Alyssa found something amazing for Jamie to add to her collection that left her flabbergasted! Jamie shares some more weird stuff kids say. We end the podcast with mountains and cat holes. Meow!
Alyssa found something amazing for Jamie to add to her collection that left her flabbergasted! Jamie shares some more weird stuff kids say. We end the podcast with mountains and cat holes. Meow!
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Speaker 1 0:00
So Alyssa, we recently had a visitor in town that we were showing some things to around Austin. And one of the things we showed them was a, like the 360 bridge. There's like a part you can kind of hike up and see the golf course and the bridge. Well, I was walking, I was hiking up behind them because they don't hike often and stuff. So if they felt like kind of want to support them a little bit, you know. But yeah, so they kind of started to slip. So I put my hand there to support which was obviously kind of on their butt. And as they continued to slip, they farted right in my head
Unknown Speaker 0:57
my gosh, she felt the vibrations. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1:00
And I was just like, ignore it.
Speaker 1 1:04
Like, everyone ignored it. And we moved on and had a great day. I just kept thinking about that. And I'm just glad I could shatter your dream. Maybe I'll stop thinking about it now.
Speaker 2 1:16
Yes, now that's out in the open. Yeah, relax.
Speaker 1 1:20
And we open our arms to you at nervous laughter podcast. We
Unknown Speaker 1:24
open them. Hello, welcome.
Unknown Speaker 1:27
I'm Alyssa.
Speaker 1 1:28
I'm Jamie. If I sound a little different, it's because I am getting over being sick.
Unknown Speaker 1:35
Very long illness. Yes. Yes. It's
Speaker 1 1:38
like a I was gonna say it's like the bubonic plague but it's very not compared not compared.
Speaker 2 1:46
To never talk about hands mask? No. It's so fucking stupid. Like, when me and my sister at Disney. I'd be like eating or something. And we'd hear somebody's coffee. Just
Unknown Speaker 1:57
feel like hey.
Unknown Speaker 2:00
Put my hand over my nose and mouth. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 2:03
That Disney. Said I'm not taking risks that Disney. Yeah.
Speaker 2 2:09
But you know, since you're kind of still a little congested and stuff. You'd be the perfect Disney guest because I feel like all of them are just all the time. Like,
Speaker 1 2:18
y'all cough of all over everything. I won't wash my hands. Yeah. And you know, kids just like lay on the ground all over.
Unknown Speaker 2:29
Put your heart hands I'll
Speaker 1 2:32
do a hand mask with my heart. Yeah, and I was just I just kept thinking about my hand till I got home. And I was like, I have to wash this. Dammit.
Speaker 2 2:43
Yeah, I, I like have a lot of anxiety about germs. I would have been like, I would have been having a little bit of a hard time, I think. Yeah.
Speaker 1 2:54
Speaking of hard time, I just wanted to give a little update, because I kept thinking about this time on the podcast where I said like, oh, you know, I just like to listen to what the person what people have to say about like, all their interests and stuff. I want to listen to you. That's not the case. I'm not. I've just learned about myself. And that's, you know, it can depend on the person. It can depend on the topic, but ya know, I'd
Unknown Speaker 3:23
be retracting, retracting
Unknown Speaker 3:25
that statement. Yeah.
Speaker 2 3:29
I'll be a little bit more discerning with the random shit.
Speaker 1 3:33
I don't mean like you. I'm just different people talking to me about different stuff, just whether it be like work or just a random person. I'm like, I don't think I like listening in depth about people's hobbies as I thought I did. I can enjoy it sometimes. But you know, it really just depends on who it is. What it is like it just immediately
Speaker 2 3:55
think about how I've been talking to you about VC Andrews every day. Me It's, it's
Speaker 1 4:03
so it's a problem. Listen, this is how I chose to bring it. Okay. Good. listen back to it. So no, I'm interested in the VC Andrew. Hold
Speaker 2 4:15
up to sorry, my phone keeps making a million noises and I cannot focus. Yeah, I'm amping up to do an episode on her. Excited I'm excited for that. Yeah, and I just found this other podcasts that did a two part thing on her and I can't remember the name now, but I'm very excited. For those that aren't familiar. She wrote Flowers in the Attic. The very incest the popular book of the 80s so what like late 70s early 80s One
Unknown Speaker 4:44
of my childhood movies
Speaker 2 4:47
oh my gosh, apparently. Here I go again. Sorry, but apparently lifetime has adapted like fucking 15 of her books and In the movies
Speaker 1 5:01
many Flowers in the Attic Flowers in the Attic was that a lifetime?
Speaker 2 5:05
I don't think the original one was but there was a lifetime version and then they just like going
Unknown Speaker 5:12
like this is
Speaker 2 5:14
this is great. Okay, so you tell me your pet peeve and I'm like covenant you exactly what you're shocking about exactly.
