Episode Transcript
[0:00:01 – 0:00:05] Adam: Well, you can make the cobras dance, but not me.
[0:00:06 – 0:00:07] Adam: Welcome to Snowlog.
[0:00:09 – 0:00:14] Adam: This is December 7th, 2025, and my name is Adam.
[0:00:14 – 0:00:18] Adam: I’m joined here in Studio V by my best man, Eric.
[0:00:19 – 0:00:20] Adam: Welcome to Snowlog, Eric.
[0:00:21 – 0:00:23] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know what to say.
[0:00:23 – 0:00:24] Erik: This is quite the honor.
[0:00:24 – 0:00:26] Erik: Let me know if I’m doing anything wrong.
[0:00:26 – 0:00:27] Erik: Okay.
[0:00:28 – 0:00:30] Adam: You can’t possibly do anything wrong.
[0:00:30 – 0:00:36] Adam: I’ve already explained the three rules of snow log to you, and it’s real simple format.
[0:00:36 – 0:00:38] Adam: So we’ll start out with the snow log update.
[0:00:39 – 0:00:43] Adam: Since Thanksgiving, we’ve had eight inches of snow at the tumble shed.
[0:00:43 – 0:00:45] Adam: I don’t know about, what did you have down here at Studio V?
[0:00:46 – 0:00:47] Adam: Do you think you got eight?
[0:00:48 – 0:00:48] Erik: Total?
[0:00:49 – 0:00:51] Erik: Over those last two storms or whatever?
[0:00:51 – 0:00:52] Adam: I had like three events.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:53] Adam: Yeah, one was one inch.
[0:00:54 – 0:00:55] Erik: I mean, you see what the yard looks like.
[0:00:56 – 0:00:57] Erik: Our driveway has not been plowed.
[0:00:57 – 0:01:08] Erik: Like that first storm, it literally like, I think the day I had to get up after it and drive to where I’ve been working, there was like almost 10 inches of snow.
[0:01:08 – 0:01:12] Erik: But here it was like, I don’t know, it looked like it was snowing, but I think it all blew into the lake.
[0:01:12 – 0:01:16] Adam: Wild variability in the snowfall all over Cook County.
[0:01:16 – 0:01:18] Adam: I’ve heard all sorts of reports, but yeah.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:22] Adam: It’s also been really fluffy, cold snow.
[0:01:22 – 0:01:23] Adam: And it’s been very windy.
[0:01:23 – 0:01:28] Adam: So yeah, there is, I haven’t had, uh, I did run the snowblower once.
[0:01:28 – 0:01:37] Adam: I, no plowing has been needed and yeah, it doesn’t look like eight, but if you measured it out, that’s how it comes out at the shed at least.
[0:01:37 – 0:01:42] Adam: But you know, with the wind like that, there’s been parts of the parts of the deck are just bare.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:45] Adam: And then parts of the deck are like, I had to shovel a few times.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:46] Adam: It just depends on which way the wind was going.
[0:01:47 – 0:01:50] Erik: Yeah, I haven’t had to do much in terms of snow removal.
[0:01:50 – 0:01:52] Erik: There is snow out there, but it’s just been swirling.
[0:01:53 – 0:01:56] Adam: 8 Fluffy is the current call on that snow log.
[0:01:56 – 0:01:57] Adam: So we’re off and running.
[0:01:58 – 0:02:01] Adam: So many other places around have more snow than us currently.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:07] Adam: But it’s looking like we got a couple Alberta Clippers coming in early next week, bud.
[0:02:07 – 0:02:08] Erik: Couple of Clippers.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:10] Erik: Couple of Clippers rolling in.
[0:02:10 – 0:02:14] Adam: Got a double whammy Alberta clipper looking forward to next week.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:20] Adam: So I’m going to try and do the snow logs weekly throughout the winter.
[0:02:22 – 0:02:23] Adam: But, yeah, a rare treat.
[0:02:23 – 0:02:25] Adam: You get both of us on a snow log.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:28] Adam: So you’re getting variable snow reporting out here.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:29] Adam: It’s pretty exciting.
[0:02:29 – 0:02:37] Erik: Yeah, Variable, enjoy it while it lasts because I’ve only got a few weeks left until I’m getting out of here, back into the hot air balloon.
[0:02:38 – 0:02:40] Erik: Once again, whichever way the wind blows.
[0:02:41 – 0:02:52] Adam: Yeah, we wanted to get in here this week, though, with a snow log and a brief programming update before we get to our question of the year, which is live now on the subreddit.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:54] Adam: And on the Facebook page.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:55] Erik: Is it?
[0:02:55 – 0:02:57] Adam: I did put it on the Facebook page.
[0:02:57 – 0:02:57] Adam: Oh, baby.
