Ice Ice Baby

0:00This feels really weird. I don't know if you have the exact same feeling Sebastian, but I kind of feel like when I was a kid. When I was like 11, 12 years old and you knew there's going to be like a huge no storm and all the adults freaking out, but all the kids were so happy. Because it meant no school, it meant a day off and it just meant that it was just going to be a special day and I feel like today is one of those absolutely welcome to a brand new episode of Men of the Alley. It's Patrick and Sebastian on Idobi Radio for a brand new episode of Men of the Alley. Let's give the people some context here.

1:15Yes, because it's pretty important. The show airs at 8 p.m. on Idobi Radio and we try to stay as close to that as possible, right? Often times we're alive at 8 p.m. and sometimes well because of Sebastian's travels with simple plan, we need to change the schedule a little bit and yesterday we kind of had an emergency meeting because right now in Montreal on the east coast of Canada, everyone is freaking out. Literally, you cannot open the newspapers, open the radio. Everyone is talking about this ginormous ice storm that is coming and looming with this ice storm is the very real possibility of a bunch of power outages. That's the thing. So that's why we had to get on Mike this morning. So Wednesday morning and it started. There's ice outside. The cars are already covered. The trees are starting to get there. It's slippery. And we're kind of just like bacon sure we get through this episode without the lights turning off. And already it's been a weird morning because you know, I was talking about that excitement when you're a kid when you know that you're going to have a day off.

2:20So yesterday all the schools announced preemptively that they're all going to be closed, right? Buses aren't going out on the road. We're not going to risk everyone's safety. I think that's the main thing, right? That's the main reason why schools would close is because of the buses, the kids that take the bus to school. Because I think I think like most of the private school that don't offer bus services might be open. And there's going to be they're just they're just they're just good. Are they all close today? What's going on? Do you know this? I from from when I know everything's closed. So both my kids at school. My wife is a teacher. So everyone's off. And so in this kind of like excitement of like, yo, storm Wednesday. My daughter last night was like, can I have a sleepover? And I was like, sure. And now you see this thing behind me. Well, most of you can't, but Sebastian can. Yeah. What is that? What does that look like to you? That looks like a big, big dresser. But I believe it's one of your nifty crafty Murphy beds. That's right. And so there's a bed in my studio. But it usually looks like a dresser.

3:20And once in a while, if we have guests, well, it turns into a little bit of a guest room. It's not the best guest room in the world, but that's how we like it. You know, don't get too comfortable. You can stay over, but you're not sticking around all that long. And so it woke up and and juju and her girlfriend. They were in here and I was like, hey, no, no, no, no, get the mozion out of here. And so I had to kick them out very quickly so that we could. So we you're going with this. And it's funny. I did as most people do at woke up. And first thing I did is go scroll the Instagram. And it's funny because it's a weird feeling of like everyone being home. And because of the power outages, my wife last night was like, you should probably go buy some food, just like things that we can do without power. Just in case. Yeah. And I was like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. That's a good point. And so it felt a little bit like like pre-dooms day. And then I wake up and I see that literally exactly six years ago, March 11th, 2020 is when we declared the pandemic.

4:20Oh, no way. Yeah. Like to the tea, right? And I was like, yeah, it's funny. I mean, obviously completely different contacts, but it kind of feels the same thing. Like having the kids in the morning and just like everyone, I don't know, there's something, right? There's something in the air when you get these storms. And contrary to like a snowstorm where you would get a snow, they were everybody would be outside playing, sledding, building forts and snowmen. And now it's like it kind of like don't go outside, stay in your house, type of deal. And I remember it was at this point, I think three years ago, because the last ice storm that we got was 23. And we were out of power and we came over to your house for a sleepover. And if it happens again, you're more than welcome. You see that thing behind me? Yeah. Well, you guys can't see it, but Sebastian can. What does that look like to you? And in a twisted turn of events, in a twisted turn of events, as soon as we're done with this show, this had nothing to do with this specific ice storm. We're just like the general concept of that.

5:21There's a team of a very specialized electricians that are coming over to install batteries at my house for that specific purpose. For power out of purposes. So like these people are coming over about an hour. Like a generator? Yeah, but like it's basically a battery. So your house is connected to battery and you manage it as you would your phone battery. So if I turn everything on, it'll last a day. If I don't turn anything on, it can last many days. So I'm getting that installed like basically, yeah, in the next hour. So hopefully those batteries come slightly charged. Just like when you get a new phone, it's like might be at 60%. So I'm kind of hoping for that. And they haven't canceled on you yet. They have not. So everything's been canceled. Like everything that's been in my life on this Wednesday is canceled. It's like, no, we're not doing, not doing anything. Ice storm, ice storm, ice storm. Yeah, so they have not canceled. Now mind you, I'm talking to you right now. My phone's on silent. They might be calling me repeatedly right now as we speak. Try and cancel.

