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HHBSO 133: I Just Want to be a Number at my Gym · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hello, welcome to He's hot, but something is off OK, we are
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  back. I am back from the cruise and I
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  have to write a few things down for me to bring up, which is why
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  I got my laptop here. And because I always forget to
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  mention the things at the beginning of the podcast until I
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  talk about whatever and I end it.
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  And then I suddenly remember, Oh, I should have mentioned
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  this. So the first before we the the
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  actual content for today's starts, I have to be organized.
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  Got my laptop with me. You're watching the video
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  version of the podcast, which is available on my YouTube channel.
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  Just Joey T you can see I've got my laptop with me only because I
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  This is basically the start of this episode.
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  Can be all plugs, just so you know.
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  Anyways, I did just come back from the cruise and while I was
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  away, I was posting to my Patreon updates during my
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  vacation and I told them my Patreon subscribers before I
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  went on the cruise. I told them, hey, there's not
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  going to be a podcast, any podcast episodes while I'm away.
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  But obviously I want to still keep you guys updated and send
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  you updates and things like that.
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  So I was kind of posting various photos and little messages and
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  updates while I was away from on board the cruise.
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  And those are really fun and on board the cruise, I've collected
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  things have happened on the cruise and I'm saving pretty
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  much most of all these stories and happenings and go ONS from
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  that Atlantis cruise exclusively for my Patreon subscribers.
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  So my pay subscribers, they always get an additional podcast
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  episode, which is called Uncut. It comes out every weekend and
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  it will be on the upcoming Uncut episode that will come out this
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  Sunday. I think it will come out on
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  Sunday this week that I'm going to let all the tea and all the
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  juice out from my time on the cruise.
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  There's some juicy. There's some juicy.
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  Well, not like tea, not like tea as in like other people's tea.
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  There's, there's some very personal stuff that's going to
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  come out on this week's episode of uncut.
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  Either this will be like an extremely long episode of Uncut
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  or I will split it into two because I feel like once I start
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  talking about that stuff, I'm not going to shut the fuck up.
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  So if you want to be part of the Patreon, go check.
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  And there's also obviously link down below.
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  I use my Patreon the way a lot of people would use their Tik
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  Toks, their Instagrams, their regular social media.
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  But on my Patreon, I feel like I can actually have two way
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  conversations with the subscribers that are like fun to
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  have. I'll post something, people will
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  comment on it, I'll post a podcast and then people will
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  like ask me questions about certain things.
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  Whereas like me posting something onto my personal
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  Instagram account, it's like, OK, sure, it's fine, but like
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  it, it just out there, it doesn't really create that much
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  value. But you know, I like when I post
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  something on my Patreon, I should have a discussion about
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  the things I post on there. You know, when I post it on my
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  Instagram, it's just like, OK, like X number of people liked it
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  or saw it. It's like, OK, what now?
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  So I kind of just use my Patreon.
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  Instead of like tweeting something on Twitter, I will
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  post it onto my Patreon. Instead of posting a photo onto
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  my Instagram, I post it onto my Patreon.
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  And I love doing the podcast now because I apparently because I
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  talk so goddamn much, all the stuff I would want to like talk
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  and discuss about becomes a special podcast episode.
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  The uncut episodes on my Patreon.
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  So Patreon is linked down below. You can also follow me for free
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  on Patreon. You get like blurred up previews
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  of stuff. I think you can.
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  Oh, I think you do. If you follow me for free on
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  Patreon, I think you do get like preview of like the first X
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  minutes of the uncut episodes. But anyways, I can, it's going
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  to be very juicy. The uncut episode coming up
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  where I'll talk about what I went through on the cruise.
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  It's going to be personally juicy.
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  It's not it's not tea on other people.
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  It's not give a fuck about others on my Patreon.
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  It's all about me. I'm the star, but it it's going
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  to be juicy. OK, so just all the plugs I
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  wanted to get out of the way. I'm I'm very excited and a
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  little bit scared to record the uncut episode.
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  I've been writing down all the things, all the topics that I
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  want to talk about that happened on the cruise on a cut.
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  It's been a long time since I've been so psyched to record an
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  uncut episode and looking at the list, like honestly, I don't
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  know if a regular size uncut podcast episode is gonna fit
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  everything. So now is a great time to oh,
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  also on Patreon. I also do my travel vlog.
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  So my mid and upper tier subscribers, they get my travel
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  vlogs. Every time I travel anywhere, I
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  will vlog it. And I did do a vlog.
