The Healing Power of Laughter: A New Approach to Emotional Wellness with Guest Bob

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Really good in there oh hold on yeah yeah hanging in there i mean saturday,

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yeah the pros are early and everything goodness gracious yeah but you know we

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now went down to doing this like one saturday a month and it makes more sense

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so we do four episodes on a saturday oh okay so you're what number am i in the

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day here three you were number three you're tired You'll be really tired after this.

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No. No, we Red Bull. I had we well, what we do is we book like 15.

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We have like a 15 minute break in between each one. That's good.

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And then like with yours, we had about another we had about an hour.

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Oh, OK. So you get a little rested up a little bit then. That's good.

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Yeah. So we could get snacks.

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Yeah. I had some snacks before I got up before I sat down.

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Let's talk about it, because I remember the last time we spoke,

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We were talking about like gross food aversion type situation. So what was your snack?

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I just have popcorn. I love popcorn. Just plain butter. Not much to it, right?

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Popcorn. It's just, it is what it is, right? No, I don't like,

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I don't like a lot of butter.

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I just like a little salt and then, you know, crunchy stuff.

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Crunchy stuff. Yeah. I really like crunchy stuff.

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I don't know what it is. I think maybe I, you know, got too much Neanderthal

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in my DNA or something like, like things that crunch when I eat them.

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Maybe I haven't tried bugs, but maybe I like those. I did. You tried bugs?

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Yes. Me and my friends would have this kind of like ritual almost every time

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we would go to Epcot to do drinking around the world.

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And we would stop at Japan and we would go inside and and get,

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we would all split up, grab a snack, and we'd all come back together and taste them.

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And I got crickets. How were they?

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They tasted like sunflower seed shells. Oh, the shell?

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Okay. Yeah, salty and like you weren't meant to eat it. Oh, did it have like

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a leg sticking out of your tooth or anything?

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Yeah. No, it just felt like sticks. You're just chewing on a stick.

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Chewing on sticks. Yummy.

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Dried sticks, I'm assuming. Yeah. Not moist. Not moist.

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Not sappy sticks. Right. So like there wasn't any like maple syrup coming out

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of it or anything? That's right, yeah. Syrupy sticks.

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That was over at the Canadian Pavilion. They had the syrupy sticks.

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The maple syrupy sticks. Yeah. Sticks and syrup. That was a specialty over at the Canada.

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Yum. Yeah. Give you a Leblats and a couple of sticks and syrup.

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Oh, no, I snorted. Already in this episode. I haven't tried to,

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I haven't, were the crickets or grasshoppers?

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Which one did you say? I can't remember. Crickets.

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Crickets are different than grasshoppers, but I think they're a little smaller.

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Probably not quite as filled with guts. Not as chewy.

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Yeah, I had crickets in Toronto at a Mexican restaurant.

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Really? Yeah. Instead of chips? No chips and queso?

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Yeah, well, we had chips and queso, but they also had crickets.

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And I'm like, you know what?

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I'm turning 60. me let's like live on the edge

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you know i didn't die i kind of felt like

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you know like jumping around for a little bit but you know i was good did you

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eat them alive oh hell no oh okay just checking no do they all have pins in

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their skulls you know like a old grade school project or something where you

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went out and caught insects and stabbed them to a board or anything and gave better name.

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Our selection tonight of crickets are, we've got some from the Saskatchewan region.

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This episode is brought to you by crickets. I think crickets would probably

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be tastier than grasshoppers because grasshoppers, some of those can be kind

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of big and I'm sure they're just full of poop.

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Oh, God. Oh, I don't even know.

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That and their legs are bigger, right? So.

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They're like full of honey or something. The good thing about crickets is you

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don't have to floss afterwards.

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Yeah. Just take the tooth. Take the leg. Leg will just knock everything out of there.

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I was like, wait, is that a fact? I don't know. I just made that up.

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All right, Skittles, are you going to do the intro? Oh, we're not going yet.

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Oh, yeah, we are. We are. This was the show.

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It is the show. It is part of the show.

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Okay, good. Yeah, I mean, it's casual. We do casual. We do casual. Ready? Welcome.

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You're not doing it? Alright, we'll do the countdown. We'll do the countdown.

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Ready? Alright. Let's do it.

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Music.

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Three, two, one. Welcome back to another episode of Shit That Goes On In Our

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Heads, where we are talking about our love of crickets with our friend and guest, Bob.

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Hey, Bob. How's it going? I'm having some crickets here.

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That was when you got a crunch into the popcorn.

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They chirp when you bite into them, you know, because they're real annoying

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when you can't find them. And they're chirping.

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Bite into one how does it look like a little chip chip yeah you need to hear

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it as it crunches we have a cricket oh it's just in my stomach he must not,

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he'll die soon I must not have bit into him he just went down whole.

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So when you're at the Mexican restaurant eating crickets what's the you know

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it's chips and salsa right chips and queso it's crickets and what and booze,

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oh well okay I think is there no condiment style thing that you dip the crickets

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into I think we could have dipped them into the salsa but it was for me it was

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like eating a corn nut right oh yeah corn nuts like crunchy,

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they're crunchy but yeah but softer,

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So like I didn't feel like I'd break a tooth if I bit into it.

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That's true. Yeah. I was thinking it would be like, I mean, does mayonnaise

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go with crickets or does ketchup go with crickets?

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I think ketchup- Like an aioli? A garlic aioli?

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Maybe just a little olive oil on your crickets, help them sit down a little better.

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A lubrication or something. Oh my God. I'm dying over here.

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I'm dying. He's the one that plays his arms out, you know? Can't go down your throat.

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Don't give him, yeah, the oil won't let them. Right. Crickets have no defense against oil.

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What other insects are you thinking about having now that you're, you know, adventurous?

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I have seen somebody eat a spider. Oh. Like a tarantula.

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No. Well, I don't know if it was actually a tarantula, but it looked the size of a tarantula.

