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HHBSO 14: Duh, Of Course Diet Coke Isn't Healthy · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello. We're going to.
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He's hopping. Something's off of me.
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Just Joey T, how are you doing all in the Internet today.
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There is this one car that I think they are in the apartment
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next to ours, the next building over, and it's a very loud car
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like the engine and the exhaust is really, really loud.
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And it's so loud that from one building over from inside my
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apartment, no matter what I'm doing, I can have the TV on, I
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can music on. I can always hear that car start
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up. It's an extremely loud car.
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My car is actually pretty loud, as though my car has an optional
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exhaust package that came from the factory with like an extra
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loud exhaust. But it's not like obnoxiously
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that. It's not like those.
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Sometimes you see those sports cars that like just cruise down
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Santa Monica Blvd. At like 5 or 10 miles an hour
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and all they do is like ref the engine.
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My car is not like that loud. Actually there is.
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There's this one black Beamer in my building and I don't know
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which unit drives. It's like some guy and the like
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three or four times where I happen to be in the garage.
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While that car is like pulling in or pulling out of the garage,
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he drives like too fast. Or a tiny little parking garage
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for this, like apartment building.
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Like when you're in a parking garage, you do not need to Rev
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your engine and you don't need to like floor it and like screw
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your tires or anything like that.
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One time I try to One time I saw him try to park, I was doing
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laundry. Our laundry is in our parking
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garage level and I was walking to do laundry and then he was
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like pulling each in a park. He sounds like either he really
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doesn't know how to park or maybe he's driving a manual and
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he doesn't know his how to use his clutch because he was just
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giving it like way too much gas and like just way too much Revs
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on the engine. So I like, you know, in general,
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I like a good sounding car like Ava that's got like, you know,
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like a nice sounding exhaust. I'm a car person, so I
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appreciate that. Except, you know, like, you
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don't need to Rev your engine in, you know, like a small
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little parking lot like that in an apartment building.
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Like, there's honestly, like, no one is impressed how small is
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your fucking Dick, right? So there's like this one car
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that's like, it's just this one black Beamer in my building.
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It's just like you don't need to squeak your tires and floor in
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and out of the parking garage. Honestly anyways, as we are
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recording this, I'm calling this a little earlier than usual.
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I am currently packing to go to Chicago for a market day, so
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when this goes up on Thursday, I'll already be in Chicago.
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I love going to Chicago for market days and it's not.
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Technically, the Chicago Pride Market Days is like a separate
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event, but I feel like Pride in a lot of U.S. cities is pretty
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similar. There is a parade one day of the
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weekend usually, and there is like all all the bars and clubs
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and stuff, gay bars and gay clubs.
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They've got stuff going on. There's usually some amount of
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circuit parties that are thrown over the weekend, and some
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cities might have, like a street fair or like some sort of
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outdoor thing. And that's where I think that's
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the chance, where cities can make their Pride weekend unique.
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Because bars and clubs, at least in the US, in the major cities
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here in one gay bar, is not so different than another gay bar.
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You know, every major US city have gay bars and clubs that
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they're known for, right? You go to, like, San Francisco,
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You go to, like, the Castro in LA, you go to Wee Ho.
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And, you know, in New York, you go to Hell's Kitchen, You'd like
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the typical, like, gay neighborhood where all the bars
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are. Yeah, each of these cities have
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kind of like the famous or popular gay bars and clubs that
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they have. But honestly, none of them are
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so wildly different. You go to 1 Gay Bar, you've kind
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of sort of know how all the other gay bars kind of work.
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So I think I like market days. It's because of the outdoor
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festival that they have. It's on Saturdays and Sundays
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and it's right in kind of like the gay neighborhood.
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And that means it's not just like the regular St.
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Fairs where you have vendors and food and kind of like the pop up
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stuff. It also kind of includes some of
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the gay bars and clubs that they have.
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It's just right on this one street where all the everything
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is. So like the street fair.
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I feel like it's a lot of fun in we for we hold pride.
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They did have like a similar thing this year.
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There's actually like a Ferris wheel and all that kind of
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stuff, but the one here I felt like it was completely separate
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from the gay bars and stuff. The one in Chicago for Market
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Day is really fun because they've got different stages
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available. Oh, the food there is really
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good. The food there is really good.
