Episode Transcript
[0:00:06 – 0:00:08] Dexter: Dexter is ill today.
[0:00:08 – 0:00:09] Dexter: Mr. Kirk, Dexter’s in school.
[0:00:09 – 0:00:11] Dexter: I’m afraid he’s not, Mrs. Hirschbach.
[0:00:12 – 0:00:14] Dexter: Dexter’s truancy problem is way out of hand.
[0:00:15 – 0:00:19] Dexter: The Baltimore County School Board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system.
[0:00:19 – 0:00:25] Dexter: Mr. Kirk, I’m an authentic student of Dexter’s truancy, but surely exposure is not the answer.
[0:00:25 – 0:00:27] Dexter: I’m afraid exposure is the only answer.
[0:00:27 – 0:00:30] Dexter: It’s the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane.
[0:00:30 – 0:00:31] Dexter: Insane.
[0:00:31 – 0:00:31] Dexter: Insane.
[0:00:37 – 0:00:53] Adam: Oh, bonjour, hivernance, my name is Francois Le Castor, coming to you live in the snow globe, and this is your snow log for March 6th, 2024, starting the show tonight with
[0:00:57 – 0:01:09] Adam: Frontier psychiatrist finishing off the seaside off of Since I left you 2001 from the avalanches Thank you to the avalanches for being here tonight
[0:01:12 – 0:01:19] Adam: And it was really nice to hear from Eric in the sand report from down there in Sauritos.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:25] Adam: It’s an up-and-coming development of like-minded individuals.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:28] Adam: It’s also more of a state of mind.
[0:01:29 – 0:01:30] Adam: A state of mind.
[0:01:32 – 0:01:33] Adam: A state of mind.
[0:01:35 – 0:01:39] Adam: You’re crazy as a coconut.
[0:01:39 – 0:01:42] Adam: Not much snow to report up here in the North Country.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:46] Adam: Thanks for checking in, Eric.
[0:01:47 – 0:01:48] Adam: Maybe next time, tell us where you’re at.
[0:01:51 – 0:01:57] Adam: It did rain buckets on the 3rd, and there was some pretty good thunder in there, too.
[0:01:58 – 0:02:03] Adam: So, the old early March thunder, you don’t get that one very often.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:06] Adam: It rained a lot on Sunday night, and…
[0:02:09 – 0:02:35] Adam: pretty much took our snow totals down to I’m gonna check the log here it’s about a frozen thin shell down to bare ground that’s your snow report the roads are any gravel road that is in shade or generally running like east-west right now is just like a awful
[0:02:37 – 0:02:41] Adam: just an awful thick glaze of ice, like packed hard ice.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:47] Adam: You need four-wheel drive and to go very slow on the curves right now.
[0:02:48 – 0:02:56] Adam: Any north-south facing, those have generally good enough sunshine on them that they’re pretty well cleared.
[0:02:57 – 0:03:18] Adam: yeah i took a ride up the trout lake road the other night uh last night and uh holy moly um makes the home driveway look nice uh was some some harrowing driving up there uh went up and fished up on kimball and there’s like 18 19 inches of ice and it’s just like glare
[0:03:19 – 0:03:34] Adam: um you can’t really skate on it but because it’s just uneven so it’s very slippery walking um even i had the creepers on and and carrying a pretty light load and i was like just slipping and sliding all over that lake
[0:03:36 – 0:03:45] Adam: Uh, the top, like, because the rain then refroze, um, yeah, that top, like, four or five inches is, um, just murky.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:53] Adam: Like I said, pretty uneven, slippery, and then underneath that is a good solid base of black ice yet, so…
[0:03:54 – 0:04:00] Adam: It appeared somebody had plowed a road out there at one point, and there was a shanty down there on Kimball.
[0:04:01 – 0:04:08] Adam: It looked like somebody had been driving around out there recently, and I considered it, but it’s not a very far walk.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:26] Adam: Yeah, as you might imagine, with that said, I know on the last episode I was just hoping that we would get the Gunplant Mail Run was canceled, you know, and I was hoping that the Dog Days of Winter was going to
[0:04:28 – 0:04:29] Adam: would still be able to go through.
[0:04:29 – 0:04:33] Adam: Um, it’s usually, it would have been Sunday, like the 10th.
[0:04:33 – 0:04:37] Adam: It’s usually the Sunday of daylight savings, uh, ending.
[0:04:37 – 0:04:40] Adam: So, uh, it’s canceled though.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:44] Adam: Uh, like pretty much the lakes, there’s no snow anywhere on the lakes at all.
[0:04:44 – 0:04:45] Adam: There’s your snow report.
[0:04:46 – 0:04:47] Adam: It’s just ice now.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:56] Adam: You might get a little bit on the very edge where it got blown up kind of into the shoreline, but as far as being out on the lake, no dice.
[0:04:56 – 0:05:02] Adam: I wouldn’t feel good about trying to even go out with the little kick sled.
[0:05:03 – 0:05:05] Adam: That would just be treachery.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:10] Adam: You can still ice fish, but the skis have not been touched.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:14] Adam: It’s not so much a never-ending November at this point.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:16] Adam: It’s more of just like an anti-winter.
[0:05:17 – 0:05:18] Adam: Like you can still ice fish.
[0:05:19 – 0:05:21] Adam: You can still hike anywhere you want, and there’s no bugs.
[0:05:22 – 0:05:24] Adam: So in that way, it’s nice in winter.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:29] Adam: But yeah, it’s not so much the lack of snow.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:32] Adam: It’s the gosh darn humidity.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:42] Adam: I don’t know what that means, but it’s like rained hard a couple times and it’s only really snowed hard maybe once all winter.
[0:05:42 – 0:05:44] Adam: So that’s kind of the deal.
[0:05:44 – 0:05:45] Adam: It’s an anti-winter.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:47] Adam: Thanks El Nino.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:54] Adam: But you know, plenty of ice still, so I’ll be able to ice fish trout until the end of March.
[0:05:56 – 0:06:19] Adam: um so we got that going for us um which is nice yeah we’re like after the gun flint or after the dog days got officially canceled that was a couple weeks already that they just called that and um me and a couple other folks with dog were like talking about just putting together like an unofficial unaffiliated um you know fun run kind of deal
[0:06:21 – 0:06:24] Adam: just to do something with dogs and travel.
[0:06:24 – 0:06:26] Adam: I mean, there’s been opportunities.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:28] Adam: I just didn’t catch any of them.
[0:06:28 – 0:06:30] Adam: I missed the wave, as Jesse Holmes would say.
[0:06:34 – 0:06:40] Adam: But even that, we’ve all just determined we don’t want anything to do with trying to have dogs pull us on ice.
[0:06:41 – 0:06:44] Adam: It’s not going to happen right now.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:46] Adam: So maybe we’ll get some light snow and we can still make it happen.
[0:06:47 – 0:06:48] Adam: But as of right now,
[0:06:48 – 0:06:53] Adam: All dog and skiing activities have been indefinitely postponed.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:57] Adam: What else is new?
[0:06:59 – 0:07:01] Adam: Like I said, you can hike anywhere with no snowshoes.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:06] Adam: Pretty weird, and so I’ve been trying to take advantage of that.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:14] Adam: Me and Ty and Arrow and Little Dude…
[0:07:16 – 0:07:29] Adam: Went for a really nice hike that was a while back now We went out to the local high point just north of here And you got a really nice view of the big lake from up there And that’s a really neat mix of forest on just north here.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:44] Adam: We like got we got maple we got birch big pines big red pine big white pine spruce balsam Yeah, it’s just it’s like the undergrowth isn’t too bad up there like it’s really really neat forest and
[0:07:46 – 0:07:47] Adam: Um, and like I said, great view.
[0:07:48 – 0:07:53] Adam: So, but we ended up, we ended up doing a, I don’t know, it was like 14 kilometers or something.
[0:07:53 – 0:07:53] Adam: I was just hiking.
