The Quirk Factor: Showcasing Unusual and Unique Talents

Have you ever wanted to wow a crowd with a strange talent or make your friends laugh with a party trick they’ve never seen before?

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SPEAKER_00 0:14

Welcome to the Cashley Show.

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Thank you.

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We are Kevin and Ashley. We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good things happening all around us. Today we are starting off with a shout-out. It is Canon and Karsten's birthday this week. So we just want to say happy birthday.

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Happy birthday, little guys. Two special little guys.

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Next up is Laffy Taffy. Kevin?

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Yes. Yes, ma'am.

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What type of tree fits in your hand?

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Palm tree.

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Uh yep.

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Hit me with another one. That was too easy.

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Well, I gotta find one. Hold on.

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That's okay. We can we can edit time.

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What do you call two monkeys who share an Amazon Prime account?

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Sneaky. No. Evolved. Nope. Two monkeys that share an Amazon Prime account. I was not expecting this. I don't know what do you call them?

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Prime mates. Oh, dang it. All right, next. Bird of the day.

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Alright. Shim Shimmy Dami Bizzle. Is that what you got for me?

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Nope.

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The real word?

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Two real words put together.

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Well, okay.

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Smell feast.

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This is just like a lot of smells, like a lot of really good smells coming at you. It's a smell feast.

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I don't I don't know why this has anything to do with it, but it's a parasite or moocher who shows up uninvited just to get free food or drinks.

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A smell feast? Because they can smell the feast, so then you come run in.

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Yeah.

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What's going on over here? We'll have some of that pizza.

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Good luck using it in today's episode.

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A smell feast.

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Today's episode is the Quirk Factor, showcasing unusual and unique talents. Before we start, I'm going to tell you.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Today we'll explore the strange world of extraordinary human talents.

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Oh, I have all of them. I'm going to tell you right now.

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Well, you might not want all of them. I can smell when a feast is. These are the talents you never knew you needed and probably can't explain at dinner parties. Alright. So first one is moving your eyes independently. The ultimate party trick to freak out your friends by pretending to be a chameleon on the loose. This would freak me out if I saw someone doing this. I can't imagine like how that would hurt your eyes.

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Can I do it? I doubt it. Let's see. So I'll try and go cross-eyed.

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Okay.

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Well, now I can't do it.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Okay, I won't watch you.

SPEAKER_04 2:44

No, I mean you have to watch me, otherwise I can just say I did it. So are they cross-eyed?

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Yeah. I hope they're following together. Try it again. Yeah, you already do. Don't do that anymore. Okay. Let me write that one. Cat eyes freak me out.

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I think I can only do it with the right eye. Yeah. I'll try again, right?

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Okay.

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It's hard to do it with an audience.

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Do you want to go look in the mirror? Tell me if you're not going to be able to do it.

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I don't think I'd be able to see anything. Like everything's like so out of focus.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah. Alright, so we're cross-eyed. Was I able to do it with that one?

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Yeah, a little bit on the right. Not as much. Yeah.

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The right eye is much more.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Okay, don't do that. And my eyes hurt.

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Alright.

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I saw, I don't know if this is on your list, but I saw the other day. People there are people who can contract and dilate their pupils.

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Okay.

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On command. Like not just when light shines, right? How you have like the autonomic or auto whatever response. And like they can some of them can like they do it both, but other ones can do it individual eyes. They can so like their let's build my drink.

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Let's put it on a hard surface.

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So they can like their left eye and right eye, like they'll like differently, like making their pupils, and it looks wild. Huh. It is pretty crazy looking.

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One of our kids can make their eyesight blurry. Stop stop doing that.

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Well, yeah, you just like unfocus. I do that all the time. Like when I'm tired and just like and I stop focusing. And the world is a blur and I let it wash over me.

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I think he strains to do it. I don't know. I don't know. Anyways, next one. In word whispering. So impress your friends or confuse them by talking while inhaling. Or you have to do it louder.

SPEAKER_04 4:31

No. You're a ghost. So I can so if I talk while I'm going while I'm breathing out?

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Yeah.

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And then talk while I'm breathing in. It just sounds super weird.

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Yeah. I guess probably everyone can do that.

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Yeah, because you're but it's just weird. The sound's not being projected.

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Can you whistle breathing in?

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Yes.

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Do win one long inhale. Good job. That's probably not a okay. That's good. That's all.

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I could have gone longer, but you made me laugh. Don't ask for it if you don't want it.

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Well, I didn't mean to do it the rest of the show.

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You said do one long inhale.

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The next one is touch your elbows behind your back. Attempt at your own risk. This is less of a party trick and more of a potential audition for circus circuit.

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Circus de ole?

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Yep, that one.

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Circus de ole? That's not I am still not saying it right. But anyways, no, I'm way too muscular for this.

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My body hurts too much. I'm not doing that.

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Could you have done it though? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Well, my my shoulder is hurting a lot, so I can't.

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Right, she's got that old shoulder. I'm talking about when you were young.

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I don't know. I don't think I ever tried.

