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HHBSO 130: My Day So Far · 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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I literally had to re record that one line that I've said a
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million times because I accidentally introduced the gay
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crews at travel podcast and I caught myself halfway through
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was like, no, that's not my recording right now.
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I'm just going to tell you about my day so far.
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It it's barely 3:00 PM, but as I'm recording this and we'll see
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how it goes. So as I do, when I wake up, the
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first thing I do is reach for my phone off the night stand.
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I barely move. I turn my body towards the night
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stand just enough so that I can reach my phone from the charger
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and grab it and then immediately tuck my arm back under the
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blanket. OK, literally like that.
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And the weird thing that happened was, oh, the Wi-Fi
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isn't working. Wi-Fi isn't working.
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And in my house, cellular reception is not very good.
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When I first moved into this place, it took a few like two or
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three weeks before the Internet actually worked because the
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previous owner had DSL. OK.
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Most of you don't know what DSL is, even if you're like alive
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and like well into your adihood. When DSL came out, it was never
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like a super popular technology. DSL was a way to get Internet
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and it came out for home Internet around the same time
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that cable came out. OK, like cable got way more
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popular. People don't do DSL anymore, but
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somehow I've only been here for like 5 or 6 years.
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The previous person had DSL and obviously that wouldn't do so I
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needed to get cable instead. But this particular unit was not
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wired for cable because the people that lived here before
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never had cable. So I needed spectrum to like
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come out and like hook stuff up. So it wasn't just like they
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flipped a switch. But while I was waiting for that
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to happen, I had like two or three weeks that I didn't have
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Internet and it was kind of difficult.
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But I found that if I had my phone or hotspot where one of
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the patio windows were, so like the patio off of my living room,
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I could get just enough LTE to be like for it to be doable.
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Like if I needed to do some work, it wasn't going to be
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fast, but it would be workable. So any other part of my house if
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I step just like a few feet away from that patio door, like you
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wouldn't be able to do anything. So I'm very critically rely on
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Wi-Fi and my Internet connection in my house.
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And you know, Spectrum is not that reliable here.
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It's like possibly reliable. It's gotten better.
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But like, you know, I could probably expect once 1/4 every
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few months for there to be like a short outage.
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But yeah, for some reason woke up, Wi-Fi wasn't working,
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Internet was out. So I mean, it's not a big
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problem for me to not have Internet if I don't need to get
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anything done, right? If you have to work from home or
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like there's something you need to get done online, which is
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like so many things nowadays, it's hard when you don't have
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working Internet and most people use their phones.
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I really couldn't. But today of all days, this
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morning I had a work conference call.
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I could have rescheduled it, but it's like it's I didn't want to
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and like it wasn't super necessary.
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And So what I did was I took my phone and I put it onto a tripod
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that I have like a phone specific tripod, a travel one
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that I usually travel with if I need to do filming on location.
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And I just popped it right in front of the patio door in my
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living room. And I grabbed one of the chairs,
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my dining room chairs and I just like pointed the chair outside.
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So at least I had some, you know, some nice greenery to look
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at. And I took my conference call.
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That was conference call and it was kind of important.
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It was like I needed the connection to like work.
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So the 10 minutes meeting up to it was like me trying to move
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the phone in different directions and running speed
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tests and see if it's like still OK and things like that.
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I couldn't have my camera on because that took up too much
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bandwidth. So it's like have my camera off,
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which is like whatever the other people, they had to present some
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slides and dashboards and things to me and like I was able to see
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that, thank goodness. And the audio was fine.
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So like, OK, at least have that. But after I did the call and I
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was just checking the status of the outage, it's like, oh, we'll
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we'll give you an update in like 6 hours.
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It's like OK, well this doesn't help me.
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Today's a gym day. So I was thinking, OK, I
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finished the call. It was like 11 AM when I
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finished the call. God knows how much longer I
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won't have Internet for. And I was thinking, well, let's
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just go to the gym early because, you know, hopefully
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after I've been at the gym, by the time I get back, we'll have
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Internet again and then like we'll be fine.
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I don't usually go to the gym that early and I usually like to
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have like a coffee, some caffeine, pre workout, a little
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bit of food before I go to the gym.
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But by this time, because I'm on this, I can't snack between
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meals right now. I'm still working on my diet.
