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HHBSO 34: Getting Sick After White Party Bangkok · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to He's Hot But something's off with me.
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Just Joey T After two weeks we are back.
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Oh my God, it's been. It's been a bit of a two weeks
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and we'll get right into White Party Bangkok very shortly.
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But it is Wednesday the 10th that I'm recording This.
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I had planned for the podcast to take just a one week break.
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I think at the very end of the year, that week between
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Christmas and New Year's, you know, like no one's doing
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anything. I feel like that's kind of like
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the one holiday week where like, people can just stop working.
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And by the way, you're not paying for this podcast.
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I can do whatever I want. But I did plan to take a break
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and I did announce it that one week.
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And my plan was David Lamb was supposed to, and he did visit me
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in Los Angeles right after New Year's.
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We were in Bangkok together. And then he had a thing where he
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was in LA for like a couple of days and I was going to record a
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podcast with him and do a a a pot together about how White
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Party Bangkok went for us over New Year's.
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But we both got sick and we were not in good enough of a
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condition to really be talking for 30 or 40 minutes.
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And that's also why we did not have a podcast episode the first
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week of January, which would've been last week and hence why I'm
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here now. So I'm I'm like 95%.
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I still have a little bit of a sore throat that's lingering.
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Whatever bug that I got, like I have not been that sick in like
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years. Usually most years I'll get sick
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once, maybe twice. I mean during the pandemic with
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COVID and everything, like almost everyone, so many people
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got COVID right? So like but thinking to pre
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pandemic, I think on average I got sick once a year and it if I
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was lucky that year it would have been like a very mild cold
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to the point where like I didn't really notice it too much.
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Once in a while it would be something more like a hard or
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cold or like a light flu. Not anything that's very, very
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severe to the point where like I feel like I'm going to die this
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year though we picked it up in Bangkok for sure and I had a
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couple of flights connecting to come back from Bangkok back to
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LAX. Oh, quick sidebar.
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There was a Japanese Airlines flight that lit on fire on
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landing at Haneda airport in Tokyo.
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While that was happening, I was at that airport so I was on a
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layover. I was like a 7 hour layover
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before I caught my flight to LAX and I was in the lounge in the
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airport and like I couldn't tell that anything was going on or
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wrong. I guess it's a big airport and
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there's a whole ton of windows, Large, huge windows on the side
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of the lounge that I was in, and I guess the fire probably wasn't
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on that side. We weren't facing the right
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runway, but I didn't know about it until I didn't notice
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something was up at the airport until I got an e-mail that said,
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oh, there's a ground stop at the airport, which means there are
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no no flights are ticking off and no flights are landing.
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Like operations flights have stopped.
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That's what a ground stop is. And then I started and then the
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e-mail said it's a ground stop because there's a fire on the
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runway. And I'm a little bit of like, an
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AV geek. So it's like, Oh my God, what's
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going on? Googled it.
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And then that's when I actually found out about the Japan
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Airlines flight that unfortunately caught on fire.
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I was like, I was like, oh, I'm at that airport.
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It's like, I'm at the airport where this, like, this huge
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plane is caught on fire. So that was like a little bit
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crazy. And my flight was supposed to be
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like one of the last flights out of that day and they were able
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to like get some of the flights just delayed but like
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rescheduled to be like a little bit later on.
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So fortunately for me, the flight my flight was just
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delayed by like 30 minutes. It was like MB DI was already
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having a 7 hour layover. Yeah, but that was some crazy
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shit to be like at that airport until like read and see and hear
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about the that that flight. But there were no announcements.
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Like no one was freaking out. It was just like a regular day
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at the at an airport lounge. It was like just boring.
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I was just eating a lot of free food basically.
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That's that was a quick sidebar. But yeah, at the lounge I was
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felt I was feeling fine. I was eating all the ramen, all
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the Yudong, all of the Curry rice, which is like these are
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like some of my favorite things to eat.
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Japanese foods is one of my favorite cuisines.
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And got aboard the flight. The flight was not full and
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there was AI was on the aisle seat and there was an empty seat
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and there was like another person we were like in the
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middle of the plane. So it's like great.
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I've got an aisle seat. I'm on a bulkhead so like no one
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to recline into me. I got a lot of lake room.
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There's empty seat between me and the other passenger.
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You know, it's going to be like a 10 or 11 hour flight across
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the Pacific. This should be great, right?
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But that during that fight was when I started to feel ill Like
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I started to get like a headache.