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The other unique thing about the Street Fair for Chicago Market
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Days is that there's a Steam Works in Chicago.
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There's only like not, there's actually not that many Steam
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Works locations like most cities have like a gay bath house.
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But it's kind of sort of unique in that in Chicago you have like
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one of the big name bath houses which is Steam Works and it's
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like right in the middle of Boys Town.
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It's like right in the middle of like the gay neighborhood.
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It's one of the oh, are we going to spill the tea?
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It's like one of the few times of the year where I may go to a
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gay bathhouse because even in LA I'm sure they exist.
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I've never been to one in Vancouver.
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In Canada there is another Steam Works that I have been to like a
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few times, but that's really only because like I grew up in
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Vancouver and like I visit Vancouver all the time.
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To be honest I haven't been to Steam works in like several
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years I think because obviously the Pandemic that kind of stuff
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only reopen I think maybe earlier this year or maybe last
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year and yeah even when I was in Vancouver Oh yeah it was that
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was definitely pre Pandemic that that was like the last time that
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I went. But yeah just something about
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Chicago is with the city. I just really like the vibe of
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it. So I really enjoyed going to
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market days. I've been to market days three
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or four times. I was kind of sort of on the
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fence about going this year, but I found out that there were some
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friends that were going, some other people.
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I knew they were there. I have some, I have some good
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friends that actually live in Chicago as well.
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So it's like, cool, let's do it. You know, not a super far plane
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ride from LA to Chicago. So I'm packing and doing all
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that and I'll be flying out there in a few days.
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Speaking of flying, I just got back from Vancouver.
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I was up there just for a few days to visit some family, and
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one thing I wanted to talk about was tips for going to the
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airport. So I fly all the time.
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I mentioned it before. It's very autopilot for me to
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like, pack, go to the airport, go through security, the TSA, go
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through like password control, that kind of stuff, get on a
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plane, all that kind of stuff. It's very, very easy for second
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nature only because I do it so much like at least once a month
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I would take a trip. Sometimes it's like two or three
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times a month I would do a trip somewhere or fly to fly
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somewhere. But when I fly these days, I
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drive to LAXI Park in the economy parking which is off the
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not where the terminals are. You take a shuttle and then it
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will stop at all the different terminals and that's how you get
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to the terminal. So one thing that always catches
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my ear is when passengers on that shuttle to the terminals,
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when they know what airline they're flying, but they have no
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idea what terminal they're supposed to go to.
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And a lot of the times they'll try to ask the bus driver
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whether they know like, I'm flying Alaska, like, you know,
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like can you drop us off at Alaska.
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But I don't know if the shuttle bus drivers for the economy
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parking are particularly chatty or maybe they just get asked the
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question so often that they just kind of sort of give up.
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Some of the drivers will be like, OK, you're Alaska, that's
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that terminal. Whatever, I'll drop you off
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there. Just last time that I was flying
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out to Vancouver last week and there are people that were on
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vacation that they clearly don't fly very much.
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They knew what airline they were going to but have no idea like,
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oh, there are different terminals at the airport.
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They were just like, oh, they got in the shuttle and they're
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like they have no idea where to get off.
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And I I think they try to yell from the back of the shuttle to
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like the bus driver, which I guess like the bus driver either
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didn't hear because it was so noisy or they just don't
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respond. If you're just trying to yell
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from the back, maybe he's like walk up there and like have a
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conversation that way. Anyways, so it was like these
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two or three families are like they were on the.
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They're trying to go on a family vacation.
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I guess the height of summer, all these families go on
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vacation. They just had like no idea where
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they're going. The only thing I did remember
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besides that was it took 25 minutes for that shuttle to like
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make its way because there's so many people traveling.
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People had like tons of luggage. We would have their kids and
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everything. And for me, I was like just in
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the in the back little corner of the back of the bus.
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And I was just like I was trying to just ignore everything that
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was going on around me because I was just like I'm just trying to
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get to my terminal. Terminal 7 is the last terminal
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it stops at and it stops at every other terminal before it
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stops at terminal 7, which is the one I need.
