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HHBSO 106: AI Actually Helped Me + RPDR AS10 2nd Bracket · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to He's hot, but something is off.
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Oh, I'm tired. I'm tired.
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It's been so far Wednesday night as I record this.
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It's been kind of a busy week. A few speed bumps have appeared
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in one of my businesses. Hey, that's just how things
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roll. You know, I'm learning so much
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running a business. You know, I'm a new
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entrepreneur. I'm I don't have like a ton of
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experience running businesses, nevermind starting one up.
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Some businesses are easier to start than others.
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So with the skin care one, it's definitely not the easiest type
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of business to start up. And a lot of things can go
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wrong, especially with logistics and things like that.
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And I've never done anything remotely like it before.
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So I'm learning some lessons. I hear every so often, you know,
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you go on Reddit or whatever, or you have friends or know some
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people that have started businesses, you will sometimes
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hear them tell stories of, you know, some costly mistakes that
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they learned when they were first starting out.
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But I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs have those types
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of stories. So I've made, I made a couple
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with this business and I'm kind of still in the process of like
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I've learned those lessons, but I'm still in the process of like
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fixing them because sometimes, you know, fixing things take a
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little bit of time and a little extra money.
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But just knowing that, well, at least I'm telling myself a lot
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of entrepreneurs out there, a lot of you know, successful
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business people when they first were in their earlier in their
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careers, when they were starting up businesses or when their
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business were, you know, in the early stages.
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A lot of them have gone through the same thing of, you know,
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you're never going to be able to know everything, have all the
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right experience and skills to do everything perfectly the
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first time. Everyone, you know, a lot of a
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lot of entrepreneurs make costly mistakes early on in their
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careers, but you know, they all learn from it and they are now
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successful business people. So I'm kind of keeping that in
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mind that, you know, sometimes when you go from crawling to
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walking to running, sometimes you stumble when you fall, but
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you pick yourself up and you keep going.
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And it's just kind of sort of like life, you know, sometimes
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you make mistakes, sometimes you stumble, sometimes it rains,
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sometimes it pours. But you shake it off, pick
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yourself up, keep going. While it's a little bit lighter,
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credit card bills a little thicker.
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But yeah, I'm kind of keeping it in in that frame, if you will.
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So, yeah. So that's what's kept me really
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busy so far this week. And it's going to keep me super
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busy, I think, for the rest of this month.
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And I won't necessarily have any.
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The fruits of that labor won't necessarily necessarily show
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until later, later on. And there's no fingers crossed.
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It's still like there are no guarantees of starting a
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business. It it's very much like it, it
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could be a flop. We just don't know.
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We just have to like, you have to have some level of belief
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that it's going to work out If, if you, if you believe or let
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yourself think that this is going to go nowhere like that,
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it's never going to succeed with that mindset.
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Like if you don't try, it's never going to get off the
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ground. So I'm trying to keep it
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positive anyways. That's, that's something I just
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want to like get off my head, get off my head right off the
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top just because like I, I, I have thought about should we
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just skip recording a podcast? I feel like I'm so busy.
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But hey, if I have time for the gym, I can sit down and talk for
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like 20 minutes. One thing I did want to talk
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about and I'm going to leave it till like a little bit later,
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but I don't want this to be a super long podcast because I am
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really like kind of sort of busy.
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I, I think last week's podcast was like what, what Every
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podcast is longer than I intend. 95% of the podcasts are longer
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than I intend. Even the one I recorded, even
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the one when I was having issues with my tongue.
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This is back and I'm looking at my list back in like March, and
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I just wanted to record like a little message to let everybody
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know like, hey, we're not really going to have an episode this
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week even that was like 8 minutes of me talking.
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So yeah, I am going to talk about a little later on my
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thoughts on the latest episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
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10. So we just wrapped up the second
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bracket and there's some juices of nesting and bracket, but I'm
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going to leave it like till like a little later on because I know
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not all of you watch RuPaul's Drag Race and not all of you are
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following it anyways. So I always leave it till the
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end so that you can listen to the other parts of the podcast.
