1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel Show. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 2: Good to be back with you, guys. I'm Hammer Jim 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: filling in for Big Nige today. Jump over to the 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 2: YouTube chat get in the mix with your fellow listeners here. 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 2: I gotta be honest. I have never been to the 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 2: part of country that I visited this past week, the 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: Wyoming Jackson area Jackson Hole as it's known as Grand 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 2: Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park. Great experience. Man. Not 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: only did I see some amazing scenery, but I went 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 2: up to Yellowstone and beat the piss out of Rip. 11 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: Did you see him there? 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 2: Took his hat off and. 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: Wore at home? Does he introduced himself when you cross 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: the border into the city, Glad to meet you. I'm Rip, 15 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: the unofficial mayor. Where you're looking for is back the 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: way you came, kid. No, it's just beautiful country. I 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: posted pictures on my social media like every tourist would do, 18 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: and the pictures can't even do this place justice. Like 19 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: it was so beautiful with the mountains and the blue sky, 20 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: the big huge critters, the buffalo, the moose with a 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: huge crank running around the woods man like just one. 22 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: It made me feel inadequate, but two it was also 23 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: beautiful at the same time, oddly beautiful. Okay, now I've 24 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: got some questions for you now, So what you're telling 25 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: me is despite the federal government shutdown, national parks, at 26 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: least in that part of the country were open. 27 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 2: Correct, Now, this is what was great. You pull up 28 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 2: to like the station to get in. Normally they charge 29 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: like thirty bucks a car. Yeah, nobody was working. So 30 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 2: if you want to go to a big national park 31 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: like that, now is the time. Because we did Grand 32 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: Titan and Yellowstone. Not a single worker at the front gate. 33 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: Drove right through and there are still some rangers in 34 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 2: there working. People are still working, but nobody at the 35 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 2: check in booth. So a bang bought a boom. We 36 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: were in and out. Man, that's perfect. 37 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: And then the next question is this seems like a 38 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: departure because I'm a big hammer and Nigel fan. I 39 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: listened to the show every day, so normally it seems 40 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: to me you kind of gravitate more towards the beach vacations, 41 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: beach r Vegas. 42 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 43 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, So what was the driver for you to kind 44 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 1: of go out to Wyoming and do national parks and 45 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: scenery instead. 46 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 2: So this is the work of my rotten youngest son, Jacob, 47 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: who fights me on everything, right, but he's going to 48 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 2: be my kid that's studying to be a park ranger 49 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: and park scientist. 50 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 1: Really okay, so he's senior. 51 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: In high school now, and that's what he's going to 52 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: do is going to go to you Indie and study 53 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: all that stuff. And Christmas gift last year we said, 54 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 2: all right, pick any national park you want to go 55 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: to and we'll go. You know, that's you know what 56 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: we did. His brother got a trip. He got a 57 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 2: trip out of being about a boom. So he's like, 58 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 2: I want to go to Grand Teton, which I never 59 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: even heard of. It's like, okay, where the hell is that? 60 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: And it's then Wyoming. Oh great, there's like three airlines 61 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 2: that fly in there and they all charge arm in 62 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 2: a lake. Great choice, kid, Just go to Florida again. Sure, 63 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: how about Beach Grove? Can we go there? But no, 64 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 2: we got down there and up there. Rather the airport 65 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: in Jackson. It's just surrounded by the mountains, white cap 66 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: snow mountains. Just I'm glad we went. It's somewhere I 67 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 2: would go back, like the little town square there like 68 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 2: in Jackson it's a mix of like the main Broadway 69 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: street in Nashville and also Nashville, Indiana, Like there's big 70 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: bars where you see like live music going on and 71 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 2: hot chicks in their cowboy boots and dudes in their 72 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: hats walking in, you know, and then across the street 73 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 2: you can buy apple butter right, that part. 74 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: Like Jackson Hall has really attracted a ton of money. 75 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about I'm talking about big time 76 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: you know, Elon Musk type level money. Yet you're really 77 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere, so you've got to have 78 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: that mix of rural and incredible wealth at the same time. 79 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, Nikki six of Motley Cruz got a big ranch 80 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: out there, Garrison Ford has a big ranch out there. 81 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 2: I think Sandra Bullock's got a big house out there. 82 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just beautiful country, man. It is. So 83 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 2: if you ever want to just get away and see 84 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: some like picturesque things in nature, that's it. 85 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: And you said you went to Yosemity two, No, didn't 86 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: go to you sent to Yellowstone. Oh, Yellowstone, that's right. 87 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: So how far away again, I have no concept. I 88 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: didn't know where Grand Tee Ton was. I have no 89 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: idea where yellow Well, you're where Yellowstone is either how 90 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: far away were they from each other? 91 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 2: So Grand Tee Town's right there by Jackson, So it 92 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 2: was like a fifteen minute drive from our hotel, and 93 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: then Yellowstone it's almost connected. It's just about another thirty 94 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 2: forty minutes up. But depending on where you want to go, 95 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 2: that park is so freaking big. So to drive to 96 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 2: Old Faithful the geyser, it was about an hour and 97 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: a half from where a hotel would be. And then 98 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 2: you start driving around the park to like the hot 99 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 2: springs and the Big Canyon. You spend a lot of 100 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 2: time driving from one place to another. The scenery is cool, 101 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 2: but I like Granteetn a lot better. Like no matter 102 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: where you turn on that joint, it looks like a 103 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 2: picturesque mountain. Now you did mention Yosemite. I saw this 104 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 2: earlier with the government shut down. Squatters are now moving 105 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: into Yosemite and they're creating a problem and there's nobody 106 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: there to kick him out. Right now, the Department of 107 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: the Interior investigating reports of escalating violations at Yosemite, including 108 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: base jumping, which is illegal, and national parks. These people 109 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 2: are scaling up like half Dome without permits, doing a 110 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 2: bunch of unsafe stuff in the park, and squatters. Baby, 111 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 2: they're just moving in there and making it their own 112 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 2: right now because there's nobody to kick him out. 113 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: Department of Interior is gonna have to get some tips 114 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: from Tom Holman and Ice apparently if they don't get 115 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: out of there and have to go in and drag 116 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: them out. I guess, but it makes sense. I mean, 117 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: if there's nobody checking the gates on the inside, and 118 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: staffings that are really low level, you're gonna have people 119 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: that are gonna go in, They're gonna set up, they're 120 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,479 Speaker 1: gonna do all the things that you normally have to 121 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: pay to do or get a permit to do. And 122 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: it's end of days at the National Parks apparently. 123 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 2: And look, I don't know about Yosemite, but I think 124 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: if you're a squadron you're setting up shop in Yellowstone 125 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 2: or Grand Teton, you're gonna be woken up either by 126 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 2: a bear, by an elk, by a big floppy moose 127 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 2: unit smacking you in the face. 128 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: It really did something to you, didn't it. That must 129 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 1: have been I can't even imagine. I just looked at 130 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: my you know like I looked at that, and I 131 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: texted my wife and I just said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 132 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: There's nothing I can bring to this that can match 133 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: what's going on there. This moose is always gonna have 134 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: one up on me. 135 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: The moose was loose, that's for sure. It's the hammer 136 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 2: in Nigel Show.