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A Sick Anniversary
Celebrating one year of the podcast from Mexico City, where strangers wish you a good meal and toilets overflow without warning. Illness, isolation, ten M&M's in a bag, the kindness of a movie theater employee, and why I couldn't sell hair loss products for a living.
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Transcript
Hola, mis amigos y amigas.
Speaker:Hello, my friends.
Speaker:I'm releasing this on June 3rd of twenty twenty-six, and that is the first
Speaker:anniversary of onefjef, the podcast.
Speaker:For those of you who don't do math, the first episode came out
Speaker:on June 3rd, twenty twenty-five.
Speaker:And it's been quite a ride, both the podcast and my life since then.
Speaker:Those of you who listen to the podcast quite a bit will know all these stories.
Speaker:If you haven't listened to it all, you can go back and listen to, you know, the road
Speaker:trip, moving across the country, going to Colombia, all these different things.
Speaker:It's been a year, and, uh, perhaps it is appropriate, perhaps it's not
Speaker:appropriate for the year to be ending with me being sick here in Mexico City.
Speaker:I've been sick for about ten days.
Speaker:I got sick ten days ago, about.
Speaker:It was a chest cold, head cold at first.
Speaker:You know, it was, uh, last week mostly it was just this, like, coughing, sneezing,
Speaker:runny nose thing, and that was horrible.
Speaker:It was the hardest week I've had since I moved here, for sure.
Speaker:I had some of the, uh, darkest and loneliest times that I've had.
Speaker:The combination of being sick, feeling like crap, and not really being
Speaker:able to leave my apartment very much because I was sick, being away from
Speaker:most of my friends and family back in the United States, all these things.
Speaker:The isolation really was the, the overwhelming thing.
Speaker:There were times when I got to a point where I was like,
Speaker:"What, what am I doing here?
Speaker:What have I done?
Speaker:Why did I move here?" And I suppose that that kind of a
Speaker:moment is somewhat inevitable when you do something like that.
Speaker:Can you hear that?
Speaker:That's the, um, the workmen.
Speaker:They're remodeling the neighbor's apartment, which is convenient,
Speaker:conveniently, um, timed to overlap with my illness here.
Speaker:So apologies for the saw or whatever else you'll hear banging.
Speaker:It's been, it's been a lot.
Speaker:Anyway, so I had that chest cold last week, head cold.
Speaker:I was feeling much better over the weekend.
Speaker:Uh, I even went out with a friend of mine on Saturday night.
Speaker:But then on Sunday or Monday, I think it was Monday morning, I, I don't
Speaker:know when I ate whatever I ate, but I ate something over the weekend
Speaker:that did not agree with me, and I now have a stomach something or other.
Speaker:I don't need to get into details on that.
Speaker:You can use your imagination.
Speaker:It's not been horrible, but it's been certainly unpleasant
Speaker:in multiple different ways.
Speaker:That again, use your imagination.
Speaker:But knock on wood, I do feel like I'm finally at the end of this thing.
Speaker:But again, I've said this before, or I've thought this before.
Speaker:I've thought and said it before, not on here, but you know.
Speaker:So hopefully, God willing, this is the end of it because I am really
Speaker:tired of being in my apartment and I'm really tired of being sick.
Speaker:Uh, it's like when you get sick and you forget what it
Speaker:feels like to even not be sick.
Speaker:You've been sick so long.
Speaker:Oy.
Speaker:Another magical thing that happened last week was I went out with a friend
Speaker:of mine for coffee on Saturday morning And when I got back to my apartment
Speaker:from getting coffee, I actually ate a chocolate croissant at that coffee house.
Speaker:I wonder if that was what did it.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Anyway, when I got back from getting coffee with my friend, I walked into
Speaker:my apartment and, uh, I took my shoes off, and I was just walking around, and
Speaker:I was like, "Why are my socks all wet?"
Speaker:And then I looked around, and then I noticed, oh, the toilet had been
Speaker:overflowing since I had left, and there was, like, a quarter inch of water,
Speaker:however many centimeters that is for the rest of the world, all over my floor.
Speaker:I mean, not every floor.
Speaker:Thank-fortunately, it didn't come in the bedrooms, but it was in
Speaker:the bathroom, the living room.
Speaker:It was in the kitchen.
Speaker:Yeah, it was a mess.
Speaker:It was a mess, and I had no idea how to clean it up.
Speaker:I only had three towels.
Speaker:I still only have three towels.
Speaker:I actually have a few more towels now.
