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HHBSO 17: The US Citizenship Interview · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello. Welcome to he's hop.
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But something's off with me. Just Joey T as.
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You're listening to this podcast.
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Whenever this comes out, whichever Thursday it is.
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I will be on a cruise ship. Well, I will probably.
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Be on a cruise ship? We'll see.
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If I make the cruise ship, I give a lot of gay cruise advice
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to a lot of people. I've got my website
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justjoeyt.com that's like A blog and I have a bunch of cruise
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advice articles. On there and one of the key
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pieces of. Information that I give that I'm
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not taking myself for this particular.
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Is that if you need to travel to where the port is wherever the.
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Cruise is going to set sail. You should get there the day
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before because usually cruise ships set sail.
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In the afternoon 345. PM something like that.
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And if you fly in, you know the morning of on the off chance
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that your flight gets. Delayed or canceled and this
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year I think. Ever since epidemic, and
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especially this year with the. Weather and all the issues.
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Of air traffic control that we hear about getting your flight.
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Delayed or canceled is. More often it's a more frequent
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occurrence that it used to be like a few years ago.
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If your flight gets cancelled and you can't easily get a
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different flight to get to your cruise.
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The ship is not going to wait for you, so if your cruise sets
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there at 5:00. And you're not on board by 4, it
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would just go but. Ships don't tend to wait.
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It's not like. I don't know those stupid people
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that try to. Jam.
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The doors open on subways and trains while their friends are
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still, you know, I hate that I was in Chicago and someone that
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just like this group of people. They were trying to catch the
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train. I was getting off and I was
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going down the stairs already. This group of people that are
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trying to catch the train, one of them was faster than his
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friends went up to the door and it the doors already beeping the
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trains already. Beeping like doors are closing
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and this guy just holds open the door and his.
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Two or three friends have we made there were clearly were not
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the stair climbing type and I don't approve of that.
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I don't like it when people hold the doors.
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It's jamming the doors. I think that they ran a study
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some city. Ran some study about public
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transit and it's something where.
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People holding the doors. It's.
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One of the top reasons why trains go out of.
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Service or trains get delayed, so just don't.
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I don't like that. Anyways, yeah, usually I give
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the advice. I'm gonna fly.
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We need to fly to where the crew sets sail.
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You should get there the night before, just in case your flight
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gets later. Cancelled because it's a real.
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Risk if you find the morning of your flight gets really.
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Delayed or it gets cancelled and you don't get there when you're
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supposed to be on the ship. There's a deadline the ship.
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Just goes and you pretty much have just wasted how many
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thousands of dollars you spent booking that cruise and you're
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not on board. And there are no refunds if
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that's why you can't. Get on the ship.
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So I always recommend get there the day.
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Of the night before. Book a random hotel wherever.
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So that when you wake up in the morning, yeah, you know you're,
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you're ready to. Go and start your cruise
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vacation. This time I am not taking that
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advice myself, so I'm going to. I'm taking three flights between
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to get from Los Angeles to Rome in Italy where the cruise.
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Is going to set sail? Yes, there are direct flights.
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I'm very aware of this as a. Frequent flyer.
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But I don't have the same. I don't have the day job
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anymore. I've got the side.
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Hustles bring in a smidge of money and I did have a ton of
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points to burn from. Like all the traveling I did
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before, so the. Other consideration was it's
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going to be an overnight flight. When I get to Rome, I need to be
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in Rome in the morning. The I need to be on the ship by
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4:00 PM that day on Monday. And I looked at all different
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flights that were going into Rome, and the fight I have is
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the flight I have. It's going to get to Rome around
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like 8830. M which is good if it's delayed
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like a little bit, but like two or three hours I still get there
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by. Like noon, which is like still
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lots of time to because that flight is a red eye, fights 8
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hours. Across the Atlantic Ocean to get
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from the US to Europe, I decided, well, I need to.
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Sleep right. It's no red eye fight, overnight
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fight. Once I get there, I need to go
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straight to the. Cruise ship I should sleep and
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you know it's more comfortable to sleep if you have a nicer.
