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HHBSO 21: I Dream of Gay Locker Rooms · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello. Welcome to He's Hot.
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But something's off with me. Just Joey T my car is finally
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here. The new car that I've waited
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three months for. When you order a car, and it's
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some sort of European, German, British, whatever car is built
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in Europe, they built it over there and they have to put it
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onto a ship. And I'm on the West Coast in the
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US. And it takes 4 weeks.
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I was tracking it. They've got this website that I
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can log into after I ordered the car, and I can track when it
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started being built in the factory, when it finished
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assembly and when I was waiting for a ship and when it gets on
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the ship and all that stuff. It's kind of cool.
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I'm geeky and really into cars and all that stuff.
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So that was fun for me. It was a fun way to kill, like
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the three and a bit months that it took to to get from ordering
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the car for it to actually arrive here.
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So I just gotten the notification today that the cars
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at the dealership, which is great, it's awesome.
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And I haven't had a car for a couple of weeks and I live in a
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really, really walkable part of West Hollywood.
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There's literally a grocery store like across the street.
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There's a ton of restaurants here and there's almost nothing
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that's not a 20 minute walk away.
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Even the all the bars and everything down in West
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Hollywood, Mickey's and all that kind of stuff.
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It's a 20 ish, 25 minute if you're leisurely walk down
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there. So I don't really need a car
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that much, but I've been looking forward to getting the new car,
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obviously. But the thing that might just
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throw a wrench into the works is getting the insurance.
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I canceled my insurance, my car insurance, my previous car.
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And in retrospect, I shouldn't have canceled it.
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Because here's the tip Consumer advice.
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If you're switching from one car to the next, hold on to the
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previous car insurance and keep it alive and keep it active as
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long as you can. Because it's much, much easier
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to just switch the cars on your active policy than to cancel
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your policy and get a new policy when your new car arrives, in
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case your old one, you have to sell it or get rid of it when
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the lease ends or whatever. Yeah, so I did that and I wish I
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didn't. Now I'm talking to like all
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these insurance companies and I rent out the forms online, and
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it's apparently a thing that it's harder to get insurance.
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Now I was talking to my dealer, told me the car was ready.
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And I was telling him, Oh yeah, I'm going to need to pick it up
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a little bit later because I'm like figuring out the insurance
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stuff as I need to get a brand new policy and it takes time.
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And he said, yeah, it's been taking longer.
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Insurance companies have been making it more difficult to get
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insurance. So yeah, that's a thing.
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I keep on reading the news that because of climate change or all
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the natural disasters and hurricanes and storms and floods
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and that kind of stuff, at least here in the US, it's harder and
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more expensive to get insurance, especially for home insurance or
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renters insurance, that kind of stuff.
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And especially in places like here in California, in case
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you're keeping up the news, there's some companies that
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pulled out of selling home insurance in the whole state of
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California completely because of wildfires.
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So that's how bad it's getting that some insurance companies
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will pull up. California has a lot of people
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in. It's a very it's like, I think,
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I don't know, I'm not Google, but I think the population of
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California is bigger than some countries or something like
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that. Yeah, but apparently some
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insurance companies have just pulled out completely, not
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selling any home insurance at all here because of all the
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wildfires and droughts and that kind of stuff that we've been
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getting. So, well, there you go.
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I just had a very full dinner, so luckily you can't see my
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stomach on the video version of this podcast that's available on
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my YouTube channel, Just Joey T and also on Spotify.
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I've been trying to cook newer, different things because I
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always cook all the same things, and the only thing that kind of
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keeps me from going insane, from eating the exact same things all
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day every day, is once a week. Usually I'll order delivery from
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DoorDash or Uber Eats or whatever, but with the income
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not being plentiful lately and I'll get into the career stuff
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in a little bit thinking Also inflation it's it's really real.
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So it's always been the thing where when you order from an app
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to get food, it's likely that the prices on the app is
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actually higher than the prices in the restaurant itself.
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That's it. There's a favorite restaurant in
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your city that you like. Going to.
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The price you see on the menu you go in person versus the
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prices on the menu on the app you order.
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Delivery could very well be different.
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Most people have no way of knowing unless you go to that
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restaurant all the time. You order for them all the time
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from the apps and actually know what the prices are.
