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HHBSO 27: Taiwan Pride Redo (w/ David) · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hey folks, editing Joey here. We've got a two-part podcast for
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  you this week and this episode will be the first of the two
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  parts. Come back next week when we have
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  the second part up and ready for you.
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  Enjoy. Hello, Welcome to He's Hot for
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  Something's Off with Me. Just Joey T And today we have a
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  special guest. You sorry, you was very, uh,
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  distracted. The music.
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  I didn't know there was a music, just intro music too much.
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  See, you don't listen to my podcast.
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  I have intro music. I'm right here.
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  I'll cut the live. I'll get the live unedited
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  version which you can find on Joey T dot com.
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  Just Joey t.com. It's got my links to everything.
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  It doesn't have an unedited version.
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  I'm selling you nothing, right? I'm sorry.
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  Well, there's only one edit that's going to come up at the.
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  I don't have multiple edits up there.
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  OK, there you go. That's what you mean?
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  No, I get the immediate raw access and you're in the
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  podcast, you're getting the live experience.
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  What more do you? Want this is true.
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  I can hear myself. I can hear you.
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  The audience still doesn't know your name.
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  Shit, your name is. Yes, David, sorry, I don't know
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  what the script. There's no script.
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  I I'm just asking you what your name is.
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  I don't. Know why I froze?
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  You know why? Because when random strangers
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  ask me for my name, I really don't want to give him my real
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  name. Oh, do you have a?
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  Do you have like a fake name you give to hookups?
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  No, no, I just don't. I'm not actually actually really
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  hookups. No hookups.
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  I've given them a real name. Weirdly, because I've made a
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  connection and I've chosen to engage with you.
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  Is this randoms? Yeah, just who would like, hey,
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  what's your name? And I don't know why I froze.
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  I'm a really bad liar in that regard.
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  I guess I can believe you're not a good liar.
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  Yeah, yeah, I just lie down. But I don't know.
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  Anyway, so we have David on the podcast.
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  My name is actually David. His name is Ashley David.
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  And we had, well, I had you on the podcast on like the second
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  or third or fourth episode, way, way, way back.
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  This is episode 27. 27 in this episode every week.
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  So we've been doing this for half a year.
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  Bro, Covads happened since. No, it hasn't.
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  It's it's been about six months I think since I launched the.
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  Yes, I think episode 2 and episode three was at the EDC
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  episode, so it must have been around May.
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  Yeah, the first episode, you had just gone back from EDC to Vegas
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  and you were a zombie. And then the episode afterwards,
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  you were much more yourself. Oh, that was the the redo.
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  I mean, it wasn't a redo, it was just, it was just the next
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  episode. After that, it's.
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  The the moods. It's yeah, serotonin and then no
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  serotonin. Yeah, but you didn't just go to
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  a festival this time, so you're your normal self.
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  Weedley, which is I don't know if it's worse all the time.
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  I mean just you to you, as our friend Panda likes to say.
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  You to you. You.
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  To you, no one else will. So yeah, exactly.
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  Yes. I'm here.
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  I'm alive. I'm more awake.
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  It is very warm in LA. It's unseasonably.
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  It's unseasonably warm. It's it I I'm going to do this
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  in Fahrenheit. I don't know how to translate
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  into Celsius. Off the top of my head, David's
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  from Australia. He doesn't know the the imperial
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  system, but it's been in the mid, lower, mid 80s and usually
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  it's in like the lower mid 70s. So we're about 10 or so degrees
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  Fahrenheit more. Which is what like I don't know
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  it. I think.
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  I think low 80s is like high 20s in Celsius.
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  Yeah, you should be closer to like low low 20s, low to mid 20s
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  instead. So it's maybe like four or five
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  degrees higher than usual. Have you had one of these
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  podcasts since Halloween? I have one every week.
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  Oh. Wait, when Halloween was last
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  word? Halloween.
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  So it isn't. We're recording this till
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  November the 4th. Happy Halloween.
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  We didn't. I didn't talk about Halloween,
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  but it's the last podcast that I did.
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  I had just came back from Taipei Pride.
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  Oh, so you have. I talked about my trip, got it.
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  And I got some feedback for that podcast because the the title
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  was Taiwan Pride and for that like 3540 minute podcast episode
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  only like 5 minutes of it was about the events like the parade
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  or the one party that I went to. And the rest of it was just like
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  my travels, but me flying on a plane and like sitting this
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  beside this guy that tried to talk to me on a flight.