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And it was all dried up and they were just like hard pass hard pass I mean it's

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got like hair on it and stuff right yeah,

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might as well just like you know rub a paper towel on your bathroom floor and eat that,

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yes I'm literally thinking about the kiwis I have upstairs so that's become

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like an addiction of mine like what do you call it I don't know it's like that

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food you eat all the time an addiction Addiction on kiwis.

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Yeah, I guess it was just an addiction. Straight up addiction.

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But now I'm thinking of the skin on the kiwi being similar to the spider. Yeah, exactly.

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It's like a little spider suit on... You know, I can't eat them. Or coconuts.

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Those are like a long hair. Kiwi's kind of short hair. I think it's spiders.

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In the short hair variety, don't you think? Oh, yeah.

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I've never really seen a long-haired spider before. Right, yeah.

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It's not like Farrah Fawcett hair spider walking around going.

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The long flowing locks.

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I'm trying to think of a more contemporary long-haired actress,

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but I couldn't think of one.

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Everybody thinks you always want to eat Farrah Fawcett hair everybody gets it

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right I mean yeah you immediately know but yeah,

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now there's nobody contemporary you'd say you know Emma Stone hair no,

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how about J-Lo J-Lo no not really the hair more the ass you had a big ass spider

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maybe you'd say J-Lo spider,

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maybe I don't know oh my god

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i'm crying we've broken we've broken g-rex i'm crying yeah

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no no real long-haired actresses these days that kind of have that as their

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thing right so i mean i can't think of one the only one i can think of was jennifer

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aniston but i still don't feel like it would fit her spider she looks more like

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one of those you know pedigree dogs that long nose i can't I think of the name of the dog,

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but the big dog, tall, it's got nice hair.

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Yeah. Yeah. I know exactly. Oh yeah.

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Yeah. Those, is there like a German dog? I don't know what they're called,

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but you know, it's not a lot of dogs with long hair.

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Yeah. Big one though. We haven't fed them, but I don't know what they're called.

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I swear this episode is not just about us talking about dogs and food.

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We want to introduce our listeners to who you are, Bob. No one really cares, to be honest.

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They don't really care who I am.

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I mean, I like that, although they can't see you right now.

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In our Zoom, you are, is it a cat? I'm a cat, yeah. Yeah, I'm a blue cat.

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Yes. I mean, it's a cartoon. A blue cat.

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Got a little doodad on top of my head there. A little flippy.

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I know. Like little hairs. Yeah, a little flippy deal in there. I don't know.

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Scruffy. Scruffy cat. That's pretty cool. I still live with that.

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Scruffy blue cat. Don't see a lot of those these days.

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That's true. I don't think I've ever seen a blue cat. Really?

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Oh, we haven't seen a blue cat for a while.

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Wasn't this blue, but it was, you know, it was bluish.

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Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Was it dyed? No. Really?

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It was what they call it, Russian blue. Russian blue. Yeah, we have a Russian

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blue. Google it. Yeah, they're kind of bluish.

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I mean, they're not like this bright, but they're bluer than other cats. Like a blue-gray.

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Oh, yeah. These are the really pretty ones. Yeah. Good cat.

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Alright. What was that cat's name? Sasha.

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Yeah, good old Sasha.

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T-Rex has a bunch. God rest your soul. Yep, we do. We have eight cats now. Holy moly.

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But you know what? We live in a big-ass house, so everybody gets their own room.

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Every cat has its own room? Yeah, pretty much. So two cats share the dining room and living room.

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Living the life over there, these cats. And then three cats are in the TV room.

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And then the cats that are all upstairs they all have their own room but we

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also have a blind cat and she's pretty awesome but does she have her own room

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or oh yeah the cats upstairs all have their own rooms have any knowledge that

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she has her own room at this point i suppose,

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she can't see it she can just be right she can't see it,

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it's a wall i guess she's like i'm still in my room.

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Still smells like me we're good there yeah somebody come pet me,

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i imagine they got a good nose though they could probably you know when you're

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munching down on those crickets they probably show up see if there's any leftovers

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cats love to eat bugs my cats do yeah my cats do too like the winter just a

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bug the winter up here you know they the

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stink bugs come in the house. Oh God, these stink bugs.

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And they like totally like go after them. And then they wonder why their stomachs

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are upset after they eat them. I'm like, these are gross.

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Not to mention their breath is terrible.

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I'd rather have them lick their ass than eat stink bugs. To be honest with you.

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That stink bug breath is killer.

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They usually release upon, you know, the first bite.

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And there you go. got a whole mouthful of stink bug stink it's kind of like

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running into a skunk right yeah exactly oh my gosh those things are horrible

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they're everywhere they're a plague yeah.

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We had one just yesterday. It warmed up and then they just kind of show up out of nowhere.

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I'm like, what the hell? Where'd that thing come from?

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Yeah, I'd much rather have them snack on a ladybug than a stink bug.

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Right, yeah. The ladybugs aren't so bad.

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It depends, though. Do you have the orange ones or the regular red ones?

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They're orange. The orange ones. See, those are invasive as well.

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Well, the hilarious thing is I was just having a conversation about stink bugs

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and ladybugs with a friend of mine the other day, which you would have never

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guessed coming today that you'd be like, I was going to talk about stink bugs and ladybugs.

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But yeah, they're this invasive species and they get everywhere.

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At certain times of the year, the ladybugs literally at my old house would cover

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one wall when the sun was on it. Right.

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And you go outside and just be like hundreds of thousands of ladybugs.

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It was i just left them alone but it was kind of weird i mean you know you're

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not expecting that kind of thing when you walk out the door so well and then

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in the winter they move indoors so we have apparently yeah they're all in the

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attic or something yeah on our windows like on our ceiling,

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in the bathroom yeah oh my gosh they're thick they're just insane why don't

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people eat i mean they must not taste good or else people would be eating those

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because there's plenty you can just scrape bowls full.

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Be like eating cocoa pebbles or something.

