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Speaker: Go. All right. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies, gentlemen, and friends beyond the binary. My name is Hitch, and this is TOQ, where we turn your questions into A's.
Speaker: Perfect. Nope, that was perfect. I'm here with Danny. Hello, Hitch. How are you? i am great. How are you? I'm great. Now, I just want to say before we really get started for anyone curious, Adam is here. He's fine and he's good. I kicked him off the show to have Hitch on because I really want to talk to Hitch and Hitch is awesome.
Speaker: Danny and I have a tradition where Adam starts recording and they like get on their video call beforehand. And so I always pop into Adam's room to say hi to Danny. And then this time I walked away and Danny said, Hitch, you should do the podcast instead of Adam. And I said, I don't know about that. And then I said, fuck it, we ball. And so hell that happened about two minutes ago Hell yeah, you did. And I haven't stopped smiling since. To be fair, I also encouraged you, okay? Yeah.
Speaker: yeah Shut up back there, peanut gallery. Adam is my emotional support human as I talk into this microphone. just It's what he's good at. No, please stay here. No, no, no, please stay.
Speaker: So I think ah we should just get right into it. How's that sound? I think you got a question for us. Yes, this one comes from our buddy Sean.
Speaker: He says, I have a question of the most...
Speaker: I have a question of the most am I an asshole kind I can ask. That's our cue. My sister and I went to the local hospital cafeteria for supper. It struck me that this may be an asshole-ish thing because I'm not visiting anyone at the hospital. It was just a place that had the most options.
Speaker: We paid for our food. It's not that we stole the food or anything, but with how affordable their prices are compared to other places, it feels dishonest. And then as a fun follow-up question, what was the best meal you had at a hospital cafeteria?
Speaker: Do have any thoughts on this, Daniel? All right. So I did hear about this question beforehand when it was originally asked. And at first, I wanted to say it is kind of an asshole move because it's a hospital.
Speaker: The food's not for you kind of deal. But the more I thought about it, if they let people just walk in and they paid for the food, height don't see any real problem. It's like they, it's not like they took the food from somebody who needed it.
Speaker: It's not like there's a finite amount at the hospital. They paid for it and the hospital let them just walk in. I think it's okay. I wouldn't make a habit out of it, but I'm not going to say they're an asshole for doing it.
Speaker: What do you think, Hitch? I totally agree. um i think, honestly, I think this is totally fine. If you walk into a cafeteria that is serving food and you pay for the food, like, I don't personally see a problem with, like, whether or not they're there visiting or um for the hospital for an appointment or anything. Like, it is a place that serves food. And like you said, like, they're allowed to go in there um and pay money for food and, like,
Speaker: You know, at the end of the day, again, we're food bankers, we keep this in mind all the time, you know, at the end of the day, they're going to have food leftover that is going to get wasted. And so like, why not let other people um come and purchase that food and eat it and have it be fine, especially like, if it's a good option for them, and it has like more affordable prices, like, you know, medical bills are really expensive, like you might as well get cheap food at the hospital.
Speaker: Yeah, I agree with that wholeheartedly. I think it would be a problem if they then started going to other people and saying like, hey, here's what we did. Here's what you should do. Because then I can see it getting out of hand. Too many people showing up to grab food that don't actually need the hospital.
Speaker: Yeah. Like like I said, just once in a while. Mm hmm. You don't want it to turn into a cafeteria that can no longer serve the people that it's meant to serve. Right.
Speaker: Like you don't want it to be like super busy with a bunch of business people at noon and like not actually be there for the people waiting or for the people for appointments or anything like that.
Speaker: um But yeah, like you said, like once in a while, stop in, grab food. Not a problem. Yeah, i don't I don't think it's a problem either. um What about part two?
Speaker: Have you ever been to the hospital? And if you have, what have you had? I haven't had a ton of hospital cafeteria food. Like last time I had done that, I was really young. I'm cracking up at Adam behind me. Yeah, I'm sorry. Your emotional support human in the background is really distracting. Adam got martial arts sticks and is just in the background of the video waving them around. With a Batman shirt on. They're Escrema sticks, thank you very much. Robin uses these. But you're wearing a Batman shirt. Wearing a Batman shirt. Nightwing was Batman for a while.
