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HHBSO 120: What's the Point of House Plants? · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello welcome to he's hot, but something's off oh right.
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How many episodes are we? Up to 130 something 140, still
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struggling with the soundboard. All right.
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My allergies have been going crazy the last couple of weeks
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for some reason. I have hay fever, which is being
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allergic to pollen. So usually from late winter
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until late summer I will take allergy medication and it's
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usually a nose spray that I do everyday.
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Usually from February, March on, usually February, see from
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February I'll start taking it. And then usually when we get to
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October ish, like now ish, I can stop taking it.
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There's obviously in the winter time there's not, you know,
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plants don't pollinate in the winter.
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So I stopped taking my nose spray, the algae nose spray a
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couple of weeks ago and out of nowhere the allergies kicked
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back then what? Not out of nowhere.
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Sometimes I stopped taking a little early in the season.
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So that happened and I thought, OK, I'm probably just stop doing
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the nose spray a little bit early.
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I'm still, you know, getting the the itchy nose, not itchy, but
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you know that feeling you have when you kind of want to sneeze,
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but not totally. Your body has committed to
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pissing you off by making you think you might sneeze without
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the satisfaction of actually sneezing and getting it over
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with. That's one of the most annoying
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parts of having allergies. When you have a cold or a flu
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and you sneeze, you just sneeze. The sneeze just comes, you
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sneeze and it's over. But when you have allergies,
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you're kind of kept on the edge of sneezing forever for as long
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as your allergy symptoms are present.
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If one of your allergy symptoms is sneezing, what happens is the
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sensation of you may be needing to sneeze drifts in and out.
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It's you feel it in your sinuses just like across the just inside
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the bridge of your nose. And it's quite distracting
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because you get this little sensation in your sinus is that
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a sneeze might be coming, but you don't know if it comes or
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not. So it's just it's, it's, it's
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quite annoying. The only thing more annoying
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than that feeling when you do have hay fever is if it's really
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bad and your eyes get itchy. Have you ever had your eyes be
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itchy due to an allergic reaction?
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You want to rip your eyes out. I remember I was in London.
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It's many, many years ago work sent me to London for three
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months. Oh, I should one day talk about
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that. When I spent three months in
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London. This is so many years ago.
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Work sent me to London for 1/4 for three months and I was
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working the office one day and it was springtime.
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I was there during Q2, so that's April, May and June.
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That's the second quarter and it's springtime and one day I
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was in the office and my eyes got so itchy from allergies in
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the middle of the work day. I had to go across the street to
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a pharmacy and get some eye drops to put into my eyes.
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I remember that day was really bad, but my allergies are under
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control now. Usually I just take the spray
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and it's OK. But the weird thing by the way,
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I totally know you guys all signed to the hear about my
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allergies. The weird thing that's been
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happening the last couple of weeks is when I go outside, like
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when I'm at the gym, when I walk into the gym, I'm at the gym and
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I come back, I'm out of the house for about 3 hours, no
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allergy symptoms. When I'm at home, the allergy
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symptoms kick in and it's pretty common for pollen to make it's
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way indoors, to make it's way into your house.
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And you can't really see pollen, but it's just kind of sort of
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everywhere. Because you open your windows
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for ventilation, you may have like a fan going, You have your
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air conditioning circulating air all throughout your house and
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you've got floors, you've got your furniture, you've got your
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bedding, you know it Pollen kind of sort of gets everywhere.
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It's kind of in everything. Just most people don't have hay
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fever, therefore it doesn't really matter.
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So I thought, OK, maybe it's just pollen has made his way
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into the house. I'm, I'm not the absolute best
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at vacuuming. I have a robot vacuum, but robot
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vacuums don't have great suction.
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They would do a decent job of like dust and stuff, but a robot
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vacuum doesn't replace a proper vacuum.
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So a week ago, like last weekend, I thought, OK, let's
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just vacuum the entire house because I don't really do that
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that often. And I just got this brand new
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vacuum as well. So it's like a really good
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vacuum. So I vacuumed the entire house.
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I even vacuumed my couch. I've got a couch that's fabric.
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So obviously you can get like, dust and pollen and other things
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trapped in the fabric. About once a year, actually take
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the slip covers off of my sofa and wash it.
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I don't think I've done it this year.
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I've been too busy. But anyways, I vacuum my couch.
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I changed my bedding, I vacuum the entire house.
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And that's about as much as you can, you can do.
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I mean, if pollen gets into your clothes, you launder your
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clothes. Every so often, the laundry
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takes care of it. But yeah, for some reason when
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I'm out of the house, I don't have the allergy symptoms.
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When I'm in the house, they come right back.
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Today at the gym, I was fine at the gym and then when I got back
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to the locker room, out of nowhere the allergies start
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kicking in. So I think, is there something
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in my house that I'm allergic to?
