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HHBSO 115: Delivery Issues · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello welcome to he's hot but something's off we're back we
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took a couple of weeks break so the last time I did a podcast I
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just have to pull up my spreadsheet here everything in
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my life is in spreadsheets August 14th and now we are
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September welcome to September. I just did a post yesterday on
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my Patreon just text post because I was so my list of
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topics to talk about to podcast about is FN bursting out of my
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phone because not just because I haven't done an episode in a
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couple weeks, but because I did a whole trip to Asia and I
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recently coming back from Asia. I got sick so, so many like
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little stories, obviously from the travel.
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I've got a ton of stories. I did the whole travel vlog.
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I just edited the first part of the travel blog.
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Whenever I do a trip, especially a longer trip, I have so much
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vlog footage that it just has to be split up into multiple parts.
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And on the longer trips, sometimes I'll do like a mukbang
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basically I'll sit down in front of some food and I just talk to
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the camera. Sometimes I just talk to the
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camera just like just to talk to you guys, almost like, almost
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like a mini podcast. So it doesn't make sense to have
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a video that's like an hour long for a vlog.
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So I break it into more easily digestible chunks.
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But anyways, yesterday I just edited the first part of the
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vlog from the trip to Bangkok and Singapore that I just did a
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couple weeks ago in August. And I think it's going to be up
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to seven or eight parts if I split everything into like 12 to
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15 minute episodes because I feel like if it gets too much
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longer than 15 minutes, I don't know, it feels a little bit
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long. So anyways, all my mid and upper
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tier Patreon subscribers, the mid tier is Magnet and the upper
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tier are the Opas. They always get my travel vlogs,
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and the first part of the travel vlog from this trip to Asia will
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be posted this coming Tuesday. Whatever date is like September
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the 9th I think. Yeah, next week Tuesday will be
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the very first part, and there'll be a new part every
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week until all the parts are uploaded.
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Anyways, I am super excited to be podcasting again.
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I had set out to take the last two weeks off because I was
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travelling. And then there's like the
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Labour. I just used the Labour Day to
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like not have the podcast, another episode, to be really
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honest. But then I got sick coming back.
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I was in Singapore and it was like the last night slash the
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day I was checking out the hotel and I got a little bit of a sore
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throat. But here's the T sometimes after
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I've had a lot of sex, IE like done a lot of collabs in like a
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short span of time and have therefore sucked a lot of you
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know what, sometimes it just because I've been doing so much
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of that with my mouth that sometimes there's a little bit
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of physical trauma to my throat. And I've had it happen a couple
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of times where because I was, I'm so good at my job that I do
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have that little bit of physical trauma to that bit of my throat.
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And then you just get like a little ache there, like a little
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bit of discomfort. But it's not because I got sick.
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It's not a viral, A bacterial. It's not anything like that.
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It's just because, you know, so I thought when I got a little
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bit of that discomfort that very last day in Singapore, I
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thought, oh, it like, I've been doing so many collapse in such a
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short amount of time. I've never done that many
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collapse in that short number of days before.
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I thought, oh, maybe it's because like a little physical
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trauma, not nothing major, let's just see what happens.
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But then it turned out that it wasn't because there was a
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little bit of physical trauma. It's because I was starting to
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have the very beginnings of a sore throat.
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I didn't feel sick. Luckily, I didn't feel sick.
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I didn't have any of the other symptoms kick in until the day
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after because I got back Wednesday morning into Los
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Angeles. And that day that I got back, I
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felt fine. I didn't feel sick at all.
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I actually went to the gym a few hours after I landed back
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because I was trying to adjust back to the time zone.
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So it was a red eye flight. It was like a 13 hour red eye
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flight and it landed back 9:00 AM in the morning.
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So I tried my best to sleep as much as I could on the flight to
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adjust back to the West Coast time zone.
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Did OK there. So when I got here 9:00 AM, the
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thinking was let's try to stay up as much as I can so that I
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can try to go to bed at a normal hour in Los Angeles time.