Speaker: Okay. I don't know Batman more. Nerd. ah
Speaker: Go on, answer the question. Anyways, Adam, um I haven't been to a hospital cafeteria um it was since I was young. I've had like room service hospital food, but that doesn't really count because you don't get to choose what it is that you're eating. But when I was younger and my grandmother was in the hospital, we went to the cafeteria and I got a bowl of Cheerios, plain Cheerios, and a slice of chocolate cake.
Speaker: And that was excellent. That was whatever meal we were having. That was my my lunch or whatever. You know what? Chocolate cake is chocolate cake, man. Can't go wrong. Chocolate cake the best cake. Just hands down. It's possibly the best dessert.
Speaker: If it's made right. You need... I'm sorry. You need to have like the... kind of like the the chocolate layers in the cake, not just the chocolate cake itself, because then it's too dry. Even with some icing, you need some of the icing mid layers.
Speaker: i If someone just bakes a pan of like Betty Crocker or chocolate cake and just cuts a slice and hands it to me, I'm going to have a great time. Oh, no don't get me wrong. I won't say no. yeah If somebody hands me a slice of chocolate cake, I don't even care if it's like homemade and you didn't follow directions. I'll find a way to like it. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. I had um one of my friends, her stepmom was like a woo woo lady. um And so she was like, you know, she was the type to like use cauliflower and everything instead of flour or whatever.
Speaker: And like she made an icing out of sour cream. um And it wasn't bad. It was fully like it it was just sour cream on a chocolate cake. I still ate the chocolate cake.
Speaker: It was still good. problem Don't put sour cream on your cakes, folks. But we ah I don't know if I've told you this. I think I've said it on the on the podcast before. But one time when I was working.
Speaker: I worked with this girl who was a big health nut, big fitness nut, and she loved coming up with new recipes for for healthy versions of things. So I challenged her to make a healthy brownie recipe.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. And... My God, she did. it yeah it used wee protein. It used like all these chocolate substitutes. It was sugar free. And it was not as good as a regular brownie, but it was better than like your normal store bought sugar free brownie.
Speaker: Okay. It was delicious. And I really wish I had that recipe. It was impressive. I'm on the I'm a vegetarian, so I'm on like plant based YouTube and Pinterest and stuff all the time. And I see a ton of people being like sweet potato brownie, black bean brownie, avocado brownie. I've never tried any of them, but like I feel like that would be a fun little taste test to set up. We're like everyone makes a different weird brown.
Speaker: I would do that. I would love to do like food challenges and stuff like that. Less so cooking, more so eating. yeah Yeah, like a Rhett and Link style taste test. Yeah, I'd be down to do something that.
Speaker: yeah Or I'm always the one that's like, hey, if we're having like a friendly competition, have hot sauce or something. I'm that person that will suggest that. Nobody ever takes me up on it, though.
Speaker: I have what I call a pasty Appalachian palate, which means that sometimes Adam will order a number three spice level at the Indian restaurant, and it is a little too spicy for Now it's level three. That's not very spicy.
Speaker: That is three out of ten. I see. And I often get three just because I know I'm sharing. I prefer like a six. You don't want to eat anything that I would eat then because I would get the ten.
Speaker: No. No. I'm usually good at like ah two. I found out in my early 20s that the thing that my parents call hot peppers are banana peppers.
Speaker: um like that is the environment okay i see I see the problem yeah I can handle spice better than like my parents can and some of the other people that I know um but that doesn't mean I can actually handle spice Adam just jumped on his bed and walked over it like a maniac he's doing it a lot and exercising yeah okay how is he more distracting when he's not doing this episode laughing
Speaker: Man, I'm sorry this isn't a visual podcast for everybody. cause Yeah, really. we need We need to do this again at some point and stream it and just have like the Adam goldfish camp.
Speaker: Please do not hurt yourself. Yeah, you look like you were about to fall. Oh my God. And you'll have to have your own experience of hospital cafeteria food. Like, I'm not here for it. I like the jello. Adam likes the jello.
Speaker: I mean, it's jello. What's not to like? I'm trying to think, though. I don't think I've ever really had hospital food. m I've been to the hospital only like twice.
Speaker: Once. Actually, the only time I could really think about it was when I was di diagnosed with diabetes. They brought me to the hospital to show me how to do everything. Yeah.
