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I am doing today's show in a very special fashion. And the fashion is I have a new laptop. I'm very excited to have a new laptop. It's a very exciting moment in my life. It's an exciting moment for the show because this is the first time I'm ever recording this podcast on my new MacBook Pro. Okay. If you listened to last week's show, you know that I had to record last week's episode fully 100% on an iPad from like six years ago. I didn't know at the time that we had the technology to do podcasts on an iPad. So it's just like, what was stopping me from ever doing that? I'll tell you. It was just, I didn't know that we had the mode of technology. I didn't know an iPad was so helpful. I didn't know it was so useful. I also admitted that I have an iPad. Right? That was the first admission that I had that I owned an iPad and, and that I wasn't really using it. And now I'm here to tell you I love it. I love the iPad. I really love it. Today I am recording this episode again at night. Um, almost everyone in my house is sleeping. Oh, I didn't close my closet doors. Don't kind of look back there if you're watching this. Um, my dog Tony is behind me. He is chowing down on his ass right now. So if you do hear any chomping, that is Tony in the background. But yes, I do have a brand new computer. It's exciting. I'll tell you what, I did a little differently. So the last computer that I had was a MacBook Air. Okay. And now Having the pro. I'll tell you, I do understand why they called it the air. It was much lighter. I also did another sort of upgrade. I have a friend who told me you should. And she does a lot of. She works in music. And she told me that if you're going to be doing like editing or things like that, which I do do on my computer, which is, I think, a huge reason why the other one croaked. Dropped the fuck dead. Tony, what are you doing back there? Okay, his. Listen, he's. A dog's gonna clean itself, I think. These are only noises I can hear, by the way. But I do want to paint a picture his. He's cleaning his willy back there. We're all good. So I'm gonna paint a little bit of a picture for me now so you can get the picture of my dog licking his penis out of your. Just a moment, if you will. And the picture I'd like to pick is that I. The picture I'd like you to picture, not pick. We can't pick our family. We can choose our friends. The picture I want to paint of me is of this. Me holding my MacBook Air. It's light as a feather, stiff as a board, and I'm loving it. It's light, but it was. I got the smallest one. I don't really know why. There was a part of me and there was a time in my life when I thought all of the devices that I have should be the smallest versions of, like, whatever was available. And I don't subscribe to that life anymore. The life that I just. I. That I subscribe to now is one of which, if they offer it in the biggest size, I should get the biggest size. And I wasn't gonna go this route until I talked to my friend and she told me, you should really. If you're gonna be doing editing and different things of the sorts on your devices, you should get the bigger 16 inch MacBook MacBook Pro. Excuse me, I'm stuttering because I'm still kind of nervous about it. So I took the plunge and I did get it. I'll tell you what, I think my initial thought was this is like, enormous. I haven't seen an. I haven't seen a laptop this big since I've seen my mom pull out some sort of, like, belonged in the Smithsonian laptop. This is the size of laptop that like a mother gets. So I have, like a motherly sized laptop now. At first it shocked me. It did. It left me, like completely dead. Stopped in my track. Dead Stopped. That's not right. But you get it. You know, you're. Sometimes we're just dead stopped. And that's how I felt. And I went, damn, this thing is enormous. I just, like, saw it. I put it on the. I put it on the dining room table. I saw it in front of me, and I just said to myself, it. It looked like I had a car parked on the dining room table. I had just never seen an electronic this big, aside from a television. Like, it looked like a cyber truck was parked on the dining room table. I just. I really did think I was going to have to pack it right back up in the box, go back over, see Dion at the Apple store, shout out to Dion and be like, it's just not gonna work out. I'm gonna need to do 2 inches smaller. But I said, you know what? Stick it out. See how you feel over the next 48 hours. And then let's take it from there. Take a beat. And then let's just take it from there. And I am just so glad that I did. I'm glad that I did, because the extra screen space is quite handy, and I have decided to waste a few. And if you know me, you know, I love to waste some time on YouTube. And I searched MacBook and iPad and iPhone Aesthetic backgrounds. Now, I. I do feel a type of way when people go, oh, it's so esthetic, where they, like, say something is aesthetic, because I don't believe that's the correct way of using the word. But I had to kind of go that route because I. The person that I was looking for, and I wasn't looking for a specific person, but I knew that I would find the video I was looking for made by a person who would use the word aesthetic in this way. So I went aesthetic, iPhone. And I was correct. I got exactly the information I was looking for. And so I turned different, like, features and, like, bells and whistles and stuff on. On the computer so that it would just, like, look pretty when I am using it. And I'm so glad