Speaker 1: The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan, Part one
Speaker 1: behind a scene with a member of the show, Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2: Abby is joining me this weekend for best Bits.
Speaker 1: Hello Abby, Hello, we are warm and we are safe.
Speaker 1: After winter Storm Fern has attacked so many of the
Speaker 1: states in the country, but we are here. That is wild.
Speaker 3: And I didn't know that it was called winter storm Fern.
Speaker 2: You know. Fun fact. Yes, Fern is my great grandmother's name.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: So when I saw Ferne.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, Grandma Fern, what you doing up there?
Speaker 3: You're like, why are you doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And she was a firecracker, so, you know, honestly makes sense.
Speaker 3: That's cute. Oh my god, Fern.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So talk to me about your winter storm experience.
Speaker 2: What happened for you over the past week. What's been
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Okay. So I left last Friday after
Speaker 3: the show to go to Denver Broncos game. So it
Speaker 3: was kind of good time. It was kind of good
Speaker 3: timing for me because like the weather was it was
Speaker 3: cold there, but like it wasn't crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, no, in Colorado, they know how to handle all this.
Speaker 1: This is what they get all the time. Exactly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's no cold eyes. They're prepared for it.
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy, though, is I was talking to
Speaker 3: somebody and they said a lot of people there are transplants,
Speaker 3: so they don't know how to drive on the roads.
Speaker 1: But this is the that's true. The drivers, I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about. But the infrastructure of the city is equipped
Speaker 1: to handle stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, Okay, So I left. I got there Friday evening.
Speaker 3: We went out to eat, everything was good. We went
Speaker 3: to bed early because I knew it was going to
Speaker 3: be a crazy weekend. Then the next day we slept in.
Speaker 3: It was Saturday, and I was like, I want to
Speaker 3: kind of explore a little bit, and so we went
Speaker 3: to Red Rocks.
Speaker 2: Wait, have you ever been to Denver before?
Speaker 3: I have, Yeah, yeah, but it was like it was
Speaker 3: pretty brief, and I was like, super young. I've been
Speaker 3: like on the outskirts kind of Denver, like Greeley. That's
Speaker 3: where my grandma lives. But I had been one time
Speaker 3: to visit my friend. She lives in Golden and so
Speaker 3: I got to go see Red Rocks. Like I took
Speaker 3: her car and that's that's about it. So I've seen
Speaker 3: Red Rocks during the day. Still haven't been to a
Speaker 3: concert that's on my bucket list. Have you been?
Speaker 2: No, but it's on my bucket list to go to
Speaker 2: a concert there too.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I cannot wait. Yeah, we might need
Speaker 1: to figure that we work in this industry shortly. There's
Speaker 1: someone we could go see at Red Rocks on a weekend.
Speaker 3: And yeah, they're announcing like new dates, so I yeah,
Speaker 3: I need to look.
Speaker 2: If you see the one you like, we should do that.
Speaker 3: That'd be so fun because that'd be a.
Speaker 1: Fun trip for us to go take together and we
Speaker 1: could find ways to get there and make it all happen.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it is so cool there, Like there
Speaker 3: was it was too freezing that when we went to
Speaker 3: see it, but we went in like the Trading Post
Speaker 3: is kind of like a store next to it, which
Speaker 3: is really cute. And then after that we went to
Speaker 3: Laramer Square, which is kind of like downtown and that's
Speaker 3: where they have all the Broncos jerseys like hanging, and
Speaker 3: there was like a block party happening with like a DJ,
Speaker 3: and like the cheerleaders were there in the mascot.
Speaker 1: Okay, what city is Mile High Stadium in it's in Denver.
Speaker 2: It is in Denver.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's like right downtown Oka, Denver. Basically, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: probably wrong, but like it's very like tall buildings and
Speaker 3: we went down she said us downtown.
Speaker 2: I've never been. I've never been to the stadium.
Speaker 1: I've been to Denver a bunch, but honestly, I know
Speaker 1: that those stadiums can be in all kinds of cities.
Speaker 1: So that's why I didn't know if it was downtown
Speaker 1: Denver or if you like outskirts or where you were at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like downtown and they're actually building a
Speaker 3: new one right now. O. They're like in the process
Speaker 3: they found land that I think they're gonna start building
Speaker 3: the stadium on. But so we went to that square
Speaker 3: and there was like that dance party and it was freezing,
Speaker 3: like so we just went to dance party. I mean,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, dance party, block party. Yeah, people were dancing.
Speaker 3: The mascot was there. We got our picture with him,
Speaker 3: and then we went into a bar to get a
Speaker 3: drink because it was so cold, and we like parked
Speaker 3: far away and we were walking, but we were like,
Speaker 3: we have to get used to it because the game
Speaker 3: is Sunday and it's gonna be even more freezing, so
Speaker 3: we're like, we can handle this. And then we went
Speaker 3: to Corey Kent at Grizzly Rose, which is a really
Speaker 3: cool venue.
Speaker 1: I saw that.
Speaker 2: I saw that, and I have heard great things about
Speaker 2: Grizzly Rose.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I also love Corey Kent as he was so good.
Speaker 3: I've seen him before, but this time I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, and people were like into it. It
Speaker 3: was really fun.
Speaker 2: Arzly Rose is a really cool venue to see an
Speaker 2: artist at.
Speaker 3: It is like, I want to go back. It's they
Speaker 3: have like a saloon looking bar. Inside they have pool bowls,
Speaker 3: like a mechanical bowl, and then like a photo booth.
Speaker 3: What else do they have? Dance floor? People were two stepping.
Speaker 3: It was awesome. I was like, we need that in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have our own Grizzly Rose. Grizzly Rose
Speaker 1: is very popular. It's one of those not stadiums. It's
Speaker 1: one of those venues I think a lot of artists
Speaker 1: love to play at. It's one of those top tier ones.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. It's so cool. And it's funny because
Speaker 3: a friend I went with she got married there. She
Speaker 3: knows the really yeah, and he was there and he's
Speaker 3: like the nicest guy ever, Like he's so hands on,
Speaker 3: like he cares about his bar. And then they presented
Speaker 3: Corey Kent with like a silver buckle like belt buckle
Speaker 3: because he sold it out. Oh they do that when
Speaker 3: artists sell it out. And I was like that is
Speaker 3: this is so co cool?
Speaker 1: So there was the Latter Music weekend. Yes, yeah, the broncos.
Speaker 3: I know, it's like I might as well. I'm here,
Speaker 3: might as well just like do everything I can.
Speaker 1: As you should.
Speaker 3: Yes, And so we got home late and then we
Speaker 3: got up early. Well it was like seven thirty to
Speaker 3: get up and start like preparing for the day.
Speaker 2: Because what time was the game at?
Speaker 3: The game was at one, okay there, but the tailgate
Speaker 3: started at ten and we had to be there by
Speaker 3: like nine forty five and it took us a long time.
Speaker 1: Was this a tailgate of somebody you guys knew or
Speaker 1: was it a tailgate of the friend who knows the coach?
Speaker 3: It was so we got the tickets through the coach
Speaker 3: and then we got the tailgate through one of her friends.
