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HHBSO 140: Hot Gym Bros, Yay or Nay? · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to He's hopping something's off.
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I pressed the right button for the right intro music.
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Somehow in my head when the intro music played in my
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headphones I was like wait is this the right music?
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I just surprised myself with my own intro music. 100 and 140 a
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150 episodes in anyways, today I'm wearing contacts.
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I'm wearing contact lenses. I can see the little flip bolt
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monitor that's on the camera I'm looking at right now.
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As always, the video version of the podcast is available on my
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YouTube channel. Just Joey T and I'm wearing
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contacts because we had a little mini adventure today and those
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of you that were subscribed to my Patreon yesterday on
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Wednesday will know exactly what happened.
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So I've talked about OK, the gym I've been going to for a few
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years now, the crunchy West Hollywood.
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They officially permanently closed either Sunday or Monday.
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I forgot it was the 30th or the 31st.
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So yesterday or today, as I'm recording this on Wednesday, I
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tried out a new gym. So the new gym I decided to try
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out, not like there's a million options.
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It's the EOS in Beverly Center. It's close to West Hollywood.
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It's like on the edge of like I think it might technically it's
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like across the street from West Hollywood.
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I forgot where the exact borders are of West Hollywood, but it's
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like the West Hollywood area. It's kind of sort of in between
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West Hollywood, Beverly Hills. So went there today.
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I took a little photo and posted it on my Patreon because I do
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just like use my Patreon basically like an Instagram and
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a Twitter. Earlier yesterday, I just did a
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random selfie. In the morning I posted it and
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then in the afternoon when I went to this E OS gym for the
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first time, I was waiting in like their little lobby entrance
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area because, you know, I was like, they went to like schedule
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a tour so that they can give you the sales pitch, all that stuff,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So anyways, yeah, just that's a
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plug for my Patreon basically before I get into the full story
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of like trying this new gym and all the stuff that all the
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little happenings yesterday. Quick plug more plugs for the
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In this third soundtrack version that's posted to YouTube, it's
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basically those songs that I selected, but like the full
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length version. So you kind of it's not a video.
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It is a video business on YouTube, but it's like more
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audio than anything anyway. So a quick plug for that.
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All right, the new gym. So the gym in Beverly Center,
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which is like the shopping mall in the area, just it's, it's on
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the edge of West Hollywood. Like I said, that used to be a
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Gold's Gym and it only opened in 2014.
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So in 2014 it was a Gold's Gym and it was a brand new build.
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It was a brand new gym. So everything was like spick and
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span. I didn't go to it back in 2014,
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but I wasn't interested in switching gyms.
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I was pretty happy at the Crunch in West Hollywood.
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But I know that EOS, which is like this other gym chain,
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fitness chain, took over a bunch of the Gold's Gym locations here
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in Socal. So they took over dislocation in
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Beverly Center. I don't know, like four or six
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months ago, it didn't happen. It was sometime last year.
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It was not that long ago and I kept seeing not great reviews
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about E OS to be honest, when I was looking into moving into
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moving to Vegas. So this was like about a year
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ago because I was getting kind of serious about moving out of
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Socal. That's a whole other kind of I
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think if you rewind to one of the episodes from about 10 or 12
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months ago. I'm sure I've talked about it,
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but anyways, EOS has quite a presence in the Vegas area and I
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was just doing research and they don't seem to have a great
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reputation as a company in terms of like having transparent
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pricing and making it not stupid difficult to like cancel your
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membership and you know, locking you into these like contracts,
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having all these fees, not having the best upkeep in terms
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of like the locker rooms and the showers and things like that.
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So I was a little apprehensive about going within EOS, but
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within the West Hollywood area, there's not.
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There's a good number of gyms and fitness places you can go
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to. All I do is weights and
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resistance training. That's the only thing I really
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want a gym for. I don't do classes, I don't do
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the amenities like the pool, the sauna, the steam room.
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I don't use any of that. I don't shower at the gym.
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I don't really sweat. Like if I want to shower I just
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shower at home because I don't live that far away.
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So basically the EOS is the only chain, but you get the private
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and boutique gym and fitness places as well.
