My 8th grade wrestling partner was the worst smelling human I've ever

encountered in my entire life. I've never experienced anything like it in all my travels anywhere with people

of any age and any circumstances that was the worst.

His reputation around the middle school was that he had bad butt hygiene because he smelled a lot like

poop to put it lightly. But I knew the truth because I'd talk to him a couple times. His family worked on a pig farm and I just honestly think he didn't know.

He was just around the pig farm and with the pigs and in the pig poop all the time.

And I think he thought he may be cleaned up but you know

eighth grade we're not exactly good at hygiene anyway as dudes and then add to that you know a

working pig farm and the kid would just come to school reeking every day and and it

smelled like but as a result. Well I'm in wrestling and he's in wrestling and to

my horror I get assigned him as my all year

wrestling partner that year and so unsurprisingly that was a horrifyingly

unpleasant experience grappling with him getting all sweaty and rolling around

and it's just nasty and there were times when I would have to battle back the impulse

to gag and I had been trained by my parents to be a very nice young man so I really didn't want him to feel bad.

I never said anything about it other than to thousands of you on a podcast.

So as you would expect this kid suffered socially, horribly.

Nobody sat by him at lunch. I mean, you couldn't, you could not eat and smell that at the same time.

It was just impossible. However bad you're picturing it being, it's worse than that. And in school, nobody sat by him, and people would give him a wide birth. He was a nice enough kid, but he just, it was impossible. You couldn't function around it.

So my eighth grade brain was not surprised to find that it was horrible to wrestle with that.

What my eighth grade brain was surprised to discover is that that stink transfers.

All of that sweat and back then I had my hair on my head and stuff.

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