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  I did record content on the cruise.
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  I'm a little scared that the video for this podcast episode
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  that goes onto YouTube for free, I'm a little bit scared the
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  video is going to be like effed up as I look at the camera
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  because I have this fancy camera that I just got and it records
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  all of these podcast episodes for me.
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  But it's also the camera I took on to the cruise to film a bunch
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  of like really fancy looking content because I'm going to
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  make it after movie on this cruise that's also going to my
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  YouTube channel. And to film that fancy footage,
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  I changed a bunch of settings on the camera and I just put the
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  camera back. I just pulled out my suitcase
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  just now and I popped it back into my tripod in my dining room
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  to record this podcast episode. And I'm looking at it.
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  I'm like, I hope I changed like the 50 settings back properly,
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  all the settings it needs to record the podcast.
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  But I changed so many settings. It was like basically almost
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  like using a different camera when I was filming various
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  things on the cruise ship with this camera.
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  It was like so many different buttons and functions that I
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  never ever use on this camera besides trying to be all fancy.
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  Like. That's another to do for me as
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  well. If you haven't seen my YouTube
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  channel, by the way, this whole podcast episode, it's just me
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  plugging my shit. We're about 8 minutes and you
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  already know this, but yeah, by my YouTube channel.
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  Go check it out. But there will be some YouTube.
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  There'll be at least that one after movie from the cruise
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  coming out eventually whenever I get around to doing it.
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  And that's the kind of like the main thing I wanted to talk
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  about today. I can put my laptop away now.
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  I've been back I got back from the cruise on Sunday and this
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  going up on Thursday. By the time this goes up, I've
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  been, I would have been back for like half a week or like 4 days
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  and I don't think I've done any actual work.
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  I didn't do well, I did do work on the cruise like you know, I
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  did work on the cruise in the sense that, you know, taking all
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  those videos with my camera on the cruise was quite, quite a
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  bit of work and you know, it was a bit exhausting.
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  It wasn't just filming like the parties.
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  I wanted to film like the various entertainers that were
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  on the cruise and there was an EDM concert.
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  We had some like great entertainers on the cruise and I
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  wanted to showcase those. And I also wanted to showcase
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  some of the other less flashy parts of an Atlantis cruise, for
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  example, you know, like obviously like the dance
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  parties, EDM stuff, like the big, the big headline
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  entertainers, those always get the spotlight.
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  But I also wanted to show, you know, there are other things
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  going on on the cruise besides partying and like going to these
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  like, you know, headline shows of the theatre.
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  There's like a whole bunch of other things that you can do in
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  addition to filming, filming the vlog.
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  So all the filming I was doing, it was actually quite tiring
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  because also was rooming with a couple of good friends on the
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  cruise. So David, you guys have seen on
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  the occasional YouTube video on my channel and also our other
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  friend Brandon. The three of us were roommates
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  together and like we all we all party like we all go to all the
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  parties. So I was partying with them and
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  we have other friends that and other people that we know on the
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  cruise. So it was like party cruise for
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  us and we wanted to see the shows and we knew other people
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  and we wanted to like, get dinner together and like, I also
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  needed to like, do all this extra filming and everything.
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  So it was actually a little bit of a tiring cruise.
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  And I did make it to every party somehow.
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  I'm not sure why. I didn't even know how I made it
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  to every party, but the last night on the cruise, the last
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  night on the cruise, you know, like there is something called
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  the last dance, which is just like literally what it says on
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  the tin, which is the last dance.
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  It's you know, like your final chance to have a little party,
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  have a little dance before we wake up early the next morning.
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  Have to like get off the ship. I went and did that for like
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  literally 1520 minutes and I was like, you know what, I need to
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  like turn in early, but I was just a little bit, I wasn't
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  super tired, but I was like, I just wasn't in like a super
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  party mood that very last night and like we had already packed
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  and everything by then. But at least it was a good
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  experience flying home. You know, sometimes it's a
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  little bit of a mess getting out of the port in Miami to the
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  airport, but we actually had the smoothest experience leaving the
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  port and getting to the airport that I've had personally in, I
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  don't know, several years. So that like worked out really
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  well for me and David to get to the airport.
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  But yeah, it was, it was a pretty fun cruise, we think.
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  Yeah, we knew like some people on it was really great to like 2
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  really good friends and like kind of share the room together.
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  It was like a little, it was a little crazy.