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But even to order a bowl of which is not an expensive dish
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to order, it could easily be $25 when you add up.
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Not just the price of the food itself like the price on the
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menu, but it's tax and you have to tip it and just like a
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driver's fee and you have to like tip the drivers as well as
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all that stuff. So many like fees on top of fees
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and it with inflation all all the fees and all the prices are
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higher. So you could easy pay 25 or 30
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U.S. dollars for some food. I wanted to order some Korean
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food, but every once in a while I'd like to order some Korean
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food and I'll order like two or two or three entrees or two
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entrees, an appetizer. And I don't eat it on one
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sitting. I'll eat some of it and then
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I'll usually be able to get another meal out of it the next
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day. So it's basically two meals in
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one. But when I went to try to order
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what I usually order it was it was going to be like $55 for
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like 2 entrees and like an appetizer.
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That seems kind of high to me. I know a lot of people would.
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They go out to eat all the time and can easily without blinking.
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I spend 5070, even $100 per person on dining out because
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normal people, I don't do this normal people when they dine out
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or like they will have. Let's say it's a three course
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meal. Not a super fancy restaurant,
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but it's like nice ish, so and then they'll have like a couple
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of drinks like the drinks are what, 15 bucks a pop or
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something. So that's $30 in drinks and
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entree could easy be like $25 and advertisers probably 12 or
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15 and you have a dessert which is probably another 12 or 15
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bucks. Isn't that like $100 already?
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I don't know if it's before or after tax or whatever, but it's
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like 80 or $100 per person to to have that.
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It doesn't sound like a lot, right?
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Appetizer, entree, dessert, couple of drinks.
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Doesn't sound super average anything, but that's $100 and I
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don't want to spend $100 on a meal, $100 I can eat for an
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entire week. Like all the food I would need
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to eat for entire week in groceries I can.
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Yeah, that that's $100 for me. So food is one of those things
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where I don't have the palate to differentiate between decent
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food and, like, really awesome food.
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I think one time someone, a friend offered to or they asked
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me, oh, we're going to go to this like Michelin star
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restaurant. And even if it wasn't for the
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money, I probably would say no anyways, because I feel like
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really, really good food. It's probably just wasted.
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I just don't have to pallet for it.
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I don't have to taste buds or whatever for it, so there are
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things I like to eat and I first I was steak.
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I just said I cooked steak tonight and I can't tell even
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give me a super awesome piece of steak from like a mission
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whatever restaurant that's supposed to cost like, I don't
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know, $80.00 versus like a run-of-the-mill restaurant.
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I don't know if I could necessarily tell the difference.
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There's not that many foods where I can tell when it's
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decent versus awesome. So yeah, that one.
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There's another time a friend took me to like a nice ish
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Japanese restaurant spent more than I would usually spend, and
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I can kind of tell it's better than the average Japanese
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restaurant. Like sushi was better than
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average, but I just don't feel like I have the appreciation for
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it. I also don't like going to fancy
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places. Like if it's a fancy,
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particularly fancy restaurant where there's a dress code and
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there's different types of silverware and you use different
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types of spoons and force for different things, that's too
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fancy for me. I'm not a fancy person.
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I'm a basic bitch, so, but this is the way that I see it.
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I don't judge people for spending money on that kind of
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stuff. I feel like everyone's got
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different things that they value spending money on.
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A lot of people spend money on shoes or restaurants or travel
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or clothes or whatever that you know, you saw the amount of
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money I spent on tech and computers and stuff.
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To most people they would be like, that's a ridiculous amount
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of money to spend on gadgets that don't really, you know,
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like what the an average person would can easily say.
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What's the difference between that fancy $1000 camera you have
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that doesn't even come with a lens.
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You have to spend another $1000 on a lens first, says like my my
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iPhone has an awesome camera. Like, why do I have to buy a
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separate camera? Right.
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So yeah, I choose not to spend my money on food.
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It's really the aspect that I enjoy the most about spending
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money on food and going to restaurants and stuff is the
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social aspect of it. Where I am socializing with
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friends, I'm having a meal with friends.
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It's not really about what we're eating, It's just that I'm
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spending time with friends. I love to do a game night with
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friends. That's always like a super fun
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activity for us. I do love to eat, but I just
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don't like to eat super fancy things.
