WEBVTT - Abby’s Broncos Game Experience & Morgan’s Ice Storm Chronicles 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.920 The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan, Part one 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:10.040 behind a scene with a member of the show, Welcome everybody. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.360 Abby is joining me this weekend for best Bits. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.160 Hello Abby, Hello, we are warm and we are safe. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.239 After winter Storm Fern has attacked so many of the 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.480 states in the country, but we are here. That is wild. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.800 And I didn't know that it was called winter storm Fern. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.400 You know. Fun fact. Yes, Fern is my great grandmother's name. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:30.920 It is. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:31.360 Yes. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:32.599 So when I saw Ferne. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.360 I was like, oh, Grandma Fern, what you doing up there? 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.159 You're like, why are you doing that? Yeah? 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.120 And she was a firecracker, so, you know, honestly makes sense. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.320 That's cute. Oh my god, Fern. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:49.159 Yes, okay, So talk to me about your winter storm experience. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.440 What happened for you over the past week. What's been 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:51.800 going on? 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.840 Oh my gosh. Okay. So I left last Friday after 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.760 the show to go to Denver Broncos game. So it 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.240 was kind of good time. It was kind of good 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.400 timing for me because like the weather was it was 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.360 cold there, but like it wasn't crazy. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.520 Well, no, in Colorado, they know how to handle all this. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.200 This is what they get all the time. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.360 that's no cold eyes. They're prepared for it. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.080 You know what's crazy, though, is I was talking to 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.400 somebody and they said a lot of people there are transplants, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.080 so they don't know how to drive on the roads. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.679 But this is the that's true. The drivers, I'm not 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.480 worried about. But the infrastructure of the city is equipped 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:27.720 to handle stuff like that. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.920 Right, Yeah, Okay, So I left. I got there Friday evening. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.200 We went out to eat, everything was good. We went 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:34.600 to bed early because I knew it was going to 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.800 be a crazy weekend. Then the next day we slept in. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.040 It was Saturday, and I was like, I want to 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.200 kind of explore a little bit, and so we went 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:42.960 to Red Rocks. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.640 Wait, have you ever been to Denver before? 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.679 I have, Yeah, yeah, but it was like it was 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.720 pretty brief, and I was like, super young. I've been 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.680 like on the outskirts kind of Denver, like Greeley. That's 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.720 where my grandma lives. But I had been one time 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.920 to visit my friend. She lives in Golden and so 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.960 I got to go see Red Rocks. Like I took 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.360 her car and that's that's about it. So I've seen 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.720 Red Rocks during the day. Still haven't been to a 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.960 concert that's on my bucket list. Have you been? 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:07.720 No, but it's on my bucket list to go to 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:08.400 a concert there too. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.000 Oh my gosh, I cannot wait. Yeah, we might need 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.079 to figure that we work in this industry shortly. There's 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.520 someone we could go see at Red Rocks on a weekend. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.000 And yeah, they're announcing like new dates, so I yeah, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:18.520 I need to look. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.000 If you see the one you like, we should do that. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:22.520 That'd be so fun because that'd be a. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.440 Fun trip for us to go take together and we 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.760 could find ways to get there and make it all happen. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.960 Oh my gosh, it is so cool there, Like there 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.320 was it was too freezing that when we went to 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.520 see it, but we went in like the Trading Post 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:35.960 is kind of like a store next to it, which 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.280 is really cute. And then after that we went to 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.960 Laramer Square, which is kind of like downtown and that's 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.400 where they have all the Broncos jerseys like hanging, and 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.760 there was like a block party happening with like a DJ, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.359 and like the cheerleaders were there in the mascot. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.959 Okay, what city is Mile High Stadium in it's in Denver. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:55.720 It is in Denver. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.600 Yes, it's like right downtown Oka, Denver. Basically, Okay, I'm 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.520 probably wrong, but like it's very like tall buildings and 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:03.880 we went down she said us downtown. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.160 I've never been. I've never been to the stadium. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.320 I've been to Denver a bunch, but honestly, I know 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.200 that those stadiums can be in all kinds of cities. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.800 So that's why I didn't know if it was downtown 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.920 Denver or if you like outskirts or where you were at. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.280 Yeah, it was like downtown and they're actually building a 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.280 new one right now. O. They're like in the process 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.560 they found land that I think they're gonna start building 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.080 the stadium on. But so we went to that square 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.320 and there was like that dance party and it was freezing, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.120 like so we just went to dance party. I mean, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.880 oh yeah, dance party, block party. Yeah, people were dancing. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.680 The mascot was there. We got our picture with him, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.560 and then we went into a bar to get a 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.040 drink because it was so cold, and we like parked 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.000 far away and we were walking, but we were like, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.480 we have to get used to it because the game 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.760 is Sunday and it's gonna be even more freezing, so 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.000 we're like, we can handle this. And then we went 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:53.160 to Corey Kent at Grizzly Rose, which is a really 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:53.840 cool venue. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:54.560 I saw that. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.400 I saw that, and I have heard great things about 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:57.120 Grizzly Rose. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:58.200 Oh my gosh. 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.600 I also love Corey Kent as he was so good. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.200 I've seen him before, but this time I was like, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.360 oh my gosh, and people were like into it. It 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:07.320 was really fun. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.520 Arzly Rose is a really cool venue to see an 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:10.080 artist at. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.320 It is like, I want to go back. It's they 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:18.400 have like a saloon looking bar. Inside they have pool bowls, 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.760 like a mechanical bowl, and then like a photo booth. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.440 What else do they have? Dance floor? People were two stepping. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.240 It was awesome. I was like, we need that in Nashville. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.640 Yeah, we don't have our own Grizzly Rose. Grizzly Rose 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.280 is very popular. It's one of those not stadiums. It's 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.920 one of those venues I think a lot of artists 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.599 love to play at. It's one of those top tier ones. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.279 Oh my god. It's so cool. And it's funny because 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.159 a friend I went with she got married there. She 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.080 knows the really yeah, and he was there and he's 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.120 like the nicest guy ever, Like he's so hands on, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.360 like he cares about his bar. And then they presented 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:55.119 Corey Kent with like a silver buckle like belt buckle 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.480 because he sold it out. Oh they do that when 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.480 artists sell it out. And I was like that is 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:00.320 this is so co cool? 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.520 So there was the Latter Music weekend. Yes, yeah, the broncos. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.159 I know, it's like I might as well. I'm here, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.520 might as well just like do everything I can. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:09.200 As you should. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.320 Yes, And so we got home late and then we 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.839 got up early. Well it was like seven thirty to 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.480 get up and start like preparing for the day. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:17.919 Because what time was the game at? 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.880 The game was at one, okay there, but the tailgate 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.600 started at ten and we had to be there by 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.920 like nine forty five and it took us a long time. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.360 Was this a tailgate of somebody you guys knew or 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.400 was it a tailgate of the friend who knows the coach? 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.599 It was so we got the tickets through the coach 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.320 and then we got the tailgate through one of her friends. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:38.880 They were kind of separate, but it was like a 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.320 nice tilgate like people paid I think, like two hundred 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.000 dollars to get in and it was like unlimited drinks 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.440 and food. Like I would I mean, if I was 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.480 a Broncos fan living in Denver, I would pay for 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.080 that because it was really cool. They had like an 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.800 auction in there, a whole bunch of food. Some of 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.640 the players like showed up from like past teams. I 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.760 think they were both in the superwl one of them 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.479 in the Super Bowl. Both of the guys. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.280 Okay, that's at one point when the Bronco was played 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:03.800 in the Super Bowl. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.279 They were they were in it, and I don't remember 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.880 their names, but I got a picture of them signing autographs. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.360 I didn't want to wait in the line because I 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.520 was so cold. And then there was like a silent auction, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.160 like I said, music going. So that was really fun. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:19.000 Oh that's so fun. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.160 Drink I started drinking. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.000 That's like you know how they call if you don't 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.440 go regular camping, you go glamping. Yes, that's exactly the 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.560 lamping version of tailgate. I know. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.120 So I really didn't get to see like the parking lot, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.159 like actual tailgating, because I kind of wanted to see 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.120 that because I heard it's like really crazy. But I 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.120 was kind of along for the ride, you know, like 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.360 I was with them so well. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.640 And again, you're not going to have that experience normally. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.320 You can always have the parking lot tailgate experience when 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.280 you go back. This particular experience, is it always gonna happen? 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.520 Oh my gosh. It was like it was so crazy. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.000 I was like, how am I getting the VIP treatment 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.120 right now? And really cool? And so we started. I 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.840 mean I had five layers on, so I had three pants. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.720 I had like the fleece laggings sweatpants, and then I 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.880 got ski suit, which I had already bought because I 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.479 was like, oh, this will be good. It's really cute. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.440 It'll be good for like skiing or you know, when 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.240 it snows. And it ended up like matching the Broncos color. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:10.440 So I was like, I'm wearing this. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.240 It was perfect. I loved your outfit. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:18.000 Yeah, And then we got Cayenne pepper and four do that? 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.960 Hey? I talked about this part did you did? But 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.000 it doesn't work? 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.720 I chat shebted it right before we left the hotel 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.800 and it said you could get like burns on your 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.520 feet or blisters, and I was like, oh, my gosh, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.360 I don't want like sore feet, Like what if we 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.680 don't want to burn our skin? Yeah, and then have 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.000 to walk all day. I was like, I know the 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.160 football players did it with their football players, and they're 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.080 like tough and they'll do anything, but. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.240 Likes, I say, the football players are not talking about 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:49.240 the blisters and h on this seat now, And so 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.680 I was like, no, let's not try that. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.720 But then we got foil because if we saw that 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.120 on a video where you put a sock on and 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.840 then you wrap your toes in aluminum foil and then 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.680 you put another sock on. And I tried that, and 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.840 like halfway through the game, we took the sock off 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.040 and it was just in pieces the foil, the aluminum foil. Yes, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.400 it like it just shredded from us walking. So that 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.520 obviously wasn't working. It wasn't keeping the heat in. Supposedly 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.040 it's supposed to like keep your heat in. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.560 I understand the keeping the heat in, but maybe it's 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.000 not meant for like if you're doing out activities, you're 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:22.840 just supposed to lay there. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.320 Yeah, I guess, oh my gosh, you know it was crazy. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.880 We went to Target and they had foil in the 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.920 lock boxes. You had to go get an employee with 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:35.000 a key. Why people are stealing foil, I don't know. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.240 I wonder if there is something with extreme cold weather 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.160 and something with that, but I had that's an interesting Okay, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:43.839 let me while you keep talking about your story, let 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:44.520 me google some. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.800 Situation. So that's what I did with my feet. I 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.520 had snow boots on, and then my hands. I have 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.920 like handwarmers, like electric han warmers that I actually use 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:57.720 at work, right and I both use them because it's 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.760 always freezing here. And I took them and that was 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.560 like the saving that that did everything, because they get 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.800 so hot they like burn your hands, and so I 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:07.400 just put them in my pockets and I just have 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.280 my hands on my pockets the whole time, and it 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.440 like worked. It was warm. Yes. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.480 Did you guys also do a trick of cardboard where 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.240 you stood on cardboard for some of the game? 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.360 Uh huh. We took in a cardboard box like folded 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.080 up and we stood on it and our feet were 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.840 fine the whole time. I was standing by a girl 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.160 next to me. I finally was like, oh my gosh, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.000 come on the cardboard because she just had regular like 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.760 cute boots on no, and I was like, what are 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.560 you doing? Because she was like, I know, I almost 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.840 wore like snow boots, but I changed last minute because 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.040 she looked super cute. She had like on cute jeans 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.800 and I was like, you have to be freezing. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:39.800 Oh heck no. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.079 And one of those situations. Listen, I love I love 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:42.680 looking cute. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.160 I'm all for an outfit for a reason, yes, but 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.120 in that situation, I am over practical. Oh like practical 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.480 and comfort over cute. I do not care. I will 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.840 look like a michelin man. Yes, if it means me 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:54.440 being warm. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.080 That's how I looked and felt. I was like, I 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.480 am not attractive right now, but hey, I'm warm. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.720 That's all I got. Okay. I did look up fitinyl 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.319 use prompts downtown Target to lock up in aluminum foil, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.199 so I think shoplifting is another reason. For some reasons 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.199 people are shoplifting the aluminum foil. I'm wondering if it's 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.000 connected also again to drug use. Oh my gosh, no, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:16.800 it's yeah. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.120 That okay. I was like, there has some reasons. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.240 It's also five dollars. Well, Anna says thieves use aluminum 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.280 foil to create booster bags, which are shopping bags or 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.920 purses lined with foil. So it seems like a few 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:29.480 different things. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.400 Okay, so Foyle is being used and that is crazy. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:33.240 I couldn't believe it. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.200 Yeah, so you see your ilumin foil locked up, that 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:36.840 would be why. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.320 I mean here it is. Yeah, it's like downtown. The 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.480 target is literally it's one of those like downtown ones. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.760 So yeah, I mean there's probably just people coming in 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:45.920 all the time. I don't know. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.640 Okay, So cardboard, you made a friend with the girl 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:54.040 who definitely dressed cold over over comfort hm. And were 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.120 you so happy to be there experiencing it? Were you 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.240 ready for it to be over because you were cold? 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.319 What were all the feelings? 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.200 No, I loved every minute of it. I was just 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.640 trying to like take it all in. So I was 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.800 like this, I'm never gonna have these seats again. We 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.480 were like tenth row and I got to see the goal. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.720 We were kind of like on the end zone on 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.640 the side, so you'd like see one of the touchdowns 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.480 at the beginning, and I was like, this is awesome, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.200 Oh my gosh, we're doing great so far. And then it, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.040 I mean it went took a turn or we went downhill, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.280 because they did start out really good, and then we 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.040 didn't kick that field goal. It was kind of a 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.720 bummerku then we would have been tied ultimately, but well, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.880 Annie snow was playing such a huge role too. I mean, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.640 you guys see anything if you're sitting in those seats, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.520 did you see stuff when the snow was hitting or 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.160 could you even like so we could see it was 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.560 hard to see the football, and then you couldn't see 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.040 the lines on the field. It was crazy because the 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.760 first half it was sunny and I was like, I 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.559 am so prepared, I'm so warm, like I am gonna 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.680 be comfortable the whole game. And then we went to 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.760 the bathroom after halftime, came back out, it started snowing, 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.760 and it was just like, I mean, it was like 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.400 a snow globe. Seriously, like you're in there, just snowfalling. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.280 Everybody loved it, like they were just embracing the snow, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:08.520 like they're like, this is so cool. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.360 Okay, you know what. I know. We talk a little 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.400 bit in part two about like your top five moments, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.000 and I asked you about your brother, because your brother 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.000 is a big reason of why you're a Broncos fan. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.959 I think your brother was looking out for the weather 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.160 because I think he wanted you to have both experiences 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.160 where it was like full clear day, you can't see 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.840 what's happening, you're cold. But then also everybody talks about 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.320 the experiences of when you're in a weather situation at 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.760 a game or a concert, whether it's pouring down rain 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.960 or snow, and I would imagine Mile High Stadium being 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.640 drenched in snow is an experience in itself. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.160 Yeah, so I got goosebounds and you said that that's 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:46.200 that is crazy. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.400 I feel like it that way to give you both 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.600 and not just five minutes of clear to then have this. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.840 You had a first half that was bright, you were good, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.800 you were warm, surviving, and then second half to get 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.320 to experience the snow fall in Mile High Stadium. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.680 Mm hmm, oh my god. Like he would have loved 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.080 He was a huge, like the biggest Broncos fan ever. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.240 He would have like loved this so much. So I 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.280 kind of felt like I was like living like I 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.880 don't know for him, like being like, oh my gosh, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.720 I wish we could have done this together. But yeah, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:18.120 it was. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.920 It was so cool. You were channeling him, trying to 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.440 make sure you experienced everything. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.880 Yeah, take it all in. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.000 Was happy about it despite the weather. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.120 Yeah, and it was cool because there were no like 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.319 annoying fans, like sometimes that can like ruin a game, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.000 you know, Like I've been to one where someone was 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.480 like cussing me out in Nashville. It a Titans game 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.600 because I was the other team and I'm just like 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.520 I'm not doing anything. So there were Broncos fans behind me, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.600 and then there were a few Patriots fans in front 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.280 of me, and that they were like nice. So I 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.160 was like it was fine, Like everybody was good vibes 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.080 and I was like it was like that the whole time, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.560 which I really liked that. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.000 Thatwas should be. Yeah, that's that should be at concerts, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.080 as should be how it is at games. Everybody's going 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.880 out and spent harder money to be in a place 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.000 like that, and it's supposed to be an experien regardless 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.600 of what happens, you know, regardless of the outcome, You're 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.559 supposed to have a good time. That's the point, huh, that's. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.199 You know how you see those videos on social media. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:11.960 I forgot the point or whatever. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:13.280 That's the point. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:14.400 The point is to. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.920 Live and experience and enjoy the experience. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.760 I know, And I actually like eyes behind me. They 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.120 were like so positive because I was getting so nervous. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.240 I was like, we're gonna lose. We're gonna lose this game. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.880 And they're like, you got this. We still can do this, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.880 and I was like, thank you. Guys. Usually it's like 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.080 the other way around, where like they're like negative and 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.800 they're like, oh, you suck or I don't know whatever. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.720 And I know that's part of sporting events. Yeah, that's 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.440 the whole you know, vibes or whatever. Yeah, but it's 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.000 also like, dang, you're at a cool NFL game and 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.560 it was a championship game and there's so many things 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.320 riding on it and there's snowfalling. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.560 This is cool. It was wild. They were like blowing 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.400 off the snow with like like blowers, like leaf flowers 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:54.560 basically snowblowers. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:55.240 Snowblowers. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.200 Yeah, and people are like I saw them commenting. They're like, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.480 why don't you use a shovel? And I'm like, that's 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.840 so much faster what they were doing. It was actually working. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:08.120 Everybody's an expert somewhere, Okay, I'm glad you had so 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:08.680 much fun. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.520 No, it was so fun. And then at the very end, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.880 like a minute and a half, everybody started leaving, like 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.920 funneling out, like all the Broncos fans. And then we're 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.240 like stuck in the parking lot for thirty minutes. Meanwhile, 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.560 my flight leaves in like two hours. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.320 Oh gosh. And I was like, I'm assuming you were 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:25.600 going straight from the game to the airport. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.000 Yes, well, we had to go to the hotel Impact first, 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.760 but I thought the game would be over at let's 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.520 see four thirty, we'd have time to get to the hotel. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.840 My flight was at seven, we'd have time. No, we 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.160 got stuck on because it was snowing. So now it's 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.720 at a standstill, you know, driving because people I thought 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.600 it would not be an issue with driving, but it was. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.800 There are a lot of transplants any big city now. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.320 Yeah, Oh my gosh. So we're stuck there. Like an 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.800 hour went by, and I'm like, okay, we are boarding 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:58.880 in an hour, like so we took an uber. We 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.320 rode with them. It's complicated. This is why I was 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.800 so stressed. I don't think I've been that stressed in 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.720 a long time. I was like shaking and like yes, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.520 because we had to uber with them somewhere just kind 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.720 of out of all the craziness, or ride with them. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.640 Then we ubered to our hotel, ran up to our hotel. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.480 Never packed that fast in my life. I just threw 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.600 everything and I was like, I hope I don't forget 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.280 and just throw it, which I I basically took my 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.000 ski suit off and left everything else on. So I 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.440 flew home in three layers. I was switch wedding. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.040 In fairness, you're probably uncomfortable on the flight, but when 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.200 you got here, yes, it's probably worth it. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.840 Uh huh. But on the flight, oh my, I was 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.240 like sweating. I had to take a shower when I 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.640 got home because I was like, I feel like I 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:39.720 just ran like a marathon. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.640 That's wild. And the flight wasn't impacted. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.480 No, it was delayed thirty minutes, which is what saved us, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.360 because if it would not have been, you don't think 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.000 you would have made it. No, because we had to 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.400 return our rental car. You have to get on a 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.040 train or the trolley, and the Denver airport is much 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.960 the shuttle. The shuttle to get there, then you have 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.000 to get on the train and go from the terminal 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.440 all the way to the sea gates. And I was like, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:03.640 oh my god, I can't do this. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.120 So when did you arrive at your gate? 