[0:02:57 – 0:02:58] Adam: I can’t wait for that.
[0:02:58 – 0:02:59] Adam: I didn’t copy-paste it.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:01] Adam: I reworded it for the Facebook crowd.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:02] Adam: Yeah, that’s…
[0:03:03 – 0:03:03] Adam: I simplified it.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:11] Erik: You definitely need some eye bleach for editing purposes from the… Quick.
[0:03:11 – 0:03:14] Erik: The subreddit post is a lot of parentheses and commas.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:17] Adam: I had to clean it up for the old folks over on Facebook.
[0:03:17 – 0:03:20] Adam: Any of y’all that are listening over there, you know I’m joking around.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:24] Adam: But we wanted to get both perspectives for the question of the year.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:28] Erik: What’s the standard editing, like formatting?
[0:03:28 – 0:03:29] Erik: Is there a term for it?
[0:03:29 – 0:03:31] Erik: Like MLA?
[0:03:32 – 0:03:33] Erik: What is it?
[0:03:33 – 0:04:00] Erik: oh for like what like style guide yes like you’re what a newspaper should look like yeah sure i broke a lot of rules yeah that’s fine i’m okay with that too yeah but it is basically the same question of the year we’ve always done where did you go obviously we’d love to hear we always love to see uh routes any obviously response to just that question um but i threw a little added wrinkle in and uh
[0:04:02 – 0:04:30] Erik: asked uh listeners what their best and worst aspects of their time in the parks borderland wilderness areas um outside of just where you went yeah and could be the best and the worst could be the same thing or could be two wildly different things uh it’s up to you to interpret that we’d love to see some responses to the uh the old tumble weedy subreddit that is does still exist uh it’s like uh
[0:04:32 – 0:04:37] Erik: It’s like a faded memory of a town, but it does still exist.
[0:04:37 – 0:04:46] Erik: And you can respond to it there or you can go to even the more faded memory of a town and go on our Facebook page and respond to it there.
[0:04:46 – 0:04:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:54] Adam: Out there, all they got is warm beer and night kangaroo hunts at the Facebook page right now.
[0:04:54 – 0:04:56] Adam: Oh, man, yeah.
[0:04:56 – 0:04:59] Adam: But I logged in quick to the Facebook.
[0:04:59 – 0:05:02] Adam: I posted the question, and then I logged out quick, and I got out of there.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:03] Adam: So we will crack that egg open.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:04] Adam: Grab and go.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:09] Adam: Probably on the winter solstice is how it’s going to look for the recording on that one.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:14] Adam: We’re aiming to do this one all in one big mega show on the solstice.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:21] Adam: The key ingredient is this one does contain wheat and total darkness and anchovies.
[0:05:21 – 0:05:23] Adam: We’re going to get into that one.
[0:05:23 – 0:05:29] Adam: Thank you for your responses, those of you who have already submitted and eloquently done so.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:34] Adam: Thank you also to those of you who are going to do so in the future.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:38] Adam: We’re trying to hype it up a little bit and
[0:05:38 – 0:05:42] Adam: Make sure that everybody is alert and aware of this is the plan.
[0:05:42 – 0:05:43] Adam: So get in there.
[0:05:44 – 0:05:48] Adam: In the meantime, we’re going to be working on some TCCs.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:49 – 0:05:53] Adam: We got a couple going tonight, and we got a couple other selections picked, Eric.
[0:05:53 – 0:05:58] Erik: We’ll probably do an album of the year episode, too.
[0:05:58 – 0:05:58] Erik: I would like to.
[0:05:59 – 0:06:06] Adam: Yeah, we got plenty of December left, so we’re going to do the question of the year and the album of the year episodes on the main feed.
[0:06:07 – 0:06:10] Adam: We’ll have a bunch of TCCs up for the Patreons.
[0:06:10 – 0:06:17] Adam: Thank you to your Patreon members for your continued support of this proud independent podcast.
[0:06:18 – 0:06:21] Adam: And, yeah, I’m going to keep the snow logs going, but they will be brief.
[0:06:21 – 0:06:29] Adam: Anybody who’s listened to the snow logs in the past knows one of the three rules is you’ve got to try and keep them under 10 minutes.
[0:06:29 – 0:06:31] Adam: So we’re going to follow that rule today.
[0:06:31 – 0:06:32] Adam: Don’t worry.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:33] Erik: Yeah, we’ve got three and a half minutes, man.
[0:06:33 – 0:06:38] Erik: We could really, really soak this.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:40] Adam: So what are the movies we’re doing, though?
[0:06:40 – 0:06:42] Adam: Tonight we’re doing Buckaroo Banzai.