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OK? Speaking of money, I had a dream
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last night that I got a job. Like a day job, a regular day
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job, and I was happy that I had a regular day job.
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But in this particular dream, I was employed by the same company
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that hired me for my very first internship in college, and it's
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it's a bank. And because of that, I parts of
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the dream were interwoven with the experience I have from that
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first internship, which partially involved carting
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around heavy old school CRT monitors.
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If you're old enough, if you're like, I don't know, older than
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your if you're in the 30s or older, you might remember when
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you were young. Computers, Desktop computers.
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Not laptops. They've got these giant CRT
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monitors, just like old school TV's.
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We're not flat screens nowadays. Every display is some sort of
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flat screen, right? Yeah.
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And my first internship, my second, a third year in college,
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we had to set up computers for our new employees at their desk.
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And when employees left or move, we will move their equipment for
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them. And that involved us getting
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these trolleys or cards and moving these desktop computers
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with these giant monitors, right.
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So in this dream, I was kind of sort of doing that.
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And I was doing that with like a couple other people.
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And at some point, as we're pushing these carts around in
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the building, we got to this one part of the building that was
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this giant, like a hall, but it was basically a giant, giant gay
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bath house. Imagine the locker and shower at
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a gym, but the size of like a gymnasium.
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And it was like all open. So for some reason we started
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carting the equipment down like through this gymnasium type
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thing, but it's just like a massive shower locker room was
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all like hot naked gay guys for some reason.
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So I don't analyze my dreams, but it was when I woke up, I
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remember that part of the dream and how those two very disparate
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things mashed together in the dream and I thought, that's
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interesting. Definitely gay.
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But yeah, I am still looking for a job.
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But recently, the last couple of weeks, I have been much more
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motivated to work on the business.
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I talked about last week that I wanted to start one of the fun
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things, at least right now, at this stage of starting a
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business, I don't know if it's weird or not, It's spending
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money and buying things for the business.
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I guess I'm maybe more of a shopaholic that I would like to
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have people believe. So for this week I bought a
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couple of things for the business.
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So for the business I do need legal advice for just general
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starting a business, small business type things and also
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for the industry I'm in. I'm eventually going to need
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some legal review and advice for that kind of stuff.
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So I signed up for like an online legal service that's like
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a monthly subscription and get access to like a law firm, all
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that stuff. So I did that and then I bought
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some online software. So I'm eventually going to have
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customers and customers need support and you need to have a
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system like a help desk ticketing system to keep track
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of when customers interact with you.
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So I went and kind of bought that.
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I bought the website ecommerce thing.
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Also another subscription because I'm going to need a
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website. I need to have an ecommerce
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system where I can sell things on the website but also via
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social media when people to be able to go onto our Instagram
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account or we're going to run apps on Instagram or a Facebook
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or whatever and for people to actually buy items directly from
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the social media. So I got the e-commerce platform
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as you will there and I also sign up for fulfillment.
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So if you want to sell physical products, you can ship them
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yourself which is cheaper or you could need someone else to do it
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for you. Either you get a warehouse and
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you hire people, which is a little advanced and it requires
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a lot of knowledge and capital, or you can hire a company to do
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the logistics and that's called 3PL or third party logistics.
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So I went ahead and signed up for an account for a third party
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company so that eventually I can have the factory send the
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products, the hard products directly to the logistics
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company. They've got a warehouse and
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they'll receive the products from the factory and then
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they'll also handle the fulfillment of all the orders.
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So basically got a few accounts and that kind of stuff, it
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doesn't feel like work for me. That just feels like fun, like
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creating accounts and buying things that that just seems like
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I'm just spending money. I need these things anyways
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eventually, but spent some time doing that this week.
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So I feel like the more I actually do things for the
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business, no matter how small or trivial that thing is, the more
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it's like a self motivating thing.
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The more I work on the business, the more I'm motivated to keep
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working on it. So I'm trying to keep that
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momentum going. The next thing I want to do is
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actually schedule some time to talk to this particular factory.
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I guess you can call it kind of a factory or manufacturer to
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kind of get that discussion going.
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But yeah, it's been pretty encouraging.
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Some of you have actually sent me some business tips.
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One of you sent me the name of a book that is aimed for people
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trying to start their own businesses.
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So thank you for that. Leave your comments down below.
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If you're watching this on YouTube.
