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HHBSO 104: Keeping the Umms, Ahhs, and Likes + RPDR AS10 · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to He's hot, but something's off.
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Something is off. I'm recording this in the
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morning and a lot of the times I record this in the afternoon,
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early evening. But today I just felt like
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recording. You know, sometimes I I do this
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as a hobby. I do this for fun.
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I've said that a few times before.
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This isn't making me any money honestly, but I'm very if I'm
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going to put out something content, I get very organized
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about it because I've been putting up content for so long
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in different forms that I know that the only way to stick to
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putting out content, especially something like a podcast where
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people expect new episodes somewhere regularly.
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The only way to really do it properly is to have a schedule.
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Doesn't mean you have to necessarily put out something
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every single week. I think it's nice because a lot
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of the more successful podcasts they do every single week and it
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comes out that way. And you know, it's, it's like
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your your when your favorite show comes out on YouTube or
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Netflix or TV or whatever, and it's once a week And you know,
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like Drag Race, I watch Drag Race.
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It comes out once a week. It's always on a Friday.
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I look forward to it. I expect it.
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It's nice when it's like regular every single week.
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So even though I do this for fun, I put out an episode every
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single week. But the thing about that is some
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weeks, some weeks are harder than others.
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Some days are harder than others.
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And there are days and weeks where it's like, I don't really
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feel like recording an episode that that's just the truth of
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it. If this was more of like a
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business, more of a professional endeavor, then I think I would
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probably hold myself to like a slightly higher standard.
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But the other, the other aspect of, you know, doing something
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and having it be like a burden, I guess is the theme, not to
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make the three of you listening feel like, you know, it's a
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burden for you to make this content for you.
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I, I'm just, I'm just trying to be like real with you.
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Honestly, the flip side of that is, you know, when I put out
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something, I think about how people are going to perceive it.
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Like when you put something out into the world, like you post
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something on social media, you're not necessarily doing it
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for any sort of game. And they're influencers that are
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posting just to post. But a lot of people, they post
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stories and whatever, videos, photos on social media just to
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post it, you know, just just just for fun or just to show
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their friends and followers what's going on.
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It's like there's no like business or monetary motives
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there at all. But even then, no matter why
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you're putting something out there, you probably have some
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probably think about how that content is going to be
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perceived, right? Most people do.
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And The thing is sometimes that is a very restricting mindset to
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have. It depends on how far you take
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it. People talk about photoshopping
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and face tuning photos and filters and things like that.
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You know, it's it's because you know that when you put a selfie
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of yourself out there on the Internet, people are going to
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look at it and make a judgement on that photo and therefore of
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you. So you want to quote UN quote
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look good and phase two filters, you know, that's those are not
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new things anymore. Those those things have been out
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for many years now and it's been a it's it's a thing that people
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do. But it's the same for me.
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You know, I'm not I'm not so different than other people out
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there. Part of my image, you know, part
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of one of the businesses I run, the only Fans relies on my
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physical image, you know, so definitely with Kian, I'm very,
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it's a little bit more like on the next level in terms of OK,
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photos and videos I put out there.
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You know, part of that business is looking fiscally attractive.
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So when I put the content out there, I take it to the next
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level in terms of making sure, OK, I need to look good in this
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video. You know, when I edit videos for
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Kian, they're definitely parts and scenes where I've cut from
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the final video because, oh, this is not a flattering angle.
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Like in this position at this angle with this camera, with
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this lighting, it's not flattering.
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I'm not going to put it in and it's a subjective call.
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Obviously we try to set it up so that, you know, the lighting is
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optimal, the camera angles optimized.
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You have multiple cameras going partially because of that.
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So if one angle looks hideous, hopefully an other angle will
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look good enough that that scene itself doesn't go to waste.
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And we can't it can make it to the final edit, but it's little
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things like that, you know, for that business, it just comes
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with the territory when you're doing that type of content or
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like when you're modelling or like TV or film, you know, like
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you're, you're trying to give a particular visual comes to that
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territory. But for for just Joey T for my
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own personal whatever, like for this, like I don't really get
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dressed up for the video version of this podcast, which is
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available on my YouTube channel, just Joey T because it it's
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supposed it was not supposed to be about the way I look.
