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HHBSO 126: I'm (Maybe) Getting A Dog · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello and welcome to He's hot, but something is off.
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It's been a while since I did a podcast because last week was
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Thanksgiving and the skin care line magnate launched the Friday
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before Thanksgiving, like 6 days before Thanksgiving.
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And it's been like non-stop been working so hard for many months,
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like up until the launch date. And the closer we got to launch
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date, the busier it got. So over Thanksgiving it was
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really great. Like Thursday, Friday
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especially, I just kind of unplugged and it, it was
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actually pretty good. I'm, I'm still kind of, I'm
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still kind of there. You know, when you take a long
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weekend off and that first day back after a long weekend, it's
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extra hard to get back to work. You know, just a regular
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weekend, Saturday and Sunday and you go back to work on a Monday.
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It's a little hard. We do it every week, but you
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know, it's still a little hard. But like when you have four days
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off, that's extra hard. Anyways, welcome back to the
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podcast. And I want to get a dog again,
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but I don't think I'm going to get one, but I might get 1.
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So I was David was here last week, blah, blah, blah.
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We're talking, we, we chat every so often on like WhatsApp, but
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you know, like we, it's been a while since we had to like had
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some time to like hang out since it's been a little while since
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he was able to visit me for a few days and we're just chatting
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blah, blah, blah. And I did remember saying to
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him, it would have been really nice to have had a dog for
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companionship the last like for most of this year, but
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especially the last four or five months to kind of just cheer me
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up. I think my my emotions have been
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very, very like a roller coaster.
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The peaks were not super high, but the lows are kind of low.
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Not like depression, clinical depression level low.
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I'm not trying to oversell this, but it would just so much work
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to do the launch while still keeping like the only fans
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running because that's like, you know, that was launched years
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ago. But hey, you still have to like
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hoist some content every single month.
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And then I also somehow I probably shouldn't have, but I
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launched the travel agency business.
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What what? We've been up rubber running
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for, what, 4-4 months now? Something like that.
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So it was my bad to try to do that much.
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Yeah. But it would have been really
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nice to have had like a dog around some companionship
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because it was just, you know, like some days you wake up and
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it's like, Oh my God. Like starting my business is
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never going to work. There's like a million things I
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have to do. I'm not making enough progress.
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You know that that inner voice, really, you come for yourself.
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Basically you, your emotions come for you.
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Your emotions come for your thoughts to kind of like push
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through that all by yourself. It's like really hard, you know,
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I probably should have leaned on my friends a little bit more,
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but I think looking back on it now, I probably should have in
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some ways let off the gas a little bit.
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It made more time to socialize with friends.
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But you know, it was a lot that I needed to get done for the
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launch. So, you know, for the time and
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I'm just all the work is done on the computer.
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So I'm on the computer so often there were days where I just had
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a headache because I was in front of the computer for so
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long. And it's like, OK, we need to
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like we're done with the computer for today.
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We like can't work anymore. And I rarely get headaches.
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So it and obviously with the stress and everything that
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probably wasn't helpful. I think it would have been
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really nice to have like a dog for companionship.
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I do dog sit for a couple of friends here in LA.
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You guys have met Louis before, the white poodle.
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I'm not sure he's a poodle. He might be some other breed,
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but he's at least part poodle. I think the thing with Louis,
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the last time I had him, it was for two weeks.
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It was like 15 days that I had him.
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Daddies were over in Europe. And with Louie, I never quite
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clicked with him because Louie is aloof.
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Louie's kind of aloof. He doesn't snuggle.
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He doesn't fetch. I think I mentioned this on my
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Patreon and I was talking to David about it, but like, he
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doesn't. He doesn't fetch.
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And different dogs like to play with different types of toys and
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play different things. Some dogs just don't fetch.
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Some dogs will want you to throw something, but they're not going
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to bring it back. They're not like a retriever.
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They don't have that retrieval instinct.
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Some dogs don't like to cuddle. Some dogs are a little more
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stubborn. So, you know, Louis is not the
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type of dog that I would want because Louis wants to be near
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you, but Louis does not want to be.
