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HHBSO 7: (Not) Live from New York · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello. Welcome to he's hot but
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something's off with me, just Joey T if you are watching the
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video podcast which is available on Spotify and my YouTube
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channel just Joey tea. You notice for in very different
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surroundings actually have that mint green wall behind me was
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actually a wall that I painted about a year ago.
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I don't want to feature wall for this one bedroom but today we
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are coming to you, not live but we're coming to you from a hotel
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room in New New York City, actually correction.
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I'm not in New York City technically in Queens.
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So I'm here for New York City Pride, which is just a few days
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from now from when I'm recording this and I decided to pick a
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hotel, not in Manhattan for money reasons, so I'm still on
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my career break. So I'm really watching the
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pennies and the dollars quite Leave.
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I have a lot of credit cards to give me a lot of points SOI
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decided we should use as many of the points as possible for as
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many of the trips that I want to take one on this career break
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kind of make sense. But I've got all these Hotel
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points, Airline points credit card Point sitting there, I
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don't usually use them that much for very complicated Reasons.
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I'm not going to go into today but this year I've been burning
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a lot of those points. So went onto the website, I you
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stay With the Marriott chain of hotels because that's where all
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my hotel points are went on their website.
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Look for hotels are available around this time for NYC pride
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and obviously stuff that's in Manhattan.
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Proper is pretty expensive. So I was looking in a wider area
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and I know that just across whatever that bit of water, that
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separates Manhattan from Queens. I really don't know the
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geography of the area. Yep, but it's just basically one
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or two train rides on one of the lines between RAM and queens and
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Manhattan. So it seemed like, oh, it's not
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technically in Manhattan tickling Queens but this hotel
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that I'm staying in now that I booked seemed pretty close.
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So I was like and it's way cheaper.
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It was like half the amount of points that was needed.
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If I were to stay in like Chelsea or Hell's Kitchen, which
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is the error that I usually stay in when I used to visit New York
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before but those are all work trips or work pay for those.
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So it was like all good. So I was like why not?
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I think a really useful thing we have available today is Google
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Street View so you can check out what a neighborhood looks like
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just you know in the light of day so I got to New York at
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night and just copped in a boober from LaGuardia Airport.
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I was only 20 minute ride And I wasn't really paying attention
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to like, what area I was in. I was just on my phone, the
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entire time car arrived. Drop me off.
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I was outside the hotel. I just like, walk didn't.
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I didn't really notice the next morning I was going to head out
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and I was going to go into the city to get food, pick up some
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toiletries or whatever because I did notice that in the area
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where this hotel is. There's not really anything
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around here. It's Not.
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There's not like a CVS, there's no Walgreens, there's not a
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supermarket. There's not really stuff around
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here, which I was like, whatever.
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I didn't really think that much about it.
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The next morning in broad daylight, I walked out of this
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hotel, I took like two steps onto the sidewalk and I was like
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this is not like a great neighborhood so signs that
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you're not staying in a great neighborhood, your hotel is not
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a great neighborhood. Is when their cars that are
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clearly Out Of Reach. Hair just parked on the side of
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the road. There's just one hatchback, this
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white hatchback, that was propped up on a jack, on a side
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of this row, like literally right outside the hotel and its
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got like both the front wheels, missing and hooded open the
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first time I saw that, which was like the first morning I left
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the hotel. I thought, oh, they broke down.
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In some catastrophic way, they blew their tires and their
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engine is shot or something. That car is still there, the
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Hood is still up and both front tires are still like off of the
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car. And I've been here for, I don't
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know, 48 hours now, I've walked past that car like five times
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six times and 48 hours and it's still there and it's not doing
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anything and near where that car is are other cars.
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That are very, very dusty and you can kind of tell some bits
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are falling off of those cars. So, that's your first sign that,
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you know, tell is not in a great neighborhood.
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The other thing I noticed is their kids, I hear kids playing
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on the street until like 10:00 p.m. and I was going to record
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this during the day, because it's nice to record a video for
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the video version of the podcast.
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We recording video in like a random room.
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It's nice to record in front of a window.
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You get all the natural light is very flattering, but I'm
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actually recording this at 11:30 at night because it's so noisy
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during the day and there's an air conditioning unit in the
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window, which is great. It's this actually a new hotel.