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  So this is your redo? This is your redo.
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  Please tell your excited listeners about actual Taipei
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  Pride. I mean, sure like, so there's
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  the Formosa Circuit party on Friday that I went to.
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  That was the only like Party party that I went to.
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  And I was telling you before it reminded me of White Party
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  Bangkok because the venue was in the middle, was within like a
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  shopping mall, like a shopping center, and it was like one of
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  the higher up levels. So like you go into the shopping
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  center, you take this elevator up to like the 7th or 8th floor,
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  and then when you get off, it's like this venue basically.
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  It's very like White Party Bangkok.
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  And the music was pretty good. I don't really know how to
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  describe a circuit party for people that don't know what a
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  circuit party is. Like how you describe a circuit
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  party to someone who has no idea what it is.
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  Well, just a bunch of. Half naked people with body
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  dysmorphia and and issues and just dancing and they're all,
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  some of them are sober, but none of them really are.
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  And they're all looking and judging at each other and trying
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  to get into each other's pants and seeing who's cool and all
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  that sort of stuff. Yeah, I mean, a circuit party
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  like we go to circuit parties doesn't because we're trash,
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  honestly. Not because we think we're good
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  people, I think. No, absolutely not.
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  Absolutely not. But like, The thing is, if
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  someone tells me I hate circuit parties, I'd be like, yeah, that
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  sounds above right. I mean, it's not, it's not for
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  everyone. I don't mean that in like a
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  shady way. It's just that circuit parties,
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  there are some not so great things about it.
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  And the reputation it gets, I can kind of understand why it's
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  the sexual tension is kind of pretty high because you
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  basically have like a bunch of gay guys in there and guys in
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  general, but especially like gay guys, they just want to fuck all
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  the time when you put them into that type of environment.
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  Yep, There's a subsection of people who are into that.
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  Yep. Yeah.
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  So like, first, it's like if I go to a regular music festival,
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  like a EDM music festival, that you don't have to get like,
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  sexual tension there because you don't just have like 300
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  shirtless gay men that are like hyped up on something, but.
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  Some of that is actually creeping up into it, I find, and
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  I'm. I'm actually not a little bit
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  with that, actually. Yeah.
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  I mean, when we go to like the larger EDM festivals, those are
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  not gay or queer events. But there is like a subset of,
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  you know, like gay guys that go there and they should have like
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  rainbow totems or whatever. So you can kind of sort of spot
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  them. The gays tend to clump together,
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  and within that clump of gaze in the audience at like these EDM
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  festivals you do get, because it's anytime you get a bunch of
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  gay guys together, there's going to be some amount of, like, you
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  know, at a party, you're going to get some amount of, like,
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  sexual tension. If you're sexy, maybe I just get
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  tension. Tension headaches.
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  You just get tension. Headaches.
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  Well, yeah. Well I like, I think, I think
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  with most individuals you sort of get what you want out of it.
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  Like I haven't I I go to the, I go to circuit parties to dance.
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  That sounds really weird. But no, no, it's not weird.
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  Like, I go to a circuit party, so OK, well, go back to Taiwan
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  Pride for the Friday that I was there at that one circuit party.
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  That's the only one I went to. I didn't travel to Taiwan with a
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  group like when we go to White Party Bangkok, every New Year's,
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  like we all meet up together and we're kind of like our crew,
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  right? I didn't go with a crew.
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  There were like some people here and there that I knew were also
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  going, but I wasn't like with their group so.
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  You were just Joey. Yeah.
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  It was just yes. Oh my God.
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  So I just went and yeah, like I there was like a small number of
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  people that I recognized and I said hi to.
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  But I wasn't like with I I didn't have a crew.
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  I was just kind of by myself and you know, when I go, I mean I I
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  do go shirtless because that's just my standard procedure when
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  I go to circuit. Party Joey Yeah, it's pretty
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  much if when you're when you're when you're up there on the
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  dance floor, most of the guys are shirtless as well.
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  Yeah, but I was just like dancing.
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  Like I was just dancing to the music.
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  I usually am not trying to like look for guys to like hit on or
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  whatever. But you know, if other people
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  are like trying to say hi to me or hit on me or whatever.