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But it's the only other large gym close to my house at a
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similar price to the Crunch. There are, like I said, some
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private gym gyms, some boutique gyms that are not chains.
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There's quite a few around here actually, but I'm just used to
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the big box gyms. I don't want a small intimate
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atmosphere for my gym. I kind of sort of want to be a
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number at the gym. I don't want to like, I don't
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want to get to know like the people at my gym really.
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I don't want to get to know like the gym's owners.
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I don't want to want to get to know the staff there.
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It sounds very like cold and heartless, but I'm a cold and
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heartless person. Literal ice run through my
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veins. OK?
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I just don't go to the gym for any sense of community.
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It's not why I'm there. I just want to go there, pick
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everything's up, put them down, repeat, and go home.
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I don't want a loiter I like. I don't want to like, yeah.
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I just don't see the gym as a place to socialize.
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I just want to work out and go home.
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For me, the gym serves a very singular purpose.
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And I I I don't like to mingle. I don't like to make some.
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I, I don't. I'm just there for the equipment
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and the weights, literally. OK, So smaller gyms, I mean you
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also they don't have as much of A selection of equipment and
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it's nice to have, you know, variety of different types of
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equipment and weights and things like that.
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Some of the boutique gyms, their weight don't go up as high,
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which is not necessarily a problem, but I'm just I prefer a
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larger gym space that also has a larger variety of equipment and
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more equipment. So that's why I prefer to stick
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to one of the bigger gyms, which kind of means you have to go
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with a chain. Like there's a EOS here, there's
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24 hour, there's like LA Fitness, there's a bunch of
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different chains here, but I don't want to.
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I'm so used to going to a gym that's nearby, like within a
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couple of miles that I don't want to drive too far for a gym,
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especially. I go to the gym like four or
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five times a week. I don't want to spend a ton of
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time in my car. And there are quite a few gyms
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in West, in West, in Hollywood, not West Hollywood, but in
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Hollywood, which is not that far.
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It's probably about like 3 or 4 mile, maybe five mile drives.
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Not that far, but the part of Hollywood where all the gyms
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are, that's a busy area in terms of traffic, like at all times of
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day, you know, in like West Hollywood and like Beverly
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Hills, kind of like here and also West or like South of us,
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traffic thins out a little bit in like the middle of the day.
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It's not that it's super quiet, but like it thins out a little
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bit over in Hollywood where you find the gyms.
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It's busy all the time because when you don't have the commuter
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traffic during rush hour, you have tons of Taurus traffic in
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Hollywood. And there's also a lot of, yeah,
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the parts of Hollywood also kind of runs through.
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I think there's like a highway there.
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Anyways, I, it's usually quite a bit busier and over in
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Hollywood, it's harder to find parking for the gyms over there,
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but I'm researching, OK, there's like a 24 hour in Hollywood, for
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example. And it's like half the price of
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what I was paying for crunch. And I've been there a few times
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before, like many years ago. And I was like, that seems like
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a decent option, but you know, you have to pay $3 for parking
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and you know, the, the traffic there, you're going to have to
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spend more of your time commuting there back and forth.
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And I did the math, OK, if I go like 5 * a week, which is like
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my usual schedule, five times a week, $3 each time, and I'm
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going every week, that's like what, 3 * 5?
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That's like 40 something dollars a month just in parking, on top
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of the gym membership obviously. And like the cheap, the lower
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cost of going to that gym in Hollywood is completely negated
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by the parking fee. So, you know, I do my research.
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This is like, you know, before I buy anything, including a gym
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membership or switching to a new gym, like I do my research.
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So it's like, OK, well, Hollywood's out parking is a
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little bit harder for some of the gyms over there.
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The gyms over there are cheaper. But if I'm going to pay like 40
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something $50.00 for parking every month, it's like, OK,
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well, it doesn't matter that the membership fee is cheaper.
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Like I'm all the money that I would have saved on the
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membership, it all goes to parking.
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Parking over there is kind of harsh anyways.
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So the EOS is kind of like on paper the best option.
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So I went there today. I got the seven day trial from
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the website I go in and I've never been there before.