[0:07:54 – 0:07:55] Adam: Cause it’s real easy hiking.
[0:07:55 – 0:07:57] Adam: A lot of hills in there.
[0:07:57 – 0:08:01] Adam: Um, and then like little, little guys like dropped a boot.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:02] Adam: I had them in the backpack thing.
[0:08:03 – 0:08:22] Adam: like a boot fell off and i didn’t realize it right away because it was pretty warm and he was like sleeping and i don’t know didn’t even notice and uh noticed at the bottom of like the big hill like so i know i got to i got to hike up it twice and see that beautiful view twice that was a ended up being a long day
[0:08:23 – 0:08:44] Adam: I was quite sore after that one because I just like I said I haven’t been skiing and you know hiking a little bit here and there but that was about the longest hike we’ve done and got up there’s a big white pine up there which is the king pine or the king tree it’s a family heirloom and like to at least get up and hike to that one at least once a winter
[0:08:45 – 0:08:55] Adam: And that’s up on the, you know, Aaron Altimus, if we had snow, would be, you know, training on that trail quite often.
[0:08:56 – 0:09:02] Adam: It’s just a hop and a skip over the hill from their kennel where that is.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:18] Adam: um you know i’ve seen their tracks out there in previous years when i’ve been out there skijoring but um yeah that’s the kind of the neighborhood and uh it’s a sweet pine that’s like a triple hugger almost i’d say one of the biggest white pines up here for sure
[0:09:19 – 0:09:37] Adam: Um, yeah, not a lot of real snow to talk about, but I do have a couple of gear, you know, last season on the snow, I was talking up a lot of like winter gear and think, thankfully I chose that theme for last winter when he actually needed most of the snow equipment.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:38] Adam: Um,
[0:09:40 – 0:09:50] Adam: Yeah, and like I haven’t even really had to wear the heavy stuff all that often because it’s in addition to being incredibly dry and like when we do get precipitation, it’s just hard rain.
[0:09:54 – 0:09:55] Adam: It’s also just been really warm.
[0:09:55 – 0:09:59] Adam: I mean, we had like one snap where I went to like negative 17 for a couple days in a row.
[0:10:01 – 0:10:04] Adam: But it’s been pretty mild winter also.
[0:10:05 – 0:10:12] Adam: So I haven’t really been wearing like the heavy mittens or the big boots or, you know, other than a few ice fishing trips, I haven’t really had to put on the old big parka.
[0:10:14 – 0:10:24] Adam: But what I have been wearing a lot of is these gloves that my buddy Chinwhisker Charles turned me on to when I was down late season pike fishing in Wisconsin in November.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:29] Adam: They’re Showa Temrez 282s, baby.
[0:10:30 – 0:10:30] Adam: I’m part of that.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:32] Adam: I’m in the Temrez club.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Adam: Uh, they’re really nice.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:43] Adam: Um, they’re just like a light waterproof, um, glove, but they have like a fleece liner to them sort of.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:51] Adam: So they are pretty warm and you can get away with doing a lot of different chore and with that thing, um, and keeps your hand pretty comfy and you have a lot of dexterity to it.
[0:10:52 – 0:10:55] Adam: Uh, they’re like Japanese fishing gloves or something.
[0:10:55 – 0:11:00] Adam: As far as I can understand, uh, went on the old internet and ordered up, uh,
[0:11:01 – 0:11:15] Adam: I actually ordered a couple pairs of those, gifted one out to a friend of the show, Adrian, for his birthday because I figured he was the kind of guy that could really take advantage of a nice Japanese fishing glove like that.
[0:11:16 – 0:11:19] Adam: And I’ve sure been wearing mine a lot.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:20] Adam: So that’s one nice one.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:27] Adam: It kind of has taken the place of the Skarmer’s gloves that I had from back in the Whitefish netting episodes.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:37] Adam: They’re in the same category, like a lightweight but well-fitted, lightweight, mildly insulated, waterproof glove.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:49] Adam: But those ones I had for scummers, you know, the whitefish beat on them, and I’ve kind of beat on that category of glove pretty hard, and it gets a lot of use, so I just kind of wear on them.
[0:11:50 – 0:11:57] Adam: And those lasted a good couple years, but from what Chinwhisker told me, these Shoa’s will last years and years.
[0:11:57 – 0:12:05] Adam: They’re really durable, too, and they seem pretty lightweight, but that’s where the dexterity comes from.
[0:12:05 – 0:12:07] Adam: It’s not too thick of a membrane, but…
[0:12:08 – 0:12:16] Adam: They’re apparently like 100,000% waterproof and very durable, so I’m pretty excited to see how long these things last.
[0:12:18 – 0:12:20] Adam: This is a proud independent snow log, friends.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:24] Adam: I’m not sponsored by any Japanese fishing gloves.
[0:12:25 – 0:12:26] Adam: I’m not Coco Raz affiliated here.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:33] Adam: I’m just telling you what’s working for me, and I think anybody listening to this show would probably enjoy a pair of those.
[0:12:33 – 0:12:35] Adam: The other one, and this is more of like an Eric…
[0:12:36 – 0:12:45] Adam: recommendation but back when I was looking for the replacement to my tall boots I was getting rid of the muck boots and
[0:12:47 – 0:12:55] Adam: Uh, the, when I moved over to the dry sheds and I had put out like a post asking about all these different, what are the best boot options out there?
[0:12:55 – 0:13:03] Adam: And I remember even back then, you know, Eric was on the, um, they’re the extra tufts and they make a tall boot version of that.
[0:13:04 – 0:13:12] Adam: And I think this is like another fishing, you know, for like commercial fishing, you wear these, um, they’re kind of lightweight, but like really nicely fitted rubber boots.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:16] Adam: It’s um, they’re a hot ticket in Alaska right now, I think.
[0:13:16 – 0:13:18] Adam: Or always have been, I don’t know.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:20] Adam: Now they make them in flashy color schemes.
[0:13:21 – 0:13:23] Adam: I got Natalie a pair of these for her birthday.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:28] Adam: And then they showed up and I was pretty impressed with them.
[0:13:28 – 0:13:30] Adam: So then I ended up getting some for Christmas.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:33] Adam: Santa.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:34] Adam: Santa knew what I wanted.
[0:13:34 – 0:13:37] Adam: I got them.
[0:13:37 – 0:13:42] Adam: They’re like a high top size, like not the full tall ones, just kind of slip on like high top extra toughs.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:45] Adam: And I got ones that are like mildly insulated too.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:47] Adam: They’re kind of like the boot version of those gloves.
[0:13:48 – 0:14:00] Adam: So, I’m just the perfect boot for this winter because not a whole lot of deep snow to walk through and plenty of warmth through just walking the dog in the morning or, you know, whatever, going to town.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:08] Adam: So, those are my two new, to me, gears for this winter.
[0:14:09 – 0:14:11] Adam: And they’re both getting pretty high marks for me.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:13] Adam: I like them so far.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:15] Adam: I need a sip here.
[0:14:15 – 0:14:15] Adam: Hold on.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:16] Adam: Hold on.
[0:14:20 – 0:14:28] Adam: baby boy’s second birthday the other day and we had a little birthday party and
[0:14:30 – 0:14:43] Adam: I was looking around for something else and I found this bottle of, it was like a homemade mead that Abby Zack had made back when she was working at the deli.
[0:14:44 – 0:14:49] Adam: And she gave it to me and drew like a picture of the pike on there for Pike for when he was born.
[0:14:50 – 0:14:53] Adam: And was like, yeah, just save it and drink it on his first birthday.
[0:14:56 – 0:15:00] Adam: And I filed it away into the Hoosier cabinet, the Hoosier hutch there.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:07] Adam: and it got way in the back there, and I totally forgot about it, and then I was looking for something like a couple days before his second birthday, and I found that.
[0:15:07 – 0:15:12] Adam: So I was like, well, if it’s aged one year, it’s good, and like aged two years, it’s going to be really good, and it is really smooth.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:16] Adam: So, Abbey Zach, if you’re listening, thank you for the pike mead.
