What's the Place Glacier and what's an outburst?

So it's not as dramatic as it sounds.

The Place Glacier is a geographic formation of ice that glaciologists can explain far better than I can, but has been there since forever and has started to melt.

And while you imagine glaciers melting on the outside and sort of getting smaller.

But this one is actually melting at the bedrock above it and sort of inside it.

So imagine this dome of ice that is now kind of carved out this hole and it's building this lake inside the glacier.

And in 2024...

What changed?

How do you

explain? I don't know.

I just, I feel like I make my family, you know, record songs with me.

She does.

Okay.

Nothing wrong with that.

I'm like, hey, you're in this house.

Where it was just kind of like this popular pop music was kind of like you couldn't help but not hear it.

So what kind of things are playing into this discrepancy?

Sure.

Look, so there's the obvious things that you've, you've talked about in, you know, in terms of the, the immediate cost of covering housing, groceries, utilities, insurance, all of those kind of known bills that will be more expensive when there's only one income that's contributing to the cost of those.

And then there's the, um, the additional things around having to, uh, pay a premium for things because you can't afford the upfront cost of buying, uh, bulk discounts when those become available, not being able to perhaps buy the better quality thing in the first place because it's a higher upfront cost, knowing that that would save money down the track.

You know, I've always bought the cheapest possible white goods because at the time that was, [laughs] you know, that was the, the only option that was really right, you know, right in front of me, and there's lots of people in that situation.

And then, of course, there's the additional, um, cost of having to outsource things that are beyond the skill set or the capacity or the, the resources of the, of that one person living in the household on their own.

Whereas when there's two of you, you've got obviously two incomes to contribute to that cost, but you've also got two brains to problem solve, to, you know, figure out how to fix the thing without having to pay for the expert to come in.

Yeah, [laughs] I think so

So what kind of things are playing into this discrepancy?

Sure.

Look, so there's the obvious things that you've, you've talked about in, you know, in terms of the, the immediate cost of covering housing, groceries, utilities, insurance, all of those kind of known bills that will be more expensive when there's only one income that's contributing to the cost of those.

And then there's the, um, the additional things around having to, uh, pay a premium for things because you can't afford the upfront cost of buying, uh, bulk discounts when those become available, not being able to perhaps buy the better quality thing in the first place because it's a higher upfront cost, knowing that that would save money down the track.

You know, I've always bought the cheapest possible white goods because at the time, that was, [laughs] you know, that was the, the only option that was really right, you know, right in front of me, and there's lots of people in that situation.

And then, of course, there's the additional, um, cost of having to outsource things that are beyond the skill set or the capacity or the, the resources of the, of that one person living in the household on their own.

Whereas when there's two of you, you've got obviously two incomes to contribute to that cost, but you've also got two brains to problem solve, to, you know, figure out how to fix the thing without having to pay for the expert to come in.

Yeah, I think so