that I did. My background on the computer is a Monet painting. I just thought that I. Every time I open it up, I want to feel cultured. I want to feel like I'm learning something. I want to feel just inspired. And I just felt like a Monet painting was, like, classy. And so then I did a different Monet on my iPad and then on my iPhone. Get ready for this. I did another Monet. So I have three Monets across three different devices. And Then I did something really kind of cuckoo nuts. I'll have to post a picture of the way that the background on my phone looks. So what I did for the background of my phone, this is really like riveting stuff today. But what I did on the background of my phone, and I love it so much, just like love opening my phone and just seeing this, is that I made a Canva edit. Hear me out. I did a Canva edit. So it's like completely like, it's this sort of like marbly, ish, brownish, whatever. And then at the very like bottom, I put Tony and Tracy, my dogs, obviously Tony just fresh off of eating his own ass, behind me. Tracy in bed. Okay. Just like giving you the lay of the land. And I put them all at the little, little dogs at the bottom. Okay. And so what I did with the layout of like the applications is that instead of like putting them all so that they all go down as like far down as you can go. Tired of overpaying with DirecTV, Dish offers a reliable low price every month without surprises. Get the TV you love and start watching live sports news and the latest movies, plus your favorite streaming apps all in one place. Switch to Dish today and lock in the lowest price in satellite TV starting at $89.99 a month with our two year price guarantee. Call 888 add dish or visit dish.com today. I always leave the bottom row empty. So like little Tony and Tracy are like peeking out from the bottom. Honestly, it's the most beautiful and like put together I've ever felt about like a phone background situation. Because I've always wanted to be one of those people that has just such a, for lack of a better word, aesthetic, iPhone background setup. And I do, I, I, I am that person. I am a person now that if a stranger saw my phone, they would go, he's got it all. And he's got it all together. And that's really what I wanted. And now I have it. I have everything I've ever wanted. Something else I've always wanted is to be liked, to be loved. Right? Yeah, I'm going to go there. I want to talk about, I want to gossip a little bit. You know, I just, I feel like it's what if, you know, if I have this public forum to speak on, whatever I'd like to speak on. I do think that, like, you know, sometimes I take on tough issues, sometimes I take on issues that aren't tough at all. And for me, it's not tough at all to Gossip just a little bit, a healthy amount. So I want to gossip a little bit about one of my neighbors. Okay? This is what I'm gonna do and what I'm gonna say, so I want you to hear me out. I also feel like my mullet is getting a little out of control. I don't know. That's, like, a me thing. It's just sort of like I'm feeling, like the hair, like, go down my neck. I just. A little Rapunzel y. Anyway, back to gossip. I have a neighbor and listen. I don't know who listens to this podcast. Maybe she listens to it. There's a low chance of that happening. So I'm not going to dox her, and I am not going to say anything that would kind of call her out. If anything, I've. I've identified it's a woman. Okay. And that will be the only identification I'll be giving. I have a neighbor, and we see each other every morning walking the dogs. Okay? And when we first got Tony and JP and I were walking him together in the morning, she was so nice. Oh, my God, she was so nice. I was like, I love that neighbor. And something really, like, something happened, and I don't know what it is. And I thought maybe, like, she's changed or something happened. But I've seen her be this friendly to, like, other neighbors on the street, but she's now decided to, like, not interact with me or us at all. And it happened when we got Tracy. Okay? Tracy, our small, pure, black dog, okay? She's the blackest dog I've ever seen in my life now, okay? We get Tracy. And Tony is his, like, the. So friendly. Loves people, Loves to go over to people, loves to, you know, whatever. He's like, the. Wants to say hi to everybody if he's not eating his own ass, which he's still doing a little bit. He's just doing it so that we have, like, fun background. And he did stop. Thank you, Tony. Thank you. So when we got Tracy, she's like a more nervous dog. She's a nervous girl. Okay. Found in a dumpster. What are you going to do that would make anyone nervous? Probably for life. And where there is Tony, who is so, like, friendly and interactive with the people on the street. Tracy Knott. And this is where it really turned for the neighbor, where she tried to. Basically, she was kind of getting in Tracy's face, no offense, like, she was getting up in her grill. And Tracy was just like. Like, get away. And she didn't like, do. She just was nervous and, like, backed up, and we said, like, oh, she's just, like, really nervous. And that really, like, struck a chord with this woman. And she was like, oh. And now she won't talk. Like, she won't look at us in the eye if I'm like, hi. Cause sometimes I'll be like, what the fuck is her problem? They'll be like, hi. I'll be yelling it across the street obnoxiously. And she'll be like, like, just like a wave. And, like, gotta go. And I'm like, what the. You were like. You'd be stopping me on the