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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know Fronhouse stuff Works dot Com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there, so you should know Jerry's

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Speaker 1: head chiggers. Yeah, me too, I have not. I'm really glad.

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Speaker 1: I was like sigger. It seems like Tracy is making

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Speaker 1: a pretty big deal out of this in this article. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tracy Wilson of Stuffy Mission History class wrote this, who

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Speaker 1: recently got married? Congratulations Tracy. Yeah, and she wrote if

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Speaker 1: you've ever heard her say the word mouth parts in

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Speaker 1: the show, Tracy wrote it, chances heart she wrote it.

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Speaker 1: She wrote ticks and mosquitoes. H did she write bees?

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Speaker 1: She did a whole insect sweet. She spent a lot

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Speaker 1: of time knee deep in insects. Yeah, and this is well,

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Speaker 1: this isn't even an insect spoiler. Oh, well, you just

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Speaker 1: removed the fact of the podcast. You think I think so,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you did. I'm just teasing. Okay, I'll

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Speaker 1: bet I know what you think it is because I

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Speaker 1: think the same thing. All right, Well we'll see, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I challenge you, I challenge you back. We throw down

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Speaker 1: the Gauntlet, which is glove. So Tracy did make a

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Speaker 1: big deal out of checkers, but apparently it's a big deal,

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Speaker 1: right Well, sure like if you ever had them, they're

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Speaker 1: no fun. No. The deeper I got into the um article,

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Speaker 1: the more I was like, oh, yeah, this does sound

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Speaker 1: really kind of awful. Yeah, and it's this is just

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Speaker 1: one everyone, there's another itch inducing episode. And speaking of

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Speaker 1: I got my first little bow to poison ivy. Congratulations. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was clearing out stuff over the weekend and I

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Speaker 1: was in poison ivy and I knew it. I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I've never had it before. This sounds very

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Speaker 1: familiar and um. But I was still I'm no dummy.

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Speaker 1: I know how Murphy's law works. So I said, I

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Speaker 1: just said that out loud. Well you just said that

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Speaker 1: out loud or you just said I I'm not allergic

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Speaker 1: to I thought you were saying like that. I'm no dummy.

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Speaker 1: I said that too, um, And I said, so you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna I'm gonna be careful and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go take a shower pretty soon afterwards. Um. And

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Speaker 1: so it's not bad, but there are probably five or

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Speaker 1: six little, tiny little sets of bumps on each leg pustules. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're not bad though. And I looked at him and said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, that's freaking poison ivy after all these

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Speaker 1: years finally got you. Yep, but not too bad. Like

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Speaker 1: my dad always said, poison Ivyll gets everybody one day,

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Speaker 1: said his big saying, uh so, anyway, speaking of itching,

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Speaker 1: that's my itch story of the day. And this will

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Speaker 1: make you itch because it made me itch while reading it.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right, so um, it's actually that's funny.

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Speaker 1: It didn't make me itch, maybe because I've never had it.

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Speaker 1: You're scratching yourself from pointing to myself, no weird place.

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Speaker 1: I'm pointing my finger to my skin and moving it around,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not scratting your so um. Everybody knows that

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Speaker 1: chiggers are insects that burrow into your skin and suck

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Speaker 1: your blood. Um. And I'm sorry you're being coy, my friend,

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Speaker 1: because you just lied three times. Burrow Oh, insects that

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Speaker 1: burrowind skin, that suck your blood. That's right, those are

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Speaker 1: there's three lies in there. This is like a highlights

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Speaker 1: We have to go pick out what's wrong with this picture.

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Speaker 1: Chiggers are not insects. They are erectnans. They are the

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Speaker 1: larvae of the harvest mite. They do not burrow into

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Speaker 1: your skin and suck your blood. But then are the bumps.

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Speaker 1: Well you're being coy again. But what they are actually

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Speaker 1: doing is maybe even grosser than sucking your blood. They

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Speaker 1: are liquefying your cells into a slurry that they can

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Speaker 1: drink from a straw made of your body. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: Is that the fact for you? Yeah? Alright, but we'll

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Speaker 1: get there the same one first one. First of all,

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Speaker 1: the first time we've ever high fives in an episode?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Right? Sure? I I would have imagined that

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Speaker 1: high fiving during episodes. I guess not. No, So you

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Speaker 1: said that, um, these things are the larva of harvest mites, right,

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Speaker 1: and harvest harvest mites are arachnets. They're related to spiders,