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It's just supposed to be like me talking about whatever on the
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microphone. But even with the audio medium,
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when I'm hitting the audio for this, there are as time has gone
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on with the 100 odd episodes we that I've recorded so far, the
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week by week, As it goes by, the more and more I edit the audio
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on it because I don't like how many Umm's and Ah's that I say.
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And I don't even notice it when I'm recording usually, you know,
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those like full of words that a lot of people hear, but I don't
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even know if they even understand.
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I'm listening to more and more podcasts as I you know, just in
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the more recent years and a lot of I don't know how much other
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people edit their podcasts. But I think for me, I'm going to
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try to edit it less because the recording, like this recording
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part, it feels fun. I can just talk about whatever I
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want. Flipping on a camera is not that
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much effort, honestly. I've got a couple of lights set
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up on my dining room. My dining room table is now like
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my permanent podcasting set up now because I don't eat at the
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dining room table ever. I don't actually use it, but so
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like, you know, it's I've got I've got my office and also the
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guest bedroom. So that's kind of filling up.
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So this is like now my it by the way, if you, I haven't even
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talked about the change of scenery on the video version of
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the podcast. I just assume most of you 2 like
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just roll with it. But yeah, you might have noticed
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if you watch the video version that the the probably about four
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months ago about in January, that's when you notice that, oh,
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we didn't have that mint green background anymore.
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And it became this other like this other room, this other
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place with these, with the art on the back that has like the
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three letter airport codes for some of the airports in like the
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kind of pastel colors. And now we have this more
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generic background that has like a shelf with random stuff on it.
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And then we have this fake plant from IKEA.
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It's a fake plant from IKEA. But yeah, anyways, yeah, I, I
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over, over the course of the 100 episodes, the more that I edit,
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the more I get pickier and pickier about the audio.
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And when I listen to other people's podcasts, I, I can tell
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the ones where a lot of them, they don't edit as much as I do.
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Like when I look in the editor, when I'm done editing a episode
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of this podcast, the number of cuts and edits I can just see at
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a glance on the timeline, it's like 50 different little tiny
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things I've taken out that are like split second little umms
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and ahs or pauses that I've taken out.
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And that that is the most, that's the least enjoyable part
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of editing this podcast. And it's because I want to put
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out a good product. I don't necessarily like how
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many UMS and Oz I say naturally when I'm talking.
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But when I listen to other people's podcasts, they, it
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doesn't bother me to hear other people say UMS and Oz.
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I don't think most people say to the level that I do though, to
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be really honest. And I think I'm going to edit my
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podcast a little less because that's like the time suck, you
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know? Like if I didn't try to do all
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those kind of sort of micro edits, the editing for this
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would be like a 5 minute job. It'd be so fast, it would still
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be enjoyable. So I actually really hesitated
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to bring this up. It's one of those things where
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when someone brings it up, now we're going to look for a listen
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for those things. I think there is a part of me
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that would like to try to not use so many full of words like
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saying like all the time. I say like a lot and to the
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point where some people on the, on the comments and some past of
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those have pointed it out. But you know what the other
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thing about that is if you don't want to listen to me talk,
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switch off like are, are are you paying money for this?
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By the way, patron subscribers, I know you're paying money for
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the app reversal this and your patronage is very much
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appreciated. But you also get a whole bunch
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of other content and you guys get another exclusive episode
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and I will edit that to the death because you're paying
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money for it. But for like the people that you
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know, there's a million different podcasts and YouTube
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videos or whatever you can watch.
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If you don't want to listen to me and watch me, just don't.
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I think I've gotten to the point where a lot of my adult life,
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I've been so concerned about how other people perceive me that a
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lot of the things I do, I just think about, oh, how am I going
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to look when I do this thing? Or if I look a certain way, or
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if I dress a certain way or if I act a certain way.