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It does look impressive when you first walk up to it.
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It is, it does look very, very new and sleek and modern and
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clean because it is a very new facility.
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It's like barely 2 years old and it was quite busy at the
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entrance area, at least when I got there because there was like
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5 other people up at the counter and there was like a little bit
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of a wait. And eventually there was like
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someone that took me on a tour, which is like a sales pitch,
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which is like my next thing. OK, I expected a sales pitch
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100%. So the way it worked was this
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guy gave me a tour like pretty standard, just takes you like
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around to different areas of the gym, points out different areas
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and different piece of equipment and amenities and stuff like
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that. I don't know, like for 5
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minutes. Then he sits you down at a desk
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and like he starts showing you like, oh, this is like the
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numbers and this is like the corner cold deal that we have.
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It's not like anything special. You guys are advertised on your
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website and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And I, I told them, OK, that's great.
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But you know, I also have like another gym that I'm going to
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try out, which I said, oh, I'm also going to try out the John
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Reed that's in West Hollywood because it's walking distance to
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my place. But I haven't tried them yet.
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You guys are my first stop. Obviously they're doing, they're
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in sales mode now and they want to get you.
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So I told them, OK, well that's another gym that I want to try
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out, but so I just want to do the seven day trial.
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Like I signed up online. I have to e-mail for it and he's
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like, OK, cool, that's fine, but let me get my manager because
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the manager has to process all the trials anyways.
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And it's like, this is as close as the car dealership experience
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as a regular person would get. Not like people are buying cars
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all the time. People are not switching gyms or
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signing for gym memberships most of the time anyways.
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So I, I bought more cars than I've than than times I've
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switched gym memberships, I think, which is not anyways, we
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don't have we don't have time to get sidetracked.
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So the guy's like it goes away 30 seconds later.
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It comes up with like the manager.
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And while I was waiting those 30 seconds, I was like, OK, this is
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leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Like anytime someone has to like
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get the manager in a sales situation automatically, that's
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like, OK, you've cut your tip in half.
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Like my, my impression of the place is going downhill.
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So anyways, it's not my first rodeo, even though I don't do
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this type of thing all the time. But they were super nice.
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I mean, they're trying to get your business.
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Of course, they're super nice trying to sell you something.
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So the manager comes by blah, blah, blah.
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I mean, I just repeat the same thing.
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Oh, I'm I was at the crunch. It's closing down.
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I'm trying out some gyms. I'm trying out you guys now I'll
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also have this other one that I'm going to try.
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So I just want to do the seven day trial blah, blah, blah.
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And they were fine. They didn't push super hard
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because I was being like somewhat direct.
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I just literally said like I'm literally trying out a couple of
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gyms. It's like you and these other
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guys, those are my only options that are near where I want to
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live in this within my price range.
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Like they clearly know what the landscape is.
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Like I wasn't telling them anything they didn't know.
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So they knew that like what I was saying is true.
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Because really there's only two gyms that are larger gyms that
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are within like a couple of miles, 2 or maybe 3 miles of
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where I live. And I told them also like, well,
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yeah, there's Hollywood, but like, I don't want to go over to
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Hollywood. But it's, it's so crowded and
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there's so much traffic in the Hollywood area, which if they
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knew anything about the area, they know everything I'm telling
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them is true. So they're like, OK, fine.
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We're going to give you like the free trial.
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And then we also have this like open house thing in like a
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couple of weeks. And then we might be running
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like some like enrollment offers.
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So you might want to. So it's actually fine.
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They didn't push too hard. And like, I didn't, I, I, I was
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just being fairly direct. Like this is literally the
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truth. I'm just trying a couple of gyms
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and I also told them like, you know what, you know, I don't
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care so much about some special offer.
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I said a little bit nicer, but I basically told them it's great
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that you guys are trying to give me an offer.
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Like you guys aren't doing this all the time to every person
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that comes in the door anyways. I know it's great that you guys
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are trying to give me an offer, but you know, if I try you guys
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out and I like this gym like I don't mind penny pinching 10
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dollars, $20 here and there, But if I like your gym, I wouldn't
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want to sign up anyways. Basically I was trying to tell
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them like, if I like the gym, I'm going to sign up regardless.