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  Like there were a few times at the party where I can tell when
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  someone's hitting on me like they're trying to.
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  It's pretty obvious. And I was like just very I've
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  got a procedure for like how to like, let them know.
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  Thanks, but no thanks. But I happened to say thanks for
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  no thanks. I just.
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  I have herpes. I I'm not like I'm not gross.
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  Oh, I. Am I don't care?
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  Yeah. And then the worst thing is it's
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  like, they're like me, too. The thing is like, sometimes
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  there's different ways that people hit on you at a circuit
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  party. So sometimes, like, people would
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  just start, like, feeling you up.
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  They'll start, like, touching your back, or like they'll grab
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  your ass, or like they'll grab your arms and stuff it.
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  Must be nice. I just get hit.
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  I hit people. Have you Have you seen the
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  bruises? I physically hit people.
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  You get bruises coming out of a. Party.
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  I'm that annoying person who flails.
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  Oh, that's so. At least I don't.
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  I don't like. I actually use the fan as a
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  cooling device. I don't Flack it, that is also
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  the circuit party staple, those fans.
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  But cuz I run, I run really warm and I dance very erratically so
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  I'm a lot of times sweating. So I should use it as a device
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  and the fans are really annoying.
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  For however, I do. Dance erratically.
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  And so my space and spatial awareness is mediocre at best.
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  Yeah, I'm. I'm definitely the mediest of
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  ochres. Yeah.
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  So I'll I'll hit you but not meaning to hit on you Jesus.
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  So at this. So there are at this particular
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  party during Taiwan pride, there are some people that like one
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  way they hit on you is not to like talk to you first.
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  They would just be like, they would start feeling ugly, be
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  like maybe they would grab your arm or like stroke your back or
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  like grab your ass or something like that.
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  And for me, I, again, I'm not looking to be hit on.
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  I'm just looking to dance, right.
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  And when you're in the middle and the dance floor at a circuit
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  party, there's not a ton of space.
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  So like you're gonna be, you're gonna have a ton of people like
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  dancing like right beside you right in front right behind.
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  Like there's just not a lot of space to like get away from
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  people. Honestly, especially when you're
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  in the crowd, like further up front, which is where I happen
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  to be, there are a couple guys that try to like fill me up or
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  do whatever, didn't say hi or anything, I whatever.
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  But like when that happens I would try to take like a step
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  away from them and that's my sign to them.
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  Like and I'm, I'm usually facing the other way, I'll face away
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  from them and I'll take like as much of a distance away from
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  them. With the little bit of space
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  that around me, I'll like step away from them as much as I can.
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  So when someone hits me in that way, that's my subtle but
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  hopefully clear way to tell them, like, no thanks.
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  If all they do is just try to like, try to touch me up
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  sometimes, Sometimes people will say hi to me.
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  They might recognize me from my YouTube channel.
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  And then when that happens, they're not necessarily hitting
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  on me, but they just want to say thanks for like the videos that
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  I put out. And like, that's fine.
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  I'll be like, oh, like, thank you for watching the channel.
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  I appreciate it. That's not really like hitting
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  on me, but sometimes when people talk to me, be like, oh hey,
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  like, what's your name, where are you from?
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  Blah blah blah, like they're trying to strike up conversation
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  with you. Listen in the middle of the
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  dance floor on the circuit party, they're not trying to
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  make friends. If someone is trying to make
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  small talk with you, they're trying to hit on.
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  You OK? I counted that.
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  But continue. Please continue, but the the
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  odds are like you know. Yeah, this I think is not a
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  rule, but. I think you do take it for.
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  Yeah, I think that depends on the person.
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  There's certain people who are always trying to make friends,
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  certain people are always trying to hook up and there's certain
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  people who, I don't know, maybe fans actually.
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  So you know you're smart enough to realise you take read all the
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  body, read the vibe to. Move and read vibes.
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  Yeah, read the vibe. So yeah, for sure.
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  And actually in this instance, in Taiwan Pride and you could
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  probably take this sort of conversation similar to your
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  Barcelona experiences. Where language barriers are a
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  thing, yes, the the touching as a sign of interest and like
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  that's fine with me. I don't find, I don't find out
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  offensive usually. Well, it depends on how they're
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  grabbing what they're grabbing. That's true, and consent is
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  sexy. But it's how they respond to
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  when you say no or you indicate no, yeah.
