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HHBSO 143: Support Me So I Can Get Training on How to Use My Camera · 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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  Felt like a million years since I did a regular episode.
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  You know, I was editing the uncut episode.
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  It just went up on Tuesday and that was a snippet of the live
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  stream I did for my Opas on Sunday just hours after I got
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  off a Atlantis cruise. So this we didn't have any
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  episodes last week but I was editing that and I noticed the
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  episode previous to the one that just went up on Tuesday was the
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  one where I ranted about like this guy that came for me and
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  that seemed like a million years ago that I did that rant.
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  ANYWAYS, normal service has been resumed.
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  Those of you that get all of the post that I put up on my
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  Patreon, so those are the mid level magnet subscribers and the
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  top tier OPA subscribers. You guys got all of my posts and
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  I was posting every day, sometimes more than once a day
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  while I was on the cruise in lieu of not having a couple of
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  the podcast episodes. But I just got back from the gym
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  today. I'm I was pretty, I was not
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  really feeling it at the gym. I don't think I'm back to my
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  regular sleep pattern yet. So I've got this aura ring,
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  which is a health and sleep tracking ring that I wear all
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  the time. And in the app, I'm just going
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  to launch it now. So when I wake up, one of my
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  things is to do is grab my phone before I wake up, before I even
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  move an inch. I reach my phone over to the
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  night stand, grab my phone off the charger, and that's how I
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  start my day. I mean it probably most of you
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  do that anyways, and the Aura ring, I'll launch the app on the
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  phone and they'll sync to the ring and it'll show you what
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  your readiness score is for that day based on how you slept.
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  And it's got a sleep score. And sometimes it pops up some
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  additional things. And today it said that I had
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  some major signs of something straining my body.
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  So it has this thing called symptom radar.
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  And once in a great while it'll show minor signs of strain or
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  major signs of strain. And today I woke up, it said
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  there were major signs of straining on my body.
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  I think these things are not 100% reliable, but that popped
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  up. I wish I got a little bit more
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  sleep. I'm still a little bit and some
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  sleep debt and the aura ring also tracks that, which I think
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  is a little more reliable for the, for these things to track
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  things like how much sleep debt you have because it can measure
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  pretty accurately how long you've been asleep or not versus
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  like this whatever AI algorithmic thing that says
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  you're sick or not. But I'm apparently at 2 1/2
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  hours of sleep dead and I'm usually pretty close to 0.
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  Obviously, when you're on a cruise vacation, you're not
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  going to get the perfect nights of sleep every night when
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  there's like a party and then you're, you know, your schedule
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  is just completely thrown off. So I'm still a little bit
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  recovering on the sleep, but the gym was not bad today.
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  It wasn't as crowded. I got to the gym pretty early,
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  but I just woke up. My body just woke up at 7:00 and
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  I, I just couldn't fall back to bed.
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  I wish I had that ability. You know, when you're 18, you
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  could go to bed whenever you want and then you just fall
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  asleep right away and then you can sleep in as late as you want
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  and then you'll be able to fall asleep.
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  You basically get to determine when you fall asleep and when
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  you wake up. The older you get, the less
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  control you have of your body over like when it falls,
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  assuming when it wakes up. So nowadays it's more critical.
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  I follow a like a routine at night before I go to bed because
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  it really does make a difference some nights.
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  I'm I'm a night person, but I don't allow myself to stay up
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  very late at night. I'm actually pretty productive
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  and some nights, maybe more than I should, I'll be working at my
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  computer. I have a pretty early dinner,
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  usually around 6/6, 6:30 and I'll have, you know, like
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  dinner, usually finish dinner by 7:00.
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  And then I'm thinking what, 7:00 is pretty early.
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  And because I'm so busy with work stuff, I'll like go back to
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  the computer, my desk at 7 and I'll work 7 becomes 8 becomes 9
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  pretty easily. Because when I start doing work,
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  usually I get into a flow with work pretty easily.
