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Foreign. Hi, everyone, and welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts with Adam Rippon. And you guessed it, I am Adam Rippon. So on this show, on this show, we talk about a lot of things, right? We talk about a lot of things. Sometimes we talk about my microwave, sometimes we talk about my range hood. We've even talked about the reading glasses that I wear because, yeah, sometimes I do need to wear reading glasses. So, you know, it's like, sometimes it's, it's nothing too pressing, you know, it's still quite important, right? Very important to me. I love my reading glasses, but it can be a bit brainless. Right. I was thinking that today we start the show a little bit differently because there's something that's just really on my mind and this is going to be a bit more brain forward. Okay? And what I want to talk about is Christian nationalism. All right, so hear me out. I am not entirely sure when this podcast episode is gonna come out, but a few weeks ago, the far right podcaster Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on a college campus. You know, I think that's a terrible thing, right? I, I don't want to live in a place where someone can get shot in the middle of the day. I don't want to live in a place like that. I don't want to live in a place where people get, who can get shot on a college campus, can get shot in a church, in a movie theater. I don't want to live in a place like that. But Charlie Kirk was consumed by the same violence he stoked. You know, a terrible thing happened to a man who spent his life amplifying terrible ideas. That's, you know, that's just the way that I feel about it. And it's just, it's been completely unsettling for me to see so many people frame him as some sort of like God fearing free speech activist because he wasn't, you know, I don't see it that way at all. And I don't know how someone could, you know, I don't think that there's any way around the fact that he was racist, he was homophobic, he was transphobic, Islamophobic, he peddled conspiracy theories. And there are so many people out there who I've seen online who are saying, you know, he was killed for having different beliefs. No, no. You know, when someone says that black women who are in positions of power only get there by stealing the job of a white man, that's not a belief, that's racist. You know, the civil rights movement was a mistake, that stoning gay people is God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters. That's not a belief system. I just, I can't believe. I mean, I guess I can believe, but it's still, it just does not sit right with me that people are getting online and saying, you know, I didn't agree with everything he had to say. But, but, you know, but you're still going out of your way to memorialize someone who's said that immigrants are coming to America to replace white people, you know, what the fuck are you talking about? I, it leaves me speechless, you know, like, because that belief system is wrapped up in Christian nationalism. You know, it's religion fused with political power because the Jesus Christ of the Christian nationalists does not and did not ever exist. You know, Jesus Christ was not a white guy from Maryland or Indiana or New York or California or Florida. You know, he was not an American flag wearing, fourth of July firework loving, hot dog eating, God toting conservative. He wasn't, you know, like, he historically was a brown Jewish guy from the Middle East. You know, he spoke of peace. He was friends with the sinners and the prostitutes. You know, the Jesus of the Bible broke bread with the outcasts. You know, that's the Jesus that I learned. I went to Catholic school, Our lady of Peace in Clark's green, Pennsylvania. I went to Catholic school. That's the Jesus that I learned about. You know, the Jesus I learned about didn't preach about the great replacement theory. Like in what world are we living in that anyone is listening to anything that came out of that guy's mouth and is going, that's the word of God. Of God. I feel, unfortunately, if you think that is the word of God, you have lost the plot and you've become someone that you fear the most. You're a lost sheep. You're led by fear and by hate. And your idea, if your idea of faith requires other people to be less safe, less free, less human, that's just bigotry and racism disguised as religion. Those aren't beliefs. That's, that's, it's, it's, it's, it's just racism and bigotry. In the Bible, Jesus says to beware of false prophets, be cautious of people who present themselves as spiritual leaders but are deceptive and harmful. He warns his disciples to identify them by their actions and the results of their teachings. And so I just, I still like, it just blows my absolute mind that some people are just out here saying, you know, he was Charlie Kirk was just, he was a great thinker or a great debater. Like, please give me a break and get so for real, Charlie Kirk helped this generation find their way back to the Lord. Do you think the Lord God is up in heaven going, oh, thank God Target got rid of its DEI policies? Do you think that, like, there's this war on culture that is, that is being framed as this people getting away from godliness to the point where people are legitimately scared of pronouns and it's not really the pronouns, you know, it's like what it really is, like the core center of it is that so many people are afraid of being uncomfortable for even just a moment, for just a second, that they'd rather just be spiteful. And I just, I, I do not believe that saying something cruel with conviction and then to double down and say it, it's what God wants. I, I can't believe that. I don't believe that. I think if you think that's what God is saying, you serve a false God, a God that does not exist. That is not the God from the Bible that you are so obsessed with. It just, it makes me so uneasy because I, I just, I refuse to accept that. Like, I don't agree with everything he said, but yeah, I think the human side of all of us can agree that no one deserves to be