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HHBSO 12: I Go Off Diary · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to He's Hot, But something's off with me.
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Just Joey TI literally just spent 30 minutes fiddling with
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the camera that I used to record the video version of the podcast
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followed by on YouTube and Spotify plug because I couldn't
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get the autofocus to work. I've got a slightly fancy camera
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that I bought for my YouTube stuff and I was filming a lot
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more YouTube stuff and it's the camera that I use whenever I am
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filming anything at home now. And yeah, the auto fix wasn't
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working and it was something stupid, so there you go.
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I've also been fighting with the audio for this podcast, I hope
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none of you have noticed, but when I go into in and do the
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editing on my computer with the audio, I've been having to fit
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it with it a lot. So I'm trying to do a bunch of
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different settings on this podcast Finger Magic that you
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see I have on my table right here.
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But anyways, how are y'all doing today?
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It's been pretty warm in Los Angeles.
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Well, it's not honestly that warm on the grand scheme of
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things. It was 90 today, and 90 is
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actually not that bad. I usually run cold, so when it's
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mid high 70s outside, if I'm not doing like exercise or running
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around or anything like that, that's actually like the ideal
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temperature for me. If it's not in the 80s, like I
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wouldn't want to go lay by the pool or I wouldn't want to go to
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the beach because, you know, but I'm just wearing a bathing suit.
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It just gets too cold. But it's nine today and it's
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actually a pretty pleasant, it's been fairly warm.
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We did have June gloom, which is pretty typical in Los Angeles
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where you get a cloudy start to the day and the temperatures are
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a little bit coldish relatively for June and Los Angeles, yeah.
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But now that we're well into July, almost August, it's been
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in the 80s pretty much every day for like the last few weeks.
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I think most of the US has been under some sort of heat warning
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or watch or whatever, but pretty seasonal for LA.
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The thing though, the only thing that makes the heat
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uncomfortable is the gym that I go to, the A/C has been broken
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since June, May, or June of last year and they actually have a
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giant sign like. Not kidding.
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They have a huge, giant sign that's like 2 feet by three feet
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that I saw today that they put right at the entrance.
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So like, the first thing you see when you walk through the door
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of the gym, she's this big, huge sign that's like propped up on
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like a stand. And it's the message that says
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the landlord has been working on the A/C since June 2022 and blah
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blah blah, something about permits, blah blah blah, they
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suck, blah blah blah. Like how can you be running a
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gym in a warm climate and not have the A/C working for like 14
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months, which is like ridiculous.
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The other thing about that is they had the audacity like two
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or three months after the A/C had broken down in like August
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or September last year. The A/C haven't broken for like
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a little while, and they raised everybody's membership fees
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because of inflation. It's like if your A/C doesn't
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even work at the gym at the height of summer, don't go
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raising everyone's like membership fee.
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When not everything in the gym even works properly.
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Which is ridiculous. It's still not working.
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They have these big huge industrial free standing A/C
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units, but at a few places in the gym that's actually been OK.
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It's 2 levels downstairs where all the aerobics, treadmill,
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that type of machine is. It's pretty cool down there.
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But upstairs today, I guess the A/C units that they brought in
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didn't quite do it because I remember leaving the gym and I'm
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usually upstairs where the A/C wasn't working that well today
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because all the weights and stuff is upstairs.
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Remember leaving the gym and when I walked outside it was the
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same temperature or maybe cooler than it was inside in the locker
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room or upstairs where all the weights are, which is like
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ridiculous. Like if you could just like why
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go into the gym when it's warmer to workout there?
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Why not just like workout outside in the shade where like
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you get a nice breeze and there was number breeze.
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Like they put man's in there, but like the fans only hit like
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certain areas and stuff. So like, it's kind of
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ridiculous. Like why pay nearly $100 a
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month? That's how expensive this gym
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is. It's not an Equinox I can't ever
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pay. Like I don't know what the cost
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for Equinoxes used for like 200 bucks that I think it's probably
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like 250 or something. Now I will not pay $250 for a
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gym if you do it that you do you.
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But for me, like I can't invest in that much money in the gym
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every single month. But I'm thinking when I was
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leaving the gym today, if they if they can't fix the A/C.
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Honest, it's been 14 months. I haven't fixed it.
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I should just go to a different gym.
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If I go to what is it, there's like another, I don't know, like
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LA Fitness or something. I think it's like half the
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price. It's probably like 40 or 50
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bucks a month with the 50 or $40 I save every month.
