Exciting day at the Gunflint Mailrun; these stone had within them a property that was Manitoulike. An egg cracked from outside is food, from within, a revolution.
Source material: The Manitous, Cat’s Cradle, Andor.
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Episode Transcript
[0:00:01 – 0:00:06] AdamSnowLog: Four young men, not yet in their twenties, had been friends since childhood.
[0:00:06 – 0:00:09] AdamSnowLog: When they were children, they would often sit on the shore in the evening
[0:00:10 – 0:00:19] AdamSnowLog: watching the sunset and speculating on what lay beyond the horizon, certain that the land on the other side was much fairer than their own encampment.
[0:00:20 – 0:00:33] AdamSnowLog: As they grew older, they still met frequently in the evenings, but the topics of their conversations had shifted from speculations on the fairness of the land to the West and life’s prospects in their present lot and outlook.
[0:00:36 – 0:00:41] AdamSnowLog: The discussions that these young men had about their conditions and a better life was not just idle talk.
[0:00:41 – 0:00:51] AdamSnowLog: Theirs was of a draggled little band, constantly on the move in pursuit of animals who, also, were constantly on the move, in retreat before the onslaught of hunters.
[0:00:52 – 0:01:03] AdamSnowLog: If the band’s lot became desperate in winter, it was not because moose, deer, elk, and other animals were scarce, but rather because the herds had no fixed habitat.
[0:01:04 – 0:01:17] AdamSnowLog: Seldom did the band remain in one place for long before the men and women had to dismantle their lodges, pack their possessions, and resume their trek in search of the territory where animals dwelt permanently and in large numbers.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:25] AdamSnowLog: If the band was to come upon such a land, they would erect their lodges and found a village that would be home.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:33] AdamSnowLog: But the fulfillment of that hope and dream was always one night off and just beyond the horizon.
[0:01:36 – 0:01:36] AdamSnowLog: In the meantime,
[0:01:37 – 0:01:48] AdamSnowLog: They would all have to suffer hardship, forced to eat bark and moss from time to time and listen to the cries of hungry children, and to leave behind the bodies of their kin and neighbors who had succumbed to sickness.
[0:01:50 – 0:01:55] AdamSnowLog: There were times when blood would be spilled, both theirs and that of other bands, for the same bounty.
[0:01:57 – 0:02:02] AdamSnowLog: The years of moving without ever coming to the land of the plenty took a toll on their spirits.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:15] AdamSnowLog: All the hunters and their families grew discouraged, humiliated, and dejected by their failures, distrustful of their holy men and women, and even doubtful of the Manitou’s.
[0:02:17 – 0:02:28] AdamSnowLog: more and more anxious over the well-being and future of their children, fretful of the winter, and fearful of the wendigos who stalked the hungry camps, lying in wait for an incautious hunter.
[0:02:30 – 0:02:33] AdamSnowLog: In their gloom and depression, they quarreled with one another.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:39] AdamSnowLog: They were not a happy lot, but they pressed on, solely to survive.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:54] AdamSnowLog: The four young friends at last agreed that if every family had enough food, clothing, health, and strength to survive the winter, everyone would be content and enjoy peace of mind and spirit.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:56] AdamSnowLog: This was all that men and women sought in life.
[0:02:57 – 0:02:59] AdamSnowLog: If only there was enough food in winter.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:02] AdamSnowLog: If only the animals had a fixed habitat.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:05] AdamSnowLog: If only there was a way of storing food.
[0:03:06 – 0:03:07] AdamSnowLog: Life would be rewarding.
[0:03:08 – 0:03:10] AdamSnowLog: If only, if only.
[0:03:12 – 0:03:20] AdamSnowLog: The idea that such a place must exist or be in the hands of the Manitous preoccupied the four friends.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:22] AdamSnowLog: They made up their minds to find this place.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:28] AdamSnowLog: When they confided their convictions and their plans to the wise men and women,
[0:03:29 – 0:03:36] AdamSnowLog: They didn’t receive as much encouragement as they had hoped, or as much opposition as they had expected.
[0:03:37 – 0:03:40] AdamSnowLog: The holy men and women weren’t helpful in giving them direction or guidance.
[0:03:42 – 0:03:52] AdamSnowLog: About the only worthwhile information they were given was that only a Manitou could bring about the changes they craved, and that such a Manitou dwelt somewhere in the West.
[0:03:55 – 0:04:01] AdamSnowLog: The four friends left with good wishes for a successful mission, along with the doubts and sarcasm of skeptics.
[0:04:02 – 0:04:08] AdamSnowLog: For some months, the four traveled on foot before they came to a great river about which they had heard much.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:12] AdamSnowLog: To get across the river, they had to construct a raft.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:21] AdamSnowLog: A day’s travel beyond this, the greatest of rivers, they came upon a hovel recessed in a grove of trees.
[0:04:22 – 0:04:24] AdamSnowLog: From within came moans barely audible.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:37] AdamSnowLog: Drawn by these faint and pitiful groans, the young men entered the hovel and found an old woman, all skin and bones, who, from her pallor and glazed eyes, looked as if she had not much longer to live.
[0:04:38 – 0:04:39] AdamSnowLog: The old woman was beyond help.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:48] AdamSnowLog: There were only two things the young men could do, keep her as comfortable as possible and watch over her until the end came, and they could bury her.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:58] AdamSnowLog: Since the old woman’s lodge was cold and she shivered and convulsed with chills, two of the young men cut wood and made a fire, while the other two went hunting for food for their meal.
[0:05:01 – 0:05:06] AdamSnowLog: When the lodge warmed up from the fire, the old woman ceased shivering and fell into a deep sleep.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:08] AdamSnowLog: In the morning, she awakened hungry.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:13] AdamSnowLog: After the young men gave her some broth, the old woman immediately fell asleep once more.
[0:05:17 – 0:05:26] AdamSnowLog: The young men waited, one always in the lodge next to the old woman, the others nearby outside, watching and waiting for the end.
[0:05:29 – 0:05:31] AdamSnowLog: But it did not come as they expected it would.