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  Cuz until then they don't know. And then if they then back off
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  afterwards, that's that's fine, correct?
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  Correct. I always want to make it so that
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  it's easy and relatively painless for you to.
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  I don't wanna make it awkward. Yeah, I wanna make it like
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  whatever I'm doing to signal to you that I'm not interested.
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  I wanna do it in a way where you have an easy out, where you
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  don't feel like embarrassed or there are any hang ups about it.
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  Hell yeah, yeah. But when people.
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  So there are a few guys that strike a conversation with me.
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  They don't know who I was before.
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  So it's not from the YouTube or whatever.
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  They're making small talk a lot, but I'll make small talk back.
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  But The thing is I won't ask them any questions.
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  Yeah, I'll kind of. I'll do the minimum to carry on
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  a little bit of their small talk, but I won't show any overt
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  interest. Yeah, and I think most people
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  would read queues in a normal situation.
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  Unfortunately, when people are inebriated, they might not read
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  those queues. Most of our not sober these.
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  It needs to be a. Little bit more assertive than
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  subtle, and that's correct. So that's Level 2.
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  So like, my thing is like, oh, they'll ask questions on like
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  I'll answer the questions and that'll be nice and I'll be
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  smiley. But like, I won't ask them
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  questions back. But asking questions back is a
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  key indicator that you want to keep that conversation going and
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  you're showing some level interest.
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  So I don't usually ask them questions.
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  They may ask me a couple questions to like, make small
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  talk. So I'll answer with relatively
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  short, simple answers. So that's the first.
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  The second clue is I'm not asking you any questions back.
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  So that's like the 101, right? So if they still don't get a
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  bit, they're inebriated or whatever.
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  Sometimes, like they'll they'll ask some questions and just
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  break. And I'd be like, oh, it's oh, it
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  was nice to meet you or something like that, which is
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  like a little bit more like, OK, nice to meet you.
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  Like, it's signaling like, OK, this is the end of our
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  conversation now without saying, without saying like, no, go
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  away. That's just.
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  You've heard it here first. If Joey asked you a question, or
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  if he doesn't ask you a question, it's just noey Just.
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  It's just Noey, just thank you. Yeah.
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  But The thing is, like, yeah, back to that point about when
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  I'm most, like 99% of the time when I'm dancing on the dance
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  floor at a circuit party, I'm not usually looking to like, get
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  hit on. I'm not not looking for sex or
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  whatever. I'm there to dance, right.
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  So I'm already kind of in this mindset where like, I, I, I'm,
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  I'm not wanting to be hit on. And I said this on my last
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  podcast. I'm usually also not a person to
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  like make small talk. So Yep, my personality is kind
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  of sort of like, maybe it's, you can almost say like, well, it's,
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  how do you ever meet P1? It's.
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  I don't. Well, it's also, that's a good
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  personality trait to have someone have a podcast.
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  I mean, I like talking. And if someone doesn't, if you
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  don't want to listen to this podcast, you're already not
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  listening like 15 minutes in. So that's fine.
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  It's your. 15 minutes. It's a long time we're we're
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  we're about 15 minutes into the recording.
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  Wait, have you talked about for most?
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  OK, let's bring it back to what just really quickly what they
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  tried to cover last week. Let's just say how was the
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  production? Did you notice the production
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  question was pretty good? It's basically a giant square.
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  The actual like event like dance space, they have like like a
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  lobby area that was like so it was like lit up and they had a
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  drink ticket and they also had like just this one single queue
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  for like the for the drinks counter.
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  Oh my God. When I was I only got like water
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  there. But when I was up at the drinks
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  counter with my drink tickets I saw like the most fit people
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  were were the bartenders perfect.
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  They were, they were exactly us fit exactly, if not more than
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  the go go's. Like the go go's were like very
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  very fit, very muscly very shredded.
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  All that stuff like you would kind of expect like they were, I
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  think they were like 8 or 8 or 10 go go's.
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  But like the people that were like doing the drinks.
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  There was also this like one girl that was alongside these
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  muscly guys. There was like a girl that was
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  kind of near where I was at the drink station and she she works
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  out, she works out. She had bigger shoulders in like
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  a nice, still feminine way than most of the guys that were
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  there. Like the people that were the
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  bartenders, they were fit as fuck.