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I can use that to pay for like the gas and insurance and the
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wear and tear on my car to just drive to like a gym that's
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further away where the A/C probably works.
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Like it just works. So yeah, it was a little
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difficult today to work out because I was like all sweaty
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and everyone was sweaty. And like I mentioned before, you
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know, when I'm working out, I'm usually not in like the most
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jolliest of mood. You know, you're tired and
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everything. Yeah, so that wasn't fun for me
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today. Decent workout.
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But you know, like how can your gym have, how can the ACB broken
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for that long? Anyways, one thing I struggle
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with or just complete changing topics now.
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One thing I've struggled with, not just besides the heat at the
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gym, is acne. And I wanted to talk about this
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for a while because for like the last few weeks, for like a month
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now, I'd gone off dairy because I was watching a video on
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YouTube by a couple of like dermatologists and they said
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that there's research showing that whey protein, which is type
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A dairy protein causes has been shown to cause acne in some
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people. And as I work out so much, I
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take a lot of whey protein. Most protein powders you get are
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whey protein and I've had whey protein for like so many years.
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But with this news that hey, all this protein powder that I'm
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drinking, maybe that's what could be making my acne worse or
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causing it. I've decided to completely take
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out dairy from my diet for a while, just to see if it makes
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any difference to my acne, and I think my acne is mostly going
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away, I have to say mostly. And I have to put like a
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question mark on the end of that because I just realized
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yesterday that I had last week ate a protein bar, which I
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usually don't eat. But I was minusly just eating
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this protein bar. And it wasn't until yesterday
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that I remember, oh, there's like a ton of whey in that
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protein bar. That's how they make their
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protein bars. So yeah, I was buying this like,
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vegan protein powder because I still need to have some sort of
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protein shake for like, before I go to the gym or just a
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supplement. And protein.
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Vegan protein is kind of expensive.
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Like you can get whey protein anywhere for like pretty cheap.
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If you go to like the CVS or like a grocery store, you get
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like the vegan like pea or brown rice, whatever.
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Protein, That stuff is expensive.
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It comes in just like tiny little tub.
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But I found a place online that sells it in like bigger bags for
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like pretty much the same price as like the way that you can
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get. Yeah, and I also went off cheese
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as well. I don't usually eat a lot of
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cheese, but lately I've been really into making toasted bagel
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sandwiches home. So it will be like a multi grain
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everything bagel. And then I'll toast it and I'll
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throw a couple of slices of mozzarella cheese on top, let it
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melt and I'll put like slices of Turkey or beef or whatever.
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So I've been doing that for like a little while.
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So I got rid of all the cow milk as well.
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So I've got like almond milk and soy milk and oat milk and all
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that stuff now to like do my lattes with for my coffee or to
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eat cereal with or whatever. So I think my acne is actually,
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honestly getting better. I've struggled so much with acne
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and I'm like not 18 anymore. And yeah, so it's weird because
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I've seen a couple of different dermatologists about my acne
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before, one that I saw that I just found on Yelp because I
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didn't have like a reference or connection, anything supposedly
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really highly rated on Yelp. But like, let me tell you this
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bitch this back in San Francisco, but I don't remember
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who it is or like what exact office it was.
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But like she came in, she took like half a look at me and she
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kind of had like a semi camera response for like things I
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should do and not do. And it just felt very much like
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you didn't even really like, look at my face and you kind of
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sort of had me freak it out already.
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And that was the hunch that I had.
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And now looking back on it, honestly, the things that she
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told me to do would not have helped at all.
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So anyways, and then there's this dermatologist that I have
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been kind of going to here in Los Angeles mainly to get Botox.
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And we'll get into the Botox thing later.
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And one time when I went to get Botox and I just also mentioned
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like, oh, can you help take a look at my acne as well?
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And he's like, sure. So he prescribed me this
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retinol, which is like something I would want to use anyways.
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And it's like a really good one, actually.
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And I've been using that. Yeah.
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But for me, it's like I can be using all this like acne product
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stuff, you know, like it's like retinol or like benzoyl
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peroxide, all these things that you see like like on the
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drugstore shelf. That's what was before your
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acne. All these things you hear.
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And a lot of these are things that are recommended quote UN
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quote by doctors as well. But for me, my acne kind of sort
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of has no rhyme or rhythm. I've noticed, right?
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Like I could be using like all the stuff or I can be like using
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nothing and like I still break out, but I think it could be the
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dairy. That's it.