Speaker: You've never like had a stay in a hospital before? Not for more than like a day. And I was never like forced to eat their food. Usually I think I would ask my parents to like, can you run out and grab fast food or something? I was never there for an issue. Yeah, am back in 2018. collapsed in Target.
Speaker: um So turns out I had a hole in my thyroid, which flooded my heart with hormones. And then that cut oxygen off to my brain. And so I pass out in a Target. um And like, I know that now, but it took them like three days to figure out what that meant, like what happened. And so, yeah, I had some various hospital food in that. And like you got you get like a little teeny tiny menu where they're like, you know, basically like hot option, cold option, like dessert drinks, whatever.
Speaker: Kind like when you're on a plane. Yeah, kind of like whenever you're on a plane. And so I would just choose whatever option had mashed potatoes every time because that is like one of my like safe comfort foods. And I'm like, OK, if I have to be here, you are giving me mashed potatoes. And that is it.
Speaker: When I was younger, ah when I when I was diagnosed, they I was going in for a physical and they found sugar in my urine. shit And so they did, you know, some blood tests and they checked my, it's called the A1C level.
Speaker: Yeah. And it kind of measures the ah average blood sugar levels. And 6.0 or lower is normal. Mine was 6.1.
Speaker: And i remember there was like two weeks where the doctors were basically arguing with each other over whether or not I had diabetes. Mm-hmm. Or I didn't have diabetes. Maybe I just had like a soda that day. Right.
Speaker: So one day, about two weeks after this physical, I'm at work and my dad calls me. I'm working as a camp counselor at the time.
Speaker: My dad calls me. He says, hey, I need you to meet me at the parking lot of the campground right now. Don't even worry about talking to your boss or anything. I will call them.
Speaker: So I'm freaking the heck out. I go absolutely to the to the parking lot. My dad says, get in. We start driving. I ask him, what the hell is going on? He says, I just got a call from the hospital to bring you in right away.
Speaker: So I can tell my dad is freaking out. He's doing a good job hiding it, but he's definitely freaking out. We get to the hospital. And we check in and my dad's like, is everything OK? They told us to get here right away. And the the nurse is just like, oh, yeah, we just, you know, they finally decided that he does have diabetes and we wanted to show you how to use the insulin pen.
Speaker: Oh, no, that's so scary. My dad would have been a serial murderer. Yeah. He's like, you rushed us to the hospital for that. Yeah. To poke an orange.
Speaker: poke an orange we i had to give insulin to an orange oh i see as like a training yeah okay so i was there for like a night i learned how to do that and they had me on like monitoring and stuff and i remember i woke up in the middle of the night to the nurse changing out my ivy and putting a band-aid on my arm yeah And I heard, or I saw her put a Dora the Explorer bandaid on my arm and I asked her what is like, why that one?
Speaker: And she's like, oh, I love getting night shift. Cause I like to give all the guys the, the, like the Dora the Explorer. and yeah was like, you know what? Go for it. yeah I'll take Dora the Explorer.
Speaker: have fun at your job. Yeah, exactly. I'm not going to take that away from you.
Speaker: How old old were you whenever you got your diagnosis? i was about 15-ish, which is pretty rare, but i did it to myself. I had a soda addiction.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. I drank way too much Coke, so I definitely did it to myself. What, like, and don't know did you have to, obviously you did, but like what lifestyle adjustments did you have to make and like, were they all really sudden or did you have to like gradually change things?
Speaker: It was luckily even to today, I'm still not on insulin. Oh, good. Yeah. I was able to avoid that. Yeah. Uh, I just take medication, regular pills every day.
Speaker: Um, um, It's mostly controlled. you know Usually i can get it down to about 6.3 again. The worst it's ever been was 8.8. And my doctor was seriously considering putting me on insulin. Yeah.
Speaker: ah But then COVID happened. And because I was home all the time, I was able to control my diet. My A1C dropped dramatically. I also started drinking a lot more water.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. Which... You know, you hear all the time like, oh, drink. You're not drinking enough water. Just trust me. You're not drink more. It's really good for you. Adam is kicking his legs with delight.
Speaker: But I hate to say it. They're all right. I started drinking ah two liters of water a day. Oh, wow. Yeah, I have an old like two liter bottle of soda that I just fill with water and I try and drink that a day.
