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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I think what we've determined is at the age
of sixty, is that you are you sixty?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Okay, oh yes, didn't you tell that? No, That's why
I was asking because I was confused. I'm like, sixty,
it sounds too old.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thanks, Well, you don't see that.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm a childlike child like giddy sixty.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yes, I'll agree with that. I'll definitely agree with that,
and I'll drink to that.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Okay, where is it?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Got something to drink?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
But I think that's what we've determined as far as
how old is too old to shovel snow. And let's
start with you know, I have a snow thrower. I
guess there's a difference between the thrower and the blower.
The blowers, I feel like, and this is I don't know.
I'm probably starting something where I'm going to end up
(00:56):
getting a bunch of direct messages, emails, phone call. I
don't I've always thought the throwers you use and they
are not as hardy. If you will, they will not
move as much snow as a snow blower. The snow
blowers are the ones with the tall and you see
them going into like they're driving it right into eight
(01:18):
twelve ten twelve inches of snow.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I make that same distinction, except I do it the
other way. Snow thrower to me, just sounds like a
more vibrant, potent piece of machinery that takes the snow
and tosses it over into your neighbor's yard.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Could be.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But I know that the one I have is not
as industrious, not as industrial.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
If you will.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, And I ordered the new and it's like this
heavy duty, thick kind of rubber, you know, blades, and
they're not even blades. It's like one single blade and
it kind of bends and it throws the snow or
blows it or whatever you want to call that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And my other one.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Last year when I started to use it, it was
the original one from several years ago, and as soon
as it started hitting the ground, it went flying everywhere.
The rubber was like flying everywhere. I go, No, this
isn't happening. Deck got it and it just chewed it
all up. It was dry rotted, basically, And so I
(02:21):
was like, oh, so I ordered a new one. I go,
I gotta get to that over the summer. Well guess
what today, I was reminded, I get to it over
the summer, and I said, I am not going to
sit out here in the I have to figure out
how to change this thing. And you know, this day
and age, you can YouTube it and probably get a
step by step and shouldn't be that tough looking at it.
Last summer, I just kind of took a peek at it, like, ah, man,
(02:44):
it's like six or eight bolts. Shouldn't be that big
of a deal. I got to get to that, and
then I just never got to it. And so as
a result today, guess what I did. I got the
shovel out, so I got oh get some extracize. Anyway,
this shouldn't be that hard. You get your son, it's
the new I didn't. I'm thinking, dude, this morning, I'm going,
it's the new Svelt me. It's the new one h
(03:06):
eighty two pound me. I'm like, this will not be
that hard.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You better waken your heart muscles.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, luckily I do cardio and stuff too, but I honestly,
I feel feel fantastic. And I did the whole driveway
and then I did part of the street out at
the end, and what I was trying to do is
clear it out, and then I parked my vehicle on
the street in front of my driveway.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
In hopes that if a snow.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Plow comes by that it would have to swerve to
miss my truck, which is kind of sticking out a
little bit. And then that way anything because you've ever
seen what people will you work all morning on your
stupid driveway and then they come by and plow the
street ceel you back in again, yep, And if you
don't move that, that will turn into an ice mountain yep,
(03:54):
if it gets cold enough. And so I was like,
I'm trying to avoid that, and I managed to do
all that, but everything's kind of melting and stuff anyway.
But I didn't even have to put down any salt.
The driveway was almost dry.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And if you don't do that and the melt comes,
then the melt will then pond right at the end
of your driveway, just increasing the size of that ice mountain. Yes,
so yeah, you can cannot let that happen.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, So I did not. My wife said that this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She goes get stone out there, and I go, oh, okay,
but then I just I just started doing it, and
I was like, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go
and just do it. And he comes out at the end,
he's like, hey, hey, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
sled or whatever. I'm like cool, and you know, but
it was not a big deal because I go.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's a workout. It's a decent workout. See.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
My problem is I shouldn't be doing it. I know
I shouldn't be doing it, and I would do it
anyway if I did not have the grandsons out there
with shovels this morning. Actually, the youngest grandson who is
a workhorse, and that kid walked after he got done
at our house. He starts walking the neighborhood. He made
like one hundred and twenty five bucks today.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Get out of town. Oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Good for him, twelve year old entrepreneur. I love it,
and I told my gosh, I told him he's gonna
be one shark tank one day. But he goes out
and starts making it. But he started it. Had I
gone out and started doing it, I would keep doing it.