Speaker:I reached out to the, the owner of the apartment and said, "This
Speaker:is what happened," you know.
Speaker:And, you know, we're kind of communicating back and forth in
Speaker:broken Spanish, broken English, and I'm like, "I don't know what to do.
Speaker:Is there a mop?" And he's like, "There's no mop." And he sent me a picture of like,
Speaker:you can use this device, this, like, mop.
Speaker:I guess you could call it a-- I don't know what it is, one of those
Speaker:things that you s- push water with.
Speaker:Like when you wa- when you wash your car windows, it's not a squeegee.
Speaker:It's the other side of the squeegee, but it's on a stick, and it's long.
Speaker:I don't know what to call it.
Speaker:Anyway, he showed me a picture of that with a rag attached
Speaker:to it to make it into a mop.
Speaker:I didn't have really a rag either.
Speaker:I didn't have-- I, I had really no capacity to clean up this water.
Speaker:Fortunately, the floor is cement, so it really-- it wasn't gonna
Speaker:leak down to the floor below.
Speaker:I don't think it did anyway.
Speaker:So I reached out to Patricia, and she ordered me a mop and some, like, dish
Speaker:towel rag kind of things, and those showed up about thirty minutes later.
Speaker:And still though, I only had then, what, six towels at this point,
Speaker:maybe seven, which wasn't really enough to clean it all up with.
Speaker:So eventually I-- This is an exciting story, isn't it?
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:So eventually, I got one of these, uh, squeegee things and started to
Speaker:just pushed water and found a, um, a dustpan and started pushing the
Speaker:water in that with the squeegee thing and then dumping it into the shower,
Speaker:and that took-- it took a while.
Speaker:It took quite a while, like two or three hours.
Speaker:I mean, and, and of course, the, the-- I should have mentioned earlier, as
Speaker:soon as I got home and saw the toilet overflowing, I-- the first thing I did
Speaker:was stop the toilet from overflowing.
Speaker:So yeah, I mean, I, I took care of it, but boy, uh, unpleasant.
Speaker:Unpleasant.
Speaker:Not how I wanted to spend my Saturday afternoon, and another in a long line of
Speaker:me clogging toilets all over the world.
Speaker:This is probably the pinnacle, this one Of me clogging toilets.
Speaker:And now perhaps I'll actually be m- be more careful.
Speaker:I honestly don't know what happened.
Speaker:Like, the, the toilet, number one, is garbage.
Speaker:I don't wanna explain the mechanics of why it's garbage, but it's…
Speaker:doesn't have a solid flush on it.
Speaker:So it's not entirely my fault, it's partially the toilet's fault.
Speaker:But yeah, I am going to be more careful with the toilet from
Speaker:now on, because I don't want that to happen again, obviously.
Speaker:Anyway, it's taken care of now.
Speaker:I mean, maybe I got sick because I was, like, cleaning up toilet
Speaker:water all day on Saturday.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:It doesn't matter now anyway.
Speaker:And then that night, a friend of mine and I had bought tickets to see the
Speaker:new Jim Jarmusch film at the Cineteca here in Mexico City, which is this
Speaker:amazing movie theater that many people have said, "You should-- You gotta
Speaker:go to Cineteca. Go to Cineteca. It's amazing," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:So finally, we were going to Cineteca, and we got dinner, and then I told
Speaker:her the whole story about the toilet overflowing, and she said, "Oh, no."
Speaker:And then we walked to… They have these, uh… Mexico City, they have
Speaker:many kinds of public transport.
Speaker:They have subways and buses, of course, and Ubers and whatever.
Speaker:But then they also have, uh, cable cars, like, you know, gondola things,
Speaker:like, uh, at a theme park, right?
Speaker:They have three or four lines of this cable car thing.
Speaker:And it's wonderful.
Speaker:It's a wonderful way to get around because it's quiet.
Speaker:You get to see the whole city.
Speaker:It's awesome.
Speaker:And the cable car went right to the Cineteca.
Speaker:So we're like, "This is great. We can just take the cable car." And it was wonderful.
Speaker:There was a full moon.
Speaker:Very pretty.
Speaker:Took the cable car, got to Cineteca pretty early 'cause I wanted to
Speaker:wander around and we were going to…
Speaker:She wanted to get popcorn, so we're wandering around the Cineteca.
Speaker:And most of the-- It's an enormous space.
Speaker:It's huge.
