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HHBSO 15: Chicago Market Days · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, Welcome to He's Hop and Something's Off with Me.
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Just Joey TI just spent 10 minutes in front of the Mirror
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to get ready for the video version of this podcast.
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If you're not watching, you're really missing out Volleyball on
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my YouTube channel, Just Joey T and also on Spotify.
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Because I remember the first time I did the podcast and I was
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on camera and everything and my friend messaged me after I came
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out, he watched the video version.
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It's like your face is real shiny in that and I've got a
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ring light that I set up for lighting and rain lights are
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great. Yeah, I'm sure you've seen a
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lots of influencers, people on social media that use some sort
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of ring light. I mean it's pretty apparent the
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effect and they look great. But if you have kind of more
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orally skin, the ring light kind of makes you look really shiny,
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but the light is just blasted straight at your face.
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So every time before I go on camera, now I have to go to the
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bathroom, look in the mirror and then get a tissue paper and then
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block all the oil off of my face.
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I was supposed to go to the dermatologist tomorrow or today
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on Thursday, the day that this comes out.
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But I had to cancel that because I had to book an appointment
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with my proctologist, which is like your rear exit doctor,
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which I see him kind of sort of semi regularly.
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When I first saw him, I was seeing him like every month to
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basically get my hemorrhoids taken care of.
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And this is not, we're not 12. We can talk about these things
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on the podcast and as a gay man who is a bottom, having
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hemorrhoids is an issue. I mean just having hemorrhoids
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just general is could be a problem.
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I think the stats is something like 40 or 60%, whatever it is
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of people. At some point the lives will
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have issues with hemorrhoids and you know it's nothing to be like
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a shame of. It's just the anatomy of like
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the human body. And yeah, I I've got not a
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situation. I've got, I've got something.
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I just have to go to the proctologist basically to for
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like a follow up, you know. And you know, I like to yeah, at
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the bottom you just got to make sure everything is a OK back
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there and it's not even just for sex, right.
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It's just for irregular functions of your body, so I
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can't say that's TMI. Great way to start off the
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podcast is some TMI information. But I feel like a lot of things
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that people or when you're growing up as like a kid and
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that you think like, oh, these are things you can't talk about.
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This is like, it's too gross. There's too TMI, too disgusting.
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I feel like, especially when it comes to medical or health
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issues, I feel like it's better to actually normalize it like
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hemorrhoids. Again, it's like a normal thing
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that a lot of people get. And instead of being ashamed of
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it and not bringing it to your doctor or like a medical
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professional, I feel like, you know, it's not something you
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want to talk about over lunch. But you know, it's something
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where, hey, if you feel like you might have an issue back there,
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you know, it's you shouldn't feel like society is putting
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pressure on you to not do anything about it because it's
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like not something to be talked about with anyone.
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You know, same it kind of sort of the thing we have of like
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mental health right nowadays. More recently, it's been more OK
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and kind of even encouraged in society right now in general to
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talk about mental health, right? We have, you know, a lot more
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awareness about it. Whereas, you know that wasn't
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the case like 10 or 20 or 30 years ago.
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And you know, it's not like something bad.
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It is just something that's part of your health, part of your
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Wellness. So that's the way I view my
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hemorrhoids. So I don't have a problem
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talking about it to kick out this week's podcast episode of
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the podcast, but let's switch it up a little bit.
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We can talk about something else.
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I've been in my hemorrhoids. I just got back from Market
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Days, which is Chicago. Chicago, I think have a proper
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pride celebration that is not market days, but I effectively,
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and quite a few other people effectively treat market days in
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Chicago as Chicago Pride. So it was last weekend.
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I was kind of on the fence about going, but I went there anyways.
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I had a pretty good time. I'm actually very glad that I
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went and that's not always the case.
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When I am kind of sort of on the fence a little bit about a trip
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and my kind of sort of self guidance about being on the
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fence about things is like just say yes because I'm the
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personality. That's very.
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I will just take the lazy easy route.
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And I don't formal that much sometimes, but not all the time.
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So usually my head is just telling me, oh, just stay home,
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it's fine. So that's why I kind of adopted
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this guidance, more rationalized guidance of you know what, we're
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on the fence about doing something social, just go do it.