Speaker: And after about a week, the difference in my blood sugar levels is insane. After I eat, it goes down so much quicker. Yeah, it might just be how it reacts with my meds. I don't know.
Speaker: But either way, and then it takes about a week to stop. If I stop drinking water, it'll still go down well for about a week, and then it'll stop going down as quickly. Yeah. Do you think that's like the physical amount of water that you're drinking, or are you like replacing other drinks with water throughout the day?
Speaker: I think what it might be is I don't think it's replacing drinks because i I honestly just add the water on top of what I used to drink.
Speaker: Okay. um I actually, besides soda, I honestly don't drink all that much of anything. huh um
Speaker: I know one of my medicines binds to the sugar in my blood and so I can pee it out. So I'm guessing... That after about a week of drinking a lot of water, my body has all the water it needs. So it's easier to just pass whatever new water comes in and take the sugar with it.
Speaker: That's my guess. Yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, if you have diabetes, drink more water. Two liters a day. I'm telling you, it makes a huge difference. It's easier than you think.
Speaker: Yeah, I think, um yeah, also if you don't have diabetes, drink more water. Yes, also if you don't have diabetes, drink more water. Two liters a day. Yeah, that's, um Adam has heard all about this, but I am on the journey to find ADHD medication right now.
Speaker: So I just tried a week of Ritalin and that was bad. um Like really foggy brain, couldn't remember anything. um Huge energy spikes.
Speaker: I kept running into walls and at some point, like um I was driving and Adam was like, you have gone out of the lane like eight times. Eight times! And I didn't know it. Oh, damn.
Speaker: Yeah. So we've stopped that one. I'm now starting Adderall. um But I learned today, thanks to my good buddy, Adam, and also my head, um that you shouldn't drink caffeine whenever you are trying a new medication.
Speaker: um And so... i didn't know that. Yeah. I think especially for like ADHD meds, because it's a stimulant and so is caffeine. um And like, I already don't handle caffeine very well. I don't know why I didn't think to not...
Speaker: um just not drink it while I've had my first day of Adderall. But I've had a huge headache all day. And the only thing that has helped is like, I have been chugging water.
Speaker: I have like a water bottle. i don't even know how many ounces it is, probably 20. And I've had like probably four of those today, which normally like I will drink like a cup of tea and then a sparkling water and then a Coke and then a something else. And then like throughout the day, kind of have little sips of water here and there.
Speaker: But today I've just been like chugging the water. Yeah, it's fine. Whatever helps. Yeah. Yeah. I hope that doesn't last too long. Yeah, we will see how day two goes. I'm feeling a lot better now than I was because it's been like eight hours since I've had my last dose of caffeine. Adam, what are you doing?
Speaker: Just you never do mine. Never do mine. Now, I got a question for you. Yeah. When you have caffeine and let's say you're not on any medication, you said you don't handle caffeine well. Like, does that mean it just doesn't seem to work much for you or it works too well on you?
Speaker: Um, normally it works too well. So in the morning, if I have like a cup of tea, um, i am like, you know, I'm fine. I can like function throughout the day. If I don't have that cup of tea, I can also function throughout the day.
Speaker: Um, but if I have any sort of caffeine, like after like 1 PM, um, especially like tea caffeine, cause there's like different types of caffeine. Um, but the caffeine and tea like really,
Speaker: it causes me to bounce off the walls. Like there I've had several times where like I've drunk caffeine, like way too late in the day. And then whoever it is I'm talking to is like, I need you to eat something. I need you to sit down. I need like, I need you to calm down.
Speaker: um So yeah, it just like, it gets me real jazzed and really annoying. that's That's interesting because I'm the opposite. I just had a cup of coffee when we started.
Speaker: I will probably have another one at around 1030 and I will sleep fine. And ADHD? That's what I had heard is that if you have ADHD,
Speaker: it can cause ah caffeine to just not work as well for you so i've always i've often been wondering that i did get diagnosed with adhd as a kid h but i was taken off of the meds around like 15 ish like around puberty okay so now i'm wondering like have i just been acclimating on my own this whole time why do you have a saw trap Adam, so a little while ago, Adam bought a punching bag and with the punching bag came like a finger strengthener. It looks like the collar that's meant to cut your head off.
Speaker: Yeah. saw Yeah. It's really. Are you going to be able to get that off of your head? ipo I don't know. That's an excellent question. Adam just put around his neck.
