We turned out our pockets for this extra episode with Hope & Mike! The ladies and their lovely guests discuss presentation horrors, foot trauma, and Mike's Poison Ivy Incident of Christmas 2010. If you like kisses this one’s for you!
We turned out our pockets for this extra episode with Hope & Mike! The ladies and their lovely guests discuss presentation horrors, foot trauma, and Mike's Poison Ivy Incident of Christmas 2010. If you like kisses this one’s for you!
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And we're back.
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Welcome, buddy. Jamie. That's Alyssa.
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I'm Hope I'm my mic oh everybody we got
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the podcast. Well, technically six then because we're all talking into it.
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It's like a math problem.
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It's the statement of the great man was double mica golf.
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We're continuing from our last recording, why was that such a worse thing?
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We're just kind of winging it. Today,
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we are just on the wing. We're gonna fucking Soho. We're beautiful.
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Um, so I have
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a couple random topics that like, I just have on my list that we've never talked about before. Do you mind if I use those today? Sure. And it's just for talking points that I know like everyone will have
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become a political podcast, no.
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Government.
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Awkward presentation experience? Oh, yes. Anybody wants to start? I have one that I can kind of start with two.
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I don't think I have any. Well, they're
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probably all blocked out. I mean,
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yeah, I was gonna say, your high school memories, you've probably got one in there. Go ahead, start us off. I got one after you're done.
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So mine were actually both after high school. Beautiful. So as I'm beginning my career and going through college, so one was at a internship I had and we had like, at the end of this term, we would like do a presentation. And then I was up there doing it. And then we had a laser pointer. But I accidentally turned it off. Like whenever I was like, needing to point to really valuable data or valuable data when I say like that, like data to emphasize. And then but I saved it because it happened to be April Fool's Day
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that is really
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good as their video of this presentation anywhere. I'm amazing.
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So I they used to be on YouTube. But we were, I guess that's like so old. They took it all, all those down. But it wasn't it wasn't those weren't presentations, though. It was videos that we had to make. So we had to do a presentation and make a video on our project. And oh, man, those were so so just not not very good. Yeah. Yeah. One of the videos in particular, we filmed some, like intros and us just like talking on the beach because it was like a project on like sea salt salinity measured by satellite stuff.
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And he was amazing on those recordings. Yeah, well, that's something
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we didn't think about. And there was there was so yeah, it sounds like shit. And it's just like, it cuts from like us doing these voiceovers with, like of like, video of like satellites and stuff. And then it cuts to us at the beach. And it's like, just wind talking really low in the wind. But there's one part you couldn't hear the girl like at all. So we did like a we dubbed voice.
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Oh, man, wasn't it so good. Like you can barely tell. It was like, did you guys voice over that? And we're like, Oh,
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wonderful. Yeah.
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You guys have a new presentation.
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I had one from freshman year of high school. I was doing a speech class and are like we've been given, you know, a couple of weeks of instruction at this point and been given the basics on how to do a public speech. And the teacher was like, Alright, I need each of you to just like pick, pick a topic that you're passionate about something you love, and just write a one page thing about like, you know, what makes that thing great. So naturally, I picked video games, because it seemed like a good thing. But it turns out I had zero speaking skills at that point. because like the only thing I could think of was like, cheat codes and the graphics can be really good. And like it was, it was so bad. Because like, you know, the teacher did a critique on everybody's speech afterwards. And he was like, bro, you could have, you could have talked about, like the benefits of hand eye coordination. Being able to like, you know, pick out objects in a fast moving environment quickly, the skills that like video games help, and you picked cheat codes, really. Needless to say, I did not pass that passed the class, but that particular test. That was a big ol F stuff,
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and I did remember one. Oh, so I was the class president and mortuary school, like all throughout high school. I barely passed High School. And I thought it was dumb. But then I was just like, Oh, I'm just in. I'm smart when I'm interested in something otherwise,
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no idea how many kids are like that, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Hope, raise your hand. So I wanted to be class president, or whatever. We call that because I thought that would be cool. But the only downside is you had to make a speech at graduation. Oh, no. And I feel like now I would do a little bit better. But back then, like,
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I was,
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think I was 20. So I was really young, and just really fucking awkward. And so I wrote my speech, and I was really nervous. And I was like, talking to people about it. And their only advice. They're like, Oh, you'll be fine. I'm like, that doesn't fucking help me. And
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that's the best advice for you
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stopped seeing that way. feeling nervous.
