Human Paper Dolls: Enclothed Cognition

I've got some dark jeans on with the dark top, you know, and some dark shoes kind of like a like a German sensibility. Okay, I'll go with that. Yeah, it's a little ust here. Yeah. What about you, Robert Lamb, what's sort of what sort of role are you taking on here with your clothes? Well? I tend to favor of course, as anyone who knows from the videos that we put out. Since you may wonder, wow, Robert Lamb seems to have like three things that you wear, and

this is true. I tend to gravitate around blue jeans, a T shirt of some kind, and then a hoodie of some kind of which and then these things will gradually wear out and I'll get replacements, and so it it didn't even point. I'll have like two or three versions of the same shirt or the same hoodie. It's kind of the pattern I've been in. But I love the hoodie because it Uh. My thing with it is that on one level, it feels kind of monastic. You know, I kind of feel like I'm in the name of

the Rose and there. And therefore, when I come into work and I sitting under my desk and I get out some books and pull up some studies on the on the laptop, I can I can sync up my hoodie here, and I feel kind of like I'm I'm I'm a monk engaged in serious, um focused study and uh.

And then there's also the fact that I can I can kind of zip up the hoodie and it's like it hugs me, and I get this like tight feeling, like I'm I'm tightly contained and therefore maybe even more focused on when I'm working on you know, when you say it's like your study hoodie, or you think about Natalie from the Facts of Life had like a special outfit that you would wear, including a hoodie. I believe

she studied. So yeah, I mean it's true that you you put on certain clothes to feel a certain way, to act a certain way, and that is what we're going to talk about today. We're going to zone in on this, but we're also going to talk about something called embodied cognition, which is this idea that there's lots of stuff that influences the way that we behave, the

way that our mind processes information. Yeah, it's one of these areas where on the surface of things, we all know that the way you dress changes, the way you carry yourself, the way you feel about yourself. But when you actually look at it and you examine and you take it out, and you you know, take some distance on and sort of move the concept around in your hand a little bit, you realize how strange and wonderful it really is. It is. And um, embodied cognition and

clothed cognition what we're talking about today. These are two fairly new fields of thought in terms of how humans behave. Behavioral psychology is something that has been, you know, particularly in the seventies, a very big field of study, and that's the theory of learning, based upon the idea that

all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, right um. Cognitive psychology whichs probably been more of the reining field as of late, and this is concerned with internal mental states as well as how people acquire, process and store information, and that also delves into neuroscience and linguistics in order to explain

human behavior. And the whole thing kind of treads the mind body problem as well a little bit when we talk about what am I in my brain and my body and what is this interplay between mind and body and and how does it all factor into who and what I am? Well, that's what I like about embodied cognition. Again, this this newer field because it does take into account this idea of acquired behaviors or behaviors that are pretty

much moved along by how we process information. But it also has this idea of like, what if we are all just a bunch of paper dolls performing the role of whatever paper outfit we stick on for that day. Now, that's that's pretty actionist, and there's more to it than that, of course, but it's more of this idea of we're all walking around in these physical cages we put over ourselves and all the trappings that go along with it, and this does inform our mental states and how we

operate in the world. Now, one of the concepts we're dealing here here with here is positive contagent uh, and this refers to the belief of transference of beneficial properties between animate persons and objects to previously neutral objects. Now, we've talked about this concept a bit in the past

in reference to lucky charms magical objects. The idea that that that an object that belonged to a person that is now dead is somehow on varying levels, either on an avert level, like you're can look at a watch and be like, the spirit of my father is in this watch, or it may be a very sort of almost subconscious thing where you end up aspiring a lot of meaning to the watch, even if you don't actually believe it has some sort of magical power to it

or some sort of actual spiritual residence. Yeah, but that does kind of there's a of a voodoo nest about it, right, bet you feel um. A good example of this is the study putting like a pro the role of positive contagion and golf performance and perception. And in that study, what was found is that people who believe that they

were using the professional golfers. Putter perceived the size of golf holes to be larger than they actually were, and they had a better performance and they sunk more puts because they thought they were harnessing this magic of the pros um equipment. Yeah, they had the professional equipment. And then therefore, and I love how the study boils down to the fact that they actually saw the whole is bigger.

It wasn't. It's not just a matter of oh, well, they had better equipment, and then they were a little boosted up ego wise, and they performed a little better, they were a little more confident. But no, they actually saw the whole as bigger um. And again, this is one of those studies that really drives them something that

I think we all already know. You you already hear a lot of people say, well, you know, if you want to be a professional about something, you know, make sure you have the right equipment, because that's going to make the difference. And you're gonna feel more confident in your abilities if you actually buy confident tools, right, you're gonna feel prepared and ready to take the task on.