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It's OK to like pick him up if you have to and he won't, he
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won't complain, but he doesn't like it.
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He won't complain. He's just like indifferent to
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you. If you have to like pick him up
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for some reason, like to cross the street when he's like, you
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know, doesn't want to cross or something.
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You just have like whatever, he's fine.
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He doesn't cuddle, which I don't need to cuddle my dog all the
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time, but I would like my dog to be a little bit more more
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affectionate than that. Like Louis, it's like, OK, just
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give me my food and Take Me Out. Otherwise, I don't care if you
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live or die. That dog is kind of sort of like
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that. He does like to play.
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What the good thing about Louis, I will say is he's not bugging
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you to like entertain him. Louis is very content to just
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chill on the bed and like take a nap.
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So that's kind of great. I don't want a super high energy
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dog, but I think I want something a little want a little
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higher energy than Louis. He likes he likes short walks,
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but sometimes to walk him is kind of difficult because
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sometimes he just like doesn't want to continue on a walk.
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I don't know if he likes the act of walking, but I want to take
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my dog on walks. I want to play fetch with the
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dog. I want the dog to be.
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Oh, what's that word? I want the dog to be a little
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more affectionate, a little less aloof, you know, not like, not
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so stubborn. I feel like Louis.
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Yeah, he does. Unless he knows you have food,
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he does not care about you, which for me doesn't, doesn't.
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It's not my idea of the type of dog that I would like.
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So even though I had Louis for a couple of weeks the last time I
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had him and it was this in August, I think, I never like
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bonded with him and I never, I did like having a dog around,
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but like, that's not my idea of like companionship.
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So, yeah, but I feel like over the, for as long as I've
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remembered, like I've kind of sort of always wanted a dog.
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It's not like the thing I want the most in the world, but it's
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kind of sort of like on and off that I've wanted a dog.
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I had AI told you guys I had a dog crate this like super nice,
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super expensive dog crate when I listed my condo for sale early
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this year, like in what January where I was working for my
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realtor to get the place, you know, already like fix up little
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things and kind of like get rid of some of the junk and make
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sure it was like, you know, a show worthy basically.
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And one of the things we did, one thing I did was just got rid
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of extra furniture that I didn't really need and that I wasn't
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planning to take with me when I move out of this place.
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And I bought that dog crate. I looked it up the other day,
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this super nice dog crate. It looks like a side table.
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It looks, it is, it's heavy as fuck, but it's like solid wood.
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It looks like a side table. When I bought it, it was like
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$550. I just checked the price
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recently. They sell for like $900 now, but
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it's like it's super, super heavy.
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It's like 50 or 60 lbs for like the small size.
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And I had it right beside my armchair.
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I used to have this like orange armchair from IKEA.
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I got rid of the armchair. I got rid of the dog crate.
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I actually went to one of my neighbors down the hallway.
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My realtor knows like some random people in the building.
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I didn't know until like later on when they ran into them.
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I was like, OK, they have a dog, just give them the dog crates, a
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nice dog crate. But I bought that dog crate in
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22 three years ago and I was so ready to have a dog.
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I remember right around that time I went to this like dog
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rescue place somewhere in LA and they have this thing where like
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you can kind of come in. He likes signing and come in and
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kind of like hang out with the dogs just to like see the dogs
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and the puppies and whichever dogs that they have there.
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And I did spend like a little bit of time there, but I end up
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not doing it. And even as recently as earlier
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this year, I was like, oh, I'm kind of glad I didn't have a dog
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because dogs have dogs are a lot of work.
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I was having a not an argument. I was, I was bringing up the,
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the idea that, you know what in some ways kids did?
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I, I don't, you know, sometimes I talk so much on the podcast.
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I don't know. But I mentioned this on the
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podcast or always on Patreon or with David.
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But like, in some ways, kids are less work than dogs.
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Hear me out. It's a hot take.
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It's, it's, it's not the popular opinion.
