Wonderful! - Wonderful! 231: Corn Tag

Episode Date: June 2, 2022

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hi, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. I just took a nap and I'm feeling buttery. You ever get like that? You wake up from a nap and you just like drip out of bed. I haven't really had a successful nap lately. So luxurious.

I mean, it's successful in that I lose consciousness, but I never regain consciousness and feel like that was- Oh no, yeah, nobody does that. Okay. Nobody nobody there are people out there who are you know big nap fans i would consider myself i guess among their number but i never wake up from a nap like ah that was the sleep i needed i was missing that sleep and now that i have it i've got everything i need to tackle the day the way i need to um. I more just kind of pour out of bed into a griffin-shaped mold, and I'm ready to very slowly trudge.

Maybe I'll pour hot water on my body in the shower, and then I'll be wet and tired. Yeah. Which is better in some ways. I'm sorry you haven't been having good naps, though, lately, honey. You need them more than anyone I know, I think. What happens a lot of times is I will lay down in bed and I will just kind of fade in and out until I look at the clock and feel like that's been enough time to fade in and out. No, that's too bad. You got to get into some mantras. It's such a luxury. The fact that

I can even do that at all feels good enough to me, honestly. I guess so. Yeah, it's better than nothing. I'm used to working in an office where you can't sneak a nap in. Yeah. And so this feels like a real treat. You should let me, next time you do a nap, let me do sort of bespoke white noise for you. Just sort of a Michael Winslow sleep experience. You think that's what I need?

Yeah. Okay. Because I know you two like train, being on train, fall asleep on train. Fall asleep on train. Chugga chugga, chugga chugga, chugga chugga. Michael Winslow sleep experience. You think that's what I need? Yeah. Okay. Because I know you two like train, being on train, fall asleep on train. Fall asleep on train. Chugga chugga, chugga chugga, chugga chugga. Apples and pears, apples and pears. That's the people talking on the train. Apples and pears, apples and pears.

That would really direct my dream in a certain direction. Yeah, yeah. But it would knock you out, definitely, for sure. And I would definitely dream about fruit. And, well, the fruit train. Choo-choo, baby. Hey, do you have any small wonders? I do.

I don't think I've said this before, and the fact that I'm not sure says a lot about our podcast, and that is bulk trash pickup. I think you have talked about bulk trash pickup. For real? I think so. See, I feel like this is the first time we really leaned into it.

Yeah, I guess so. We just have a lot of kid stuff. Yes. Let's say. And it's kid stuff that I don't think anybody else would want. It has been well used and somewhat broken. and uh it's on our curb and at some at some point somebody's gonna take it yeah the city the city gonna take it and if not maybe somebody else will we've definitely put stuff out there earlier in the week that is not there

anymore yeah and i hope found a good home yeah it's uh it's it's clutch and i don't i've never lived in another place that did it that did that did that style of thing i don't think they did it in chicago or at least maybe not on the street that i live well that's because you just like put your stuff in the alley and just hope for the best that is what i did when i moved away is i mean that's how i got like my couch when i lived in chicago you got an alley couch uh the first place i lived yeah we got an alley couch? The first place I lived, yeah, we got an alley couch. All right. I mean, I put a mattress out there that was pretty good.

And then I went back inside and I packed up a box. And then I took another bag of trash out. And by that point, the mattress was gone. It's incredible. Miracle alley. Chicago miracle disappearance. My roommate got our kitchen table. And he may or may not have accidentally stolen that from somebody who was moving.

Oh, dear. Because it was not next to a dumpster. And he was like, I'm pretty sure they were throwing it out. It was in the parking lot. And I was like, but was it next to the dumpster? And he said, no. It was a table? No, it was a table and chairs.

Yeah, that's not the sort of thing you just leave outside without. It looked good. There was no noticeable flaw to it. I mean, I would take it home. Yeah, you would. You'd take any table and chairs home, babe. What is your soul under? I'm just going to say all of our reality TV competition shows

are really good this season. And I want to say everyone is doing a pretty good job with it. Yeah, we just finished The Circle and we... Bonkers how good that season was. And we are getting caught up on Survivor... Bonkers how good that season was. And we are getting caught up on Survivor. Bonkers how good this season is. The game elevated to a really fun place. Top Chef, pretty fun this season.

It's a good time of year. We are super far behind in Top Chef. We are. And it's good that we have this reality competition to entertain us because the reality competition that is hockey is now over. Yeah. Maybe the most heartbreaking ending to a game, definitely to a season that I've ever experienced since watching hockey. Literally, they lost it in the last five seconds of the game.

