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It is time to believe your warriors outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with
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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. That is Monday, August twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty five. All right, I need your help to
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make sure this list is current and accurate. All Right,
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here we go a few years ago. Murder hornets then,
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and these may not be in order. Murder hornets, radioactive wasps,
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the frankin bunnies slash chutulu bunnies with the tentacles growing
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out of their heads. Then last week radioactive shrimp at Walmart.
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And as if all of that wasn't bad enough, now
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we have to worry about zombie squirrels. But not just
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any zombie squirrels. Oh No, I'm talking about zombie squirrels
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covered in oozing wartz that have been spotted skulking through
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America's backyards. Grizzly looking squirrels with puss filled wart like
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tumors have been spotted across the United States. What is
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this world coming to? Also? I can't help, but wonder
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is Mother Nature dropping some hints?
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Yes, between tsunami's volcanic volcanic activity.
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Yeah, hurricanes also m hm, and now zombie squirrels yeah,
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which which sounds like night Shamalin's new movie that's going
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to be his new crappy movie that he comes up with.
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Can't wait for squirrel is it was a chipmunk nightmares.
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Squirrels spotted in United States backyards spark concern. I mean,
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there's a number of these headlines. Sightings of squirrels with
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sores and tumors have sparked concern among users on social
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media in recent years, with more disturbing looking squirrels spotted
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across the United States and Canada in recent months. Meanwhile,
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Mexico's gone given the strange growths on their bodies, these
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squirrels have been dubbed zombies squirrels by people online and
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other news outlets, like the rabbits with tentacle like growths
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that also went viral recently. These squirrels are likely suffering
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from a kind of virus. James Parkhurst, is a professor
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of wildlife science and extension wildlife specialists at Virginia Tech,
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told Newsweek I suspect that current reports of this ailment
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have gotten an unrealistic level of attention due to the
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grotesque appearance of affected animals, and the ease with which
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isolated cases can be blown up to create fear or
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anxiety via social media. Shut up, James, that's half the fun.
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I just like how they say, and it's supposed to
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be comforting. Oh, it's just a virus. Funny.
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You can't ask that.
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I mean, it only takes one hungry hill billy and
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we got a problem.
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One hungry hill billy's always a problem.
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It's two is when it becomes the hills have eyes.
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The hills have one eye? Uh is what that ish?
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Wow. The appearance of the squirrels has drawn significant concern online,
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with some deeming them a new nightmare after strange looking
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rabbits last week were compared to something out of the
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TV series The Last of Us, where the world is
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taken over by a fungal infection. It's not yet clear
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what's causing the squirrel's disturbing appearance, with some pointing to
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squirrel pox and others thinking it could be squirrel fiber mitosis,
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which is believed to be the more likely explanation. Both
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conditions are caused by viruses closely associated with squirrels, although
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squirrel pox is more common among red squirrels typically in
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the United Kingdom. See here's the problem. They're jumping continents now.
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So I thought you were squirrel pox is a thing.
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I honestly, Trey, I'm with you. I thought Newsweek was
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trying to be cute, but apparently squirrel pox is real.
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By the way, Raj, if you, Trey, if you, if
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I die of squirrel pox, make fun me until like
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come back to life, and then kill me again.
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Oh yeah, there's no doubt your obituary is gonna be terrible.
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Just the amount of fun that we will have with you,
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because I just want to know how you contracted the
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squirrel box.
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How'd you get the how did you get the puss
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filled sore virus from the squirrel.
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Dan on an Island? Well, really doesn't.
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For me to catch the squirrel pox, I would have
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to be stateside.
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You would have had to order it here.
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Sued though, with your in your obituary, the squirrel would
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have bitten your taint.
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And not my nuts.
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No, I like taint better.
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Unexpected.
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Yeah, just you don't know where it was going.
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He's gonna hide your nuts.
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He did. He The reason why he didn't get my
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nuts is I was playing off the state stereotype and
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had those covered, and then he surprised me by going
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around the backside a little bit. Uh yeah, No, here,
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here on Saint Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, there
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are no squirrels. We do have mongoose, though, So if
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I end up dying from mongoose mange, that at least
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sounds slightly cooler.
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I don't know if it sounds cooler. It just sounds
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like you did something really bad to a mongoose.
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It does, but keeping in mind, mongoose kill snakes. At
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least at least at least I would have been taken
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out by something that takes out snakes and stuff, not
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a squirrel that just you know, hides nuts.
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Do you want it to be wiley, O'Malley or.
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Meet me.
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Yes and put on my tombstone? Yikes?
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That's all your tombstone is gonna be. Is a sign
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that just says yikes.
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Maybe a photo of me with a little inset photo
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of the uh, the squirrel, puckst squirrel.
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Dan and the mongoose that sounds like a morning that
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just talking about squirrel pox and how that's a real thing,
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and how zombie squirrels are infiltrating the backyards of North
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America with pus filled wart like faces and spreading fear
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and panic everywhere they go. I do not have, as
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far as I know, squirrel pox, but I did recently
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learn that my household has COVID.