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  And I can just sit there doing stuff, especially with like the
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  just Joey travel stuff, which I enjoy doing.
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  I have like all these ideas and I just like sit down, execute
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  and I enjoy working on it quite a lot.
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  Yeah, I so like it was, it was Monday night where that happened
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  like 7 went back to the computer, then it was 8, then it
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  was 9. Before I knew it, it was like
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  10:00. And then I think it was it
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  wasn't until 10:30 till I actually decided, OK, we need to
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  just like shut stuff off. And I can't be working on the
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  computer on work stuff that late because that night I couldn't
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  fall asleep until past midnight. So yesterday on Tuesday night, I
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  was, well, I'm sorry, I'm recording this on Wednesday.
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  So I know this goes on on Thursday, but on Tuesday night I
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  was like, OK, we can't, we have to like adjust back our sleep
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  schedule to the regular everyday.
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  Now that I'm back home from the cruise and I need to try a
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  little bit harder, I can't be on the work computer doing work
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  until that late. So yesterday I was very
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  deliberate. OK, I'll allow myself to work
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  until 9, finished there, seven, got a couple more hours in.
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  I was productive. And at around 9:00, I was like,
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  OK, we got to like cut it off, took a late shower, which is
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  helpful for me. And then I just did something
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  like very low key. I was actually looking for some
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  new ebooks to read on my Kindle. And the Kindle was a gift from
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  one of my Patreon subscribers. I want to let you know, I don't
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  want to like name everyone, anyone out on the on the public
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  podcast, but you know who you are.
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  Thank you so much. I still use it nearly every
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  night. And I was looking for some new
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  ebooks to read that would be good for falling asleep.
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  So I was reading for a bit the heated rivalry books.
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  The series is called Game Changers.
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  I think it's the Game Changer series of books by Rachel Reid.
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  Don't quote me because there's like 5 or 6 books in a series
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  that has been released and the first two books is what the TV
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  series has been based on. And there was one night a few
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  weeks ago where I was rereading book number one.
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  It was like the second time I was reading the first book in
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  the series, which is called is that called Game Changers.
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  Anyway, what are you correct me in the comments I'm sure, but it
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  just like a little too intense and yeah, it was a little too
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  intense for like a bedtime read. So I need to read something
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  that's a little less captivating, a little more dull,
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  a little less erotic. Because that a few weeks ago
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  when I was reading that, it got to a point in a novel where like
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  it actually made me sleep worse because I was like reading it
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  for like a little too long before bed.
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  Anyway. So last night I was thinking,
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  OK, let's look for something new to read.
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  And I have an engineering degree.
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  I've got kind of in a like a technical background.
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  I used to work in IT, so one of the.
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  I got three books, 3 Kindle ebooks last night.
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  One of them is. This is going to sound super
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  boring, but it's not supposed to be a riveting book to read for
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  bedtime. I want something that I'd be
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  just interested enough to read that I won't just like, put the
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  Kindle down and reach for my phone.
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  But not too captivating and not erotic.
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  So the book I started reading last night is basically a book
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  about car manufacturing and it's about comparing the mass
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  production methods that became prominent with like Ford and
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  General Motors in the early in the early 1900s.
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  You know, roughly about like 100 years ago compared to the
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  so-called lean production methods that was kind of born in
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  Japan shortly after World War 2, especially with Toyota.
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  It sounds super boring, right? But for me, I have enough of
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  that technical engineering side of my brain that that is, it's
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  something I would want to read, but it's not so captivating that
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  it's going to be like a novel where I get wrapped up in, like,
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  the story. So, yeah.
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  So that's one of the books I'm reading.
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  Anyways. Life is good.
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  Otherwise, you know, I've got very a lot of disparate topics I
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  wanted to talk about is going to be one of those podcasts where
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  like I'll talk about one topic, I'll talk about something else.
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  There's not going to be any segways.
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  These are just the random thoughts in my head.