Yes. You can't even try and convince yourself they're going to catch up when there's only five seconds left. Yeah. They were really scrappy and fought their way way back and it was a really intense game and then the colorado avalanche scored it was i think six seconds left on the clock and it's like well fun fun sport fun sport and game glad we watched it now it's gone now it's gone i mean there's other teams still playing but colorado for one colorado is one of them yeah we are spiteful i would say sports fans and that now we we will simply root for anybody who can we have a bounty out on the colorado yeah

i don't know much about edmonton but best of luck to you good get them oilers get oily in there get super oily i go first this week and mine this is this is one of my more, I would say, lightweight topics. Oh, I like when you do those, honestly. It's like a little treat. Yeah. Well, this one's going to be a treat for you then because it is when a baby stares you down on an airplane. Oh, I know what motivated this one. I saw a ticky-tock and I showed it to Rachel

and it is just a very round child, very spherical sort of infant just staring at the videographer catty corner on an airplane just like eyes bulging out of their head like I know what you fucking did dude. I know.

It's not even like a passive I'm staring off into space like hey I see you. It's like what did you say to my wife? Like that level of, ooh. Yeah. It's a very good TikTok. Do you, this may just be me, but do you, when you see babies that are that round, get kind of jealous? Yeah, we never had like a, I mean, Gus is getting, Gus is filling out nicely.

It's mostly in the belly though. That's true. Like he doesn't carry it anywhere else. But that's a good place for a baby to get. I mean, it's a good place. But the head, when the head is big and the cheeks are big. Yeah. And you can't even see their neck.

When Gus was born, that boy's head was a regulation size softball. It was perfectly. Well, you couldn't even. He has a birthmark perfectly. Well, you couldn't even, he has a birthmark on his neck and you couldn't even see it. The skin was so folded over. Yeah, he's a real. I remember taking him to his first appointment.

The pediatrician was like, oh, and I was like, we had not even seen that yet. I didn't know that was there. And then we were like, all right, man, time to breastfeed. And he'd be like, okay, like this. It's like, no, like no dummy come on dude um yeah no i i get i do feel a little bit jealous but mostly i feel just a great joy a great joy well up inside of me i've been talking about this with rachel a lot lately in that like in that we are done having children we'll never have another one oh for sure um but

also that like i was wicked not a kid person especially a baby person before we had a baby and now that we have kids i am like wicked a kid person i don't know that you were like particularly not a kid person it wasn't like you disliked no it's not that i would dislike them it's that i was constantly worried that they disliked me like i was so i was so uncomfortable about how to appeal to a child or how to you know brass tack stuff like how to hold a baby right i remember the first time i held charlie i was, I am going to drop her and she'll die and it will be the end of our family. But I don't know. You get over that pretty fast.

But it takes a little bit longer to get over the like, what am I doing? Like, what do you want? What do you need from me? Can I provide it? I don't think so. Yeah. No, I think part of the reason you're so good is that you commit. I feel like this is true of a lot of

things in your life but i will say particularly when dealing with kids there is no like half-ass like oh i'm a pony and yeah i guess you're in charge of me as the knight or whatever i mean anyone i think could tell you that that's just bad play that's just bad imagination griffin griffin is the character he has a backstory He has a backstory. He has a voice. He has motivation. It's incredible. Costumes sometimes. Makeup.

An arc. An arc. Hero's journey. But man, the highlight of any sort of child experience for me is when a baby stares you down on an airplane. Because it's just a highlight of the travel experience because sometimes they're just like across the aisle from you just like staring you down and then you can have like a moment with the the parents or guardian yeah who are just like looking down at them and looking at you just to make sure that you're cool and you can smile yeah i'm cool this

is fucking great i will say as the parent of a baby that often engages with strangers on an airplane, like I do enjoy when the stranger is into it. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, that's right. You play with my kids. So yeah, when they ooh and ah at them, it's like, yes, little guy, you're fucking slaying right now. You're crushing it. You have them in the palm of your hand. It's very, very gratifying as a parent. Less, it's less good, but still pretty good when they're in the aisle in front of you and like peeking at you in the cracks between the seats because you can't interface with the parents and let them know like this i'm okay with this are you okay with this because i'm okay with this and you feel like you know i shouldn't get this little baby too riled up maybe they're