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And then when I switch to talking about Drag Race, you
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guys can all just tune up and like you won't be like really
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missing anything else. I don't really, I don't really
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I'm so I'm just so tired in my head.
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I don't really have am I running out of stuff to talk about?
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Am I running out of stuff to talk about?
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It might be or or maybe not, I don't know.
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I think I think when your head when there's like so much going
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on, I feel like for me anyways, it's like it's hard to focus on
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like one thing in your head. Like there's so much like ADHD
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Ness in my head. However, I will say though, just
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now earlier today, earlier this Wednesday afternoon when I'm
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recording this, I was on ChatGPT for legit 3 hours pretty much
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continuously. I, I got up for like water and
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for like the bathroom like once to pee and I think that was it.
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But I was with some of these like business stuff.
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I was trying to use ChatGPT, not for it to like do my homework,
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but I just needed to like do something like do some
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brainstorming of stuff, something that's kind of
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creative. I'm not like, I'm not creative
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in like I'm not really a creative person.
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Let's just not mince words. So I was trying to like
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brainstorm some stuff, which was like something I didn't really
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feel like brainstorming, but it was more like a creative thing.
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I'm not really don't have like a creative brain.
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So I was trying to use Chad GBT to like help me brainstorm some
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ideas, which is like really, really useful.
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I try to use Gemini, which is like Google's AI.
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And for the thing I was trying to brainstorm Google, Gemini
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just wasn't as good at it. But I have used Gemini before.
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I feel like Gemini is good for the things that Google was good
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for. I think Google is really good
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for more things that are like knowledge based or like
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reasoning based, but I just needed to do something that's
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creative. That was I needed one of those
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and ChatGPT was just so much better than that.
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So I literally spent, it was like 3 hours, like 3 solid hours
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on my laptop, on my couch, just on ChatGPT, like going back and
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forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Sometimes it's funny because sometimes you get, you talk so
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much or like you've been interacting with Chad GBT for so
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long that it just like stops responding.
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Like it's just like reach its memory limit for that particular
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conversation. So for the three hours I was on
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it, I only had to reset it twice, I guess like only twice.
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But yeah, but like I, I was really dreading this thing I
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needed to come up with, but actually got like several decent
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ish ideas that I like out of like this back and forth 3 hour
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brainstorming session with ChatGPT that I think that's
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good. So I, I can't talk super much
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about this thing I'm doing, unfortunately, you know,
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internal corporate stuff, internal corporate business
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project. But yeah, it was actually quite
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helpful. This is the only time I think I
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found AI particularly helpful. You know, when you search Google
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and they have the AI overviews, which is go into Google search
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for whatever and then sometimes at the top of search results,
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Google will try to answer your query using AI.
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Sometimes it'll pop that up. That's called the AI overview.
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Sometimes it can do it, sometimes it doesn't.
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But I've been using that one. I guess I've been using it a
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lot. Not like I've been trying to use
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it, but like it pops at the very top of the search itself.
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So it's like just right in your face when you do a Google search
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half the time depending when you're searching for.
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So that's as much as that's as much as I use AI on the regular.
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I don't I this the only time. Today was the only time that I
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really used ChatGPT. I haven't really tried to like
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use it before. I was trying to come up with a
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graphic for something recently. I think a couple of weeks ago I
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was trying to come up with a graphic for something.
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And I know that with a lot of AI these days, you can give it a
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prompt or like a textual description.
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And then you can say, oh, draw me something that looks like
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this or draw me this thing with like this type of style or
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whatever. You can give it a prompt and
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it'll draw you a picture. So I was like, I need to come up
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with like a graphic for something.
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And I was like, oh, and I'm not a graphic designer really.
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Seriously, I'm not. So I was like, oh, let's throw
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it at AI and see what sticks. So I did Gemini again.
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I was like, oh, this doesn't look that good.
