Snow Sledding | Listener Favorite #622
A walk up a snowy hill from the bus stop and then a ride down the slopes.
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Seasonal / Holiday / Trending Tuesday
Buffering in Internet
https://www.airtel.in/blog/broadband/what-is-internet-buffering-and-how-to-stop-it-while-streaming/
https://www.allconnect.com/blog/what-is-buffering-and-how-to-stop-it
https://www.avast.com/c-how-to-stop-buffering
Snow Belt / Slush
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/01/mapping-great-lakes-snowfall-snowbelt/
https://www.wkbn.com/weather/where-is-the-snowbelt-a-winter-forecast-will-include-lake-effect-snow/
Road Salt
https://www.copecompany.com/snow-management-industry-articles/history-of-road-salt/
https://www.vox.com/2015/1/13/7531833/road-salt-environment-alternatives
Toboggan
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/toboggan
https://november-project.com/a-history-of-tobogganing/
https://northerntoboggan.com/pages/traditional-toboggan-history
DOWN TO BUSINESS
You could listen to this in the library
Deep Dark Night United
Margaret (Helix Sleep)
PLUGS
Friends of Hand in Hand; Pete Davidson SNL Cold Open; The Midnight Mission; Trevor Project; Patreon; SleepPhones; Emily Tat Artwork; NAPAWF; Anti-Racism Resources; Ukraine Relief; Crisis Textline
SPONSORS
HelloFresh; Polysleep; Odoo; Helix Sleep; Air Doctor Pro; Zocdoc; Progressive; Referral Program
INTRO
Throwing in a bonus meandering intro
I think I just buffered
I’m gonna buff the heck out of this safe place
Let’s pretend I’m a 16 year old with a shiny car
Man, if only there were Permanent Shine
I’m gonna super cache this safe place while buffering
SWM: The podcast that puts the Buff in buffering
The super cache can take it all
Our Super Cache comes padded
The ability to debuffer at 87 tetrahertz
Hopefully you’ve already figured out that you don’t need to listen
Butter-buffed and Buttered
Tongue Twisters and Comforting Words are very close
Buffered is relaxing, Buffering not so much
Buffed, Buttered, and Buffered
Permanent Shine via repurposed particle colliders
Project Permanent Shine
One more question from my internal press corps
The world will be buffered one day
STORY
I was thinking of snow
An extended meandering about snow memories
New perspectives on old Scoots stories
All the way to Central New York
To the 315
A notoriety for being snowy, wet, and cold
Snowy, but not in the Snow Belt
I think the snow is due to the moisture in the air from the Jet Stream and the Great Lakes
I have city pride for how much precipitation Syracuse gets
It’s really nice to visit, but tough to live there
I need access to sunlight
A sleep tip: as soon as you wake up, get up right away
Don’t touch that phone!
Then I like to make my bed
The Great Pillow Makeout
I was never like this until I started the podcast
Then I immediately open my back door and go outside
I’m not sure if you’re into heavy breathing, but it’s great
Sometimes I’m up before the sun
I just try to get outside and listen to the outside
And I do this at night, too
I suffer from Meditation Avoidance
Have we reached Peak Meditation?
I was hoping Buddha would ring up my brain in that moment
Ok, enough sleep tips for now
Let it snow!
The bus stop I’d trudge to
I can’t picture Karl and Sheila walking with me to the bus
Grammar School Memories
We lived on a steep hill, and the bus stop was at the bottom
I guess we had raincoats for when it was raining
Sheila, for the record, I did try to call you last night but my phone was being weird
A Preponderance of Slush, from road salt
Slush is not Slushies
I have unfortunately tasted slush before
It’s mostly just salty snow with hints of grit and metal
When snow combines with snow, warm air, and road salt
A puddle of slush is neither liquid or plasma
It’s matter in the middle of a change
I’m not sure why it’s gray – from the salt, maybe?