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Just like generally didn't feel super awesome.
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Made it home anyways. But then the next day I got home
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in the evening, still managed to, like, pick up my quick
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groceries on the way home from the airport.
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Wasn't feeling too too bad. But the next day, Oh my God, I
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was. I was just a BLOB on the couch.
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I not felt that sick in like several years and many years.
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And I just didn't feel like doing anything.
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I I didn't want to eat. I lost my appetite.
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I had like a headache. With any amount of movement, I
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had like a headache. I didn't want to, like, get up
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off of the couch. So it was just like a really,
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really crappy day. But then the next day, I bounced
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back, like surprisingly quickly given how crappy I felt that
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full day back in LA. And then the next day, I felt,
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like, significantly better. Still sick, but like it was.
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I wasn't, didn't feel like I wouldn't just crawl into the
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crevices of my couch and die. So it was like one really bad
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day. And then, like, it was like the
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rest of the days were like, kind of OK, so that was like a week
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ago. So I'm quite a bit better now.
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But yeah, that was, that was gnarly, whatever that was.
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And I was reading in, just reading some random news that
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said this flu season has been, has hit really hard and it's hit
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early. So and I'm talking to some other
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people, quite a few of my friends are sick as well,
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regardless of whether they went to Bangkok or traveled or
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whatever. And some of them are like the
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sick. They were the same kind of sick
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as me, where like they were just like really sick and it, like
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wasn't COVID. But it's quite a few of them
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took the COVID home test and it wasn't that.
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So that aside, that's a lot of fun getting sick, by the way, if
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if you're sick, like just milk the sick days.
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Every time I get sick, I always remind myself, milk it.
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But sometimes I'm still worried about like, Oh well, like, am I
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getting enough protein? Should I have another protein
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shake? What about my diet?
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What about my weight? It's like for like the one or
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two, maybe three days where, like, you feel really crappy,
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like just let it go, just like, do whatever it takes to make
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yourself feel better. So that's how I've reminded
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myself, like that one day where I feel really crappy.
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That night I didn't brush my teeth because I was like, so I
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was so fatigued and I felt so crappy.
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That was like, I was deciding like, I need to move from my
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couch to my bed to, like, go to sleep.
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And even that was, like, difficult.
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To just, like, go from the couch to the bed, dirty dishes all
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over my coffee table from, like, throughout the day of just
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accumulating bowls and soups and teas and whatever didn't clean.
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Any of that made the decision not to brush my teeth and just
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like somehow got from the couch to the bed that night.
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So anyways, let's move it on to White Party Bangkok because
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that's where we were over. New Year's was there for about a
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week, six or seven days, and every time we go to White Party
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Bangkok, it's been a good time. This was a good time as well.
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One of the reasons it's so fun for me is I get to hang out with
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a lot of my Aussie friends that we don't usually hang out that
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often otherwise because it's quite far for them to fly from
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Australia to the US and it's far for me to fly there.
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And I I rarely go to go to Australia, they rarely come to
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the US. So Bangkok is kind of sort of,
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well, it's still kind of far from me, but that happens to be
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kind of like the one event every year where we all want to go and
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the event is good and we can kind of like meet up and hang
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out at least at one time of year, right.
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David Lamb is an exception because he's an anomaly.
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So every time, every year it's been good.
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We've been to every White Party Bangkok.
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Having said that this year I feel like it was my worst White
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Party Bangkok ever. Even though overall that's a
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relative term relative to like the previous years.
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Right. Several reasons why.
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So obviously we got we picked up this like whatever super flu
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that we like it's somewhere it we picked up in Bangkok for sure
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because yeah so picking up getting super sick from a trip
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is never fun and there there was I'm going to tell a story and
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they moved it to a different venue this year.
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So it used to be in some there used to be like a like a a
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concert event space in Central World which is this like
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gigantic super shopping mall. And but behind Central World,
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kind of sort of like in that same block, they have a
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Convention Center that's attached to like a hotel, like
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the Centara something hotel. And then there's like the
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there's like a Convention Center, like a separate space
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that's right behind Central World.
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So they moved it there and apparently moved it there
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because it was going to be like a larger space, a bigger venue.
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There's a lot of demands. We can sell more tickets and
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have more people. Fine.
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We've been to that venue once before for Songcran.
