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HHBSO 139: Expired Contact Lenses · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hello, welcome to He's hot, but some things off and by popular
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  demand, I'm shirtless again. See, The thing is, the way I
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  have the lighting set up is designed to make my it's
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  supposed to be flattering for my face.
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  The lighting is supposed to be flattering for my face, but it's
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  not flattering for like my muscles if I'm shirtless, like
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  OK, because I'm sitting on a stool right now, like a spinny
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  office stool type thing. And I tend to.
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  So I'm searching like this. And when I'm sitting, like when
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  you're sitting, you're not using your apps, you're not using your
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  core, right? So like, I didn't know in photo
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  when I'm standing posing for photos shirtless, I look great
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  because when you're standing, you're using your core.
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  You can see this. I'm kind of flexing right now,
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  but I'm being self-conscious. Anyways, welcome to another
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  episode of HHB. SO I'm wearing contacts right
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  now. We just rare had lunch with a
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  friend who's moving to Los Angeles recently, like now, ish.
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  He's still kind of flying back and forth, but hadn't seen him
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  in a long time. But he's moving right now to LA,
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  so. Yeah.
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  So we had a lunch. So if I go out, I will usually
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  put my contacts on. Oh, the other reason I'm putting
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  contacts on is I ordered a batch of contacts.
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  Actually I ordered 2 separate types of contact lenses.
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  I got some nicer, more expensive contacts for times where I need
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  to keep my contacts in for like a longer time.
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  If I'm going on vacation or like a cruise or travel or like I'm
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  actually going out out, I wear the nicer contacts.
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  It's like the nicer, more expensive contacts.
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  They are less likely to dry out. They're just more committed,
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  just nicer. And then also have some less
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  expensive, cheaper contacts for with the original purpose was
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  like, OK, if I'm going to go, if I need to just have 2020 vision
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  just for like a few hours. I'm not doing anything fancy.
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  But for whatever reason, if I needed to, just if I wanted to
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  wear contacts, but I'm not like wearing the contacts for like an
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  entire day. I just need to wear them for
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  like a few hours a little cheaper.
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  They dry out a little bit easier.
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  And it was supposed to be a cost saving measure.
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  So normal people when they buy contacts, order contacts, they
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  only get like one type of contact lens.
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  But I somehow thought it was a good idea to get a small amount
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  of nicer, therefore expensive contact lenses and then also get
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  a small amount of cheaper contact lenses.
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  So like overall it would be cheaper.
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  So it was a couple years ago, I think I ordered it stopped
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  wearing contacts to the gym. I think I mentioned this
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  recently on episode. I don't wear contacts at the gym
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  and I don't go out that. But lately I'm so busy spinning
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  up the businesses, I don't go out that much.
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  It's only really when I travel and like occasionally when I'm
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  home in LA that I wear contacts. So today was one of those days.
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  But those expensive contacts are starting to they're going to
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  expire soon. So technically they expire in
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  June, but the other cheaper contacts, they don't expire for
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  like another two years, 2028 or something like that.
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  So now I'm thinking, OK, we should just start using up these
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  contact lenses that are going to expire in like what, 3 months?
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  And I did a count of how many of them I got recently, and there's
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  a decent amount of them left. So I'm just going to start like
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  wearing those contacts more because, you know, certain
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  things you can use after they expire.
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  But I feel like for things I'm going to put into my eye, let's
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  not chance it. I can chance it with some peanut
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  butter that's a little past the expiry date.
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  I think maybe that's OK. But with contact lenses that I'm
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  going to stick into my eyes, let's not.
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  So I'm going to be just kind of sort of using them up because I
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  don't want to use like expired contact lenses.
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  But anyways, I do have contacts in, but I was out to lunch with
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  friends earlier. I can actually see the camera
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  that I'm looking into. Yeah.
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  But anyways, now I went to the gym in the morning before we
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  went to lunch and in the morning when I was getting ready, I
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  thought, Oh well, since I'm going to put contacts in for
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  later anyways, I'll just put the contacts in.
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  I was going to have contacts in for lunch.
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  Why not just put them in for like the whole day?
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  So when I was getting ready after I woke up in the morning,
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  put the contacts in and I was supposed to go to the gym this
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  morning. So I went to the gym and The
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  thing is just once in a great while I wear contacts to the
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  gym. And today was those days.