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And one of the rules, one of the few rules I have about eating
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right now is that I'm absolutely not allowed to have any
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calories, even like 10 or 20 calories between my meals.
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I could have black coffee, plain tea, water, and like that's
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pretty much it. There's like absolutely no solid
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foods that I can have. So it's like, OK, still, it's
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only been two hours since I finished breakfast.
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There's still another two hours to go before I can eat lunch.
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I was like, you know what, let's just go to the gym.
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We don't have, we don't have Internet at home.
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I suppose to go to the gym. Anyways, if the Internet comes
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back by the time I get back, then we can just be productive
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in the afternoon. So I went to the gym.
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You know, The funny thing is 5 minutes before I left for the
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gym, the Internet came back up and there was a moment where I'm
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like, oh, maybe I'll just go to the gym at the regular time.
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But by the time I already like drank a black coffee and I was
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already changed into my gym clothes, I was like ready to go.
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And the coffee that I drank was the most sour coffee that I have
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drank in a while. So I have an espresso machine
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that I like do my own shots and I'll, I'll steam my own milk and
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things like that. For whatever reason, the coffee
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it's been pulling, it's been sour.
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OK. So I think it's like I need to
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descale the machine and probably because the beans are getting
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stale, they're not super great beans to start with.
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And like I think they've been sitting there for like a while.
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I've been, it's like the end of a bag, but this bag has lasted
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extra long because I couldn't have any coffee for the two
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weeks when I was doing that special liquids diet at the end
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of December. So I order brand new beans.
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They're supposed to come today. They're sitting in my probably
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in the mailroom right now. But this morning they haven't
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arrived. And I was thinking, OK, I just
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want a little bit of caffeine. I can't have any calories at
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this point, but I can have black coffee.
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So I can have like just straight espresso, which I never drank.
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It's always a latte. It's always like mixed into
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something, but it's like I just wanted some caffeine.
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So I just did that. But it's like the worst shot of
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espresso I've ever had because even when I was making lattes
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the last few days, you can tell that the shots were sour.
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It was no point. It was not good.
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But like, I just downed it anyways.
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And OK, off to the gym I go. It's quite warm.
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We're getting a little bit of a heat wave.
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It's currently unseasonably warm.
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It's 80. It's 80° right now outside at
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3:00 PM. And this little mini heat wave
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supposed to be here for like the next like 5 or 6 days.
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So it's nice. I kind of prefer like this kind
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of like temperature range. I like it when it's like high
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seventies, 80 ish during the day, but then you know at night
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it will be like 50. It's like perfect for sleeping
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when it's cold at night. But then during the day it's
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like you don't need to have a whole bunch of clothes.
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So the weather is actually nice. It's the only thing that's going
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for me right now. Got to the gym and the thing I
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don't love about my gym is if you show up before like 12:30 or
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one, they've got classes that they run in the morning.
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In the afternoon, they don't run as many classes.
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A lot of the classes are like in the morning time.
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The last class I think finishes at 12:30 and then usually when I
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go at like 2:00 or 3:00 PM, there's not usually a class.
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So I got there like, I don't know, 11-30, something like
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that. And there wasn't a class active.
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What happened was all the people that took a class before the
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classes ended and they're just on the, they're on the gym
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floor, which is even worse. So like there's all these extra,
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I'm going to sound like such a spoiled brat.
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I just don't like it when there's like a lot of extra
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people. This sounds so horrible.
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OK. I just don't like it when
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there's like all these extra like post gym class people.
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Let's not get into it. I just let me just put it this
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way. It was more people than I
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expected and it was like I found the people more annoying than
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usual. I'll just leave it at that.
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I know it's not rational, that's just how I felt.
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Anyways, I did my workout, it wasn't that bad because I think
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my system has kind of been pretty conditioned to caffeine
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so I don't get like a major caffeine cake from just like a
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double shot of espresso and the beans that I have were probably
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stale so it's probably not even that much caffeine in it.
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I got a decent workout in today. That part wasn't so bad.
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And every time I leave the gym I always ask myself, do I need
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groceries? Do I need to stop by the Trader
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Joe's? And today I was just like, well,
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I went to the Trader Joe's couple days ago.
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I still have eggs, I still have bread, I still have chicken.
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I was like, OK, I don't think I need to go, but like, I kind of
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don't want to go. I just kind of just want to go
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home because I know that the Internet is already back on.
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I kind of just want to go home. I was getting hungry.