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I think when you have a dog, a dog could live for like 15
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years. OK, Well the dog, you're always
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going to have to feed them food and they can never really be,
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you know, you can't go out of town and leave the dog at home.
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You know, like you know, you can leave the dog home for like when
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you're at work during the day. That's pretty much it.
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Always have to like pick up after them when they do their
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number twos with a baby. They are that reliant on you for
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like a small portion of their lives.
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You know, from when they are born up until what?
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I don't know when it when when the kids start knowing how to go
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to the pantry and get food. 7810 right?
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You know, when kids get to be like 13 or 14, they can probably
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they can, you know, they can probably they can probably stay
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home for like a weekend and it won't be like that bad.
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But you know, when you have like a 14 year old dog, they are
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senior now and they might need extra care.
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So is that a really messed up comparison?
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Yeah. But yeah, it would, it would
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just have been really nice the last little bit to have had a
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dog. So yeah, I just, yeah, I'm, I'm,
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I'm kind of looking for a dog. I'm not saying I will get a dog,
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but sometimes I sometimes when I want to like buy or get
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something, I allow myself to window shop because for me
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that's fun. Window shopping is fun.
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I'm into cars. So a lot of times I just read
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about whatever new cars that are coming out.
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I read like car reviews and things like that just for fun
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because it's just, you know, it's just a hobby, right?
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I, I'm a car enthusiast. I like reading about cars.
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I'm into tech. So like I like playing with
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gadgets, but doesn't mean I'm going to buy all the cars and
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gadgets out there. You know, it's just sometimes
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nice and fun to just keep up on the industry.
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Like, oh, what new cars are coming out and like what kind of
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new tech gadgets or new technologies are out there being
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developed, They're coming soon or whatever.
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So same, the same thing with like a dog, you know, I can
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entertain myself, you know, just looking up like different
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animals that are available for adoption, like the adoption
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listings and things like that. But there's always this part of
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me that's like as you get older, you realize more and more that
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in a way, time is running out. We're all going to die
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eventually and who knows when we're going to go.
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Maybe even the universe doesn't know.
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But sometimes because of that, that the age probably a factor.
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Sometimes it's like, you know what if you if you want
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something and it's not like a crazy thing, like just just get
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it. If you want to do something and
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it's not some crazy thing to do, just go do it a little like
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bucket list type of a thing. If you want to get a dog, just
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go get a dog. It's not a crazy thing to get a
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dog. I don't feel like I'm AI feel
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like I'm a very responsible person.
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You know, I Max out the insurance on my car insurance.
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I Max out the the coverage, which I feel like most people
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don't do, even though it's like very expensive.
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You know, I have a fire extinguisher.
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Most people don't even have that.
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You know, when I talk about when I give travel and cruise advice,
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I'm very big on like, oh, make sure you get there the day
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before the cruise. Don't come the morning of
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because what if your flight gets delayed?
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What do you, you know what? I'm because of my more
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traditional conservative upbringing, I've been taught to
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be more risk adverse. So, and I'm the type of person
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even like starting this podcast. I had the idea, but like it took
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me a few months to like thinking about it before I like commit to
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it because you know, so many podcasts.
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Someone starts a podcast, they do it for a little while and
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then it just like goes away. I see this a lot with like
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people that want to do YouTube. OK, it's very easy.
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Low bear and trader man can like create a most people have a
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Google account. And when you have a Google
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account, you have a YouTube account and anyone can just
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randomly post a video on YouTube.
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Anyone can post a TikTok video, something on Instagram, whatever
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it is. But I think YouTube is little
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bit more like something you don't do as casually.
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Anyone can post a fucking photo on Instagram, OK?
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And it doesn't matter people that want to be a YouTube,
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whatever that means to you, it doesn't mean making a living off
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of it or making any money off of it.
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It just means like, you know, I think at the very minimum, being
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a YouTube means just uploading videos regularly.
