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HHBSO 18: Are You Talking to Me? · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, Welcome to Heat Hop. If something's off of me, just
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Joey T I've got a fan. I hope you guys can't hear it.
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I've got a fan on the side of me here because it's pretty warm in
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my house and I can't. My A/C is so loud for sure.
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When I had the home inspection done for this place, I remember
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I was walking back into the apartment to check the mailbox
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or do something. I don't know what it was and my
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realtor and the home inspector person was in there and the home
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inspector person had the panel down from the A/C and the
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ceiling and it was running and I noticed how loud it was.
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But I just assumed, well the panel's down and maybe it was at
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Max speed because the home inspector guys testing the thing
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and pushing it to make sure it's OK.
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There's only one speed and it's like loud all the time.
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And I wish for how much I wish for quiet A/C.
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And it's not that bad, but it's loud enough for when I'm in the
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living room I have to turn up the volume on the TV for sure.
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When the A/C kicks in when I'm sleeping is not that bad.
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It's actually the quietest when I'm in this room in the house
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right now, because it's the furthest away from the A/C.
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But because when I'm recording, though, when I'm recording for
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YouTube, when I'm recording for the podcast, you know we need to
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keep the noise down. So I have to turn it off.
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So sometimes when I'm recording this, I'm sweating, but I have
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this fan which is pretty quiet. So anyways, that was probably
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TMI, but I am in the middle of packing for my cruise.
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As you're listening to this, I am still on my cruise.
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Hopefully I made it. Even if I didn't, I think this
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is still going to go up whenever this goes up, but I was getting
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prepared to do everything before I went off on this.
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Cruise is in Europe is for 10 days.
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The annoying thing about going on vacation and going on a trip
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is the amount of tours you have and errands you have multiply
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because you have a vacation coming up.
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You have to do you order the laundry, You have to clean up
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the house, but you want to leave it dirty.
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You have to take all the recycling, take out all the
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trash, run the dishwasher, wrap up this, do the dry cleaning,
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whatever, all this stuff. So there's like a bunch of stuff
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that I have to do. And I yesterday went out to try
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to fix my flat tire because I did my citizenship test earlier.
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And when I got back to the parking lot, the car beeped at
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me right away when I turned it on to say you're you have a flat
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tire, but it's all the tires. It's got pressure sensors and
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all the tires. This stupid car that I've had,
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it's got so many tire issues. I really don't drive that much.
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I had worked remotely before and now I don't have the 9:00 to
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5:00 I drive. I walked to the gym.
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Now I used to drive to the gym. This year I've been walking to
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the gym because it's actually pretty close.
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I just no reason for me to drive really.
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I drive when I go to the airport or about to go somewhere further
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away or when I get groceries. I really don't drive that often.
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On an average week. I drive once and it's not very
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far. So to have driven so little and
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haven't had the car for that long, I have it for two years
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maybe D by the tires this stupid car goes to is like ever
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ridiculous. But I couldn't get the tire
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fixed yesterday due to complicated technical reasons
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that I will not bore you with now.
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So, but the the new car comes in like 4 or five weeks.
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So I'm hoping the new car I'll have much better luck with tires
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and I just need to when I'm back from the cruise back from
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Europe, I'll fix the tire and then I will it would just go
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away. It'll be traded in.
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So there you go. Not a very, not a very patient
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person. I went to this one, this tire
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place that I usually go to that a mile, mile, mile and a half,
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10 minute drive, something like that.
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And I've been there two or three times.
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You know when you have cars sometime your tires puncture you
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can get a patch. Sometimes you need new tires
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because they're worn. So I've gone to this place a
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couple of times and basically they said well because of this
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technical whatever thing, we can't patch a tire, but you
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could try a mom and pop shop or you go to a discount tire
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because I guess this guy knows the type of places that would
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like skirt the rules per se or just patch it and not worry
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about the whatever. And I looked up there.
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The next closest discount tire was North North Hollywood.
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I think technically or on the edge of it, it'd be a 2025
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minute drive. And oh, by the way, my phone
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right now, I ran out of several data for the month and it ran
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out a few days ago and it renews on like Sunday this Sunday.
