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HHBSO 6: I Got In a (minor) Car Accident · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hello, welcome to he's hop as something's off of me, just Joey
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  T. It is not clickbait that I put
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  that I was in a car accident for this podcast nor was a plan.
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  I mean, no one ever plans to crash but yeah, it's something
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  to talk about for the podcast. I guess so.
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  Got into a minor car accident. It was kind of like a fender
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  bender. It wasn't anything super
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  serious. This was it's Saturday night.
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  I was on my way to go somewhere for Pride weekend.
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  It was LE Pride this weekend, we'll get into that and it
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  wasn't like a major accident. No one was hurt.
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  It was like a low-speed thing but it was like, it wasn't like
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  a fender bender. Like per se were like, oh, like
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  it was like a very gentle. Like, tap, you know, minor top
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  on the bumper. It was like the area that was,
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  like, on the driver's side like above.
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  Bill. And there was like a definite
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  like shunt that I felt but it wasn't like a super, like, you
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  know, forceful impact or anything.
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  But yeah, that was eventful and did you drive for any amount of
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  time, you know, once you've been driving for like 10 15, 20
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  years, the odds are that you eventually get into some sort
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  of, hopefully very minor accident.
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  You know, maybe like something in the parking lot.
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  Like very low speeds. Hopefully, we're alike.
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  You know, damages Very low and like, no one is hurt for sure.
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  But it was, I don't know. I knew what to do when I got in
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  the accident is very much, don't talk about it.
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  Discuss what happened? Who was a faulty beer or get
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  into some sort of car accident on the road?
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  Pull over somewhere. Safe.
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  You know, when you meet the other driver, don't talk about
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  fault. Don't discuss what happened?
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  Just be as calm. And just professional and polite
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  as possible. Exchanged information, license
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  registration, driver's license. Contact information.
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  Take Hunter, votos record the location.
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  Grab videos of, like, where you are of, like, damage on your
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  car, damage in their car, all that stuff.
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  So pretty much did that? Except that little bit dark of
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  sleep more difficult and I wasn't super stressed about the
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  like ordeal of it. I I would like to think I'm one
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  of those people where when something bad kind of happens,
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  you know, you get into like a fender bender or like, I don't
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  know, the power goes out or that kind of stuff, I don't know.
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  Your drains backing up. My dream was backing up this
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  morning, we'll get into that. I like, you think I'm one of
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  those people where I stay pretty calm, and very much the part of
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  my brain. That's very like, okay, we need
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  a solution right now. We need to do ABC, D in this
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  exact order that part of my brain kind of leaps into action.
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  So basically the moment that I felt that I got hit or whatever
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  and I was like, okay where a car accident, my brain very quickly
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  was like, okay, pull over summer save, turn your flashers on.
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  Stay calm. Don't talk about fault with the
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  other driver exchange, your registration, the get their
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  license plate and their drivers license, all that kind of stuff
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  was. Free like automatic in my head
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  so I guess that's, yeah, that, that was helpful to have that
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  part of the brain, just like, kick in.
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  It could be very traumatic, obviously, when you get into a
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  car accident or any type of accident, but anyways, no one's
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  hurt. That was the best thing but I
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  did remember the one part that this trust me out, not the
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  ordeal I've ever like the act of like taking care of being in a
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  car accident, calling up the Insurance Exchange in the info
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  and, like, all that stuff was like, very just like Autopilot
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  in my head and I was just like, just doing it.
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  Only part where I was stressed, was so any for the other driver
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  to find their registration and all the paperwork and all that
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  stuff, and I was just like, standing on the street, like
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  waiting for them to like, get their papers and then I was
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  thinking, oh my God, like, in my head I was thinking, oh my God,
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  like, did I do something wrong was I somehow at fault or
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  whatever? So that was like, the only
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  stressful part, because I guess, anytime you get into some sort
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  of Acts or something bad happens, where you involve, your
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  always thinks there's some part in your head that always thinks.
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  Oh my god, did I contribute to that bad thing happening, right?