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.880 So we got there, oh man, Like luckily it got 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:16.800 delayed again, okay, till like seven thirty I think, so 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:21.919 originally got seven. Yeah, we got there like seven ten okay, dang. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.200 And luckily they kind of delayed the boarding too, because 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:25.879 I think they were like de icing the plane or 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.520 the crew wasn't there yet. Then we did sit on 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.159 the runway and they had to dece the plane for 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.359 like thirty minutes. And I was like, Okay, is this safe? 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.960 Because I know they canceled thousands of flights. Why are 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:36.760 we still going? 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.600 Why are we the other what's still going in this moment? 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.240 And we had at the point of you coming home, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.040 we had already gotten snow, but we had not started 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.840 to get ice yet. So I think that's why you 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.600 had this again. Everything about this past week was about 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.720 certain times, moments of time. Yeah, And I think you 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.080 guys had a sliver of time where you had to 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.760 make it before the ice, like the sleep mixture was 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.320 falling and it had a hit. Yet Oh my god, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:05.719 and I think that's why you guys made it. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.200 Yeah. I got in at like eleven thirty and then 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.399 like my fiance picked me up in his truck. So 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.040 I was like, oh my gosh, I'm nervous because my 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.399 friend lives like really far away and she had to 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.120 uber home because her husband couldn't get out. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:18.960 No. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.600 Uber was like one hundred dollars. I was like, you 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.199 can stay with us, but she didn't have power at 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.240 her house and she didn't want to make him. They 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.080 have six dogs and she didn't want to make him 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.720 like be by himself. It was just crazy. But luckily 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.200 he could pick me up because he had four wheel drive. 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.320 Wait and that's hold on pause, timeline wrong my side. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.080 It was Sunday night, Sunday night. Stuff had already fallen, right. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:43.359 I don't know why you guys made it. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.000 No, I know that's what I was saying, because like 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.920 when we got on the highway, there was no one 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:48.640 else on there, and he was going like ten miles 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.000 and it was solid like black ice. You could just 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:52.400 it was solid. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.440 Yeah, how, I don't know, did your guys is playing? 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.520 I don't know. I kind of wanted to get stuck there, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.600 so I could have just like explored Denver. 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:00.960 Yeah, hang out for a while. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.440 I'll be back when it's all okay again, right, because 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.160 I knew hero is just gonna be stuck inside because 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.160 it's not any more snow. It's not a fun snow. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.760 It's now ice where you don't want to be outside. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.400 Oh my gosh, Okay, we have more to talk about. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.360 We need a quick break. Can be right back. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.680 Well, so speaking of all of those timelines, because now 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.959 I'm gosh, it feels like this past week is it's 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.639 just been a plur general. So yeah, still don't know 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.080 how you made it. I'm it's a miracle you made 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:29.400 it back. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.400 There were ten thousand flights canceled that day. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.640 Must have been the pilots and those Slight attendants really 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.119 wanted to be in Nashville for some reason. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.320 I thanked them. I was like, thank you very much 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.240 for getting us here safe. 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:46.200 Yeah, that's wild because it was so it was Sunday morning, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:51.360 so we on Friday. I had prepped, I had made chili, 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.520 I had all my batteries, all my things were charged. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.840 I was ready for a winter storm. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.760 I knew it. We grew up in Kansas. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.119 I'm not unfamiliar with snow and the inches and you 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:03.719 may be stuck inside for a little bit. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.520 Kind of vibes right, Saturday hits, Oh we're good, this 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.760 is snow outside. Let's go sledding. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.040 So we went and sled at Capitol Hill, which is 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.440 my favorite hill to sled in in Nashville. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.760 I post not been and it looks so fun. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.160 It is the best time. I'm telling you, every snow 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.040 day you will find me there, Like if there's an 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.280 actual snow day, I will be there. We looked scary. 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:27.520 It looks like you're going really fast. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:28.960 It is you are going really fast. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:30.840 That's what it was funny is so I posted a 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:32.800 video of like all the contractions. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:33.080 People were using. 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.800 It went viral and people were going bonkers over it, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:37.840 which is funny to watch because a lot of people 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.520 are like, there's not enough snow. I'm like, well, then 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.840 explain how I was moving at that speed down the 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:44.320 hill because it's not just grass. 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.359 There is something there and there isn't all and that 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:48.080 defense there. 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.720 We we got maybe like three inches of snow maybe 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.160 and it was not falling super hard on those hills 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.760 and stuff. But you can bet Nashville used it as 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.920 an opportunity, and we did, and it will. It's so fun. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:01.840 You have to go. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.119 I do. I need to. 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.399 It's the best experience. And there's a party. There's always 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.080 a DJ there at the bottom of the hill. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.080 He's playing music. People are drinking. 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.359 Like you have people down it's very much like a 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.919 mountain in Colorado. You have people down at the bottom 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.439 with the DJ and they're drinking and dancing and vibing. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.560 And then you have people on top of the hill 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:20.480 who are sledding and doing the activities. 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:21.760 That is so cool. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:23.520 It's such a vibe. And I always go. 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:25.560 So we got out. We ventured out Saturday. I was like, oh, 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:26.320 the roads aren't bad. 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:26.920 This is good. 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:28.879 I got four wheel drive. You know, this is what 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.080 the Broncos made for. So we went and had that. 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.440 We had a great time. Came home, made some homemade fondue. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.200 Life is good. Okay, we're stuck inside. It's a little cold, 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:43.000 that's fine, go to sleep. Six thirty am. All of 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.359 a sudden, the power just out. That's Saturday morning, No 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:47.240 Sunday morning. 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.480 Sunday. Oh my gosh. 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.920 Six thirty am Sunday morning. And I'm like, I look 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.520 at my fiance and I'm like, power's out. He's like, 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.080 it'll it'll come back on. I don't think so. I 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:00.680 don't have a very good feeling about this one, because 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.160 if it just went out, it's not good and it's 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:04.520 not coming back on easily. Like we sat there for 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.439 laid in bed for like an hour, being like, okay, 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.480 it could just come back on, maybe it's a fluke. 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.080 It never came back on, and I started panicking. Panic 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.639 like set in and I don't something about Everything felt 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.360 different and normally I would have just rode it out, 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.720 stayed at the house, tried to figure things out. And 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:25.720 I looked at him and I said, I just don't 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.600 feel like this is normal, and I don't feel like 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:30.400 we should stay here because we don't have a heat 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.919 source at our house. There's no fireplace, we have nothing 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.760 to stay warm. There's nothing, and with power out that 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.119 takes away any opportunity for like a space heater or 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.640 anything like that. I don't have a generator. I don't 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:46.160 even have like a we didn't get a rented generator. 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.000 We didn't do anything like that. We have candles. 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:50.760 We have candles, and if we did have a gas, 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.080 we have a gas stove, but like that also, I 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:56.960 don't like running the gas stove without the hood because 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.679 carbon monoxide. Like every time I cook on it, that 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:00.399 hood is on. 