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The ChatGPT and like went back and forth and it just like very
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randomly came up with some sort of graphical style that like
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really resonated with me. It's like, oh, that looks cool.
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It's not something I would have been able to come myself, but
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like that's actually kind of my style and actually really works
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for like this this graphic that I'm trying to create.
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I wouldn't wasn't able to get ChatGPT to create the exact
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graphic that I needed for this project, but it came up with a
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style like a a visual style that I really liked.
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So what I actually did was I grabbed that graphic from
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ChatGPT, you can download it. And then I dumped it into like a
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drawing program and I just traced over what ChatGPT gave
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me. And that way I was able to make
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little edits like change some of the colors and change some of
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the lines because they didn't give me exactly what I needed.
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I needed to alter it. But by tracing over it, I
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basically was able to create like from scratch, like a new
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original, and I was able to tweak it enough so that I had
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the exact kind of graphic that I needed, also tweaked all the
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colors. And I also got a much higher
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resolution version of the file. But when you have the AI
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generate you some sort of image, it's not very high res.
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And I needed something that's like very sharp, not pixelated,
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very high resolution for this particular thing.
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Yeah. So that was like two or three
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weeks ago. Yeah.
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So I guess I, I guess lately I've been using AI more.
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So yeah, I was looking at they have all these new features that
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you can use now where like AI will like summarize your emails
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or like summarize the notifications on your phone.
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I don't have that because my phone is like I have iPhone 14
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and only like the really new iPhones can do AI or like the
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Android phones do AI now as well.
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But yeah, my phone is really not, I have an Apple Watch
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Series 5. I'm I'm not really dying to
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upgrade anything, to be really honest.
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Like honestly, I was like sometimes when I do collapse
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with people, like other creators, a lot of people I
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collab with, they have an iPhone 15 or iPhone 16.
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Usually it's like a Pro or like a Pro Max.
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It's almost always like a, a pro or Pro Max.
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And I have a 14 Pro Max and I like, you know, would be like
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setting up cameras to film something or whatever.
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So like a lot of the time the question comes up that, oh,
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whose phone are we gonna use? And it's like, what phone do you
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have? It's like I was 16 plus.
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Like we're using your phone. Most of the time we're not using
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mine because they have like the newer phone, which should
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theoretically have like the nicer camera.
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So, but sometimes I'll like use their phone to like just set up
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the camera or like set up the position or whatever.
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It's like when I use this, like it doesn't feel any different
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because all the iPhones, unless it's a super ancient iPhone,
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like an iPhone 6 or something, it's all running the same
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software. And I don't really care to have
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AI on my phone. And like the Apple AI, it's not
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even that good to be really honest.
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Like Google Gemini on Android. It's like much more helpful than
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Apple AI on the iPhone, by the way.
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So it's like otherwise like it doesn't even like it doesn't
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feel like a very different phone.
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Like physically on the outside doesn't feel like a very
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different phone. It doesn't look like a very
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different phone. The software is like pretty much
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the same minus like the AI stuff you get on like the newest
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iPhones, which I don't want or need anyways.
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So it's like, why should I be upgrading my phone?
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The only thing that my phone is falling down a little bit is
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that because it's like what, like a 2 1/2 year old phone
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which is not even that old. Honestly, a 2 1/2 year old phone
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is not that old. The battery over time holds less
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and less of a charge. So it's only at like 80%.
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Now it can hold only 80% of the charge as it could when it was
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new. There's like a little in the
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settings you can see how much percentage versus new your
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battery is still holding. So it does happen more likely
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these days that I'll hit low battery before the end of the
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day and that never used to happen.
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So when I was at EDC, for example, the first night, Friday
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night EDC, I went to the festival with like 90% battery
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or something. I made sure to like charge it
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up. And then by the end of the
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night, as I was like leaving the festival, I think I was like, it
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was like, I think the low battery had just turned on.