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I think I'm getting to a point where I'm starting to get more
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and more tired of it to the point where the tiredness of
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that is starting to outweigh how much I care about the
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perception. You know what I mean?
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Because everything you do, a lot of things you do in life is risk
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versus reward, cost versus benefit.
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And I think for me on this particular, you know, this
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particular thing, the, the, the cost is started to outweigh the
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benefit. And maybe not an absolute on
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paper, objective terms, but I think I care less and less for
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certain things how people perceive me.
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If you don't like how many times I say like, go just just fuck
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off. Go listen to someone else.
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There was a comment on a recent episode where I was talking
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about some of the Formula One stuff and some of the drama
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about new drivers getting sacked and you know, whatever.
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And someone I'm is likely they met.
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No, I'll intent. It was just a very different
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topic. And I wear that a lot of people
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are not into Formula One. And then they just made a
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comment about like, you know, like what, what the hell is
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going on with this? And I just made usually I don't
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engage, but I think I'm at a point where like, you know, it's
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my comments such if I want to engage, I, I will.
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And I just said, well, it's my podcast and I'll talk about
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whatever I want. And I just want to reiterate
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that this is my podcast, and I will talk about what I want.
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If you don't want to listen to me talk, switch off.
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It, it's so easy. It's so easy.
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If you don't want to listen, don't listen because this, I'm
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doing this for my benefit and I love that there's like three or
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five of you that love to listen to me.
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Maybe you don't love every episode.
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That's fine. I don't expect everyone to like
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every episode of this, but I find it fun to put this out
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there every week. I actually ran into someone
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recently, I think it was at EDC, so EDC and then someone that I
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haven't met before, but it was like a friend of her friend
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listens to my podcast. I don't like one of the two
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podcasts that I, I put out, either this one or the gay
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travel, gay crews and travel podcast.
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But that was so great to have people listen to my, to like
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actually meet someone that listened to my podcast because I
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know the numbers on this and it's fine.
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I love that there's like three or five of you that listen to
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this and you get some sort of enjoyment about it.
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But if there is some sort of point to this week's episode, I
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wasn't planning to talk about this for like 12 minutes or 14
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minutes. Yeah.
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Care as much as you want about how other people perceive you.
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Like I said with Kian's Instagram and Twitter and
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content, for example, yeah, it, it comes with that territory.
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It comes with that industry to to have a particular visual
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look. And yeah, like I for the content
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that goes up under Kian, yeah, it it's a lot more considered
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the content that I posted, not post.
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And yeah, the amount of editing and production that goes into
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that content, it's a lot higher and is it is a lot more work.
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But that's is the work of that industry.
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That is the work of that type of job.
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But when it comes to this like this right now, this is not,
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this is not key in content. This is not the only fans
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thirsty Instagram content. This is just like the podcast
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where I talk about again, where I talk about what I want.
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If you don't like it, you can switch off.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to. I, I want to keep this as a
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hobby. That means keeping it fun and
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doing the millions of edits that I kind of sort of get carried
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away with. I do 1 little edit and take away
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1 little bit of the auto that doesn't sound quite perfect.
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And I keep going, going, going. I just can't spend 30 minutes
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editing every single episode of this podcast.
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Guys, I'm sorry. Well, I'm not sorry.
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Actually sorry is when you've done something wrong.
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I haven't done. I haven't done anything wrong.
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Just one of the things you learn when you do customer service in
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some companies, but some companies they teach you don't
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apologize unless the companies or you have actually done
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something wrong. But it's so easy.
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It's some of the companies who teach you.
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Oh, apologize anyways, always apologize if the customer is
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like voicing any criticism or something.
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Has they experiencing any sort of issue.
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It it just like whatever playbook.
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It depends on the playbook and the company and the organization
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you work for. I'm more of the I'm more of the
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thing that the two, the two times when I apologize when I'm
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actually really actually have done something wrong.
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The other time is just as a courtesy.
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It's in, in like everyday situation.