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  The other random thing I was thinking about very, very
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  randomly is that I don't like my doctor.
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  I don't like my primary care physician.
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  I haven't seen her in like a year.
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  I'm about due for my annual physical.
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  I'm on Kaiser Permanente. That's my insurance provider.
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  The way they work, if you're not familiar with US insurance and
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  healthcare providers and stuff, Kaiser is a little bit different
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  because Kaiser is like your medical staff and your insurance
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  like combining to like one company and but with all the
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  other insurance companies, they just do the insurance and then
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  you go find like a doctor. There's not really like this
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  commingling of like your healthcare provider and your
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  insurance. They're usually kind of separate
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  entities, but Kaiser it's the same.
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  So if you have Kaiser insurance, you go to a Kaiser healthcare
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  provider. Doesn't matter if it's primary
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  care and total medicine or if it's for some sort of specialist
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  that you need to see. Everything is kind of in house,
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  including like the pharmacy as well.
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  So instead of going to your CVS or whatever pharmacy chain that
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  is your in your local neighborhood, you have to go to
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  the Kaiser 1. So at first I thought it'd be
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  good because everything's just like under one umbrella blah
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  blah blah blah. It's like my third year being on
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  the Kaiser now and I don't like it.
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  And I thought about switching over when it was open enrollment
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  for me, I think late last year, but there was some other like
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  complicating factors that maybe OK, we just like stick with
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  Kaiser for like right now, but I'll probably switch next year.
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  I don't like my doctor because I've seen her three times and I
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  think, I think we just don't click it.
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  It's like the PC. Nice way to say it in my head,
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  the the internal unfiltered version is she just handled band
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  aids and I don't need her to handle band aids.
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  I can, I can buy band aids myself.
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  I can look at band aids on the Internet.
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  You know, when you tell a doctor that, oh, I, I feel this way or
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  like this is happening or blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  I, and it's like a new issue that's like probably not in the
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  file. I would prefer a doctor to like
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  ask some questions, show that they have some interest in
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  looking into why that issue or those symptoms are happening for
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  you specifically. Instead of doing something that
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  I perceive that I interpret to be kind of hand WAVY, but like,
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  oh, take some supplements or like, oh, have you tried this
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  and that without really digging into like why those symptoms are
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  happening for you. I understand statistically,
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  doctors have heard it all basically.
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  And you know, like 95% of the time when a patient mentions,
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  oh, I have these symptoms, I have that symptoms, they've hurt
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  it a million times. And 95% of the time it's just
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  this thing. So they like shoot from the hip.
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  It's my understanding. But I have been with doctors
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  where even if that is the overwhelming odds and those are
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  the statistics, I have had doctors where at least they
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  tried to listen to me and gave the impression that it's not
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  just some standard thing. So I this Kermit doctor that I
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  have doesn't give that impression.
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  She's very nice. You know what?
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  But a lot of people were very nice.
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  Nice doesn't fix my health problems.
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  It's great to be nice. I need a little more from my
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  doctor because anyone can be nice.
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  I don't need to go to a doctor for someone to be nice to me,
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  OK? I can be nice to myself.
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  So I don't think I, I don't think I need to.
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  I've had two physicals with her the past two years in the
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  spring. I feel like what's the point of
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  making a point with her and going for like a third time?
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  And it's like, Oh, have you tried?
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  Have you take some supplements or like all these Band-Aid
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  things? It's like, I don't think I need
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  to do that. And the gastroenterologist that
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  I got assigned, I'm sure I can try like a different one, but
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  it's like, I think I just need to be out of the Kaiser system.
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  My gastroenterologist, there's one episode of the podcast where
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  like I, I didn't think she was. I think I already threw her
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  under the bus a little bit. She wasn't doing a good job for
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  me. So there you go.
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  A very random thought, but my, the, what's, what's the name for
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  that? Not gastroenterologist.