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Because I've been off it for four weeks now and my skin is
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significantly more clear. And it just means, you know, not
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drinking cow milk and not having cheese and not having, like, the
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whey protein. Like there are substitutes for
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those things that I found. And like I've not missed regular
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cow milk and I've not missed drinking the whey protein
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powder. Like the vegan stuff is like,
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it's just it's just like a protein shake.
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I just chug it, you know? It doesn't really make any
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difference to me. And I really don't eat cheese
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that much. To really miss the cheese I
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found at Trader Joe's. They make a vegan version of
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mozzarella and I've been using that in my bagel sandwiches and
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honestly, it tastes pretty good. So luckily for me, I'm not
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addicted to ice cream or cheese or things like that.
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So it's actually been painless to switch over to the vegan non
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dairy version of things except for that protein bar that need
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to throw away all those protein bars now.
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A reason you have a friend who I guess he just got board
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certified as a dermatologist and he actually works as a like
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fully licensed dermatologist down in Laguna Beach which is
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like hour and a half two hour drive or something like that
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from LA and actually want to like go to see him and like get
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his opinion. Like I will drive the two hours
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down to the OC to see a doctor that I actually know and
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therefore trust instead of like going to like some random quote,
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UN quote, highly rated doctor or whatever on Yelp.
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That's like down the block from me.
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So I made appointment with him in August.
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Yeah, so I'm gonna go down and get his take on that.
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I might need some Botox. Actually, on that issue with
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Botox, I did used to get Botox regularly every four months or
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so, starting in like 2018 or 2019, back when I was in San
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Francisco and when the pandemic kicked in.
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Obviously, like, no one was doing anything, but like, once I
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was able to, I think I got back on it.
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But since I decided to quit my day job in December, I was like,
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you know what? That's not really a necessary
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thing. So I stopped doing it.
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I'm not old enough to really have, like the deep lines on my
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forehead. So I stopped doing the Botox.
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And yeah, just one of the things that I cut, it was kind of sort
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of like a little bit of a luxury to have the Botox.
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The thing is, the Botox, the skin on your forehead.
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And that's where most people get it.
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When they start getting Botox, that skin is very, very thin and
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it hurts to get the Botox injected there.
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So when I first started, they offer you to do the numbing
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cream. That's how Botox works, right?
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It's just a needle of the Botox and they poke it into like, I
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guess where all the lines are. But usually most places will
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offer you a numbing cream that you put on like a moisturizer.
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You just put it onto the forehead and they let it sit for
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like 1520 minutes. It numbs your skin a little bit,
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not a ton. So that that Botox doesn't hurt
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so much. So when I first started, I was
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like, yes, give me the numbing cream.
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But near the end, like the last few times I've gone it, I was
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like, just go in there and just do it.
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Let's just get it over with and it's, you get it used to it like
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a little bit and it's like not that bad.
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But yeah, I haven't been getting the Botox since I don't have the
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day job. On the topic of the day job last
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week's episode, I categorically win a record on this podcast and
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said that I was ready to go back to a corporate nine to five job.
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Do you know what? I'm not.
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I'm just not. It's it's very it's very it's
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it's it's up in here in my brain is very up and down, in and out.
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What I say one minute could be completely false and wrong the
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next. I don't think I'm ready to go
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back to like the 9:00 to 5:00. I've been doing more research
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into like you know, some of the side hustles that I have that
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I'm working on and also more into like starting my own
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business. I think something that I've been
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working on the last week or so that seems to be helping is, and
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I mentioned this a little bit on last week's podcast, as well as
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not giving myself such a hard time for not having that
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stereotypical day job and not just making myself kind of feel
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bad in my head. It's all internal.
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So I've been like doing some things to get my mindset to be
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in a more optimistic, positive place.
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And also while I'm researching some of the things I'm doing for
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like this business, I'm trying to start also for the side
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hustles, just hearing other people's experiences, trying to
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do the same thing you're doing. For me, it was very much what I
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needed. It was basically being able to
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convince myself that hey, like other people have gone through
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it and this is how it went for them, and like they've been
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successful. I feel like I just need to be
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almost delusionally confident in myself to do something that up
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until now, I've cast it off as literally a side hustle.
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Like this is something you do on the side of a proper job, you
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know, and not something you should depend on for like any
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significant amounts of income. So I've kind of sort of turned
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that around for myself. And yeah, I don't, I just can't.
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Let's talk about, let's talk about corporate for a while.
