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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
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Trady Trentholm and Ras Sharma. We have just a couple
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of days before Christmas and I want to make sure
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that we cram in all the Christmas related content that
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we can, including a Christmas tradition out of Spain that
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I had forgotten about until recently. I would like to
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thank my social media algorithm for reminding me about the
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Catalan Christmas log or as others know it. Are you
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guys aware of the Catalan Christmas pooping log?
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I can't say that I am.
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This is from Spain, sometimes called CagA Teo or Teo,
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the Nda dog.
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H interesting.
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If someone put googly eyes in a and a smiling
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face on a log and a hat and a hat.
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Yeah. So this is the Catalan Christmas pooping log, sometimes
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called Taga Teo or Teo d Nadal. This is a
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Christmas tradition out of areas of Spain that spans a
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few centuries. This is its story. A log is given
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a face, a red catle and hat as you can
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see there, and stick legs on the front. Children then
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feed it daily with water, nuts and sweets leading up
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to Christmas. Then on Christmas Eve, families gather. They cover
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the log with a blanket, sing traditional songs and then
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beat dick out of it with sticks. As they sing,
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the log poops out small presents like candies and fruits
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and little presents and gifts from underneath its blanket. Then,
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after the main presence, the log just might drop a
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final less desire riable item like a salted herring or
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a rotten potato if it's been natty. So keep that
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in mind with whatever Christmas tradition you keep alive in
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your household, that in other parts of the world they
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have their own.
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Well, I don't know. My family was from Spain and
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I was a log because I got beat the same way.
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Had pooped out presents.
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That's how it got out of the beating, and a potato, which.
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Is odd, uh rotten potato. Yeah, that is so strange. Yeah,
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it was a handful of years ago. I first heard
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about this, and then, like so many things in my life,
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I had completely forgotten about it, and then it just
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kind of popped back around.
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On my algorithm. I was like, oh, yeah, because when
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I saw this photo, I was like, I remember this,
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and I was like, oh, that is a weird, weird
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Christmas tradition. At the same time, if you think about it,
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all Christmas traditions are kind of weird if you really
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look at him from a different perspective, because a big
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chunk of the Christmas mythology is that Santa delivers toys
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to all the boys and girls of the world on
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a single night, and he has elves that he keeps
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his labor and drain deer that fly. I mean, I
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guess making a pooping gift log is not that far
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of a stretch.
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But I'm speechless.
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I would say Nick was real, I mean, like Nicholas whatever,
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what what was his actual name? That was a real thing,
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and the only reason it was like flying reindeer is
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because of the snow. So when they were when he
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was delivering presents, it looked like they were flying.
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In the air, and that was the thing.
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So are you saying that Santa is more believable than
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the Christmas pooping or are you saying that perhaps at
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one point there was an original pooping log.
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Yes, I wanna go. I'm gonna go with as a Hindu,
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I'm gonna go with the with Saint Nick.
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Yeah. It's interesting though when you think about it, because
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there's all these stories that come about around different holidays,
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especially Christmas. I mean, you've got things like Rudolph and Frosty,
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things that are completely you know, just made up from
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someone's you know, creativity, and then it's found its way
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into the holidays season up to and including the California
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Raisins Christmas Special I remember watching as a kid, which
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I thoroughly loved. By the way, these different traditions are
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fascinating to me because the stories and the thing that
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come around and then and then it becomes a franchise
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like we have Elf on a Shelf has taken off
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and is wildly popular, but here is a missed opportunity
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for some ip for a movie studio, just waiting to
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happen with the cattle in Christmas pooping log. It's adorable.
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I mean, you can put it on a chain, you
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can call it poop on a loop.
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Uh sells itself. But yeah, I mean you have all
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these stories that that will sell. You know, it sells
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toys and merchandise and movies and television shows, all these
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things surrounding. And I'm just can't understand why this one
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hasn't taken off in the same way as so many others.
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You could have it in a glove and called shit
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and mint.
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And they do think that. I don't you would think
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that the thing that gives you Christmas presents, you wouldn't
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beat it with a stick. But that's part of the tradition.
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In some of the research I did into this, Yes,
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I did little research into this. It's reminiscent of a pinata.
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So this is kind of like a Christmas pinata type
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of a scenario, except in an actual pinata, you beat
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it so much it opens up and spills out all
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of its gifts and not its enterds. But here it's
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just a it's a log and it's got a happy,
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smiley face on it, and that it pooped out your presence.
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Congratulations, I got beat with a stick. It wasn't a
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holiday tradition. It was just a Tuesday. But yeah, I mean.