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  I think it's a very natural human thought to have when
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  something bad happens to you, but I don't think it's a smart
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  idea for me to talk about the accident in any more detail on
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  this podcast, that goes out, To the public internet.
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  But suffice it to say, I talk to my insurance agent, adjuster
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  whatever that department is. And I'm pleased with the current
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  progress with which everything is going.
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  And I'm pleased that my insurance agent and I agree on a
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  lot of the points. I will just leave it at that but
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  yeah, it was Well, that was an inconvenience.
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  Basically the the real headache is I was actually trying to shop
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  for a new car. Last week I mentioned, I was
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  talking to like a whole bunch of different car dealerships and
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  how they were a pain in the ass to deal with.
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  Well, basically, now I found a broker basically that deals with
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  different car dealerships that they have contacts before they
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  contract with somehow. I don't fully know how that
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  works for like a car broker when you go through.
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  But basically, I just put in a custom order for a car.
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  I was trying to find a particular model of a car that
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  was already on a dealer's lot and I was being flexible with
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  like the options and colors and all that kind of stuff.
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  But basically going through this broker, I'm able to specify
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  exactly what options have features should be on the car
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  that I want. And I won't pay anything extra
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  for the features that I don't want.
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  I could depict the color of the exterior I could pick the
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  interior color, you know, is that the exact model that I
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  want? And through this broker, I'm
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  actually getting a pretty good deal in terms of like what the
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  numbers look like for the lease. And it was basically sleeping on
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  the internet. There are a lot of car forums
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  for pretty much, every type of car that you can think of, from
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  like a Corolla or like a Civic. There are like fan, boys and
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  girls out there for like every model and make of car that you
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  can think of I'm so I was doing some research on the internet.
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  I was just looking up information on that particular
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  model of car that I wanted found the forum for that particular
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  model and then there's an ordering section repeat were
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  discussing their experience with buying that car and then came
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  across this broker in California that handle all of these form,
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  readers orders and they were really happy.
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  So I just went through this person and seem to be pretty
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  legit that I have to wait a couple of months.
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  For the new car to eventually arrived from wherever it's
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  built. So, not a great deal but in the
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  meantime, I need to figure out, okay, I've got to, like, damage
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  on my car, is now worth a lot less, no one really wants to buy
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  a used car that has been in an accident, whenever you try to
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  sell your car to like a dealer or like.
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  Whoever a common question to ask is, has your vehicle been in an
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  accident. I can no longer say no to that
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  question now. And even if everything was
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  repaired 100%, You still have that blemish on the record of
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  the vehicle and that usually brings down the value of the
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  car. So I'm setting myself really low
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  expectations for how much I'm going to get for the car.
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  My insurance is going to pay me for what they think the damage
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  would cost to repair. I need to bring the car to like
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  a repair shop or dealer or something, and just have them at
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  least appraise the car for them to tell me to get a third party
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  to paying on how much they think the repairs would cost and how
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  much less the car is worth now. Now that it has an accident in
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  its history, so that part will be a little stressful.
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  I want to get the maximum dollar out of the car.
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  Just the old card is sell it but at the same time it's like
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  sometimes I just want things to be done with, like sometimes I
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  feel like things are not worth the stress, the mental stress of
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  like, oh We have to, like, fix the car.
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  We have like the maximum dollars out of the insurance.
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  People what the insurance people are trying to like, you know,
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  take you for a run and they're not giving you any where near
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  what the repair cost should be. Now you need to take it to like
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  your own body shop to get it appraised whether that body shop
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  isn't good now you got to start shopping around for like
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  different body shops that make sure you get one that's going to
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  fix it properly. And you know what, if like all
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  the way over there like a shady repair shop that you don't know,
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  until I get in too deep, they have your car with in All this
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  kind of stuff is the stress that I don't want.
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  So I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with this car yet.
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  I would love to just like sell it to like some dealer with the
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  damage and for them to just like knock.
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  Hopefully maybe only like a few thousand dollars off.