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  It's weird because when I wear contacts to the gym and then I
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  see the guys that I usually check out at the gym, it's so I
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  should just not wear contacts to the gym because one of two
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  things happen When I can actually see the gym regulars
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  with like 2020 vision, they always look different than what
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  I thought they looked like. When I go to the gym without the
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  contacts, my eyesight is not that horrible.
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  I'm nearsighted so anything that's far away is fuzzy.
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  It's not the worst neuro sightedness that you can get.
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  It's like light to moderate maybe, but it's it's so weird
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  because I was to the gym today and they're like, there's a
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  bunch of the gym regulars, some of the gym regulars that I
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  thought were like kind of a that I thought was kind of hot with
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  the contacts. Not so much, not so much.
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  Yeah. So they're.
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  So I had to, I had to keep from chuckling when I was at the gym.
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  It's not like a good or bad thing.
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  It's just like, oh, I have my glasses, I have my contents on.
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  I can like actually see what they look like.
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  And it's like, oh, I thought you looked different.
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  So there you go. Yeah.
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  It was just, it was kind of like a funny moment at the gym.
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  I'm not very motivated at the gym.
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  Like the last couple weeks it's been hard to just go through the
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  with the exercises. I mentioned this on a recent
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  episode and it's not gone that much better and I still need to
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  go find a new gym after this week.
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  This is the last week that I can go to the crunch in West
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  Hollywood. It's just annoying because it's
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  like another chore to do, you know, and I'm just not very, not
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  very. I don't need extra chores piled
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  on top of all the existing chores that I need to do
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  already. So I think they're, I think I
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  know which gym I want to like get a trowel or like maybe
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  possibly sign up for, which is one that's like in Beverly
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  Hills. It's it's not a ritzy gym.
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  Have to go just based on price. I can't believe how expensive
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  gyms are. Like apparently routinely gyms
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  in LA are like well over $100. You have, you actually have a
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  decent amount of gyms that are over $200 as well.
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  So I just, I just need weights. I just, I just want to pick
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  everything's up and put them back down and then go home.
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  So that's nothing I have to do. However, I'm looking forward to
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  the cruise that I'm going to go on, the Atlantis LA Mexico
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  cruise that I talked about quite a bit recently on the Gay Cruise
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  and Travel podcast. I'm in this Telegram group.
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  So with the gay cruises, there's always going to be a Facebook
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  group, sometimes like 2 or 3, some duplicate ones for every
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  upcoming cruise there is. The slightly newer thing is for
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  there to be Telegram groups for those cruises as well.
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  It's a little harder to find the Telegram groups in Telegram.
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  You can't just like search for groups in Facebook.
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  You can go into Facebook, go into groups and just do a
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  keyword search like Atlantis, Mexico 2026 and that stuff will
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  come up. Even if it's a private group
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  that you need to like request to join.
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  I don't know if there are any like truly hidden groups in
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  Facebook, but in Telegram it's different.
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  There's no like universal groups like search function.
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  And a lot of these Telegram groups are private, right?
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  And they're private. That means they're like invite
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  only. You won't like see them in
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  search results and you can't just like go in and join.
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  But anyways, yeah, my phone keeps popping off with messages
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  from the Telegram group for like this up coming cruise.
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  And it's kind of good for me as a travel agent to kind of
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  understand the questions that people have, especially for
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  newer cruisers as they are coming up to a cruise that
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  they've booked. I was just telling David the
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  other day, you know, I have done so many cruises and I travel so
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  much that a lot of the things about a cruise I just kind of
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  take for granted and I don't think twice about it.
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  And it never comes to like the forefront of my thoughts.
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  It's all kind of like subconscious and you just kind
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  of it's almost like muscle memory.
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  So sometimes to interact with newer cruisers and as seeing,
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  hearing the type of questions that they have, it's been, it's
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  been kind of good for me to kind of get like a reminder of when
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  people are newer to cruising, the type of questions or
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  curiosities that come up with them.
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  So that's why because we're getting pretty close to the
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  cruise. I've, I muted parts of that
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  Telegram group because I want to be just like really tuned in to
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  what people are asking about and talking about for the cruise
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  only like three weeks away, something like that.
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  So I'm really, really looking forward to.
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  ANYWAYS, enough cruise talk. But I have a whole podcast topic
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  on that. I was watching some YouTube
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  videos earlier about how LAX is getting modernized, renovated,
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  improved, whatever it is for the Olympics in LA in 2028.
