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Sachi, we grew up in places where people really loved skiing, and I need to ask,

have you ever gone skiing?

Yeah, I used to go like every weekend.

I was the best skier on the hill.

It's a hill, right?

I knew you're going to troll me. I was like, I was like, I don't want to make assumptions because I don't know her life.

No way.

Can you imagine me and my ethnic ass parents like going skiing in Calgary, Alberta? Come on.

I actually have. When I was like 12, I joined my school's ski club. And I felt like I got a glimpse of what it was all about.

There is like a whole culture around it of like wealth and fancy people, and I'm going to

tell you about one ski-loving guy who turned his dream job into the ultimate 80s movie

cliche, the evil rich guy taking over the mountain.

It's December 2012 and Catherine Q. Seeley is in Jay, Vermont.

Catherine is in her early 60s with a brown bob and a gray puffer vest.

She's a journalist for the New York Times, and she's here on a reporting trip along with a small camera crew.

Jay is a tiny town of about 500 people in the mountains near the Canadian border.

It's a middle of winter, but Catherine is actually holding her puffer vest in her hands.

Because while she got dressed for a ski resort, she's actually getting a tour of a massive indoor water park.

The water park is the size of a football field.

It has a big, retractable glass roof

and brightly colored slides twisting through the air. It's a new addition to Jay Peak, the ski

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