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Because I know myself, and I'm such a introvert, that I do
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really need to push myself sometimes to go do social things
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and be out and about and, you know, be with other people.
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So market Bays went. It was really fun.
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I'm really glad I went, which isn't always the case when I'm
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on the fence. I pushed myself to go and I just
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got back. I stayed at the Aloft Hotel in a
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Meg Mile, which is kind of so like the downtown Ish area and
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all the hotels are there. And I swapped rooms.
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So I was in this one room and when I checked in at the front
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counter, I can tell it was like this guy who's most likely gay.
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Gaydar was like 8090% and I don't know if that was why.
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And I was running like a sleepless tank and my muscles
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are showing maybe. So I got a really pretty nice
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room. I just booked a standard room,
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but I got like a pretty decent room.
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I don't really have much status with the chain.
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And it was like a decent size room.
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It had like a view out into the city.
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And he mentioned that when I checked in, I was like, oh,
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that's really, really nice. It was on the 17th floor.
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They only have 18 floors of room, so it was high up and the
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bathroom was like, had that large shower.
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It was like an accessible room or something like that.
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So it's actually really, really nice.
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The only thing was there are a couple of things that didn't
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work in the hotel room. The blinds, they have electric
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motorized shades for the windows and there's like these huge
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panes of windows that go from the floor to like the ceiling
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and overlooks out into the city. I didn't care about people
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looking in because I'm so high up on the 17th floor, but you
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know when it's nighttime I need blackout shade so I can get to
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sleep. So the electric motor shades
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that it didn't work like it worked in itsy bit when I first
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got there and then like when I tried it the second time it just
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completely crapped out and I was gonna go to the phone and
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basically bring up their front desk to tell them hey is there a
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way to reset it? The phone in the room also
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doesn't work, it just was not even it was plugged in but it
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wasn't getting any power. None of the buttons on it
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worked. So I was like, you know what?
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Whatever is not like a huge problem.
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I've got a eye shade that I keep in my luggage all the time.
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So I just put those on and I went this bed.
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It wasn't really a problem. Checked in on Wednesday night.
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And then Thursday night I noticed that I guess someone
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else had checked in in a room nearby.
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Because I was. I remember it was Thursday
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night. It was at midnight and there was
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like a lot of like door opening and closing.
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And when the doors closed in a hotel room, it's kind of like a
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semi slam just because the doors are so heavy and they've got the
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mechanisms or whatever on it. So it's like, I mean it was
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like, I guess someone checked into the room nearby, they were
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open and closing that door like 20 times and I was still up and
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I wasn't about to go to bed, house, like, whatever.
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But then the next morning after I had woken up, I noticed that
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like there was music coming from like nearby.
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So basically the room next to mine was like a corner room and
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it was like a suite and like a bunch of people had checked in
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there and then they were just loud.
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So the one thing I don't tolerate anywhere where I'm like
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sleeping, doesn't matter if it's my own house or if it's in a
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hotel room and I'm traveling like an Airbnb.
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I don't tolerate noise because where I'm living in that moment,
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it has to be like a quiet space. I don't host parties at my house
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like, I don't host like after hours or anything like that.
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Because where I live at that moment need to be quiet and it
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needs to be not a party place. These people checked in to party
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and I was like, OK, this is not going to work.
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But so I know what will happen is that when I'm during the
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weekend, I'm going to come home at like 6:00 AM, I'm going to
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sleep until like 2:00 PM And I can't have people like playing
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loud music next door when I'm sleeping in because I'm just
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going to like wake up. So basically I went down to the
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front desk and that just to like, OK, my flyings don't work,
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the phone in there doesn't work. And these loud people just moved
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in next door. And I don't want to be living at
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a party. Can you move my room?
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So they basically swap me to like a different room.
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The guy didn't, you know, give me any grief or whatever about
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it, but like, yeah, so I went to like a second room wasn't as
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nice, but like, I just didn't care.
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It was like nice and quiet and that's all I cared.
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So yeah, I had to swap rooms. But that was a, you know, I I
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don't, I don't have a problem with those people that check in
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this week. They were like super, super
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loud. But I just know that I'm extra
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sensitive to noise and walls are not always as thick and
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insulating as you would like, especially in a hotel.