Speaker 3: They were kind of separate, but it was like a
Speaker 3: nice tilgate like people paid I think, like two hundred
Speaker 3: dollars to get in and it was like unlimited drinks
Speaker 3: and food. Like I would I mean, if I was
Speaker 3: a Broncos fan living in Denver, I would pay for
Speaker 3: that because it was really cool. They had like an
Speaker 3: auction in there, a whole bunch of food. Some of
Speaker 3: the players like showed up from like past teams. I
Speaker 3: think they were both in the superwl one of them
Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl. Both of the guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's at one point when the Bronco was played
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: They were they were in it, and I don't remember
Speaker 3: their names, but I got a picture of them signing autographs.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to wait in the line because I
Speaker 3: was so cold. And then there was like a silent auction,
Speaker 3: like I said, music going. So that was really fun.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so fun.
Speaker 3: Drink I started drinking.
Speaker 1: That's like you know how they call if you don't
Speaker 1: go regular camping, you go glamping. Yes, that's exactly the
Speaker 1: lamping version of tailgate. I know.
Speaker 3: So I really didn't get to see like the parking lot,
Speaker 3: like actual tailgating, because I kind of wanted to see
Speaker 3: that because I heard it's like really crazy. But I
Speaker 3: was kind of along for the ride, you know, like
Speaker 3: I was with them so well.
Speaker 2: And again, you're not going to have that experience normally.
Speaker 1: You can always have the parking lot tailgate experience when
Speaker 1: you go back. This particular experience, is it always gonna happen?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. It was like it was so crazy.
Speaker 3: I was like, how am I getting the VIP treatment
Speaker 3: right now? And really cool? And so we started. I
Speaker 3: mean I had five layers on, so I had three pants.
Speaker 3: I had like the fleece laggings sweatpants, and then I
Speaker 3: got ski suit, which I had already bought because I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, this will be good. It's really cute.
Speaker 3: It'll be good for like skiing or you know, when
Speaker 3: it snows. And it ended up like matching the Broncos color.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I'm wearing this.
Speaker 1: It was perfect. I loved your outfit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then we got Cayenne pepper and four do that?
Speaker 1: Hey? I talked about this part did you did? But
Speaker 1: it doesn't work?
Speaker 3: I chat shebted it right before we left the hotel
Speaker 3: and it said you could get like burns on your
Speaker 3: feet or blisters, and I was like, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 3: I don't want like sore feet, Like what if we
Speaker 3: don't want to burn our skin? Yeah, and then have
Speaker 3: to walk all day. I was like, I know the
Speaker 3: football players did it with their football players, and they're
Speaker 3: like tough and they'll do anything, but.
Speaker 1: Likes, I say, the football players are not talking about
Speaker 1: the blisters and h on this seat now, And so
Speaker 1: I was like, no, let's not try that.
Speaker 3: But then we got foil because if we saw that
Speaker 3: on a video where you put a sock on and
Speaker 3: then you wrap your toes in aluminum foil and then
Speaker 3: you put another sock on. And I tried that, and
Speaker 3: like halfway through the game, we took the sock off
Speaker 3: and it was just in pieces the foil, the aluminum foil. Yes,
Speaker 3: it like it just shredded from us walking. So that
Speaker 3: obviously wasn't working. It wasn't keeping the heat in. Supposedly
Speaker 3: it's supposed to like keep your heat in.
Speaker 1: I understand the keeping the heat in, but maybe it's
Speaker 1: not meant for like if you're doing out activities, you're
Speaker 1: just supposed to lay there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, oh my gosh, you know it was crazy.
Speaker 3: We went to Target and they had foil in the
Speaker 3: lock boxes. You had to go get an employee with
Speaker 3: a key. Why people are stealing foil, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there is something with extreme cold weather
Speaker 1: and something with that, but I had that's an interesting Okay,
Speaker 1: let me while you keep talking about your story, let
Speaker 1: me google some.
Speaker 3: Situation. So that's what I did with my feet. I
Speaker 3: had snow boots on, and then my hands. I have
Speaker 3: like handwarmers, like electric han warmers that I actually use
Speaker 3: at work, right and I both use them because it's
Speaker 3: always freezing here. And I took them and that was
Speaker 3: like the saving that that did everything, because they get
Speaker 3: so hot they like burn your hands, and so I
Speaker 3: just put them in my pockets and I just have
Speaker 3: my hands on my pockets the whole time, and it
Speaker 3: like worked. It was warm. Yes.
Speaker 1: Did you guys also do a trick of cardboard where
Speaker 1: you stood on cardboard for some of the game?
Speaker 3: Uh huh. We took in a cardboard box like folded
Speaker 3: up and we stood on it and our feet were
Speaker 3: fine the whole time. I was standing by a girl
Speaker 3: next to me. I finally was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: come on the cardboard because she just had regular like
Speaker 3: cute boots on no, and I was like, what are
Speaker 3: you doing? Because she was like, I know, I almost
Speaker 3: wore like snow boots, but I changed last minute because
Speaker 3: she looked super cute. She had like on cute jeans
Speaker 3: and I was like, you have to be freezing.
Speaker 1: Oh heck no.
Speaker 2: And one of those situations. Listen, I love I love
Speaker 2: looking cute.
Speaker 1: I'm all for an outfit for a reason, yes, but
Speaker 1: in that situation, I am over practical. Oh like practical
Speaker 1: and comfort over cute. I do not care. I will
Speaker 1: look like a michelin man. Yes, if it means me
Speaker 1: being warm.
Speaker 3: That's how I looked and felt. I was like, I
Speaker 3: am not attractive right now, but hey, I'm warm.
Speaker 1: That's all I got. Okay. I did look up fitinyl
Speaker 1: use prompts downtown Target to lock up in aluminum foil,
Speaker 1: so I think shoplifting is another reason. For some reasons
Speaker 1: people are shoplifting the aluminum foil. I'm wondering if it's
Speaker 1: connected also again to drug use. Oh my gosh, no,
Speaker 1: it's yeah.
Speaker 3: That okay. I was like, there has some reasons.
Speaker 1: It's also five dollars. Well, Anna says thieves use aluminum
Speaker 1: foil to create booster bags, which are shopping bags or
Speaker 1: purses lined with foil. So it seems like a few
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Foyle is being used and that is crazy.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you see your ilumin foil locked up, that
Speaker 1: would be why.
Speaker 3: I mean here it is. Yeah, it's like downtown. The
Speaker 3: target is literally it's one of those like downtown ones.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean there's probably just people coming in
Speaker 3: all the time. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, So cardboard, you made a friend with the girl
Speaker 1: who definitely dressed cold over over comfort hm. And were
Speaker 1: you so happy to be there experiencing it? Were you
Speaker 1: ready for it to be over because you were cold?
Speaker 1: What were all the feelings?
Speaker 3: No, I loved every minute of it. I was just
Speaker 3: trying to like take it all in. So I was
Speaker 3: like this, I'm never gonna have these seats again. We
Speaker 3: were like tenth row and I got to see the goal.
Speaker 3: We were kind of like on the end zone on
Speaker 3: the side, so you'd like see one of the touchdowns
Speaker 3: at the beginning, and I was like, this is awesome,
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, we're doing great so far. And then it,
Speaker 3: I mean it went took a turn or we went downhill,
Speaker 3: because they did start out really good, and then we
Speaker 3: didn't kick that field goal. It was kind of a
Speaker 3: bummerku then we would have been tied ultimately, but well,
Speaker 3: Annie snow was playing such a huge role too. I mean,
Speaker 3: you guys see anything if you're sitting in those seats,
Speaker 3: did you see stuff when the snow was hitting or
Speaker 3: could you even like so we could see it was
Speaker 3: hard to see the football, and then you couldn't see
Speaker 3: the lines on the field. It was crazy because the
Speaker 3: first half it was sunny and I was like, I
Speaker 3: am so prepared, I'm so warm, like I am gonna
Speaker 3: be comfortable the whole game. And then we went to
Speaker 3: the bathroom after halftime, came back out, it started snowing,
Speaker 3: and it was just like, I mean, it was like
Speaker 3: a snow globe. Seriously, like you're in there, just snowfalling.
