I can do that [pull quotes from a show] with Romeo and Juliet. That one I also love, maybe because it portrays young love at a time when I was -- I read it at a time when I was just falling in love, so. Though to be fair, the love in Romeo and Juliet is much -- I don't know if it's really love, so to speak. It's infatuation, though I'm never sure, the language is beautiful, but there seems to be some genuine connection there. But at the same time, it's hasty and impulsive at the very least, just the point that people never seem to get, I hate it when people call it the greatest love story of all time because that's not really what it's about. But regardless when I watch dialogue from that play, I've -- that's one of the, that's the only Shakespeare play I've seen in, like, performed in theaters. I've seen it performed a couple of times and for my English class freshman year, we staged it as a class. So I played Friar Laurence in act three, scenes three through five as well as Lord Capulet. We were divided into groups, and each of us were assigned a certain collection of scenes and we performed the whole play, which was actually quite fun. 

This audio contains language that has been redacted in the transcript but not in the audio file. Whales do take my breath away because they're overwhelming, the sense of -- they're awesome in that sense of awe. Like, do you ever get that feeling sometimes where you’re just like so overwhelmed by --  I don't know, the thought of whales, perhaps, that it's just like holy s***, how can I even be alive at the same time a whale is alive?  Sometimes I feel that way, like about the ocean. Like, ocean is so huge and I am so small. Like, I can hardly bear it if you know what I mean. Do you know what I mean? I can hardly bear thinking about whales sometimes. It's like, they're scary. They're huge. They're so f****** huge. And yet, you know, most of them are like gentle, and not, yeah, they're not monsters. And yet they could totally kill you accidentally, or on purpose. It's just like -- I feel like if whales were just a little meaner, they could just kill us all, or if they had legs or I don't know. It's like the closest thing to a dinosaur, you know, that you could run into if you were in the ocean. Yeah, I'm in awe of whales, that's for sure. 

The funniest person I know. My brother is pretty funny. He makes me laugh quite a bit. Growing up he was probably the one that always made me laugh the hardest, and I think both of us have a good sense of humor and are very similar. So I'd say my brother and it's just his delivery. He's very good at staring at, you and giving you just the stone cold glance. I mean, one example, I've mentioned I work in student housing, and one summer. We found in the ceiling 'cause it's ceiling tile units. Our custodial, crew, saw a tile that was sagging, so they opened up the ceiling and they found like two hundred liquor bottles throughout this entire unit in the ceiling. And then as I started pulling down, they found bongs. So there's this picture. It was sent from my facilities manager with all these empty liquor bottles spread out on the table, and then there's various bongs in the front and it just cracked me up. And so I sent it to my Family Group text, and and my nana who was like a 76 year old woman, who's relatively clueless to the ways of the world she responds and it's like, "Oh, what's that Beautiful vase in the front?" And I was like, "oh no, that's a bong." And she's like "A bong? What's a bong? Does it make noise?" And my brother just responds with a: bong bong. And that's my brother. Like he will just kind of poke fun at people. And so then he just started poking fun at Nana. And he's like, "Yeah, it makes tons of noise. Didn't you hear it Nana?" and she gets confused and he just keeps giggling and sending her funny things. And yeah, so that was the time.

There was a question about whether a friend and I got in trouble for laughing in class. Yes, I would say this happened to me more than once. The thing that the one that I remember must have been from, like fourth or fifth grade and my friend [name] we had a, we had a social studies book and there was a story in there, almost like a little like a little colored box like on the sidebar to the text. And it had a headline that was something like, you know, what happened to you know, the gizzard shad or the crisis with gizzard shad or something. And of course, I no idea what gizzard shad are. I mean, it's kind of like fish but I didn't know what the time and I don't even really remember what the story was about. It was, you know, probably about something maybe environmental or ecological where, you know, the population of gizzard had was suddenly a lot smaller than it was supposed to be and this was You know, some some kind of thing that scientists had to get to the bottom of about, I don't know, pollution, or who-knows-what. Anyway, all I can remember is that there was some kind of headline, that sort of suggested there was some mystery or peril involved with gizzard shad. So anyway, my friend [name] - and right in her social studies book which was like, you know, terrifically naughty, I mean defacing a book, my gosh, but right in her textbook she drew a little portrait of a guy and put a little, you know, like a little nameplate underneath that said, like gizzard shad. And this is something like who is gizzard shad? Or where is gizzard shad? And this, this is struck me as so funny. I just remember, I just lost it. I mean, I must have I must have been sitting next to her to see it and I'm pretty sure I can- I think the reason the sticks in my mind is that we got like yelled at for being disruptive. And I think, and I'm pretty sure that any time I saw that picture I would start to laugh again throughout that year.

I thought the question about doing something and finding out retroactively that it was illegal was kind of funny. I have I have accidentally done that before. I was thinking about this just the other day when I was in college, I don't -- I don't know why, I obviously was being stupid, but it really never crossed my mind like the local grocery store, when you went in, you know, there's that section where you like go through the automatic doors and then there's like lawn chairs and things like that in that area usually. And then there would be like, pallets of newspapers and I don't know why, but for some reason, I thought the newspapers were free. So like every time I left the grocery store, I'd grab a newspaper. And I did this for a long time. And one time I was there with friends, and I took a newspaper and they were like, what are you doing? And I'm just, I don't know what I said, but like they informed me that no, those aren't free. I guess I thought they were like extras or something. I don't know. But that you were supposed to tell them at the register that you wanted one, and then you grabbed or you grab on the way in and pay for it at the register. I don't know. So, I stole  -- accidentally stole or stole without knowing many newspapers from the local grocery store in college. I didn't anything about it. I had no idea how many I'd taken, and I mean, they're not very expensive, you know, less than $2. Maybe the maybe the Sunday one was like $2, I don't know. I stopped stealing them, but I didn't like go offer to pay for them or anything. I had no idea how to make restitution for that, but I stopped taking newspapers.