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My name is Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. So Patrick, have you ever had a man cold?

I kind of love and hate the phrase man cold. So no, I have never personally had a man cold,

although I understand that they do exist. I won't deny their existence.

I just learned of him the other day. My daughter, she's 24, was at the house and she was referencing

one of her brothers and she said that he fell victim to man cold.

And I'm like, what's a man cold?

And then I found out that it is, I guess, if I understand it, right, at least when a guy gets a cold they act like the end of the world is upon them

They lay in bed they mope around they sniffle they carry boxes of Kleenexes, and meanwhile women, at least according to my daughter,

they go through all kinds of hardship and difficulty and they never mention it, they

never complain, they just do it. I have a different context. I've heard man cold more in the marital

child rearing sense. So the man cold comes out when a husband gets a cold and in order to neglect his husbandly and father's responsibility,

he maximizes, he dramatizes his sickness and pretends as though he can't do anything. And so the wife has to take care of the kids.

She has to manage his life and everything else.

But again, I want to acknowledge the existence of the man cold

because I know men who 100% do this.

Not you.

I'm me very sincere.

I really don't think I pull the main call.

The closest I get to it is I throw out my back occasionally,

but that is very sincere.

I've become basically crippled for days days on end so maybe some but that's not a man cold.

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