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HHBSO 103: Post-EDC Struggle Bus · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to He's hot, but something is off.
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If you frequent the video version of this podcast, which
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is available on my YouTube channel, just Joey T, you will
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notice it's not really a video version of the podcast this
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week. And you know, when I started
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this podcast, I thought because I make so many videos or YouTube
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videos, I thought the podcast is going to be great because I get
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to talk and I don't need to do video because most podcasts are
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just audio. Most podcasts are not video.
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And I got it into my head that, well, it's not that hard to just
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throw a video camera. Just turn the video camera on.
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I don't need to glam myself up for a video podcast, you know,
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it's not really that much work. And I'm, it's easy for me to
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just like hit record on the camera and it just it like push
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an extra button or whatever. The end thing is not really that
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much more work either technically.
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So I decided when I launched a podcast to also do the video
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version because when I listen to a podcast or it depends on what
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it is, I do sometimes prefer the option to watch the video
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version of a podcast. Like some of the ones that I'd
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like to watch are some of the podcast I listen to that are
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hosted by drag Queens. Those I like the Formula One
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podcast I listen to. I really don't, I, the video
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version would really add anything.
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But with drag Queens, you know, I, I just love to see like what
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what, what their make up is like that day, what they're wearing
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that day, you know, like, because part of drag is like the
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artistry of it. So even if it's just some drag
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Queens talking about something like whatever topic, I do
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sometimes like to just throw it onto my TVI know sometimes the
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podcast is on YouTube and yeah, just do that.
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So anyways, I'm not doing the video.
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I'm staring at my camera. It's not turned on the battery
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and the memory card is not even in the camera because I just got
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back from EDC Las Vegas and it's slightly struggle bus right now.
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So I decided not to do the video version.
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So if you this is on YouTube, if you're watching on YouTube, you
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see the jacket cover or like the the podcast graphic, which is
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actually was drawn by my good friend Jeremy.
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I had this idea that I didn't really want to use an actual
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photo of myself for the the art, the cover art of the podcast.
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And I knew that my friend Jeremy, he had been talking
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about getting an iPad and wanting to just do drawings and
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things like that. I don't think he specializes in
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drawing people, but I asked him if he could just based on a
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photo, a selfie photo that I had that I gave him, if he could do
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just some sort of like drawing of it.
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It doesn't have to be like super.
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He can do it however he wants. This.
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I just gave him that artistic freedom because I know he
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doesn't specialize in drawing people and but I really loved
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how it turned out. So that was actually based on a
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bathroom gym selfie I took back in San Francisco quite a few
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years ago. Anyways, yeah, it's a little
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struggle Buzz coming back from EDCI am planning for next week's
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Gay cruise and travel podcast. I will be doing kind of like my
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just Joey T review of EDC Vegas, kind of sort of the things that
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I liked and didn't like during EDC.
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So that will be coming next Monday.
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But for today, I just want to touch on not like my review, but
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like just some of the just just some of the, you know, tidbits
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here and there. Not not like a review.
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You know, in the review, I'm going to go into some of the
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things that I think a lot of the attendees could relate to, or
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maybe it's things that are of interest to people who are
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interested in going to EDC. But for today's podcast, while
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I'm on this struggle bus, I'm just going to talk a bit about
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like, you know, some personal little tidbit stories here and
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there about EDC. And if you want more of my
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stories, there's some slightly juicier stories from EDC that
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I'm going to save for my Patreon subscribers because they get the
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uncut version of this podcast, an extra episode, weekly episode
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of the podcast that comes out every weekend.
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And I'm going to record that on Friday, hopefully in a couple of
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days from now. I'm recording this on a
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Wednesday. I'm going to record the uncut
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version of Friday. And there are a couple of
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topics, more personal topics that I don't don't feel totally
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comfortable just posting for the whole entire world to know, but
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I feel closer to my Patreon subscribers for sure.
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And I'm going to post some of those stories.
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I'm going to record a few of those stories for that uncut
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episode coming this weekend. All right, let's get into it.
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So I joined the Friends RV and we got actually drove to Vegas.
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I mentioned this on last week's podcast I believe, and the rope
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chip was pretty good, no issues. Got there a little ahead of
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time, met up with the RV and the group was at like a couple of
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grocery stores just to stock up. That's kind of what you do with
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an RV. You know, you pick up the RV
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then you do grocery shopping. So I picked up a few things.
