EITM: Something Really Cool That I Don't Even Know About 11/12/25

What? I thought we were in the panty tree.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So there was an era in your life where you
considered yourself a skier.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I would go a couple of times a year. We
even went on a ski vacation once. Wow. Yeah, No,
it was fine.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
How big was your group?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Probably like six of us, seven of.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Us And that only lasted one year though.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
For the vacation yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
And I did not go as well as you'd hoped.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
No, it was fine. But that's I mean, that's a
pretty big commitment.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
For some people. That is like, oh, they love it,
they look forward to every year, is with their old
who holds buddies there college, absolutely, and.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
People who like skiing like that's awesome, Like they love it.
It's fine, And I did. I did have great equipment.
I had great equipment.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Were sponsored. I don't mean that. I don't mean that
whole lot high. Did you get free stuff at the
radio station?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yes, there you go. No, But you know what it was?
Who was the really really famous ski movie maker? Was
it somebody Miller? Is it Roger Miller? Who's Roger Miller?
Didn't Roger Miller say King of the Road? Yes, never mind,
it wasn't him. There was somebody who was Miller who
made all the Ski movies. I don't know. Anyway, he

(01:13):
had this when I was working in Los Angeles. Miller,
Warren Miller, that's it. He had some movie come out
in Los Angeles when I was working at Pirate and
myself and the was I think I did it with Watusi,
who never skied.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
This was a Pirate trip.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
The no No, no no. The movie came out. We
did the Pirate Radio had the premiere and so we
did it and not Roger. Warren Miller was at the
premiere and he said to myself in the big Watusie, Hey,
thanks for coming out and doing this. Let me give
you guys some gear.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Would this have been White Winter Heat in eighty seven?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
And he's done so many movies.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh, there was Steep and Deep before that.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Okay, now I have seen Stephen Deep and there was
there was some poles in it, but I don't remember.
But anyway, I thought he was lying. So I gave
him my business card that said Russell the Love Muscle
on it, and he sent I'm not even kidding. He
sent me skis, he sent me boots, he sent me
a helmet, he sent me goggles.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I didn't get. I didn't get clothes, like, I
didn't get a jacket or pants or anything.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
But still the skis and the boots.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I was on a ski lift, I asked you not.
I was on a ski lift att out in Los Angeles,
Like there's some skiing like Big Bear and stuff like that.
I went with Batman Gomez the UH.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
It was a pirate trip.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I ended up going with him. Well who was who was.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
The actual ski trip with which staff? No, that was
Afie Moved East.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, that was my ex girlfriend's family.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh why did I think it was with radio people.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
No, No, because you didn't want to say no. It
was my ex girlfriend, her mom and dad, her brother,
her cousin and his parents. Oh yeah, it was a
whole thing. It was a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
But you did hit the slopes with Batman.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
We drank, Yeah, Batman and I went. We drank a
lot of wine on the UH on the trip with
the girlfriend's family, and that's when we found out that
her uncle had a drinking problem. Anyway, the but when
I would be when I went with Batman Gomez and
we were on the mountain, people were looking at my
skis like this guy, this guy is honestly at rich
he's Shawn White. No, like you're a pro. If you

(03:26):
have those skis?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Were they signed?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
No? No, but they were airbrushed.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Do you remember the brand.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Whatever Warren Miller gave me.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's like the only thing, the only brand that comes
to mind was like, wasn't raw signal a big one?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I have no idea. I have no idea. All I
know is that, And I may be off, but I
think that my skis were worth between eight hundred and
one thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
And you didn't have the skill really to match it.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
The Yeah, I mean, did you end up selling them?

Speaker 5 (03:54):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I can tell you exactly what I did with him
when we got fired. What did you say?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
You were this trip memories?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
This was sort of in your like like eating a
pizza weak phase?