6:21But and if they do, what am I going to do? Tell them to come away. It's like riddle me this. There's a difference then between a generator and this like battery that you're installing. Yes, generator generates power. Yeah. Am I right? Yes. Okay. So basically these batteries are just, they're, let's say that they're an empty battery. You plug them to your house system. Yes. And so, you know, here we have Hydro Quebec. And so the power company powers it like it would, you know, power your laptop. And then you just have like X amount of hours of juice. It's exactly the laptop is the perfect analogy. When your laptop's plugged in, it's plugged in. As soon as you unplug it, it doesn't turn off. It keeps going until the battery dies. And that's it. Yeah. So basically I would, I'm connecting little less than half of my house to it because you don't need your water heater. I don't need my oven to keep going. I'm not going to do a lot of laundry while the power is out. So I'm sort of, I'm going to have to manage my own battery my own way. But that's sort of what it is.

7:22So as soon as the, as soon as the power goes out, like there's no glitch, it just keeps running on the battery. And then this is cheaper than a generator I take it. Probably not. But if, let's say you're on vacation, you would have to get your, nope, sorry. My cat keeps playing with my phone. Yeah. So that's, you know what? That's great radio for you. Specifically said, I specifically said there should be a no cat episode. There's, there's not that I can do. They go where the fun is. And obviously this episode is already super fun. So basically, basically, you kind of just have to manage your own thing. So no, probably no, no drawing, no oven going as the power. Like you kind of do it the right way to make sure that your battery lasts as long as you can. As you would, if you, if you're on vacation and you're like, oh man, my phone is dying. You're not suddenly going to start editing movies on your phone. Right. Yeah. Sure. You're going to put it on battery saver mode. Interesting. Are you, this was done like preemptively, right? Like you know that there was a nice storm coming. This was just already planned. Are you someone who gets into a bit of like freaking out mode?

8:25Like this week, I almost bought a generator. Okay. Because everyone was talking about this ice storm. And my logic was this, I started like shopping them around. And I was like, how about how about I do this? If there's a nice storm or there is, but if the ice storm has a bunch of power outages left and right, people are going to be jumping at these generators. Yes. So I looked at the like hardware store by my house. And there was one on sale. And there's like one left in stock. And I was like, why don't I just go buy it? And if I don't need it, I'll return it. And if I do need it, then I'll have it. And then my wife called me like a Doomsday Crazy Man. Yeah, it's the prepper instinct, right? Yeah. And so I was like, yeah, okay, maybe not. And then actually the reason I didn't go the real reason is that there's a pretty hefty ice storm over the holidays here where we live. Yes. And so some of the experts were saying we just got a nice storm. A lot of the more fragile branches and trees have already been like broken and cut off.

9:28Like the December ice storm kind of like cleaned out a lot of a lot of the crap that causes power outages, right? Yes. Because most often it's a branch falling on a circuit. Yeah. Power line, thank you. And he's like, and plus at this time of year, there's no leaves yet in the trees. There's no snow on the trees. And so, you know, sure, you know, icy rain is heavy. But not as heavy as if they're released, for example, right? Like you can get a nice storm in November. And there's still a bunch of leaves on the trees. And it always makes it a lot heavier. And I was like, okay, you know what? I'm not going to go crazy. I'm not going to go by a generator. But are you one that kind of goes like Kuku? Like we need to prep for this. Like I've got ramen in the basement for three weeks. Not at all. So the freezers, because there's a downstairs freezer and the regular freezers at my house, they're kind of always full. So there is food to be eaten. I will. I got back from Disney last night, but riddle me this. This is freezer food, and you're in a house with no electricity.

10:30How do you barbecue? No, no, no. Okay. So my stove top is gas powered. So that's like see that's a click away from just warming everything up here. Yeah. Lifestyles. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. I'm so sorry. But I got back from Disney last night. People are so stupid. People are like, oh, there's a power outage. What do I do? Seb's like, just use your gas. Gas too. Or go to your second house. I still have that cottage. Obviously it's going to be very dangerous to get on the roads. But I could go to the cottage if the power outage lasted my battery is empty. But all that to say that I did get back from Disney last night. Yes. We were away for four days. So there's like no like people would say there's no food in the fridge. Like there's no veggies. There's no leftover fruit. Like we're kind of out of that stuff. And you didn't go yesterday in preparation for the. I did not. But I'm going to have to go. I think it's open. Yeah. It's open. Everything's canceled. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we'll just see what happens. Listen, you touched on it. And obviously this was going to be an episode where I wanted you to do a little bit of a recap on this Disney adventure of yours.

11:35And so let's get into some music. And after I want to hear everything. How is Mickey? It was Donald Naughty again. I want to hear the whole shabang. Beautiful. Okay. So this one is Royals. Talk about it. And it's right here on Man of the Hour. And I don't be radio. You say you want to talk about it. Yes, we'll go another round. You're the reason. All we do is scream and shout. I miss the warning signs. Thought that it felt right there. Oh. Oh. You won't talk about it now. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I kind of felt like yesterday you were blowing up my phone. You won't admit that you were wrong. I've heard it all before. Keep going on and on. You never let things go. The last word is all you want. You're the first to let me know. I'm always wrong. You say you want to talk about it.