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And when I was doing my speech, I guess I was leaning over too much. And my graduation cap fell off and hit the microphone. And hurry to put it back on. And then I also like, kind of there were stairs. I kind of tripped on those nights. But it was nice that it was over.
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Well, did. Did you get a standing ovation to your speech?
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I don't remember. I mean, people clapped. Was your graduating
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class.
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It was a 2008. Wait, did you say how long ago was that?
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Hope that How big was
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people? Maybe like 30 people? Okay. Yeah,
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it was pretty small. Probably more than that.
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I don't know. Like, mid probably no more than 50. No. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Because, like, you know, a lot of public high schools, they have graduating classes of like two 300 kids.
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Yeah. And this was mortuary school. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think my class was like 600 or something. Whoa, that's huge. And that was in Georgetown. I used to be small now. I'm sure it's
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Yeah, went to private school. So my graduating class was 28. Oh, no, it just means that I got a an education tainted with religion.
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Oh, that's really about Jesus's kiss on the cheek. It did pay and it did come in handy. paid off.
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And the word did say that Judas would identify Jesus with a kiss and the Roman guard did say Ah, gay but that's
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okay.
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okay to be gay. Do you have any stories?
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When it came to presentations, I did. No, no an avid nun until it did come to where I had to save my grade because
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the English teacher recognize that I was one of those kids that's like I can be smart when I want to be and I just don't want to be so he's like, look, you can pass my class with a D if you do this presentation where you speak in front of the class
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Okay,
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so being the theater nerd that I was I decided to do the while the world stage Shakespeare I'm not familiar but cool. It's a whole All the world's a stage and the men or women are merely players have killed way to me brain cells sense did recite it word for word, but it's basically a story of how like, you know, birth and death are kind of similar and the life is just kind Did Sickler raid sort of thing? Okay, where were we start is where we end.
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Okay. So yeah, and so
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I'm getting up in a sophomore English class being this nerd reciting Shakespeare. So you can imagine the nerd the entire time and I'm like, Dude, I'm just trying to say my grade. I don't even like you people. Literally a bargain to deal with you. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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That was actually one of the notes that I didn't say from last time was it just the note just simply said that anybody who looks back fondly on high school is most likely somebody who peaked in high school. Yeah, those are the only people who think back fondly. Like, oh, wish I could go back to high school where I was cool if fit in.
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And people like me.
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Yeah, because nobody had fully developed brains back then. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. You had you had a second awkward speech moment.
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I do. I might have to. Um, so one is super short. It's, um, the first like programming job I had, I had to give like a presentation at this little conference. And the first thing I said, like my open eye opener, it was like, I'm probably gonna say, I'm a lot throughout this. So just apologize up front. And I was just like, um, people laughed. And then it was funny, because like, when I got off, and I was talking to my boss, I was like, Yeah, people laughed at like, the thing I said in the beginning, I don't even think it was that funny. He was like, Oh, they were laughing because he said, I'm right after that. It was like, Oh, my God, I didn't even really
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beautiful. Yeah. You ever had one of those friends that just like, has a way of pointing out your little tics in a way that like, makes you hyper aware of them? Yes.
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I hate that shit. I'm like, shut the fuck up.
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I don't think so. Because I'm perfect. And I'm just gonna,
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ya know, I don't know, really, I say you know, a lot. You know, you know.
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Not a lot but
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but, you know,
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my guitarist and singer, Trey. He's really good about picking up those things about people. And so we were on tour a couple of weeks ago, and he made a five by five bingo card for every member of both. And it was like, all super accurate shit. Some some of the guys in the band, were just like, wow, this is I didn't know that I did this. One of the guys. He just like beat boxes to himself all the time. Like thing or just be like doing stuff that it just suddenly it's not even like super serious beatboxing it's just a fun little thing. But like, one of them was beatboxes to himself. And it because of that he was like the whole rest of the tour. Like getting upset with himself whatever he would do it. Because he didn't realize he did it that much. One of mine was insists on driving.
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Not be mine.
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Yeah, well, I I'm glad you're my friend.