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  So that was one thing I noticed. So maybe they were the go go's
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  who couldn't dance And then it's like, hey, do you want to gig
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  serving drinks, dude? I mean, maybe.
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  Or maybe they have like rotation for shifts where like, hey, like
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  you're not dancing like the entire however many hours.
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  Like they take breaks and they go off and stuff.
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  Or maybe they have different rotations, different shifts for
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  dancers. So maybe there's an early shift
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  for the dancers. Then if you want to two, you
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  can. I don't know what the
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  difference, but they were they were hot and fit as fuck all the
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  bartenders that I saw. OK, good.
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  How would you rate the Like the security?
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  Rough. Annoying, no.
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  Minimal good. Not, not in like a bad way, but
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  they weren't invasive at all. You.
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  Probably didn't use code check, so like logistics I didn't use
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  code check because I have a system to not have to use code
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  check so. You know, sometimes you go to a
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  party, circa party, festival, anything, and you go, then
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  you're like, this is a cluster fuck.
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  You just know there was none of that here.
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  So the only thing that was maybe a little off putting is you have
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  to take an elevator up to the level where the venue is on the
• 17:59
  7th or 8th floor and they were only using one particular
• 18:02
  entrance to the building to let everyone and because I guess
• 18:05
  like that kind of makes sense. But there were only like 3-3
• 18:11
  elevators. I think there were two or three
• 18:13
  elevators that they were using to let people up.
• 18:17
  So it was a bit of a wait and a queue OK to get into the
• 18:20
  building. So the line outside was like
• 18:22
  very very long. It it did move steadily but not
• 18:25
  super fast but it did move but to the if you were I was in the
• 18:30
  line I probably for like 30-40 minutes and I didn't get the
• 18:33
  Super late. And what time did you finish?
• 18:35
  I left at like 2:30 I think. So this is so annoyed you got on
• 18:38
  the first night. I think the parties were
• 18:40
  supposed to close at like 3 or something.
• 18:42
  Like I left like shortly after two because I was like, I wanna
• 18:46
  go to the parade, which I guess we also talk about next I'm
• 18:49
  gonna go to the parade, which was like in the afternoon, the
• 18:51
  daytime. So I didn't wanna go super,
• 18:53
  super late. And honestly, by that time I've
• 18:56
  been at the party for about like 3 hours and I don't need to be
• 18:59
  at a party for much longer than that, regardless of the party
• 19:02
  usually. Well, I mean this year I think
• 19:05
  was it was supposed to be world pride, but my feed was I had no
• 19:09
  idea how many Taiwan. Yeah, there was.
• 19:11
  I didn't get that. Boat ton of.
• 19:14
  I mean, I heard from a Taiwanese friend of ours.
• 19:18
  I think it was supposed to be war pride.
• 19:19
  But then China got angry and China gets angry.
• 19:21
  And however, irrespective of that, there was a lot of people
• 19:26
  that I did not realize were going to Taiwan all of a sudden
• 19:30
  popped up on my feet going to you know what I want though like
• 19:32
  now that I, this was my first time in Taiwan ever and like I
• 19:37
  really, really want to like go back to Taiwan pride like some
• 19:43
  in sometime in the future, in the near future, hopefully with
• 19:46
  you and with Jeremy and like with Jay or like and whoever
• 19:50
  else wants to come. But it's like the next time I
• 19:52
  go, I really wanted to be like go with a crew.
• 19:55
  How was the boba? I didn't.
• 19:59
  So I mentioned in my last podcast.
• 20:01
  In the last podcast like this, this person that did the comment
• 20:04
  was true. I spent 5 minutes talk about the
• 20:06
  parties and the other 30 minutes I was talking about like
• 20:08
  everything except their parties. But I mentioned last time I was
• 20:11
  eating, just stop at some McDonald's.
• 20:13
  Yeah, like a real American. You know American.
• 20:15
  I I'm American now. Oh, there you go, American
• 20:18
  citizen. You act like an American, Jesus.
• 20:21
  Anyways, yes, I didn't. I didn't seek out, but I I
• 20:24
  drank. Pretty much water the entire
• 20:26
  time. So I was like trying to make
• 20:28
  make sure my sometimes when you travel, your digestive system
• 20:31
  doesn't always completely like agree with you traveling.