And what I like about that positive contagion is. It's a nice little entryway into this idea of embodied cognition, because these embodiment theories are trying to understand the mind is a set of physical processes derived throughout the brain in the body of a human, ultimately serving his or her actions in the physical world. That study also reminds me of a little bit of Holy Scripture. I'm going to read here for you. Bring it on. When the star belly children went out to play ball, could a

plain belly get in the game? Not at all. You could only play ball of your bellies head stars, and the plain belly children had none up on ours. That was one of my favorite books. A Star Belli Sneeches by Doors and that is a great example of how people can sometimes behave depending on how they're branded or how they brand themselves. They branded with the star or

they branded without the star and it is. That's a fabulous, fabulous children's book that really boils down a lot of the ridiculousness of of human culture and how we work. That you can easily apply it to do some of the topics we're discussing here today. Yeah. Um, And we'll talk more about that when we get to in clothes cognition. But I wanted to point out something called the Embodiment

Lab at Barnard College at Columbia University. And what they say is that in the lab they explore hypotheses that flow for the assumption that the mind exists to serve the body. And it's as several implications of this philosophical stance that have guided our research are One that it is not only true that the mind can influence the body, but the body can influence the mind. Two, when we think or feel, our mental representations will be directly related

to perception and action. And three, that's setting the perceptual and motor functions of various thoughts, feelings and brain states can help us to understand why, when, and how they come about. Okay, so that's all good and will that's that's sort of the philosophical basis of this. But let's put some rubber to the road here. What we're talking about are the studies that have to do with um, this is the classic one. Let's say a warm cup of coffee versus an iced coffee and how it might

actually make someone think their cognitive process. And we've brought this up before, but I wanted to bring this up again. Um, this is this idea of warm drink, warm feelings. Yale psychologists Williams and Barg found that when they let participants hold this warm cup, the participants judged others to be more sociable and this is a characteristic of personality dimension warm. Right.

So further, when when participants briefly had a warm pack on their necks, they themselves became more generous and other acts of kindness that they studied in that but which is why you should always bring a cup of coffee to someone if you were about to ask them something difficult, right, Yeah. And and maybe even if you're going into a job interview, right, bringing some coffee, bringing bringing a warm pack to put on your your future boss's neck, that won't be creepy

at all they look at the job. Yeah. Another really interesting aspect of this is the handwashing zone. Now, there's an excellent book on on this title Clean, A History of Personal Hygiene Impurity by Virginia Smith that I recommend to everyone. I think it may have UM touted it here on the podcast before, but one of the core arguments in this book is that not even an argument.

It is just an analysis that throughout human history we have this idea of hygiene, and then we have these other ideas of spiritual purity, moral purity, um, pure thoughts, etcetera, um, and these become intertwined as as we as we evolved in as human culture builds up, you know, like detritus and uh, until we really have difficulty separating one idea from the next. Yeah. Again, this sort of like positive

contagion or actually a negative contagion. Yeah, because they're plenty of examples of something that has been For instance, at our house, we were out of out of tinfoil, so I had to cover the cat's wet food with a little piece of cellophane, and then I secured the cellfane around it with one of my wife's the hair ties, and and so the hair tie was not touching cat food at all, but I had to I realized that in doing this I might not be actually defiling the

hair tile. It wasn't it wasn't made impure in any kind of physical sense, but there was a spiritual contamidation of it by being that close to ground up animal parts, and therefore could never be used on hair asbo to say, I totally get that because I don't even like a hairbrush to be on my kitchen countertop. But it kind of freaked me out. Yeah, and we talked about this

in terms of water purification. You know, there's just everything that needs to be purified for human consumption has to be purified in the real but also in the imagined realm of of purity. Well, um knowing does the purity coming to play when you think about handwashing? But there's something called the clean slate effect and spiked W. S lee In. Norbert Schwartz of the University of Michigan asked subjects to rank top ten CDs they'd like to own from a list of thirty, and then they chose to

keep either their fifth or their sixth ranked disk. Okay. So this is where they introduced like, oh, which one should I have? Okay? You really touching those top picks? How many did they have to pick? Thirty? No, out of thirty, they had to be their top ten, but then they could keep their fifth or sixth. Okay, So they're in lines the problem here because it's not the bottom of the ten, it's not the top pick, right, So presumably there's some sort of like a consternation involved