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So like let the product speak for itself.
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Basically didn't push too hard. It wasn't that bad, but I just
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don't like this like I'm going to, I'm going to get my manager.
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I hate that I, I, I hate this like I, I have to get my manager
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thing. It just encourages Karens to
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like ask for a manager. I I just don't like it.
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One time I was shopping for a car not that long ago, this was
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about 3-4 years ago, I was at a car dish.
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And by the way, if you want to shop for a car, don't start by
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going into a car dealership. Literally do not start by going
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into a car dealership. If you want to shop for a car,
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you, you know what one of the best ways to shop for a car is
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actually going through a broker and you can find a broker for
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almost any make and model online.
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It does take like just a it's a bit of digging, but if you just
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go into a dealer blind you, it's very hard to get a decent deal.
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Like they're going to convince you that you got a good deal
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whether you got a good deal or not.
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Well, anyways, yeah, you've been shopping for a car.
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Please don't just like step into a dealership in person.
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It's kind of horrible. If you want to just test drive
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something, that's fine, but you need to be pretty skilled and
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comfortable with literally just like walking away when you get
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off, when you get off that test drive.
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Anyways, back to the gym. So that's fine.
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I'm on the free trial right now. The gym, I mean it's a pretty
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nice gym. It's definitely a pretty big
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gym. The Crunch was not that big.
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It was like small to mid size gym.
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The crunch honestly was not that big.
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But the thing about the Crunch is it was never it's never busy.
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It's never that busy. I went to the EO said around
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2:30 they did the tour and like, after talking to the manager and
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everything, it was about 3:00 when I started my workout and I
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was there for about an hour and it I can imagine getting busier
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than that, but it was, there's definitely people there.
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And I did ask the guy, you know, my schedule's pretty flexible.
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What's the quietest time of the day to come?
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And he's like 11 to 1 like around lunchtime.
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So the equipment is fine. I read some reviews about the
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how like the steamer and the showers might not be super well
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maintained like the towel hamper it's like always overflowing.
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There's only one water station. Things like that.
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I only went there for like 1 visit for like an hour but I saw
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the one water station there was not a line up for it.
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There's a decent amount of people.
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I think it was like there's a moderate amount of people.
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I definitely can see it getting busier, but I didn't have to.
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I think I lucked out today and didn't have to really wait for
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any piece of equipment. It wasn't jam packed.
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I mean, obviously it's it's 5:40 PM as I'm recording this now.
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It's probably completely packed in there now, but I would never
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go at like I don't go at the hours when it's busy because
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most people go outside of normal business hours.
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But I go at sex worker O'clock, which is when everyone else is
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in the office, but everyone else has to work their corporate job.
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Like I get to go anyways. I I picked up that joke from
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like heard it from some. It was like some only only fans
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creator like a couple years ago that was on like a live stream
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or something. And I was just like listening.
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And but sometimes they do these like only fans one-on-one
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things, which just, they talk about industry and they just
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talk about stuff. And this one creator who's like
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pretty popular said like, yeah, I, I go to the gym at sex worker
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O clock, which is like when no one else is going, it's like
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1:00 PM basically when it's the quietest.
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But there's like the morning rush, you know, before people
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start their work day. And then there's when people get
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off of work. For around like 5:00, it really
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picks up like between like in the early evening, it's very
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busy at the gym all the way up until like 8:00 PM it's really
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busy because that's when people might start going home to eat
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dinner. Anyways, yeah, so it was fine.
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There's a decent chance I might end up there and like I should
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get a proper membership, but they gave me a free trial for
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like 2 weeks because they said oh, on the 16th or something.
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Like a couple of weeks later, they have this like open house,
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some type of a thing. I was not fully listening by
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then. And that's when they said they
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might run some fresh or they might be willing to do some sort
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of like enrollment deal or some sort of discount or whatever.
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So they gave me a trial until then, which was very nice with
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them. The trial was only supposed to
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be 7 days, but they gave it to me for like 14.
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So yeah, I might end up going there.
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I did see a few people sue faces I recognize that used to be at
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the crunch. They're there now.