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  We definitely did not have any sort of parties or get
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  togethers. We occasionally had some people
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  randomly dropped by, but it was literally like close friends of
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  ours very occasionally would come into our room just because
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  like we're supposed to meet up before dinner or just for little
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  things like that. Not for like any extended hang
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  sessions. But I think all three of us
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  wanted the room to kind of just be like a peaceful place just
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  for like the three of us. We're we're not, we don't host
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  parties. Like I don't like hosting
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  anything. If I wanted to go to some
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  private thing, I would probably see if any of my friends knew if
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  like there was something going on.
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  The thing is if we host, we have to first of all hosting takes
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  work and effort and 2nd we have to do clean up.
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  And I don't want my room where I come back to like go to the
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  bathroom and chill and sleep to have like all these other people
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  like crawl over it. So I never would want to like
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  host anything, you know, not not just on a cruise.
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  There are times where, you know, I'll go with friends to like
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  White Party Bangkok. When we first used to do White
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  Party Bangkok, we did in our apartment hotel.
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  We used to get like a three bedroom apartment, hotel type of
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  a thing. So it'd be like a lot of space,
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  you know, like 3 or 4 bedrooms, just like a proper kitchen,
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  living room, dining room, little patio.
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  And we just all split it when we first started doing work for
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  Bangkok because we had so much space.
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  We did used to, especially on Friday nights, the first night,
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  invite people over, just close friends.
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  Not like a massive party, but like have some people over and
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  like have like a little home. Pennsylvania.
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  After the party first night, we stopped doing that in like the
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  more recent years, but that's the last time that I hosted any
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  sort of like get together at like a hotel or anything.
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  But pretty soon afterwards, we just figured, you know, there
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  are other people that are hosting nicer, better parties
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  than we could in like our own little space.
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  Because as the years went on, more and more people through
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  Home Paws White Party Bangkok got more popular, more people
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  visited, especially people with more money and more hosting
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  skills and experience and knows what they're doing to like
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  actually host a proper party. That went and then they threw
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  the things and then we just like went to those.
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  Anyways, yeah, the cruise was pretty nice.
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  Got to hang out with some great hang out with some great people.
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  One surprising thing just me personally was I ate everything
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  on that cruise. I ate everything on that cruise.
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  And I do have IBS and I was like researching before the cruise.
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  Like, OK, like I know I'm not going to be like, first of all,
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  it's hard to control what you eat when you don't cook your
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  meals. If you go to a restaurant or you
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  go on a cruise, like, hey, you have to eat from like whatever
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  they serve. You can't really be super picky
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  and choosy. So I knew like OK, we need to
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  just be OK with whatever they serve.
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  And the second thing I was on vacation, like I wanted to just
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  eat whatever. So I did some research for the
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  cruise and I got these digestive enzymes and the ones I got were
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  in these tiny little packets. It's a powder you sprinkle on
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  your food before you eat it and it helps to pre digest some of
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  the carbs that are in the foods so that you know, if you have
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  IBS or indigestion or things like that, it's like easier on
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  your system and it doesn't and it minimizes or prevents, you
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  know, those IBS symptoms. If you have to like just eat
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  whatever. I was not at all careful with
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  what I ate. I ate, I ate everything I ate
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  something had onions, stuff that had garlic, stuff that had like
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  everything Dairy. I usually don't eat dairy.
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  I don't, I'm not lactose intolerant, but dairy usually
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  makes me break out. I was eating a decent amount of
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  dairy. I didn't eat ice cream.
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  OK, There were some limits. I didn't have the soft serve,
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  the soft serve machine on the pool deck, but I didn't eat
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  that. I did eat, I did eat some
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  cheesecake and that was fine. And I didn't have any.
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  I didn't have any pimples during or after the cruise, which is
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  great. So yeah, that was something that
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  was like a little surprising that I was.
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  I basically kind of ate whatever I ate whatever I wanted to with
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  little concern for like how it would affect me and with these
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  magical enzymes. Like I didn't have any of the
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  IBS symptoms, which is which is great.
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  The other thing that was not not so positive, but that was it
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  wasn't great was there was a cold front that moved into
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  Florida and into Miami literally the weekend the cruise sets was
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  going to set sail. So at the start of the cruise.