And this is my problem. I'm hard hitted. I would
just keep doing it. What's wrong, Chuck having the heart attack?
(05:23):
Get ahead here, we'll call it no, I'm not done
with the sidewalk yet, because I won't stop right, And
it's psychologically probably a bad idea for me to do
stuff like that, because I will I'll hurt myself, and
I know that about me.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
They say in those situations, you just have to really
pay attention, and you know, don't start. You just have
to pay attention to everything going on, because you'll start
to get a little bit of warning where if you
start having maybe the shortness of breath and stuff that
seems you know, pretty elementary with regard to that and
(05:57):
going into it. You know how many people have heart
attack shoveling snow, It's one of the this time of year.
The emergency room is littered with those people. We know that,
and you know that. But if you pay attention, start
to feel some tightness or something, then you just go
all right, that's you know. But man, if you're hard headed,
good on you to go all right. I probably shouldn't
(06:20):
even get started, because then if you start feeling that way,
you're like, now, what I got half of a shoveled
driveway or less than half or not quite all of it.
I'm with you, man, because I started, I go damn it,
I'm finishing. Yes, this is not until I'm done. This
is not over.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And the between the you know, the ssiatic nerve thing
and the pain and the leg all the time. And yeah,
but again, hard headed west Sider, I'm short of breath.
Where's my cigarettes? So I'm gonna light a cigarette when
I'm short of breath. That's just how stupid I am.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, but you need a break, so that's why you
got to stop and take a break.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And they do that and then go back at it.
But I might as well have some bourbon to drink.
I'm waiting to feel better.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sure, a cigarette and a bourbon always makes everything better.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
No, and if it doesn't, you don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Zach attack did you end up having? Did you shovel
your driveway or do you have a snow thrower blower
whatever it's called.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I shoveled it this morning, did you? Okay, no big deal.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
My driveway isn't that big, so it wasn't Yeah, not
too much of a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Now, do you shovel the sidewalk?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Because I saw somebody posted in our neighborhood Facebook it
was like per ordinance and they ended up putting the
ordinance number literally in their post and said you have
to shovel the sidewalk or the city can get I
have never heard of the city actually giving you a fine.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I'm sure they're able to maybe, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I never have my to my right, if you go
down my driveway, look to the right, it's two backyards
put together all the way to a stop sign. So
sometimes I'll do it down to there, and then if
you look to the left, there's one too. There's three houses,
and sometimes I'll do it all the way down to
that end. But then the guys on that side will
(08:05):
also like whoever gets out there first, well to.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Kind of do side like a good neighbor. Zachary is there.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Did you do the sidewalks or did he do the sidewalks?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I do not have sidewalks. Okay, thank goodness, that's easy done. Yeah,
I've done sidewalks and you have to. Yes, you must
do that. They can't and if the city comes out.
I don't even know what the bill is for shoveling
your sidewalk now. I know that real estate wise, I've
had some houses where they come out abandoned house or whatever.
The city's come out and cut down the grass when
it's too high, and the bill on that against the
(08:37):
house is like three hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So the grass I kind of almost understand, But I
never understood the sidewalk thing where they're like, yeah, we
can find you if you don't shovel that, like what
like what? So it's so somebody can walk by with
their dog or they can go for a walk or
whatever without getting their feet in the snow.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Is kiss my sidewalk, But it's within that at east
and area of your property, just like at the rear
of the property where you likely have utility boxes and
so forth.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That your yard.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But if AEP needs to come in and plow through
it to get to they have every right to do
that in that easement.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Area, right, So I guess the number is forty five?
The how old is too old? They say adults over
forty five should exercise caution when shoveling snows.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So Chuck Norris didn't write that, Yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
They go on to say those with known or suspected
heart disease, high blood, high cholesterol, all of the just
common sense.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, eating all that San Francisco food, I'll do that
to you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Right, I just thought it was interesting that forty five
was the number were aware.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, well I went, wait a minute, what forty five?