Speaker: Can you get it off? Can you get it off?
Speaker: I mean, yeah, I hope
Speaker: i hope this is funny as it had an audio.
Speaker: I want to play game, Adam. I want play your game. I don't want to play your games. Yeah, so masculine. That was good. No, that was really good. Wow, leave me alone. Wow, there was another dude on the podcast all of a sudden. Who the fuck was that? Almost. Who was that? Listen, I'm going to on T and then you'll be, you'll, you'll all have the laughs. They mean theyll just a singular letter, capital T, not T-E-A.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm crazy on both. i was going to say, you might also get on the T-E-A. Testosterone. Yeah. Um... Yeah, that might be a plan in the future. Still figuring that out.
Speaker: But it's not going to happen until we figure out these stupid medications, that's for sure. but That is fair enough. Would that get in the way with the medications and stuff? Yeah. like If we're trying to determine like what is a good medication fit for me, so tea completely ravages your body.
Speaker: um And like I think all hormone therapy does, but tea in particular, like... um you just like feel a lot of rage, your emotions all over the place, like your your hormones are going crazy. And so if we're trying to figure out like all of the ways that medication affects me, um introducing testosterone into that process is just like a horrible idea.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. So like, would you stop taking it, go on tea, and then once things stabilize, go try again? I would want to find a medication and stabilize with the medication.
Speaker: And then like later down the line introduced. I see. Okay. Oh, cool. My body in my brain used to any medication that we're trying. a and then reintroduce chaos to try to figure out how to acclimate to that. Just when things are getting boring.
Speaker: Yeah. I'm prepared to fight you if you get too much rage. i Please do. I don't like who I am with too much rage. like If I go on T, I'm going to go very low and slow. like There's a lot of changes that I don't want to happen. like I don't want the facial hair. like Your hairline will start to recede. like you know Acne, weird other things that we don't have to get into.
Speaker: um but like yeah i literally like just want the voice change and like you know i could do with some face shaping i got a little like round boyish face you got a mew or whatever the hell it's called mew right mean that isn't that that thing the kids do these days to like make their jaw more prominent.
Speaker: Oh, so I have never been up to date with what the kids do these days, even when I was a kid. I think it's like you press your tongue against the roof of your mouth to make your jaw go like.
Speaker: Like, think viewing was like a right touching of the face. Well, yeah, people would like do this thing to talk about it or so I don't know. i know they're all either way. hit There's the point is, don't worry about doing that. It's fake and stupid. excellent this a TikTok thing? Don't hit your face right.
Speaker: Don't hit your face with a hammer. Are they doing that? Oh, yeah. They do that, too. Yeah, to restructure their bones. Holy shit. Are the kids okay? No. They're not. They're not all right. I'm telling you. They're not all right. They're not all right. They're asking AI if this is a good idea, and AI is going, yeah.
Speaker: ah Okay. No, I don't. Sorry. We don't have to get into that. We're having a fun conversation, we're going to stay having a fun conversation. Let's have fun. yeah So... OK, to change the the subject to keep it fun.
Speaker: OK, I have another question for you. OK, I'm sorry, everybody. This is going to be the ask Hitch Everything quite time. because Honestly, this is the the longest conversation we've really had. And it's awesome. And I love that's true.
Speaker: um Say you were driving. OK. And you hit a roundabout. okay And while you're going around this roundabout, you're like, man, this is fun.
Speaker: This is actually pretty cool. Yeah. How many times do you think you could go around that roundabout before it became illegal? I'm asking that for a friend and their name is.
Speaker: Ike the Idiot. Oh, that's such an excellent username.
Speaker: What is Ike short for? I think it's just a name. Is it just a name? I know there was a president name, Ikea.
Speaker: think it was a nickname. Yeah, that was a nickname. But I think Ike is just a name. It is Ike, which is short for Isaac. Oh, I actually would never guessed that.
Speaker: Yeah, I forgot that Isaac's a name. They called Eisenhower Ike because it's kind of like that. He's called him Ike for short. Well, that's cute. Neat.
Speaker: Anyways, um I think you could go around like until you're the only one on there. If you're the only one on there and you are just making circles and circles and circles, I think that would attract attention and like people would tell you to leave.