[0:05:34 – 0:05:40] AdamSnowLog: Each time the old woman woke up, she said she was hungry, and the young men fed her, then she would fall asleep again.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:46] AdamSnowLog: So certain the young men had been that the old woman was doomed, that her recovery was akin to a miracle.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:58] AdamSnowLog: It was gratifying to the young men to provide some service during the old woman’s recovery, but what they should do with her when she had fully regained her health bedeviled them.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:02] AdamSnowLog: They guessed her age to be about 90.
[0:06:02 – 0:06:05] AdamSnowLog: They could not very well leave her alone.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:10] AdamSnowLog: And yet, they dared not ask her personal questions for fear of offending her.
[0:06:11 – 0:06:15] AdamSnowLog: And they weren’t certain that what they had done was the right thing by caring for her.
[0:06:16 – 0:06:24] AdamSnowLog: But it was the old woman, as curious about them as they were about her, who asked the first personal question the moment she was well enough to sit up.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:29] AdamSnowLog: She wanted to know what had brought them so far from home.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:37] AdamSnowLog: At first, they refused to tell her where they were bound, thinking she would laugh at them as few others had done.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:43] AdamSnowLog: But in the end, they overcame their reservations and told her what they were doing in her part of the world.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:46] AdamSnowLog: To their relief, the old woman didn’t laugh at them.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:51] AdamSnowLog: Instead, she asked, And for yourselves, what do you want?
[0:06:53 – 0:06:59] AdamSnowLog: They answered that they wanted no more than what they wanted for their kin and neighbors.
[0:07:01 – 0:07:06] AdamSnowLog: they would be more than content if sustenance were more readily available in winter at present.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:15] AdamSnowLog: What they wanted more than anything else was enough food and remedies to keep them from starving, to restore them to health when they were sick, and to prolong their lives.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:28] AdamSnowLog: And what they wanted as much as anything else was to see their brothers and sisters, kin and neighbors, live in friendship instead of the spitefulness and petty jealousy that prevailed in their communities.
[0:07:31 – 0:07:34] AdamSnowLog: If such a life were possible, what more can men and women wish for?
[0:07:36 – 0:07:40] AdamSnowLog: The old woman told the young men that she could grant them what they wished.
[0:07:42 – 0:07:47] AdamSnowLog: This is what they had come to hear, but when they heard it, they didn’t believe it.
[0:07:48 – 0:07:49] AdamSnowLog: They asked her who she was.
[0:07:50 – 0:07:54] AdamSnowLog: They needed to have some proof that she could be extraordinary.
[0:07:56 – 0:08:14] AdamSnowLog: The old woman told them that she was Musa Kimikwa, and to show that she could do only what a Manitou could do, she asked for a branch and caused it to bloom with apples, and the young men were convinced.
[0:08:17 – 0:08:28] AdamSnowLog: Before they left, Musa Kumakwe gave each of the young men a little medicine bundle with instructions that under no circumstances were they to open the bundles until they returned to their village.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:33] AdamSnowLog: If they opened the bundles sooner, the talisman would be undone.
[0:08:35 – 0:08:42] AdamSnowLog: At home, each young man was to make a beverage with the medicine from his bundle and then drink it.
[0:08:44 – 0:08:48] AdamSnowLog: On the way back, the four young men were tempted many times to open their bundles.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:58] AdamSnowLog: The farther they drew away from the old woman, the more skeptical they became, questioning how much the small bundles could possibly benefit their people’s ills and needs.
[0:08:59 – 0:09:03] AdamSnowLog: They even began to harbor suspicions that Mother Earth might be gulling them.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:09] AdamSnowLog: But, in the end, the four friends kept their bundles unopened out of fear of what might happen.
[0:09:11 – 0:09:16] AdamSnowLog: Amid welcomes, the young men were also greeted with good-natured kidding and irony at home.
[0:09:16 – 0:09:19] AdamSnowLog: Well, did you bring home a better life?
[0:09:19 – 0:09:24] AdamSnowLog: the people asked, which was well meant, but nevertheless nettled them.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:34] AdamSnowLog: In secret, along with a great deal of skepticism, the four friends each prepared a beverage from the contents of the medicine bundles.
[0:09:35 – 0:09:37] AdamSnowLog: Nothing happened, as they had feared.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:45] AdamSnowLog: The four friends did not long survive their disillusionment and sense of betrayal, and with days of one another, they died from broken hearts.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:49] AdamSnowLog: But a remarkable thing happened.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:57] AdamSnowLog: Out of the grave of the first young man grew a tree whose seeds begot countless offspring that became thick green forests.
[0:09:57 – 0:10:07] AdamSnowLog: In these forests, deer, moose, caribou, elk, rabbits, and partridge took refuge and made their homes, and the men and women set their lodges and shelters.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:14] AdamSnowLog: The hunters and their families no longer had to trudge through the snow day after endless day in quest of food.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:22] AdamSnowLog: and they found that the leaves, cones, resins, boughs, roots, and bark of the evergreen trees were medicinal and healthful.
[0:10:24 – 0:10:30] AdamSnowLog: The second youth’s grave yielded a plant that grew into a tall tree, whose bark was white and soft yet strong.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:42] AdamSnowLog: This tree produced other tall white trees that the Anishinaabe people called wigwas, whose outer bark is white and luminous, fragile and delicate,
[0:10:43 – 0:10:50] AdamSnowLog: From the delicate bark of these trees the people constructed their wigwamun, canoes, utensils, containers.
[0:10:51 – 0:10:56] AdamSnowLog: Their holy men and women inscribed their chants, psalms, prayers, and ideas on the sacred scrolls.
[0:10:58 – 0:11:01] AdamSnowLog: Even woodpeckers and their kin drew their drink from the sap of the birch.
[0:11:03 – 0:11:12] AdamSnowLog: Atop the third youth’s burial mound, there appeared slate-colored stones of different sizes, quite unlike any seen up to that time in that part of the country.
[0:11:13 – 0:11:17] AdamSnowLog: And unlike any other stones, they multiplied until they covered the ground.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:26] AdamSnowLog: For a long time, the people would have nothing to do with the stones because of the presentiment born of the unnatural origin of the rock.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:33] AdamSnowLog: This foreboding turned into fear when some people discovered that when the stones were struck together, they produced sparks.