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I did not see my ex-boyfriend, my ex gym boyfriend, my gym
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ex-boyfriend. I haven't seen her for a couple
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of months because I changed the time of day that I go to the
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gym. I switched after the February
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recruits of Atlantis. I just somehow felt like going
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in the morning. So I've been going at 10 AM.
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Usually I would go at 2:00 PM. So I haven't seen, I haven't
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seen him in a long time. So anyways, the John Reed is the
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other option that I'm entertaining.
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OK, the E OS is 80 bucks per month.
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Yep, do oh, oh, my rice is ready.
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Can you hear that? That's the that's my rice cooker
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playing in Chime. Anyways, so the E OS is $80.00
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for that particular location, which is within the E OS family,
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one of the a top tier, what they call a landmark location, which
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is requires their most expensive plans, which is starting from 80
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bucks. So that's $80, which is about
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the same as what I was paying for the crunch.
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Anyways, so there's a John Reed in the middle of West Hollywood,
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like in the heart of West Hollywood proper is walking
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distance to my house. It's like a 12 minute walk I
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think from my place. And their regular price, just to
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give you an idea of like what gyms cost, at least around here,
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it's $180 for their month to month plan if you do like a
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contract. So the 80 bucks at EOS, I think
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it's there. I don't think that's month to
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month. I think you're signing up
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contract for that. The month to month at the John
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Reed is 160, the regular price. And I don't think they charge an
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enrollment fee. I think they just do like the
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monthly price and that's it. At a regular gym.
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Most gyms, most chains, there's a enrollment fee and then they
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charge you a month, an annual membership fee of some sort, and
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those are on top of your monthly membership fee.
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The crunch was like that and then this E OS gym is like that
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too. The John Reed.
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Apparently they don't charge an enrollment fee and they don't do
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a annual membership fee. They just do the monthly and
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they have very clearly a month to month plan that's one eighty
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$180 and they have something that's not month to month.
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You get signed some of the contract, I guess that's 160 for
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like I guess a year. So but I was looking at the
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website today and for the month to month they're running a
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special that's $130.00 for the first six months because month
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to month you don't sign a contract.
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So for $130.00 for six months, I, I know it's only for six
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months. But The thing is, I actually,
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I'm not sure how much longer I'll be in this exact area of
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West Hollywood. I'm a little, I don't want to
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commit to a year. There's a slight chance I might
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not be in this part of West Hollywood.
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So I don't know. So like the month to month is
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attractive. So I do want to try out the John
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Reed, but Can you imagine paying nearly $200 though?
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Like the regular price is like 160 to 180.
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Can you imagine paying nearly $200 for a gym Equinox?
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They're they're nearly $300. They're like 250.
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They're like well into the two hundreds.
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And then some of the private boutique gyms in this area, they
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are like in the mid one hundreds up to like the 200, like 150 to
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200 per month. So it's, I don't know.
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I had so much difficult difficulty picking a gym.
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There's an Equinox in West Hollywood and I, I, I am not
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paying, I'm not paying that much money.
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It's, I don't use any of the extra stuff that comes with
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Equinox. I, I just don't the, the even
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the John Reed, I would not entertain them really at
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$160.00. But if they have this like month
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to month, that is 130 for six months, I'm like OK, for six
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months, 130 is walking distance to my place.
25:27
It's not bad that John Weed does not do trials though.
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A lot of gyms you can do like a three day free trial, a 7 day
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free trial like I'm doing at EOS right now.
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John Weed, they don't have free trials.
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If you're an existing member, you might have some guest day
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passes you can like share with a friend.
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But yeah, it it's kind of weird that they don't have a trial
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system. It must be like a very conscious
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choice on their part. But I heard at least they are
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much more, they have a much more straightforward, transparent
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pricing structure. Again, there's no enrollment
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fee. There's no annual membership
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fee. You just pay the monthly and
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that's it. And they very clearly also
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advertise like the month to month option where you don't
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have to sign like like a yearly contract, which I really
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appreciate. The only other thing about the
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John Reed is Jon me the brand, it's supposed to be their
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concept is just like club gym hybrid.
