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Right now. I'm throwing up. Well, we're going to have to cut away from those two. That's getting uglier than even I imagined. But it does give you an indication of the kind of weather system we're looking at and indeed how hard it is to stomach. Let's now go to Dave Feck. Dave, this is the kind of system that you don't want to ignore. This rare weather pattern will begin with a powerful Arctic air mass surging south, bringing life threatening cold. Wind chills could drop to 65 degrees below zero. While this Arctic blast crashes south, a surge of Gulf moisture is moving north at unusually high levels. Snow and ice accumulations of this magnitude in these areas will lead to widespread power outages and near impossible travel conditions. I'm gonna break down exactly what you need to know about this major winter storm that is about to slam the States. Guys, I'm gonna be honest right off the bat, this is one of the most concerning winter storm trends that I have seen over the last five years. We could be talking about a crippling and very dangerous winter storm in terms of ice accumulation. This is where things could be historic. I mean, we're talking about three days here that we could have closures across many states. Infrastructure damage, power outages are all on the table. I want to be a weatherman. Golly, this is fun. You people who are still going with Clicklestein and Mucklewecker for attorneys. What are you thinking? How many times do I have to say Bradshaw and Brian to get you to no longer think Clicklestein and Mucklewecker? I wouldn't be caught dead in the offices of Clicklestein and Mucklewecker. Have they won awards? I don't think so. Are they respected by their peers? I don't think so. Bunch of ambulance chasers. I've been talking about Bradshaw and Brian for over a decade. My wife is sick of it. 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First of all, a reminder again that there is a male loneliness epidemic out there, but how it connects to fantasy football punishments is a mystery to me. Let's take a look at this story. If you see a man at a restaurant with a blow up doll, don't be surprised to learn he's the recipient of a fantasy football punishment. More than 50 million people in North America participate in fantasy sports in which participants draft dream teams of real athletes, then rise or fall in their league's rankings based on those players performances. And many invest in league punishment, typically something inexpensive and relatively low stakes that the last place participant has to complete. Being able to talk trash about one another, making fun of people in last place, and so on is a mechanism for men to communicate and bond with each other. Common punishments include wearing a dress or a tutu in public. Boy, we're down to that as a solution to the male loneliness problem, huh? I was lonely till the fellows made me wear a dress. Now I have all sorts of friends. Was it a sacrifice to wear the dress? Sure it was. I can't say I loved it. I mean, people looked at me funny. But look at all the pals I've attracted. Yeah, some of the pals are a little iffy. Sure, the one who keeps groping my bare thigh. That's not appreciated. But the point is, I'm no longer lonely. I want to momentarily address the male loneliness issue. I realize that in old America, long ago there was the Elks Club and the Moose Lodge and the bowling leagues and maybe in all of those categories, these organizations, these groups have lost a certain appeal or a certain draw for various reasons. I'm not sure I understand it all, but by golly, have you fellas out there not heard about meetup groups? It really is quite startling when you enter the meetup world. Have you ever been to the Meetup website or gotten the Meetup app and looked through all the different groups meeting in your city from all walks of life, people getting together left and right, bars, coffee shops. All cities in America have meetup groups. Groups set up for like minded folk to gather and do or talk about all sorts of different things. Some of it's conversational, some of it more active. Some of it is project oriented. Some of it is about learning. Some is just conversing BSing. Some of it involves book clubs. Some of it is just maybe playing chess with a group regularly or cribbage. But it's astonishing how many meetup groups can be found out there in any given town. There has to be one to suit almost any guy's tastes, no matter how particular they Are. So I'm just struggling with this idea that of a loneliness epidemic when there are these meetup groups everywhere now. Meetup groups did not exist in the 90s, 80s, 70s, when people were apparently less lonely. It's kind of a miracle to me the way people invent these things, this whole meetup thing. In the Internet age, someone came up with this brilliant solutions to loneliness, I think. I went to a meetup group one time. I wanted to try it out. I was in a stoics group, a group that sat around at a bar and talked about the wisdom of the Greek Stoics. I enjoyed it. I didn't stick with it, but I'm glad I tried it out. The thing was, I wasn't particularly lonely. I just liked the idea of going to a bar and talking about these old Greek guys. No, loneliness is not my issue. I have other issues, other pathologies, neuroses, afflictions. Loneliness just doesn't happen to be my cross to bear in this life. But of course, one need not be lonely to join a meetup group. One can just want