streets talking and talking for, like, minutes, 10 minutes. And now it's just. There's something she doesn't like my black dog. And I have a huge problem with. I'm just like. I want to know what her issue is. Neighbors are so fickle and funny. And I'm going to say another thing. I'm, like, a very. I'm a very friendly person. Right? I am. And I am somebody who, like, if you come up to me in a grocery store and you want to start telling me about your life, which happens pretty much all the time. I don't know. I just, like. I feel like I give off the vibe of, like, please tell me everything. I know that I'm like, please tell me everything. But I also will be there and be like, you should tell me everything. I am kind of the instigator in a lot of that. I like to chit and I like to chat, but in the morning and on the sidewalks, I'm sort of like, man on a mission. Like, let's get this. You know, let's get the show on the road. Jp, on the other hand, sometimes JP is always like, you're always talking to random strangers. I'm like, whatever. A gig's a gig. Jp, on the other hand, when it comes to, like, neighbor situations, everybody loves jp. He's always, like, out in the front, like, gardening and, like, doing stuff. I'm not. That is not the life for me. It is the life for the husband that I have. Not. I. No, I'd let everything wilt and wither away. It's just. It's not in the cards. It is not. And so. I'm disguising a yawn. Okay. It's a little. It's a little bit late. I'm doing this while everybody's asleep again. And I know, like, it's like, do it earlier. I'm not going to record this podcast earlier because I need to be in the frame of mind. And if I want to deliver a good, solid product. Right. That's what I'm calling me. Talking about the background of my iPhone for 10 minutes. A good, solid product. If I want to deliver a good, solid product, which I do, I have to record it when the mood feels right. Right. And when I feel ready and raring and roaring to go. And it just felt right tonight. Um, I felt like I couldn't do it earlier. I didn't want to do it earlier tomorrow. And I want to do it right now when I am fighting a few yawns here or there. One is coming right now. Oh, it's not because I'm bored. It isn't. I'm having the time. I'm. I'm actually. No, no, no. I don't want you to think it's like, I'm bored. I'm not. I. How could I be bored when I am looking to my right right now and I'm seeing a little bit of a warm kefir Trader Joe's right here. That was my lunch. I know some people are. Would be afraid to have, like, some sips out of that bottle since it's been sitting on the desk. Not me, though. No. Back to JP So he is really the. He is always going. I don't know. He's just, like, very friendly with everyone in the neighborhood, which it's like, I think, like, as a team, this is great because he knows what's going on, and he is a little bit knowing everybody's business. He'll sometimes come inside after he's, like, been working in the garden a little bit. He'll come inside and he'll be like, oh, Jennifer's dog is sick. I'm like, who is Jennifer? He's like, you know her. No, I don't. Like, there's no chance I know her. And it'll be a woman I've seen every day for the past six years. I had no idea that her name was Jennifer. We. That. That's happened multiple times. He'll be like, oh, you. You know Suzanne? Suzanne and her husband are away for the whole week. That's why we haven't seen Clyde. And, like, first of all, who's Suzanne? What did you say about her husband? And who's Clyde? Clyde is their dog. I'm like, I don't know any of the. I don't know any of this. How do you know all of it? He's like, what do you mean? We've talked to them a million times. I'm like, sorry, if it's before noon. It's in one ear, out the other. And that's just, it's just I'm also like, not a morning person. And that this is like the big, like cultural divide in our home is that JP is a morning person. I'm a night owl. I'm not really like a go out person, but I am like, I feel fully spirited at night. It's when I get like the best work done. I don't know if anybody can relate to that. Wait, I'm hearing myself say. I heard myself. I don't know if anyone can relate to getting things done at night when like the phrase night owl exists. Of course people can relate to that. You know me, I'm so relatable. I want to say something else about my neighbor who has turned on me and this is a special shout out to her. Go fuck yourself. I just, I don't mean it, but it is sort of like, come on, get like, what's going on? I don't know. Can anyone relate to neighbors? Like, come on, I don't even know what I'm talking about anyway. I do want to talk about something else and I'd like to do a few. I mean, here's the thing. Remember when I was like, I want to start the show off with like some pop culture. Oh my God, I have something. And I. What I was just going to say is I want to start the show off with like, pop culture. I've been trying to be better about doing that. So it's just like, there's something for you to hold on to before I start literally just talking about nothing. But I felt like, oh, there's nothing going on. There's something incredible happening. It's actually not. It's actually a crime. Hold on. Water break. Sometimes water is so good. Have you ever heard of Frank Green? A sponsor? Frank? No, they're not sponsoring the podcast whatsoever. Frank Green is a water bottle company in Australia and I got this water bottle while I was there. Sometimes water is so good. And from. And from Frank Green. No, I just, I