shot and killed in broad daylight on a school campus. You know, I said it earlier, but I, I, I want to live in a place where like, you can feel safe to go to the movies or to church or to school or a concert and you shouldn't have to fear that you could go there and get shot. Living this way is not normal. This doesn't happen in other parts of the world this often. And I just, we don't get, we don't get to a place that's better than this by saying gun deaths are worth it so that we can have the second Amendment, the second Amendment. And I, I, the second amendment is not a God given right. Okay? It was a right that was written into a document in 1776 when the firearm that was for you to purchase was a musket. And that's what I believe. And so I'm just not gonna get behind this. Well, you know, he was a God fearing. No, I think something terrible happened to somebody who stoked a lot of terrible things and said a lot of harmful things to a lot of, to a lot of different minority groups and he peddled on people's insecurities and their fears. And that is just that is not somebody to be celebrated. I can't agree with that. I just. I can't agree with it. I can agree that it was, like, a terrible thing and that. That being shot in the middle of the day is not something that should happen to anybody. But anything else. No, no, no, no. And the Christian nationalism is like, the root of this is that it's just so much of this, you know, bigotry and hate, I really feel is just, like, disguised as religion, which is so insane, because if these people were actually religious and they actually were reading the Bible, this is not the teachings of God. These are not the teachings of Jesus Christ. I just. I don't get it. I don't get it. And so, yeah, sometimes we talk about microwaves and range hoods, but not. Not today to open the show. But I think, you know, that's. That's just what I've been thinking, and I've really wanted to get that off of my chest. And so I'll leave it at that. And why don't we move along? Okay, we'll move along for the sake of the show. And we're back. And let's do a text message. We've gotten. Now we're completely, you know, turning the page on that. Thank you for bearing with me and for sitting with me because it was important for me to do that. Now we're turning the page, and I am going to say something now that is. We have gotten many great text messages. I think the text messages are really starting to pick up. And I have to say, I really love that. I love that. I really do. And I'm gonna need my glasses for this. Whoops. Can hear them clicking and clacking. That's me trying to put my glasses on. Now let's read our first text text message. And it goes a little something like this. And believe me, when I'm saying we're turning the page, it's gonna be completely different now. Here we go. Okay. Welcome to Intrusive Thoughts, where truly anything can happen. You bet you weren't expecting that? Well, expect the unexpected. Now, let us begin with a text message. Hi. So I used to be a Starbucks girl, but I've been making my own coffee for a little while now. You go girl or boy? I don't know who sent this. They didn't give us any sort of name. I make something in the morning at home, and I like to have one extra coffee in the afternoon. Okay. I love the sound of it. So far in my office, we have a Keurig I just got a very dark. Got really dark. Okay. I've never had coffee from a Keurig until recently, and it's so bad. It tastes like garbage water. I need this to get fixed. This just is a bad situation. Have you ever used a Keurig? Do you have a sit. Do you have a suggestion for an alternative? Desperately need your help. That is true. Thank you to our listener who did send in this message. And it's. It is. It's a. It's a dark one. The Keurig coffee. Yes. I have had a Keurig coffee before. I want you to know that I feel like my introduction to coffee was through the Keurig machine and the Keurig company. There was something that felt appealing to it, and maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. At least I think it was one of the first sort of like, coffee making mechanisms that wasn't like a drip coffee situation that you could have in your home. And I feel like a lot of us, we came together and we went, it is nice to make one cup at a time, right? Like, I don't want to have to make a carafe of. Of drip coffee every single time, even though, you know, and sometimes it doesn't feel this way. But in the drip coffee, you can just make one cup. But it feels crazy to make one cup when the pot is so big, right? You just. You want to fill the pot with the coffee. So I understand the dilemma as somebody who is like, you want to fill that. But I liked the idea of the Keurig being, no, you're just making one at a time. And when I started having coffee from the Keurig, I feel like I was really using the coffee as a vessel to get the creamer, the flavored creamers in there. Because that was the true point of having the coffee for me, was that I just wanted to have, you know, some sort of, like, girl Scout flavored creamer in there, and it was just a vessel. You know, hindsight is 20 20, because I'm realizing I was just having, like, watered down cream that was warm, right? Like, it wasn't a coffee drink in the slightest. It was just like, like you said, to quote a great American writer, garbage water. Yeah, it really was. And I'm gonna tell you, when I realized that life didn't need to be like, this is when I had my first Nespresso pod, okay? And I went, oh, my God, this is so, like, rich and velvety. And I did spend money on a. On a Keurig many Years ago, I'm gonna say, like almost 10 years ago, I bought a Keurig. And in my mind, like the Nespresso was just for the billionaires and the 1%. And that's just the way that I saw the Nespresso company and the Nespresso machine, that there was no way around that. It's like, this is. Well, we know that that's for the 1%. That's for the Bill Gates and the Jeff Bezos of the world. That's what Nespresso is for. And then I went to one of my friends homes and in the morning they made me a fresh latte using