engagement for the sheer fulfillment it brings. Are the lonely guys in America not looking into meetup groups at all? Not looking for that sort of thing? Or don't they know about it? Cause once you start to look into these meetup groups, you can get lost for a couple of hours going over one meetup group after another, seeing if it's something that suits you. It's hard for me to believe it's not the rock solid solution to loneliness for guys, those guys who don't have the church group or the volunteer organization. Just looking locally here at what's available. I notice meetup groups here called. Here's one called Break the Bubble for people who have moved to the Twin Cities and can't figure out how to break in. There are all these established relationships already here in these cities. They find. And they don't know how to make inroads. Well, break the bubble. There's a group right there, a purely social group, and they tell you to bring anyone you want with you. Come to our gatherings. We just get together and have fun. Here's another group, the Minnesota Monthly Mingle, Just an informal gathering of people who want to hang out. A social group with no agenda. The Minnesota Mingle. That sounds like it should work for some of you fellows. If you were truly lonely, wouldn't this be a possible way out for the more cerebral? There's this group complexity and coffee. They get together and talk about perceptions, beliefs, philosophy. A little more heady here's an international friends group. This is for people who have immigrated here from different countries. They're encouraged to attend this very social get to know one another gathering. Personally, I'd be afraid it's a front for ice, but I suppose you could take your chances. Worst case scenario, you're thrown in a detention center in Texas where you get to use a pickle bucket for a toilet. I'm sure glad they were kinder to my ancestors when those folks immigrated. People were kinder back then, More decent. Here's a group that bowls together at Sun Ray Lanes. Fun social group. They're looking for more members. Here's a meetup group called females in their 40s. Now some of you guys who've lost in fantasy football can show up in drag at these gatherings. See if you can fit in. Make sure you talk about your feelings though. Don't talk about football. Here's a bird watching group that you can join. Here's an investing group that meets socially regularly to talk about investing. Here's a meetup group, cribbage at Gallagher's Bar for you guys looking to play cribbage with a beer and some buddies. Come on, let's fight this loneliness business. Let's kick its ass. Here's a social group where you bring your dog. Can't imagine what can go wrong there. You meet in a guy's basement. You bring your dog. It's an unfinished little basement, little six foot high ceiling. You cram in there with a bunch of dogs and you talk about your lives and sip scotch and a few people get bit, but not a lot. And if you tire of being bitten, you can open the door and move into an adjacent room where there's some cock fighting and you can bet on your own rooster. No, that's not true. But this is a meetup group where you bring your dog. You meet at a place called St. Bark, an indoor dog park over by the fairgrounds. Here's another meetup group called Coffee and Conversation. Informal little group, they get together, just shoot the breeze. Here's a group that likes to gather and discuss current events, politics, culture, different perspectives. Every gathering ends in a pretty brutal fist fight, but that just brings in that whole cool fight club vibe that makes it all the more appealing to the guys. Anyway, it goes on and on and on. Meetup group after meetup group after meetup group. There's something for everyone. There's probably even an introverts meetup group where you sit in different rooms and avoid all contact. But at least you get out of the house. I do find myself thinking, this isn't really the era where loneliness should be the big thing. Not like, say, the frontier days in the 19th century. Now that's when people should have really been lonely. Wasn't there a loneliness epidemic on the frontier in the 1800s? Homesteading in the middle of nowhere, isolated. Why weren't people lonely then? There were no meetup groups. Only groups you ever met up with were maybe a posse of Native Americans. They were the first ones to say hi. Did you know that? I can't believe this. But I've done the research and it appears to be true. The first. The first person in recorded history to say hi. Well, Native American. Yeah, that's what I'm learning. I thought, who was the first person to say hi? So I looked it up. Goes back to 1860. Some Native American gave a talk and he started the talk out by saying hi. Now a lot of people will say, didn't the natives say how? No, they did not. There were no Native American tribes that ever said how as a greeting. Hollywood screwed that up. There was no how. But high apparently was used. The interjection high as a casual greeting was recorded for the first time in American English around 1860. The first use of it was in the speech of a Kansas Indian. Boy, it would be so strange to be walking across the plains in the 19th century, run into a native and hear him say hi. It's very hard to get in your head, that scene. Hi. Oh, oh, hi. Hi there. I'm just passing through, heading out west. Heard something about a gold rush. Then the native might say, well, okie dokie. Wow. You guys say okie dokie too. Wow. This is