12:37Yes, we'll go another round. You're the reason. All we do is scream and shout. I miss the warning signs. Thought that it felt right there. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. You won't talk about it now. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. TheAlmodes Advisor, Oh. I want to go give another day at each other's throat. But walking on excels are you give me a monetize. If this goes on and on. The cracks will start to show. I've got a choice. The name is it's time to let this go. You're always wrong. You say you want to talk about it. Yes, we'll go a round. You're the reason. You scream and shout, I miss the warning signs Like that in self, right in the open world

13:41You won't talk about it, so you will have to say Put you in hell, but I'll bring it into town now I don't know how long I can keep up with this If you keep going on and on and on Don't fall in, fall in, fall in love It goes on, fall in, fall in, fall in love It goes on, fall in, fall in love Listen to this and suffer But it's a complaint? You say you wanna I talk about it, guess we're going on around You're the reason, oh we do you scream and shout I miss the world inside I thought that it felt right But now, oh, oh, oh, oh But you take the water And talk about it inside Just to go in there You're the reason All you do is scream and shout

14:41I miss the world inside I thought that it felt right But now, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh You won't talk about it Man of the hour You're listening to the man of the hour With Patrick and Sebastian Live every Wednesday evening at 8 a.m. With replays all week And listen on demand With the IDOBIOS app It's men of the hour on IDOBI radio With Patrick and Sebastian and I swear Dude, stop staring Sebastian You can just ask Yes, this is Kashmir Yes, it's super comfortable And yes, it's elevating my style Quite a bit I don't know why you're just not We're friends You can, these are questions We can ask each other Don't worry about it I saw you did the 90s thing That is pretty sweet You know what? It's funny You probably saw this trend this week It was like all these 90s TV stars Doing like This trend called Hey, dad, how were you in the 90s And then you would see that text on the screen And then you would see

15:41Them from back in the day And it was all these 90s stars People from Full House And people from Home Improvement And people from 90210 And I was like Well, I'm not a I'm not a I'm a 90s star But you were alive in the 90s Yes, that's a good point But I just didn't want to jump on a trend Like imagine if it's like All professional hockey players They're gonna trend And I'm like Yep, I'm in What up Who is this guy? But then I started seeing Just normal people do it And I was like Oh, you know what? It just, honestly It peaked my curiosity As to like which 90s pictures I had in my phone Right? I didn't go on a scavenger hunt Like going back into old albums And I had a fair amount And I was like Okay, I could do this This is kind of cool And so these trends are always like a fun little exercise I find And so I did it It was awesome You know, it's very, very weird Because I have such a documented life starting When you joined the crew And the band

16:42And all of that When you joined our outourage And I don't know if it's because I may have a little Something to do with that Of course But like prior to that And I don't know if it's because Myself included And all my friends Nobody had money, nobody had Money to buy cameras Or if our parents Because were divorced Like everybody kind of lived in the moment But unless we were on vacation There's like hardly any pictures of me And this was sort of a Not an issue But it was kind of like a weird thing When we were making the simple plan documentary And when we were making the simple plan book Many years ago Like, okay, can you find pictures of you as a teenager? I'm like I can't Like I've got these like four Maybe four pictures of me Like holding a guitar That have been circling You know And then the rest The rest is like Family pictures I'm not just going to throw that in there Like they're kind of irrelevant to the story But yeah, so I don't have that many And then obviously in contrast Arkids Oh my god So documented You know, we walk around with cameras in our pockets And it's a It's a good thing

17:43You know, my daughter feels like She remembers being 18 months old Which makes no sense You know, because she's seen the images in the videos But I still can't remember that Yeah, exactly I do want to ask you Before we get into the whole Disney thing Because last we spoke was like kind of like in the middle of spring break It was right before I left And I think the weather was quite, quite nice Quite gorgeous, it was still cold, but we got some I did some of my best snowboarding ever We got one of those beautiful day Where like just like You know, like a couple inches of powder Maybe 10 centimeters that just fall in And the packing underneath was hard and nice and perfect And I got some beautiful snowboarding done Like minus five degrees, which is ideal And then obviously we did Disney But how did your spring break finish? My spring break was actually really, really good We have like, there's a family cottage That we went to, but it's pretty far from any skiing hills And so our plan was like We're going to go to the cottage for like a long weekend

18:44Like Friday, Saturdays, Sunday, whatever Right And then we're like, let's come back down to the city Yeah And then go skiing in a couple of days And then we'll go back up to the cottage and we got there And we weren't with Ben And I'll tell you why in a minute But and so we were alone with Juju And she's the first one who said like Hey guys, why don't we just stay here It's so nice, it's calm, it's chill And we were like Yeah, yeah If you're not bored And but she said this like pretty early onset And so we're like, look, let's see what's what on Monday If we want to go down and go skiing, we can And if we don't, we didn't pack for for a full week But I mean, there's a washer dryer Like yeah You like the sweater? I'll be wearing it a lot Thank God, it's cashmere And so you come feet I'm going to be plugging that a lot I've never had a nice cashmere sweater And here I am, 45 years old Beautiful I don't know why I waited so long, by the way And so we ended up just staying at the cottage We went sledding, we went skating We went snowshoeing