[0:11:36 – 0:11:39] AdamSnowLog: These stones had within them a property that was Manitou-like.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:55] AdamSnowLog: It took time, but eventually the descendants of this youth overcame their fear and learned that the sparks fed best upon birch bark, tinder, and resin, and gave birth to fire that was both immense benefit and destruction.
[0:11:57 – 0:12:02] AdamSnowLog: Once they possessed this flint, the people no longer needed to carry coals with them wherever they went.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:06] AdamSnowLog: From then on, they carried two edges of flint, a handful of tinder, and layers of birch bark.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:09] AdamSnowLog: Life and work became a little easier.
[0:12:13 – 0:12:27] AdamSnowLog: The fourth grave also yielded a new and different plant that flourished like the other plants, but unlike most other plants that served some useful purpose for humans and animals, this new plant didn’t appear to have any use to any living thing.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:34] AdamSnowLog: For years, people neglected the plant until someone finally stuffed its leaves in a pipe for something to smoke.
[0:12:35 – 0:12:42] AdamSnowLog: These leaves certainly produced a more fragrant aroma than did ordinary leaves and grasses, and they burned more slowly.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:45] AdamSnowLog: There is something about this plant.
[0:12:46 – 0:13:06] AdamSnowLog: neither medicine nor food that made it more fitting than any other substance to be used as incense to be offered in thanksgiving to kitschy manitou and propitiation to the manitous who presided over victims slain for their flesh and in gratitude and respect to muzi kumukwe the aneshnaabe peoples called it
[0:13:08 – 0:13:16] AdamSnowLog: From a neglected plant, semu became sacred, hallowed by its use in the pipe of peace-smoking ceremony.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:22] AdamSnowLog: With tobacco, people sought the goodwill of the Manitus.
[0:13:22 – 0:13:31] AdamSnowLog: But, with so much ill-will, suspicion, and disagreement within the village, there is as much need to obtain the goodwill of kin and neighbors.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:44] AdamSnowLog: Since tobacco was meant for the Manitous and was therefore sacred, the Anishinaabe people, like other North American Indians, gave it as a gift wherever they needed a favor from their kin and neighbors.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:54] AdamSnowLog: The donor could give nothing of greater benefit or worth than that which would bring the recipient the goodwill of the Manitous.
[0:13:58 – 0:14:01] SPEAKER_01: I’ve got a friend named Woojah B.
[0:14:01 – 0:14:03] SPEAKER_01: He’s a clown as you will see.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:06] SPEAKER_01: He’ll look quick when you turn around.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:11] SPEAKER_01: There’s Woojah B. calling down.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:18] SPEAKER_01: He likes birds and butterflies, but he don’t like the bumblebee.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:21] SPEAKER_01: And when I leave him, oh, he cries.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:24] SPEAKER_01: That is my Woojah B.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:40] SPEAKER_01: All the way, now when I take him for a ride, he lays down right by my side.
[0:14:41 – 0:14:47] SPEAKER_01: He likes birds and butterflies, but he don’t like the bumblebee.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:53] SPEAKER_01: And when I leave him, oh, he cries, that is my woe-ja-bee.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:57] AdamSnowLog: All right.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:57] AdamSnowLog: Bonjour.
[0:14:59 – 0:15:01] AdamSnowLog: My name is Francois.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:02] AdamSnowLog: Coming to you live from the snow globe.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:12] AdamSnowLog: It’s gunfoot mail run day and we all love the birds and the butterflies.
[0:15:12 – 0:15:13] AdamSnowLog: That’s true.
[0:15:17 – 0:15:18] AdamSnowLog: Got your snow log report here.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:23] AdamSnowLog: Since the last episode, we’ve had another three inches.
[0:15:24 – 0:15:27] AdamSnowLog: We’re just getting three inches every week, I guess.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:31] AdamSnowLog: Brings us to 39 inches of snow.
[0:15:32 – 0:15:36] AdamSnowLog: It’s so fluffy, you can’t get enoughy.
[0:15:36 – 0:15:45] AdamSnowLog: I was up on the gunpoint trail today, and I took a step off the side and went right in up to my…
[0:15:47 – 0:16:07] AdamSnowLog: up to my knee yeah it was uh quite deep off the side of the trail and uh doesn’t seem like doesn’t seem like 39 inches is that much but um it really does hold up in the woods anyhow
[0:16:08 – 0:16:32] AdamSnowLog: yeah, we were up at the Gunflint Mail Run all day, and, uh, had a beautiful breakfast at Poplar House, and, uh, got to watch a bunch of dogs ago, and today was quite the day, so, um, I do have a little, I had a quote, I gotta find my, like, pictures here, hold on a second, folks, and, uh,
[0:16:34 – 0:16:53] AdamSnowLog: been on the internet and I was reading some stuff on the internet I found this quote and I liked it a lot and then I read the Manitou’s passage last night that I was gonna start the show with tonight so I
[0:16:55 – 0:17:17] AdamSnowLog: I reread it, and normally I’m, like, of the mind that you just read it, even with mistakes and all, but I end up trying to rerecord it, like, twice, at least, uh, you know, have some respect for the quote from Basil Johnson, but, uh, anyways, this is unrelated completely from, uh,
[0:17:19 – 0:17:20] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:25] AdamSnowLog: I’m not even going to try and source where this quote came from, but I found it on the internet.
[0:17:26 – 0:17:29] AdamSnowLog: A revolution must be started by yourself.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:34] AdamSnowLog: An egg opened from the outside is food.
[0:17:35 – 0:17:39] AdamSnowLog: Opened from the inside, it is a new life.
[0:17:41 – 0:17:57] AdamSnowLog: and i had planned to read that no matter what onto this week’s snow log episode and then i read that passage from the manatees and i was like oh yeah no this fits pretty well actually same concept right
[0:17:59 – 0:18:13] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, yeah, three inches of snow, so 39 inches total, and the John Deere isn’t running great, so I ordered a new carb, and nobody wants to replace a carb in February.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:18] AdamSnowLog: Not a great time to be doing that, but…
[0:18:19 – 0:18:20] AdamSnowLog: There’s something wrong with the float.