with us. So what they had them do is they have the subjects evaluate some hand soap. Some just stared at it while others used it. Okay, And now the subjects who didn't use the soap ranked their chosen CD about two places higher than the one didn't pick, so they they elevated it. And and this is the cognitive This is is that some of us sometimes have when we're trying to make decisions, right, just thinking about the step,

not even even using just the idea of soap. The soap is a symbol working on the human mind exactly. So um So those who didn't get to wash their hands, basically they increase their value on their chosen option. And again that's the cognitive dissonance. You're going to double down in the face of adversity. And those who wash their hands, the relative rankings of the two CDs remained about the same, and their angst, they say, according to this was erased. Okay.

Now they did this again with jam. They had the participants had to choose between two different jams that they always used to be jams. And it's kind of jam study or another jam study before. Okay, So instead of washing their hands. We're talking about handwives considering the handwipes, are using the handwipes. And again, uh, those people who use the handwipes, they came back and they had a

more um pragmatic perspective about the jam. They didn't overrate their experiences with the jams, whereas those people who didn't get to wash their hands didn't have that clean slate effect and and and kind of be able to wash away their consternation. Yeah. I mean it's kind of like the whole idea of like taking a shower to cleanse the soul as well as the body, that fresh flight effect where you're like, all right, I'm all new, I'm good.

Well have you ever done that before when you're trying to turn something around in your mind, trying to get another perspective on it, and you're like, you know what, nothing's working here. I'm at a stop. I'm just going to take a shower and lo and behold, you come out on the other side of that shower with new ideas or a new perspective. Yeah. I think I do some of my best thinking in the shower in the morning. It's true. Yeah, I don't know, but I'm assuming. Yeah,

that's true. Yeah, well, I like sometimes I take too long, like because someone just standing there hot water hit me in the face. Ideas are running and it's a good time. Your wife is like, hey man, you're running up the bill. Well, you know, there's also something to be said because it's uh, it's before I have the coffee. And we've talked about, you know, in the past. I have a coffee focuses the mind, but it cuts down on that unhinged random thinking.

It's a hallmark of creativity. So I'm having the shower before I have my coffee, So that would that's also like I'm at my freshest then. And I also haven't taken any coffee to rain in the wild stallions of my imagination. I don't know why they're stallions. They're more now, they're really probably more like muskrats, the wild muskrats. Mind, I think I preferred stallions. Stallions is a little overdoing it, even I'm gonna be realistic about my creative abilities, I know.

But it's got a nice like seventies shiny machen to it. Um, all right, so let's stop talking about stallion in the showers. Um, Let's get to clipboards. Because I love clipboards, and I think every job I've ever had, I have kiddingly walked around with the clipboard to pretend like I was doing something. It makes you really does make you feel like you're doing something. I still have my clipboard when I was in newspapers here and I just use it for mundane

purposes now, like holding papers onto a board. But back then I remembered it was like it was almost like

a scepter. Like if I had the clipboard, I felt like, yes, I am in control because I have this thing and there's their papers on it and everything, well papers on it and everything turns out to be important, but more important in some of these studies is the actual weight of the thing itself, and it turns out that that weight is really important and that people will think about their own self importance engage other aspects of the world

in conjunction with this weight. Yeah, we're looking at study where people holding a clipboard that was weighted so as to be heavier overestimated the value of foreign currencies by any indicating how many euros they believe they would need to pay exchange currencies. Yeah, and now they were given these clipboards. The participants in the study, and they were told to fill things out. Okay, so they had an activity.

They weren't just holding and they weren't tell me how you think about the Euros now, yeah, And they had no idea whether or not theirs was heavier or lighter than than other people in the study. Um. And this was by the way published in psychological Science. Dr Josman and his colleagues Daniel light Laken's and Thomas W. Schubert explored this idea about the body conflating weight in importance. And they were also asked to consider different countries and

their leadership. And then again those people who had heavier clipboards and they really deliberated a lot more than the people who had lighter clipboards, and they thought that their opinion was more sought out than their their light clipboard counterparts. Wow.