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So I don't have any bars. I I can get phone calls and text
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messages, but I don't do either of those things on my phone.
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It's all about the Internet. So I was doing this while my
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phone didn't have Internet, So this guy told me this and and
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what he told me the technical reasons why, I actually kind of
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knew. So again, I'm not going to bore
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you guys all the technical car mumble jumbo.
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So I wasn't mad at all, but I kind of sort of knew in the back
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of my head. I wasn't acting thinking about
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it, but I actually knew about that.
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But anyways, I didn't have Internet, I couldn't Google look
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up anything on my phone. So it's this place is close to
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my house anyway. So I just drove back to the
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house, parked the car, got back to my apartment and looked up.
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The next closest discount tire place was 20 minutes.
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And I was thinking, I can get it fixed now and just get it over
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with or I just have to worry about it when I come back.
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And this was two days before I was supposed to fly off to
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Europe. And I could have just done all
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the effort that day, but I just didn't want to be.
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I didn't want to run that chore, that errand, right at that time.
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And I was like, we're just going to have to deal with this when I
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come back. A lot of the times when I've
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driven to the airport, my tire has blown.
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So this time I'm going to take a lift or an Uber, which I'm very
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thankful for people that drive lives in Ubers and provide
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people with that service. Maybe taxi drivers don't feel
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the same way. And it's I think it's a great
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service for people to use, be able to like get around.
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I think it's great. I much rather drive myself.
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I would rather rent a car and drive myself if it wasn't really
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more expensive or if it wasn't so difficult to rent a car.
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I don't like being in a car with a complete stranger.
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When I was in Chicago for market days.
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Previous years when I met the market days, I think we took
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Ubers and Lyps everywhere. This year, partially to save
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money, I took the train everywhere and it was actually
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surprisingly easy. Just take the train.
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I don't know why we didn't take train more often before and it
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was only 5 bucks for each train ride, which is cheaper than
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2030. Forty $50.00 for to get a Lyft
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or Uber or whatever. But I don't love the idea of
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being in a car with a stranger. Not because I think it's a
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dangerous thing, but I don't like to make small talk.
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I don't like to socialize. A lot of Uber drivers, maybe not
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a lot. There's there's enough of them.
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A lot of Uber and Lyft drivers will make small talk with you.
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I remember one time I needed to take a longer ride to, oh, I
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needed to take a Uber Lyft to get to a car dealership because
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I just bought a car that needed to pick it up.
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I didn't have a car, so I had to take a Uber.
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And the dealership was kind of far away.
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It was like almost an hour away. So I was in this car.
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I don't know how we got into it. This lady, somehow she started
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talking about politics. And that's the last thing.
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Don't. If you're going to make small
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talk, don't talk about. Don't talk about politics.
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Doing a presidential election year.
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You know what I mean? Like, I don't want to hear it.
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And it's not the type of conversation you can have light,
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pleasant conversation with with any random person, at least not
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in the United States. In this type of political
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environment that we have right now.
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I just don't like the small talk.
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I want to sit back and relax and not say anything.
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On the apps. Now, though, I think you can
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select quietness. I think if you order the comfort
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option or whatever, there's an option to say you want a quiet
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ride. But I've heard from other people
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this the quiet option means that you don't want to hear anything,
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which means you're also telling the driver to, like, turn their
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music off. They can listen to whatever
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music they want. I've had people play jazz,
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classical, piano, rap, hip hop. I really don't care.
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I always prefer them play the music because when it's just
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dead silent in the car and it's you and the driver, it's it
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could be a little awkward. So I don't try to option on
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because I've heard the option means you don't want to talk and
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you want to sit in absolute silence, which I don't want to
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do that. I don't want to sit in absolute
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silence. I don't want them to talk to me.
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I don't want them to make conversation, but they can have
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whatever music on that they want.