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Just why I picked this one. I thought, oh it's not like the
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most fancy hotel but it's a new hotel.
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So at least things are like new and modern right, which it is.
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There's a giant air conditioning unit that's in the window and
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it's it's probably more a scene in this room ever needs.
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It cools down very, very quickly, but the thing is sound
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travels through that window AC unit, that just how they work
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and I can hear everything on the street.
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When I'm sleeping, I don't hear anything.
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Also put in your earplugs, but I'm like, why are kids playing
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on the street like past dusk? It's like 10.
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Npm and I hear kids like screaming, yelling, whatever
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outside. Also during the day, there are
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like people that are just racing mopeds up and down the adjacent
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Street for some reason. In a way to, I don't understand.
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Yeah, so it's not like the nicest neighborhood, and I'm
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saving money. Like, the hotel was safe.
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Let me put this, the hotel is saved, is not like dangerous.
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Once I'm in the hotel, I don't feel like there's anything
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wrong. I don't necessarily feel my life
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is in danger when I go to and from the hotel.
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The other thing is this will tell us very close to the subway
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line, when the subway lines that it takes you right into the
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city. Is literally Two stops away and
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then your arm like Lexington is 63rd Avril wherever it is.
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So yeah. Anyway, so that was interesting.
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I'll make sure not to cheap out so much on the whole to, I
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guess, I guess I got spoiled before because every other time
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I've been in New York had literally been a work trip.
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Most of the companies I work with they have some sort of
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office in Manhattan. So usually when you travel for
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work they'll say you get a cat How much and expand on the
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hotel, how much you can spend on the airfare.
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If you are able to pick your own hotel at all, some companies
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will just say you have to pick from these hotels.
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Some other companies. Just let you book whatever as
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long as it's in the price cap and I've usually staid and like
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Manhattan Proper, right? It's not been a problem, but
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yeah, it's nice. I've got a kitchen and actually,
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famous of the kitchen of my hotel room, which is nice.
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Got a microwave. I've been buying meals at Whole
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Foods. One of my favorite things, when
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I travel to different Other cities at least in the u.s. is
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being really close to a whole food.
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Now, do you should stop Whole Foods for groceries at home?
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Anyways, but Whole Foods, they have a hot bar section which are
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really, really liked number one. The second thing is they've got
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some really good microwavable meal options.
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So that's what I've been eating for like half my meals right
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now. So tonight for dinner, I just
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went to the hot bar at one of the Whole Foods in You just get
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a box you fill with how much stuff you want, and it's a
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little expensive. You go to the checkout and they
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way how heavy this boxes like how much food you have in this
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box? Mine was one point eight pounds.
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I remember. And it was $24 which is granted
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not cheap. However, the advantage of that
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is, it's like a buffet you get to pick exactly what you want to
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eat. And there's nothing that you
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don't, and you also don't need to tip, which is awesome.
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So ahead of doing that. That I knew this room would have
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a little kitchenette with the microwave, so, and also a
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fridge. So, the first day I went to
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City, I went and picked up some of these, like, breaded to heat
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up Meals from Whole Foods. They're not the ones that are
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frozen, because a lot of hotels, they don't have freezers, but
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have like a fridge. So, in like the first section,
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they've got like Whole Foods branded microwavable meals that
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you keep in the refrigerator, but it's not frozen.
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You don't keep in the fridge. And remember when I first moved
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to LA and I was just living in Airbnb, I still shopping for a
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condo and I did have move into the place, obviously, because I
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haven't bought it yet. I rented this little Studio
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Airbnb in LA, and there was a full kitchen, but in like a
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short-term rental type of a place like that, I just didn't
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feel like getting groceries and cooking.
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Cooking. So for like two months straight,
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I was basically eating off of Frozen microwavable meals.
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Are these Whole Foods microwavable meals that I found?
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You know, when I first moved to LA and I was like, this is
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actually really delicious. So I went and picked up a bunch
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of those picked up some cereal, which is, if you're watching the
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video podcast, if this is Whole Foods, fruit and nut muesli,
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which is what I usually eat when I'm at home.