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So I was like, I just want to get to my terminal.
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I just want to get to my terminal and it was taking
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forever. What I thought I would do is for
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those of you that don't fly that much if you have a trip coming
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up, I just want to give you a few tips for like getting to the
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airport and maybe even some tips for getting through a security
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or getting through the TSA. I feel like people that don't
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fly very much going through security in TSA.
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The extent of knowledge they have about the TSA is only the
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news articles that come out once in a while about how jam packed
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the airports are, how busy travel is that you have to show
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like 3 hours or some stupid shit before your flight or something
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like that. How much random stuff the TSA
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finds. And sometimes if there's like an
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incident at the TSA at a checkpoint because of this or
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that or whatever, I feel like we don't fight very much.
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But you do watch the news all the time, that's you don't have
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a great perception of the TSA. But it's very, very simple.
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So let me give you some tips. Don't the terminal you're going
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to so know which terminal you're going to.
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Like if you're gonna take an Uber or something.
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I mean, sometimes the Uber will know where they drop you off,
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sometimes you don't. But you need to know where
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you're going. It's great that you know what
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airline you're flying with, but you need to know, OK, I need to
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look up my flight status before I leave the house.
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You can just log onto the Internet.
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You know what flight you're taking is like Alaska 1234 or
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something. You just Google that, you just
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put it Alaska 1234 and then it pops up the status.
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Like, Google does all the work for you, literally, And it would
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tell you like what terminal you're supposed to be at and
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what your gate number is, the gate number subject to change,
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But like, at least know what terminal you're at?
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Because I just can't believe how many people on this shuttle bus
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that I take all the time, how many people have no idea what
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terminal they're going to get off at.
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I'm sure a lot of these people have just gone off the wrong
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terminal with all their luggage, and then they spend probably
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like 1520 minutes figure on how to get to the right terminal.
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There's another bus for that, by the way.
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Yeah. So just know which terminal
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you're going to before you head to the airport.
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Go to the right airport. I've, I've heard stories of
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people not going to the right airport in cities rather than
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multiple airports in like New York, for example, are you going
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to La Guardia? Are you going to New York?
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Are you going to JFK? Because there's three different
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airports you'd be going to if you go to the wrong airport.
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It could take way too long to get to the right airport and you
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might just miss your flight. So there you go.
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It's not super common though. Not a lot of cities have like
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tons of different airports. Now, I never get to a flight 3
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hours before I can a standard recommendation that you get the
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two hours before, right? But then when they had some,
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like issues with some of the airports earlier this year or
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like last year when they said, oh, it was like too busy or when
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there's like weather and that kind of stuff and they say, oh,
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you should go extra early, get there like 3 hours before.
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No one needs to be there for three hours before.
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I think the only thing most people need extra time for is to
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get through security, but sometimes there's a lineup for
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that. Now I will show up at the
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terminal literally less than an hour before the flight departs,
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and the flight boards like 40 minutes before I show up like
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like an hour or sometimes like a little less.
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So the flight is sketched for 11:00 AM.
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I'll get there at like 10 AM and then I have 20 minutes to get
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through security or do whatever I need to do for my water bottle
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and then usually 40 minutes for my flight.
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That's when it starts boarding and I usually board like early
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on in the process. Now I don't recommend this and I
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only do this because of two things.
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One, I have TSA pre-check and two, I have a clear membership.
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So this basically means I almost never wait more than like one or
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two, maybe 5 minutes at the very most to go through the
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checkpoint. And then when I do get to the
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front of the line of the checkpoint, I don't have to take
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my liquids out. I don't have to take my laptop
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out. I don't have to take my tablets
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off, I don't have to take my shoes, I don't have to take my
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jacket, things like that because I'm in the pre-check line and
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most people are not in that line.
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So I basically like from getting to the terminal to getting
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through security is usually like less than 10 minutes and then I
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just have like 10 or 50 minutes to kill before I need to board.
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So for me that's just like waste of time, but that's how that's
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how that's how close I cut it. And that doesn't work for most
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people. By the way, if you can get pre
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checked like please go get pre checked.