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It's like, I mean, those are usually when you've like kind of
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sort of done something wrong. It's like like you accidentally
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bump into someone or something like that.
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You say sorry, like you bumped into someone, you say sorry, but
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you probably should have bumped into someone.
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But anyways, yeah, I hesitated to bring that up because now the
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three or five of you are going to listen to the UMS and ahs and
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the likes. But honestly, if you listen for
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a while, the three or five of you that keep listening have
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listened for a while. That's what I know from the
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comments and you guys interacting with me.
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I think you're probably OK with it by now.
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But yeah, I didn't know that that could have made, I didn't
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know that that would have been 50 minutes of content.
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But it's more of a a general theme as well.
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Sometimes I just do things not, not just as podcast, just
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generally in daily life. And I think so much about how
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other people are going to perceive like what I do, what I
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say, what I wear, how I look, how I do my hair or how I'm not
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doing my hair. I I'm not doing my hair right
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now, for example. And I just kind of sort of don't
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want to anymore because I do so many other things for actual
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money as professionally as an actual business where like, OK,
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like the image is important with the skin care brand.
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My face is not on it. But hey, it's when we do the
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marketing, when we do like the website, when we do the social
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media, when we do the packaging, the, the visual's better.
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Even though it's not a person. But like the graphics design,
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like the, the visual, the visual story that we're telling with
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the marketing, with the graphics, with the images, with
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the brand, it really matters. It's very visual medium when we
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do marketing, even though the actual product itself, it's not
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really like it's not like a visual art type of our product
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skin care. Now, obviously with Kian, Kian
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needs to look like good, whatever you define good to be
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because hey, like that's that's the type of business that is.
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So I feel like maybe I spend so on the actual business that is
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generating revenue. By the way, this doesn't
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generate revenue on the actual things that are my professional
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businesses and actually generate money.
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I spend a lot of my energy in those businesses, the two day
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jobs, if you will, worrying and thinking and making sure that
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the visuals are good. That when I when it when it
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comes to this podcast. Where it's primarily an audio
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medium and I'm just doing this for fun.
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This isn't bringing me any money.
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Honestly. When your video gets 100 views
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on YouTube, even if you have monetization on, you get what, 2
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cents, $0.05 on a video Mama? That's not monetization.
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That's that's like if someone dropped some spare change by
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accident. So I'm not going to spend, you
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know, 30 minutes editing a video when it really should be just 5
20:38
minutes on the edit for something that I should be doing
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for fun when the edits are not that enjoyable, but have to edit
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like 20 other videos that week for things to actually make you
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money. Yeah.
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Was that a rant? You know, almost every episode
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is a rant. You all should know by now.
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Yeah. But yeah, it was good to.
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It was good. It felt good to me to talk about
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that. And that's not me trying to say
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you shouldn't care what other people think of stuff you put on
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the Internet because like I said, I've got 2 businesses
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where I do care a lot how that brand slash my image is
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perceived. But you know, there are.
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I think it's nice to have aspects of your life where,
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yeah, you can. When you, when you go out or
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when you go to work, you want to dress a certain way.
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When you go to a meeting, when you meet clients.
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For certain people, you might want to look and present
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yourself in a certain way and give a certain impression.
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I think that's fine because I'm not saying like you should never
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care what what anybody thinks of you, because who cares what
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other people think? I think that's true to a certain
21:52
extent. If you want to take that to the
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Max, like more power to you. I'm just saying there's no like
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right or wrong. There are a lot of people that
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will not let half a selfie of themselves go out unless they
22:06
look perfect in it. And then they never do anything
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less than dressed to the nines before there's a camera insight
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or before they even open their front door.
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That's fine. What I'm trying to say is like,
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do what you think works for you. And I think that changes over
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time. Like I said, you know, as the
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years have gone on, I feel like that balance for me is
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different. And also because my life has
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become different, my environment and situation has become
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different. You know, like, what I do for
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work is different. The type of content I produce is
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different. So that evolves as well.
