August 7, 2025 • 7 mins
Fred wants to know if you still sleep with your childhood blanket or stuffed animal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is there any part of your childhood, like any sort
of blankie or or bear or I don't know what
it could be, anything that you, as a grown up
you still have and that it's still maybe part of
the repertoire, you know, maybe it's still in the bed.
Maybe you still sleep with the blanket, Maybe you still
sleep with the bear. Maybe maybe you're a dude and
(00:22):
you're you know me, Mall gave you a bear back
in the day and you've kept it, and no matter what,
it has to be in the bedroom, it has to
be looking at you at all times. I bring this
up because there's a psychological trend out of China that
is now appearing in TikTok videos worldwide. Stressed adults using
overside oversized pacifiers to sleep, calm anxiety, and even quit smoking.
(00:44):
So adults using pacifiers now advocates believe in the nostalgic comfort,
but dentists and psychologists worn of the dental damage, jawstrain,
and the risk of suffocation. Experts a pacifiers may provide
temporary relief, but fai real risks and don't replace healthier
long term stress tools. But yes, you go to someone's
(01:05):
house and they have a pacifier, and you'd be like,
what is that? Like, I everyone to bet now good night,
and some people might you know, they might put in
there on visit line, and some people might put on
I don't know, a face mask of some kind, or
some sort of apparatus on your hair or something, I
don't know what you headband or something.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But no pacifier.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But to any of you guys, hang on to anything
from your childhood minimal judgment commentary with no judgment.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We are right. I don't think I don't believe you.
You don't believe me that no judgment. I'm not the
worst culprit at all. You're probably worse than me.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah anyway, Yeah, so anyway, tell me about the blanket
that you still sleep with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That I I don't have anything. I don't think I
think you're deflecting right now. Well yeah, but no, I
don't think I have anything nothing. I mean, I dated
a guy who had his baby blanket. I've told the story,
and I washed it and he got very ticked off.
He said only his mom could wash it the right way. Yeah. Yeah,
it was a little baby blanket with balloons on it. Oh,
yeah it was. I guess it's almost less about the blanket.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
As it is about the commentary about the.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
There was a whole yeah, you know, it was a
whole moment that I took one that could wash it. Yeah,
it was giving.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It was giving.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We went back in time. I was like, okay, yeah, can.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You imagine, like activities are happening and then they're over
and you're like, oh here and then you no, not that,
not that.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I don't know. We can't use that. We didn't do
that with that, But activity did happen with that in
the bed. I mean it was there all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Wow, and hey mommy, can you come over cale and
use my blanket for something?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Its like it was dirty and he didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Oh no, that was I mean I know that there
was a blanket that I had as a child that
still exists. I mean I know it's in the house.
I don't not my ows and to my parents house.
I mean it was this little yellow blanket. I know
it still exists. My sister had a U She called
it soggy, but it was like, well that's because it
was driving in spit all the time. But yeah, but
(03:00):
it was, uh, it was like a little square blanket thing.
I don't know what it was. It was not a
blanket because it wasn't that big. It was like a
little square kind of patch and it had a little
tag on the corner, and she'd stick her finger through
the tag and then put her finger in her mouth,
you know, like like missus. You know, she was like
eighteen nineteen when this happened. But if he missed that, okay,
I'm talking to myself. Anyway, she was, she was two
(03:22):
and and it was always wet because the spit would
just you know, you guys, just let that one just
go right over anywhere. It's fine. I thought it was hysterical,
but I actually I was just testing to see I
anybody was listening to me. But but she knew, she
knew the soggy though, like she knew the wow. Yes,
you know, she knew these specific one because my mom
(03:45):
had several of them, and like if something because God
for it was a total meltdown if something happened to soggy,
you know it. So there were multiple soggies, but they
were all the same color. But she would know, like
if we gave her a new one out of the box,
she'd be like, that's not soggy. Yeah, it's like no,
nobody did. Definitely is it's the same brands in the
same place.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is that the name? Because I don't know she was
chewing you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Did you not have like anything as a child that
you called something because that was the only word that
you could say.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I mean, I just had a blankye, but that that
was this so blank he's better than soggy hockey is
a gross word. I hate that word. I mean she
was too. I don't know I she came up with it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, this sucking your thumb count someone texting my forty
five year old wife. Oh man, maybe we're calling this person.
I want to talk to this. I need to understand
it far too long too. You didn't hear a secret here, Leonard?