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  So it was not this past Sunday, but the Sunday before on the 1st
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  that was the day, the first day of the cruise and like this cold
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  front came right in and back home here in Los Angeles, it was
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  sunny and 80°. It's it always it's sunny in Los
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  Angeles. Basically down in Miami, it was
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  like 40 something degrees with wind chill and it was just, it
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  was so frigid cold. I haven't been in a place that
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  cold in like several years. Like there's a reason I live in
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  Los Angeles and like there's a reason people live in Miami too,
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  right? It's like you don't want the
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  cold weather, so you move to a place like Southern California
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  or like Miami to like not have that weather.
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  So anyway, so it's apparently the coldest weather they've had
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  in in Miami in 15 years. So that was like not great.
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  It actually delayed our cruise by a couple hours.
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  So the cruise ship was coming back from the previous sailing
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  that Sunday morning. Cruise ships usually come back
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  at around like 5 or 6:00 AM, something like that in the early
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  morning hours and then later that day they will set sail with
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  a new set of passengers like later that afternoon or in the
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  evening. So they turn around the whole
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  ship in about like 10 to 12 hours while while it's socked
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  back. So the previous sailing came
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  back a couple hours late because it was windy.
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  So it you know it, they had to wait a couple hours.
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  It delayed them docking back, which made our our sailing a
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  couple hours late as well. But it was just like so freaking
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  cold. It was just like completely
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  frigid. And yeah, that wasn't the
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  greatest start. Even during the cruise, it
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  wasn't the warmest the first couple of days.
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  Like you wouldn't be hanging out outside because it was very
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  windy and it wasn't warm outside to begin with in terms of the
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  air temperature, but it was like the wind chill.
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  It was like there was some wind chill there.
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  So they move around some of the parties.
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  So we had indoor parties the first couple of nights, which
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  was good, but it wasn't until the 2nd last day or like the
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  last day that people could actually hang out poolside.
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  I'll talk more about the cruise in terms of like how it went
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  overall on probably the one of the upcoming episodes of the Gay
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  Cruise and Travel podcast. I had a great time and I love
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  seeing some friends that I haven't seen in like a while.
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  Also meeting some meeting some new boys, which I'll talk about
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  on the episode of Uncut. There's a little slight preview
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  of some of the some of the stuff I will talk about on the Uncut
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  episodes on Patreon. Yeah, but overall, little little
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  chilly. They've already announced the
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  dates for this same cruise next year and it's going to be in
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  March. So usually or this cruise used
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  to be in January like near the end of January and then
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  eventually it became like early February.
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  Now for next year, for whatever reason, I don't know, they
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  didn't intentionally or just the schedule probably happened that
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  way anyways, regardless of whether we had the Super cold
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  sailing this particular year, it's now March, it's like mid
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  March. So I don't know.
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  If I'm going to go next year, I went in 2025 this party cruise
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  and I went this year in 2026. I usually don't need to go on
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  that cruise like three years in a row, but I'll give it a think.
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  I don't know yet, but I will be on the the next Atlantis cruise,
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  which is April. It goes from here in Los Angeles
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  down to Mexico. So how many?
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  Oh that's like 2 months away. So I've got two months to like
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  chill and relax back at home before and finally do some
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  effing work. The thing about being
• 21:02
  self-employed, there's no one to tell you to get back to work.
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  You need to tell yourself to get back to work.
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  I mean whether you need to go back to work is up to you I
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  guess. I mean, it's great to not have a
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  boss, but you're now accountable to yourself.
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  I did little bits of work here and there, but I haven't like
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  properly gone back to like, OK, wake up and like go do a bunch
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  of work on the computer, have lunch and I go back to like, you
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  know, like haven't had like a full work day yet.
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  But I've been back to the gym, which is good.
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  Gym is after I go on after I go away for a week, week and 1/2
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  after. I've been away from a while,
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  been away for a while, especially overseas.
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  Getting back to the gym, I just feel like I get way weaker after
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  I've got it doesn't matter if it's like a vacation, a party
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  cruise, a work trip somewhere. If I haven't been to the gym
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  after travelling for like a little bit, I always feel like,
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  oh, I I got so much weaker. I can't just go right back up to
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  the amount of weights I lifted before.
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  I can't go right back up to the amount of reps and whatever.
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  The one thing that is a thorn in my side about the gym, while I
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  was on the cruise, my gym, the Crunch in West Hollywood, they
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  decided that they're going to close the gym at the end of
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  March. So in the middle of the cruise,
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  I got this e-mail that says on March 31st that would be the
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  last day this location will be open and then we're going to
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  close permanently. So now I have to find a new gym,
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  which is it's annoying because I actually like my gym.