[0:15:17 – 0:15:18] Adam: It’s delicious.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:25] Adam: Tonight I kind of splashed it with some ginger ale and a couple, just a couple ice cubes.
[0:15:26 – 0:15:27] Adam: So we have a sponsor tonight.
[0:15:28 – 0:15:50] Adam: for chapter five thank you um it’s really nice and it’s soothing got the soothing sips uh of course we gotta hold on a second here all right three two one uh
[0:15:53 – 0:15:59] Adam: speak of the little guy and he just came he just came walking out here in the living room
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] Adam: It is after your bedtime, sir.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:08] Adam: So, got him a sip of water and put him back to bed.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:09] Adam: He wanted to be on the show.
[0:16:10 – 0:16:11] Adam: Anyways, Pike says hi, everyone.
[0:16:11 – 0:16:12] Adam: Good evening.
[0:16:14 – 0:16:17] Adam: Little Heaver Nance says bonjour.
[0:16:19 – 0:16:22] Adam: Bonjour, Heaver Nance, listening to the show.
[0:16:22 – 0:16:24] Adam: So, whatever that means.
[0:16:26 – 0:16:31] Adam: Um, anyways, yeah, Fantasy Adidara and the Adidara has started.
[0:16:31 – 0:16:35] Adam: So even if we, so, I mean, I’ve been really being patient.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:38] Adam: I’m like telling everybody, I’m going to wait until we get snow.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:42] Adam: I’m not doing the next part of the show until we actually get some snow.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:47] Adam: And like, there is a chance of a flurry tonight, like a 20% chance of a flurry tonight.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:49] Adam: Good enough.
[0:16:50 – 0:16:50] Adam: I’m taking it.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:56] Adam: And also, I just really want to watch the next part of the Lord of the Rings, Two Towers, which we’ll get to later.
[0:16:56 – 0:16:59] Adam: But really, you know, the Iditarod started on Sunday.
[0:17:00 – 0:17:01] Adam: It’s raining buckets here.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:05] Adam: Well, they got plenty of snow up there in the Alaska range.
[0:17:06 – 0:17:08] Adam: And the big race is on.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:13] Adam: And, of course, the Tumble Home Pack and Fantasy Iditarod.
[0:17:14 – 0:17:23] Adam: is alive, and we had 22 entries, 22 teams in there, so that’s going to be a tough win for whoever earns that one.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:28] Adam: You’re going to have to pretty much have a perfect team to win a pack of that size, so…
[0:17:29 – 0:17:31] Adam: Excited to see what happens there.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:37] Adam: And I’m excited just to watch the race.
[0:17:37 – 0:17:41] Adam: I put on the ceremonial start Saturday night, watched some of that.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:46] Adam: I was just trying to get a glimpse of Aaron, our neighbor, is up there.
[0:17:46 – 0:17:55] Adam: And a friend of the show and derelict attorney, Josh, had flown out there to help him handle and get out of the starting chute.
[0:17:57 – 0:18:03] Adam: There’s a lot that goes into getting a team to the starting line in Anchorage and then really at Willow for the restart.
[0:18:05 – 0:18:09] Adam: And then after that, you know, it’s just Aaron out there on the trail with that team of dongs.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:19] Adam: You know, hopefully making the most of that because it’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime kind of runs for somebody from northern Minnesota.
[0:18:19 – 0:18:20] Adam: I mean, who knows?
[0:18:21 – 0:18:22] Adam: I wouldn’t be surprised if they go back and run it again.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:24] Adam: Maybe Matt wants to go run it, but…
[0:18:26 – 0:18:34] Adam: Yeah, they got the dogs to do it, you know, but that’s a lot of time and money and effort to get to the starting line from northern Minnesota up there.
[0:18:34 – 0:18:37] Adam: So she’s doing great.
[0:18:38 – 0:18:43] Adam: Just before I hit record, well, no, it was really when I was leaving work today.
[0:18:44 – 0:18:49] Adam: Kirsa had the live stream going in Takatna in the back office.
[0:18:50 – 0:18:57] Adam: And I ran back there to grab my computer, and she had it up and the tracker up, and I said, Aaron’s pretty close.
[0:18:57 – 0:19:12] Adam: So I hunkered in there, and we watched Aaron and the team come into Takatna, which Insider Info, which I can now share, seemed to be right because the derelict attorney had told me that they were planning on doing their 24 in Takatna.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:19] Adam: Which is probably the most popular checkpoint for the 24 hour break.
[0:19:20 – 0:19:24] Adam: It’s a mandatory break for anybody that’s not.
[0:19:26 – 0:19:30] Adam: Anyways, yeah, she got in there, I think.
[0:19:32 – 0:19:33] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:34] Adam: I didn’t check this.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:35] Adam: I should have.
[0:19:35 – 0:19:37] Adam: I thought she was in like 25th place or something.
[0:19:38 – 0:19:40] Adam: So not like in rookie of the year territory really.
[0:19:40 – 0:19:41] Adam: But not in back of the pack either.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:44] Adam: Running a pretty conservative race.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:50] Adam: They’ve had some tricky slower trail conditions in a couple different sections.
[0:19:52 – 0:19:54] Adam: But she’s running a good race and the dogs look good.
[0:19:54 – 0:19:57] Adam: And she still had 15 of the… You start with 16 dogs and…
[0:19:58 – 0:20:15] Adam: Aaron had 15 dogs still pulling into Katna for the 24, so it’s a good chance to recuperate, for the musher to get some rest, get some food into everybody, and recharge the batteries, and then move on towards the Yukon.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:19] Adam: So yeah, really proud.
[0:20:19 – 0:20:25] Adam: Every time I drive into town, I just yell at their place as I go by, like, your mom’s in Katna!
[0:20:26 – 0:20:27] Adam: And so forth.
[0:20:27 – 0:20:28] Adam: So, it’s a lot of fun.
[0:20:29 – 0:20:33] Adam: I don’t know if they can hear me, but I’m enjoying it a lot.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:38] Adam: You know, if you’re on the Insider, I don’t know how many people listening to this have the Insider package.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:47] Adam: It’s kind of a chunk of change for what you’re getting, but I get a real kick out of it every year, and I can’t help myself now.
[0:20:48 – 0:21:04] Adam: You know, you got Bruce Lee, who attended the Bear Grease back in the day, and I got to meet him during the Bear Grease where the Shrimp Tracker team came down here, and that was big time for Bear Grease when they had the Shrimp Tracker, and we had Fantasy Bear Grease that day.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:06] Dexter: What was that?
[0:21:06 – 0:21:11] Dexter: Something just made a noise over there.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:16] Adam: Anyways, yeah, I got to meet Bruce Lee and Greg Heister.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:21] Adam: And nice dudes, but Bruce Lee really knows his stuff.
[0:21:25 – 0:21:25] Adam: Yeah.
[0:21:26 – 0:21:34] Adam: Anyways, they have, like, insider videos where he just, like, rambles and talks about, like, run-rest cycles and strategies.
[0:21:34 – 0:21:40] Adam: And, you know, he interviews the mushers directly.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:46] Adam: They post those videos, too, but, like, they just post little snippets of it, and I suspect he’s talking to them a little bit more in depth about…
[0:21:47 – 0:21:48] Adam: what their plans are.
[0:21:48 – 0:21:50] Adam: So he’s kind of the ultimate insider.
[0:21:51 – 0:21:58] Adam: And so, I mean, the price of a, the price of an insider package, again, I’m not sponsored by the Adidrod for any, by any means.
[0:21:59 – 0:22:00] Adam: Um, I’m not getting a cent out of this.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:15] Adam: So go ahead and get it if it interests you, but it’s, I’m not, I’m not selling this, but I know I sound like I am because it’s to me a lot of fun and a real joy, uh, to follow the race and in this amount of in-depth, uh, coverage.
[0:22:15 – 0:22:15] Adam: But, uh,
[0:22:16 – 0:22:18] Adam: Yeah, he gives these really great insights.