• 20:36
  So for me, like getting a lot of water in kind of helps when I'm
• 20:40
  traveling, especially when my diet is like, so off of what it
• 20:44
  normally is, it was Starbucks and McDonald's, it was like
• 20:47
  completely off. So the the the one little thing
• 20:51
  I try to do is like. Just to like, at least drink
• 20:54
  something healthy, which is which is like.
• 20:56
  Water like I didn't get. I didn't get soda or anything
• 20:59
  like that. When I went to, you were just
• 21:00
  drinking water like, like. Just and also McDonald's water
• 21:04
  also did like some lattes at the Starbucks but with like oat milk
• 21:07
  because I'm off dairy right now. Do the McDonald's water taste
• 21:09
  normal? It's just bottled water, OK?
• 21:11
  Yeah. Yeah, it's bottled water
• 21:12
  everywhere. And there you go.
• 21:14
  That's for Mosa. Go for the.
• 21:15
  McDonald's the circuit party. Yeah, so the circuit party, It
• 21:18
  was really nice. Like the venue was pretty cool.
• 21:20
  Air conditioning was good. It wasn't too warm.
• 21:22
  That's always something. Usually when the AC is decent
• 21:25
  and good, we don't notice. It's when it's warm that we
• 21:27
  notice. And some venues have a
• 21:29
  reputation for hosting circuit parties where the AC just can't
• 21:33
  handle it. And and actually, it's seemingly
• 21:35
  the like modernist Asian cities seem to have facilities that are
• 21:40
  used to humidity. And so therefore the the air
• 21:44
  conditioning is good. So, yeah, yeah.
• 21:45
  So AC was good. Like, honestly, I think I'm
• 21:48
  pretty sure I mentioned this, but like, the guys there were
• 21:50
  like so hot that I want to go back.
• 21:53
  There you go. The guys.
• 21:54
  Go for the boys, go for the boys.
• 21:56
  Stay for the boy toys. Stay for it.
• 21:59
  Taiwan, stay for this. Yep, stay for the SDI.
• 22:03
  More good care in Taiwan. I think but but the guys I I
• 22:06
  think I will probably try to go back next year.
• 22:08
  There you go. Foremost, yeah, I want to get
• 22:10
  someone you guys to come with if I mean we'll we'll talk about it
• 22:14
  next year. That's a whole year away.
• 22:16
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:17
  It's always coincides with October cruise, which is why
• 22:19
  I've never gone before. But we're not doing the.
• 22:22
  I mean I'm not I'm not doing the other cruise this year,
• 22:25
  primarily if I didn't go on the and if I didn't go to Taiwan for
• 22:28
  pride, there's a decent chance I might have been on the October
• 22:31
  cruise because it's same same week.
• 22:33
  Yeah, it's it's always clashes. So I've never gone before.
• 22:36
  Yeah. So there you go.
• 22:37
  So, so for the listeners like the three of you that listen
• 22:41
  regularly, that was disappointed last week.
• 22:45
  That I didn't talk enough about the parties, but we just talked
• 22:48
  about it for like 20 minutes. There you go.
• 22:49
  There you go. Party boys.
• 22:51
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:52
  So we can move it on to the next topic now though, if you want.
• 22:54
  Do we have another? Do we have another topic?
• 22:56
  Oh yeah. I've got lots of topics.
• 22:58
  Bitch, that's just a soundboard. There's no like notes there in
• 23:00
  my head. Oh, OK.
• 23:01
  This is called being prepared. I was like, what are you
• 23:03
  reading? For no, this is called being
• 23:05
  prepared, being a douche. Well, that, that's your
• 23:08
  department being prepared, Douche.
• 23:11
  Douche Douche, You should tell them about your two for one bro
• 23:15
  look. If you just if it's.
• 23:17
  If you just douche once, you could use that like for value
• 23:20
  and you could have. Multiple guys.
• 23:23
  Well, not at the same time, but you could.
• 23:25
  I mean, we're not joking. I'm not king Shaming.
• 23:28
  You can do it. You could.
• 23:30
  Line them up you want. You could line them up and it's
• 23:32
  just one douche. Line them up, front to back,
• 23:34
  whatever. Front to back, side to side, ear
• 23:36
  to nose. OK.
• 23:38
  Well, it's. We don't need all the details
• 23:40
  from your. From what you need, the last
• 23:41
  night's very every, every RFS, but there you go.
