Hey everybody welcome don't make me come back there. We are a funny

podcast about family. My name is Dustin Nickerson. I'm a stand-up

comedian and the host of the aforementioned podcast alongside me, across the way from me,

adjacent to me, perpendicular to me, is my lovely wife, Melissa Nickerson,

in the southwest corner of our studio slash our daughter's bedroom

just across the way perpendicular to us. I'm just using all the few. Did I say perpendicular? I said adjacent. You know, I think so. I'm just throwing out just general loose geography terms and is Melissa and we're here in studio recording our

episode you are here I'm physically you were not here mentally on the last episode mentally and emotionally I'm physically here. You were not here mentally on the last episode.

Mentally and emotionally I'm working on it. I, you know, I can't just turn those things on and off.

No, I know that. And honestly, I don't know that you can turn it on.

Sometimes you can and it's, you know what it is, it's hard, it's hard to catch.

It's like vacuuming a bee is what I would say which is what I watched

the Queen bee I would I just watched a man vacuum bees from our backyard for the better part of half an hour

lay on the cement and clearly the most visually

unattractive part of our yard.

Literally when you go into the gate,

just cement and some weird little astroturf for some reason that just was there when we got

that there you did not that was there no you did you put do you okay you want the whole story

yes okay so we used to have a little place structure. I remember the

for our toddler. Yeah, it's right off the kitchen. It's in the it's before you get to

the backyard. This little not flat cement area.

No way this story can be more than 30 seconds,

which was I wanted some padding there,

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