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Yeah, But it's been, we're kind of on high right now.
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For a little while, I was kind of sort of like dragging my
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feet, just being super lazy. So I've got it.
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I know what I need to do now. So I'm just kind of just just
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keep doing it. And the more I do, the more I'm
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motivated and interested in kind of staying in that mode and
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keeping working on it. So that'll be good.
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So I am still wanting. I think it doesn't make sense to
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not have a day job right now because yeah, the bills are
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piling up. Definitely is.
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I did a budget and I usually do a budget, but I think ever since
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I create the day job, I kind of got really lazy and stop doing
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the budget I have. I have a I have a decent idea
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where all the money is going because I look through all my
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credit cards and everything, even I'm not the months, even
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when I'm not doing the budget. And definitely with inflation,
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the dollar does not go as far as it used to, even like six or
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nine months ago. So I'm definitely pinching the
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pennies a little bit more. I've looked at the trips I want
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to take. Here's something I don't know if
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most of you can relate to. I guess most of you won't be
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able to because it's a pretty niche thing is chasing airline
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statuses. So most airlines, they've got a
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frequent flyer program and it's kind of like the more you fly,
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then you get to certain levels of elite statuses with them and
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you get these perks and stuff when you travel with that
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airline. And nowadays is not so much how
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often you fly with that airline, it's more about how much you
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spend with that airline. So those of you that know any
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moderate amount above any of the US airlines and how they run
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their flyer programs, so probably know this already.
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Delta was recently in the news proposing some changes to their
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program that have gotten some backlash.
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And now the CEO is say, oh, we were going to fix it or go
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backtrack or do something about it.
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I'm united. So that's a whole different
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company. Yeah.
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But I'm really close to making the next tier up and you qualify
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each year for the next year with United.
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So my aim was to qualify for this particular tier and I'm.
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I'm close to getting that next tier.
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So I just this afternoon and my computer, this is how I kill so
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much time. Guys.
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I was on my computer literally for not for the first time.
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I was on there for two hours just trying to Tetris together.
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OK, is it feasible for me to make the next tier with the
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budgetary restrictions that I've got going on right now?
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How many flights do I need to take?
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How much money do I need to spend?
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So I spent a couple hours doing that.
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It's honestly not just a couple hours.
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I tried to check just this stuff together last week for like 3
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hours and I couldn't figure it out.
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Yeah, that's how complicated it is anyways.
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Yeah, but I'm going to take a few more trips this year, so I'm
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going to visit my family in Vancouver.
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Next month in October, I usually visit them 3-4 times a year.
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Anyways, I'm going to visit them again in December for my mom's
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birthday and I've already booked a trip to Taiwan for pride in
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Taipei. I've never been to Taiwan
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before, but I thought this would be fun.
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I know like a couple of people that are going, I don't really
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know that many people that are going, but it'll be fun.
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I'll be there for just that weekend.
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Honestly is partially. Here's the T I'm Parsi taking
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that trip just to get the points.
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So but yeah, I also want to go. But if it wasn't for the point,
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I think maybe I wouldn't have tried to take that trip because
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it's not the absolute cheapest to go to Asia.
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Well, well, it actually wasn't that expensive to be honest.
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It's probably the same as how much it would cost to go to New
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York and back. It's the same.
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This trip is costing me to go to Taipei here from LA.
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And then I've got a good friend that's turning the big 40 in
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Austin and I'm going to go to that shindig to throwing
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something for a weekend later this year.
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And then eventually, not that long now before New Year's Eve,
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and then my friends and I, we'll be going to White Party Bangkok
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again. We've been to every single White
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Party Bangkok. It is a really good time and
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it's a really good production. So we already have our tickets,
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we have our hotels booked. We actually have three hotels
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booked for the group of us and we don't need that many.
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So I need to paint some people up with that.
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Anyways, moving on. So I have this goal.
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I have this goal for ages. I have this goal to hit 170
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pounds. I'm usually trying to gain
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weight in some shape, way or form and I used to weigh myself
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like a few times a week and I would record it down.
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Or I just took a photo of the scale after I step on it to get
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the reading. But I haven't been on the scale
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since June maybe. And I try to use the scale the
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other day and all the batteries were dead and I didn't have any
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more batteries. I had to go.
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I order some batteries. It just came in.