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Seat So I was looking for Oh, are there some business class or
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premium economy options? I can book with points and the
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only reasonably priced award ticket I could.
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Find that would give me premium economy for the flight.
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Across the Atlantic for that eight hour flight, is that if I?
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Do 2 connecting flights from here in Lai will go to Chicago.
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Also a red eye. The night before And then after
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that, I'll go from Chicago to Dulles.
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Airport in the Washington DC area.
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And then I will have to kill like 6 hours at Dulles airport
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before I board. My flight, the 8 hour red eye.
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To go to Rome. So very complicated.
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There's method to the madness. But that's why I'm taking three
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flights to get from LA to get to Rome, it's.
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Because I wanted to get a nicer seat, a prime economy seat and
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the there was some slightly cheap fares, award fares with.
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Points that I was able. To book.
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And this was the most feasible out of all the.
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Crazy itineraries. When you buy a award?
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When you. Book an award fair first paying
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cash money for a flight the. Itineraries that you are, you
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have the option to choose from. Is more limited with points, so
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obviously there are nonstop flights from LA to Rome.
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But that's how many hours is that?
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12 hours, maybe 14 hours. I don't want to sit in economy.
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No one was sit in economy for 14 hours.
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So it was kind of a benefit for me to basically just get.
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From the West Coast to the East Coast.
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Which is a domestic hop. I don't know.
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Five hours maybe, give or take. And then to go from one of the
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big airports on the in the Northeast DC.
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New York or whatever to hop. Across the Atlantic, that's
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about 8 hours. So when you can't fly a premium
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cabin, and most people can't, it's nicer.
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Sometimes that nonstop flight sounds amazing on paper.
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You get there in the shortest amount of time.
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But if you have to do like. 14 hours in economy that's a lot of
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time to do economy. So when I can't, when I have to
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fly economy, sometimes I intentionally take the one stop
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the connecting flight so that I. Can get off the plane and
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stretch my legs, and even if you're within the airport and
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you don't leave security. At least it's not this tiny
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little seat that is. 17 inches wide, you've got no wiggle room,
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You're smelling the farts from the guy next to you, so that's
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still. A little bit better anyways, in
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a couple of weeks when I'm back from the cruise.
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Definitely will let. Everyone know all the stories I
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have. From that cruise or how it went,
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this is going to be a more relaxing cruise relative to all
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the other cruises. I've done the Mediterranean
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cruise in Europe that Atlanta. She puts on sushi a little bit.
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More mellow relative to the other ones.
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There's still. A party almost every single day
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on the cruise, but a lot of people stop at the ports.
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It stops at some. Ports in Italy, it stops in
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Monaco, it's stopping in Ibiza overnight actually and I think
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I'm a get off at Ibiza because I've never.
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Been there before and there's a lot of clubs obviously, but
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it's. Going to be more mellow cruise.
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I I don't know that many people. I don't know a ton of people
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that are going on this cruise. I know some, but this is not
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like the big party cruises that I.
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More often. Go on so it'll be interesting.
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I'll have an update for everyone when, two or three weeks from
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now when I'm back. The other interesting thing that
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happened, I met quick mention this briefly was outsetting for
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my US citizenship interview and test and that was.
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Recent. I just got that.
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Done and I passed. So I am now technically a U.S.
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citizen, so it's interesting. I didn't fully read up the full
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process. The naturalization process was.
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Obviously, I reviewed what the full.
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Ages ago when I was looking into applying but for this part of
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it. Lately I've just been focusing
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on studying for the Civics test, so there's. 100 questions about
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U.S. history and the US government and voting and all
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that kind of stuff. They pick 10 questions and you
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have to get six of them right. And I was I I knew the answer.
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To all 100 questions, I kid you not definitely.
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Even driving to the the to the test it was like.
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A 45 minute drive. I downloaded some YouTube videos
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that I played back. Like the audio only played it
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back in the car where they basically.
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Read out the questions verbally in some random order and you
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just answered it because it's actually.
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A verbal test is not a multiple choice, is not on paper, and I
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didn't otherwise knew or studied or read about the other parts I
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was. Just so focused on, OK, you have
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to pass. The knowledge test.