I was still ready to binge press of Youick, that's that? Yeah,
that's a little.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
In fifty fifty five.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I mean, there are plenty of people who are our
age who are in better shape than many forty year olds, many, many, many,
So I think it's just kind of this blanket thing
that they say as far as forty five.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, a lot of us old guys have residual strength
just because we didn't spend you know, thirty years of
our life in a basement playing video games. We actually
get out and did stuff, So we saw residual muscles
that are waiting to come to life in there if
we need them.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Do you know what static exertion is? Because I did not,
and it's listed in this article.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Is that lifting laundry that didn't have a dryer sheet
in it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, it's shoveling that involves contracting muscles without movement in
the surrounding joints, which puts strain on the heart as
a result. And that's why it kind of elevates your
possibility of a heart attack while you're shoveling snow, it's
called static exertion. Had no idea that that was.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So just maybe using your arms as opposed to using
your legs squatting down, raising up to throw the snow,
you're doing everything with just the arms.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Sure, yeah, using the arms is more taxing on the
heart than engaging the legs, making shoveling particularly strenuous lifting
heavy loads. As you know, limited leg motion, inactivity or
infrequent motion and the legs can cause blood to pool
in the lower body, reducing the amount of oxygen aated
blood returning to the heart. So if you're standing there
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and it's mostly upper body and your legs are that
can also contribute. So it's not just a man you're
out of your terrible shape you're putting. It's a different
type of stress, that is.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I had no idea any of that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Till I read this article. I promise you, I'm fifty
six years old. I've never heard of this before, but
it actually makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And when you're out there with one of those Christmas
story ski mask things on, you're breathing in CO two
instead of oxygen anyway, so that's probably not helping you either.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
If it's covered over your mouth, over your mouth and nose. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting?
Is this George? Anne? Who is this?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I have Gene, Oh, Gene, Okay, Gene, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Thanks is coming down with a cold.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Sorry.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
My mother is a staunch New Englander born and raised
in Hampton, New Hampshire, and has been here for all
of I'm sixty three, at least all of those years.
She is eighty eight years old, has a quad cane,
and is out shoveling her seventy five foot driveway today.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
God, lover, that's my kind of woman right there, five feet?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's crazy? Wow? Is she dating? Because I, you know,
I'd like to meet her.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I said, Mom, stop it, I'll be over. She's like, no, no,
we'll be fine, and I would No, it's not fine.
So I, you know, haul the twenty minutes up to
her house to finish it off. Four But my god,
I said, Mom, it's not like you're going anywhere. It's
good ejeanl come over, Jean.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
When you guys finished, did you have clam chowda? Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I wish I wish we would have had some chowda.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I am impressed by your oder, Gene. I am sorry
that is that's uh yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Oh I told her, I said, here's the thing, Mom,
if you fall and break a bone again, you're not
living in my living room again like you did last time.
So you might really want to think about how much
fun this really is.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You're putting her on the screened in back porch.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's where she's going to have to live if she
does that, right, that's fantastic, Jeane, that is awesome. Hey,
tell your mom seriously that she impressed a couple of
guys you know, on the radio, and one of them
is like trying to date her or something.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Oh, well, you know, and I'm just as bad. I'm
just as bad. We've got about a three hundred foot driveway,
and I didn't think my husband was going to have
time to go out with a snowblower today, so I
was out there starting to shovel.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It like mother like daughter.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, like three hundred feet is you guys clearly live
out a little bit, And yeah, that's definitely calls for
a snowblower for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Wow, yes, yes, the thing is it's a walk behind
and I don't like it. You know I had, We
had one on the front of the tractor for years,
and boy, I'd get out there and bust buss but
with that one. But I don't like the walk behind
and having to hold the hold the gears with my
hands and right.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah, three hundred feet you really, you really need
the tractor attached with three hundred feet too much for
a walk behind.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, wow, Gene, thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Sometimes you're bad. Sometimes it's a beautiful day to be out.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, no doubt, it's good exercise. I mean, as long
as you're safe. But it's really it's good exercise. There's
no question.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'd love to see where her front yard gets snow. Thanks,
because I love I love that freshly fallen snow before
the kids and the mailman walk through the yard and
make it look like hell right. I love to, you know,
be able to look outside and go, oh, that's beautiful.
