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A Fussbudget Over Flying Deer
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What animal or creature would be extra terrifying if it could fly?
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Playful Introduction and Banter
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And action. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Everybody above, below, around. Oh boy again, I had it all planned out. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Everybody above, below, all around, inside or outside the gender binary.
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I am Danny. I am joined here by my friend, Adam. Say hi, Adam. What up? Hey, yo, we're Adrian. Okay, great. That's not what I told you to say, but we'll go with it. Don't worry.
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ah Sorry, I don't do well at being told what to do. Shut up. This is a good time for to tell you. Quit bossing me around all the time, Daniel. I know, I'm the bossiest person ever. God, you're such a... such a dirty Alan.
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You monster! You heard
Personal Stories of Unusual Encounters
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me. Oh, speaking of monster... Oh, man, that's a whole other story. Shit. No, please, go ahead. We go i don't know got 20 minutes to kill.
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Fuck, I don't know if I should. Okay. You know what? Ask me after you accidentally closed out of my question. All right, well, I'll talk about it while he's going to find.
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So I don't want to get too in the weeds here, but recently I had a lovely um evening with a woman who is yeah into the kink community um and Oh, we're just jumping right back into kinks, huh?
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eat You know, I forgot to mention this in the other episode because it didn't come up, but you said monster, and there's a reason for that. She kept calling me a monster, and I thought she was like being coy and silly, like, oh, you're such a monster.
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But turns out that like that is a term in the kink community for certain types of people that are very... um Now, I hope I'm getting this right because I did not look this up. I just went by what she told me.
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um But I guess that is a term that people in the kink community use to describe very, like,
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uh, giving individuals who typically will do a lot of things for someone in that, in the sexy ah realm without asking for much of it back in return. Cause they're just enjoying being like the one who provides the pleasure. Right.
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And she kept saying that throughout the evening, even just like with gentle stuff. We went, I didn't participate in any kinks by the way, but like she is in that community and often will educate me on that. Um,
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And so she kept saying, oh, you're such a monster. and I was like, one time I just stopped her and I asked her i was like why do you keep saying that? Like you keep saying it like, is that a bad thing? Are you trying to hint at something that I shouldn't be doing? Like, what is this?
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And then she told me that and I was like, oh, you've been saying something nice about me this whole time. That's sweet. And I said, but why monster? That's such like a weird, like why call someone who is.
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ah giving a monster and now this is just what she said she thought it was i don't know if this is true or not but she said it's because like monsters are very rare and and interesting and like they're kind of like she says another way people look at it's like a cryptid like they're kind of elusive and like you don't see them very often and so like monsters slash cryptid is kind of like the her interpretation of like where where that comes from.
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And so I was like, cool. So I'm a cryptid. I'm a sexy cryptid. I'm Mothman. Ah, Mothman, the sexiest of cryptids. The sexiest of cryptids, yeah. Well, we all know that Sasquatch is, but you know, like we don't, you know, he's blurry all the time.
00:03:42
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Yeah, you got Bigfoot. Yeah, he's blurred all the time because he's just so sexy that like you can't show anything. So... so But anyway, you said monster just then. And I that just like threw that right back into my brain. I was like, oh, yeah, I wanted to tell somebody about this.
00:03:59
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my God. Anyway, now I'm telling our podcast listeners about that. Yeah, that's good. Fact check me if you want. Again, I'm just going by what the girl told me, but there might be some other interpretation on there. And if that if life ain't about interpretation, what are we doing here?
Terrifying Hypotheticals: Animals that Could Fly
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Anyway, Danny, did you find your question? Yeah, I did. Yeah. Also, just, you know, in case you ever doubted that, like, everything listens to you all the time, ah while scrolling through Reddit to find my question again, I started getting ads for, like, feet creams and stuff. So, you know.
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was going to say, if you don't think you're Google Home, your Amazon Dots or whatever, your webcams, your phone microphone, isn't listening to the shit you fucking say and isn't violating some sort of, like, espionage act, you're fucking, you're guessing, man.
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Like... Alright, Adam, this one's kind of a challenge for you. Alright, so it's not just answer the question, but I got, I want, like, a not a specific answer, but I have more to add.
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So I don't want any of the obvious answers. Okay? What animal would be terrifying if it could fly? Asked by JuneShem1122 on our questions.
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Now don't give me the obvious, because I'm seeing, you know, on the... I was imagining spiders are in there a lot. i actually have not seen that i'm seeing bigger animals like tigers hippos polar bears elephants ah spider yep here's spider sharks what animal would be more terrifying if it could fly yeah yeah what animal would you hate to see could fly now i would hate to see people flying if i'm honest i would love to be able to fly Yeah, but let's face it. don't want everybody to do it. I just want to be able to. Nobody would be paying attention. They'd be flying into power lines all the time. They'd be doing it drunk or they'd be shitting on people's houses like a bird.