Speaker:And most of the vendors, though, w- that sold food and all that
Speaker:were closed, so we had to wander around trying to find one of those.
Speaker:And that was w- And there weren't a lot of people there, which I was also puzzled
Speaker:about 'cause I was like, "This is a…
Speaker:You know, there's movies.
Speaker:Why are there's nobody?" So I thought, "Well, maybe they're all in the movie.
Speaker:Maybe they let the movies out at the same time.
Speaker:I don't know." So we wander around there for a while, and then finally
Speaker:we're like, "Oh, we should, uh, we should find our theater," you know.
Speaker:And so we finally ask somebody which theater our movie's in, and come to
Speaker:find out that we are in the wrong Cineteca, that there are in fact two
Speaker:Cinetecas in Mexico City, and the one we were in was not the correct one.
Speaker:Which made me kind of happy because, I mean, the Cineteca that we were in was
Speaker:beautiful and big and cool and everything, but, like, it was strange 'cause it
Speaker:wasn't like the pictures that I'd seen on, like, Google Maps or whatever.
Speaker:So… And it w- But it was dark, so I was like, "Oh, maybe it's just dark." No,
Speaker:it was the wrong, it was the wrong one.
Speaker:So what a hilarious misunderstanding.
Speaker:I mean, yeah.
Speaker:But it was still a fun night.
Speaker:Riding the cable car was fun and, and now I still have to look forward
Speaker:to going to the real Cineteca or the, the main Cineteca, the big one.
Speaker:Do have an announcement of sorts.
Speaker:Due to both my illness and my need for a bit of a respite from
Speaker:editing podcasts, I am, I'm taking a bit of a break with the podcast.
Speaker:I'm still going to release episodes every week, but they might just be short
Speaker:little things like this for a little bit.
Speaker:I'm currently, like, interviewing people, and I've got a bunch of interviews
Speaker:in the can for, you know, season two episodes, interviews and so forth, but
Speaker:it's a lot of work to edit these episodes and I've wanted to put a little b- bit
Speaker:more thought into how I'm gonna edit these interviews and so forth and so
Speaker:on before I just start releasing them.
Speaker:So I'm just taking a bit of a break, kind of a one-year anniversary break of sorts.
Speaker:But not really a break, 'cause I'm still gonna be releasing episodes
Speaker:every week, but the interviews will come back soon enough.
Speaker:Don't you worry.
Speaker:Don't you worry.
Speaker:So appreciate your understanding.
Speaker:Appreciate your continuing to listen to the podcast.
Speaker:Contin- appreciate your… Everybody, I appreciate everybody who's listened to
Speaker:the podcast over the last, the last year.
Speaker:Thank you for listening.
Speaker:Thank you for coming back.
Speaker:Most of all, thank you for supporting me on Patreon, those of you who
Speaker:are supporting me on Patreon.
Speaker:And if you aren't supporting me on Patreon, I can think of nothing better
Speaker:to give me for a one-year podcastiversary gift than to go on patreon.com/onefjef
Speaker:and sign up to support the podcast.
Speaker:For as little as $5 a month, that's a mere 100 pesos, give or take,
Speaker:you can help support the podcast.
Speaker:As I said, you can, you can get access to some early content, and you can feel
Speaker:like you are amongst the onefjef elite.
Speaker:Not the proletariat, the elite.
Speaker:And you can make me feel better in this time of feeling bad.
Speaker:Uh, so yes, go to patreon.com/onefjef and sign up.
Speaker:Please and thank you.
Speaker:And while I'm at it, why don't you go ahead and like, rate, subscribe,
Speaker:and review this podcast if you have a moment, when you have a moment.
Speaker:It doesn't take very long, and it really does help the algorithmical
Speaker:gods to put this podcast in the place where more people can find it.
Speaker:So yeah, like, rate, subscribe, review on whatever platform
Speaker:you happen to be listening on.
Speaker:And, um, God, I'm so tired.
Speaker:My brain isn't really working very well.
Speaker:I apologize
Speaker:I can't honestly believe that I've been making this podcast for a year.
Speaker:I couldn't believe it when I did five episodes.
Speaker:I couldn't believe it when I got to 10.
Speaker:Couldn't believe when I got to 20.
Speaker:You get, you get the pattern.
Speaker:But yeah, having done this for a year, and there's, like, more than
Speaker:50 episodes out there, I can't…
Speaker:Go me.
Speaker:So thank you for sticking with me if you've been there, and thank
Speaker:you for listening just right now if this is your first episode.
