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Well, you better think of them because I'm gonna try to get him to come on. We'll do a a double episode. I love this.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Uh you know, I I need to start taking notes, but I could never my whole life I could never take notes. So how am I gonna how am I ever gonna do it now?

SPEAKER_02 28:05

Oh, this is a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Yeah, there was a there was a few rebuttals I had for Nolan.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

You can't think of them. I can't. He was I know one of them was he was talking about how you guys do your uh uh smelt fishing or bait fishing. He's like, there's no skill in that. He's like fly fishing, he's gotta pick the perfect fly and the perfect, you know.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

It's like Yeah. Uh he's never gone to a river with uh so full of smelt you can't even carry the uh net out.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Right.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

That takes some skill to get your net full of smelt out of the river.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Do you do you have those up there?

unknown 28:54

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

Oh you do? Okay. So they they just ran here about three weeks ago up up the river here, and it was it was a big thing. People were dipping them. Yeah. And then right behind them were the sea lines coming from the ocean following the smelt up the river. And there was there was hundreds of sea lions. It was pretty cool. And then following the smelt, of course, were the bald eagles, and it was it was cool.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Right?

SPEAKER_02 29:19

It was super cool.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Yeah, we used to have such massive smelt runs up there. Like they would uh people would just fill up the back of a pickup. I've heard stories of people going uh like filling up the back of a pickup and like go going downtown and opening their tailgate, take off squealing and a whole pickup load of smelt on the on the street, you know.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

What the world? But that's a youper youper right there, huh? Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

But yeah, there there used to be so many that they didn't care how many you took, but then that the smelt run, it really died off for many years. You couldn't hardly get any.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Okay. What what do they do? Are they just bait or peop people eat them, or what do you do with smelt?

SPEAKER_00 30:10

No, people eat 'em. Okay. They're really good, actually.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

Smoke them or what? They're pretty.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

No, you just pan fry 'em.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

Yeah, but they're tiny. You got 'em? I know, you just eat them whole.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

Got 'em, cut the head off, and cook 'em.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

Okay, huh. We'll have to try smelt sometime.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

I haven't I haven't had it in many years. Right? Yeah, when we were when we were younger and they used to run good. We used to eat 'em.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

Uh-huh. Have you uh have you had any Nisu lately?

SPEAKER_00 30:39

No.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

No? What's up with that?

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Uh Shelby hasn't been making it.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

She's slackened.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Yeah, she is. Last last she made it was Christmas time.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

She made made it for Christmas gifts for people.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

Oh yeah, yeah. It's kind of a special holiday bread thing.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

Uh not really. It just makes a good gift.

SPEAKER_02 31:05

Right? How about uh how's Nancy doing at Slims?

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Oh, doing good.

SPEAKER_02 31:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Still still loving it.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

Yep. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

She had her little little break there, so it's been super, super busy there.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

Okay, that's good. So uh tourism in the winter is is doing good up there.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Oh man, Bohemia has just been getting rocked with snow.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

That's awesome. Because there's across the country, there's uh there ain't it ain't much snow anywhere else.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Um so basically like the whole UP has a lot more than average.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Um we're down well, we flew out of Appleton down by Green Bay, and you know, they had a little bit on the ground there. Just basically just snow piles from when it had snowed, but so yeah, up here we're I think I think like the the totals aren't above average, but what's on the ground is above average.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

Yeah. You'll have to you'll you have to send me a fresh picture. How tall is your uh snowbanks at your place?

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Uh well over my head.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

Right. I mean, are they getting close to gutter gutter heights?

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Well, not at my house.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

Um like the the snowbanks on the streets are probably eight feet tall, you know.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

It's crazy. I've seen that video, Trevor. Some of those houses are just like they're socked in.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

Oh yeah. Yeah. My buddy in Caliman had to shovel his roof six times this winter. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

That's a lot of work.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_02 32:54

That's adulting. I'm out of there.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Right. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

Right.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Um But yeah, it's uh hopefully it's on the the downslight.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

I hope so. We always get socked with a storm around St. Patrick's Day, so Right.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

It rains on your St. Paddy's Day parade? Or it snows on it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Yeah. Hey, do hey, do they have donuts at Slim's?

unknown 33:29

No.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

You told me you're a fan of donuts.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

Oh, I love donuts.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

I hate donuts. They're so sugary. It's like eating a handful of sugar. What's up with that?

SPEAKER_00 33:41

Oh, that's what I love. They're so sugary. I'm like, I'm like a sugar fanatic.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

Oh, you are?

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

Yeah. I'm more of a the savory dude. I like salty stuff. I'm not too big into the sweets.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

Oh man, I love sweets. I have to, well, it you know how when you get old, it's pretty easy to pack on some pollen.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

So yeah, I have to really uh test my self-control around donuts and stuff. Yeah. I don't have much of it.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

Yep, that's part of growing up, dude.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Okay, well, hey, let's wrap this up. Don't hang up. Um, this episode was edited and produced by Daisy Media and like us, follow on Spotify and Apple, and give this episode a five star review. Thanks for joining us.