Dark times, but remember comrades, you’re the thing itself.
Source material: The Manitous, Cat’s Cradle, Andor.
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[0:00:01 – 0:00:17] AdamSnowLog: Just as food is meant for every living being, human and animal, so Kitchi Manitou set aside and appointed a place and a time for all beings to make homes for themselves and their offspring, wherein they could seek shelter from the wind, rain, and snow, and take refuge from their enemies.
[0:00:18 – 0:00:23] AdamSnowLog: No one was granted primacy or dominion over the earth or another species.
[0:00:24 – 0:00:43] AdamSnowLog: Indeed, if there is a primacy of any kind, it may well be that birds, insects, animals, fish, and even plants possess a primacy to a greater degree than do human beings, by virtue of their capacity to fend for themselves without assistance from other beings, human or otherwise.
[0:00:44 – 0:00:49] AdamSnowLog: With the exception of corn and perhaps dogs, no animal or plant needs anything from humankind.
[0:00:50 – 0:00:52] AdamSnowLog: No such claim can be made of human beings.
[0:00:55 – 0:01:12] AdamSnowLog: Having no need of human beings and endowed with their own natures, attributes, and independence, eagles, bears, butterflies, and whitefish, representing the various species of the earth, are humankind’s co-tenants upon the land, sharing the yield and fruit of Mother Earth.
[0:01:14 – 0:01:18] AdamSnowLog: Such was the order of life that Kitchy Manitou’s vision intended and ordained.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:30] SPEAKER_02: Why in the night sky are the lights hung?
[0:01:32 – 0:01:36] SPEAKER_02: Why is the earth moving round the sun?
[0:01:38 – 0:01:47] SPEAKER_02: Floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one Why in the night sky are the lights hung?
[0:01:54 – 0:01:56] AdamSnowLog: Bonjour, hivernants.
[0:01:56 – 0:02:01] AdamSnowLog: My name is Francois Lacastor, coming to you live from the snow globe.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:07] AdamSnowLog: This is your snow log for January 17th, 2026.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:12] AdamSnowLog: Since last week’s show, we got… Let’s find it.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:14] AdamSnowLog: We got three inches.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:16] AdamSnowLog: It could have been a lot more.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:22] AdamSnowLog: Honestly, it was kind of windy and, you know, snow is hard to measure, but…
[0:02:23 – 0:02:31] AdamSnowLog: It’s officially 3 inches for the week, which puts us up to 33 inches for the winter.
[0:02:33 – 0:02:38] AdamSnowLog: And it’s currently 3 degrees Fahrenheit.
[0:02:40 – 0:02:41] AdamSnowLog: Man, it’s been a cold one today.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:50] AdamSnowLog: I did take the snowshoes and arrow and stomped the trail down to the river and kind of walked around on the river out back.
[0:02:51 – 0:02:53] AdamSnowLog: And I didn’t last long, I’ll be honest.
[0:02:53 – 0:02:54] AdamSnowLog: It was really cold.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:56] AdamSnowLog: And I’ve been ill.
[0:02:58 – 0:03:00] AdamSnowLog: I’ve been ill all week.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:08] AdamSnowLog: And today was, like, just woke up just, like, so dry and stuffed up and just not fully charged.
[0:03:08 – 0:03:16] AdamSnowLog: So I don’t know if you can hear it, but I’m not 100%, but, you know, we continue on.
[0:03:17 – 0:03:26] AdamSnowLog: I was thinking back on last week’s episode where I did the reading from Cat’s Cradle about the…
[0:03:28 – 0:03:29] AdamSnowLog: The carass.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:32] AdamSnowLog: I’m pretty sure the tumble homies are all a carass.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:33] AdamSnowLog: Am I wrong?
[0:03:33 – 0:03:36] AdamSnowLog: I think this is the correct interpretation of it.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:41] AdamSnowLog: So thanks for being here, anybody that’s listening, especially the winter tumble homies.
