David and Jason Grow Old Together

VIEWS with David Dobrik & Jason Nash

The hosts engage in a wide-ranging conversation covering weather phenomena like El Niño, personal memories of natural disasters, and holiday

Key takeaways

• El Niño is historically linked to warm water patterns off the coast of Peru during Christmas.
• The hosts critique the media's use of 'once-in-a-lifetime' labels as clickbait for weather events.

Main topics

• El Niño and weather patterns
• Natural disasters and wildfires

Notable quotes

The media drawing you into their story... It's kind of crazy. It's how easy it is to fearmonger and clickbait through just trends and what's getting clicks.

Conclusion

The episode provides a nostalgic and humorous look at how personal his

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) you Speaker 1 (0:07) What's up guys, welcome back to Fuse. It's David. You swallowed welcome. Huh? You swallowed welcome. I know. Try it again. Well, no, I want it to be different so people know that I clicked into a different episode. Oh, Speaker 2 (0:18) they'll Speaker 1 (0:19) know. This is the episode I couldn't pronounce anything. Oh my God, Margaret. Speaker 3 (0:24) Margaret. I'm so Speaker 1 (0:25) sorry about that breakup. We're here for you. Speaker 2 (0:27) Yes, Margaret. David told me about the breakup and we hope you're feeling better. Okay. Speaker 1 (0:32) Margaret, love you. So we're just going to keep doing that. I think we got one guy that was sick. Speaker 2 (0:37) There Speaker 1 (0:37) was only one person that DM'd me. It was like, I woke up with a sore throat and then listened to the pod. Really? What if there are any Nazis out Speaker 2 (0:42) there hiding in Argentina? Would you like to say hello to them? Speaker 1 (0:46) Hello is a little positive. We talked about Nazis last time. I will fucking find you. Yeah, there you go. I will find you in Argentina. I will hunt you Speaker 2 (0:55) down. Speaker 1 (0:55) There's Speaker 2 (0:56) a Speaker 1 (0:56) movie. Yeah, we talked about Nazis in the last pod. This is a different episode. One thing I want to get out of the way is, what is going on with El Nino? Speaker 2 (1:06) Oh, no, I know. What is that? The governor called a state of emergency. Speaker 1 (1:09) Yeah, what the fuck is El Niño? Because I thought it was a version of Christmas that was like a Spanish holiday. I don't Speaker 3 (1:19) know why you thought that. Speaker 2 (1:20) Feliz Navidad. El Niño. Speaker 1 (1:24) El Niño, does that mean like nephew? That's Mi Niño. Speaker 3 (1:30) Niño is like little boy, yeah. Speaker 1 (1:31) Okay, so I thought it was like... In Hungarian culture, we have like December 5th is like when Santa Claus comes. So I thought it was the same thing. And everyone was like El Nino is going to be big this year. Lots of presents. I thought like something was – I think it was just like better than ever before. Yeah. Speaker 2 (1:49) Are you going to the Celsius El Nino bash? It's going to be insane. Speaker 1 (1:53) Okay. So – but El Nino turns out it's a big storm that's going to hit us. Yeah. So it's the opposite. But it's not just us. Speaker 2 (1:58) Today I'm going to Speaker 1 (2:00) Boston to see my mom. Oh, it's the whole U.S.? Speaker 2 (2:02) Yeah, and so Naveen's looking. It was really funny. It was like a colloquial joke because Naveen's reading, and she's like, okay, says it's going to be pretty bad on Saturday when we fly back. Says it's going to be a Nor'easter. She's like, is that bad? And I'm like, oh, my God, like a Nor'easter is the worst. Like that's what we call it in Boston. When you can't fucking go anywhere. Oh, that's actually Speaker 3 (2:27) real. She Speaker 2 (2:27) doesn't know that term. I Speaker 1 (2:28) thought Speaker 2 (2:28) she Speaker 1 (2:28) was trying to say Northeastern winds. Speaker 2 (2:30) No, a Nor'easter is like considered the worst. Really? In Boston, yeah. Wait, Speaker 1 (2:35) do we get El Nino every year? Speaker 3 (2:36) So it actually does have a relation to Christmas. Speaker 1 (2:40) Oh. Oh, okay. It's around the same time? Speaker 3 (2:43) So typically, yeah. So it was in Spanish. The fishermen off the coast of Peru noticed the warm water would usually appear around Christmas. So it would affect the fishing cycles or whatever. So they referenced it as El Nino. Speaker 1 (2:54) Oh, see? I'm telling you, dude. Just fucking listen to me. That is Speaker 3 (2:58) crazy. Your gut instinct, man. It just never misses. I Speaker 1 (3:00) have an incredible gut. I just realized actually recently that I have probably one of the best guts in the game. Would you agree with that? I don't think you do have a good gut. What's something you had a gut on and you're right about? Speaker 2 (3:09) It doesn't have to be like