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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

And we are coming at you around Thanksgiving. If you're listening to this as it publishes.

But we're talking about comfort. And this is certainly a season of comfort.

But comfort food, the feeling of comfort is something that we crave, that we seek out at various times throughout the years.

So don't run away if you are listening to this in July.

That's right, because you never know in July.

You might need a bit of comfort, cold comfort at that point from your air conditioner.

But, yeah, I mean, what I think about comfort, I think about quilts.

I think about hot cocoa.

And I think that some people are drawn more

to comfort than other people. Hmm. Yeah. I'm probably about, you know, halfway there. It doesn't,

you know, sure, I'll take some comfort, but I don't need it. I mean, I really like comfort. I mean,

I'm pro comfort because for me, I probably think, you know, in like a nice warm blanket that's good cat on your lap

that's good hot beverage of some kind I guess comfort I do tend to think of it especially

something I seek out during colder months yeah which also brings to mine like like chicken soup

something that I don't actually, nobody really likes chicken soup.

I mean, my wife makes delicious chicken soup, but for the most part, you're coming at chicken soup out of a sense of more than just wanting the taste,

but you want all the emotions that come with it and all the ideas about chicken soup that exist culturally, you know?

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