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  I just want to like go in there and work and work out and get
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  out. So there are other gyms out
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  there. This is not like the most
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  horrible problem to pop up into my life, but I like that gym.
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  I don't talk to anyone that's at my gym.
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  I don't really know anyone. I just literally just earbuds
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  on, go in there, change, workout, change, leave, and I
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  barely change. I go there in my gym clothes.
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  I change into my gym shoes instead of my regular shoes.
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  I workout gloves. Like that's pretty much it.
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  Maybe I put on a jacket and it's cold outside, but like I
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  literally go there just to work out.
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  But I see all the gym regulars there, obviously.
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  But guys in my gym are kind of like hot, you know, A lot of the
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  gym regulars in my gym are like hot, attractive guys and I like
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  having the eye candy even though I have no idea who they are.
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  We've never ever talked. We've never even made like eye
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  contact. But you know, at a gay gym,
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  everyone's checking everyone out.
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  So the thing that I think makes it kind of annoying is the
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  alternatives to this gym. If I want like a quote, UN quote
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  gay gym where like the vast majority of people that are gay
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  guys in this neighborhood in the middle West Hollywood, the
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  alternatives is yes, there's a gym called John Reed, John Reed
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  Fitness. Tons of gays go there, but
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  that's double the price is double what I pay now every
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  month. OK, there's an equinox.
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  Quite a few gays go there too. That's even more expensive.
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  And there aren't any good gyms where I am within like the
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  within like a two or three mile radius.
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  There aren't any other gyms that I don't know where you don't
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  have to pay out your nose. It's like, are there only
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  expensive gyms for gays in this area?
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  Now? I know it's not a cheap zip
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  code, but I'm just kind of curious.
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  I almost want to go up to the guys, the regulars that are in
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  my gym. Like I've never talked to them
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  before. I see.
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  I've been seeing them at the gym five days a week for three or
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  four years now. But like, we've never talked.
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  We've never come first. I feel like going up to someone
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  that's like, hey, what gym are you going to go to?
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  Maybe that would inform where I will go.
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  There is a Gold's Gym that opened pretty recently at the
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  end of 2024 in Beverly Center, which is close to my place.
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  It's not walking distance, but it's only like what, a couple of
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  miles, mile and a half away, a short drive?
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  They got taken over by E OS Fitness.
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  E OS Fitness, so that's one place I'm looking at The price
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  is about the same. It's a it's a larger gym, which
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  I prefer There are some private gyms, smaller private gyms
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  around here as well. I just prefer you don't hear
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  people say this a lot. I prefer to just be like a
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  number at the gym that I go to. Like in terms of as a customer,
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  like they don't need to know my name, they don't need to
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  whatever. Like I kind of want to go to a
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  like a chain, like a bigger chain that John Reed Fitness
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  that I was talking about. That one is that I used to go to
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  that location when it used to be a 24 Hour Fitness.
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  So before the pandemic, that was the gym I went to.
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  It was walking distance. I would just walk there.
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  Lost tons of gays went there. It was like affordable.
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  It was like 40 to $60.00, like 40 something or 50 something
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  dollars a month. Obviously pre pandemic, before
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  inflation, blah, blah, blah, but you know, like it was like very
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  basic, but that's all I needed. I just need the basics.
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  Like I don't use the showers, I don't use the sauna, I don't use
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  the steam room. I don't even need towels.
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  I I can bring my own towels. I just want equipment and
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  weights and the sometimes I'll be on a treadmill or like a
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  stairmaster, but that's, that's all I want.
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  But like, because of the location, lots of gaze went to
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  that 24 hour fitness during the pandemic.
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  Obviously everything closed down after pandemic that 24 Hour
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  Fitness reopened and I went back there for like, I don't know,
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  like it was 12 or 18 months after gym started reopening and
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  then they closed because 24 hour Finance decided to close that
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  location permanently. And that's when I went to, I
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  switched over to the crunch. I had to pay more for crunch,
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  but it was like the next best option.
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  Then I got used to it. I've been there for like 4 years
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  now and after I switched to Crunch John Reed, that fitness
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  chain took over that old 24 Hour Fitness location.
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  But John Reed's thing, this, this, the other thing it caught,
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  it's like doubled the cost. OK to John Reed, this at least
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  this we hold location, but their thing is like, it's like a club
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  gym hybrid. It's what they're it's what
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  they're promoting in their marketing anyways.