[0:22:18 – 0:22:23] Adam: So it’s worth it just to hear Bruce Lee talk about the Iditarod a couple times a day.
[0:22:23 – 0:22:25] Adam: They check in and post a video from the trail.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:29] Adam: But yeah, they got a really good team this year.
[0:22:29 – 0:22:31] Adam: They got Sean Underwood out there and Katie Deiter.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:33] Adam: It’s like sideline reporters.
[0:22:33 – 0:22:40] Adam: They’re kind of checking in with the back of the pack teams and just giving some funny insights as people who have recently run the race.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:42] Adam: I mean, Bruce Lee ran it seven times back in the day.
[0:22:43 – 0:22:45] Adam: So, he’s no slouch.
[0:22:45 – 0:22:46] Adam: He ran the Yukon Quest a bunch, too.
[0:22:46 – 0:22:48] Adam: I mean, dude’s a legend.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:49] Adam: Obviously.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:51] Adam: Yeah.
[0:22:52 – 0:22:53] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:54] Adam: It’s awesome.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:58] Adam: They got some cool little, like, drone footages of them going through the Dalzell Gorge.
[0:22:58 – 0:23:00] Adam: But, you know, you get the tracker.
[0:23:01 – 0:23:03] Adam: And, yeah, you get the interviews.
[0:23:03 – 0:23:10] Adam: And so, like, Aaron has had a couple little, you know, two, three-minute interview clips that they post, like, from the checkpoints.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:11] Adam: And…
[0:23:11 – 0:23:27] Adam: Sounds like the dogs are doing fine, but like she’s maybe battling a little bug or something and yeah with the slow trail then She just decided to take some extra rest, but she’s right in the middle of the pack and you know on pace to finish they got through all the tough stuff and
[0:23:28 – 0:23:35] Adam: The Happy River Steps, the Dalzell Gorge, the Burn, all in one piece with only one dog down.
[0:23:35 – 0:23:36] Adam: I mean, that’s pretty strong.
[0:23:37 – 0:23:45] Adam: And most importantly, the last interview I watched just before, just earlier when I got home, they had a video posted into Cotton Already.
[0:23:46 – 0:23:54] Adam: So I watched her pull in live at work, drove home, walked the dog, did dinner, got little guy to bed the first time.
[0:23:55 – 0:24:02] Adam: And then by that point, they already had a video of her in Takatna talking about, you know, her race up until that point.
[0:24:02 – 0:24:05] Adam: And they don’t usually like go over there and like heckle them right away when they pull in either.
[0:24:05 – 0:24:08] Adam: They usually let you like feed and water the dogs and
[0:24:09 – 0:24:25] Adam: get yourself something and then then you know if they see that you’re willing to talk to them they’ll go over there so but the most important thing she said the dogs are eating crazy like really good so that’s what you really need to make it to the finish so she’s never done a 975 mile race before um but
[0:24:29 – 0:24:36] Adam: She can do it and she got the dogs as long as you manage them right and give them plenty of rest and Just enjoy the trip.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:47] Adam: So we’re all cheering her on everybody in town’s real jazzed pretty exciting especially in a winter in which all the dogs led races local and all the skiing and
[0:24:48 – 0:24:51] Adam: So many parts of the normal winter for us have been canceled.
[0:24:51 – 0:25:03] Adam: To still have the Iditarod you can count on every March, and to take part in that tradition even from afar, just watch it on the laptop, it’s a real treat.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:07] Adam: So anyways, thanks to everybody who signed up for the Fantasy Iditarod.
[0:25:09 – 0:25:10] Adam: Good luck to your teams.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:14] Adam: There’s been no scratches yet as of this recording.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:17] Adam: I’m sure we won’t have all 38 teams make it to Nome, but…
[0:25:17 – 0:25:27] Adam: As long as you, uh, you know, as long as you don’t lose too many mushers to, uh, to the scratch, uh, later in the race, you know, your teams will do pretty well.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:30] Adam: But yeah, I think 22 is probably a record for the tumble home pack.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:32] Adam: So anyways, thanks for everybody who signed up.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:48] Adam: Um, but I was watching those interviews and then I immediately, as soon as I like caught up on all the interviews and the sled dog discord chat and, you know, rechecking the tracker like 10 different times.
[0:25:48 – 0:26:00] Adam: And then I immediately after that, I went through another log on the fire and then I turned on the two towers, part two, too many towers, too many towers in the kitchen.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:01] Adam: This one, I’ll tell you what.
[0:26:03 – 0:26:08] Adam: So this is the second part of the extended cut of the two towers.
[0:26:11 – 0:26:13] Adam: Like, when was the last episode of Snowhawk even published?
[0:26:13 – 0:26:16] Adam: Like, I kind of had to, like, refresh my memory on what happened in part one.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:17] Adam: Um…
[0:26:19 – 0:26:20] Adam: But, um…
[0:26:21 – 0:26:30] Adam: I think I’m up to speed again, and so we basically start on… You know, they know Saruman is sending the heat.
[0:26:30 – 0:26:32] Adam: He’s like, uh…
[0:26:33 – 0:26:36] Adam: The worm, that rat boy or whatever…
[0:26:38 – 0:26:41] Adam: I mean, I took notes, but I’m trying not to take too crazy of notes.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:45] Adam: Ratboy, like, heads over to Saruman and is, like…
[0:26:47 – 0:26:50] Adam: He’s, like, spilling the beans on all their plans or whatever.
[0:26:50 – 0:26:53] Adam: And they’re, like, they’re gonna… And, of course, they’re, like, we gotta go.
[0:26:53 – 0:26:54] Adam: Like, these…
[0:26:54 – 0:26:57] Adam: They’re gonna send the dog team out.
[0:26:58 – 0:26:59] Adam: They kind of look like, um…
[0:27:01 – 0:27:02] Adam: I think I’m getting ahead of myself.
[0:27:04 – 0:27:05] Adam: Anyways, they’re like, we gotta flee.
[0:27:06 – 0:27:08] Adam: This rickety-ass village is no good.
[0:27:09 – 0:27:10] Adam: We gotta get out of here.
[0:27:10 – 0:27:12] Adam: The people of Rohan gotta go.
[0:27:13 – 0:27:15] Adam: So they’re going to Helm’s Deep.
[0:27:16 – 0:27:17] Adam: That’s where we’re picking it up.
[0:27:17 – 0:27:18] Adam: They’re like, we gotta get out of here.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:22] Adam: The Dusty King is back and got the light back, and he’s like, we gotta go.
[0:27:22 – 0:27:23] Adam: This isn’t defeat.
[0:27:23 – 0:27:24] Adam: We will be back, but…
[0:27:25 – 0:27:31] Adam: Will Day, though, that little town they’re in doesn’t look, I don’t know.
[0:27:31 – 0:27:33] Adam: I’m not holding my breath for a little town there.
[0:27:35 – 0:27:36] Adam: So they’re fleeing the Helms Deep.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:37] Adam: They’re not going to stand.
[0:27:37 – 0:27:38] Adam: They’re not making their stand there.
[0:27:38 – 0:27:39] Adam: They’re going to go to the Wall.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:42] Adam: So they’ve got the Wall.
[0:27:42 – 0:27:43] Adam: They’ve got Rangers of the North.
[0:27:44 – 0:27:46] Adam: I mean, is everything just a ripoff of everything?
[0:27:47 – 0:27:48] Adam: That’s what I’m finding.
[0:27:49 – 0:27:51] Adam: Everything is just a ripoff of Lord of the Rings, isn’t it?
[0:27:52 – 0:27:55] Adam: How did I not watch this for 20 years?
[0:27:55 – 0:27:56] Adam: How have I not read these books?
[0:27:56 – 0:27:57] Adam: The books came out in what, the 70s?
[0:28:00 – 0:28:04] Adam: So this is just like the wall in the north or whatever.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:07] Adam: They will break against these walls like water.