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I have this thing where like, it doesn't matter how good of a driver you are. There's something in my brain that prevents me from thinking that you're going to be a safe driver if you're behind the wheel. And so like my brain can't like relax. Unless I'm driving that I can't I can't fall asleep in any of the passenger seats of a car for this very reason. There's like any time that the car like does the slightest move, or like taps the brakes at all. Like it's just my brain is just like, Oh, we're about to die.
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Just a nervous wreck when I'm driving and even more nervous wreck when there's people in the car to drive. So Yeah, same.
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The best part about this condition, though, is that it means that my brain only relaxes when I'm in the driver's seat, which is why that's the only seat in the car that I can fall asleep in. Fortunately, there was an experience fresh out of high school that put the fear of God in me on that front. So the moment that I started to feel tired these days, I'll pull over and switch drivers or like get some coffee or new go run laps around the car, something like that. But I was working overnights at Albertsons grocery as a night manager thing and just getting like maybe two three hours of sleep and
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school manager Wow. Mr. Feeny See
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how many did you have to kiss to get there
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so many ladies
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if you missed the last episode Mike is a hand and mouse kisser very clear about me I'm my anyway sorry
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so I just gotten off work at this overnight job and I took my I took my roommate into work and on the way back from dropping him off at work was on Oh, come on, get it together. JB
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please ignore me
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get out of your system anyway, one more time. Here we go, driving home from the overnight shift. And the highway I was on had like one of those just big ditch kind of things in the middle like a V shaped ditch. And at a certain point on the drive, I apparently fell asleep. Because I woke up to the jolt of light hitting the bottom of the ditch and starting to go in traffic. I managed to regain control of the car in the shoulder of the oncoming traffic lane. Like morning commute time. And like literally had I stayed asleep for about half a second longer than I did. I might not be here to be telling you this story. It was I wouldn't be honest. It was like
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laughing and like being shocked by her story. And it's such a weird feeling.
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That's yeah,
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you're talking about the ditch my first thought was like, I wonder if you could play Pound Puppies on that day because you
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can't have been run over
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to good point. Fortunately, it wasn't the kind of dish you would expect to see people. That's good. No, yes, this scary moment. Oh, man. Yeah, cuz it was an old like pickup truck that didn't have airbags. So like, if that had been the window. Yeah, that had been an error and head on collision. I was going to leave 65 as well as the oncoming traffic. So like, yeah, it would have been
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Did you like stop and regroup yourself? Or were you just like I'm good?
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No, no, no, I had to stop and take a moment and then when I got home I took a long shower and cried a lot. It was like have you ever had like a serious near death experience? Were just like literally half a second more of this or half an inch further over this ledge something like that. I literally would have died like it's that's a crazy feeling.
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Yeah, it's unnerving for sure. But
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nothing to make you feel quite so alive is almost dying.
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Oh man. Why one time I slipped in the shower here I don't know the way that I fell like or was going to fall I was like, you've got to catch yourself you're gonna like land like on your neck and bow like a really long time and I was like grabbing stuff and I was like Joe don't fall
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down. It was weird. Did you did you recover from it?
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I mean, it didn't fall down. Oh, cool, but it was just weird like time slowed down
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matrix flipping
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I guess the lesson is I need to get some little sticky things for the bottom of my shower. So yeah, nobody finds
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shower shoes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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I just stuff and thank God shower shoes were I don't know why
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the podcasts have solutions?
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Absolutely. We got we got saline, we got
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nervous laughter, pollution.
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Yikes. Welcome to the new nervous laughter solutions where we talk about awkward ways to fix problems at home.
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Our solutions or your resolutions
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would not be just a real solution, I guess.
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Um, so let's see, what are some other? I'm gonna go through topics, but I don't think some of these will like be appropriate. Well, not appropriate, just
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like because this is a family friendly podcast. Yeah, totally. Our target demographic is children.
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Well, it's like bugs and ears bugs in here.