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We can't trust Darwin hour of flight. You can't Darwinism.
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But it's also asshole ism. So, yeah know, I just don't think I'd want to see people flying around without some sort of barrier around them. um So that would be scary. But um honestly, cats.
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I think cats are kind of assholes and like it's good. Cats a good the one. They're bound to the ground. Squirrels. Squirrels are practically indestructible and they can do almost anything anyway.
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So like a flying squirrel, like a true, like I know that's a breed, but like i that thing glides. It doesn't fly. If you had a literal squirrel that could just like change its elevation and fly and float and migrate and all that would be terrifying.
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I think squirrels would be an absolute menace to everyone and everything if they could fly. Penguins too. I'm glad they can't. Fuck those little suit wearing pricks. and Okay.
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I think deer. Deer would be a terrible one. A flying deer? Interesting. Why? A flying deer. Well, you know, especially in the area where I live, there's a lot of deer that run out on the roads and stuff.
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I could only imagine how it would be if you were flying a plane and a deer just flew up in front of the plane and stopped in front of you. Yeah, I could see that. I could absolutely see that being a problem.
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Yeah, that would be. But I guess it would depend. I mean, the chances are a lot lower. I'll grant that. But there are still bird, you know, um bird contact.
00:07:22
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There are bird hitting birds with planes sometimes. So it can happen. Did I tell you that I have ah on my hit record for hitting animals with my car? I have hit more flying creatures than I have earth creatures.
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I believe it. Birds are. They play chicken with my car all the time. Yeah, I've hit I've hit an owl and probably like a common sparrow or something. no and I hit one raccoon.
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don't care about those, but the owl. The owl was like hovering above the road. It was like a, you know, just like the start of a story, a dark and stormy night. I was just taking someone home. It was winter.
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And I took someone home into the backwoods of near where my hometown is. And as I was leaving, like while I was there for a short minute, just shooting the breeze and then going back home, enough stuff has started to blow and accumulate on the roads that like the the road was quite treacherous. And like, so I was going down this back road all by myself, you know, as the sun was starting to go down and just a pure whiteout, like just the way the wind and the snow was blowing and the stuff blowing off the trees.
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And like, i saw what I thought was something floating above the road, just a few feet about windshield level. And it took me a second to recognize what I was looking at, but I was like, holy fuck, that's a big white owl, like a massive owl. oh It's just floating there.
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And I didn't know if it was fighting the winds or if it was like looking for food. It was just hanging out there. And like, i I didn't want to swerve because i was worried that I was going to get into a wreck and I didn't want to slam my brakes because the road was so slick.
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Same thing. I was worried I was going to get into an accident. So I tried my best to pump the brakes enough to slow down. I took my feet off, to my foot off the gas. I tried to do everything I could to bring the car to as slow as of of a movement as I could without risking my own life to save this fucking owl.
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But he wouldn't move. I honked the horn a bunch as I got closer and closer. i was like, please just move. No, fuck that. You saved the owl. Sorry, owls are my favorite animal. And it was just floating there. Then Harry Potter's little friend did not fucking move.
00:09:23
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And, um... I just, I just, I saw it hit my windshield and made a very loud and it went off to the side of the roads to like to the side somewhere where the woods were. And I got out of my car when I was able to safely stop, but it was a white owl during a whiteout snowstorm. And I tried to see if I could find it because I didn't hit it like really fast. I was, by the time I made contact with it, I was maybe going like six miles an hour.
00:09:45
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I just couldn't come to a full stop by the time I got to it. So I don't think I killed it, but I think I might have like brained it a little bit, or concussed it perhaps. But I'll never forget that day because like I got out looking for it for like 10 minutes and they're on the side of the road. My blinkers on hoping no one came by and killed me.
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Like while i was like, where the fuck is this? i did I get it? Or did I just scare it and flew away? Is it laying on the side of the ground somewhere? But that was the first animal I'd ever hit with my car. And one of only three that I've only ever hit my entire life.
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um but unfortunate and A white owl was my first car hit. Oh, oh that that hurts so bad. oh I love white owls. I tried to save it, dude. He just wouldn't fucking move. He wouldn't move. Um...
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Did I ever tell you about the time I hit a deer with my car? The only time I ever hit an animal. um which As far as
Animal Behavior on Roads
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I know. know That's what I would have expected from my first hit, because deer are everywhere, and I've avoided them several times narrowly, so I believe it.