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  So yeah that's the part where I got a couple months to figure it
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  out before the new car comes with this old car what to do.
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  So I'm a car person I do care about cars but it's like I don't
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  know. I just I just want this car to
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  be gone. I should really like the car
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  that I have, but lift like this ordeal and everything, it's just
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  like, okay, just like someone took the car like, I don't care
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  about to get less money for it. Just take it and like just get
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  rid of it. And then I'm just going to get
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  the new car when it comes and then like it'll all be done.
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  So that's the stress that I have for that, which is not so much
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  fun in. But again, the point thing is
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  nobody got hurt. Supreme mine accident, my
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  insurance is taking good care of me and yeah, there we go.
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  Something interesting that happened this past weekend,
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  other interesting things that happened this past weekend.
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  It is La pride and I didn't went to too many parties.
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  There's obviously Milling parties are going on.
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  All my friends were out. I went to two parties for our
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  product. The first one I went to was the
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  pool party on the rooftop of the end as hotel, which is a One a
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  hotel in West Hollywood. See, so close to my place that I
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  just walked. There was like a ten minute
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  walk. It's really, really short.
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  The weather was not very good this past weekend in Los
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  Angeles. So it was like 68 or 70 degrees
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  and it was just like overcast. So I was afraid that not many
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  people would want to go to a pool party when it's not that
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  warm, and it's cloudy. But when I got there, it was
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  fairly full. Ashley It's not like the biggest
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  rooftop pool, so it doesn't take Ashley that many people to like,
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  fill it up, but like, I ran into some people, so it actually
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  turned out to be pretty fun. There were times where the seam,
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  the sun was peeking through a little bit, which was great.
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  It still wasn't warm, but it was warm enough that you can wear a
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  Speedo and not feel cold until around.
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  Like, I don't know, 5:00 or so, like an hour before they start
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  closing, got like a little chilly, a little windy, and a
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  couple of my friends were like shivering.
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  And that's basically my clue to just like leave the party, but
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  it was overall a relatively fun and then that night was GPS.
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  So that's when I was driving, the GPS.
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  GPS is gay party Saturday's which is kind of like a local
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  production circuit party thing, and GPS throws circuit parties,
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  for most like, special weekends, and long long holiday weekend.
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  So, obviously, for our pride, they have Had a circuit party is
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  pretty much always at this Globe Theater, that's downtown when
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  you do it on Saturday nights and I was on my way to GPS when I
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  had the car accident. So after the car accident, I was
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  like, oh you know what? Like I've had enough for like
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  one day, maybe I should just go home.
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  So like I started driving home and I was like you know what,
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  maybe a part it would be good to like take my mind off of it for
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  right now. I probably wouldn't have.
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  I've slept very well but I just like gone straight to bed
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  anyway. So I end up going to GPS for
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  like just a couple hours. It was like cute parties, that
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  go go dancers that GPS always like, very, very hot and me my
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  friends, we were like, kind of we happen to be dancing at the
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  front of the dance. For me.
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  Got a show that was put on good shows at GPS actually.
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  Yeah, but in the Go-Go's are very hot.
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  So that's actually all I did. I didn't do anything on Sunday
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  because after the car accident and then GPS.
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  I was on there for like a couple hours because I like 132, I was
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  like, you know what, like, I've had enough fun for tonight.
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  I'm just gonna like go rest. So, the only thing I did on
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  Sunday was just like, take it easy all the bars and everything
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  we ho were obviously open. I thought about maybe going to
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  heart because I know it's not friends are going to hard down
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  in the we whole world, the bars are but I was like, you know
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  what? This is like an author that just
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  gonna have like a little Mini vacation day, where like I don't
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  have any expectations to do anything productive.
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  And I just get to like, sit on the couch and like, not worry
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  about anything, just like cutting myself, a little bit of
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  brake after what happened the night before.
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  So there you go, that's fun. You know, what's not fun when
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  stuff in your house dies and you have to like go emergency by
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  something like hop in the car and like Drive summer
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  immediately, because Cuz there's like something in your house
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  that you are so dependent on that.