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Yeah. And and I knew that they had
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checked in. I just knew that I checked in on
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the weekend, you know, just like party that weekend.
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And it's like it's great that you want to party here.
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I'm here to party too, but not like in the rooms.
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Like they it was like 10:00 or 11:00 AM and they were like
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playing EDM. And I love EDM, but they were
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playing EDM music in their suite.
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It's like, shouldn't you go out and do things instead of just
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like hanging out in your room playing music if you're visiting
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the city, right. Anyways, the parties themselves
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that I went to, I was supposed to OK, we can spill the tea.
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I was going to go to a circuit party on Friday night and I was
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getting ready to actually go to the party.
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Hair, makeup, douche, everything.
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Just the standard routine I do to go out right?
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Not the douching part, but it's a party we can anyways getting
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ready and then got some messages on my phone on Grinder and then
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at the last minute I was all ready to go to.
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I was like literally like ready to like grab my wallet, grab the
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keys and like go to the train station to go to.
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Actually, there wasn't a train station, but the vending for
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Friday night was actually like a 15 minute walk from the hotel.
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So it's really convenient, but I got some messages on Grinder and
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then I decided to go to Steamworks instead.
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Last episode I talked about how, you know, there's a Steamworks,
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which is like a gay bath house right in the middle of Boys Town
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in Chicago. So it was like a really spur of
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the moment thing. It was just like, OK, let's just
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go to Steamworks and like, maybe skip the party.
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So I end up doing that took the train up the Boys Town and when
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I got to Steamworks the IT was 12/12/30 when I got there like
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1230 and and the lineup was long and I haven't been to Steamers
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in a while I knew there was like a VIP and just like the regular
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but when I first got there I didn't know what was what so
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just thought like oh like everyone must be in line to just
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get in. So I just got in this line and
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after being in a line for, I don't know, maybe like half hour
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or something. And I don't, I don't do queuing.
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I don't like lineups. I feel like lining up for
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something, It's like the biggest waste of time.
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I would rather be at the dentist for 30 minutes than stand in the
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lineup for 30 minutes. I'd rather do my taxes for 30
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minutes, just stand in the lineup for 30 minutes.
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Like standing in the lineup. It's like the the most wasteful
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thing to me. But I was like in a good mood.
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I wasn't like, you know, angry or anything, still not line up
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for like 30 minutes. And then I found out as I've got
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closer to the front and they had like staff, you know, giving
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information to like the people in the line up that, oh, if you
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want to do the VIP, there's no line up for that.
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You have to pay for the VIP, obviously, which is more
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expensive. But I didn't know how expensive
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it was. I was on the Steamworks website
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before I flew up to Chicago and they're selling the VIP thing
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online for like 55 bucks. And then I was like and standing
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in line up and the guys like, oh, the VIP's no line up.
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You guys want to go to the VIP and just go to the other door.
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And I was like all these boys, like the lineup was at least
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like 100 people. Like definitely at least 100
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people. I'm thinking it.
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The VIP was $55. I feel like that's a price where
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like not that many people would just stand the line up to save.
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Like, I don't know, 30 bucks. I don't know what the regular
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membership is. It must be at least like 20
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bucks, right? First, it's 55 to save like 30
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bucks or something like that. Not that many people must be so
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penny pinchers to save $30.00 to just wait in the line for like
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potentially an hour, hour and a half.
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So at that point, I just like went up to the VIPI thought
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like, well, OK, they sold it for $55 last week online.
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Maybe it's like 70 or $80.00 to do it in person.
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And I was at that mentality were like, you know what, I don't
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have a day job right now, but I'm just going to throw money at
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it. So yeah, just, I just like, OK,
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let's throw money at it because I can't wait in this line
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forever. And I skipped the party to come
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here. So I just left the long line,
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went to the VIP door. There wasn't any lineup.
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And when I throw my credit card at something, doesn't matter if
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it's like groceries or like buying gas for the car or like
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this VIP thing at Steam works, I usually never ask how much
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something is. It's just like, oh, I'm paying.
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Here's a credit card. That's kind of sort of like the
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way I use credit card. I use my credit card for
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everything. I don't do coins and cash and
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all that stuff. Usually it's like Apple Pay or a
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credit card. That's what you're getting.