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They have a short test on your ability to read and write
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English. I was like.
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OK, no problem. And everything else is not
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really something you need to study for or the.
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Other parts of the interview, and I didn't know that they
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were. Able to make a decision on your
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application like on the spot right at that moment.
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I thought you going for the test to interview whatever it is.
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They send you away and then like 12 months later you get a letter
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that says oh. You need to do something else
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now or like, Oh yeah, you. Approved or denied or blah blah
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blah blah blah. I don't think that you can do
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like same day just get. Everything done, so going into
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it, I got there on time. It's pretty smooth, saw the
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officer. Did all the testing and
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everything. She asked 6 questions and
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because I got six questions right or right, she didn't ask
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me anymore. But yeah, it was.
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Flying colors that all the sudden paid off and she does her
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thing. The English part of the test was
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like really easy. And then she motions behind her
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and she says usually we will review.
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Your immigration, your full file, and she motions to.
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Some like Manila folders behind her.
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She's. Got this like massive file
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cabinet behind her and there's like another table behind and
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there's some Manila photos like you see in movies or TV or
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whatever. Manila folders full of papers.
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And there were a couple there are a few of.
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These Manila folders behind right behind her with papers in
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it. These folders probably each had
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like. 102 hundred pages in them. They were like an inch, inch and
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a half thick or something like that.
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She motions behind her and says usually we get a.
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Printed copy of your immigration file like those behind me, and
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that's what we go through to. Review everything about you to
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make a decision as to whether we can approve your.
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Application, but in your case yours is digital so.
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I need to send in a request to whoever.
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Your mom to like, get the digital.
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Copy of the immigration file so like I don't have with me.
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Therefore I can't make a decision right away as to.
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Whether we can approve for application and I thought like
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okay like I. In my head, I was thinking, I
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didn't expect you to do it on the spot.
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I expect you would just get back to me in 6 to 12 months, which
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is like everything to the government, so slow, right?
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Especially in the US, it's like so inefficient.
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So I was like, OK, sure, whatever.
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That's what I was suspecting anyways, to just come back later
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or have to like just wait for a letter.
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Then she said. But we do need to but you pass
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it. Interview.
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That's fine. Everything looks good.
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We do need to take your photo though, so like take this piece
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of paper, go to like. Go down the hall to this other
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room and then they'll take your photo.
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So I did that. Walked down this hallway and
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went to this other room and I sat there.
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And I was just just. Kind of waiting area and I
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thought I was just going to get my photo taken.
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Literally two or three minutes later, random person pops out of
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the door in the waiting room and he says Joey, the officer is
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waiting for you. Could you go back to like?
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The room that you were in before and I'm like, oh okay whatever,
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like do whatever. You guys tell me so went back.
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To the room I was in before, where I was had the interview
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with the officer. And she tells me.
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So when I requested your digital.
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File we actually came through right away, so I was able to
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review it. Just now and like your
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application is. Approved, you can do the same
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day naturalization ceremony that's downstairs.
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So that part I was not expecting and I didn't know there was like
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such a thing that I didn't know the government could be this
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efficient about something as big as granting citizenship to
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someone. I was like very, very impressed.
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So. She sent me downstairs with a
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different piece of paper to like the first.
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Floor and there was this completely separate area where a
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bunch of other. People were waiting.
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They're like go to this particular.
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Window in this particular room walked up there.
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Got my photo taken with? Yeah.
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Got my photo taken again. Wasn't looking good by the way,
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but whatever is. Some a photo that no one will
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ever see was at the window talking to the person she's
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typing, typing. I'm just standing.
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They're so awkward when you go up to.
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Some sort of counter or kiosk or whatever.
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And the person is working on your request like whatever it
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is. And they're just on the
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computer. And obviously, like the
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computers are slow and they have to type up a bunch of stuff.
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They're type to type, click, click, click, blah blah blah.
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And you're just standing there and there's like.
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Nothing for you to do. I didn't wanna whip on my phone
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randomly because I felt like there weren't any signs that
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says you couldn't use your phone.