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Sure. But I like I didn't know you when you were younger, like in your teens.

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Yeah, I was in early 20s. More flexible and tumbling and stuff when I was young. Right. Maybe.

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I imagine you could have done it.

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Probably. The next one is the belly roll. For those times when you want to impress your friends and also look like your stomach is trying to send Morse code. Bonus points if you can do SOS with your stuff.

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Yeah, I've seen people do it. I can't do this.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

Yeah, no. Sometimes things that people do are weird.

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All I can do is make it pooch out.

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Alright, the next one is the tongue roll, where they like do like the waves. Yeah, I can't do that either. Yeah, I can't do that either. There's the other tongue ones in a minute. We'll get to those in a second. The next one is the coin drop. So this one, you drop a coin from your forehead and catch it in your mouth.

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This seems How did anyone discover that they can disgusting do this?

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Well, I know there's what are those game minute trips?

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Those are like party trick type games?

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Yeah, like there's the Oreo on your head, and you have to move your face around and try to get it in your mouth. So I don't know if that came from this or this was something particularly.

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Maybe they were out of cookies, so like uh I have a quarter. I have a dirty, dirty quarter.

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Who wants to try to catch in their own?

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Would you like to wipe it all over your face and then put it in your mouth?

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Mm-hmm. Like a face full of zits and be very sick tomorrow.

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Got a strong immune immune system.

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The next one is synasthes.

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Oh, where you can like smell colors and stuff? Like your senses are crossed.

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Yes, this is one sense or mental process automatically and involuntary triggers another. For example, you might see the color purple when someone plays a musical note, or tastes chocolate when you read certain words. Suddenly the world becomes much more interesting, and one of our kids does something like this.

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Really? Yeah. I didn't know that.

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Mm-hmm.

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Hmm. It seems like it'd be pretty cool to be able to like like I've heard people maybe this isn't quite the same thing, but they're like the number like seven is like a beautiful number, and like they like describe like this be super artistic. Yeah, right. I don't I don't know, but that just kind of reminds me of that. It's like when I take our dog for a walk, right? Like I used to like just tug him along all the time, like stop smelling everything. Like, but then like I thought about it, right? I was like, oh, dogs like a hundred times more smell than us or whatever, right? I'm just thinking, like, if there was a rainbow up in the sky, like a full-on double rainbow, right? I would want to stop and look at it for a second, right? And I was like, oh, that's probably what he's smelling. He's smelling like a double rainbow everywhere he goes, right? Like, and so then I stopped tugging on him. I'm like, yeah, go ahead and smell your smell. Like you're smelling rainbows. I'm not gonna take that from you.

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Yep. All right, so there are dozens of ways your brain can remix reality. Here are some of the most popular ones. So these are different types of the thing we just talked about. So graph, graphemy color. This is where every math test looks like a rave flyer because the numbers and letters come in shades and colors.

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Yeah, that's kind of talking about. We're like they're talking about the like the numbers have visual. That's not definitely not it for me. I am not in that camp. The seven, it looks like a seven, looks just like a nine, but different.

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Yeah, I don't see things. I'm definitely not creative and don't see any of this stuff. Chromothesia. It's like having a DJ in your brain. Sounds make your mind light up with colors, shapes, and movement.

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So you see sound? Mm-hmm. That'd be weird.

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Yeah, they're pretty weird.

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So there I don't know if this is in that vein. But like often I'll have my eyes closed because it's one of my mini naps during the day. But like loud sounds and stuff like that, like are bright. Like when my eyes are closed and there's like loud sounds. Oh my god. Like it it's I can it's bright. I don't like kind of like if you were to like, you know, flash a flashlight or something, deal with those loud sounds. I don't know if that's in the same vein or that's interesting.

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But only when your eyes are closed.

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Yeah, I mean it might happen regular, but it's not right. There's so much other light that it Yeah, I don't notice it. Maybe I don't know. Clap in front of my face right now. Nothing.

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All right, next is lexical gustatory.

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Gustatory. So you hear words?

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When words literally have a taste in your mouth and taste like specific consistently.

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That's what gustatory means? Because I'm thinking gust like a gust of wind.

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Yeah.

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So our I said you hear words. Every like, yeah. That's pretty normal.

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One of our kids does this, they taste words. Like certain words have a taste. And I just w when they said that, I was like, what? Never heard of that in my life.

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Did we drop all of our kids or just the one?

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Next is spatial sequence? Spadle? Spatial? Spatial. Thanks. Spatial sequence.

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Took me a minute.

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Spatial sequence. This is a phenomenon in which ordered information such as numbers, months, or an alphabet with alphabet, is automatically visualized and perceived as having physical locations in space. So many people with disability say they have excellent memories.

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Because they can like see things like they're all in a sp spot and categorized.

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Yeah, since they since everything has a set address in their mind, they can easily recall events by mentally traveling to that spot where the memory is stored.

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Whoa.

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That seems crazy.

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That's computer science stuff right there. Like you're storing stuff in memory address and then going to go get it when you need it. That's that's interesting. What's that called?