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I have a fun story about motion. For me specifically. You're gonna love this. This is fantastic. So there was a British explorer in the 1800s, who was mapping some of the, like, unexplored Africa, jungle areas. And, you know, places that indigenous people have been living for like hundreds, if not 1000s of years. But still, the British were just like, No, there's no way they know this. Let's go in there and explore it ourselves so that we can make a proper map. Anyway, so it was this British explorer that he was out there with, like, I think an assistant and like couple of natives, and they were camping for the night. And his tent fell down in the night. And he woke up to literally hundreds of beetles swarming all over his body. Freaked out, of course, he got the torch and was like, you know, trying to like, shoot them out, swap them out, do whatever, and get the tent back up. And he wasn't able to do it and ended up like passing out from exhaustion after trying to fight off these beetles for like several hours. And he woke up to the sound of one burrowing into his ear canal.
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Lake bro, find a lake bro. Yeah,
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I don't know where the nearest body of water was. But apparently he was too far away. Because he did not do any of that. He tried everything that was at hand, including pouring salt into his ear, pouring hot oil into his ear. And at a certain point, like it was literally driving him mad. And he got to the point where he took out a pen knife and shoved it into his ear to kill the beetle, but ended up rupturing his eardrum on that side to causing him to be permanently deaf in that ear for the rest of his life.
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That'll happen if you stick a knife, and
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that's the fun times exploring the jungles of Africa.
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But you don't have to stab yourself in the ear.
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If you if you were in that situation, you might be thinking a little differently,
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I understand but you don't have to. But I've never
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had a beetle or any other creature burrow into my ear canal before.
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noises that makes this got to be very.
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I had some kind of buzzy fly type thing stuck in my ear for a hot minute. And I ended up getting it out. It was like it was when I was swimming. So I assumed that it was like one of those flying critters that like get on top of the pool. It probably like was coming up out from under the water and gotten to my ear is all like yeah, I just like shook my head like very violently. Notes. But it was really just Yeah. Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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This is why we need like a little screen that can just like sit in your ear still as the sound through. But that way bugs will be blocked. Yeah, that would be nice. times. Yeah,
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it's a protected thing.
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Um, do y'all get your wax issues? Yeah, fine. Yeah, I was I was at the the NAMM Convention, which for those listening that don't know, NAMM is the National Association of music merchants. It's kind of like the Consumer Electronics Show for musicians basically. But um, I was getting a mold done for in ear monitors. And they have y'all ever gotten custom ear plugs or in your mom's? Oh, yeah, that's more common.
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We're not as fancy as earplugs. You gotta roll into your Your fingers to fit into your ear.
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Those are fine, but these are, you know, anyway. Oh, I get it. They have like this fast drying foam stuff that they like squirt into your ear and they like make it round and then and then they just pull it out and that's your mold anyway. They normally have to put like this little cotton ball on the end of a string in there. And then that way like the foam doesn't attach to your eardrum and end up pulling out your eardrum as they pull out. Yeah. But but in my right ear, he said there was enough earwax that he didn't need to use the cotton piece. So yeah, just pull the ear wax out with a little bit not not all of it. But yeah, a little bit of came out there. I mean, that's nice. Yeah, but I really want to go to the ear doctor and get one of those. The solution in your ear and you just see all this coming. Oh, yeah.
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You can buy one of those things. And it's like a spray thing. Like,
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I've tried every like heb available ear cleaning thing. They all make it worse. Yeah. Every single one of them. It's crazy.
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Yeah, one time, mine was really fucked up. And I ended up going to like a minor emergency thing because like, I couldn't, like get stuff out. And they're like, Well, you just have to keep rinsing it. So I mean, it took me like forever to like, get it because I guess I tried rinsing it, and I got water stuck in my ear. And I was trying to get the water out and that wouldn't come out. But they said that those like ones that the ear doctor that there can be things that fuck up and it like messes up your eardrum and I'm like, is it worth it? Because it's like, you know, I mean, it's like pretty good stream of water in there. But
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yeah,
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your probes
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just next time you go to the dentist when they're doing the Waterpik just turn your head
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that's ridiculous. Oh, yeah, that's
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good. Good ear talk. Yeah,
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yeah. Um,
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I just deal with my earwax. Like, I know I'm harder to hear, but
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that's fair. Do you? Do you have any foot trauma stories? No, not including your current speaking in the shorter kicking a shark of the faith story, but like
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pointing to the fact that I'm in a boot right now. And not the boot that collects my bodily fluids. Fortunately, not
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that boot. Boot is a sexy boot. This boot is this boot is still sexy. It's sexy in a different way. Yeah.