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Actually, and I was like, okay, I'm going to get some of these
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bizarre eating these. I haven't eaten these app.
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I want you to have this box, probably before I even check out
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of the hotel. So, yeah, it's funny when I
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travel, I think other people do this too.
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When I'm traveling, especially if I go to a country where they
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don't speak English, I need the security and comfort of going to
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a A basement that I am very familiar with because I'm
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already in a familiar place especially by, don't speak the
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language there. And I'm not that familiar with
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the culture that already makes me kind of answer.
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That gives me some anxiety already.
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So to go to like a McDonald's, which I know a lot of people
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over like, oh gross, why would you go to a McDonald's?
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If you're in like terrorists or if you're in Tokyo or like
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whatever kind of stuff, right? It really As for me, I'm not a
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foodie. And I don't really want to
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necessarily try to look o food in most places that I visit.
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There are exceptions though. One time, I went to Tokyo for a
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whole week this way back in college stuff.
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So it's many years ago went to Tokyo with some friends of mine
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and we were there for a week and we made it a thing to try.
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A different type of Japanese food for every single meal.
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Oh, and it was like, one of the most delicious weeks I've
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experienced ever in my life. Granted, if I went to Tokyo by
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myself for a week, would that have happened?
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Probably not for all those factors that I listed before but
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I was like with a group of people so I weakened it as like
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a group activity, but why would New York anyways?
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I've been trying to experiment and find out what are the Ask
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casual food chains that are in the area.
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So, in LA, or the West Coast, for example, one of my favorite
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fast-casual chains is Tender Greens.
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So prefer to Google that up, as it's not everywhere, but Tender
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Greens, it's fast, casual American, basically.
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And you can get steak or chicken or tuna, or salmon and get up
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on, like, a plate with like a side like a salad, or vegetables
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or Mash. Potatoes or whatever is so it's
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you know, fast casual Western and that's a type of food that
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for me is a good mix between it's affordable.
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It's quick and it's got enough protein and veggies, which is
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what I usually try to eat it, my diet anyways, but it's also a
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type of food in a type of restaurant where it is.
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Not weird for you to eat there. Yourself for which, for me is
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like The most important criteria, right?
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It's so weird to go into like a regular sit-down restaurant.
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I just get a table for yourself, but not always feel like even
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the tech leaders are nothing wrong with that, but it's like
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you go in there. Like, first of all, no one
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working in that restaurant, expects you to get a table for
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one and just eat by yourself. If it's a slightly more casual
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type of restaurant where they have like a bar depending on
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type of restaurant Cuisine, it is is when you're eating those
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bar. Yeah, you're probably just
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eating for one that's fine. But like in a lot of restaurants
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like proper sit-down restaurants, it's feels very
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weird to get a table for one. I remember one time I took a
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road trip from Vancouver where I used to live my parents, and I
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was in college, and I wanted to take a vacation in LA, and I
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wanted to do a road trip. So, I drove all the way down
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over, two days from Vancouver, in Canada, down to Los Angeles.
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And I stayed at The W Hotel basava.
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It was like fucking nice fancy or whatever.
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And for one of the meals that decided to eat at the restaurant
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that was in the hotel and regular Western American Cuisine
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and order. Like one thing was very busy at
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the restaurant. When the most of the tables are
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empty, I think it was like late afternoon, early evening or
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something. I'm just like a weekday and got
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a table for one and I had some food.
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I remember the Waiter asking me, do you like one like a magazine
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to read or something like that? Because I guess.
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It was weird for him. That I just wonder like a meal
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to eat. I think, in the hotel, you have
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a hotel restaurant. That's like the one restaurant
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in your hotel. Obviously, getting people that
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are visiting, and a lot of times people, travel solar for
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whatever reason. You know, if you're on like a
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business trip, you're likely gonna be traveling.
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So a lot up, this is Travelers, they're just solo travel, like
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they're not traveling in like a group or whatever.
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And when I travel, I SLI travel solo.
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I don't usually fly with people. I'm not used to staying with
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people. I mean I might be going to a
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party. Now no meet friends at a party
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or whatever but I'm not actually staying at flying with them so
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it's weird that in a hotel restaurant where you know you're
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going to get a bunch of Travelers and a good number.