Speaker: That's fair. I do think it wouldn't fly very well if you did it during rush hour and just held people up. Yeah. but like i don't If you're in the middle of the night, nobody's there.
Speaker: Yeah. Have fun. I don't do enough roundabouts. There aren't a ton of roundabouts in our area. Instead, we have like stupid seven-way stoplights. Ugh.
Speaker: Yeah, Pittsburgh's really weird to drive in. um And like we're very hilly, so there aren't a lot of places to put roundabout. So i don't I'm not fluent in how like traffic in a roundabout works, especially when it's busy.
Speaker: My area is basically... a couple towns all surrounding a roundabout so i yeah oh yeah has its own name and everything shout outs to the somerville circle
Speaker: uh and it has like a highway going over it it's got six different exits three of which are highway exits Whoa. Yeah, it's it's ridiculous. And it's like three different towns all connect to this roundabout. So it it gets packed.
Speaker: i So the ones that I've seen is like you have kind of one lane in the middle and then one lane on the outside to get into the middle. it Does it only have the two? We have a third lane.
Speaker: You have a third lane. We have the outermost lane, which you use to... Just kind of, you know, if you want to dip in and out real quick, like the the exit you need is the next street.
Speaker: We have a middle lane that allows for you to go either direction. You can either get off or keep going around. And then we have the innermost lane, which is like, you know, my street I need to get off on is right to the left of me. So I have to ride all the way around.
Speaker: so I'm not in everybody's way. And then you have to switch lanes in the roundabout. This sounds like my personal hell. It's awful. I purposely avoid it any chance I can.
Speaker: Yeah, I hate driving with a passion. My hottest take is that I don't think as citizens we should be allowed to just get licenses willy nilly. I know you have to pass a test and all of that, but like this should be a professional job and I should not be allowed to to drive a car.
Speaker: I'd okay with that. Yeah, like just leave it to the professionals. Let the professionals do it. um Bring in some social... social transportation like more trains buses things like that i want trains trains would be nice i want would be nice one of my dreams is to do one of those like cross-country train rides where you have like an entire box car with beds and everything oh like the the two three day long train rides yeah i want to do that i want to just like live on a train for a couple days and see the scenery
Speaker: I know someone who um his family lived in California. Like most of his family lived in California. He was here with his like grandparents in Pittsburgh. And he got on one of those trains to detox from like a drug addiction that he had and was like four days on this train.
Speaker: as a form of detox to get from Pittsburgh to California. Holy crap. Yeah, this guy was not like the most mentally well. um But every time I think of those like cross country trains, that's the thing I think about. Well, I'm going to do it. And also the drugs.
Speaker: I'm going to. Yeah, I'll do it without the drugs, though. Please. Thank you. I mean, did it work? I mean, where would you even get more? Right? Yeah. Like, that's the whole thing is like you are just constantly moving. There's no access to anything and there's no temptation. That's the secret. That's what we should do.
Speaker: Yeah. No. yeah Just take everybody that's on drugs, throw them on a train. um What could go wrong?
Speaker: That sounds horrible. We should not do that. What could possibly go wrong? Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, this is the worst idea we've had. Yeah, it's not a great idea. Look, we'll iron out. There's a few kinks. We'll iron them out. It's fine. It's fine. Adam would have been all for it.
Speaker: adam Adam left the room. yeah that scares me a lot, to be honest with you. So we are currently um watching a blind Rottweiler.
Speaker: His name is Gunner. he has a big baby. He's a big sweetie. But when he decides to be unruly, he's very unruly. And so he's been really restless at night.
Speaker: We've had to like decide if we want to crate him or if he's going to just chill out with me. And a few minutes ago, he like barked. So I don't know if he needs to go outside. Did you check on Gunner?
Speaker: He's fine. He's fine. Oh, look at him. Oh, no, that's a cat. That's not a dog. No, that's not a Rottweiler. That's my cat. um Adam is standing behind me with my cat, um who loves the attention. She loves any attention she can get.
Speaker: um But yeah, we've the big thing that he's really been struggling with is stairs are really scary for him. And so like he has mastered the art of going up the stairs, but every now and then like going down the stairs, he just completely nopes out of. like We try to get him to go downstairs. He's telling me he needs to use the bathroom.
Speaker: And he will just lie down instead. And this this guy's massive. like We can't lift him, so we've had to... like um kind of be a little bit more forceful with him than I think either of us would like.