[0:28:07 – 0:28:10] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:28:10 – 0:28:11] Adam: I’m a little worried.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:14] Adam: Yeah, okay.
[0:28:16 – 0:28:17] Adam: So then they’re like…
[0:28:19 – 0:28:20] Adam: I don’t know what that line is, but…
[0:28:22 – 0:28:23] Adam: I think it’s from Gandalf.
[0:28:23 – 0:28:25] Adam: Gandalf gets all the good lines, doesn’t he?
[0:28:25 – 0:28:30] Adam: He’s like, he thinks he’s leading them to safety, but he’s leading them to a massacre.
[0:28:31 – 0:28:35] Adam: On the fifth day at dawn, look to the east, and then he’s gone.
[0:28:35 – 0:28:39] Adam: I think that’s the last you see of Gandalf, this whole section of the movie at least.
[0:28:40 – 0:28:40] Adam: Um…
[0:28:42 – 0:28:47] Adam: They’re like abandoning the city and we got a nice horse sighting right off the bat here.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:52] Adam: And Aragorn is talking to this big crazy horse.
[0:28:52 – 0:28:54] Adam: They said, this one’s mad.
[0:28:54 – 0:28:56] Adam: He’ll kick your teeth in.
[0:28:57 – 0:28:59] Adam: This one, he’s a real sicko.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:03] Adam: This boy, he’ll piss on your bonfire, this one.
[0:29:03 – 0:29:06] Adam: He’s a real mad lad, this one.
[0:29:08 – 0:29:10] Adam: He doesn’t use the brown volcano, this horse.
[0:29:11 – 0:29:11] Adam: He’s naughty.
[0:29:12 – 0:29:18] Adam: And Aragorn just walks up and he’s like, whispers in the elfish tongue to it and immediately just calms this thing down.
[0:29:19 – 0:29:21] Dexter: Oh, that’s Brago.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:22] Dexter: That’s Brago.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:24] Adam: My cousin’s horse.
[0:29:25 – 0:29:27] Adam: I’m just going to say that about anything going forward.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:29] Adam: Like, oh, what do you got there?
[0:29:29 – 0:29:29] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:29:29 – 0:29:31] Adam: It’s just my cousin’s horse.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:33] Adam: It’s got such a nice ring to it.
[0:29:34 – 0:29:35] Adam: Brago.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:38] Adam: Entered Brago immediately into the horse ranker.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:39] Adam: Nee.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:59] Adam: nee, 891, we gotta go back and add the sound effects to that one, where’s my pen, we’re just gonna remember it’s 891, Bray goes in, uh, my cousin’s horse, yeah, uh, they’re basically, like, he, like, whispers him up and, like, calms this horse down and takes the, the rope off him, and he’s, like,
[0:30:00 – 0:30:02] Adam: Turn this beauty free.
[0:30:02 – 0:30:03] Adam: This boy’s seen enough of the war.
[0:30:04 – 0:30:05] Adam: And off he goes.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:11] Adam: And as we know in Lord of the Rings, there’s no way in hell that’s the last time we’re seeing Brago.
[0:30:13 – 0:30:17] Adam: Uh, yeah, the Rat Tongue Boy is squealing to Sorry Man about the retreat, though.
[0:30:17 – 0:30:21] Adam: He is, like, telling him all the stuff and, like, where the best sewer grates are to attack this thing.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:30] Adam: And, uh, yeah, he’s, like, gleefully, like, yeah, send a retreating very slowly so we can murder all the women and children.
[0:30:32 – 0:30:35] Adam: Again, how did this guy get anywhere near the Dusty King?
[0:30:37 – 0:30:44] Adam: Anyway, obviously he’s a rogue spy and just a general sleazebag, but of course he’s ratting them out.
[0:30:46 – 0:30:51] Adam: But yeah, they’re like, all right, send the warg riders in to go attack the women and children.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:55] Adam: Then they both are like rubbing their hands and like smirking.
[0:30:56 – 0:31:01] Adam: Like, oh my, these guys are bad news, I’m starting to think.
[0:31:01 – 0:31:05] Adam: I’m starting to think Wormtongue and Saruman are up to no good.
[0:31:09 – 0:31:15] Adam: We finally get to meet up with Frodo and Sam and Smeagol.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:17] Adam: I’m not sure.
[0:31:17 – 0:31:21] Adam: I assume you’re supposed to call him Smeagol.
[0:31:21 – 0:31:23] Adam: Smeagol first and then Gollum.
[0:31:23 – 0:31:24] Adam: No?
[0:31:26 – 0:31:29] Adam: There’s a lot of Smeagol talking to Gollum in this section too.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:34] Adam: Like, a lot, and it’s very creepy, but it’s also, like, really good.
[0:31:35 – 0:31:42] Adam: So I’m not sure what to call him, because I think he’s Smeagol, but I always have the closed captions on, so I can figure out who the hell is who.
[0:31:43 – 0:31:46] Adam: And they always call him Gollum in the closed captions, so…
[0:31:47 – 0:31:48] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:31:48 – 0:31:56] Adam: Anyways, they’re all, like, on the move still, and the ring is really starting to take a hold of Frodo.
[0:31:56 – 0:31:58] Adam: He’s, like, becoming more and more like Gollum every day.
[0:31:58 – 0:32:00] Adam: He kind of snaps on poor Sam.
[0:32:02 – 0:32:05] Adam: And it’s like, you got to leave, you know, Smeagol alone.
[0:32:05 – 0:32:12] Adam: You know, he’s, he’s just, he’s under our care and he’s our guide and we got to trust him, you know, and Sam don’t trust him.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:23] Adam: I frankly don’t trust him, but I don’t know, like when he’s talking to himself, you know, the good guy, you know, the good cop, Smeagol is the good cop and the bad guy is Gollum or whatever.
[0:32:23 – 0:32:29] Adam: And, um, fighting with yourself, like in a broken mirror, this is like a cracked erratic scenario here.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:31] Adam: I think.
[0:32:34 – 0:32:35] Adam: Yeah, he’s like yelling at himself.
[0:32:36 – 0:32:40] Dexter: Leave now and never come back.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:41] Adam: I’m sorry, friends.
[0:32:41 – 0:32:44] Adam: I lied to you.
[0:32:44 – 0:32:47] Adam: I was a tricksy podcast host.
[0:32:47 – 0:32:51] Adam: I told you I was never going to do a bad Gollum impression again.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:54] Adam: I’m surprised I just got you.
[0:32:54 – 0:32:55] Dexter: I got you.
[0:32:57 – 0:33:23] Adam: um we got some really good campfire rabbit stew because gollum’s trying to eat the thing raw and sam won’t have it he gets out the salt and gets a good stew on of course he does like over just a perfect little cauldron on a stick over a bonfire i took a picture off this big screen tv off my by my phone i’m posting that to the instagram as soon as i get this episode done and posted i’m putting that up next
[0:33:23 – 0:33:25] Adam: It’s an excellent campfire meal.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:28] Adam: I mean, how many people are doing a rabbit stew in camp?
[0:33:29 – 0:33:30] Adam: You know, Brother Andrew is up.
[0:33:30 – 0:33:43] Adam: We were camped out on the last site on Clearwater with Eric, and we were going to try and do some grouse hunting, like on the Border Route Trail or, you know, in them’s abouts regions.
[0:33:44 – 0:33:47] Adam: And the only thing we ever end up getting that trip, no grouse were caught.
[0:33:48 – 0:33:49] Adam: Caught them?
[0:33:50 – 0:33:55] Adam: No grouse were had, but we did get a snowshoe hare.
[0:33:55 – 0:33:59] Adam: And Brother Andrew and I like skinned it and cooked it over the fire.
[0:34:00 – 0:34:01] Adam: And boy, them things are lean.
[0:34:02 – 0:34:05] Adam: And like these rabbits, they make the stew out of like lean too.
[0:34:05 – 0:34:07] Adam: I think Sam’s like, there’s hardly any meat on them.