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And it's like, I don't want my gym to be like a club.
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So I've never tried it before. I'm trying to see if anyone I
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know in the area has like a guest pass.
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I just want to at least try it out once to see what it's
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actually really like in them. OK, let's talk about the boys.
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But I think some of you are thinking, hey, are the boys?
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Are these gyms hot? You know, I was, I was surprised
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there were, there were some, there were some attractive guys
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at the EOS, I think attractive in that stereotypical straight
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gym type of a way. Like when I was at the crunching
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West Hollywood. It's not technically a gay gym,
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but like 99% of the guys who were gay.
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Like honestly, when it's like the with the weights area, 99%
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of the people were guys and 99% of those guys were gay.
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Like the gaydar was didn't need to stress.
27:20
Like the gaydar was very easy. Everybody's gay pretty much.
27:24
The EOS is not like that. I think half the guys are gay
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because I, it was pretty easy for, for the gaydar to determine
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for like 80% of the guys whether they were gay or not.
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There were some attractive straight guys at the gym.
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You know what it reminds me of when you go to an EDM festival
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and you see hot straight guys with their girlfriends.
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By the way, EDM festivals have tons of hot straight guys.
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It's the only place to find hot straight guys.
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If you or a straight straight girls, don't listen to this.
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But if you have friends that are straight girls and straight
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girls, if you want to go to an event that had us like hot
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straight guys, maybe not necessary for you to hit on
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them, but you just if you're wondering like, Hey, where are
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all the hot straight guys there at EDM festivals.
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OK, But I saw quite a few of those types of hot straight guys
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at the EOS when I went today. That's the closest reference I
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have. It's like, oh, some of these
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like straight looking hot guys. You these kind of sort of like
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hot straight guys I would see at EDC in Vegas or at like Ultra
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music festival, like an EDM festival, something like that.
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So there were like a few of them also.
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Definitely there are some gays there that are just the way
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their eyes linger. You know, they're out to check
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on meat gays, gym gays. When they're at the gym, they're
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only half there for the exercise.
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They're also half there to like try to pick up some meat
29:03
themselves. It's just the way the gate, the
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gym gays are honestly. Yeah, but the, it, it was
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interesting. A few Bros, you know, few
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straight Bros there. It is like a pretty big gym.
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You get a lot of people. It's not like in a super gay
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area like the country West Hollywood is, which is like
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right in the middle West Hollywood.
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The John Reed, though I haven't been there, but I already know
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it's like a lot of gays that go there because it's right in the
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middle of West Hollywood. It used to be a 24 Hour Fitness
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and I used to go to that 24 Hour Fitness until 24 Hour Fitness
29:36
closed down that location permanently.
29:38
That's why I switched to the Crunch about like 3:00-ish three
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or four years ago. If 24 Hour Fitness held on to
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that location that is now the Jon Reed location, I would have
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kept going to the 24 hour. So yeah, the reason I went to
29:54
Crunch was because 24 Hours closed down and Jon Reed took
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over that location. I've not been there, but I've
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seen enough grinder profile pics from the John Reed to know that
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it's probably 99% guys and 99% of those guys are gay.
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It's the more it's the it's yeah, it's it's pretty gay.
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I don't need to have been in there to tell you that.
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I did say I go to the gym just to pick heavy things up and put
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them down and repeat and go home.
30:29
It's very true. However, I do you like some eye
30:35
candy at the gym? I have some pretty decent eye
30:38
candy at Crunch. Am I going to pay a bunch of
30:41
extra money to have gay eye candy when I work out?
30:45
Probably not, but I'm still curious to try out the John
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Reed. It is very nice.
30:51
It's the only gym that's well, is it the only gym that's
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walking distance? The Equinox is walking distance,
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but again, I'm never going to go there.
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The two boutique there are two boutique gyms that are walking
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distance to me, but like they don't really do they don't focus
31:08
on like having weights and resistance training.
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They won't have enough machines for me And then the capacity
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controlled and they're pretty expensive as well.
31:17
So the Jon Reed is really the remotely feasible walking
31:24
distance gym that I that's kind of in my budget, semi in my
31:30
budget. So we'll see.