Speaker: You said he's blind, right? Yeah, he is blind. So like going downstairs is really scary. Yeah, I can understand the ski the the fear in that one. Yeah. i was really How long is Gunnar with you guys?
Speaker: um Is it Sunday or Monday? Sunday or Monday. So he'll be here about a week. Yeah. Oh, okay. We've had him since Friday. like Yeah, i remember Gunnar got in the way of our recording last week. Adam.
Speaker: Oh, did he? That's Gunnar's damn fault, not mine. Yeah.
Speaker: Adam got off last week's recording to take care of Gunnar. Because that's when we got him. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Which is fine. ah Life comes first, you know?
Speaker: Yeah. um He's really funny. um He will just walk around until he can't walk around anymore. So he's just like constantly like running into walls, bouncing off and then like keep going. um And like he really loves people. He gets really excited. And so whenever he finds you, he just like leans his whole weight against you because he's so excited that he found you.
Speaker: um So he's a big sweetie. um But again, he I've been calling him Gunner the Tyrant at work. And everyone knows that whenever I say like, oh, I have to go take care of the tyrant, like they know I'm talking about Donner. My friend had a dog, real big dog that learned that if I put all of my body weight on your feet and said on your feet, you can't leave me.
Speaker: Yeah. So that was his favorite thing to do was to just walk up to you and just right on your foot. You're not going anywhere until I say so. Yeah. Yeah. but' He's done that to me a couple of times, but I don't think he has latched on to the like the logic of that as much.
Speaker: Yeah, this one definitely did. it understood what it was doing. I need to know this dog's name. ah Oh, God, what was that dog's name?
Speaker: You might have to give me a minute. This was a long a long time ago. This dog is has passed a while ago. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Fine. Take all the time you need. Adam can edit. Why am I adding anything? I edit very little of this show. Thank you very much. Oh, my God. What was it? It was a. It was a husky. i remember that much.
Speaker: So the problem is my friend. I have ah some friends right now that have a husky and that's the only dog's name I can think of at the moment. But that's not the dog I'm talking about. I'll settle for that dog's name. What's that dog's name? That dog's name is, well, was, sorry, was Nymeria.
Speaker: Nymeria. That's pretty. That dog also passed. and Although that one was very recently. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Thankfully, they don't listen to the show, so it's okay. Oh, no. Man, I let y'all fucking do a show together and you make it all depressing. I know. We're trying to have fun. Jesus Christ.
Speaker: We're talking about roundabouts. We're talking about cafeteria. Yeah, we' talked about ah kind yeah medical issues and medical procedures. What's more fun than that? Come on, Adam. Shut Why? What's a question that we've answered before that you should ask Hitch?
Speaker: All right Hitch. Yeah. ah Would you take advantage of the fact if you were able to poop $1,000 every week?
Speaker: This is one of the earliest questions we answered. If you were able to poop $1,000, like you pooped and $1,000 came out with the poop. Once a week. Would you reach in to get the $1,000? No. Or would you be like, it's covered in poop, I'll find another way to make money?
Speaker: No. This is, i don't fuck with any of that. This is a hard boundary I had to establish with Adam. I was like, I don't talk about that. Okay, nope, fair enough. That is fair enough. Nope. What other questions have we answered that weren't as bad?
Speaker: wouldn't fish money out of the toilet? No. That's fucked up. hey Hey, if they don't want to talk about it, they don't have to talk about And we're talking about money. No, no, it's okay. I also would fish, but it's okay.
Speaker: Nope. Let's see. Let's see. What else have we covered? Everything is going blank right now.
Speaker: Because mostly when we finish recording these shows, I immediately forget everything. yeah Okay, no, that's fine. Remember I had a backup question and you already kind of answered this one.
Speaker: I don't remember what it is. Did you already ask it? I did. Well, I didn't ask it on the show. Okay. But I did ask you personally. Okay. And you did give the right answer. Okay. But my other friend, Mumbo Man 2, really wants to know, why can't I see my siblings as attractive?
Speaker: Oh, you're right. You did ask me this. I did ask you that. um You asked me this as because I have a brother, but you do not. i do not. I am an only child. Yeah. So um my answer to this is one, my brother looks very similar to me.