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Sometimes the Uber drivers will have their own phone call going
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and it's sometimes weird because I'm the type of person where if
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you are, I sometimes can't tell whether you're talking to me or
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not. There have been more than once
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or twice where not in an Uber car, car ride situation, but
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someone from slightly from a small distance away, a slight
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distance away. They say something in my general
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direction or they say something in their general vicinity and I
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thought they were talking to me, but they were not so awkward.
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I and missing some part of the Spidey sense that allows me to
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reliably differentiate between when someone is a short distance
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away, whether the tongue to me or not.
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The other thing is, I'm also very bad at sometimes actually
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understanding what someone is saying.
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I was with David Lamb. I don't know where this was.
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I was someone. I don't know where's David Lamb?
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I was with someone and we were out and about doing something
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and we were trying to buy something or order drinks or
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something at restaurant. Some situation and someone was
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asking me something. Maybe we're ordering food,
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someone's asking me something. I had this poor lady repeat
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herself three times because I kept not understanding what she
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was saying. I don't remember what she
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exactly said. We were ordering drinks or
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coffee or food or something. Some very regular everyday
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situation, but her accent was just thick enough for the life
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of me I could not understand what she was.
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She's repeated herself three times until David or whoever I
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was with, she translated for me what the person was saying,
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like, oh, I'm horrible with accents.
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I can't deal with them horrible with figuring out whether
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someone's talking to me or not, so something's wrong with my
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hearing for sure. And I don't like the small talk.
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But anyways, this is a big tension, guys.
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My car, it's got the flat tire. I will fix it when I'm back.
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By the way, this is recorded two weeks ago because I can't record
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and upload a podcast while I'm on the ship, but I have a
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schedule. Every, every Thursday you're
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getting a podcast, but I'm going to just take an Uber.
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Sometimes you get in the Uber and it's like not so nice inside
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when you just get the regular Uber X or the regular Lyft.
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Sometimes it's like a decent car.
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I've never been in, OK, I was going to say I've never been in
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a dirty car, but I think once in a great while, rarely I've been
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in a car. That's not the cleanest.
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I wouldn't say it's outright dirty, but it's not been the
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cleanest. I was in Chicago couple months
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ago with my friend to see the Trice concert.
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I mentioned this the podcast the week after when I came back and
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we were at the shopping mall and then we were both grabbing a
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Lyft for Uber to go back to the hotel.
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This car was beat up. It was a little Scion like a
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Toyota thing, and the paint was completely not shiny.
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You know how people do the matte finish paint or like the vinyl
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wrap to make the car intentionally not glossy
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looking? But it looks good.
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This was this is not the same. This is when the paint on your
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car has acid rain and corroded away.
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So the side of the car was Gray, the rest of the car was white.
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The paint, the white paint had faded away.
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That's how bad it was. And from the sound of the engine
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and judging by how many loose interior trim pieces were loose
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inside the car. And when I remember this because
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he said it was his first day or week or whatever doing lift.
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And in my head I was thinking, first of all, he had a lot of
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trouble finding where we were. He couldn't find us.
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We were very like exactly where we dropped a pin in the app and
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he kept circling and circling and circling.
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He couldn't find us. The second thing is his car was
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in horrible shape. This car would not pass an
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inspection for sure. If you got pulled over and the
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cops saw your car like that, they would be suspecting
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something fishy is going on here.
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And the third thing is we got in the car.
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He said something like it's his first day or week or whatever
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that he's driving. And the standard response was,
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oh, you're doing a great job, blah, blah, blah.
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In my head, I was thinking, this is not going to be a very long
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career as a driver for you. If you can't just use your GPS
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and just drive to the pin, you just drop a pin on the road,
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just drive there. And the second, your car isn't
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such disarray. It's in such like bad condition.
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I don't think you're going to get that many five stars,
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honestly. So yeah, I am going to get, it's
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not very money saving. I'm supposed to be saving money
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and not splurging on anything. Well, I mean, I'm going to
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Europe for a cruise. I guess that's kind of kind of a
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being hypocrite there. But I was going to get slightly
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nicer Uber or Lyft. But when you go into the app,
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you can select a slightly nicer car like a Luxor Black or
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whatever. Sometimes you check, because
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while we're in Chicago for that price concert after the concert,
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we're trying to take a car back to the hotel.
