Do you follow recipes, or wing it and see what happens? Maybe you just love the look of cookbooks, with all those great photos. Some recipes are passed down for generations; others seem to come out of nowhere like a one-hit wonder and fade away. But it's clear that humans enjoy food...and the recipes that can make it even better...

The Gorillamen didn't even turn this one dark!

Here's what's discussed:

• What's the first recipe you remember seeing?
• How well do you follow recipes?
• What's the best recipe you've ever followed?
• What's the worst recipe you've ever followed?
• What's the strangest recipe you've ever made?
• Have you ever made your own recipes? If so: what?
• What's the last recipe you followed?
• Do you have any cherished family recipes?
• Cookbooks…are you a fan? (If so, how many do you have?)
• How has the Internet changed the ways we look at recipes and cookbooks?
• What do you think about the blog story recipe, where someone goes on (and sometimes on and on) with a story before sharing the recipe?
• What's the future of recipes?

It's funny how you can record a thing and, a week later, it's maybe not obsolete, but definitely shows how quickly things can change. Granted, we discussed the likelihood of what is happening again--climbing COVID-19 rates brought on by [mostly] unvaccinated people and the Delta variant--but we didn't expect that prediction to be so timely.

With many people getting out and about, though, we Gorillamen sat down and talked about how our lives have changed since being vaccinated and able to venture out not as concerned as we were before vaccinations.

This is what we discussed:

• When did you get vaccinated?
• What was that experience?
• What’s the first thing you wanted to do when you were fully vaccinated?
• What’s the first thing you actually did?
• What have you noticed is different in the world now than pre-COVID-vaccination?
• Do you feel like we’ve turned a corner on the pandemic?
• What’s something you were sure you were going to do when vaccinated that you haven’t?
• How has your social interaction been compared with pre-COVID?
• Have you noticed any problems or issues re-engaging with the world?
• What’s the future of the pandemic?

Sometimes, life happens.

That's a rather ridiculous statement when you think about it. Life is always happening. If you're asleep, things are still happening that affect your life. So let's start over.

Because Gorilla Shawn was recently traveling and is currently feeling a little under the weather...and because Gorilla Christopher is redoing his office right now, we're skipping the scheduled episode of Men in Gorilla Suits this week.

It will likely be released next week. (At the latest, in two weeks on the usual schedule.)

Until then, we hope you're all chilling the fuck out...and making the damn thing!