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Yeah, did I ever tell you what happened, though? No, it happened. Did the side of the car? No, no, no. It's not so much about hitting the deer, but, like, dealing with it afterwards.
00:10:50
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Okay. So... At the time, I worked about an hour we're away from my home at a totally different town I'd never even heard of beforehand. And i was on my way home. It was dark.
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And a deer just runs out in front of me. I slam on the brakes, try to swerve, and it turns around, i guess, to run back away. But it turned around to the way I was swerving.
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And so it ran back in front of my car and hit my car. no. So I had just started going home. So I'm like an hour away from home in this town I didn't even know existed like before I got this job.
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And it was farmland. So there was nothing around except one house. So luckily my car is still going. It's still running. So I just kind of drifted over to their house, pull over, and I knock on the door. And this man and this woman answer.
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And they're they they seem normal enough. And i'm like, hi, do you guys, you know, I just hit a deer right outside. Um, do you know what the non-emergency police line is? So I can just, you know, call and and deal with this.
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Oh yeah, no, sorry. We don't know that. Okay. No problem. You know, I can look it up. Um, I have like no signal. Do you guys have like a wifi? Would you mind I connected to a wifi?
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No, we don't have anything like that. Okay. No problem. Um, what's your address so that I could tell them where to see me? Oh, we don't know.
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you don't You don't know what your address is? No, sorry. And then they just closed the door and I'm like, either they don't trust me at all, which, fair enough, it's dark, but you can see my car with blood and shit and a giant dent in it.
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um Or they're doing something totally illegal.
00:12:47
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So... You find out that episode of, you know, like the second like Breaking Bad going on. Yeah, like Breaking Bad or a Saw movie is happening in their basement. um So eventually I'm able to.
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Well, first of all, i've I. Typed in the town name right in Google, town name. ah Non police line and it gives me a phone number and I call it and this person answers and I'm like, yeah, I got into an accident. They're like, oh, this isn't the police line.
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I'm like, what what do you mean? and Oh, well, our police um disbanded. We were like absorbed by a different town. ah Okay. Do you know what their line is? No, but it's this town.
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Okay. So I call them. Eventually I finally get, you know, a tow driver, picks up my car and we're heading out. Another deer runs out in front of us and the tow driver actually swerves towards the deer And is like, come here, you son of a bitch.
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Shit, man. What the fuck? Wow. That deer got away. it escaped. um But yeah, I mean, I called the cops. The cop had to come. He pulled his gun and was looking for the deer in case it was suffering.
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um And then, yeah, the tow truck driver tried to hit another deer because he's like, I hate these fucking things always hitting other people's cars. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's probably better to swerve toward the deer because like they're trying to avoid you. And so sometimes you're you're both thinking to swerve the same direction. And so like when you think you're going to zig, they zig as well. Yeah, I was thinking it was going to freeze in that split second, you know. Yeah.
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So I was like, OK, I'll go behind it. So if it runs forward or freezes, I should be OK. But no, it turned back around as well. Sons of bitches. Them sons of bitches. Okay, dude. I always question like when I see animals. like There's like a shit ton of rabbits that run around my neighborhood like at night. They only really come out when it's really late because that's when there's less people activity.
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and like And I was coming home just the other night. during ah you know I mentioned in the previous episode that I was very sleep deprived coming home one day. And I came back really, really late and bunnies everywhere and they just run like, like they just do this thing where they just keep running forward on the road. And I'm like, go anywhere. Oh yeah. Go anywhere else.
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And like, they don't zig, they don't zag. And I know they can, I know how fast the bunny can be. Those little fuckers are just going forward. And I'm like, just please like just, and then they start running back and forth and zigzag patterns. I'm like, that doesn't help you.
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you need to go away from where this thing's going and i know you guys have been in this world long enough to see how these large metal creatures work it's like please so yeah i i was playing this game of like i zig it zigs i zag it zag i try to outsmart this fucking rabbit and it just does not get out the fucking road and i was like dude i'm too tired for this shit and i don't want to find your corpse tomorrow morning when i get up damn rabbit break checked me oh man it's like When animals do that, or like when birds decide like, oh, now's the time to fly out on the road as like this car. That's how I hit my second bird was like, you know how birds wait for like the last second to fly across the road from the ground?
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Yeah. You know, I'm like, why? Why? I'm convinced. I'm convinced they do that to catch like the wind draft from your car or something. I'm convinced they do it because they're a little freaks that are just trying to feel something.
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And as a bird owner, I completely agree with that. i was going to say your birds are fucking freak, man. Yeah. um You know, so like I think they're just like, oh, it's a rush. Let's let's wait the the last second. We can do it and then I clipped one.