Road salt has a stark beauty
I’m a big fan of grays
Syracuse, the Gray Planet
My primary interactions with slush
Most exposure came from walking home from the bus
We’d all walk at our own pace
I’d like to dilly dally in the slush
Some unbelievably high snow banks
I’d start imagining I was a giant or a mountain climber
Perhaps some snowball play
Do some snowdiving or snowbank jumping
The corner of driveways was always high because of street and driveway plowing
Slush exists mostly at the bottom of the snowbanks
Bill Nye, please reach out
I’m not sure if the road is dirty or if it’s the salt itself
The slush is gross, but not super gross
Cars would spray slush into the sides of the banks
The slush zone was great for pretending to be a giant
Cars would accumulate slush underneath and then would break off into Slushbergs
Like a liquid with an invisible wax coating
No offense to Slushee Makers
I loved to make dams with slush
The great thing about building a dam is the futility of it all
The inevitability of a Greek drama
My backpack would be at risk of being soaked from the water being dammed
Billy, a great figure in my childhood
When I was in grammar school, he was in high school
He was the good kind of bad boy AND a redhead
He repaired motorcycles and rode snowmobiles in the winter
A legendary figure in my childhood
The BB kids were actually bad bad boys
I spent a lot of my childhood building myths out of my life
Billy was, quite simply, cool
I always fantasized that I would ride on his snowmobile
My mom wouldn’t allow that, but I did get to ride it one time
He let my brother Karl ride it before me
Memories of Snowmobiling
Down the street was a big golf course
This was pre-Golf Course Developments
The 18th hole was at the bottom of the street
This was an amazing place to go sledding
You only go sledding twice a year
You push the envelope too much, too soon
I lived in the age of plastic sleds
The metal ones (aka toboggans) were too heavy and fast
Orange plastic sleds from KMart
Let me explain golf poorly
There’s 3 different kinds of tees
Aunt Helen was the best golfer in our family
It was a steep hill and also looooong
You could go really far from just sledding down this hill
The lightest version of extreme sports
Conditions really dictated how fun it was
The basic kinds of sleds
2-person plastic sleds that you could probably fit 3 kids in
The same plastic that kiddie pools are made of
The older kids would always make the jump
I was better at pretending to be an engineer than actually engineering jumps
If it was icy, it stunk to go up the hill, and you might get an ow-y
The circle sled aka the dish
I’m not sure if plastic or aluminum would go faster
You couldn’t really control your direction with the dish sleds
The Radio Flyer was a classic metal sled
A very Norman Rockwell kind of sled
Trying to explain a toboggan
Only an adult would show up with a toboggan
My Uncle Eddie’s toboggan had padded seats
It seated 6 but had no control at all
The Joy of Collective Experience
I don’t remember a lot of inner tube sledding from my childhood
How to build the best jump
This was the first chance as kids to get high with adrenaline
An opportunity for braggadocio
The sounds of laughter and yelling
Sweating was good because then you’d get warm
Boredom or someone crying
Even just lying in the fresh snow would be great
Lying in Deep Powder
So warm and secure
REVIEW THANKS (Apple)
Prawn Frog (Australia); Men Gem 1; 735; #1TeeTee; Akari; Loxanna; Fay (UK); Anne R; Sunshine; ANG; DB340 (Australia); PJ
SUMMARY:
Episode: 1,214a / 620
Title: Snow Sledding | Listener Favorite #620
Deep Dark Night United: Margaret (Helix Sleep)
Plugs: Friends of Hand in Hand; Pete Davidson SNL Cold Open; The Midnight Mission; Trevor Project; Patreon; SleepPhones; Emily Tat Artwork; NAPAWF; Anti-Racism Resources; Ukraine Relief; Crisis Textline
Sponsors: HelloFresh; Polysleep; Odoo; Helix Sleep; Air Doctor Pro; Zocdoc; Progressive; Referral Program
Review Thanks: Prawn Frog (Australia); Men Gem 1; 735; #1TeeTee; Akari; Loxanna; Fay (UK); Anne R; Sunshine; ANG; DB340 (Australia); PJ
Notable Language:
- Live Buffering
- Permanent Shine
- Putting the buff in buffering
- Super Cache
- Buffed, Buttered, and Buffered
- Sieve Brain
- The Great Pillow Makeout
- Meditation Avoidance
- Grammar School Memories
- A Preponderance of Slush
- Giant Roleplay
- Slush
- Slushberg
- Spokesperson for Slush
- Golf Course Developments
- High Quality Sledding
- Matte Plastic
- Toboggan
- Lying in Deep Powder
Notable Culture:
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- Permanent Shine Institute
- Syracuse, NY
- Julie Cameron / The Artist’s Way
- Buddhism
- “Let It Snow” song
- The SlushCast
- Bill Nye
- David Bowie – “Changes”
- Slushees / Slurpies
- Greek drama
- KMart
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- Citizen Kane
- Norman Rockwell
- Saturday Evening Post
- The Muppets
Notable Talking Points:
- Throwing in a bonus meandering intro
- I think I just buffered
- I’m gonna buff the heck out of this safe place
- Let’s pretend I’m a 16 year old with a shiny car
- Man, if only there were Permanent Shine
- I’m gonna super cache this safe place while buffering
- SWM: The podcast that puts the Buff in buffering
- The super cache can take it all
- Our Super Cache comes padded
- The ability to debuffer at 87 tetrahertz
- Hopefully you’ve already figured out that you don’t need to listen
- Butter-buffed and Buttered
- Tongue Twisters and Comforting Words are very close
- Buffered is relaxing, Buffering not so much
- Buffed, Buttered, and Buffered
- Permanent Shine via repurposed particle colliders
- Project Permanent Shine
- One more question from my internal press corps
- The world will be buffered one day
- I was thinking of snow
- An extended meandering about snow memories
- New perspectives on old Scoots stories
- All the way to Central New York
- To the 315
- A notoriety for being snowy, wet, and cold
- Snowy, but not in the Snow Belt
- I think the snow is due to the moisture in the air from the Jet Stream and the Great Lakes
- I have city pride for how much precipitation Syracuse gets
- It’s really nice to visit, but tough to live there
- I need access to sunlight
- A sleep tip: as soon as you wake up, get up right away
- Don’t touch that phone!