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It's so weird because if it was pollen, when I go outside it
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should be kicking in, but it doesn't kick in at all when I'm
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outside and I'm outside for like 3 hours.
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When I come back home it's I'm sneezing so much.
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It's really weird and I think what in my house could I be
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allergic to yesterday, last night, but I was on my couch in
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my living room watching TV to the right on my TVI have plants.
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This by the way, if you're watching the video version of
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this podcast on my YouTube channel is just your Vt.
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You can see behind me there is a plant is fake.
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It's from IKEA, not allergic to that, but I have some real
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plants. Some real plants in a couple of
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planter boxes to the right of my TV in the living room in the
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corner. It's right by my patio doors so
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that the plants get a little bit of sunlight.
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Actually went to a plant store years ago and asked them what
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plants? OK, what plants can I buy that
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don't need tons of sunlight because my apartment doesn't get
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a lot of direct sunlight that doesn't need much maintenance
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because I'm lazy and they recommend they're like, oh,
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these plants and these plants. So I got 4 plants, 2 in each of
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these rectangular planter boxes and they're in pots.
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And there are two plants that I'm looking at right now that
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are still green and kind of doing OK.
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The other two plants have died. The fact that I kept them alive
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for I think I got them three years ago, something like 3
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years ago. The fact that I kept anything
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alive, plants actually, I can keep, I can keep other thing.
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I can keep mammals, actual animals alive if I have to.
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That's why I ducks it. But I don't know, OK.
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You know, like the fact that I kept these plants alive for
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about 3 years is actually an accomplishment.
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To be honest. I have a reminder to water the
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plants. I'm supposed to water them
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something like every other week, which is not a lot of work to be
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honest. I keep ignoring those reminders,
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I keep not watering the plants, and I've been so busy lately
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that two of the plants definitely are mostly dead by
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now. But I haven't even really
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noticed the plants. Honestly, I don't even know why
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I thought plants were a good idea.
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You know, during COVID a lot of people got tons of plants.
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I guess it was one of the things you can do in your house.
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I don't. For me I don't get the point of
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having plants so I don't even know why I got these.
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I think I just thought oh it would be nice to have real
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plants in the house for some. Not for any logical reason, I
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just thought oh it'd be it's like the core.
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It's just the core. Anyways last night I looked over
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2 of the plants were mostly dead and I'm thinking could I be
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allergic to those dying plants? Like when certain plants die, do
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they is it releasing most spores or something?
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I don't know that those are the only organic things in the house
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that is dying. The only other organic things in
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the house is me and whatever is in the fridge, I guess.
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I guess there are microorganisms that are also organic, but
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that's a whole separate thing. But I thought maybe because I've
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neglected these plants so much the last few months, because
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I've been so busy, even when I wasn't that busy, it was really
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a flip of a coin whether I was going to water the plants when
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that reminder came up on my calendar.
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Really 5050, really just flip a coin.
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Maybe yes, maybe no. Depends on it.
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Depends on the direction of the wind that day, honestly.
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But I thought, these two plants are dying anyways.
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It's the only logical thing I could.
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It's only organic thing in here that might be detrimental to my
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health. It's some organic thing that's
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dying, right? That makes some logical sense.
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So last night, those two plants that were dying, I threw them
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into some garbage bags and I just threw them down the trash
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chute because I can't be, I can't be allergic to my own
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house. So that was last night.
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I do have three air purifiers in the house, electric air
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purifiers where there's a fan and it runs and it's supposed to
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purify the air. I got that because I have the
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hay fever and it does help with the pollen in the air.
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So I do keep it running. I have a big one for my living
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room, I have a medium sized one for my bedroom, and I have a
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small one for the office and the small one in the office.
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Actually, I haven't been using. It was just in the closet.
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But I I've been running, I've been running all three of them
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the last few days and it hasn't helped.
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So I'm thinking maybe it's just the plans.
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OK, well, welcome to the 1st 10 minutes of this podcast.
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It's just my allergy. I just, I just have to Yeah,
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it's, yeah, it is what it is. Anyways, one thing that has kept
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me really busy the last the last couple of weeks, week and 1/2 is
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I have, I am organizing has happened yet.
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So I'm still organizing it in a way.
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I'm organizing a photo shoot, like a proper photo shoot in a
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professional studio with real models that I'm paying money to
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show up, which is which was not on my bingo card for the year
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and it's not something I've ever done before.
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I did a little post about it on my Patreon.
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I was sitting on my couch last Friday trying to look for models
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to cast. So this is for my skin care line
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that's going to relaunch in like November or December.
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But I had this idea to feature actual people in some of the
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advertising content, like feature some models holding up
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the product. You know, if you, if you've seen
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any sort of cosmetics ad or website or anything like that, a
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lot of them feature a model holding up the product.