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  If that thing happens to die, you didn't a new one right away.
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  The last time I did, that was the toaster oven, which I killed
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  when I tried to clean it. You get oven cleaner stuff that
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  can spray into your oven. I sprayed it into my toaster
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  oven may be sprayed a little too much and it wouldn't power on
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  anymore. And I have to emergency by at
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  the Best Buy or a Target or Thing a replacement toaster
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  oven, because I use my toaster oven every single day.
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  It's how I cook most of my meals and the Pauper oven in my house
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  doesn't get any use. I don't think I've ever used any
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  of the full-size ovens and any of the houses I've lived in by
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  myself ever. When I used to have roommates,
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  my good friend, Charles we moved up to San Francisco together,
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  Other in 2015. And he likes to cook meals when
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  it's like a special holiday, like, for Thanksgiving and
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  stuff. He would like try to cook
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  fancier things and he would use the like, full-size oven in our
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  kitchen, but it was just me, I would like never touch it to
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  cook a meal for one to heat up that entire thing.
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  First of all, it takes forever. Second Use of tons of energy
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  third, heats up like the entire kitchen if not like the entire
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  apartment. It's basically like running a
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  massive furnace to cook. Like one single piece of chicken
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  breast so I just never use it for that reason.
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  I don't cook big meals. If I ever want to have, like, a
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  big meal with friends. I'm not a cook.
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  Like, I would be the last person to cook for other people like
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  they will cook and they will host, or we will go out or, you
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  know, what will we just order delivery?
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  Like, I'm not really a cook. So I'm not going to like, go big
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  something. So yeah, that's the last time I
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  went out an emergency. He bought something literally an
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  hour ago, I was at the Best Buy. Now for a toaster oven because
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  my streaming box for my TV just like I was watching something,
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  let's playing and it just like out of nowhere died.
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  I try to like, reboot it and do all that stuff, do a reset and
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  then it just like completely died.
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  So this is like, you know, when you have like a streaming stick
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  like a Roku or Google one or like a Fire TV, like that's the
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  streaming. I said, I have, I have a Google
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  one and it just died, but it lasted six years so it's
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  actually had a good run. And I remember a few weeks ago,
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  it was flickering a little bit and then I rebooted it and then
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  it was okay. I'm like, okay, it's just
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  whatever earlier today. I did have a power outage for
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  like 30 seconds. So maybe that was like the final
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  hammer on the nail on the coffin of that thing.
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  You just couldn't take another power outage or whatever and
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  then it just decided to fry itself.
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  So it Is 830 the best by nearby closes at 9:00.
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  So, like hop right into car, like, Chow Down my dinner, just
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  like shoved it down my mouth, it's like I must fix this before
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  I go to bed tonight. So drove down to the best by had
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  to wait, like 10 minutes for them to like grab the inventory
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  from the back, more stores are doing this thing where they
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  don't put the items on the Shelf, there's like a QR code,
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  or to scan, or the ask someone if you want to buy that thing
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  because they keep all the stuff. The back.
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  So the way 10 minutes for them to do that and then I drove back
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  home plugged it in and it took forever to set up and it's like
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  downloading some updates right now.
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  So after I record this podcast, I will go play with a new Google
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  Chromecast thingamajig. Yeah.
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  But my life is very, very glamorous car accidents and
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  being unemployed being on a career break and yeah, having to
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  go to Best, Buy to emergency by Why?
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  Google Chromecast thing. So, I can keep sitting on my ass
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  in my living room to keep watching TV.
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  Oh, I've been watching lately is HGTV, so I usually don't have
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  cable or anything like that. I don't have a lot of the
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  streaming services because I don't watch that much content.
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  I probably create more content than I watch, usually, but I'll
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  watch stuff on YouTube. My Recommendations, the homepage
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  is right now, a mix of cars. Very has like RuPaul's Drag Race
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  related videos and some history documentaries on various like
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  Wars. But I was watching a whole bunch
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  of documentaries on the first world war and Kpop music videos.