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  What's the, what's the name for the, for like for the butthole
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  doctor? I forgot the technical name.
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  I see him all the time. What's the, what's like the
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  technical medical profession name for that?
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  Anyways, I, I, I just, I, I'm very tired.
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  I just came from the gym. You guys look it up.
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  But he is not in network. So I had this like referral for
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  this specialist that I go see for my hemorrhoids and I've been
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  going to him for like several years now and he's not in
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  network. He for like pretty much any of
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  the regular providers. He's never for like Medicare,
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  Medicaid, which is like when you get older and you have like the
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  government sponsored healthcare plan as a senior, but obviously
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  I'm not. So I pay every time I go to see
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  him, but I don't get anything major from him.
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  It's just kind of to manage my hemorrhoids.
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  And he did give me the advice a few times over the over the past
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  few years to be like, you should get off of Kaiser because as you
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  get older, it's not going to be good, especially when you as you
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  age and need to see more and more specialist, that's not
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  going to be good for you. I don't recommend it.
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  And at first he was like, I, I, I do listen to him because I
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  actually do trust him a lot. The last time I went to, I had
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  to basically tell him. He didn't bring it up.
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  I told him, like, you know how you've been telling me to get
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  off Kaiser? You've been right all along.
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  So anyways, very, very random plot that just popped into my
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  head because I mean, yeah, sometimes I feel I feel like a
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  little tired at the gym and I feel like I don't think it's
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  quite normal for me to be feeling this tired.
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  Yes, I know I pushed at the gym and stuff.
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  I didn't really push that much today and I felt very tired.
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  Obviously I just got off vacation and the sleep and
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  everything. But I feel like, yeah, I just
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  need a doctor to I need a different doctor than what I
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  have. And I feel like I'm not going to
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  find it with my insurance. So for right now, the insurance
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  is just for emergencies because again, I can buy my own
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  Band-Aid. OK, we're, we're going to talk
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  about the next topic now. No segues.
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  This is not, we're not about segues today.
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  I just want you to know we're not about segues.
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  This, these are, these are such random topic changes.
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  I just need to like, I just need to laugh.
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  Anyways, this concept of you only live once.
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  Yolo. I was thinking about that while
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  I was on the cruise. And I do sometimes think about
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  this when I'm outside of my daily life and I don't do very
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  well going up to strangers and introducing myself.
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  So I don't really hit on people. But there's always like
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  sometimes this regret that you have.
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  Someone messaged me. So there was a telegram group
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  for the cruise. There were a lot of members on
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  it. It was actually a really great,
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  definitely kind of helped with the cruise experience as well.
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  Yesterday someone messaged me just privately.
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  They were part of the Telegram group and they asked if it was
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  possible via Atlantis to provide their contact information to
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  someone that was on the cruise because it was like a missed
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  connections type of thing. Remember when Craigslist had
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  missed connections? I just dated myself.
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  I don't know how old the five of you are.
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  Let's listen to this. That remembers Craigslist #1
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  they're still running, by the way.
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  And second, they remember the best connections where someone
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  would just post, oh, I was here on, On this date around this
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  time and I, I saw this person that kind of sort of like this.
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  And they were doing that and they were at this place and
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  blah, blah, blah. Anyways, so this person messaged
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  me and be like, hey, Joey, do you know there's a way like via
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  Atlantis to like give one of the guests on the cruise like my
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  contact information because he had like met up or like ran into
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  encounter someone, but like just didn't get their contact
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  information. And I was, I was like, oh,
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  that's so sweet. But there's no way for me to
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  like, I wasn't able to help him. But that does happen a lot.
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  And it's great to make connections on these cruises.
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  And it's like one of the biggest reasons I, I love these cruises
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  and I've met so many friends and so many people on these cruises.
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  But sometimes I have this, I, I just have this fear, like this
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  fear of rejection of like going up to people and like saying hi
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  or like doing this or doing that.