Speaker 1 5:23
And again some cases it's great. I've just found some cases where I'm like, you don't want to hear about a blanket statement. You want to hear about like pickleball or like the ins and outs of like football from some guy who thinks he's a coach. Like fair that's a blanket statement with a lot of holes that I've made so a lot of holes
Unknown Speaker 5:47
yes laughter podcast
Speaker 1 5:52
sorry when you said podcasts I just was thinking of just JoJo see Walby like my blog to get to my podcast
Unknown Speaker 6:01
to spice it up a little bit is
Speaker 2 6:07
talking about please look it up yeah. That pops into my head
Speaker 1 6:17
topic by hand Yeah. Oh the past couple of weeks just like dammit leave my brain in I just wanted to mention cuz you brought up lifetime all of Married at First Sight is on Lifetime for free. Oh, she
Speaker 2 6:32
did you get your lifetime subscription after we watched the Gypsy Rose. I didn't
Speaker 1 6:37
but we didn't have to sign in like we just downloaded the lifetime map. TV and we were just able to get all of them for free which is great. Kind of like you lose missing some and a bunch of other streaming platforms are missing some so just a nice nice little tip right there. Sounds
Speaker 2 6:53
like we have some reality TV cringe coming our way. forward on. Oh, it is time for a special presentation. Speaking of TV. So this is a thing that I got at the thrift store. It's a $250 value. So you can determine if that's true.
Speaker 1 7:23
Mind Criss Angel Mindfreak magic kid. I wanted to get one of these when I was in Vegas by wouldn't believe it. It might
Speaker 2 7:31
be still so please. Yes. It was like oldest book because it comes with a DVD.
Speaker 1 7:37
As a DVD. Oh my god. I don't know. DVD and stuff but oh my god this is awesome. Can I just like pay you for this? Are you keeping it? No, it's for you. Just wrapped like this is incredible. This was actually on my like Wish List of something that we're just gonna buy eventually, when I kind of remember to
Speaker 2 8:03
would you like some scissors opened up? Yeah. Okay, when we get them.
Speaker 1 8:07
It's an open it's sealed and everything. Yeah, definitely way cheaper than they had it at the gift shop in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 8:16
Yeah, we went to the best thrift store around probably the caring place in Georgetown. And we were about to check out and I was like, Oh, let me look at the toys because I collect some random toys and like shit and I heard that I was like yes.
Speaker 1 8:39
Oh my god, it's incredible. Oh, now I have a second pack of Criss Angel Mindfreak cards.
Unknown Speaker 8:46
What is not enough?
Speaker 1 8:49
Oh, but the cards aren't sealed in this one. Oh, I'll have to compare and see if it's different than the deck I got maybe it's got a trick trick in it or something.
Speaker 2 8:59
So all of the listeners will be patiently waiting for you to I'm sorry. Magic tricks. Oh yeah. What did you videos
Speaker 1 9:05
Yes, but yeah, if you're curious what's in this kid it's here's a Criss Angel secret floating device. And I'm curious about it because it has a black string so I'm curious how this one's gonna work.
Speaker 2 9:22
Don't look at the black string but this thing is floating. See some scarves? Yes
Speaker 1 9:29
scarves. And some some balls bows for liberals. Which I have come wanting to learn chill games. I'm so excited. And there's a fake thumb. A fake thumb.
Unknown Speaker 9:47
Oh my god.
Unknown Speaker 9:49
Like dude, thank you so much. This is fucking incredible.
Speaker 2 9:54
You are welcome. Very excited.
Speaker 1 9:57
I have been kind of wanting to learn some math. Trick tricks to There you go. I think I can just come off that way. I think I give that vibe. So yeah, this will be perfect. I was kind of trying to learn some card stuff but a card sleight of hand is pretty hard. Yeah.
Speaker 2 10:14
It looks like it takes coordination and having a look flipped things around.
Unknown Speaker 10:21
Yes. Oh my god it does. And
Speaker 1 10:31
I'm gonna be a card girl. Okay, yeah. So this is insanely exciting. Let me get a picture of the innards,
Unknown Speaker 10:39
the innards. Okay, yeah, so
Speaker 1 10:41
I am just going to be endlessly excited about this for a while. So thank you so much. I want to tear it apart and play with it right now. But we're recording so like, I
Speaker 3 10:51
know, if we need to take like a 30 minute break. We can. Maybe I'll do some.
Speaker 1 10:55
Some little quick clips later of just like the first impression.
Speaker 2 11:03
Yes, this could be our first YouTube video. Unboxing Angel magics.
Speaker 1 11:09
Oh, man. Yeah, this is awesome. Okay, I will definitely report back on this was excellent with some stuff for sure. Please do Oh, man. Thank you. So
Unknown Speaker 11:23
you start crying.
Speaker 1 11:27
Now, but yeah, this was I'm just Yeah, I was blown away. just
Speaker 2 11:34
flabbergasted. That reminds me, I was going through a box of some of carboy Number three's things from childhood which shout out to carboy number three had his birthday
Speaker 1 11:47
yesterday. Boom, boom, boom beach.
Speaker 2 11:51
And apparently, he went to magic camp. A couple pamphlets about magic. So I will definitely hand those to you to look through to your magical repertoire. Yeah,
Speaker 1 12:05
this was cool. This is something younger me would have laughed at myself being like, you're gonna learn magic one day. But now I'm like, that's cool.
Unknown Speaker 12:16
I like fucking cool. If you ever need an assistant, I would be happy.
Unknown Speaker 12:22
If I can't train my cats, yes.
Speaker 2 12:26
Not even mad that the cats would be number one a system because it'd be way more impressive but made doing it. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 12:33
Not to not to be amazing. But cats
Speaker 2 12:38
would be. That would be the first the cats are number one. Yes. Always. Number two Criss Angel. magics. That? Yes, yes. And then third husband. The natural progression of things.