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Crunching down a little milk. They're colorful. Look a little bit like tricks.

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Yeah, fruity pebbles. Yeah, fruity pebbles. Any of that stuff. Fuck, I'm dying.

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You just run like, I don't know, orphanages. Could take care of all the children

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with that. Just give them a spoon.

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Go to town for orphaned children. Here's plenty to eat.

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I am crying. I am laughing so hard. Oh my God.

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So, so irreverent. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm going to slow down on that maybe.

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No, I love it. Don't slow down.

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So tell us, Bob, were you always a blue cat? No, not always.

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The blue cat thing only came around about 2019, 2020.

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Yeah not that long ago yeah but you know cats don't live the same you know amount of time so,

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just getting in the hit my stride in cat years you know do you want to tell

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us a little bit about you like growing up in school and oh well i don't yeah

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sure why not i was very before i was a blue cat.

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I was a sickly child and very sickly in school and in grade school. Yeah, that was great.

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Do you want to elaborate more? Being sick all the time. I know.

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I don't know why I'm laughing.

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That sounds so like, but I'm laughing, but I'm like, I feel so bad. You didn't pay.

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What did that mean for you? Being a sickly kid in school? I mean,

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I didn't get to do everything.

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Everybody else would go outside certain times of the year and I couldn't go

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out because I was, I would always get sick.

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So they made me stay inside, which I don't know that they would do that anymore, to be honest with you.

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I don't know what, I don't know what, how much money my mother. there was

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pain these people or what was going on but yeah

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i have to watch everybody else outside that was great and then

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they all come in tell me how much fun they had and i'd be

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like why i sat here doodling thank you

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oh yeah i should

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tell you a more uplifting story but that was

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it wasn't bad i mean you know yeah but

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yeah no i was i sat inside a lot when i

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was little but i kind of grew out of that so i had

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asthma i guess pretty bad at that point in time this i guess they didn't have

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any medication i don't know what the heck was going on i was a child i was a

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victim of my circumstances as we all are okay and then you got whatever they

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give you you're like oh yeah.

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Yeah. You know, those ladybugs.

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No, no. And then you started a grade school, right? Yeah. I was in grade school. I was in grade school.

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Yeah. When I was really little, I don't, sheesh, I don't remember too much from being really little.

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I remember I had an, I would say, I always tell people and then they always

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think that I'm nuts because, you know, they love to hear the terrible things

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like having to stay in from recess, but I had a pretty good childhood.

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I lived in an area like my grandfather had a, they call it a landing.

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You know what a landing is? Or maybe don't call them landings up there.

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So it was on a lake and he was the guy who operated the boat launch and all that kind of stuff.

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And so we had a bunch of property and lived right on the edge of the lake.

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And I grew up there for quite, you know, for my before school time.

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It was great. I ran around in the summertime and, you know, it was fantastic.

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So eventually you got to go outside and play. I didn't. It was warm.

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It was just when there was this weird weather, like, like I live in the Midwest.

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And so, you know, it's, we have all the weather, right?

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We got hot time. We got cold times. We got everything.

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So it's not, you know, if you live up North, it's, you don't quite get to as

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much of the warm stuff, more of the cold stuff. Or if you live down South,

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you get more of the warm stuff and less of the cold stuff.

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Here in the middle we get it all right so yeah

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when certain types of the weather was you know if it was

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you know kind of not warm enough then my mom would be like oh you can't go outside

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you're gonna get sick or it was you know but when it was really warm i could

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run around do whatever so there's no problem apparently i don't know maybe it

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became a problem i wasn't i wasn't super tuned into all the doctor visits to

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be honest with you it was really just a pain in the neck,

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Yeah, I would imagine. I go to doctor visits now and I still tune out.

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Yeah, I mean, what are you? Am I good?

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Let's just say yes or no. Am I going to be all right? Do I have to take any more medicine?

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What do you mean I can't eat ladybugs? What kind of shit talk is this, doc?

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I'm sorry. I'm concerned about your diet. Yeah, you seem to have a lot of too

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much roughage. Is that possible?

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Is this medicine going to cause me any other issues that I don't already have?

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Exactly. What's the side effects? How does this affect my beetle eating?

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I'm a beetle eater. Beetle eater. Oh, that's fair. But I don't know.

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That was the way I kind of grew out all that. So I don't suffer as much now

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as I used to when I was smaller.

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I don't know if it had to do with just they've changed things.

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I don't know. That's a good question.

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Maybe I should follow up on that.

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I talked to my mother and said, well, what's going on? I don't feel so bad now.

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Everybody was all worried about me.

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Bob, that's because your heart was on the outside of your chest. Oh, I didn't realize.

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When did they put that back? I didn't see a lot of shirtless people when I was

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growing up, so therefore I didn't know.

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Okay. Oh, my God. I haven't laughed this much in a long time.

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So like, didn't you also like have a later in life, like diagnosis though of like autism?

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Oh no, it's only, I haven't actually had an official diagnosis yet.

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I would say it's more of a pseudo self diagnosis. I would say in a way.

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So yeah. So autism stuff. So,

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I, and this, I mean, this went for a long time, so it was more a realization than anything else.

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So I'd kind of go through life on my own, you know, my own mind here and think

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that all the weird things are just, you know, just quirks of nature,

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you know, food aversions and all that kind of stuff.

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And, you know, and the patterns of behavior,

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I suppose you would say I have certain certain pattern and i

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you know and i would get made fun of for it but i like i don't know

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why you guys are worried about it it seemed perfectly normal to

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me and then later i was involved in stuff with autism and and especially my

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wife says to me she's like don't you notice anything like not really what are

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you talking about and she's like well i think that you know that describes you.

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And I'm like, why would you say that? This is perfectly normal behavior.

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And she's like, I'm sorry, honey, it's not.

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I think you're on the spectrum. And I'm like, well, howdy, hi,

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go figure. So then I kind of paid attention.