[0:03:41 – 0:03:44] AdamSnowLog: We’re definitely a carass of a different nature.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:46] AdamSnowLog: I hope I’m saying that right.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:48] AdamSnowLog: What a fun word.
[0:03:49 – 0:03:52] AdamSnowLog: Nobody here gives their real name, though.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:55] AdamSnowLog: So, that’s what’s fun about it.
[0:03:57 – 0:04:00] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, 33 inches on the ground out there.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:06] AdamSnowLog: And, yeah, it’s just been kind of a cold and wicked week.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:09] AdamSnowLog: Dark times.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:12] AdamSnowLog: Dark times, dumb homies.
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] AdamSnowLog: I have to have a sip.
[0:04:18 – 0:04:22] AdamSnowLog: Literally, like, the mining machines are on the doorstep of the Boundary Waters.
[0:04:22 – 0:04:24] AdamSnowLog: A vote seems imminent.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:38] AdamSnowLog: I mean, you know, nothing’s assured yet, but it’s probably not going to get through the Senate, but it’s alarming how close those mines are.
[0:04:39 – 0:04:42] AdamSnowLog: And, yeah, we’re in the middle of another civil war.
[0:04:44 – 0:04:55] AdamSnowLog: I never thought I’d be able to live through the Second Civil War, but it’s here in the streets in the great state of Minnesota.
[0:04:56 – 0:04:57] AdamSnowLog: No goons up here.
[0:04:57 – 0:05:04] AdamSnowLog: I haven’t seen any goons up in Grand Marais, but we’re ready for them.
[0:05:05 – 0:05:11] AdamSnowLog: I would expect to see them up here at some point, but stay strong down there.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:12] AdamSnowLog: I’m sorry.
[0:05:15 – 0:05:20] AdamSnowLog: I’m sorry, but I’m also, I’m proud of the people down there and what you’re doing.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:22] AdamSnowLog: I’m glued to my phone.
[0:05:23 – 0:05:26] AdamSnowLog: I’m trying to keep track of the news.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:29] AdamSnowLog: It’s horrifying, but it is uplifting.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:32] AdamSnowLog: Positive mental attitude, homies.
[0:05:33 – 0:05:34] AdamSnowLog: We will win this.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:36] AdamSnowLog: Let’s well do Nord.
[0:05:38 – 0:05:38] AdamSnowLog: Let’s well do Nord.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:41] AdamSnowLog: Um…
[0:05:43 – 0:05:44] AdamSnowLog: We do have some good news.
[0:05:44 – 0:05:49] AdamSnowLog: The Tumble Homey Tumble Trip for 2026 destination has been selected.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:53] AdamSnowLog: It was on the subreddit 11 hours ago.
[0:05:55 – 0:06:00] AdamSnowLog: And the South Arm of Knife is the winner.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:02] AdamSnowLog: Beat out Cherry Lake.
[0:06:02 – 0:06:03] AdamSnowLog: Been a pretty close vote.
[0:06:04 – 0:06:08] AdamSnowLog: Again, not a ton of winter Tumble Homey traffic out there, but…
[0:06:08 – 0:06:32] AdamSnowLog: i don’t know quite a few votes um a lot of people interested in going on the tumble trip i think the new format’s pretty exciting uh definitely still looking for some people who would maybe want to be a trip leader um looks like the trip will be in september so south arm and knife and honestly cherry got so many votes we should probably just do a side trip to cherry we’re gonna be right there
[0:06:33 – 0:06:33] AdamSnowLog: Might as well.
[0:06:35 – 0:06:38] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, shout out to South Arm of Knife.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:39] AdamSnowLog: It’s been a long time since I’ve been there.
[0:06:41 – 0:06:53] AdamSnowLog: So I got to really look at the schedule here and make sure I can figure this out to get over there because it sounds like there’s going to be homies coming from all directions descending on Eddie Falls at some point.