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It's not necessary about monetizing the videos, but just
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if you upload a YouTube every once in a blue moon, that's not
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a YouTube. I feel like one of the basic
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things is OK uploading regularly.
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It said like whether that be like once a month or once a week
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or whatever it is. But so many people that quote UN
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quote want to be a YouTube is like, oh I uploaded one video.
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I'm a fucking YouTube now. Same as all these fucking
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influenced people anyways. They want to upload a video and
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then they can do it while the novelty is still there.
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But then there's so many YouTube channels where someone think I'm
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going to go be a YouTube out, upload videos and then literally
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like two months later they stop. They just don't have the, they
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just haven't thought about it and they don't appreciate how
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much work it is and they don't have to follow through.
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And it's not something they really enjoy.
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So it's like, oh, they they're thinking, oh, like, look at all
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these Youtubers uploading videos.
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I can do it. It's just no appreciation for
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how much work it's going to be. I was at the gym play very
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randomly and I don't know why it just popped into my head.
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I was trying to think about how many videos like popper videos,
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not like a Instagram reel or like a TikTok, something for
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only fans or something for YouTube.
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Like a video that you had to like properly edit.
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Not like a tiny little 10 second clip of like a dog tripping over
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his dog bowl or something like that.
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OK, there's been at least 1000 videos that have beat me money
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in some way, shape or form. Granted, on YouTube, I don't
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have like a million followers. My YouTube videos are monetized.
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But you know, maybe it just gives me like I looked at my
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most popular videos the other day.
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I think the most, my most watched video I think had like
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300,000 views or something. And I think it's maybe something
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like 5 or $600.00 over the lifetime.
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And that video was uploaded like years ago.
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So the YouTube monetization where YouTube runs ads on your
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videos and you get like a little cut.
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It's a very small cut. Maybe like most months, not
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every month I'll get a check for something like 100 hundred
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something dollars from YouTube just from the ads that run on
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it. It's a very slow but I don't
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have, I'm not trying to make money off of the YouTube, but
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you know, they are monetized. And my rough back of napkin math
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is I've probably created over 1000 proper videos that require
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like going into a video editor and editing them, not like some
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little TikTok or Instagram reel. I've created over $1000 / 1000
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videos that have been monetized. Obviously on only fans have
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brought in a lot of money and I thought about how much money
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have I made from all the videos that I've monetized and I think
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to date I've made, I think I made probably like $100,000.
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That sounds impressive. But The thing is like I started
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doing YouTube what, 15 years ago?
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I only just start. Obviously the bulk of that is
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from Onlyfans. But yeah, like I feel like OK,
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I'm not top 1% on Onlyfans or YouTube that is wrecking in like
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6 figures or more every year. But, you know, I do have some
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experience creating videos, but you know, every time I want to
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like, start some new venture that requires creating content,
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I know how intense and serious it can be.
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So it told me a few months after having the idea for this podcast
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to be like, once I start it, I need to do this every week.
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And you know, there's no obligation for me to do it.
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Like I do this for fun. I've said that multiple times,
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but I think we're up to what, 100 and 10120 episodes?
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Whatever this is, I, I, I lose track, you know, but this
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podcast has been running pretty much every week for what, like 2
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something years? Because I thought it through
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before I started it. I didn't just like jump into it,
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you know, it's kind of sort of the same thing with getting a
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dog, getting a dog's a serious commitment.
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But on the flip side of that, sometimes I feel like I, I
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overthink the decisions like that.
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Obviously all the official advice is like, you know, the
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dogs live for like 12 or 15 years.
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They rely on you for everything. That part of it, yes, I
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obviously understand the gravity of the situation, if you will.
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But then I also think there are a lot of people that are not
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responsible with me that have dogs and that's perfectly fine.
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The real world data is that it really shouldn't be a problem
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for me to have a dog. Again, I've always wanted a dog.
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It's not like the thing I need the most, to be honest.
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But especially this year, it would be really nice.
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And the other thing is like, you know what I thought about having
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a dog for so long. I should just get a dog.
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There's always going to be some excuse to like not have a dog.