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Even if you only fly like twice a year, there's a lot of people
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only fly maybe a couple times a year for like Christmas or
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Thanksgiving or like a summer vacation.
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If you if that's you like you please go get Precheck.
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It might be like, I don't know how much it costs like 50 bucks
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or like 100 bucks or something. If you're going to travel during
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the summer or you're going to travel during like, especially
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during the holidays, Precheck will like save your life.
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It is like even if you only do it like doing the major
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holidays, you only fly for like Memorial Day or Thanksgiving or
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like Christmas or New Year's or something like that.
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You only fly like maybe twice a year or something.
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If you fly on the major holidays in the US, get prechecked.
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They having times where if I didn't have precheck I would
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have missed my flight. Like again, I'm cutting it
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close, but like, yeah, it's just the lineups get so long.
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The regular lineups, I don't technically know how long the
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regular lineups are because it's been so long.
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So I've been in a regular lineup at an airport.
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I'm always on the pre-check and I'm always on the clear line
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nowadays. But I've seen that line
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sometimes of the corner of my eye and it's like that.
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Lineups got to take like an hour or like 45 minutes, and it's
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especially doing the big major holidays like that's going to be
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an even longer wait. It's just not worth it to like
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have to waste all this time to like get to the airport like
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super, super early and be standing in this line for like
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over an hour. You know, when it's like, you
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know, a busy time of the year to get through security.
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I think like spending. I'm going to Google this right
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now. I just really don't think it's
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it's worth most people's time to like be standing in that lineup
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for so long. A lot of airlines will like we
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have some sort of status or you just sign for the membership.
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Sometimes you get it for discounted, like a discount off
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the Precheck fare or if you have like some sort of travel credit
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card. Sometimes those who reimburse
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you the fee. But like Precheck has saved my
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life. I will never travel without
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Precheck in the US, but yeah, just get pre checked basically.
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I don't know how much it is, Google it.
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It can't cost that much. I think it's like 55 bucks or
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something like that. 55 bucks even unify like twice a year
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during the holidays or something like that.
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It's you're gonna be like, wow, I'm glad I spend the $55.
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Seriously. For sure.
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The other thing I wanna give tips on is going through the
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security, like actually going through the TSM.
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But you actually get to the front of that security line and
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you have to like get all your stuff scanned through the X-ray
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and they have to like walk through the body scanner.
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I don't understand all the people that wear okay.
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Let's just break this down. Like, don't wear a belt because
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the amount of times, countless amount of times that I've seen
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guys fumble with ticking off the belt, which seems like a very
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not elegant thing to do in public.
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Just being by like all these guys that just like kind of
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struggling, I'm surprised how many people struggle to take off
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their belt. You can't just like whip it out.
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I don't wear a bus. I don't know these things, but
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all these people that are wearing, like, first of all,
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straight guys are wearing pants are way too big for them,
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therefore necessitating the belt.
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Like without the belt, the pants are just like F and fall off.
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The second thing is they almost never ever remember take off
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their belt until like they're about to walk through the
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scanner and they set the scanner off.
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And then like the TSA agent tells them, do you, are you
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wearing a belt? Do you have anything in your
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pocket? They're like, oh, wearing a
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belt. And then now they have to put
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the belt through the X-ray scanner.
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But then by the time you are, you know, doing that, two other
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people have put their luggage onto the belt and like they have
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to cram it in somehow. It's just very, very messy.
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I would say if you're going to be flying on a plane, wear pants
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that don't need a belt for that plane ride.
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I think maybe in like the old golden days of flying, I don't
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know, back in like the 60s or 70s or something like that.
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It was more of an occasion to fly.
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So like, people dressed up a little bit to fly, I think these
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days, unless you need to go to a meeting immediately right after
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you get off the plane, like there's no need to.
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Like, you know where nice pants that actually require you to
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have a belt? Like there's no one on a plane
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that's going to care whether you're wearing a belt or not.
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And if your pants are so loose that without the belt they fall
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off, like go buy proper pants like your pants should not be
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that loose. Seriously, the amount of times
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that I've seen guys like walk through the scanner, the belt
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sets off the alarm. Now they have to like cram their
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belt onto the X-ray belt between other people's luggage like
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somehow and they have to walk through again.