Speaker 3: Everybody loved it, like they were just embracing the snow,
Speaker 3: like they're like, this is so cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what. I know. We talk a little
Speaker 1: bit in part two about like your top five moments,
Speaker 1: and I asked you about your brother, because your brother
Speaker 1: is a big reason of why you're a Broncos fan.
Speaker 1: I think your brother was looking out for the weather
Speaker 1: because I think he wanted you to have both experiences
Speaker 1: where it was like full clear day, you can't see
Speaker 1: what's happening, you're cold. But then also everybody talks about
Speaker 1: the experiences of when you're in a weather situation at
Speaker 1: a game or a concert, whether it's pouring down rain
Speaker 1: or snow, and I would imagine Mile High Stadium being
Speaker 1: drenched in snow is an experience in itself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I got goosebounds and you said that that's
Speaker 3: that is crazy.
Speaker 1: I feel like it that way to give you both
Speaker 1: and not just five minutes of clear to then have this.
Speaker 1: You had a first half that was bright, you were good,
Speaker 1: you were warm, surviving, and then second half to get
Speaker 1: to experience the snow fall in Mile High Stadium.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, oh my god. Like he would have loved
Speaker 3: He was a huge, like the biggest Broncos fan ever.
Speaker 3: He would have like loved this so much. So I
Speaker 3: kind of felt like I was like living like I
Speaker 3: don't know for him, like being like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: I wish we could have done this together. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: It was so cool. You were channeling him, trying to
Speaker 1: make sure you experienced everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take it all in.
Speaker 2: Was happy about it despite the weather.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was cool because there were no like
Speaker 3: annoying fans, like sometimes that can like ruin a game,
Speaker 3: you know, Like I've been to one where someone was
Speaker 3: like cussing me out in Nashville. It a Titans game
Speaker 3: because I was the other team and I'm just like
Speaker 3: I'm not doing anything. So there were Broncos fans behind me,
Speaker 3: and then there were a few Patriots fans in front
Speaker 3: of me, and that they were like nice. So I
Speaker 3: was like it was fine, Like everybody was good vibes
Speaker 3: and I was like it was like that the whole time,
Speaker 3: which I really liked that.
Speaker 1: Thatwas should be. Yeah, that's that should be at concerts,
Speaker 1: as should be how it is at games. Everybody's going
Speaker 1: out and spent harder money to be in a place
Speaker 1: like that, and it's supposed to be an experien regardless
Speaker 1: of what happens, you know, regardless of the outcome, You're
Speaker 1: supposed to have a good time. That's the point, huh, that's.
Speaker 2: You know how you see those videos on social media.
Speaker 1: I forgot the point or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's the point.
Speaker 3: The point is to.
Speaker 2: Live and experience and enjoy the experience.
Speaker 3: I know, And I actually like eyes behind me. They
Speaker 3: were like so positive because I was getting so nervous.
Speaker 3: I was like, we're gonna lose. We're gonna lose this game.
Speaker 3: And they're like, you got this. We still can do this,
Speaker 3: and I was like, thank you. Guys. Usually it's like
Speaker 3: the other way around, where like they're like negative and
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, you suck or I don't know whatever.
Speaker 1: And I know that's part of sporting events. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the whole you know, vibes or whatever. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: also like, dang, you're at a cool NFL game and
Speaker 1: it was a championship game and there's so many things
Speaker 1: riding on it and there's snowfalling.
Speaker 3: This is cool. It was wild. They were like blowing
Speaker 3: off the snow with like like blowers, like leaf flowers
Speaker 3: basically snowblowers.
Speaker 2: Snowblowers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and people are like I saw them commenting. They're like,
Speaker 3: why don't you use a shovel? And I'm like, that's
Speaker 3: so much faster what they were doing. It was actually working.
Speaker 1: Everybody's an expert somewhere, Okay, I'm glad you had so
Speaker 1: much fun.
Speaker 3: No, it was so fun. And then at the very end,
Speaker 3: like a minute and a half, everybody started leaving, like
Speaker 3: funneling out, like all the Broncos fans. And then we're
Speaker 3: like stuck in the parking lot for thirty minutes. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: my flight leaves in like two hours.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh. And I was like, I'm assuming you were
Speaker 2: going straight from the game to the airport.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, we had to go to the hotel Impact first,
Speaker 3: but I thought the game would be over at let's
Speaker 3: see four thirty, we'd have time to get to the hotel.
Speaker 3: My flight was at seven, we'd have time. No, we
Speaker 3: got stuck on because it was snowing. So now it's
Speaker 3: at a standstill, you know, driving because people I thought
Speaker 3: it would not be an issue with driving, but it was.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of transplants any big city now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh my gosh. So we're stuck there. Like an
Speaker 3: hour went by, and I'm like, okay, we are boarding
Speaker 3: in an hour, like so we took an uber. We
Speaker 3: rode with them. It's complicated. This is why I was
Speaker 3: so stressed. I don't think I've been that stressed in
Speaker 3: a long time. I was like shaking and like yes,
Speaker 3: because we had to uber with them somewhere just kind
Speaker 3: of out of all the craziness, or ride with them.
Speaker 3: Then we ubered to our hotel, ran up to our hotel.
Speaker 3: Never packed that fast in my life. I just threw
Speaker 3: everything and I was like, I hope I don't forget
Speaker 3: and just throw it, which I I basically took my
Speaker 3: ski suit off and left everything else on. So I
Speaker 3: flew home in three layers. I was switch wedding.
Speaker 1: In fairness, you're probably uncomfortable on the flight, but when
Speaker 1: you got here, yes, it's probably worth it.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. But on the flight, oh my, I was
Speaker 3: like sweating. I had to take a shower when I
Speaker 3: got home because I was like, I feel like I
Speaker 3: just ran like a marathon.
Speaker 2: That's wild. And the flight wasn't impacted.
Speaker 3: No, it was delayed thirty minutes, which is what saved us,
Speaker 3: because if it would not have been, you don't think
Speaker 3: you would have made it. No, because we had to
Speaker 3: return our rental car. You have to get on a
Speaker 3: train or the trolley, and the Denver airport is much
Speaker 3: the shuttle. The shuttle to get there, then you have
Speaker 3: to get on the train and go from the terminal
Speaker 3: all the way to the sea gates. And I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I can't do this.
Speaker 1: So when did you arrive at your gate?
Speaker 3: So we got there, oh man, Like luckily it got
Speaker 3: delayed again, okay, till like seven thirty I think, so
Speaker 3: originally got seven. Yeah, we got there like seven ten okay, dang.
Speaker 3: And luckily they kind of delayed the boarding too, because
Speaker 3: I think they were like de icing the plane or
Speaker 3: the crew wasn't there yet. Then we did sit on
Speaker 3: the runway and they had to dece the plane for
Speaker 3: like thirty minutes. And I was like, Okay, is this safe?
Speaker 3: Because I know they canceled thousands of flights. Why are
Speaker 3: we still going?
Speaker 2: Why are we the other what's still going in this moment?