[0:06:53 – 0:06:58] AdamSnowLog: So if you’re interested, check out the Discord, check out the subreddit.
[0:06:58 – 0:06:59] AdamSnowLog: There’s a lot of…
[0:07:00 – 0:07:03] AdamSnowLog: A lot of ways to get involved if you want to, and you should.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:04] AdamSnowLog: It’s going to be a great time.
[0:07:06 – 0:07:10] AdamSnowLog: Another way I was trying to cheer up since I was home sick, I actually stayed home from work.
[0:07:10 – 0:07:11] AdamSnowLog: It’s unprecedented.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:15] AdamSnowLog: I never stay home from work for being sick, and I was just, like, feverish.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:20] AdamSnowLog: So, of course, I was like, this seems like a good time to start Andor.
[0:07:20 – 0:07:23] AdamSnowLog: I was listening back on the album of the year.
[0:07:24 – 0:07:43] AdamSnowLog: episode and we were talking some movies and TV in there and that Andor keeps coming back up you know and I had started it and watched the first episode and but that was like seven months ago I don’t know I never got it around to watching the second episode and then I got then it was too long since I’d started it so
[0:07:45 – 0:07:54] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know, I restarted it this week and watched the first three episodes of Andor, which seems like a pretty good show to be watching right now.
[0:07:55 – 0:07:56] AdamSnowLog: We’re part of the rebellion again.
[0:07:59 – 0:08:03] AdamSnowLog: Goddamn Confederates are occupying the Twin Cities.
[0:08:03 – 0:08:07] AdamSnowLog: Honestly, God, what’s happening out here?
[0:08:09 – 0:08:10] AdamSnowLog: But anyways, I’m going to watch Andor.
[0:08:11 – 0:08:18] AdamSnowLog: I’m going to try and keep my mind off the news for 45 minutes at a time every once in a while.
[0:08:21 – 0:08:23] AdamSnowLog: Man, they chose the wrong person to annoy.
[0:08:23 – 0:08:23] AdamSnowLog: Casa.
[0:08:24 – 0:08:24] SPEAKER_02: Casa.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:30] AdamSnowLog: Um, I will say I have seen Rogue One.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:39] AdamSnowLog: So my plan is there’s, you know, probably 12 of these left, maybe if I do one every week until April.
[0:08:39 – 0:08:44] AdamSnowLog: So I’m looking at it and there’s 24 episodes and or plus definitely got to watch Rogue One again.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:49] AdamSnowLog: So I’ve not seen Andor other than the first three episodes right now.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:52] AdamSnowLog: So this is just my saying.
[0:08:52 – 0:09:00] AdamSnowLog: If anybody out there is somehow behind me on this and hasn’t started Andor yet, I would highly encourage you to hit pause right now.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:01] AdamSnowLog: Spoilers ahead.
[0:09:03 – 0:09:10] AdamSnowLog: You know, this isn’t a Lord of the Rings scenario where it’s been 20 years and I can just free willy talk about whatever happened in Mordor.
[0:09:12 – 0:09:14] AdamSnowLog: This is still a pretty new show.
[0:09:14 – 0:09:15] AdamSnowLog: So I don’t know.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:18] AdamSnowLog: There’s probably people who haven’t gotten to watch it.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:24] AdamSnowLog: So if you’re interested in watching it, maybe pause here and try and start watching it.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:30] AdamSnowLog: And maybe we can get a little thread going on the TCC Discord on Andor.
[0:09:30 – 0:09:34] AdamSnowLog: But just be mindful on the spoilers because I’m only three episodes in.
[0:09:34 – 0:09:35] AdamSnowLog: There’s a lot of people who haven’t started it.
[0:09:35 – 0:09:37] AdamSnowLog: So just be careful what you say out there.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:43] AdamSnowLog: But like I said, I have seen Rug 1, but that was a long time ago, so I don’t know.