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And then the final kicker is. Guys that have to do that I
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don't know what it is. It's not that hard to put in the
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belt right but it's not not the most easy thing I yeah but I see
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guys struggle to put their belt back on afterwards.
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It's like I don't know it's I I just can't understand how it's
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so hard for all these people to put in the but they but they
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look like they're really not having to put the belt on.
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They they they kind of sort of look like they're like solving a
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puzzle or it's like a Rubik's Cube or something put in their
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belt back on of getting this like belt through all the loops
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and everything seems like a stressful experience for like
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all these people but like. So my recommendation my tip is
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don't wear a belt to the airport.
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You don't need a belt on the plane ride.
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If you need to go to a business meeting right after the plane
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ride, just change into your nice clothes after you land like you.
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I'm sure you can spare like 2 minutes of time to just change
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afterwards. Like for the people that are.
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If you literally need to go from the airport to the office, like
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you can even then yeah, I'm sure you can spare 2 minutes going to
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the bathroom and just change into your clothes.
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And also that way the clothes that you wear into your, I
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guess, very important business meeting that you're flying to
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doesn't get like all wrinkled and scuffed up from lugging
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luggage around and sitting on the plane and like walking
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through airports and you know, whatever, right?
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Like you get to change into some fresh pants or suit or whatever
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people wear to business meetings these days.
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That's so important that you have to fly and go directly to
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it or whatever. Yeah.
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So just never really understood that.
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The other thing is that if I'm funny is when people are
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boarding a plane and they're holding everything in their
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hands, like they've got no pockets.
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So like, I don't know, it's always so weird.
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So I actually board kind of part of like the board very fairly
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early for most of the flights that I take.
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So I get to see other people walk down the aisle, I get to
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see 90% of plane of the passengers walk down the aisle.
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I'm just, like, sitting there getting settled, and it's
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amazing how many people have to hold on to everything in their
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hands as they board the plane, as if they can't put them away.
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Like they'll hold like a drink and their phone and their paper
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ticket and like a notebook and like a pillow and their
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headphones. Like people are holding a
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million different things as they're like walking down the
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very narrow, tight aisles of the airplanes.
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I'm like, don't you have pockets for these things?
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Honestly, the only thing you need to have in your hand is
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luggage. And if you have like a drink of
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coffee or something, yeah, you're holding onto that.
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If you bought some food like like take away food in the
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terminal that you're going to eat on the plane, yeah, you're
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maybe you're holding the take out bag.
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But yeah, it's like some of these people they're holding on
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to like everything. And like, yeah, it's quite
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confusing when people make things intentionally difficult
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for themselves. Like, do you need to hold on to,
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like, you need to hold on to, I don't know, all that stuff?
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Do you need to hold on to your makeup and your mascara and your
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cell phone and your dog and your whatever, It's all that stuff.
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So that's my second tip is like you wear pants with wear pants
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with pockets and you know you don't need to hold onto
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everything. Like you don't need to hold onto
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your phone. Honestly, once you're on the
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plane, just put your phone in your pocket so that you know you
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can have your hands free to hold your luggage and not be bumping
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all your shit into other people. Which is another one of my pet
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peeves. Anyways, I don't want this to
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turn into like, a rant, but yeah, so advice is don't wear
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belt, don't wear a belt to the airport, and don't hold on to
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all your shit when you're boarding a plane.
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So there you go. I should probably write some
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blog articles on my website. I think maybe that's like a more
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appropriate place for me to give some travel advice.
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The anyways, my Church of Vancouver was pretty good.
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I saw my niece and nephew I always liked I hang out with
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them. I hung out with a lot with my
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niece this time because my nephew was with my sister and
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brother-in-law kind of sort of doing his own thing.
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But my mom was babysitting my niece most of the time, so I
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hung up with her a bunch. And she's four years old now, so
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they are what they're. I was gonna say they're teaching
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her like the numbers and like the alphabet.
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I don't think they're teaching her that, but they got her some
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books so to like write their ABC's and like the 1-2 threes,
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so she knows like some of the numbers and some of the
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alphabets like the first five or something.
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So every day she would like write like a new number in like
25:08
the lettering book and then write a new letter as well.