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might have had a scrap
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you might have kicked a shark in the face that yeah, kind of boot. But no, but do you have any like old school foot trauma stories? Because the first time I was on we were talking about some foot trauma stories was good time. Well, they talked about it and then I brought mine in. So like it's your turn. Here.
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Yeah, and you know, I just have what trauma from present as well as your childhood stuff like twisting your ankle mount bike. I tore the meniscus in my knee. Hey, yeah,
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I had a shit ton of tears. And we can circle back to that.
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Did you have to get the knee brace that would like lock into place? And you're like walking like when's his name from Christmas carols like tiny tiny friggin Tiny Tim all the time.
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Yeah, that's
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yeah, some of my gaming friends called me Robo leg when I had my
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only shot donuts
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How did you mess up our Yeah, how do you mess up your meniscus? I was just
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running Oh, running and then snap.
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Oh ouch Yeah, I
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hit the ground it was it was bad tie we hit the ground. Oh yeah. Cuz well you know you're running and then snap and then like pain? Yeah. And I'm not the most graceful of creature in the best of times. Yeah, in the worst of times.
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That doesn't track any, any nice stories?
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Nothing I can think of how a couple ankle ones. Oh, we were all under age and drinking it my friend Trish is house And we were talking about dancing and for some reason, I was like, Oh, I'm gonna do the shopping cart. You know, we're gonna like kind of Yeah. And I got up to do it and just like totally rolled my ankle like Oh, yeah. And so the rest of the night I was like, on the couch and then when it was time for bed I like, like crawled. But luckily, I bounced back pretty quick. I purchase for a little bit, but yeah, nice. Yeah, but the shopping cart fucked me up.
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I did break the big toe on my right foot once y'all know the game wall ball. Just like
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a ball the wall? Yeah.
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Ever did you guess?
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This isn't educational.
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The basic premise just being you get a line of people with in front of a wall, one of them has the ball and they throw it against the wall. And somebody else like fields it. And the idea is if you either don't feel that cleanly, and it like drops out of your hands, or if when you throw it against the wall, next, it hits the floor first, you then have to run and tag the wall before somebody else can pick it up and hit the wall. And otherwise you're you get a strike. And if you get three strikes, then you have to stand Poms against the wall while everybody else in the line gets the kids to throw the ball. As hard as they can
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a lot of strikes then.
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We would usually play with a tennis ball or a racquet ball. So like it would sting but it wouldn't have any lasting damage just fine. It's a good motivation to do well in the game.
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You're gonna say like, you know, those Foursquare balls that are like mostly air and they're really bouncy. This would have been like, dodge No, you
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want some of that you can throw like a baseball so you can like get some serious speed on this thing.
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Like everyone brings their own ball. No, you
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just use one ball.
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BYOB.
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But, yeah, I was in junior year of high school and we were playing this. And the we were playing inside and it was like a tiled surface. And I had just fumbled the ball. So I was running to like I hit the wall. And the intention was to plant my foot spring the wall and come back and when I planted my foot it shot forward. Just yeah. My Big TOE. Good times. Yes. Yeah, that was that was some of the most intense pain I've ever felt in my life is like it's one of those things literally every step you take your big toe does a little bit. So like even if you like
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the idea of like a broken toe.
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around my head. Yeah,
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like you're your winner so anyway, your big toe?
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Do they do anything for that? I mean, are you just doing
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some broken fingers? They don't really do a whole lot for Ah, yeah. I broke up pinky finger. When we were living together. I was running away. And I slipped. And yeah, my pinkie just went sideways. And the only thing they did was tape it to my ring finger.
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Take bunch of pain medicine and
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like yeah, they didn't even give me pain meds. There's just like, have fun here. Smashville. Really? Yeah.
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You want to hear another fun gross story? Yeah, it just reminded me of it because it was saying taking pain meds because they gave me pain meds for this. You might remember in 2010 when I got that really bad poison ivy infection. Oh, yeah. Poison Ivy is one of the few things on this planet that I'm actually allergic to. It's like I've been to the hospital more than once for it like it's gnarly. But it was Christmas day 2010 I was down on Town Lake.
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This is like a funny.