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And basically it was $180. I'm almost ashamed.
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I'm almost like, don't want to say this out loud, but it was.
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I looked at my credit card charge afterwards.
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It was like it was $180 to buy the VIP and get a locker for
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that Friday night. And I was like, wow, if I just
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if I would just have paid the $55 to buy it online before I
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flew to Chicago. The locker I think is like 30
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bucks or something like that, because I went back to the next
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night and it was $30 anyways. So it's like $180 was the charge
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of my credit card. I was like, at first I was like,
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oh shit, that's a lot of money. But then it was also like, you
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know what, You've already paid that money.
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So it's not like there was no sense in getting mad or being
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super outraged about it. But I did have fun at SN Works.
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I will put it that way. And I was glad that I went on
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the Friday and I was also glad that I went on the Saturday.
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So on Saturday I went to the Circuit Mom circuit party.
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And then afterwards I was like, oh, I, you know, I, you know,
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got a little energy and it's like, oh, let's go to
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Steamworks. I had, I paid for the FM VIP
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already. So I went back the next night
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and I was also glad that I went back the next night.
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So Market days was basically a success coming back home from
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the Steam Works. So this would be Sunday morning
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now. And when I left Steam Works, it
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was already, it was about to be sunrise.
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It was already past dawn. So the sky was brightening up,
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but the sun wasn't quite out yet.
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And in previous years, I would have taken like an Uber or Lyft,
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like everywhere. But because I'm trying to save
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money without the day job, I've been taking the train, which is
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that perfectly nice. It's, you know, fine.
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So I walked to the train station and I was at the platform and I
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was just running like this, like, tank top.
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And then there's this twink that, yeah, this is twink that
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was like, oh, like. Like kind of, sort of floating,
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trying to float, I guess It's like, oh oh like, oh, you look
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good or you're handsome or whatever or something like that.
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I was pretty tired, so I wasn't really into, like, conversation.
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I'm not usually into conversation with strangers
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anyways. I.
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So there's that fine line between, like, trying to
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indicate that you don't want to, to talk to a stranger in a
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public place, like when you're waiting for a bus or a train or
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waiting for whatever versus like just being rude.
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And I was, like too tired to, like, give that much effort.
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Like I wasn't in a bad mood, so I wasn't going to be like be
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rude to him. But like, I just didn't have
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enough mental energy. Or, yeah, I just didn't have
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enough mental energy to, like, tow that line where like, I'm
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giving clear indications that I don't want to talk versus like
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just being rude to him. I was like on my phone and like,
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that's not the social cue. Like if you are trying to like
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stir up conversation with someone and they are not asking
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you questions back and you're asking all the questions and
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their answers are like surely be like, Yep or like one or two
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were answers and they're not really making eye contact.
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Like they're on their phone. That means they don't want to
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talk to you. And that was what I was doing.
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But like this kid just like kept talking and talking and
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unfortunately like he was with like his friend, unfortunately
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their hotel stop was also where I was going to get off.
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So like they like he sat next to me on the train.
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He's like oh should we go sit over there And like he kept
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talking and talking, talking and I like kind of sort of like semi
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carry conversation with him because like I was just too
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tired to like talk. I'm not like that usually.
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I'm not again I lose. You talk to strangers.
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And I was like, I was kind of tired, but like, he seemed like
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nice and I was like, well. I kind of have to be on this
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train with you now. He subscribed to my YouTube
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channel because he was asking, like, what I do and all that
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kind of stuff. So like, maybe he'll see this,
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but this, this is my podcast. I'll talk about whatever hell I
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want. But yeah, it was like, yeah,
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there, there was this, there was this guy that talked to me and
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then yeah, that was, it was interesting to to have that.
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I didn't bring my earbuds with me because when I went to New
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York Pride, I mentioned this in the previous episode.
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I brought my earbuds with me for the commit to and from the
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party, and I lost the earbuds at the party.
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This is just, I fell out of my pocket in my bag.
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So I was determined not to lose my air pods, my or my earbuds
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this time. So I was like, I did think about
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it when I left the hotel was like, oh, it's going to, I'm
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going to be on the train and stuff.
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Maybe I should. It's kind of, it was kind of a
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long train ride to the party on Saturday night.