Speaker 1 12:52
And then if I had kids, they would be number four. And speaking of kids speaking, you know, we talked about on the last episode, just some weird stuff kids say so we're just kind of got a little collection of that for the podcast today for the podcast, home trees. Podcast. Kids that say we are chillin.
Speaker 2 13:18
Oh, May I interject with a random thing I remembered my niece said though,
Unknown Speaker 13:23
for sure. That's totally irrelevant.
Speaker 2 13:24
So we were at a restaurant. And it was kind of weird because the bathroom at the restaurant was like, pretty close to the kitchen. It was like kind of an open kitchen and then the bathroom was right there. And so we're all just sitting there eating and somehow the bathroom comes up and we're like, oh, it's weird. It's right there. And just like, totally deadpan. She's like, Yeah, if you fart in there, you'd be totally exposed
Unknown Speaker 13:58
just like sterically
Unknown Speaker 14:05
I guess I feel that way about like any bathroom, but like, yeah. I like the thought process there. I've definitely been exposed like that in a bathroom. I mean, just like fart wise, you know? I remember at a I think it was homecoming or like a band banquet or something. Went to that's I was not a lady. Um, so speaking of the kidstuff, D
Unknown Speaker 14:43
roc, D Roc.
Speaker 1 14:46
He told us about a funny, silly thing his his child does. He said, My five year old has a habit of coming up to me and his mom and going Hey Mommy died. And we'll look down at him and be like, Yeah, buddy. He'll stand there just staring at us not saying anything and then he'll just go Why are you staring at me and runs off? I like it. I like the flip the script
Speaker 2 15:16
to Mike. No, you're being weird to me. I'm having weird it feels
Speaker 1 15:22
kind of Nathan fielder ish does. Um, and I got I just collected some random some random things from the internet. So it's just like a mix of this article from parents.com. Oh, and a couple of Reddit threads.
Unknown Speaker 15:45
So Kelly A says,
Speaker 1 15:47
My daughter once told me I couldn't sit somewhere because upside down was sitting there. I asked who that was. And she said my new friend. I found them out in the rain. When I asked her why he was called upside down. She answered. He has two phases. One is right side up and the other is upside down. And he doesn't like your energy. Doesn't like your energy
Unknown Speaker 16:11
turn to throw the kid away? Yeah.
Speaker 1 16:16
I just liked the imagination of what that person would look like. I was in an old graveyard with my two year old who was a very early talker. My child said Mommy Be quiet. I can't hear the Whisper. Whisper whisper that would
Speaker 3 16:39
that would really creeped me out. Um, yeah.
Speaker 1 16:45
At five my daughter randomly said we took revenge and revenge took we were just minding our own business eating lunch at Chick fil A.
Unknown Speaker 17:00
Well, like where does
Speaker 1 17:03
where does the word? I don't know where a kid would even get that from like, where do you where they learn? Revenge the word for?
Speaker 2 17:11
I really don't believe in reincarnation and shit. But like some of these stories that I've read, I'm like, There's no fucking way that kids would know certain things. Like, I read one about this kid that was basically like describing 911 And like, what it was like for him inside the fucking building.
Unknown Speaker 17:34
Wow, what the fire? Yeah,
Speaker 2 17:35
I read like a bunch of weird ones like that. Or, um, basically, people thinking that their kid is like the reincarnated version of their mother uncle or something. Yeah, just because of random shit that they'll saying. That's fucking creepy.
Speaker 1 17:54
Yeah, I'd like to kind of like look into like more of that stuff. Because like, I know that there was one kid that was like, I was in World War Two or whatever. And then they just found out like, he was just really into to it and like, had books and stuff that he wrote about it. So I'm like, okay, a lot of this is probably like, kids hearing stories and making it part of their brain sponge. But a lot of the stuff too, is kind of we like to though some of them are lay. It's just like, we've never talked about that before. Yeah, where does it come from? So yeah, a lot of stuff is is yeah, pretty for
Speaker 2 18:33
knowing that, like their parents wouldn't know. And then their parents ask an older relative and they're like, Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Just knows. It's creepy. I'm sure there's a logical explanation, but looking weird. Yeah. Like
Speaker 1 18:50
there was one in here. Let me see if I can find it real quick. I can't find it right now. I'll, I'll just kind of try to say it from memory now, though. But one of the things was like, Oh, my niece, like, like, said that I had a baby in my belly or something. Then like, a week later, I found out I was pregnant. And then it was kind of like, pitch that kid was just saying that. You gotta you gotta tell me like that. Because I've seen so many you know, videos on like, Instagram and everything where it's like, Mommy, are you pregnant? She's like, totally doesn't look pregnant to an adult. But you know, you get like a little Bucha and kids are like, Yeah, I have another baby. So I just I just thought that was that was kind of funny. Oh, actually, that was the next one. I was going to read. Oh. Okay, another one. Oh, yeah, I hate this one. Well, the man in the attic becoming with us when we move.
Unknown Speaker 19:57
Oh, we know that you fucking hate me. Thanks. No
Speaker 1 20:00
I don't like people living in the house and you don't know it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I hate it so much. It's
Unknown Speaker 20:08
nice though he wants to come with
Speaker 1 20:13
Yeah, we'll have to I'll have to scoop up some different like people living in addicts stories.