Well, I think what we've determined is at the age
of sixty, is that you are you sixty?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Okay, oh yes, didn't you tell that? No, That's why
I was asking because I was confused. I'm like, sixty,
it sounds too old.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thanks, Well, you don't see that.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm a childlike child like giddy sixty.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yes, I'll agree with that. I'll definitely agree with that,
and I'll drink to that.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Okay, where is it?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Got something to drink?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
But I think that's what we've determined as far as
how old is too old to shovel snow. And let's
start with you know, I have a snow thrower. I
guess there's a difference between the thrower and the blower.
The blowers, I feel like, and this is I don't know.
I'm probably starting something where I'm going to end up
(00:56):
getting a bunch of direct messages, emails, phone call. I
don't I've always thought the throwers you use and they
are not as hardy. If you will, they will not
move as much snow as a snow blower. The snow
blowers are the ones with the tall and you see
them going into like they're driving it right into eight
(01:18):
twelve ten twelve inches of snow.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I make that same distinction, except I do it the
other way. Snow thrower to me, just sounds like a
more vibrant, potent piece of machinery that takes the snow
and tosses it over into your neighbor's yard.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Could be.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But I know that the one I have is not
as industrious, not as industrial.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
If you will.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, And I ordered the new and it's like this
heavy duty, thick kind of rubber, you know, blades, and
they're not even blades. It's like one single blade and
it kind of bends and it throws the snow or
blows it or whatever you want to call that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And my other one.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Last year when I started to use it, it was
the original one from several years ago, and as soon
as it started hitting the ground, it went flying everywhere.
The rubber was like flying everywhere. I go, No, this
isn't happening. Deck got it and it just chewed it
all up. It was dry rotted, basically, And so I
(02:21):
was like, oh, so I ordered a new one. I go,
I gotta get to that over the summer. Well guess
what today, I was reminded, I get to it over
the summer, and I said, I am not going to
sit out here in the I have to figure out
how to change this thing. And you know, this day
and age, you can YouTube it and probably get a
step by step and shouldn't be that tough looking at it.
Last summer, I just kind of took a peek at it, like, ah, man,
(02:44):
it's like six or eight bolts. Shouldn't be that big
of a deal. I got to get to that, and
then I just never got to it. And so as
a result today, guess what I did. I got the
shovel out, so I got oh get some extracize. Anyway,
this shouldn't be that hard. You get your son, it's
the new I didn't. I'm thinking, dude, this morning, I'm going,
it's the new Svelt me. It's the new one h
(03:06):
eighty two pound me. I'm like, this will not be
that hard.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You better waken your heart muscles.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, luckily I do cardio and stuff too, but I honestly,
I feel feel fantastic. And I did the whole driveway
and then I did part of the street out at
the end, and what I was trying to do is
clear it out, and then I parked my vehicle on
the street in front of my driveway.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
In hopes that if a snow.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Plow comes by that it would have to swerve to
miss my truck, which is kind of sticking out a
little bit. And then that way anything because you've ever
seen what people will you work all morning on your
stupid driveway and then they come by and plow the
street ceel you back in again, yep, And if you
don't move that, that will turn into an ice mountain yep,
(03:54):
if it gets cold enough. And so I was like,
I'm trying to avoid that, and I managed to do
all that, but everything's kind of melting and stuff anyway.
But I didn't even have to put down any salt.
The driveway was almost dry.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And if you don't do that and the melt comes,
then the melt will then pond right at the end
of your driveway, just increasing the size of that ice mountain. Yes,
so yeah, you can cannot let that happen.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, So I did not. My wife said that this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She goes get stone out there, and I go, oh, okay,
but then I just I just started doing it, and
I was like, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go
and just do it. And he comes out at the end,
he's like, hey, hey, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
sled or whatever. I'm like cool, and you know, but
it was not a big deal because I go.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's a workout. It's a decent workout. See.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
My problem is I shouldn't be doing it. I know
I shouldn't be doing it, and I would do it
anyway if I did not have the grandsons out there
with shovels this morning. Actually, the youngest grandson who is
a workhorse, and that kid walked after he got done
at our house. He starts walking the neighborhood. He made
like one hundred and twenty five bucks today.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Get out of town. Oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Good for him, twelve year old entrepreneur. I love it,
and I told my gosh, I told him he's gonna
be one shark tank one day. But he goes out
and starts making it. But he started it. Had I
gone out and started doing it, I would keep doing it.