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  But I feel like I, I shouldn't have this fear on paper is very,
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  it's very silly and kind of unjustified because you go up to
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  someone doesn't doesn't matter if they reject you nicely or
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  they don't reject you so nicely, it doesn't matter.
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  You can just move on. It doesn't really like change
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  your life, but no one, no one likes to be rejected.
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  Even if on the surface you can say, OK, if you if you talk to
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  someone, it doesn't seem like you're interested, whatever, you
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  just move on. On paper, theoretically it
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  sounds like whatevs, no big deal.
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  There's like a million other guys out there, but the that
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  moment of like maybe getting your feelings hurt.
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  I think for me, it's something I I build up because I'll check
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  out a guy for so long, like on a cruise, I'll check out a guy for
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  days before maybe, but not not even making a move because I
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  usually like so rarely do that. I don't even know how I've met
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  the number of people like guys that I'm interested in over all
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  these years at all these events, because it's, I don't ever
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  remember a moment where like I will go up to someone and say
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  hi. They, they have to, they have,
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  they have to hit on me anyways. But this broader concept of
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  like, you only live once and I'm doing my small business thing.
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  And I was just thinking, you know, I, I could have easily
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  just kept on doing the nine to five.
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  It was a series of events. That led me to what I'm doing
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  right now for like work business stuff and like I talked about
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  briefly in the last uncut slash, the live stream about how I
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  wanted to like wind down my only fans and for like looking at
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  content creation. I'm a content creator.
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  I've made so much content and I feel like people don't
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  appreciate content creators very much.
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  Content creators get as a whole get stereotyped and they get a
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  bad Rep. I understand why there are just
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  like with a lot of other professions know not not
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  everyone in a particular industry is going to be
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  everyone's cup of tea and not everyone in the industry is
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  going to be like like AI want the first thing that I thought
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  was ethical. But maybe a better way to say
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  would be not everybody in industry is going to be a good
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  guy is going to necessarily have good intentions.
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  You know, sometimes in a business, in a industry, there
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  are those that are there to run a good business and there are
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  those people that they're just looking the big money.
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  OK, I'm sure like car dealerships as a whole get a BAT
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  Rep. There's some college dealerships
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  or some car sales people that I dealt with that's like, OK, this
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  is fucking horrible. This is why people like you and
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  dealerships like This is why like car dealerships blanketly
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  get a bad Rep. On the flip side, I have dealt
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  with car dealerships and car sales people that are like,
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  fine, you know, like I can understand, look, you're a
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  business, you're at work, you're there to make money.
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  I get it. And but you at at least give the
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  impression that you're not out to give me an impression.
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  You're not looking at me like a bag of money, like I'm a sucker.
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  So by the way, I feel like not to like throw a particular brand
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  under the bus, but like I've, I've heard so many stories and
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  I've experienced like Kia dealerships are horrible.
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  By the way, I just read a story about a Kia dealership from a
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  from a, from a car magazine where they just had like an
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  atrocious experience until they found out that the dealership
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  found out that the person was like a writer for like this,
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  like brand name national car news outlet.
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  Yeah. I've had like horrible
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  experiences at Kia dealerships for some reason.
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  And it put me off for buying a Kia.
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  Anyways, not the the whole company under the bus.
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  I love their cars. I think they're great cars.
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  Just the dealers are very sketch, at least in this part of
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  the country anyways. Yeah, So I feel like with
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  content creators, there are content creators that have kind
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  of like tainted the pool a little bit.
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  You know, some are like the Tik Tokers, a very small fraction
• 23:37
  like these are just like outliers, honestly, like these
• 23:41
  ones that have made it like quite big.
• 23:43
  And then they felt like they had to do more and more ridiculous
• 23:46
  things for like shock value, like the shock value creators.