Speaker 2 20:19
Likes, though. It's nice because in Texas, you would probably die living in the attic. So hot. A fucking oven in there. All right.
Unknown Speaker 20:29
Very good point. I don't have to worry about that. You're safe. Yeah. I was tucking my two year old. And he said, Goodbye, Dad. I said no, we say good night. He said, I know. But this time it's goodbye.
Unknown Speaker 20:47
Oh, I wouldn't
Speaker 1 20:50
be able to sleep. And I know sometimes it's just like, you know, kids just say shit, and they're just weird sometimes and things are out of context and blah, blah, blah. But that's still a little creepy. If you're fucking home alone with the kid and they're Yeah, like saying shit like that.
Speaker 2 21:08
Some of the creepiest the horror movies to me your stuff with kids. It's just like, oh, yeah, it's so fucking scary.
Unknown Speaker 21:17
But oh, man. Like, what
Speaker 2 21:20
would you do if your kids were to do a show like that? I would just be like, um, I think you're gonna have to go live somewhere. Very sorry, Billy. I
Speaker 1 21:31
mean, that's what they did with Well, I guess that's a way different story but yeah, that like Natalia whatever, though. Yeah, girl that they said did all that shit. And they just put her in a parking watch that series? Yeah, I think it was on HBO, or whatever it is. That was fucking weird. If you haven't heard of it.
Speaker 2 21:49
As basically this family adopted a girl from Russia, or the Ukraine maybe? And they start to think that maybe she's an adult. Yeah, with a disability and not a child. And it gets real fucking weird. Yeah. And then the ending of the documentary was even more weird when Yeah, her new family that took her on said they didn't have anything to do with her anymore.
Speaker 1 22:16
Yeah, it was weird because it ends with them, like adopting her as she's an adult. Because like, biologically, they found that out. And they adopt her and then it ends with like a phone call from them. That's just like, she's called crazy. We don't want anything to do with her. But I'm also kind of wondering if maybe that's a clip of them just being like, this is what her old family said. And they're just trying to like hook you on. But either way, they hooked me. I
Speaker 2 22:42
looked into it a little bit. And I think it was something to do with her disability check. There was some final fighting about how those funds were being used or that though she
Speaker 1 22:58
might not be completely innocent. I don't know. I don't I don't know enough about the case to say that.
Speaker 2 23:05
It was a Christian family with like, 800 kids, so I would almost be inclined to believe in Natalia because I feel like they would want to take the money for 100 kids. Yeah.
Speaker 1 23:17
And she's getting media attention now. So you know, be getting something from someone. Yeah. That's sad. Yeah, they're
Unknown Speaker 23:26
sads.
Unknown Speaker 23:30
Moving on from the sad this kid said Daddy sleep than putting my head under the water at the pool. It's scary when kids don't understand us.
Unknown Speaker 23:44
Yeah.
Speaker 1 23:48
My three year old daughter stood next to her newborn brother and looked at him for a while and turned around and looked at me and said, Daddy, it's a monster. We should bury it Yeah, I'm bored with the kid. Yeah, I want to like hide that child from my other child. I jokingly asked what's the best way to get a girlfriend seven year old response. Tell her to be my girlfriend or she'll never see her parents.
Unknown Speaker 24:22
Baby Andrew take
Unknown Speaker 24:24
baby take little tape. And then I only have three more and then I was just gonna mention this other thing that I did not have time to dive into but I wanted to mention it.
Speaker 1 24:40
When I was about when I was about three we had a cat that was a still stillborn I asked my father if he can make crosses for them, which he did. As he was making them I asked aren't those too small? Dad? What do you mean? Me? Aren't we going to nail them to Dad we're not going to do that. In
Unknown Speaker 25:04
this person's I've heard her now I
Speaker 1 25:06
know. Ah, my toddler went through a phase where she would constantly say hi to things. Hi, hi. Hi. One day, it came out sounding more like, di di Di. So I say to her, what are you? What is that you're saying? She turns to me and just whispers like, Alright, we're gonna go put you down now
Speaker 1 25:37
my noticeably pregnant sister and I were having a conversation at the dining room table. my four year old son was also present and asked by sister if there was a baby in her belly. She had affirmed he completely straight face slid from his chair headed for the kitchen saying, we need to get that out. I'll go get the knife.
Unknown Speaker 25:59
Yes, once the fuck.
Speaker 1 26:03
Oh, oh, and I forgot I had this one. This was just a funny one. When I was three, I came out of a ball pit and told my mom I was sweating like a penis sweating like a
Unknown Speaker 26:17
pig apenas.
Speaker 1 26:19
Before I move on to the little other thing I was I was gonna mention, do you have any comments on any of those? Or did you have a favorite?
Speaker 2 26:32
They're fucking terrifying. I don't know what I would do, especially since children are fucking scary. Like, my niece has this face that she makes to fuck with people. And I'm closing my eyes. I can picture it. And it's so scary.
Unknown Speaker 26:55
Man, I would like to see what that face is. If you ever get a picture.
Speaker 2 26:57
Yeah, I'll try to. Yeah, but she's one that I had asked my sister in law if she had any creepy stories. She has three kids. And she said that she couldn't think of anything. But one thing that they had to have a talk about. It was like, it would be nighttime and the nights or the lights would be out. And you know, two of them are teenagers now. So they're pretty much like adult size. And they would need something. So they'd go to their door and just like wait for them to be like, yeah, come in or whatever. But what she could see was just like a shadowy adult fear, scared the shit out of her.
