Is This Anything?

**Nigel** (0:01)
Anything? All right, let's rock and roll. Yeah, brought to you by Indiana Unclaimed, a program presented by the Attorney General's Office here in Indiana. The Attorney General's Office, reuniting Hoosiers with over $1 million in unclaimed property every single week. Fast, easy, and free to search it up on indianunclaimed.gov. Now, Ethan Hatcher is filling in for Hammer. Hammer usually gives me these, is this anything stories? I think you know the way this works. I'm going to give them to you. We're going to switch it up here.

**Ethan Hatcher** (0:29)
Sounds great. I'm ready for this, Nigel. I'm ready.

**Nigel** (0:32)
Have you seen the footage? Maybe I should have. I should have reposted this. How does it sound when a truck, a pickup truck carrying a bunch of fireworks explodes on I-75 in Tennessee? Here you go.
No, that's not a war zone. That's on a giant interstate. It was on the highway.

**Ethan Hatcher** (0:58)
Yeah, both lanes of traffic blocked off. They just got to wait for the show to be over.
Free entertainment. I love this. I love fireworks, man.

**Nigel** (1:10)
This guy rack. Is this anything?

**Ethan Hatcher** (1:18)
Absolutely, this is something. You're telling me, now, I would be frustrated, but you know, if you're driving through the interstate on Tennessee and you're stopped in traffic, at least it's something interesting to watch.

**Nigel** (1:30)
Imagine the guy driving the truck.

**Ethan Hatcher** (1:32)
Sure, well, the truck is toast.

**Nigel** (1:34)
But the guy driving, I don't know what happened, I don't know what caused this.

**Ethan Hatcher** (1:39)
I mean, he very clearly should not have been transporting fireworks and open flames in the same vehicle.

**Nigel** (1:46)
He didn't have the required hazardous materials endorsement.

**Ethan Hatcher** (1:49)
Ah, that would be why. Those things usually don't mix.

**Nigel** (1:52)
But that footage is amazing because it is literally traffic stopped in both directions.

**Ethan Hatcher** (1:57)
And it's like a miniature fireworks warehouse. People have seen like those these fireworks warehouses that burn down from time to time.

**Nigel** (2:05)
The scene and naked gun and nothing to see here. Please disperse. Meanwhile, the whole city is burning down behind Frank Drebben because of the fire.

**Ethan Hatcher** (2:17)
Well, nobody died here, fortunately, and nobody got hurt. Right.
The only vehicle that was destroyed, I believe, is this guy's pickup truck, which that easily could have been my pickup truck because I load my pickup truck full of fireworks around July 4th, too. I love fireworks. Oh, heck yeah.

**Nigel** (2:33)
You and Hammer have that in common, I think.

**Ethan Hatcher** (2:35)
Yes, we both are firebugs.

**Nigel** (2:39)
How much money would you say you ever spent? Like the most money on the single 4th of July?

**Ethan Hatcher** (2:43)
Most money I've ever dropped in one evening was a grand.

**Nigel** (2:51)
It was a good show. Look, that's why you own a bunch of property. That's why you do what you do so you can have a little bit of fun with your old time record players and your fireworks.

**Ethan Hatcher** (3:00)
Well, sometimes I'll save up over the year because you got great Jake's Fireworks just down the street. So every so often, you know, I'll go pick up like a couple and then just throw them in the garage.

**Nigel** (3:11)
What are they open? Is this place open all year round?

**Ethan Hatcher** (3:14)
It's open all year round.

**Nigel** (3:15)
The fireworks store you just mentioned?

**Ethan Hatcher** (3:16)
Uh huh.

**Nigel** (3:18)
What? How much business do they get like in February?

**Ethan Hatcher** (3:22)
Not much, but they don't need to because they make all their money during, you know, it's all they need to have is just a little stock person.
So and run the rest of the year because you never know when firebugs like me are going to stop by and pick up a couple. You never know when you're going to there might be a birthday or, you know, celebration of some kind of anniversary. So they pick up a little bit of money throughout the year. But of course, the big holidays are usually where all the profit is made.

**Nigel** (3:46)
What's your go to style of firework?

**Ethan Hatcher** (3:49)
I like the mortars, the mortars, and then those big boxes. You know, nothing is better than something that goes, shoots up in the air and goes, now the mortars.

**Nigel** (3:58)
Yeah, the big boxes make all the, it looked like this truck on the side of the highway. But the mortars are just noisemakers.

**Ethan Hatcher** (4:07)
Really loud. You can get ones that are very colorful. OK, you got to look on the box. You got to know what you're buying.