0:00

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

0:07

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

0:12

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

0:16

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

0:23

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

0:28

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

0:33

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

0:37

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

0:41

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

0:46

Yeah. So we could get snacks. Yeah. I had some snacks before I got up before I sat down.

0:52

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

0:55

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

1:00

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

1:06

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

1:09

I don't like a lot of butter. I just like a little salt and then, you know, crunchy stuff.

1:16

Crunchy stuff. Yeah. I really like crunchy stuff.

1:19

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

1:24

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

1:29

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

1:35

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

1:40

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

1:43

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

1:47

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

1:51

And I got crickets. How were they?

1:55

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

1:59

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

2:04

a leg sticking out of your tooth or anything? Yeah. No, it just felt like sticks. You're just chewing on a stick.

2:11

Chewing on sticks. Yummy. Dried sticks, I'm assuming. Yeah. Not moist. Not moist.

2:19

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

2:24

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

2:28

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

2:33

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

2:40

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

2:47

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

2:53

I haven't, were the crickets or grasshoppers?

2:55

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

2:58

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

3:01

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

3:07

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

3:11

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

3:15

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

3:18

And I'm like, you know what? I'm turning 60. me let's like live on the edge

3:22

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

3:25

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

3:29

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

3:35

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

3:40

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

3:44

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

4:01

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

4:04

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

4:08

That and their legs are bigger, right? So.

4:11

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

4:15

don't have to floss afterwards. Yeah. Just take the tooth. Take the leg. Leg will just knock everything out of there.

4:22

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

4:27

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

4:31

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

4:34

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

4:38

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

4:44

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

4:47

Ready? Alright. Let's do it. Music.

5:06

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

5:13

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

5:19

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

5:23

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

5:30

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

5:37

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

5:42

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

5:50

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

5:56

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

6:00

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

6:07

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

6:13

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

6:18

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

6:24

they're crunchy but yeah but softer, So like I didn't feel like I'd break a tooth if I bit into it.

6:33

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

6:37

go with crickets or does ketchup go with crickets?

6:40

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

6:45

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

6:51

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

6:55

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

7:01

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

7:09

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

7:16

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

7:20

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

7:25

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

7:32

got like hair on it and stuff right yeah,

7:36

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

7:43

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

7:48

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

7:52

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

7:54

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

7:58

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

8:03

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

8:08

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

8:13

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

8:16

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

8:21

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

8:26

The long flowing locks. I'm trying to think of a more contemporary long-haired actress,

8:34

but I couldn't think of one. Everybody thinks you always want to eat Farrah Fawcett hair everybody gets it

8:39

right I mean yeah you immediately know but yeah,

8:43

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

8:49

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

8:59

maybe you'd say J-Lo spider, maybe I don't know oh my god

9:06

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

9:10

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

9:14

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

9:19

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

9:24

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

9:30

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

9:33

Yeah. Yeah. I know exactly. Oh yeah.

9:36

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

9:39

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

9:43

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

9:47

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

9:56

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

10:04

They don't really care who I am. I mean, I like that, although they can't see you right now.

10:11

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

10:17

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

10:20

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

10:24

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

10:29

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

10:33

Scruffy blue cat. Don't see a lot of those these days. That's true. I don't think I've ever seen a blue cat. Really?

10:39

Oh, we haven't seen a blue cat for a while. Wasn't this blue, but it was, you know, it was bluish.

10:46

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

10:50

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

10:53

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

10:56

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

11:04

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

11:08

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

11:12

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

11:23

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

11:29

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

11:36

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

11:42

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

11:48

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

11:53

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

11:58

she has her own room at this point i suppose, she can't see it she can just be right she can't see it,

12:06

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,

12:17

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

12:21

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

12:24

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

12:31

bug the winter up here you know they the

12:33

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

12:36

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

12:41

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

12:44

Not to mention their breath is terrible. I'd rather have them lick their ass than eat stink bugs. To be honest with you.

12:52

That stink bug breath is killer. They usually release upon, you know, the first bite.

12:59

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

13:06

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

13:11

they're everywhere they're a plague yeah.