like that water bottle. It's nice. Good shape, no plastic. I actually know the whole lid is plastic. Never mind the, the straw in it is aluminum. So that's what I mean when I say no plastic. I want to get into the voicemails. But before I do, as I said, I've been trying to get into a better habit of starting the show with pop culture, something. So it's just like, you know, something topical, something we can all relate to something that's going on in everyone's lives. And I was thinking, you know, it doesn't really matter, like, what's. Nothing really is going on. I feel like there's always something going on, but just like, whatever. But there's something incredible happening. Okay. And it's not, like I said, it's like espionage. It's not. It's really bad. But what it is, as you know, as I've mentioned at nauseam, that I have opened a medical spa. Please come. Please come. We've actually. I'm gonna say something. There have been a handful of people who have come to the med spa from listening to this podcast. Incredible. Absolutely amazing. And I would even say more than a handful. It was a shocking number of people, to be fair. So I'll keep talking about it. Anyway, so the. The med spa is located in Arcadia, California. All right. There's something very, very big that happened in the city of Arcadia this week, and it is. The mayor of Arcadia. Get ready. Pled guilty to being a Chinese foreign agent. Mm. That's correct. So that is the pop culture news of the podcast. Is that the mayor of the city where I opened my medical spa? Yeah. She is going to jail. I actually don't know what. What she's doing. I don't know what her deal is, because she had to do a deal, because the deal was that she was going to plead guilty. She pled guilty to being a Chinese spy, which is, I think, not great. I just. I. I have so many questions where I'm just like, what does the mayor of Arcadia. What information does being the mayor of Arcadia like fulfill? Like, what is the Chinese government after? You know, what do they want? Do they want just, like, better access to the Santa Anita race tracks? I don't know, like, better. Like, exclusive parking at the Santa Anita Mall. I just am sorry. I'm befuddled. I don't know what to make of it. I like the story, though. I do like it. It's intriguing, it's exciting, and I am gonna learn more. And when I do learn more, I will report back to you. Actually, hold on. Let me just take my cyber truck out here. I have the laptop in front of me. We can actually learn more together. That's the thing. This is the beautiful thing about this podcast, is that some podcasts, they'll do some research beforehand, but then if it's like this podcast, I'll just do research during. You know, why not? Oh, something that's on my laptop right now is we're doing a grand opening of them. I actually can see my glasses right now. I can see, like, it looks like the fingerprints that the mayor of Arcady needed to leave at, like, the lapd. So I'm gonna wash that off for a second. So I'm gonna put these back on, and I'm gonna tell you that. So. Because we just, like, opened the med spa, like, I just was, like, on Instagram, and I. And on this podcast, which was quite effective marketing, by the way, we're open. Like, that's just kind of, like, how it went. And so because of that, I'm like, you know what? Well, we didn't do, like, a grand opening, like, event or party or anything, so let's do, like, a grand opening. And, like, I want you to know the space is, like, not very big, so. But we still want to do something. Like, we want to invite all of our, like, friends and family and stuff to, like, see it, because there's a lot of people that we know that, like, haven't come to see the place yet, which, like, come on, like, get out of town and come to Arcadia and say her goodbyes to the mayor before she goes right back to Beijing. Anyway, because of that, I am like, okay, I want to help, like, get the word out, like, locally. Like, how do I do that? And so I was like, I'll create an event. Bright. I don't know if anybody knows what this site. Maybe I'm, like, an idiot, and I, like, never knew of it, but I created an event right of the grand opening. Okay, Again, like, whatever. You know, we're just gonna be like, we'll have, like, some, like, raffles there so, like, people can win, like, free treatments. And the nicest part about it is that so in the medical spa, we've had to, like, buy a bunch of different products, right? Like, like, the neurotoxins and the microneedling and, like, whatever. And so all of these brands have, like, incentives for you to have these events because then they send you, like, free products for the party. And I'm like, if at the very least I want to get the free stuff, like, right, We. You know, it's. Did we need to spend about $1 million to, like, get, like, a free few, like, tote bags? Yeah. Period. And so that's just the way that it goes. But I created an eventbrite for the Atomi Aesthetics Club grand opening, and I made, like, a little canva, like, edit, like, a. A picture of, like, what the opening is, like, gonna look like. I am looking at it right now. It's as soon as I opened up my computer, it's the first thing that's there because it's the last thing I was doing on the computer. I'm looking at it right now, and it does sort of look like a bat Mitzvah invitation. It's on me. I don't. I can't tell if it, like, looks good or bad. So feel free to, like, weigh in. Go on Eventbrite and look up the Atami Aesthetics Club grand opening. And also, if you're in town, come. You