Speaker 1: And we had at the point of you coming home,
Speaker 1: we had already gotten snow, but we had not started
Speaker 1: to get ice yet. So I think that's why you
Speaker 1: had this again. Everything about this past week was about
Speaker 1: certain times, moments of time. Yeah, And I think you
Speaker 1: guys had a sliver of time where you had to
Speaker 1: make it before the ice, like the sleep mixture was
Speaker 1: falling and it had a hit. Yet Oh my god,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why you guys made it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I got in at like eleven thirty and then
Speaker 3: like my fiance picked me up in his truck. So
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm nervous because my
Speaker 3: friend lives like really far away and she had to
Speaker 3: uber home because her husband couldn't get out.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Uber was like one hundred dollars. I was like, you
Speaker 3: can stay with us, but she didn't have power at
Speaker 3: her house and she didn't want to make him. They
Speaker 3: have six dogs and she didn't want to make him
Speaker 3: like be by himself. It was just crazy. But luckily
Speaker 3: he could pick me up because he had four wheel drive.
Speaker 1: Wait and that's hold on pause, timeline wrong my side.
Speaker 1: It was Sunday night, Sunday night. Stuff had already fallen, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you guys made it.
Speaker 3: No, I know that's what I was saying, because like
Speaker 3: when we got on the highway, there was no one
Speaker 3: else on there, and he was going like ten miles
Speaker 3: and it was solid like black ice. You could just
Speaker 3: it was solid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how, I don't know, did your guys is playing?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I kind of wanted to get stuck there,
Speaker 3: so I could have just like explored Denver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hang out for a while.
Speaker 3: I'll be back when it's all okay again, right, because
Speaker 3: I knew hero is just gonna be stuck inside because
Speaker 3: it's not any more snow. It's not a fun snow.
Speaker 3: It's now ice where you don't want to be outside.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, we have more to talk about.
Speaker 2: We need a quick break. Can be right back.
Speaker 1: Well, so speaking of all of those timelines, because now
Speaker 1: I'm gosh, it feels like this past week is it's
Speaker 1: just been a plur general. So yeah, still don't know
Speaker 1: how you made it. I'm it's a miracle you made
Speaker 1: it back.
Speaker 3: There were ten thousand flights canceled that day.
Speaker 1: Must have been the pilots and those Slight attendants really
Speaker 1: wanted to be in Nashville for some reason.
Speaker 3: I thanked them. I was like, thank you very much
Speaker 3: for getting us here safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild because it was so it was Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: so we on Friday. I had prepped, I had made chili,
Speaker 1: I had all my batteries, all my things were charged.
Speaker 1: I was ready for a winter storm.
Speaker 2: I knew it. We grew up in Kansas.
Speaker 1: I'm not unfamiliar with snow and the inches and you
Speaker 1: may be stuck inside for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Kind of vibes right, Saturday hits, Oh we're good, this
Speaker 2: is snow outside. Let's go sledding.
Speaker 1: So we went and sled at Capitol Hill, which is
Speaker 1: my favorite hill to sled in in Nashville.
Speaker 3: I post not been and it looks so fun.
Speaker 1: It is the best time. I'm telling you, every snow
Speaker 1: day you will find me there, Like if there's an
Speaker 1: actual snow day, I will be there. We looked scary.
Speaker 3: It looks like you're going really fast.
Speaker 2: It is you are going really fast.
Speaker 1: That's what it was funny is so I posted a
Speaker 1: video of like all the contractions.
Speaker 2: People were using.
Speaker 1: It went viral and people were going bonkers over it,
Speaker 1: which is funny to watch because a lot of people
Speaker 1: are like, there's not enough snow. I'm like, well, then
Speaker 1: explain how I was moving at that speed down the
Speaker 1: hill because it's not just grass.
Speaker 2: There is something there and there isn't all and that
Speaker 2: defense there.
Speaker 1: We we got maybe like three inches of snow maybe
Speaker 1: and it was not falling super hard on those hills
Speaker 1: and stuff. But you can bet Nashville used it as
Speaker 1: an opportunity, and we did, and it will. It's so fun.
Speaker 2: You have to go.
Speaker 3: I do. I need to.
Speaker 1: It's the best experience. And there's a party. There's always
Speaker 1: a DJ there at the bottom of the hill.
Speaker 2: He's playing music. People are drinking.
Speaker 1: Like you have people down it's very much like a
Speaker 1: mountain in Colorado. You have people down at the bottom
Speaker 1: with the DJ and they're drinking and dancing and vibing.
Speaker 1: And then you have people on top of the hill
Speaker 1: who are sledding and doing the activities.
Speaker 3: That is so cool.
Speaker 2: It's such a vibe. And I always go.
Speaker 1: So we got out. We ventured out Saturday. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the roads aren't bad.
Speaker 2: This is good.
Speaker 1: I got four wheel drive. You know, this is what
Speaker 1: the Broncos made for. So we went and had that.
Speaker 1: We had a great time. Came home, made some homemade fondue.
Speaker 1: Life is good. Okay, we're stuck inside. It's a little cold,
Speaker 1: that's fine, go to sleep. Six thirty am. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the power just out. That's Saturday morning, No
Speaker 1: Sunday morning.
Speaker 3: Sunday. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Six thirty am Sunday morning. And I'm like, I look
Speaker 1: at my fiance and I'm like, power's out. He's like,
Speaker 1: it'll it'll come back on. I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: don't have a very good feeling about this one, because
Speaker 1: if it just went out, it's not good and it's
Speaker 1: not coming back on easily. Like we sat there for
Speaker 1: laid in bed for like an hour, being like, okay,
Speaker 1: it could just come back on, maybe it's a fluke.
Speaker 1: It never came back on, and I started panicking. Panic
Speaker 1: like set in and I don't something about Everything felt
Speaker 1: different and normally I would have just rode it out,
Speaker 1: stayed at the house, tried to figure things out. And
Speaker 1: I looked at him and I said, I just don't
Speaker 1: feel like this is normal, and I don't feel like
Speaker 1: we should stay here because we don't have a heat
Speaker 1: source at our house. There's no fireplace, we have nothing
Speaker 1: to stay warm. There's nothing, and with power out that
Speaker 1: takes away any opportunity for like a space heater or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I don't have a generator. I don't
Speaker 1: even have like a we didn't get a rented generator.
Speaker 2: We didn't do anything like that. We have candles.
Speaker 1: We have candles, and if we did have a gas,
Speaker 1: we have a gas stove, but like that also, I
Speaker 1: don't like running the gas stove without the hood because
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide. Like every time I cook on it, that
Speaker 1: hood is on.
Speaker 3: That's the thing too, that's scary. The people were like
Speaker 3: doing those heaters and.
Speaker 1: Stuff, yeah, because caught onnox side. Yeah, and you're not
Speaker 1: if you're you know, especially in a situation with no power,
Speaker 1: your windows are all closed, you're you've sealed vince because
Speaker 1: you don't want cold there coming in, and then you're
Speaker 1: putting a thing in there. That's it's like the worst
Speaker 1: case scenario, which is why I didn't want a generator.
Speaker 1: I just generators freaked me out unless they're properly installed
Speaker 1: and you have like the whole thing. And there were
Speaker 1: so many things online where was like generator needs to
Speaker 1: be away from your house.
Speaker 3: I was like, what frick do you put it?
Speaker 2: You put it in the front yard, just sits there
Speaker 2: in the front yard.
Speaker 1: Where is it gonna go? Can't go in the garage,
Speaker 1: can't be in the backyard by the fence, like where's
Speaker 1: it supposed to be? And so I just was like,
Speaker 1: we're just not not gonna mess with that. But I
Speaker 1: looked at him and by nine am I was fine.