trying to get him to sleep like you can't get that that communication going but the fat face squishing between the two chair seats still very good i will say and this is probably true of every parent like time goes so slow on an airplane when you have children with you you are just desperate for anything that will keep your child occupied for more than five minutes. And I don't know that you can get five minutes of staring at a stranger, but if it's possible, I would be on board. Yes, absolutely. We are, I would say you and I are very polite people in general. Like we are, etiquette is a, if not etiquette, then just like being considerate is a, is a priority for us. I would say in all things,

we never want to be, we never want to offend. Isn't the right word because obviously like we're not out there trying to do that, but disrupt. Yeah. Somebody's experience. And bringing a child on a plane is the absolute fucking psychic crucible for that sort of personality trait because you're trapped right

like if you bring a kid to a restaurant there is always the like you know what we can just get out of here yeah my feeling about being inconvenienced on an airplane because of a child has has is has been reversed since we have become the people bringing children on a plane and i think that that is hopefully a universal thing although i will say oh here she goes go off go off you gotta bring something for your kid to do that is yeah i do get a little judgy sometimes if a parent doesn't have a something for their kid to do because i'm like hey. Like, you got to pack like a backpack full of things. Or if not that, at least a crinkly paper bag. Yes, a crinkly paper bag. Our jam with Henry when he was a baby is we would sit down and pull out the in-flight magazine and hand it to him.

And he would tear that shit up like the fucking. Like literally rip it up. Taz, the Tasmanian devil. Now we can't do that. Wait, whyian devil. Now we can't do that. Wait, why can't we do that? They don't have the magazines anymore because of the germs. Oh, yeah. Thanks for nothing, COVID.

This was the final straw. This was the big thing for me. Even like, I would say major breaches of etiquette, like the kicking of the back of my chair. It's borderline for me. like the kicking of the back of my chair uh it's borderline for me but also like i know that the parents are probably uh if they are decent human beings like also uncomfortable with that like also wish their kids weren't doing that and also felt guilty for for that and so the last thing i want to do is ever make it harder for another parent to be on an airplane. I will never forget. It was after Henry was born, I think, we were flying and we were seated next to

this very young couple. Is this the vomit story? That had a little girl who was just screaming, literally wheels up to wheels down. And right as they were coming into land, she vomited like everywhere. All over the mom. The mom was bawling crying. The dad was like frantically trying to clean it mom. And the mom was bawling crying.

Yeah, just burst into tears. The dad was like frantically trying to clean it up. And she was apologizing to everyone. Yeah. And I was like, dude, you are so good. Like you're so money right now. You don't even know it. I remember that.

Like I almost started crying. I felt so bad for that woman. Because you could tell like they were genuinely worried about their child because this child would not stop screaming. And then the vomit and then she was fine but there's no way to like really uh sort of like let it tell them in that moment like hey don't worry about us you worry about what's going on over there we can handle screaming and puke smell like we're we are totally good right i don't think we had henry yet maybe we did because i feel like that informed my parenting in a big way yeah yeah i think so too i

think that it also the first time we took henry on a flight we were like fucking loaded up with yeah with things we had we were like backpacking but from one flight to another. But yeah, man, I just, I tried to do a little research on why babies stare at you and the results were inconclusive. Because it could also, it could just be like, your hair is a strange color. I really wanted you to crack that for us, Griffin. Well, sometimes the one thing that I did find is that,

okay, you look fascinating and the baby's brain is like developing rapidly. And so they just get easily enchanted by you. Uh, or they're very tired because when babies get tired, they just do this hundred yard stare, which I also, I would say do that. And also I would say that pretty much anytime I'm on an airplane, you can almost guarantee that I am tired because I've probably woken up at an odd hour or I am touring and therefore just constantly chronically tired. And so I'm sure I probably have given folks a few uneasy stare downs on airplanes before. And I'm an adult man. It's not cute when I do it it's creepy it's it's creepy and weird and bad um

i just love it i love when babies do these like these breaches of etiquette that are when you look at how just spherical and audaciously they are doing this thing it just like amplifies it to how spherically they're doing how spherically they're doing it it just amplifies it's just an audacious degree i just love it i love it it's so comical i like a big baby uh were you going to talk about the history of baby staring or so the first baby to ever stare his name was big rich Richard. Big Richard was born in 1907. And he took the first airplane. There's a big painting of him and he's just got big bug eyes.

Big bug eyes. But he looks like an adult man because they didn't know how to paint babies back then. And the flight attendant on that first flight is like, what is that little gremlin doing? Because they didn't know what babies like to do with little gremlin doing because they didn't know babies like to do a stairwell they didn't have airplanes either they didn't have airplanes yet it was the first airplane hey can i steer you away yes cool got a couple grandpa bombs here and this first one i would love to read it is for a Anam. And it is from Tyler who says, happy super belated six year anniversary, Anam.