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I weighed myself this morning. I had no idea whether since the
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last time I stepped on it back in June or whenever, whether I
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gained muscle or I lost muscle or I I gained weight or loss
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weight or I gained fat or lost fat because I got a slightly
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fancy scale. And it'll tell you not just how
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much you weigh but how much percentage body fat that you
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have. So it's a useful reference.
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You know these home devices that tell you your body fat
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percentage. It's a approximation and it's
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not super accurate, but it is very precise.
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And the difference is precision means how repeatable it is.
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Accuracy means how close it is to the actual value.
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One of the very few things, piece of knowledge that I retain
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from my engineering degree, thank God, Got something out of
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it. Yeah.
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But I stepped on it this morning and I'm £169 at 15% body fat,
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which was better than I thought because I thought I might have
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lost some weight or and I or I might have like gotten kind of
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fat. And when you look in the mirror
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you don't really know. You kind of have to step on a
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scale or like do some measurements or something like
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that. But yeah, I've been trying to
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get to 1 standing for a while, so not stepping on a scale and
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not rigidly following the diet the last few months have somehow
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helped. I still go to the gym,
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obviously, but yeah, I used to track my calories and once I got
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into the habit of doing it, especially because I eat at home
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at a time, it's pretty easy. I will literally weigh
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everything that I eat. So if I want to have a bowl of
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cereal, I would put the bowl onto the kitchen scale that I
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keep on my kitchen counter, pour the cereal onto it and see how
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many grams of cereal is this? Maybe it's 150 or 200 grams.
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OK, we're going to put milk in it.
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How much milk that we put in it? Oh, it's 200 grams of milk.
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And I've got the spreadsheet and I put everything in.
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Oh, it's this type of cereal that I'm eating is 200 gram.
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This how much of milk I put into the cereal is X number of grams
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and it spits out how many calories it is and how much fat,
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grams of fat, grams of carbs, grams of protein, blah blah blah
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blah. So I did used to do that and
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it's getting to be the fall time.
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And usually for me this is when I kind of go into bulky mode.
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After the summer a lot of people shut down for the summer.
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It's understandable. I also like to look more lean
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for the summer, but I think during the fall like September,
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October, November, December, that's when I kind of buttoned
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down and okay. There's not a lot of parties and
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events and that kind of stuff. There are a lot of holidays in
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between where people just get that.
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But this when I this time, I usually used to bulk up in terms
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of the muscles. So the next big party I'm going
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to is New Year's. And then right after New Year's
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we're going on to the Atlantis crew.
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So have to look good for that. And then before you know it,
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it's going to be springtime. So starting from March, April,
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May is when the events, the gay party events really start up and
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before you know, it is June. So for me this is a really good
25:47
time, September, October, November, December to hit the
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gym hard and to bulk up. So that's what I'm doing right
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now. But yeah, 169 pounds, 15% body
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fat. It's actually better than I
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expected. I thought the body fat would be
26:03
higher and I thought the weight would be lower.
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So hang on to some of that muscle which which which is
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pretty cool. I was really afraid.
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I talked about me breaking out last week and I was really
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afraid that's something I was eating, was breaking me out.
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But I did a little digging and I think it was something I used on
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my face that caused me to break out like really, really bad.
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And here's the tip guys. If you have any sort of
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cosmetics, skin care, that kind of stuff, that stuff, once you
26:32
open it and break the seal for the first time, there's a
26:35
limited shelf life that that item has, especially things that
26:39
are in jars as opposed to things that are like a pump or like a
26:43
squeeze bottle. Things in jars tends to go bad
26:47
faster because you're exposing it to so much air.
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So, and it really depends on how well the preservatives are
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working in that thing and also the conditions in which you're
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keeping that thing in your bathroom is always humid and you
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can always put the lid on back onto your jars or moisturizers
27:06
or whatever. Maybe you're not even barely
27:08
screwing it on and you all that moisture gets in there.
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That's not a happy situation chemical wise and in terms of
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bacteria and fungus or whatever for those products.
27:21
So I think what happened was I might have used something on my
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face that came out of a jar. And I did remember using a
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couple of two different things that were in jars that were
27:29
already open, that were in my jar that I don't use very often.
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I don't remember the last time I used them.