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There are two that, you know, and I clipped one. One of the things that I looked up a while ago, right, because I always had birds was they would fly around the room and then it would fly as close to my face as possible.
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and sometimes even slap me with a wing or something. ah So I finally looked it up and I'm like, what is this? And that's how they play. And I'm like, so now i'm wondering, do these birds, are they playing with the cars? But I don't know, man.
00:16:59
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Maybe? like Animals is stupid. I mean, like, yeah, I just, I just, sometimes I question. question.
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i question like thiser like the survival of things of some of them, or they're just like, you know, they don't get a lot of real world, like opportunity to like avoid predators. And so they just do this shit and they're like, okay. Like there's not a lot of hawks that hunt me. There's not a lot of like predators here. The coyotes are over in like the thicker parts of the forest. So going to worry about that.
00:17:33
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And so they're just like, I'm just going to be a little shitheads or they just don't have any survival instincts because I don't have to do it. And they do stuff like that. I'm just like, you know, there's a reason there's a reason why some of y'all don't make it. OK, like, you know, you just Darwin had the right idea.
00:17:49
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Like these rabbits and these squirrels and these rodents that still come into my yard after we've had two years now of a cat that murders everything that comes into it.
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None of them go and tell their friends, hey, maybe let's not make a nest here.
Quirky Words and Language Amusement
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We've had to remove a nest of bunnies just like ah couple of months ago. And I'm like, why do you keep setting up shop here when you know there's a murderous kitty tiger that lives here that wants to kill you and drag you into the house? And then I have to deal with it I was like, I'm like, just there's a reason that your family's not going to make it. It's because it's because the cat leaves no survivors, nobody to tell.
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Man, like, no we've rescued a few and they just come back in. Well, we caught him in time before we murdered him or he made he brought it in alive, but it got away and it hid. And we find it. We take the rabbit. We take the mouse. We send it over the fence, back into the woods.
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And they just come back. They just come back. And I'm there was just a squirrel hanging out by our bonfire today. Like he was a little person. And I was like, get the fuck away from that. There's a murder cat who's looking at you. i was like, what are you doing? Although I think a squirrel, I think a squirrel would murder the shit out of our cat if he got him.
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But like squirrels are like little dude squirrels are scrappy. Squirrels are like the kangaroos of America. Like, yeah, little bastards. um Anyway, like the anything of. um
00:19:07
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Huh? Down under. Oh, my God. My brain just stopped. Australia. You see anything of Australia because everything there wants to kill you. Yeah, the kangaroos are especially just like them and emus. They're just like, well, fuck you up. They're assholes.
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Actually. Yeah. ah Speaking of emu is in the. The comments of this question, somebody said emu. i Another that would be pretty, pretty scary. Flying emu ticks.
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Last of his kind said ticks. Yeah. ah Art of Ruin, N23 says leeches, which is, yeah, terrifying.
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Yeah, the beast. Anything with diarrhea. ah Agreed.
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Scorpion. Anything that shits, man. Anything that shits. Well, everybody poops. I read about that a book. <unk>t Do bugs shit? Yes, absolutely they do.
00:20:04
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Like, I know, like, little mites and stuff do, and that's how, like, infections and stuff spread, but, like, I don't know, like, I had bed bugs in the way you knew it was shit. Yeah. ah Yes, flies absolutely shit. Actually, they shit and barf on almost everything they land on, so enjoy that the next time there's a fly on your food.
00:20:23
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Yeah. Season my burger, baby. Um... Anyway, yeah. can i give you Can I interest you, before we wrap up, with some fun words that I found on Webster's website ah for words that are ah words for the cranky and disagreeable?
00:20:42
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Adam, everything you say interests me, so please go right ahead. Okay. So, disputatious is a word that means that you're someone who is inclined to dispute someone. You're very disputatious.
00:20:57
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Like almost like you're oppositional. You just feel like you have to dispute someone at every turn. So you're disputatious if you like to do that. One of my personal favorite words coming up next, cantankerous.
00:21:08
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Oh, I love cantankerous. Difficult or irritating to deal with. I remember when I was a dance instructor, I heard that word used live and unironically by an old couple, an old man who came to his dance lesson because his wife didn't feel like a beast. The one to do it.
00:21:21
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And was like, where's the missus today? And he goes, don't know. She's being f freaking cantankerous as usual. So I wanted to come in and get away from her. I was like, oh, shit. That's the kind of old man I hope to be. Yeah.
00:21:33
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Agonistic. Somebody who's argumentative. um Agonistic is also a great word. It's fun word to say. um This is one that I think is going say peevish. P-E-E-V-I-S-H.