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Although although there were a few times that I got
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beat so bad I thought I was gonna shit.
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It wasn't. It wasn't a good beating. If you didn't.
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That that that's how my mom knew I was done anymore.
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Yeah, it'd be a good Christmas story for me if ultimately,
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you know, the log got taken away and your heart broken,
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and then it comes back as a paddle.
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It's your dad just carving up the Christmas log into
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a paddle and then changes you around the tree.
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Still have the eyes. Yeah, come back, have the eyes
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and smiley face. Just time. It's the architect of your destruction.
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Which is a little strange because my parents or Hindu,
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so I don't even know why we did this.
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That's the only time my mother believed in Jesus.
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It is is fascinating though, sometimes when you're getting beat
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like that as a kid and you're like, why do
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you have me? If all you want to do is
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hurt me?
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Oh, my dad had an answer for that question. It
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was like, that's what kids are for, you know, I'll
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take out your frustration.
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Oh wow, that is horrific.
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Yeah.
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See, don't you feel a little normal because we have
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the same thing.
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I don't think. I still don't. I don't feel normal. No, No,
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I think, I think. I think. What we've all come
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to realize here is that while we have some shared experiences,
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that doesn't make them okay.
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Child abuse is a universal language.
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It really is, and the three of us are fluent.
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I knew in mathematically is nine one one.
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Has anyone ever answered the door naked for you?
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Daniel?
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Not naked, but we have had a couple of doors
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answering that have been risque. I would say it's a
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good term maybe like almost brawl and panties kind of
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deal one time and they probably were shorts, but they
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definitely weren't shorts. Maybe I think one time a lady.
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Answered in a towel.
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Okay, so I mean, I guess that happens. One time
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a guy answered and all he had on was a
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pair and he did not have a very flattering fasique.
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Yeah he had what did he have on?
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Just like a pair of shorts, like one of those
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like shorty shorts, like from the nineteen seventies.
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Oh wow, okay, yeah, and not.
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Flattering at all. So that was kind of like.
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In a moment like that, do you look around to
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see it? Am I in the right place for the
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service call? And did I interrupt a key party?
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No?
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It's kind of one of those things, man. I And
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this happened like three or four years ago. But honestly,
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it was a really nice neighborhood and we got called
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out for the inspection, and obviously when he answered the door,
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for instinct is look and then you look down at
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the ground like, oh, I'm here to do your your
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property inspection.
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He's and he's just so casualized. Yeah, yeah, I'm inspecting you,
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hey man.
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Good see man, You know he wants to shake your hand.
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I'm like Jesus man, you know, but.
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At least he's only wanting you to shake his hand.
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Well, like y'all said earlier, for a billion dollars.
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I will shake some risky things for a billion dollars. Absolutely.
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website cookdfw dot com. ROJ you said you think that
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all the beatings we all got is the reason why
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we don't have kids.
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My mother used to say this.
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I don't know if you ever got this, but it
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was like, when you have your own kids, you can
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do this too. I never got that, and I was
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like well, that's why I don't have kids.
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That's actually one of the main reasons I don't is
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because there's a little bit of a cycle breaking mentality
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going on with me where it's like, you know what,
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I think it's probably best because I wasn't shown the
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best way to parent, I probably wouldn't be the best parent.
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Yeah, that's I mean, I'm go ahead.
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Well, they say you parent like you were parented, and
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I mean my parents were not good parents. You know that,
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And the world really doesn't need another bipolar addict.
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So you know, well you told that to Los Angeles,
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my friend.
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I'm really good with kids, like kids love me, and
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I love I love children like I I'll buy gifts,
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I'll go out of my way to do things. But
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I don't want any more of this DNA in the
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world at all.
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And I'm kind of an enigma because I'm I'm very
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much a question mark as far as when it comes
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to nature versus nurture because I'm adopted, right, and I
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don't know my biological family, so I don't know what
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sort of screwed up recessive jeans are in that gene
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pool that I have somewhere lurking inside me. All I
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know is how I was raised and what was modeled
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for me, and how I was raised and what was
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modeled for me was not stellar. So I think it's
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probably for the best that we just not, you know,
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tempt fade on that front, or like Trey said, it's
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like the world doesn't need another bipolar addict. And even
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on Christmas, most of our Christmases were absolutely fantastic. But
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if I saw this teo didn't a doll cattle in
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Christmas pooping doll underneath the tree on Christmas morning, I
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would be worried that it looks a little too easy,
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too wheeled in my mother's hand, like she could pick
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that up and chase me around the tree with it.
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I would just wake up and be like my dad
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had too much Johnny walkmerd and shit under the tree