• 23:44
  Yeah, there you go. That's not life.
• 23:45
  I could just say this is common sense for those who are hungry,
• 23:49
  thirsty. Thirsty, I think.
• 23:51
  Yeah, sorry, I don't know what. It's fine.
• 23:53
  I think it's Thursday, those who are, Yep.
• 23:56
  Yeah, but I'm excited for us to, after this trip to Asia to
• 24:01
  party. I'm we go to White Party Bangkok
• 24:03
  every single year. So I'm like, even more excited
• 24:05
  now for this year's White Party Bangkok, seven weeks away.
• 24:09
  I would, yeah. It's it's almost 2024.
• 24:13
  Bro, Yeah, it's about 7:00 or 8 weeks away.
• 24:15
  New Year's about 7:00, almost 2024 like COVID COVID 3 years
• 24:18
  ago do. So in EU?
• 24:19
  Yeah. In the US at least we've got US
• 24:21
  Thanksgiving coming up. Oh, you're you're You might be
• 24:24
  here for US Thanksgiving. You might be in the US for US
• 24:26
  Thanksgiving I should I should actually be here for?
• 24:29
  Yeah. So that's that's in like 3-3
• 24:31
  weeks or so, about 3 weeks. Yep.
• 24:34
  I've never done Thanksgiving because we don't have it in
• 24:37
  Australia. Yeah, that's not, I think
• 24:38
  that's, yeah, that's like pilgrims and Turkey and Black
• 24:41
  Friday sales. Is not asking the right person.
• 24:44
  Oh yeah, Black Friday sales is the Friday.
• 24:46
  So Thanksgiving is always on the the last Thursday of November
• 24:50
  got it. And then the Friday day after is
• 24:53
  Black Friday. So historically that's where
• 24:55
  like stores will have these like blowout sales and then Cyber
• 24:58
  Monday is. Just the Monday after that,
• 25:00
  which is so when online shopping became more of a thing, they did
• 25:03
  Cyber Mondays. But nowadays though, these days
• 25:06
  Black Friday sales. Like we just saw this ad, which
• 25:09
  is like the Mean Girls ad for like some Black Friday or
• 25:12
  whatever thing. Dude, it was amazing.
• 25:14
  So basically it used to be that like 20 years ago before
• 25:18
  shopping online Black Friday, you would get people lined up
• 25:22
  outside Best Buy or Walmart or whatever like early in the
• 25:26
  morning on Friday because they would be at the newspapers like
• 25:30
  the week before. They would advertise out the
• 25:32
  door crasher or like the the door Buster whatever sales which
• 25:36
  is like they'll have like oh for the 1st 50 people that get into
• 25:40
  the store. The physical store on Black
• 25:43
  Friday, you can get like, yeah, like some some stupid crazy
• 25:48
  deal. You get ATV for like 100 bucks,
• 25:50
  like like a big screen TV for like 100 bucks, something crazy.
• 25:52
  Like those are like the door crasher deals and they would
• 25:54
  advertise it in the newspapers a few days or like a week before
• 25:57
  so people would know like, oh, I want this TV.
• 26:00
  I'm going to go to whatever store early Friday morning and
• 26:03
  start lining up. So that used to be the case like
• 26:05
  20 years ago before online shopping.
• 26:07
  Today, though, Black Friday Deals, they start way before
• 26:10
  Black Friday. They start like.
• 26:11
  Like 1-2, three weeks because all the different retailers,
• 26:14
  they try to outdo each other. So Amazon Prime has a tie into
• 26:18
  Black Friday now. And because Amazon does this
• 26:20
  Amazon Prime thing, Target is like trying to do something to
• 26:24
  compete with the Amazon Prime Days.
• 26:27
  So it's like Walmart, so like and it becomes earlier and
• 26:30
  earlier like we just saw this ad, which is like the Mean Girls
• 26:34
  ad for Walmart. Which is like, which I think
• 26:37
  it's a Black Friday sales related thing.
• 26:39
  It's like Black Wednesday. I think they did something
• 26:41
  slightly different, but it's like we're like 4 weeks away,
• 26:45
  Three or four weeks away from the actual Black Friday.
• 26:47
  And the sales and advertising's already started.
• 26:51
  Thank God we have Thanksgiving to remind us about capitalism.