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It's not you, you freaking egotistical maniac. Wow, they have enough characters. I know. Anyway, maybe we're listening to it together right now as we're brushing our teeth or taking a drive. But wherever we are, I'm just happy to be there with you. Babe, should we be listening to podcasts together? While we brush our teeth? Just ever.

We never do that. to podcasts together? While we brush our teeth? Just ever. We never do that. I mean, I don't listen to podcasts because it's, you know, just like a bunch of just talking. Right? Yeah. Why even listen to podcasts at all, really? It's like, wah-wah, Turbo Team,

wah-wah, Pokemon cards. That's pretty much all it, like, I've been doing it for a long time. That's all it is, folks. It is, yeah. And they give you money for it. Who's they? Jesse. Hey, do you want to do the next one?

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than you. I'm so excited to spend our lives together. I love you, Dustin. Were they the Ding Dong podcast being mentioned? It could have been any of our... Actually, I think of all of the podcasts that I do, this one I think is the least qualified as a ding dong podcast oh thanks honey i'm saying you really elevate it that means a lot to me to another level and so maybe it's just a dong podcast or

what is your most ding dong podcast i mean probably hog wild oh yeah tell me that show hog wild no i haven't i haven't listened to that one it's one it's a it's i mean it's a you know we play characters right like it's very like accentuated versions of ourselves yeah but we don't usually you know and we just talk about... The honks? The honks. Porkin'. I gotta listen to this. You don't. Please don't. You'll leave me. They'll all leave me.

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but we forgot. Yeah, completely. Our silly show is 15 years old. That makes it old enough to get its learner's permit. And almost old enough to get the talk. Wow, I hope you got the talk before then. A lot of things have changed in 15 years. Our show's not one of them. We're never changing, and you can't make us. Jordan, Jesse, go the same forever at MaximumFun.org or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm going first.

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Jackie and Laurie Show, Mondays, only on Maximum Fun. You want to know my thing? Yes. Weather forecasting. You love this stuff. I always have to know my thing? Yes. Weather forecasting. You love this stuff. I always have to know what the weather is and what it is going to be. Did you know that the Weather Channel just started a streaming network? This is not a joke.

Isn't that what the Weather Channel is? Like, what is the difference? I mean, the Weather Channel is a TV station. This is like a streaming, I guess, on-demand situation where, wait, I'm saying this out loud. Like, how is it different? Is it just one is on the cable box and one is on the internet? Is it the same program? Because as I understand it, the Weather Channel is all weather-related content all the time.

What is the streaming platform? The Weather Channel launches a dedicated streaming service this month. It's $3 a month. You get extra bonus weather. Or $30 a year. You get bonus weather. The app's main screen

is an always-on stream that replicates exactly what you'd see on cable. And then... It's for people who don't want to pay for cable right but want weather but want weather you can say i get it man you know if they had weather bloopers just you know for like two hours a day what's a weather blooper look like it's like when a weather person is like pointing at

the map but like they accidentally aren't or or they just did. They're giggling about something they just saw earlier, you know? Yeah. Who watches the weather channel? Who watches the weather channel? I do. If there is an emergency, this is the thing. Well, yeah, that's it. Right?

This is the thing about weather forecasting. So in my head, when I thought of this topic, I was like, how nice is it to know whether or not your weekend's going to be sunny? And then I was researching and I was like, oh, shoot, people never knew when their entire city was going to fall apart due to some kind of natural disaster. And weather forecasting really improved the quality of lives for people. So, hey, guess my sunny weekend isn't the only reason to be excited yes about forecasting i received my sort of atmospheric prognostication from from mr al roker and my local weather weather people yeah i never but i didn't have my i never really saw the

need to go on to a dedicated channel for it like that that service was being provided to me in the middle of my generation but only and frequently right like you know only on the ones or whatever like not all the time i guess so al roker never kicked my door and like it's about to fucking rain a lot of times a lot of times too they knew that was why that you were there and they would be like we'll get to the weather right after the break. And you'd be sitting there like, oh, God, I just want that weather. You know? I don't really know.