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So I didn't feel tired when I came back, luckily.
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So it I, I didn't really have that much jet lag luckily.
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But that day that I landed back on Wednesday, felt fine, went to
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the gym because I hadn't been to the gym in two weeks, because
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when I was over in Asia, I, I made zero attempt at exercising.
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I didn't even think about going to the gym.
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I didn't have gym clothes. I didn't have just none of that.
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And so when I came back, you know what, I had to keep myself
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up, you know, for like the next 14 hours or so.
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I don't feel particularly tired. I don't feel sick.
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I don't think I was sick at that time.
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So I went to the gym, didn't do a heavy duty session, just to
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move my body around a little bit.
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But the next morning when I woke up, and a lot of the times when
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I get a cold or the flu or something like that, it's when
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you wake up 1 morning and you feel like something is off.
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It feels like I'm getting sick. And for me, a lot of the times
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the sore throat is the very first symptom that I get.
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So I woke up the next day and it wasn't like it just hit you.
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Sometimes you get the flu and it just like hits you like a ton of
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breaks just comes on really, really quickly.
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Or I think I've never gone strep before, but I heard that if you
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have strep throat, the feeling of being I'll hits you quite
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quickly. But it wasn't like that will
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come on Thursday. And I was like, it just feels a
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little bit off. But anyway, since Thursday, I've
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just been basically chilling on my couch, just milking it every
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time I get sick, especially when I used to have the day job,
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every time I would get a cold or fever or whatever, I wasn't shy
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about taking days off or just like working from home.
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But I used to always have this kind of common mentality, at
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least in America where, you know, it's all like work, work,
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work at this mentality. Like, OK, take the least amount
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of sick days as possible. Like minimize how many sick days
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you take and just like try to be back to work or whatever as soon
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as you can. I feel like this mentality that
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a lot of American workers have, like, you know, it's frowned
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upon to take too many vacation days.
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It's frowned upon to take too many sick days, blah, blah,
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blah, blah, blah. But then every time after I am
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well again and recovering my back work, I always look back on
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the days where I took sick days and I was like, I should have
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the days that I did take off. As in I should have just like
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fully let myself relax on the days that I did take off instead
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of like checking emails on the side or like just trying to work
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from home. You know, I always look back
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after the sick days as in I just kind of wasted those sick days.
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Like if if you're taking a sick day, just take a sick day.
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So now that I don't have the day job anymore and it's not a sick
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day per SE, I like I can kind of do whatever I want because I'm
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self-employed. But Thursday when I woke up and
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I felt like the little off, I didn't really feel that sick.
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Like this was not, it was a very minor cold slash, whatever viral
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infection. I'm like 98% now.
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But Thursday when I woke up, I was like, you know what, we need
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to milk these sick days. We're going to do nothing.
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We're going to do absolutely nothing.
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Well, on Thursday, I did have to in the morning, I did have to do
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a couple of work things that have been backlogged while I was
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in Asia, but I did those couple of things.
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I spent that morning. I worked a couple hours.
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But after that, from Thursday afternoon all the way until
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what, Monday, throughout the long weekend, it was just Labor
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Day weekend. I did nothing.
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I didn't let myself do any amount of work at all.
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And it was kind of perfect because I just got back from the
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trip. OK.
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I'm kind of sort of getting sick.
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I just want to be able to like recover as quickly as possible.
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And it was a long weekend so it was just like the perfect excuse
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to literally not do anything. I didn't move from my couch.
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I didn't even want to leave the house, which meant I ordered
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groceries and ordered food. One of the things I love to eat
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after any sort of trip away out of town is fuck.
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I love fuck. Anyways, one of my most favorite
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things to eat, one of my favorite foods is pho.
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So I especially with a sore throat, just having like broth
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and noodles, it's like very soothing.
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You know, like certain things you don't want to eat when you
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have a sore throat like toast because it's just going to like
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be scratching your sore throat. It's just like uncomfortable.
