WEBVTT - Ep 32 Ask the Erins 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:42.520 Hi. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.279 Hi, I'm Aaron Welsh and I'm Aaron Olman Updyke. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.600 And this is this podcast will kill. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.519 You ask us things. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.200 Yes, we have a very special edition this week. We 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.520 a couple of weeks ago, or a few episodes ago, anyway, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.760 it's like a while ago. Now, a while ago. We 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:06.120 asked you all to send us your questions about anything 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:13.319 and everything, and wow, did you do that? It was 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.120 it was incredible. We got hundreds of questions. Excellent questions 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.080 they were. It was super fun to read through. Yeah, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.720 it's gonna be it's gonna be great. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:23.680 I'm excited. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.320 Yeah. Unfortunately we won't be able to answer all. However, 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.600 many hundreds of questions we got. Not but yeah today anyway, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.959 but we have selected sort of a variety, yes, a 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.920 little buffet of different options. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.479 Yeah, we tried to like mix it up, throwing them 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.280 at you in a random ish shorder. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.240 Yeah, we're gonna see how this goes. I think I 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.760 think I'm a little nervous about it. Me too, I'm 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:53.160 really sure. Okay, well, uh yeah, to calm our nerves. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:58.680 Just kidding, terrible idea to do that. We are starting 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.080 with our quarantine and plussy burta this week. So, Aaron, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.240 what are you drinking? 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:10.799 I'm drinking, Oh, passion fruit La Croix. That not a mad, 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:11.560 This is. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:12.040 Not a mad. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.480 Oh, I should say generic passion fruit flavored sparkling water. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:23.160 There we go, and I am drinking cloudberry sayson Ooh 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:28.160 that sounds really tasty. It's really tasty. We didn't plan 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.760 a specific quarantini this week because we wanted to just 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:32.840 sort of go with the flow. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.799 And yeah, so pull up your favorite bev yeah and 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:39.359 drink that while you listen. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:46.400 Is your favorite bev A? I mean generic sparkling water passion. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.399 Fruit flag These days, it's like the most exciting beverage 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:50.480 that I drink. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:56.000 So well, okay, but you know it's. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.320 A it's a good choice. I would say, if you're 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.120 on the Plassy Burta train. Yeah, there we go, There 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.639 we go. Oh okay, okay, So should we uh? 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.000 Should we jump in? I think so? I don't. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.720 I don't think we ever have any real business to cover, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:12.160 do we? 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.280 No, we never do, we never do. I think that's okay, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:16.560 and I think that's great. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.800 So let's jump in with our first question. Okay, speaking 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:21.880 of quarantinies. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:28.239 So our first question comes from Paisley, who asked how 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.240 do you come up with quarantinies and what essential liquors 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.360 or liqueurs would you recommend for a budget mixologist? Such 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.360 a fun question, and we also got a related question 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.320 which we will answer probably in this immediately after this, 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.320 whether whether either of us were ever bartenders. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.800 Yeah, ooh, so how do we come up with our quarantinies? 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.560 That's kind of a kind of a pretty random process. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.640 Usually, oh my gosh. Usually sometimes there's a guiding force, 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.600 like with Burning Love, which was the one for our 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.280 gonerhea episode, we knew that we wanted to have something 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:12.800 that was like burning right or hot or spicy, something spicy, yeah, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.200 and then we kind of just went from there. Yeah, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:15.640 I think it. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.160 Sometimes we come up with the name first, and then 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.719 the name sort of guides us, like what types of 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.160 liquors should there be in a drink of this name? 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.680 But a lot of times we're just like, what liquor 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.839 do we think matches with gonorrhea? 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.080 Yeah? Or what do I not need to go to 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.719 the store to get that too? 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.440 That's very real. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.040 Out of sheer laziness, what do I have in my pantry? 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.400 Which is then given birth to a lot of these 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.040 simple syrups that we've incorporated, which is fun. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.960 Yeah, simple syrups we've learned are a great way to 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:51.880 add more flavor and pizzazz to your drinks without having 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.520 to spend a bunch of money on these fancy liqueurs 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.320 that you would use like one time. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.960 Right, And so that kind of goes into that second 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.000 question is what lick or the cores would we recommend 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.320 for someone who's wanting to stay on a budget, because 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.400 talk about an expensive hobby and also unhealthy. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.200 Very expensive and unhealthy hobby. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.839 I would say I think that we looked into this once. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.880 There was like a bartender Bible that I got from 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:22.320 the library, and it's like, uh, definitely bitters, bitters for sure. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.640 Essential a whiskey of some kind, like a mild whiskey 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.440 probably would be the best. And uh, I feel like 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:32.840 sweet remouth was on there. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.080 I think a sweet vermouth was on there. And I 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.000 think I think you have to have tequila on your barcart. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.520 Maybe that's a personal opinion. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.599 Okay, So let's say let's say that I moved to 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.120 Finland and I went to for instance, just a random 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.680 example throwing it out there, and I had to go 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.320 and stock an entire liquor cabinet. What would I get? 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:54.400 What did you get? 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.560 Probably vodka, whiskey. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:02.359 I got some vodka, I got whiskey, I got gin. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.200 I didn't get rum, but that's just a personal choice. Yeah, 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:12.880 I think eventually I got rum, sweet vermooth, campari bitters. Yeah. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.600 And then as long as you have lemon juice and 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.159 lime juice or citrus juices that you can have on hand, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.679 you can make a ton of drinks with just those items, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.080 and then some kind of simple syrup. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.080 So for that you just need sugar. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:25.120 Yeah. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.240 Water. Yeah, you can do so much with the amount 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.880 you can do with with simple syrup and club soda. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.360 Yes, is amazing. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.760 Yeah. Yeah, fun question. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.000 And neither of us have been bartenders. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:43.040 No, we were. We did discuss. I have dated a bartender. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.840 And my husband was once a bartender. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:53.160 So I think we've had exposure to the biz. Oh 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:53.760 that's fun. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.640 Okay. The next question, this is very cute. How did 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.760 we meet? Ask Hannah and Rachel? 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.120 How did we meet? Okay, so here's what I remember. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:12.400 Tell me, I was in my office on campus, which 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.800 I was the only person in that office, and I 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.280 loved it because there was that nuclear fall sign on 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:25.480 the door, like from the actual nineteen sixties and seventies. Yeah. Uh, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.560 And I was there working on a Friday and you 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.400 knocked on the door and said, Hi, is this are 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.560 you Aaron and I And then from that point I 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.280 was like, oh, great, there's this is the this is 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:42.080 the other Aaron that I've been promised. And I think 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.720 it was a couple hours from five, which was when 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.800 the grad student happy hour started. So I said you 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.600 should come and we'll hang out. And that was yeah. Yeah, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.480 that was the rest is history. Pretty much. I met 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.040 because we were in the same lab, right, yeah. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.960 Yeah, yeah, so we did our PhDs in the same 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.240 but yeah, the very first time we met you, you 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.920 didn't just say, oh you should come. You said, oh, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.400 there's happy hour, you're coming. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:08.320 That sounds lucky. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.080 Yeah, You're like, here's where it is, here's what time. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:16.679 I'll introduce you to everybody. It was fantastic, It was great. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.080 Yeah, and then we pretty much had like that that 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.920 first semester, even became almost instant best friends. We had 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.280 at least one dance movie marathon night. Oh yes, oh. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.440 Yes, in my old, very crappy apartment. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.800 That was yeah, I think that's when I was still 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.760 living in that in that house with like fourteen other 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.240 people or sixteen other people. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.000 That's why we did it at my apartment. Yeah's exactly why. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:49.280 Yeah, you're exactly right, that's exactly right. Okay, going off 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:50.640 of the rails here. This is fun. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.760 Yeah, okay, this is fun. Okay, I'm feeling less nervous. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.080 Yeah, me too. Good. Oh but then here comes this question. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.920 Oh gosh, so someone who is a peach decandidate in 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.400 medieval studies asked, what role do you see the humanities 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.359 and social science is playing in fields like epidemiology, medicine, 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.720 and other areas of scientific research. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.199 Gosh, we went from like I can do this to. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:19.240 Like have talk about that's like the full roller coaster 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:19.960 of a PhD. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.120 Yeah, that's so true. This is a great question though. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.400 Yeah, that's a great question. Yeah. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.320 I feel like the humanities and social sciences are super 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.199 important in fields like medicine and science, and I think 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.200 they're often overlooked and not taught in schools as much. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.560 And so I think that's one of the things I 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.920 really love about what we get to do in this 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.360 podcast is try and incorporate a little bit of that 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.800 and like humanize a lot of the biology and medicine. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.600 Yeah, I agree, and I think that lately there has 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.560 been more of a trend, or more of a push 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:58.760 towards integrating these seemingly disparate fields in specific social science 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:04.760 research with hardcore ecology or epidemiology. I think bridging those 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.679 gaps and actually having people talk to one another not 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.920 only can you allow for more information to be exchanged, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.200 but you also have different perspectives, and that's really valuable. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.959 When you ask somebody who's in social sciences or humanities, 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.719 what do you see as the most interesting question or 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.640 the challenges to do research in this area, You're going 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.280 to get a very different answer than you would if 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:30.200 you ask someone in medicine or epidemiology. Although the trend 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.840 is in that direction, I think that the world would 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:37.880 benefit greatly from even more connectivity between those fields. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.360 Very well said, I agree entirely. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:40.679 Thanks. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.520 Okay, here's an easier question. Multiple people wanted to know 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.840 Kyriana justin Meghan. They all want to know, how do 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.520 we record into different locations? 0:10:55.280 --> 0:11:00.320 Two different locations? Hmmmm? Okay, Well, I am currently in 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:07.240 Finland and it is around ten pm and it's late, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.480 but it's still very bright outside. So the joys of 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:16.760 summer legitimate joy. It's wonderful and you're in Illinois. And 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.920 so what we do is, this is just kind of 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.520 a logistical answer to this question. But we both have Skype, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.319 so we're looking at each other's faces while we're doing this, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.920 and we both are recording on microphones on our individual computers, 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.320 and then we will align the tracks in a on 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:39.000 audio editing software and then we'll go from there. Yeah. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.520 Yeah, we found that that's the way that makes it 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.160 sound the most, Like we get the best sound quality 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.680 when we each record ourselves separately and mix it together. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.400 So yeah, it took a little bit of trying, but 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.760 I think it's yeah, it's all right. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.800 It's not quite as much fun when I only see 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.719 your face on a computer screen, but definitely it does 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:58.199 that track me. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:06.000 Okay. We got several questions along these lines, so I 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.760 don't know if I have a few of the names 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:13.960 written down, but in general, basically break down for the 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:18.839 audience what degrees we have, and then after that what 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.000 we currently do for our work. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.079 Do you want to go first or do you want 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:24.760 me to go first? 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:25.640 You go first? 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:32.480 Okay, So I did my undergrad degrees bachelors in aquatic 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:38.000 biology and global studies, so not disease related. And then 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:43.400 I did a master's in epidemiology, and then my PhD 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:50.000 in entomology where I studied Shagas disease. And I'm working 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.800 on my MD. So I don't have a real job. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.760 I'm still a student forever. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.000 I think that that's a pretty real job you get 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:58.959 all the time. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.400 It's true, it's true. So right now I'm in my 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.000 clinical years of my medical school degree. I've got two 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.600 years left. Hah, wish me luck everyone luck? 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:14.400 What about you? Oh? Okay, So it's funny. We've always 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.880 talked about how we're basically the same person. Yes, so 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.480 we do have some parallel shared history there in some way. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.200 I have a bachelor's of science and biology. I have 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.000 a master's of science in epidemiology, and my PhD was 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:33.600 in ecology, evolution and conservation biology. And right now I 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:38.760 am a postdoctoral researcher in Finland. We're researching questions looking 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:44.720 at the role of different wildlife species in disease transmission. Awesome, yeah, 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:45.760 it's pretty wonderful. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.720 Okay, the next question. I like this question. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:49.439 This is fun. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.800 Is from Micah who asked, how much do you know 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.960 about what the other Aaron is going to be talking about? 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.480 This is a great question. It's such a good question question. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.360 We know very very little, like and we do this 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.320 on purpose. We learned I think. I think it was 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.640 when we recorded the very first episode and I was 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.360 researching it and I couldn't stop talking to you about 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.840 it before we recorded, and then we were both like, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.440 wait a second, we need to stop talking about this 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.160 and capture this, like we should be recording. First of all, 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.600 that's like twice the amount of work if I have 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.520 to learn the biology of something on my own, I 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.080 don't want to learn the history. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.160 That's why. That's why you do it. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.360 And so yeah, so that's it is we do go 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.360 into a blonde and yes, there are some things, of 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:45.120 course that that we might know more about than others, 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.600 but there are so many other things always that that 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:49.960 we're each going to learn. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.320 Yeah, I think that's we decided to do that because 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.120 we wanted for this podcast to be conversational and relax 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.760 and I think that's one of the things that keeps 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.680 it that way, is that we get to learn what 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.400 you guys are learning at the same time, which is 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.440 really really fun. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:06.640 Yeah. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:12.000 Yeah, so I'm not lying when I say what some 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.400 people think I'm faking it. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.360 I'm not dumb. We're not faking it. I'm a terrible actress. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:23.920 So really, okay, okay, all right this. I am so 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.000 excited to read this email. This email was so cute 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.400 that we wanted to read it out specifically. Yeah, okay, 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.800 here we go. This email has been dictated by nine 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.480 year old Autumn with help from six year old. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.280 Read I'm dead already, Yes, I know, I know. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.360 Dear Eron's. Your podcast is so good. I want to 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.240 listen to it every night, even if I get scared, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:53.880 Like with the yellow fever episode. I like that you 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.520 tell the history and biology of dangerous pathogens. Please do 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:03.880 another crossover episode with indefensive plants. You're welcome, and maybe 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.600 an episode about strep throat. That would be a great idea. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.760 Definitely on our list. I want to know if you 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.840 go to your local library to find information, because my 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.800 mom is a teacher of librarians and we love the library. Yes, 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.520 I love to go to my local library. The library 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:26.640 is my happy place. Like am I'm not lying that 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.960 one of my favorite memories of during my PhD in 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.680 Illinois is when it would snow in the winter on 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.160 a weekend and I would wake up and the ground 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.200 everywhere would be covered with fresh snow, and I would 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.560 put on my boots and grab my jacket and walk 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.520 however long it was, to the library and just grab 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.840 a book and start reading and just sit there for hours. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.080 Yeah, we love libraries. They're fantastic libraries. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.400 Okay, but there's more here, and there's more. How old 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.160 are you? This is from Reid, who's the six year old? 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.000 And also what were you like when you were not? 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.600 So I can say how we can say how old 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.600 we are? Right, that's fine. Sure, I'm thirty one now 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.040 just turned. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:11.000 I'm thirty two. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.320 Oh and what were we like when we were nine? 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:17.919 I was very nerdy? 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:19.919 Tell me more about that. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.080 Well, okay, so when I was nine, I think was 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.119 when we moved from San Diego to Irvine, and so 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.720 I didn't have a lot of friends obviously, like I 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:31.879 moved to a brand new school and stuff like that. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.240 And one of my mom's. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.600 Favorite stories to tell about me when I was nine 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.160 and a budding hufflepuff is that my mom was asking 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.800 the teacher like, oh, how is Aaron doing? You know, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:45.639 is she settling it? 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:46.080 Okay? 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:51.040 And the teacher was like, yeah, you know. About a 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.439 week after she started, we had uh, what do you 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.359 call it? Student council elections, and Aaron decided to run. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:00.800 Wow. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.240 I am not surprised I lost to you guys, but 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.000 I was like, yeah, sure, that sounds cool. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:08.159 I would do student council. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.320 I'll run for That's the kind of kid I was 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.199 when I was nine, just like no concept of the 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.720 fact that I had no friends at this new school. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.960 What did you do after school? What kind of what 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:20.959 kind of things did you do? 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.359 I don't know. I have such a bad memory. I 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.679 can't remember. I made a good friend as soon as 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.600 we moved there, Darren shout out. So I probably just 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.400 hung out with her and her sister all the time, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:37.480 did whatever they wanted to do. What were you like 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.440 when you were nine? Would we have been friends? 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.240 Yes, yeah, we would have been friends of course. Also, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.239 it's really funny, I didn't know that that's when you 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.840 moved from San Diego to irvine' that's around when I 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.639 moved from Florida to Kentucky. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.120 Oh okay, you're like nine, and fourth grade. Right, that's 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:54.679 about right. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.240 That was right before fourth grade. I started fourth grade 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.280 and in Kentucky we. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.359 Moved in the middle of the fourth grade year. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.320 Oh wow, we are we are even more the same 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:11.880 person than previously realized. How fun. Let's see though, when 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.920 I was nine, I was I mean, I was reading 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.200 all the time. That was actually when I first really, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.159 I think, fell in love with reading books, like reading 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:27.440 fiction books. My fourth grade teacher gave me, Missus Larson 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.600 gave me Animorphs and The Hobbit and both of that. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:37.240 So it's already shaping shaping my very very nerdy personality. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.560 And that's when I was like, wow, you can really 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.000 there's a whole world that you can just lose yourself in, 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.520 and it was really wonderful. I spent a lot of 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.159 time outside. I was always running through the woods, running 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:56.240 at playing soccer constantly. We built like a I remember 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.359 that year we built a haunted trail in the woods 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:04.280 of Kentucky. It was moving from Florida to Kentucky. Wasn't 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.120 that traumatic for me? I think I was excited because 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:14.120 my favorite summer holidays we would go to western North 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.560 Carolina and the Smokies and I would just spend the 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.600 whole time playing in creeks and catching fireflies and running 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.359 around and so to be in Kentucky and hookwork and 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.320 so to be in Kentucky and get to be outside 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.879 all the time was amazing. I still remember that the 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.720 magic of like you mean that there's I can just 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:33.640 run around here. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.040 Still, that's so cute, baby, Aaron. 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.520 So a nerdy, nerdy kid that just ran around outside. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.119 I bet we would have had fun together. 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:44.119 Definitely. 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:49.640 Okay, this is the fun. Also, Autumn Read and their 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.040 mom Christy, thank you so much. 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.720 That was the cutest email. Yeah, you loved it. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:59.159 The next question from jin easy peas are you a 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:00.919 cat or dog person? 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.159 Oh, this is a really challenge. Just kidding, I'm a 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:05.800 dog person. 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.479 If there was ever any doubt, Aaron Welsh is not 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:11.359 a cat person. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.440 I'm formally declaring for dogs right now. 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:19.720 I love both cats and dogs. I don't want to 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.119 declare for one or the other because I love them both. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.200 I can see, yeah, play on both sides. Keep it 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.280 everyone happy. That heffle puff, that's what you know. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:32.639 But I was on an episode of the per Cast, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.800 so I feel like that gives me some cat person 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:37.000 cred you know what I mean? 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:39.280 Sure, I don't know. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.040 I feel like it does. I thought I wasn't a 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.720 cat person enough to be on it, but I felt 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.360 very at home there, so. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.439 I think I just I would like to say I 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.560 had a horrible experience with a cat growing up. Our 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.080 family cat was was pure evil, and I'm sure that 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.520 even people who are cat people can't acknowledge that some 0:21:58.600 --> 0:21:59.680 cats can be pure evil. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.920 Yeah. I have dogs too, I mean, oh, absolutely absolutely. 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.160 But I could go into all of the merits of dogs, 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:15.400 but I won't. I will save it for another episode. Yeah, yeah, Okay. 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:21.240 This question from Jenna is what is your favorite part 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.800 of making the podcast? Oh? 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.840 That's a good question. My absolute favorite part. I feel 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:30.439 like I have a lot of favorite parts. Do you 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:32.800 have one specific good answer for this? 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:35.679 No, I feel like I don't have a good answer 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:36.480 for any of these. 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:41.520