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So I thought I wanted some photos like that and you know,
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being a small company, I kind of have to do almost everything.
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So I've decided for the launch I'm going to do my own content
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creation. When I tried to launch the
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company last year, I wanted to farm.
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Well, I tried to do it myself and I think just the overall
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marketing strategy I didn't have a good grasp on.
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Now, I do have a marketing agency I'm working with, but for
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them to do everything, all the marketing stuff is very
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expensive. And working with them earlier in
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the year, I discovered that, you know, there's a specific
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aesthetic that I want for the brand and how the visual
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identity of the brand should be displayed and how it should come
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across and how it should reflect the values of the company.
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So I've decided it would be better for me to be responsible
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for the content creation instead of farming it out, even though I
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create so much content already. I remember one of the early
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meetings I have with the marketing agency early this year
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was I remember saying to them, I create so much content already
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for other things. If I have to create more
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content, I'm going to kill myself.
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I was just trying to be funny, but I was, it was rooted in
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truth. I wanted them to help create
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some of the content, you know, like the photos and videos that
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you must see on Instagram or in ads or whatever.
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I wanted them to do it because I was already creating so much
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other content. It's like, I don't want to
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create more content. But having worked with them on
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that little bit, paying them X amount of money for them to do
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the content creation in addition to like some other marketing
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things for this launch, I decided, you know what, I think
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I should do it. I'm going to farm some other
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marketing stuff out to them, but I'm going to take a chunk of my
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time for creating content. So part of that is this idea of
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having models post with the products.
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So that's happening this Saturday.
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It's kind of weird because I've never, I know nothing about a
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photo shoot. I don't know anything about
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models. I don't know anything about
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taking photos professionally. I don't know anything about
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organizing a photo shoot. Ad is very core.
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It's just paying some people to stand in front of a camera and
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hold up your product and getting a photographer to snap some
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photos and then give it, giving you some, giving you the
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finalized photos later on. At the core, it's a simple
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concept, right? And I mean, professional
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photographers do have a place. But honestly, in a way, on the
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flip side, how hard it is to just take a photo.
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People are taking photos on their phones all the time.
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Obviously, they're just, they're not professional photos.
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And I have a particular aesthetic that I'm going for for
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the photos. Having said that, we'll find out
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tomorrow. I will find out tomorrow.
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I find out the day that this podcast goes out on Thursday.
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So Wednesday nights I'll record this.
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Right now I'm the photographer. Right now I'm the photographer,
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but I'm talking to a professional photographer
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tomorrow to see if they're able to do it.
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I'm not going to go into all the nitty gritty details because
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then it gets very like businessy and dry.
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But yeah, there's a chance that I'm going to be playing the part
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of a quote UN quote professional photographer to take photos of
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like real models. The marketing agency sent over
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some recommendations for some models beside went up to them
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and said hey I'm looking for a couple more models to beside
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want about 5 or 6 models total and I told them I've got a few.
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Do you have some suggestions for like a couple more and they sent
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me some because they are a proper professional marketing
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agency. They sent over proper
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professional models, which I wasn't that cost quite a bit
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more money. So that's where I got the idea.
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You know what, let me just go on Instagram and see what I can
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find. Because my, my idea was let's
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find some more junior models. Because in my head I was
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thinking it's not a difficult gig.
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We don't need the models to post in any weird kind of poses.
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They're just going to be standing there holding the
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products up and out, want them to, you know, try out some
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different facial expressions. So in my head, I was thinking,
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this doesn't require a high level of modelling experience.
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We don't need, we don't need models that have years and years
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of experience. It's hard to explain, but in my
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head, this idea of what the models should look like, I'm
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very good at visualizing something in my head.
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I can visualize the type of the visual type of models that I
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want, even though I think it'd be nearly impossible for me to
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describe it. It's one of those things where
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when I see someone that fits, I'll know.
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That's about as close as it gets to be with me and you describe
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it. And I wanted a variety of.
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Both masculine presenting and feminine presenting people.
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And I do have 5 models that have confirmed they're booked,
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confirmed times are set. They're going to show up on
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Saturday. I rented this pretty nice studio
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in Los Angeles and it's from the photos so I can tell it's it's
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pretty giant. It's got a special type of a
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screen that have a particular term for, I don't remember, but
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it's basically a giant white screen.
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It's not just like a screen that you pull down like for a
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projector in high school, basically this massive wall
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that's all white and it's designed so that it doesn't
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create any shadows. Yeah.
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So we're going to have that. And I was just talking to some
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of the models about makeup, at least one area where I know
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something about. So yeah, it's something I've
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never done before to organize a professional model shoot and
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have to do the model release and like find the people and then
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get a studio and then all that kind of stuff.