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Songcran is the Thai New year and that's in April, but G
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Circuit is during Songcran is another gay circuit party that
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happens every year that happens during Songcran, the Thai New
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Year in April and I've been to Songcran once, maybe twice a pre
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pandemic and they traditionally have held it at this Convention
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Center. The White Party Bangkok held
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their event this year. So the only the thing I don't
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like about this venue is that there are two regular size
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escalators that everybody has to funnel through like everybody.
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So and it basically became a very big bottleneck.
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Now the old venue in Central World, it was also two
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escalators for everyone to kind of funnel through.
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But there's not as many people, and for whatever reason with the
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old, just the other thing is you have to take a lift up into to
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get to where the escalated escalator is only to like one
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floor. You have to take a take some
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elevators to get to like the 26th floor or something.
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And that's a bottleneck too. For whatever reason, it wasn't
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really a huge bottleneck to get in and out of the previous
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Central world, the old venue. Because yeah, there's two
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escalators that goes directly into the venue to get in and
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out. And then after that you're on
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like some high up floor in this massive building and you have to
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like work your way down in the old Central World venue.
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That was not a problem. You're still able to like exit
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out without waiting, go down those escalators without taking
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a lot of time. And then they basically just
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guided you down like another four or five flights of
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escalators to get to like the ground floor you're on like the
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six or seven floor or something. And getting out has never been a
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problem. Even at like the end of the
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night when they shut off the music and they turn up the light
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and like everyone is exiting at the same time.
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I've never had a problem. Like you never really had to
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wait this venue though on Saturday night, I got there like
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10:30 or 11:00 and they do want you to go with it earlier, yeah,
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blah blah blah. But anyways, got there like
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10/30/11. You have to take the, you have
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to take the elevators up to the 26th floor and then you go, you
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spill into this like the elevator lobby and then you have
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to go down the escalators and then you're inside the venue.
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The elevator doors open on the 26th floor and it was just a sea
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of people like there wasn't there wasn't quite enough room
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for everyone in the elevator to even get off nicely.
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Like we have to like shove and kind of like push ourselves into
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the crowd so that everyone behind us in the elevator could
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actually get off. So I was in that for like, I
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don't know, 30 or 40 minutes. Imagine just being in like a
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huge crowd of people for like 30 or 40 minutes to funnel through
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like these one or two escalators.
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Like that was not fun. And like that did not put me in
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like a good mood. So that happened, which wasn't
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nice. It was like very warm.
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It was kind of humid, blah, blah, blah.
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But anyways, later on that night, it was very busy.
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Saturday nights, it's the main events, the white parties, very
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busy. They have 3 restrooms and the
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old venue had VIP restrooms. There's one restroom that was
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VIP. I couldn't figure out if there.
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I couldn't figure out if there were VIP restrooms.
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There were. There were three separate
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restrooms. None of them were marked as VIP.
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So I never looked into it. When you're in the middle of a
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party, you're not, you know, like you're just gonna go to a
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restroom, right? Unless it was there wasn't a
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clearly marked VIP restroom. Maybe I missed it.
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But as far as we can tell, there were three restrooms.
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Then there were VIP, But I went, I went full Karen on, that's
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excellent. But so somewhere to get like,
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not in a super great mood because like the 45 minutes it
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took for us like to get in and it was like so crowded and
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everything, it was hot and humid.
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So a little later on, later that night, I decided I go to the
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restroom as I needed to pay. And you, a lot of times there's
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a line up for the restroom and usually the line up is just for
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the stalls. If you need the urinal, usually
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you don't need to line up, but from the outside you can't quite
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tell right when you're leading up to the thing.
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I try to go into one of the restrooms, bypassing the line
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and a security person like just said, like, no, there's like,
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no, you can't. So I just knew, OK, everything,
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everything's awake. I went to one of the restrooms.
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I got in line because it just seems like it was very busy and
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like everything was awake. I got to the front of this line,
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still totally not knowing if this is if the urinals are free
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or not, but I got just close enough to like the front, just
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inside the restroom to see that OK, everything is full.
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There's a line for everything. These three guys like bypassed
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the line and and I can see why because like, you know, like
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usually there's not a way for your nose.
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Like they like they kind of said, like went up to like they
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they bypassed the line. And I was almost at the front.
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I was like two or three people back.
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So they got right, right, right up to the front of the line and
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they saw that there was a wait. And then they just waited like
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at the front of the line. Like, you know when there's been
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like a queue of like 50 people or whatever and like they try to
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like cut in front of like me or like the person in front without
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having to wait in line because I saw them cut in.