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You don't want to have like fried chicken because that it
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just hurts your throat even more when your throat's already
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hurting. So things like broth soup,
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etcetera is great. So I did order for a couple of
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times. OK, I this seems like a tangent
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I'm about to take, but it's not really it it you're going to see
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how all these things come together at the end of this
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episode. I I swear, I promise.
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At the same time, I'm also getting rid of my car.
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OK, I know this seems like a complete tangent, but hear me
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out. OK.
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So I don't drive very much. I've gone to a point where I
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live in a location that is so central and I've kind of figure
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out like which grocery stores I go to and like which gym and
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like which restaurants and all that kind of stuff for all the
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essentials. I don't really need to drive.
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I go to the gym. It's walking distance and at the
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gym, dissert Trader Joe's and that's where I get a lot of my
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groceries and most of my groceries, especially the stuff
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that's perishable. For stuff that's not perishable,
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I tend to prefer to want to order it from Amazon or Walmart,
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you know, like olive oil, cereal, just anything that's not
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perishable. Like I'd rather just have it
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shipped to me. But that's like the most
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convenient. So my car this new car that I
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got two years ago, it mostly just sits but I don't drive
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anywhere for work. I did 2 trips to Vegas.
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If you guys are on my Patreon I have seen those travel vlogs.
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You wouldn't have seen it. I did 2 round trips to Vegas in
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this car this year and after 24 months even with those 2 little
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Rd. trips I have barely 4000 miles on this car.
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But 24 months barely 4000 not 40,004 thousand like 4 digits
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4000 miles barely just over that.
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It's kind of a waste of a car and having a car is very
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expensive. OK you have like the car payment
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and then you have insurance. You have to pay registration
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every year. Then you have to feed it gas or
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feed it electrons. So basically this car, I've done
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the math because I do a budget. So like every I I know every
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cent that comes in and out of my accounts.
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The car is just under $1000 to maintain every month just to
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have it barely be moving. If I drove more, it would
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actually cost more, but to pay nearly $1000 to not even really
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need it? For me, I don't really need a
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car. I think I always thought that,
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oh, you live in Los Angeles, you need a car.
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It just feels like everybody has a car.
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It just feels like you need a car because everything's so far
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away. But having lived here for like a
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few years now, I've learned that, oh, I actually don't need
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a car. I may have needed a car when I
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first moved here because I hadn't like, I didn't settle
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into the neighborhood yet. I was doing a bunch of like home
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improvement things and I still like buying furniture.
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And it kind of sort of took a couple of years to really like
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fully settle into the neighborhood and to like this
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house and have it all furnished and all that kind of stuff.
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But now that I've been here for a little while without buying
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furniture, really like the car gets so little use that I'm
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actually getting rid of the car early.
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So I'm in the process of getting rid of the car.
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But I'm a car person. I love to like drive a car.
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I love having a car. I'm a car enthusiast.
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The only thing that I now use my car for regularly is going to
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the airport, but I do travel somewhat frequently still.
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So I to and from the airport, but I've been taking Weibos to
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the airport, which we'll talk about separately, and that's
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been working pretty well. The other thing is just getting
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groceries. And also, I will drive to,
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instead of getting food delivered to my house, I will
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drive to the restaurant to pick it up myself because a few
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various credit cards and various things, I've have credits for
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Grubhub, credits for Uber Eats, credits for DoorDash, all that
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kind of stuff. And I take advantage of those
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credits that I get every single month.
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But it's so expensive to order food because there's a delivery
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fee and then there's some sort of service charge and then like
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you have to tip the driver, like just those three, the tip and
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the service fee and then delivery fee.
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That could easily be $15 or $20.00 for an order of food.
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You're gonna nearly double the price of the food.
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And I found out that I would just drive to the restaurant.
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I would rather, I would much rather just drive to the
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restaurant. I'll drive 15 minutes to a
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restaurant, pick up the phone myself, drive it home.
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I saved the service charge. I saved the delivery fee.
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I don't have to tip someone. I would tip myself.