Unknown Speaker 27:42
They're just standing there waiting.
Speaker 2 27:45
She was like, Okay, you have to announce yourself like, Carson coming to the door.
Unknown Speaker 27:53
So I don't come out and stab you or say yes.
Speaker 2 27:57
But yeah, when my niece stayed with us last summer, there are a couple of days where I just be like sitting here in the living room, and she wasn't up yet. And like, I knew she was in there. But when she walked out, it just scared the shit out of me. Because I'm not used to like people of that size. So in my head, I was just like,
Unknown Speaker 28:16
yeah,
Speaker 1 28:19
yeah, yeah. Even when it's just me and Brandon, I just get scared if I'm just not expecting him to be in the room. That too. Yeah, it's like Whoa, ah, other people existing. Ah, it
Speaker 2 28:30
is scary. It's definitely scary when they're a different size than you think.
Unknown Speaker 28:37
Like, oh, what's wrong? No, I just wasn't expecting you to be that small.
Speaker 1 28:46
Um, the other thing I was going to talk about, and it's just gonna be kind of a mention because I did not have the time to like delve into this and put something nice together. But you know, who could forget about the McMartin preschool case, which I'm sure as I kind of start talking about it, you'll be like, oh, yeah, yeah. And now we're gonna bill the one where all those kids were like, saying that stuff like their teacher could fly. Also had other supernatural abilities and like they did animal sacrifices and like claims that there was like, orgies at car washes and airports and that okay, wouldn't get flushed down the toilets and to these chambers and shit like that. And there was like a fucking trial for it.
Unknown Speaker 29:42
When was this? Do you remember? Ah, oh, I
Unknown Speaker 29:45
didn't write down the date. Let me see. I think it was kind of around like the Satanic Panic
Speaker 2 29:49
time. Okay, that makes sense. It was the 80s Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 29:55
Which is kind of crazy to think. Yeah, but um, yeah, this is why It's important to sometimes not Do you have to kind of know when a kid's going off the rails kind of. I don't think any of the allegations I found were true. I mean, obviously, like, the teachers flying and stuff, but there were other allegations. I'm not gonna get into that. We're also like, not proven at all. But yeah, these kids just went off the rails and all the teachers and detectives and parents were like, oh, whoa, whoa, what else do they do? Oh my god, they sacrifice animal. Witches. Oh my god. The kids said they're witches after I suggested it. Oh my god. It's just a whole fucking mass. It's crazy that people were thinking that way in the 80s. Like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 30:51
As we learned on another episode, there weren't like, handwashing guidelines until the 80s. Yeah, that's true.
Unknown Speaker 30:59
prehistoric times. Yes.
Speaker 2 31:04
That's fucking that's literally exciting to hear more about.
Speaker 1 31:07
Yeah, I'll have to. Yeah, I'll have to gather more information on that because it just it feels like it could have been a really big rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 31:17
Well, do you have any more spooky kid thoughts?
Speaker 1 31:21
Nope. That's all the that's all the spooky kids I got for today. Oh,
Speaker 2 31:27
I will put a video on our Instagram that I'm obsessed with. I know you've seen but it's these two little girls that I think are twins. And they have a cake with a candle for they're just repeating. Mommy. We love it. We love it. And it's fucking scary. It's
Speaker 1 31:52
really creepy. It seemed like the mom like that though. But it was.
Speaker 2 31:57
I don't know if that was a staged thing. Or if they thought they were doing a sweet thing. I really don't know. But it was creepy as fuck.
Speaker 1 32:07
It kind of felt like that feels like a genuine thing that kid would do. Mommy, we love you. Yeah, it's yeah, it's it is very creepy.
Speaker 2 32:23
Well, I'm going to take us from the pits of Hell, where children are claiming they came from up to a mountain in the sky, the sky and well, kind of Yeah. It reaches its high altitude. Some ever stuff. Um, it's actually a friend of ours that we have that did a mountaineering journey that I was gonna tell you a little bit about is fucking awesome. Yeah, so our friend Jean. Oh, he had posted a couple of things on Facebook. And he was like training really hard. And I only seen some of it. And then yeah, he posted about going on these like crazy trips, climbing mountains. And I was like, Oh, I gotta like gather some of this up and we can talk about it. And then there's a little bit of poop stuff in there too, which we all enjoy. So I asked him to tell us about his climb. He went on a week long trip down to Central Mexico with some friends. He they climbed three mountains down there. I need to be working on my Duolingo but I'm not excuse my pronunciations el Nevado de Toluca last year and they gra and l pico de
Speaker 1 33:58
Raz ropes.
Speaker 2 34:03
Pico to go the PICO Dr. Mountain. Yes. The first two are about 15,000 feet at the summit. And they served as acclamation hikes. So Everest is 28,000 So he was about halfway up, which is fucking crazy. He said they had great weather for all of them. The first one that they went on was very windy. It was a nine hour hike. And the most challenging part was a narrow ridge line to the summit because it was so windy that we could only hike up between gusts of wind and had to squat down when the wind blew hard just to keep from it blowing us over.