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And like they can clearly see that there's a way for
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everything. Now, like the line up that I've
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been in, they're also waiting for the urinals.
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So they try to cut in front of me like the person in front.
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And I was just like, I'm not having this.
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Like I didn't. I'm not having it.
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I have my crayon. And I said something like, you
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guys know, like there's a line for everything.
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Like there's a line for everything.
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Like if you are gonna walk all the way up to the front to see
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that there's a line for everything, you should probably
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get back in line. Like you should go to the end of
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the line. Like you're not gonna cut in
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here. So these three guys, and when I
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when I'm talking, I'm loud, I'm a loud person.
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You guys, this is a microphone, but you guys can probably tell
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them that. So and like, no one's talking.
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It's a bathroom, right? No one's talking.
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So I told them, I said something like, guys, there's a line.
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There's a line for everything, something like that.
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And they all look, like, embarrassed because I have like
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a carrot tone. I'm sure I have like a
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particular tone in my face, probably says everything.
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And then they didn't move. They just like stood there.
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So it's like, what I am I thinking, well, are you going to
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go back into line or like, are you just going to hang out here
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and keep cutting in front? So they didn't cut in front of
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me, but I I would, I would not be whatever.
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And then like just just like 5 or 8 seconds go by and like I'm
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about to like I'm at the front of the line.
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I'm I'm about to like wait for the next year or now.
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And then one of those three guys says like in like a like almost
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like under his breath but definitely audible.
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He said, he says like we know. I'm like, in my head I'm
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thinking do you just fucking talk back to me your response,
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it's not sorry. It's we know.
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And then my response was, if you know, why didn't you get a line?
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It's that easy. If you know there's a line up
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for something and you want that something get to the back of the
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line like everyone else is doing, Like what is is that so
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hard to comprehend? So I was like, so I was like I
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was blown that that was his response.
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The the response should have been, oh sorry, we'll go get in
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line. That's the logical response.
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But no they had they they had to talk back and like and like 1/2
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ass pussy ass way. So they picked on the wrong
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person. Honestly so so so that was my
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that was like my Cara moment at the bathroom.
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So I was like OK, I I've waited like 45 minutes in this big huge
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hot humid crowd to get in here through these.
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Like, yeah, to get in and I found my friends and stuff, but
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I was like, all that waiting made me really had to pee.
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And like everything's busy. Everyone had to wait.
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I waited. So like, I went caring on them
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anyways. But let's talk about just like
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my overview of the parties. So we didn't go on Thursday, so
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it was Thursday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday were
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the parties. Thursday night they have what's
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called AGM or All game meeting which kind of like the welcome
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party which we don't usually go to and I didn't go and but on
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Friday they had the jock ball which is the only afternoon tea
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dance poolside party that they usually have.
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The same venue as they had it before which is like the Avanti
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something hotel, same venue as last year.
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It was fun. They also had a upstairs second
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stage at the pool party, The jock ball that was more like
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Chill House. Music.
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If you didn't want like the circuit music, which I thought
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was great. We actually spent like a bunch
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of time up there. It's a really nice venue, like
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it's on the rooftop of this like hotel.
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You get really, really nice views.
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There is a pool there that you can go into.
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There's a really nice main dance floor with the circuit music.
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There's like an extra bar and like an extra area in the back
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to like loiter and just chit chat or whatever.
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They have the upstairs area, which is really, really fun.
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So that party was generally pretty good and I love a daytime
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party. We can actually see people.
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So that was really, really good. And then Friday night was the
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Military ball, which is one of their regular theme parties they
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have every year. So it was, I don't remember all
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the DJs for every single night, but I remember that I didn't
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like the music that much. It was like the music wise.
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It just wasn't. It wasn't, It wasn't bad, like
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just 'cause I don't like something doesn't mean it's bad.
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It was not my type of music that I like.
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It was to me like just very average night.
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We know that for something that's military themed, the
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music usually is a little bit on, like the darker side.
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They're not going to play something that's like super
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happy Smiley bubble gum for military night, obviously,
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right? But that's the kind of music
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that me and some of the other boys like.
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So not that the music is bad, but it wasn't quite my cup of
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tea, so that was that. But you know, like the
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production is like awesome. You go into the White Party
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Bangkok official Instagram account, you can see like photos
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of like the venue, the setup, the stage and everything.
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Like they really just kind of outdo themselves every year with
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like the production. I would never see something like
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that in the US Like what circuit party am I going to go to in the
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US that happens every single year, regularly.