Speaker:I promise you that this is not, uh, typical of all the episodes.
Speaker:This is, uh, a bit of an anomaly because of the sickness and the,
Speaker:uh, sickness and the sickness.
Speaker:But if you are enjoying this, then by all means, please let me know.
Speaker:Send me an email at onefjefpod@gmail.com, or call me at 669-241-5882.
Speaker:That's 1-669-241-5882.
Speaker:Oh, that one was not good.
Speaker:It's hard to make a song out of a phone number, I've learned.
Speaker:Garfield 1-2323.
Speaker:I need something like that.
Speaker:Does anybody else remember that?
Speaker:Clevelanders?
Speaker:Is that only a Cleveland thing?
Speaker:It was a TV commercial back in the day.
Speaker:Garfield 1-2323.
Speaker:I don't even know what they did.
Speaker:Was it, like, siding?
Speaker:I think it was siding, right?
Speaker:But that's, like, probably 40 years ago now.
Speaker:Garfield 1-2323.
Speaker:Now you're gonna just… Now you're gonna call Garfield 1-2323 and try
Speaker:to get in touch with the podcast.
Speaker:How do you call Garfield, I wonder?
Speaker:I think it wouldn't work anymore.
Speaker:Garfield, G-A-R-F-I-E-L-D.
Speaker:No, that's too many numbers.
Speaker:Garfield 1-2323.
Speaker:G-A-R-F-I-E-L-D 1-2323.
Speaker:Yeah, that doesn't work at all.
Speaker:I never really thought about that, but that was the phone
Speaker:number that they would advertise.
Speaker:If anybody has any information about this, I would love to hear it.
Speaker:Garfield 1-2323.
Speaker:How was one supposed to call that?
Speaker:Perhaps the business didn't do well.
Speaker:Garfield 1-
Speaker:So most phone numbers are like one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker:six, seven, eight, nine, 10
Speaker:No, it still doesn't work.
Speaker:Too many numbers.
Speaker:Maybe the extra numbers don't matter.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Yeah, just gonna keep talking about old Cleveland, Ohio television
Speaker:advertisements with memorable jingles.
Speaker:That's what this podcast is gonna be now.
Speaker:It's about old Cleveland, Ohio commercial jingles that we can remember.
Speaker:Garfield one.
Speaker:That-- Do I-- That's, that's an earworm though.
Speaker:I mean, if you're from Cleveland and you don't remember Garfield
Speaker:one, two, three, two, three, if you're of a certain age, then, uh,
Speaker:email me at onefjefpod@gmail.com, and we'll talk about it.
Speaker:No, don't email me with that.
Speaker:No, do.
Speaker:I mean, I'm not gonna tell you not to email me.
Speaker:Why would I do that?
Speaker:You know what else you should do?
Speaker:You should follow the podcast at onefjefpod on Instagram, also on
Speaker:Facebook, I think it's onefjefpod, and then on TikTok at onefjefpodcast.
Speaker:You have to add the cast on that one because onefjefpod had been taken By whom?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I should check, and then I should harass them until they
Speaker:give me the onefjef pod name.
Speaker:But until then, TikTok onefjefpodcast.
Speaker:That's not the number one.
Speaker:It's O-N-E-F-J-E-F-P-O-D or P-O-D-C-A-S-T.
Speaker:You understand.
Speaker:I was putting videos on there, like, every day as kind of a auxiliary
Speaker:content for the podcast or, I don't know, just for shits and giggles,
Speaker:and I haven't done it for a few days.
Speaker:I should probably do one today or tomorrow to promote this magical episode.
Speaker:But yeah, doing some fun stuff on there.
Speaker:People seem to like it, getting a lot of views.
Speaker:So I don't know.
Speaker:If you wanna see what I look like, do that.
Speaker:Go to those places.
Speaker:And if you've ever been curious to see, uh, my, my work, like my
Speaker:professional video and film work, you can actually go to my website at
Speaker:onefjef.com, where you can see all the films and stuff that I've made.
Speaker:And if you like what you see and you need some video work, you can hire me.
Speaker:So that's exciting for you.
Speaker:It's exciting for me too, depending on what you're trying to sell or
Speaker:what kind of video you wanna make.
Speaker:I, uh, got a job offer before I left for Mexico City for a job doing marketing
Speaker:for a hair loss product company.
Speaker:Hair loss company product.
Speaker:No, whatever.