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And the price for a Lux, like a nicer car, was actually a little
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cheaper than the regular ones because everyone got it from
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this concert, from this giant arena.
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Like thousands of people, everyone called a regular Uber
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extra regular lift. And because everyone was trying
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to get a regular car, the prices for those spiked up.
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No one thought to get the Lux or the premium option because most
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people don't. So I was scrolling through the
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app to get a, like nicer car, was 5 or 10 bucks cheaper,
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didn't get the regular one, and it was going to be, you know, a
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shorter wait, so I yeah, so sometimes, especially if you're
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coming out of a crowded situation, make sure you check.
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But sometimes more expensive options are cheaper and faster.
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So there you go. My flight's not too very late at
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night and I just want a nice, relaxing, peaceful minus small
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talk start to my vacation trip. I have to hop on three planes to
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get to Europe. I'm going to be in transit for a
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long time, so I want it to be a nice peaceful start.
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So I'm thinking I'll get the Lux option.
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I'm going to maybe have to toggle that quiet ride, whatever
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thing. Headphones on.
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Sometimes they just talk to you. I think I need my headphones on,
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and based my phone doesn't have bars, I'm going to be just
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listening to music in the car, I guess.
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Yeah, so there you go. I was going to go to one of the
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airport lounges and get food there, but I have access to
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certain lounges for my credit cards and frequent flyer status
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or whatever. But they close at 10:00 and I
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couldn't, but they close at 10 and my fight is like midnight,
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but for the If you ever been at a busy airport and sometimes you
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see lines for something random at the airport and in airport,
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you don't see a line unless it's TSA or at the gate.
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So be, and especially be in the larger International Airport and
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you see a random lineup that's not for a gate and not for TSA.
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It's probably for a lounge because airport lounges are so
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crowded now. I was in Denver, Denver
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International Airport. They have a Amex lounge there
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and I like going to the Amex lounges.
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There's some of the better lounges.
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Denver airport is a very busy airport.
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It's a massive airport and I transited through there two or
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three times recently, earlier this year, earlier in the summer
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and the first time I went there, I did have some time to kill,
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but not a lot. Went to the Amex Lounge and they
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had started doing a wait list. So basically they get your phone
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number, they text you when they have a spot available, they text
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you back. I didn't have enough time to
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actually make it back because I only had 4045 minutes before my
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next fight. It wasn't enough time to wait
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all that, be on the wait list and do all that and still have
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time to go into the lounge and do anything useful.
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But the second time I went back, did the wait list thing again.
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So many people have these credit cards and everything now they
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were handing them out like candy.
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The airline statuses during the pandemic to get people to fly
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more that there's so many people that have lounge access and the
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the lounge passes and this and that.
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Sometimes I just find a quiet area of the airport.
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I find a gate where there are no flights coming up, like an empty
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gate and I just chill there that.
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If you don't have lounge access, I will tell you if you find an
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empty gate or like a quiet area in the airport to chill out at,
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that is likely more peaceful and a more luxurious experience.
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They're trying to find a seat in a busy lounge.
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But as you go into a lodge, when it's busy, like there's a
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lineup. First of all, God knows how long
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you're gonna wait. Second, you go in as completely
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packed. Yes, there's like food and
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drinks in there. The National Lamp just have free
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alcohol, like open bar kind of. They cut you off.
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You can't just drink 20 shots or whatever, but it's open bar and
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they have hot foods and they've got cookies and fruits, that
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kind of that part of it. The food and drink part is very
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very nice but. God help you, you need to find a
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place to sit down, to have that drink, to eat that free food.
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If the lounge is very busy, the seating is going to be very
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difficult to come by. So a lot of times I'm even do
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the lounges. So for the people that don't
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have lounge access that are jealous, don't because I have
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access to decent amount of lounges when I travel.
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Now, depending on where I'm going, if it's international
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flight, what airport I'm in, half the time I don't go because
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I would rather just have more space and you have more space if
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you find empty gate to camp out at for like a couple hours.