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Spatial sequence.

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You give me a look. I'm like, what? Oh, yeah.

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I already forgot how to say it.

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Spatial sequencing?

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Spatial sequence.

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Spatial sequence. Hmm. Okay.

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All right. Next up, trivia. Oh. Which three countries make up Scandinavia?

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Uh Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Good job though. I didn't check to make sure it was right.

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Say those again.

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Norway, Sweden, Denmark.

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I thought the Scandinavian countries were those three countries coming down. I'm pretty sure that's I mean, like I guess I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that that's Finland, Norway, Sweden. Are those three? And like Denmark is down lower on like the actual European.

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It's Denmark, Norway, Sweden.

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Yeah. So where is Denmark? Hmm. Okay. And Finland's over here. Okay.

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Next up is multiplying large numbers in your head. For when you ought to oppress math teachers or win bets. Next is elbow licking. The holy grail of party tricks. Attempted at the end.

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Let's go back to the numbers.

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Okay.

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Like how big are you talking?

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I don't know.

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Like 32,526 times 18,324? Sure. Or like big number.

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That's a big number.

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That would take I mean, I guess. That's kind of relative.

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But take me. I don't know if I could do it out in my head. I think I have to write something.

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Well, right. Because like I don't think mine's not a party trick. I'm like kind of like I can solve a Rubik's cube, but not in like seven seconds or three seconds, like those like people do, right? So it's different. Like I'm like physically doing the math, and yeah, you get much bigger than like four or five numbers, and like I can't track that.

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Yeah.

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So I don't think that I fall in that category. I can do multiplication if that's what you're says large numbers.

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I don't know what large is, though. Next is elbow licking, the holy grail of party tricks. Attempt if you dare, but beware. You may pull a muscle and look like a confused flamingo. Nice.

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Yeah. Again, I'm just too strong, you know, too muscly. Big boned. That stuff. What about you? You're pretty flexible. And you have a big tongue.

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We're not talking about things we do till the end.

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Why? I'm not talking about them. I'm not gonna remember them all. This is like large map large numbers. I'm only remembering the first three or four.

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I can lick my elbow.

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You can?

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So yeah. So I remember I was working at hold on. I was very. No, let me tell you the story first. I was very at the crit union, and like we would trade emails and stuff, and one email was like, Oh, lick your elbow. And so I did, and then I scrolled down and it was like, people can't really do that. But it did. I'm a freak. Used to be able to do better when I was younger.

SPEAKER_04 14:25

Sure. Wasn't as we were all more flexible when we were younger.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

I was skinnier.

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I like that you have to wipe it off. Nice.

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All right. Whistling without lips. Because someone needs I'd have to take my lips off to do this. I think it's just like finger in your mouth.

SPEAKER_04 14:42

Oh, yeah, the two. I don't know if I've just a bunch of air blowing. Did I do it?

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That was close.

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Yeah, I don't think I can do that.

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All right. Hyperaccurate geographical recall. Mastering instantly identifying obscure locations. So they could be like, this is on the corner of Weston Elm.

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Oh yeah. Yeah.

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Like I can I can see things around where I am. Not necessarily remember addresses, but I remember where things are. But like in New York, Weston Elm is what?

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Right. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, there was a a guy when I moved here that we used to hang out with. Mm-hmm. That he was like that. He knew Oh really? Like, yeah, just he had like this giant like map in his head and could like give you directions like anywhere. You're like, oh, was that wasn't there a burger kidding? It's like, oh yeah, you're gonna go and like then you get there.

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That's crazy.

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Yeah.

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Alright. Next is one foot skipping.

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Isn't this just hopping?

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Oh that's the ultimate way to impress playground crowds and confuse everyone by jumping over your own leg while holding your foot. Oh, okay. I would say this is one legged jump rope, but whatever. I'm not make up the names. I definitely I don't know if I could do this when I was younger, but definitely can't do it now.

SPEAKER_04 16:06

I could maybe do it now. I I definitely could do it when I was younger.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure you could. You were very athletic when you were younger. You're still athletic, but that's cool. Hey.

SPEAKER_04 16:14

I well. I accept that I peaked when I was 18. So I'll just been downhill. That's fine. I had a good run those teen years.

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All right. Next is catching popcorn or a grape in your mouth. Yeah. You can do that.

SPEAKER_04 16:29

Yep. Catch lots of things. I can't do that. Was it at the movies that I was throwing it up with the two what was it with our the two nieces?

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Was that the movie?

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I don't remember. I was throwing something high in the air and catching it.

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I sat different in a different room.

SPEAKER_04 16:42

No, not the movie like we just went to. Oh. I just mean at the movie theater. You did like outside.

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You did somewhere with them, but I don't remember where it was.

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Maybe it was at Lagoon.

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That makes sense. Probably. Alright, next is poof.

SPEAKER_04 16:54

Excuse me? Oh, yeah, but also I threw it really high. Like 30 feet in the air.

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He's really good at catching it in his mouth.

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I've chipped a lot of teeth.

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I can't do it one time.