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  And I don't want that. I don't want to go to a, a, a
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  gym that also wants to pretend to be a club and like with loud
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  music or whatever. Like I just want my earphones in
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  and to hear my own music and not to have like loud music to be
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  played in the gym. Like the gym can play music,
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  that's fine. But I probably just want to hear
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  my own music. Like 99% of people that go to a
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  gym, they have headphones and they're listening to their own
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  thing. So I don't want to pay twice as
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  much to go to a place that wants to be like a club, like like
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  like a gym and also a club. I, I don't want that experience.
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  So I'm not going to pay like $160.00 for that.
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  It's just like no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  I know all the gays are going to go there.
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  Like it's already 99% gay guys that go there already.
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  So I'm sure some of the people that go to Crunch now, some of
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  them will probably go there. But I also have a feeling that a
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  lot of the people that have been regulars at my gym at Crunch the
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  last few years, they are there because they don't want to be at
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  John Reed for whatever reason, because it's too expensive or
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  because they also don't like the vibe that's there.
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  So I think some of the people in my gym will go to John Reed, but
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  I think a lot of them also don't want to go there, even though
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  it's probably like close to where they live as well.
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  So yeah, I walked by some. I know there's like at least
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  three private gyms within like a mile where I live, like walking
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  distance. But I want a bigger gym.
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  I want a bigger gym where I like, there's just more space
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  and I can like, basically be anonymous and like, do my own
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  thing. Yeah.
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  So I, I kind of just want to be a number at like a larger, at a
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  bigger, larger gym. I don't care that it's run by a
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  heartless corporation. Yeah.
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  I just, you know, just give me like 20 treadmills down one
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  side. I can just pick one.
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  And like, I, I won't be noticed because I very much just want to
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  be like in my own zone, doing my own thing right now at the gym.
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  So that's one of the reasons I prefer going to like a larger
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  gym that I don't want some private.
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  All those private gyms are probably kind of pretty
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  expensive anyways. So if you have recommendations
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  for places checked out, I have been to the 24 Hour Fitness in
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  Hollywood. So not in West Hollywood, which
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  is in regular Hollywood. I've been there a few times
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  before, like several years ago. It's maybe an option.
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  I mean, it's going to be cheaper than what I pay now.
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  It's a little bit of a longer drive, but that won't maybe that
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  maybe won't be a problem. I want to check out, do a trial
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  at that Beverly Hills EOS gym because it's the same as what I
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  pay now. It's a brand new facility.
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  They've only been open for like like a year, year and a half,
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  barely, barely a year. So it's just be a pretty large
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  location as well. So new equipment, lots of it,
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  you know, new facilities, that's always good.
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  I just don't want to pay more. Like I pay 80 something dollars
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  now. It's like I don't want to pay
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  more than that for a gym because like even my current gym is like
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  they have what they did have. They did have, they did have the
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  esteemed room that they've permanently closed.
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  But like even the sauna, I didn't go to the sauna.
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  I've never taken a shower at my gym.
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  I've been going there for four years.
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  I've never once tried to take a shower there.
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  I know like pretty much every gym has a shower anyway, so it's
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  like not a big deal. But like I don't, I never get
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  super sweaty. Like usually it, it's very rare
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  for me to get sweaty at a gym. I just don't sweat that much.
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  You know what's more likely to happen?
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  It's more likely that if you come to me at the gym and feel
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  my hands, they're probably freezing cold.
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  So when I lift weights, I don't warm up that much and they
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  always crank the AC. But most people do get warm when
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  they work out. That's like the normal thing to
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  do. I'm not AI, don't have like a
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  normal human body that warms up that much when I'm lifting
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  weights. Like so some lately this is like
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  winter. I should put on like this
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  thicker hoodie jacket while I'm working out.
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  I remember there was like a couple of days ago, went back to
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  the gym right after the cruise. I had just like jacket on.
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  I was like everyone else had like, you know, a tank top, you
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  know, like kind of that, you know, other people are like
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  sweating and working out. I'm like I'm freezing.
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  Like if I could wear like thicker gloves to keep my hands
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  warm, I would do that. So anyways, there you go.
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  I need to go eventually find a new gym.
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  I've got six weeks, six or seven weeks to find a new gym, which
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  is annoying. So if you have recommendations
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  for a gym for in the middle of West Hollywood, well, let me
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