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Speaker 1: so they're not insects. But you can understand why people

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Speaker 1: would think that um, siggers are or are insects, because

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Speaker 1: chiggers have chiggers. The larva of the harvest might have

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Speaker 1: of the problems with chiggers is you're not gonna see

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Speaker 1: like a mosquito landing on you or a flea, even

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Speaker 1: like you think a flea is small, a chigger is

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Speaker 1: can see several of them together basically forming a clump. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: from Kid and Plays haircut or Aman Schumpert's more contemporaneously.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is a total kid and play haircut.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that Amman Schumpert delivered his own child

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Speaker 1: in his apartment on purpose? Accidentally. The kids just came

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Speaker 1: right there and there and everything was good, totally great. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's great news. He's a basketball player. By the way, people,

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Speaker 1: the boo, for the calves boo. So if you're an

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Speaker 1: adult harvest mite and you've grown up from a chigger

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Speaker 1: little are rac need to have around because they're gonna

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Speaker 1: eat the eggs of other pests like mosquitoes. Right, so

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Speaker 1: as the second step the nymphs right after the larva.

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Speaker 1: It's the larva that suck. They don't suck. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the larva, you know, you gotta have them, but

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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully they just stay in the yard. Although

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Speaker 1: these things are holy terrors to see if you are

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Speaker 1: on their scale, Like if that thing's coming after you

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Speaker 1: are parasitic though, um, they don't. The larva are. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like the fleas and the ticks and the mosquitoes know

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Speaker 1: they eat your skin cells. Right, So here's what happens.

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Speaker 1: Larva hatch um. Apparently, an adult female harvest might will

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Speaker 1: you are familiar with chiggers, if you've ever had them

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Speaker 1: be totally overrun with chiggers, but then you just turn

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Speaker 1: grass that is totally devoid of them. Yeah, I get

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Speaker 1: ask me. So, the eggs are laid in one place,

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Speaker 1: like blood meal, Give me a blood meal that's not

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Speaker 1: actually made of blood. That's basically what they say. Okay, Uh.

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Speaker 1: like a complete lose lose situation when a chigger bites

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Speaker 1: They don't latch onto your skin, they don't burrow into

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Speaker 1: with them, they're gone. Um. The well they leave behind

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Speaker 1: get the scratch or the horrible itch. It's lose loose.

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Speaker 1: They need to stay away from humans. Well they do

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Speaker 1: because there are a lot of animals that don't mind

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Speaker 1: they don't. They don't want to be on a human

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Speaker 1: And I mean you would think, like how long does

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Speaker 1: It's like seven eight days. Figure out chigger years or

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Speaker 1: probably it's probably most of their life. Yeah, you know. So, Um,

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Speaker 1: and they're actually I mean they are pests, they are parasites.

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Speaker 1: But um, there's only like at least one as far

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Speaker 1: the Lepo Trobidium delience might. It's common to Asia, and

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Speaker 1: it can carry typhus, a form of typhus which can

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Speaker 1: Chiggers will just annoy you. Yeah, that's it. They're basically

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Speaker 1: just a total annoyance, and by annoying humans, they die.

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Speaker 1: Do we cover fleas? Yeah? I want to say, yes,

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Speaker 1: they definitely need a blood meal. We've covered fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, spiders, scabies,

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Speaker 1: I guess we should stop. No, we keep going, my friend, um,

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Speaker 1: brain hurt so bad, chuck. All right, So what I

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Speaker 1: was talking about was the wonders of the chigger. They

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Speaker 1: spend usually hours looking for a good place to go

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Speaker 1: But they don't peer skin very easily, at least not

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Speaker 1: E UM and another name for that is the jigger

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Speaker 1: flee And they think that chigger came from just sort

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Speaker 1: of matching those two names together, even though it's not

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Speaker 1: the same thing. No, it's not. Those actually do burrow

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Speaker 1: into your skin and they lay eggs there, and then

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Speaker 1: the eggs like the feast on you. So not good.

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Speaker 1: But I guess there's just nothing but confusion surrounding chiggers. Yeah, nothing,

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Speaker 1: so chuck. If you want to protect yourself against chigger

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Speaker 1: invasions in your armpits and your underpants bands, what do

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Speaker 1: you do? Well? If you're working, if you work in

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Speaker 1: your yard and your garden a lot um, you wear

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Speaker 1: long sleeves, wear pants to you know, cover up as

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Speaker 1: much body as you can physically. Um, you can wear

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Speaker 1: deep if you want, or any other kind of insect repellent.