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Okay, now get back to your poofing.

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Perfect spoonerisms.

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What? Like super good at cuddling? Is that what?

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No, no. This happens when your brain works faster than your mouth. It's a tongue-twisting party trick that lets you turn fighting a liar into lighting a fire. It's sure to confuse, amuse, and sometimes accidentally insult your friends. I do this all the time.

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Yeah, yeah. Words are hard, you know?

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They're hard. Next is hyperthymecia. Near perfect memory. The human time machine. Do you remember what you had for lunch, June 12th, 2004? These people do. Kevin's memory is way better than mine, but it's probably not that good.

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No. No. Not at all.

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Next is hyper speed talking. Speaking at over 300 words per minute while maintaining perfect clarity.

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I would have to hear this. Yeah. Like, can you even hear 300 words a minute?

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Well, I definitely would lose focus on them because that's too much.

SPEAKER_04 18:12

Right. I mean, like I listen to like audiobooks and things like that, like 1.5.5 and stuff like that. But yeah, you start getting up around like two, and not only does it like do you lose like any sort of like storytelling mechanics, but yeah, it's yeah, you start to I can't do anything else. I have to then just start focusing on that.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

You're listening at 1.5 is super hard for me because my brain likes to wander and I have to like totally focus on what they're saying, and I don't like it. So I definitely couldn't listen to someone at that time.

SPEAKER_04 18:43

That's like me at at two.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:46

Yeah. Yes. When we listen to books together and stuff, and you're listening to it at just regular speed, I'm just like, ugh, oh, this is so slow. These people talk this slowly.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Yeah, and when you do 1.5, I'm like, I gotta do something else. I can't do this. Alright, next up is Cashley's take. We have solicitors today.

SPEAKER_04 19:06

We did have?

SPEAKER_00 19:07

No, that's what we're talking about. Solicitors. What are your feelings on them?

SPEAKER_04 19:11

Yeah, they're they're just doing their job.

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I loathe them.

SPEAKER_04 19:16

I know you do.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

We have a sign on our door that says no soliciting. Don't make it weird. They do. And I feel like that encourages them to be like, let me argue with you for 30 minutes. Yeah.

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It's a challenge for them.

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And I'll tell you what, once you start and I say I'm not interested, and then you keep going, you've instantly made me angry, and there's no way I'm ever gonna say yes to you. Give me your card, walk away. That's what I appreciate. Like let me know of your service and leave me alone. Don't argue with me for a half hour about how your product's so great.

SPEAKER_04 19:50

Right? Like the tree service guy. We actually might use him too. Yeah. Cut down that willow.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Because you just handed it to me and walked away and were nice. Not arguing with me. I just it makes me so mad. Like, I don't want it. Well, boy, let me tell you, this is so great. I just want to be like, go away.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Yeah, when I was I was mowing the lawn, I sent that guy over to you.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah, you sure did.

SPEAKER_04 20:10

Well, because I was mowing the lawn and he like comes over. I have ear defenders on and I'm a riding mower, and he's like, hey, hey, and I'm like, Oh, I want to make it a little bit more. Yeah, I wave to him, like, oh yeah, hey. And he keeps coming. I'm like, oh, oh, you want me to stop mowing, stop everything I'm doing? So I did that. Stop the mower, turn it off, take my headphones off, and listen to his spiel. I'm like, oh no, like no, no, no, and a couple times, a couple times. And then I'm just like, I still have to mow the rest of the lawn. Like, I was like, You uh like it's up to my wife, really. You're gonna have to go talk to her. He's like, okay. Good luck, buddy. And I put my stuff on and mowed the lawn.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

So I'm gonna start saying if I say no and they keep talking to me, I'm just gonna be like, I'm gonna let you know. I charge $100 an hour to listen to you. So you can keep going all you want, but I'm gonna charge you from now on.

SPEAKER_04 20:58

You should print off a business card that's like, you know, Ashley's consulting, whatever, right? So that you have one now when they come up and be like, okay, this is my card though, and I charge a hundred dollars an hour for my consulting business. So and then like have like a stopwatch or something, like Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

I know, and then the last time the guy was like, Oh, how much are you paying? And I'm like, I don't know. Well, do you have your phone? No, you don't have your phone with you? No, I'm trying to do something. Oh, okay, and just keeps talking. Well, you just leave me alone. And the kids always come get me. I'm like, can you just shut the door and say no thank you and shut the door? I don't know. Is your mom or dad home? I do not feel like arguing with you for 30 minutes. Please stop. I get that that's your job, but I literally say no thank you on my door, and you just keep going. It makes me so mad. Okay, sorry. That was a long tangent and made me mad. All right, next one is touching your tongue to your nose.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

Nope. I just got that little baby tongue. It barely even can come out of my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Yeah, Kevin has a short tongue and I have a long tongue.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

I have a hard time licking my lips.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

Yeah. Which is why I can lick my elbow. My tongue is too long. Snatching flies out of the air. All right. Next is amide amidextrous thinking. The ability to use both sides of your brain to solve problems.

