Tosh Show - Hurricane Milton - Emergency Pod

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

Daniel weathers Hurricane Milton by checking in on his mom and, more importantly, the family pier on Merritt Island.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Eddie, hit the sirens. The sirens should sound more like an alarm to get to higher ground or something. I think that's pretty good. I don't like the last part. It's not, when you can't change the alarm sound mid-alarm then it sounds like an old car alarm from the early 90s. Here'shoo-ha! Ah-hoo-ha! Here's what we're doing, guys. It's Wednesday, October 9th? Ninth. Ninth. It is the day before Hurricane Milton destroys my family.

Oh, man. If ever an emergency pod was actually necessary. I'm doing this so that all the people that are reaching out to me can just watch this and instead of me replying to everyone. Will my family evacuate? My in-laws have all evacuated. They live over in Sarasota. Now my family they all live on Merritt Island. They would they would never evacuate. You're not gonna call my parents pussies.

No, there couldn't be a storm surge big enough to get them out. As you recall, the last time they had a storm surge there, they lost their pier and my sister was out in the waters trying to save her pier. And then they rebuilt it by hand. My father who's way too old to be doing it, you know, no permits or experience in building a peer, they rebuilt their entire peer. So I'm sure they're

terrified that they're gonna lose their peer again. You know, in fairness to my folks, you know, their explanation is logical of why they never like to evacuate because what happens is the storm is bad but it's only bad for a bit. Then getting back to your place, a lot of times roads are closed and you can't get back for days and that's when a lot of the damage happens. So that's their mentality is that, well, if I was there, I could pick things up and it wouldn't get destroyed. You know, like sitting water. Now I, I, you know, grew up in a family that, that never evacuated. And also the coverage has changed. Are you watching the Weather

Channel? Is this only interesting to me, the storms, or do you guys tune into it? I'm watching too. Well, Eddie's got family in the area. Did your folks evacuate Eddie? They did. They went to Destin, Florida. They went to Destin. Okay.

So your family's a bunch of cowards too. So I'm watching the Weather Channel. I keep it on. I like the bad graphics. It reminds me honestly of Tosh.0 when I see them standing there on the green screen with the fakeness all around them. A lot of people know this but Byron Allen, a comedian, he bought the Weather Channel, I don't know, 50 years ago for $7. Who knew at the time, other than Byron Allen that that climate change which would make storms more fierce

Would now be such a hot commodity because I go to the Weather Channel almost exclusively for my information When it comes to tracking hurricanes Here's my problem with the Weather Channel. You don't know when a storm is coming, right? So all those ad dollars are sold throughout the year. Then a storm comes, all of a sudden people start watching the Weather Channel, but guess what? They still got the horrible ads, the cheap ads running. It's like there needs to be premium ads. Oh, there's a hurricane, people are gonna start watching this channel. Now let's have real companies advertise because

the ads that are on there right now are just horribly embarrassing. You got your sleep apnea stuff, sure. There's actually a commercial I've been seeing on the Weather Channel right now. It's a boner pill for teenagers. Literally, I was like, what is this? I couldn't think of a medication less needed.

My point is I think they need to come up with, oh there's a storm, okay all of your ads get booted and now let's have some real sponsors come in. And that's the thing with the coverage on the Weather Channel. You know with a hurricane, you know they make a meal out of it. As soon as a little low pressure starts to form it turns into a tropical storm, oh here we go let's name it. And then she jumps up to a cat five. Oh, jackpot. That's a radiance bonanza. But meanwhile in California, the last earthquake we had a few weeks ago, in the middle of it, my phone gave me a

warning halfway through it. I'm like, oh, that's helpful. See, there's no money in earthquakes. People always say, oh, that's helpful. See, there's no money in earthquakes. People always say, oh, California, you're gonna fall into the ocean. I've been hearing that since I was five years old. Guess what? Still here. What's gonna happen first?

Is California gonna fall into the ocean or is Florida gonna be underwater? These are things I've been hearing my whole life and they haven't happened yet. So why not live there and enjoy it? And if it happens to fall in the ocean, hopefully I'm on the road. Mm hmm. You know, I'll miss my wife, but damn it, she can be replaced.

You got to move on. You have to. She would want me to find happiness with someone younger and more attractive You know what though I do need to check in I need to check in to make sure that that my mother is Safe and that their peer is intact Let's see You get a real report here. Unbelievable.

Well, I hate to do this, but it's an emergency pod. So I think my father would understand hello tell mom to pick up her phone pick up your phone okay that all, I'll call right back. I'm working on a puzzle. That's unbelievable. I'm worried sick about you guys. I need to get a full report. What's the current wind speed there? I don't know.

Is it blowing? I'm in the baseball game. It's raining. It's raining. Are you worried about a storm surge? No. I'm looking at my puzzle. I heard you could expect up to 3 to 5 feet in your area for the storm surge. Oh please. We're not on the ocean.

That's Tampa. No, Tampa can expect 9 to 15 feet. They don't know. We'll see. Are you worried about your pier? No. I think it's stronger now than it was before. Would you rebuild it again if you lost it? Mike said he's

going to work tomorrow. He wants grandpa out there fixing the dock tomorrow. It'll be fine. I do feel bad for people that are alone. If I were by myself I would probably not like that. Do you guys want, do you and dad want to fly out here? No. No, we have Missy right here in the next, not with us, but in the, I know. I get it. Well, how many, how many piece puzzle are you working on? You know, this is only 300 cause I don't have room for a 500 and now dad's trying to eat a bowl of soup and he's pushing my puzzle pieces. All right. Have you, have you already got the the outline done oh

Yeah, I'm on the inside nice. All right. Well send me a photo that All right, that's good information I'll get you a puzzle. All right. Well enjoy your storm information. I'll get you a puzzle. All right. Well, enjoy your storm. Okay. Bye. We're waiting. Okay. Bye. Bye. All right. Love you. She didn't say I love you back. Yeah. How in the world, my mom not going to answer the phone because she's working on a puzzle. Yeah. It's almost like it's not even, there's not even a hurricane there for them. Couldn't care less about a storm. Yeah, that's interesting. That's just working on it. Now you say, Daniel, can't you put your parents up in a place where they have enough space to do a 500 piece puzzle?

No, my parents, they live in, I'm pretty sure it's 300 square foot, a little guest house on my sister's property. And they just couldn't be happier. Just, oh, we have a tiny little table. Dan's eating soup. Can't, can't get a bigger puzzle. It's just, it's just nice knowing that their life is exactly what I always think it's going to be.

All right. Well, I, you know, I, I hope, I hope they're right. I hope the storm spares most people and for those people, uh, that are alone out there in the storm, uh, head on over to my parents' house. They'll, they'll, they'll invite you in. They'll do the Christian thing. Eddie? Eddie, hit the sirens. That sounds like you're starting a chainsaw. That's like a return to normal life.

That's awful. We'll put some different ones over that so it sounds like you did something good. Alright, see ya. as they explore queer sex, cruising, relationships, and culture in the new iHeart podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Sniffy's Cruising Confessions will broaden minds and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

New episodes every Thursday. In California, during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson, 26 year old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI, identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

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