Oops ! Haha thanks for pointing it out <| sep |> Count me in on that giveaway ! Cheers ! <| sep |> When I was just getting into this podcast , I made the mistake of listening to the competitive tickling episode at the gym . I laughed so hard I dropped a weight and wanged up my foot . Not my proudest moment , but man do I adore The Dollop . <| sep |> Are you literally 10 years old ? <| sep |> Not a fan of both <| sep |> I think that was the other side of the state . <| sep |> My father is one of those dealt a bad hand . To protect myself I ' ve had to set very tight limits on our interactions . We talk once a week over the phone and visit in person for maybe two or three days a year . If he gets anywhere near alcohol or drugs during that time , I must be able to leave the situation immediately . He is retired , disabled marine corps with ptsd and has a tendency to blow things up and shoot at whatever has him pissed off , which if he is drinking around someone , will be that person . It was not his choice to he in the military in the first place , and due to these behaviours almost none of his family will allow him to be near them , and he can also be quite manipulative in attempting to keep people near him , so many of them severely limit their phone contact with him as well . I have dealt with this for thirty years so I ' m pretty good at deflecting it . Sometimes it is all I can do to take the phone call from him every week , and occasionally I will not . I am one of the very few people he has any real connection left with , and it is difficult , but I feel a lot better that he ' s not just out there on his own .