Speaker 1: I was on the phone. I called five or six
Speaker 1: different hotels trying to figure out what everything was happening,
Speaker 1: Who had power, who didn't have power. Some of them
Speaker 1: weren't even answering because I don't think they had power.
Speaker 1: And also I was like, I'm not pain in an
Speaker 1: insane amount of money, like this is not this is
Speaker 1: not a vacation stay, right, give me like the cheapest
Speaker 1: option that is dog and cat friendly, and that's where
Speaker 1: we'll be. And that was what we found. We found
Speaker 1: like an extended stay type place. So we had a
Speaker 1: little kitchen area and we had free breakfast, yes, which
Speaker 1: was the selling point for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they welcomed Drummy and Hazel, which was perfect. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of places allow cats, lot allowed dogs.
Speaker 3: Oh I guess I didn't think of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And a lot of them also have weight restrictions
Speaker 1: on dogs. And there was not that whole hotel. Man,
Speaker 1: it was it was a dog party.
Speaker 3: Oh really, that's so cute. It was elevator and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was a dog party. So we had like
Speaker 1: after that, we load everything up. We took all of
Speaker 1: our stuff in the fridge and we put it out
Speaker 1: on the deck. We just put it in bags and
Speaker 1: it was on the deck and we were like, uh,
Speaker 1: if it goes bad, it goes bad. If not, at
Speaker 1: least we tried. It's out there. It was all frozen by.
Speaker 3: The time we came back, but probably as hard as
Speaker 3: a rock.
Speaker 1: It's like hard as a rock Yep, everything was safe cold.
Speaker 1: So now it's like it was in the house de
Speaker 1: thawing when we got back. We had to like leave
Speaker 1: it outside of the fridge for a while to get
Speaker 1: it just to like go back to normal. But yes,
Speaker 1: we use Nature's refrigerator for kitchen items. Love that we
Speaker 1: turned off our water and we had drained all the
Speaker 1: pipes because we're obviously worried about pipes freezing. I know
Speaker 1: you experience that. We're gonna talk about that, and so
Speaker 1: we I mean, like we tried to prepare the house
Speaker 1: as much as possible, stuffed blankets and towels everywhere, trying
Speaker 1: to keep it as warm as we could inside until
Speaker 1: like we could come back, and we went and stay
Speaker 1: at the hotel with the thought like what we brought
Speaker 1: was for one night, Like surely this will be a
Speaker 1: one night thing. We'll go back, that's what you think, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you hope, right, and you know it's getting
Speaker 1: to be midnight, Sunday night. I'm like, this isn't no,
Speaker 1: this is getting worse. I have a feeling and I'm
Speaker 1: starting to see stuff online and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: not looking good for anybody. And so I go down.
Speaker 1: I extend it another day, mind you. I extended each
Speaker 1: day by the day, by the day.
Speaker 3: You were lucky, well, because.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. That was the crappiest part, right. It
Speaker 1: was like, you can't cancel a hotel room, right if
Speaker 1: you do it within twenty four hours. So if we
Speaker 1: get power back on, I'm paying for this night.
Speaker 3: I were staying like if you it's like six pm
Speaker 3: and you you're like, oh, we got it back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like, and that's stupid. And so every night,
Speaker 1: like before we went to bed, I didn't. I would
Speaker 1: go and extend it. I want to extend it like
Speaker 1: the morning of until the last day, which was where
Speaker 1: the problem.
Speaker 2: Ended up being.
Speaker 1: Oh, but I'd go extend like the night before and
Speaker 1: be like, okay, we're saying another night, I guess. And
Speaker 1: so I kept doing that each night at a time,
Speaker 1: like just assessing the situation. There was no like up
Speaker 1: until Tuesday evening, there wasn't even a glimmer of hope.
Speaker 1: Nobody had even been in our neighborhood based on our
Speaker 1: neighborhood group chat, because have you ever seen Gossip Girl?
Speaker 2: Do you know the references to gossip Girl.
Speaker 1: Where's probably some spotted xoxo gossip Girl. So our neighborhood
Speaker 1: group chat was doing gossip Girl spotted moments of the
Speaker 1: Lineman neighborhood.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's funny, like.
Speaker 1: A picture of a truck, and it was like spotted
Speaker 1: on Da Da Da Street xcrossip girl, and it became
Speaker 1: a funny update. We didn't see anybody in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: until like Tuesday evening, and that was our first sign
Speaker 1: of okay, they're starting to look at the area. And
Speaker 1: then Wednesday, I had we were coming to work and
Speaker 1: I have I felt like we had just gotten our
Speaker 1: groove with our hotel living and just making the best
Speaker 1: of what we're working with, and literally I go up.
Speaker 1: I didn't extend the night before because I was just like,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're fine, this has been working out.
Speaker 1: I'll extend before I leave for work, I go up
Speaker 1: to the desk. She just like, we're completely booked.
Speaker 3: We see, That's what I was thinking when you were like.
Speaker 1: I extended the day of and so Wednesday, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I start panicking.
Speaker 2: Panic sets in. I'm like, we have to go to
Speaker 2: another place. Hazel.
Speaker 1: I had to take her to the emergency er in
Speaker 1: the ice storm.
Speaker 3: You did, ye oh no, yep.
Speaker 1: She was stressed out from the whole situation, and because
Speaker 1: she has kidney disease, stress makes everything much worse. And
Speaker 1: cats with stress often get utiyes and UTI's connected the
Speaker 1: kindizi's it's all, you know, interconnected in them. And when
Speaker 1: they start peeing blood, you're in emergency territory already, And
Speaker 1: so we had to Black Ice were driving like five
Speaker 1: miles an hour. I'm like, we have to. She needs medicine.
Speaker 1: There's no way she survives this if we don't. Like
Speaker 1: those first twenty four hours when they start peeing blood
Speaker 1: are super critical. And thankfully she hadn't shown any of
Speaker 1: the other signs yet that she did last year when
Speaker 1: she was hospitalized, where she like stopped eating and started
Speaker 1: hiding and like really was showing bad signs. This was
Speaker 1: just her peen blood and so we rushed her to
Speaker 1: the er vets that was already on our We were
Speaker 1: already worried about Hazel and having to then move her
Speaker 1: to another location to add to her stress. So I
Speaker 1: was panicked that she said that, and I knew it
Speaker 1: was also on me because I didn't do it, but
Speaker 1: I I didn't have any information. I was just working
Speaker 1: with what I was given at the time. And so
Speaker 1: I go to work. Of course, my fiance is keeping
Speaker 1: his calm, cool head. He's like, we got this, I'll
Speaker 1: pack up, I'll see you when you get back.
Speaker 2: We'll be fine. And so I'm panicking.
Speaker 1: But thankfully there was a listener named Jeff who actually
Speaker 1: met at iHeart Country last year. He's super nice and
Speaker 1: he had an extra house here. They live in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and they have a house here, and he's like, you
Speaker 1: can go and stay. I'm like, thank goodness, so nice,
Speaker 1: so nice. So shout out to Jeff and an amazing wife.
Speaker 1: And because also with I have a dog with Addison's
Speaker 1: disease and I have a cat with Kenney disease, both
Speaker 1: of them can't be stressed. I can't take them to
Speaker 1: the houses of our friends who were awesome and offered
Speaker 1: their houses for us to stay, which would have been great,
Speaker 1: but I can't put them in those situations. Like a
Speaker 1: lot of them had kids, a lot of them had
Speaker 1: other animals, none of which worked for Remy and Hazel,
Speaker 1: and so it was like this situation where I had
Speaker 1: to put them first. And you can't warm a cat, right,
Speaker 1: we thought about just staying at the house. You can't
Speaker 1: keep a cat warm. You can't put clothes on a cat.