[0:34:07 – 0:34:08] Adam: I don’t know what that impression was.
[0:34:09 – 0:34:11] Adam: And I promise I won’t ever do another Sam, Jesus.
[0:34:14 – 0:34:19] Adam: So they’re making a really nice stew, and I’m going to go ahead and nominate that for best campfire meal of the trip so far.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:21] Adam: Is anybody going to argue the point?
[0:34:21 – 0:34:22] Adam: I mean, obviously it was.
[0:34:23 – 0:34:30] Adam: I should be ranking meals in addition to ranking the horses, but I think it’s probably too late.
[0:34:30 – 0:34:36] Adam: But so far, that one just takes it for me, like a really nice stew.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:56] Adam: and he’s just like, you gotta need, you need some taters, and like, yeah, Smeagol’s never heard of a potato before, they don’t have potatoes in the shire, or wherever he came, whatever, whatever cave he crawled out of, they don’t have potatoes down in that cellar, I’ll tell you what, I’ll tell you that one for free, um,
[0:34:58 – 0:35:02] Adam: You know, when I was younger, you know, if you’re bad, you got locked in the potato cellar.
[0:35:02 – 0:35:03] Adam: And I still love potatoes.
[0:35:04 – 0:35:08] Adam: So I don’t know how Smeagol hasn’t heard of a potato, but it will make that stew better.
[0:35:08 – 0:35:10] Adam: Unfortunately, I don’t think they had any taters.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:12] Adam: Just kind of have to imagine the taters.
[0:35:12 – 0:35:16] Adam: It’s like I said about Cerritos at the top.
[0:35:16 – 0:35:20] Adam: You know, these potatoes in the stew, they’re more of a state of mind.
[0:35:20 – 0:35:21] Adam: Finally got it right.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:23] Adam: I think I got the phrase right finally.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:27] Adam: There’s double stews.
[0:35:29 – 0:35:44] Adam: I mean, before we get to the second one, though, they see this whole elephant mob coming to get them, and the archery squad comes down and takes out the elephant mob and apprehends Sam and Frodo, and sneaky Trixie Gollum gets away, though.
[0:35:44 – 0:35:45] Adam: He probably got that stew.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:47] Adam: No, actually, he left it behind.
[0:35:48 – 0:35:51] Adam: He’s going for the wigglers, you know what I mean?
[0:35:51 – 0:35:52] Adam: He’s going for the raw fish.
[0:35:56 – 0:35:59] Adam: But, yeah, they get apprehended and, like, cuffed.
[0:35:59 – 0:36:00] Adam: Like, you guys are spies.
[0:36:01 – 0:36:01] Adam: You’re coming with us.
[0:36:02 – 0:36:08] Adam: It turns out, well, these are the Gondors, I guess.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:11] Adam: We’ll get to that later, I guess.
[0:36:11 – 0:36:14] Adam: They cut back to, like, Aragorn.
[0:36:15 – 0:36:17] Adam: and he’s getting a stew.
[0:36:17 – 0:36:21] Adam: They’re all on the march trying to get to Helm’s Deep, yes?
[0:36:22 – 0:36:24] Adam: And he’s getting the weak stew, man.
[0:36:24 – 0:36:26] Adam: That stew looked awful.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:32] Adam: The second stew, there’s too many towers in this episode, and there’s too many stews.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:33] Adam: You had one too many stews.
[0:36:34 – 0:36:35] Adam: Should have stopped at one stew.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:38] Adam: You had a good thing going, and you got greedy.
[0:36:38 – 0:37:06] Adam: Tolkien had to put another stew in and it’s awful Aragorn’s suffering through this stew you can tell but he’s being polite about it for the fair maiden made the stew and he’s a lord he’s not gonna you know he doesn’t want to make anybody feel bad about their cooking but you don’t want that lady cooking the campfire stew trust me you want Sam you know she probably didn’t use any salt let’s be real the stew needed some salt
[0:37:08 – 0:37:11] Adam: Um, then she’s, I don’t know why it seems kind of rude.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:14] Adam: You give them a bad stew and you’re like, how old are you anyways?
[0:37:14 – 0:37:16] Adam: Like 80, no higher.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:16] Adam: You’re 87.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:19] Adam: Damn near spit my meat out.
[0:37:23 – 0:37:27] Adam: So he’s really 87?
[0:37:27 – 0:37:28] Adam: I guess he is.
[0:37:28 – 0:37:37] Adam: The Dundidines are like a Northwoods vampire cult or something?
[0:37:37 – 0:37:38] Adam: What’s going on here?
[0:37:39 – 0:37:44] Adam: But then they make a real point about how the elves really live forever, and even the Duny die in these.
[0:37:45 – 0:37:49] Adam: The 87 is nothing, but in elf times, yeah, that’s no good.
[0:37:51 – 0:37:52] Adam: He’s going to die eventually anyways.
[0:37:53 – 0:38:00] Adam: There’s a ton of dreamy, hot dream sequences with Arwen and Aragorn in this part too.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:01] Adam: They’re dreaming of each other a lot.
[0:38:04 – 0:38:09] Adam: And, you know, the Matrix guy is, like, trying to, like, you know, talk some sense into her.
[0:38:09 – 0:38:11] Adam: Like, you’re going to live forever.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:13] Adam: You’re beautiful.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:17] Adam: Come with the elf people and be with your elf people and forget this human.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:21] Adam: He’s either going to die in the war or you’re going to watch him die.
[0:38:21 – 0:38:23] Adam: Like one way or the other, death is coming.
[0:38:25 – 0:38:28] Adam: But she still thinks there’s hope.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:33] Adam: And what time they can spend together is what’s really important.
[0:38:33 – 0:38:38] Adam: Even if it’s only a few more moments with this mere mortal…
[0:38:40 – 0:38:50] Adam: Um, but yeah, before, like, before he can really get any more of this crap stew down, then these, the, the warg attack, the warg dogs coming in, bad dogs.
[0:38:51 – 0:38:53] Adam: Oh, these are some bad dogs.
[0:38:53 – 0:38:59] Adam: The Iditarod dogs, they’re very good boys and good girls, but these wargs are bad dogs.
[0:39:00 – 0:39:03] Adam: Gimli gets in a really good line during the warg attack.
[0:39:04 – 0:39:31] Adam: bring your pretty face to my axe I mean he says pretty face like as an insult I believe but I maybe an unpopular opinion I think the wargs are kind of cute and maybe it’s just because I’ve been watching a lot of like live streams from the I did it on trail and I’m like really in doggy mode right now but they do have kind of a cute look to them do they not like is it just me
[0:39:33 – 0:39:35] Adam: Hit me up on the Instagram and the DMs.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:35] Adam: Let me know.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:37] Adam: Are the wargs actually cute?
[0:39:37 – 0:39:37] Adam: Yes.
[0:39:37 – 0:39:38] Adam: Are they hot or not?
[0:39:38 – 0:39:39] Adam: Because they’re not hot.
[0:39:40 – 0:39:43] Adam: And they’re not not, but I do think they are cute a little bit.
[0:39:44 – 0:39:45] Adam: They’re mean little guys.
[0:39:45 – 0:39:47] Adam: They’re kind of like hyena doggies.
[0:39:47 – 0:39:47] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:39:47 – 0:39:48] Adam: They’re huge.
[0:39:49 – 0:39:52] Adam: They call them the Wolves of Isengard at the end.
[0:39:52 – 0:39:57] Adam: I think that the Wolves of Isengard would make a pretty good sled dog team.
[0:39:57 – 0:40:02] Adam: If they were in, how much gold would they cost if they were in the Fantasy Mushing?
[0:40:02 – 0:40:04] Adam: They’re probably a 5,000 gold team.
[0:40:05 – 0:40:06] Adam: I mean, that’s a lot of nuggets.
[0:40:07 – 0:40:09] Adam: A team that’s really not proven in Harness.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:13] Adam: But, I mean, they can cover some ground, obviously, all terrains.