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.159 That's the thing too, that's scary. The people were like 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:05.560 doing those heaters and. 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:08.560 Stuff, yeah, because caught onnox side. Yeah, and you're not 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:12.760 if you're you know, especially in a situation with no power, 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.800 your windows are all closed, you're you've sealed vince because 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.280 you don't want cold there coming in, and then you're 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:21.840 putting a thing in there. That's it's like the worst 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.760 case scenario, which is why I didn't want a generator. 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:28.720 I just generators freaked me out unless they're properly installed 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:30.719 and you have like the whole thing. And there were 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.680 so many things online where was like generator needs to 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:33.400 be away from your house. 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:34.639 I was like, what frick do you put it? 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:36.480 You put it in the front yard, just sits there 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:37.160 in the front yard. 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:39.800 Where is it gonna go? Can't go in the garage, 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:41.760 can't be in the backyard by the fence, like where's 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:44.479 it supposed to be? And so I just was like, 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:46.879 we're just not not gonna mess with that. But I 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:49.760 looked at him and by nine am I was fine. 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.160 I was on the phone. I called five or six 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.720 different hotels trying to figure out what everything was happening, 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:58.679 Who had power, who didn't have power. Some of them 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.960 weren't even answering because I don't think they had power. 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:03.760 And also I was like, I'm not pain in an 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.080 insane amount of money, like this is not this is 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:08.600 not a vacation stay, right, give me like the cheapest 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:11.640 option that is dog and cat friendly, and that's where 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:13.560 we'll be. And that was what we found. We found 0:24:13.600 --> 0:24:15.800 like an extended stay type place. So we had a 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:19.480 little kitchen area and we had free breakfast, yes, which 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:21.199 was the selling point for me. 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:22.719 Yeah. 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.080 And they welcomed Drummy and Hazel, which was perfect. Not 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:28.639 a lot of places allow cats, lot allowed dogs. 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:30.359 Oh I guess I didn't think of that. 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:33.200 Yeah, And a lot of them also have weight restrictions 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:35.920 on dogs. And there was not that whole hotel. Man, 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:37.840 it was it was a dog party. 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:41.479 Oh really, that's so cute. It was elevator and stuff. 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:44.159 Yes, it was a dog party. So we had like 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:46.159 after that, we load everything up. We took all of 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:47.960 our stuff in the fridge and we put it out 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:49.879 on the deck. We just put it in bags and 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:52.320 it was on the deck and we were like, uh, 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:53.919 if it goes bad, it goes bad. If not, at 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:57.040 least we tried. It's out there. It was all frozen by. 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:58.959 The time we came back, but probably as hard as 0:24:58.960 --> 0:24:59.320 a rock. 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.240 It's like hard as a rock Yep, everything was safe cold. 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:05.639 So now it's like it was in the house de 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:07.560 thawing when we got back. We had to like leave 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:09.280 it outside of the fridge for a while to get 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:13.000 it just to like go back to normal. But yes, 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.200 we use Nature's refrigerator for kitchen items. Love that we 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:19.119 turned off our water and we had drained all the 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:21.840 pipes because we're obviously worried about pipes freezing. I know 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:25.040 you experience that. We're gonna talk about that, and so 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:27.040 we I mean, like we tried to prepare the house 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:30.200 as much as possible, stuffed blankets and towels everywhere, trying 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:32.480 to keep it as warm as we could inside until 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:35.120 like we could come back, and we went and stay 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:37.359 at the hotel with the thought like what we brought 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.359 was for one night, Like surely this will be a 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.760 one night thing. We'll go back, that's what you think, Yeah, yeah, 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:46.560 that's what you hope, right, and you know it's getting 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:49.240 to be midnight, Sunday night. I'm like, this isn't no, 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:51.120 this is getting worse. I have a feeling and I'm 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:53.199 starting to see stuff online and I'm like, this is 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:56.080 not looking good for anybody. And so I go down. 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:58.760 I extend it another day, mind you. I extended each 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:00.000 day by the day, by the day. 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:02.040 You were lucky, well, because. 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:05.440 I didn't know. That was the crappiest part, right. It 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:09.520 was like, you can't cancel a hotel room, right if 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:12.960 you do it within twenty four hours. So if we 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:15.120 get power back on, I'm paying for this night. 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:17.960 I were staying like if you it's like six pm 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:19.720 and you you're like, oh, we got it back. 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:23.360 Yeah, And I'm like, and that's stupid. And so every night, 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:25.920 like before we went to bed, I didn't. I would 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:27.520 go and extend it. I want to extend it like 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.240 the morning of until the last day, which was where 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:31.120 the problem. 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:31.360 Ended up being. 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:33.359 Oh, but I'd go extend like the night before and 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:35.679 be like, okay, we're saying another night, I guess. And 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:37.520 so I kept doing that each night at a time, 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:40.679 like just assessing the situation. There was no like up 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:45.200 until Tuesday evening, there wasn't even a glimmer of hope. 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.919 Nobody had even been in our neighborhood based on our 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:51.280 neighborhood group chat, because have you ever seen Gossip Girl? 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:54.560 Do you know the references to gossip Girl. 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:59.120 Where's probably some spotted xoxo gossip Girl. So our neighborhood 0:26:59.160 --> 0:27:02.040 group chat was doing gossip Girl spotted moments of the 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:04.000 Lineman neighborhood. 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:05.520 Okay, that's funny, like. 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:07.920 A picture of a truck, and it was like spotted 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:12.920 on Da Da Da Street xcrossip girl, and it became 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:15.680 a funny update. We didn't see anybody in the neighborhood 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.600 until like Tuesday evening, and that was our first sign 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:22.119 of okay, they're starting to look at the area. And 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:25.479 then Wednesday, I had we were coming to work and 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:27.240 I have I felt like we had just gotten our 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.680 groove with our hotel living and just making the best 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:34.199 of what we're working with, and literally I go up. 0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:36.919 I didn't extend the night before because I was just like, 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:38.800 I feel like we're fine, this has been working out. 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:41.399 I'll extend before I leave for work, I go up 0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:43.040 to the desk. She just like, we're completely booked. 0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:46.239 We see, That's what I was thinking when you were like. 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:49.159 I extended the day of and so Wednesday, I'm like, 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:50.160 I start panicking. 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:51.600 Panic sets in. I'm like, we have to go to 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:53.120 another place. Hazel. 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:55.880 I had to take her to the emergency er in 0:27:55.920 --> 0:27:56.560 the ice storm. 0:27:57.000 --> 0:28:00.400 You did, ye oh no, yep. 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:03.520 She was stressed out from the whole situation, and because 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:07.600 she has kidney disease, stress makes everything much worse. And 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:11.280 cats with stress often get utiyes and UTI's connected the 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:15.359 kindizi's it's all, you know, interconnected in them. And when 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:19.639 they start peeing blood, you're in emergency territory already, And 0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:23.560 so we had to Black Ice were driving like five 0:28:23.600 --> 0:28:25.960 miles an hour. I'm like, we have to. She needs medicine. 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:28.119 There's no way she survives this if we don't. Like 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:30.200 those first twenty four hours when they start peeing blood 0:28:30.200 --> 0:28:34.080 are super critical. And thankfully she hadn't shown any of 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:36.280 the other signs yet that she did last year when 0:28:36.280 --> 0:28:39.440 she was hospitalized, where she like stopped eating and started 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:42.719 hiding and like really was showing bad signs. This was 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:46.000 just her peen blood and so we rushed her to 0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:49.040 the er vets that was already on our We were 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:51.680 already worried about Hazel and having to then move her 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:55.120 to another location to add to her stress. So I 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:57.000 was panicked that she said that, and I knew it 0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:58.760 was also on me because I didn't do it, but 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:01.880 I I didn't have any information. I was just working 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:04.440 with what I was given at the time. And so 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:07.880 I go to work. Of course, my fiance is keeping 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:09.720 his calm, cool head. He's like, we got this, I'll 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:12.240 pack up, I'll see you when you get back. 0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:14.840 We'll be fine. And so I'm panicking. 