Speaker 3: I know don't.
Speaker 2: And they only cuddled with you when they want a cuddle.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they run, they run from me.
Speaker 1: I can force my dog to cuddle with me and
Speaker 1: be under a blanket. So there was just so many honestly,
Speaker 1: just thinking about them that entire time. Yeah, so there
Speaker 1: were so many factors. But as we're leaving the hotel,
Speaker 1: we had packed up, just checked out, and we're like
Speaker 1: sitting in the car with everybody packed up, everything's there.
Speaker 1: We're about to head to to Jeff's house and I
Speaker 1: get a text from the neighborhood group chat and was
Speaker 1: like spotted exox girlsip girl, we have power, and I
Speaker 1: like tears of relief where I was just like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we get to go home.
Speaker 2: And it was like the perfect time.
Speaker 3: Of just like that's like perfect timing, perfect timing, and
Speaker 3: I'm just like like my whole body was just like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, it's over.
Speaker 2: I think hopefully.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because then we have to go.
Speaker 2: Back and assess the situation.
Speaker 1: Right, So we go to the house, the house with
Speaker 1: thirty five degrees inside inside you could see your breath.
Speaker 3: Okay, I was going to say, could you see Oh, brutal.
Speaker 1: Thankfully, though everything else was in good condition, the power
Speaker 1: flickered for several hours when we first got back. They
Speaker 1: were still working on it, clearly and trying to do
Speaker 1: different things. And it wasn't really until about four hours
Speaker 1: later that we finally got steady power. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: until ten o'clock that evening that we finally got like
Speaker 1: actual heat to finally sustain in the house.
Speaker 3: Really. Yeah, So it went back on at what time
Speaker 3: and went back around about twelve thirty okay, and then
Speaker 3: it didn't get like comfortable until ten.
Speaker 1: Oh my, I can't imagine the people that were staying
Speaker 1: in their homes without any power, without any heat source.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know how they did it. I mean,
Speaker 3: like maybe under a blanket if you just stay under
Speaker 3: a blanket, but outside.
Speaker 1: Of that that would be so cold, and we were
Speaker 1: under like we were under blanket. I mean, we had gloves,
Speaker 1: we had our ski bibs, we had all of our
Speaker 1: winter clothes on. Yeah, and under blankets and we were
Speaker 1: still crazy. And that was with the heat coming back on.
Speaker 1: And I just like him and I both looked at
Speaker 1: each other and we're just like, we have so much
Speaker 1: to be grateful for the fact that we were able
Speaker 1: one to keep the girl safe, which was the number
Speaker 1: one priority, but to that we got to come back
Speaker 1: home and we're in a position that now our heat
Speaker 1: is back home, and there's so many people that didn't
Speaker 1: and like you want to talk about the gratitude that
Speaker 1: both of us were feeling and just thinking of everything
Speaker 1: that everybody was going through, like I did. My whole
Speaker 1: body was like you know when you feel like the
Speaker 1: weight lift off to your shoulders, Yeah, I felt that,
Speaker 1: and like my body feel like a sigh of relief
Speaker 1: while also like crying because I know there's just so
Speaker 1: many people that were still dealing with what we're still
Speaker 1: at the tail end of experiencing.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. It makes me so nervous, especially like elderly
Speaker 3: that are like alone or like don't have anybody to
Speaker 3: check on them. Oh my gosh, I hate that thought.
Speaker 3: Like I'm hoping, I know, and I've seen a lot
Speaker 3: of that, the people reaching out me like Okay, you know,
Speaker 3: let's check on them. And that's still that's just always
Speaker 3: like the worst part, and it is.
Speaker 1: And like I I tried to reach out to a
Speaker 1: few different people who were posting like that they had
Speaker 1: elderly and we were gonna as soon as we got
Speaker 1: power back, I was like, I'm let's help, Like I know,
Speaker 1: we got it back, let's go. And I I'm still
Speaker 1: waiting to see responses from some of them, hoping because
Speaker 1: I just like, those are the things that you wish
Speaker 1: happened for you, right, so why wouldn't you do the
Speaker 1: things that you wish happened for you? Yes to someone
Speaker 1: or other other people? And it's like a small gesture.
Speaker 3: It's not hard.
Speaker 1: No, like showing up with warm soup. Yes, like sitting
Speaker 1: in a cold house and you just need something warm.
Speaker 1: Warm soup would would make all the difference, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, And that's so easy, But it's just
Speaker 1: it was it was crazy times like there was.
Speaker 3: My heart was like, yes, that is a lot. I
Speaker 3: don't want to tell you. Don't want to talk about
Speaker 3: mind just I don want to hear it about.
Speaker 1: But you had pipes burst. This is another side of this.
Speaker 3: It didn't they didn't burst it luckily. Well, I have
Speaker 3: to go check today. I'm actually really nervous because it
Speaker 3: froze on the outside, luckily by the meter.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, hold on pause, I'm taking a break and
Speaker 1: I want the rest of this.
Speaker 2: All right, So it froze at the meter.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So my fiance's house has been fine, the one that
Speaker 3: we live in, his kids are in. He never lost
Speaker 3: power or anything, which is so wild. Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: But then my town home, which is across from town,
Speaker 3: it's like forty five minutes from his house. While I
Speaker 3: was gone in Denver, like the power went out a
Speaker 3: day I or a day and a half, maybe two days.
Speaker 3: Because I was asking my neighbors, I was like, do
Speaker 3: we have power? Because I'm really nervous. I did prepare
Speaker 3: before I left, Like I left dripping fosets. I left
Speaker 3: all the cabinets underneath, and I turned my heat up
Speaker 3: like higher in case it did, like go out.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: But then I went and checked on it the other
Speaker 3: day and I had no pressure in my water, and
Speaker 3: so I called the water company because it usually happens
Speaker 3: where it freezes at the meter every year because it's
Speaker 3: in the ground, there's not a lot of sunlight that
Speaker 3: hit it's that spot, and the insulation's not good because
Speaker 3: it's in like a whole bunch of like rock, so
Speaker 3: it just like keeps it freezing. And so they usually
Speaker 3: come out and fix it. But this time they came
Speaker 3: out and they're like, oh, there's water there, So I
Speaker 3: don't know why it would be. Why you don't have
Speaker 3: any And I'm like, oh, my gosh, that means my pipe.
Speaker 3: It's my pipes that are like frozen. And yeah. And
Speaker 3: so I went back last night after like the sun
Speaker 3: was out because it got warmer here yesterday it was
Speaker 3: like thirty six.
Speaker 1: I think we.
Speaker 2: Saw some sunshine.
Speaker 3: It got some sun Yeah, And I went back over
Speaker 3: and I did have water, so that's good. But I
Speaker 3: was only there for a little bit to check it,
Speaker 3: and so I'm like, I hope that it didn't.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, well, it's so hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember when we first turned on the
Speaker 1: house of all like when we turned all the water
Speaker 1: back on and everything was churning back on. I mean
Speaker 1: that house was just like singing. It had so many
Speaker 1: cracks and pops and noises, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: is happening?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Like and you're panicking, right because you're hearing all of
Speaker 1: these noises, thinking everything's just busting at the seams. Yes,
Speaker 1: but that's also just getting flow back to where it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be in like a normal setting. But you
Speaker 1: had it all, you know, turned off or dripping. Dripping
Speaker 1: even causes that if you've not been using it. So
Speaker 1: it's crazy like the inner workings of all that. We
Speaker 1: were having that conversation of because Ray mentioned when we
Speaker 1: got back home, I had turned on emergency heat, and
Speaker 1: I was like, it was an emergency, like it took
Speaker 1: you know, eight hours to finally get any version of
Speaker 1: heat happening, and so I was joking like, what's the
Speaker 1: point of emergency heat.