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Right?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah? Dirt poor? Yeah, dirt poor.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
And you've got thousand dollars skis.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
When I got fired and moved to moved to Philly,
I left them against the wall in the parking garage
in Philly because I wasn't going to pay to ship
them in LA. You left them in LA.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Why wouldn't you have sold.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Them to who?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Different?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Back then? Yeah? That was the same plateform could meltzer.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I mean, granted you didn't have marketplace back then, but
but still you get because you had gotten Hey, listen,
these were these were a gift. They're easily worth a
thousand dollars give me five hundred bucks in their years.
That is very unresourced.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Anybody, A lot of people in the apartment building who
I didn't speak to. I lived in an apartment building
that had all people in the station in the station.
They didn't do the movie premiere? Who am I gonna give?
What am I gonna give? A Cadillac?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Jack shocked the I would have sold those in a heartbeat.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Could have given him the Bolta's Ark never got on
the air, got hired because Scott liked his name. Anyway,
Can I get back to my skiers? Hi Ellie in
the morning?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Hi?

Speaker 6 (05:17):
Is this me?

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah? Hi? Who's this Lance?

Speaker 5 (05:21):
From Dington?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hey? Lance? Are you? Are you a big skier?

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (05:26):
No, a snowboard But I skewed too, Okay, I mean
that counts. I should have said snowboarding as well. Are
you familiar with what a panty tree is? I'm pretty
sure it says you ride the lift up the mountain.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
There's trees with panties and bras strung all across them.
I guess they just throw them off from the list.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes, and apparently this is a huge thing. How have
I gone my whole life, going back to my Warren
Miller skiing days all the way to now? How have
I gone my whole life and never heard of the
panty tree? Or like, I have friends that that ski man.
It's a big skier. Oh loves to ski, loves to skid.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
You ever together?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
The No, the that's not true. We win the Poconos once, Yeah,
we went the I had rentals.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Did you complain the whole time? There were nowhere near?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
This is like reading like like skates at a rin. Yeah,
the But apparently it's a thing where if you're going
up the down, No, why would you go down up
the ski lift? And it's not just women but like
guys will take like their wife's bras or their girlfriend's
bras and panties and it's.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Usually toss them under a tree.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, usually there's a I don't want to say, a
designated tree like the like the lifts have said only
do that tree. But there's one that gets used, like
it becomes littered with underwear, and so you'll see the
guy's right, you'll see bras, you'll see panties, they said.
Occasionally you'll see socks, but it's mostly bras and panties.

(06:58):
Look at it, and they said that number one, it's
fun I get it.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Number two, it's no beisi and white. It's all colorful
birth exactly.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
They said. It almost turns the tree into like a
like a like a Christmas tree out on the lips,
and I mean all the leaves are dead and goney,
so it decorates the tree. Yeah, there you go. That's
kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
And what do the resorts have to say about this?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
They don't necessarily love it. I don't know why. It's funny,
but yeah, they look at it as littering.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's also tacys.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh, but that's funny. That's funny. They think they believe
in the United States. Hey, thank you, sir, thank you.
In the United States. They believe it started in Aspen
in like the nineteen forties or fifth, but was going
on in Europe before that. So whatever they wear, well
they probably still wear underwear. Whatever their underpants were, they

(07:52):
would throw them on trees. I don't know if it
was the Alps or whatever it is. But yeah, the
panty tree, they believe in the US started it in Aspen, Colorado.
Mine too, Hi, Yellie of the morning. Yeah, Hi, who's this?

Speaker 5 (08:07):
And this is Carson on that Oh very good.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Are you a big skier?

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, I grew up in Colorado. I've been seeing since
I was six years old.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Oh dude, good for you. So you must be familiar
with the panty tree.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah it was. I see the multi winter park
up there. I've only been to ask them one time
because you know, the cast a lot of money, but
it's a big thing. It mostly it started off. It
happened mostly while Marty Gross. So you'd see like the
team tops and brass hanging off the trees with like
plastic beads, yourself like you would like a New Orleans

(08:41):
Marty Gross party.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Whichever tree was close enough to the lift that they
could top it from the lift chair and get to
hang on the tree, because you see them, I mean
you got close to the tree. You look down occasionally
and you see a few of them just down and snow.
But yeah, it was just like whichever tree was just
close enough that they could get it from the edge
of the seat over to hang on one of the branches.