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They're going to be so low that like you don't cater to them
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more like you as a waiter with can also Define as shocking that
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someone is eating Solo in that restaurant.
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Yeah so I visit New York every so often so I've been trying to
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find places where, yeah, it's where I can eat by myself and
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have feel weird. It's the kind of food that I
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like to eat and it's like relatively fast and I don't need
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to like spend a whole bunch of time.
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They're eating the food because I'm probably there.
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I'm not traveling to New York, just to eat.
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I'm traveling to like do other things.
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So, yeah, so every time I come to New York, I've been trying to
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like fine New chains and kind of new fast casual places.
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By the way, Google Maps has been useless.
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Never been never has Google been so uses it helping me find a
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place or like something to do other than the out in the world
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except it's going to type fast. Casual it just gives me fast
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food. It doesn't understand the
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definition of like fast-casual, where it's not.
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It is that in between between Fast food like a Burger King,
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and let's sit down restaurant. Google Maps doesn't understand
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that and the Google search doesn't understand that.
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So, I've been like, I've had to try very hard to find some of
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these restaurants. But I found my few which is,
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which is pretty good getting around New York as one of my
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favorite things because I don't like public transit but I like
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the train that that's the you like in the subway for example
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trains. Subway's skytrains.
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Those are the only types of Transportation public
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transportation that I like, I hate the bus, I can to the bus.
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I would not take a bus. Like it could be free to take a
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bus somewhere, or you can pay $50 to hop in an Uber even if
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the Uber wasn't faster. And I'll to still take that we
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were I just don't really like taking like a public transit
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bus, it's really not my jam. Shuttles are like a little
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different. So whenever a flight out of LAX,
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X I park in the economy parking have to take a shuttle to get
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from the parking to the terminal that seems okay but for me to
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take like a regular bus bus, like not high school anymore.
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So I don't I don't like I really don't like the advice but I like
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taking the train and I love that New York has like a great subway
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system that pretty much gets you anywhere that you want to go.
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The only thing is maybe I haven't been in New York for a
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while now is how Often people don't caii for the subway to
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ride it. So, I've taken a somebody like
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five or six times so far, I've been mostly just walking from
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place to place. I'll take the train from here in
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Queens. Take it two or three stops into
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Manhattan. And I'll get off, and I'll just
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walk to different places on foot today.
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I walked about six miles, it was to the point where my phone was
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100% charge completely charge. So we're my earbuds.
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When I left the hotel at like 1:00 p.m. and four hours later,
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I like 5:00, they were both on 15%.
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Like, I've never gone from what 100% to like low battery on my
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phone and my earbuds at the same time.
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Number one, and number two, I've never dreamed that much of my
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battery on either one of those things and like four hours.
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Like I've been, yeah, well, I was not going to a hotel, that's
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probably why. But I was just like, walking the
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whole time today, Day. But anyways, yeah, every time I
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got into a subway station and take the train or like, I was
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leaving the subway station to get it back on the street.
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Every time without fail, I've seen someone like jumped, the
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turnstile, they just hop over, or I saw one lady like duck
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under and then, there's also the other trick where people just go
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in through like the emergency exit.
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That's by the turnstiles. I can't believe so many people
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just like Do that? I don't know.
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It's it like a New York thing like maybe I just it's always
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been like that and I haven't been in New York and like a
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while. So like I don't notice it that
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much or something and like these people they don't care who sees.
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So I was coming out of a subway station and someone just came in
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through like the emergency exit, like the wrong way, like, going
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back in and the guide the booth was like right there.
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So I guess they're like, I'm like there in the booth.
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Like what can they do? Right?
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Yeah. Just the amount of people that
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don't pay the fare. I don't even know how much the
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fair is but like I guess, well it is what it is, I guess.
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So I mentioned the last podcast I decided at the last minute to
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come to New York early. I was supposed to originally
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come in New York Wednesday Thursday the week before Pride
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weekend itself and stay for about 5 days and leave the
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Monday. I ended up coming In Sunday, a
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full week before, probably we can and as I am recording, it is
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Tuesday night. I found that it's been nice to
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have that change of scenery and then kind of get my head kind of
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out of the mental state that it was in and that was kind of one
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of the main reasons. I'm at the point where if I have
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the motivation to do something or if I think something is a
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good idea, I'm competing. I'm convincing myself.