Speaker 2: He's like, I think you could have had that turned on.
Speaker 1: And then Abby and I were having this whole conversation
Speaker 1: about like pipes, and we're like, why didn't anybody teach
Speaker 1: us this crap?
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think he's right, I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think he does either.
Speaker 3: He said, like, you can use the emergency heat that
Speaker 3: takes like gas. But I'm like, I have not heard that.
Speaker 3: I everybody would use their because mine has that too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: in my town home it has like aux auxillary, auxilliary auxiliary.
Speaker 2: I think, yes, I think.
Speaker 3: And I looked it up and it is emergency and
Speaker 3: I was like, what's the point But I don't think
Speaker 3: it's gas.
Speaker 1: But see, then you go back to the point of
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide. As soon as you start using gas, there's
Speaker 1: just still Like But my point being, why didn't they
Speaker 1: teach us how to handle these things? Yes, how to
Speaker 1: be aware of these things correct? Why do we have
Speaker 1: to utilize social media and word of mouth to understand these.
Speaker 3: And chat GPT? I'm trying to ask. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 3: can you tell me about this?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What does this mean?
Speaker 1: Do I need help? I know?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, several of my friends still don't have power,
Speaker 3: Like they live in Nashville and they haven't had it
Speaker 3: for four days. And I'm like, there's still if you
Speaker 3: look at the map of Nashville, like the nes and
Speaker 3: Nashville Electric Service, like there are so many also that
Speaker 3: still don't have power.
Speaker 1: Well, and I I mean I saw a video of
Speaker 1: our transformers getting blown over and where like the area
Speaker 1: of where I live, and I was like, that burst road.
Speaker 1: What causes those to blow I assume ice, because ice
Speaker 1: was making trees explode. That was the other thing that
Speaker 1: was wild. When we first woke up and our power
Speaker 1: was out, because you know, when your power goes out,
Speaker 1: everything's quiet. It feels crazy because there's no humming, there's
Speaker 1: no noises from things, and it's just quiet. And when
Speaker 1: we were laying in bed, we heard five different trees
Speaker 1: explode and it sounds like a bomb going off. I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding you, Like we're just laying there and you'd
Speaker 1: be like it'd be like I p and I'm like
Speaker 1: what what's that? The first one was crazy, and then
Speaker 1: I remembered seeing on social media that trees can explode
Speaker 1: with ice, and so I was like, that has to
Speaker 1: be a tree. And then shortly after it just kept happening.
Speaker 1: It was like a boom, boom boom.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Wild.
Speaker 3: That is so crazy. I haven't heard one. I've seen
Speaker 3: like pictures that people were it's like it literally exploded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I haven't heard it, and it's a wild sound.
Speaker 1: Even like my fiance went out back to cause our
Speaker 1: magnolia tree did not do well surviving in the heist.
Speaker 2: I don't know if she's gonna survive it completely.
Speaker 1: But one of the neighbor's trees like fell on her somewhat,
Speaker 1: some other branches of their big trees did. And he
Speaker 1: went out there. He's like, the trees are talking, like
Speaker 1: they are loud, because he was like, they're creaking and
Speaker 1: moaning and like them because they're they're all like in ice.
Speaker 1: They're encased in ice. She's like, and when you don't again,
Speaker 1: don't have power, there's so much silence and there's nobody
Speaker 1: driving on roads because nobody's out, so it's so quiet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was like, the and I walked out there and
Speaker 1: it literally sounds like that, like they're weird. They're like
Speaker 1: communicating because they're encased in ice.
Speaker 3: Wait, didn't plants talk?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Don't they?
Speaker 1: We talked about we didn't we have talked about it.
Speaker 1: And I heard it, like I literally heard them talking
Speaker 1: to each other.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: What was so crazy though? Is like my also, my
Speaker 1: my thought process and all of this was just like
Speaker 1: thinking about the elements that are being impacted by this, right,
Speaker 1: Like you have so much structure of trees that are
Speaker 1: now gonna be gone forever. You have who knows how
Speaker 1: many animals that you know are, whether they're actual like
Speaker 1: outdoor animals like squirrels and birds and whatever. But then
Speaker 1: you think of out the stray animals and like, my mind, I'm.
Speaker 3: Just I don't like thinking about that. It makes me sad.
Speaker 3: I know, I just can't, I know, but I want
Speaker 3: to help everything. You can't physically help them.
Speaker 1: I know, And I'm like, how can I make sure
Speaker 1: I can help next time? What can I be doing
Speaker 1: to make sure I can assist next time. It's just
Speaker 1: it's so crazy to see and be part of. And
Speaker 1: it's it feels weird because we grew up in tornadoes.
Speaker 1: We've seen this kind of devastation happen. It was surrounding
Speaker 1: us as kids. Different types of course, right, ice storm
Speaker 1: and tornadoes are not the same, but devastation nonetheless, And
Speaker 1: it's just it's hard. It's hard to see people go
Speaker 1: through stuff like that, and it's hard to witness and
Speaker 1: just see the impact of natural disasters and what it
Speaker 1: does to places and it's but it's again, like I
Speaker 1: go back to how cool it is though to see
Speaker 1: I mention this on part two where we talk about
Speaker 1: like the kind things that we saw, but watching my
Speaker 1: neighborhood come together, watching community come together, people show up
Speaker 1: for each other and start to support small businesses who
Speaker 1: were really impacted by it.
Speaker 2: I mean that's you know, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3: It is and hopefully we can we'll continue it, not
Speaker 3: just this whole like open our eyes to be like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we should just continue helping and not just wait for
Speaker 3: something like this.
Speaker 1: No, it should always be this way. We should always
Speaker 1: be trying to support small businesses. We should always be
Speaker 1: trying to talk to our neighbors and know each other
Speaker 1: and offer help where you can. Just yeah, So that
Speaker 1: was that was the silver lining of all of it.
Speaker 1: Was that, and Hazel's on the.
Speaker 3: Men she's doing better. I felt really good.
Speaker 1: And you have water again, you have power again. So
Speaker 1: there are good things that have have come out of it.
Speaker 1: And I don't just want to talk about those two things.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to do a fun thing
Speaker 1: for us to end on. Okay, because we did talk
Speaker 1: about and I'm so guy, we talked about the Broncos
Speaker 1: game because I know that was so fun for you.
Speaker 1: And I did get to go sledding at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this, which was super fun.
Speaker 3: That looked really fun.
Speaker 1: It was so fun, and that it was fun to
Speaker 1: watch you in Denver. So there were there were bright moments.
Speaker 1: There were And now we're on the backside. And I
Speaker 1: hope everybody who still doesn't have power or who's still
Speaker 1: struggling or is you know, in all these physicians, if
Speaker 1: you need ways of helping, I reach out. If you
Speaker 1: can't out one and two, I hope you stay warm
Speaker 1: and safe. So this is what we're gonna end on
Speaker 1: to have like a fun, little happy note. There's a
Speaker 1: current trend that's happening on social media where you say
Speaker 1: I may not know everything, but I know dot dot
Speaker 1: dot where you fill in the blank and it's like
Speaker 1: a funny thing and I'll share mine so you maybe
Speaker 1: I'll give you something to think about. But mine is
Speaker 1: that I can cook in a stainless steel pan.