[0:18:20 – 0:18:21] AdamSnowLog: The float’s not floating.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:24] AdamSnowLog: Everybody out here knows it.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:26] AdamSnowLog: Everybody out here understands.
[0:18:27 – 0:18:31] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, we’ve just been in this like northwest flow pattern.
[0:18:34 – 0:18:41] AdamSnowLog: The jet stream is just dipping down and scooping underneath us and keeping all the moisture south of us.
[0:18:42 – 0:19:07] AdamSnowLog: denying us the moisture we need we need the moisture folks and if it’s being shunned by the uh the the stream then it’s not gonna get up here and we’re just gonna be getting a little like tidbits we’re getting these little like tiny half inch at a time storms multiple times a week which is fine because everything looks beautiful
[0:19:10 – 0:19:13] AdamSnowLog: But we need it to shift back down south.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:22] AdamSnowLog: We need that jet stream to go on and get so we can start getting some of that, like, moisture and Pacific, you know.
[0:19:25 – 0:19:27] AdamSnowLog: We need the Pacific jet, baby.
[0:19:27 – 0:19:27] AdamSnowLog: Come on.
[0:19:29 – 0:19:38] AdamSnowLog: We need that trough to get down south and start dragging the moisture up from, you know, like, Kansas and the Gulf of Mexico.
[0:19:38 – 0:19:39] AdamSnowLog: Come on.
[0:19:43 – 0:19:43] AdamSnowLog: People love it.
[0:19:44 – 0:19:45] AdamSnowLog: The Gulf of Mexico.
[0:19:47 – 0:19:50] AdamSnowLog: Um… Gunflint Mail Run.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:52] AdamSnowLog: We were out there.
[0:19:52 – 0:19:54] AdamSnowLog: We did make it, and we saw everybody.
[0:19:54 – 0:19:57] AdamSnowLog: Am I skipping ahead too far?
[0:19:57 – 0:19:58] AdamSnowLog: I don’t think so.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:03] AdamSnowLog: We got the Ouija P. Yeah.
[0:20:04 – 0:20:06] AdamSnowLog: Gunflint Mail Run, baby.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:08] AdamSnowLog: Uh…
[0:20:10 – 0:20:14] AdamSnowLog: For whatever reason, we will never question Sarah.
[0:20:15 – 0:20:20] AdamSnowLog: Always wise, the race was moved behind the Bear Grease.
[0:20:21 – 0:20:27] AdamSnowLog: It’s usually used as like a warm-up race for the Bear Grease and is usually held in early January.
[0:20:28 – 0:20:32] AdamSnowLog: But due to poor conditions, it just like got canceled a couple times.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:38] AdamSnowLog: And those are unusual conditions that are just never going to repeat themselves.
[0:20:40 – 0:20:44] AdamSnowLog: But whatever, it got moved back, and so it was after the Bear Grease.
[0:20:44 – 0:20:59] AdamSnowLog: And we had some teams from the Bear Grease in the mail run, but it’s just weird, like, having a 60-mile sprint race being held after the marathon, if you know what I mean.
[0:20:59 – 0:21:03] AdamSnowLog: That said, it was a…
[0:21:05 – 0:21:28] AdamSnowLog: very good race and a beautiful day to be out on the trail and me and viri and pike uh got out there and hung out with the rest of the crew on uh on the trail and then natalie did come out and uh we all got to have like poplar house breakfast at the end amazing like they had a special breakfast menu
[0:21:30 – 0:21:35] AdamSnowLog: And I got peaches and cream wontons.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:37] AdamSnowLog: We all shared those.
[0:21:38 – 0:21:44] AdamSnowLog: And then I had the breakfast burger, which is incredible.
[0:21:44 – 0:21:53] AdamSnowLog: A mix of spicy peppers and sweet bacon on top of a whole burger with a fried egg on top.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:54] AdamSnowLog: I mean, Jesus Christ.
[0:21:55 – 0:22:02] AdamSnowLog: And Natalie got the roast beef hash, which came in literally with a lake of hollandaise.
[0:22:04 – 0:22:12] AdamSnowLog: And then our friends, they got like the biscuits and gravy, which was like homemade biscuits, homemade gravy.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:17] AdamSnowLog: And my buddy also got the burger.
[0:22:20 – 0:22:21] AdamSnowLog: But the whole menu looked insane.
[0:22:22 – 0:22:25] AdamSnowLog: And it was very cold.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:27] AdamSnowLog: I got up at 6 o’clock in the morning.
[0:22:28 – 0:22:30] AdamSnowLog: No, I got up at 5.45.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:31] AdamSnowLog: I got up at like 5.40.
[0:22:35 – 0:22:36] AdamSnowLog: I had an alarm set.
[0:22:36 – 0:22:36] AdamSnowLog: Hold on a sec.
[0:22:37 – 0:22:38] AdamSnowLog: I had an alarm set.
[0:22:42 – 0:22:43] AdamSnowLog: I think it’s time for a beer, honestly.
[0:22:43 – 0:22:48] AdamSnowLog: I’m having myself a Galactic Face Slap from Ursa Minor.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:50] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, no.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:51] AdamSnowLog: I don’t have a big…
[0:22:51 – 0:22:52] AdamSnowLog: This is a big, tall beer.
[0:22:52 – 0:22:54] AdamSnowLog: I’ve been working my ass off all day.
[0:22:55 – 0:22:56] AdamSnowLog: My back’s sore.
[0:22:58 – 0:23:01] AdamSnowLog: I got ribs in the slow cooker right now.
[0:23:01 – 0:23:03] AdamSnowLog: I’ve been busting it, folks.
[0:23:05 – 0:23:05] AdamSnowLog: Thank you.
[0:23:05 – 0:23:06] AdamSnowLog: I deserve this beer.
[0:23:13 – 0:23:13] AdamSnowLog: Oh, yeah.
[0:23:13 – 0:23:14] AdamSnowLog: That’s very good.
[0:23:16 – 0:23:16] AdamSnowLog: Oh, yes.