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And yeah, so yeah, I think there's just some weird things. So for instance,

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I mean, a lot of things revolve around food. I think what we talked about initially.

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And so I'm aversion to a lot of food.

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And the funny thing is I probably eat the 200% more different types of food

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than I did when I was a kid.

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But when you're limited about four things, 200% is only about 16 things now.

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So it sounds good in the percentages, but not in the reality.

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And then also the way. So I eat kind of slow.

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And the other thing is I don't eat, like most people will like,

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you know, eat a little bit of this and eat a little bit of that and eat a little

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bit of the other thing. Right.

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I just, I eat one thing and then I moved to the next thing typically.

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Right. So there's not meaning like if it's on your plate, you're eating this. Yeah.

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I'll pick, I mean, I don't know what I start with. It doesn't seem to be,

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you know, I don't have to start with a certain thing, but whatever I start eating,

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I just eat all that until it's gone.

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And then I moved to the next thing and then I moved the next thing.

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So So sometimes it's, you know, kind of bizarre because it's almost like eating

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around the clock. You know, if you imagine your plate's a clock.

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So I still do that to this day. It's not, I haven't gotten out of that too much.

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So, I mean, every once in a while I will, but I rarely like to mix it.

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And she's like, well, you know, it all gets mixed in your stomach.

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I'm like, yeah, but I can't control that. If I could, I would.

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But I just, this is what I want to do. This is the way I like to do it.

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It makes me feel better. So, yeah.

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I do that. So yeah. But it's, you know, the weird thing is you can kind of,

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I think over time I've grown out of some of it, you know, everybody gets fixations and so forth.

00:23:58
And so I still have a little bit of that, but not to the point where it's,

00:24:03
it's never been to the point where it's been overly negative, I suppose.

00:24:09
I suppose some people can have those things become real negative for them.

00:24:14
Really the only negative thing for me is that people don't understand why I don't want to eat.

00:24:19
I don't eat like with other people a tremendous amount of times,

00:24:23
especially if I don't know who they are.

00:24:25
So I don't like today, I wouldn't be having my snack with you guys because I

00:24:30
don't really know you that well.

00:24:31
So I would be like, I'll just eat on my own and then you guys can eat on your

00:24:35
own and we'll meet up and talk or whatever.

00:24:38
But I'm not, you know, And so going out to things and social events and stuff

00:24:43
are always difficult because literally I won't eat at them.

00:24:47
And so that makes things a little weird every once in a while.

00:24:51
And some people notice and some people don't. And so I make up excuses and what have you.

00:24:55
So I always ask, it's been a lifelong thing for my wife. I go, do I need to pre-eat?

00:25:02
Am I going to have to pre-eat before we go? Because I'm not going to eat anything there.

00:25:07
You know yeah and she'll go yeah i

00:25:10
think you need to pre-eat because otherwise i'm just starving and

00:25:13
i'm looking at all this food and i'm like i'm not eating that but i'm hungry

00:25:16
so it looks good but i'm not eating that shit here no that's so funny i used

00:25:23
to love to watch cooking shows even though i would never eat anything they made

00:25:26
and people don't understand that but i think it's neat the process but i'm not eating you know.

00:25:33
Risotto i don't know whatever it is i've never

00:25:38
had risotto the but i think sometimes the

00:25:40
process is always kind of funny you know it's kind of cool to watch

00:25:43
the whole process but it's like science yeah it's like

00:25:46
yeah a little bit i guess yeah you ever watch the watch that show julia on hbo

00:25:51
it's a good show yeah she makes lots of cool looking things but i'd never eat

00:25:54
any of that shit come on yeah a crazy encased fish thing oh my god yeah yeah i think my only real,

00:26:06
like because when we talked before i was saying how i have like food aversions

00:26:09
too but for me it's just meat on bone meat is on a bone i don't want it i totally

00:26:14
get it yeah i'm like i don't care if it's chicken beef pork and i don't want

00:26:19
a bone the more processed the better i say,

00:26:24
it's processed i think that it's usually i can handle you're right if it's i

00:26:28
don't like it too you know like looks like it just slides off of something,

00:26:33
if i can see a bone or a tendon or yeah no tendon gross gross.

00:26:40
Some kind of meal it's just tendons i don't

00:26:44
know but i'm like literally immediately thinking of my husband if

00:26:47
he eats like a piece of steak or meat he'll say oh

00:26:50
there's a good piece of gristle oh my god

00:26:53
I hate gristle oh disgusting gross yeah and like with me like if the steak comes

00:26:59
out rare I can't eat it mine has to be dead dead too much yeah dude it's not

00:27:05
really blood but you know whatever it's gotta be dead okay I don't care if it's a hockey,

00:27:12
it's still gotta be dead gross.

00:27:16
Hemoglobin now see now I don't even feel like eating steak anymore I mean you

00:27:20
ate crickets you know yeah but the thing is I was probably a little drunk by

00:27:25
the time I was eating that cricket got it so you know I didn't really phase me that's good yeah,

00:27:32
Yeah, but that's what I was... You guys said the word hyperfixation.

00:27:36
That's what I was trying to think of instead of addiction.

00:27:39
My hyperfixation lately has been veggies, like a veggie plate.

00:27:44
I just like to make little snack plates, you know? Oh, like your charcuterie

00:27:48
plate? Like not a meal. Like I want a variety of things I like.

00:27:52
Are there any sweets in that or is it just like healthy shit? No.

00:27:57
Because if I'm going to do sweets... eats first

00:28:00
of all i rarely will eat like a sweet i

00:28:03
i'm gonna beg to differ like and say every time

00:28:06
i talk to you the last two weeks what do you

00:28:09
have with girl scout cookies okay i had covid and i couldn't taste anything

00:28:13
and the only thing i could taste was the girl scout thin mints so i just lived

00:28:18
off of girl scouts oh my god that's it yeah okay they're good at least they're tasty,

00:28:27
It was all I could taste was the mintiness.