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Speaker 1: This is. You can also use sulfur. I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of that. I haven't either. I wonder if you like,

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Speaker 1: you just burn into scenar you or something. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It would smell like bathing egg water. Yeah, God, your

435
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Speaker 1: bathing like that? You know what? Just I will never

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Speaker 1: ever try because I hate pickled things anyway, But pickled

437
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Speaker 1: eggs they're they're not bad. They're usually a little too sweet.

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Speaker 1: There's to see those things floating in a jar, and

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Speaker 1: it's like I feel like I'm in a hospital, the

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Speaker 1: like where you found the head. Yeah, the the I

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Speaker 1: think it's the Chinese, probably Japanese and Korean. Two. There's

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Speaker 1: a type of pickled leggs where they soak them in

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Speaker 1: a brine like and it's the saltiest thing will ever eat.

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Speaker 1: And they're mucky and brown. Those are those are not good.

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Speaker 1: The other ones are fine. They're just not they don't

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Speaker 1: taste that great. I think I don't want food soaked

447
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Speaker 1: in liquid. I think pickled stuff is really good for you.

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00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: I mean I hate pickled things, but just love pickled

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Speaker 1: every period. Like soaking something in a solution, I just

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Speaker 1: don't want. I don't even like marinades. I'm a dry

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Speaker 1: rub guy. Are you really? Yeah? You know I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that about you. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know like

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Speaker 1: sauces of any kind or is it the pre soaking,

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Speaker 1: like pre cooking soaking that well, pre marinating I don't like.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're if you have a quality French

456
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Speaker 1: saucier at your disposal, I'll take a little alright, but

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Speaker 1: put it on the side in a plastic cup. But

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like. There was this place near

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Speaker 1: Emily Shop that was it's now closed. I kind of

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00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: feel bad for saying this, but I think I know why.

461
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: Because they used too much sauce. Dude. They had this delicious,

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Speaker 1: crispy crispy fried chicken that they dumped this gravy sauce

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Speaker 1: on top. They never just put it on the side. No,

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Speaker 1: and by the time it got to the table it

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Speaker 1: wasn't Crispy fried chicken anymore. I just don't get it. Huh.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll I'll eat a sauce. It's yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: describing a smothered chicken. That's totally different. But it was fried. Huh,

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Speaker 1: fried and smothered. I can't do that. Those two things

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00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: are never supposed to come together. Um. If you want

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Speaker 1: to see if you have chiggers on your property, um,

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Speaker 1: Tracy says, you can take a piece of black paper,

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Speaker 1: black construction paper, maybe from your child, right, give me that,

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Speaker 1: you stupid kid, and go out and lay it on

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Speaker 1: the ground, uh, near where you think there might be chiggers,

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Speaker 1: and you might see little, tiny, tiny red things. She

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Speaker 1: doesn't just say that. She says to take a piece

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Speaker 1: of paper into five physics by standing it up on

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Speaker 1: its edge, and then the chiggers will follow their natural

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00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: urges and climb to the top of the paper. Like,

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Speaker 1: what world does Tracy live? Well, and I mean you're

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Speaker 1: you know, you're in the grass. You can stand a

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00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: piece of paper up in the grass. Maybe not if

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00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: you take care of your grass. This isn't like that

484
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Speaker 1: Twilight Zone episode where Darren from the Which like flips

485
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Speaker 1: you know what happened in Pe in college one time?

487
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Speaker 1: the paper mate pens that had the the cap with

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Speaker 1: the just sort of flat top. Yes, he just flipped

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Speaker 1: it up in the air, meant to catch it, didn't

491
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Speaker 1: It hit the ground and bounce and landed completely straight

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Speaker 1: up and down on its cap. That's exactly like that

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Speaker 1: Twilight z Own episode. He could hear everyone's thoughts after

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Speaker 1: that point. Now, well, I drop that class immediately. That's smart.

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Speaker 1: Come out of here, very smart. Where you like which

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Speaker 1: ran out the door and you could do in Satan's work?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, well that's chiggers. Oh we didn't

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Speaker 1: say if you really want to control chiggers in your yard,

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Speaker 1: just take care of your yard. They will go away.

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Speaker 1: They won't want to hang out there. There won't be

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Speaker 1: long stalks of grass for them to climb up to.

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Speaker 1: So that's my injection story. Like I said, I'm not

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Speaker 1: if it's worse than the five in the nose. I'd

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