And this is my problem. I'm hard hitted. I would
just keep doing it. What's wrong, Chuck having the heart attack?
(05:23):
Get ahead here, we'll call it no, I'm not done
with the sidewalk yet, because I won't stop right, And
it's psychologically probably a bad idea for me to do
stuff like that, because I will I'll hurt myself, and
I know that about me.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
They say in those situations, you just have to really
pay attention, and you know, don't start. You just have
to pay attention to everything going on, because you'll start
to get a little bit of warning where if you
start having maybe the shortness of breath and stuff that
seems you know, pretty elementary with regard to that and
(05:57):
going into it. You know how many people have heart
attack shoveling snow, It's one of the this time of year.
The emergency room is littered with those people. We know that,
and you know that. But if you pay attention, start
to feel some tightness or something, then you just go
all right, that's you know. But man, if you're hard headed,
good on you to go all right. I probably shouldn't
(06:20):
even get started, because then if you start feeling that way,
you're like, now, what I got half of a shoveled
driveway or less than half or not quite all of it.
I'm with you, man, because I started, I go damn it,
I'm finishing. Yes, this is not until I'm done. This
is not over.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And the between the you know, the ssiatic nerve thing
and the pain and the leg all the time. And yeah,
but again, hard headed west Sider, I'm short of breath.
Where's my cigarettes? So I'm gonna light a cigarette when
I'm short of breath. That's just how stupid I am.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, but you need a break, so that's why you
got to stop and take a break.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And they do that and then go back at it.
But I might as well have some bourbon to drink.
I'm waiting to feel better.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sure, a cigarette and a bourbon always makes everything better.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
No, and if it doesn't, you don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Zach attack did you end up having? Did you shovel
your driveway or do you have a snow thrower blower
whatever it's called.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I shoveled it this morning, did you? Okay, no big deal.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
My driveway isn't that big, so it wasn't Yeah, not
too much of a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Now, do you shovel the sidewalk?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Because I saw somebody posted in our neighborhood Facebook it
was like per ordinance and they ended up putting the
ordinance number literally in their post and said you have
to shovel the sidewalk or the city can get I
have never heard of the city actually giving you a fine.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I'm sure they're able to maybe, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I never have my to my right, if you go
down my driveway, look to the right, it's two backyards
put together all the way to a stop sign. So
sometimes I'll do it down to there, and then if
you look to the left, there's one too. There's three houses,
and sometimes I'll do it all the way down to
that end. But then the guys on that side will
(08:05):
also like whoever gets out there first, well to.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Kind of do side like a good neighbor. Zachary is there.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Did you do the sidewalks or did he do the sidewalks?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I do not have sidewalks. Okay, thank goodness, that's easy done. Yeah,
I've done sidewalks and you have to. Yes, you must
do that. They can't and if the city comes out.
I don't even know what the bill is for shoveling
your sidewalk now. I know that real estate wise, I've
had some houses where they come out abandoned house or whatever.
The city's come out and cut down the grass when
it's too high, and the bill on that against the
(08:37):
house is like three hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So the grass I kind of almost understand, But I
never understood the sidewalk thing where they're like, yeah, we
can find you if you don't shovel that, like what
like what? So it's so somebody can walk by with
their dog or they can go for a walk or
whatever without getting their feet in the snow.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Is kiss my sidewalk, But it's within that at east
and area of your property, just like at the rear
of the property where you likely have utility boxes and
so forth.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That your yard.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But if AEP needs to come in and plow through
it to get to they have every right to do
that in that easement.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Area, right, So I guess the number is forty five?
The how old is too old? They say adults over
forty five should exercise caution when shoveling snows.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So Chuck Norris didn't write that, Yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
They go on to say those with known or suspected
heart disease, high blood, high cholesterol, all of the just
common sense.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, eating all that San Francisco food, I'll do that
to you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Right, I just thought it was interesting that forty five
was the number were aware.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, well I went, wait a minute, what forty five?