00:28:30
So that's, but other than that, like I won't go to a restaurant and order dessert

00:28:33
because I just, I don't know.

00:28:36
Is that because you were a pastry chef forever and that you kind of know what

00:28:40
goes into it? Yeah. And you're afraid that they smell it.

00:28:42
Like I don't like the smell of sweets. Are you afraid that they spit in your food?

00:28:47
No, there's a lot of trust in the food service, isn't there?

00:28:51
The lowest paid people are trusted the most. Do you ever notice that? that. That's true.

00:28:56
I mean, you know, teachers don't get paid well. We trust them with our children.

00:29:01
Food service people aren't paid well. We trust them with our food.

00:29:05
You know, taxi drivers don't make a lot of money. They're driving you around.

00:29:11
I think we have the world is upside down in pay scale. I believe CEO has,

00:29:15
I mean, they can go in all day and not be responsible for anybody.

00:29:19
Right. I mean, directly, indirectly, I suppose financially, but not directly.

00:29:25
And, you know, and they get all this money and they're not, you know,

00:29:29
they're not doing jack as comparatively speaking, somebody had to,

00:29:33
you know, make sure those crickets weren't going to kill you. Yeah.

00:29:38
Who tried it first? You know what I mean? How much did that person get paid?

00:29:42
Well, that's just survival. You don't get paid anything.

00:29:46
You don't get paid to survive here.

00:29:50
It's kind of like the ride testers after like a hurricane. Yeah,

00:29:54
who's going to go test this ride?

00:29:57
I never thought about that. Yeah, we used to think about that all the time.

00:30:00
You know, a hurricane would go through and they'd have to go and test all the rides.

00:30:04
Okay, it's probably some 18-year-old kid.

00:30:08
You know, managing that operation, not really giving a crap, right?

00:30:13
So you're putting your hands in, you're putting your life in the hands of this

00:30:17
18-year-old that's not really paying attention.

00:30:21
You know, his job was to go press a button, make sure that it ran.

00:30:24
You know, it's not his job to get in and make sure, like, you know,

00:30:27
if you hit a bump, you don't fall off the ride.

00:30:30
Yeah, no kidding. I mean, it's, and they don't get paid anything either.

00:30:33
So they're like, test pilots get paid a lot, don't they? I think they do.

00:30:39
You think they would be paid, you know, in comparison to a test pilot,

00:30:43
maybe, you know, amusement park ride person would not be paid that much,

00:30:48
but what are you? I'm a test rider.

00:30:54
I don't know. I did not even think about that.

00:30:58
I suppose they have engineers come in. Don't you think? I don't know.

00:31:01
I mean, these are just, you're not talking, you're talking about like six flags

00:31:04
or something, aren't you?

00:31:04
Yeah disney or you know universal like i don't know after a hurricane are you

00:31:10
really gonna go get on that roller coaster i don't think i would yeah i don't

00:31:16
want to be the first rider,

00:31:18
you're probably taking more of a risk by eating the churro.

00:31:24
Be honest who knows i mean they probably sat outside for the whole hurricane

00:31:31
and they're of selling them as soon as they open up. Oh, yeah.

00:31:33
There you go. Rice churros. All steamy.

00:31:37
We warmed it up in the microwave for it. You're all going to have to steam it

00:31:40
up. We got the extra long churro microwave here.

00:31:45
Two foot long microwave.

00:31:50
So besides food aversions did you have any other or did your wife point out

00:31:54
any other reasons i'm glad you ran out of that yeah yeah i mean that's the truth

00:32:01
i really didn't pay much attention other than until she she was the the kind

00:32:06
person who brought things to my attention,

00:32:08
you know because my mom i'm assuming was just trying to prop me up to get me

00:32:12
out of the house So anything I did was probably okay.

00:32:15
Oh yeah. No, that's fine, honey. Everybody. Yeah.

00:32:20
Everybody loves Legos.

00:32:23
Even if they're 20, it's okay. I freaking love Legos. Yeah, I know.

00:32:28
Me too. I still love Legos.

00:32:30
I do too. And it's funny because I have a six-year-old. So like,

00:32:34
we'll totally like, I'll go with him.

00:32:36
And I'm like, I'm going to get you a Lego set, but I know it's for me.

00:32:39
I'm like, yeah, so let me help you. You also don't touch anything and I have

00:32:42
to organize all the Legos before I start.

00:32:46
Now, that was my thing with my children. We have to put it together the way it looks on the box.

00:32:51
And then I'm going to let go of it and you can do whatever you want.

00:32:55
But we have to do this first. Yes.

00:33:00
Why? I don't want to do that. Well, this is for me. This is just for me.

00:33:06
My son yelled at me the other day, Mom, you don't have to organize the Legos.

00:33:10
I'm like, actually, I do have to organize this.

00:33:12
So yeah, what I mean, I think I have a note here about physical touch.

00:33:16
Oh, yeah. I don't like to be touched. Yeah. The whole conversation about that.

00:33:20
Yeah. No, I never have. You know, I mean, I wonder.

00:33:25
So I always wondered because I have an older brother and he could be,

00:33:30
I thought, quite cruel to me because he loved to hold me down on the ground

00:33:36
and I would just flip out.

00:33:37
Right. And he thought it was so hilarious that I was just totally flipping out.

00:33:41
And yeah, you know, come to find out, I don't like anybody touching me.

00:33:44
So that was part of the problem.

00:33:45
I always thought it was related to that, but apparently it probably was that

00:33:50
way all the time and he just took advantage of it.

00:33:52
Oh yeah. He was pushing the button. Yeah, exactly.

00:33:55
So yeah, no, I don't like to be touched. And I've even had experiences where

00:33:59
people would, you know, there's not going to be any kind of revelation here.

00:34:04
So I wonder if they're handing my shoulder or something for an extended period of time.

00:34:09
Literally, it feels like my shoulder's on fire and I know that it's not.