Your wife such a.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Suck your thumb still to this day.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I mean, are we talking like full on thumb, big
old thumb in mouth, fists in the air, that moved
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
No, shame to it. She don't care who is it
called in the public. It is still to this day.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Wow, Wow, her teeths messed up? No, she has pretty
because i'm your little gap in there. But it's still cute.
Does she stick the thumb in the gap. O careful free,
I said the thumb. Brother, I didn't know. Okay, all right,
I gotta this is no yeah trying.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I guess it comforts her so she she'll get yourself
sleeping or just out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I guess it's her calmness. So hey, look at this guy,
that Leonard, he's in love.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I want to know what Leonard does that this is
just okay at the house like his whenfe comes home,
second her thumb.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I want to know what she's hiding about you, Leonard.
I'm an open book.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, all right, man, have a good day. I'm glad
you called. All right, I mean, yeah, you get her
a pacifier.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Though, no, no, no, no, that should have been cut
from like age two. Like every day I think about that.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm like, I think my baby's pacifier soon because I
don't want her to be so relying on it, you know,
I want her to like self soothing stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Jason, I'm sorry, but I think that was the problem them.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I think my parents took my pacifire away too early,
and then that caused me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's that's how this all happened. Change transfer to one.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I just said, too long like, still, I'm too old, right,
how old?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Grad school age? I was still sucking my transfer of addiction.
You're not listening to me. You both spoke at the
same time.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, no, I'm sorry I heard sucking and transfer of addiction.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'm sorry. It took me completely off course.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It had to be in private, like you would go
in your room and shut the door and then you'd
like secrete.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It would be just like a time thing.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Actually the corner of like the sheet, like I still
the position, but it's so gross.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm sorry you thought the same thing. I looked at you.
You had the same look at you. I'm sorry, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm not sure enough for this conversation. Guys, that's not chasing.
Chasing my parents.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
My Aaron shook my passifire away, and that's how this happened.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We are so.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You thought the same thing, do you. I look at Paulina,
you thought the same damn thing. So shut up, my god, Jason, Okay,
f No, there's nothing wrong with what happened. It would
just explain a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
There was absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
There's absolutely nothing wrong with you, Jason. But but that
would be a scientific discovery. If that's how this all
went down. If you take your kids pass clare Away,
they gotta fight something.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Your kids gay. Don't take early
Is there any part of your childhood, like any sort
of blankie or or bear or I don't know what
it could be, anything that you, as a grown up
you still have and that it's still maybe part of
the repertoire, you know, maybe it's still in the bed.
Maybe you still sleep with the blanket, Maybe you still
sleep with the bear. Maybe maybe you're a dude and
(00:22):
you're you know me, Mall gave you a bear back
in the day and you've kept it, and no matter what,
it has to be in the bedroom, it has to
be looking at you at all times. I bring this
up because there's a psychological trend out of China that
is now appearing in TikTok videos worldwide. Stressed adults using
overside oversized pacifiers to sleep, calm anxiety, and even quit smoking.
(00:44):
So adults using pacifiers now advocates believe in the nostalgic comfort,
but dentists and psychologists worn of the dental damage, jawstrain,
and the risk of suffocation. Experts a pacifiers may provide
temporary relief, but fai real risks and don't replace healthier
long term stress tools. But yes, you go to someone's
(01:05):
house and they have a pacifier, and you'd be like,
what is that? Like, I everyone to bet now good night,
and some people might you know, they might put in
there on visit line, and some people might put on
I don't know, a face mask of some kind, or
some sort of apparatus on your hair or something, I
don't know what you headband or something.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But no pacifier.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But to any of you guys, hang on to anything
from your childhood minimal judgment commentary with no judgment.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We are right. I don't think I don't believe you.
You don't believe me that no judgment. I'm not the
worst culprit at all. You're probably worse than me.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah anyway, Yeah, so anyway, tell me about the blanket
that you still sleep with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That I I don't have anything. I don't think I
think you're deflecting right now. Well yeah, but no, I
don't think I have anything nothing. I mean, I dated
a guy who had his baby blanket. I've told the story,
and I washed it and he got very ticked off.