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It was like 20%. And I was like that that never
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used to happen. And even on like a regular day,
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the new thing that I do, I guess that I don't used to do is I'll
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listen to the podcast on my phone.
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So a typical morning for me is like, OK, I wake up, brush my
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teeth, washing my face in the bathroom.
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But a lot of times nowadays I'll, I'll play a podcast on my
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iPhone and I'll use the speakerphone on the phone to
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listen to it. So like I turn up the volume,
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Spotify is playing something, I'm on my Wi-Fi or it's like
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downloaded. And then I'll be like brushing
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my teeth, washing my face, doing whatever I'm doing in the
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bathroom. And then I'll go to the kitchen
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to cook breakfast and then I'll be listening to the podcast
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while I cook breakfast. And then, you know, when I'm
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eating breakfast, I'm probably watching TV.
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So like I'll turn the podcast off.
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But sometimes when I'm like just doing something in the kitchen
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or like doing like cleaning the house, doing a chore, vacuuming
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or like cleaning dishes or whatever, I'll put on the
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podcast. But that's kind of like a good
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time to like listen to something.
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So also when I go to bed, sometimes, a lot of times when I
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go to bed, I crawl to bed and there's like a bunch of
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different websites that I'll like read and go through while
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I'm in bed. And I'll do that until I get
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tired, which is probably like 30 minutes maybe.
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And then when I'm tired, feels tired, if we're sleepy, then I,
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I'll put the phone away, turn the lights off, go to bed.
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Once in a while instead of surfing websites, I'll put on
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the podcast and I'll just like listen to the podcast.
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It's nice that in Spotify you can have a sleep timer so that
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Spotify will keep playing for like 15, thirty, 45 minutes or
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till the end of an episode and it it like stops playing.
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That's really nice, really handy feature actually.
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And I think playing podcast drains my battery more than I
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used to before. But I never used to listen to a
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podcast like this. I think it's only like since
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maybe the beginning of this year that I start like listening to
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podcast from my phone before I would like maybe just listen to
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a podcast just when I'm walking to and from the gym with
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earbuds. And I also do that too.
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So a lot of the time I'm playing a podcast on my phone and I
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guess Spotify is really draining the battery.
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I didn't think playing a downloaded podcast from Spotify
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would drain your battery that much.
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But when when I look at the battery stats, it's like, OK,
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just ate up like 40% of the battery.
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Just Spotify. It's not like I'm playing a
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video podcast. It's not I'm playing, you know,
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it's like it's literally like it's already downloaded.
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It's not hitting up the cellular, it's not hitting up
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the Wi-Fi. It's just like spoken word.
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I don't know. I don't the Spotify suck up that
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much battery on your phone too. When you're playing a podcast.
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Is it Spotify? Should I use a different app it
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or is it just my phone? I don't know.
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But like if I'm not careful, even just a regular day, a
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regular day, I'm on Wi-Fi all the time.
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I'm working at home when I'm working like the phone, I don't
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even touch the phone. I'm just on my laptop like I'm
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on the computer. I'm not really touching the
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phone or so I listen to some podcasts.
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I'm on the computer most of the day.
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Even when I'm not working at home, I'm like watching TV or
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like on my laptop. I'm not like, you know, spending
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like hours and hours on TikTok or Instagram.
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I don't really do TikTok. So I think maybe it's just my
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phone is crapping out. I if that new iPhone comes out,
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I kind of want to switch back to Android.
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I used to use Android all the time, but I feel like given that
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I'm like video from an iPhone is still like much better than
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doing videos on an Android. It's like the video quality is
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just like so much. So I'm not like an Apple fanboy,
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but like I think for my usage, an iPhone just turns out to be
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the better choice, even though I kind of prefer a lot of things
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for Android. But anyways, if the new iPhone
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17 coming out this year, if there's no big changes, I kind
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of sort of don't want to upgrade.
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I mean, and I'm hoping my battery kind of sort of hangs on
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and it just doesn't like crop out at like the three-year mark
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and I'll hit the three-year mark whenever the new iPhone this
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year comes out. So, yeah.