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Of to just like not question it and do it as long as it's not
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something that's very obviously. Nonsense course stupid to do.
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So when I had the thought to just, you know what, I want to
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leave La early, I want to get out of La for longer.
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Let's maybe just go to New York a few days earlier than planned
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when I had that thought. I just like, didn't question.
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I just started looking into it. I was like, doesn't seem like an
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obviously stupid idea. It's not more expensive cost few
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more points for a few extra nights at the hotel.
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But yeah so I just got it done because one of the things I've
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been struggling with this entire year and even since last year
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honestly it's just lack the motivation to do things.
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I touched on it a little bit it's very first episode of the
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podcast and on this career break and that's related.
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I was seeing a therapist for a while last year that's related.
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Yeah, it's like I just don't know.
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So the motivation to do a lot of things that's kind of sort of
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gone. I'm not depressed for, but I was
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thinking a little bit, like, do I have like some sort of low
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form of decree depression or something as far as I can tell?
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I don't, but things that I used to enjoy doing and I don't enjoy
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them so much anymore. Everything seems like a chore
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and I can't tell if There's something going on or I'm just
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got like really, really, really lazy.
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But yeah, it's been nice. I would say, at least for like
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the last couple of days to be out of Allah, not be on my couch
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watching TV coming to the hotel and watching TV instantly.
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First thing I do when it comes to the hotel rooms like put our
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HGTV of the foot network is what I've been watching in the hotel
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room. But yeah, during the day though
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the last couple of days when I'm here, yeah, I just Out of the
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house just went into my hand, just explore different places.
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Like I said, I was trying to find different like fast casual
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restaurants today, I went and hiked the entire High Line Park.
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Highland Park is, don't kill me. If I get this wrong I'm just I'm
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not Google. I'm just doing this off of
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memory but Haile Park is basically a old railroad that
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was elevated off the street now turned into a park because like
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the chain doesn't run on those rails anymore.
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Something like that but it's actually really cute.
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So Ashley went from one end, the Northern end of High Line Park
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walked all the way down to where the Meatpacking District is.
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And I walked back in the tend to like just walking all over
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Manhattan for other things too. Like free food or find coffee,
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or just do whatever. Yeah.
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So it's been nice to just be out and about and Just kind of sort
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of, not worried about job hunting or chores or bills or
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anything like that. And like just be out, you know,
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which is kind of hard for me to do.
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If that's why I don't leave the house that often, when I'm in
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Los Angeles, that sounds horrible.
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But I do go to the gym all the time and this week, I'm not
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going to the gym because like, I'm just on a break.
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I'm on like proper vacation trip.
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So it's like, I'm not even going to the gym.
25:06
I'm getting exercising with the walking, but, yeah, when I'm at
25:09
home, It's very easy to just to not leave the house unless I
25:14
have to the gym is one of the few things that gets me out of
25:17
the house right now. But yeah, it's been a lot of
25:20
time thinking about what I want to do with life and it's not a
25:25
question I've ever really had to think about before.
25:29
So yeah it's baby steps but I think what I needed and what's
25:35
been good for me so far, it's just to have that change of
25:37
scenery and being a new group as stuff.
25:39
Ali that change of scenery that I really, really needed.
25:45
Yeah, and I'm just gonna go with the flow, we have Pride weekend
25:49
coming up in New York, which is why I'm here.
25:52
So we'll see how the parties turn out and I'll give you all
25:56
an update on New York Pride weekend on the next episode.
26:02
Now as always, I like to wrap up the episode with a little talk,
26:06
about RuPaul's Drag Race, some Stars season 18 we're up to
26:11
episode 7. The only thing I really wanted
26:17
to talk about honestly is the amount of crying.
26:25
And the amount of Dramatics that Alexis Michelle displays on the
26:32
show because when they were picking parts like Drag race
26:38
fans will understand, you know, when a queen gets a little too
26:44
emotional for being safe from elimination on a particular
26:49
week, but now, you know, we're getting emotions.