So you know. And in our previous episode we talked about symbols and the power of symbols and how they affect our minds because we're just taking them in the course of our day, and then in the in the form of the clipboard, in the form of the coffee cut, we're talking about symbols that we actually take into our hand and in the sense make a part of our body. And therefore we uh, we we wrap ourselves in the

trappings of the symbol. That's true, right, yeah, that's we're saying all the other sort of trappings that we put around us, that we hold, that we imbue with some sort of value that gets taken up into our brains and and it informs the way that we actually cogitate. So it's pretty cool stuff. And then we should probably take a break, and when we get back, we're going to talk about this idea of paper dolls. All right, we're back, and uh, we're about to get into in

clothes cognition. You know, when I was telling Holly Fry of History stuff what we were doing today, she just went, oh, yeah, of course, RuPaul has a thing on that group. Paul is her spirit animal by the way, yeah, or her spirit god. I shouldn't say animal, her spirit god. And uh she said that he says everybody is born naked

and everything else's drag. Well, you know, modern cultural sociologist described the human body as an unfinished body, a body created by nature but finished by humans, and so each of us calls up on various bodies various various times throughout our lives. It's kind of like the idea of the cyboard, you know, where we're all cyboards because we're all using technology, we're wearing it, or it's in our body or it's some part of us. And clothing is a part of us as well. The human body is

born unfinished. We finish it with our clothing and technology, and that is the version of ourselves that we see well. And that's an idea of these the paper dolls that we just kind of put on these different outfits and then we perform whatever aspects of it that we are subconsciously or consciously thinking about in terms of how we move around in the world. It's like a Barbie doll, right, I mean, like there's the naked Barbie doll that is

just like flung around in the bathtub. But then they're the outfit that transformed Barbie and all of these other people. Astronaut Barbie. Yeah, it was there, just uh it wasn't there a Mars curiosity uh over Barbie something that recently came out. But you know when she still looks like Barbie, I have to say, and we've talked about her weird dimensions. And this is why, right, because she would topple over if you actually fully formed Barbie with her, her current

dimensions would top over on Mars though. Good question, very good question. Alright, So, um, the best example of the cloth cognition because there are not many examples by the way, Um, this is again a fairly new field of study. Examples. I mean, we can sit here and sir rattle out anecdotally all day long. Um, but I wanted to point

out three studies by Adam D. Glinsky. He is a professor at the Kellogg School of Management or Western University, and he presented his information in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Um. They also, yeah, they told coined the

term in cloth cognition. They did. And by the way, Glinsky got the idea for this from watching The Simpsons, the TV show really Max Power No no, no. Um, Well, I don't know which episode title it was, but basically he was watching kids, all the kids school, and they were outside and they were made to wear these gray uniforms and they were very subdued and calm, and then it began to rain and all of the dye came off the uniforms and these rainbow colors emerged from their clothes,

and the kids went bersark u and he said, he said, I started thinking about the clothes you wear in the meaning behind this clothes. If you put on a black T shirt, become more aggressive, you put on a nurse's uniform, you become more helpful. And then he crafted these three studies having to do with a lab coat. Huh. Well, again, it comes down to the idea that that all of these things have symbolic meaning, and the lab coat carries

a lot of symbolic meaning. You look at someone in a lab coat, maybe holding a clipboard or some medical instrument as well, and maybe other symbols that are combining to create this kind of hyper cycle. But but there's the idea that this is the person who's highly educated, This is the person that I should trust on some level. Careful, It is careful, attentive, attentive, that is clean and with this us that one before though that kind of ups and downs on that one. It's clean and it is

it is going to potentially safe me. Yes, And this is that's all embodied in this lab coade which Glinsky and the researchers used in these three studies. Now, what Glinsky also wanted to to really hone in on is this idea of our attention and how we direct it. Because we have talked about before directed detention is a scarce and finite mental resource, um, and we we have talked about it in the context of ego depletion and different ways of trying to game that the attention span

that we have. So what they did is they in one of the studies, they use something called a Stroop test. Now, this is how they fared out people's ability to perform on a concentration task while assuming or subconsciously assuming these identities in this case the lab coat. So if you look at a stroop task, it's it's fairly easy straightforward

because it's a very visual task. You're asked to identify or I should say it's very easy and straightforward to understand what you're being asked to do, but it's not easy to do for your mind. Um, You're asked to identify the color of the word represented in front of you on a screen. The problem is that the word

says red, but the letters that spill it out are blue. Ah, and your brain goes what, So what your brain has to then do is sets out the meaning versus the visual representation, and as a result, there's a fairly high error rate here, So it's a great way of trying to gauge someone's engagement or attention spam. Huh. Well, you know this test reminds me of the the awesome Internet

video Don't hug me, I'm scared. It's sort of like a children's show and they're singing about creativity and then it gets a little dark and they agree never to be creative again. But it's the part where they're talking about, well, how do you how do you engage creativity, how do you act creatively? Creatively? And how do you think creatively?