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It was coming up to lunchtime. So like, OK, let's just go home
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and just cook lunch. Got home, started cooking lunch
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and while the lunch is cooking, by the way, I got the new air
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fryer. So cooking lunch is a lot faster
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now. It used to take me like half an
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hour to do like fries and chicken in this host oven.
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Now it takes like 20 which is pretty fast.
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So I put the stuff in the air fryer and I'm thinking, you know
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what? I think I shouldn't, I should
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descale the espresso machine because I looked up, oh, what
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could cause my machine to give me sour shots?
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And one of the things is like, oh, you might need to descale
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it. The other thing is it could be
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your beans. For me, I was thinking, OK, it's
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probably both because I know we have like borderline hard water
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in Los Angeles. And you do need to descale the
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machine every so often. Otherwise it will affect like
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the taste of the coffee. I don't think I've done it in a
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while. I got all the stuff for it.
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So it's like, OK, let's just like descale it.
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And I decided to descale it twice because sometimes when I
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clean something in the house that I don't usually clean, I'm
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going to be like, let's really clean it properly so that I
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don't have to do it again. The most annoying thing about
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cleaning something half ass is you have to do it really soon
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afterwards. I just want to like do it
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properly. I want to be like, I want to
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double down on cleaning something so that I know for
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sure that it's clean and I don't have to do it again soon.
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So, so it is with descaling. It's like, OK, it's not that
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hard to descale it. Once you do, it's like, OK, I've
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got all the solution and whatever stuff out.
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Let's just like run it through twice to make sure it's like
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really properly descaled. And after descaled, I start to
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clean it. There's like a descale cycle
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with one set of solution and it's just like cleaning solution
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for like a cleaning cycle. It's like, OK, I'll descale it
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twice and I'll clean it. And I'm choosing to do it now
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because I wanted a cup of coffee.
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I wanted a cup of coffee I've got thanks to the generosity of
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one of my Patreon subscribers. You know who you are.
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I don't know if you want to be called out.
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I have a second bean grinder now.
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So the expression machine has its own built in grinder for
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beans and that's the regular caffeinated coffee.
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And got a separate grinder for beans for the decaf so that I
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can easily do decaf or regular. And I've already gone to the
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gym. I didn't want more caffeine, so
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I wanted some decaf. So that's why I was trying to
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like descale and do it. I was like, OK, let's just like
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have a cup of coffee with lunch. Nice couple of latte, nice
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couple of decaf, have it with my lunch.
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I didn't get to have my coffee fixed yesterday or earlier
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today. I can have some decaf.
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That's exactly why I wanted that second grinder, so I could have
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coffee on days where like I didn't eat caffeine anyways.
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So I'm like descaling. It's like, no, let's do it
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again. And then as I'm cleaning the
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machine, the food is done. It takes like 8 or 10 minutes to
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just scale it. Once you do it twice, that's 20
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minutes. The food is in the fries ready.
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So OK, I don't want the food to go cold.
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So I put the machine cleaning on hold, went to eat my fries and
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my chicken. That's what I was cooking the
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air fryer. And then I'm like, OK, I'm done
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eating now. I'll go back to like I'll clean
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the machine and I can like have a cup of coffee and I have like
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a slice of peanut butter toast, but I'm still hungry.
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So I started doing that And while I'm like cleaning the
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machine, I'm like, I kind of wanted to get back to work.
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I've been working on creating this PDF guide that's supposed
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to be like a pre cruise guide for people that's going to go on
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to the Atlanta Symphony cruise. That's the first week of
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February. It was on February the 1st and I
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wanted to do it just like for kind of for like to promote the
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to promote just three travels without literally running an ad.
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But I started that project a week ago and I've been working
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on it pretty much every day. Every time, every day that I get
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up, I'm like, OK, I'm going to finish today.
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I'm nowhere near finish, let's put it that way.
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Yesterday was not a gym day. So all I did yesterday was work
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on that guide like from 9:00 AM up until like dinner time at
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eight, I was working on that guide.
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I just had the briefest break for like lunch and that was it.
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And yesterday I got so tired and sleepy at night, I went to bed
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at 10. Usually even at 11, I'm not
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sleepy yet. And I just like forced myself to
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like start winding down and go to bed.
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Yesterday it was 10:00, it was barely 10:00.
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And I was like, I'm actually feel sleepy because.