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  Whatever dates the Olympics will be in Los Angeles, even though
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  it's like 2 years away, I don't want to be here for that.
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  Assuming I'm still living here in LA.
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  Like I don't know exactly, 100% for sure written in stone where
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  I'll be living in two years, but there's a good likelihood I'll
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  still be in LA. I don't want to be here for the
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  Olympics. Oh, maybe you can go to like
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  Palm Springs for like two or three weeks and I think, Oh
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  yeah, Palm Springs could do it like San Diego, anywhere.
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  That's just like out of the craziness and madness.
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  That's like, I don't know how many people are going to come,
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  but like people go to the Olympics, right.
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  So I have AI have a good friend. He lives in New York, but he
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  just flew to Europe. Is it is it Paris where the
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  Winter Olympics are? Is it, is it Paris?
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  And I don't follow sports? I don't have to know.
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  But he just went to Europe for the Winter Olympics, whatever,
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  wherever it is in Europe. And I just don't want the
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  craziest. You think LA traffic isn't like
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  bad enough on like a regular day?
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  Like we're not hosting the Olympics?
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  You think it's breezy to drop someone off or get picked up
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  from a terminal at LAX? It's horrible.
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  The best of times, it's not good.
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  So I just thinking it's going to be a shit show when we have the
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  Olympics here. I think we, I think I was in, I
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  was still back in Vancouver when we had the Winter Olympics.
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  But I think where I was living, I was in the I was in, I wasn't
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  in the city of Vancouver technically, but I was in like
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  what's called the Greater Vancouver area, the GVA living
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  in my parents place back then. But I just don't want to be here
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  for that. So yeah, 100% I do not plan to
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  be here. LA traffic, it's already like
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  horrible enough. However, I am looking forward to
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  the improvements they're going to make to LAX for the Olympics
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  because it's going to benefit just like people who live here.
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  It's they're building a people mover, an automated people
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  mover, An APM. Is that what it's called?
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  An APM? Sure.
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  An APM, yeah, that would take you between our terminals, and
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  it would also take you to like some of the parking and the
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  rental car places as well. I read somewhere that they're
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  thinking about building for some upcoming line for the metro.
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  Apparently LA has a big metro system that I obviously don't
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  know about because I don't like it doesn't come to West
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  Hollywood. There's no metro anywhere near
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  West Hollywood. So it's like it doesn't make any
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  difference to me, Just hop in my car.
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  But apparently I saw something on Instagram earlier today that
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  they want to like propose or just some sort of action about
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  like convincing who the powers that be to add like a West
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  Hollywood stop to some upcoming new metro line that they're
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  planning or something like that. You know, I, I'm fine with
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  taking the subway and taking the metro.
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  I kind of prefer it, you know, like if it was equally
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  convenient to take a subway somewhere versus driving, I
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  would probably take the subway even.
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  I'm such a car person. But I prefer the convenience and
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  like the speed of like a subway. I don't like buses, no buses
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  though, like this. Buses, like you get the, it's
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  the, it's the road traffic that's the problem.
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  OK, When you have a subway system like a light rail, a sky
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  train or whatever, you're bypassing vehicular traffic.
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  Like that's one of the main advantages of a rail of like a
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  train. A bus like it, doesn't it, it,
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  no, it's like you're still running into like intersections
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  and pedestrians and like traffic and like all that stuff.
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  Even places with with bus lanes, but I don't fully support bus
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  lanes. But if the lanes are only there
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  for like how often is that bus going to come through?
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  And you're making like the traffic worse for everybody
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  else. Don't give yourself on the bus
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  lanes. Vancouver has a lot of them.
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  But can Vancouver's roads have like a bunch of other issues at
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  all? But anyways, if there was a West
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  Hollywood metro station, assuming the metro was like
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  relatively relatively clean and tidy, I have no idea what the LA
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  metro system is like. Assuming it's like overall like
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  a decent metro system. If there was a stop in West
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  Hollywood it was equally. I wish there was a metro from
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  West Hollywood that I take that would take me to LAX airport,
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  but I would be very likely to take it when I used to live in
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  San Francisco. Obviously in San Francisco, like
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  no one has a car. Like you just have to get by.