31:32
Anyways, I was leaving the E OS today and it's in Beverly Center
31:37
again. It's this big shopping center
31:38
with a ton of parking. So they have a great parking
31:40
situation. They validate parking for two
31:42
hours and then I went over 2 hours beside the tour and
31:45
everything. It was only a dollar so like so
31:47
it was actually pretty cheap for parking and God bless this older
31:53
lady that was in the car in front of me.
31:54
I drove up to the exit. There was already a car in front
31:57
of me. And clearly this the driver is
31:59
trying to like pay for the parking ticket.
32:02
There's a parking ticket machine at the elevator vestibule where
32:07
you can pay for your parking before you go back to your car.
32:10
You can also do it when you exit.
32:13
And this person, I couldn't see what kind of person it was, but
32:17
the car in front of me was clearly trying to pay for the
32:20
whatever. At one point, she was just kind
32:23
of like tapping the car all over the machine.
32:25
And then eventually the driver's door opens.
32:30
She gets out of her car and it's this old lady, bless her heart.
32:34
And she's looking at me like she can't do it and like I need to
32:39
back up so put my car into reverse.
32:42
I don't know how you know how some cars the reverse lights are
32:47
like really low on the bumper. So I think on my car the reverse
32:51
lights are like really low on the bumper.
32:54
So like the car behind me didn't see, but anyway, there's a Jeep
32:57
behind me. So I put on my reverse.
33:00
This clearly this person in front like she can't figure out
33:02
the parking ticket, she can't figure out how to do it.
33:05
We need to use another exit. So put my reverse lights on.
33:09
And like, I didn't want to honk because in a parking garage, if
33:13
you honk, it's really loud and it really reverberates.
33:16
And my car is facing this lady in front of this old lady who's
33:20
like out of the car. I don't want to give her like a
33:22
heart attack. So my window was down.
33:24
So like, I look in the rearview mirror.
33:26
I can't quite see into the Jeep. So I poke my head out my
33:31
driver's window and I look behind me and it's just like
33:34
younger kid. He he probably just went to the
33:36
gym in the Jeep and I can see that his head is down, but he's
33:39
on the phone and like I'm waving and I'm like, hey, like I spent
33:46
literally a good 20 seconds, if you count 123.
33:51
I spent about 20 literal seconds trying to get his attention
33:55
behind him. There were like two other cars
33:58
that have not lined up behind him because it's like a little
33:59
intersection. There were two other cars like
34:01
behind him, but like on either side they've noticed.
34:04
Even I can tell these two other cars have noticed.
34:06
Like I'm trying to get this guy's attention.
34:08
I started yelling him. I was like, hey, yo, dude, it's
34:10
like, get off your phone. Blah. 20.
34:12
Like he suddenly hears, I don't know, I don't know how he did
34:17
it. He looks up and I told him like,
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hey, can you back up? There's this car in front of me.
34:22
He can't get out. So now this Jeep backs up.
34:25
But I was like, I've had to try that hard to get someone's
34:28
attention. And when I raise my voice, I'm
34:30
already pretty loud. You guys are probably talking a
34:32
pretty loud person even though I'm onto a mic.
34:34
But like, it was kind of farcical how hard I needed to
34:39
try to get this kid's attention because I can't.
34:44
He must have had some music. I couldn't hear it.
34:46
It wasn't super loud from outside the car, but he must
34:48
have like some music. He was clearly on his phone.
34:50
Like, like it's whatever. It's like MBD.
34:53
But like the how the amount of effort I had to go through to
34:58
get this kid's attention was like, I don't know, a little.
35:03
It was something I I don't think I've had to do that.
35:06
Yeah. But anyways, got out of there
35:08
and yeah, I had to pick up some groceries.
35:11
So I went back to the Trader Joe's that I usually go to,
35:15
which is where the crunch in Wijo is.
35:17
It's the same complex. So I just needed to pick up a
35:21
few things. Just some grocery.
35:23
It's like, OK, I already in the car, it's like 5:00, almost rush
35:27
hour. It's like, OK, I need grocery.
