We have got a beautiful thunderstorm rolling through the mountains right now and I could record later

when everything is nice and quiet but then you don't get to hear a thunderstorm and who knows

maybe now we won't get any more big cool rolls of thunder.

But if you hear it, that's what's going on here.

And speaking of thunder, and no, this was not planned, which comes from lightning.

Did you ever watch American Gladiators?

Which I'm like 60% sure, I hope, had a character in it named Lightning?

Did it?

I think it did.

There's definitely a gal named Diamond and she was just a monster and ZAP I think ZAP was one of the guys

like Titan or Colossus I don't know it's been a long time since I watched the show but if you don't remember

American Gladiators it worked like this you'd

have pretty athletic normal people that they would pick to go to this studio on

on southern California or something and they put them through the paces on these cool

little obstacle course challenges and that would be challenging

enough except then they would take these like roided up gym freak types nothing

personal if you were one of those and you didn't do steroids it looks to a weak person like that is

caused by steroids and then these people in spandex would just beat on normal

people and it was horrifying and the obstacle courses were legit hard.

Like these were things that would be very difficult to do just on your own

without someone firing a tennis ball cannon at you or beating you with giant sticks while you're trying to focus on not

losing your balance.

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