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I would give myself $5 to go, drive 15 minutes to the
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restaurant to pick up the food myself and bring it home myself.
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So I've been doing that for like several months.
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But I want to use these free credits that I'm getting for all
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these food delivery services, but I don't want to have to pay
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all these add on charges for the food.
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Anyways, this is where it ties into like me being sick recently
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is when you're sick depend on how sick you're.
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I wasn't even that sick, but it was like, you know what, I'm
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going to melt the sick days, right?
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Let's just order the go shoes that I need instead of like
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having to like get dressed and look how presentable and then go
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out. And like also, I don't want to
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like spread my germs to other people.
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It's like, OK, let's just do an order of two of groceries just
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to like get through the long weekend.
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I really wanted to eat pho, so I ordered pho a couple of times.
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And then also there was one I've already felt like bubble tea.
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You know, when you're sick, you're allowed to have some of
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these things, OK? You can have like a few extra
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niceties to make yourself feel better.
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And for me, that was pho and boba.
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So how this ties into this whole car thing is getting rid of the
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car, you know when I made it doesn't get rid of the car.
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I was thinking instead of paying nearly $1000 for the car, I have
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saved so much money by not paying for a car that I can
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spend a little more money than I have before on just delivery
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services. You know, if I'm not going to
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drive to a particular grocery store that's a little further
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away to get certain things, I can just do Instacart or like a
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bunch of the delivery services like like on Uber Eats.
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You can also do grocery items and convenience store items as
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well. Same for DoorDash.
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I think they're all branching out beyond just like, you know,
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food orders. It's like you can do like an
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Instacart or you can do I have a Walmart Plus membership, which
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is like Walmart's version of Amazon Prime and Walmart does
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groceries. Walmart is one of the largest
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gochers in the States. And yeah, I can just have
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Walmart do me, just deliver some of the groceries.
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But like, if I'm saving nearly $1000 and not having a car, I
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can afford to spend, you know, a few bucks on delivery charges
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and service charges and tipping a driver like I'm.
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If I'm saving 1000 bucks, I'm totally happy to do that.
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So this weekend when I was sick, it was like the perfect chance
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to actually test out that idea, that concept.
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So here is where things are going wrong.
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I ordered PHA with a boba and what I've noticed sometimes when
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I do food orders is sometimes the driver goes to the next
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building over. I don't know why.
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I I I don't know why I don't know why but it's on.
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If you go on Google Maps it shows you which building it is
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and Google Maps conveniently kind of pops up a little
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thumbnail off the front of the building when you search
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something. Have you noticed that if you put
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an address into Google Maps, it will put a pin on the map, but
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also like have a little thumbnail, like a Street View
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thumbnail in the corner of like what the front of that building
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looks like? It's kind of foolproof.
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Like they had Google Maps for very many long years and they
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know what they're doing. Anyway, it's order fundable, but
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it was like the middle day. It was like 2:00 PM and I'm
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tracking it. But since the food gets closer,
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the Uber or the Grubhub or whatever app, it tells you, oh,
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your driver's approaching, blah, blah, blah.
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So I knew that the driver was pretty much here and I was
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waiting for my doorbell. Like someone could buzz into
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your building. I'd have an app that comes up.
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I was waiting for that to come up and it didn't come up.
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And sometimes, you know, like someone else is entering the
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building at the same time as your delivery driver or like
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Amazon's delivering something or the mail person is there.
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I'm like 30 forty, 50% of the time.
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Sometimes they don't ring because like the doors just open
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and they don't need to ring. So it's like it didn't ring.
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So it's like, oh, maybe they just tell get it back to someone
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and then I got a call. But sometimes the driver might
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call, you'd be having trouble with something.
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I got a call. So like I picked it up as I knew
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it could be the driver. And then I get this automated
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message from Grubhub or Uber Eats or whatever that says like,
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oh, like some legal mumbo jumbo and like we're going to connect
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it to your, I don't know what kind of fancy call system they
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have to connect the drivers with, like the customer, if the
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driver needs to call you. So it's like, I don't know, 10
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seconds of this like automated message about whatever voice
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system they have. And then the phone call just
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hangs up. I'm like, OK, I tried.