[0:09:43 – 0:09:49] AdamSnowLog: I’m definitely going to re-watch Rug 1 after I finish up both seasons of Andor this winter.
[0:09:49 – 0:09:50] AdamSnowLog: So that’s the plan.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:57] AdamSnowLog: That and reading Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut and The Manitou’s by Basil Johnson.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:02] AdamSnowLog: That’s the programming, I think, for the rest of winter.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:04] AdamSnowLog: I don’t think there’ll be any more surprises.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:06] AdamSnowLog: There’ll definitely be some dog sledding news in there.
[0:10:07 – 0:10:18] AdamSnowLog: But it’s mostly going to be snow reports, ski genre rapport, maybe some ice fishing rapport, you know, bird count rapport, and then, yeah, these three items.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:21] AdamSnowLog: These two books and a show.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:23] AdamSnowLog: That’s what we’re going to go with.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:28] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, man, they messed with the wrong guy to annoy.
[0:10:28 – 0:10:28] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know.
[0:10:28 – 0:10:33] AdamSnowLog: He’s looking for his sister, and he shouldn’t have done that.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:35] AdamSnowLog: I feel like this is like…
[0:10:38 – 0:10:44] AdamSnowLog: It’s like No Country where he goes back to give the guy the water and you’re like, man, you shouldn’t do this.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:45] AdamSnowLog: You just can see.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:48] AdamSnowLog: Don’t be telling people what planet you were born on.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:52] AdamSnowLog: Don’t be going into the Primor security zone or whatever.
[0:10:52 – 0:10:57] AdamSnowLog: These Primor bastards.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:03] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, but he’s looking for his sister and he ain’t gonna find her there.
[0:11:06 – 0:11:08] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, he ends up messing those guys up.
[0:11:09 – 0:11:12] AdamSnowLog: And that puts the whole chain of motion into…
[0:11:13 – 0:11:15] AdamSnowLog: Puts the whole chain of motion into motion.
[0:11:16 – 0:11:18] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, like I said, I’m not 100%.
[0:11:20 – 0:11:21] AdamSnowLog: But man, what a setup.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:32] AdamSnowLog: I do like that the little robot, B2, needs extra batteries to lie.
[0:11:33 – 0:11:37] AdamSnowLog: He’s like, I will lie on behalf of you, but I gotta charge up more.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:40] AdamSnowLog: Which is, I’m sure, true.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:41] AdamSnowLog: I hadn’t really thought of it that way.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:51] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, to be sneaky or telling a fib or just straight up being an evil bastard liar, that’s gotta take so much extra energy.
[0:11:52 – 0:12:10] AdamSnowLog: can you imagine what these how much energy these ice goons are taking to like be such awful people just heinous individuals and they’re out there and it’s like it’s just ass cold out there right now so that takes a lot of energy too so they’re probably exhausted and they ain’t gonna last
[0:12:12 – 0:12:15] AdamSnowLog: These Confederacy guys, they’re going to have to go back south soon.
[0:12:15 – 0:12:17] AdamSnowLog: So just hang in there.
[0:12:18 – 0:12:20] AdamSnowLog: Nonviolent, peaceful protest will win.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:21] AdamSnowLog: It always does.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:23] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know what they’re thinking, honestly.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:24] AdamSnowLog: It’s ridiculous.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:27] AdamSnowLog: And I don’t know.
[0:12:27 – 0:12:28] AdamSnowLog: You’re in Andor now.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:30] AdamSnowLog: We’re on the side of the rebellion right away.
[0:12:30 – 0:12:34] AdamSnowLog: We’re not going to put up with these corporate boys talking to us like this.
[0:12:35 – 0:12:37] AdamSnowLog: It just takes them out.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:41] AdamSnowLog: But, yeah, they’re like, we got to find out who did this.
[0:12:41 – 0:12:47] AdamSnowLog: There’s this little sassy boy, this sassy little pig, Inspector Karn.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:49] AdamSnowLog: Jesus, dude.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:54] AdamSnowLog: You’re basically let off the hook, just like, don’t worry about this.