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Uh.
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Yes, our first bout of COVID was early twenty twenty one.
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Now the second documented cases in the O'Malley household of
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COVID two. So you guys remember last week when I
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was kind of coffee and stuff. Yeah, it turns out
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that's probably COVID. The reason why I know that is
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because Tara then got sick just just a few days ago,
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and in all fairness, whatever she caught from me, she
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got it worse, which I'm sorry when youre in a relationship,
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I feel bad about that. I feel guilty. It's like, Okay,
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clearly I did something. I got it, and I brought
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it home, she got it, and then she got it worse.
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Like she's got like one of the symptoms that you
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described as, like you know, I have it, Like her
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throat is just like like a razor's grating and kind
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of a thing.
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That's exactly like where I think maybe y'all had different things.
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Is this new variant of COVID because I've know Tera
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would be the third person I know that's come down
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with it. Say, it's brutal as far as it just
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like you said, said, it feels like you've got razors
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in your throat. Like that's how bad it hurts.
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Yeah. So she went to the doctor and learned they
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gave She gave him all the symptoms and stuff because
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she's like, I gotta go to the doctor for this.
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This is bad.
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She goes to the doctor. The doctor's like, let's do
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a test. The test comes back, Congratulations, you have COVID,
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which means I probably had it and I gave it
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to her. So these two variants that she had Gary
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look up Gary's chat GPT not the doctor because that'd
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be crazy. Gary just put it very succinctly. Two of
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these variants one horse or raspy voice, sometimes chest pain
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or sleepiness. Common symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue,
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body aches. That's the stratus variant. Then there's the Nimbus variant,
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which is razor blade sharp sore throat, fever, cough, fatigue,
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GI symptoms. This all now makes sense to me. I
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didn't have the razor throat thing that she does, but
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I definitely had the squirts. So I'd like to tip
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my hat to COVID for being the type of virus
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that doesn't just screw up one system of your body,
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It'll hit multiple all at the same time. Can you
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not breathe, Let's make let's give you the squirts and
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your guts on top of it.
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The boosters or any because I mean I'm vaccinated with
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all the boosters and all that stuff.
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So I mean we got vaccinated back, like right, we
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got vaccinated the week before we got COVID, which is
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what we think helped us get through it a little
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bit easier because we had some fairly bad cases. I
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mean obviously not dead and not hospitalized, but bad enough.
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Now this bout is interesting, Like Trey, hearing you describe
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it from someone else you knew that had one of
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these new variants, it sounds like that's what Tara's got.
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I had, I think a slightly lesser one, or at
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least one that didn't hit me as hard. But it
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came with the squirts, which is no fun. But at
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least now I know why my body was sort of
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revolting because I was trying to figure Okay, did I
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change my diet? What did I do? I'm drinking less?
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What's the deal?
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So Anyway, I somehow still have never gotten COVID as
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far as you know, I've every time I've been sick
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since COVID started, like i've and they came out with
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a test, but I know I never got sick in
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the initial first year. Yeah, and then after that after
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they came out of test, every time I've been sick,
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I've been tested and.
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We took we got sick the one time in twenty
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twenty one, and then any subsequent times we were sick,
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we would take a test just to see. And I
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think this is the most recent test that I can
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recall as having because honestly, when I was sick, it
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really just kind of felt like my annual head slash
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chest cold and again like I usually got that. I
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usually get that once a year, and I figure, okay,
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it was time. But reading about some of these other symptoms, like, okay,
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that explains.
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The yeah, the one time I.
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Rea and why I drink all the peptio in the house.
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Which was it was New Year's Eve twenty three, twenty
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four that I was so sick. I thought, okay, this
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must be COVID, and I got tested and it was
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the flu.
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Which knock on wood for me, I've never had the flu.
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I don't know how that is. All we gotta do,
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Trey is combine our genes and we will be super
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impervious to some of these viruses. I can't say that
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about squirrel pox that may get us. Anyway.
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I was gonna say, you're just gonna die of mongoose range.
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Ricky Ricky, Ricky TV Tavy got me, little bastard.
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But you've had the flu. I guarantee it. There's there's
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no way you've gone through life without the flu. That's
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an impossibility.
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You can say that all you want, doctor Sharmah, But no,
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I have never had the flu.
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Maybe when you were younger, and you probably don't remember it,
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because you know.
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I asked. I asked. I asked my mom and she
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was like, no, I don't think you ever had the flu.
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Partly because I was so sick with other stuff up
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until the age of five. I think the flu may
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have looked at me and go, oh, those kid's got problems,
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just leave him alone.
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Flu was like, he's too stupid to know what this is.
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He's gonna die of this.
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Seriously. Up until like, because I think I was like
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five or six, was when I started getting allergy shots
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because I went to the doctor because I had all
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these issues. I couldn't keep food down. Okay, here's how
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bad I was as a kid when it came to
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eating and then throwing up. And I still remember this,