It guides your outfit choice, one. Okay. Two, like if you have an event coming up that you're looking forward to that could potentially get rained out, you're interested in that. Yeah. Three, if you're like in an area where you're like oh maybe i'll get a snow day aren't you super interested like let's see how that snow's looking yeah i guess so i mostly just wanted to see katie couric's incredible blazers so glad you said blazers what should i What should I have said? So weather. Can I talk about it? Sure. So the big event that I feel like really kind of accelerated the whole weather forecasting field is the Galveston Hurricane in 1900. Oh, wow.

Okay. So in 1890, the Weather Service is identified as a civilian agency at the request of President Benjamin Harrison. And there is a newly created U.S. Weather Bureau in the Department of Agriculture. So they're just kind of saying like, hey, weather is important. Maybe we should put some guys on that. It's, I don't know. I feel like 1890 is about what I would have guessed the point in time where Americans were like, we should start thinking about weather, guys. Okay, so the Galveston Hurricane, 1900. So this, the way the information traveled was real slow for obvious reasons.

First of all, August 27th, which was like a week before the storm happened, there was a ship that detected a tropical cyclone. happened, there was a ship that detected a tropical cyclone. And as it's moving through the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic gets hit September 2nd, but it's still a weak tropical storm. And then on the 4th, they start getting warnings in Washington, D.C. that there is a tropical disturbance heading over Cuba. They didn't use the word hurricane or tornado at the time to avoid panicking people. So one, that's a problem. Yeah, no kidding. Two, this is right after the Spanish-American War.

There's a lot of tension between the US and Cuba. And so the director at the time of the weather service was like, we don't take telegraphs from Cuba. So they just didn't. So just a lot of ball dropping across the board, it sounds like. Also, that director forced local offices to seek authorization before issuing storm warnings. So if you were going to say like, hey, warning, you'd had to first check it out over in dc and be like hey can i say warning yeah and they'd be like i don't know let me get back to you hey the roof just got went away from my house my house and roof were separated can i tell some people about this so september 8th hits uh and it's just kind of cloudy they can't really see a lot of what's

happening so nobody leaves galveston. And then the storm hits, levels the town and kills approximately 8,000 people. 8,000? Yeah. It goes up through Galveston. It goes through the country. Like the after effects of that storm are tremendous, but this is like the most devastating national disaster.

Jesus Christ. Yeah. So in my head, I'm thinking this is where people are like hey we need to get on this forecasting thing yeah because nobody did nobody went anywhere nobody did anything everyone's like looks good to me and that was it and then like the town is leveled entirely yeah and a lot of it is due to technology. If you think about 1900, like ships, you know, like how are you getting there? Yell real loud. Like I was literally reading about like kites and balloons. Like let's send something up into the air and try and get something.

But the problem with it is if you try to do a kite in the middle of a tropical storm i think the other thing that motivated so 1927 the weather bureau established a west coast prototype for an airways meteorol meteorological that's hard for me to say you got it meteorological society because charles limberg is doing his big like non-stop you know new york to paris like i'm gonna show off on my plane kind of thing and they're like oh hey we need to start paying attention to what's happening in the sky because people aren't gonna survive really terrible storms in these yeah rickety planes that we're making uh and so they're starting to focus on aircraft and then in 1935 is when they established the Hurricane Warning Service.

So just a good 35 fucking years. I know. The Smithsonian Institution also begins making long-range weather forecasts based on solar cycles. So this is the other thing, right? Solar cycles. Yeah. Like trying to, I mean, because people are collecting information. it's not like nobody thought about weather for hundreds of years it's just they were collecting information and compiling it but they couldn't really predict other than

based on like historical data yeah um i feel like radar is when shit like really popped off and they didn't have that then yeah 100 um 100%. So 1940s, the Navy gives the Weather Bureau 25 surplus aircraft radars to be modified for ground meteorological use, which also kind of springboards the weather radar system. It's like, hey, we got all this military equipment. Maybe you could start using that for weather. And then the 50s is when you start seeing the the weather the weatherman yeah like the guy on your new show and initially it was just kind of like comic relief which like if you think about willard scott for example like he used to be bozo like yeah he used to specifically be a clown like the weatherman was more like oh we have characters and stunts and costumes like haha we're the funny guys lighten up your day until shit got real and they were like put away

put away the clown but yeah it wasn't until the 70s that the weather presenter became part of the news team okay oh hey guess what weather is news. Maybe we should. Weather is news. Considered news. The 60s is when the first Doppler radar was installed, 1969, at a TV station in Tampa, Florida, which obviously made a huge difference. And then 1982 is when you saw the Weather Channel. Yes. Yes. Yes. Triggered from an idea by John Coleman, the weatherman on ABC. Weather should have a channel.