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:17.240 But thankfully there was a listener named Jeff who actually 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:19.440 met at iHeart Country last year. He's super nice and 0:29:19.440 --> 0:29:22.200 he had an extra house here. They live in Wisconsin 0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:24.360 and they have a house here, and he's like, you 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:26.959 can go and stay. I'm like, thank goodness, so nice, 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:30.640 so nice. So shout out to Jeff and an amazing wife. 0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:34.280 And because also with I have a dog with Addison's 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:35.960 disease and I have a cat with Kenney disease, both 0:29:35.960 --> 0:29:38.320 of them can't be stressed. I can't take them to 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:41.600 the houses of our friends who were awesome and offered 0:29:41.640 --> 0:29:45.640 their houses for us to stay, which would have been great, 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:49.640 but I can't put them in those situations. Like a 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:51.360 lot of them had kids, a lot of them had 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:54.840 other animals, none of which worked for Remy and Hazel, 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:57.920 and so it was like this situation where I had 0:29:57.920 --> 0:29:59.760 to put them first. And you can't warm a cat, right, 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:02.400 we thought about just staying at the house. You can't 0:30:02.480 --> 0:30:05.320 keep a cat warm. You can't put clothes on a cat. 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:06.720 I know don't. 0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:09.120 And they only cuddled with you when they want a cuddle. 0:30:09.360 --> 0:30:11.160 Oh yeah, they run, they run from me. 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:13.240 I can force my dog to cuddle with me and 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:16.920 be under a blanket. So there was just so many honestly, 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:20.640 just thinking about them that entire time. Yeah, so there 0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:23.000 were so many factors. But as we're leaving the hotel, 0:30:23.040 --> 0:30:25.800 we had packed up, just checked out, and we're like 0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:29.960 sitting in the car with everybody packed up, everything's there. 0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:33.880 We're about to head to to Jeff's house and I 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:35.960 get a text from the neighborhood group chat and was 0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:40.959 like spotted exox girlsip girl, we have power, and I 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.240 like tears of relief where I was just like, oh 0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:44.720 my gosh, we get to go home. 0:30:45.600 --> 0:30:48.000 And it was like the perfect time. 0:30:48.360 --> 0:30:52.200 Of just like that's like perfect timing, perfect timing, and 0:30:52.240 --> 0:30:54.680 I'm just like like my whole body was just like, 0:30:54.840 --> 0:30:56.120 oh my gosh, it's over. 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:57.360 I think hopefully. 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:59.000 I don't know, because then we have to go. 0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:00.240 Back and assess the situation. 0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:02.400 Right, So we go to the house, the house with 0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:06.480 thirty five degrees inside inside you could see your breath. 0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:09.360 Okay, I was going to say, could you see Oh, brutal. 0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:13.800 Thankfully, though everything else was in good condition, the power 0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:16.080 flickered for several hours when we first got back. They 0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:18.760 were still working on it, clearly and trying to do 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:21.840 different things. And it wasn't really until about four hours 0:31:21.920 --> 0:31:25.120 later that we finally got steady power. And it wasn't 0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:28.840 until ten o'clock that evening that we finally got like 0:31:28.920 --> 0:31:32.040 actual heat to finally sustain in the house. 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:34.520 Really. Yeah, So it went back on at what time 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.080 and went back around about twelve thirty okay, and then 0:31:37.120 --> 0:31:39.680 it didn't get like comfortable until ten. 0:31:39.920 --> 0:31:42.440 Oh my, I can't imagine the people that were staying 0:31:42.480 --> 0:31:45.040 in their homes without any power, without any heat source. 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:47.240 No, I don't know how they did it. I mean, 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:49.680 like maybe under a blanket if you just stay under 0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:51.960 a blanket, but outside. 0:31:51.520 --> 0:31:54.239 Of that that would be so cold, and we were 0:31:54.320 --> 0:31:56.640 under like we were under blanket. I mean, we had gloves, 0:31:56.680 --> 0:31:58.080 we had our ski bibs, we had all of our 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:01.080 winter clothes on. Yeah, and under blankets and we were 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:04.000 still crazy. And that was with the heat coming back on. 0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:07.040 And I just like him and I both looked at 0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:10.040 each other and we're just like, we have so much 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:14.640 to be grateful for the fact that we were able 0:32:14.680 --> 0:32:16.680 one to keep the girl safe, which was the number 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:20.480 one priority, but to that we got to come back 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:23.800 home and we're in a position that now our heat 0:32:23.880 --> 0:32:25.560 is back home, and there's so many people that didn't 0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:28.480 and like you want to talk about the gratitude that 0:32:28.480 --> 0:32:30.520 both of us were feeling and just thinking of everything 0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:33.120 that everybody was going through, like I did. My whole 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:34.960 body was like you know when you feel like the 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:38.000 weight lift off to your shoulders, Yeah, I felt that, 0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:40.160 and like my body feel like a sigh of relief 0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:42.440 while also like crying because I know there's just so 0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:45.280 many people that were still dealing with what we're still 0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:46.880 at the tail end of experiencing. 0:32:47.040 --> 0:32:49.640 Uh huh. It makes me so nervous, especially like elderly 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:52.480 that are like alone or like don't have anybody to 0:32:52.560 --> 0:32:54.760 check on them. Oh my gosh, I hate that thought. 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:57.000 Like I'm hoping, I know, and I've seen a lot 0:32:57.080 --> 0:32:59.800 of that, the people reaching out me like Okay, you know, 0:33:00.080 --> 0:33:02.920 let's check on them. And that's still that's just always 0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:04.440 like the worst part, and it is. 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:06.000 And like I I tried to reach out to a 0:33:06.000 --> 0:33:07.880 few different people who were posting like that they had 0:33:07.920 --> 0:33:09.840 elderly and we were gonna as soon as we got 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.600 power back, I was like, I'm let's help, Like I know, 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:15.360 we got it back, let's go. And I I'm still 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:19.160 waiting to see responses from some of them, hoping because 0:33:19.240 --> 0:33:22.640 I just like, those are the things that you wish 0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:24.920 happened for you, right, so why wouldn't you do the 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:28.320 things that you wish happened for you? Yes to someone 0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:30.880 or other other people? And it's like a small gesture. 0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:31.520 It's not hard. 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:34.760 No, like showing up with warm soup. Yes, like sitting 0:33:34.760 --> 0:33:37.080 in a cold house and you just need something warm. 0:33:37.120 --> 0:33:39.600 Warm soup would would make all the difference, you know 0:33:39.600 --> 0:33:43.080 what I mean, And that's so easy, But it's just 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:46.160 it was it was crazy times like there was. 0:33:48.040 --> 0:33:52.760 My heart was like, yes, that is a lot. I 0:33:52.800 --> 0:33:54.840 don't want to tell you. Don't want to talk about 0:33:54.840 --> 0:33:55.840 mind just I don want to hear it about. 0:33:55.960 --> 0:33:58.800 But you had pipes burst. This is another side of this. 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:01.840 It didn't they didn't burst it luckily. Well, I have 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:06.239 to go check today. I'm actually really nervous because it 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:08.359 froze on the outside, luckily by the meter. 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:10.880 Okay, wait, hold on pause, I'm taking a break and 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:11.880 I want the rest of this. 0:34:16.880 --> 0:34:18.160 All right, So it froze at the meter. 0:34:18.320 --> 0:34:18.600 Okay. 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:21.120 So my fiance's house has been fine, the one that 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:23.719 we live in, his kids are in. He never lost 0:34:23.760 --> 0:34:27.480 power or anything, which is so wild. Yes, that's amazing. 0:34:27.800 --> 0:34:29.759 But then my town home, which is across from town, 0:34:29.760 --> 0:34:32.640 it's like forty five minutes from his house. While I 0:34:32.719 --> 0:34:34.680 was gone in Denver, like the power went out a 0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:36.600 day I or a day and a half, maybe two days. 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:38.040 Because I was asking my neighbors, I was like, do 0:34:38.120 --> 0:34:40.520 we have power? Because I'm really nervous. I did prepare 0:34:40.600 --> 0:34:42.960 before I left, Like I left dripping fosets. I left 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:46.279 all the cabinets underneath, and I turned my heat up 0:34:46.320 --> 0:34:48.600 like higher in case it did, like go out. 0:34:48.600 --> 0:34:48.799 You know. 0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:50.920 But then I went and checked on it the other 0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:53.400 day and I had no pressure in my water, and 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:56.080 so I called the water company because it usually happens 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:58.160 where it freezes at the meter every year because it's 0:34:58.200 --> 0:34:59.759 in the ground, there's not a lot of sunlight that 0:34:59.840 --> 0:35:03.520 hit it's that spot, and the insulation's not good because 0:35:03.520 --> 0:35:05.520 it's in like a whole bunch of like rock, so 0:35:05.600 --> 0:35:08.440 it just like keeps it freezing. And so they usually 0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:10.160 come out and fix it. But this time they came 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:11.759 out and they're like, oh, there's water there, So I 0:35:11.760 --> 0:35:13.680 don't know why it would be. Why you don't have 0:35:13.719 --> 0:35:15.400 any And I'm like, oh, my gosh, that means my pipe. 0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:18.520 It's my pipes that are like frozen. And yeah. And 0:35:18.600 --> 0:35:21.120 so I went back last night after like the sun 0:35:21.200 --> 0:35:23.040 was out because it got warmer here yesterday it was 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:23.919 like thirty six. 0:35:24.040 --> 0:35:24.600 I think we. 0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:26.800 Saw some sunshine. 