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I got bags of microwavable rice that are in like the pouches and
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that turned out to be like the the perfect thing.
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I bought some sausages, just regular like Wiener hot dog type
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sausages that you can find in any grocery store.
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I got frozen carrots and I got some.
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Yeah. So those are like some of the
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perishables, like a couple of like some bananas, blueberries,
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little things like that. So I picked up the perishables
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before we drove in, after we met up with the RV, but before I
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actually went to Vegas. Back at home the week before, I
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had kind of already started grocery shopping for things that
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were like non perishable. So I got a little those packets
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of instant oatmeal, for example. I got some of the that special
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non Dairy Milk that I usually drink.
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I got some coffee concentrate, concentrated coffee.
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Apparently it's a thing, which is kind of like the perfect
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thing to if you want your coffee fix when you're in camp at EDC.
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And you know, I actually bought a decent amount of groceries
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because you can't buy food in camp, but the food is very
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expensive. And I'm going to touch a little
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bit more on that, you know, in the review on the Gay Cruising
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Travel podcast next week. But it was great.
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I knew a couple of the boys that were in the RV.
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So actually I knew three of the boys that were in our RV.
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There were seven of us total. There were two bunk beds in this
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RV, and I got one of the bunks, which actually turned to be like
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a bit more comfortable than I thought.
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And I slept pretty well actually on on that bunk.
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And yeah, we drove in on like Thursday afternoon.
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We actually got a spot that was furthest, kind of like the
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furthest corner from the festival entrance.
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So there's obviously an area where it's all for the campers
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and you have RV's that camp and they also have a bunch of tents
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for people that do like the tent camping throughout the
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campgrounds. In the middle of the campground
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there is the Mesa, which is kind of sort of like all sorts of
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like vendors and food hangout spaces.
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There's like a stage there, things like that.
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And then on one end of the campgrounds is the entrance to
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like the actual festival itself. We were on the opposite end.
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So it was like a little bit of a walk from where our RV was part
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to where the festival is. It's not like a 20 mile hike or
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anything like that, you know, it's maybe like, I don't know, a
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six or seven minute walk from the RV to like the festival
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entrance. It's not like super far.
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But the good thing about being at the far end is it was pretty
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quiet where we were based. You know, like the music from
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the festival is so loud that if you were parked close to the
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entrance to the festival on campgrounds, you will hear the
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music from the festival. And it also meant that I never
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had to wait for the showers. So we had a rule for RV to that
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no one was going to do number twos in the RV and no one was
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going to take a shower there. And I'm not indifferent for
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that. And I was fine with that.
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But that what part was pretty good.
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I, I will say though, just moving on from the RV's and I
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have to talk more about, again, I'll talk more about like the
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reveal, like that camping center and all that stuff this week.
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But moving it on, it was a little, there were a lot of
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gays. There are a lot of gays that go
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to EDC most years now. I'm surprised how many gays are
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gays go there. But it was good.
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You know, I love to see a whole bunch of gays at things like
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EDC. And when you go into the crowd,
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when you approach a stage, you look for the totems.
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There are a lot of rainbow totems there, which was really,
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really good to see. I saw a lot of people that I
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knew. They're not necessarily like
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friends per SE. They're like party acquaintances
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or like party friends, people that I predominately see at
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various festivals and parties or wherever.
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And we know each other from that, but we don't really like
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interact or hang out. Otherwise, they're kind of like
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party, party connections, like party friends kind of a thing.
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But at one point I was thinking, I think it was like the second I
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was by the time I was like, I think, I think every, I think
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all the gays are here. I think all the gays are here
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because there's so many people that I just saw and recognize.
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So even if I had not stayed in that RV with, you know, the that
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group, even if I had got my own hotel, stayed on the strip, took
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the shuttle in and kind of went solo, it would have been easy
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for me to just like find various people I knew at various stages
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at ADC to hang out with. So that was that was good.
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I so there was one thing that I was kind of annoyed at a little
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bit was because of my IBSI was very careful about what I was
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going to eat. I did have like Imodium and
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things like that, but I remember it was like on Friday night and
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I wasn't and I was walking through the crowd.
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I was walking through like from one part of the festival to
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another. And you know, you will
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eventually pass food places, food vendors.