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I'm going to get that type of a stage, those types of lights
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like all sorts of like moving type things that are coming down
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from the ceiling that shift then rotate and motor up and down or
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rotate and all that kind of stuff like you don't basically
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or I I've not seen it yet. So like the production value of
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like the set, the stage, like the lights, you know, like the
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all the stuff they have from like the ceilings, it's all
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really, really, really good. And it's like it gets better
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every year. So like check out their
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Instagram page and that's probably on Facebook as well
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where like, I've got tons of photos.
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Like it just look, it looks as crazy in person if not more when
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you're witnessing these things because those they've got those
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six rings, five or six rings that are on the ceiling.
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When they move up and down, they rotate, they tilt, they all have
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whole bunch of light lights all around primitive and also on the
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inside and outside of the circle.
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So they move every which way and every night at least once,
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probably multiple times. They do like the song and dance
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of all of them. So there's like a little
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intermission where like this, you know, between DJs or when
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there's going to be a special performer about to come on,
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they'll like do this show with like the lights and rings and
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stuff. It's really, really cool.
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Production Valley was good moving on to Saturday, so that's
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the White Party main event and also Sunday.
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So the music I did like on Saturday night and Sunday night
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as well. Saturday night was New Year's
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Eve so but there was some like some of my favorite DJs we're
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playing. So there was Anne Louise who I
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love. I love it when she spends Soggy.
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Awesome, love his stuff. So there's some good music, some
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good DJs, Tommy Love also spinning.
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So it's a really good DJ lining up generally.
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So yeah, well I had a really good time.
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The only snag was, yeah, like the getting out every night.
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So I think it was, I think both Saturday and Sunday nights.
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I think one of the nights we managed to, I think it was
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Saturday night, we got out like just like 10 or 15 minutes early
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and it wasn't a disaster. But then on Sunday we thought
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they were going to end it a little bit later, but it also
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ended at 3:00 AM. So we were just like we we were
24:30
there when they closed it down. So it was just like a lot of
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waiting to go out. It'd be like it's like another
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30 to 45 minutes to get out if you're if you're in the dance
24:40
floor. When they turn out to listen to
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music stops, it's like 30 to 40 -, 4, five minutes to get out,
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which is like really, really horrible.
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So that's that's like the only really unpleasant thing.
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Well, the two things was maybe they had AVIP bathroom and I
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just couldn't find it. But when you're in a party
25:01
situation, you don't always have time or want to like roam.
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And like every single inch of the facility except especially
25:10
if it's large, you just have really big, really clear signs
25:15
for where everything is. And I could only find 3
25:18
bathrooms and none of them were marked as VIP or or I just
25:21
missed it. It's possible too.
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But I would say I wish the bathroom situation was like a
25:26
little bit improved because I never had those issues with the
25:28
bathrooms at the previous venue, guys that they have this venue,
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but it could accommodate more people.
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So there were more people there. So but even the bathroom thing
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is kind of minor compared to like just getting in and out was
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like just so difficult. So I don't know where the
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hosting it next year. I assume I'll be there next
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year, but if they host it at this venue again, definitely.
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It's imperative to get there early, at least on like the the
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more popular night. So like the New Year's Eve night
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and the White Party night, Definitely.
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Those two nights you need to get there probably by like before,
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definitely before 10, maybe before 9.
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I don't know, on on the New Year's Eve night, after having
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such a long wait to get in on Saturday night for White Party
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on Sunday night, I went with the group.
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I didn't kind of do my own thing and come in a little bit later
26:21
by myself. I went with them and we went
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super early. I think we got there like 8:00
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or 8:30 and it was it was easy to get in.
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It was breezy to get in. So I think getting there before
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9 is probably important. If you can get it even earlier
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then it'll be even better too. I'm definitely not waiting till
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the end to leave. They don't announce the end
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times for any of the nights, but I think Saturday and Sunday and
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Friday all ended at 3:00 AM pretty much on the dot.
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We thought the last night was going to go till four but like
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it didn't pan out. But like, not getting, like, you
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need to be exiting before, like by the time the lights go up and
27:01
they stop the music, you need to be off of the dance floor.
27:05
You need to be like off of that dance floor already.
27:07
And you need to be like, on the way to coat check or like, you
27:12
need to be like up those escalators if you don't want
27:16
like an agonizing wait. So those are the lessons we
27:20
learned. Those are the, yeah, that's the
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main thing, getting in and getting out the logistics that
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that was just not a good venue for getting people in and out.