[0:23:16 – 0:23:17] SPEAKER_01: That’s very good.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:24] AdamSnowLog: Yeah.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:27] AdamSnowLog: It’s a thing of beauty, you know?
[0:23:27 – 0:23:28] AdamSnowLog: It’s a beautiful Saturday.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:32] AdamSnowLog: Got the whole family out there.
[0:23:32 – 0:23:34] AdamSnowLog: Got to see the pups going.
[0:23:34 – 0:23:42] AdamSnowLog: We got a nice, it was a lunch, but it was a brunch, you know.
[0:23:45 – 0:23:50] AdamSnowLog: Anyhow, I got the bibs.
[0:23:50 – 0:23:51] AdamSnowLog: I got the times.
[0:23:55 – 0:24:16] AdamSnowLog: um yeah i do i have it all it was a great race and honestly great to see people out there and however cold it felt when we left the house it was six 16 below or whatever and i think it was still honestly 16 below and we got to loon lake where we’re gonna like get out of the truck and go watch
[0:24:19 – 0:24:26] AdamSnowLog: But, you know, we knew it was going to warm up, and it wasn’t any wind whatsoever.
[0:24:26 – 0:24:36] AdamSnowLog: So, like, 16 below with zero wind is far better than 20 degrees above zero with wind, if that makes any sense to anybody out there.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:40] AdamSnowLog: Anybody who’s lived up north will know that what I’m saying is true.
[0:24:41 – 0:24:45] AdamSnowLog: It was 16 below, but zero wind, and the sun was up.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:47] AdamSnowLog: So it was quite delightful.
[0:24:50 – 0:25:11] AdamSnowLog: um anyways spoiler alerts going forward i’m going to be discussing the results of the race and what happened and it was all over facebook and honestly at this point if you don’t know what happened then go back and watch the live feeds from the gunplant mail runs official facebook page
[0:25:12 – 0:25:18] AdamSnowLog: which is run by Kathy Quinn, and she is a real delight.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:21] AdamSnowLog: She’s a big dog fan.
[0:25:21 – 0:25:23] AdamSnowLog: She’s the best, honestly.
[0:25:25 – 0:25:29] AdamSnowLog: Everybody listening to this could benefit from knowing Kathy Quinn.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:33] AdamSnowLog: She’s honestly one of the best people ever created.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:42] AdamSnowLog: All right, we’re going to go down it in bib order, and then we’ll recreate it from the top.
[0:25:42 – 0:25:47] AdamSnowLog: Aaron Altimus, bib one, was the first team we did see come through.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:51] AdamSnowLog: We got out there, and I wanted to leave by 7 a.m., and…
[0:25:56 – 0:25:58] AdamSnowLog: I’ll tell you what, I was up.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:01] AdamSnowLog: I had everything ready.
[0:26:02 – 0:26:04] AdamSnowLog: And the kids were not getting up.
[0:26:05 – 0:26:08] AdamSnowLog: And I was like, well, I don’t want to wake up sleeping children.
[0:26:08 – 0:26:09] AdamSnowLog: That’s ridiculous.
[0:26:10 – 0:26:15] AdamSnowLog: So finally, at like 7.15, I was like, okay, I’m going to wake up these sleeping children.
[0:26:15 – 0:26:16] AdamSnowLog: This is ridiculous.
[0:26:16 – 0:26:17] AdamSnowLog: Like, we got to go.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:18] AdamSnowLog: So I had the truck going.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:20] AdamSnowLog: The dog was walked.
[0:26:20 – 0:26:21] AdamSnowLog: The coffee was brewed.
[0:26:22 – 0:26:29] AdamSnowLog: got the kids up, just slammed them into their sleeping bags, into their, uh, snowsuits and threw them in the truck.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:41] AdamSnowLog: And we, off we went, we got up there and, uh, I wanted to leave at seven and we left at seven 45, which all things considered not bad.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:42] AdamSnowLog: Uh, we got up there
[0:26:44 – 0:26:46] AdamSnowLog: Got through Trail Center.
[0:26:46 – 0:26:49] AdamSnowLog: It’s just a zoo because it’s the start time.
[0:26:49 – 0:26:55] AdamSnowLog: And we finally got up to where like Loon Lake, like by nine, wandered into the woods.
[0:26:55 – 0:26:58] AdamSnowLog: And I’m like fully expecting we’ve missed half the teams or something.
[0:26:59 – 0:26:59] AdamSnowLog: Walk in.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:00] AdamSnowLog: Nope.
[0:27:01 – 0:27:02] AdamSnowLog: Nobody’s come through yet.
[0:27:03 – 0:27:04] AdamSnowLog: We’re about 10 minutes out.
[0:27:04 – 0:27:07] AdamSnowLog: It looks like Matt Schmidt was there.
[0:27:07 – 0:27:09] AdamSnowLog: He had the tracker going because he had like 5G.
[0:27:12 – 0:27:22] AdamSnowLog: And Aaron was bib one and he was there with his daughter and Roni and the daughter.
[0:27:22 – 0:27:26] AdamSnowLog: They just started like jumping in the snow and playing in the deep snow.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:28] AdamSnowLog: It was nice to have another kid out there.
[0:27:30 – 0:27:32] AdamSnowLog: He’s like, yeah, no, she’s like 10 minutes out.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:36] AdamSnowLog: So we all got to, I set up some chairs.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:38] AdamSnowLog: We were hanging out a little bit and yeah, sure enough.
[0:27:38 – 0:27:39] AdamSnowLog: Here, here we go.
[0:27:39 – 0:27:44] AdamSnowLog: Here comes Bib one, Aaron Altimus, our neighbor, uh, dear friend.
[0:27:46 – 0:27:48] AdamSnowLog: And, uh, she went by him first.
[0:27:50 – 0:27:54] AdamSnowLog: I think Eva Kalaji, Bib 3, went through second.
[0:27:55 – 0:27:58] AdamSnowLog: And I honestly got the shortest musher I’ve ever seen.
[0:27:59 – 0:28:03] AdamSnowLog: Like, barely looked like she could see above the handlebars.
[0:28:03 – 0:28:11] AdamSnowLog: And I’m always thinking, like, you know, me and my buddies used to, like, make a big deal out of the Kentucky Derby back in the day.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:14] AdamSnowLog: Like, little tiny jockeys.