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So probably one of those things have gone a little bit bad and I
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used it on my face and you can't tell by the smell or the look of
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it. When was those cosmetics go bad
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all the time. So yeah, I'm not going to use
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those things anymore. I've got got some order, a new
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one, so I can have a new one to use.
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But those old ones I'm not going to use.
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Thank God. I can't tolerate being allergic
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to any more food items that would cost me to break out.
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And for a while, I was like, Oh my God, is this some of the new
28:04
stuff I bought grocery shopping because, like I said, in an
28:08
attempt to spice up the things that I've that I'm eating at
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home, I'm trying some new things, but they're not really
28:15
new, just things I haven't bought for groceries before.
28:18
I got some, oh, seaweed, A snack so you can get seaweed snacks.
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They're like these really thin sheets of seaweed that you just
28:29
pop into your mouth. I used to eat them all the time
28:31
as a kid. They were more popular in Asia.
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Yeah, but very healthy sex. Literally just seaweed.
28:37
So super healthy. I got jars of kimchi.
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I love kimchi. And so that's in the fridge.
28:44
I got some wheat bran cereal. It's literally, I looked at
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ingredients on the side of the box and it was literally like
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whole bran or whole grain wheat. And it was like three
28:57
ingredients. So it was like the most boring,
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healthiest cereal that I could buy.
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I've got soy milk because I'm not on dairy anymore.
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So I need something to eat the cereal with and it's soy milk.
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So thinking, Oh my God, I hope it's not some of this stuff
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that's making me break out. It's like I can't be able to
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like not eat anything and and you know, to deal with the acne
29:17
and everything. Super annoying that I'm the age
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that I am and I go to the gym and I'm just full of a face of
29:25
pimples and no one else at the gym looks like this.
29:29
I hate people that have like no blemishes on their face.
29:31
They don't know how good they've got it, but these days lately I
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haven't been wearing my contacts to the gym anymore.
29:41
I used to wear my contacts almost anytime I went out of the
29:45
house, and especially when I go to the gym.
29:48
But here's another way I'm saving money.
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I don't really need to wear glasses or contacts at the gym,
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and the last couple of months I haven't been wearing them
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primarily to save money. And you know what?
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I don't need them. The only thing is, I was at the
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gym yesterday and you check out people at the gym as one does,
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and I can recognize when someone is a regular at the gym, so I
30:19
already know what they look like.
30:21
But there's always some amount of people in the gym that are
30:25
visiting or they're new or you go at a different time of day
30:28
and you just never seen them before.
30:30
And I was messaging some of my friends on this group chat and I
30:33
told them I can't tell if half the guys in the gym are hot or
30:39
not. It's it's not possible to like
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check out someone when you can't see what they look like.
30:44
The other thing is I can't tell if people are giving me weird
30:48
loads in public. I'm kind of selfconscious about
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if I noticed other people are looking at me for whatever
30:55
reason and they're like barely looking at me, they me might
30:58
have. Just caught glances by mistake
31:02
or they just gave me like one look just because I happen to be
31:05
in their line of sight when I walk by.
31:07
Like, it's not. It's barely a thing, but I have
31:10
this thing where I feel like sometimes people are looking at
31:15
me and I'm not sure if they are, but like maybe they are.
31:18
And I'm always wondering, Oh my God, is there like something on
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my face and I acting weird? Is my hair ugly?
31:27
Do is there something on my shirt or is there a tissue on my
31:31
shoe or something something like that.
31:34
It's like the first thought but I don't know if it's a good or
31:36
bad thing now that I don't have. I'm not wearing the contact
31:39
lenses to the gym that I don't know if people are looking at me
31:43
or not. So now I'm thinking like are
31:46
people looking at me? I can't tell and it gives me
31:49
like a little bit of anxiety. But anyways, usually at the gym
31:53
though, if the gym is a gym and at home is where I'm the least
31:57
anxious. So obviously in your house you
31:59
know there shouldn't be that much making you anxious.
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But the gym is one of the few places out in public where very
32:05
comfortable. And I'm not that anxious because
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I go there all the time. I know what I'm doing and like
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some people and I'm there to like, work out and then I just
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get out. I'm not there to like loiter.
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I'm not there to like, socialize.
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I'm not there to hang out, basically.
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Sometimes it doesn't annoy me the way that other people use
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the equipment. There's a couple of people.