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  It's a very, very weird mix as you're scrolling through there.
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  Recommend a section that pops up to the top on the TV and the
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  YouTube app of like, oh, like the the Great War and oh talk
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  about tanks in one video. The next one is like Kpop video
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  and then the third one is like some sort of car review.
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  It's very, very weird make. So the algorithms are clearly at
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  work there but in other news in a week or so I'm going to be
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  going to York. So I plan to go to New York for
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  New York Pride that's coming not this weekend but it's going to
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  be the weekend after. So this goes up on a Thursday,
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  it will be like little bit over a week from when this goes up
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  that weekend is the New York Pride.
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  I was going to go on Wednesday, the Wednesday or Thursday before
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  Pride weekend and get to New York then stay for like, five
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  days. I will leave on Monday.
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  Yeah, but I decided randomly very randomly today, and I'm not
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  usually that impulsive of a person.
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  Usually, every trip I have is planned, like, way in advance
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  research, all the flights. What are the best days to go and
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  all that kind of stuff? Very randomly today, I was like
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  preparing breakfast and I just had a thought.
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  Excuse me, I just had a thought. I think, I want to just get
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  there earlier and just spend the full week before Pride weekend.
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  Just in New York not to party or anything but just like be in New
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  York just to have a change of scenery.
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  I am sitting on my ass a lot at home right now.
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  So I think the change of scenery will maybe do me a little bit of
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  good and I was in the very back of ahead kind of have this like
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  funky idea like it would be kind of fun to live in New York for
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  like a few months. And that's not really because I
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  would want to do anything in particular, that's New York
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  specific. It was just kind of like, maybe
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  I just want to like, go live somewhere else for like a while
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  and it would be really cool to say.
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  Oh, I've lived in New York for expert of time, even though I
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  don't think I could live in New York permanently.
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  I don't think I can take how cold the winters are.
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  I am not a fan of all the storms that hit the East Coast, the
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  close, as I got was I lived in d.c. for like little over a year
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  in like 2012, 2013. And that was the same winter
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  storm season where we had Sandy come through.
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  It didn't hit DC like that bad. We had like brownouts and we had
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  like, a bit of snow, but it wasn't like when New York got
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  hit by Sandy that storm season and like everything was flooding
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  and I was just like, super, super bass-o-matic lucky that we
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  weren't in New York for that. But yeah.
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  So, I'd like this morning spent like a couple hours but after
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  research Everything For Better or Worse, you know, the better
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  is that I researched that buying car.
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  I was just buying the new car so much that.
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  Oh, like, I found this broker and I'm saving like at least
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  like a few thousand dollars on the car if not more and like I
• 22:48
  was, you know, going to get the exact color that I want enough
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  to. I just pick something that was
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  pre-made, so sometimes it's good.
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  But sometimes, We sir so much that it sucks up a lot of my
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  time and it does it really yield that much more as a result of
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  spending all the extra time and effort.
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  But this spent like an hour or two this morning playing around
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  with like different flights and like oh if I use my points here
• 23:14
  then I couldn't use my points for like potential trip to
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  Europe for like August. So what if like I don't use my
• 23:21
  points to go to New York, I just find a cheapest flight and then
• 23:25
  I'll save the Points to go to Europe.
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  But am I saving enough points to even do Europe on points?
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  It gets really, really complicated.
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  If you're into like miles and points and things like that from
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  like Airline programs at hotel programs, and credit cards and
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  stuff. I'm like, eight intermediate,
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  kind of person in terms of like the miles and points the credit
• 23:50
  cards and that kind of stuff. There are other people that are
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  like way more into it and they'll like all the tricks
• 23:55
  Redemption, All that kind of stuff.
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  I'm like, kind of intermediate, I've got a variety of credit
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  cards that all earn points and I kind of sort of know what credit
• 24:06
  cards you to use to buy certain things like when I was at the
• 24:09
  best. Buy an hour ago, I was like,
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  okay, for this type of purchase, which credit card would give me
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  the most points. So, whenever I buy anything,
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  there's always that calculation in my head, that's like, okay,
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  I'm getting groceries. I have to be this credit card.