SPEAKER_04 22:18

How would you know if you could do this?

SPEAKER_00 22:20

So I look this up and now I forget what it said. Hold on.

SPEAKER_04 22:22

Like it seems like you'd have to wear whatever like the brain like little helmet thing is, right?

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Well, I think you can do two things at once, which maybe I can do.

SPEAKER_04 22:31

Snap it with my right. I'm snapping with my left. Boom.

unknown 22:34

Not that.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Because like when I was working, like I can do math and like fixing people's things with math. And I can listen to a podcast and understand everything that's happening with the podcast and figure the stuff out with the math. And remember it all. Both of them. So I can I don't know if that's all right. So to better understand how this works, the left brain focuses on logic, numbers, details, step-by-step process. The right focuses on the big picture, art, empathy, innovation, what things could be. Rather than favoring one approach, the Amodextrous thinker seemingly shifts between structured solve problem solving and out of the box brainstorming depending on the situation. I don't know. It seems like what I was saying with mine is like that, where I can where when I was working, I tell people like, oh, listen to this podcast, and they're like, I can't do that. I can't I can't listen to someone talk and read what someone wrote in like a letter, but I could do math and listen at the podcast.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

Right, processing words and numbers differently. Can you do that? I don't know. I don't know if I've ever really been like I don't just process numbers at my job.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Yeah, that's not really your thing.

SPEAKER_04 23:43

Yeah. Maybe I could. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Maybe not. You'll have to try it.

SPEAKER_04 23:46

You're better than me.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

It's not true.

SPEAKER_04 23:48

Hey, you're better than me.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

Never true. Next is simultaneous translating. Translating a live conversation in a second language in real time without pausing. So like the deaf interpreters do this because I've taken sign language, like it's that's too hard for me to have to like listen to someone talk and translate it and like keep listening to that person talk and keep translating. That I don't know, maybe I have to do it a lot, lot, lot more. But it's I that just seems impossible for me.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

That's pretty cool. I don't know a second any second language well enough to translate much of anything.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Yeah, you know you know quite a bit of Spanish though. Yeah. If someone was speaking Spanish, could you interpret it to English to someone else? No.

SPEAKER_04 24:33

Unless they were talking about gatos and bathrooms and stuff like that. They wanted to know where the bathroom was. Yeah. Something about the cat, things like that.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

You know way more than that.

SPEAKER_04 24:45

Whoever's Spanish to in high school gets you.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

That's you've done Duolingo too.

SPEAKER_04 24:51

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Alright, next is singing songs backwards. For times when you want to impress a care at karaoke night, confuse everyone, uh, or summon a Beatles conspiracy theory.

unknown 25:03

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

I don't understand this one. Like, are you s saying the sentence in the song backwards or saying the words backwards?

SPEAKER_04 25:11

I think you're saying the words backwards so it's like all reversed. Like how they when they play the record backwards and it's like, oh, listen to what it says.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

That's weird. How do you even say those words?

SPEAKER_04 25:26

I don't I don't know. And how do you even know if it's real? Like a word backwards sounds nothing like the word like son.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

I can't even do forward words sometimes.

SPEAKER_04 25:35

Yeah, right. Backwards words. I don't know. Sounds made up.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Yeah. Alright. Next one is speed reading upside down. So I'm actually probably better at reading upside down than reading regularly.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

Oh, yeah, because all your work at the Finance Institution where you had people contracts and things.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

Yeah. And then like with the kids when they were learning to read and stuff, I I'm much better. Like it makes my brain feel better when I'm reading upside down.

SPEAKER_04 26:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

How do you read upside down? Do you do good at it?

SPEAKER_04 26:09

Well, typically I'll grab it and then I'll flip it.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Can you read upside down?

SPEAKER_04 26:15

Well I don't know. Probably not well. If I can, it's gonna take a lot of mental effort, I think.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Really? I feel like the words are in order better when they're upside down.

SPEAKER_04 26:25

You might be dyslexic.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

So many problems with me. Alright, next one is lucid dreaming on command, controlling the actions inside your dreams every single time.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

But then wouldn't that make your dreams not that fun? Because like, I don't know. That's part of like the cool craziness of dreams. It's like it's just this like crazy movie that's just happening and you're long for the ride. But if you can control it, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Well, if one of our kids can control it, their nights would be a lot better.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

I don't like dreaming.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

Would would you get much rest? Like if you're controlling your dreams, it seems like you're you're now like consciously controlling things.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

Like you're more conscious than you should be.

SPEAKER_04 27:06

Right. So it's like you would get rested and like whatever happens when you fall asleep, like it clears out whatever in your brain, like whatever proteins are different things. Seems like you would maybe miss out on that.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Yeah. You wouldn't get your full REM in.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

I wonder if there's a link between people who can do that and people who get like Alzheimer's or stuff like that later on in life.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Because like they get a buildup of plaque and different things because they're or even like some sort of mental problem or I don't know, because the brain's not shutting down correctly.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

Right.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Yeah. Next one's more fun.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

Okay. Lighter note.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Huh?

