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So this is probably definitely a sexual emergency, like level, maybe eight-ish or ten.

When did pants become a thing?

When did pants become a thing? When did pants become a thing?

I love this listener's question.

Unfortunately, this listener and I have opposite schedules.

She goes to the Flamingo enclosure on Mondays.

I go Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

But we couldn't pass up investigating.

And when we did, it got pretty pantaloonie.

So I invited someone who has spent years listening to people tell their closed stories, writer and artist Emily Spivak, to the studio today to hear this yarn.

I.

How many puns are two?

I don't know.

I've already counted.

I think there have been two thus far.

So you're not into sophisticated jokes.

Are you pro pants?

Yes.

I am now exclusively wearing pants. Why are you pants exclusive? I don't know. I think I just feel far more comfortable in pants. I don't know

exactly when that happened. It was a handful of years ago. Maybe too, I didn't like the pants that were out there. You know, when like, I didn't like, I didn't like the pants that were out there.

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