• 26:53
  Hey, amazing. Yeah, great.
• 26:56
  Oh, America. But we're probably gonna be
• 26:58
  doing a friends giving thing with.
• 27:01
  I'll be in LA. I'll be like, 'cause I'll land
• 27:04
  that day. Well, I'm, I'll be picking.
• 27:06
  I'll pick you from the airport and go straight to you, go eat
• 27:08
  and I'll come for, like, whatever dessert.
• 27:10
  Is I'm not. I'm not there to eat.
• 27:11
  I'm on the diet. Are you going to?
• 27:14
  Be on, I'll eat your I'll eat your half.
• 27:16
  I'm not going to stray off my regular diet just for I have
• 27:19
  Thanksgiving. I have no diet so I'll just eat
• 27:21
  everything anyways. Eat McDonald's everything over
• 27:23
  all the time? No, but you know, there's US.
• 27:26
  McDonald's is just different. Besides the Mcgriddle.
• 27:28
  Besides the Mcgriddle. We're just talking about this,
• 27:31
  but I was raving to him about. I mentioned in the last podcast,
• 27:35
  David Lamb loves McDonald's, and I told you about this prime rib
• 27:40
  burger that I fell in love with when I was in Taiwan.
• 27:43
  You had five. Yeah, I like four or five of
• 27:45
  them that that they don't sell usually in the US.
• 27:48
  And then I told you one of the days in Taiwan, I went to
• 27:52
  Badan's for breakfast because I like the breakfast menu.
• 27:55
  And I mentioned to you how they don't have the Mcgriddle there.
• 27:57
  Yeah, dude, that. But he loves, he said.
• 27:59
  It was a heart attack or something.
• 28:00
  Right. Well, the the I didn't really
• 28:03
  know about the Mcgriddle. It's been a thing on the menu in
• 28:05
  the US for a while, but I'd never eat breakfast at
• 28:08
  McDonald's in the US. So you got it that one time when
• 28:11
  you were taking, when you were being very generous in helping
• 28:13
  me to get the monkey pox vaccine.
• 28:15
  Yeah, something like that. So we had it in a park and I.
• 28:18
  Yeah, we got it to go. But it's like that was when they
• 28:21
  had back when we had the monkey pox outbreak and there were
• 28:25
  clinics like pop up clinics at like local parks in Southern
• 28:29
  California to get the vaccine and that's when you actually
• 28:32
  needed to like line up with. The supply was limited.
• 28:35
  So I had gone mine like a week before and you happened to be in
• 28:38
  town like the week after and I was like OK, I'll tell you to
• 28:41
  the site that I went to but like you have to line up for like
• 28:44
  3045 minutes outside. So I was like, let's go, let's
• 28:47
  go early. We'll go to McDonald's, we'll
• 28:49
  pick up some food and then we can eat while we're waiting in
• 28:51
  line. So at least we're not starving
• 28:52
  when we're in line. This was the 1st time we did
• 28:54
  this was the first time I had it and I picked it because the
• 28:57
  picture looked good I guess it worked very easy and then I'm
• 29:00
  like Oh my God this tastes amazing.
• 29:01
  So when I when I've been into it, it was like a regular muffin
• 29:06
  breakfast sandwich I like. But The thing is, with the
• 29:08
  Mcgriddle, it's like syrup. Syrup soaked pancakes, not Maple
• 29:12
  syrup. Just like high fructose corn
• 29:14
  syrup soaked pancakes. Instead of like a regular
• 29:18
  English muffin and then whatever, whatever, like chicken
• 29:21
  or eggs or whatever you get inside it, but like because it
• 29:24
  was like sugar syrup soaked pancakes it on top and the
• 29:29
  bottom. I keep on saying it tastes like
• 29:31
  a heart attack. It was so good, yeah.
• 29:34
  'Cause I'm sure besides the sugar they ate squeezing some
• 29:36
  fat in there too, it just it was like bacon and egg, but it
• 29:39
  wrapped into pancakes. Yes, it was.
• 29:42
  Sugar and fat soaked pancake and then bacon and then whatever.
• 29:47
  You probably just got bacon. Dude, it was.
• 29:48
  It was. Good.
• 29:49
  And then other sugar and fat. So pancake on the bottom.
• 29:52
  It just tasted like so and healthy.
• 29:54
  It just tasted like a hard.