- Then I like to make my bed
- The Great Pillow Makeout
- I was never like this until I started the podcast
- Then I immediately open my back door and go outside
- I’m not sure if you’re into heavy breathing, but it’s great
- Sometimes I’m up before the sun
- I just try to get outside and listen to the outside
- And I do this at night, too
- I suffer from Meditation Avoidance
- Have we reached Peak Meditation?
- I was hoping Buddha would ring up my brain in that moment
- Ok, enough sleep tips for now
- Let it snow!
- The bus stop I’d trudge to
- I can’t picture Karl and Sheila walking with me to the bus
- Grammar School Memories
- We lived on a steep hill, and the bus stop was at the bottom
- I guess we had raincoats for when it was raining
- Sheila, for the record, I did try to call you last night but my phone was being weird
- A Preponderance of Slush, from road salt
- Slush is not Slushies
- I have unfortunately tasted slush before
- It’s mostly just salty snow with hints of grit and metal
- When snow combines with snow, warm air, and road salt
- A puddle of slush is neither liquid or plasma
- It’s matter in the middle of a change
- I’m not sure why it’s gray – from the salt, maybe?
- Road salt has a stark beauty
- I’m a big fan of grays
- Syracuse, the Gray Planet
- My primary interactions with slush
- Most exposure came from walking home from the bus
- We’d all walk at our own pace
- I’d like to dilly dally in the slush
- Some unbelievably high snow banks
- I’d start imagining I was a giant or a mountain climber
- Perhaps some snowball play
- Do some snowdiving or snowbank jumping
- The corner of driveways was always high because of street and driveway plowing
- Slush exists mostly at the bottom of the snowbanks
- Bill Nye, please reach out
- I’m not sure if the road is dirty or if it’s the salt itself
- The slush is gross, but not super gross
- Cars would spray slush into the sides of the banks
- The slush zone was great for pretending to be a giant
- Cars would accumulate slush underneath and then would break off into Slushbergs
- Like a liquid with an invisible wax coating
- No offense to Slushee Makers
- I loved to make dams with slush
- The great thing about building a dam is the futility of it all
- The inevitability of a Greek drama
- My backpack would be at risk of being soaked from the water being dammed
- Billy, a great figure in my childhood
- When I was in grammar school, he was in high school
- He was the good kind of bad boy AND a redhead
- He repaired motorcycles and rode snowmobiles in the winter
- A legendary figure in my childhood
- The BB kids were actually bad bad boys
- I spent a lot of my childhood building myths out of my life
- Billy was, quite simply, cool
- I always fantasized that I would ride on his snowmobile
- My mom wouldn’t allow that, but I did get to ride it one time
- He let my brother Karl ride it before me
- Memories of Snowmobiling
- Down the street was a big golf course
- This was pre-Golf Course Developments
- The 18th hole was at the bottom of the street
- This was an amazing place to go sledding
- You only go sledding twice a year
- You push the envelope too much, too soon
- I lived in the age of plastic sleds
- The metal ones (aka toboggans) were too heavy and fast
- Orange plastic sleds from KMart
- Let me explain golf poorly
- There’s 3 different kinds of tees
- Aunt Helen was the best golfer in our family
- It was a steep hill and also looooong
- You could go really far from just sledding down this hill
- The lightest version of extreme sports
- Conditions really dictated how fun it was
- The basic kinds of sleds
- 2-person plastic sleds that you could probably fit 3 kids in
- The same plastic that kiddie pools are made of
- The older kids would always make the jump
- I was better at pretending to be an engineer than actually engineering jumps
- If it was icy, it stunk to go up the hill, and you might get an ow-y
- The circle sled aka the dish
- I’m not sure if plastic or aluminum would go faster
- You couldn’t really control your direction with the dish sleds
- The Radio Flyer was a classic metal sled
- A very Norman Rockwell kind of sled
- Trying to explain a toboggan
- Only an adult would show up with a toboggan
- My Uncle Eddie’s toboggan had padded seats
- It seated 6 but had no control at all
- The Joy of Collective Experience
- I don’t remember a lot of inner tube sledding from my childhood
- How to build the best jump
- This was the first chance as kids to get high with adrenaline
- An opportunity for braggadocio
- The sounds of laughter and yelling
- Sweating was good because then you’d get warm
- Boredom or someone crying
- Even just lying in the fresh snow would be great
- Lying in Deep Powder
- So warm and secure
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