[0:28:15 – 0:28:15] AdamSnowLog: Like…
[0:28:16 – 0:28:20] AdamSnowLog: And you go to a dog sled race, and it’s mostly these, like, big, fat guys.
[0:28:24 – 0:28:26] AdamSnowLog: It’s mostly big, fat, like, crazy-looking guys.
[0:28:28 – 0:28:35] AdamSnowLog: And then you see Eva Kalaji go by, and you’re like, that looked like a child that was, like, an adult-sized child.
[0:28:37 – 0:28:39] AdamSnowLog: She went flying by.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:51] AdamSnowLog: Bill Seba, Elena Frecking, Emily Ford, and I do have to give a shout-out that Emily Ford’s team wins Best Dressed.
[0:28:52 – 0:28:57] AdamSnowLog: Because, frankly, they’re the only ones who are all wearing coats.
[0:28:57 – 0:29:01] AdamSnowLog: And they weren’t even matching, but they had a similar pattern going.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:04] AdamSnowLog: And they had really nice looking coats.
[0:29:05 – 0:29:12] AdamSnowLog: And Emily Ford’s team looked great, so they get the Best Dressed Award for this year’s Mail Run.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:24] AdamSnowLog: Brian Bergen, he’s from up in Ontario, I believe, and he waved, but it was like a really…
[0:29:24 – 0:29:31] AdamSnowLog: He wasn’t like… Brian, if you’re listening to this, give a little bit of enthusiasm on your wave, man.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:34] AdamSnowLog: Make us believe you’re actually waving to us, please.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:36] AdamSnowLog: We’re waving to you.
[0:29:37 – 0:29:38] AdamSnowLog: We are trying our best.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:41] AdamSnowLog: We had Jen Frecking…
[0:29:43 – 0:29:58] AdamSnowLog: Julia Cross, who I had the baby out there with us, and the baby seemed not to be totally interested in anything happening, and then Julia Cross’s team went by, and the baby just started wildly waving and like, eh.
[0:29:58 – 0:30:04] AdamSnowLog: I wouldn’t say giggling, but she was having a good time.
[0:30:04 – 0:30:09] AdamSnowLog: And she clearly was amused and enjoyed seeing Julia Cross’s team come through.
[0:30:10 – 0:30:11] AdamSnowLog: Bib 9.
[0:30:12 – 0:30:16] AdamSnowLog: So you get the baby girl stamp of approval.
[0:30:17 – 0:30:19] AdamSnowLog: And I will also concur.
[0:30:19 – 0:30:20] AdamSnowLog: Your team looked great.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:23] AdamSnowLog: And also, it doesn’t hurt to be friendly.
[0:30:23 – 0:30:24] AdamSnowLog: We all like that.
[0:30:26 – 0:30:27] AdamSnowLog: Sean Dowalski.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:44] AdamSnowLog: bib 13 he was like the third one through and this is the guy who just won the gunflint uh i’m sorry he just won the bear grease mid-distance race the 120.
[0:30:47 – 0:31:13] AdamSnowLog: and i don’t know uh i heard a lot of rumors about this guy’s program and he’s got like all his dogs are wired into the 5g somehow and on some sort of like holographic voice command but i did watch the i heard this no i’ll go back i heard this from somebody they’re like everybody if you’ve ever been to a dog sledding race
[0:31:14 – 0:31:26] AdamSnowLog: They are bringing the dogs up to the line and then like parking them and throwing the hook in And like you have like five or six people like holding this team back from like running off Please wait
[0:31:27 – 0:31:55] AdamSnowLog: until it’s their time to leave, and then they’re like, okay, okay, all right, let him go, and then they’re off, and then Sean Dawalski, I heard this from somebody, and then I did go and watch Facebook to confirm this, and they’re like, yeah, no, he just unassisted drives his team up to the line, parks them, and then tells them like, all right, hike, hike, and they go, which is
[0:31:57 – 0:32:02] AdamSnowLog: Normally, I’d be pretty skeptical because, like, you just can’t control dogs in that way.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:11] AdamSnowLog: But this guy has apparently won every single race he’s entered with this team in the last two years, hands down.
[0:32:11 – 0:32:13] AdamSnowLog: He’s got a great website.
[0:32:13 – 0:32:15] AdamSnowLog: Go check it out if you can find it.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:26] AdamSnowLog: Every race this team has entered, they have won, including the Bear Grease mid-distance race three weeks ago.
[0:32:26 – 0:32:27] AdamSnowLog: They just thrashed them.
[0:32:28 – 0:32:29] AdamSnowLog: Just went out and won it by an hour.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:32] AdamSnowLog: Nobody’s winning the Bear Grease 120 by an hour.
[0:32:33 – 0:32:39] AdamSnowLog: I saw that result, and honestly, I thought it was, like, a tracker glitch or some sort of mistake.
[0:32:39 – 0:32:39] AdamSnowLog: No.
[0:32:41 – 0:32:48] AdamSnowLog: Sean DeWalski and these, like, hound dogs and these greyhounds from Alaska came down and just ripped it.
[0:32:49 – 0:32:59] AdamSnowLog: Like, this is like a, they have this, they have, like, sprint racing circuits up in Alaska that you and I are probably not aware of.
[0:33:02 – 0:33:03] AdamSnowLog: But this guy’s into it.
[0:33:05 – 0:33:07] AdamSnowLog: And this team is like flying.
[0:33:07 – 0:33:08] AdamSnowLog: They look really good.
[0:33:08 – 0:33:28] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, they came flying through and it was just like, it was honestly like, holy shit, these guys are moving.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:36] AdamSnowLog: And then, but see what happened was there was 11 teams.
[0:33:38 – 0:33:46] AdamSnowLog: And it turned out that the three fastest teams were, like, the three last teams to go through because you’re like, wow, they went through fast.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:47] AdamSnowLog: They look crazy.
[0:33:49 – 0:33:55] AdamSnowLog: And then Alyssa Sabatino came through, and she looked like she was really going fast.
[0:33:56 – 0:33:58] AdamSnowLog: And then, of course, Rita.