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I've been in four different rooms in the USCIS office by
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that time and I kept on looking. There aren't any signs that says
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you could not use your phone. But some places you can't use
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your phone when you go through password control, when you're
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crossing the border or something.
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A lot of times when you're lining up for the password
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control line in a lot of airports, there are signs that
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says you don't use your phone and don't use cameras.
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So I was looking for those signs because I was thinking, isn't
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this it? Felt like a situation where
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maybe you shouldn't use your phone and you shouldn't use the
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camera, but there weren't any of those signs.
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But I'm standing up at this kiosk.
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She's doing her. And I'm just like standing there
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and it's like, I've got nothing to do.
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I can't rip up my phone and just like be on Reddit or Twitter or
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whatever like I usually would. Be because I'm bored.
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But she does her thing anyway. She does her thing and then
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there's like a stack. Of envelopes.
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That's kind of on the side of her desk.
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And I can see that they. Are identical looking.
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They're like prepackaged things for her to give out.
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And I didn't notice it until she went and grabbed one of them.
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There's like a stack of like 3 or 4 of.
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These things identical looking, very crisp new envelopes and on
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top there was a little American flag.
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So when she was done her thing, she grabs one of those things
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and she gives it to me. I forgot exactly what she said,
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but like it was basically like. The welcome packet, like the
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congratulations packet. Now you're a U.S. citizen.
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There's a little American flag and she's like, saves, blah
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blahs, oh. Like, OK, thank you.
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And she tells me to wait over in the.
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In the waiting area, Yeah. So that was like it was very
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easy. I was surprised how easy it was.
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So the final step of the whole process is to take the.
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Oath of Allegiance. So I was in the waiting area for
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like. Just a few minutes, this officer
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comes out. It's like a what you might call
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it. Like a conference type area.
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So there's like a bunch of chairs and there's a.
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Podium up at the front. And what I didn't notice until
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the very end was there's a giant American flag.
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Like, a huge one. Just like.
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Sitting there by the podium, I noticed the podium.
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I noticed all the seating areas. I noticed all the TV's and those
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all the tiny little mics that were like the conference mics
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that were hanging down from like the ceiling.
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I did not notice this giant American flag.
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Everything I noticed in that room, except for that flag,
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until the very end when I was leaving, I was like, oh, it's a
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giant American flag right by the podium there.
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So this officer. Comes out and he reads out a
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bunch of people's names, like eight or ten of us.
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And though this is actually like.
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The ceremony that you have. As like the final step of like
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the nationalization process. So he takes us.
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Through verifies our names, gives us the official
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certificate. Of nationalization that you get
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that's like an official. Government document that proves
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like you went through the process, you're now a citizen.
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And we repeat after him the Oath of Allegiance.
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I hope I'm saying that right. I think it pretty sure.
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The Oath of allegiance. We repeat that to him.
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We say all the things and then everyone's like woohoo.
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And then he says like, you want photos.
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He does this all the time, I'm sure.
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So he's like, you want photos? I could take your photos.
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There's like 8. Or ten of us.
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And I didn't need the photo. I'm glad that.
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I'm happy to be a. Citizen I'm happy to be American
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now. I'm happy to have gone through
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the process. I think it's great that it went
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so smooth, but I don't need the souvenir.
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I don't need the photo. I'm not really a photo person,
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so everyone was like lining up to.
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Take the photo. Me, me, me, me, me.
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And I saw people like go up, go there holding, holding that
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little American flag that they were given earlier and like
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their certificate and they're standing beside the giant
18:52
American flag. And then the officer person is
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getting the fluencing their selfies.
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And I like just discreetly walk off.
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Yeah, so it was a surprisingly easy process.
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I just thought it would be. Lengthier and clunkier, but
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yeah, kudos. To the USCIS, the.
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One thing, I took some notes when I was there on a couple of
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things when I first got there. You have to go through Ashley
19:22
airport style security but it's like a.
19:24
Government building. So you have to take everything
19:27
off to cover your electronics. They have to.