That was a recreation of the. Probably is pretty accurate. Yeah. He was the weatherman on Good Morning America. And he partnered with Landmark Communications to put the Weather Channel on the air. Okay. So somebody went to him when he's on GMA and was like, you'll never be a star. You're just a weatherman.

And he's like, but what if weather was the channel? I've got it. We'll make weather the channel. Do you think it was like a telethon at first? Like he was the only employee and they were like, you got to stay up there, man. Yeah. We had 18 more hours in this day. I just want to go to bed.

The weather hasn't changed. It's been four minutes. What am I supposed to say? Oh, man. Describe a tornado you saw one time that was really that was bitching okay uh so it's real windy super windy but in a circle uh and then 1990 uh was when the supercomputer showed up so this is when they could start doing the like numerical weather production models so start like saying okay if this happens and this can happen

and if this heads this way it'll look like this and yeah here's the 70 chance of that and i will never ever forget pre pre-pandemic we were on tour and we had plans to do this disney trip with the fam because we're going to be in Orlando, but hurricane, I want to say it started with an H Howard, maybe something like that. I don't know. I am not going to be able to pull it was barreling towards Orlando. I mean,

Florida, Florida. Sure. Yes. Uh, and we were really rolling the hard six on whether or not it was going to curve and we didn't like cancel our plans because we were going to be in orlando for the show griffin was on that weather radar 24 hours a day talk about weather and then they the i remember

the venue canceled the show yeah because they were% certain that it was going to just smash into Orlando. But then by some like fluke, it curved at the last second and completely or at least mostly missed like landfall in central Florida. And so Disney, we ended up going to and it was abandoned yeah i feel like we were like a group of what was maybe like 120 people there and we will never recreate it was a bummer that we the the show got canceled because we ultimately could have done it if the the venue had not scrapped it although obviously you got to make the call that you that you gotta make but yeah i but we learned so fucking much about like weather pattern projections and stuff like that sarah davis uh who who works with us uh is is a florida resident and is like always boots on the ground like well here's what

this means about this hurricane and this tropical storm is looking a little sus. Yeah. And I think that a lot of people who live in Florida have to get good at that. And I found it. And like the Houston area for that matter. Houston for sure. Yeah. If I lived in Galveston, I would probably keep my fucking head on a swivel for the rest of my life.

Galveston is on the coast, right? That's like ocean side on the coast right that's like uh ocean side on the gulf right yes yeah we've been there before no no we've been to sal padre yes okay it is still obviously not 100 accurate no um and there are a lot of things you can't account for like for example when we had the, we had been told there was going to be a freeze and it was going to be bad and that we were potentially going to lose power. Yeah, that was less a weather prediction problem and more a stability of our state's entire fucking infrastructure problem. Yeah. I have also seen that despite the fact that there is a 10-day forecast, really only within three days can you have any kind of accuracy.

Like there are a lot of things still to be improved in weather forecasting, but oh man, what a difference it makes. I always thought the Farmer's Almanac was a joke because it's like, here's a book, you buy it, it's going to tell you the weather for the rest of the year. It's like, are you sure about that? And that's a lot of what weather forecasting was initially was like for agriculture reasons.

Yeah. Like I'm not going to plant a bunch of stuff if there's going to be a freeze tomorrow or whatever. You know, like you had to kind of put all of your resources into this crop and you had to do it in a way that it was going to be successful. So you needed somebody to tell you like, is this going to work? I can't do my corn party on Friday. Yeah yeah because it's supposed to be pretty windy yeah and then when i have the the corn statue that everybody dances around yes like the wind will just pick that right up yes for the corn party when the children do a corn tag a corn corn when the children have a corn fight yeah yeah no i've heard of the corn fight the corn tag you lost me though corn tag is like a non-. A corn tag? When the children have a corn fight. Yeah, yeah, no, I've heard of the corn fight,

the corn tag, you lost me though. Corn tag is like a non-contact corn fight. It's like a night, it's a general, because the kids get a little too excited.

Like flag football except it's corn? Yeah, right. Because the children get a little excited sometimes and they throw the corn

a little too hard and the child gets hurt with the corn. But, God, I would love an old-fashioned corn party right about now. I would love an old-fashioned corn party right about now.

I know. I'd love some old-fashioned corn right about now. Yeah. We've never talked about corn. Should we do a third segment on corn real quick? It's fucking great.

I don't have anything to say about corn. I don't either. Our baby's crying. I can hear our baby crying. It's really harsh in my fucking mellow. Totally distracted right now.

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