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There's like, there's also like, you know, if I were to have a
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kid, let's say I had a partner and we wanted to have a child,
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there's always going to be an inconvenient time to do
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something. So I feel like, yeah, maybe this
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time I just get a dog. And even if I don't get a dog,
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you know, it's kind of sort of like a fun way to like, kill
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some time and distract myself when I have, you know, when I
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need to take a break from work or doing other things, whatever.
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Just like look up dogs that are for adoption and things like
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that. But I have narrowed down to the
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type of dog that I think I would like based on like temperament,
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energy levels and like things like that.
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I want a small dog, I want a dog that could travel with me in a
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pet carrier in the cabinet of an airplane.
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And for that they need to fit in a carrier that fits under the
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seat in front of you. It counts as like your personal
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item from the airline's perspective.
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And usually that means it's mainly the height and length of
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the dog, like the dimensions of the dog that matters the most.
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But usually a dog just up to about 15 lbs.
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Usually it's OK for that. So I'm kind of looking for like
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that or under. Louis is 13 lbs.
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I know he's 13 lbs. I know he's 13 lbs because when
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he came to me to stay for two weeks, I wanted to make sure
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that I didn't give him too many treats or I want to make sure I
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was exercising him enough. But I didn't want to fatten up
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the dog to before his daddies came back from Europe.
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So I weighed him at the beginning, just on my regular
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scale. I weighed him when he first came
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to stay with me, and I weighed him again about like a week into
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it to make sure like, OK, I'm not fattening you up.
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And he was like, exactly like 13.4 lbs both times I weighed
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him. I was like, OK, I'm not giving
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you too many treats. I was giving him treats,
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actually. I was giving him a lot of
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treats, actually. But he was, I took him for like
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three walks a day. So he had a time.
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He had time to burn off all those sexual treats.
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Yeah, but Louis was 13 lbs and he's actually a pretty good
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size. Looking at him, it looked like
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he would weigh more, but he was like 13 lbs.
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And it's like, I think that's a good size.
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He's he's just small enough that I think he could be comfortable
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in the carrier to like fit under the plane.
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I don't think I would travel with my dog like all the time on
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an airplane, but I would love, love the option too.
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Like if I were to fly to Vancouver to like visit my
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family for a few days, I would love to just like bring my dog
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with me. I want to have the option.
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And I don't think I only have, I live in a condo in West
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Hollywood. I don't have a yard per SE.
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I don't want like a super large dog.
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I never won the Super large dog anyways.
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So yeah, like a small dog, you know, that's maybe like low
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teens, like 12 pounds, 14 lbs, something like that.
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The dog must be non shedding so Louis being a poodle or like a
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poodle mix doesn't shed at all. I've never found any dog hair or
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dog fur but poodles have hair not fur.
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The great thing about Louis is he left no trace except for like
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the couple times he took a poop in my living room.
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But besides that in terms of like hair and fur it was like I
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didn't notice any. And I have this like dark couch
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that he jumps onto. I've got this like dark grey rug
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in my living room. So like any kind of like white
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hair from him, you know, I would have seen it on the couch or
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like the rug like absolutely nothing.
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So it has to be, I think for me like a poodle mix because
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poodles don't shed much of it all.
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So I think it has to be like a, a poodle mix because the thing I
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don't want is to have to pick up hair all the time.
23:20
The laundry room, the washing machines in the building laundry
23:23
room, half the time when I go down there, the washing machines
23:27
have dog fur. Like you can see on the washing
23:31
machine, like the gasket on the front, this black gasket, and
23:35
it's got like 1 inch long brown fur all over it.
23:39
And it like the door, which is the clear plastic door, there's
23:42
fur on there too. And I was like, This is why I
23:45
need to have my own washer and drier.
23:50
And some people don't know to, like, leave the door open on
23:52
front loading washing machines, otherwise it's going to get
23:56
moldy inside. There's this giant label on the
23:58
top of the door that says leave the door open.
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But like, apparently people are fucking illiterate in this
24:03
building. I want to move anyways.