0:35:26.920 --> 0:35:28.879 It got some sun Yeah, And I went back over 0:35:28.920 --> 0:35:30.880 and I did have water, so that's good. But I 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:32.279 was only there for a little bit to check it, 0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:34.279 and so I'm like, I hope that it didn't. 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:36.600 Like, yeah, well, it's so hard. 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:39.840 I mean, I remember when we first turned on the 0:35:39.960 --> 0:35:42.200 house of all like when we turned all the water 0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:45.359 back on and everything was churning back on. I mean 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:48.879 that house was just like singing. It had so many 0:35:49.120 --> 0:35:51.440 cracks and pops and noises, and I was like, what 0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:52.160 is happening? 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:53.080 What's going on? 0:35:53.360 --> 0:35:56.000 Like and you're panicking, right because you're hearing all of 0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:59.200 these noises, thinking everything's just busting at the seams. Yes, 0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:02.040 but that's also just getting flow back to where it's 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:04.400 supposed to be in like a normal setting. But you 0:36:04.480 --> 0:36:06.960 had it all, you know, turned off or dripping. Dripping 0:36:07.000 --> 0:36:10.640 even causes that if you've not been using it. So 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:13.560 it's crazy like the inner workings of all that. We 0:36:13.560 --> 0:36:16.960 were having that conversation of because Ray mentioned when we 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:20.680 got back home, I had turned on emergency heat, and 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:23.080 I was like, it was an emergency, like it took 0:36:23.360 --> 0:36:25.799 you know, eight hours to finally get any version of 0:36:25.840 --> 0:36:29.080 heat happening, and so I was joking like, what's the 0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:30.160 point of emergency heat. 0:36:30.320 --> 0:36:31.960 He's like, I think you could have had that turned on. 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:33.960 And then Abby and I were having this whole conversation 0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:36.359 about like pipes, and we're like, why didn't anybody teach 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:37.080 us this crap? 0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:39.719 I don't think I don't think he's right, I don't think. 0:36:39.800 --> 0:36:40.680 I don't think he does either. 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:43.000 He said, like, you can use the emergency heat that 0:36:43.160 --> 0:36:45.719 takes like gas. But I'm like, I have not heard that. 0:36:45.920 --> 0:36:49.319 I everybody would use their because mine has that too. Yeah, 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:54.120 in my town home it has like aux auxillary, auxilliary auxiliary. 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:57.120 I think, yes, I think. 0:36:56.360 --> 0:36:58.400 And I looked it up and it is emergency and 0:36:58.400 --> 0:37:00.759 I was like, what's the point But I don't think 0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:01.440 it's gas. 0:37:01.680 --> 0:37:03.160 But see, then you go back to the point of 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:08.160 carbon monoxide. As soon as you start using gas, there's 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:11.600 just still Like But my point being, why didn't they 0:37:11.680 --> 0:37:14.239 teach us how to handle these things? Yes, how to 0:37:14.360 --> 0:37:16.799 be aware of these things correct? Why do we have 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:19.800 to utilize social media and word of mouth to understand these. 0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:22.200 And chat GPT? I'm trying to ask. I'm like, hey, 0:37:23.040 --> 0:37:24.399 can you tell me about this? 0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:24.919 Yeah? 0:37:25.200 --> 0:37:26.200 What does this mean? 0:37:26.719 --> 0:37:28.440 Do I need help? I know? 0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:31.200 Oh my gosh, several of my friends still don't have power, 0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:33.840 Like they live in Nashville and they haven't had it 0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:37.279 for four days. And I'm like, there's still if you 0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:39.759 look at the map of Nashville, like the nes and 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:42.960 Nashville Electric Service, like there are so many also that 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:44.080 still don't have power. 0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:46.320 Well, and I I mean I saw a video of 0:37:46.520 --> 0:37:50.160 our transformers getting blown over and where like the area 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:52.160 of where I live, and I was like, that burst road. 0:37:52.640 --> 0:37:56.839 What causes those to blow I assume ice, because ice 0:37:56.960 --> 0:37:59.319 was making trees explode. That was the other thing that 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:02.080 was wild. When we first woke up and our power 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:03.640 was out, because you know, when your power goes out, 0:38:03.719 --> 0:38:06.600 everything's quiet. It feels crazy because there's no humming, there's 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:09.560 no noises from things, and it's just quiet. And when 0:38:09.560 --> 0:38:12.880 we were laying in bed, we heard five different trees 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:16.680 explode and it sounds like a bomb going off. I'm 0:38:16.719 --> 0:38:18.560 not kidding you, Like we're just laying there and you'd 0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:21.960 be like it'd be like I p and I'm like 0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:25.759 what what's that? The first one was crazy, and then 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:28.720 I remembered seeing on social media that trees can explode 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:30.680 with ice, and so I was like, that has to 0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:32.920 be a tree. And then shortly after it just kept happening. 0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:34.480 It was like a boom, boom boom. 0:38:34.560 --> 0:38:35.879 Oh my god. 0:38:36.160 --> 0:38:36.560 Wild. 0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:39.120 That is so crazy. I haven't heard one. I've seen 0:38:39.280 --> 0:38:42.239 like pictures that people were it's like it literally exploded. 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.480 Yeah, but I haven't heard it, and it's a wild sound. 0:38:46.000 --> 0:38:48.600 Even like my fiance went out back to cause our 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:52.160 magnolia tree did not do well surviving in the heist. 0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:54.800 I don't know if she's gonna survive it completely. 0:38:54.840 --> 0:38:58.440 But one of the neighbor's trees like fell on her somewhat, 0:38:58.440 --> 0:39:01.319 some other branches of their big trees did. And he 0:39:01.360 --> 0:39:03.480 went out there. He's like, the trees are talking, like 0:39:03.520 --> 0:39:06.640 they are loud, because he was like, they're creaking and 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:09.680 moaning and like them because they're they're all like in ice. 0:39:09.680 --> 0:39:13.640 They're encased in ice. She's like, and when you don't again, 0:39:13.680 --> 0:39:16.879 don't have power, there's so much silence and there's nobody 0:39:16.960 --> 0:39:20.279 driving on roads because nobody's out, so it's so quiet. Yeah, 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:22.040 he was like, the and I walked out there and 0:39:22.080 --> 0:39:24.880 it literally sounds like that, like they're weird. They're like 0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:27.800 communicating because they're encased in ice. 0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:29.479 Wait, didn't plants talk? 0:39:29.680 --> 0:39:29.839 Yeah? 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:30.319 Don't they? 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:33.080 We talked about we didn't we have talked about it. 0:39:33.320 --> 0:39:35.480 And I heard it, like I literally heard them talking 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:35.960 to each other. 0:39:36.360 --> 0:39:37.000 Oh my god. 0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:39.919 What was so crazy though? Is like my also, my 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:42.040 my thought process and all of this was just like 0:39:42.080 --> 0:39:45.040 thinking about the elements that are being impacted by this, right, 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:49.040 Like you have so much structure of trees that are 0:39:49.080 --> 0:39:51.560 now gonna be gone forever. You have who knows how 0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:55.360 many animals that you know are, whether they're actual like 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:57.799 outdoor animals like squirrels and birds and whatever. But then 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:00.239 you think of out the stray animals and like, my mind, I'm. 0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:03.080 Just I don't like thinking about that. It makes me sad. 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:06.480 I know, I just can't, I know, but I want 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:10.120 to help everything. You can't physically help them. 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:12.160 I know, And I'm like, how can I make sure 0:40:12.200 --> 0:40:14.359 I can help next time? What can I be doing 0:40:14.480 --> 0:40:16.920 to make sure I can assist next time. It's just 0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:20.239 it's so crazy to see and be part of. And 0:40:20.719 --> 0:40:23.319 it's it feels weird because we grew up in tornadoes. 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:27.440 We've seen this kind of devastation happen. It was surrounding 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:31.000 us as kids. Different types of course, right, ice storm 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:34.799 and tornadoes are not the same, but devastation nonetheless, And 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:37.160 it's just it's hard. It's hard to see people go 0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:40.359 through stuff like that, and it's hard to witness and 0:40:41.440 --> 0:40:45.160 just see the impact of natural disasters and what it 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.920 does to places and it's but it's again, like I 0:40:48.960 --> 0:40:51.040 go back to how cool it is though to see 0:40:51.120 --> 0:40:53.680 I mention this on part two where we talk about 0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:57.160 like the kind things that we saw, but watching my 0:40:57.280 --> 0:41:00.680 neighborhood come together, watching community come together, people show up 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:04.000 for each other and start to support small businesses who 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:05.359 were really impacted by it. 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:08.680 I mean that's you know, that's what it's all about. 0:41:08.840 --> 0:41:11.319 It is and hopefully we can we'll continue it, not 0:41:11.440 --> 0:41:13.840 just this whole like open our eyes to be like, Okay, 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:16.799 we should just continue helping and not just wait for 0:41:16.840 --> 0:41:17.440 something like this. 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:19.760 No, it should always be this way. We should always 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:22.040 be trying to support small businesses. We should always be 0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:24.799 trying to talk to our neighbors and know each other 0:41:25.000 --> 0:41:30.040 and offer help where you can. Just yeah, So that 0:41:30.120 --> 0:41:32.280 was that was the silver lining of all of it. 0:41:32.480 --> 0:41:34.520 Was that, and Hazel's on the. 0:41:34.480 --> 0:41:36.680 Men she's doing better. I felt really good. 0:41:36.840 --> 0:41:41.400 And you have water again, you have power again. So 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:44.279 there are good things that have have come out of it. 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:46.279 And I don't just want to talk about those two things. 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:47.680 I want to I want to do a fun thing 0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:49.560 for us to end on. Okay, because we did talk 0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:52.040 about and I'm so guy, we talked about the Broncos 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:53.520 game because I know that was so fun for you. 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:55.960 And I did get to go sledding at the beginning 0:41:55.960 --> 0:41:57.280 of this, which was super fun. 0:41:57.840 --> 0:41:58.879 That looked really fun. 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.000 It was so fun, and that it was fun to 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:04.200 watch you in Denver. So there were there were bright moments. 