financial, but like a guy now. A lot of it Speaker 1 (3:13) is financial. Okay. Speaker 2 (3:15) Things like the Tesla Speaker 1 (3:16) stock. Speaker 2 (3:17) Yes. Speaker 1 (3:17) Right? Incredible gut. Speaker 2 (3:18) Incredible. Speaker 1 (3:19) No balls to stay in. Speaker 2 (3:21) That's Speaker 1 (3:21) my problem is my brain interrupts. Yeah. So my brain comes in and starts being rational. And then. And then fear starts. And I think that's where I lose my gut. But every time I've had a gut instinct, like, again, the car that I'm trying to sell, the Valhalla, my gut is saying, do not sell this car. Speaker 2 (3:37) Okay. Speaker 1 (3:38) This is going to be a big player in a couple years. But my brain is like, sell the fucking car right now. Yeah. You can't hold on to this for that long. Speaker 2 (3:46) You have to have more balls. Wait, wait. So is El Nino, is it something Speaker 1 (3:50) that happens every... Okay, here's the thing. Because I've been seeing El Nino saying this is like a once-in-a-lifetime storm. But like... So many things that have to do with weather patterns, spatial patterns. They say they're once in a lifetime. How many once in a lifetime solar eclipses have you seen, Jay? How many? It's so many. I've seen a few. Yeah. It's so many to the point where now when they say there's a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse, like we're not going to get one for another 40 years. Yeah. I don't Speaker 2 (4:18) even Speaker 1 (4:18) up the shades. I don't even try to look for my window because I'm just like, I'm going to see it in a couple months when they do it again. I don't know why they word things like that. I guess it's just like astronomers clickbait. Speaker 3 (4:29) People are just excited. Yeah, that's exactly it. Speaker 1 (4:32) Okay. The media drawing you into their story. Okay. So another thing that I actually looked up. Same thing with El Nino. No, and same thing with helicopter crashes. Oh, yeah, tell me. So I've had this theory that there's actually, that helicopter crashes don't happen as much as people are seeing it, but it's just become a topic Speaker 2 (4:49) of Speaker 1 (4:50) discussion. So now people are reporting on it. So now every time there is a crash, it's heavily reported on. And I think that was, to turn out to be true, there's been a lot less helicopter crashes over the last couple of years. Oh, really? Than ever before. But the news cycle is just now picking it up because it's becoming like a... It's kind of crazy. It's how easy it is to fearmonger and clickbait through just trends and what's getting clicks. So I don't think El Nino is going to be that bad. It tears apart the whole country. My house is not good when it rains. I Speaker 3 (5:27) know. Speaker 1 (5:27) It's really bad. What happens? Well, I don't know what's going on. There's no drainage in the backyard. So if there is flooding, like rains. Yeah. Then it's going to be, John's going to be working overtime. Oh my God. With the shovel. At least Speaker 2 (5:41) you're not on a hill. Or with a straw. Speaker 1 (5:43) Wait, Speaker 2 (5:43) you Speaker 1 (5:43) are. I am on a hill. Speaker 2 (5:44) Wait, why? Are hills worse? Well, I'm on like a little less of a hill than you, a lot less of a hill Speaker 1 (5:50) than you. Speaker 2 (5:50) Oh, mudslides. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm Speaker 1 (5:52) on bedrock, which is good. Those Speaker 2 (5:53) are Speaker 3 (5:53) going to be crazy. Wow. Speaker 1 (5:55) Yeah, so the new house that we're looking at. Speaker 3 (5:57) It's going to be gone. It's going to be gone. Yeah. The Speaker 1 (5:59) one that we're in escrow on? Yeah. I don't think we'll be. Luckily, we're an escrow. Is El Nino happening for how long? Speaker 3 (6:08) I mean, I don't know, actually. Speaker 1 (6:10) What Speaker 2 (6:10) do Speaker 1 (6:10) you mean it's going to be gone? Speaker 3 (6:11) Well, it already has, like, landslide issues. It's one of the big issues. Yeah. Speaker 1 (6:15) We have to fix. It falls right onto, like, one of the biggest roads in Los Angeles from that house. Yeah. But it's something we need to, whoever buys it needs to fix, I guess. Yeah. Which the structure guy came and was like, yeah, this is what you need to fix. Speaker 3 (6:30) Also, El Nino does not happen every year. It happens every like two to seven years. Speaker 1 (6:35) Okay. Well, it's better than the opposite of La Nina what we got. We got dry Nina. You Speaker 3 (6:40) can have La Nina. Speaker 1 (6:41) Yeah. Is that what we got last time? Dude, that was the worst. Were we podcasting during the fires? Yeah. We were? I think so. Oh, my God. Speaker 2 (6:50) Yeah. Speaker 1 (6:50) The amount of fear that gave me. Yeah. Dude, it was like. Yeah, because you were Speaker 2 (6:53) uninsured. Because I remember John thought it was fun. And you were like, no, it's not fun, John. I'm going to lose my fucking house. Speaker 1 (7:00) No, it was the closest to feeling like an adult. Right. I've like. come and like fear. Like it was like, I was watching the news for like eight hours a day. Just worried. Just worried. And like, and like new spots would pop up in LA on hillsides that like fires were starting because like arsons were starting fire. We saw one from your driveway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, oh, we're fucked. The whole hillside is going to burn. And I just remember like it popping up on the map like a new one. It was like crazy. It was an infection. It was really fucking scary. Speaker 2 (7:35) I flipped out that one night when those fires were popping up. And I drove over to Marnie's Cul-de-sac with Devine. And I was like, we Speaker 3 (7:42) got to get out. Oh, my God. That's so you. She's like, I'm Speaker 1 (7:46) not going anywhere. No, when that one popped up, the one by your hillside, and I had to pack my suitcase, put my kid's choice of words in there. And I told John just to beat it ahead with the Ferrari. John took the cars out. And you just heard my car screaming down the street. Just kidding. My neighbor was like, what are you doing? My neighbor was literally like, I'm staying here, dude. And I'm like, you're not worried? Speaker 2 (8:13) Save yourself! Save yourself! Not that Speaker 1 (8:17) bad yet. I've never been that much of a pussy. But it was because it was my house. I drove to Laguna. You drove to Speaker 3 (8:23) Laguna? Yeah. We drove out. Speaker 1 (8:26) We were like, I'm not going to stay in that house. Something happens overnight. It was funny because at the same time that that was going on, we were like, we had to go to Vegas for work or something. And I remember we were at the airport and we were driving to the airport. Shit was on fire everywhere. It was like really fucking weird. Yeah. And we were just at the airport. We got to the airport like an hour and a half early just looking at the news and it was getting worse and worse. And I remember we canceled our trip right there because we were like, the last thing we can be right now is having bottle service at fucking Vegas while our town's burning down. It just felt so bad. fucking incredibly wrong. Yeah, no, that was pretty fucking intense. I've never seen anything like that. I've never been part of a natural disaster. That was the closest I think. What about earthquakes? Speaker 2 (9:05) Did you ever get an earthquake here? Speaker 1 (9:06) Yeah, of course. Speaker 2 (9:07) But not a bad one, right? You weren't here for Northridge. No. What's that? That Speaker 1 (9:12) was like the last big one. Wait, why wasn't I here? Because you're in high school. Oh, no, no, no. I've gotten somewhere like things have fallen off the shelves. Yeah, I Speaker 2 (9:23) haven't seen much of it. Speaker 1 (9:25) No, I mean, we're still waiting for the big one, right? The San Andreas Fault. Apparently that's like, what, a couple hundred years overdue? Yeah. Every day now it's supposed to rupture, but who knows when that's going to happen. Did you ever get like three feet of snow in Chicago? Speaker 3 (9:40) Oh, yeah. Speaker 2 (9:41) Yeah. So like you open your garage and it's snow. Speaker 3 (9:45) You Speaker 2 (9:45) ever seen that? Yeah. Like all snow. Like six feet. Speaker 3 (9:49) Yeah. Speaker 2 (9:49) No. Speaker 1 (9:50) Well, now you're just going up. We never got six feet of snow. No, but the wind Speaker 3 (9:53) would push it up so it would cover the whole thing. Oh, yeah, Speaker 1 (9:55) yeah, yeah. Speaker 3 (9:55) So you could open the door or whatever and it would just be full. It's kind of Speaker 1 (9:59) crazy. I wonder if I could see the stat of how many Christmases I've had where it's snowed. Speaker 3 (10:04) White Christmases? Speaker 1 (10:05) Yeah, I wonder. I wonder if it's like under three. Or if it's like a lot lower than I think. Because I like you think Speaker 2 (10:12) about Christmas, you think of snow. It's always very, Speaker 1 (10:15) very low number. But like the chance of it snowing on Christmas. Speaker 3 (10:20) I think like global warming has like made it so it's not as snowy on Christmas anymore. Speaker 2 (10:26) Really? Yeah. Isn't the fall. Aren't these like last three, four months so interesting? Why? Well, it's like you got Halloween. People are already talking about that. Naveen's already planning a costume. Speaker 1 (10:37) Bro, people have been hitting me up about my Halloween party for two months. Speaker 3 (10:41) Like, you're having it, right? Speaker 1 (10:43) Yeah, they're trying to make sure that they're in town. They're like, it's happening, right?