Speaker 3 34:54
I don't like that, which I'm like, This is fucking crazy
Speaker 2 34:58
because yes, I would Picture something like that happening on Everest, but like, this is half the height. It like, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 35:06
I mean, you know, think about like wind can. I mean it makes so much sense now that it's I just would have never thought about wind being like that big of like, obstacle I
Speaker 2 35:18
guess. Yeah, file nuts. What
Unknown Speaker 35:21
kind of learning
Speaker 2 35:26
the second one that they went on? I said it was a pretty simple climb. What's your mike Gordon? Yeah. And it was only about six hours to get to the summit.
Speaker 1 35:41
Six hours. Oh, man, these are shorter hikes than like I thought
Speaker 2 35:45
they would be. I guess with this one. They started at about 13,000 feet and hiked up to 15,000. Okay, so, weights, yeah. Okay, so it took them six hours to go up. 3000 feet. Okay,
Speaker 1 35:59
that makes more sense. Like, oh, they climbed a whole mountain in nine hours.
Speaker 2 36:04
I have no, like concept of that.
Speaker 1 36:07
I've never I've never mountain to before so Yeah,
Speaker 2 36:11
fucking crazy. So the pizza guy a mountain was the toughest one because the summit was so much higher than anything he'd ever done. And the last two and a half 1000 feet are up a steep glacier. Oh, yeah. Gotta get the
Speaker 1 36:34
I don't remember what they call the fucking crashing crampons. Yeah, he mentions
Speaker 2 36:38
on hearing a little bit. So he said that the summit attempt started at 14,000 feet at midnight, and they reached the glacier at 6am. Oh my god. Yeah. So I'm like, Oh my God, this already sounds terrifying. So that's where you put on your harness and your crampons and they had a rope connecting one guide to two clients. And the purpose of that is if one of the clients starts to fall, then the guide can pretty much act quickly. Do an ice pick in there try to hold everybody together.
Speaker 1 37:20
Let's like being the person that has to man escape on an aeroplane
Unknown Speaker 37:31
but you know,
Unknown Speaker 37:34
okay, I guess it doesn't compare.
Speaker 2 37:38
Jamie's Dwight Schrute on the airplane. Shop very seriously.
Speaker 1 37:45
Yeah, no, I don't sit in their seats. Too much responsibility.
Unknown Speaker 37:49
Do you really not know.
Speaker 1 37:51
I don't want to fucking like be responsible for for doing that shit and be the reason why everyone dies because I like trip on my way of legroom.
Speaker 2 38:01
Usually, it's worth it. Fuck this other people, let him die. Legroom, it's great. But okay, as
Unknown Speaker 38:11
this is the scenario was not like this, okay.
Speaker 2 38:17
Let's see. So he said sliding down the glacier is a real danger on that mountain because last August four people die on this mountain, but he's on in that same way. And he said that before going on the pico de gallo mountain. He knew about the deaths and many others within the last 20 years. Because he'd been keeping up with the news on this mountain for a long time because he's been into mountain step for a while. Mountain Goss. Tell it to me girl. So he said he studied abroad in Mexico, in college, and during one semester, he and his friend climbed up another mountain called McGlinchey, which is a 14,600 feet Summit. And he said they're young, dumb and full of gumption to climb. So we basically just grabbed our backpacks, jackets, hats, Joe's a peanut butter and some tortillas and hopped on a bus to the nearest mountain.
Speaker 1 39:27
I feel like this would also be a case where they like don't tell anyone where they're
Speaker 2 39:33
that's what the story sounds like. So once they get there, they had horrible fucking weather. So there was a tropical depression going on that they didn't know about at that time. So they hiked in the wind, rain and hail. Oh,
Speaker 1 39:49
God, this is I've watched so much like I shouldn't be alive and shit that like, Oh my God. Yes.
Speaker 2 39:57
And then they climbed the wrong side. I'd made it back down.
Unknown Speaker 40:01
Oh my god.
Unknown Speaker 40:05
Oh my god. Yeah. Oh, well,
Speaker 1 40:07
I'm glad he's still alive. Like, if I didn't know this person, I would assume you were setting up a story where were they?
Speaker 2 40:18
He's still alive. But yeah, they claim or they plan to climb the pico de Gaya mountain two weeks later, back at this time when he was in college. But there was an accident that resulted in a fatality the week before they went. So they decided they weren't ready for that mountain yet. So now he's going back, you know, 25 years later and doing it now that he's like, has shipped together and as you know, actually preparing which is great. Yeah, yeah.
Unknown Speaker 40:51
Thank you for doing that. Being like, thanks.
Speaker 2 40:57
And then within two weeks of coming back from his trip, he learned that there were two more deaths on this mountain. So he was under some crazy shit. Yeah, that's a that's wild. Yeah. So pretty nuts that somebody we know. was doing all of
Speaker 1 41:15
it. Yeah, that's yeah, I didn't even know that about him. That's insane. Yeah.
Speaker 2 41:21
So I asked him how long it took to kind of prepare and train for the climb. Because he's always well, since I've known him, I hold you run in club and It'll kind of be like a 5k. And then people go meet for drinks after. So I didn't know much about his activity other than that. But he said for this, he started training eight months prior to the trip. Wow. Which makes sense after making all this other shit. He spent nearly every Saturday morning hiking with a group on a pretty rough trail called RiverPlace, which is here in Austin. I've heard of this one. I have a friend that does it too. And it sounds like my worst fucking nightmare. Because it's a bunch of stairs. It's like stone steps. Oh, okay. And he would just like go through it multiple times. would do like he said he did eight miles accumulating 2000 feet in elevation during a three hour hike. In estimated he did around 2000 stairsteps. Wow.