19:44We did a whole lot of nothing We played a lot of games And so it was super, super chill And we did a lot of missing Ben Because he wasn't there Because he had the probably one of the best weeks of his life Thanks to my parents Who decided to take him on vacation And take him to London Whoa A week Yeah And so he, you know, Ben Turning 15 in a couple of days Such a nice age to go spend a week with his grandparents Look, my parents aren't getting any younger They're in great shape But my dad is 83, right? And so, you know, it's Sooner or later Traveling with a 15 year old Is like not the best thing, right? He's still He's still in good enough shape And I think he will be for a long time Honestly, he takes such good care of his health But still, like at one point, it's like You know, you don't want to be in charge of a kid You take those opportunities when they come If he says I want to travel with your son, you said Yes, dad, take him

20:44100% Yep And it's funny, my stepmom yesterday Was she was saying it's funny with Benjamin We don't need to take a single picture Because he takes so many And we have so many good shots from her vacation And I was like, yep, that's the one He takes a bunch of pictures And so he absolutely loved it London was one of his like dream destinations Really? Why? Yeah Well, I think it stems from him listening to a lot of UK rap Amazing, okay, of course, make sense And then just through that You know, being a bit more in tune with the culture And the spots and just everything It's a great city, right? Obviously Of all the major cities in the world Why? It's more like how it has London peaked the interest of a 15 year old You know Yeah I mean, it's probably just like in popular culture Like if you had to name the five cities that like must go

21:45You would name Paris You would name Paris London Probably LA, maybe Tokyo Yeah Right, like there's these cities that just have that aura To them that are usually like the first destinations And once you've crossed off that list You kind of go to like, okay, well now I would love to go to Singapore Right Like Singapore is not first Usually, although Singapore is super nice Singapore is amazing, but yeah, I understand what you're saying Yeah And so, no, they had a really really really cool week And it's funny, they came back and I was like, oh, so cool for Ben But then part of me was also like, so cool for my parents So cool for my parents It has to have been like a mutually beneficial trip And I was looking at the stats funny enough It is mutually beneficial for grandkids to spend time with their grandparents It apparently like calms kids a lot because I guess grandparents aren't as high strong Right, like they're not in the rat race And it's not like, let's go go go back your bag, get your lunch box

22:47Like it's not as stressful life with grandparents Yeah, well anything's different kid Anything that anybody that's not your parent will have a much different dynamic of course So the familiarity of a grandparent is and the fact that it's not your parent And they trust them completely obviously, so that's that's beautiful And there's a bunch of studies also on grandparents taking care of their grandkids Now, I'm not going to qualify this as them like taking care of Ben Right, it's not like they pick him up after school every day But grandparents who take care of their grandkids a whole lot Are a lot sharper in a bunch of different tests because basically like your cognitive skills Don't go down as quickly because you're still using them Right, of course, yeah, that makes sense So mutually beneficial and so a great trip And I forced them all to go to Wimbledon because they offer like tours When the tournament isn't on And I was like, if you guys are in London, you guys need to go to Wimbledon You guys need to go And they went on a beautiful sunny day, 17 degrees Celsius

23:47And they make you tour the space And there's like a guide talking about the tournament and the history And they're like, honestly, what a cool suggestion, it was really, really fun And I was like, yeah, you should try to go when there's some tennis now No, that's your thing Yeah, exactly That is your thing Okay, I'll be there Yeah, of course you will You'll be there this summer at Wimbledon No, I'm going to the other way The other way I'm going to both, I'm going to Renan Garras, the French Open Yeah, of course Where you play on Red Clay Yeah And I got this Red Clay-colored Beautiful And then I'm going to Wimbledon, I'll swing July It's just stupid I have a horseshoe at my ass And it's a ballot, right? You need to win the ballot And I've won the ballot again And so people wait 20 years to win the ballot once I have won it two years in a row And so I'm going with my mom It's going to be the trip of a lifetime for her And that's beautiful, man After that, I'm going to keep joining the ballot

24:48But I really can't see myself winning three years in a row That makes no sense You're the second person in the span of a couple days That has planned trips with their parents People are aged that are traveling with their parents And obviously, okay, so now that we're on the Disney thing We've been extremely fortunate to have passed Yeah, should we talk about the Disney thing after the song? Yes, okay, sure, yeah, let's do it, okay We're sorry, we're sorry You know what? Blame the ice storm We completely veered off track I really apologize, I believe it may be my fault But it's a bad with simple plan I forget how many years running now Oh, man After the song has been going to Walt Disney World It's become this really cool band tradition And he's going to tell us about it after the song This is Lolo It's a brand new song called 007 And it's right here on Man in the Hour And I don't be radio It's double as heaven Got a license to kill

25:48I bet you blow it all up Just for the day Your lips are a whipping But I'm kissing and still You say you won't break my heart But I know that you will I spy with my little eye My tall dark and handsome demise And you say you want to look good guys Yeah, right You like it You're not scared It tastes like I'm going to get hurt It feels like I'm sleeping You're too short Till tonight You'll write a match Then walk away Like you Couldn't kill it It's nothing as you may So I bet Kissing and smile Right off your face I know you're actually a group But I'm on to you Yeah, I'm on to you Baby, double as heaven Got a license to kill I bet you blow it all up Just for the day Your lips are a whipping