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Next thing I get from the app, it says your order is delivered
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and it shows you a photo of the delivery.
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So the photo is this person leaving my pho and boba outside
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the door of the next building over, like just sitting on the
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street. And I'm like, I'm not feeling
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100% and I am looking at this and I'm just like, Oh my God,
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they've delivered to the wrong address again.
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Like this happens like once it's, it's like a 5 or 10%
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chance. It's like one in five or like
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one in 10 times that sometimes the delivery goes to the next
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door. I don't know why.
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I, I, I don't know why. So it's like 2 PMS, like broad
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daylight. I have these tie dye colored
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shorts that I wear just around the house.
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Don't ask. We don't have time to get into
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why I have tie dye coloured shorts.
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It's not my style. I just have them.
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They were free. OK, they were free.
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I wear them around the house just as like pyjama shorts, but
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I'm just in my house. I'm alone.
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I don't need to like look good. I have fashion sense for that.
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So I get this photo and like the guy has just like left it on the
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sidewalk outside the door of the next building over.
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So I'm like hastily like throwing on the nearest jacket
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and then I'm still wearing these tie dye coloured shorts.
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But I'm like, all I need to do is walk one building over down
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the sidewalk and pick up my food before someone gets it.
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There are some homeless people around here and like you don't
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want food sitting on anyways. So I was like upset that it got
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diverted to the wrong building and the person just left it
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there. So I have these tie dye coloured
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shorts. Raw daylight outside is very
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sunny in Los Angeles as it usually is.
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Just this first jacket that I that I have hang around, just
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threw on the jacket, no hat, no glasses, grabbed the keys and
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just walked out. And I walked on the side of my
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building. But that's like the fastest,
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easiest way to get from my unit. I exit out the back door, I go
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along the side of the building and then I just kind of come out
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the side of the building at the front where the sidewalk at the
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front of the building is. I come out, the first thing I
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see is there's a guy walking his dog leisurely, kind of sort of
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like about to come out in front of me.
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Like he was rocking virtually what's on my way.
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And I've seen that guy before recently.
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He obviously like lives in a neighborhood, walking his dog,
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whatever. He was kind of cute, not that
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not like him, but he's kind of cute.
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And I've seen him before, I think while I was driving and
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like pulling up to the building or something like that.
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But just how gay and Elway I am, I'm like speed walking.
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It looks like I'm on a mission because I'm a little groggy.
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I'm not like 100% I'm upset that the order get didn't get
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delivered to the right address. Like how do you get your address
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wrong? And all I want to do is like
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remain in my house. The whole point of ordering food
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is that you don't need to go outside.
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And for me it's like OK, it's ruined.
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It's completely the only reason to do the order and pay the
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service fee, the delivery charge and tip is that I don't need to
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leave the house. Otherwise I would just get in my
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car and go to restaurant myself and save like $15.00.
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So that's the state I was in just to paint that picture for
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that mental picture for you. So I'm speed walking on a
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mission, not looking, not looking like anything honestly.
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Looking like the rag that you used to wipe your table with and
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throw off to the corner. Anyways, I walk outside and then
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there's this guy. I'm like obviously there will be
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a cute guy walking his talk that's seeing me in my tie dye
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pajama shorts in a jacket face looking like shit.
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No, just I'm not even supposed to be outside.
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Anyways, I was like. Then I speed walk on a mission
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down the sidewalk very quickly. Wearing flip flops, by the way,
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but I couldn't be bothered putting on proper shoes.
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And then there's this chick walking her dog on her phone and
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she did not care where her dog was going.
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So I had to like, leap over this stupid bitch's dog.
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It's not the dog's fault. It's her fault because I need to
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get to the next building over to like pick up my fault and my
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boba neutrus. I tried a different boba place.