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But yeah, So what I'm trying to say is do what feels right for
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you. I think it's very easy to get
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swept away with to to to just blanketly say you shouldn't care
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what anybody thinks and kind of apply that in a blanket or
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encompassing way. Like that sounds like a very,
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that sounds very idealistic. And if you are comfortable
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embracing that in an idealistic or encompassing way, again, like
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that's great for you, but I like, that's not for me.
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And I think the, I think that's just finding what the balance
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that works for you. Sometimes, you know, you do want
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to look nice for, for whatever reason, Like I, I wear makeup
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sometimes when I, when I want to look nice, either for myself
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and, or to look nice for other people.
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Like if I'm going to go on a date, I'm probably going to do
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my hair. I'm probably going to think a
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little bit differently about what I'm going to wear.
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I'm probably going to think more about how I smell.
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Not that I think I usually smell bad, but like I might wear a
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little more deodorant and I might spritz on Cologne when,
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you know, I don't go to the gym. I don't usually spritz on
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Cologne like, you know, when I'm going to hang out with friends,
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like it's like I don't really need to impress them.
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But you go on a date, OK. It's a little different a
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situation though, and it's also up to your personal preference.
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So for me, this podcast is supposed to be my hobby.
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It's supposed to be fun, and editing for 30 minutes to take
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out the UMS and ahs and the likes isn't fun.
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So I think I'm just going to dial down the editing a little
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bit. There's also like a weird buzz
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that I sometimes hear with this microphone with this whatever
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since I've like rotated it 90°. I don't know if it's like the
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Fung stray is a little off when I rotate it and I'm sitting on
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the other side of the table or maybe I need to get like like a
24:45
proper power strip, not like a windows cheapo power strips from
24:49
Amazon for like 5 bucks. Like one of the nicest surge
24:52
protector ones there might be like a little electrical noise
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or something coming in via the whatever.
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But like, anyways, see a lot of these things I don't want to say
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now you're going to listen to, oh, is there a buzz on the
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recording now? Oh, how many times does Joey say
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UMS and AWS and likes. So I actually hesitated to bring
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it up, but like, I really thought I have a feedback.
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My this thing was like asking people, does this bother you?
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But now I've decided it's not going to bother you because it's
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not going to bother me. Yeah.
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30:14
thoughts about Drag Race All Stars season 10.
30:19
I'm really really trying to just keep this super super short but
30:22
we'll see how it goes. Anytime I say I'm going to do
30:24
something quickly on a podcast it's like 30 minutes but prove
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for the timing. Anyways, my my general thoughts
30:31
is I like that they have this bracket system and I didn't know
30:35
how they were going to sequence the episodes for the different
30:40
brackets. So obviously at the premiere
30:43
about 3 or 4 weeks ago, they released the 1st 2 episodes that
30:48
week of the premiere. And then we're doing it is 3
30:52
episodes for each of the brackets and there are three
30:55
brackets, 6 Queens in each. And within the three, three
31:00
episodes for each of the brackets, we get 3 Queens that
31:03
advance the top three into the semifinals.
31:07
And then the other 3 Queens are eliminated.
31:09
But then there's some sort of twist where some of them can be
31:12
brought back. I kind of sort of like this
31:16
bracket system because it's new and I think it is kind of sort
31:21
of entertaining. It's like, oh, we have 3
31:24
episodes to get to know these six girls and see and kind of
31:30
have the six girls really show what they are up to.
31:35
Because when you get a regular episode of regular seasons of
31:39
All Stars, the first like 3 or 4 episodes, you've got, I don't
31:44
know, 161412 Queens all vying for airtime.
31:49
And when you have 3 episodes for 6 Queens, I feel like everybody
31:54
gets more airtime and everybody gets a bit more of a chance in
31:58
each episodes. Just challenging each episode to
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kind of show a bit more. You're not fighting, you're just
32:04
sharing airtime and stage space as much as like a regular
32:10
episode where they're at least like another 8 or 10 or 12
32:14
Queens around. And the fact that obviously no
32:16
one goes home doing those 3 episodes means that you got 3
32:20
episodes to you have 3 episodes airtime.