26:48But I'm kissing and still You say you won't break my heart But I know that you will I'm on to you I'm on to you I'm on to you Baby, I'm on to you I'm on to you I'm on to you Baby, you're lonely as I distract But I know you're inside You'll take me out with no worries Thinking it's so undercover You're just like all the others You'll play me like your favorite sport You'll write a match Then walk away Like you Couldn't kill it It's nothing as you may So I bet Kissing and smile Right off your face I know you're actually a group But I'm on to you Yeah, I'm on to you Baby, you're double or seven Got a license to kill I bet you blow it all up Just for the day Your lips are a whipping

27:49But I'm kissing and still You say you won't break my heart But I know that you will I'm on to you I'm on to you I'm on to you Baby I'm on to you I'm on to you I'm on to you Baby I'm on to you I'm on to you Baby I'm on to you I'm on to you I'm on to you I'm on to you Baby I'm on to you I'm on to you But I'm on to you Can't get enough Man of the Hour Watch up Wherever you get your podcasts But especially widobáapp For iOS Idobay radio It's Patrick & Sebastian Here on the Man of the Hour show Sebastian French Fresh Off A pretty cool trip That you may have seen on social media

28:49Where him & his rock outfits Simple plan Pretty much every year There's been going toSC Walt Disney World How many years is running But but but seven years running maybe but not seven years total because I've been with you guys Yeah, like and this was this was 18 years ago. Yeah, so 2004 I think yes 2004. I believe it was the first time we played grad night Yeah, and we play that twice and then since then Disney decided that it might not be the best idea to have high school students Stay out till 3 a.m. On park grounds, which I believe was a smart idea So they kids get a little goofy. I thought Sure do But now they it's they there's a there's a stage in front of the American Pavilion at upcott center and they have bands throughout their year that keep going going going So we started doing this many years ago now

29:49It turned into not only a tradition like you were saying but like kind of like a main event like every single performance Has is I'm not gonna say sold out but it's full and there's people like outside the room watching In and just walking by and stopping to watch the band like it's it's kind of really fun And we are extremely spoiled and grateful for Disney for giving us this this opportunity and We each get a guide. So we've got that VIP thing where they drive you around in a van You can skip the line. You can do as many rises you want as many times as you want and It's a it's it's that's I mean it's the next level luxury as far as theme parks go and it's something that by the way is Is is something that anyone can purchase? Of course, you can go you can go to Disney and say I want a guide takes you everywhere He makes you cut every single line. Yeah, but it's just it's just pretty damn expensive and so it's it's a nice little perk as As the headliner of the show to say like yes, you get a guide. I call it a dog personally because I don't know if you remember

30:49He still comes to the shows. There's need out of town. We see him like we didn't see this year We saw him last year. Disney Doug. Yeah, he's he's just saying out because Doug was one of of these VIP guides 20 years ago that that took us around a little bit. Wait wait wait. Hey, this is gonna be super useless for everyone else, but what does he do now? I think he's not a guide still no, I believe for the longest time we still involved in the in the corporation Now I believe he does events for a different company So that that's that's where we're at with that Sorry, these are the kinds of questions I need to have with Sebastian off air I'm gonna bring it back to what we're talking about before and then we're gonna bring it back to the ice star No, so traveling with your parents. So this year. Yeah, my sister Came with us with her husband and son my nephew And we were going around my sister as has been to Disney since we were kids But we had not been to Disney at Disney together for the past 30 years My parents had a trailer that that got pulled behind their minivan

31:51And for about like five years in a row when we were young kids up until we were teenagers Every other year I would say we would drive from Montreal to Florida during spring break and spend the week at Disney Which is crazy it is crazy, especially if it's not a tour bus that you can hang out at we were in the minivan for 30 hours 30 hours that's what I was gonna say like people need to understand like how far those two Yeah, and then so they would drive they would do it in two days usually sometimes the first day be in the longer day Maybe like a 16 hour travel day or like a little bit more and then the remainder of like you know seven eight hours And then we would get there and we would park at the campground so obviously you save you save all the money on flights And you save all the money on hotels campgrounds were about I don't know 60 bucks a day back then anyways And I think one of our one of our our crew person used to go to Disney as a kid and their parents found a ticket for Magic Kingdom From the late 80s. That was like 37 dollars Anyways, that's not the prices anymore. So so while we were there Going around with my sister with this tour guide. I turn to her and I'm like do you think mom would like this?