SPEAKER_04 27:38

A lighter note?

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Yeah. Tying cherry stem with your tongue. Can you do this?

SPEAKER_04 27:43

I don't think so. I just swallow it.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

I don't think that I'm that talented to try to tie a cherry stem with my tongue.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

I don't even tie my shoes.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

That's true. With my hands. But you can. You just don't.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

It's been like 20 years since I've done that.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

That's not true. You tie your soccer cleats.

SPEAKER_04 28:01

No, I don't. I slip them on and off, yeah. But I do I do tie my like work boots, my boots.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Or you'll have to talk about this one. Uh oh. Peripheral focus. Peripheral? Sure. Focus. Reading a text message on a phone while staring directly ahead.

SPEAKER_04 28:20

Being able to read out of your peripheral vision? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

That seems peripheral focus. There you go, Kevin.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

Oh. Okay, now I get it. Now I see it.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Yep. Starting over. Peripheral focus.

SPEAKER_04 28:33

No, you can't start over. No, do not cut that out.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

Because I can't say words. Yeah, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 28:40

It's fun. It's like another little game inside a game.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

They're like, oh, she's dumb. She can't see it. No, no one thinks that.

SPEAKER_04 28:46

Nobody thinks that. Everyone knows reading is hard.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

People are super rude on the internet. 100% won't think that.

SPEAKER_04 28:52

No, it doesn't matter. You know, we won't read their comments. When you see a word, you sound it out. Like you were taught. If you've never it's like that time, what did I the county here?

SPEAKER_00 29:01

It's not like it's an unknown word.

SPEAKER_04 29:03

But if you've never seen it. Just like when I I knew what Duchesne County was, but I'd never seen it before. And when I first moved here, your sister made fun of me because I read it off of the newspaper. In like Duchesny. Yeah, a lot of made up stuff that's like that is not even phonetically close at all. I mean Duchesne, I'm sure it's like a French word, right?

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Like Thule.

SPEAKER_04 29:29

Yeah. Thule, Touilla. Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Next one is instant song recognition. Your brain is basically Shazam, but with more style and zero ads. So you can instantly recognize the name of any song you hear.

SPEAKER_04 29:45

That's not me.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

I could do this when I was younger.

SPEAKER_04 29:47

Yeah, that's trying. I don't listen to a whole lot of music anymore.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

I do. I can generally tell who it is that's singing it if I don't know. And I but I don't usually remember the names of the songs anymore.

SPEAKER_04 29:58

Yeah. I mostly can sing along and like can do the music. But like I'm like, I I have no idea who sings this or the name of the song, but I could I can sing the whole song and do like you know, obviously not play guitar, but like I know the the rhythm and beat.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Yeah, mine's a little easier because I do Pandora and I choose an artist. So it's generally similar to that person. Like there's not a lot of probably because I say that I don't like it, but there's not a lot of country women singing on the songs I sing. But I don't and I don't know a lot of the new country women's songs either.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

Yep. Me neither.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Yeah. Anyways, next nose flaring.

SPEAKER_04 30:39

Is that just flaring your nostrils?

SPEAKER_00 30:41

Yeah, can you do that?

SPEAKER_04 30:42

You're just scrunching your face. It's like you smelled something bad, is all you're doing.

unknown 30:47

I can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 30:48

Your eyebrows. I think everything moved on your face but your nostrils.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

I obviously can't do that.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Yeah. I wonder if I can do just one. No, I think I have to do them together.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Yeah. I can do one eyebrow up. Let's see. But I can't. You you do it too. I can't do the other one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:08

Mine's a left one as well.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Yeah. Next is the newly wood game. I forgot to get notepad for that. Do we need that? That's okay. No, it's okay. This one doesn't really. What is your partner's favorite season? I'm going to say yours is fall.

SPEAKER_04 31:20

I'll say yours is summer. Yep. We're both right.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

I would I like spring and summer. I like when it is not cold. Whatever months that is, that is my favorite.

SPEAKER_04 31:30

I like fall. I like spring and fall, but I like fall better because it's like it's just it's got the more chill, right? Where spring, you got I maybe because there's a lot more rain. I don't know. So it's like a little more humid. So you don't get the same like crisp coolness. It's like it's like, I don't know. It's like kind of cool in the morning and then gets kind of warm and a little bit muggy. So then I'm like, ugh, now I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Yeah, I like spring because I love the smell of the flowers. Sure.

SPEAKER_04 31:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

That is the best part of spring.

SPEAKER_04 31:58

Everything, everything's coming out of winter.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

It's green, pretty, it smells great.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

Right. I'm with you. Spring's great.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Next is gleaking.

SPEAKER_04 32:07

One of our kids can do this.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

It's awful. I have to constantly say, do not spit on people. Right.

SPEAKER_04 32:14

I'm not spitting.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

I'm gleaking at them. That is spit. You are spitting at them. Stop spitting at them. I really loathe gleaking. Just because of this child. They have gek wars with an uncle. It's annoying.