24:05
Yeah, I want to. Yeah.
24:06
I think like a poodle mix. I think I would ideally for me,
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I would love for the dog to be like, brown.
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They don't have to be like, doesn't have to be uniformly
24:17
brown. Keep it like brown and white.
24:19
But I really like that. I just like that colour like a
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light. I got like a light brown, not
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like a chocolate brown, like a light brown.
24:26
A lot of poodle mixes are just white.
24:29
And I'm not a no. I think, yeah, it would.
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I would just prefer to have be like white and brown or just
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brown. I've always loved the
24:38
disposition and kind of like the shape of a spaniel.
24:45
So I think a cockapoo, which is like a Cocker spaniel and poodle
24:49
mix, it's probably up my alley. A lot of spaniels tend to come
24:53
in like like a red or like a brown.
24:56
A lot of poodles are white, but that's when you mix, you get
24:58
like some some variations. So a cockapoo which is
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apparently Cocker spaniel and a poodle mix, that's kind of what
25:04
I'm looking at. And apparently it's supposed to
25:05
be pretty one of the more common mixes, but there's not that many
25:09
of them that are available for adoption.
25:14
So, but it it was fun for me just after the skin care brand
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had launched. By the way, go buy my skin care,
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please. Everything's linked down below.
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Plug, plug, plug. It was, it's at least fun for me
25:27
to Daydream a little bit about getting a dog and look out what
25:32
kind of dogs or what kind of breeds I would like and look up,
25:36
you know, what kind of dogs are available for adoption in the
25:39
area. There is a chance that one day
25:42
I'll be doing episode podcast and I'll just have a dog in my
25:44
hand. It's possible.
25:47
I think. I, I think I just worry too much
25:50
before doing something like it told me.
25:53
I mean, not that it's bad to really think about what you're
25:58
getting yourself into, especially with something like a
26:00
dog where, hey, like this is like, it's a, it's a fucking
26:04
animal that is dependent on you for everything for the next 15
26:07
years of life. That's like a serious
26:10
commitment. But I feel like having said
26:12
that, I feel like I just freaked myself out based on that kind of
26:17
logic. It's like, no one should be
26:18
getting a dog, honestly. Like the number of people where
26:21
dogs are suitable for them. But they say like, oh, you
26:23
travel all the time. You shouldn't have a dog.
26:24
You shouldn't leave your dog at home.
26:26
You work long hours. You shouldn't have a dog.
26:29
You travel all the time. You shouldn't, you know, like a
26:31
dog is like a like 12 or 15 years.
26:34
Like who knows what their next 15 years of their life is going
26:36
to bring? Like, no one really.
26:39
Really no one. Only the most boring straight
26:41
people might have some assurance that their lives will continue
26:46
to be boring on average for the next 10 to 15 years.
26:50
No one has like a crystal ball. So yes, I understand that I need
26:53
to take care of the dog for the next 10 to 15 years.
26:56
But like, I can't predict exactly what's going to happen
26:57
in the next 15 years. But that shouldn't be a
26:59
deterrent. Just because you don't know what
27:00
the future is like, should not be a deterrent for you to like
27:03
make a decision today. So I feel like I just overthink
27:08
and freak out a little too much about it.
27:10
I'm this I'm so like risk adverse is my upbringing.
27:14
But yeah, I think I would love to have a dog, the right type of
27:16
dog. Spaniels are so like loving and
27:20
affectionate. They have fur, so they do shed
27:22
like a little bit. I love the I love the look of a
27:25
of a spaniel. So I think, you know, a spaniel
27:28
poodle mix would be great. I did do my Opa's live stream,
27:34
my monthly Opa's live stream for my top tier OPA subscribers on
27:38
Patreon. The one in November had a couple
27:41
people join in and Johnny, one of the participants on the live
27:45
stream, he, I remember him saying I was talking about dogs.