32:22
So for someone like Irene, for example, in that first bracket
32:25
where she only really had one episode before of of airtime and
32:30
now she's got more less space to share and she's got the three
32:34
full episodes. I kind of like that.
32:36
And people tend to want to see the All Stars not be eliminated.
32:41
You know, like the the All Stars all winners season, that was
32:45
pretty popular because people got to see their favourites on
32:51
multiple episodes. And I think that was one of the
32:54
key things they probably thought about, you know what?
32:56
We can't just eliminate someone after like a couple episodes
32:59
because like the fans want to see their All Stars if it wasn't
33:03
an All Star season. I think the dot viewer dynamic
33:07
is different. But with the All Stars, I think
33:10
I do like so far at least I do like this bracket system where
33:15
every queen gets at least three episodes and they have to share
33:20
less of a screen time with tons of other Queens.
33:24
So we already done the first bracket.
33:26
Irene was like a little bit of a surprised again, to be honest,
33:30
we didn't really see much of Irene, what she had to offer her
33:35
talent on her original season because again, she was only
33:38
there for that one episode. And so she was a bit of a
33:42
surprise just because you know, when you get kicked off the when
33:48
you kicked off the first challenge in your original
33:51
season, expectations aren't high for you coming back, but you
33:55
feel like, oh, you're the first one to go home.
33:56
Is is never an amiable position to be in.
33:59
And it kind of always perception wise put you a peg down compared
34:03
to everyone else that made it like further on in the original
34:07
season or in a previous season. But yes, IBM was a bit of a a
34:13
surprise only because of that. And then, yeah, like Bosco, she
34:17
was strong on her season and you can clearly see that she's like,
34:22
she's gone better. Censor season.
34:25
I've talked about, you know, it's so great when Queens come
34:28
back for a second, a third or fourth or whatever for another
34:31
season of Drag Race when they have been off for a while to see
34:36
that they have stepped it up. They have gained more skills and
34:39
experience. They leveled up, you know, like
34:41
their fashion, their makeup. They glow up generally.
34:45
And that's great to see. And I think we saw that probably
34:48
with Irene, but like, again, like not a lot of point of
34:51
reference. And then but like with Bosco, I
34:53
think that happened as well. Yeah.
34:56
One of the fun things so far is seeing this like MVQ points
35:01
thing where Queens are giving each other points.
35:04
And I guess that's kind of sort of foreseeable to know that in a
35:07
lot of All Star seasons recently, Queens would be given
35:11
points to other Queens. You know, All Star rules are
35:15
kind of sort of has that element in it these days, the last
35:20
several All Star seasons where it's not just what the judges
35:23
think, it's what your fellow competitors think and they have
35:27
some sway in determining the outcome.
35:31
So the MVQ point I think was like a decent way, a good way to
35:35
do that. But I didn't expect that to be
35:38
like a possible three-way tie for third place in the third
35:44
episode, the final episode for the first bracket.
35:47
So that was like pretty interesting to see.
35:50
And also seeing how quickly alliances are forming.
35:54
And when you have such a small, like smaller group of Queens,
35:58
you have 6 Queens and then the alliances you form are small
36:02
when you have like a larger pool of Queens, like 10 or 12 or 14
36:05
Queens in like a more regular All Star season.
36:08
And then you form alliances that way.
36:11
You know, I think it's a little easier when you know, when you
36:15
have 6 Queens to form alliances with, like some of those
36:17
alliances overlap. And it, that's what we saw and
36:20
it kind of sort of like blew up a little bit.
36:23
I mean that what think of you think about think when you were
36:25
about alliances. I feel like when there's only 6
36:29
Queens in the room and there's like 3 episodes, the way the
36:33
brackets are set up, I think you just have to be very careful
36:38
sending up alliances. Not that they're a bad thing,
36:41
but we just saw in the first bracket how when you have
36:44
overlapping alliances and when you only have 6 Queens in the
36:48
workroom that are the same 6 Queens over multiple episodes,
36:53
it's hard to keep the alliances a secret.