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Like working in like a corporate Office 905.
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I did that for like 12 years. So been there, done that.
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Am I never gonna go back to the 905?
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Never say never. You know, like I mentioned last
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week, if like the right job was like the right kind of
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organization comes along, I'm not gonna just say no.
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I like, I'll probably look into it.
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The most annoying thing, what? One of the annoying things for
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me is having to like mix small talk with your office coworkers.
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My manager had every week a meeting with all of his directs,
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everybody that reported to him. He had a meeting for all of us
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like every Monday morning. By the way, don't schedule a
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9:00 AM meeting or earlier with anyone on your team.
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And don't schedule a meeting beyond like 4:00 o'clock.
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Anyways, this meeting was like 9 M on a Monday, which sucks, but
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to kick off the meeting he always wanted to make everyone
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talk about what they did for the weekend.
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This was Monday morning. We can I just ended.
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So everyone is like oh I, my husband and our kids.
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We went to like the park and we like fished for ducks in the
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pond or whatever, or like, oh look, we're like we're
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renovating our house and we just picked like pink colors for the
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kitchen or the nursery or something.
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It comes around to me and I can't just tell them I was just,
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I just went to like three circuit parties with a bunch of
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like shirtless gay guys. Like, I can't say that.
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So every time they came to me, I was just like, I didn't, I
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didn't do that much, just had a relaxing weekend.
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I think when I first started that job I tried to like almost
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semi makeup some things or I just maybe just even mention
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some of the chores and errands and stuff that I did because my
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life is very different from that of like your stereotypical
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straight person. I am not picking colors for the
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nursery. I'm not going to the park with
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my kids. I am partying.
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And The thing is, everyone that was in that meeting, they were
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like family people. I think everyone had was like
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Mary, they're all straight and like, I think they all had kids,
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so everyone had that to bond over.
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But for me is like, I can't just say like, yeah, I was like
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sniffing poppers and like in an orgy for five people.
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Like I can't say that obviously in a meeting.
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So it was very kind of annoying for me and me when I was a when
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I'm a manager, I kind of make it a point not to ask about
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people's personal lives unless it was, like, needed for some
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business purpose. Even when people ask me for,
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like, vacation or time off, I'd be like, yeah, just go like, I
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don't care if you're taking the time off to like, film porn.
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I don't care if you're taking time off to like, do whatever,
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like do whatever you want on your time off is your time off.
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It's not my time off. I will approve it.
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You can just go. I'm never gonna ask questions
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about that. So that was like, one of the
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annoying things that this person did is like every Monday
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morning, he would spend like 10 minutes, we would go around,
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everyone would spend like two or three minutes talking about like
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the stably boring lives that they have.
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And I was just like, Oh my God, I'm going to kill myself.
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And if it got around to me, I was like, no, I didn't do
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anything. And then that was it.
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And then there was always like a short bit of silence after I
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eventually at the end, I just gave up.
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I was like, I didn't do anything.
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I was just, I showed at home. I just had to lie because I just
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couldn't tell them what I believe really did.
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Some weekends I'm just at home and not doing anything.
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But other weekends, it's like I can't tell you about the parties
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and the trips that I go to. It's not work appropriate HR, we
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get paged in here so fast. Yeah, but I've worked in
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corporate for 12 years and this is the first time that I think I
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had this issue. But this I've been.
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I've been gay my whole life and I've been going to parties and
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travel to all these events and stuff like that for several to 8
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years now. Just the first time that it's
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kind of been like annoying at the job I had before that all
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the other jobs I've had, it hasn't been a problem because I
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think most managers learn pretty quickly like, I like, especially
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nowadays, you know most managers kind of sort of they need to
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know that not everybody is like straight and is married with
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like a wife or husband and has kids and just do like that
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serial typical heteronormative type lifestyle.
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But yeah, that was a that was a meeting.
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I hate it And it was one of, but that wasn't the reason I quit
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the job by the way. They're like other reasons.
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I didn't like that manager. But yeah, so I don't think I'm
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ready for I I don't think I can go back to like the regular 905
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office, even though I was working remotely, like, you
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still have to do those meetings. I do like, you know, running a
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team and you know, setting the strategy for like, you know, the
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the work itself I like. But yeah, I think just having
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to, like basically be beholden to a corporation that honestly
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doesn't love you and they just want to make money, you know,
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like every for profit companies out there to make money.