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And then she would, like, write a bunch of them and then she
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would show me, and I'm like, OK, these are in my head.
25:17
I'm thinking these are getting progressively uglier.
25:20
So like, I would teach her how to, like, write, you know, like
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the letters properly in the numbers.
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So every day I would teach her how to write a new number, like
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7 or 8 or 9. And then every day I would teach
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her to like write a new letter. So I specifically remember
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telling her how to write the letter K properly.
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I think for a four year old, it might be, I don't know what age
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people are supposed to learn how to write the alphabet.
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But I think maybe when you're 4, that's like maybe a little bit
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too early. Maybe you didn't like, do you do
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this in, like, kindergarten, like first grade?
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What's that? That's when you're like five or
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six or something like that. Yeah.
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But she was having a lot of trouble writing the letters.
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And I was thinking like, I don't think she's, I think she's too
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early to do this. But anyways, she's a very good
26:05
liar. I will say that my nephew is not
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a very good liar, so that could become a problem later in life.
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But I see that my niece will be very good aligned to boys when
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she gets older. Like because she already is able
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to like lie to my mom's face and lie to my face.
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Just like, straight off, look me in the eye will tell me a lie.
26:30
Because sometimes I asked her, like, I think couple times I
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asked her like, oh, like do you brush your teeth in the morning?
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And then she would be like, yes. And then, like, I can kind of
26:38
tell she's lying. And I'm So I also asked like, do
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you really brush your teeth? Do you brush your teeth this
26:42
morning? And then she would then say, oh,
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grandma did it, help me brush my teeth.
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So I didn't do it this morning, things like that.
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But she's very cute. Again, I love that.
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I love that my sister has the two kids so that it keeps my mom
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busy. But she loves kids.
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Yeah. So anyways, yeah, otherwise, you
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know, just spend a lot of time with family in Vancouver.
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One thing I do like to do when I visit Canada is I like to go to
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A. And WA&W is a fast food chain
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that's a Canadian fast food chain.
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They're most well known for root beer.
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So there's like A and W root beer.
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I think A and W have some branches in the US, maybe in
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like the East Coast or something like that.
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But they're like it's like a Canadian thing.
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But The thing is that their burgers are named after like
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family members. So they have like a teen burger
27:36
and a Mama burger and like a popup burger and like all that
27:39
kind of stuff. So the teen burger is like their
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standard thing is kind of like the equivalent of like a
27:44
McDonald's Quarter Pounder or something.
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But it tastes better. There's like bacon and lettuce
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and tomatoes and those like a Patty, so pretty standard.
27:52
But I, Scott, they've got a unique sauce I guess and like
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kind of unique buns that they use.
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So like, when you taste it, it's like, oh, it tastes like an A
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and W burger because of like the the buns and the sauce.
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But it's kind of like something I I will like have because it's
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something I think you can only get in Canada.
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People talk about Tim horton's in Canada or like Timmy Hoes,
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which is like like Donuts and coffee and like quick.
28:19
They do sandwiches as well, but they'll do like Donuts and kind
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of sort of pastries and do coffee.
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So that's a very Canadian thing. Timmy Hoes remember on my
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college campus, I went to UBC, University of British Columbia
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and they have a Tim horton's on the campus.
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It's like very, very popular. So Tim horton's, I think it's
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what most people think of as like a very Canadian fast food
28:44
chain. And it is, it's like the most
28:47
well known. But this.
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I'm not a big drip coffee person and I'm not like a donut person.
28:55
So going to like, it's not a thing for me to go to Tim
28:57
horton's, but it is a thing for me to go to like A and W because
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I really like the burgers. So this time when I'm into
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Vancouver, I made it a thing to like stop by A and W Once it was
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like like a random afternoon and I was like okay, I'm hungry.
29:12
So I was running some chores, doing some shopping for mom.
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So I went to this. A and W that I've never been to
29:19
before is in this like random shopping center where I was like
29:22
picking some things up for mom and it was in the food court of
29:27
this shopping center and I got up there and food court.
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It was not a very busy shopping center.
29:33
Was like, it was like 4:00 PM on a Wednesday.
29:37
It was not a busy time for that mall.
