I'm going to branch out a little bit today. Don't really feel like talking about medicine. I figure,

hey, it's my podcast. I can blab about whatever I want. You know, I woke up this morning. I was

thinking about an episode that happened in my life about maybe 15 years ago, came home from work one day,

and my wife, she was in the office talking with one of her

friends on the phone, and the doors were closed, but she talks really loud so you can pretty much

hear her whenever she's on the phone if you're like a hundred yards away. Not that hard to hear.

And she was telling her friend, listen, you got to stay away from

these cool guys, the jocks, you know, all the people that are popular. I got myself a nerd and

they are the best. You have to get yourself a nerd. And she's not laughing. She's giving serious

advice here. This is something where she's telling her friend

how it is. And for a moment that was a little bit hard to take, but let's face it, she's right

about nerdy guys, right? They have jobs. They aren't looking to go out to the bar. They

would rather just like sit home and read. And so I was taking it back at first, I was like, oh my god, I'm a nerd.

I like science, I like comic books, I spend my time analyzing four-hour Grateful Dead shows from 30 years ago,

reading, watching 60 minutes and frontline documentaries and all these documentaries on Netflix and wherever.

You know, a nurse one time asked me, she had read my novel and she liked and she said,

how do I have all this time to do things like write and a lot of things I do outside of medicine?

And there actually is an answer which is basically what I don't do,

meaning I don't watch much sports. I don't care about anything that would make it into People

magazine. I don't go to church or synagogue. No, sports, listen, I watch about half of each Denver

Nuggets game or Broncos game when they're still in contention for the playoffs because I only watch half because I fast forward through a lot of it.

I watch the final four in March Madness and parts of Olympia.

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