(09:07):
That's me. And then the fun time you see a
lot of the girls out there would be seeing snowboarding
and snow pants and a bikini pout.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Wow, that's awesome. That's great. All right, very good, very good,
Thank you, sir, thank you, my friend. Yes, Tyler.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
That says that. In two thousand and five, a liquor
company used in an advertisement the copy you just recognized
a pair of panties in the sundown bowl tree. The
conversation is waiting.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Oh wow, so it made it right into pop culture.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Oh it was Grandma Nier.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
And then in twenty twelve there was a male grooming
product company, Why doesn't it say the name any of it? Yeah,
ran an ad campaign that stated, please feed the broad tree.
It looks like like a lot of the resorts tend

(10:03):
to chop these trees down.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh, the ones that are close enough to do so,
people don't do it. Well, No, get get get fun,
This says.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
The first panty tree in Veil was found chopped down
one morning in nineteen ninety seven, but skiers picked another
tree to continue the traditional.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
You think I was gonna say, aren't there trees all
over the place? And it's my understanding, like whether it is?
What's that? What is like? Like I'm again I don't ski,
but like bamp in Canada, what's the big one in
Western Canada? Whistler is Whistler like the big famous one,
but they said it goes on everywhere.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Bamf is listed as having a broad tree.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh thank please feed the broad tree.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I gotta pull in the picture of theirs. And does
it ever get tended to during the season or do
you just let it go?

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I think you'll leave it. I would if I ran
a ski slope, I would just leave it.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah. I don't like them chopping down the tree the
well yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I mean, think of all the newdies that are in
aspen or or brecking ring ones exactly. These are probably
nice bras.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
So the veil skiers are one. It said it was
to make room for another.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Broad tree slow or lift.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh, so they had to cut down trees in order
to put a lift in.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's what they said.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well, that's okay, but you could still use another tree,
like Oh. The other thing I was going to say
is they said that if you find like a real
ski family.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Like again, I hate to reference Brett Haber, but Brett
loves skiing, right, love skiing. He would go, he'd go, oh,
I'm just skiing the Alps. They said that people who
are die hard skiers, if you go to their house
a lot of times, on their own Christmas tree, they'll
hang a pair of panties as kind of no, I
swear to God in homage. Yes, because that that's that's

(11:52):
that's their thing.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
They love skiing, like an ornamental version or just.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
A regular full sized panty. They'll hang one on the
tree to signify we love skiing.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
There's at some point the baf tree.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, you gotta feed the broad tree.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
It does look like it's primarily bras.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, they said. Sometimes sometimes panti's very very little socks.
It'd be hard to get a sock to stick.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
What about an iPhone sock? Sorry, an iPhone pocket. Somebody
was upset that we kept calling it the song.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
It is a sock, you know what it is. It's
iPhone dumb.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
But if you're trying to buy one, Josh, it is
iPhone pocket pocket.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Thank you. We should put up a broad tree outside
the studio.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
With the studio.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, when people come in, they got to feed the
broad tree. So like like like our friend Jill when
she comes in, she'll feed us car mines in the
tree her bra line one Hi Elliott in the morning. Hell,
I can't wait to see what celebrity deli feeds the
tree today. I'm sorry, Yes, who is this?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Angel tree? Hey Matthew, what can I do for you?

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I know on the East Coast it's not as big,
but after like a lot of the snow part like
they'll have gidas and stuff.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Up on the mountains and the next day the trees
are just covered in brawls and panties.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Oh, so like where they'll do like a like a
like a big snow party or something like a mountain
party everybody on the way home. Yeah that's good too.
I like that. But you said it's not are you.
Are you a pretty avid skier snowboarder?