[0:06:42 – 0:06:45] Erik: Tonight we are doing the adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.
[0:06:45 – 0:06:46] Erik: Across the 8th dimension.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:48] Erik: Transiting the 8th dimension.
[0:06:48 – 0:06:49] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:49 – 0:06:50] Erik: Big fan.
[0:06:50 – 0:06:51] Erik: Wild, wild ass ride.
[0:06:51 – 0:06:52] Erik: Great fun.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:55] Erik: And Wake and Fright, which is one of my favorites.
[0:06:55 – 0:06:57] Adam: I’d never seen Wake and Fright until last night.
[0:06:58 – 0:06:58] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:00] Adam: And wow.
[0:07:01 – 0:07:01] Adam: Holy wah.
[0:07:01 – 0:07:04] Erik: We are finally off the water.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:05] Erik: My God, I think so.
[0:07:05 – 0:07:11] Adam: These are two of the driest movies I’ve ever seen, except for Wake and Fright is very boozed up.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:12] Adam: It’s the wettest.
[0:07:12 – 0:07:13] Adam: It’s wet in a different way.
[0:07:13 – 0:07:15] Adam: It’s the wettest movie in a different way.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:20] Adam: I don’t think there’s any water bodies in either of these movies.
[0:07:21 – 0:07:28] Erik: Yeah, and before I watched Buckaroo Banzai, you said you’d watch both of them and that there is actually a lot in common.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:37] Erik: And it took me a while into Buckaroo Banzai to come to some of my own conclusions that I feel like that is an accurate statement.
[0:07:37 – 0:07:39] Erik: There’s some weird connections between these two movies.
[0:07:39 – 0:07:41] Adam: This is how it always works on Tumble Home.
[0:07:41 – 0:07:43] Adam: We randomly picked a movie each.
[0:07:43 – 0:07:46] Adam: We watched them back-to-back kind of the same nights.
[0:07:46 – 0:07:49] Adam: And yeah, there’s just a lot of weird connections between these two films.
[0:07:50 – 0:08:01] Adam: I think the only water in either movie is when that lady at the hotel front desk is just dipping her fingers in the water jug and rubbing it in our temples sitting by a fan.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:04] Adam: That’s the only water in either film.
[0:08:04 – 0:08:08] Erik: Yeah, so Wake and Fright, Buckaroo Banzai, that is happening.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:12] Erik: We’re going to not just post them all tonight, but we’ll probably put one of them out soon.
[0:08:13 – 0:08:19] Erik: And then we also have on the docket for TCCs, we’re finally going to do Fitzcarraldo.
[0:08:19 – 0:08:21] Adam: Yeah that one’s been on the whiteboard for a long time.
[0:08:21 – 0:08:23] Erik: Technically, we will get back on the water.
[0:08:23 – 0:08:26] Adam: Is that the one where they find the paddle boat in the middle of the desert?
[0:08:26 – 0:08:36] Erik: We will have to get back onto the water, but I think they spend most of the time trying to haul a large boat over a mountain in the jungle.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:36] Adam: That’s the one.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:37] Erik: Yeah.
[0:08:38 – 0:08:39] Erik: Was that Werner Herzog?
[0:08:39 – 0:08:39] Adam: I think so.
[0:08:39 – 0:08:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:40 – 0:08:41] Adam: And then Clear Cut.
[0:08:42 – 0:08:45] Adam: Clear Cut, which is on YouTube for free.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:48] Erik: I think Fitzcarraldo is also free on YouTube.
[0:08:48 – 0:08:51] Adam: That one was recommended by the Tumblehummies, urgently so.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:54] Erik: Buckaroo Banzai free on YouTube.
[0:08:54 – 0:08:58] Erik: So if you’re listening at home, you haven’t seen any of these movies and you want to watch them before we talk about them.
[0:08:58 – 0:09:00] Erik: Yeah, these are accessible.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:01] Erik: And then where did you find Wake and Fright?
[0:09:01 – 0:09:10] Erik: Because I did send you a picture earlier this week of the beautiful 4K disc that I have of it.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:11] Erik: It comes with two discs.
[0:09:11 – 0:09:12] Erik: Unbelievable.
[0:09:12 – 0:09:17] Erik: And both discs are the painted out blackened coins with the X on the cross.
[0:09:17 – 0:09:18] Erik: Oh, cool.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:21] Erik: The X is on the back to indicate tiles.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:50] Erik: yes yes um so uh i know where to find that one but uh for everybody else that probably doesn’t own the uh it wasn’t too hard to find it on the internet i’ll tell you that much for free pretty much i think maybe it was free on like tubi i didn’t even really have to pirate it i think i just found a source that was free yeah so you just look for free stream of that one and it’ll pop up so uh yeah i don’t think so far highly recommend the two we’ve watched and uh we’ll see uh
[0:09:50 – 0:09:51] Erik: when we get to the other two.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:54] Erik: But yeah, it should be a fun…
[0:09:55 – 0:10:01] Erik: I’m happy that we’re getting out of the haunted ships, out of submarines, and off the water.