Speaker:I-- Word order is getting all weird in my head because I'm learning
Speaker:Spanish, and I'm spending so much time learning Spanish, and word order
Speaker:gets all mixed up there compared to the English, so you understand.
Speaker:Anyway, yeah, hair loss company selling hair loss products.
Speaker:And, you know, it was a really good offer, but I, I just, I just couldn't do it.
Speaker:I just couldn't do it.
Speaker:And they r- he really wanted me, the guy.
Speaker:He really wanted to hire me.
Speaker:But I, I, I, I imagined myself editing videos for Instagram and
Speaker:TikTok and whatever, selling hair loss products for the next however
Speaker:long, and it, and it gave me chills.
Speaker:And I apologize to those of you who may be owners of hair loss companies.
Speaker:I'm not trying to, um, diss any.
Speaker:N-no shame in selling hair loss products.
Speaker:Um, it's a real thing.
Speaker:But I couldn't.
Speaker:It's not for me to, to, to market those.
Speaker:It's not, that's not a me thing.
Speaker:That's, that's somebody else thing.
Speaker:And I'm not sure that there'd be like, you know, I could go way outside of
Speaker:the box and make something crazy.
Speaker:I'm gonna break the, break new ground in hair loss advertising, whatever.
Speaker:I actually tried hair loss product.
Speaker:Was it Rogaine?
Speaker:I tried that, uh, years ago when I lived in New York 'cause, you know, I've been
Speaker:slowly losing my hair for many years.
Speaker:So I thought, "Well, let me see if I can slow the loss here." So I bought
Speaker:some Rogaine, and it was this kind of f- like, put it on your scalp.
Speaker:You know, of course you put it on your scalp.
Speaker:But I… Well, now they've got, like, pills and everything, but back then it
Speaker:was just this… And it burned my scalp.
Speaker:It, like, was very uncomfortable.
Speaker:So I did it two or three times, but, like, after I put it on, you have to leave it
Speaker:on, and my scalp would just be burning.
Speaker:And I thought, "This is not worth it for me." You know, I do want more hair, right?
Speaker:I want the hair loss to stop, but I don't wanna sit here with a burning
Speaker:scalp for an hour every day or twice a day, I think it was even.
Speaker:I don't remember.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:So the hair has continued to lose, to go.
Speaker:Boy, I'm having trouble with words today.
Speaker:The hair has continued to go, but, uh, I still got some, and
Speaker:I'm 52, so that's exciting for me.
Speaker:My father, like, just had the ring, you know?
Speaker:I can't remember my dad not having the, you know, the ring
Speaker:bald spot scenario, you know?
Speaker:If that happened to me, I would just shave it all off.
Speaker:But my dad, God bless him, he, he stuck with it.
Speaker:He didn't really do a comb-over either.
Speaker:A lot of people do a comb-over in response to the ring.
Speaker:What… Is there any other name for that?
Speaker:The ring, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker:You don't see it as often anymore.
Speaker:People seem to just, like, shave all their hair off if that happens.
Speaker:But back in the day, people would, people would rock that.
Speaker:They say that hair loss comes from your mom's side, so I guess that's lucky for
Speaker:me because I don't… The ring, the rim.
Speaker:The rim or the ring?
Speaker:Whatever
Speaker:This is the kind of podcast content you guys are looking for.
Speaker:This is, um, but the problem is I, I would talk about Mexico City and, and
Speaker:my experience in Mexico, but I've been sick, so I haven't really had many, so I
Speaker:can't really-- There's not a lot to share.
Speaker:I, I did write something down, though.
Speaker:Hold on.
Speaker:Let me see.
Speaker:I wrote a note.
Speaker:Oh, all right.
Speaker:Here's one.
Speaker:Uh, maybe a lot of you know this already, but, uh, another charming
Speaker:thing about Mexico City and Mexico in general, probably Latin America
Speaker:maybe, but you'll be sitting in a restaurant eating, and a stranger
Speaker:will walk by and just say, "Provecho.
Speaker:Provecho," which means, like, bon appetit, have a good meal.
Speaker:But strangers say it to strangers.
Speaker:In the United States, I've never said, you know, "Have a good meal" or "Bon
Speaker:appetit" to a stranger, never, nor have I had a stranger say it to me, except when
Speaker:you're, like, a waiter in a restaurant, yes, of course, but it's different.
Speaker:This is just some random person who maybe finished their dinner or just got
Speaker:into the restaurant just walking by, "Provecho." That's wonderful, right?
Speaker:How wonderful is that?
