Ep 300 Robb Benson (Planets In The Ocean/Dear John Letters)

Uh, do you take a lot of road trips?

I, I thought you were gonna ask a totally different question there.

Do-

Do you take a lot of drugs, maybe?

Yeah.

[laughs] So, like, uh, you know, when my doctor approves.

Um, no.

I, I used to, I feel like I used to, um, I feel like my wife and I used to do that a lot.

Um, haven't in a long, long time.

In fact, um, uh, we haven't had a lot of vacations lately.

As I mentioned to you, I've had a lot of loss, so we've had funerals, [laughs] you know?

Right.

And that's our vacations because it's like we all take my vacation time, go back to Wisconsin or go back to wherever the celebration of life is and, and that's been it for the last few years.

Um, lost both my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, and my dad all within the span of 10 months.

And so my wife's like, she's like, "You gotta get out." And my wife has a, a hear- a ear disability now, and she can't, she can't travel, um, on the road in a-

a-... like in a truck, like I could, her ears would be destroyed.

Um, but she encouraged me.

She's like, "You haven't had a regular vacation in forever.

Just go do some road trip.

Go somewhere."

Has she flown since she's been-

She can fly.

Yeah?

Um, she does noise-canceling headphones.

So she- which is, uh, hyperacusis, and it turns into nociceptus, and it's basically like you and I hear at regular decibels.