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And I remember passing through one place and I was like, it was
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pizza at first I smelled this smell and I couldn't, no, I
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didn't know exactly what it is at the right from the get go,
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but I just knew it smelled fucking delicious.
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And like a few seconds later I realized, oh, this is pizza.
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It's like the, it's like the crust, like the breading from
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the pizza that smells so good. But I can't have pizza.
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But the dairy makes me break out And then like the, the gluten
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and the whatever toppings I that would trigger like my IBS.
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So there were a few times where like there's a smell of
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delishness of deliciousness in the air and I was like, Oh, I
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can't eat that. I want to eat that, but I can't
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eat that. So I mean, that's not, that's
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not something I in the in the normal everyday.
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I don't walk by a pizza place. I don't walk by anywhere that
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smells like super delicious food, but at EDC you'll walk by
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sometimes like a vendor, like a a food place and it's like, Oh
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my God, that smells so good. I don't know if they like fan
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out that smell to like attract people in to spend money or
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whatever. Maybe they do, maybe they don't,
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I don't know. But yeah, I did end up eating
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some of the chicken tenders and fries on a couple of the nights
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and that was OK. It didn't quite trigger.
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It didn't trigger my IBS because usually chicken tenders and
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fries, fries are usually OK, but it's it depends on the season
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they had. But the first time I had the
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chicken and tenders, I smelled it and I could smell garlic.
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Like not a lot of it, but just enough that there was just no
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garlic in like the seasoning or whatever, just for me to notice
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it. And I was like, oh shit, garlic
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is like maybe not the best thing to eat, but I was OK.
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So that was good. I didn't have to take like a
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whole ton of Imodium. I just had like a little bit
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everyday kind of like to, I took it proactively knowing that you
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know, I'm going to be in the festival for 6-7 hours.
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I have to eat something. I have at least have to have
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like 1 meal during like the six or seven hours so I don't starve
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to death. But that was OK.
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The chicken tenders and fries were so delicious.
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I don't know. It's because when you're in the
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festival, you know, for that long and you get a little
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hungry, you know, when you're hungry, everything tastes like
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so good versus just normally where you're not starving.
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Have you? I learned that when I was a kid,
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like when you're super, super hungry, like everything tastes
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actually delicious. Just for sure, like starving to
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death, everything tastes good. I remember it was Sunday, it was
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early on in the night and I was going to grab some food.
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It was like 1010 ish, 10:00 PM-ish.
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And I intentionally was solo because I was going to go back
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to our RV at around 11:00-ish because our RV has sprung a
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little bit leak in one of the tanks.
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And I volunteered to like go back at around 11:00-ish just
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like check on it and like we have put a jug under the RV to
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catch the wastewater. So it was coming from the
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toilet. So it was basically dripping
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pea. Lovely, right?
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And we'll get in. We don't need to get into the
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details of that specific issue, but it was like dripping from
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that waste tank effectively. And we discovered it earlier
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that day and I volunteered to like go back at around like
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11:00-ish, you know, so that this jug and like this, whatever
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thing we put under it to catch it to like just to double check
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that it was working, it wasn't overflowing because that was
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like our concern. And I, I really didn't mind.
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So like, my plan was to, OK, let's eat something.
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Let's just get a little bit of food at the festival.
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I wanted to see Nora and Pier. She was on, Oh, she was on the
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10. OK, so this must have been like
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11:00-ish already by the time I got, went to get some, get some
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food. But anyways, oh, she was on, she
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was on like 9. Anyways, I saw Nora and Pier and
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then I went to get food. It was like 10 or 11:00-ish,
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something like that. And I went to downtown EDC, the
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downtown part of EDC where they have like some various things
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going on there, including weddings.
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So I don't know if they do legally binding weddings, but
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they definitely do non legally binding weddings there as well.
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There's like 2 separate, like there's like 3 separate areas in
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down at EDC where they're doing weddings.
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So there is like the EDC tower, like the downtown EDC tower
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that's like in the middle of downtown EDC.
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You see, you'll see that in a lot of like photos and videos of
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downtown EDC actually. So right in front of it, they
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did like the non, the Glee binding, quote UN quote
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weddings. You know, sometimes friends just
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go just to like do it for fun. It's, it's a very casual thing.
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It's not super serious, but there were obviously a lot of
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couples that went there and I went to downtown EDC to get
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chicken tenders and fries because I just happened to be
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close to Ed South. It's kind of like the nearest
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place for food after the northern pier.