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This is 1 boba chain that has a few locations all over and
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there's a couple locations to have that's close to my house
24:13
now. You should just order from them.
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Here's the T OK, if you ever go to a boba place and you get a
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get A to go. I mean I guess all boba is
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pretty much to go. Boba is a 2GO type of a drink.
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If they don't give it to you in a cup that's sealed on top with
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like plastic or cellophane or whatever.
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If it's not like completely sealed, don't go to that boba
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place. It's the proper way to do boba
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really is they put it in a cup and then they put the boba or
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whatever they put the drink in. And then especially if it's
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supposed to be to go for delivery, they have like a
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vacuum plastic Saran lit seal thing where it's a seal to the
24:55
top so that it's like waterproof.
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You can like shake it around and upside down.
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It's not going to leak. OK, This brand of new Bobo place
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that I tried, they used a regular like slushy cap.
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You know what, that slushy cap that's like half domed.
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It's it's like a Dome and it's just got like a hole on top.
25:18
So it's not not at all sealed. I don't know how this delivery
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driver got it to my house without spilling it in the car.
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Because if it was my car, like if I went to this bulbar place
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and picked up this Bulba, first of all, I'd be like, do you have
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a different lid before I drive around with this in my car?
25:37
And the second thing is I would need to put it into like the
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actual cup holder into my car. And a lot of the delivery
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drivers, they're not only delivering your order, they're
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delivering like 3 people's order at the same time.
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There's no guarantee there's going to be cup holder, precious
25:49
cup holder space for your drink in their delivery vehicle.
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OK, but it's like sitting on the sidewalk with this cap.
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It's like open. I looked at it and I got even
26:00
more mad. Anyways, I picked up the picked
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up the boba, picked up the pho, walking back towards still on a
26:08
mission, still walking fast, walking back towards my place.
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This stupid bitch's dog is still in the way.
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Or she's in the way. Honestly she's honored for not
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caring my anything. And it by this time the cute guy
26:18
with his dog, like I have to rock right past him, but he's
26:21
coming my way. So it it makes sense that God
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and the universe would set me up for me to do this, you know?
26:32
It's just the luck of the draw. Separately, I ordered groceries.
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I ordered something from, I ordered something from like
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Walmart to Amazon. I think it's Walmart because I
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have the Walmart Plus membership and I had gone to Trader Joe's a
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few days before. But like one thing that I kind
26:51
of forgot and I was running low on was Caesar salad dressing.
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So I was like, OK, I can just go on Walmart and I, I'll order,
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it'll get delivered like later that day.
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So I ordered the Caesar salad dressing and I also ordered some
27:05
bread. OK, so the box comes and I order
27:11
3 packs of this bread, just Chihatta bread.
27:15
The bread is there. The Caesar salad dressing is not
27:18
in the box. You know, for people that order
27:23
stuff from Amazon all the time, for example, which is probably a
27:25
lot of you, you know, if you do 100 orders from Amazon, there's
27:28
going to be like one or two where something is missing or
27:33
the quantity isn't right. You know, a 99% accuracy rate is
27:37
actually pretty good. You know, I've had it before
27:40
where like very rarely, once in a great while, something will be
27:45
a little off, like I didn't get one of the items that I ordered
27:48
or I didn't get the exact right item.
27:51
Actually with Amazon, it's not that the item is different.
27:55
It's usually that one of the items might be missing.
27:59
It's I don't think I've ever had it where I got a different item
28:03
than the one I ordered, but I know they have a barcode.
28:05
Now that I'm, I know how to like sell stuff on Amazon.
28:08
I know a bit about the process they have everything you get at
28:11
Amazon has like a barcode and they use that barcode to track
28:15
to see if you're being shipped the thing that you ordered, like
28:21
what goes in the box. All the items, the barcodes get
28:24
scanned. So I think it's very rare for
28:25
them to pack the wrong thing. But anyways, the one thing that
28:29
I placed that order from like the bed was just like I think to
28:32
min order minimum or something like that so I can threw the
28:35
bread in but the thing I wanted didn't come and it's no good
28:40
that they're going to give me a refund for it.
