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Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's wrapped itself in paracord. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. Hello, gentlemen. Hello. Paracord. It's parachute cord. You don't know about parachute cord? Yeah, parachute cord. I haven't parachuted enough times to call it paracourt. Well, you don't need to. What you've got to do is attach your paracord. You see, it's your carabiners on your keychain. Everything's got to be paracord and caribiners. Oh, you know what's super cool? Paracord, obviously. Near to me, in a little shitty place called Lodi, California, there is a skydiving thing, I don't know what you call them, place where, that just kills people. Have you heard about, you might have, what? Well, that's what all of them do. This, I feel like this is a mecca people are going to travel to now. This is, this is, this one is disturbing enough that I get worried about it. Like, I get worried that someone I know is going to just, like, go die. That's outside the window by you? It's at your door right now. It's one of those things that's just like disturbing enough.

Let's see. Okay. California parish. What is it? Skydiving. It's like being in the news. I've seen me in the news organically, like not local news, like national. Like, hey, this skydiving place just keeps killing people and somehow it just keeps

going. Nobody cares. I don't, I don't understand. It's bothered me for 10 years. Well, because you sign a waiver. You sign a waiver that says, I know what I'm doing is jumping out of an airplane. And then they get to be like, yeah, you jumped out of an airplane, man. I don't know what to tell you. like you don't fall as much

Lodi Parachute Center, I think.

Okay, here it is.

This is one I saw.

28. you jumped out of an airplane, man. I don't know what to tell you. Like, you don't fall as much. Lodi Parachute Center, I think. Okay, here it is. This is one I saw. 28 deaths. 28 deaths. Okay, that sounds bad. In the last, let's see, how many, yeah, is it going to be the last 400 years? Do they get one big group, though? Because if you had one big group where everybody got tangled. Yeah, they all landed in a volcano or something.

Yeah, exactly. Okay, we have one bad day at work and everybody's got an opinion. Okay, but here's the thing, right? And I don't wish parachuters any harm. I'm sure they're perfectly happy people. They have a hobby that's not fucking kids, which rules seems to be most people's hobby these days. So the fact that they're not fucking kids.

That's awesome.

Right.

But here's the thing.

I want you to imagine

that you found out anyone in your life died parachuting. What's your response? Oh, okay. They got on a parachute and they jumped out of a plane. Yeah. I guess unless there's a murder, a serial killer on the here's what was the sentence that really stuck with me.

It's impossible to calculate the fatality rate per jump at the parachute center because no one keeps track of how many people jump out of planes there or how many people have died while doing so.

Maybe they have like a real, wait a minute.

You would need to keep track of. I feel like how many people died at your work

is a number you know. You know what I mean? Like unless you're like working at the hospital where you're

like, yeah, actually someone's got to look that up. Like this is a place where people die. It was just like,

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