I was still ready to binge press of Youick, that's that? Yeah,
that's a little.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
In fifty fifty five.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I mean, there are plenty of people who are our
age who are in better shape than many forty year olds, many, many, many,
So I think it's just kind of this blanket thing
that they say as far as forty five.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, a lot of us old guys have residual strength
just because we didn't spend you know, thirty years of
our life in a basement playing video games. We actually
get out and did stuff, So we saw residual muscles
that are waiting to come to life in there if
we need them.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Do you know what static exertion is? Because I did not,
and it's listed in this article.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Is that lifting laundry that didn't have a dryer sheet
in it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, it's shoveling that involves contracting muscles without movement in
the surrounding joints, which puts strain on the heart as
a result. And that's why it kind of elevates your
possibility of a heart attack while you're shoveling snow, it's
called static exertion. Had no idea that that was.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So just maybe using your arms as opposed to using
your legs squatting down, raising up to throw the snow,
you're doing everything with just the arms.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Sure, yeah, using the arms is more taxing on the
heart than engaging the legs, making shoveling particularly strenuous lifting
heavy loads. As you know, limited leg motion, inactivity or
infrequent motion and the legs can cause blood to pool
in the lower body, reducing the amount of oxygen aated
blood returning to the heart. So if you're standing there
(11:15):
and it's mostly upper body and your legs are that
can also contribute. So it's not just a man you're
out of your terrible shape you're putting. It's a different
type of stress, that is.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I had no idea any of that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Till I read this article. I promise you, I'm fifty
six years old. I've never heard of this before, but
it actually makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And when you're out there with one of those Christmas
story ski mask things on, you're breathing in CO two
instead of oxygen anyway, so that's probably not helping you either.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
If it's covered over your mouth, over your mouth and nose. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting?
Is this George? Anne? Who is this?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I have Gene, Oh, Gene, Okay, Gene, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Thanks is coming down with a cold.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Sorry.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
My mother is a staunch New Englander born and raised
in Hampton, New Hampshire, and has been here for all
of I'm sixty three, at least all of those years.
She is eighty eight years old, has a quad cane,
and is out shoveling her seventy five foot driveway today.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
God, lover, that's my kind of woman right there, five feet?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's crazy? Wow? Is she dating? Because I, you know,
I'd like to meet her.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I said, Mom, stop it, I'll be over. She's like, no, no,
we'll be fine, and I would No, it's not fine.
So I, you know, haul the twenty minutes up to
her house to finish it off. Four But my god,
I said, Mom, it's not like you're going anywhere. It's
good ejeanl come over, Jean.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
When you guys finished, did you have clam chowda? Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I wish I wish we would have had some chowda.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I am impressed by your oder, Gene. I am sorry
that is that's uh yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Oh I told her, I said, here's the thing, Mom,
if you fall and break a bone again, you're not
living in my living room again like you did last time.
So you might really want to think about how much
fun this really is.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You're putting her on the screened in back porch.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's where she's going to have to live if she
does that, right, that's fantastic, Jeane, that is awesome. Hey,
tell your mom seriously that she impressed a couple of
guys you know, on the radio, and one of them
is like trying to date her or something.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Oh, well, you know, and I'm just as bad. I'm
just as bad. We've got about a three hundred foot driveway,
and I didn't think my husband was going to have
time to go out with a snowblower today, so I
was out there starting to shovel.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It like mother like daughter.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, like three hundred feet is you guys clearly live
out a little bit, And yeah, that's definitely calls for
a snowblower for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Wow, yes, yes, the thing is it's a walk behind
and I don't like it. You know I had, We
had one on the front of the tractor for years,
and boy, I'd get out there and bust buss but
with that one. But I don't like the walk behind
and having to hold the hold the gears with my
hands and right.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah, three hundred feet you really, you really need
the tractor attached with three hundred feet too much for
a walk behind.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, wow, Gene, thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Sometimes you're bad. Sometimes it's a beautiful day to be out.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, no doubt, it's good exercise. I mean, as long
as you're safe. But it's really it's good exercise. There's
no question.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'd love to see where her front yard gets snow. Thanks,
because I love I love that freshly fallen snow before
the kids and the mailman walk through the yard and
make it look like hell right. I love to, you know,
be able to look outside and go, oh, that's beautiful.
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