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Year was 2010. Exactly. We're done on Town Lake and I saw a kite stuck up in a tree. And it was one of the trees that like lines the walking path. is on Town Lake. And so like I didn't think anything of it, there's easy climb all branches there, I just climbed up and got the flag or the flag kite and came back down with it. What I didn't realize is that there was poison ivy all over that tree. And the next or when I was going to bed that night, I started got like a little little spot right below my the crook of my elbow, crook, Crux crook, whatever, the bend in the elbow. And I was like, Oh, I guess I got a little poison ivy, whatever, go to bed and wake up the next day, both arms are completely out. And they swelled up to almost twice their normal size. Oh my God, it was literally just like constant oozing. It was very pictures
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of it.
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But I do have a different one. This second time I got hospitalized. I had apparently just like dragged a leaf and literally had a line of boils down this arm. And then the other one had a patch that was about you know, it spanned over the bend in the elbow. And literally anytime I would open my elbow a more than about, you know, 30% of the way it would crack that and it would start losing their shit. Yeah, it was it was really gross. But the doctor like the first time I went in, they gave me a Benadryl shot and a steroid shot. And then they gave me a bunch of Xanax and they were like, You need to sleep for like a week. 10 days. So you know, change your dressings once a day. And here's some pills just to sleep. And that's what I did. It was it was crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's all you can do. You just gotta wait for it to go away. Especially in people's cases who are really allergic to it.
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I had it once. I'm sorry. recently. I was I had it on my arms like I was doing yard work and I guess I didn't see it. And I was like scooping stuff and throwing it in the trash or the whatever. And it was bad. I mean, like it woke me up like all night like, Poison Ivy fuckin sucks.
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You know, the worst part about it is for me that inevitably, despite how careful I'm trying to be, it gets.
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Yeah, yeah. So
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you're saying you got it on your painter?
Unknown Speaker 37:18
I got it on my computer. Every time here's the thing you don't get most of the time when you get an exposure, the oils are on your hands. Yeah. And then you'll go you'll just go pee and like, it'll be before it starts. 24 hours, or just start reacting. So inevitably, yeah, on the painter and on the balls, and you're talking about waking you up in the middle of the night. Oh, yeah. That yeah, two weeks of that. It's
Unknown Speaker 37:54
just remembering how those foils looked on you. It's like not to say I'm trying to imagine you can't actually imagine that so horrific.
Unknown Speaker 38:10
Just think of it as a really really tiny pain or that is more more boiled that No, it's not that bad. As far as the boiler it's really tiny. But it is bad as far as the coils you know, red marks
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just covered in those boil. It was so bad like yeah,
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the biggest one was like it was sitting up about skin like the kind of thing that you would want to land
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like I really want Okay, was it like
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clear liquid
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or slight yellow tinge to okay, but But yeah, it was it was clear aside from that. Yeah, but yeah, that was that was a good times, you know?
Unknown Speaker 39:04
Yeah, yeah, I've had a couple rashes the past couple of years. And I remember I sent you some Elissa some pictures up from whenever I had the rash on my legs. But it was funny because like, I'm just kind of like used to people being like, can I see pictures just like what how my friends are? And so like I when I was telling my boss about it, because like I had to miss work to go to the doctor. I was just like, do you want to see a picture? Like, oh, no, thanks.
Unknown Speaker 39:37
Oh my gosh. I kind of want to
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see but I kind of don't want
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the pictures that I took a bit. We're actually not at the worst. So you can see how many boys are. They get bigger
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pictures of your printer.
Unknown Speaker 39:55
I make no claims as to whether or not I'm showing the hosts of this Family Friendly podcast pictures of my painter. Oh, it's not my painter. It's just my arms. Of course she wants to. She saw this in person. Oh,
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yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, some of the ones they were bigger even than the pictures? Yes. Like, they were like a bit of a balloon.
Unknown Speaker 40:22
This is like day two or three. And by day seven or eight is when he gets the worst. He was just oh, by the time, he's got to be the worst. I could barely use my arms. So I couldn't exactly take pictures of them. Make sense? But yeah, it was. It's not fun. Wasn't it? Not enough fun for me. This, like, the funny thing is, you know, I've worked in landscaping. So like, anytime, somebody's yard and I see poison ivy because now I can't unsee it anytime it's on the wild, like my eyes just lock onto it. Like, there it is. But now, anytime I see that I just go to the client. I'm like, Hey, so I can't I can't do this part. And they're like, why not? And I'm like, show them the pictures. And they're like, Oh, are
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you allergic to? Oh, I see.
