right off the bat right off the bat right off the bat hi um hi everybody i'm just gonna say it dear

if you're listening to this show and you're a dear meaning you please absolutely dear that

gallop and prance and apparently get hit by cars please chill and have ticks

and have ticks please chill dear i went home are they doing too much they're doing way too much

they're calm they need to calm down i went home over the weekend i'm not exaggerating and it's deer

mating season whatever in the northeast the Northeast, fine. But they're

running into the roads, guys. And I spotted at least 10 exploded deer along the way to and fro.

Wait, did you just say exploded deer? Exploded deer on the on the sides of the road like that were hit by cars and exploded

yeah oh well that's what usually happens when you hit a deer i i will say i if growing up in my

hometown which is in northern new jersey if we saw a deer every once in a while, we have these

like reservations near where I grew up. So like there'd be deer there, of course. And like we had, you'd see deer in like the forest or whatever on the highways. But only recently, I would say in the past five years, I was, I said this exact same thing. I didn't even know you were going to be talking about this, but this relates back. I said to my mom, I was like, mom, we are now like

living amongst the deer. Like I was taking a walk the other day. And they're just like literally five feet from me. We're like walking together on the sidewalks like they're busy streets. And they're just crossed in the street. They got to get to their jobs too, Darren. But they don't respect the crosswalks like humans do. So it's a little bit temperamental. Let's not ask too much of the deer. Let's not ask too much of the deer. Snoopy, don't go upstairs. When she goes upstairs, John, that means she's got a poop. And when she's got a poop. Oh. What does that mean? well, it means either I'm going to have an unhappy dog or an unhappy podcast partner.

And I choose to disappoint you over my beautiful, perfect dog.

But yeah, the deer, I couldn't see that.

I wouldn't want to see exploding.

No, it's a lot to see, especially when

you're driving. I hit a deer in two. Have you ever hit a deer driving by any chance?

Oh, God, no. God. Oh, God. Oh, God. That would terrify me. Let me tell you something. In 2009, I was driving

back to my college town. I was, was I still in school? I think I was technically still in school at that point.

And I was maybe half a mile from the exit after about an hour drive on the highway. And a deer,

let me, let me set this up for you. I'm driving along the highway. There's a grassy median and then the other

part of the highway going the opposite direction. And that grassy median, there was a concrete

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