13:15

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

13:20

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

13:25

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

13:30

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

13:40

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

13:44

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

13:48

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

13:53

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

13:59

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

14:03

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.

14:09

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

14:15

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

14:19

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

14:23

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

14:27

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

14:33

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

14:36

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

14:42

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.

14:52

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

14:58

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

15:04

with that. Just give them a spoon. Go to town for orphaned children. Here's plenty to eat.

15:15

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

15:20

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

15:25

No, I love it. Don't slow down. So tell us, Bob, were you always a blue cat? No, not always.

15:32

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

15:40

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

15:48

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

15:58

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

16:23

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

16:27

I didn't get to do everything. Everybody else would go outside certain times of the year and I couldn't go

16:31

out because I was, I would always get sick.

16:34

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

16:39

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

16:41

pain these people or what was going on but yeah

16:45

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

16:47

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

16:50

like why i sat here doodling thank you

16:53

oh yeah i should

16:56

tell you a more uplifting story but that was

16:59

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

17:08

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

17:14

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

17:18

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

17:25

give you you're like oh yeah. Yeah. You know, those ladybugs.

17:31

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

17:38

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

17:44

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

17:48

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

17:52

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

17:56

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

18:02

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

18:06

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

18:14

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

18:18

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

18:23

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

18:29

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

18:32

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

18:35

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

18:39

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

18:43

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

18:47

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

18:51

you get more of the warm stuff and less of the cold stuff. Here in the middle we get it all right so yeah

18:57

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

18:59

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

19:03

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

19:08

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

19:12

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

19:16

be honest with you it was really just a pain in the neck, Yeah, I would imagine. I go to doctor visits now and I still tune out.

19:23

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

19:26

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

19:31

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

19:37

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

19:42

much roughage. Is that possible?

19:46

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

19:51

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

19:58

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

20:02

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

20:07

as I used to when I was smaller. I don't know if it had to do with just they've changed things.

20:12

I don't know. That's a good question. Maybe I should follow up on that.

20:17

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

20:22

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

20:32

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

20:36

growing up, so therefore I didn't know. Okay. Oh, my God. I haven't laughed this much in a long time.

20:45

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

20:51

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

20:55

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

21:01

So yeah. So autism stuff. So,

21:04

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

21:12

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

21:18

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

21:23

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

21:27

And, you know, and the patterns of behavior,

21:30

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

21:33

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

21:36

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

21:39

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

21:46

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

21:53

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

21:57

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

22:04

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

22:07

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

22:12

go figure. So then I kind of paid attention. And yeah, so yeah, I think there's just some weird things. So for instance,

22:18

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

22:22

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

22:25

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

22:30

than I did when I was a kid. But when you're limited about four things, 200% is only about 16 things now.

22:36

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

22:42

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

22:47

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

22:51

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

22:55

bit of the other thing. Right. I just, I eat one thing and then I moved to the next thing typically.

23:00

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

23:06

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

23:09

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

23:12

I just eat all that until it's gone. And then I moved to the next thing and then I moved the next thing.

23:17

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

23:21

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

23:25

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

23:29

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

23:33

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

23:36

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

23:40

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

23:43

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

23:52

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

23:58

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

24:03

it's never been to the point where it's been overly negative, I suppose.

24:09

I suppose some people can have those things become real negative for them.

24:14

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

24:19

I don't eat like with other people a tremendous amount of times,

24:23

especially if I don't know who they are. So I don't like today, I wouldn't be having my snack with you guys because I

24:30

don't really know you that well. So I would be like, I'll just eat on my own and then you guys can eat on your

24:35

own and we'll meet up and talk or whatever. But I'm not, you know, And so going out to things and social events and stuff

24:43

are always difficult because literally I won't eat at them.

24:47

And so that makes things a little weird every once in a while.