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  But like I didn't mind taking the Bart, the Bay Area Rapid
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  Transit. I didn't mind taking the Bart
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  from San Francisco proper down to SFO airport.
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  Like I'm actually used to doing that route.
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  I've done that several times back and forth.
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  So, yeah, I can't would prefer it because it it's kind of nice.
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  You just would like be on the train and like do whatever you
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  want, just like chill, listen to some music, be on your phone,
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  like whatever and you're just going like stop, stop and like
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  you're bypassing all the vehicular traffic.
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  So I actually would love to be able to take a metro from West
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  Hollywood. But like, I mean it, I think
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  this proposal, I don't know, I don't think it's going to go
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  through. I however, I also know like
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  nothing about it, but I think of places with like really good
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  transit systems, like when I go to Singapore, for example, and
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  like the subway, the subway is awesome.
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  I mean, obviously in some of these places it's not that
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  likely people have cars. Like the, the car culture in a
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  lot of U.S. cities is like especially in a place in LA,
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  it's almost like it's kind of on the extreme like places like
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  like in Hong Kong, for example, or like Singapore, like the vast
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  majority of people don't have cars.
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  It's so expensive to have cars. But however, like the transit is
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  like so good that is like NBD. When I went to when I was living
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  in San Francisco, most of the time I didn't have a car.
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  Like even if I had money to keep a car somewhere, actually, you
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  know, if I was really rich and I was living in San Francisco, I
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  probably would have a car. But like that's if you're so
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  rich that like it's literally no problem for you to like have a
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  place where you can keep a car near or at your house.
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  But if you're so rich that you can you, you have like a house
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  in San Francisco that takes a decent bit of money that has
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  like a garage. I probably would still have a
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  car. But The thing is for like the
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  day-to-day of like getting around San Francisco.
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  If you live in San Francisco and like you work in San Francisco,
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  you know, you hang out with friends kind of all within,
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  you're just doing stuff within the city just 'cause you have a
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  garage and you have a house where you can keep your car at
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  home. Parking is probably not going to
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  be great for all the places you want to go to.
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  So even then you still want to just take the take the train,
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  take the Muni, the the local subway, the local rail in San
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  Francisco. But I used to do that all the
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  time. Yeah, it was it was fine.
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  I mean, as long as the system is like decently clean and decently
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  reliable. It was annoying when I was
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  living in San Francisco. It was pretty annoying, but the
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  Muni was not that reliable. We just don't in the US, just
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  doesn't infest. We were driving to lunch and
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  then we're coming back and they were just saying how in
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  Australia, for example, the traffic lights, it's common for
• 19:17
  them to be synchronized so you're not hitting like red
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  lights all the time. And I told them it's not a well,
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  at least in Socal, it's not a common thing.
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  And I was like, what this is the, the type of American
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  infrastructure you can expect when you move to the US.
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  Yeah, I would, I would love to take the train.
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  I kind of sort of prefer it, especially when you have
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  luggage. And if you're going, if you're
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  going to be going away for like a week, maybe you don't want to
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  have your car parked at the airport for an extended period
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  of time. If you go away for an even
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  longer period, it's like, you know, to park a car at the
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  airport for like 2 weeks, 3 weeks, whatever.
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  If you happen to have an extended trip that's very
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  expensive and you don't necessarily want your car to
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  just be, like, sitting there like that somewhere, yeah, I
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  would prefer to be able to do that.
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  But oh, well, you can't. We can't all have what we want.
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  Oh, the, the, the, the subway in the subway in places like
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  Singapore or like Seoul or like Hong Kong.
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  It's a really nice, some like, really nice subway system.
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  It just, it just makes it so much sadder to think about what
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  infrastructure is like in the US, like the the New York subway
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  system is famous. Famous for some good reasons,
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  but also like famous for some like crap ass reasons.
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  Like it floods all the time when you get like a storm, you know,
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  like the the system is like super super old.
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  Like some of the trains are just like so aged, you know.
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  Well, anyways, enough of me basically pissing on how bad the
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  infrastructure is in the US. If you grew up in the US, like
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  you probably would be like, oh, this is the way things are.
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  But like if you ever visit other places, especially a lot of
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  places in Asia and some places in Europe as well, you're you're
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  just going to be like, what the F are we doing in the US with
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  the infrastructure? It's so crazy.
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  am shirtless though. It just isn't good lighting for
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  being shirtless though. Seriously.
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