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  Okay, if I'm at a gas station, has to be this other credit
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  card. Oh, it's a restaurant.
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  It To be this third credit card, it's a whole thing.
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  Yeah, but I was spending a couple hours doing that this
• 24:32
  morning, but basically, a up was, yeah, I moved on my flight.
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  I'm going to leave for New York on Saturday or Sunday.
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  I can't remember. Now, I spent two hours doing
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  something, kind of remember when my flight is, is recorded
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  somewhere. It'll be fine, but I'm leaving
• 24:46
  this weekend to go down to New York.
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  I'll be there for like eight or nine days total and I'm gonna
• 24:53
  come back the Monday after New York Pride.
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  Back to LA, I'll coming back that night, but I'm only going
• 24:59
  to be back in l.a., like, not even 24 hours because choose.
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  They, after that, we can, I'm going to fly down to Chicago.
• 25:09
  That's a friend that I haven't hung out with in, like, many
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  years. I think the last time I hung out
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  with them, was legit 2015 or 2016.
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  I think I've seen him, like, maybe once or twice after that.
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  That I like a random house party, but like, I've literally
• 25:29
  have not seen him in like a very, very long time and we're
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  going to Chicago because we're going to see the twice concert
• 25:36
  maybe don't know who twice is. Choice is a pretty popular Kpop
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  girl group. You're not as popular in the US
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  as like black pink. Like everyone knows black pink
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  but in Asia and obviously, in South Korea, tries is like,
• 25:54
  extremely popular. And In the sense that everybody
• 25:58
  knows who tries is. So I'm a big fan of twice and so
• 26:02
  is he said the only friend I know that it's like a really big
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  fan of this particular group. So he had tickets.
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  He bought two tickets to the Trice concert in Chicago.
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  You just live in Chicago. He lives in Summer.
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  That's not Chicago but he's gonna be in Chicago for a work
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  thing for like a month or so. And when he found out from work
• 26:25
  that that they were going to send them to Chicago around the
• 26:29
  same time, went rice was going to do the concert in Chicago.
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  He just went in like ramli, bought two tickets.
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  He didn't know who he was going to go with but he just like
• 26:37
  randomly bought two to take his, he was gonna figure it out
• 26:39
  later. And then a few weeks ago, I was
• 26:42
  just posting something about twice on my Instagram and then
• 26:46
  he made a comment. Mint on it and he told me like,
• 26:48
  oh, you want to come to Chicago? Because I'd like a spare ticket.
• 26:53
  And I was like, yes. I want to come.
• 26:56
  They've actually been to La before David just in La for
• 26:58
  like, the third time in, like, 12 months, this girl group to do
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  a concert, like, I think, literally, like last week, I
• 27:06
  think I saw on their Instagram that they were in like soulfire
• 27:10
  Arena, which is in SoCal to do a concert, but I don't want to go
• 27:14
  to like, a concert by myself. That's weird.
• 27:18
  And none of my friends in l.a. like care about Kpop in that
• 27:23
  way. And especially not about this
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  particular group. And the LA concert tickets are
• 27:27
  like way more expensive because even just look at the pricing,
• 27:30
  but I had like people to go with their, like, for $500 to start
• 27:35
  for, like, not even very good seats.
• 27:38
  And then when my friend told me how much he paid for the Chicago
• 27:41
  concert tickets, there are like, 250 or 200, which is not cheap,
• 27:45
  but like he show me Me where we would be sitting and it was
• 27:48
  like, it's actually not bad seats for 250.
• 27:51
  You would never be able to have Cesar with that good for
• 27:54
  anywhere near that price. That those tickets would be like
• 27:57
  three times the cost to be went to the Elway concert I guess,
• 28:01
  you know, more demand and la and everything.
• 28:03
  So yeah, someone to look forward to be a lot of traveling would
• 28:08
  be in New York for a whole week and it in Chicago for at least a
• 28:12
  few days and that would take us over to July, okay?