And the lead character of the singing Little Notebook says, one thing that you can do is you can get a collection of sticks and leaves and spell out your favorite color, which is in a sense using using ground brown, using green to spell out something like red. Yes, I believe they do this to children. Yeah, yeah, the strip test with that exact video. And then they get to the part where their void just takes them all down,

but until they start crying, it is interested. The one character spells green with the green and brown sticks and all and and that is ruled not a creative color. And in a sense it isn't a creative color because it's playing right into the dictation of the test. So maybe there's more to that part of the video than I gave it credit previously. It's possible. It's possible, but it's a great example of how your mind is having to try to make sense of the visual representations as

opposed to the word representation. And I really do think they should do that with five year old and then watch their brains melt um. I did want to point out though, that this was this was the centerpiece of the first experiment, in which fifty eight undergraduates were randomly assigned to wear a white lab coat or street clothes, and those who wore the white lab coats made about half as many errors on incongruent trials as those who

wore regular clothes on the Stroop test. That's pretty impressive, right, I mean, half as many just by wearing the coat. And the second experiment, seventy four students were randomly assigned to one of three options, wearing a doctor's coat, wearing a painter's coat, which by the way, was the same coat as the doctor's coat. They just called it the

pner's coat or seeing a doctor's coat. And then they were giving given a test for sustained attention, and they had to look at two very similar pictures side by side on the screen and spot four minor differences, writing them down as quickly as possible. So those who were the doctor's coat, um, they found more differences than those who were wearing the same coat that was called the

painter's coat, or those who were just wearing street clothes. Now, the third experiment had students either wear the doctor's coat or the painter's coat, and they were told to notice a doctor's lab coat displayed on the desk in front of them for for a long period of time, and all three groups had to write essays about their thoughts and the coats, and then they were tested again for attention. And it turns out this group that were the doctor's code,

they showed the greatest improvement in attention. So what does this mean. It means that they were embodying this cognition of what it is to be a doctor and these ideals of being attentive, of being well educated, of being on point. Yeah, you put you step into the symbol, you take it on yourself and you you you then appear as that symbol and then you were thinking as that symbol as well. You're taking on the guys of the doctor, even if you're not actually thinking, Hey, I'm

wearing a doctor's coat. Now, how bet I can go in there and perform surgery? Well, And this is what is interesting about the study is that it begins to to question, like, what are their aspects of our culture are bringing up these ideas and having us fall in line. So you think about police uniforms or inmate of forms. Yeah, the inmate uniform sends the signal that you are just

like everyone else, You're just a number. And also you're going to stand out if you if you go, if you escape from here, you're stripped of your identity right like, not only you're taking from from the rights that you had as someone in the outside world who could cook whatever you wanted for breakfast, go wherever you wanted. Now you're on the inside and you can't even express yourself as an individual. Uh. Someone who is a police officer, you know he or she has these these colors, these darker,

very serious colors. Yeah, the gleaming badgement to enforce this idea of uh, you know, security in order. And then there are nuns. Yes, how do you explain nuns? Well, in one sense of the uniform, I mean in the y of the habit, well, you do get a sense of you know, darkness and light, very very somber outfit, you know, masking a lot of the body and creating this sort of Penglin like demeanor. And they're veiled. They

are brides of Jesus, right, the brides. So um again, all this stuff going on to sort of you know, operate as these underpinnings of how we perceive the world and how we move around in it. Um. I feel like all of these symbols, though there's there's also a counter interpretation of the symbol, Like the cops uniform for many people becomes a symbol of tyranny and abusive power.

The symbol of the doctor can also become a symbol of bad news, a symbol of of being taken advantage of, or you know, or certainly a symbol of of of privilege to and privileged power. Yeah. I was thinking about this in terms of Dr Leo Spaceman. Yes, gemin Drm from thirty Rock who is the ridiculous doctor who shouldn't at all be a doctor, And but he's wearing the coat at all times, and then he's spewing nonsense and everybody just sort of goes, Okay, it looks like a doctor.