27:49
And then I remember him saying he wasn't super keen on him
27:54
having his dog because, you know, like, you know, it's not
28:00
all, it's not all just like puppy kisses and cuddles, you
28:03
know, it does he, I think his wording was it does cramp his
28:07
style a little bit because if you go out of town, OK, you need
28:10
to figure out someone to take care of your dog.
28:12
You need to like, have a friend that is willing to like dog sit
28:14
for you or doggy hotel or like have a dog sitter or things like
28:19
that. So, yeah, I thought through all
28:21
that stuff because all the times I've been close to getting a
28:25
dog, I did basically thought of everything to like the NTH
28:29
degree. But yeah, I, I just after this
28:32
year, it's like I, I think I, I would really appreciate having a
28:36
dog. I've wanted, I've liked dogs for
28:38
so long now. There's always going to be some
28:41
excuse to like, not get a dog, but I feel like I should just, I
28:45
should get 1 of this, right. What do you think?
28:48
Comment down below. Comment down below on what you
28:53
think of whether I should get a dog or the type of dog I should
28:55
get or maybe something that I've not overlooked.
28:58
I obviously didn't go into all the nitty gritty details, but I
29:01
feel like I've thought out everything honestly.
29:06
And yeah, the fact that I don't know what my life is going to be
29:09
like because it in the in the coming year, just because I'm
29:13
not fucking psychic and you know, no one, no one knows what
29:19
their life is going to be like over the next 15 years.
29:22
I don't think that's actually a great excuse.
29:23
If that's not like great excuse to not get a dog because no one
29:27
knows what's going to happen to them, to them in like 510 or 15
29:30
years. By that logic, no one should get
29:32
a dog. No one should have a baby.
29:34
No one should have be taking care of any sort of human or
29:38
animal that is relying on them for the next 10 or 15 years.
29:41
But that logic doesn't make any sense.
29:43
Yeah. Because, yeah.
29:45
Anyways, there's also the other thing of like, you know what I
29:48
and I've this advice I've given before, the advice I've given
29:51
before is, you know, if you want to get something, if you want to
29:53
buy something, especially again, it's simply it's not some stupid
29:58
crazy thing. If you want to get something
30:01
because you want something, you don't need to justify to anyone.
30:05
For me, that advice is more for not like an animal or like a
30:11
baby that is going to fundamentally alter your daily
30:15
routine for the next X years. That's more like, if you want
30:19
the new iPhone, you don't have to justify.
30:22
Like if you have the means, it's not a crazy thing to buy a new
30:25
phone. It's not like you're trying to
30:26
buy a Ferrari, OK, and cash out your life savings for it.
30:30
If you want to go buy a new iPhone, you want to go buy a
30:33
pair of shoes, you want to get a cheesecake, whatever.
30:36
Like if you want it and you have the means, just go get it.
30:39
You need to justify it to anyone.
30:41
You know what I mean? So maybe that applies here too.
30:45
I think in some ways I'm trying to justify it, but I don't need
30:49
to. If I want to do something I
30:51
should just do something. Maybe that's also the age
30:53
talking as well. Anyways, leave your comments.
30:56
Leave your. I want to see all your comments
30:58
about dog ownership. Not just me having a dog, but
31:01
like what your comments and thoughts are on dogs in general
31:06
and dog ownership. I'd be really interested to hear
31:10
about that, but until next time, obviously I mentioned my Patreon
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They've just extended it until this Friday, which is tomorrow,
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just usually goes on Thursdays. Yeah.
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And I just did a episode of the Gay Goose and Travel podcast.
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See all this shit that I've got going on.
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I just did an episode of the Gay Goose and Travel podcast
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explaining the three deals that they have for Black Friday that
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have been extended till this current Friday.
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And also like the fine print that I like to say allow to all
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those listeners. You know, I, I, I'm doing shit.
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I have a successful only fans business.
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I'm starting my travel agency. I just launched my skin care
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line. I am a YouTube.
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I'm a podcaster. I have three podcasts that I
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record every single week. I have my Patreon.
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What the fuck are you doing? All right, until next time.
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Bye all.