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  That's, that's kind of like a tightrope that they are walking
• 23:56
  on because a very, very small fraction of them, OK, they do
• 24:03
  more and more shocking outrageous things that have been
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  some famous examples in the not too distant past of some of
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  these people just like crossing the line and doing these things
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  that are like so blatantly like horrible just to get the shock
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  files and just to get the views. And sometimes these people that
• 24:22
  do it, they get so much press and coverage because of like
• 24:26
  they're doing something so like outrageous that it crosses the
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  line. It kind of taints it for like
• 24:31
  all the other creators out there, especially in the eyes of
• 24:35
  people that are not in the kind of creation world.
• 24:39
  There are so many content creators out there that do such
• 24:42
  like an excellent job. There are like so many, you
• 24:46
  know, like famous and biggest superstars, Youtubers that are
• 24:50
  not doing the shock value thing. I feel like the shock value
• 24:52
  thing is not really a great route to go down long term
• 24:55
  because obvious reasons, but content creators, the ones that
• 24:59
  are successful and can make a living out of it, I have so much
• 25:04
  respect for them and I wish people, just generally people,
• 25:08
  but so many of us consume content.
• 25:10
  Even if you don't really like, there's some of you that are not
• 25:13
  on social media. I get it.
• 25:14
  If you listen to this, though, you're probably at least
• 25:16
  sometimes on social media occasionally, but you know, a
• 25:22
  lot of the content that people consume on on YouTube, on
• 25:26
  TikTok, on Instagram, yes, some of those are made by
• 25:28
  corporations that have like their marketing or HR department
• 25:32
  and that's how it goes through. But a lot of times you're seeing
• 25:35
  things from people that are like independent content creators
• 25:41
  that pop up, those people that can make that a successful
• 25:45
  business. You have no idea how difficult
• 25:47
  that is because to run a whole business by yourself.
• 25:51
  Now that I've done that with like a few different businesses
• 25:54
  now, which I still think I'm kind of crazy for doing, it is
• 25:57
  so difficult to make it successful.
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  You know, it's maybe easier to have like 1 viral video and be
• 26:04
  like a flash in the pan and have like this momentary short live
• 26:09
  success that may or may not branch out and do something
• 26:11
  else. But if there are any craters
• 26:15
  that you follow and they have had the longevity and the
• 26:20
  success to be at that high level for like a little while now, not
• 26:29
  just with like a video or for like a week or for like a month.
• 26:32
  If there any craters that you follow where you've been
• 26:35
  consuming the content over a longer period of time and
• 26:40
  they're, they are more or less they are independent or they
• 26:43
  started independent and they've like grown themselves into a
• 26:45
  brand, please support them. It doesn't mean you have to like
• 26:48
  give them money, but like if you're regularly consuming
• 26:53
  content from a content creator and those content creators are
• 26:59
  they're, they're making content creation either like their main
• 27:02
  thing or like it's like takes up a significant amount of the time
• 27:04
  and effort. Like please support them.
• 27:07
  Doesn't mean you have to get the money like you know, if they
• 27:10
  have like a thing they can subscribe to where like, hey,
• 27:12
  you get additional content for like X dollars.
• 27:15
  Like I know I talk about my Patreon, but even if not like
• 27:18
  just follow them. I, I personally, I will say I
• 27:21
  have this thing where I have this version of like following
• 27:24
  other people that I don't know on social media.
• 27:31
  You do you follow and unfollow whoever you want, of which
• 27:35
  another topic is like, I don't think it's a big deal to like
• 27:37
  unfollow someone, but like, apparently it's like a big deal.
• 27:39
  I don't give a shit about following someone, but show them
• 27:42
  some support. If you don't want to follow them
• 27:45
  because you don't want their stuff on your feet, Like I, I
• 27:47
  get it. You can follow them and mute
• 27:49
  them by the way, you give them a follow you, you boost their
• 27:52
  stats a little bit for absolutely free and you mute
• 27:56
  them so that their stuff doesn't come up.