32:54Do you think mom would enjoy doing Disney this way while she's can still walk my dad can't walk long distances anymore So that's a no-no for him like a trip where you have to visit a lot of places doesn't work for him anymore So now I got my mom left on my okay Maybe mom would come down and enjoy Disney But like she wouldn't do any of the thrill rides of course, which is what Clare enjoys But she could do it's a small world after all over and over again absolutely and and and so like I was just thinking about you know kids traveling with a Grandparents grandparents and I think that would be I think that would be lovely if I if I if I managed to figure out a way to take my parents on one of these trips whether it's a Disney one Whether it's a it's a future family one But as you as you know and or might understand like our I'm away from home quite a bit So whenever whenever we plan family trips It's it's the three of us and we want to make sure we spend the time together So it's very rare that we add on more people to these trips So it's it's never occurred to me until recently's like I should have done this

33:54But I still have some time to do this so traveling with grandparents. I'm I'm in I think it's cool. Yeah It's a it's a good time to do it and And you know on the flip side too like my my parents look obviously the they are the ones who invited Ben And so they have they're at a place in their life where like you know they've planned accordingly They can spend some money on a trip on a nice trip right? It's like you know once you're 83 There's unfortunately a little bit less in front than than behind you And so just that part's been pretty cool. Yeah, okay Back on the ice storm. So We're we're we're assuming that we'll kind of stay in inside for the rest of the day I'm lucky enough that I have a grocery store that's walking distance That's supposed to be open today. It's oh so it's skating distance. Yeah, so he's I think it's just about to be skating distance because there's already a little thin layer of ice everywhere 100% I just before this and look mind you it's like 8 a.m. Here on the east coast I went outside to It's funny. I had a bag of salt. Yeah, but it was like at the end of the driveway

34:56And I was like I should probably put it by the door that way I can I can put salt on my way to the car right exactly and so I went I went out and it was already like super slippery Yeah, okay, so so my question to you is this and this is one of those like beautiful would you rather right? Okay, yes, I love those okay, so right now, you know It could be it could be different context but for this specific reason in my scenario You are confined to your house and let's say to your house in backyard for the rest of your life Yep, this is scenario when you are you have to stay in your house or your backyard for the rest of your life And your your family can go go as they please work go to school do all that But you Patrick have to stay in your house or your backyard for the rest of your life and the trade-off is You're like you're good you won't have to you know you won't have to worry about money Whatever situation you're in now like whatever your level of lifestyle is now you can keep that forever You know you'll have food on the table forever You know your bills are paid forever everybody is fulfilled in their job and order things from

35:57Order things as much as you want you just cannot ever go anywhere. You're not the guy running errands You can order you're not if you need some fix you call someone you know to come and fix it obviously and and all of that Would you take would you take that deal if you knew it meant your family's fine forever financially Security is fine. You know your house won't burn down in this scenario. Let's let's let's make it. Let's make it appealing Yeah, you know like you won't get flooded. Yeah, they give me one So it's only me who's confined to that I'm basically I'm basically okay. You're you're a prisoner in a scenario You're drawn out a scenario where I was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and the judge was nice and said that I could do I could do like house confinement instead of jail Yes, but we're throwing a bone your way meaning like you know like they're Yeah, but well, but either bunch of money or but a bunch of money you could spend it but then the scenario like You won't run out is what I'm saying. You're fine. You're good. I don't change the houses. You're not you know, no

36:57I love honestly. I love my house. I love my backyard. I like if you would told me like Oh, you know, it's like a pandemic situation where I need to be stuck here I'd be like yeah, honestly the house is fine and it's cool. Yeah, but I'd have a real hard time at 45 years old saying that I'm never gonna travel You know like yeah case in point like I'm never gonna travel with my grandkids ever. I'm not gonna go to London with my my 15-year-old grandson You would need to be throwing a substantial amount of generational wealth my way For me to make that sacrifice where I'm like okay. I'm gonna say yes to this only because it means You know lifelong security for multiple generations coming down and so I will put myself in in you know world jail Yes, even though it's a nice. It's a nice one like you said Um, but you give me a hundred million dollars and it's like I know that like things are fine And I can bring the world to me like you know, if I want to see me talika in concert Maybe I can book them in my backyard Sure, if you give me if you give me like that's like a stupid amount of money

37:59Then maybe I'd say yes, but otherwise I'm way too young to Put myself in that situation, right like I feel like I can make money other ways and so you know Um Basically the question is he is is money, right? It's only that I might that that might be what it comes down to but but also I think there's a little component of Are you the type of person that Will make do are you the type of person that's just like so happy when he's home that he's like yeah Cuz there's a big side of me that's like that. So that's where the question comes from like I love being here So but but but I'm with you But you love being there only because you haven't been for so long right like obviously that place is really question of Yeah, it's it's a grasses greener situation for you where you know We have this conversation 12 years down the road and you haven't left your house in 12 years You're wearing shoe boxes as shoes You know, it might be a bit different where you're like yeah, I'm kind of getting And see you so you're you're saying the fashion has evolved to a point where shoe boxers as shoes is now the new way to be cool

39:06I can order shoes. It's a it's a very very deep and dark simpsons reference where mr. Burns becomes a bit crazy and he's He's basically like a Howard Hughes um Like joke where he becomes a germaphobe crazy and he's wearing shoe boxes Remember that Oh my god, what a great episode Yeah, so there's a very look Um, yeah, that's why I said that but no, I think you go fucking crazy a bit like yeah I want to go out running in the world sometimes like I want to do sports right like I can't do sports at my house Yeah, that's right. I can I can get a gym and a treadmill. Okay cool, but I can never play tennis ever again Uh, in the winter, I guess I could I could build an ice rink in my backyard But it'll be tough sebi. I don't like this one. What do you want to stay home? Well, I think you you love being home so much you give me $100 million and I'll let you stay home I think it's one of those like 51% to 49, you know, because I I