should absolutely, like, come. But even if you're not in town, look it up and just like, let me know if this looks like a bat mitzvah or bar mitzvah. I've been to both. And so I have seen invitations of them and I'm like, that looks like one of them. Okay, back to work. Mayor of Arcadia is a spy. Let's. I'm going to tell you, like, everything about it. Okay. Eileen Wang, former Arcadia mayor, accused of being Chinese foreign agent. Yeah. Charged with acting as an agent of Chinese government. Okay, let's go to feel like. Let's go to NBC Los Angeles. Was it going to be a video? I don't have time for that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to read it. No, please, I want to read it. Okay. It's, like, silenced. Okay, let's see what it says. The former mayor of Arcadia was expected to plead guilty after being charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China, the Department of Justice said Monday. Eileen Wang, who was elected to the Arcadia city council in November 2022, reached a plea deal with the federal government after she was accused of doing the bidding for the Chinese government via a news website. Wang, 58, as well as Mike sun of Chino Hills, allegedly worked at the direction of the People's Republic of China and reported OH, and operated U.S. news Center, a website that proposed to be a news source for the local Chinese American community between late 2020 and through 2022. The DOJ said Wang and Sung received directives from Chinese officials to post content that's favorable to the Chinese government and spread propaganda on behalf the People's Republic of China. I'm going on. We're going to read the whole, whole article. It's deeply concerning that someone who previously previously received and executed directives from the People's Republic of China from Chinese, from the PRC government officials is now in a position of public trust at all, but particularly because the. That Relationship with that foreign government has never been disclosed. Okay. In one instance. Okay, let's read. The pair received an essay draft from a Chinese official via the WeChat encrypted messaging app in June 2021. Being given a directive to push back against an LA Times article about Xi Zhang. Okay, hold on. I'm reading. I'm reading. Oh, Basically just to say there was no. No forced labor in China. Well, nothing's saying, like, there's no forced labor in China. Like, forcing the mayor of Arcadia to tell you. Wow, this is very interesting. So she's the former mayor. Like, who's the colonel? Let's see who the current mayor is. This is current mayor of Arcadia, California. This is crazy. Okay. No, she resigned. She was the mayor. You've got to be kidding me. This is crazy. The city council is set to. I should be the mayor. Oh, my God. I'm going to be the mayor. I should be the mayor. I'm not. Nobody's messaging me on WeChat. And if anybody's messaging me at all, I'm not answering because I'm, like, so bad at getting back to people. Okay. Anyway, speaking of being bad at getting back to people, I feel like this is the perfect time to. As someone tried to. Not tried. They did, and they were correct to do so to tell me that, like, why do you ask people to write in and do stuff and you don't answer? You don't read them? I feel like today's like, a good day to do that. You know, let's see. Like, so far, we've talked about my new computer. We've talked about my neighbor who's kind of going through something for the past five years, and we've talked about the Chinese government infiltrating the city of Arcadia. So I feel like we've covered all of those bases, and I think it's a perfect time to move on to voicemails and text messages. I want to start with a text message. Okay. Haven't read them yet. We're going to read them live. First message is, adam, you need to sell your Kindle. Okay. You're right, but you're also wrong, because I'm not going to do that, because I don't. I'm kind of. I think it's a really. You find yourself in a really tough situation when you're trying to sell something that's. I don't remember how much. How much is a Kindle? I'll tell you if it's, like, worth selling. Because if you've bought Something, and it's, like, under a hundred dollars. I think you've got to bite the bullet on it. Right? I'm not meeting somebody in a Vons parking lot to do, like, a. Give them. Like, for them to give me two twenties. It's just. That's not worth it to me. I think there's, like, a limit, I think, unless you're getting, like, more than $100 for something, which, like, I won't get for an old Kindle. How much is a Kindle? How much is a Kindle? Let's see. I'll tell you if I think it's going to be. Oh, God, $110. No, the new. Approximately 109.99. I think I've got to hold on to this. So the Kindle's not for sale. I think, like, at that point, like, sell to who? I just don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think it's gonna happen. Um, let's do another. Now, this is a text message that I did read a little bit earlier, and it's a. It's a little sad, but I think we need to do it because we need to do a bit of cheering up, right? And it's, like, sad in, like, a good. Like it's coming from a good place. I don't want you to think it's like, I'm, like, they're so sad. Okay, so. Hi, Adam. My name is Shakayla from Minnesota. Today, my sweet cat passed away, and I thought I would at least have another day with him or two. I kept wanting to check on him last night, but he was in the basement. I was seeing if he'd come up. I should have just went down there to check. I should have