He is not.

And that's what's shocking, because they were like, "Oh, you don't wanna do anything with numbers or test tubes? Like, do you wanna go put on wigs and high heels and play in the basement? Let's do it." So, like, we were given a big box of dress-up to play with, which was, like, mink stoles and, like, clutches and muffs and, like, random old lady clothes and things.

Um-

Until when?

Like, I w- and, and when I found out, when I found out I was shocked.

The night of my 11th birthday, um, I was living with my aunt and uncle at the time.

This large, giant man with, like, a beard and a wool overcoat came in and took me out of the cupboard underneath the stairs and said, "You're a gay man, Curtis." Um, and I think his name was Hagrid.

Um- Um, yeah, so that was a lot to take in.

Yeah.

Just because, like, it's sort of a which came first y- you'll never know.

Was mythology and storytelling passed down from tribe to tribe, or were they all, were they always just kind of entertaining each other? 'Cause I did read a really f- interesting fact about how cavemen used to sit around in the cave and sample each other's boogers.

It was like a, an event.You would taste your own boogers, you would taste other people's boogers to kind of-

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