Speaker: um This is not something that I see as much, but whenever like i have been called out. um like in places that he frequents and people will come up to me and be like, oh, are you Ryan's sibling? Cause you guys look so much alike.
Speaker: um When I first showed Adam him a picture of my brother, Adam went, oh, holy shit. He looks just like you. So like, first of all, done ah we're not messing with that. And also I know my brother in every iteration that he's been,
Speaker: And I know how annoying he is. um Like, my brother is 34. He has been 12 years old since he was, like, 12 years old. And he has just not matured past that.
Speaker: the Not to say anything bad about my brother. i He's a great guy. He's very nice. He's very personable. um He's also very annoying. And he knows it. And so, like... There's just no no part of me that can be attracted to someone who looks like me and someone who I've seen that much of.
Speaker: um Both like. Physically growing up and also like I know his personality so well. Do you think it's all just because you know them so well and all that, or do you think there's like an actual biological component of like the human mind under normal circumstances does not allow one to be attracted to their sibling because it would be bad. i could see the argument that like to counter inbreeding the human brain is just designed in a way where it discourages that under normal circumstances.
Speaker: Yeah, I think under normal circumstances, like, yeah, I don't think your brain will let you do it. um I think, like, it's totally possible that if you don't know that this person's your sibling, like, you could feel some sort of something for them. um But also, like, and yeah, again, like, there's totally that aspect of, like, I grew up in the same household with this person, and, like, I know, like,
Speaker: all of the arguments that we've gotten into and stuff like that. um And so like, yeah, I think there is just like every cell in my body is going, no, no. That's fair.
Speaker: I actually, I have, um I have a cousin who everybody who I invited to a graduation party when I graduated grade school.
Speaker: So we're all like 14. So i went to Catholic school. So grade school went all the way up to eighth. Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah. um So we're all like 14 or whatever. And it had some family and all my classmates.
Speaker: And all the girls in my class hated the fact that all the guys in my class thought my cousin was hot.
Speaker: And all the guys kept telling me like, dude, why didn't you ever tell us you have such a hot cousin and everything? And I was like, I don't know what you mean. Like, she's just my cousin. Right.
Speaker: And what really threw me through a loop later, i found out later in life that she was married into the family. I am not related to her at all. oh Oh.
Speaker: So I found this question really interesting because it's like,
Speaker: ah it it must not be just an innate thing, but more of a learned, like, You just don't find family attractive because she's not actually not family. Well, you know what i mean?
Speaker: Yeah. Blood ties wise. She is not family. So I found that very crazy later on in life. Yeah, I feel like um as soon as someone gets put into the category of family, like they are immediately...
Speaker: um Just off limits. Yeah, like off limits. Like my brain doesn't even go there. Like I, I also like, I don't tend to find a lot of people attractive anyways, but like if I were to find someone attractive and then they married someone that I'm related to, like they are just automatically in that family category.
Speaker: no And like, even if they got divorced or something like that, wouldn't know once you're in. Yeah. Once you're in, you're in kind of Yeah. Yeah. i I get that. I understand that.
Speaker: Yeah, I just thought it was crazy. Yeah, yeah. um
Speaker: I don't think I have anything to add to that. Like, that's just. No, no, that's fair. So we actually did three questions. And we've we've been doing this for like 45 minutes. Very good. Hitch is attracted to twinks anyway. Adam, get out of here. That is not true. Yeah.
Speaker: Anyway, before you were so rudely interrupted. Wow. I think we've we've done good here today. I'm proud of you. You did a really good job. You did 45 minutes with me. We did 45 minutes with like a two minute notice.
Speaker: Yeah, it flew by too, right? Yeah. It's crazy. I think we did, Adam. I think you did. All right. Wasn't as good without me in it the whole time, but it was still good. You didn't trust me. You were there the whole time. Yes. You guys did great. I'll do. We'll do this again on stream sometime.
Speaker: There you go. If Hitch wants to. Sure. That's fine. Hitch, do you want to play us out? um I don't remember what your outro is, but I'll make one up. Please do.
Speaker: Try not to be a piece of shit this year. um um Subscribe to TOQ on YouTube. um Listen to the podcast in case you're not right now.
Speaker: um And um everyone have a good day. Drink more water. Drink more water. Try not to be a piece of shit this year. Yeah. Yeah.