stayed with him all night. I feel bad that nobody was with him. I've never felt so much guilt or sadness. He's my world. And then, you know, sorry for the rant. They were talking. They. They go on to say that they listened to an episode of my figure skating podcast with that I record with my friends Ashley and Sarah, and that it helped. I just hope I won't forget him or the memories I've had with him. It hasn't even been 24 hours. Sorry for the rant. Just needed it to come out. Thank you for making me feel somewhat better during this hard time. And they included a picture of their very beautiful cat. Okay, so I'm gonna say a few things. This is, like, now we're Gonna do a little friend. We went from espionage now to comforting. And I do feel like I'm qualified. And I do have a talent for kind of just switching between the two. So I'm gonna say this. I think that. I think that you need to remember a few things. One, I don't think you're gonna forget anything that you ever did with your. Did you give us a name? No. I don't think you're gonna ever forget any of the memories of your cat. You're not gonna forget him. So I just don't think that that's something that you should even think about or worry about. The next thing I want to say is that one, animals are different than people. And I know for a fact that, like, when animals feel like they're going to pass away, they want to. And they usually try to find a space where they're going to be by themselves. It's like their natural instinct. And so we have to remember that, like, animals like cats and dogs and humans, like, we do not experience the world in the same way that we experience it. And so their natural instinct is to go somewhere where they can be alone and pass away peacefully on their own. So that is something that your cat probably was wanting to do is to be alone in, like, that moment. And I think another thing is that it's so easy for us to be, like, hard on ourselves when something like that happens. And thinking that, like, we should be there and there's something that we could have done, and there is nothing that you could have done. This is something that was going to happen. And I also feel like you're feeling guilty because of the way that you feel like maybe your cat was thinking. And I think you need to, like, let go of that because you have no idea what your cat was thinking. We have no idea what any cats are thinking. Okay. By the way, we don't even know my. First of all, my dog was just eating his ass for about 10 minutes. You know, if he was thinking anything at all, he'd be thinking, maybe I can be a little bit more quiet for daddy's podcast. Which he wasn't thinking back to your cat. I do believe that you have nothing to feel guilty for. I feel just from this picture that you've sent me that your cat lived a very beautiful life and loved being with you and looks really comfortable. In this picture, they're laying on sort of like a leopard skin rug. Which rug? And when I say rug, I mean pillow. And I feel like I would have loved doing that. So I'm sure Kat loved it, too. And I am really sorry about your loss. But I think one thing. Listen, I'm definitely one of those people where it's like, I watch a video of the dodo. Anything. You know, they're doing, anything. It's like a dog. They're like. It learned to walk yesterday. It's like I'm sobbing, crying. So I'm like, definitely a person like that. But I always think that, like, you were able to provide such a nice, safe space for your cat, and I'm sure your cat was incredibly grateful for it. And I know it's, like, really awful, but you did a really beautiful thing, and you should release some of that guilt. It's not. There's nothing you could have done. And if anything, you should know that it was just a beautiful thing that your cat had a really great home and a safe place to be in when they did pass. And that was. That is something that's really important. And I'm sure that your cat knew that, uh, you loved him very much. And he's very cute. Beautiful cat. Sort of like a cat guardian angel. Love that for you. I do. And, yeah, I am sorry for your loss, but I do hope that me talking about my MacBook Pro, which is the size of a truck, is making you feel anything. And if that didn't maybe sort of the imminent arrest of Eileen Wang, formerly the mayor of Arcadia, is kind of helping you get through this. If not, let's go to another text message. And I'm sending you a lot of love. I am, and I'm terribly sorry. And your cat was really pretty. Okay, here we go. Hi, Adam. I'm also an ADHD warrior and homosexual. And a woman. And my. There's so many things, and my meds aren't working, and I got finals, so. Can I try some of your Vyvans, please? I love your work. I'm sorry to hear about your dead laptop. Thank you. And no, you can't. I. I wouldn't even give you one if I could, because I need them myself. You understand. You know, I did about 20. I did maybe 30 years off meds. You can do a week. Okay. As ADHD warriors, sometimes we know we need to fight our toughest battles. And sometimes those battles are ourselves. I want you to know, as somebody who has the prescription in front of me, I've forgotten to take it for the past three days, which is sort of a telltale sign of maybe you need to take it since you can't even remember to. You know, that's the battle. Sometimes the battle is exactly that, ourselves. You know, I'm in a constant battle with me, and sometimes I'm losing, sometimes I'm winning. Our next text message is, should we go to a voice? Let's like, switch it up. We'll go to a voicemail. I. I'm not gonna play it, but I do have a voicemail that is somebody, and I'm 100% sure of it. Jacking off. So. And I. I've gotten that a few times before. So, you know, I go from that to then what our next voicemail is. And it is, let us pray and let us listen. Please leave your message after the tone.