SPEAKER_04 32:29

Like I've gleaked before, but not on purpose. And I can never do it.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:34

Like on command.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Yeah, I don't care for it. Alright, next is moving your ears. Can you move your ears?

SPEAKER_04 32:42

I'm pretty sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Take your headphones off. Let me see. I think you're too far away. I can't see. I can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 32:48

You flared your nostrils though.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Why is I raise my eyebrows? Yeah. I cannot do that. Next is eyebrow dancing. No. Moving each eyebrow up and down to create a wave effect.

SPEAKER_04 33:01

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. We're like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

Nope, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 33:05

Nope, me either.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Next one is called empath. Rather than just understanding what someone's going through, empaths physically and emotionally resonate with those around them, making them highly intuitive but susceptible to overstimulation.

SPEAKER_04 33:22

What I'm pretty sure this is me.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:26

I feel like I'm involved in a lot of people's emotions, even when I don't want to be like a happy couple on the commercial for long distance phone calls. Oh gosh, they got such a good rate. They can call their nanny, their Mima.

SPEAKER_05 33:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

That's funny. I think one of our kids kind of gets this from you. I don't think that they meant no so much as like are empathetic towards their emotions, so much as like their energy. Yeah. They take on their energy and then overstimulated and done. Yeah. Quickly sometimes. Yep. So I think they got that from you. Next one is the backward hand clasp. The yoga pose.

SPEAKER_04 34:09

I've seen this. I've seen them grab like a can, a soda can. No, no. This is maybe we're talking about a different thing. What 'cause what did you say?

SPEAKER_00 34:18

The backward hand clasp.

SPEAKER_04 34:19

I don't know. Maybe that is what uh the thing that I saw is like this cup, right? How you put it on your palm and then your hand goes around it. They put it on the back of their hand and then their hand wrapped around it like backwards.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

So this is like this.

SPEAKER_04 34:36

Oh, reaching back. I can do it one way but not the other. When I was younger and I just hurt your shoulder.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 34:42

Just tore a rotator cuff there.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

Jacked up shoulder lately. Alright. I find where I was. The you have to help me with this one. The photonic sneeze reflex.

SPEAKER_04 34:53

Oh, when you get light?

SPEAKER_00 34:56

It's also called the Achu syndrome. Achu syndrome. The autosomal dominant compelling hilo ophthalmolic outburst. Yikes. Achu syndrome.

SPEAKER_04 35:09

I wonder what those words look like to the people who have the anesthesia.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Yeah. They look like someone sneezing. Just have actual meaning in their head.

SPEAKER_04 35:18

Yeah. What does Mississippian banana look like to those people?

SPEAKER_00 35:21

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 35:22

M I S S I S P P I. Like, does it look fun? Because it's kind of fun to say.

SPEAKER_00 35:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:28

Or does it look annoying?

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Yeah. I don't know. That's interesting. So these people get this, they'll sneeze by looking at the sun or even a light in a room.

SPEAKER_04 35:38

Right. I don't have this, do you? No. I've heard of this. And I feel like a high percentage of people have this.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Yeah, because when I worked somewhere, we had talked about this and all these people did it. What? I'm looking at the light. I don't sneeze. Alright. Next up is this week is July 8th, is a national raspberry and freezer pop. July, did I say January? July 8th.

SPEAKER_04 36:03

No, I'm pretty sure you said July.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

I don't know. Next one is arm twisting. The human version of a twisty straw. Not recommended for robots or people who want to keep their dignity. I think like this twisting your arm on like a desk, or I've seen them do it.

SPEAKER_04 36:18

Oh all of my joints are only single.

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Yeah. The next one. I'll do this one. Next. The double-jointed thumbs. I have a type of double-jointed thumb where like I can't I can't do it a lot anymore. I feel like I'm getting arthritis in my thumbs now from doing stuff like this. But I can bend my thumb back over onto my hand. But I can't do it anymore. My thumbs are super bad now. But I used to walk around like that and my grandma could do it. She's walking around like that. And my thumb, if I like put my thumb, I can put my thumb out into my hand more than most people.

SPEAKER_04 36:52

Right. Like your yeah, your thumb does a lot more moving.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

So my grandma used to do this, and she would like bend her thumb at an angle and then put the bone more into my hand, and then she was like, Going my way. Kitchhiking like that. It looks weird. It's funny. Anyways, I know there's a different kind of double-jected thumb, but that's not what I oh. This one says you can bunt bend your thumb backwards to touch your wrist. So I can't do that.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

No, me either. My thumb just does the normal fun stuff.

SPEAKER_00 37:26

The next one was blurring vision on command. We already talked about that one. And the last one. Ready for this?

SPEAKER_04 37:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Toe dexterity.

SPEAKER_04 37:34

Yeah. I pinch you with my toes right now.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

He does don't. Your daughter pinches me too. So people can write legibly with their toes or pick up small coins. So one of our kids used to pick up and eat popcorn with their toes, like pick it up out of the bowl, put it in their mouth with their feet. Which they were like three or four or something.

SPEAKER_04 37:55

Like they were born without arms.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

They could still do it though. Yep. That is that's a thing.