00:21:45
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Oh, like a pep pee kind of thing? Yeah. Marked by an ill temper. Because they're feeling very peevish today. Very spiteful. Okay. I think peevish is a great word. Yeah. ah Chop logic given to complex, often erroneous and absurd argumentation.
00:22:02
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Oh, so this is like old style mental gymnastics. Yeah, kind of. So like it um the initial portion of the word comes from the obsolete meaning of chop, which is to exchange or trade.
00:22:13
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So chop logic may refer to involved and often specious argumentation or an absurdly argumentative person. the The sentence structure is like, but that's the way, but that's a way that Miserable Jones has a sort of chop logic talk that I hate.
00:22:31
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um I think chop logic is a fun word. um Some words are just like, you ever notice there are some words that are like, they just flow off the tongue and they just feel good to say.
00:22:42
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Yes, absolutely. like There's like a, like a coupling of syllables that you're like, that feels good on my mouth. ah I do. Yeah, I think we actually talked about that back in the day. We might have actually. Yeah, yeah. um Fumish. What was it called? Oh, Good Mouth Feel.
00:22:58
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A Good Mouth Feel. Yeah, that's what we called it. Oh, this one's fun. spley Splenetic. Splenetic. Splenetic. What is that? It sounds like explosion and kinetic put together.
00:23:11
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Yeah. S-P-L-E-N-E-T-I-C, splenetic. It's like splamony. That's like Daniel splamony, splenetic. That's bunch splamony. Yeah, it means like you're marked by a bad temper or spiked.
00:23:25
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So, like, I was never so splenetic when I was most dumpish, but I could smile at the frizziest when the good man would be pleasurable and laugh at fustian earnest when the merry man would be surly, which is something written in 1593. Jesus Christ. and and it's I was like, there's no way he's he's just making this up on the fly. It's called a New Praise of the Old Ass. I'm sorry?
00:23:50
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I'm sorry. It's called A New Praise, P-R-A-Y-S-E, of the old ass, spelled A-S-S-E. um and And again, it was, I was never so splenetic when I was most dumpish, but I could smile at the frizziest when the good man would be pleasurable, and laugh at Fustian Ernest when the merry man would be surly.
00:24:14
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I don't know what any of that means, but that was a fun sentence to read. It sure sounds like fun.
00:24:20
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um itself comes from the Latin splen meaning spleen similar to choleric splenetic has roots in the theory of bodily humors as the spleen was thought to secrete the black bile that was one of the four one of the four substances I guess they called it the organ supposedly governs such feelings as melancholy um so splenetic is like set to be like the bad shit that comes out of you they think it's like from your spleen they call it splenetic It's a very old time word. Dude, I want to make I want to make a ah rock band called Black Bile.
00:24:56
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Black Bile. Yeah, that sounds sick. Somewhere. ah Welcome, Black Bile. And then, of course, finally, the word curmudgeon.
00:25:08
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i love carmrudgeion I love curmudgeon. curmudgeon. And then right after that, there was a link that I clicked called seven cute words for curmudgeon. Yeah. And the words are... I'm sure amerge a curmudgeon would absolutely love you calling them.
00:25:23
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Oh, man, I found a word in there that I think is pretty cool. It's called a fuss budget.
00:25:31
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Whoa. Peevishness is not always the province of a bad mood, as is evidenced by fuss budget. The word refers to a person who carries or complains about small, trifling things, and if it has old-fashioned ring to it, that's because it is a bit old-fashioned.
00:25:45
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It has seen two spikes in use during its life, one in the nineteen thirty s and one around 2015. Wait, what? I've never heard this before. Apparently there was an uptick in the word fuss budget in those times.
00:26:02
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Oh, I missed it. Damn it. Yeah. Now going all curmudgeon about it the rest of the day. ah fuss budget. um So someone who complains about the little thing. So you could be a fuss budget about flying deer.
00:26:18
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Oh, I'm absolutely a fuss budget about flying deer. Yeah. So there you go, everybody. um And then then the last one was hunks. I don't think that's right.
00:26:30
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Oh, yeah. That's a gross-ass looking spider. Okay, not going to look on that one. No, i don't do that. You won't like it. If you don't like
Dreams and Persona Switching
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spiders. i um Indifferent.
00:26:41
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If you're indifferent. I'm indifferent to spiders. I see. Well, I hope that that was educational for you. Very. And listeners out there. was splendiferous.
00:26:52
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And hey, guys, this is a dream country of mine. I've always wanted to record a podcast with a cool friend and talk about the day and my life and the world and absolute mayhem that comes with it. And, you know, I've always said to something wanted to do and my wife is very supportive and she says, Oh, honey, go report your, record your podcast with your friend.