[0:12:54 – 0:12:56] AdamSnowLog: Make something up.
[0:12:57 – 0:13:00] AdamSnowLog: Don’t go after this while I’m gone, and don’t put your feet on my desk.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:02] AdamSnowLog: And then as soon as he leaves, he’s like, you know what?
[0:13:02 – 0:13:14] AdamSnowLog: We’re going to go invade this planet where we were not wanted and looking for this guy that was probably justifiably, like, you know, they said right away, the guy they killed was an a-hole.
[0:13:16 – 0:13:35] AdamSnowLog: um you’re kind of simultaneously getting glimpses back to like when he was a boy on canary and you know walking away from his sister at the end of episode one you’re just like yeah that’s classic the drums the drums indicate that he’s probably never going to see his sister again huh it’s pretty sad way to end the first episode
[0:13:37 – 0:13:57] AdamSnowLog: uh and then of course in episode two you find out immediately there’s a goddamn fucking evil mine pit mine mining disaster it’s like of course why did i choose to start watching this and i’m hooked right away because yeah oh you put a mine pit as a villain in there like i’m all in on this now those primor bastards
[0:14:00 – 0:14:17] AdamSnowLog: meanwhile he’s like got this part he’s trying to like he’s on the run now so then he’s got this fancy computer chip part I’m pretty sure this is a crucial part to the story and you know he’s like it’s worth a lot you gotta hook me up with your buddy so I can sell this thing and get the hell out of here
[0:14:20 – 0:14:25] AdamSnowLog: Because he told the brothel lady that he grew up on Canary.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:29] AdamSnowLog: And so, you know, they’re like, who would have said something like this?
[0:14:29 – 0:14:30] AdamSnowLog: And it’s like, it was me.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:33] AdamSnowLog: I’m sorry, it was me.
[0:14:33 – 0:14:37] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, this buyer’s coming, though, and he’s gonna get to meet him.
[0:14:39 – 0:14:45] AdamSnowLog: A great line I liked from the company Stooges or whatever, these clown car boys.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:48] AdamSnowLog: There’s pockets of fomenting.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:51] AdamSnowLog: The best way to keep a blade sharp is to use it.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:58] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, they’re going to this planet where if you can’t find it, it’s not worth finding, which I do like that, too.
[0:14:58 – 0:14:59] AdamSnowLog: They got everything.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:01] AdamSnowLog: What’s the name of the planet?
[0:15:01 – 0:15:03] AdamSnowLog: I don’t think I have it here.
[0:15:07 – 0:15:09] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, third episode.
[0:15:11 – 0:15:19] AdamSnowLog: The buyer finally shows up, and you get to see, like, as a boy, like, how Kasa meets Marva and B2 on that ship that crashes on their planet.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:21] AdamSnowLog: Like, why did that thing crash?
[0:15:22 – 0:15:23] AdamSnowLog: What’s going on with that thing?
[0:15:25 – 0:15:31] AdamSnowLog: They’re looting it or something, and they find this native boy, like, spearing around with his blow dart gun.
[0:15:32 – 0:15:33] AdamSnowLog: They’re like, I don’t know.
[0:15:33 – 0:15:34] AdamSnowLog: We got to bring him with us.
[0:15:34 – 0:15:37] AdamSnowLog: We can’t let him fall to the Empire?
[0:15:37 – 0:15:38] AdamSnowLog: Or is it the Republic?
[0:15:38 – 0:15:39] AdamSnowLog: Like, I don’t know.
[0:15:40 – 0:15:40] AdamSnowLog: Forgive me.
[0:15:41 – 0:15:43] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know my Star Wars that much.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:45] AdamSnowLog: I think this is the Empire already, huh?
[0:15:46 – 0:15:49] AdamSnowLog: But these are like corporate boys who are just like working a contract job.