SPEAKER_04 38:03

I pick up stuff using my toes all the time. I just did it in the pool today. I picked it up.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

Yeah. He's he's really good at pinching with his toes and it hurts. Don't do it. Alright, from mind-bending memory to circus-worthy contortions, our world is full of people with talents that defy logic and bring laughter. Whether you want to wow your friends, win a talent show, or just make yourself smile, remember everyone has a secret superpower. Some just make for better stories than others. Alright, would you rather, Kevin?

SPEAKER_04 38:39

I didn't ever get to use f feast smell. Yeah. I mean I use it kind of at the beginning, but.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

That's okay. It was a hard one to do it in.

SPEAKER_04 38:48

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

Alright. Would you rather live in a tree house or a cave?

SPEAKER_04 38:53

Do I get to ask any follow-up questions?

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Nope. Oh. I'd rather live in a treehouse.

SPEAKER_04 38:58

Yeah, I think I would say treehouse as well.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

I think that'd be funner.

SPEAKER_04 39:01

Yeah. Like up off the ground. I'm thinking like safety, like bears, things like that. Lots of lot of bugs.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Depends on where the treehouse is.

SPEAKER_04 39:13

Yeah. That's what I was gonna say. Follow-up questions. Like, am I in the Amazon jungle? Am I in the Sierra Nevada forest? Because like I don't know if I want to be in like the Kinland Forest.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

Yeah. It's always lightning up.

SPEAKER_04 39:25

Maybe you want to be in a cave in that situation.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

Utah might be lighting up more than I know.

SPEAKER_04 39:30

Sierra Nevada. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:32

Alright, do you have anything else? Any secret talents?

SPEAKER_04 39:36

I don't think I have any secret talents. But something that I always wanted to do since I saw the movie. Was it? Julian Moore, I think, was a lady, and like these aliens came, but they were like they came in these like oval type spaceships. Like big black oval spaceships. I don't remember the name of this movie. But and then like they were the aliens were like behind this like plate of glass in like clouds or fog or something like that. And so they never actually really saw the aliens, but they were like this like black misty thing.

SPEAKER_00 40:12

Evolution?

SPEAKER_04 40:13

No. Evolution? No, this was like starts with an O, I want to say. But she like she starts to be able to see into the past, I think, and then can like affect the past by thinking about it. We watched it at our house. I swear it was her.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

I looked up her name, but that's Evolution was the only one that came up for her with the alien movie, The Forgotten.

SPEAKER_04 40:36

I can see like the the title, like the not the title, the uh like the poster. There it's like this black, like semicircle alien spaceship. And I think like someone blows them up or something and then the aliens leave. Arrival smells like an O to me. So anyways, like she's they they write the aliens, like they're communicating through this fog or whatever, through this glass, and they they write the end of the sentence and the beginning of the sentence at the same time, and then fill it in. And so I've always wanted to be able to try and do that. Like your right hand writes the end of your thought and your left hand writes the beginning of your thought, and then you fill it in. And I was like, that seems mind-blowing. Like I was like, maybe I should just start with my name. Like my right hand will write the end, and you have to write backwards as your left hand writes the K, right, and then fill it in, and then they meet in the middle. Like mine, they'd meet at the V, probably. Yeah. And move down.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

So you need to be both Amidextrous and the other one I said, trying to find it. Like the one where your your brain works separately.

SPEAKER_04 41:49

Right, yeah, the left and right.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

So I can do Amidextrous thinking and amidextrous writing.

SPEAKER_04 41:55

Right, so yeah, something like that. Yeah, so that's something I may I may try. Yeah. Now I want to figure out who is in a rival. Amy Adams is who it is.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

Different redhead.

SPEAKER_04 42:07

Yep. Alright, that's all I got.

SPEAKER_00 42:09

Okay. Remember, even a small act of kindness can be someone's beacon in their darkest moment. Choose kindness every day. Reach out to someone today. You have the power to change your life. Be the signal of hope this world needs.

SPEAKER_04 42:21

Can I do a shout out?

SPEAKER_00 42:22

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:23

I'm gonna do a shout-out to my brother Trent.

SPEAKER_00 42:26

Do you want to do it on the next episode?

SPEAKER_04 42:28

No.

SPEAKER_00 42:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:28

Because I want to talk to him about the temperature in my house.

SPEAKER_00 42:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:31

He's always wanting me to just run my AC and not do all my fun, crazy ideas to cool my house. We started a half hour ago and it was 77 in here with the AC on.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

Probably about an hour ago. We're at 53 minutes on this.

SPEAKER_04 42:43

You're not helping?

SPEAKER_00 42:44

Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 42:47

And I think it is now 85 86. And I don't even think it's that hot outside. And we have windows open.

SPEAKER_00 42:55

Yeah, it's definitely not eighty-six outside.

SPEAKER_04 42:57

So below eighty. It's gone up. I expect it to keep going up. So that's what I have to fight every day, Trent. Okay, that's all.

SPEAKER_05 43:09

Okay.