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I just can’t be patient, I need to see my boy.

JOAN Do you have something your mom used to make you on a stay-at-home sick day? Could I bring something like that over?

BURNT Oh boy, I remember when I was a kid and I was sick, I would, of course, watch The Price is Right on the couch.

JOAN Oh, me too.

BURNT Yes, and I, oh, I dreamed, I just dreamed of being a person with that big gigantic ticket name tag and running up there and meeting Bob Barker and spaying and neutering a pet, you know, spinning that wheel, listening, listening to the sound of the Matterhorn. Oh, that was the best one. Yes. That yodel.

JOAN Was that Plinko? No, that was different.

BURNT Oh, no. Plinko was different. That was, what was it called? A mountain. He would climb up the mountain. I thought it was called the Matterhorn, but maybe that's the Disney attraction.

JOAN Well, it could be both. That's true.

JOAN So then you'd watch Price is Right, and then what would she—would she buy you something? I mean, would she make you something?

BURNT She would buy it and then make it. My mother would go to the grocery store. She would buy groceries as supplies. Of course. These are the ingredients. And then what she would make was she would make like, I would toast that was burnt black, just black as night.

JOAN But cut out in a circle, right?

BURNT In the shape of a circle. Cut out in a circle because I can't eat square foods. Correct. And then she would put like the crunchiest peanut butter. I mean, just a real, just a real gum ripper. And she would put that on there. And then she would give me just a little drop of whiskey.

JOAN Oh, this is the most intense snack I've ever heard of for a child or any human, to be perfectly honest!

BURNT So comforting when I think about it.

JOAN And this was comforting?

BURNT Oh, I love it. Just the mix of dry, burnt toast. Oh, just that you could taste the coal.

JOAN You could taste the coal of the burnt toast. And then that impossible to eat peanut butter. Were there just peanuts? With a chaser of whiskey?

BURNT It was the sharpest peanut shards you could imagine.

JOAN Like the shell?

BURNT And it became a game. Like big chunks. Not with the shells.

JOAN Did you have a beverage with this? Did you just eat it dry?

BURNT Well, I would eat it dry, and then she would give me the little cup of whiskey.

JOAN Oh, the whiskey was the chaser. Wonderful. Okay.

BURNT And she would toast me. We would have a little. Oh, it's happy and it's sad. It just depends on how you look at it. Oh, boy. And then we would guess, you know, the showcase showdown.

JOAN Well, I'm glad it's such a lovely memory for you. Does this bring you back?

BURNT It does. It really brings me back.

JOAN Can you taste the coal?