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah, I go about ten fifteen times a year.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Good for you, Good for you. And but you've skied
East Coast and West I'm assuming you know that because
you've skied both, right, yeah, And is it West coast
more powder and East Coast more ice? I may have
that wrong.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, maybe, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Exactly, you're talking to Batman.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I remember, but you know the now that I think about,
thank you, sir. The ski the family ski trip we
went to angel Fire, New Mexico. Oh my god, yeah,
say again.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
It's just kind of bizarre because typically you don't have
nice things to say about New Mexico.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I don't. But they were in No. No, but remember
they lived in Houston, so we'd go to we'd fly
to Albuquerque garbage hole, and then we would drive forever
a way to angel Fire, New Mexico. What do you
look at it?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
If you search it on Google at home or on
your phone. First picture, that's Elliott, But that's like those No,
those don't look like special Miller skis.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
No, those are those. I didn't bring them on that trip.
I didn't bring them.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Your family's favorite mountain resorts since nineteen sixty six.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, now I can't tell you which one pizza. Oh
that kid is skiing through the trees.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Winter awaits the peak elevations over ten thousand feet.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
But the wait, you know who skis a ton? I
should have asked him, coastguard Kurt. Yeah, I bet, I
bet the I bet his wife's bras are all over
the country.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Absolutely, are you guys on speaking terms? After you threaten
to ruin his registry entry on the Coast Guards memorial website.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Let me grab line three. Hi elliot in the morning.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Morning.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
By the way, his boys are lunatics on a ski slope.
His boys are like rocket ships going straight down the mountain,
and they go right into trees and jumps and all
kinds of stuff into trees, through the trees, through the trees. No,
their last ski trip will be when they ski into trees.
I'm sorry, who is this? Hey, it's tim Morning. Smell

(15:45):
a face, Hey, smell it good? What's going on? Dude? Hey?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Snowshoe and Silver Creek both have those trees, but Silver Creek,
being a more family oriented ski resort, only has like
thieves and like t shirts and things that people throw on.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
No fun. What am I going to feed the bead tree? No?
Feed the broad tree? Wait? So is it the So?
I guess if some if some resorts are known as
being like family resorts, which I just learned, I guess
angel Fire was a family resort. Family that is true,
but the I didn't know that that some are more
Does that just mean like the slopes are more kind
of pussyish.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
You could say that.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, no, that mean that would make sense to me,
that would make sense. The range is not as difficult,
but they all have broad trees. Very good, All right,
very good, Thank you sir.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yes, toddles to say that angel Fire does not have
a well known broad tree, but that Smugglers Notch and
sugar Bush.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
By the way, I know I know plenty of Radford's
senior boys who went to Smuggler's Notch. Wait you know
sugar Bush.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
I went there there. No, I went there in eighth grade.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
For skiing.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Did you really for some everyone on skis and how
are you? I went?

Speaker 4 (17:04):
So I did eighth grade one time? Did the junior
senior ski trip just to party, right for Lake Braddock and.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
A dangerous like uh like school trip.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, we went to Vermont.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
That's a dangerous trip.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
So much liquor the no.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's what I was going to say. And then you
get out on skis.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, like that was danger it was it was nuts,
uh and then like once in college and that was it.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
That was it? Right? Very good.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
It says some of the origins that certain resorts may
have been the female skiers telling a male dominated sport,
we're here too.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh like we owned the power it exactly.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Instead of burning them. Yeah, see these mountains churning them.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
And then let me go to line four. Hi Elliet
the morning.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Hey, yes, sir, what can I do for you?

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (17:54):
I've made it the different I mean, I was at
twenty six different resorts last winter and they had they
had those trees, just about all of them.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
But you skied at twenty six different ski resorts last year.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
I made it.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
I made a trip mostly up in the Northeast, but
I had an indie pass, so I got two free
days at each of the resorts they have.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Dude, that's a I feel like that's a lot, right.

Speaker 6 (18:19):
I was most I've ever done. I was pretty happy.
I'm gonna try to beat it this winter.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
But are you really so? You're an avid skier?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yeah, I used to used to work up at Liberty
that's close by here, and they're a family resort and
they did it every year. They would go out and
clear the tree out and the next day of the
twelve year old was go steal bross from their mom's
drawers and run back in the trees.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Hey, do you own your own skis?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Do you do?

Speaker 2 (18:45):
You have Warren Miller skis?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
I'm gonna be checking some parking lots today though.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
There you go. Well, keep working harder. Maybe one day
you two can have some all right, dude, Hey, I
appreciate it, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yes, Tyler quickly, if we need motivation for indoor tree,
these are obviously outdoors cap He says that Captain Tony's
Saloon you can hang bras from the tree inside that.
So just pull up photos and we'll see how to
do it.