26:53
When you don't get the part that you want it before the main
27:00
challenge, even occurs the thing.
27:02
That bugs me so much about this is what On the one hand, it's
27:07
good TV, I guess, but for me, it's just annoying.
27:09
Like, not like a love to Hate Everything.
27:12
Like, I just don't like it because they say, improv
27:16
challenge this week and all the Queen's were discussing who
27:21
wants what parts. Okay.
27:24
There's going to be some queens that are going to get the elbows
27:27
out a little bit and say, I want this part and their little
27:30
stronger for it but like, hey, it's a competition, you know?
27:33
Like, you're not here to make friends.
27:36
I feel like you don't need to throw other people under the bus
27:39
explicitly. But you know if there's a part
27:41
you want you should probably just say, hey I want this part
27:44
right and no one wants it. Great as yours if someone else
27:48
wants it. Okay, you guys figure it out
27:50
which is like candy and Alexis are trying to do the two things
27:55
about that. That bug me specifically was
27:58
when they were figuring it out. And Alexis said well, these two
28:04
parts are pretty Similar. So why do you just take the
28:07
other part? And Candy.
28:11
What candy said was like exactly what I was thinking.
28:14
Let's candy set was those two parts are so slim.
28:17
Right? You take the other part because
28:19
you think they're similar, I don't think there's similar,
28:22
which from like a logical point of view makes like perfect
28:26
logical. Sets it felt a little bit, like,
28:29
Alexis was trying to be like, well, you shouldn't have what
28:36
you want and like, you should take this other part, which I
28:39
think is, Similar enough for you but not for me like it's a
28:42
little like, I don't know. Hypocritical is the right word,
28:46
but I just didn't like it. I didn't like it.
28:49
But literally what candy said was what I was thinking.
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Like Alexis if you think those two parts are so similar, why
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don't you take that other part that you think is so similar to
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the part that we both want? Because I don't think those
29:00
parts of that similar but you do so you take the other part And
29:04
then the thing is Alexis, then finally agrees.
29:09
Okay, I'll take the other part and if volunteer to do that, I
29:15
mean, obviously candy was fighting for the part that he
29:17
wanted T, but like I said, okay, I'll take this all apart and it
29:22
starts crying. So in the confessionals and
29:26
stuff, I know Alexis said he's like very sensitive.
29:29
Very emotional. Yes, fine.
29:31
But at that moment basically, it was also like can set is like
29:38
The Dramatics like it's Yes, I get.
29:43
It's a pressure cooker. I don't have sympathy bad.
29:46
Hey it's a very difficult environment that everyone is in
29:51
but Lex has also alluded to this a little in the confessional
29:55
swalot. If you can't take the pressure
29:58
maybe you shouldn't be here. So at least she has enough
30:01
self-awareness to like kind of sort of be getting that hint.
30:06
I don't know. We've seen girls that have been
30:09
too emotional for me. Safe from being eliminated.
30:13
Like bitch you're picking apart like in you're crying over that.
30:18
I just don't get it. I know this is good TV I just
30:23
don't want to see that. So for me it's like I it's not
30:29
enjoyable you just is for me is annoying to watch it as a
30:31
viewer. Someone that is so sensitive and
30:38
cries at things like That because for me, it's like I
30:44
don't get the sense, you have, what it takes to be in this
30:48
competition. Number one, the number two is
30:51
four All-Stars, you've done this once.
30:54
So I felt like, you know, you should have some idea what to
31:00
expect. It's kind of the same note that
31:01
I had with Heidi, for example and Heidi kind of may be
31:05
thinking o in the All-Stars are winter season, they no one left.
31:11
EFT, no one left the competition.
31:14
And I think it was wishful. Thinking if Heidi ever thought
31:17
that that was the case for every All-Star season going forward.
31:21
Because for me, it was pretty clear that that was a all
31:24
winners specific thing that they were doing.
31:26
That was not likely going to repeat it for every future
31:30
All-Star season. It wasn't going to be for all
31:32
winners. Just the regular All-Star
31:34
season. Even before the first episode
31:37
aired, I knew it was likely to be reverted to the old all
31:41
songs. For my we're Queens will have to
31:43
vote each other out. So I feel like for candy to have
31:48
thought that no one was going to leave.