00:34:13
And then, you know, I'm like sitting there trying not to react abnormally because

00:34:18
it's not anything that anybody should be concerned about.

00:34:22
But I do, I like try to get away from people and,

00:34:26
yeah, they don't understand. I'm like, you know, waving off the hugs and all

00:34:30
that kind of stuff. That's all right.

00:34:31
Yeah. We're fine. We don't need to hug or anything.

00:34:35
Cause there was, you know, there's obviously through time, there are times in

00:34:39
society where in people specific people are times where it's a little more accepted. Right.

00:34:45
I think now it's a good time because nobody wants to get close to each other

00:34:49
because of the whole pandemic business.

00:34:52
And so it's great. I'm like, this is the next time in my life.

00:34:55
I don't have to, you can do these things online. I do this stuff all the time

00:34:59
and don't have to go come, you know, be around people too closely or,

00:35:04
you know, have them want to shake your hand or touch you or anything.

00:35:08
Yeah. Between that and the fist bump, I think those are the two best things

00:35:13
that have happened in the world, my life.

00:35:18
Although I just do the fist bump, but I don't really, I mean, it's not my thing.

00:35:23
But I will do it because it's socially acceptable. So, you know,

00:35:27
Howie Mandel is a savior. Yeah.

00:35:31
This is a germ thing. I don't have a germ thing. It's not a germ thing at all.

00:35:35
Yours is a touch thing. I have another friend, same thing.

00:35:38
Like if they, somebody touches them, they like physically feel that touch for hours afterwards.

00:35:44
And they described it just like you did, like a burning sensation.

00:35:47
So it doesn't make, I mean, their hand wasn't, I mean, their hand wasn't on fire or anything.

00:35:54
It's just this weird reaction that you have. And, you know, it's just... It's interesting.

00:35:59
But again, when I was younger, I just played it all off. It's just one of those

00:36:02
things, you know? Yeah. You don't... It's not like you...

00:36:06
I don't dwell on these things. You're just like, that's just me. And, and it's okay.

00:36:10
Everybody's, you know, everybody's different. So I do always get,

00:36:14
you haven't asked the question.

00:36:16
I'm surprised you haven't asked the question since we're on the topic,

00:36:18
but what, well, how do you have children? Oh yeah.

00:36:24
Yeah. I mean, I would imagine this is me guessing what you're going to say before

00:36:28
you say But I would imagine the, how do I word this?

00:36:33
Come on Skittles, you have all the best words. I'm like, I would imagine the

00:36:39
reward is better than the foreplay, right?

00:36:43
Like, wouldn't the reward drive that?

00:36:45
Well, first I thought I knew what you meant by reward. Now I'm rethinking that.

00:36:49
Wait, what did you think I meant? I don't know.

00:36:52
Oh, like the reward being like the, like, you know, like, I mean,

00:36:56
come on, we're adults here. You go into an intimate situation. Are you sure?

00:37:00
I think so. Although you are a blue cat. And you just called me an adult. I don't know.

00:37:05
But like, I would think that's what it is. Like you're doing it for a reason.

00:37:09
There's pleasure somewhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I suppose so.

00:37:13
I suppose you're right. No, but I think the other thing is there is a certain amount of time.

00:37:18
Okay. So time is a very important factor, which I don't know that everybody

00:37:22
considers this. But now I think back here.

00:37:26
But there's a lot of time. So you spend a lot of time around somebody and you

00:37:29
get more comfortable. And so then these things aren't quite as bad.

00:37:31
You know, you don't like them necessarily, but you're much more tolerant of...

00:37:36
And trusting, I suppose, is also a big part of it too. So it's not quite the same.

00:37:41
Strangers are worse than not strangers. And there's a variance,

00:37:45
right? So I think that helps as well.

00:37:47
But yeah, you're right. I suppose there is a payoff in all that.

00:37:52
In one way or another. So, but yeah, I think that's part of it.

00:37:57
I mean, I don't, I mean, I have friends for, you know, 20, 30 years. I don't hug them either.

00:38:03
So I'm the same. Yeah. But yeah, my wife doesn't seem to bother me as much in that regard.

00:38:11
So it is, there's a lot of incongruous things with all this because you do develop

00:38:16
a certain amount of trust in people. And so there is a, I think that plays a role in things.

00:38:24
Maybe not with everybody, but certainly with me. So people I trust and people I'm not so sure about.

00:38:31
And it's not like, you know, you don't trust them, but you know,

00:38:33
it's the known and the unknown perhaps a little bit.

00:38:37
I have a random question. Yeah. How did you eat in school lunch?

00:38:42
I brought something from home that my mom made for me.

00:38:45
Yeah. Every day. And it usually was not like a peanut butter sandwich.

00:38:50
That's all I can remember eating.

00:38:53
Peanut butter sandwiches? Yeah. They're pretty good. Yeah, they're pretty good in and of themselves.

00:38:58
What I can recall is a peanut butter sandwich and maybe a few potato chips.

00:39:04
And then day old Dolly Madison neat to eat treats. What is that?

00:39:11
I'm like, what are those? it's the cheap

00:39:14
at the time Hostess would have been like the king right

00:39:17
so this would have been the knockoff Hostess stuff yeah like Little Debbie's

00:39:21
like Little Debbie's yeah but at the time yeah and they were but they weren't

00:39:25
new they were a day old they were always old they got from the day old store

00:39:29
you ever have a day old store they don't have much of those anymore I remember

00:39:33
like the stickers it was like it's a,

00:39:35
it's about to expire it's about to expire yeah,

00:39:38
we've marked it down 75% off that's what it had It was like,

00:39:42
yeah, I do remember that. Well, they used to have bread stores.

00:39:46
So the bread store would be, you'd have like bread at the store.

00:39:50
And then they used to have these things called day old stores or something like

00:39:53
that. And that's where we would go. And you'd get all this stuff that was like going to expire.

00:39:58
And the bread was stale. Everything was stale. So that's what we had when I was growing up.