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And I just like sat, I got the chicken and fries and I just
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kind of sat down kind of in front of the little downtown EDC
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tower where they were doing these weddings just like watch.
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And I'm not like a wedding person personally, I'm, I'm like
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maybe indifferent to whether I want to get married or not.
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For me, a wedding is a little bit more of a legal arrangement.
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It's more maybe for like legal, possibly tax, financial purposes
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rather than like a sign of my love and affection for someone.
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But I don't feel like I need the legal system and like some piece
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of paper to demonstrate my commitment or my love or
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affection for like a partner. But anyway, to each their own.
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So I was like, just like eating my chicken tenders and fries.
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I was like sitting down cross legged on the on the Astro turf.
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I'm just like watching people get married.
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So it was cute. It was cute.
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Not legally binding, obviously, but it, it was kind of sort of,
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it's kind of it's, it's a fun thing to do at EDC.
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And there are a lot of different things you can do at EDC.
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You see they have like all these rides.
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There's like all sorts of vendors.
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You know, there's stuff like like this little wedding thing
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that's just like scratching the surface.
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Obviously there's a lot of different stages and a lot of
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different musical performance musicians, DJs and doing the
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music and all of that. So yeah, that part was pretty
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fun. Fast forward to later that
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night, I mean Friday night and Saturday night, let's go back up
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a little bit. Friday night and Saturday night
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I turned in at around 3 I think. Friday night I think I went
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back. That's not going to RV around
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like 3330. Saturday night I think I went
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back like 4 ish, 4:00 AM ish. Had to go back to the RV and I
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would just basically go back to the RV, take a shower, eat, eat
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a meal, eat some food and then go to bed.
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It's just my standard post party like end of a party, night
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shower, food, bed is great. It's awesome.
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I love it. Best time of the day.
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Sunday I was having a really good time.
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The music wasn't good, the sets were really good and you know,
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like a lot of my friends or people of my party friends that
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I haven't to. Know that we're going to EDC.
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They just happen to be like all around, we're all having a
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really good time. And I basically stayed at the
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stage till sunrise when daylight basically turned all the music
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off. So I did vlog that my various
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little adventures at EDC, maybe not the most organized
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coordinated vlogging per SE, but whenever that vlog goes up for
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my Patreon subscribers, the very end of the vlog, you will see a
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little bit of what it's like at EDC on the very last night or
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morning. Technically after the sun, when
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the sun is rising, it's not quite, it is dawn.
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I don't know if it's quite like the sunrise technically, but
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it's bright outside, it's broad daylight outside and you see
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everyone like leaving the people that are staying up till sunrise
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until like the last set has finished at there.
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And you see it just like droves of people just leaving in broad
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daylight. It's it's interesting to see.
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And I was one of those people. I got a little bit of footage of
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that got back to the RV and obviously it's Monday morning
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now. It's like 6:00 AM Monday morning
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and I was going to drive back to LA later that day.
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And Long story short, I end up just kind of sort of semi
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napping for like an hour. I couldn't really fall.
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I wasn't super tired, so I didn't want to sleep.
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And basically I decided to like, OK, we'll just like rest my eyes
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just like lay down. I wasn't going to go have like a
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proper sleep. I could have.
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But I think part of me was just like, OK, party's done, let's go
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home. Like get the drive over with.
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Let's just go home. You know, like get home before
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it's like too, too late. So basically got back to the RV
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at like 6:00 or 7:00 AM. Just had like an hour nap
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barely. And then I was on the road back
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There's usually a part of me there where like once like after
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the last day or night of of a party trip, I just kind of sort
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of want to get home. And a lot of the times I think
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it's because I just eventually by the time I've like missed the
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comforts of home, I miss having my own kitchen.
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I miss like sleeping in my own bed and just like getting back
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into like the regular routine. It's probably been like a little
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while since I've been to the gym by then.
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So I just kind of have a natural inclination to like not hang
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around once all the parties are done.
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So I think that kicked in a little bit and I was like, I
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mean, yeah, I wasn't sleepy, had a little nap.
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I was not drowsy at all. And I, yeah, that road trip
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coming back home was fine. But basically I'm kind of paying
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for it now. That's why I'm a little bit on a
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struggle bus because I basically just took, I basically kind of
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pulled an all nighter. You know, I had that one hour
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nap and that was it. Got home Monday.