19:28
X-ray, everything, whatever. And afterwards I was about to go
19:33
to the elevators, but I saw. The sign for the bathroom, and I
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was thinking I should probably go to the bathroom first in case
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there's whatever, I just just. Get out of the way.
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Went to the bathroom and I was in there.
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When I walked into the bathroom. There's this guy just.
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Standing around not doing anything, he looks like he was
19:53
waiting. It's so.
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Weird. When people are in the bathroom,
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a public bathroom just stand around, not doing anything.
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I see this. More than it should happen.
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To be honest, it wasn't a big. Bathroom at first I thought.
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At home, maybe he's waiting for a stall, or he's waiting for his
20:14
kid to pee. Something like that.
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There were a lot of kids. There, he kind of, sort of look
20:18
like he could be a dad. I went in there, went to urinal,
20:21
did my thing and then afterwards I went to wash my hands and he
20:26
was standing where like the wash.
20:28
Base in the area is. And when I got that second look,
20:32
when I went to wash my hands at him, he clearly looked like he.
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Wasn't waiting for someone he was just like.
20:38
Loitering, basically. So I start washing my hands and
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I'm like, look over. And then I see that he's
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charging his phone because there's an outlet where the.
20:49
Counter is with all like the wash basins.
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I'm thinking the amount of people that I see.
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Charging phones at the airport, for example.
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Thinking why? Why can't people just have USB
21:02
battery packs? It's not some new invention.
21:05
You can get battery pack to stick onto the back of your
21:08
iPhone. These days, the Magsafe ones you
21:11
can. So many airplanes have power
21:14
outlets in. All the rows now just have a USB
21:20
battery pack. I have one.
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I almost never use it though. Honestly, the USB battery pack
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that I carry. There's always in my luggage
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like a sizable. One you can charge my laptop
21:28
twice you can charge. My phone five times or
21:31
something. And I almost never use it.
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I'm very good at charging everything, all my electronics
21:38
before I go. To the airport anyways, This guy
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though he was. Loading I looked over and
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because yeah, he's. Got his phone plucked into a
21:46
power outlet. On the on the on the other side
21:51
of the. Counter in the bathroom.
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So he's just hanging out in a bathroom charging his ethnic
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phone if you were to, if you had a day where you had to go.
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To the USCIS office. Or like a government building to
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do something this. Wouldn't you even charge your
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phone first before you when you woke up that day it was. 10:11
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AM if it's 11. M And your phone's already dead.
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Seriously. So it was so weird.
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I don't. Want to see people randomly hang
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out in the bathroom? You just look like you just.
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Look like a. Not you look like you're up to
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no good. We just standing Where Lord?
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Right in the bathroom. Like it looks so awkward.
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It looks so weird, like just. Don't do it, it it.
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I don't know. Anyways, charge your phone.
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That's the lesson right there. And I was in a bunch of
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different rooms, so you have go. To one room, they check in and
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they send you to a different room.
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You wait and they call you into a third room.
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I was. I've been in like 4 or five
22:52
different rooms. When I threw up the whole
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process the 2nd. Room I was in was just a waiting
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room. It's purely just.
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For waiting, it's a large waiting room and there were kids
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in there and it's dead. Silent There's no background
23:07
music. It's very, very.
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Quiet, it's Yeah. And there were this.
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This family, there's quite a few families there, which is fine.
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It's one family there and they've got two kids A.
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Boy and a girl like younger like. 3 year old and like 6 year
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old or something. The kind of run around.
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Like, these are the age when kids just run around, that
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they're not very obedient, so there's like a roped off area.
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In like the back corner and the kids kept on running into the
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area and I can't tell. If this person was the nanny or.
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The wife because the husband was with.
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Lawyers, I think because there are these two people in suits.
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With the husband who's not like super dressed up, but these
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other people. That were sitting with the
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husband were like. Very like full on business
24:00
attire, looks like immigration lawyers or something like that.
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And there's the woman with the two kids, like, you know, like a
24:08
few chairs down. I can't tell if it's like.
24:10
The wife or the nanny looks a little bit young to be a wife
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anyways, but the woman was like looking after the kids and like,
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not. Being that effective, at one
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point the younger little girl ran, ran off.