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So the Apple Watch, same thing with the Apple Watch, like it's
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like a 5 year old. It's a 5 and we're on the 10 now
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I think. So like that's five years.
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I guess it's still like I can't really tell a big difference
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between like my 5 year old Apple Watch 5 and like the new Apple
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Watch 10. Like honestly, they don't they
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haven't changed the design in I don't know if they ever really
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changed the design of the Apple Watch.
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You can get the Apple Watch outro, but just like a, a a very
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different looking one. My brother has 1.
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He doesn't do anything sporty. He just goes to work and goes
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home. He plays tennis, but that's you
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hardly need to get an Apple Watch out.
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He just wanted like a bigger watch.
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Yeah, but I'm not gonna, I'm gonna use that Apple Watch
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literally till it dies. It is a little buggy though that
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Apple Watch sometimes if when I try to start an exercise on it
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in the activity app, it would just freeze.
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It will literally freeze for like a whole minute and doesn't
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do anything and it won't start the workout or it won't start
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the activity. I told it to start.
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It's glitchy. I just had to reset it.
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So I don't know if it's going to fix it.
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But like if that Apple Watch, it's five years old, it still it
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still works otherwise, like it still does everything and like
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it did stop getting the new OS updates though.
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So it's like, oh, it's like I don't it's not getting the
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updates anymore. And the battery also there's a 5
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year old battery. The battery does drink pretty
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quickly. If I'm like out and about for
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more than like a few hours, I probably need to like just put
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the whole thing in low power mode from the get go otherwise
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it will die. So if I don't want to like spend
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400 bucks on like a new, even if I get like a refurbished newer
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Apple Watch, that's still at least like 300 bucks.
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You know, even I don't buy a brand new, a brand new one's
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like at least 400 basically for like 1 of the base models, not
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like one of the nicer models, like at least 350 or 4.
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They get they get discounts sometimes, but like 300
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something dollars. I don't pay like 300 something
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dollars for a watch that doesn't really feel or look or function
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very differently. It's kind of it's saying that
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that's why I haven't been upgrading my phone.
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It's like some people upgrade their phones all the time.
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I think it's less popular than that, but like if I went, if I
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my phone broke right now, that would be, I would be like I'd be
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pissed off because I did not want to be forced to buy an
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iPhone 15 or iPhone 16, but it would be like several $100.
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Even though I didn't buy a new, I bought a refurbishment, I
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bought a used one. It would still be like 5-6
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seven, $800.00, but like it wouldn't really feel any
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different. So I just like paid 800 bucks
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for like no reason. So I'm like hoping and praying
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my current phone it the battery doesn't crap out, it doesn't
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die. The screen.
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I, I've dropped it so many times I don't use the case on my
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phone. I've dropped it so so, so many
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times. Somehow nothing has cracked on
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it. Everything still works like I,
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I, I, I've dropped it on every kind of pavement, concrete,
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asphalt. It hasn't been dropped from like
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super high. It's only ever been dropped from
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like, I don't know, 4 feet above the ground, but still it's been
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dropped at like circuit parties at music festivals, like at from
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like every angle. I think recently I dropped it on
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like tile floors, hard tile floors, and it went like face
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down. You don't want if you drop your
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phone face down without a case, it makes a very distinct sound.
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And I was like, oh shit, that glass must be cracked.
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And it's like, no, the glass is actually pretty good.
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There's like some very, very minor hairline scratches here
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and there, but there's no like there's not even really any
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chips. Like the framer on the side is
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like a little bit chipped, but like, that's pretty much it.
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So yeah, please, please iPhone don't die.
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Honestly, it this iPhone, it's, I haven't had a phone for this
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long for like a long time because like I said, it used to
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be that it was much more popular to like upgrade your phone every
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year. I remember like 10 years ago in
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like the 20 tens, pretty much every year, I would be, well, my
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work would pretty much give me a new phone every single year or
22:47
sometimes 2. So every year there'll be like a
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new phone, new phone, new phone, new phone every year.