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And the only thing I did was work on that stupid guy.
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So that is actually getting me to the point where I'm getting,
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I'm getting so tired from doing it.
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Like mentally I'm getting like exhausted enough that I'm
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getting sleepy early. And I actually slept longer than
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usual last night. So I'm like, OK, I really want
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to get it done. I really want to get it done.
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But the cruise is only like 2 1/2 weeks away.
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I kind of want to get it out. We got the e-mail from Atlantis
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yesterday. That's like, OK, you can go
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register with Royal Caribbean now.
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You're like the party theme. This is like a good time to do
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it. So like as I'm doing everything
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today, this story, I'm telling you about how my day has gone so
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far. It's always been a back where I
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had like, OK, we want to just like, let's just get it done.
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It's like descaling the coffee machine.
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Let's just like double down and just get it done and then we can
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move on. Same with this like PDF guy for
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the quiz. Like let's just double down,
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let's just do it, let's get it done, let's send it out and
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let's move on. I've been trying to do that for
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like literally a week. I started like last Tuesday or
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Wednesday working on it. It's like 20 something pages
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long and there's not even one single finish page.
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Well, there's maybe like 6 or 7 pages that's like done.
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But anyways, we won't go into the the slight mess that is that
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PDF guy. So as I'm like cleaning the
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espresso machine, I'm like, oh, OK, we need, we're needing to
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like just get back to work. I want to just like get this
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thing published. There's no one asking for it.
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By the way, I decided to like, oh, it will be good for just
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Joey Travels and for like get my naming out there.
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I like the Facebook groups or whatever to like get this guy
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out sooner rather than later. So anyways, I get the machine
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cleaned. The kitchen counter is not now a
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mess, but just like water and solution and stuff everywhere.
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And I need to clean it and stuff is getting dirty.
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I get my coffee, I half my toast.
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OK, as I finished and I was going to go to the office, go to
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my desk, my work computer to start working on the thing.
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I just remember that, oh, it's Wednesday.
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So I need to record a podcast, this podcast that I'm recording
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for you now for Thursday, because I always record it in
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the afternoon. So I walk in the office, I turn
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the lights on and then I recognize, oh, it's, it's
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Wednesday. We need to record a podcast for
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tomorrow. And then that's at that point
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where like, you know what, let's just cut our losses today.
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Let's just like clean the house because you know, like I, the
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kitchen is like a little bit messy with like stuff and like I
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need to like wipe the floors and the counters are messy because
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all this solution you need to like cleaning the especial
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machine almost like spilled water everywhere.
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And I know like my toilet needs a clean and I got some slightly
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extra dirty laundry that's been sitting there for a couple of
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days now that it really shouldn't sit that long, but
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some of those things are going to sit.
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So when like 30 minutes ago when I realized, oh, we need to
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record a podcast. At that point, I'm like, OK,
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we're just going to, it's just going to be tours.
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It it's not going to be like a work day.
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It's going to be like a house work day.
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It's like, OK, we had the power outage.
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We did that one work meeting. We, we cleaned the especial
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machine. OK, It's like there's like
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laundry piling up. The bathroom is dirty.
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The laundry really needs to get done.
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It's like I need to record a podcast.
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Like let's just, OK, let's just do chores.
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Let's just do chores. Let's clean the bathroom, Let's
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clean the kitchen, let's do the laundry.
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Let's get the podcast up. And then like, it will be what
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it will be the rest of the day. Yeah, it, it's, it's 3:30 now.
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So I'm going to start the laundry.
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I'm going to clean up the mess I made in the kitchen.
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I am going to clean my bathroom because that's overdue.
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Like the mirrors are getting, you know, get you know how you
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get spiders all over your mirror And it's like eventually it's
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like, OK, this is gross. The toilet needs to be cleaned
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for sure. And whatever, whatever time is
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left over in between, then I will worry about other things
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later. You know, one of the great
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things since, since the new year, actually coming off of
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that special liquids diet that I was doing over like Christmas
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and that holidays period, basically, I've had a little
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less ADHDI don't know if I'm clinically technically have
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ADHD, but it is fairly easy sometimes for me to like be very
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scatterbrained. If I can sit down and like do
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one thing and like focus on it, then I can stay focused on it.
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But ever since I finished that liquid's diet, so basically
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since the since New Year's, I've been less scatter brained.