Speaker 1 42:28
I think he probably did some of that with like weights and stuff, too. Because like, your backpacks got to weigh a bunch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 42:34
He said that the first time he did it, he carried a couple of water bottles and then couldn't really walk for three days. Oh my god. Fuck, yeah. Which is crazy to think about, you know, that starting point. Later, you're doing this crazy shit. So proud of you. I know. It's really cool. He did a couple other climbs to prepare for that and did some hikes around town here. And then I asked him if there was ever anything scary about these trips, because the sounds scary as fuck to us. And he said, looking back, I was never really afraid of heights or danger of the glacier or anything like that. There's one port point towards the end of the hike back down or I was actually more scared than I remember being in a long time. Oh. So he said, basically, they're shutting down this mountain. And he had one hour asleep. And they're going to be doing this 10 hour trick down. So basically no sleep. He got to the summit and said he was pretty exhausted from lack of sleep, and from the exertion and probably some AMS which is acute mountain sickness. Yes. said my brain just felt weird. I felt like I was in a dream state. Like I was kind of disconnected from reality. I was frequently slipping and falling on the rocky trail. So he was saying that the trail had a lot of loose gravel, but it felt like stepping on dozens of marbles that just roll out from a new fee. Oh my gosh, that is terrifying as fuck. But it seemed like every minute or two I was slipping and occasionally falling on my butt. I felt so weird. Am I kidding coordination felt so off that I was concerned I might be experiencing haste, which is high altitude cerebral edema. You're basically leaking fluid blood into fluid slash blood into your skull and putting pressure on the brain which restricts blood flow in your brain. During one rest break. I told my guide that I had something important to tell her and told her the symptoms I was experiencing. And she suggested that we hurry up and continue going down the mountain and offered it picks up on my things.
Unknown Speaker 45:03
So
Speaker 2 45:04
he made it back down, got to his camp, rested, had some sugar, caffeine, and talked to another guide and said he was afraid that he was experiencing haste. And the guy said no, you definitely don't have that. The last client that I saw have that got helicoptered off the mountain. Oh shit, so you're probably just tired and dehydrated. And that made him feel better, but I'm like, Oh my God, if being tired and dehydrated, can do that to you. Like that sounds incredibly scary. Yeah. Especially
Unknown Speaker 45:42
on a fucking mountain.
Speaker 2 45:44
Yeah, like, imagine what it would feel like to have have haste.
Speaker 1 45:50
That's terrifying. That's just, that's what I hate with like, that kind of stuff. And scuba diving. It's just like, I feel like that's something that I would just forget about sometimes and just fuck myself
Unknown Speaker 46:02
up like I haven't.
Speaker 1 46:06
Like, I'm just gonna descend to the deep really fast. So there goes my head.
Speaker 2 46:11
I mean, honestly, I feel like this happens to me in day to day life where I just get really interested in a project and then I'm like, Oh, shit. I haven't drank water in three days. Yeah. Dying and want to kill myself.
Speaker 1 46:25
Yeah, that happens to me a lot to you. I'll be Yeah, it's like, nine in the morning. And it's like nine at night. And I'm just like, Why do I feel like shaky and like, I'm gonna pass out? Oh, fuck, because I haven't taken care of myself. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes I like to think of myself as a baby. I'm just like, Okay. Have I been fed? I've been watered. Have I used the potty. Okay, but I'm okay.
Speaker 2 46:52
Sometimes you have to look at it that way. And then his guide told him that he and his friends were doing much better on their climb than she did on her climb. Her first climb and that she was sick for a day or two after her climb from the altitude. So Yikes. So jeans have a bad B sounds like
Speaker 1 47:23
it? Yeah, I feel like I wouldn't. Like I can't stand like being sick when I'm not at home. Like, sick like that. So just stuck on a mountain. It's just even just that idea in itself is just terrifying to me.
Speaker 2 47:40
Yeah. Like, you know, I have a crazy fear of throwing up like, throw up somewhere else. I feel like just fucking pushed me off the mountain. I can do it. I can't.
Unknown Speaker 47:57
There's too much frozen poop. Everyone
Speaker 2 48:00
will speak in a frozen. Oh, we have some things about that. So I said Jamie and I are interested in the cringy side of things, any embarrassing stories. I said probably the worst thing about the trip is the bathroom situation at the pizzeria grande hut. They have had several pit toilets built over the years that look like they were maybe nice when they were first built but have kind of fallen into disrepair. But by the time we were there, the toilets were all completely full and I mean full to the brim. Our guides had warned us before we got up there to watch your step. If you wandered into the bushy areas around the hut, there were literally a dozen piles of dried poop piled on top of each other on the ground next to the pit toilets which are filled to the brim and more poop scattered all around. And the guides had brought a big shovel for us to use to go dig a cat hole
Unknown Speaker 49:02
which sounds cute. It's not cute but
Speaker 2 49:08
they said you know go dig it and this brushy area far away if you need to go and Jane says personally I hate using CAT holes. Which yes I would fucking hate to Yeah. Because cover or because hovering while trying to bomb a hole is so comfortable. Especially if you're wearing long pants and a jacket and a sweater and long underwear. Yeah, I was fortunate and spotted way off in the bush bushes. What look like kind of a portable seat someone must have brought out they're kind of like in a four legged toilet seat like an elderly person might use Okay, yeah, just sit six inches higher above the toilet. I was double lucky because it seemed like very few people have found the seat because it was pretty clean underneath.
