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ng sound interesting and the secret is that you punch words randomly and it's the randomly part that blows your mind. You're like randomly? Shouldn't you punch the important words? Yeah doesn't seem to matter. I mean you could but it's the variety that's really drawing people in. So when Joe Biden does his whisper thing that everybody makes fun of it totally works. It's just that he whispers thing…

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ecessarily. You know not everybody laughs. Did you know that? Do you know people who don't laugh? A lot of them you don't really notice do you? There are lots of people who don't ever laugh. Ever. It's like not a thing. In the same way that maybe I don't have musical appreciation I think there are lots of people maybe a third who don't have humor appreciation and they don't ever laugh. How is that possible? I don't know. I don't know but I can tell you for sure I do. I mean I do humor for a living and I can tell you that a third of the public is only pretending to have a sense of humor. They're literally pretending. They don't have one and I don't know why I'm the first person to notice. I think everybody else thought well everybody's got a sense of humor but maybe they're not laughing at this thing but they would laugh at some other thing. Nope. Nope. There are people who actually just don't have a sense of humor and they will sometimes laugh if somebody falls in a puddle right but that is really different. That's almost not in the same category of humor. It's more like a reaction to a thing. You think the same thing with music? Does some people pretend to like it but they don't hear it the same way? I think you're right about that. Same with food. I have no idea what a foodie tastes because I'm not one. When I eat food it's like oh I like this or I don't like it but I have a feeling that people who are foodies just have a whole different flavor experience than I do. So I feel like this is a good analogy. So the way I am to food is the way other people are to humor. If you looked at me eating it would look like I'm enjoying my food just like every other foodie but I'm not. I mean I assume I'm not. Your cooking would change my mind. Maybe it would.

What's my favorite genre of music? Well it's unfair to ask at the moment because I'm learning to play the drums so I'm kind of focused on anything that's got a good drum beat. So at the moment it's hard to answer that question. So anything with a good drum beat especially from the 70s I'm going to like a lot. Yeah Rolling Stones. Buddy Rich. I don't, Buddy Rich wasn't, I feel like he wasn't a drummer he was more like a magician or something. I mean I didn't like listening to Buddy Rich but it was impressive how quickly he could hit a drum. I don't know. I'm completely unimpressed by him allegedly you know top drummer in the world or something but he was mostly about just being fast I think.

All right. We foodies have a working sense of smell. So do I. My sense of smell came back a few weeks ago weirdly but my allergies also went away. Let me ask this again because how many of you and I only want you to answer if both of these are true so if you show some restraint for a moment how many of you have both of these things happen to you? Number one you got vaccinated, any number of vaccinations, and number two you did not have allergies this season when normally you always do. Am I the only one? So I don't know that there's a correlation but I got vaccinated and then I never had spring allergies again. It's only been one year I guess. Anybody else have that experience? I'm seeing some people say yes but I think maybe it's just a low pollen season where I am or something. Maybe it's just that. I don't know. Yeah all right. More no's and yeses. Your allergies came back but a number of people are saying they're having their best year but I think is anybody having, let me reverse the question. Is an

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ybody having a bad year, an unusually bad year with allergies? Go. Is anybody having? Yeah I think in my case staying away from the sulfites was the big change for me. All right worst. Okay so a lot of you are having worse years with allergies. All right. All right so there's nothing there probably. Do you laugh at the show Family Guy? Yeah some of the episodes of Family Guy are just ridiculously…

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