[0:15:50 – 0:15:53] AdamSnowLog: This is like Blackwater, right?
[0:15:53 – 0:15:55] AdamSnowLog: Or is it more like Ice Boys?
[0:15:55 – 0:15:56] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know.
[0:15:57 – 0:15:59] AdamSnowLog: These ice goons slipping on the ice.
[0:15:59 – 0:16:00] AdamSnowLog: Just hilarious.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] AdamSnowLog: We need more ice in this show.
[0:16:05 – 0:16:13] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, Luthen is the guy, the buyer, and he’s like, yeah, I want that fancy chip, man, but you are the thing itself.
[0:16:14 – 0:16:19] AdamSnowLog: He came all this way to just meet the guy because he needs solid dudes for his crew.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:26] AdamSnowLog: So you’re kind of like seeing the path of young Kassa and then the path of modern-day Kassa.
[0:16:27 – 0:16:27] AdamSnowLog: Kassian.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:31] AdamSnowLog: just like layering together, which I love it.
[0:16:32 – 0:16:34] AdamSnowLog: You know, time jumps.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:37] AdamSnowLog: It allows for a lot of mystery and great setups.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:38] AdamSnowLog: Yeah.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:42] SPEAKER_02: But I don’t know.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:46] AdamSnowLog: Don’t ever open your door for the goons, that’s for sure.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] AdamSnowLog: You just keep them outside.
[0:16:49 – 0:16:52] AdamSnowLog: They’re so fat and satisfied they can’t even imagine it.
[0:16:52 – 0:16:54] AdamSnowLog: The arrogance is remarkable.
[0:16:56 – 0:17:00] AdamSnowLog: Uh, yeah, I should just like rewatch episode three again tonight.
[0:17:00 – 0:17:01] AdamSnowLog: Uh, it’s so good.
[0:17:02 – 0:17:09] AdamSnowLog: Uh, but yeah, they kind of get their ass kicked in, uh, going into enemy territory, trying to, they’re supposed to be part of your empire.
[0:17:10 – 0:17:13] AdamSnowLog: And you go in there kicking their doors down like a bunch of maniacs.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:14] AdamSnowLog: Oh, they don’t like that.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:15] AdamSnowLog: Yeah.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:25] AdamSnowLog: It turns out people think that sucks and there’s no way you’re winning on the ground and you’re definitely not winning the public relations battle, uh,
[0:17:26 – 0:17:29] AdamSnowLog: Everybody can see it immediately.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:30] AdamSnowLog: You guys are just outsiders.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:32] AdamSnowLog: You’re wearing stupid outfits.
[0:17:33 – 0:17:34] AdamSnowLog: And you got your ass kicked.
[0:17:37 – 0:17:38] AdamSnowLog: We’re under siege.
[0:17:38 – 0:17:59] AdamSnowLog: they’re everywhere, yeah, you guys got it, you got what, you got what was coming, Karn, though, I think, survives, I think, I’m pretty sure, it’s Karn in Rogue One, I’m pretty sure Karn, like, becomes a general or an admiral or something, of course, he’s gonna, but he should be in trouble, because he didn’t listen, you know, and that’s what’s important, you just gotta listen,
[0:18:04 – 0:18:12] AdamSnowLog: I tell you what, I got me a Fulton Hop Kingdom American IPA with a walleye on it.
[0:18:12 – 0:18:16] AdamSnowLog: I accidentally dropped this one yesterday, so I had to let it settle.
[0:18:16 – 0:18:19] AdamSnowLog: So I got the dented Hop Kingdom over here.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:25] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, I’m really looking forward to watching the rest of Andor.
[0:18:26 – 0:18:32] AdamSnowLog: We’re going to leave you with another passage from Cat’s Cradle to end tonight’s show.