36:59
And part of what a part of making the alliance work is that
37:03
it's a secret. So on some of the other Queens,
37:07
I mean, I thought very quickly, I thought Bosco and Irene, I
37:12
think after the first episode it was pretty clear like Bosco was
37:14
going to go to the top. Irene was probably a favorite to
37:17
be in the top three as well. And then beyond that, I thought
37:21
Aja would probably be in the top three, but I didn't expect that
37:25
Aja would just be like by the skin of her teeth to get up to
37:29
the top three. I think I didn't expect Olivia
37:32
to to be so try hard about manicuring her image, for a lack
37:42
of a better term. She seemed very concerned about
37:46
how she was going to be perceived or how she was going
37:50
to like behave in the workroom. And I think, I think it worked
37:57
for me. It worked against her.
37:59
And that was apparent in the first episode where she wanted
38:02
to come out as she wanted to present, represent herself as
38:06
someone who was not a pushover, someone who was not going to be,
38:11
you know, swaying with whatever direction and when it's going to
38:14
go, which is great. But I felt like she was trying
38:19
to force a narrative that wasn't genuine.
38:23
She was trying to assert a dominance that wasn't really
38:27
there. It didn't come off as a result.
38:31
It didn't really work. You know, it's, it's right that
38:34
hard to force something that isn't there.
38:36
You know, when you're on stage, that's a little different for
38:39
like a challenge. But when you're trying to trying
38:42
to push through a persona in the workroom that isn't really
38:48
there, I I think it's, I think that's very difficult.
38:54
And I think it doesn't work because the girls are going to,
38:58
girls are going to see it. You know, you can say like, I'm
39:01
going to, I'm not a pushover. I'm going to get what I want.
39:05
I'm going to be assortive. If you can't actually be
39:08
assertive and actually not be a pushover, Yeah.
39:10
But just saying it and making a fuss doesn't make you those
39:14
things. And I feel like Olivia was like
39:17
trying so hard to push something that I didn't see it was there.
39:23
And I think it just kind of backfired on her.
39:27
And I, I, I don't know if it affected her performances in the
39:31
challenges or not. It just didn't work for me.
39:34
It just what she was trying to the, the, the persona she was
39:37
trying to put out, it just didn't work for me.
39:41
Also, being Phoenix would be a little bit stronger.
39:44
She's one of the OG Queens, been in the game for so long and
39:48
she's like, she's she does drag and she does productions and
39:52
things like that for so many years now.
39:53
I thought she would be a little bit stronger.
39:56
Obviously it's a pretty strong set of Queens, but I I thought
39:59
she would actually be like, she was my underdog going.
40:02
I'm thinking like, you know what?
40:03
A lot of people haven't seen Phoenix in a long time on the
40:05
show, but she's been doing drag for so many years that she must
40:10
have some. Like she must have some shit to
40:14
bring to the table in All Stars. But unfortunately that didn't
40:18
materialize. Deja was just, they just got
40:20
just kind of there. Yeah, she was kind of just, she
40:27
was just kind of there for me. I need to rewatch.
40:31
So that's the first bracket, that first 3 episodes.
40:33
The 4th episode was the first episode of the second bracket.
40:36
And we got George's Carrie Kobe, Lydia Collins, Mistress Isabel
40:40
Brooks, Nicole Paige Brooks and Tina Burner.
40:44
And I need to go back and rewatch that first episode of
40:47
the second bracket. So episode 4, because I had just
40:51
gone back from EDC for like a few days and like I felt like I
40:54
wasn't quite in a state to it was like sit down and actually
40:57
watch it properly, properly. I know tomorrow the 2nd episode
41:00
is going to go up. So tomorrow on Friday before I
41:04
watch episode 5, I'm going to go watch episode 4 again before I
41:09
stream the new one because I wasn't paying like full, full
41:12
attention. But honestly, George's is going
41:16
to go through. Let's just do some predictions
41:18
to end the podcast. I'm going to talk forever and
41:21
maybe in a in a couple weeks I have more thoughts about the
41:23
bracket when it's all done. George, it's going to go
41:25
through. I think George because
41:28
favourites. Miss Rue loves her.