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And it wasn't until about like 5 or 6 years ago where we, I feel
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anyways, in my opinion, we got to the point where like phones
23:00
weren't being so much different anymore, at least like not the
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iPhones, like the iPhones that have been released in like the
23:06
last, I don't know, three or four years have not been like
23:10
super vastly so different. I know people can have flip
23:15
phones and foldable phones on like the Android side.
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My brother messaged me and was asking me about like, oh, what I
23:21
thought about switching back to Android because he kind of sort
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of he's not has an iPhone, but he kind of sort of wants to
23:26
switch to Android too because he's kind of interested in
23:29
getting like a foldable phone. I told him like, it's really not
23:31
worth it for you. Like don't do it in his specific
23:34
case anyways, knowing how he uses a phone and kind of, yeah,
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all that stuff. Anyways, yeah.
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So thank you for joining me for another episode of the podcast
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where, again, I talk about whatever I want.
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And it was nice to talk about just something completely
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random, really. Besides Drag Race, I had nothing
23:57
I really specifically wanted to talk about besides venting a
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little bit about how busy my week has been.
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Yeah, and also like the AI stuff.
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That's what it's like. I find it so interesting.
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I really wish that AI would be more useful on a phone.
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I think they're working very hard on doing that.
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I feel like some of the Apple AI stuff on the phones, it's like,
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I don't need it to summarize my notifications.
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I don't really want to have that much access, honestly.
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Yeah, but I'm actually curious. The newer Google phones with
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Gemini running on it, I feel like some of the stuff Google
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has showed with Gemini on Android, it seems like it would
24:37
be useful. Like on some of the newer
24:39
Android phones you can have a live conversation with Gemini
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like as if you were talking to a person and like basically real
24:46
time verbally converse with Gemini.
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I've seen like demos of it. I've not tried it, but I don't
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have like a new Android phone, but that seems like something
24:56
that maybe could be useful in some situations.
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So that looks like pretty nifty. Anyways, yeah, I, I don't know.
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What was this entertainment for you?
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Maybe yes, maybe no. This is one of those days where
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like, you know what, I'm going to sit down in front of the mic,
25:14
I'm going to turn the camera on, and whatever comes out of my
25:17
mouth is going to come out of my mouth.
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All right? If you made it this long, it
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means or you Fast forward it here, it maybe means that you
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wanted to talk. You want to hear me talk about
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RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10 and specifically the second
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bracket because I've got some thoughts.
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So let's dig into it, OK? It was crazy what mistress did.
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It wasn't George's that came up with that plan.
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Like, are you kidding me? Of course not.
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It was crazy that Mistress did that in Episode 4, the first
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episode of the second bracket that they're all in two things.
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So it's it's crazy because she is like a master manipulator.
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Like the way that they were sitting on the couch at the
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beginning of what is it like the second episode of that bracket
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where like they were giving each other the MVQ points for the
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first time. The way the way Mistress got was
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like just puppet mastering everyone in front of everyone,
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but they're all sitting on the couch, every one of them, like
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all six of them. The way Mistress is able to do
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that, that's crazy. That was crazy.
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And it's kind of a controversial thing to do.
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And I think some of the fan reactions were, oh, that is like
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a dirty game to play. It's like, that's not fair and
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it's not right. I've always been of the thought
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that when it comes to All Stars and you have stuff like this
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where like you have points that you need to get or, you know,
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even by like the regular All Stars rules where you have to
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draw lipsticks and kind of sort of vote each other out.
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I feel like at the end of the day, there's no right or wrong
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way to really play it. It is a competition and it's
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also TV. So when it's a competition,
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there is some aspect of being competitive.
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When you're there, you're not there for like shifts and
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giggles. I mean, maybe some Queens are
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there where they're prior, like Ben de la Creme.
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Clearly the priority wasn't to be competitive and it wasn't to
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like get to the end and it wasn't to win the crown.