[0:40:14 – 0:40:19] Adam: They look like they’d be tough as nails, and they look like they would never have a problem eating.
[0:40:19 – 0:40:22] Adam: That’s really the thing during a big race like this is trying to keep the weight on.
[0:40:23 – 0:40:25] Adam: And they got that look, you know.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:26] Adam: You can trust them.
[0:40:27 – 0:40:27] Adam: You can trust the orgs.
[0:40:28 – 0:40:35] Adam: I was tempted to put him into the horse rankers, but, you know, I’m a man of my word.
[0:40:35 – 0:40:36] Adam: I’m not recording unless we get even.
[0:40:36 – 0:40:41] Adam: We’ve got to have a flurry in the air to record, and you can’t call a warg a horse, all right?
[0:40:42 – 0:40:44] Adam: We’ve got rules here on the snow log.
[0:40:44 – 0:40:46] Adam: You can’t just make it up willy-nilly as you go.
[0:40:47 – 0:40:48] Adam: We’ve got a script.
[0:40:49 – 0:40:51] Adam: You know, I don’t have any interns for the winter.
[0:40:52 – 0:40:55] Adam: He’s on break, but Trevor and…
[0:40:56 – 0:41:00] Adam: Bless him, you know, you can’t work him like that, you know.
[0:41:00 – 0:41:03] Adam: You got to give the young lad some rest too.
[0:41:03 – 0:41:06] Adam: So this is a one-man deal here, but there are rules.
[0:41:09 – 0:41:11] Adam: Anyways, they repel the attack.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:12] Adam: Of course they do.
[0:41:12 – 0:41:14] Adam: Like, ten guys on horse.
[0:41:14 – 0:41:15] Adam: The Riders of Rohan.
[0:41:16 – 0:41:18] Adam: Is the Riders of Rohan still?
[0:41:18 – 0:41:22] Adam: Or is these, like, any… Whatever.
[0:41:22 – 0:41:24] Adam: Are they Riders of Rohan or no?
[0:41:24 – 0:41:24] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:25] Adam: The horse people.
[0:41:25 – 0:41:31] Adam: You got, like, ten horse people and one elf with a bow and a gimli.
[0:41:32 – 0:41:34] Adam: And they take out the entire, like, warg fleet.
[0:41:35 – 0:41:35] Adam: Um…
[0:41:36 – 0:41:51] Adam: that’s the way they roll and of course no blood everybody’s capes look perfect so it’s another great victory for the humans against the bad boys so then the people make it they didn’t get the women and children
[0:41:53 – 0:42:14] Adam: like they were gonna let that happen they won’t even show blood like they’re so like i mean something bad’s gonna happen in the show right eventually i can’t just keep deferring the bad news like they’re gonna have to show some death eventually right or everything’s gonna they’re gonna just reach a truce at the end and i doubt it um
[0:42:15 – 0:42:19] Adam: Yeah, but, like, at the end of the battle, they’re looking around, and Aragorn’s gone.
[0:42:20 – 0:42:22] Adam: Like, the one dude’s like, I got the sweet…
[0:42:22 – 0:42:26] Adam: I got the necklace, and I chucked him off the cliff into the river, that bum.
[0:42:27 – 0:42:28] Adam: And they’re like, you’re a liar.
[0:42:28 – 0:42:29] Adam: You dirty liar.
[0:42:30 – 0:42:32] Adam: But it kind of seems like he’s telling the truth.
[0:42:33 – 0:42:38] Adam: They look down there, and they’re like, yeah, it looks like it’s plausible he just got shoved down in the river there.
[0:42:38 – 0:42:40] Adam: It’s a pretty good canyon they got.
[0:42:40 – 0:42:42] Adam: So…
[0:42:43 – 0:42:44] Adam: But, I mean, come on.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:50] Adam: I don’t believe anything now after Gandalf fell and they brought him back, like, within, like, less than a movie.
[0:42:50 – 0:42:53] Adam: So, there’s no way Aragorn’s gone, obviously.
[0:42:54 – 0:42:55] Adam: They didn’t even show him fall this time.
[0:42:55 – 0:42:56] Adam: Like, come on.
[0:42:58 – 0:42:59] Adam: Um…
[0:43:04 – 0:43:06] Adam: Okay, the wargs failed.
[0:43:06 – 0:43:08] Adam: Nobody could have seen this coming, except for everybody.
[0:43:08 – 0:43:12] Adam: And he’s like, fine, big army’s ready.
[0:43:12 – 0:43:13] Adam: Let’s just send it.
[0:43:13 – 0:43:16] Adam: And Wormboy’s like, I don’t think you can pull it off.
[0:43:16 – 0:43:19] Adam: He’s like, hold on, let me show you these guys.
[0:43:19 – 0:43:23] Adam: You got a whole field full of armies.
[0:43:24 – 0:43:30] Adam: There’s plenty of Uruk-Hais in there, and Orc mud slurry mine pit babies, and
[0:43:31 – 0:43:34] Adam: Oh man, they got all sorts of awful looking weapons and armor.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:38] Adam: So I think they got a, I got a probably a good chance to take down the Helms deep.
[0:43:38 – 0:43:39] Adam: So he sends them off.
[0:43:39 – 0:43:41] Adam: So we got that going.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:45] Adam: Um, are we going to see this happen in this movie?
[0:43:46 – 0:43:46] Adam: Probably.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:49] Adam: It seems like they move in pretty fast.
[0:43:49 – 0:43:51] Adam: They’re going to be there by nightfall.
[0:43:52 – 0:43:53] Adam: Um,
[0:43:54 – 0:43:59] Adam: I want to bring this up now before I forget, but they do show a map in here.
[0:43:59 – 0:44:02] Adam: The Gondors got the map later, and they show a map.
[0:44:03 – 0:44:07] Adam: Because I was complaining last episode that I have no idea where anything is in relation to each other.
[0:44:07 – 0:44:15] Adam: And I refused to look up for a map because I really don’t want spoilers, but I just wanted a pure map just shown out of courtesy during the movie.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:36] Adam: and somebody out there was listening, bless whoever the tumble homie was who sent the fine silken map of Middle Earth to the co-op last week, I did receive it, I posted a thank you onto the discord, I don’t know if you’re on the discord, and it wasn’t like, there’s no card, and
[0:44:37 – 0:44:40] Adam: No signature, so I don’t know who to give credit to on this one.
[0:44:41 – 0:44:51] Adam: I unwrapped it pretty quickly, and it was probably on the return address, so I’m sorry in my haste to see what was in the package.
[0:44:51 – 0:44:56] Adam: I didn’t realize what I had in my hands until I had already discarded the packaging.
[0:44:58 – 0:44:59] Adam: So anyways, thanks for the map, though.
[0:44:59 – 0:45:02] Adam: It’s a real gem, and it’s all coming together now.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:06] Adam: I think I can definitely follow the story a little bit better now that I have the map.
[0:45:07 – 0:45:08] Adam: I’m going to try not to reference it too much.
[0:45:08 – 0:45:10] Adam: I’m not going to just have it sitting here.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:14] Adam: Maybe I should hang it up on the wall for the duration of this anti-winter.
[0:45:16 – 0:45:22] Adam: We move on to, we finally get to see Pips and Mary and the Treebeard.
[0:45:23 – 0:45:25] Adam: They’re walking and they witness this big army going.
[0:45:27 – 0:45:31] Adam: And the Treebeard had one of my favorite quotes so far in the whole series.
[0:45:33 – 0:45:37] Adam: There was a time when Saruman would walk in my woods.
[0:45:38 – 0:45:41] Adam: But now he has a mind of metal and wheels.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:45] Adam: He no longer cares for growing things.
[0:45:48 – 0:45:49] Adam: That boy needs therapy.
[0:45:49 – 0:45:51] Adam: Yeah, that’s right.
[0:45:52 – 0:45:53] Adam: Treebeard.
[0:45:55 – 0:46:00] Adam: Beautiful, uh, beautiful turn of phrase to describe the wicked Saruman.