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It was like 45 or 50 minutes on the train.
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I was like, oh, you should bring your earbuds.
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I was like, no, I can't afford to lose another pair of earbuds.
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So they're staying in the hotel. So I didn't bring them.
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But if I did have them, I would have warned them wearing
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earbuds, it's like very, very clear sign that other people
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shouldn't talk to you. Right.
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And I didn't have that, you know, So me, like, not asking
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questions back, giving short answers and being on my phone
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apparently wasn't enough. So that's that.
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Yeah. But otherwise, market days was
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good, the weather was good, the music was good.
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I didn't go to as many parties in the previous years on Sunday.
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Oh, actually, you know what happened?
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So I was supposed to fly back on Monday.
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My flight was from Monday, and I ended up moving my flight to
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Sunday, Sunday evening, Sunday evening, because I was kind of
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sort of like, you know what? I kind of sort of had enough of
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a party and I kind of just want to get home.
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So I was able to move up my flight like a shorter flight.
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It's like a late flight on Monday.
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I did party a little bit on Sunday that the street fair.
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And so it's always really, really fun.
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But I was like, you know what? I think I've had enough
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partying, you know, I wasn't going to party like super duper
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hard for market days anyways. I did have a lot of fun.
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Thank you. Steamworks.
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Yeah. So I actually moved on my flight
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and yeah, I actually got back Sunday night, Monday early
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morning. Yeah.
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So there you go, That was market days.
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Let's switch it up a little bit here.
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I want to talk about the TV shows that I watch because one
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of my, again, I don't watch a lot of TV.
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The number of shows I have watched and that I do watch is
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shockingly small amount of shows When I was younger out of TV in
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my room, I don't know why my parents allowed me to have my
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own TV when I was 12 at, you know, eight.
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It was eight. Yeah.
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Moved to this house when I was 8 years old and they allow me to
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have like cable TV in my room. Like, anyways, it's too young to
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have a TV. Anyways, I bring this up because
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Bart Stopper season 2 is out and when I watched the first season,
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whenever that came out, I was like, Oh my God, this is my
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favorite show. This is so good.
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So season 2 just came out. I haven't watched it yet,
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actually downloaded it onto my iPad before I flew to Chicago
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because I was like, oh, I can watch this on the plane.
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And when I got on a plane, I was like, you know what?
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I think I need to watch this maybe in private on my big
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screen TV at home. Like, not when I'm like
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surrounded by, like, other people.
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Because what if something, like, really emotional happens in one
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of the episodes? And like that's when like the
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flight attendant asked if you want like Peanuts or pretzels or
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something. And I'm like about to like SOB
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and like tears are like rolling down my face.
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One time I was flying back after a big party weekend.
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White Party must be White Party Bangkok or maybe Songkran.
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So it was in Bangkok, I was flying back and it was the trans
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Pacific, like the ocean portion of the fight and I was like in
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the economy and it was going to be like a 10 or 12 hour flight.
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And for some reason after a party weekend and the emotional
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state that you might be in, some of you might be able to
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understand what that is, I decided to watch The Notebook
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and I didn't really know. Like it was such a sad story
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before I watched it. I didn't really know what the
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movie before, but it's like a strolling for movies to watch
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just the kill time. It's like 12 hours in the
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economy. You have to distract yourself.
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Either you knock yourself out with like sleeping pills or you
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have to keep yourself entertained like it's 12 hours
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in kind of do something. So I was like watching on the
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little screen on the seat in front of you The Notebook.
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When I was in this highly, highly emotional state after a
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big long party weekend, I was like crying, sobbing for like
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the whole second-half of the movie.
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I think. So thank God.
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When they have these long, like trans Pacific transatlantic
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flights, they always dim the lights.
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So the order of operations for these long haul flights is that
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that you take off, they serve you a meal, they turn down all
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the lights and that maybe it's a really long fighter depending
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what airline you're on. They might do like a snack
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service in the middle, but they don't turn lights fully on for
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that. They don't turn the lights back
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on until they do the second meal service, which is like, you
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know, two hours or hour and a half before landing.
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They do a meal after takeoff and before you land in between they
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just shut off all the lights so that people that want to sleep
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can sleep. So at least thank God it was all
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dark and I was able to, like, cry silently while being super
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emotional and watching The Notebook for the first time.