35:30
So I went to the grocery place. I went to the Trader Joe's and
35:34
that was pretty standard. The cashier asked me, oh, like,
35:37
where are you going to the gym now, blah, blah, blah.
35:39
I guess some of them recognize me from going to the gym and my
35:42
gym closes all the time there and they know that the crunch is
35:44
close enough. But there's an elevator that
35:46
goes from that Trader Joe's down to the parking garage and the
35:50
elevator only goes to two floors.
35:52
It goes to Trader Joe's. It's inside the Trader Joe's.
35:56
When you exit a elevator, it goes you're like in the middle
36:00
of like the Trader Joe's. It doesn't exit all into the
36:02
public area and it goes to P3. So I was waiting for it, you
36:08
know, on my phone waiting for the elevator.
36:10
Elevator opens and this guy is holding a bunch of flowers and
36:14
he's, he looks confused, like he is trying to get to the parking
36:19
garage and like he can't work the elevator or he doesn't know
36:22
what floor it's on. And I'm thinking in my head, it
36:25
only goes to two floors. It's Trader Joe's or parking.
36:29
Like he swings open and he looks around like this is not where
36:33
I'm supposed to be. I'm like, I don't see anything.
36:36
So like I walk into the elevator and like he tries to like make
36:40
small talk like, oh, I was like trying to get out of parking.
36:43
And in my head I, I was already thinking it only goes to two
36:47
floors. There's only two buttons on the
36:48
elevator. It's ground and parking.
36:54
It's GMP 3, so when he tried to make small talk, all I said was
37:01
yeah, it only goes to two floors.
37:05
I tried my best not to make it sound like so obvious, like,
37:08
dude, it only goes to two floors.
37:09
It's not like it goes to 20 different floors.
37:11
And it's confusing where it goes.
37:13
It's G and PV. There's only two buttons there,
37:16
'cause I, I try to be, I don't know, sometimes the, the sarcasm
37:24
can't be completely sanitize out of the things I say.
37:30
If you're going to try to make small talk in a situation like
37:33
that. I have been in situations where
37:35
I did something completely stupid, but I have been there.
37:39
It's like I, I pushed the wrong button.
37:41
I didn't push the button in the elevator.
37:43
Look, honestly, it's happened to all of us, OK?
37:46
Just in that moment, I was like, yeah, I don't want to go to the
37:49
two floors. And I was like, OK, yeah.
37:52
So that was, that was my day yesterday.
37:54
We tried the new gym. I'm hoping that if I go a little
37:58
bit earlier because I'm on a free trial, so I'm going to keep
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going. If I go a little bit earlier,
38:02
it'll be a little less busy. It wasn't too bad when I went
38:06
today the first time, like between 3:00 and 4:00.
38:08
But 3 and 4 is where it starts to pick up a little bit.
38:11
So I'm trying to go like a little bit earlier.
38:14
I still want to try out the John Reed, even though it's so
38:16
expensive. But if they have this like
38:18
discount for six months, you know, it might be OK to like tie
38:22
me over for six months. We'll see.
38:24
I do enjoy having hot gay guys working out around me though.
38:28
Would would you not OK comment down below.
38:31
Would you prefer to work out near hot gay guys just for eye
38:37
candy? Like even if you weren't going
38:38
to hit on them and they weren't looking at you, would you prefer
38:42
to work out near hot gay eye candy?
38:45
Maybe I got used to it working out at the Crunch.
38:48
Not like the crunch was again, super busy, but it's like I got
38:52
very used to the Crunch and how it's not packed any time that I
38:58
went and there's there's a there's some decent I candy at
39:03
the Crunch. Yeah.
39:04
Let me know what you think. So yeah, I am going to cook
39:09
dinner now. We're cooking rice and chicken
39:13
and hot dogs. I slice up the hot dogs so
39:15
they're in like little bite size pieces in my rice.
39:19
I said I'm like 3 years old. The chicken I used to slice up,
39:23
but I got too lazy. So it's just like this one chunk
39:27
of chicken thighs and then I have it with my rice, little
39:32
salt, little pepper, little rice vinegar.
39:34
So that's my dinner tonight. So again, go check out the new
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