24:51

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

24:55

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

25:02

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

25:07

You know yeah and she'll go yeah i

25:10

think you need to pre-eat because otherwise i'm just starving and

25:13

i'm looking at all this food and i'm like i'm not eating that but i'm hungry

25:16

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

25:23

to love to watch cooking shows even though i would never eat anything they made

25:26

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

25:33

Risotto i don't know whatever it is i've never

25:38

had risotto the but i think sometimes the

25:40

process is always kind of funny you know it's kind of cool to watch

25:43

the whole process but it's like science yeah it's like

25:46

yeah a little bit i guess yeah you ever watch the watch that show julia on hbo

25:51

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

25:54

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

26:06

like because when we talked before i was saying how i have like food aversions

26:09

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

26:14

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

26:19

a bone the more processed the better i say,

26:24

it's processed i think that it's usually i can handle you're right if it's i

26:28

don't like it too you know like looks like it just slides off of something,

26:33

if i can see a bone or a tendon or yeah no tendon gross gross.

26:40

Some kind of meal it's just tendons i don't

26:44

know but i'm like literally immediately thinking of my husband if

26:47

he eats like a piece of steak or meat he'll say oh

26:50

there's a good piece of gristle oh my god

26:53

I hate gristle oh disgusting gross yeah and like with me like if the steak comes

26:59

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

27:05

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

27:12

it's still gotta be dead gross.

27:16

Hemoglobin now see now I don't even feel like eating steak anymore I mean you

27:20

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

27:25

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

27:32

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

27:36

That's what I was trying to think of instead of addiction.

27:39

My hyperfixation lately has been veggies, like a veggie plate.

27:44

I just like to make little snack plates, you know? Oh, like your charcuterie

27:48

plate? Like not a meal. Like I want a variety of things I like.

27:52

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

27:57

Because if I'm going to do sweets... eats first

28:00

of all i rarely will eat like a sweet i

28:03

i'm gonna beg to differ like and say every time

28:06

i talk to you the last two weeks what do you

28:09

have with girl scout cookies okay i had covid and i couldn't taste anything

28:13

and the only thing i could taste was the girl scout thin mints so i just lived

28:18

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

28:27

It was all I could taste was the mintiness. So that's, but other than that, like I won't go to a restaurant and order dessert

28:33

because I just, I don't know. Is that because you were a pastry chef forever and that you kind of know what

28:40

goes into it? Yeah. And you're afraid that they smell it.

28:42

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

28:47

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

28:51

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

28:56

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

29:01

Food service people aren't paid well. We trust them with our food.

29:05

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

29:11

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

29:15

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

29:19

Right. I mean, directly, indirectly, I suppose financially, but not directly.

29:25

And, you know, and they get all this money and they're not, you know,

29:29

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

29:33

you know, make sure those crickets weren't going to kill you. Yeah.

29:38

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

29:42

Well, that's just survival. You don't get paid anything.

29:46

You don't get paid to survive here. It's kind of like the ride testers after like a hurricane. Yeah,

29:54

who's going to go test this ride? I never thought about that. Yeah, we used to think about that all the time.

30:00

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

30:04

Okay, it's probably some 18-year-old kid.

30:08

You know, managing that operation, not really giving a crap, right?

30:13

So you're putting your hands in, you're putting your life in the hands of this

30:17

18-year-old that's not really paying attention.

30:21

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

30:24

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

30:27

if you hit a bump, you don't fall off the ride. Yeah, no kidding. I mean, it's, and they don't get paid anything either.

30:33

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

30:39

You think they would be paid, you know, in comparison to a test pilot,

30:43

maybe, you know, amusement park ride person would not be paid that much,

30:48

but what are you? I'm a test rider.

30:54

I don't know. I did not even think about that.

30:58

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

31:01

I mean, these are just, you're not talking, you're talking about like six flags

31:04

or something, aren't you? Yeah disney or you know universal like i don't know after a hurricane are you

31:10

really gonna go get on that roller coaster i don't think i would yeah i don't

31:16

want to be the first rider, you're probably taking more of a risk by eating the churro.

31:24

Be honest who knows i mean they probably sat outside for the whole hurricane

31:31

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

31:33

There you go. Rice churros. All steamy.

31:37

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

31:40

up. We got the extra long churro microwave here.