Speaker 3 49:57
Like yeah One thing
Speaker 2 50:05
he said, So I waited until after dark and I went into the deed. It was absolutely necessary because once you're hiking you have so many clothes on. Not to mention that it's so cold that trying to use the bathroom, then we'll just be miserable, if not dangerous. And once you're going up the glacier, it would be practically impossible. There were jokes about how you had to poop after we started going up the glacier, then you were going to be carrying it down and your pants for the rest of the day. Oh.
Unknown Speaker 50:36
We know something about that on this pod. gaming convention. Man, that's great, though. What a nice little like, insider scoop.
Speaker 2 50:47
Yeah, really cool. I have a picture of the toilet.
Speaker 1 50:52
I would hate having to like pee. Because Considering all that clothes and stuff trying to like hover in pee, like, I feel like I would get some of my clothes for sure.
Speaker 2 51:03
For sure. Yeah. Oh, I'm gonna come show you a picture the toilet. Oh, okay. This
Speaker 1 51:09
was a lot like creepier than I thought. I was just expecting just like something nice looking. I don't know why just like a bright, a bright sun in the background, but it's just like, it's like a murder bathroom.
Unknown Speaker 51:21
See in the weeds. In a creepy, bright light.
Speaker 1 51:28
Because I was like imagining like, oh, man, imagine someone trying to carry that up. But it looks like there's just like extra wood and someone made a little seat. Yeah, action a little thing. That's awesome, though.
Speaker 2 51:37
So I asked what was next for him as a climber, and I asked if he would ever climb Everest. And so he has a couple of trips planned the summer, which I will definitely be checking back in with him to see if there were any poopoo problems because you know, we love to hear those things. update us on
Speaker 1 51:56
your bathroom situation. Tell us about. Dude, it's so cool. They gotten totos up.
Speaker 2 52:06
And he said, When I climb Everest, I've asked myself this question a few times. What attracts me to mountaineering is pushing myself to make it to the summit, then enjoying the view at the summit that I've worked hard to earn and few people get to see. And I avoid danger as much as I can in the process. Now, if someone offered me an expense paid trip to climb Everest, I would have a hard time turning it down.
Speaker 1 52:31
Oh, yeah. Understandable. I might even be like, Can I climb a mountain? Well, I mean, if someone was like, I'll pay for everything and shit. I think I would consider it I'd really probably ultimately not go but Oh, well. I mean, I would
Speaker 2 52:45
think about it. Yeah, like for me, it would be a hard No,
Speaker 1 52:48
I don't think I would go to the top. I think I'd at least go to like, you know, just the first like base case. Yeah. Speaking of I think they added a sign to that first base camp that's in front of our rock that's been graffitied that I guess is just a known like Mark for Everest climbers, but they just added a sign like right in front of it. And a lot of people are pissed.
Speaker 2 53:15
Because they're covering up that character. And yeah, just
Speaker 1 53:19
kind of moving more towards the like commercialization of Everest. So So yeah, better. Better get on it. Gene before it gets. Yeah. overcrowded? Yeah.
Speaker 2 53:32
Yeah, but that was really cool. So thanks, gene for answering my questions. And yeah, yeah, if you have any other stuff that comes up, we would love to hear about Yeah,
Speaker 1 53:43
that's fucking awesome. And Jean also works with a nonprofit organization. When we tried to find the name of it real quick.
Speaker 2 53:56
Yeah, I believe it's for getting clean drinking water to some villages and South America.
Speaker 1 54:06
It's a it's called Project schoolhouse. Yeah, it's a so they partner with communities in rural Nicaragua, to build new schools, create community water systems and improve sanitation. So if you were looking for something good to donate to you, you should check that out. We actually know that it's legit.
Speaker 2 54:30
Yeah, he goes down there every once in a while and yeah, and helps rebuild
Speaker 1 54:35
the stuff and runs into some interesting engineering ish problems because sometimes you are missing pieces. And there's, there's no hardware stores there. So
Speaker 3 54:49
you know, pretty cool. Yeah, definitely. Cool. Well,
Speaker 2 54:53
I guess it's time for us to wind down. I do have one more surprise for you. So This is a piece of nervous laughter merch that I ordered and will be available to you. Oh, this
Speaker 1 55:08
isn't a surprise one. Ah, I think I could hear what it is but ah oh yes, it's a pen. Ah, this is so exciting. It's so crazy just to see something you made like on something. So cool
Unknown Speaker 55:21
turned out really cute. So
Speaker 1 55:24
adorable. I want to put on my shirt not my sweater. Yeah, there we go. Cool. Yeah, and maybe I'll have a purse that I can take two rustling tonight. And I'm gonna put some stickers up. And we'll also I'll be seeing seeing the mug dogs there. Oh, yeah. Listen to zero fun podcast, podcast
Unknown Speaker 55:48
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Speaker 1 55:53
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Unknown Speaker 56:34
Yeah, party on, party on