00:27:15
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And, you know, that's the love of my life, that woman and um my greatest supporter and thanked all of you because without you, this wouldn't be possible. So um thank you for allowing me to be a fuss budget on the internet for your entertainment.
00:27:30
Speaker
Wow, what a loser.
00:27:34
Speaker
ah You sound like a loser. ah Yeah, you know, I would say things like that. You know, what can I ask you? ah hoping you'd cut it then, but whatever I was. I honestly I was going to.
00:27:48
Speaker
i was going to cut it. do you want me to? I can cut it out with a loser. No, I don't care. People can see the behind the scenes. I thought it would be fun. if I asked you to do a character version of me.
00:28:02
Speaker
Oh, like okay. I had a dream the other day. Like, what was it? It was, a it was like a, it wasn't a daydream, but it was a dream I had during the day when I was sleeping. And, um, I had this weird dream where it was like a freaky Friday situation, but we could choose.
00:28:21
Speaker
But what was happening was like, we would inherit, like I was having a discussion with someone and I know why I had this dream where I was talking about like how people see you versus what you see. And I had used an opening remarks at work one day where they say, Oh, what's like a good icebreaker question. And we can,
00:28:39
Speaker
Get conversation rolling. And so I posted up the main stats of Dungeons and Dragons. And I said, what do you think is your best one? What do you think is your worst one? Or what would you like to improve? And then I said, for bonus points, how do you think other people see you? Or if you want to do someone else in the group, what do you think their stats are?
00:28:55
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And how do they stack up against what they think? I also posted on our and on our Inwork forums, and I got a lot of people's input on that. And so it sparked a conversation of like how you think you your stats are versus how other people think your stats are.
00:29:08
Speaker
And so this dream manifested from that conversation of like, if ah someone were to act out me or if I were to act out them, what,
00:29:19
Speaker
would be, you know, like when you do an impression, there are certain things about that celebrity that stick that like you really lean into, right? That's probably far from the actual person's real voice or real mannerisms, but close enough to approximate.
00:29:32
Speaker
And so I thought it would be a fun exercise. Like this dream was like us choosing, like if I were to be someone for a day, i would have to act who they were. Like I wasn't necessarily Freaky Friday, but like I had to try to be that my best rendition of that person all day.
00:29:47
Speaker
And so, ah Right, so in trying to do something like that, what I thought would be fun is if maybe you and i decided to do something like that. You know, like, I be you for a little bit, and you can act like me for a little bit. And, you know, we could just kind of play off each other like that.
00:30:06
Speaker
There you go. Was that your attempt at doing that? That was my dad-um.
00:30:12
Speaker
Because, like, I was just sitting there wondering. I was like, what what are, like... mannerisms that I would highlight about Danny or mannerisms that he would highlight about me that maybe he would really lean into if we had to like, not just do impressions, but like genuinely like try try to be that version of that person.
00:30:32
Speaker
Right? Like would Danny be outgoing? Would he talk to random strangers in line at like the bookstore? Oh, I don't like this anymore. Now have to be super social. But I would have to be antisocial.
00:30:42
Speaker
I would have to be like, that sounds I'd be like, I'm just sitting here in sweats and hanging out with a bird, you know, and exactly what I did all day.
00:30:54
Speaker
And drink dead billionaire all day. Like, you know, like, I don't know. I just thought like if we were in the world for a bit, what would, I haven't been around you enough to know like what your day to day worldly interactions are like versus mine.
Speech Patterns and Pronunciation Quirks
00:31:07
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So like, I just thought it would be a fun exercise. Like what would it like, you know, if it was like a Christopher Walken and a Patrick Warburton, we kind of have like those sticky mannerisms that we do. But if you were to emulate me and I was going to emulate you, like what would that look like?
00:31:20
Speaker
You know? So I thought that'd be a fun exercise and thought. Well, I could tell you that, that for you, it was the, you know, do I say, you know, a lot. know.
00:31:33
Speaker
That's good to know. I honestly don't. The one thing I noticed when I go back it's the one you use the most of like those little idioms. Yeah, really. I have never noticed that about in my opinion. I'd have to like actually listen to it. But when you were describing like switching, i was like, OK, well, what's the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about Adam?
00:31:53
Speaker
And when you are explaining things, you you ask, you know, a lot. I like I check in and I confirm. Is that what you mean? Yeah.
00:32:03
Speaker
Either as a filler or you're genuinely checking in. This is the first time anyone's ever said that I say that. That's funny. That's funny. Okay. um I've been trying to trim out the words like a lot because I notice when like I'm improvising.
00:32:17
Speaker
You just used it. I know. I just heard it. And like, fuck, I did it again. And so like, I did it again. ah So I'm trying to stop that because when I go back and edit episodes, I'm very aware of how often I use it.