31:51
I don't think that's realistic just to be completely honest me
31:53
as a viewer. I can already tell you like
31:57
bitches are going to go. So I don't know how where she
32:00
got that from, but I am not a fan of her patreon so I don't
32:03
know what the real T is, but she locked up.
32:06
Behind a pay wall. But the thing is for LS is
32:09
Michelle to be there and be, I don't know crying that much.
32:15
It's the producer spike in her water or something.
32:18
Are they? Like they put in cut, onions,
32:22
under her face out of the camera shot or something.
32:25
I don't know what it is. It's it's too much.
32:28
It's too much. It just feels like to me like
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you're not You're not strong enough to take the pressure, you
32:36
know, you should have known better because it's like when
32:39
you come back for All Stars you've been kind of through the
32:41
ringer once and it's not something you want to do then
32:44
like yeah that's as nice as I can make it but I just want to
32:49
say like just beat it. I kind of want to Alexa to just
32:53
eliminated this week because just for that because I just
32:58
don't like how cheese behave. So are the season with like kind
33:05
of sort of throwing Darren under the bus, like throwing a
33:08
teammate under the bus, stealing the Thunder from like the very
33:12
first episode from like Monica, like Monica was like a on the
33:16
chopping block and you're the one that gets all emotional and
33:20
like taking a ticket in the attention away and to like the
33:25
flip-flopping last week when there's the drama between candy
33:29
and Heidi and Jimbo to be fair, And she was like, hold on to the
33:34
spot but like you know, the flip-flop was, take the cameras,
33:37
don't lie, and then you can't even figure out what the other
33:43
queens. What part you're all going to do
33:46
without crying? It's like that's like the
33:50
easiest part of the challenge to do is to pick the parts of like,
33:54
you have to do that dressing and that improv and acting like
33:59
that. That's, that's the real
34:00
challenge. The real challenge is not to
34:02
pick up. All right, so like and you can't
34:04
even do that without crying. I don't know.
34:07
Let all of this stuff together. Makes me not like, Alexis
34:10
Michelle on the season. So it's some sort of drama, like
34:17
I said, you know, it's the producers like it because it's
34:20
some sort of entertainment value.
34:22
And this is why most people watch reality TV because hey
34:26
there needs to be some sort of drama, right?
34:28
That's why you watch any TV show, right?
34:30
Even if she TV the HGTV shows, I watch I can tell oh the couple
34:35
didn't know that there's 100 your house was going to have you
34:39
know, let pipes or something. It's like obviously the
34:42
producers and all the people knew that there's some problem
34:45
of the house but they have to it's a diff putting on a TV show
34:48
to have to, you know, put in some drama in there.
34:50
So I get that. But for me it's like I just
34:55
don't like me personally. I think a lot of people like
34:59
that type of drama but this On a crying combined, with throwing a
35:05
teammate under the bus combined with like the things that she's
35:10
saying all of that makes me just not like her very much.
35:15
And yeah, you know it's she's not necessary going to be a
35:17
queen that I'm going to be lining up to buy ticket to see
35:22
you know like all the Queen's are very talented.
35:24
Right. Definitely and I mentioned this
35:27
before their producers there that are like nudging people to
35:32
like Possibly react one way or say certain things right?
35:36
But I don't know. This is not the type of
35:41
Television that I personally like to see.
35:44
Let's leave it at that before I get way more worked up and with
35:49
that we have another episode of this podcast complete.
35:54
So one thing I want to say is I mentioned this before if you
35:58
guys want me to do a patreon because I do want to share more
36:02
Podcast content with you guys. But some of the topics I want to
36:05
talk about. They are not like, Advertiser
36:09
friendly or whatever and like to put it onto like the regular
36:13
podcast apps. I don't know.
36:15
Those apps are going to like me talk about some of those topics
36:18
but I would love to do like a patron or something like that.
36:20
For you guys. Maybe guys are down to do that.
36:23
Like comment on my Instagram on any of my social media or the
36:28
YouTube comments for like this video podcast episode and I will
36:32
I'd love to get that sorted for you guys but until next time not
36:36
live from New York. Bye.