[0:18:35 – 0:18:54] AdamSnowLog: there are several ways dr breed said to me in which certain liquids can crystallize can freeze several ways in which their atoms can stack and lock in an orderly rigid way that old man with spotted hands invited me to think of the several ways in which cannon balls might be stacked on a courthouse lawn
[0:18:55 – 0:18:58] AdamSnowLog: of the several ways in which oranges might be packed into a crate.
[0:19:00 – 0:19:06] AdamSnowLog: So it is with atoms and crystals too, and two different crystals of the same substance can have quite different physical properties.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:12] AdamSnowLog: He told me about a factory that had been growing big crystals of ethylenediamine tartrate.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:22] AdamSnowLog: The crystals were useful in certain manufacturing operations, he said, but one day the factory discovered that the crystals it was growing no longer had the properties desired.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:27] AdamSnowLog: The atoms had begun to stack and lock, to freeze, in a different fashion.
[0:19:28 – 0:19:36] AdamSnowLog: The liquid that was crystallizing hadn’t changed, but the crystals it was forming were, as far as industrial applications went, pure junk.
[0:19:38 – 0:19:40] AdamSnowLog: How this had come about was a mystery.
[0:19:40 – 0:19:42] AdamSnowLog: The theoretical villain, however, was what Dr.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:44] AdamSnowLog: Breed called a seed.
[0:19:44 – 0:19:50] AdamSnowLog: He meant by that a tiny grain of the undesired crystal pattern.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:59] AdamSnowLog: The seed, which had come from God only knows where, taught the atoms the novel way in which to stack and lock, to crystallize, to freeze.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:06] AdamSnowLog: Now think about cannonballs on a courthouse lawn or about oranges in a crate again, he suggested.
[0:20:07 – 0:20:14] AdamSnowLog: And he helped me to see that the pattern at the bottom layer of cannonballs, or of oranges, determined how each subsequent layer would stack and lock.
[0:20:14 – 0:20:17] AdamSnowLog: The bottom layer is the seed of how every cannonball…
[0:20:17 – 0:20:24] AdamSnowLog: or every orange that comes after is going to behave, even to an infinite number of cannonballs or oranges.
[0:20:25 – 0:20:27] AdamSnowLog: Now suppose, chortled Dr.
[0:20:27 – 0:20:32] AdamSnowLog: Breed, enjoying himself, that there were many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:41] AdamSnowLog: Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put in highballs, what we might call Ice I, is only one of several types of ice.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:54] AdamSnowLog: suppose water always froze as ice one on earth because it had never had a seed to teach it how to form ice two or ice three ice four and suppose he rapped on his desk with his old hand again
[0:20:56 – 0:21:08] AdamSnowLog: that there was one form, which we will call Ice Nine, a crystal as hard as this desk, with a melting point of, let us say, 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or better still, a melting point of 130 degrees.
[0:21:09 – 0:21:11] AdamSnowLog: All right, I’m still with you, I said.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:17] AdamSnowLog: Dr. Burrito was interrupted by whispers in his outer office, whispers loud and portentous.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:19] AdamSnowLog: They were the sounds of the girl pool.
[0:21:20 – 0:21:25] AdamSnowLog: The girls were preparing to sing in the outer office, and they did sing as Dr.
[0:21:25 – 0:21:26] AdamSnowLog: Breed and I appeared in the doorway.
[0:21:27 – 0:21:34] AdamSnowLog: Each of about a hundred girls had made herself into a choir girl by putting on a collar of white bond paper secured by a paper clip.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:36] AdamSnowLog: They sang beautifully.
[0:21:37 – 0:21:39] AdamSnowLog: I was surprised and mawkishly heartbroken.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:44] AdamSnowLog: I’m always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing.
[0:21:46 – 0:21:48] AdamSnowLog: The girls sang A Little Town of Bethlehem.
[0:21:49 – 0:21:58] AdamSnowLog: I am not likely to forget very soon their interpretation of the line, The hopes and fears of all the years are here with us tonight.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:05] AdamSnowLog: Remember, comrades, snow takes many forms.