And he's he's has a nice speaking voice, even though everything he's saying it's complete garbage, complete garbage. And I think that they're making some sort of comment on that, like just put it, you know, a doctor's lab coat on someone and immediately they have authority on all things. Now a more relatable thing that I think we can all point to in our own life, like what do you feel like when you dress up fancy? Do you ever fancy yourself up awkward like heels are or the

devil stilts? Yeah? H now do you? But do you ever not you're not wearing the heels that do you ever feel like you ever dress fancy and feel fancy in any way? Like? Is there ever a positive connotation to that? I don't know. I mean, just don't dress fancy that often. So I'm pretty comfortable in my skin. So if I decided to put something fancy on, it's fine, but it's not I don't go around like pretending like

I've got a really long like cigarette holder or anything. Well, how about this, um, what do you wear when you go to yoga? You have a special garments you wear just for yoga, A long velvet dress might Stevie next dress. But you do have like yoga pants or something. Yes, okay, So when you wear the yoga pants even before you go to yoga, or if you're wearing them when you're not going to yoga, do you find yourself sort of entering the mindset of one who goes to yoga. I

feel stretchy, Sure, yeah, I feel flexible. I'm more open to people. You know, I don't know. I might be well because I kind of feel that way. I feel like if I'm if I'm wearing yoga pants, even if I'm not going to yoga, I do feel a little more relaxed. I think it wears off of me, you know. M I always remember my dad coming home from work

and coming home from his like very serious suit. We're talking about a vest with his suit and suspenders, all the accouterments of business life and shedding that as soon as he came home, taking a shower and then coming out in in all of his like you know, cotton um leisure ware, I guess you call it. And it was so funny because it was that transformation from day to evening. Yeah, so I guess there is a bit

of that role playing going on. Yeah. Well, like I said, we could set here and rattle off possible examples of this all all all day long about how we wear something different makes It's like what happens when you wear uh, you know, ceremonial dark robes with pentagrams on them. You feel a little more in touch with occult phenomena and U and the secrets and mysteries of life. It maybe I'm gonna have to try to have and see you

think about the next time you dress up for occult ritual. Well, I wanted to, uh, just swing this little ditty by everybody. This is from the Stanford Encyclopedia Philosophy about embodied cognition. It says, quote, the genuine insight about the nature of consciousness that embodied cognitive science has generated is that the character of visual experience results from the way we are

dynamically hooked up to the world. Since for a motor coupling with the environment is crucial in providing the organism with the pro pre aceptive kinesthetic feedback necessary for the senses of ownership and movement. When we touch an object, for example, we do not exclusively have experience of it, but while touching and being touched, we experience ourselves moving, including the feeling of controlling our own body and action.

The account of that agency, the sense of controlling one's body originates and processes that evolve for interaction with the environment, that is, mechanisms for sensory processing and motor control, suggests that embodied experience underpins self awareness. And I thought about that in the context of the lab code. If you feel the texture and the weight of that clothing, that you begin to transform it into your actual motor skills, your cognitive skills, and truly embody it. Yeah, very cool.

I mean, it just comes down to this fact that we are the cloth. The clothing makes the man. The clients they say, you know, the clothing is a part of who we are and how we interface with the world. Now, one quick example we forgot to mention is it is Halloween for Halloween, to what extent do we end up taking on the the the mental image of the thing that we are dressing up as like what were you for Halloween? Most recently, I really don't like to dress

up for Halloween. But then I think it's because miss my costumes have been a failure. But last time it was a fifties housewife with like a fake turkey in barbiturates that was strapped to me. That's pretty good. I like that. Yeah, you well, at some point recently I dressed up as a as a cop. Because this is several years ago, but my wife and I dressed up as the main character from Raising her Own Oh yeah, so but I'm glad that she was a cop. Sorry, she was a cop, and I was a a bank

Robert with a panty on my head, you know. So, so I guess you know, when I dressed up is that character. I kind of had to feel a little bit like that character. So I felt good natured and maybe a little goofy and suffocated, Yeah, and suffocated and prone to um, you know, robbing liquor stores and a new appreciation for pantyhose and in the trials and tribulations of that. Yeah. Alright, some some food for thought as we move into this fall season and we in character Halloween.

Pretty soon. Yeah. Again, keep all this in mind as you dress up for costume party, as you dress up for your daily life, because we'd love to hear about you. Is there a uniform that you have to wear, it being an official uniform or sort of an unofficial uniform, because like I remember, when I was working a newspaper, the unofficial uniform I had to wear with this like awful khaki pants, like the kind of balloon up in the crotch whenever you sit down. Those are awful, and

uh that it was. It became a part of how I felt about myself while I was working there. So so what kind of uniform do you wear? What kind of uniform are you forced to wear? And then what kind of clothing do you wear to change the way you feel about yourself? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you. You can find us that all the normal places, go to our main website. That's the best place. Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Everything else streams

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