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I think I got home around like the West Hollywood around I
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think 8:00 PM it wasn't super late. 8 PMI was able to swing by
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the grocery store because obviously the fridge was empty.
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Just picked up some basic groceries.
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Was home like by like 830 or 9 honestly.
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So it wasn't super late. I was able to like, you know,
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take a shower or you know, like cook, cook a little quick
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dinner. But I didn't sleep super well
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because, you know, it's hard to like adjust back from your party
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sleep schedule where like you tend to stay very late.
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And the night before, you know, I was partying till like 5 AM,
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6:00 AM and less than 24 hours later, I'm back home and trying
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to like readjust back to my regular sleep schedule.
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And like, you know, like the, the body, at least my body, I'm
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not 21 anymore. You can't just go from like
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going to bed at 5:00 or 6:00 AM everyday for like 3 days and
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then going back to like your regular nighttime sleep time of
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like, you know, like 10:30 or 11 or whatever.
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So I didn't sleep that well Monday night after I got home
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last night. Tuesday night basically that's
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the that I, I slept pretty well, but I know that I'm still
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currying a lot of sleep debt. Dragged myself to the gym today
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and she did OK at the gym. The walk to the dream was the
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walk to the gym. What's worse than like actually
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working out at the gym? Yeah, just my body is maybe not
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agreeing with walking. It's so the body is so weird,
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isn't it? The body is so weird right now.
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OK, so those are just a couple of like tidbits, little little
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tidbits here and there from my trip to EDC.
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My a couple of friends were just asking me, you know, like on
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like Monday or Tuesday just after I got back, how was EDC?
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And honestly, I had I so much fun despite RV having that
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Little League, despite like a couple minor annoyances which
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I'll get into for like my uncut Patreon subscribers this
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weekend. I had such a good time.
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I had such a great time. I hadn't been at EDS.
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I think the last time I went was 2022 I think maybe.
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I think I went once after the pandemic, I think, yeah.
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So I haven't been there in at least three years.
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And I kind of sort of forgot how how much I loved it.
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I remember Friday, which is the first night of the festival.
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We got into the campgrounds on Thursday, but campers usually
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arrive on Thursday. But it was like Friday when the
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first night of the main festival, just walking in, when
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you're walking in from the camp, you go through like the security
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and like to take a scan or whatever.
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And then you kind of enter into like the middle of the motor
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suite way Oval. That's where you actually start
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seeing like the actual festival itself.
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You walk in and then there's this stage, which I believe it's
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called Cosmic Meadows for those EDC people.
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I'm not quoting the right one. Please don't kill me.
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I believe it's cosmic metal. It's the one that you walk into
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as you walk into like from behind the bleachers coming in
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from camp EDC and you just basically you're up on the
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bleachers and you can kind of have this like mountaintop high
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up view of all of EDC. You can see kind of sort of like
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almost every part of EDC, but you're up high in the bleachers
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as you come in. You have to like go down a whole
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bunch of stairs like these, go down these massive bleachers
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down to like kind of the base level within the middle of the
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Oval. And that's where like the
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festival, all the whole festival is looking at it.
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And I was like, it just kind of like, hit me like this feels
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like home. This feels like, like this feels
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like I belong here, which is a very, very special feeling.
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I was not expecting to feel like that, but I knew I liked EDC.
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I've been to I think 5 or so Ed CS before at Vegas, so I knew
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that I knew what the generation was going to be like.
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But I guess since I hadn't been there in a while I just
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forgotten how special EDC can feel, how special it is.
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So when I walked in on Friday and I, I, I came by myself for
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other reasons, but I just keep walked in and I just like saw
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Cosmic Meadow, just saw the stage, saw this, like this view
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of all of EDC from up high in the bleachers where you come in
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from. And I was like, this feels like
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home. This feel, this feels right.
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This feels correct. And it just felt really special.
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So that was like a really. That's a really special and
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awesome way to start that first night of the festival.
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Yeah. And I just had such a great
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time. I'm so thankful that I was able
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to stay with my friends at this RV that they had booked like a
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full year ago, a full 12 months ago, they booked this RV.
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So they got like a great RV locally from Vegas, which is
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like a really awesome thing to be able to do.
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Everyone that stayed in the RV was great.
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There were seven of us, which was like maybe like a touch
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crowded, but like, you know, everyone's like, you know, like
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courteous and you know all of that.