Speaker 2: You know how hard that is?
Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to cook in a stanless steel pan? No,
Speaker 1: everything speaks to it, okay, yoh yeah, yeah, yeah, Because like.
Speaker 3: We grew up with cook pasta pasta, yeah.
Speaker 1: You can cook anything, and stainless steel, but we grew
Speaker 1: up with nonstick pans, and of course those are really
Speaker 1: bad for you. As we've learned, you're not supposed to
Speaker 1: use non stick pans. Apparently the thing that made life
Speaker 1: easier is in your life harder. So I had bought
Speaker 1: stainless steel pans I don't know, over a year ago now,
Speaker 1: and they're really hard to learn to cook on because
Speaker 1: everything sticks to it. Things burn really easily, especially on
Speaker 1: a guest stove. And so this is like an art
Speaker 1: and me and my fiance, the amount of YouTube videos
Speaker 1: we've watched to learn how to cook with stainless steel
Speaker 1: pans is absurd.
Speaker 2: But you know what, now we have figured it out.
Speaker 3: That is funny.
Speaker 1: This is my skill.
Speaker 3: That is awesome.
Speaker 2: It's like a funny thing.
Speaker 1: But I am really impressed with ourselves that we finally
Speaker 1: know how to cook with them. I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: was going to be such a like learning experience to
Speaker 1: change pans.
Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you usually cook on, well, like,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: A nonstick pan that has like so things don't sticky,
Speaker 1: it's right oil and then nothing sticks. If you even
Speaker 1: just put oil on stainless steel and it's not heated
Speaker 1: up to the right amount, or you don't use the
Speaker 1: right oil with the right thing, everything just sticks to
Speaker 1: the sides. There's like cooking scrambled eggs and stainless steel
Speaker 1: pan as a disaster. If you don't know how to
Speaker 1: do it and to clean, it sucks even worse.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I haven't had that. I do pasta in that. Okay,
Speaker 3: it alway sticks to the bottom.
Speaker 1: See, but there's an art to it, and now I
Speaker 1: know the art. And you know what, nothing sticking anymore.
Speaker 3: That is a little thing.
Speaker 2: It's little things.
Speaker 3: So tell me what your I may not know everything,
Speaker 3: but I know hm. I may not know everything, but
Speaker 3: I know how to survive in a blizzard.
Speaker 2: Okay, game you did?
Speaker 3: That'd keep my feet warm? I think it worked until
Speaker 3: it broke, until I walked too much. I do think
Speaker 3: the cardboard was a huge helper that, Yeah, because when
Speaker 3: I realized when we got into our house without power,
Speaker 3: when it was the thirty five degrees and I was
Speaker 3: walking on the floor barefoot, my feet got so cold
Speaker 3: so fast, and once they get cold, there's no going back.
Speaker 1: No, you have to thaw them out to then be
Speaker 1: warm again. Uh like you can't just like warm them
Speaker 1: up while they're so cold.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, exactly, yes. No, what I did is I
Speaker 3: did the sock, I did the foil, and and I
Speaker 3: did another song, and then I put a foot toe
Speaker 3: warmer in there.
Speaker 1: I love so it heat up the foil, your little
Speaker 1: electric toe warmer thing.
Speaker 3: No, it was just like one of the they have hackets,
Speaker 3: yes that you like shake, you know, and it takes
Speaker 3: a few minutes. I put it in there, so they
Speaker 3: were like hot. I love a good idea, and tell
Speaker 3: the foil busted.
Speaker 2: But you didn't know the foil busted to the end, right,
Speaker 2: I didn't know. Maybe it was also a placebo effect foil.
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm a I'm a big chicken.
Speaker 3: I think it was, I really do. I was like,
Speaker 3: I think this is all in my head, the foil.
Speaker 2: So you learn how to survive in a blizzard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this for you. And no, Cayenne Pepper,
Speaker 1: don't use that trick, No pep. Yeah, the ballers lied
Speaker 1: to us.
Speaker 3: I'm scared to try it, like maybe it does work,
Speaker 3: but I was like, I don't want to get all
Speaker 3: these like blisters and it burns your skin. Someone messaged
Speaker 3: me and they said, what did they do? They were
Speaker 3: cold and they like showered in like pepper, like cayannemember.
Speaker 1: They showered or something like how do you how do
Speaker 1: you showering cayenne pepper?
Speaker 3: Maybe I read it really fast. They were cold and
Speaker 3: they like sprinkled it on them and they were like
Speaker 3: burning for like days, And I was like, that's why
Speaker 3: I didn't try it.
Speaker 2: Well, that feels like that went in places it shouldn't go.
Speaker 2: I think it's a little different.
Speaker 1: It was just on your feet, like I mean it
Speaker 1: every hole and your eyes.
Speaker 3: Ouch, yeah, Kyanne, your lips like cayae pepper going in
Speaker 3: my mouth. I don't either, I let alone anywhere else.
Speaker 3: I don't need spicy feet.
Speaker 1: No ouch, no spicy feet. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine that? That'd be miserable. I couldn't go
Speaker 3: to the game because my feet are.
Speaker 1: You're like, I hurt my feet from cayenne pepper. So
Speaker 1: that's a no for meat dog. I did say though,
Speaker 1: that you have to make it with the foot powder.
Speaker 1: So if you don't have the foot powder, I do
Speaker 1: think you should not just put cayan pepper on your feet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna do like baby powder or is
Speaker 3: it different?
Speaker 2: Would probably?
Speaker 1: I think you need something to at least alleviate the
Speaker 1: the spice.
Speaker 3: Touch, if you will. I wasn't willing to try it
Speaker 3: like on my first game. I didn't want to be miserable,
Speaker 3: have miserable. Okay, your next game, you have to try it.
Speaker 3: Since you don't want to try out your first game,
Speaker 3: you have to try on your next game. I'll do
Speaker 3: one foot. See the difference.
Speaker 1: One foot's gonna be like either really warm and like golden,
Speaker 1: or it's gonna be all blistered and horrible.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. But then I'll just like limp. I'll
Speaker 3: just limp to the game.
Speaker 1: Get some crutches, frow some crutches from somebody. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my goodness.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're getting out of here. Abby.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being on after a crazy, hectic week. We
Speaker 1: had so much going on. I'm glad you're okay. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you made it back, and I'm glad you had fun.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, that's what it was about. So fun.
Speaker 3: I went really fast. You know how things go really
Speaker 3: fast you don't want to end. Yeah, really fun.
Speaker 1: It's always the things you don't want to end that
Speaker 1: go fast, and the things that you do want to
Speaker 1: end go very.
Speaker 2: Slow, very true. That is life, all right. Go and
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Speaker 1: She's on Instagram at Abby Lee Anderson yep, yep, and
Speaker 1: I'm at web Girl Morgan And if you're interested, you
Speaker 1: could check out my podcast Take this personally. I recently
Speaker 1: had on Nick Shelton. He's great with introverts. And if
Speaker 1: you retire and you have no idea what's going to
Speaker 1: happen with your life, that's some good stuff up there.
Speaker 3: Oh that is good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fun over there if you need something to listen
Speaker 1: to and keep your company over the craziness of all
Speaker 1: the weather we're getting. So again I repeat, stay.
Speaker 3: Safe, stay warm, stay warm.
Speaker 1: Those are the priorities right now. And if you're here,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Abby, thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, Bye, ron Bine.
Speaker 1: That's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
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