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I talked about this before, but I don't think I'm ready for
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that. So yeah, when I go back to
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Vancouver next week to visit my family and my mom, my mom's
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gonna ask again like, oh like are you still, She's not shading
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me. And she's not.
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She's not asking it in like a in a way that like puts me down or
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anything. It's just, like, really
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innocent. You know?
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I went back in December of last year.
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This was right before I quit. And then I was.
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And then I told them I was like, oh, I'm going to quit my job.
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Every time that I've given my family updates on my job before,
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it's always been I got a promotion or I got a new job and
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I have a bigger paycheck. So this was the first time last
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December, where it was like, oh, I'm quitting my job because I
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don't want to be there anymore. And then I went back early this
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year and obviously they asked, I think in April I went back and
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then they, my mom asked, oh, like, have you found a job yet?
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And like, Nope, I'm still like, you know, doing whatever.
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So she's gonna ask, Obviously mom's would And then I'm just
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gonna be like, Nope. And I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna
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tell. I'm not gonna go back.
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I don't wanna worry her anything.
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But I'm like, Nope, I'm still unemployed.
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That's fine. Yeah, no, mom's pretty cool
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about it. Mom's surprisingly cool about
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it. I remember there was a distinct
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point in my teenage life where when I was younger, also when my
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brother and sister, they're older than me.
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But when as kids were a lot younger, mom was semi kind of
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tiger mom a little bit, at least in terms of like the discipline
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and like us not doing certain things that she didn't make us
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like take lots of extra curriculars.
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Like she doesn't give a shit about that.
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But there are like things that we just were not allowed to do.
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Like when we're really young, we were not allowed to cry if we
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were out and about in a restaurant.
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We're not allowed to run around the restaurant.
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We're not to cry in a restaurant.
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There are times where, like, you know, when you're a kid,
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sometimes you get upset, you cry or whatever.
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We're not allowed to cry out loud in the restaurant.
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We have to sit down. We can be sobbing.
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We had to like, sit and like not be like loud or make a bunch of
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noise if we were to be, like, upset.
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Mom, be sure of that. Yeah, she would get really upset
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at us if we like spill things or like if things were like left
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dirty and things like that. But I think it was when I was
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like 14 or 15 or something like that, that I think I was making
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a bunch of Bagel Bites. By the way, Bagel Bites are
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awesome. And I remember it was at night
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and I made a bunch of Bagel Bites in the kitchen and I was
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going to take them up to my room to eat them because that's what
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I did. And Mum didn't like it, but
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like, she like, didn't prevent me from doing it.
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I made a bunch of Bagel Bites. I put him onto a plate and I was
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like walking from the kitchen through the living room, which
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was carpet and like I tripped or something and like, it all fell.
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Obviously all the Bagel Bites fell upside down onto like, the
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light Gray carpet. And this is something that mom
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would usually get like very angry at one of us kids for.
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But for whatever reason, she was like, chill about it.
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So there was like there's like a particular age, like a
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particular kind of moments around that age where she just
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got like a lot more chill. And I think one time I asked her
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like, aren't you mad that I, like did this or whatever
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happened? And she's like, I think she's
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something like, well you guys are all grown up, like I'm not
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going to yell at you forever. So that really changed our
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relationship actually. And obviously now that we're all
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like full grown kids, like I'm in my 30s, my brother and
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sister, they're in their 40s. Sometimes we neg her.
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Now for example, we neg her about her diet, about her
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exercise. But she's pre diabetic.
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And so one time I went grocery shopping with her when I visited
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back in Vancouver and she tried to put potato chips into her
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basket and I was like, you're not buying potato chips if
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you're not gonna exercise and you're prediabetic.
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You can't have junk food, go snag on some nuts, almonds or
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fruit or something, but you can't have junk food.
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So yeah, so we're that real reversal.
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But like, yeah, she used to be really hard on us and now she's
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just like really chill, even for stuff that like, yeah, so me not
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having like a regular job. And as far as she's concerned,
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she thinks I have like no income right now.
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She's too traditional old school to, I think, really have a great
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concept of like a side hustle. I think she watched the news all
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the time. So I think she knows about the
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concept now, but obviously she doesn't know any of the side
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houses that I do. She just thinks like, I don't
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have a job. Yeah, so that's fun.
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The other thing that's kind of fun is whenever I visit my niece
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and nephew, they don't remember my name.