00:32:30
Speaker
And I used to not talk that way. And so I don't know why it started to kind of bleed back into my speech because I don't I've never been someone who liked like like it's just not.
00:32:42
Speaker
unless I'm using an idiom or or a simile, I usually say it's like something is fine. Yeah, right. I usually don't use it as a filler word, but I noticed the more I do the podcast, the more I do it, which I think is because my brain is moving at a hundred miles an hour, trying to form this story and these thoughts and to be entertaining and fill the void that I always have to put something there now. And I think like has become the, the filler word, but I have not been aware of saying, you, you know,
00:33:11
Speaker
Yeah. um So now I'm going to try to pay. At least that stood out to me. It's the first one I came that came to my mind. Interesting. It might be because you said, you know, a lot while explaining to me what you wanted to do.
00:33:23
Speaker
That's fair. I very well could have. I'm not aware that I did it, though, if I did. So um I don't know what my filler idiom like my filler word it is, but I do know my big problem is my brain just stops halfway through and I go. ah Yeah.
00:33:41
Speaker
I do that lot here. The thing that sticks out to me is like just your accent of words you say that I don't know anybody else is except for you and your wife who speak that way. um What, the Joy-Z accent?
00:33:54
Speaker
ah Like maybe, i don't know, because you don't really have like the that stereotypical thing, but there are some words, i think I might have mentioned this before, but like when you say the word forward, like oh yeah forward that sticks out to me when you say forward.
00:34:07
Speaker
Forward, um yeah. like You take the R right out of the first R right out of the word. Yeah, um it's useless. Nobody likes that R. It's I noticed it when your wife would use it when I first met her and I was podcasting more with her and we'd play monster of the week and she would always say, oh, I'm going to give a forward word to and then pick whoever. I'm like, she's the only one that I know that says forward.
00:34:29
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anymore. Yeah.
00:34:33
Speaker
Yeah, so there's stuff, or always, you don't do it as bad as my other friend, but sometimes you say always, interestingly. Always? Why would I say we're better? Every so often, you'll say it with more like, there's less emphasis on the word ways, the part that says ways.
00:34:50
Speaker
Every so often, you'll say like always. So say more like always? Yeah. yeah I've heard you say always a few times. Really? I never knew that one. it's not kind It's not often enough that I could say it's a Danny mannerism, a Danny-ism, but like a Dan-er-ism.
00:35:06
Speaker
But like, I do think it happens. I only noticed it with you and im one friend who lives, who was from Michigan, who like that is... That is the only way they say the word always. But every now and then you'll say always.
00:35:19
Speaker
um i don't I don't know if it's within like, I think there are certain combinations of sentences and words that make somebody speak differently. ah But yeah, always sometimes comes out from you. But the one that sticks out the most is forward.
00:35:34
Speaker
um So yeah. Well, that's very forward thinking of you. There's another one that you do. Sometimes when you say the word me, depending on what it follows. You'll say may like Justin Timberlake in that song.
00:35:49
Speaker
It's gotta be may like you'll, you'll say something to the effects. Not Justin Timberlake. I know you'll say, Oh, you know, she's really mean to me, you know, or something like that. It kind of sounds like you're being a character, but you'll say me instead of me.
00:36:04
Speaker
Uh, so I noticed that a lot. Um, Like she talks to me, you know, like, I don't know. It just depends on what the sentence is that, you I think if the sentence ends with me, that's when you do it.
00:36:18
Speaker
I don't know. If the sentence ends with me. See, you just did it. No, I did that one on purpose. Okay. I was going to say, but that sounds so natural, but I'm used to you saying that. If the sentence ends with me, the sentence ends with Right there, you didn't do it.
00:36:32
Speaker
Yeah, no, I'm trying to like, so I do if the sentence ends with me. I don't know if that's for sure. See, now I'm thinking about it. I can't. Right. I don't know if there are certain thoughts that have to preface it before you do it, but there are definitely times where you'll say May. Talk to May or be with May or... Gen A. Gen A.
00:36:51
Speaker
john day yeah yeah dna come play with me i'm so forward jenny come on forward jenny forward is just like the one if i had to pick a word that stands out that you say it's fucking it's forward every time interesting you and beluga have just that that it's just it's so consistent i've never heard you say the the first r in that word ever since i never will i like um ah by accident i should say like i will never unless i'm really thinking about it i will never say forward i have to forward myself to do it yeah um i can't even like say it naturally i have to like emphasize that r
00:37:33
Speaker
All right. Well, when you count when you count to the number that comes before five, what does that sound like? Four. OK, so you can say four. Yeah, it's not like I say foe. It's not like Snoop Dogg. We say foe.