31:45

Two foot long microwave. So besides food aversions did you have any other or did your wife point out

31:54

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

32:01

i really didn't pay much attention other than until she she was the the kind

32:06

person who brought things to my attention, you know because my mom i'm assuming was just trying to prop me up to get me

32:12

out of the house So anything I did was probably okay.

32:15

Oh yeah. No, that's fine, honey. Everybody. Yeah.

32:20

Everybody loves Legos. Even if they're 20, it's okay. I freaking love Legos. Yeah, I know.

32:28

Me too. I still love Legos.

32:30

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

32:34

we'll totally like, I'll go with him.

32:36

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

32:39

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

32:42

to organize all the Legos before I start. Now, that was my thing with my children. We have to put it together the way it looks on the box.

32:51

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

32:55

But we have to do this first. Yes.

33:00

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

33:06

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

33:10

I'm like, actually, I do have to organize this.

33:12

So yeah, what I mean, I think I have a note here about physical touch.

33:16

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

33:20

Yeah. No, I never have. You know, I mean, I wonder.

33:25

So I always wondered because I have an older brother and he could be,

33:30

I thought, quite cruel to me because he loved to hold me down on the ground

33:36

and I would just flip out. Right. And he thought it was so hilarious that I was just totally flipping out.

33:41

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

33:44

So that was part of the problem. I always thought it was related to that, but apparently it probably was that

33:50

way all the time and he just took advantage of it.

33:52

Oh yeah. He was pushing the button. Yeah, exactly.

33:55

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

33:59

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

34:04

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

34:09

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

34:13

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

34:18

it's not anything that anybody should be concerned about.

34:22

But I do, I like try to get away from people and,

34:26

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

34:30

that kind of stuff. That's all right. Yeah. We're fine. We don't need to hug or anything.

34:35

Cause there was, you know, there's obviously through time, there are times in

34:39

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

34:45

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

34:49

because of the whole pandemic business.

34:52

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

34:55

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

34:59

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

35:04

you know, have them want to shake your hand or touch you or anything.

35:08

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

35:13

that have happened in the world, my life. Although I just do the fist bump, but I don't really, I mean, it's not my thing.

35:23

But I will do it because it's socially acceptable. So, you know,

35:27

Howie Mandel is a savior. Yeah.

35:31

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

35:35

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

35:38

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

35:44

And they described it just like you did, like a burning sensation.

35:47

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

35:54

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

35:59

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

36:02

things, you know? Yeah. You don't... It's not like you...

36:06

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

36:10

Everybody's, you know, everybody's different. So I do always get,

36:14

you haven't asked the question. I'm surprised you haven't asked the question since we're on the topic,

36:18

but what, well, how do you have children? Oh yeah.

36:24

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

36:28

you say But I would imagine the, how do I word this?

36:33

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

36:39

reward is better than the foreplay, right?

36:43

Like, wouldn't the reward drive that?

36:45

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

36:49

Wait, what did you think I meant? I don't know.

36:52

Oh, like the reward being like the, like, you know, like, I mean,

36:56

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

37:00

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

37:05

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

37:09

There's pleasure somewhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I suppose so.

37:13

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

37:18

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

37:22

considers this. But now I think back here.

37:26

But there's a lot of time. So you spend a lot of time around somebody and you

37:29

get more comfortable. And so then these things aren't quite as bad.

37:31

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

37:36

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

37:41

Strangers are worse than not strangers. And there's a variance,

37:45

right? So I think that helps as well.

37:47

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

37:52

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

37:57

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

38:03

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

38:11

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

38:16

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

38:24

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

38:31

And it's not like, you know, you don't trust them, but you know,

38:33

it's the known and the unknown perhaps a little bit.

38:37

I have a random question. Yeah. How did you eat in school lunch?

38:42

I brought something from home that my mom made for me.

38:45

Yeah. Every day. And it usually was not like a peanut butter sandwich.

38:50

That's all I can remember eating. Peanut butter sandwiches? Yeah. They're pretty good. Yeah, they're pretty good in and of themselves.

38:58

What I can recall is a peanut butter sandwich and maybe a few potato chips.