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:07.400 There were And now we're on the backside. And I 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:09.839 hope everybody who still doesn't have power or who's still 0:42:09.840 --> 0:42:12.520 struggling or is you know, in all these physicians, if 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:15.560 you need ways of helping, I reach out. If you 0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:18.560 can't out one and two, I hope you stay warm 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:20.759 and safe. So this is what we're gonna end on 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:23.480 to have like a fun, little happy note. There's a 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:25.919 current trend that's happening on social media where you say 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:27.799 I may not know everything, but I know dot dot 0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:30.319 dot where you fill in the blank and it's like 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:32.839 a funny thing and I'll share mine so you maybe 0:42:32.880 --> 0:42:35.239 I'll give you something to think about. But mine is 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:38.160 that I can cook in a stainless steel pan. 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:40.520 You know how hard that is? 0:42:40.840 --> 0:42:42.759 Have you ever tried to cook in a stanless steel pan? No, 0:42:43.360 --> 0:42:46.920 everything speaks to it, okay, yoh yeah, yeah, yeah, Because like. 0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:50.719 We grew up with cook pasta pasta, yeah. 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:52.680 You can cook anything, and stainless steel, but we grew 0:42:52.760 --> 0:42:55.399 up with nonstick pans, and of course those are really 0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:57.560 bad for you. As we've learned, you're not supposed to 0:42:57.640 --> 0:42:59.399 use non stick pans. Apparently the thing that made life 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:02.760 easier is in your life harder. So I had bought 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:05.600 stainless steel pans I don't know, over a year ago now, 0:43:06.040 --> 0:43:09.160 and they're really hard to learn to cook on because 0:43:09.200 --> 0:43:12.360 everything sticks to it. Things burn really easily, especially on 0:43:12.400 --> 0:43:15.279 a guest stove. And so this is like an art 0:43:15.800 --> 0:43:17.960 and me and my fiance, the amount of YouTube videos 0:43:18.000 --> 0:43:20.360 we've watched to learn how to cook with stainless steel 0:43:20.360 --> 0:43:21.520 pans is absurd. 0:43:22.160 --> 0:43:24.600 But you know what, now we have figured it out. 0:43:25.000 --> 0:43:25.760 That is funny. 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:27.040 This is my skill. 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:28.200 That is awesome. 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:30.920 It's like a funny thing. 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:34.000 But I am really impressed with ourselves that we finally 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:35.920 know how to cook with them. I didn't realize it 0:43:36.040 --> 0:43:38.680 was going to be such a like learning experience to 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:39.440 change pans. 0:43:39.560 --> 0:43:42.360 I don't know, what do you usually cook on, well, like, 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:42.600 you know. 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:45.160 A nonstick pan that has like so things don't sticky, 0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:48.560 it's right oil and then nothing sticks. If you even 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:50.680 just put oil on stainless steel and it's not heated 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:52.400 up to the right amount, or you don't use the 0:43:52.480 --> 0:43:55.440 right oil with the right thing, everything just sticks to 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:59.280 the sides. There's like cooking scrambled eggs and stainless steel 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:01.400 pan as a disaster. If you don't know how to 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:04.480 do it and to clean, it sucks even worse. 0:44:05.239 --> 0:44:07.839 Okay, yeah, I haven't had that. I do pasta in that. Okay, 0:44:07.840 --> 0:44:08.920 it alway sticks to the bottom. 0:44:09.040 --> 0:44:11.239 See, but there's an art to it, and now I 0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:13.320 know the art. And you know what, nothing sticking anymore. 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:15.399 That is a little thing. 0:44:15.560 --> 0:44:17.000 It's little things. 0:44:17.360 --> 0:44:20.520 So tell me what your I may not know everything, 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:24.840 but I know hm. I may not know everything, but 0:44:24.880 --> 0:44:26.480 I know how to survive in a blizzard. 0:44:26.880 --> 0:44:28.200 Okay, game you did? 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:32.560 That'd keep my feet warm? I think it worked until 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:35.960 it broke, until I walked too much. I do think 0:44:36.000 --> 0:44:39.680 the cardboard was a huge helper that, Yeah, because when 0:44:39.719 --> 0:44:41.960 I realized when we got into our house without power, 0:44:42.000 --> 0:44:43.360 when it was the thirty five degrees and I was 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:47.160 walking on the floor barefoot, my feet got so cold 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:50.279 so fast, and once they get cold, there's no going back. 0:44:50.360 --> 0:44:52.080 No, you have to thaw them out to then be 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:54.400 warm again. Uh like you can't just like warm them 0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:55.480 up while they're so cold. 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:58.600 Oh yeah, exactly, yes. No, what I did is I 0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:00.200 did the sock, I did the foil, and and I 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:02.040 did another song, and then I put a foot toe 0:45:02.040 --> 0:45:02.719 warmer in there. 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:05.640 I love so it heat up the foil, your little 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:06.719 electric toe warmer thing. 0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:09.360 No, it was just like one of the they have hackets, 0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:11.520 yes that you like shake, you know, and it takes 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:13.359 a few minutes. I put it in there, so they 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:16.759 were like hot. I love a good idea, and tell 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:18.240 the foil busted. 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:20.960 But you didn't know the foil busted to the end, right, 0:45:21.480 --> 0:45:24.880 I didn't know. Maybe it was also a placebo effect foil. 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:26.840 You're like, I'm a I'm a big chicken. 0:45:27.040 --> 0:45:29.000 I think it was, I really do. I was like, 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:31.840 I think this is all in my head, the foil. 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:34.680 So you learn how to survive in a blizzard. 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:37.200 Yeah, I love this for you. And no, Cayenne Pepper, 0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:39.600 don't use that trick, No pep. Yeah, the ballers lied 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:40.040 to us. 0:45:40.440 --> 0:45:43.120 I'm scared to try it, like maybe it does work, 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:44.400 but I was like, I don't want to get all 0:45:44.440 --> 0:45:49.040 these like blisters and it burns your skin. Someone messaged 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:51.239 me and they said, what did they do? They were 0:45:51.239 --> 0:45:55.080 cold and they like showered in like pepper, like cayannemember. 0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:58.600 They showered or something like how do you how do 0:45:58.600 --> 0:45:59.960 you showering cayenne pepper? 0:46:00.280 --> 0:46:02.719 Maybe I read it really fast. They were cold and 0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:04.400 they like sprinkled it on them and they were like 0:46:04.520 --> 0:46:07.120 burning for like days, And I was like, that's why 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:07.759 I didn't try it. 0:46:07.840 --> 0:46:10.120 Well, that feels like that went in places it shouldn't go. 0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:12.000 I think it's a little different. 0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:16.840 It was just on your feet, like I mean it 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:18.799 every hole and your eyes. 0:46:18.600 --> 0:46:22.400 Ouch, yeah, Kyanne, your lips like cayae pepper going in 0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:25.680 my mouth. I don't either, I let alone anywhere else. 0:46:26.800 --> 0:46:28.200 I don't need spicy feet. 0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:31.320 No ouch, no spicy feet. Yeah. 0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:34.040 Can you imagine that? That'd be miserable. I couldn't go 0:46:34.040 --> 0:46:35.479 to the game because my feet are. 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.600 You're like, I hurt my feet from cayenne pepper. So 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:41.080 that's a no for meat dog. I did say though, 0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:43.000 that you have to make it with the foot powder. 0:46:43.600 --> 0:46:45.120 So if you don't have the foot powder, I do 0:46:45.200 --> 0:46:47.319 think you should not just put cayan pepper on your feet. 0:46:47.400 --> 0:46:49.400 Yeah, I was gonna do like baby powder or is 0:46:49.400 --> 0:46:49.880 it different? 0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:51.400 Would probably? 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:55.480 I think you need something to at least alleviate the 0:46:55.480 --> 0:46:56.760 the spice. 0:46:56.480 --> 0:46:58.960 Touch, if you will. I wasn't willing to try it 0:46:59.080 --> 0:47:01.520 like on my first game. I didn't want to be miserable, 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:04.480 have miserable. Okay, your next game, you have to try it. 0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:06.239 Since you don't want to try out your first game, 0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:09.160 you have to try on your next game. I'll do 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:11.560 one foot. See the difference. 0:47:12.640 --> 0:47:16.000 One foot's gonna be like either really warm and like golden, 0:47:16.560 --> 0:47:18.280 or it's gonna be all blistered and horrible. 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:20.120 Oh my god. But then I'll just like limp. I'll 0:47:20.120 --> 0:47:21.120 just limp to the game. 0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:24.600 Get some crutches, frow some crutches from somebody. Yeah, oh 0:47:24.640 --> 0:47:25.040 my goodness. 0:47:25.080 --> 0:47:26.560 Okay, we're getting out of here. Abby. 0:47:26.640 --> 0:47:29.840 Thanks for being on after a crazy, hectic week. We 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:32.239 had so much going on. I'm glad you're okay. I'm 0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:34.240 glad you made it back, and I'm glad you had fun. 0:47:34.719 --> 0:47:37.440 Yes, thank you, that's what it was about. So fun. 0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:39.120 I went really fast. You know how things go really 0:47:39.160 --> 0:47:41.560 fast you don't want to end. Yeah, really fun. 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:42.880 It's always the things you don't want to end that 0:47:42.960 --> 0:47:44.400 go fast, and the things that you do want to 0:47:44.520 --> 0:47:45.200 end go very. 0:47:45.120 --> 0:47:50.000 Slow, very true. That is life, all right. Go and 0:47:50.000 --> 0:47:50.680 follow Abby. 0:47:50.719 --> 0:47:53.600 She's on Instagram at Abby Lee Anderson yep, yep, and 0:47:53.640 --> 0:47:56.080 I'm at web Girl Morgan And if you're interested, you 0:47:56.080 --> 0:47:58.920 could check out my podcast Take this personally. I recently 0:47:58.960 --> 0:48:02.320 had on Nick Shelton. He's great with introverts. And if 0:48:02.400 --> 0:48:04.279 you retire and you have no idea what's going to 0:48:04.320 --> 0:48:06.000 happen with your life, that's some good stuff up there. 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:07.080 Oh that is good. 0:48:07.160 --> 0:48:09.080 Yeah, fun over there if you need something to listen 0:48:09.120 --> 0:48:11.600 to and keep your company over the craziness of all 0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:14.760 the weather we're getting. So again I repeat, stay. 0:48:14.560 --> 0:48:16.320 Safe, stay warm, stay warm. 0:48:16.440 --> 0:48:18.359 Those are the priorities right now. And if you're here, 0:48:18.480 --> 0:48:20.239 I appreciate it. Abby, thanks for joining me. 0:48:20.320 --> 0:48:22.000 Yes, thank you, Bye, ron Bine. 0:48:22.600 --> 0:48:24.840 That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. 0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:26.000 Thanks for listening. 0:48:26.120 --> 0:48:28.480 Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. 0:48:28.560 --> 0:48:31.960 Go follow the show on all social platforms. Show and 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:32.719 follow at 0:48:32.719 --> 0:48:35.439 Web Girl Morgan to submit your listener questions for next 0:48:35.440 --> 0:48:36.600 week's episode.