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So every time I visit and then my mom babysits for my for my
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sister. So, and it's summer right now,
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so I know that my mom is babysitting my niece and nephew
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most days during the week when my sister brother-in-law are at
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work. Uh, whenever I visit and they're
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there, um, my sister or my mom will ask my niece and nephew, oh
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like, uh what's uh what's your uncle's name?
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And then they'll basically have a blank stare.
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And then they'll look at my mom or my sister who will like,
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whisper the name to them. They'd be like, hello Uncle
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Joey. It's like that.
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It's been like that every time I visit it.
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And they're not that young anymore.
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I think they're four and eight, something like that.
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She need to be able to remember your uncle's name.
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Gonna have that many uncles, honestly.
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So like, every time I visit, I just made a call to my mom and I
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heard my niece in the back. And then my mom put my niece on
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the phone and then I asked my niece what's my name and she had
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like no response. And then I can hear my mom
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whispering my name to my niece. And then I yelled on the phone,
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mom, you're giving her my name, aren't you?
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And my mom said nothing. So they're cute.
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It's kind of fun to have like a niece and nephew to, like, hang
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out with for a little bit. That's all the kiss my sister is
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gonna have. It's also great for my mom
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because my mom loves babies and I think my sister having the two
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kids, it's taking the heat off of not just me, but also for my
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brother. My brother's also single.
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My mom loves babies and kids so much that after us three I had
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start going to school. When we were all in school, She,
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I think, babysat other people's kids for a while.
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So this is. I don't know.
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I don't. This was when I was like 6 or
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seven or something and I started going to school full time.
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Yeah, I think she babysat other people's kids for like a little
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while. She loves kids so much.
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I don't think she will admit it, though.
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She doesn't like admitting these types of things.
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Yeah, but my sister was supposed to have just like the one kid
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and the second kid was an accident.
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But I'm so glad that they're like the two kids to keep my mom
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busy and occupied and something for her to do.
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She complaints about babysitting the the two kids all the time,
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but I know she like, she really loves to babysit the kids, but
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like, she would never let on that she actually likes it.
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All right, the one thing I'm gonna end this.
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Oh my God, we didn't talk about RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Some star Season 8. The finale is over and Jimbo
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won. But like me and David for the
30:25
finale, the only shocker that we had, we didn't have any
30:29
shockers. Like, we were not at all
30:31
surprised by like the last episode.
30:33
The last episode was the most boring episode, like the finale
30:36
where they just, like, announced the winners.
30:38
It's actually the most boring episode.
30:39
Like, I was like dozing off watching that episode because I
30:45
knew like it all due respect to Candy, like it could have went
30:49
either way. But like me and David, we kind
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of both were pretty sure that Jimbo was going to win and Jim
30:55
we did win. So, like, that was not a
30:57
surprise for us at all. And then it wasn't a surprise to
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us that Lala Ree won the Fame games because she was top to the
31:07
previous episode and she was going to get 3X as many points
31:10
and Jim didn't get 2X. When you get 3X more points than
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anyone else and no one has that advantage, like obviously the
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odds are very, very skewed against you.
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Yeah, but that's it for me. Talking about RuPaul's direct
31:22
ways, some star season eight. Since the season is not over, in
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place of that Formula One season is really heating up.
31:29
I know they're not that many Formula One fans out there, but
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I love to watch Formula One and keep up on it.
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So I've been watching that a lot.
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But what's also going to keep me a little more occupied?
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Some travel that that coming up. So like I said, I'm going to go
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to Vancouver next week to visit family and then I have booked to
31:48
go to Chicago for market days, which I went to a few years
31:53
before and I really love Chicago and atmosphere there during
31:58
market days. I just booked that and then I
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also just recently booked to go at the Atlantis Mediterranean
32:04
cruise that sales at the end of August into September.
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It's gonna be a 10 day cruise. It's gonna be a longer one, just
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booked that as well. So I do have some travel coming
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up that I'm really excited to go on.
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I'm excited more than ever about the side hustles that I'm doing
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and yeah, the the the starting my own business that's a little
32:26
slower than I thought. The one thing I'm trying to do
32:29
that I think I'm blocked on is come up with like good names for
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my products. I went like really fun, kind of
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memorable cheek and tongue names, but I'm just not the
32:38
Super creative types. I'm really been tapping David
32:42
Lamb, for example, to help me come up with some names was he's
32:44
like so excellent coming at puns and jokes and kind of funny
32:48
names and things like that. All right.
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And with that we will wrap up another episode of the podcast.
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We will see you next week. Bye.