[0:10:01 – 0:10:02] Adam: Yeah, it feels pretty good.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:05] Adam: I got a celebration eel here tonight.
[0:10:05 – 0:10:05] Adam: Eel?
[0:10:06 – 0:10:08] Adam: Got a celebration eel, bud.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:09] Adam: Have a beer with us.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:12] Adam: I’m not going to try and do an Australian accent.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:17] Erik: All you have to know is instead of saying tails, just pronounce it like tiles.
[0:10:17 – 0:10:17] Erik: That’s it.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:20] Erik: Just like you’re a Tyler.
[0:10:20 – 0:10:23] Erik: Literally, the first time I ever watched the movie, I was like, what are they saying?
[0:10:23 – 0:10:24] Erik: Are they saying tiles?
[0:10:24 – 0:10:31] Adam: I had the… Yeah, whatever pirate stream I found of Wake and Fright, I did have the closed captions on, and they weren’t right at all.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:32] Adam: It was…
[0:10:32 – 0:10:34] Adam: He was typing out stuff that was nonsensical.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:37] Adam: I had to listen and work it my own way.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:40] Adam: We broke in rule one.
[0:10:40 – 0:10:41] Adam: That’s fine.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:42] Adam: These are soft rules.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:44] Adam: Sometimes they do go over 10.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:50] Adam: There’s two of us here, and it’s a rare occurrence.
[0:10:50 – 0:10:54] Adam: We don’t have Fireball, but we do have some Sailor Jerry here as well.
[0:10:54 – 0:11:00] Adam: I know you didn’t see the Fireball, and neither did I. I was busy eating spaghetti and meatballs in my house at 6 this evening.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:01] Adam: Nice.
[0:11:01 – 0:11:03] Adam: It’s a perfectly acceptable time to have dinner.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:05] Adam: It was fine, yeah.
[0:11:05 – 0:11:07] Adam: Are you wondering why I got here so late?
[0:11:07 – 0:11:20] Adam: It’s because we were eating spaghetti and meatballs at 6.05 when the fireball, fireball, went right over Cook County and the tip of the arrowhead going north into Ontario, possibly space debris.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:29] Adam: A ton of videos on Facebook, and those got reposted onto the Discord, which…
[0:11:29 – 0:11:30] Adam: Stunning.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:36] Adam: There is a video of it going over the Split Rock Lighthouse, so you have to go on the Discord, Eric, and check that one out.
[0:11:36 – 0:11:38] Adam: I’ll show it to you on my phone.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:39] Adam: Sure, you can do that.
[0:11:39 – 0:11:41] Adam: It’s pretty stunning, and I missed it somehow.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:44] Adam: Apparently, people were seeing it.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:46] Adam: It was so bright, they were seeing it out their windows.
[0:11:46 – 0:11:47] Adam: I don’t know what I was doing.
[0:11:47 – 0:11:50] Adam: I guess I was stuffing meatballs into my face.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:54] Adam: Like I was a thirsty Aussie out in Yabba.
[0:11:55 – 0:11:55] Erik: The Yabba.
[0:11:56 – 0:11:57] Erik: You like the Yabba?
[0:11:57 – 0:11:59] Erik: It’s a friendly place, the Yabba.
[0:12:00 – 0:12:01] Erik: Turns out it kind of is.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:02] Erik: Super friendly.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:04] Adam: For all the kangaroo murder.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:07] Adam: Didn’t need to see all those kangaroos getting hunted down.
[0:12:08 – 0:12:12] Adam: Anyways, yeah, that’s your snow hog update.
[0:12:12 – 0:12:38] Adam: for december 7th 2025 and uh yeah if you haven’t yet go jump into that question of the year please we are looking forward to your responses and we’re going to leave it there and uh go jump up in the mezzanine and record a couple of tccs tumble home tumble homecast at gmail.com also if you want to email your response kind of sewers route in the old the long form long form baby
[0:12:39 – 0:12:44] Adam: All right, the snow is fluffy, it’s blowing around, and it is ice cold.
[0:12:45 – 0:12:47] Adam: How do you say ice in Australian?
[0:12:48 – 0:12:49] Adam: Ice yellow.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:52] Adam: Ice cold here.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:54] Erik: It’s Espanol, but same thing.
[0:12:55 – 0:13:00] Adam: As we always say on Snow Log, snow takes many forms.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:00] Adam: Good night.