27:27
It was just kind of horrible in that sense, All right?
27:30
And I'm trying to do a really good job of giving you guys a
27:33
review of the actual White Party Bangkok, because I still
27:35
remember the feedback you guys gave me for when I went to
27:39
Taipei Pride and I didn't talk about the actual parties or
27:44
whatever. So here you go.
27:46
Here's my review of the venue and the parties and all that
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kind of stuff. So I hope next year, I mean,
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they can, yeah, I don't know where it's going to be next
27:57
year. But yeah, like it's just one of
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those things where getting in and getting out, it's just so
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difficult that you really have to like get there early and you
28:05
can't wait till they turn the lights up to leave.
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That's all. But the production was great.
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The the music was really good. DJ Lango, but that really,
28:15
really liked anyways like some of some of our favorite DJs in
28:17
there. The music that was there was all
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really good. There were some good
28:21
performances. I'm not always.
28:23
Sometimes you go to like the bathroom where you take a break
28:25
from the dance floor at the wrong moment because you when
28:28
you're in the middle of a circuit party, your priority is
28:31
not to memorize when the performances come on and off.
28:35
What the what the what the what The times are for all the
28:38
performances. You might remember the order in
28:40
which the DJs come on. But like, even then, it's like
28:43
if your friends like or decide to like, go to grab a drink, go
28:48
to the bar, go to the take a break outside or whatever, you
28:52
know you're sometimes you might follow your friends, you might
28:54
not hang back, you might need to pee and you might, you know that
28:57
might take 30 minutes or whatever because it was so busy.
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So pajama heels performed famous tie drag queen.
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I was there for that. It was like a 5 or 10 minute
29:09
performance. I was there for that.
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I'm sure there were other performances.
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I'm sure I just missed them, but yeah.
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Oh my God, the go Go's were all very, very hot there.
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Once Upon a time, Dave and Lam and I did go go at White Party
29:24
Bangkok, but that was like during the early years when the
29:28
standards weren't as high as now.
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Like our our Dave and Lam and our bodies are not on that level
29:34
and we don't have any dance moves.
29:35
Honestly, we we really, really don't.
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Yeah, but the dancers are always like super hot.
29:40
There's some people that were like acrobats or acrobatics that
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did like some stuff with like ropes and all that kind of
29:48
stuff. I didn't fully catch it, but I
29:50
saw some of it. Yeah.
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So yeah, overall it was a really, really good party.
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And I I just, I just like Bangkok in general.
30:00
The food is good. It's not very expensive.
30:02
There are a whole ton of hotels you can stay at.
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Yeah. And there's this like apartment
30:07
that we've kind of stayed at repeatedly that's like our
30:10
little home base now. And we had a whole bunch of
30:12
other friends that also booked that same like little apartment
30:15
building. So there was like a whole bunch
30:18
of us that were staying in the same building.
30:19
So that was a lot of fun. Yeah.
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So that's my review of White Party Bangkok this year and also
30:27
getting sick from Bangkok. We didn't know where we picked
30:30
it up. We didn't go to too many home
30:32
pods. I went to a couple of home pods,
30:33
a couple of after party home parties.
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Afterwards David said he didn't go to any and he still got sick
30:38
too. So yeah, so there you go.
30:42
Well, happy New year, Happy 2024.
30:45
Hope you had a great start to your new year.
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Better than mine which is getting sick in the next podcast
30:54
or in like one of the upcoming episodes early this year.
30:57
I do want to talk about, I do want to reflect on my 2023
31:03
because my 2023, it's, it's, it was so much different from every
31:11
other year that I've lived, you know, during my adult life at
31:17
least. And even, yeah, like the the
31:22
pandemic happened in 2020 and then that was like the last year
31:26
where the world was kind of crazy and I made some really big
31:30
moves. I moved to LA from San
31:32
Francisco. I bought this condo for example,
31:35
yeah, but last year 2020 has just been like a really, really
31:40
weird year. And maybe I will talk about that
31:43
on the next podcast and also talk a bit about what my pseudo
31:50
semi plans are for 2020 or we'll do that once my throat is just a
31:57
little bit less sore so that I can do a little bit more talking
32:01
without probably destroying it. So the podcast is not.
32:05
I didn't just like up and end the podcast, I we just
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accidentally took a two week break.
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But normal service has been resumed.
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We will be back with the weekly episodes from now on.
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So until next week, bye.