00:40:03
Anything that was something like that was going to be costly and not of primary need,

00:40:09
we'll say that was all from the day old

00:40:12
store so yeah all the memories i

00:40:15
know so it wasn't like day old milk or

00:40:18
day old cheese no and it really was more than a day

00:40:21
old they probably were like weeks old i don't know they just call it the day

00:40:24
old store at least that's what i'd call it you know like i said you don't see

00:40:29
them much anymore it used to be really commonplace that if there was you know

00:40:33
you were in a you know kind of a larger area they'd have like this yeah and

00:40:38
that That was, yeah, the crouton store.

00:40:43
So what's your go-to like comfort

00:40:46
food oh my gosh yeah when

00:40:51
you mean comfort food do you mean am i sad or

00:40:54
am i just like if you're yeah

00:40:57
if you're sick let's say oh you

00:41:01
know you can eat and it's gonna make you feel good because it's

00:41:04
both delicious but also you know scratches

00:41:07
the itch of like not weird salting crackers

00:41:10
it sounds horrible i'll eat salting crackers if i'm sick i always do i don't

00:41:15
know why my mom must have forced them on me she's like we got these at the day

00:41:19
old store and they're really bad they weren't since you're sick you'll eat anything

00:41:24
there you go can you imagine if they weren't salty and they were just old tortillas,

00:41:31
that's some salt we got to get rid of these things i'm not throwing them away,

00:41:35
they're passing through somebody's digestive system before i paid for them.

00:41:42
Because i was like thinking about like growing up

00:41:46
if we had like a little tortillas my mom would just air fry

00:41:48
or you'd fry them making chips because like

00:41:51
that i bought this somebody's eating this shit it's old

00:41:54
the crazy thing is i had

00:41:57
my favorite lunch today i went and made

00:42:00
myself a hamburger there you go i grilled myself

00:42:03
a hamburger for lunch today and i had it and that

00:42:06
i but you say comfort but i mean i

00:42:09
probably have a hamburger at least four times or five times

00:42:12
a week so yeah i must be

00:42:15
totally how do you cook it i like to put it on the

00:42:17
grill oh no i have to be done thank you see

00:42:20
i can't no well no i can't

00:42:23
i can't be looking at cow guts no when i bite

00:42:26
into it no it's so gross no are you

00:42:29
kidding cheese is this bane of my you can't

00:42:33
go out anywhere and buy a hamburger without somebody slapping cheese on it i'm

00:42:38
like i mean i wish there was a you say you're vegan right let's say you're vegan

00:42:43
people understand that oh yes okay we can't have any animal products understood

00:42:48
you know people say vegetarian oh well well, you don't want,

00:42:51
you want, you know, no meat you want.

00:42:53
I can't say I don't want any cheese. No one understands.

00:42:57
They're all like, what? I'm like, yeah, I want a hamburger, no cheese.

00:43:01
I don't want anything on it.

00:43:03
And I want a hamburger and a bun and that's it.

00:43:07
And they're like, what? What? You don't want cheese?

00:43:11
I was in, I had the pleasure of going going over to Europe and to Germany with my family.

00:43:17
And my son and I, my wife and my daughter went off and did something else.

00:43:22
I don't even know what the hell they were doing. But anyway,

00:43:24
he and I didn't want to do it.

00:43:25
And we ended up at a Burger King in Germany.

00:43:29
And because I didn't want to eat, I'm not eating strudel or something.

00:43:34
I don't know what the hell it is.

00:43:36
So I'm at the burger and I'm trying to order. And thankfully my son was interested

00:43:41
and he spoke a little German.

00:43:43
And so I can't remember the German words for this, but anyway,

00:43:46
we get up to the counter and we're ordering and I tell the person,

00:43:50
I'm like, yeah, I just want a hamburger.

00:43:51
No, no cheese, nothing on it, just plain.

00:43:54
And they're so confused because first of all, I'm not speaking German.

00:43:58
And second of all i'm saying

00:44:02
no cheese which i think they understood that cheese and they're like and so

00:44:06
then my son says in german which i can't remember what the words are but he's

00:44:11
like bun burger bun that's what he tells them and they guys assembling it i get it well yeah exactly,

00:44:21
and then they finally and i did get a plain hamburger there so it worked out

00:44:25
but there was like, I don't know what seemed like an eternity,

00:44:28
but was only probably about 30 seconds, but of amazing confusement on this person's face, wondering,

00:44:34
you know, who the hell is this, you know, English speaking idiot trying to tell

00:44:38
me that of course a hamburger is being the most American food across the world,

00:44:45
how to make a hamburger unlike the way they serve it.

00:44:48
So, you know, it just was, it was kind of funny.

00:44:53
And yeah, so I told him he saved the day. You saved your poor dad from not eating all day long. Thank you.

00:45:00
Dad was going to have to eat strudel all day. I don't know what the hell they

00:45:04
eat over there. You don't want to know.

00:45:06
That was for everybody else had the local delicacies and I just watched and had something else.

00:45:12
I like pretzels. I had a lot of pretzels over in Germany. Yeah,

00:45:16
that's what I was going to ask you. Did you have any pretzels?

00:45:18
Because they're really good pretzels.

00:45:20
They're really good pretzel. Yeah, really good pretzel.

00:45:23
Best pretzel I've ever had in my life, I think. well

00:45:26
that's good yeah that was the positive was it

00:45:29
a warm pretzel oh yeah it was one of those big ones you know yeah i

00:45:33
don't know very nice they rolled it in something i don't know what the deal

00:45:36
was but it was pretty good i took it and i ate it and i thought wow this is

00:45:40
all right big pretzel salt usually is kind of white what's all this i have no

00:45:49
idea no idea what it was i don't think so,

00:45:53
I'll tell you what you say. What are these brown flakes? Yeah,

00:45:57
what are these brown flakes all over my pretzel?

00:46:00
They're sticking into it.

00:46:03
Does it have a flag on it or something? It seems to be some kind of a toothpick or something.

