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Thanks for listening to this very self-involved monologue.

On to the show.

Hello there, Dave.

Hi, my little, oh God, I haven't thought of one. My little tip mouse, how are you doing?

You have one job in this phone conversation. I carry you through the entire rest of it.

All you have to do is think of a baked good.

My little warm loaf of fresh baked bread, my little cornhole, little donut.

That's delicious.

I love that.

Cornhole?

What's a cornhole?

Mousetrap? Mousetrapp would be a good New Zealand one.

Hot pocket. That's very American. My little hot pocket, my little steamy hot pocket.

What about Lamington? Do you guys have that?

Hey, don't flip the premise of this podcast on me.

Well, let me tell you about Lamingtons, guys. I'm David Farrier, New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick. Do you know what a Lamington is? Nope. If you come to New Zealand one day, you'll find out. Now, at the end of last year, we did an episode called the Parasocial Listener, which was all about Nick, a flightless bird listener who

wrote in with a pretty intense story. Nick had been diagnosed with a rare kind of brain tumor,

rare in that you can remove it, but it keeps coming back. Nick has had multiple surgeries,

each one seeing part of his brain removed, which has had some pretty interesting side

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