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So it's actually very exciting. It's actually very, very
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exciting. So for my Patreon subscribers,
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in the uncut episode of this podcast that comes out just for
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my Patreon subscribers this weekend, I'm going to be
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recording that after the photo shoot session on Saturday.
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In that photo shoot in that uncut episode, I'm going to like
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give you the uncut of my experience trying to run my own
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photo shoot. And then I'll let everyone know
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on that uncut episode whether I was a photographer or if I end
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up being able to get a professional photographer.
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It freaked me out at the beginning for a little bit to
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think, oh, I might need to do like take the photos myself.
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I've got a decent camera but like I don't have any
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rofessional photographer experts.
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My expertise is in videos because I make tons of videos.
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But even then a professional videographer will probably be
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able to take better videos than me because I'm just like
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self-taught. I do YouTube and the type of
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videos I do aren't always. There's very a lot of different
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types of videos stylistically that one can take.
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And that's the same for photos, right?
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You have photographers that specialize in different types of
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photography, could be event photography, travel photography,
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nature photography for weddings. They're all very different.
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So one type of photographer is not never going to be able to do
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another type of photography very well.
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But I got over it and I just wanted to keep it fun.
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I've been trying to not label everything in my head that I
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have to do as, oh, it's work. It's A to do item that I need to
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just cross off my list. I'm just trying to enjoy some of
23:13
the things I have to do. Anyways, I talked about this a
23:15
little bit in a previous episode of the podcast last week.
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So it's working pretty well. And yeah, I was going into it
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this morning thinking, OK, that studio's booked.
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All the models have agreed to do it, nailed down the dates and
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times for everyone. And yeah, we're, we're going to
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do it. So we'll see.
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If you're interested to know everything, come join me on my
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Patreon, get access to those uncut episodes.
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And yeah, just just for $3 a month, you get access to every
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uncut episode that has ever been recorded.
23:55
I think we're up to about episode 38 or 39.
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I mean, 39 went up last week and then episode 40 I think is the
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uncut that's coming up this weekend.
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And oh also what's special for this weekend is I'm having my
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Opa's live stream because my top tier Patreon subscribers, that's
24:15
the Opa's tier. They get a monthly live stream
24:19
live with me. And we're doing that at 11:00 AM
24:23
Pacific this Sunday. And yeah, it's exclusive to my
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top tier Opus subscribers. Yeah.
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So if you have 10 bucks to spare, 10 bucks is all it cost
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to join that Opus tier. Even you want to just come for
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like a month because you don't. Not only will you get the uncut
24:43
episodes, you also get all the travel vlogs.
24:46
Whenever I travel, I'll vlog. We are uploading the travel
24:50
vlogs from my trip to Asia in Bangkok and Singapore.
24:55
I did a trip in August and that's a multi part.
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All the travel logs and multiple parts.
25:01
That part 5 just went up this past Tuesday.
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I have one, maybe two more parts to go.
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But if you subscribe and say OPA you will get the live stream
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this Sunday. If you subscribe before Sunday
25:14
morning then you can join in for the live stream and you can also
25:18
watch every single travel vlog that I've had.
25:21
How many travel vlog videos? I think there's probably about
25:26
20 something 30 because every trip I did the one for EDC, for
25:32
example, I did and I did one for the cruise, the party cruise in
25:35
February, for example. Yeah.
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So lots of great content. So go check it out.
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But I'm super excited about this photo shoot.
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I'm a little bit, I'm a little bit surprised I'm not freaked
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out. Buy this again, the the therapy,
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the therapy money was actually money well spent.
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It wasn't cheap, but it was actually money well spent.
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I'm actually definitely using some of those tools that are
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learning therapy. All right, Well, please stay
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tuned. Also, by the way, if you haven't
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already, go check out my other podcast called the Gay Cruise
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and Travel Podcast, because we just launched my new travel
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advisory company. I'm a travel advisor now, and
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that is called just Joey Travels.
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And yeah, check out the other podcast if you haven't already.
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I just went through all of the upcoming Atlantis cruises that
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have not been sold out. And actually that one's getting
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quite a bit of views. That's actually pretty popular.
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So I think I'm going to be doing quarterly updates every two or
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three months. I'm going to update everybody on
26:43
just the status of all the upcoming Atlantis cruises,
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especially for those of you that might haven't guy on a
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particular upcoming Atlantis cruise and was thinking about
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booking it. But you just want some advice as
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to you know, whether you can wait a little bit or whether you
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something might be about the sell off.
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So you should jump on it more quickly or hey, if you're
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considering any type of travel going forward though, especially
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the Atlantis cruises, reach out to me via gesture We travels.
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You can just DM me from the website or DM the just to
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Retravel's Instagram channel and I will reply to you directly.
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And let's see how we can start you on your next dream
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adventure. But until next time, bye y'all.