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And it does say that if you have this Siebel condition, which is
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a condition I was trying to fix, Siebel can cause a bit of brain
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fog, which is not technically what I had, but there is
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definitely quite a strong like brain gut connection.
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So, but I did feel myself, I've been able to be a little bit
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less scatterbrained, a little bit more focused and also like,
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I don't know directly, indirectly I've had like a
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little bit less anxiety about work stuff.
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So it's actually been quite nice.
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I don't know exactly the, you know, scientific link, but it,
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it's been nice to be like, OK, that little extra bit of focus
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has been nice for like my productivity.
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So yeah, that's, that's been my day so far.
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I'm supposed I do have a backup hotspot for times when my Wi-Fi
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goes down. I took the SIM card out of it.
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I don't know why. And I can't find that tiny
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little SIM card anymore. I think I happened upon it last
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sometime last year and I was like, Oh my God, I've been
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looking everywhere for this thing.
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Here it is. I'm going to put it somewhere
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where I won't lose it. And I think I just lost it
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again. Yeah.
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So that's my Wednesdays. Wednesday as we record this.
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I usually record this on Wednesdays.
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You know what, I think last year, me, if you asked me if
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this happened last year, I think I would have been more a day
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like this last year would have made me more frazzled and more
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frustrated and give me more anxiety because I for a lot of
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last year, I had this thing like, oh, we need to get stuff
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done. We need to get stuff done.
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We need to get stuff done. There's this or this, there's
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this and that. Also kind of like the
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scatterbrain kind of if you mix that in with the scatterbrain,
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it's just like not a super great state of mind to be in.
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But I'm pretty content to be like, you know what, we'll work
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on that guide later. And yeah, like, let's clean the
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house. And the universe is guiding me
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towards this path. The universe is like, bitch, you
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need to take out your recycling. It's full.
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The recycling is full. It's like, bitch, you need to go
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scrub your toilet because it's not pretty there.
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OK. The other thing I've been
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thinking about just at the very back of my head, regular
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listeners and especially my Patreon subscribers know that I
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was dog sitting for my friend again for like, it's about two
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weeks. Louis went home like, last week.
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Yeah, he went home about a week ago.
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So it was nice to have the company of a dog without any of
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the associated responsibilities. And I remember saying on the
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podcast, like it was like a day or two after Louis went home, I
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was like, well, I don't know about a dog right now, but
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definitely when you have the dog, when the dog was here, I
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there was more, there's more structure to my routine.
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Like, you know, in the morning, you have to take the dog out.
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They have to go do their number ones and number twos like fairly
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early on in the morning. You have to feed them.
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So, you know, it's one of the advantages.
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I mean, some people see it as like a disadvantage.
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And for me, I was like, OK, like having to take a dog out, you
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know, like 3 or 4 times a day so that they can like, do their
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thing. That sounds annoying.
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But I will say that I did definitely get more exercise.
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Like, I still went to the gym, but it's like I got way more
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steps in and it wasn't like annoying, you know, like, yeah,
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like the first few days might be annoying because like, it's only
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been like a few days. But you know, during the second
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week it was just like, you just get into like a routine.
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You know, he doesn't need. Louis didn't need tons of
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exercise. He's like a small dog.
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He's only like 13 lbs. He's a poodle.
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And you know, you don't need to like, walk 3 miles with it every
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single day. He just needs like a couple of
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1520 minute walks. And at home, he's very, very
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chill. So now that I've, he's gone home
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for like a week, obviously, like right after he got home, he's
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like, OK, there was one part of me that I thought, I have my
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life back. It's great.
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Not that I was like dreading and like, you know, wanting the time
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to go to pass faster. It's like he would go home
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sooner. It wasn't like that, but it was
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like, oh, OK. Like I don't have to like take
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him over for a walk and do something to do that.
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Now that he's been gone for a week, I'm like, I'm not like
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more productive, you know, I think one part of me was
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thinking, OK, if you need to spend time taking care of a dog,
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that time has to come from something else.
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And that is going to maybe take away from like my work or
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productivity time. That I don't think it's true.
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Because sometimes when you give someone, when you free up time
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in someone's schedule, it doesn't mean that they're going
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to spend the extra time productively.
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So spend the time in a productive way.