00:46:10
Dale's crickets. Dale's crickets, yeah.

00:46:14
I did not expect to laugh this much. My cheeks hurt from laughing.

00:46:19
I have tears rolling down my eyes.

00:46:23
Down my cheeks this was such a fun conversation but the terrible thing when you have you know,

00:46:29
this i've never really felt any of this has been negative to me directly for

00:46:35
the most part i mean every once in a while people make fun of you when you're

00:46:38
younger and even when you're older.

00:46:40
About these kind of quirkiness nature of all this

00:46:43
right but it's never really been a detriment overall and

00:46:47
it but it's been really hard when i had kids so i have

00:46:50
a you're gonna love this one bathroom aversion

00:46:54
right so i cannot going to the

00:46:57
bathroom in public has been a trial

00:47:01
right so yeah all through my whole life

00:47:03
i've finally kind of overcome most of it i would say not all of it every once

00:47:08
in a while i'm like i'm not going in there and but when you have kids you can't

00:47:12
do that right you well i suppose you can but i don't want i want them to have

00:47:19
a fair shake at it. You know what I mean?

00:47:21
I don't want them to be like, you know, adopt my, you know, kind of quirks of

00:47:27
nature there just because it's me. Right.

00:47:29
So I can, oh my gosh, I can remember taking my children into the most heinous

00:47:35
of, you know, bathrooms and having them use the facilities,

00:47:39
even though I was just like, you know, your stomach's gurgling and you're looking

00:47:44
around and you're like, how in the hell,

00:47:46
you know, don't they have a power prayer for Christ's sake, use it in here and

00:47:51
and i think i thankfully i you know what do you want to choke down my.

00:47:57
Aversion enough for them not to be affected by it

00:47:59
right because you know when you're a kid you

00:48:02
gotta go you gotta go and you can't you know you can't wait yeah if i made him

00:48:06
wait it'd just be shitting in the car all the time so so we just i just i'm

00:48:13
like okay yeah we're at pizza hut and i I know this bathroom is horrible because

00:48:18
I've never used it ever. And, but we're going to go in there.

00:48:23
I'm not telling them this is my head, you know? And, and sure enough, they'd make a comment.

00:48:28
Oh, it's so filthy in here. I'm like, yeah, well, you know, I'll talk about it.

00:48:32
I'm like, we got to get this done. Yeah.

00:48:36
So, yeah, but that was one of my, that was, you know, most people think,

00:48:41
oh, I don't know what they worry about. Kids breaking arms or something.

00:48:44
I'm like, oh, God, this kid's going to have to use the bathroom while I'm out

00:48:46
with him. You know, what am I going to do?

00:48:49
Mom's not with us and I have to take care of this business.

00:48:53
Literally me when Max was potty training, going into a public restroom,

00:48:57
it was like he would just touch everything.

00:48:59
And I'm like, God, don't just like, don't touch the toilet. Don't touch anything.

00:49:03
Like it was, he just wanted to touch all this stuff. off

00:49:06
and it was but it's hard it's hard but i would

00:49:09
not i didn't say anything so i wouldn't you know

00:49:11
if it was like you know they're gonna grab a turd out of the toilet i'd probably say

00:49:14
something but if they wanted to

00:49:17
touch the sink you know and it looked filthy or

00:49:20
whatever i'd let them do it i didn't want to i really was trying my darndest

00:49:24
not to you know bring this to them you know what i mean yeah and and and this

00:49:30
is when actually this was still at a time where I wasn't totally convinced that

00:49:34
there was any kind of issue for me.

00:49:37
And so, but I was also trying not to, you know, influence them.

00:49:41
Yeah. And it becomes difficult.

00:49:43
I mean, it's difficult to do that, I think, because you're really trying to,

00:49:48
it's almost like a gut reaction to do that.

00:49:51
And then you're going totally against everything your brain is telling you.

00:49:54
And so, yeah, weird, very weird.

00:49:59
I get it. I totally get it. But so, Bob, where can our listeners listen to you?

00:50:04
Oh, they want to listen to me? Yeah. Goodness gracious. I mean,

00:50:07
I'm totally going to tune in to you because I've never laughed so hard.

00:50:12
Yeah. So if you're really feeling like you want to torture yourself a little

00:50:16
bit, you can go to staticradio.com and listen to me and my co-host,

00:50:21
Miles, who I talk with every week. So, yeah. Yay.

00:50:25
I don't know. To be honest with you, I don't think we've ever talked about any of this stuff. Yay.

00:50:31
We talk about other stuff I don't know we probably talked about bugs but maybe not the rest of it.

00:50:41
I love it oh Bob I love

00:50:44
you I needed this thank you so much so bad yeah this

00:50:47
was great this was so much fun glad you had a break ahead of time I could imagine

00:50:51
there'd be an accident coming up I'm happy we had this after I ate because if

00:50:56
I really didn't talk about this and then lunch with it not eating what did you

00:51:00
have for lunch what did you have to eat or whatever I had carrots I had a cucumber

00:51:04
oh good yeah never had a cucumber,

00:51:07
oh I can only do the seedless one I can imagine

00:51:11
they kind of smell funny yeah cucumbers

00:51:14
too yeah water no thanks no no no no yeah no i can't do the cucumber no cucumber

00:51:23
vodka is pretty good really well like a cucumber martini or something yeah when

00:51:28
they make that do they like just jam the cucumbers in there how does that work,

00:51:35
they just wring them out some kind of filtration through cucumber process for this vodka I don't know.

00:51:43
Love it. I'm trying to picture this. Is it like a pickle jar full of vodka?

00:51:50
Yeah, it's like pickles, but in vodka. Yeah. Interesting. Vodka pickle. Line me up.

00:52:00
Awesome. Thank you so much, Bob. I appreciate you and making me laugh. This was great.

00:52:04
Hey, thanks for having me on. It's been fun. You guys well and take care.

00:52:08
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