He said only his mom could wash it the right way. Yeah. Yeah,
it was a little baby blanket with balloons on it. Oh,
yeah it was. I guess it's almost less about the blanket.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
As it is about the commentary about the.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
There was a whole yeah, you know, it was a
whole moment that I took one that could wash it. Yeah,
it was giving.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It was giving.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We went back in time. I was like, okay, yeah, can.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You imagine, like activities are happening and then they're over
and you're like, oh here and then you no, not that,
not that.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I don't know. We can't use that. We didn't do
that with that, But activity did happen with that in
the bed. I mean it was there all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Wow, and hey mommy, can you come over cale and
use my blanket for something?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Its like it was dirty and he didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Oh no, that was I mean I know that there
was a blanket that I had as a child that
still exists. I mean I know it's in the house.
I don't not my ows and to my parents house.
I mean it was this little yellow blanket. I know
it still exists. My sister had a U She called
it soggy, but it was like, well that's because it
was driving in spit all the time. But yeah, but
(03:00):
it was, uh, it was like a little square blanket thing.
I don't know what it was. It was not a
blanket because it wasn't that big. It was like a
little square kind of patch and it had a little
tag on the corner, and she'd stick her finger through
the tag and then put her finger in her mouth,
you know, like like missus. You know, she was like
eighteen nineteen when this happened. But if he missed that, okay,
I'm talking to myself. Anyway, she was, she was two
(03:22):
and and it was always wet because the spit would
just you know, you guys, just let that one just
go right over anywhere. It's fine. I thought it was hysterical,
but I actually I was just testing to see I
anybody was listening to me. But but she knew, she
knew the soggy though, like she knew the wow. Yes,
you know, she knew these specific one because my mom
(03:45):
had several of them, and like if something because God
for it was a total meltdown if something happened to soggy,
you know it. So there were multiple soggies, but they
were all the same color. But she would know, like
if we gave her a new one out of the box,
she'd be like, that's not soggy. Yeah, it's like no,
nobody did. Definitely is it's the same brands in the
same place.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is that the name? Because I don't know she was
chewing you.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Did you not have like anything as a child that
you called something because that was the only word that
you could say.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I mean, I just had a blankye, but that that
was this so blank he's better than soggy hockey is
a gross word. I hate that word. I mean she
was too. I don't know I she came up with it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, this sucking your thumb count someone texting my forty
five year old wife. Oh man, maybe we're calling this person.
I want to talk to this. I need to understand
it far too long too. You didn't hear a secret here, Leonard?
Your wife such a.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Suck your thumb still to this day.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I mean, are we talking like full on thumb, big
old thumb in mouth, fists in the air, that moved
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
No, shame to it. She don't care who is it
called in the public. It is still to this day.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Wow, Wow, her teeths messed up? No, she has pretty
because i'm your little gap in there. But it's still cute.
Does she stick the thumb in the gap. O careful free,
I said the thumb. Brother, I didn't know. Okay, all right,
I gotta this is no yeah trying.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I guess it comforts her so she she'll get yourself
sleeping or just out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I guess it's her calmness. So hey, look at this guy,
that Leonard, he's in love.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I want to know what Leonard does that this is
just okay at the house like his whenfe comes home,
second her thumb.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I want to know what she's hiding about you, Leonard.
I'm an open book.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, all right, man, have a good day. I'm glad
you called. All right, I mean, yeah, you get her
a pacifier.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Though, no, no, no, no, that should have been cut
from like age two. Like every day I think about that.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm like, I think my baby's pacifier soon because I
don't want her to be so relying on it, you know,
I want her to like self soothing stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Jason, I'm sorry, but I think that was the problem them.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I think my parents took my pacifire away too early,
and then that caused me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's that's how this all happened. Change transfer to one.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I just said, too long like, still, I'm too old, right,
how old?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Grad school age? I was still sucking my transfer of addiction.
You're not listening to me. You both spoke at the
same time.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, no, I'm sorry I heard sucking and transfer of addiction.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'm sorry. It took me completely off course.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It had to be in private, like you would go
in your room and shut the door and then you'd
like secrete.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It would be just like a time thing.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Actually the corner of like the sheet, like I still
the position, but it's so gross.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm sorry you thought the same thing. I looked at you.
You had the same look at you. I'm sorry, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm not sure enough for this conversation. Guys, that's not chasing.
Chasing my parents.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
My Aaron shook my passifire away, and that's how this happened.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We are so.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You thought the same thing, do you. I look at Paulina,
you thought the same damn thing. So shut up, my god, Jason, Okay,
f No, there's nothing wrong with what happened. It would
just explain a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
There was absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
There's absolutely nothing wrong with you, Jason. But but that
would be a scientific discovery. If that's how this all
went down. If you take your kids pass clare Away,
they gotta fight something.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Your kids gay. Don't take early
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