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Adam, this is Jessica in Orange County, California. I've called a couple times, mostly to say thank you and I love you, and everything you say is accurate and perfect, and you are a prophet. However, Adam, I will not stand for this goop kitchen lessening. Now, maybe the goop kitchen in LA is careless, whereas the goop kitchen in Orange county is careful, but I've never had that experience with a goop kitchen salad. We love them in our house. We have lots of teenage girls, daughters, and they all love goop kitchen. And it's really good quality. And what were you expecting from a takeout salad place? So I love you. I would. I'm sad that I have to call and object to anything, but I'm just here to speak out on behalf of goop. We love it. Good quality. Maybe come down and try our kitchen here in OC and by God's. For God's sake, don't go pick it up. You haven't delivered civilized. Okay. Still love you. Okay, bye.
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The first thing I want to say is nobody should ever feel bad about calling to object. Right? We don't get anywhere as a society by always being correct. I. I actually love that we stand on opposite sides of the aisle when it comes to goop kitchen. Me saying that it's just basically a Trader Joe's and you saying it might. Let's remember what you said, okay? My teenagers like it. Teenagers are not necessarily known for their great palettes. Right. Another point you made. There is something about when you go to Orange county, everything's a bit more clean in Orange County. I will give it that. Right. It is my favorite part about. Or the manicured. Everything I love. I. I love that about Orange County. So I can imagine that the goop kitchen experience is better. Another thing that I want to point out that you said where I'm like, yeah, what were you Expecting from a takeout salad place. That is definitely on me. What? What? I don't know what I was expecting. I'm just telling you what I saw and what I experienced. And what I saw was a teenage girl on TikTok. It all comes back to, like, being tricked by a teenager. A teenage girl on TikTok going, this is the best restaurant in Los Angeles. Yeah. And so it's making sense to me that our. I don't remember what you said exactly, but we have teenagers that love it. Exactly. Jessica from Orange County. Exactly. There's nothing really to say because I, I, I think I had just, like, two. I was just thinking that, like, I was thinking Hillstone. I was thinking a Houston's experience, when really, it' It's a takeout salad place. Right. It just, it was the way the woman from the Variety Instagram was almost crying about it that, like, pushed me over the edge, you know, in the same way that Eileen Wang, a Chinese foreign agent, was receiving direct communication from the Chinese government to tell them that they weren't doing forced labor in the same way, I felt like that woman from the Variety magazine was being paid by sort of the Chinese national, you know, kind of correspondence with. She must have been doing that with Gwyneth Paltrow, you know, so I do believe that Gwyneth Paltrow, you know, had some. She had. There's no way you'd be crying over that salad. Yeah, I know sometimes there's glass in a Trader Joe's food, but, I mean, it is $4 and it's the same thing. And I think that is something we all need to, like, remember and account for. Is that the packaged, prepackaged salad from Trader Joe's is goop kitchen. And if I put it. If I put a goop sticker on it, you wouldn't know the damn difference. With that being said, Orange county not far from Arcadia. Come to the opening. Go look for my bar mitzvah invitation on Eventbrite. We have. There's a bunch. And so I'm just going through some of the ones that, like, I haven't clicked on. Okay, let's see this one. Please leave your message after the tone.
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Hi, Adam. I'm just wondering if you've ever watched Sex and the City, because some of the jokes you make very much remind me of Carrie. And I think that if you haven't, you should. And if you have, I would love your hot take on Sex City and Carrie Bradshaw. Okay, thanks. Bye.
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Okay, this is where I have to come clean. I'VE never watched Sex in the City. And it's not because I have ever had anything against Sex in the City. It was because if you. If you've ever listened to the podcast, you know that, like, I was not an HBO kid growing up, right? So it's. I didn't have access to hbo. And that's. That was a huge part of watching Sex in the City because it was on hbo, right? I'm just, like, looking at my tabs, and it says, how much is a Kindle? The next one is Eventbrite, and then the next one is Mayor of Arcadia is a Spy. So it's like, if you were to ever open my computer, you'd go, that's a beautiful Monet. Why are you asking how much is a Kindle? But here's the thing. I have also on this podcast talked about how my husband loves a show that's, like, been on for years. Instead of, like, watching what's, like, hot and new, we always watch what's, like, cold and old. And one of those shows that we're watching right now is where we are re watching. And just like that. And I just love it. And so it does make me feel like I would have loved Sex in the City. And so I feel like there is a. There's going to have to be a time when I do watch Sex in the City. And so my only interaction with those characters is through and just like that. A little bit of Che Diaz. Insane character, by the way. And I know because growing up, I would always see these, like, buzzfeed quids of, like, which one are you, Samantha or Charlotte? And it was just like, what? And I didn't really know what that meant. And now what? I. I have a better understanding of what it means.