not at all the kind of exchange I expected to have the first time I met one of you guys. Hi, Okie dokie. You natives have this sort of informality thing going on that sort of throws me a bit. Yeah, we do. We do. Is that cool with you? Oh, yeah, yeah. And just hearing you say is that cool with you? Is odd. You guys say that too. Get over it, dude. Wow, I can't believe this conversation we're having. I thought by now you would have scalped me. Oh, that whole scalping thing is a bit of a misunderstanding. You know where scalping started? It started with our native barbers just being really bad at their jobs. It started as a screw up. It was a botched haircut. We didn't have any training at all. We were winging it. And the first guys to get haircuts in Our tribe, well, they really suffered. That's why for years and years, you saw a lot of natives with long hair. No one dared go back to try it again. It was well into the 20th century before we thought to give it a try again. I think it was the 1970s, actually. The American Indian movement was going strong, and they suggested we get these bad 1970s perms. Suddenly all us natives looked like white guys in porn movies. It was just awful. You know what that reminds me of? When I was a kid and I'd watch movies involving Native Americans, I'd say to my brother, how come none of them have beards? You ever think about that? There was never a movie where an Indian had a beard. It's not like there were all these great razors sitting around all over the place and cans of shaving cream. But all the natives had smooth faces. The cowboys didn't. What the hell? Well, I learned later that because our native populations were descended from Asia and Asians coming over the Bering Land Strait, much like Asians, they couldn't really grow beards. And so any light facial hair that did appear, they just plucked because they thought it was unsightly. In fact, I learned that with a lot of the natives, they were so down on facial hair, some of the tribes anyway, that they would even pluck their eyebrows. Imagine then what they would have thought running into European travelers with their thick beards and mustaches and thick eyebrows. They must have thought, you people are savages. Savages. All of you freaking cavemen. How did we end up with a loneliness epidemic? Now, why wasn't there a loneliness epidemic on the old frontier in the 19th century? Alone on the frontier? You're living in wyoming in the 1860s. You need a friend, Bob. Are you kidding me? I need a friend, A dog, a wife, a log cabin. Are you available as a friend? Well, I'm just passing through. I'm a gunslinger. Okay. Well, what would we do if we became friends, do you think? Oh, I don't know. I suppose we could have a draw, see who shoots who first. It ain't playing board games at a coffee shop, but it's something to pass the time. Okay, well, I've never been shot. That sounds exciting. What happens exactly? Well, Bob, you bleed a lot. Oh, okay. I don't mind that, I guess. These clothes are old and dirty anyway, Bob. There is risk of infection. I don't mind that. My dad and mom both had infections. I remember telling him, hang in there. Penicillin will be invented in 60 years and this will all Go away. They couldn't wait. But here's the real reason I want an infection. Rumor has it you get quite a fever and then you have these crazy fever hallucinations. And here in Wyoming we can't get lsd, but damn if we can't get infected. Know what I'm saying, gunslinger? Well, I know exactly what you're saying, Bob. I did peyote with a native southwest of here a few hundred miles and it was quite a ride. I shot a three horned multi colored talking lizard named Thelonious. The natives claimed it wasn't real. I say different. He was wearing leotards and an Aztec headdress and delivering scripture in Germany. But that was long ago and miles away. Bob. I'm a stranger in these here parts and I could use a friend. Are there any meetup groups in this area I'd like to join? A meetup group? Well, yeah, there's a gunslingers meetup group and they just do draws all day long. Well, who started that group? The casket maker in town. He's no idiot. There's another meetup group for folks who enjoy digging outhouse pits. They meet at the Hitchin Post on Saturdays. No one has shown up for those meetings yet. But the table waits for em there if they ever do. You might be interested in this. We don't have fantasy football, but we do have fantasy gunslingers. The loser has to wear a woman's petticoat and work one week as a maid for the madam at our brothel. That alone keeps people practicing. It ain't so much the cleaning up that bothers people. It's more the way you gotta fend off the customers. They get all handsy. Bob, I like you. I think we can be friends. You know, when I was a young guy, they used to have ads on television that tried to encourage you to make a phone call to someone. I think the big slogan was reach out and touch someone. And the whole ad was really about just picking up the phone and calling someone. Just say hi. That's all they wanted you to do. There was a whole ad you could watch trying to get you to pick up a phone and call someone and say hi. Maybe you'd meet someone and become friends and then learn that they live on the other side of the country and to stay friends, well, you could reach out and touch them using something called a phone. And these ads would tell you to use that phone to say hi. You've made some new friends who live far from you and keeping them close.