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So it was like fine for like the seven of speed in the RV.
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It just overall was like a really, really good time.
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I just had a really, really good time.
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So I'm really glad that I went and I definitely do want to go
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back. I don't know if I'm ready to
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bite the bullet for next year. I mean, I did have a great time
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and I have a great time at a lot of different parties as well.
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EDC definitely does feel that extra bit special because EDC
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Vegas, it's very special compared to like a lot of other
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events that you can go to, like the scale of it.
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When you go to like a large music festival, something like a
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Coachella or like Tomorrowland, it it's like on that scale, it's
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so massive that there's a specialist that comes with it
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first. It's like I talked about in last
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week's podcast, you know, like a circuit party.
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Sometimes you walk in, it's in like a theatre or venue.
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It's like you walk in, there's a bar that's there's dance with
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the venue is nothing special really.
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But then you know, you walk into a place like EDC Vegas and it's
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like, wow, it's like not just like 1 notch above a circuit
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party. It's like several notches above
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a circuit party. Like the scale of it.
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It's hard to imagine if you've never been to one of these types
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of events before. So had a super great time, super
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awesome. I definitely will go back to EDC
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again. Am I going to go back next year?
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I mean, let's, let's get off the struggle bus after I recover
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from this year's EDC first, which I only got back.
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I haven't even been back in 48 hours as I'm recording this.
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And we'll see, we'll see what the money situation is like.
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You know, I can't just keep on going to vacations and parties.
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I still have to work and pay the bills and all of that.
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I'm actually, I was thinking early this morning, it's going
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to be nice in a way because I don't think I have any parties
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planned for. I don't have any parties.
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I don't have tickets or anything booked for anything.
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There's not any events coming up where like I want to go to that
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event. The EDC ticket for this year, I
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actually bought last last May or last June and I got it on the
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layaway plan. And I explained in a previous
31:23
episode before that I wanted to go in 2024, but at the last
31:26
minute I decided to bail out to save money.
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So I saw my ticket and then I saw like how like my Instagram
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just blew up EDC stuff in 2024 when it's happening.
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I was like, OK, we didn't do it in 2024.
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We didn't do it in 2023. Let's try to do for 2025.
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And I, and I'm doing it this year and it was so great.
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Doesn't mean I'm going to go every single year, but yeah,
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let's let's let's recover 1st and then see, I don't have
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anything planned for later this year, just nothing.
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So we're about to enter pride month and I'm not going to go
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anywhere for pride. You know, I might go to like one
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or two local we ho LA pride parties if it's like not super
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expensive. Even then, I'm like, you know,
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every time I go to one of those parties, just those are my sleep
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schedule for like that weekend and I'm not a super big fan of
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that. I'm like EDC was like worth the
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trip. This again, it's so special for
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like a local circuit party, even if it's during Pride.
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We'll, we'll see what it's like, but there's nothing, yeah.
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There's nothing in particular in July or August that I want to go
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to. Not really anything in
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September. In October there is going to be
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Taipei Pride that I went to the last couple years.
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But I those are collab trips. Yeah, I don't know, I mean,
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maybe I might do a collab trip in October.
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It's not so much like a party trip.
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You know, I might do like a party or two, which I did for
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type of Pride in 2024, primarily A collab trip.
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But I scheduled things so that I was able to go to like one or
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two of the pride parties that weekend at the after all the
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collabs were done. But that's not till like
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October. So like in a way between, I'd
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like the next five months, just the stay home and be local and
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just get some work done. You know, I, I want to get some
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work done. I mean, not like I don't usually
33:21
do work. I, I, I do do work, but to be
33:23
able to like at least from, from the struggle bus right now, it's
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like sometimes you go to a party trip, go on a party trip and
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it's like the few days after you don't really want to think about
33:34
another party. You're kind of thankful that
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there are no other parties coming up.
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I'm a little bit on that in that state right now.
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Come back in a couple weeks and ask me again, baby.
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I proved differently. But anyways, thank you so much
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for joining me on this audio version episode of the podcast.
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Normal service probably will resume next week.
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And again on my Patreon, I will have the uncut bonus episode of
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the podcast to be uploaded this weekend, where I'm going to have
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definitely some more personal and yeah, definitely more
34:13
personal, maybe slightly juicy stories from my time at EDC just
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for my Patreon subscribers. But until next time, bye y'all.