41:30
I think George's would go through.
41:32
I think I I had mistress to also go through, but I feel like
41:39
mistress can really bring it. I feel like she's so smart.
41:42
She knows how to play the game. I think she knows what it takes
41:46
to at least to make into the semis.
41:49
I don't think she I don't think she was in the top three for the
41:53
first in that in the last week's episode, though, So but I feel
41:58
like Mistress is a strong queen. I'm, I, I, I don't think Nicole
42:04
is going to make it to the top three.
42:07
I think Tina won. So like Tina could be a bit of a
42:10
dark horse, but like, I think, I think it could be like George's,
42:16
George's mistress. And then maybe either like Lydia
42:21
or Tina will be top three. I think of those four, three of
42:28
them are going to go through just based on last week's
42:33
episode, I feel like maybe Tina is a bit stronger than I
42:38
expected and maybe just based on that one episode, Mistress is
42:42
not quite doing it compared to some of the Queens.
42:44
So maybe it could be like Georges, Tina and maybe Lydia
42:52
going through to the top three on the current trajectory.
42:56
But obviously we're just one episode down, so I'm interested
42:59
to see how the other two episodes for this bracket shakes
43:02
out. I love George's.
43:04
I think she's so entertaining to watch.
43:07
Like the personality, like the personality is right there.
43:11
The charm, the charisma, the the uniqueness, the nerve, the
43:16
talent, like it's, it's all there.
43:19
I'm so just so entertaining. Even when she's like not like
43:23
actively performing. It's like the personality to
43:26
charisma is so hard to like you can't build that baby.
43:30
That's just who you are. So I can see why loves her so
43:35
much. But I'm a fan of Georgia.
43:36
I actually really like Carrie Kobe.
43:38
I feel like if there was one person, I would love to be in
43:43
the top three, even though I think objectively might not get
43:46
there. That's Carrie Kobe for me
43:49
because I I love her look. She's beautiful and gorgeous,
43:55
yes, but I feel like she does have talent and she does have
43:59
like the charisma and the personality.
44:02
I think she just wasn't in she just didn't really show it that
44:06
much in her first season because she was too concerned about
44:09
looking pretty. But I really feel like in the
44:12
time that has passed since or original season to now, I think
44:17
she has really learned that lesson and I think she can
44:22
actually like get into the top three and be like a worthy top
44:27
three for the semis. So obviously the first episode
44:33
we had was like a ball. So you know it.
44:37
It's like fashion. So I'm really interested.
44:39
I want Kerry to be in the topic personally, because I think it's
44:44
such a great story. When you see a queen that has
44:47
like taken all the notes, put in the hard work in the time since
44:51
the original season and they've had this like major glow up,
44:54
major step up and to come back the All Stars and rocket.
44:58
I love to see that story. That is so great.
45:00
I I I just really hope that she just lets it all loose and just
45:06
gives it everything in the three episodes, even if she doesn't
45:10
make it to the top three. But I think that's like the best
45:13
thing that could happen for her. But like I I'm, I'm rooting for
45:17
her even though I think statistically the odds looking
45:21
at the other Queens it it's a it's a tough crowd.
45:24
Yeah. So those are I don't know how
45:26
quick or not quick that was. But anyways, this is some of my
45:28
thoughts on Jack Race All Stars season 10.
45:32
Thank you for listening to another episode of He's Hot.
45:35
But something is off and it's Wednesday morning.
45:40
It's just past 11. So I'm going to edit this.
45:43
I'm going to do a 5 to 10 minute edit on this one.
45:46
I'm not going to sit there for 30 minutes just picking out the
45:49
UMS and awesome likes anymore. And then I'm going to go to the
45:52
gym. All right, until the next time.
45:54
Bye y'all.