[0:33:59 – 0:34:06] AdamSnowLog: Rita comes through, bib 15, and just looks like she is going 18 miles an hour, which maybe she was.
[0:34:06 – 0:34:08] AdamSnowLog: It’s kind of downhill at that point.
[0:34:09 – 0:34:34] AdamSnowLog: you should not be going that fast with a team probably but i don’t know it’s a sprint race let’s go get it um so yeah they all went cruising through and we’re like okay but it wasn’t it wasn’t even that simple like it was basically eight minutes from where we were sitting until they would go up to the end and spin around and come back
[0:34:36 – 0:34:40] AdamSnowLog: So the whole time we’re out there, we are getting, like, repeat customers.
[0:34:41 – 0:34:44] AdamSnowLog: We got people passing each other, going in the opposite directions.
[0:34:46 – 0:34:50] AdamSnowLog: It was a lot of fun watching these teams because you’re like, oh, God.
[0:34:50 – 0:34:53] AdamSnowLog: You always think they’re going to get all tangled up or whatever.
[0:34:53 – 0:34:54] AdamSnowLog: These dogs just figure out a way.
[0:34:56 – 0:34:57] AdamSnowLog: They’re really smart.
[0:34:57 – 0:34:58] AdamSnowLog: These dogs are pretty funny.
[0:35:00 – 0:35:01] AdamSnowLog: But they know what they’re doing.
[0:35:04 – 0:35:09] AdamSnowLog: Anyhow, yeah, we stayed out there and watched the whole first circuit.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:14] AdamSnowLog: And the whole thing where we were sitting was like 45 minutes of like, here’s the first team coming through.
[0:35:15 – 0:35:18] AdamSnowLog: And then they went up there and turned around and came back.
[0:35:19 – 0:35:21] AdamSnowLog: And here comes the rest of them.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:23] AdamSnowLog: And it’s like, all right, well, it’s all over.
[0:35:23 – 0:35:24] AdamSnowLog: 45 minutes flat.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:25] AdamSnowLog: Beautiful.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:27] AdamSnowLog: I mean, we were on the barrier race trail.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:30] AdamSnowLog: We were out there for like 14 hours to try and see…
[0:35:32 – 0:35:41] AdamSnowLog: you know, half as many dogs go by and you’re just watching all these dogs just like, here they come, they’re flying by and they’re all looking great.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:48] AdamSnowLog: Um, yeah, it’s just a really cool event.
[0:35:48 – 0:35:57] AdamSnowLog: So big shout out to Sarah at trail center and everybody else that’s involved in this race, um, making it happen.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:14] AdamSnowLog: really cool you guys to be doing this and you know there’s a lot of cool volunteers out there too helping out to make sure the road crossings are safe you know make sure everybody’s going in the right direction so
[0:36:18 – 0:36:24] AdamSnowLog: I was able to go and find the final order or whatever after two runs.
[0:36:24 – 0:36:31] AdamSnowLog: So you do two runs up to the Gunplant Lake turnaround kind of thing and then back to trial center.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:36] AdamSnowLog: One in the morning, three-hour mandatory break, and then one more in the afternoon.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:38] AdamSnowLog: Rita!
[0:36:40 – 0:36:41] SPEAKER_01: Rita!
[0:36:41 – 0:36:47] AdamSnowLog: Rita had started with ten dogs and on the second run only had nine dogs.
[0:36:47 – 0:36:55] AdamSnowLog: And then Sean Dowalski had only started with eight dogs to begin with, even though you’re allowed ten.
[0:36:56 – 0:37:00] AdamSnowLog: And on the second run, he only had seven that were going with him, so…
[0:37:02 – 0:37:26] AdamSnowLog: you know as a musher you’re kind of always assessing like what what do they look like you know it might even it might not even be that something’s wrong with the dog it’s just that like that dog is not feeling it that day you got to get him out of the team so second run starts and rita leaves with a five minute lead with two extra dogs
[0:37:28 – 0:37:29] AdamSnowLog: Compared to Sean.
[0:37:29 – 0:37:32] AdamSnowLog: And that’s not necessarily, like, a problem.
[0:37:33 – 0:37:39] AdamSnowLog: Seven faster dogs are going to be faster than nine medium dogs, if that makes sense.
[0:37:40 – 0:37:40] AdamSnowLog: So…
[0:37:42 – 0:37:46] AdamSnowLog: In the end, though, spoiler, spoiler, spoiler.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:48] AdamSnowLog: Like, go and watch it.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:49] AdamSnowLog: Pause right now.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:54] AdamSnowLog: Go to the Gunfoot Mail Run Facebook page and watch the finish.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:54] AdamSnowLog: It’s great.
[0:37:55 – 0:38:03] AdamSnowLog: Kathy Quinn is calling the action and watching the teams coming around the point, coming into TC Bay.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:05] AdamSnowLog: It’s…
[0:38:06 – 0:38:27] AdamSnowLog: um you’re not gonna get many dog sled races with like a finish that close and it was really fun to see it because we’d been out there and we watched them all go by and yeah they look great you come home you’re like sitting by the fire and you just get to watch the finish live on facebook hell yeah
[0:38:30 – 0:38:46] AdamSnowLog: And if I had been guessing who was going to win, I would have said, well, the guy who has won every single race for the last two years and who came down from Alaska and just mopped up and won the Bear Grease 120 by like an hour.
[0:38:48 – 0:38:51] AdamSnowLog: But no, he left five minutes behind, and he did close the gap.
[0:38:52 – 0:38:53] AdamSnowLog: It was so close.
[0:38:53 – 0:38:54] AdamSnowLog: But Rita.
[0:38:54 – 0:38:55] AdamSnowLog: Rita.
[0:38:56 – 0:38:57] AdamSnowLog: Rita.
[0:38:58 – 0:38:59] AdamSnowLog: Cook County’s Rita.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:03] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, Rita won.
[0:39:03 – 0:39:04] AdamSnowLog: Rita won big time.
[0:39:05 – 0:39:08] AdamSnowLog: She came flying in.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:10] AdamSnowLog: Those dogs look so good.