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And this is a government building.
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All the doors have this little keypad for like with a with a
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key with a keypad. With you can put in a passcode
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or pin to open the door like every single door also.
24:34
Have that this girl runs up to the thing, starts pressing
24:37
buttons or the screen on it, the screen lights up and it starts
24:39
beeping and and the woman honestly didn't seem like she
24:44
cared that much about setting off an alarm or whatever.
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I don't know. This is maybe if I had kids.
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I would need to adopt my mom's way of.
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Raising kids in this specific. Situation we are not allowed to
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like, run around. I don't want my kids to run
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around in public. I get that kids are very
25:09
difficult. I don't think you need to be a
25:12
parent to appreciate how much work it takes.
25:09
Raising kids are very. To look after and raise kids, I
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think it's like, pretty obvious. But I would just have.
25:24
Not as much tolerance compared to maybe a lot of other parents
25:28
regarding my kids. Running around in a public
25:31
setting, obviously the. Immigration office is no fun for
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everyone when you're forced to wait for like 3045. 60 minutes
25:39
and you have no control. Government buildings are boring,
25:42
even for adults, so I can appreciate for these kids.
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Yeah, that's not it. It they were just.
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I think I would probably have brought.
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Some iPads for my kids brought some headphones and let the iPad
26:00
help babysit the kids. I I think there are parents that
26:03
don't want that for the kids. They don't want the kids to be
26:09
on the technology, on the screens and everything all the
26:11
time. I don't think I'm that parent, I
26:13
would just load up. Games, cartoons, whatever.
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Throw it onto the iPad. Look, government.
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A government building. It's F and boring you.
26:24
Need to bring some sort of entertainment for your kids?
26:26
Either you provide the entertainment or they're going
26:29
to make entertainment, and I would rather me provide the
26:31
entertainment than kids making entertainment on their own,
26:35
which is pressing random buttons on keypads that might set alarms
26:39
off running randomly around annoying other people being.
26:43
Loud and yelling, running behind ropes into which the areas
26:47
where. They shouldn't be.
26:49
Kids will make their own entertainment when they're
26:51
bored. Unless you entertain them.
26:53
So I would. Grab some iPads, play some
26:57
videos. I don't know, rub some whiskey
27:01
or. On their gums, I don't know.
27:03
And yeah, set them off. You can't expect kids to wait
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40. 5 minutes. I don't know.
27:07
This family though, was waiting longer.
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When I went to this waiting room, there were, I don't know,
27:14
15 other people in there. And I was thinking this must be
27:19
a long way. I'm must be after all these
27:22
people, but I. Went in there, I waited 15
27:26
minutes and my my name got called before all these other
27:29
people. There was one.
27:30
Was one other person, one or two other people that they came into
27:34
the building around the same time they checked.
27:36
I saw them in the check in my earlier checked in around the
27:38
same time as me. We were in the other waiting
27:41
room around the same time and all my names got called the same
27:44
time. So these other people, I don't
27:45
know what they were doing. But anyways, I am a U.S.
27:48
citizen. Now I need to get a passport.
27:50
And I think the most. Problematic part about passports
27:54
is getting the photos. When I was in Canada to get the
27:57
Canadian passport photo, the first time I did it, they
28:00
rejected the photo because they had.
28:02
So many nitpicky rules about the passport photo with the.
28:08
Size and the background and millimeters between your head
28:13
and your. Chin and the edge of the photo
28:14
or all that kind of stuff. I looked at the rules for the
28:19
passport for the US. Just curious.
28:21
And they don't seem super restrictive but.
28:24
That's the next thing I'm will need to do.
28:26
I should probably just go and get that US password.
28:29
All right, next week I'm gonna go record next week's podcast
28:33
now, but I'm recording two podcasts.
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In a row in advance so you all have some lovely podcast.
28:39
Content and don't forget, you can get the video version of
28:41
this podcast. On my YouTube channel, Just Joey
28:44
T. As well as on Spotify.
28:46
So until next week, bye.