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Yeah, times. Damn.
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Yeah, we have a lot in our backyard. I guess it grows around oak trees. Like it's common for them to be together. And
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yeah, we have a place in oak. Oh,
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I never thought maybe.
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Poison Ivy and poison. Oh, Mack. Yeah. Virginia. I imagine if it's around oak trees. Sorry.
Unknown Speaker 41:33
I don't know. It kind of looks like a weed leaf.
Unknown Speaker 41:37
It's all very similar. But yeah, it pulls people in.
Unknown Speaker 41:46
That would be like yellows would be like that.
Unknown Speaker 41:50
I forget who this was. But there have been multiple cases of people dying from like, you know, doing a burning and burning like poison ivy and it's
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yeah, it's horrible.
Unknown Speaker 42:05
What a way to die. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, if you get that stuff on the inside of your lungs, then it can like create pustules that like may put liquid in your lungs. And that's a that's an easy way to die is getting any amount of liquid into your lungs.
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Fun, fun fun stuff.
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Yay. Smelled any kind of chemicals that like made your lungs hurt for a little while. Yes. Oh, well, but like worse than bleach where like it literally hurts to breathe for a couple hours afterwards. Oh, shit. I
Unknown Speaker 42:39
mean, only experience I've had is when I like just throw the bleach in like the shower is dirty. Oh, yes. Throw pure bleach in. And yeah, it's like,
Unknown Speaker 42:52
you clean it with your hands. Right? No gloves. No gloves. And then you know better yet when it's when you're doing cleaning you just like drink is so that it doesn't get wasted. Or wasted.
Unknown Speaker 43:04
Yeah, that's how you get rid of COVID. Right? Yeah, yeah, it's
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a great, great way.
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If you sniff it, it gets to your lungs quicker.
Unknown Speaker 43:15
Yeah, okay, cool. Yeah. Well, I mean, snorting most things is a better way to get them into your system than jesting. Where's your mouth? You know? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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But hopefully, yeah. Disclaimer, do not do any of this shit with. No.
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Hopefully our audience is the one wise enough to know these kinds of things.
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Yes. I just feel like I have to staple.
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Just put the warning label.
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Just in case we get liable for sponsoring the show, then. You know, we've got to worry about liability.
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Now. You videoing me? No.
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I'm looking at notes.
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Have you guys had um, what's it called?
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You get after chickenpox?
Unknown Speaker 44:09
Shingles shingles. I had chickenpox as a kid. I haven't had shingles.
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Vaccine first.
Unknown Speaker 44:18
Yeah, yeah. And you can also get it more than once. Yeah, shingles. Just FYI. Maybe people are saying like, Yeah, you don't bitch. I knew that. But like, every fucking everyone in Mississippi was like, Oh, yeah. Well, you only get it once. So it's good that you got it already. And I was like, okay, cool. No, no, you can get shingles more than once for sure. My doctor was
Unknown Speaker 44:43
also considered the source though, for Mississippians.
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Yeah.
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Um, so yeah, I had it on the back of my neck. And it just burns really bad and it looks like super bubbly and gross. And I remember I had to go in for my senior pictures and this lady tried to like, fix my hair. So she put her hands like on the back of my neck and I could feel that she kind of like touched it and I was like, Oh my God. She's probably wondering like, what that is. and stuff, but like, that's why you Don't fucking touch people.
Unknown Speaker 45:19
Yeah, that's your punishment. Yeah. Shingles sores.
Unknown Speaker 45:24
Shingles contagious? Like if somebody touches it. Can they get it? I
Unknown Speaker 45:28
think it's contagious.
Unknown Speaker 45:29
I didn't think so either.
Unknown Speaker 45:31
But like if you touch someone and you spent like this bumpy like gross mass on their neck.
Unknown Speaker 45:39
Well, you don't have a regular growth on your neck. That's just there all the time. Oh, Bertha. Yeah. Okay, good. Good.
Unknown Speaker 45:46
Yeah. This is different. I just told my
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junior but Yeah, sounds good. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 45:50
Did you have a topic your I saw you looking at your phone?