39:04

And then day old Dolly Madison neat to eat treats. What is that?

39:11

I'm like, what are those? it's the cheap

39:14

at the time Hostess would have been like the king right

39:17

so this would have been the knockoff Hostess stuff yeah like Little Debbie's

39:21

like Little Debbie's yeah but at the time yeah and they were but they weren't

39:25

new they were a day old they were always old they got from the day old store

39:29

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

39:33

like the stickers it was like it's a, it's about to expire it's about to expire yeah,

39:38

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

39:42

yeah, I do remember that. Well, they used to have bread stores.

39:46

So the bread store would be, you'd have like bread at the store.

39:50

And then they used to have these things called day old stores or something like

39:53

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

39:58

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

40:03

Anything that was something like that was going to be costly and not of primary need,

40:09

we'll say that was all from the day old

40:12

store so yeah all the memories i

40:15

know so it wasn't like day old milk or

40:18

day old cheese no and it really was more than a day

40:21

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

40:24

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

40:29

them much anymore it used to be really commonplace that if there was you know

40:33

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

40:38

that That was, yeah, the crouton store.

40:43

So what's your go-to like comfort

40:46

food oh my gosh yeah when

40:51

you mean comfort food do you mean am i sad or

40:54

am i just like if you're yeah

40:57

if you're sick let's say oh you

41:01

know you can eat and it's gonna make you feel good because it's

41:04

both delicious but also you know scratches

41:07

the itch of like not weird salting crackers

41:10

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

41:15

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

41:19

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

41:24

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

41:31

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

41:35

they're passing through somebody's digestive system before i paid for them.

41:42

Because i was like thinking about like growing up

41:46

if we had like a little tortillas my mom would just air fry

41:48

or you'd fry them making chips because like

41:51

that i bought this somebody's eating this shit it's old

41:54

the crazy thing is i had

41:57

my favorite lunch today i went and made

42:00

myself a hamburger there you go i grilled myself

42:03

a hamburger for lunch today and i had it and that

42:06

i but you say comfort but i mean i

42:09

probably have a hamburger at least four times or five times

42:12

a week so yeah i must be

42:15

totally how do you cook it i like to put it on the

42:17

grill oh no i have to be done thank you see

42:20

i can't no well no i can't

42:23

i can't be looking at cow guts no when i bite

42:26

into it no it's so gross no are you

42:29

kidding cheese is this bane of my you can't

42:33

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

42:38

like i mean i wish there was a you say you're vegan right let's say you're vegan

42:43

people understand that oh yes okay we can't have any animal products understood

42:48

you know people say vegetarian oh well well, you don't want,

42:51

you want, you know, no meat you want. I can't say I don't want any cheese. No one understands.

42:57

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

43:01

I don't want anything on it. And I want a hamburger and a bun and that's it.

43:07

And they're like, what? What? You don't want cheese?

43:11

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

43:17

And my son and I, my wife and my daughter went off and did something else.

43:22

I don't even know what the hell they were doing. But anyway, he and I didn't want to do it.

43:25

And we ended up at a Burger King in Germany.

43:29

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

43:34

I don't know what the hell it is. So I'm at the burger and I'm trying to order. And thankfully my son was interested

43:41

and he spoke a little German. And so I can't remember the German words for this, but anyway,

43:46

we get up to the counter and we're ordering and I tell the person,

43:50

I'm like, yeah, I just want a hamburger. No, no cheese, nothing on it, just plain.

43:54

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

43:58

And second of all i'm saying

44:02

no cheese which i think they understood that cheese and they're like and so

44:06

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

44:11

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

44:21

and then they finally and i did get a plain hamburger there so it worked out

44:25

but there was like, I don't know what seemed like an eternity,

44:28

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

44:34

you know, who the hell is this, you know, English speaking idiot trying to tell

44:38

me that of course a hamburger is being the most American food across the world,

44:45

how to make a hamburger unlike the way they serve it.

44:48

So, you know, it just was, it was kind of funny.

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.

45:00

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

45:04

eat over there. You don't want to know. That was for everybody else had the local delicacies and I just watched and had something else.