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:And also, when we were at the movie theater on Saturday, and after we asked
Speaker:them about where our theater was and found out that we were at the wrong theater and
Speaker:walked away, about five minutes later, the woman who we'd asked ran up to us and
Speaker:was like, "Hey, hey, hey, there's a…"
Speaker:In Spanish, so.
Speaker:But, "There's an- another movie playing in th- in this theater at that time
Speaker:if you wanna see that." And we were like, "Is it in Spanish?" And they
Speaker:were like, "Yes." And we were like, "Yeah, no, we can't, we can't really do
Speaker:that." There's no subtitles, of course.
Speaker:But it was very kind.
Speaker:Like, they went out of their way.
Speaker:It's a huge theater.
Speaker:They ran all-- Probably looked all over the place for us to find us.
Speaker:I also bought some M&M's at the theater, and the, you know, in pretty much every
Speaker:other country but the United States, when you go to the movie theater,
Speaker:like, if you buy a small soda at the movie theater in the United States,
Speaker:you're getting what would be probably bigger than a large soda in almost
Speaker:every other country in the world.
Speaker:It's, it's just a lot of fluid.
Speaker:And, like, I think the large is probably, like, a liter.
Speaker:It has to be, like, a liter of soda.
Speaker:It's absurd.
Speaker:It's insane.
Speaker:And, like, at the, you know, the, the baseball games and so forth,
Speaker:y- you ask yourself why America has an obesity epidemic.
Speaker:There are answers right in front of us all over the place.
Speaker:You know, you go to McDonald's, you can, like… Even the small at
Speaker:McDonald's is pretty big, and you can upsize the thing to get, like, a bucket
Speaker:of-- You can get, like, a bucket of soda if you really want, I imagine.
Speaker:Why don't they just start putting all the food and the soda in a, just a
Speaker:bucket and handing it to you, and you can just eat like a pig at a trough?
Speaker:Hooray, America.
Speaker:That's not happening, but it, it's not far away.
Speaker:It's not far.
Speaker:They're about to have a UFC fight on the front lawn of the White House.
Speaker:Buckets of food mixed together with a, just eating with your mouth.
Speaker:It's not, not far away.
Speaker:But I digress.
Speaker:Um, so I bought M&M's at the movie theater, and, uh, you know, normally I
Speaker:don't mind the size differences with, you know, snack foods and beverages here.
Speaker:Normally, I kind of quite like it.
Speaker:But in the case of the M&M's, there were l- literally, like,
Speaker:ten M&M's in this bag of M&M's.
Speaker:Ten, maybe 12.
Speaker:It was not a large… And it was just, like, w- what are, what are we doing?
Speaker:Maybe it's a movie theater thing.
Speaker:In the United States, in movie theaters, you know, all the candy
Speaker:and stuff is always in different kind of containers than they come
Speaker:out in the non-theater world.
Speaker:So maybe there's a smaller bag of M&M's.
Speaker:I don't understand, but it was a very small bag of M&M's.
Speaker:Maybe that's what made me sick.
Speaker:Maybe it was the M&M's.
Speaker:No, I'll never blame M&M's for getting me sick.
Speaker:I can't do that.
Speaker:I can't do it.
Speaker:Something I've also learned from being sick is that Ritz crackers,
Speaker:very inexpensive here in Mexico City.
Speaker:I got four sleeves of Ritz crackers for about a dollar, $1.50.
Speaker:That's a solid deal.
Speaker:Ritz is a good cracker.
Speaker:It's one of my favorites.
Speaker:I like the, uh, Triscuits.
Speaker:Those are good.
Speaker:Buttery.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then there's the Club cracker, which is the long one, not necessarily
Speaker:a saltine, but a Club cracker.
Speaker:Of course, you can only get those if you're in the club.
Speaker:All right, enough of this nonsense.
Speaker:I really appreciate you listening this far.
Speaker:I appreciate all of you, each and every one of you, for listening to
Speaker:the podcast, for letting me into your ear holes every week for the
Speaker:last year, or maybe just twice.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:But I really do appreciate you.
Speaker:You…
Speaker:You're good people.
Speaker:You are.
Speaker:You're good people.
Speaker:We're all good people.
Speaker:And I'm gonna wrap this magical sick anniversary episode up with a quote from
Speaker:the late great comedian Mitch Hedberg.
Speaker:"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask them where they're
Speaker:going and hook up with them later."
Speaker:I'll see you next week.
Speaker:Very good, Jeffrey