40:08I think that I could But I still if in a would you rather situation? I'm like no, I'll leave my house, you know, yeah Um, no, but but but I mean Look, I do love my house and it's funny. I don't want to move in everyone's in a while my wife gets like this itch Like I'd be nice to shop for a new house and I was like no, I'm No, let's clean this one and rearrange furniture. Yeah, I love the location. I love the house I love the way it's divided. I love how it's not too big. We talked about it. We don't need intercoms to talk to each other That is true. Um, I love your house by the way. It's great about all the time think about that all the time Rich people with huge houses. How do you talk to each other? Yeah, yeah, that's right Benjamin. Where are you? Yeah, also I'm glad we settled that yeah same same Um, I got a little bit of a health scare. I need to share with you. Okay. Um, we're um, I'm super happy that that I'm here this evening because there's uh there's a pretty good chance that I wasn't gonna make it today

41:08That's right Had a had a bit of a of a health scare and uh look We've been in this relationship with with uh, man of the hour for almost 20 years now. I think I can share it with the world Yeah, absolutely, but after this song though, there's no way yeah, there's no way we can share before we listen to some music impossible This is Rose colored world This song's called too far gone and it's right here in a man of the hour and I know be radio Maybe it's because you've got the best of me And now I gotta let it be I gave it ill gave it all I got You will be well, you know, it's not my fault My stomach should have been a night I know, I know, I know it's never getting better. I know, I know, I know Don't want to wake your cause

42:08I'm afraid of what it'll do to me It's what I feel the most If you stay, I'll be too far gone Yeah, too far gone I'm too far gone We'll go around a time or two You raise your voice till you're face to blue There's only one more thing to do It's what so far It's in me your intention It's my heart so bad It's in my lover the kitchen And I can't take this feeling anymore Don't want to wake your cause I'm afraid of what it'll do to me It's what I feel the most If you stay, I'll be too far gone Yeah, too far gone

43:13You're listening to the man of the hour show With Patrick and Sebastian Live on I Dobe Radio Every Wednesday evening at eight Eastern With replays all week Listen on demand with the I Dobe iOS app It's Patrick and Sebastian right here on the man of the hour show And for a quick minute yesterday It felt like it may have been Sebastian Solo on the man of the hour show tonight Crazy situation And I'm happy to open my medical files to all of you Let's do it And share because that's what we've been doing for 20 years I don't know if you remember there's been a full episode On my kidney stone situation Where I went into details about my personal urethra So you know it's right now it's your turn So my personal urethra Yeah, it's only yours I agree Okay, all right Keep going Not your shared urethra That's a different story So for the past five months And Seb knows this because it first happened when I was with him

44:15I've been getting these like Huge crazy Stemic pains but like not just stomach pain like 910 pain out of 10 right like Girls I now know I think would it feels like to give birth right like that bad of a pain Kidding obviously, but it just really really bad But the crazy thing about this pain is that it shoots up to like really intense 10 on 10 pain And then I get this episode and like I puke Because it's so painful right like yeah You know when you puke out of pain and not out of like bad lettuce Yeah, and so just bad But then after like four hours it just like on a dime Oh, it's over Right, I'm fine Okay, I go I go from like I'm dying to like let's go play tennis And it's not gold stones, it's not kidney stones So well, I wasn't sure what it was right But with kidney stones hits you in the back And so there's a few things that just with with doctor internet you can kind of rule out But then I started you know reaching out to my real doctor when it became

45:16A pattern right like the first time Honestly because I puked I was like oh food poisoning that sucks. Yeah Second time I was like food poisoning again Yeah, bizarre and then the third time I was like okay Um, I haven't eaten 12 hours and I haven't puke like I've I'm puking bile So it can't be food related and so by the third time you may you may think that I should have Woken up a bit earlier, but by the third time I was like okay, this is worrisome now. This is something Uh-huh, and so I started reaching out to my doctor and obviously the processes are are long But it happened five months in real like September, October, November, December, January And then February didn't happen, but then March 3rd dead and February is a short a short month So it's basically basically once a month basically February 31st would have been my doctor We finally kind of like get into fifth year on this and Get all the tests possible and Monday night right like less than 48 hours ago They go do a scan. Have you ever done this scan where they put um

46:17They put this thing through your veins like iodine. Is that it? Yes. Yes. Yeah, I've done that once And it's funny because yesterday when you called me you reminded me that your ears kind of burned Yeah, and you get that sensation of wanting to pee I've done it once and I forget why it feels like you have because it gets all warm right? Yeah The feeling when you when you're a kid and you pee your bed and you wake up with like that warmth feeling I'd so say Have it chasing it ever since And so I do this scan and they go Your doctor should have these results within two weeks, right? fine I get a call yesterday morning, right like 12 hours after doing the scan and it's a doctor who like seems pretty concerned and he's like I'm just looking at your scan now and pretty worried about your um What's it called appendicitis? Yes. Thank you. You're appendus I'm glad I need to ask Sebastian My health situation And so he's like you really need to come to the ER now and like we need to to to to to operate like emergency operation