[0:46:00 – 0:46:05] Adam: He used to be, uh, he used to be a lover of the trees, I guess, before he became wicked.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:11] Adam: Brago’s back.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:19] Adam: Of course, like, they couldn’t even make it, like, two scenes before Aragorn, like, washes up on the bank of a river.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:20] Adam: Of course he’s not dead.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:23] Adam: And then it’s a Brago.
[0:46:23 – 0:46:28] Adam: Brago knew in his heart that he was soulbound to Aragorn from the very beginning.
[0:46:29 – 0:46:32] Adam: And, I don’t know, we’re going to get a backstory on Brago.
[0:46:32 – 0:46:33] Adam: Where’d he come from?
[0:46:33 – 0:46:34] Adam: What made him mad in the first place?
[0:46:35 – 0:46:37] Adam: We probably got all we’re getting on that, huh?
[0:46:37 – 0:46:38] Adam: They explained it.
[0:46:39 – 0:47:06] Adam: he’s just mad anyways he comes and like plucks Aragorn right out of the river and throws him on his back and he’s like come on partner howdy partner you looking mighty soggy that and that there river come on up we’re gonna get you somewhere dry and maybe find you a nice stew Aragorn’s like no never no stew please
[0:47:08 – 0:47:11] Adam: Yeah, so then we go down to Gondor’s, and they got a map.
[0:47:11 – 0:47:12] Adam: I love it.
[0:47:12 – 0:47:13] Adam: They’re, like, kind of pointing out…
[0:47:14 – 0:47:16] Adam: So they got the Minas Tirith.
[0:47:16 – 0:47:17] Adam: Tirith?
[0:47:17 – 0:47:20] Adam: Minas Tirith is their town.
[0:47:21 – 0:47:23] Adam: That’s the Gondor town, and the Gondor’s got the map.
[0:47:25 – 0:47:33] Adam: And Sam and Frodo, the archery guys that apprehended them, are the Gondor’s, which are maybe the rivals of the Rohan, kind of.
[0:47:34 – 0:47:34] Adam: Um…
[0:47:36 – 0:47:37] Adam: Yeah, it seems like they’re rivals.
[0:47:37 – 0:47:39] Adam: I’m going to go ahead and say they’re just bitter rivals.
[0:47:39 – 0:47:43] Adam: The Gondors don’t like the Rohans, but I don’t know.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:48] Adam: Boromir seemed to be able to get along all right with… Did he?
[0:47:49 – 0:47:51] Adam: Actually, Boromir was kind of a jackass, huh?
[0:47:51 – 0:48:15] Adam: uh so maybe they are just total rivals i don’t know i’m not crazy about the gondors but the younger brother is decent and it’s revealed that uh they kind of like a flashback that baramir’s like awful father was like you better boy you better go get me that ring of power i want this thing and you’re the only one to get done your little brother he’s a bum he can’t do anything right he’s just like the little brother’s like i’m right here
[0:48:16 – 0:48:26] Adam: dead and he’s the one who ends up like apprehending the Archer squad gets gets the hobbits and pretty much has the ring of power right at his grasp and
[0:48:28 – 0:48:30] Adam: And I was like, well, this is Boromir’s brother.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:32] Adam: I was like, what’s his name?
[0:48:33 – 0:48:34] Adam: Wait, it’s Boromir?
[0:48:34 – 0:48:35] Adam: And I was like, what is this guy?
[0:48:36 – 0:48:37] Adam: Boromir?
[0:48:38 – 0:48:39] Adam: Boromor.
[0:48:40 – 0:48:42] Adam: But no, it’s like, I have it written down here.
[0:48:42 – 0:48:43] Adam: Hold on.
[0:48:44 – 0:48:46] Adam: His name is Faramir, of course.
[0:48:46 – 0:48:47] Adam: Boromir and Faramir.
[0:48:49 – 0:48:50] Adam: Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad.
[0:48:52 – 0:48:54] Dexter: I’m my own person.
[0:48:55 – 0:48:57] Adam: Everybody in Middle Earth is just like,
[0:48:59 – 0:49:06] Adam: You know, you’re the first bar and you get the name and then everybody else just gets like the slight derivative and everybody hates you, you know.
[0:49:07 – 0:49:13] Adam: Why can’t you be more like Boromir, who is a total piece of garbage and took a scud missile to the chest for this family?
[0:49:19 – 0:49:20] Adam: That’s some good meat.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:21] Adam: That’s some really good meat there.
[0:49:23 – 0:49:27] Adam: Anyways, he’s like, please, Boromir, bring me back the mighty gift.
[0:49:28 – 0:49:36] Adam: Calling the ring of power the mighty gift is like the icing on the top of like how horrible and awful this father guy is.
[0:49:36 – 0:49:39] Adam: They don’t even like, I don’t, what’s the king’s name?
[0:49:41 – 0:49:42] Adam: Garamir.
[0:49:43 – 0:49:45] Adam: King Garamir wants the mighty gift.
[0:49:45 – 0:49:46] Adam: Give him the mighty gift, Boromir.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:49] Adam: No, but it’s Faramir who’ll get it.
[0:49:49 – 0:49:50] Adam: Oh, of course.
[0:49:51 – 0:49:52] Adam: Back to Minas Tirith with ya.
[0:49:55 – 0:49:57] Adam: They got the map, you know.
[0:49:57 – 0:49:58] Adam: They’re going places.
[0:49:58 – 0:49:59] Adam: They got a map, those guys.
[0:49:59 – 0:50:04] Adam: The other kingdoms might want to consider getting some maps because, you know, things are going pretty good for the Gondor.
[0:50:08 – 0:50:18] Adam: Uh, and then they, you know, Smeagol finally turns up and he’s like in the forbidden pond, like eating slippery fish and singing a nice little slippery, juicy, sweet meat song.
[0:50:19 – 0:50:27] Adam: You know, fish as Garamir, as Smeagol Mir always says, fish, they’re the sweetest meat because they’re the meat without the feet.
[0:50:28 – 0:50:30] Adam: Yes, that’s the true precious, isn’t it?
[0:50:32 – 0:50:35] Adam: So yeah, we’ve got some fresh fish caught and consumed.
[0:50:35 – 0:50:37] Adam: We’ve got a couple of nice stews.
[0:50:37 – 0:50:42] Adam: Some real good camp cooking in this episode, but you’re not supposed to be swimming in the precious waterfall pond, obviously.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:45] Adam: And they’re like, we’re going to shoot this little guy.
[0:50:45 – 0:50:49] Adam: But Mr. Frodo is a stand-up dude, and he saves him.
[0:50:49 – 0:50:54] Adam: He’s like, no, this creature is entrusted to my care, and please don’t shoot him.
[0:50:54 – 0:50:55] Adam: I’ll go get him out of your pond.
[0:50:56 – 0:50:57] Adam: What a guy.
[0:50:57 – 0:51:01] Adam: Will Captain Faramir show his quality?
[0:51:02 – 0:51:03] Adam: He’s the captain.
[0:51:03 – 0:51:03] Adam: He’s the captain.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:12] Adam: Will Brago and Aragorn save Helm’s Deep?
[0:51:13 – 0:51:14] Adam: I think they will.
[0:51:15 – 0:51:17] Adam: What exactly is in this stew?
[0:51:19 – 0:51:22] Adam: Where was Gondor when the Westwood fell?
[0:51:24 – 0:51:24] Adam: Remember, friends.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:30] Adam: Snow takes many forms, and sometimes it takes no form at all.
[0:51:30 – 0:51:32] Adam: I’m going to leave it there.
[0:51:32 – 0:51:43] Adam: Got a lot of questions to answer in the final part of the two towers, and hopefully by the next time you hear my voice, there will be some actual snow.
[0:51:44 – 0:51:45] Adam: Thanks for being here.
[0:51:48 – 0:51:52] Adam: Have a good night, and may you enjoy the rest of your anti-winter.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:53] Adam: Good night.