45:12

I like pretzels. I had a lot of pretzels over in Germany. Yeah,

45:16

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

45:18

Because they're really good pretzels. They're really good pretzel. Yeah, really good pretzel.

45:23

Best pretzel I've ever had in my life, I think. well

45:26

that's good yeah that was the positive was it

45:29

a warm pretzel oh yeah it was one of those big ones you know yeah i

45:33

don't know very nice they rolled it in something i don't know what the deal

45:36

was but it was pretty good i took it and i ate it and i thought wow this is

45:40

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

45:49

idea no idea what it was i don't think so,

45:53

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

45:57

what are these brown flakes all over my pretzel?

46:00

They're sticking into it. Does it have a flag on it or something? It seems to be some kind of a toothpick or something.

46:10

Dale's crickets. Dale's crickets, yeah.

46:14

I did not expect to laugh this much. My cheeks hurt from laughing.

46:19

I have tears rolling down my eyes.

46:23

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

46:29

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

46:35

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

46:38

younger and even when you're older. About these kind of quirkiness nature of all this

46:43

right but it's never really been a detriment overall and

46:47

it but it's been really hard when i had kids so i have

46:50

a you're gonna love this one bathroom aversion

46:54

right so i cannot going to the

46:57

bathroom in public has been a trial

47:01

right so yeah all through my whole life

47:03

i've finally kind of overcome most of it i would say not all of it every once

47:08

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

47:12

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

47:19

a fair shake at it. You know what I mean? I don't want them to be like, you know, adopt my, you know, kind of quirks of

47:27

nature there just because it's me. Right.

47:29

So I can, oh my gosh, I can remember taking my children into the most heinous

47:35

of, you know, bathrooms and having them use the facilities,

47:39

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

47:44

around and you're like, how in the hell, you know, don't they have a power prayer for Christ's sake, use it in here and

47:51

and i think i thankfully i you know what do you want to choke down my.

47:57

Aversion enough for them not to be affected by it

47:59

right because you know when you're a kid you

48:02

gotta go you gotta go and you can't you know you can't wait yeah if i made him

48:06

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

48:13

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

48:18

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

48:23

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

48:28

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

48:32

I'm like, we got to get this done. Yeah.

48:36

So, yeah, but that was one of my, that was, you know, most people think,

48:41

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

48:44

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

48:46

with him. You know, what am I going to do?

48:49

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

48:53

Literally me when Max was potty training, going into a public restroom,

48:57

it was like he would just touch everything. And I'm like, God, don't just like, don't touch the toilet. Don't touch anything.

49:03

Like it was, he just wanted to touch all this stuff. off

49:06

and it was but it's hard it's hard but i would

49:09

not i didn't say anything so i wouldn't you know

49:11

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

49:14

something but if they wanted to

49:17

touch the sink you know and it looked filthy or

49:20

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

49:24

not to you know bring this to them you know what i mean yeah and and and this

49:30

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

49:34

there was any kind of issue for me.

49:37

And so, but I was also trying not to, you know, influence them.

49:41

Yeah. And it becomes difficult.

49:43

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

49:48

it's almost like a gut reaction to do that.

49:51

And then you're going totally against everything your brain is telling you.

49:54

And so, yeah, weird, very weird.

49:59

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

50:04

Oh, they want to listen to me? Yeah. Goodness gracious. I mean,

50:07

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

50:12

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

50:16

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

50:21

Miles, who I talk with every week. So, yeah. Yay.

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.

50:31

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

50:41

I love it oh Bob I love

50:44

you I needed this thank you so much so bad yeah this

50:47

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

50:51

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

50:56

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

51:00

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

51:04

oh good yeah never had a cucumber,

51:07

oh I can only do the seedless one I can imagine

51:11

they kind of smell funny yeah cucumbers

51:14

too yeah water no thanks no no no no yeah no i can't do the cucumber no cucumber

51:23

vodka is pretty good really well like a cucumber martini or something yeah when

51:28

they make that do they like just jam the cucumbers in there how does that work,

51:35

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

51:43

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

51:50

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

52:00

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

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