Unknown Speaker 45:57
Yeah, I have a another drunk Alyssa story. This was actually not that long ago. It was like right before COVID My friend Laura was gonna go to Japan. And I don't know if y'all have heard about this. But you know, I've heard they have like used panty vending machines
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or may not own one.
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The whole vending machine, not just a pair of
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mics kisses.
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Yes. Anyway,
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so we're all talking and like a couple of friends like gave Laura like 20 bucks to bring him something back from Japan. And I was like, really drunk. And I was like, Laura, you gotta get me some of those us panties. No, I wanted to keep them in the little whenever they came in. I think about them is like a prize from like, one of those quarter machines, you know, plastic. Yeah, that was like I want one of those and really, like, researched it and couldn't find it. But yeah, you're just like standing in my friend's kitchen just like yelling about it. And I was like, those women are our business women, they've got a great business model. entreprenuers just felt like everybody around me was like, What the fuck are you talking about that? I feel like sometimes I just get a topic and go with it. And
Unknown Speaker 47:55
you know what I'm getting from this conversation. We need to get you drunk before the recording.
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There'll be another episode. Yeah, I drank episode.
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Episode. Oh, yeah, I'll go on fucking rant about something like
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when you said entre manures Was that like a law instead of a PA thing? Now it was like a newer maneuver. Oh, I thought you're meeting like entrepreneur like being a pa pa. Sorry. But it reminded me there's that
Unknown Speaker 48:37
ballpark because my brain went to these infomercials and it was like, back in Mississippi was just like a little local infomercial and it just like pop off scamper city and the girl would be like that's good hamper
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commercials higher.
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But it reminded me Do you know why there is such a thing as Pop Tarts but not mom parts? Why? Because of the patriarchy Thank you use sound effects are there later guys, please. Can we do some fan mail? I think we have. Did you get any? Oh no. No you miss
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feel fan mail so we can read it?
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Yeah,
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I'll even sing a song about getting the mail.
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It'll go like something like Mail Time mails on mail.
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The mail never fails. It makes me want to wait. When it comes I want to Well
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Oct Avi looked to be very
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very concerning sounds
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a heck of a concern.
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Look, it's a letter from our friends.
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Send us letters. We'll read them.
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So if you send in a fanfic We'll read them in sexy voices. Yes. Yes, we will. And
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so sexy Scottish voices
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you're getting better at that. That's
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better. The more I drink the better I get
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a lot of things.
Unknown Speaker 50:37
Um, so I guess we can go ahead and close out cool by route buddy. Before Yeah, you can do it
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leave a nice comment, you know? So I can't take anything I don't even say like,
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you don't even need to leave a comment because like I know that it sometimes it can be hard to leave comments anytime that my phone pops up and it's like, are you enjoying this app? And you know, it gives you the option to like give it the star rating and then write a review. I'll always give it five stars if I like it, but it's very rare that I feel motivated enough to write a review so no shade on anybody who wants to not write a review but like it takes no time at all to just click five stars and then we're shading the people that you only review Okay, cut out Yeah,
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that's where we left off.
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But yeah, give reviews that's not that hard reviews make the world go round and will get us that Apple or Apple and Eve Adam and Eve sponsorship was Apple is not a brand of something.
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I'm thinking of the Bible. Mr. Private School
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weird that it was a snake that like got her to eat the apple. Yeah, pretty crazy, sir.
Unknown Speaker 52:40
Like kind of freaky, but also very phallic. Oh, yeah.
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keener aspect. Yeah,
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they do kind of like
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using her arm to make a slithery boomerang ever every yard honest like do you mean go to the snake charmers? Got it. Story. But yeah, thanks for listening and keep on partying on fat head nervous laughter party on fat heads.
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Excellent.
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Chunky we're gonna test record, testicle baby
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campaigns thing that we're doing right now? Yes, we know, like, two three,
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testy.
Unknown Speaker 54:05
Sibilance sibilance sibilance, sibilance, Sibilance. Sibilance. That's an old thing that they actually used to say like on stage and they're testing your microphone. Oh, yeah. I apparently I am much more of a boomer than anybody else in this room. Is that me? Okay. It's just like it's the fidelity by which the sound is traveling through the microphone is the sibilance of the microphone.
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That you're saying siblings like your siblings that Yeah. A little bit, a little bit young. It's fine. Absolutely. Well, French tickle.
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