• 27:58
  OK when you boost an when you mute an account, the creator
• 28:01
  doesn't know or you know that just give them like a little
• 28:04
  thumbs up on like one video. If you don't want to commit to
• 28:07
  following the whole account, give them a thumbs up or like
• 28:10
  just comment with like a little thumbs up emoji or like
• 28:13
  whatever. Very low investment because all
• 28:16
  those things really do help content creators because you're
• 28:20
  boosting the engagement of their of their content and of their
• 28:23
  account and it's completely free to you.
• 28:25
  That's just how the ecosystem of social media and content
• 28:29
  creation works in the modern day, right?
• 28:31
  The algorithms prize when people put a comment in, like that type
• 28:36
  of engagement is like, it's, it's a really powerful signal to
• 28:41
  the algorithms. So even more than followers and
• 28:45
  subscriber counts now. I mean, it used to be like, you
• 28:47
  know, 456 years ago, like subscriber counts and follower
• 28:50
  counts for everything. Nowadays, the algorithms have
• 28:52
  moved away from that a little bit and they prize engagement on
• 28:57
  the content itself more. So liking a car, liking a post
• 29:02
  or video, it's good. If you do a comment, that's even
• 29:05
  better. So yeah, just do that.
• 29:08
  Like if you, I'm not necessary fishing for you guys to like
• 29:11
  comment or not comment on my stuff.
• 29:14
  But if there are any other just general content creators in
• 29:18
  general just out there to I just kind of it's so difficult to be
• 29:23
  a successful content creator as in someone that get makes enough
• 29:28
  money from their content creation to at least make the
• 29:31
  content creation itself break even.
• 29:34
  But creating content is not necessary free.
• 29:36
  You think like, oh, someone just like propped an iPhone up on
• 29:41
  their table and hit record and that's it Sometimes.
• 29:45
  Yeah, that is how it starts. But you know, like I've invested
• 29:48
  in my camera, I've invested in this microphone so that, you
• 29:51
  know, the quality of my content is good and not crap because,
• 29:55
  you know, like audio and video quality.
• 29:57
  It does matter like this day and age, so little things that that
• 30:01
  I chose to invest in cameras and microphones and all that kind of
• 30:06
  stuff. A lot of people, you know, like
• 30:08
  an an iPhone is perfectly good for a lot of types of content
• 30:11
  creation. A lot of famous Youtubers where
• 30:15
  they are doing their content like they're doing whole entire
• 30:17
  videos. They got millions of views just
• 30:19
  on an iPhone and like a tiny little mic that only cost maybe
• 30:22
  like $50, like clips onto the shirt.
• 30:24
  They're like different ways to do it.
• 30:25
  But I think my thing is like, go support your content creators.
• 30:29
  You know, if you're the type of person that will, you know, pass
• 30:34
  by a pan handlers, a homeless person, at least 5 bucks.
• 30:37
  I think you can also justify giving 5 bucks to like your your
• 30:42
  top, your favorite content creator that you consume their
• 30:45
  content on the regular for maybe hours per week.
• 30:49
  So it doesn't again, it doesn't have to be money, but like find
• 30:52
  some way to support your content creators.
• 30:55
  Doesn't mean you have to like subscribe to everyone's Patreon,
• 30:58
  OK? Just like leave a comment and
• 30:59
  boost their engagement a little bit.
• 31:00
  That's completely free for you. You know, boosting a content
• 31:05
  sometimes to some content creators like getting that
• 31:07
  boosting engagement, it's maybe better than getting like 3 or $5
• 31:12
  from you. That community effect of like
• 31:14
  having people leave a comment or things like that.
• 31:19
  There you go. But I do have a page.
• 31:23
  I, I will plug all my shit, but I, I, I'm supposed to plug
• 31:27
  myself up top. I, I'm very much of the opinion
• 31:29
  that, you know, if you want to subscribe to someone, subscribe.
• 31:34
  If you don't want to subscribe to someone, then don't.
• 31:37
  I mentioned on a previous podcast before you know what?