28:42
It's like I wanted Caesar salad, just need to eat my fucking
28:45
Caesar salad and I can't because they mess up the order and they
28:49
didn't put that in the box. I did a separate order for
28:55
groceries so that with the C style dressing that was just a
28:58
regular online order that was like shipping.
29:00
You can also do a what's called a delivery order from Walmart,
29:04
which is kind of like how Instacart works for like
29:07
groceries. Like someone at a Walmart store
29:10
will go through the store and like pick off the shelf the
29:13
things you want and they will like have a driver like drive it
29:16
to your house and deliver it like Instacart style, you know,
29:19
grocery style. So you can do groceries and also
29:22
do other things that they sell in the store, which is like
29:23
obviously a lot of stuff at Walmart and I forgot.
29:26
I, I did some grocery type stuff.
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I, I, I don't know exactly what order.
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I'll do some salad, some grocery type things.
29:33
And there was one thing that was just like, it was something
29:37
else, Like there was something I was just like missing.
29:39
I did another grocery order from Walmart just like a a couple
29:43
months ago and they gave me one bag of someone else's groceries
29:49
and I was missing one of my bag of groceries.
29:55
So the way all these delivery mishaps ties into like me being
30:03
sick and how that ties into the car is I basically experience
30:10
over this long weekend where I did multiple deliveries of food
30:13
and for groceries and just like shipment of stuff from Walmart
30:16
and Amazon, how it can be unreliable.
30:22
I think for the stuff that's like you order from Amazon, that
30:25
comes from like their distribution center or from the
30:28
warehouse. Same for like the Walmart
30:30
orders. I think those are probably like
30:31
99%. But if you have to have like a
30:36
human being pick stuff off a shelf and then drive the order
30:40
to your house or a human being is like picking up a restaurant
30:43
food order and driving to your house.
30:45
When it's like one of those types of deliveries, I feel like
30:51
the chance of something going wrong.
30:53
I mean, I got an it was an unlucky weekend, I think, but it
30:57
was just after this weekend. I was like, do I really want to
31:00
entrust all my all the things I need to get for the house to
31:06
delivery like Instacart and like Walmart and Amazon when this is
31:10
how bad it can get like this long we can show us how wrong
31:13
orders can be. And again, you're paying the
31:17
service fee, the delivery fee, like a membership fee.
31:19
You have to tip the drivers. I've done the math.
31:23
If I can get a car cheap enough I think I would rather get
31:28
another car instead of paying for Instacart, paying for Amazon
31:32
prime, paying for Walmart plus, and then on top service fee,
31:36
delivery fee the tip order goes to like the next order doesn't
31:40
even get to my door. It's the next building over and
31:42
it's like a drink that's not sealed like some flies or
31:45
whatever can like crawl into it. And then my order is missing the
31:49
Caesar salad dressing and I'm getting someone else's bag of
31:51
groceries. And on my own, I would rather
31:54
pay overall. Like if I looked at, you know,
31:58
how much I would spend on grocery deliveries and getting
32:01
ride shares versus just having a car and just doing what I'm
32:05
doing now, which is I never order groceries online.
32:09
I never order groceries. Like I'm always buying my own
32:11
groceries with the car or just I'm when I'm walking to the gym,
32:14
I'll go to the Trader Joe's. I don't have food delivered to
32:17
my house. I drive to the restaurant and
32:19
that's only to use like the credits that I have.
32:21
Otherwise I wouldn't order food at all.
32:23
And then I'll drive to the airport.
32:25
But it makes sense. I've done the math.
32:27
If I can get a car cheap enough, it's actually not really more
32:31
expensive for me to just have a car.
32:33
When I add up, like all the service fee deliveries,
32:37
membership fees, all that stuff is those fees are so expensive.