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The party was, you know, acting and behaving a certain way,
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having your personal values, which again, is totally legit.
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Like I said, there's no, I don't really don't think there's like
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a right or wrong play right or wrong way to play All Stars,
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right? I think it's fine for people
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that, you know, the goal is to be a little more cutthroat and
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to get to the top. And there are people that, you
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know, like, yeah, they they want to, they want to get more points
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and they want to make it a top, but only within the confines of
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what they think is acceptable, their own values.
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And that's going to be different for everybody.
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But I think you know what Mistress did, given the bracket
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points system of the season, I think it's kind of smart.
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Not that the other girls are dumb, but like it's one way for
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them to play it when the goal is OK, how can we maximize the
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number of points that we're going to get right?
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And it played out because once they, once Mistress and Georges
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pull that shenanigan, they were up to 4 1/2 points.
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And that put them, like way ahead of everyone except I think
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they put him. I think it put him up at the
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very front because if you were the top 2, if you win the if you
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win the challenge that that episode and you were top 2, you
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would both get 2 points. And if you win the lip sync, you
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would get three. OK, I forgot.
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I didn't go to school for math. I did have an engineering
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degree, but I didn't go over to school for math.
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Yeah, but that put him so far ahead.
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And in the second episode, the main challenge for that, they
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both won. So that's just put the OK, I
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think that's how they got the four and a half.
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Yeah, that is how they got the 4 1/2.
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But you can see like, you know, you're not necessarily going to
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like win everything, right? I think the strategy, the math,
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basically the math that Mistress went through was like, OK, it
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was episode where we where I don't win.
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We need to like let let's do something to get as many MVQ
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points as possible, Even if you can call it shady or whatever.
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I'm not saying I would do that, but like, I, I don't think it's,
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I don't think it's like unfair. It's a, it's a, it's a game,
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It's a competition. If you're going to play in a
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cutthroat way, it I think if someone was being like super,
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super shady about it and like if it's just were to throw people
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under the bus and like, you know, before, before the main
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challenge, for example, if mistress had done something to
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like sabotage other people's performances on stage or like to
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do something to like hinder the performance or the runways or
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whatever, I think that's unfair. It is super shady what she did
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when they're all on the couch. But you know, like, for example,
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I'm rewatching like All Stars too, just like just to rewatch
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it just to whatever, have some in the back.
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But like Fifi on that season, you know, she was kind of sort
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of like going around and like kind of planting little seeds in
31:00
people's ears about like, Hey, I don't I don't know about your
31:03
performance that that you're practicing right now.
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And like, Oh, I don't know about that accent.
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It's like, you know, maybe not the best accent you should be
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using. It's like, Oh, I don't know
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about that dress girl. Like to play mind games.
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I think that's like a little different thing I feel like, not
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necessarily. Like, I mean, OK, we can't
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debate. We can't debate VV on Season 2.
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That's like, we don't have time for that.
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But very shady. But I don't think it was like
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wrong, if that makes sense. Like, there's no rule book for
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how you should be playing the game.
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Like, they actually do have rules and things like that.
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Like on Drag Race, more like the production side of things.
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No control visits. But yeah, I don't think it was
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like, wrong or unfair, you know, like, just.
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Yeah. So I thought was fine.
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It was outrageous. It was like shady, but I didn't
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think it was like wrong. And they clearly Mistress and
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George's won the second challenge in the second episode
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of the bracket and then the final, the final episode of the
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bracket. So the one that aired last week,
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I was watching it, I was pausing it because I, I wanted to do the
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math in my head, like, OK, OK, if these people win and this is
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like how the math could shake out.
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So I was like trying to like pause it and like do the math in
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my head. And before they even gave up the
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MVQ points on the last episode at the end of that episode, once
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I knew it was George's and Lydia, that one, and I paused it
32:48
there and I was like, OK, the only way it was going to be
32:51
mistress or maybe someone else that could go up and claim the
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last remaining spot in the top three to move to the semifinals.