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No, there's no free food at when you just do that and there's no
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free drinks. But it beats lining up for 3045
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however long it is to get into a super busy lounge just to get
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the free food, but then having to, like, find a tiny little
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nook to eat it in, assuming they even have free seats, right.
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So the the lounge experience is not what it used to be, and it's
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not what it's cracked up to be now, unfortunately.
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All right. I've been watching.
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I mentioned this before. I've been watching a lot of
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HGTV. It's the thing.
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I put it on the background. I put YouTube on the background
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as well. But when I'm preparing to go on
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to a long flight, I try not to watch anything on YouTube,
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because anything I want to watch on YouTube I put onto my tablet
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and I'll save it for when I'm on the plane.
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There's I mentioned last a couple of podcasts ago, I
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mentioned The Heart Stopper, which is a TV show on Netflix.
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Season 2 just came out, and I was obsessed with the first
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season. I mentioned it and I downloaded
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it onto my tablet because I was going to watch it when I was
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flying to Marketplace in Chicago a month ago, and I didn't end up
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watching it. There's this weird thing
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sometimes where I feel like, oh, I want to save it for later
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because I don't want to just watch it and be like have it be
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over, which is kind of like a very weird thing to it's a very
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weird feeling to have. But I haven't watched that.
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I downloaded a whole bunch of new videos but Discover Plus,
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which is what HGTV comes on, the streaming service, the app, I
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don't think the app lets you download anything or with the
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cheap the cheapest plan I bought which is 5 bucks a month, which
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is I can really afford for that. Or maybe the cheapest plan does
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let you download anything. So I'm like okay.
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I'm packing for my flight and everything.
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There are movies and shows and stuff that I can download that I
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will save for when I'm flying and the long lay over some long
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flights. I'll save that to watch there.
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And I'm gonna watch something that I can't download, which is
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HGTV, which I watch a lot of anyways, I love watching HGTV.
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I've been watching House Hunters a lot, and there's Ali Wong's a
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comedian. I'm I'm sure a bunch of you know
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her. And in one of her stand up
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specials, she makes this joke about House Hunters where you
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know which house they're going to pick.
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It's whichever house Deborah wants.
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As in it's whichever house the wife wants.
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You know F the husband, right? And it's kind of a fun game to
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watch the show, like watch House Hunters and decide which house
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you're going to get at the end. But my favorite show is the ones
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where they do the remodels I would love to have.
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I would love to find a fixer upper.
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This is not compatible with my current financial situation
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right now, but I would love for one day in the hopefully not too
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distant future to be able to buy a fixer upper.
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Like a completely rundown house that just needs to be gutted,
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hasn't been renovated ever. It's built like 50 years ago and
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everything needs to be remodeled.
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Basically. I would love to find a fixer
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upper, gut it, and then just do it exactly how I would want it.
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I think that would be so much fun.
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And I think that puts a bunch of equity in the house as well.
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You do it right, but that takes a lot of time.
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In HGTV, in TV Land, they build a whole house.
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They they can remodel a whole house in two to three months and
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that's with that's from TV magic and with like HGTV.
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I'm sure when they do these shows where they got a whole
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house and remodel the whole thing, obviously you're only
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seeing 30 minutes or an hour of that remodel.
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But they tell you what the timeline is.
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It's seven weeks or it's three months or however long it is.
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I think that's a very accelerated schedule because for
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first of all, for TV, they need to record and do a certain
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number of houses, basis one house per episode, and they need
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to do enough houses in a short enough amount of time to be able
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to come up new seasons of all the shows, right?
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But in the real world, I think it's not three to four months to
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redo a whole house, it's 6 to 12 months.
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It takes maybe even upwards of a year to have like a big remodel
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on a house, but I would love to be able to pick the countertops
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that I like on my quartz. I would love to pick like even
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little nitty picky things like the type of light switches that
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are to be installed, the type of windows, the type of doors,
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things like that which is like the really geeky part of me.
