Moment 208: The Dumbest Financial Advice Everyone Weirdly Follows That’s Keeping Them Poor!

So I grew up skiing in in Lake Tahoe, California, and I was a competitive ski racer. Right. Uh so all throughout my childhood and teenage years, I skied Six days a week, ten months a year, all over the world. And it was great. There were about twelve of us on the Squad Valley Ski team. We had grown up together and we had spent our entire lives together. And when I was seventeen, this is in two thousand one. I was skiing with my two two of my best friends, Brennan Allen and and and Brian Richmond.

And we would ski Out of bounds, which is illegal. You're not supposed to do it. We would duck under the rope that says do not cross and we'd ski out of bounds because that's where a lot of the good skiing is. And when we would do this, it would spit us out. on this backcountry road where we'd have to hitchhike back. There's no chairlift when you ski out of bounds. You have to hitchhike your way back. So w so we did it one morning in February two thousand one. The three of us did it. And when we did it, we triggered a very small avalanche. And I I remembered it so clearly. Like I can still feel it.

twenty one year, twenty-two years later, I can still feel what it's like. It's the weirdest sensation I've w that I've had in my life because when you get hit by an avalanche, rather than pushing on the snow to gain traction with your skis. The ground is pushing you. So all of a sudden you're skiing along and you got control, and all of a sudden boom, you have no control every more. The ground the ground is pushing you around. Price similar to what it feels like if you're standing on the ground during an earthquake. Like the ground's pushing you.

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