• 28:17
  Now to wrap it up as always I like to chat a little bit about
• 28:20
  RuPaul's Drag ways some Stars season 8, the latest episode
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  that just aired this past weekend would it be episode 6
• 28:28
  and I have like a ton of notes but I've got a couple of bullet
• 28:32
  points here. So the challenge this week was
• 28:35
  Joan the rusical I think that was the name but it was supposed
• 28:38
  to be all about Joan Crawford was like the theme, right?
• 28:42
  And it was a rusical and in the challenge, no one did That
• 28:47
  everyone did like pretty good, you know, in a lot of challenges
• 28:50
  especially when it's like not All-Star season you'll see
• 28:54
  there's like one or two queens that stumble a little bit even
• 28:58
  if they didn't like fall flat on their face but in all-stars
• 29:02
  everyone is a star some stars and you know no one did bad like
• 29:07
  everyone did pretty good in the challenge itself.
• 29:10
  The runways though, there were some burgers on the runway some
• 29:14
  of the roadways clearly we're just not As good as the other
• 29:18
  some of the outfits, some of the looks were just not as good as
• 29:20
  some of the other looks ever presented.
• 29:22
  So, that's a thing. But the surprise for me was, and
• 29:27
  I was watching the show with David lamb candy pick James has
• 29:32
  lipstick to go home. So when I was watching the
• 29:35
  episode and I saw that it's going to be Khanna and James in
• 29:40
  the bottom, it was hard to kind of know whether they deserve to
• 29:45
  be in the bottom again. Everyone was like so Good.
• 29:47
  But basically, you know, based on the challenge and also like
• 29:50
  the runways, I guess, I agree. I didn't have any problems with
• 29:54
  who was picked to be the in about who was picked to be in
• 29:57
  the bottom. But I thought once, I knew that,
• 30:02
  those two were in the bottom, in my head, I thought immediately,
• 30:05
  oh, come on is going home, but to track record and Dave, and I
• 30:09
  talked about this before where from the point of view of one of
• 30:13
  the girls, in a competition that has to draw lipsticks if one of
• 30:16
  the Them girls you have to choose, is has a much worse
• 30:22
  track record than the other? Like a Hannah?
• 30:25
  She's been the bottom multiple times and James.
• 30:27
  I don't think James has been in the bottom before.
• 30:29
  Maybe only one time can has been the bottom like three times and
• 30:32
  dislike her third or fourth time in the bottom.
• 30:36
  At this particular episode, it's very easy for the other queens
• 30:41
  to pick you and just claim track record, right?
• 30:44
  Because when they review, who voted for, who Who in the next
• 30:47
  episode? If your story is, I picked
• 30:50
  Hannah because of track record. All the other queens would be
• 30:54
  like, okay, fair right? You know, you're not getting any
• 30:56
  backlash, you're not going to get backlash for picking the
• 30:59
  queen with the worst track record.
• 31:01
  Assuming they didn't do like cynically worse in the challenge
• 31:07
  because of the two bottom Queens.
• 31:09
  One of them clearly did worse than the other one in the
• 31:11
  challenge. That's where you can say.
• 31:13
  Oh, I pick that person because they did worse.
• 31:16
  Even if I didn't have a bad track record or the other bottom
• 31:19
  Queen had it much worse track record, right?
• 31:23
  I think maybe the Queen's thought, Kahana did worse.
• 31:30
  When I was watching it with David.
• 31:32
  We didn't think that Kahana was really like that much worse in
• 31:36
  the challenge. I think it argue she did the
• 31:40
  worse but I don't think it was like so much worse that it
• 31:43
  necessarily, you know. Yeah, but James, I felt did
• 31:51
  pretty decent. So I was thinking like, well,
• 31:54
  Kahana, like James did at least as well as Kana for me in the
• 32:00
  main challenge. Jane says, Runway was worse but
• 32:04
  like Hannah has the track record.