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I don't know what I just said. I think with me it not having to
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take care of the dog, the time that it freed up from that,
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maybe it gave me another like 30 minutes in the day where I was
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like actually working. But I think it just allowed me
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to be lazier. Like it allowed me to like not
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get out of bed as early because with Louis, like once, you know,
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I get back into the routine of dog sitting him.
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Like it's, it's pretty efficient, our schedule and I
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kind of it, it's good for me to have that little bit of
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structure because right now with like 0, you know, with no
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dependence, like I can sleep in as much as I want and getting
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out of bed is difficult for me. It's not the hardest thing in
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the world, but it's like every morning I just it, it's, it
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takes willpower to like get out of bed in the morning.
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So it was nice to have Louis the dog around.
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So getting a dog stuff off the table, but I'm going to revisit
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it. Like I'm just going to sit on
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those slots about dog ownership for like a few more weeks after
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I get back from the cruise to 1st week of February.
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We can re evaluate that might be a good time to get a dog because
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definitely at least when I first get the dog I want.
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I don't want to like get a dog when I have some travel bags
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coming up two weeks after that, at least for like, you know,
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the, the, the month or so after I get the dog because, you know,
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dog needs like acclimatize and all that stuff to like a new
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home and all that, your routine and everything.
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We will revisit the dog thoughts after I come back from the
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cruise in February. But yeah, that's been that's
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been my day so far. I guess if nothing else, it gave
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me something to talk about on the podcast today.
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Yeah, I I should probably, I should probably get another.
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I should fix my hotspot backup Internet thing, but that
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requires that requires money. I've been buying a few things
27:09
that I didn't super really need. I showed you guys the sneakers
27:13
that I got last week. Sneakers are still sitting on
27:16
my. I'm looking at them right now.
27:19
I'm I'm literally staring. It's 6 feet away from me off
27:22
camera. I'm looking at those brand new
27:25
sneakers now. Yeah, I'm, I've been tempted to
27:27
get every so often, I tell myself, Joey, stop buying
27:34
things. Like stop buying things and it
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90% of the time it works. I am.
27:40
I did sell some old camera equipment.
27:43
There were a couple, there were a couple camera lenses for my
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fancy camera that I'm looking at right now.
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I sold those two lenses. I sold them because I got 2
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brand new lenses to replace those.
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But one of the lens I got was was actually neither was neither
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one of them new I got no, I got 2 used lenses.
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Like lenses are always like it's always better to buy used.
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Honestly. I got 2 new to me lenses to
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replace the 2 old ones. So I mean, I don't, I don't, I
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think net net, I'm still spending a few extra 100 bucks
28:14
on that even with selling the old ones.
28:16
I'm selling my old Oh, my old. There's so much junk in my
28:19
dining room table. This is my iPhone 14 Pro Max.
28:22
If you're watching a video version of this, this is it's
28:24
gathering dust because I got the iPhone 17 what in like October,
28:31
November. So this has been sitting for
28:34
like two or three months and I just literally like an hour ago
28:38
did the thing I need to do online to get rid of it.
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I was going to sell it on eBay or something like that, but I'm
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going to go with a different place where they'll just send me
28:49
a box and kept me a check. You know, this particular phone,
28:53
this model, it's like I'm I'm if I did EB eBay, maybe I'll get
28:57
another at best $50 at best, best case like, but this is such
29:02
an old and Bank of phone. It's not got any cracks on it,
29:05
but it's got so many dents and it's like an older model now
29:07
It's like what A33 plus year old phone that you know Yeah, So I'm
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just going to get rid of this one.
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So yeah, there you go. Thank you for listening to not
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that tragedy of a day. You know, I wasn't, I wasn't, I
29:24
kept it optimistic. You know, some days are more
29:27
difficult than other days. And it sometimes surprisingly
29:34
difficult to keep the glass half full in terms of your thoughts,
29:40
which control your emotions by learning therapy.
29:43
And sometimes little things can derail your day.
29:47
I'm glad to say I'm at a point now that you know, some of these
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things, obviously these are very minor things in a grand scheme
29:55
of things like not having Wi-Fi, Honestly, like I didn't really
29:59
blink half a knife. Like, OK, whatever, I get to
30:01
slack off. I was talking to a friend
30:04
recently and he, he, he got sick and he got sick.
30:10
That means that oh, he has to take time off of work.
30:13
You know, when I get sick, even if I really didn't want to be
30:17
sick, I've learned that, you know what, if I legit get sick
30:23
and I can't work, I'm going to enjoy it.