00:37:45
Speaker
No, I don't say three into the foe. Because I think it'd be funny if like that's the only time that you like. You know, what's funny is that I would now I'm thinking about I pronounce I hard pronounce the R in forewarned.
00:38:00
Speaker
Oh, I see. So it's not like forewarned. It's forewarned. I would say, you know, oh, I was forewarned about that. Yeah. and I wouldn't say I was forewarned about that. Interesting.
00:38:13
Speaker
I wonder if it's the ERD afterwards. Yeah, maybe. That kind of ERD sound. Foward. How would you say the word F-O-R-L-O-R-N?
00:38:27
Speaker
Forlorn? Okay, so you see you do that really stick the R in there too. Forlorn, it's not foelorn. No. um Now try saying it, try saying forward, but like forlorn.
00:38:39
Speaker
Forward. foot Forward. Forward. I need to go forward.
00:38:49
Speaker
That sounded so foreign to me. oh I guess in your words, foreign. um But like... I caught myself halfway through because I said, foe.
00:39:00
Speaker
You sounded like you were just learning the language for the first time right there. Holy shit. That was incredible. Forward. Forward. I have a friend that can't say burglar. She adds a U. Yeah, she adds a She says burgular.
00:39:18
Speaker
Oh, that's incredible. I love that. And she's good people she couldn't even, like, when she was thinking about it, she can't do it. Like I sat down with her and I was like, say, Berg Berg, say, Ler, Ler, Berg, Ler, Berg, Ler, Bergler, Bergular.
00:39:38
Speaker
Like, I know I get it Burglar is a weird word. Like Hamburglar is such a weird fucking thing to say. Yeah. Burglar Hamburg. It's like people who add an an extra syllable to the word nuclear.
00:39:52
Speaker
Well, like nuclear. No, they say nuclear. Oh, nuclear. new I can't even say it that way. Right. You can't say it correctly. Right. But it's the people often say, oh, it's nuclear.
00:40:03
Speaker
Like, no, it isn't. There's no extra syllable in there. It's nuclear. Nuclear. Like, i think I think Homer Simpson is like, it's pronounced nuclear. But yeah.
00:40:16
Speaker
ah But anyway, that was a fun little side tangent. what if now imagine if i didn't end the episode if i did end the i know well i was just thinking that like man that that whole bit about cutting the episode that was 20 minutes ago it was 10 thank you i was it really that long we were at 30 minutes yes um oh my god talking to you is just heats away the entire time it does um It's so good. I challenge you, Danny, to do this to end the episode.
00:40:45
Speaker
um Like really ham it up. Do like your best me impression to end the episode. How you think maybe not so much as how I would end it. But if you want to lean into that, go for it. Or if you want to end it, how you would end it. But as me, whatever you want to do, I'd love to hear what that sounds like.
00:41:02
Speaker
All right.
00:41:06
Speaker
yeah So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, it's been a pleasure. like yeah It's been great. ah It's been great. It's been great. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently I smoke and i'm being sucked up into a vacuum at the same time.
00:41:22
Speaker
Well, see, part of the problem is i at least to my ears, I have a deeper voice than you do. Probably. And I can't. I'm not good at like getting it. My voice higher.
00:41:35
Speaker
So your way of getting your voice higher is to pitch it up and nasally. It is a little nasally, I will say. It is. That's not totally wrong. My voice is, yes. My voice is definitely. I'm sorry, Adam. It's nice to see everybody.
00:41:52
Speaker
ah that nasally enough for you? ah Sure. It's rough. You know, think less of it like the voice and think of it more about like, The nation and then I would just do what I did before. That was like a genuine me trying to be Adam. um OK, well, then do that. and I did before.
00:42:10
Speaker
ah You want me to just do that again? Sure. But like be sincere. Oh, God. All right. Hang on.
00:42:20
Speaker
You got this. So anyway, thank you everybody so much for listening. We really enjoyed having you here today and we really can't wait to see you all tomorrow. And remember, donate to your local food bank because they're very important. you know they just state You need to donate to them. And I'm starting to stutter a little bit, which is actually my thing as Danny.
00:42:39
Speaker
Not so much Adam, but you know.
00:42:43
Speaker
How did that feel? Awful.
00:42:47
Speaker
that's I don't think that was a very good approximation of Adam. Well, you know what? Now we can only move forward. All right. Give me your best, Danny. Play me out.
00:42:59
Speaker
All right.
00:43:03
Speaker
Sorry, guys. I have something else to do. I'm tired. I'm sleepy. I wear sweats. Fuck you. really just don't want to be...