[0:39:12 – 0:39:17] AdamSnowLog: Came flying in, and Sean was, like, right behind her.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:22] AdamSnowLog: Like, he left five minutes behind, and I think it was 30 seconds was the gap.
[0:39:23 – 0:39:30] AdamSnowLog: So you don’t get many races of 60 to 70 miles where the gap is, like, 30 seconds at the end.
[0:39:32 – 0:39:32] AdamSnowLog: Pretty cool.
[0:39:33 – 0:39:34] AdamSnowLog: Both teams look great.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:38] AdamSnowLog: Thank you for all the entertainment.
[0:39:38 – 0:39:43] AdamSnowLog: And Alyssa Sabatino is in third.
[0:39:43 – 0:39:46] AdamSnowLog: Aaron Altimus, our neighbor, was in fourth.
[0:39:48 – 0:39:52] AdamSnowLog: Jen Frecking, dear friend of Prontel in fifth.
[0:39:53 – 0:40:01] AdamSnowLog: Brian Bergen, Julia Cross, Emily Ford, Alina Frecking, and Eva Kalugi.
[0:40:02 – 0:40:08] AdamSnowLog: And I just want to say, yeah, Bill Seema.
[0:40:08 – 0:40:11] AdamSnowLog: Bill Seema was also in the race and did not complete the second run.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:14] AdamSnowLog: And he didn’t make it past our, like, encampment.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:18] AdamSnowLog: And wanted to make sure I gave him a shout-out.
[0:40:20 – 0:40:39] AdamSnowLog: yeah it’s a beautiful thing dogs no dog sled racing anyhow um yeah i think we’re back down to like about zero right now 27 humidity
[0:40:44 – 0:40:49] AdamSnowLog: And I got one more little passage to read and then I think we’re gonna get out of here.
[0:40:49 – 0:40:51] AdamSnowLog: So thanks for being here tonight.
[0:40:58 – 0:41:05] AdamSnowLog: The seating on the airplane bound ultimately for San Lorenzo for Miami was 3-3, as it happened.
[0:41:07 – 0:41:18] AdamSnowLog: As it was supposed to happen, my seatmates were Horlick Minton, the new American ambassador to the Republic of San Lorenzo, and his wife, Claire.
[0:41:19 – 0:41:22] AdamSnowLog: They were white-haired, gentle, and frail.
[0:41:23 – 0:41:29] AdamSnowLog: Minton told me that he was a career diplomat, holding the rank of ambassador for the first time.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:45] AdamSnowLog: He and his wife had so far served, he told me, in Bolivia, Chile, Japan, France, Yugoslavia, Egypt, the Union of South Africa, Liberia, and Pakistan.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:49] AdamSnowLog: They were lovebirds.
[0:41:49 – 0:42:03] AdamSnowLog: They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts, sights worth seeing out of the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:09] AdamSnowLog: They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bocanon calls a duplace.
[0:42:09 – 0:42:13] AdamSnowLog: which is a cross composed of only two people.
[0:42:14 – 0:42:22] AdamSnowLog: A true Dupras, Bokudan tells us, can’t be invaded, not even by children born of such a union.
[0:42:23 – 0:42:41] AdamSnowLog: I exclude the mittens, therefore, from my own carass, from Frank’s carass, from Newt’s carass, from Asa Breed’s carass, from Angela’s carass, from Lyman Ender’s Knoll’s carass, from Sherman Krebs’ carass.
[0:42:41 – 0:42:45] AdamSnowLog: The mitten’s carass was a tidy one, composed of only two.
[0:42:49 – 0:42:51] AdamSnowLog: I should think you’d be very pleased, I said to Mitten.
[0:42:53 – 0:42:54] SPEAKER_01: What should I be pleased about?
[0:42:55 – 0:42:58] AdamSnowLog: Pleased to have the rank of ambassador?
[0:43:00 – 0:43:08] AdamSnowLog: From the pitying way Minton and his wife looked at each other, I gathered that I had said a fat-headed thing, but they humored me.
[0:43:09 – 0:43:15] AdamSnowLog: Yes, Winston Minton, I am very pleased, he smiled wildly.
[0:43:16 – 0:43:18] AdamSnowLog: I am deeply honored.
[0:43:20 – 0:43:24] AdamSnowLog: And so it went with almost every subject I brought up.
[0:43:24 – 0:43:26] AdamSnowLog: I couldn’t make the mittens bubble about anything.
[0:43:27 – 0:43:32] AdamSnowLog: For instance, I suppose you can speak a lot of languages, I said.
[0:43:32 – 0:43:37] AdamSnowLog: Oh, six or seven between us, said Mitten.
[0:43:38 – 0:43:40] AdamSnowLog: That must be very gratifying.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:42] AdamSnowLog: What must…
[0:43:44 – 0:43:48] AdamSnowLog: Being able to speak to people of so many different languages and nationalities?
[0:43:49 – 0:43:52] AdamSnowLog: Oh yes, very gratifying, said Minton.
[0:43:53 – 0:43:55] AdamSnowLog: Very gratifying, said his wife.
[0:43:57 – 0:44:02] AdamSnowLog: And they went back to reading a fat, typewritten manuscript that was spread across the chair armrests between them.
[0:44:05 – 0:44:07] AdamSnowLog: Tell me, I said a little later.
[0:44:09 – 0:44:14] AdamSnowLog: In all your wide travels, have you found people everywhere to be about the same at heart?
[0:44:15 – 0:44:15] AdamSnowLog: Hmm?
[0:44:16 – 0:44:17] AdamSnowLog: asked Minton.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:22] AdamSnowLog: Do you find people to be about the same at heart, wherever you go?
[0:44:25 – 0:44:30] AdamSnowLog: He looked at his wife, making sure she had heard the question, then turned back to me.
[0:44:30 – 0:44:35] AdamSnowLog: About the same, wherever you go, he agreed.
[0:44:37 – 0:44:38] AdamSnowLog: Um, I said.
[0:44:41 – 0:44:48] AdamSnowLog: Bokunan tells us, incidentally, that members of a Depress always die within a week of each other.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:55] AdamSnowLog: When it came time for the Mintons to die, they did it within the same second.