30:28
Whereas a lot of people sometimes they think like, oh,
30:30
Oh my God, I'm getting sick. I can't go to work anymore after
30:34
like calling sick and like I'm a loser on some pay or like blah,
30:37
blah, blah, these and that, all that stuff.
30:40
It's disrupting your life and no one likes getting sick.
30:42
Getting sick doesn't feel good. OK, I've learned to just lean
30:46
into it. If I get a cold or flu or
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whatever. Well, obviously for me, I'm in a
30:51
position where like I'm self-employed, you know, I, I
30:55
don't have to call in sick. But even when I did have the day
30:57
job, I've already learned that lesson by then.
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If I'm actually getting sick, I would just call out sick.
31:03
There's still that little bit of obligation or that little bit of
31:06
anxiety of like, oh, like, what if someone at work needs me for
31:10
something? It's one of the little joys, one
31:13
of the little advantages of being self-employed.
31:17
Because if I really wanted to, I can just say like to my, well,
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let's use only fans as an example.
31:25
I'm supposed to post like twice a week.
31:27
If I was properly sick for a whole week, I'm just going to
31:29
tell my fans like, hey, guys, I'm sick.
31:32
New videos this week and maybe some people won't subscribe
31:38
because nothing new came out that week.
31:40
I'm OK with that. They'll probably subscribe in a
31:43
couple weeks time when I start reposting and there's some brand
31:45
new hot content they want to see.
31:47
And my existing subscribers, some of them may be just more
31:51
cash subscribers. Maybe they don't choose to
31:52
renew. That's OK.
31:53
But there, I know that there are supporters out there that's like
31:58
some of these people, a small fraction of them, they've
32:00
subscribed to me for like months or even years, several months or
32:05
like a couple years because I'm doing it for like 4 years now.
32:08
Oh my God. And then they're like, they'll
32:10
understand and then that's fine. So it's nice to know that like
32:15
you can put work stuff on hold if you want to do it just like
32:23
today. It's like, you know what, I
32:24
really wanted to get this work thing done.
32:26
I've been like heads down on this thing so hard for like a
32:28
whole week. I got, I, you know, I, it tired
32:31
me out so much yesterday that I went to bed early because I was
32:33
sleepy. But then today it's like, you
32:35
know what, let's just, we just need to do some, we, we're going
32:38
to do some other stuff today and I'm completely at peace with
32:42
that. The Wi-Fi going out was fine,
32:45
The annoying gym people was fine, and cleaning the coffee
32:48
machine was fine. I, I don't dislike cleaning
32:51
things. Obviously the only time where I
32:54
would prefer to not clean something is the time factor.
32:58
Sometimes it was a little busier.
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You know what, it would be nice for someone to like clean it so
33:03
that I don't have to spend the time doing it so I can spend my
33:05
time in other ways. So I totally get why certain
33:07
people kind of few people that they have maids and they have
33:10
people come and clean their houses every so often.
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Like, I totally get it. It we can kind of it it I mean,
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because time is like the most valuable precious things.
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So I I totally get it. But I'm not so busy that I can't
33:22
clean my own house. And I think I kind of inherited
33:26
from my mom, like, you know what, I'm going to be judgy
33:29
about how someone else cleans my house.
33:33
Definitely inherited that from my mom from all the times my
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mom, it's like you kids never help me do chores.
33:38
And they're like, we try to help, like you're doing it
33:39
wrong. Very bad.
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And with that, we'll end this week's episode of the podcast.
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Oh, I, I'm supposed to plug stuff.
33:50
There's there's probably some new YouTube videos.
33:53
Did a bunch of reels from one of the YouTube videos from me and
33:57
David, the most recent one that I posted.
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I think it went up on Wednesday somehow.
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That one's gone over 20,000 views on Instagram.
34:04
I don't know why that was more popular than the other ones.
34:06
I told David about it. David's like, this is a boring
34:08
ass room. And it's like, yeah, I know, but
34:09
it's on fire. I don't know why.
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So yeah, for me to go check that one out, my Patreon is there.
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I mentioned it, and my Patreon subscribers will get another
34:19
episode of the podcast this week.
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The uncut episodes only go out to my Patreon subscribers and
34:24
it's out every weekend. So yeah, stay tuned for that.
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Until next time. Bye y'all.