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Four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.

Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.

Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing.

And he was just staring at me.

Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.

Jeremy, I want to tell you something.

I didn't want to be talked out of this plan. After I post this, I am turning off my phone for exactly this reason.

I kept just kind of asking everybody, anyone else think this is strange?

You'll notice that about me. I don't lurk. I'm out there. I'm an action kind of girl.

Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.

Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing.

And he was just staring at me.

Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.

Jeremy, I want to tell you something.

I didn't want to be talked out of this plan. After I post this, I am turning off my phone for exactly this reason.

I kept just kind of asking everybody, anyone else think this is strange?

You'll notice that about me. I don't lurk. I'm out there. I'm an action kind of girl.

Four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.

Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.

Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

And then all of a sudden one day, you know, some feds showed up and things kind of came to kind of like a screeching halt.

His chin was down, he looked blue, and his neck looked out of place.

The passport being taken, the being in a house and not feeling like they can leave.

I was taking them all throughout the day. I would wake up first thing in the morning, immediately feel like crap because of the day before and need to take another one.

I tried to wean myself off and I went into full-blown opiate withdrawals.

I had horrible restless legs. Restless legs, hot, cold flashes. Chills, puking. Extreme dizziness and nausea. I couldn't go to the bathroom, constipated. Super, super dry skin. I hated it. Man, I hated how my body felt. Some depression. I just wanted it to end.

Kratom supporters are fighting to keep the plant-based substance from being banned last month.

What they're doing is they're selling it in gas stations and head shops under the name Tia Red or Zaza.

And we all looked at each other.

Eso es una cosa maravillosa. De verdad, maravillosa.

Now we're just talking about when the cheat's going to happen in Detroit. Are you serious? The cheat's going to happen at 2 in the morning. Already we report of a truck with California plates showing up in the TCF center.

It's posted on Twitter.

I got to tell Ira, because he's down there. He's watching for the steal to come in.

Well, yeah, tell him that word has it a truck with California plates showed up. But why is a truck showing up this time of night? All the ballots should be there already.

What do you know about black widow spiders? What do you know?

Fantastic. That is exactly what most people know about black widow spiders. And you're totally wrong.

So let me tell you, I'll start with the Black Widow name. The idea that the Black Widow eats her husband or the spider they just mated with. That she, you know, is a murderer dressed all in black, mourning a husband that they just killed.

Many species of baby spiders, which are called spiderlings, often eat their siblings right after hatching. And some species of spiderlings even eat their own mother after hatching. Oh, and sexual cannibalism, which is like eating your mate after he has done the deed with you, is very common in the spider world. Oh, but you know who's who is not common that much for is black widow spiders.

They only do this in captivity. It's practically never been seen in the wild in the northern hemisphere.

So the male Black Widow will sometimes go around to the female's web and sort of clip off little parts of it so that she has no exit routes. And then he will go up next to her and like calmly like sort of caress her. And then he throws... a web of his own over her to then copulate with her. Oh. And the scientists have called that web the bridal veil. which is so not what that should be called.

Are you serious? Oh my God. But this, it strikes me as a very weird behavior. And if I were a person naming spiders and saw that sometimes the female ate the male after eating, but also that the male does this crazy thing and like ties down the lady, basically, I might name the spider after that. But why didn't they? Because they were men. Yeah.

And they thought it was exceptional that the female killed the male. Oh, my gosh. Can't have that.

So from 1950 to 1959, the data we have says that there were 63 deaths in the U.S. from black widow spiders.

So most of the reported black widow bites from this time happened in what were called outdoor privies, outhouses. So black widow spiders, they enjoy dark, low to the ground sort of places. They especially love to make their cobwebs between two objects. And so because bugs like stinky places, you know, like imagine flies, right?

There's flies in outhouses that it makes a great like food supply, right? And to get to the stinky stuff, you got to go through the bowl, right? Right, right. So putting your web there is excellent. So imagine this. It's the 1950s. You're a dude. You need to go number two. You make your way out to the outhouse. You sit down and you junk hangles there. Hangles. Yep. That's what she said.

And as it does, it hits the cobweb. And the usually non-aggressive black widow instinctually runs over and bites down on the new creature that has landed on its web. Oh, my God. OK.

It is, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. There's like not even you can't even imagine a better situation tailored to getting bit by this like usually very non-aggressive spider. They don't come after you.

The majority were on penises.

The skin there is less thick and there are lots of nerves there, right? And this is a neurotoxin venom. So... Oh, oh, oh. Perhaps being bit on the genitals sends the venom going into your body in like a faster or stronger way than say if you were bit on a callus on your foot.

So yeah, I think that the world should know that they've been lied to. And that this black widow spider is not that bad.

I think that's what it looks like, renaming her. Black Widow spiders were not always called Black Widow spiders. They've had many different names. Some of the names are the Hourglass Spider, the T-Bar Spider, the Miwok people indigenous to California called the spider Pocomu, The one she likes best, though. The shoe-button spider.

It was like my whole chest was in a vice grip.

I imagine like the worst cramp that you've ever had in your life.

Like a Charlie horse in your leg, but that being my whole back.

Like a really bad Charlie horse that doesn't stop and envelops your whole chest, right?

I was like twisting up my body and I was like holding on to the side panels of the vehicle and bracing myself when it was happening. And so weirdly enough, I kind of wondered like, is this like what it feels like to go into labor?

Oh my God. I do not. I do not like that at all. No offense to the people who named that the shoe button spider back in the old days, but that is a very lame name.

Have you ever seen a Black Widow spider? Like, they look cool. You know, they are sort of like, sort of a spider you shouldn't mess with. And they probably have a bad rap, but I do like Black Widow. Like, it gives it some power. And I think those spiders definitely have power.