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Yeah. So anyways, I was like, OK, this
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can't be a repeat of the Notebook situation.
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I wasn't in emotional state. I was like, oh, I'm about to go
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to market days. Yeah, it's fun.
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But I know that the first season I didn't cry watching the first
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season. But I know, like, I'm sure
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second season they it's going to be like, so much more emotional
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than the first one. I just had that feelings.
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I was like, you know what? I shouldn't be watching,
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shouldn't try to watch the second season on the plane.
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So I ended up watching something else that I had on my iPad on my
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tablet instead. But I will probably watch it
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like this week or next week actually, So I have some
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studying to do. So maybe I won't watch it or let
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myself watch it until after I've done my studying.
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And the studying that I have to do is I'm going to take the test
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for American citizenship. So I'm Canadian, I've got a
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Canadian passport, but I just applied recently to also be an
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American citizen, so to be do citizenship basically.
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And part of the process is that you have a ticket test and it's
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out of a pool of 100 questions. And on the government's website,
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there's a PDF that is the 100 questions and what the answers
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are. So at worst, all you need to do
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is memorize it. The thing is, it's not multiple
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choice. When you go to the appointment
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to take the test, an officer will ask you, I think they asked
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you three or five or six of the from the pool of 100 questions.
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They ask you a small amount and you have to give the verbal
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answer. So you have to like have that
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instant recall. It's not like a like a paper
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test that you take and you know, that I guess acts like the
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stress of it. But yeah, so that test is next
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week. I have to take it sometime next
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week. I have to drive to this office.
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I think it's downtown drive there, do the thing, take this
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test. It's going to, I'm going to be
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asked like 5 questions. It'll be over in like a minute
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or two minutes. But like, I'm going to have to
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spend X number of days studying for it.
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I haven't studied for anything in since university really.
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So I am interested in like American history, for example.
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I'm interested actually watched a bunch of documentaries on
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YouTube on like the First World War and the Second World War.
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But The thing is like the there's so much intricate
29:14
details about just even any one war.
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There's so many intricate details and one of the questions
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is like, oh who did who did the Americans fight in World War 2?
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I know that's an easy answer, but for someone who never like
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went to school in the US and therefore never learned like the
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American specific history in Canada, I think they barely
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covered the reward. And to be honest the subject I
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dislike and cared the least above was social studies all
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through high school. It was literally like what's the
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minimum I can do to like just pass this course right?
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I I gave no shits about it. So I retain like 0 knowledge
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from any of the history or social studies information that
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I was ever taught in any schooling in my life whatsoever.
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I didn't have any interest in like wars and stuff until like
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very recently in like the last couple years.
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We're like now it when I'm you know like an adult, like a
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proper adult. Now I'm actually having
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interest. Some of the stuff that they
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force feed you in school, not math, but like stuff like you
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know history. So yeah, I'm going to start
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studying for that pretty soon and I'm plan is to basically
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cram for three or four days straight.
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We'll see how well the cramming works and then yeah, I'll take
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the test and then hopefully I pass.
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So we'll see how that works out. It's a little nerve rack.
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And that is gonna be like, I guess you're face to face with
30:46
an officer and they're just going to like shoot at you these
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like 5 or 6 questions and you're kind of expected to just have
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this like instant recall. Just know what the answers are.
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But like lots of other people do it.
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I'm a pretty smart person, but my memory is shit.
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So we'll see if I can actually cram as it just like raw,
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memorize the answers for these like 100 questions.
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Or if I actually have to like study, study and like actually
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like understand like, oh, This is why we fought these people in
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the war. And this is like when things
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happen and stuff like that. Like if I can make sense of the
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answers in my head, not just like memorize the answers, it
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will sink in a lot better. But I think the easier way is
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just to like cram and just try to memorize it just long enough
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until I take the test. So I'll have an update for you
31:36
guys next week or the week after to see if I pass the tests are
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not but until next time. Again, the video version of this
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podcast is on my YouTube channel, just Joey T and
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Spotify. So check it out.
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It's always interesting to see what I'm wearing on the video
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podcast and how shiny my face is.
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So there you go. Until next time, bye.