32:39
Now, at least when I for someone who lives in middle LA that you
32:43
know what, I just have the car. This is the very radical way to
32:48
to justify to you. I'm actually looking for another
32:50
car. My current car, the old car is
32:52
going away. We're doing the paperwork for
32:54
that now. It's too expensive.
32:57
Like just pure from a financial point of view, given that I
32:59
barely drive, I don't need that expensive of a car.
33:02
Like it's almost $1000 everything in.
33:04
If I get a different car, I still need to pay for insurance,
33:06
I still need registration, I still need to charge or gas it
33:10
up. Yes, but if I can't find a cheap
33:13
enough car, it's not really going to be much more expensive
33:17
than all these crap delivery service membership, whatever
33:20
fees, and I don't have to. Like I can rely on myself to
33:25
pick up the things I need when I go shopping, and I won't drive
33:29
to the wrong house and think it's my own.
33:32
I won't go to the wrong address. I won't accidentally grab
33:35
someone else's bag of groceries. I won't forget to like, I won't
33:40
forget to put something in my cart that I've bought at the
33:42
store that I've paid money for, you know, stuff like this.
33:45
Like when you pay all that extra money, I am sorry to harp on
33:49
about this. When I'm paying like all these
33:51
extra fees and the order like doesn't even come to the right
33:53
address. Like the driver can't even look
33:55
up to be like, oh, I'm at the wrong building.
33:58
What the fuck? What the absolute fuck?
34:02
I'm not gonna have it. I'm not gonna have it.
34:06
So there you go. I hope you, I hope you enjoyed
34:10
this rant. So the plan is I'm talking to
34:13
actually, I have a car broker. This broker got me my current
34:16
car, which I love this car. I, you know, it's just because
34:20
it's so expensive. I'm getting rid of it and
34:22
there's some really good deals on electric cars right now.
34:25
There's a whole other topic we're not going to dig into that
34:28
we're not here to talk financing cars and stuff like that.
34:31
But there's some really good deals on some like certain cars,
34:34
especially a lot of electric cars that sometimes the payment
34:37
is so dirt cheap. Some of these are going for like
34:41
130 to like 150 bucks a month for the car payment, you know,
34:46
at that price, I mean, I'm just going to drive myself.
34:51
So there you go. I we're back.
34:54
We're back for the podcast and yeah, stay tuned for the next
34:58
episode coming off Thursdays as usual.
35:02
I will, as usual, record the bonus uncut episode of this
35:07
podcast just for my Patreon subscribers and they this coming
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episode for I should post uncuts on the weekend, so in a couple
35:17
of days when I post the next uncut episode because my Patreon
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subscribers are very special to me.
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I love interacting with them. I really truly do those in the
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uncut as the title suggests. That's where I give them like
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35:39
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35:43
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Or if you want the travel vlogs, yeah, the mid tier is only
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$7.00. Honestly, like all the service
36:02
fees and stuff that I, Oh my God, what I'm trying to say is
36:05
my Patreon is a fucking steal compared to like Uber Eats and
36:09
like Grubhub and all these fees they charge and left for the
36:12
deliveries and all that kind of stuff.
36:14
You can see how I'm like very anti delivery.
36:16
Now there's I, I don't have anything against the people that
36:19
do it. OK, this one driver got the
36:22
address wrong, doesn't mean that driver is a bad person.
36:27
I'm just saying from my point of view, like you can understand
36:30
how it's frustrating when your order lands at the wrong
36:33
address. This person clearly didn't
36:35
intend to deliver to the wrong address.
36:36
Like I said, there's like a little bit of a trend, like one
36:39
in 10 deliveries goes to this other whatever.
36:41
So like there must be some logical reason why sometimes
36:44
people confuse the next building over for my building.
36:48
But I just from my point of view, I would just rather not go
36:52
through all that trouble. So that is all, and until next
36:56
time, we'll leave it there. I'm like 98%.
36:59
OK, Now my voice has fully come back, which is why I can do
37:02
these podcasts. And yeah, stay tuned for more.
37:06
Until next time. Bye all.