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And I was doing the math and I was like, OK, so I already knew,
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OK, if Tina and Nicole gave their points to Kerry and it was
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already foreshadowed in the workroom earlier that there was
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a chance, quote UN quote, that mistress might give a point to
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Kerry. And like they were like doing,
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they're getting ready in the workroom.
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So like everybody heard it, OK? So I knew that OK because of
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that foreshadowing, like if Nicole and Tina would give their
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point to carry and if Mistress also give her point to carry,
33:37
then Kerry would have 1/2 point more than Mistress.
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But that depends on Mistress giving her point to carry.
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And when I realized it would depend on that, I automatically
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knew Mistress would never do that regardless what Mistress
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said in the workroom to carry about.
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Like you know what, I would consider giving you my point.
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I knew that for sure Mistress would have ran through the math
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and double check them at this point to know that if she had
34:10
given her point to carry, the carry would beat her to the top
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three. And once I knew that that was a
34:18
possibility, I knew for sure Mistress would never do anything
34:24
to jeopardize or increase her risk of not getting to the top
34:30
three. So I knew for sure she would not
34:33
give the carry and that she would give it to probably like
34:37
George's or something. She end up giving it to Lydia.
34:40
But like same difference at the end.
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So, but I was like, I was just thinking, OK, like, I know
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Mistress won't do it and Mistress will be in the top, but
34:49
how much of like a bombshell would it be if Mistress, like in
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an alternate universe, Mistress had miscalculated somehow and
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they gave Kerry the point and somehow didn't know that Nicole
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and Tina was going to do it. Like production knows
35:09
everything. Production sets up the order in
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which they're going to like review everything.
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But like, how crazy would it be if like if, if, if that was what
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actually happened, if Carrie got to the top three because
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mistress like miscalculated it. And like didn't know somehow
35:25
that Nicole and Tina were going to give both of their points to
35:29
Carrie to try to like live Carrie up to try to beat
35:31
mistress, which is what they were trying to do anyways, if
35:34
shown on camera. But like that would have been
35:36
like, that would have been like an extra bombshell to be like,
35:41
Oh my God, this mistress is so calculated.
35:45
But because she is so calculated, I knew she wouldn't
35:47
miscalculate. I don't know if she's good at
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arithmetic or not, but like I knew she was not going to let
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that happen, but it was going to depend on her actions.
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So there you go. But the second back was so good
35:59
to watch because of that. Like I said, it's a competition
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and it's also TV. It was making good TVI was
36:04
actually watching on YouTube. Mistress just released a YouTube
36:09
video where Carrie Colby was on it and they were keeing and
36:15
obviously, like, this was like, posted just like this week.
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And this was like way after filming was done and, you know,
36:23
like, you know, I think it made a lot.
36:27
It made it was kind of nice to hear what how they both felt at
36:30
the moment and kind of sort of like they're both of their sides
36:35
of the story now that filming's all done and over.
36:37
It's kind of sort of nice. Yeah.
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But I didn't, I think it was shady, but I thought it was
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great TV and I thought it was like it was.
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It was just good TV and I thought I was so entertaining
36:52
at, and I respect that. It's television, they're making
36:55
a TV show, and it's also a competition in a way.
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I was, I was maybe thinking that like, I don't know, like the way
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Carrie and Nicole looked on the couch when they the moment they
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were witnessing right in front of the very eyes that they were
37:14
being double crossed basically was like, it's just good.
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TVI really like that second bracket, made the first bracket
37:21
look a little boring in comparison, but the second
37:23
bracket was like, it was so good.
37:27
It was so, so good. So I'm looking forward to the
37:29
third bracket, one more bracket. They go before the semifinals.
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So those are some of my thoughts on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
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season 10 so far. Thank you listening for this
37:39
podcast. My dinner has finished cooking,
37:42
so I'm going to go with dinner now the next time.
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Bye y'all.