• 31:39
  I, I don't like this thing where like the please like and
• 31:43
  subscribe Youtubers and even podcasters.
• 31:48
  Now they say it so much, it's lost all meaning.
• 31:51
  It's like in one ear out the other.
• 31:54
  I, when I was in my early YouTube years, I did used to say
• 31:57
  it because everybody else was saying that.
• 31:58
  And that was a much different time.
• 31:59
  You know, like 10 years ago, over 10 years ago, I started my
• 32:02
  YouTube. I started my YouTube in 2013 and
• 32:04
  we're 2026 now. So 13 years ago I started my
• 32:06
  YouTube. And back then I used to say like
• 32:09
  this guy. And these days I don't say I'm
• 32:12
  because obviously the algorithm and the game and social media
• 32:15
  itself has changed in those three years.
• 32:16
  And I don't like hearing it. When I hear it, I roll, I kind
• 32:19
  of roll my eyes in in my head and I know why people are saying
• 32:23
  it, but I just don't like to say it like subscribe if you want to
• 32:26
  subscribe, like if you want to like, you know, but I, I think
• 32:31
  the the better way I can do this for you.
• 32:32
  It's like why I've been talking about this last 15 minutes.
• 32:35
  It's like it's better instead of me just saying like and
• 32:38
  subscribe to impress upon you in greater detail.
• 32:44
  Why engaging with someone's content.
• 32:47
  Your favorite content creators that you might be consuming
• 32:50
  hours of the content of every week.
• 32:51
  They might be the podcast that you listen to on your commute or
• 32:55
  the YouTube video that you put on at night to unwind from your
• 32:58
  day. You know, those people are
• 33:00
  providing you entertainment and you know some, any way that you
• 33:04
  can support them, even in, in, in the tiny little gesture that
• 33:06
  doesn't cost you any money. That's why you should like like
• 33:10
  someone's content. That's why you should subscribe
• 33:12
  to someone's account. That's why you should leave a
• 33:13
  comment on someone's post. That's the reason why, you know,
• 33:16
  I don't want to just tell you to like and subscribe and be like,
• 33:19
  well, why? So from the other side of the
• 33:24
  fence, as someone who's created content for many, many years
• 33:29
  now, not the most successfully, but I enjoy it.
• 33:33
  I, I, I talk a lot and I do this podcast and I started it for
• 33:36
  fun. And this podcast is not really
• 33:39
  like a substantial amount of source of money.
• 33:42
  It's a hobby for me. I like doing it.
• 33:45
  I get enjoyment from doing it and I put it out there And some
• 33:48
  of you, there's five of you that choose to like follow my Patreon
• 33:51
  and I think that's great. You know, it's a it's a little
• 33:53
  bit of money, but which I'm so thankful for and it's it helps
• 33:58
  to and it'll pay for a few things.
• 34:01
  It helps to pay for the Internet connection that I used to upload
• 34:04
  all my videos. It helps, you know, when to like
• 34:07
  this camera that I really seek upgraded with the previous ones
• 34:11
  were a little damage on this last legs, just little things
• 34:14
  like that. And it does help.
• 34:15
  So I'm very thankful for everyone that is on my Patreon,
• 34:18
  for example. And you know, I don't want
• 34:19
  people to just give me money just to give me money.
• 34:22
  And on my Patreon, there's lots of extra content.
• 34:25
  As I mentioned at the top of the podcast, this has been a very
• 34:28
  random podcast, but all of these podcasts have been very random.
• 34:32
  I don't feel like I have to transition topics.
• 34:36
  This I'm not a professional. You're going, you're going to
• 34:39
  get what you get. This is me this, this is Joey.
• 34:41
  This is what you, this is what you sign up for if you if you're
• 34:44
  assigned to listen to this. All right, we'll leave it there
• 34:48
  because it's lunchtime and I'm going to go eat lunch.
• 34:50
  So until next time, bye y'all.