47:21Yeah, and I was like Are you sure and he goes well? I got to tell you I'm a bit surprised to be To be talking to someone on the phone who seems like in tip-top shape, right? I thought that you were going to be like a Like someone in deep pain like hello Right, right. Yeah, so I explained to him the sitch And and he goes okay. Well, this is really bizarre. I mean the scan is showing that you're basically going through like an appendicitis that needs to To be removed now before it bursts right and you would not be talking to me on that tone if that was the case Yes, so calls my doctor. They go back and forth and they go and when you call me yesterday You're playing the guy that actually shows up at the hospital like hi excuse me I don't want to I really don't want to know you but my appendix about the burst and I was wondering if you could squeeze me in today Maybe exactly You know the guy that like taps his heels as he walks in like So happy to be here grateful for you by the way Basically hospital in my doctor went back and forth talked and they all agreed that like okay. No, this is

48:21Something that really needs to be dealt with maybe not go to the emergency room, but it needs to be dealt with as an emergency and so they're like you need to be operated within a week This was yesterday, right and I was like okay and goes so stand by your phone we're gonna be calling you and scheduling scheduling you in and so I've been living with my phone. I usually have my phone on silent all the time right like I'm one of those guys that like My phone's pretty often in my hands if I'm working like to um But I'll miss you know one call one call out of two but they call you right back, right? Like I'll miss your call because of it non-silent Yeah, and then I see it and then I call you right back And so now my phone has not been on silent and I'm on doctor watch because they could be calling me any minute going like hey Come on in bud, and so Yeah, so next time next time we see each other I might not be whole oh I'll be missing a piece of me Okay, well, hopefully the piece of you that's missing is the piece of you that needs to be gone

49:22Currently, yeah, so I'm gonna be um posting the the hospital address if you want to send flowers cards chocolates presents Yeah, okay, well, I mean I mean we're all thinking about you obviously if you need to go yeah, it's look how it's sick This is crazy But you look amazing by the way, so I'm kind of the cashmere sweater. I'm kind of with you on that I'm kind of with you in the sense that you look too good to be feeling bad. So take care of that buddy I am But yeah crazy episode crazy story, right? Yeah crazy crazy story and and and it's and unfortunately it has not resolved So hopefully you have an ending for us next time we speak And hopefully it's not my end. No, no No, I was telling my wife so let's drive that from the record Why would you say that? I have life insurance and so I was telling her Hey, by the way, you know what the life insurance documents are and she's like nope I'm like, yeah, I didn't think you did they're here

50:23She's like, why are you telling me this and I'm like, I'm gonna go wonder. It's a really super easy operation, right? Yeah, like my my level of worry is that 0% Um, have you ever been under before? Yeah, yeah, okay, I've never been under and even when I got my procedure done for my kidney stones I asked them. I'm like, I am terrified of going under But not only that when they put you under they have to you have to get intubated Which is which can be horrible for your vocal cords So they actually gave me an epidural last time I got a procedure junk as that the procedure was below the belt So epidural was was completely fine with them and I was heavily sedated. So I don't remember the thing Yeah, same I had a colonoscopy a year and a half ago. Yeah, that's epidural No, I know they give you they give you that drug that's been killing everyone fentanyl. Oh, jeez. Okay. Yeah What the hell they're like, yeah, we'll be getting you just a little bit of fentanyl. I'm like Well, that's what it's for you know, it's made for

51:25For exactly it's what hey, it was it was so good to see you it was so good to see you And uh, well, I mean we were about to get into butt stuff And I don't think we're allowed to say any of that on on on the radio here So I we are but we don't have to okay I feel like Sebastian just got something ubered to his house and he like uber eats is at the door and Sebastian is like hey good It was nice seeing you back Well, thanks for tuning in everybody and uh, hopefully you got some good coffee. We got some coffee you got uber eats We got some good news for you. Hopefully next time we get together on mic again and looking forward to hearing from you Wishing you all the best and to all of us you gotta go I can finish the show by myself if you need to leave Yeah, well, you know, I'm about to get this battery and That's what it is. Obviously the guys are the door and obviously the kids aren't in in in in school today So we got to get back to our daddy duties So gonna do some of that today. So it's funny in closing I have a friend that I talked to on the phone pretty often when I'm dropping off the kids at school

52:27And he's the exact same kind of guy will be talking and it's fun We talk about hockey about life and it's usually that he's at work and he's probably getting like a call Yeah, and so he always finishes our phone calls on such a like You know like such a rushing screeching the brakes. We'll be talking like oh, yeah, Canadian's last night I gotta go bike and he hangs up and my kids are always like this guy is so rude the way he hangs up But I know that it's because of work and so yeah, of course. I'm used to this Bye See you later Give it up for I do be everybody