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I would love to be able to build my own house and in in in
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sometime in the future. I would, I would love for that
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experience. My one of my good friends in
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Sydney, he just did that. He bought, I kind of sort of ran
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down house. There's actually a funny story
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about that when he first bought that house, it was before the
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pandemic and I visited for Mardi Gras, which is kind of sort of
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like the Sydney Pride for Sydney Mardi Gras I visited there and
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his house has a bunch of, it's like a row house.
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It's got a bunch of levels and I actually slept with him, not
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have sex with him, but I shared a bed with him because he had a
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whole bunch of people visiting. The whole house was full of
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visitors and I really, you know, we're good friends.
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So we just like he got a king size bed.
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So like I just like slept in his bed with him.
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And the thing with the house is there were this sounds super
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gross and it is, it's super gross.
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There were cockroaches in the house.
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No joke. This, not kidding.
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Like, literally there were cockroaches in the house.
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I remember during the day we'd be hanging on the kitchen and
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once in a while there'll be a cockroach that like, crawls up
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into the counter. And I hate, hate, hate
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cockroaches. Like cockroaches is probably
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like one of the things I hate the most.
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Because because I think when I grew up, sometimes we had
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cockroaches because we grew up in Hong Kong.
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It's like a hot, humid climate, You know, it just, it just
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sometimes you just see them right in like dry, cold climates
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you don't see them as much, but in warm, humid climates you've
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seen them more often. So I think I got really freaked
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out seeing them as a kid, so that probably didn't help.
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And they just, they run. They run so fast and they're so
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hard to kill and sometimes they're massive.
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Some of them fly anyway, so it freaks me out just talking about
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it. As I got older, I've been, you
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know, now that I'm an adult, I'm a little less freaked out by
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that. But anyways, stuck in his bed
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and one night I felt something on my back.
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You know, sometimes you just get like a like, you know, a strand
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of hair or something and like it itches, or like you just get a
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random itch, but it's nothing. But Long story short, I was
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sleeping in his bed and it was in the basement and there was a
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cockroach that was crawling on my back.
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Basically something was definitely crawling on my back
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and like I woke up and I got completely freaked out and like
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brushed off my back. And when I turned around the
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cockroach was like had like crawled off the bed by then.
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But like I was so, so freaked out to have a cockroach crawled
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my back like in when I was sleeping in bed.
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It was like so horrible. Anyways, what the entire
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basement up is. There are four of us that was
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sleeping in the basement like they were.
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They're all really good friends of mine and I remember David
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Lamb was one of them. David Lamb said I woke him up
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obvious because I was yelling and like freaking out.
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David Lamb's like he's half asleep.
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He wasn't trying to shave me or make make it funny, but I think
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he was just half asleep and he just said something.
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Whatever was the first thing on his mind.
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What he said was, oh why do you have to be so dramatic in his
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half asleep state? But anyways, his house is
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completely redone now throughout the pandemic.
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I think he got the purpose and everything.
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He got it together and when I first visited his place, it was
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like a few years ago before the pandemic.
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But I visited him again also for Sidney Mardi Gras earlier this
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year and his place. It just got finished in the
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winter. It's completely done now.
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Knock, no cockroaches. The insect situation is
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completely taken care of. But he did what I wanted to do
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to basically he got a house that needed a lot of work.
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He got it the entire place, and from the outside it looks the
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same. But the inside it's like
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completely redone. Like every every piece of
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drywall is new, every light fixture is new, every floorboard
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is brand new, every towel in the shower and the kitchen is brand
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new. It's got like a super, super
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nice place. It's done like a very modern
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way, which is also the way I would love to do it.
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Very modern. A lot of wood accents, which I
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love. Really nice kitchen, really nice
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bathrooms. So I would love to be able to do
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that. So if you wanna help me achieve
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that dream, maybe you can. I just need some money.
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I think I need to maybe get back on that 9:00 to 5:00.
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That's really the dream that I have.
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But anyways, thank you for listening to another episode of
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the podcast. Again, I'm in Europe, assuming I
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didn't miss the cruise ship on my cruise right now, but next
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week we will return to Berkeley scheduled programming and I will
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have an update on the cruise and stories for Europe from you.
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Until next time, bye.