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And I would have to say that I do think that I am a Carrie. You know, I just. I think I am. And so that makes. It makes sense to me. I feel like I don't ever think of Carrie Bradshaw as, like, a hehe ha ha character, but maybe she is. I don't know. I think she's, like, a fabulous character. If you saw the way that I dress sometimes, you'd never think I was a Carrie. You'd think I was, like, blind. But anyway, let's go back to the text. How are we doing on. Oh, we're like. We should wrap it up soon. Really? Okay. Did I. Okay, here we go. Sniff. Okay. Hi, Adam. I was so triggered by your laptop experience. My 2020 MacBook Air also died this year when I took it to the Apple store. They claimed it was vintage and thus couldn't be fixed. The audacity. Best of luck on your MacBook Journey Love Pod, first of all, thank you. Second of all, vintage. That's insane. But I, I'll tell you that I didn't even try, I didn't even try to get them to fix it because I, I also felt like this, it was, I, I, you know when you just have a six sense of like when something is going to happen. I knew it, I just knew it in my bones. I knew it was going to croak, so I didn't even ask. And so when I was making my purchase, I also, you know, went in and was like, oh, I can like turn it in for some money because you can do like that, buy back some something or other. So I went in. First question is, does it turn on? Womp womp. So I said no. Next question. You want to recycle it? Fuck you. Yeah, I will. So I did and I got 10% off of a phone case. It is what it is. Do you know what I mean? It is, it is like, it's just. It is what it is. Hi Adam. I did receive a postcard from Equinox with La Labo Advertising but did not receive the products. Hope this helps. It doesn't actually. And that's very fascinating. It is very fascinating. I really wonder why they sent me and I'm using. I want you to know, and if you don't know what I'm talking about, a little bit of background is I have an ongoing and one sided feud with Equinox the gym because I think it's a scam, think it's an mlm. And I have joined and left Equinox. I'm on my third round of doing that and I recently got a package in the mail. It looked like sort of like a press pack and it was all about like them having La Labo products in the gym. And at first I thought it was some sort of like, you know, I don't know, some marketing, like, whatever, because I'll still get like some, you know, like stuff sent to the house from different like brands and like whatever. I'm not like, I'm not like the influencers who's like, let's open all. It's like I'm getting random things every now and then. And so I was like, maybe it's this, but like the, the postcard inside was very like general public. And so I was like, are they doing this to everyone? And apparently they're not so sorry. Yeah, I don't know. I. I have. Listen, this person texting, they've texted the podcast before. They are in Burbank. Come to the opening. Go on Eventbrite. Look for the Bar Mitzvah invitation that I created myself, and I'll give you the hand soap from La Laba. I'm, like, dead serious. I didn't use that one yet. The shampoo conditioner, I'm about halfway through. I'm going to like. I'm doing the big ones. I'm doing the big one on that. And because of that, I'm getting sort of sick of the smell. So I have it if you want it. Hand soap. Come to the opening of the grand opening of the Atami Aesthetics Club. It is. Oh, I didn't even tell you. It's June 9th, everyone. June 9th, for to 8pm Again, look for the bar Mitzvah invitation on Eventbrite. Okay, let me move this. Like, it's like a Hess truck, this thing. It's heavy. I didn't. I don't even think I talked about the weight. The weight of it is, like, overwhelming. I. I put the computer. I put this, like, new computer in a backpack, and it's like, oh, my God. It's just like I'm. It's insane how heavy this thing is. It's, like, not travel friendly. I will admit to that, which is why I've become very friendly with my iPad, because I'm like, that thing is easy to travel with. Tony, where are you going? Oh, he dropped my jeans on the ground. Which I think is my sign to call it. So if you have any information on Eileen Wang, Chinese Spy, please call or text the podcast hotline at 310-909-9717. If you have any intrusive thoughts that you'd like to share. Tony, don't scratch that right now. Hey, yeah. Thank you. If you have any intrusive thoughts that you'd like to share with me and the listeners, please go ahead. We take any reins of them, and every once in a while, I will answer them, like today. And if you'd like to share them with us that you know that number. 310-909-9717. That number is in my Instagram bio, but just in case you have a pen and a paper, again, 310-909-9717. Love you lots. My name is Adam Rippon, and these have been my intrusive thoughts. Bye, everybody, and we'll see you next week.