• 32:06
  So like in my head it was like, kind of gonna go.
• 32:09
  No question. So the fact that candy pick
• 32:12
  James is listed to go home. I like gay gasps.
• 32:15
  I was like, huh. I can't believe it like candy is
• 32:19
  just getting rid of the competition and then as I
• 32:23
  thought about it more and I talked to David Moore, it could
• 32:25
  be that based on last week's drama between Heidi and candy,
• 32:31
  and Jimbo, and all that. I think candy and probably Jim
• 32:35
  board thinking like, we're we're on the chopping block if we ever
• 32:41
  get into the bottom because, you know, the other girls who want
• 32:45
  to get rid of Of me or like, you know, like either candy or Jimbo
• 32:50
  if they ever land on the bottom because they're the kind of sort
• 32:53
  of winning things and their competition.
• 32:56
  Basically right eliminate the competition and the name of the
• 32:59
  game is to get to the top, right?
• 33:00
  So it'll be interesting to see what happens in the future.
• 33:05
  Like who wins or loses and who's in a top and the bottom if this
• 33:10
  comes back to like like someone like candy can get like Manila
• 33:13
  basically, but the Testing thing I saw is that they actually
• 33:19
  showed who everyone voted for. I think in the untucked I think
• 33:23
  where they show in the in the two-way mirror, who everyone
• 33:27
  else folded for and everyone voted for James as well.
• 33:32
  So I was like, is there something about James?
• 33:36
  That wasn't super obvious in the episode that made every single
• 33:39
  queen pick James to go home and not Kahana.
• 33:43
  But I thought me and David thought, everyone's going to
• 33:45
  pick Hannah? We've asked me unanimous and
• 33:48
  like they showed everyone's lipstick who they picked in the
• 33:52
  Antarctic and everyone pick James.
• 33:54
  So is there like an alliance thing kicking in or is there
• 34:03
  some sort of relationship that grows have content that don't
• 34:05
  have James or whatever it is? Well for her part James didn't
• 34:08
  seem like bitter or super surprise somehow.
• 34:12
  So this could also be just like when I'm watching TV and I'm Not
• 34:16
  painful, attentions very easy for me to be watching something
• 34:19
  and eventually like I'll be on my laptop or I'll be on my
• 34:22
  phone. This is actually very common.
• 34:24
  So maybe I missed something comment on my Instagram or my
• 34:28
  the YouTube comments or something.
• 34:30
  If I missed something that makes this whole thing, make more
• 34:34
  sense but yeah and that the preview for next week show a
• 34:38
  little bit of a preview for some more drama going down in the
• 34:42
  workroom like someone was going to try to leave or something.
• 34:45
  It kind of sort of Suggested that in the preview for next
• 34:49
  week's episode which I'll be having lots of fun.
• 34:53
  Maybe watching on the plane to New York.
• 34:55
  It's like five or six hours. I need to take two planes to get
• 34:59
  to New York and I need to kill some on a time so maybe I'll
• 35:03
  just download and watch it on the plane instead, but that's it
• 35:08
  for another episode of the podcast.
• 35:11
  Reminder that the video version of this podcast is on Spotify
• 35:15
  and also on On my YouTube channel, just Joey tea.
• 35:19
  And this podcast is now finally available in the Google podcast
• 35:24
  app where it took me weeks to get it up there.
• 35:27
  Yeah, I do. Hope you subscribe to my
• 35:29
  podcast. I hope you're all enjoying these
• 35:31
  episodes so far. And next week's episode, I'm
• 35:34
  actually going to record in New York.
• 35:37
  So it's gonna be little bit of a change of scenery in the video.
• 35:40
  I got a couple of mics portable mic so I can pack into my
• 35:45
  luggage. I'm Anna not have this fancy
• 35:48
  podcasting mixer and set up but yeah I will be probably
• 35:52
  recording from New York next week.
• 35:54
  So a little bit of a change of scenery for the next episode.
• 35:57
  I hope you tune in again but until next time.
• 36:00
  Bye.