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It was not a very busy mall anyways, and it wasn't a very
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busy food court, but I walked up there.
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It's clearly A and W that doesn't get a lot of traffic.
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It's very small A and W Anyways, I walked up there and there was
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like just two people in the counter behind the counter.
29:54
They were just like chit chatting, whatever.
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So I go up and I ordered a tea burger without cheese cuz I'm
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off dairy right now. Thin burger without cheese, make
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it a meal. And I ordered a Diet Coke and I
30:05
ordered fries. You can also get onion rings
30:07
there, which is pretty good. But I just want our fries.
30:10
So the and then the guy behind the counter says, oh, do you
30:14
just want fries or do you want like, onion rings?
30:16
We can make onion rings. So he's kind of trying to, like,
30:18
upsell. Usually when I go to any fast
30:21
food chain at McDonald's or whatever, they never try to
30:26
upsell. Like every time you go to
30:27
McDonald's, they're not trying to say like, oh, you ordered 1/4
30:31
pounder. Do you want to make it a Double
30:33
Quarter Pounder? Do you want to make it a Deluxe
30:35
Quarter Pounder? They just take your order and be
30:37
like, OK, 795. Like, you know, they never try
30:41
to like recommend items or like make you unless they're out of
30:44
something like, oh, we're out of chicken Nuggets, what else do
30:46
you want instead? But they never try to upsell
30:49
you. But like, this guy was like
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upselling me. So it's like to the onion rings,
30:52
which are more expensive. But I just said I just wanted
30:55
regular fries. And then when he asked again,
31:00
oh, what drink do you want said I want to die cook.
31:03
And then he goes like, fill the Diet Coke and he's like, oh, the
31:06
Diet Coke is like, not good for you.
31:08
It's not very healthy. And I was like, I did not expect
31:13
the guy to be giving me commentary and judging me for
31:19
the Diet Coke not being very healthy when I'm ordering like
31:25
fast food like a. And Debbie is literally just
31:28
like the Quint of Madonna is just like like super fast food.
31:33
It's not healthy. Like, no one calls McDonald's
31:35
healthy. So it's weird that first of all,
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you're telling me that the Diet Coke is unhealthy.
31:41
But on top of that, you're telling me it's unhealthy when
31:44
I've ordered a whole, like, burger and fries meal from you.
31:47
And after you're trying to upsell me from the fries to the
31:50
onion rings, which I assume is probably even less healthy than
31:54
the regular fries and got like a little back and forth and as he
31:58
said, like, oh, the diet coat isn't very good for you, blah,
32:01
blah blah blah, blah. And then I said like, oh, it's
32:03
OK, I don't, I don't drink it all the time.
32:06
And then he's, he says something to like, continues argument.
32:09
And then by the time in my head, I was like, in slight disbelief
32:13
that he was like telling me and like maybe streaming me to like
32:17
I get a different drink or something because it's unhealthy
32:21
or not good for me, whatever that I was.
32:23
Like I didn't even process what he said.
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But but all I said was like, the Diet Coke is fine to just be
32:30
like, just give me the effin Diet Coke and he's like, OK,
32:33
I'll give you the Diet Coke. But it was such a weird exchange
32:37
of like, ordering fast food. It's like like I'm, I'm ordering
32:42
something very standard like the the the teen burger, which is
32:45
like when you guys always sell a Diet Coke whichever place has
32:48
and just fries. It wasn't like anything
32:50
complicated. But yeah, that was like, that
32:53
was the most. I've never been.
32:57
I've never had anyone try to upsell me on a fast food order
33:03
and also tell me that unhealthy at the same time and also be I
33:08
guess at the same time judge for eating there when he's the
33:11
person that's like selling me the food.
33:14
So it was like a really weird interaction and like, what's the
33:18
left? I instantly went on to social
33:20
media and like just say like, well not this guy judging me for
33:24
my junk food order and telling me that Diet Coke isn't healthy
33:27
for me, which is like such a it was just just like a weird
33:31
interaction. So I was like, OK, I've got to
33:33
mention that on the podcast for sure it was good podcast
33:37
material. All right, that will take us to
33:40
the end of the podcast for this week.
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