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There's a couple of people that I don't like at the gym, just
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like straight up. They're regulars and when I see
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them, I'm like this guy again because for like whatever reason
32:45
they've maybe not put some equipment away or they were
32:50
just, I don't know, It's usually something to do with the way
32:55
they are using the equipment. One of the things I really don't
32:58
like is when people use a bench at the gym, like a table, Like
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they'll put their weights on it, to put the drink on it, to put
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their phone on it, to put the towel on it.
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But they're not otherwise using it.
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They're using the weights because they're doing some sort
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of standing exercise with the weights.
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But otherwise, like that bothers me because one is not a table,
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it's a bench. Second, someone else could be
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using that bench to do an actual exercise on that bench that you
33:29
are not using that bench for. So put your phone in your
33:33
pocket. The waist can go on on the
33:34
ground when you're in between sets or back on the weight rack,
33:39
and your towel doesn't need to be there either.
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Like for me, that's annoying. I've never been in a situation
33:45
where I'm where I needed to use a bench where someone's using it
33:48
for stores. But I've seen people do it.
33:49
Some people do it and that's annoying to me.
33:52
Just one guy at the gym. I thought I wear sunglasses for
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some reason. I don't know the fuck why he one
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time I was on a piece of machine.
34:00
Granted I don't work super fast in a machine, but if someone if
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you're waiting for me on a piece of machine, I will hurry the
34:05
fuck up and like and I will. I will hurry it up if you come
34:08
and ask me like hey, how many more sets do you have or
34:10
something like that to indicate to me you're waiting for me.
34:13
I would hurry the fuck up. This guy I was running, I was
34:17
using this machine and I guess he came up to like a nearby
34:22
machine and he was waiting for me at a nearby machine.
34:25
But when I'm working out, I'm not really like I'm just working
34:30
out. I'm in the zone, I'm doing my
34:31
own thing. If you're waiting for my
34:34
machine, you need to come up and tell me because I I can't read
34:37
your mind. But apparently I guess he was
34:40
waiting for me by sitting on a nearby machine, which I didn't
34:45
know. And then eventually he asked me
34:47
how many more sets I have and and that's fine.
34:49
And I said oh blah blah, I've got X number of sets.
34:52
And then when I was done he had a bag with him and he kind of
34:55
sort of like threw his bag at the machine app to to use it
34:59
after I was done. But yeah, I just didn't get.
35:03
I didn't get a good vibe from him.
35:05
But the next time I saw him, he was on a different day.
35:09
He was using a machine and I wasn't trying to use it, but I
35:12
didn't notice it. And he was just talking on the
35:14
phone while he was on this machine.
35:16
And when you talk on the phone while you're on a piece of
35:18
machine, that's when you just are more focused on talking on
35:22
the phone than using that machine.
35:24
And I'm always thinking you're working out and talking at the
35:28
same time, fine. But like he was like on that
35:30
phone call for like 5 minutes because I I used a different
35:34
piece of machine and I finished and I walked back across and he
35:36
was still on that piece of machine, still talking on the
35:38
phone. I'm thinking, okay, you are in
35:41
no position to make other people feel bad that they're using a
35:47
machine that you're waiting for when you're sitting on your ass
35:50
for 5 minutes talking on the phone on one piece of machine
35:52
and not using it at all. So that guy's on my shit list
35:54
now. So maybe the sometimes I get a
35:59
little, I don't know, sometimes little things like that.
36:05
I just don't like I very much. I very much judge you by your
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actions and also by what you say.
36:12
And I'm the kind of person where, like, honestly, if I was
36:15
talking a machine, I was like working with like a friend.
36:18
I had a friend with me. I want my friend to tell me that
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I don't want my friends to sugarcoat it, but like some of
36:24
these people at the gym, I'm not gonna tell you how to work out
36:28
and I'm not there to, like, give you a bad time.
36:31
But you know, if you're the type to hog a machine and talk on the
36:34
phone, don't expect me to jump out of the way for you the next
36:39
time you need to use the machine that I'm on.
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So that's the kind of person I am.
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So there you go. All right.
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Hopefully the next time we talk on the podcast, I will have
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figured out this stupid car insurance business.
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And then I'll have my new car to drive.
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I have some chores that I really need to run, that I really,
36:56
really require a car for. But until next time, bye.