an espresso pod. And when they use this Nespresso pod, I went, whoa, now this tastes like I'm getting this latte from a barista, you know, not my friend whose name is Douglas. And I said, well, you know, and listen, my friend, they're no billionaire. They are no, they are no Bill Gates. And I said, well, how much did you spend? You know, just between us, how much did you spend on that Nespresso? And when I found out it was roughly the same price as a Keurig, I went, I got, got. And I, I really felt like they had pulled one on me and I had fallen for it. Because the Nespresso pods are, they are not cheap, right? They're about a dollar a pod. But when you average it out, it's like you're going to save money rather than going to a Starbucks if you're getting coffee every single day. Listen, sometimes I think you got to spend that money. But I'll tell you what, I did then. Switch over. I had to, you know, I switched over to Nespresso. There was nothing I could do. I had to, in that moment. And so I sold the Keurig, sold the Keurig, had to get rid of it, sold that thing. And then I bought the Nespresso machine. And I had that machine for a while. I really loved it. And then my husband was actually the one who was like, maybe we should upgrade this. And I knew when he was talking about this, he was talking about upgrading it to some sort of like, you know, truly like, coffee bar sort of situation. And I've gotta be honest, like, I was not down to do that. I wasn't down to do that because I, like, had no desire to like, weigh the beans and to grind the beans and to create work. Do you know what I mean? That was the whole point of the Keurig was that it was work less. And even the Nespresso it was spend more but still work less. And I just, I didn't want to be work more. I wanted to continue to work less. And so I don't know if I was like totally down for that until I found this one machine that we are currently using. And I'm gonna let you in on it. And this is if I had a suggestion for you. This is the suggestion and it's this. I got this machine. It's called the Gaga Breva. Gaga Breva. I don't know. Listen, it's Italian. I don't speak it, obviously. I've had this machine for maybe a month now. Has it changed the game? I do believe it has. It has changed the coffee game in this house because there are no more pods. It is grinding the beans for me and it's making the espresso for me. I'm not doing anything. Like, it's completely like, push one button, back up, go. Right. Because I don't want to. I don't really want to use like the cup thing that has the handle that you like click in and you have to pound the coffee stuff down. If you know. You know, right? Like, if you know what I'm talking about. You know exactly what I'm talking. I'm. I'm not here for the. I appreciate the dramatics of making a coffee in that way, but I'm not doing that myself. I'm so sorry. I don't think that's in the cards for me. I'm not going to be doing it that way. And so this machine does all of that. It really does do all of that for you. Even. It even kind of like cleans the machine before it turns itself off. And as soon as you turn it on, it like cleans. Cleans it a little bit. It's. It's quite nice. Like I said, I'm one month in, but I do feel that like at this pace, it will sort of like pay for itself. And the. And the coffee is. I mean, I think when you grind the beans fresh, because I'm telling you, you put the beans in it, grinds it for you, the coffee. Yeah, it's very good. It's very, very good. And also this is how I learned what an Americano was, that it's just like espresso with water. That threw me for a loop. You know, I just thought it was like something more elaborate than a watered down espresso, but it isn't. It's actually a lot less elaborate than that. You could even say it's pretty Basic. And that's how I found out, because it was like it said, you know, it had like an americano function. And I watched it just pour a shot and then just do some hot water in there. And I went, that's it. So if you were wondering what that is, it's just watered down espresso. But that's my suggestion because, listen, if you're doing this at work, you're not going to be bringing the grinder and you're going to be bringing the scale and pounding the beans. No, you're not gonna do that, right? You're gonna. You have to get on a zoom or something. You don't have time. You need to get the Gaga Breva or Gaja Breva. I don't know what it's called, but you'll sound it out, spell it out, find it. And I like it. It needs to be cleaned. And this is also another thing I learned. It's easy to clean, but I learned that, like, coffee beans are, like, oily. I didn't. I guess I should have known that. I didn't. And so, like, when there is this sort of. When you are cleaning it, you're like, why is it sticky? It's like, coffee is oily. So just beware of that. You need to descale that machine. You got to clean it. If you want it to work for a long time, which you do, you got to clean it. You've also got a descale. If you're. If you're sitting there going, I'm only still going to use the Keurig. And then in the Nespresso machine, Godspeed. But I do need to tell you that that also needs to be descaled. So you also need to do that too. So there is no kind of. There's no way around it. You've got to be cleaning the things that you use. Sorry. I know a lot of people don't like to do that. I also know a lot of people who have never descaled coffee machines that they've had for years. Yeah, that's troubling. I do think it's quite troubling. So at the end of the day, let's go to our boss, let's go to our floor manager, and let's tell them, hey, we got to get rid of this Keurig machine because it is just making dirty garbage water. Let's make a real coffee and we can save a few bucks here on the bottom line. Right? Not up front. You're going to spend a lot of bucks Not a lot. It's not the craziest thing. Not the cheapest thing. Let's do a. Let's do another text message. Let's just keep rolling them in. Rolling along. Here we go. Hi. I don't know if you listened to Jake Shane's podcast, but he was talking to Dylan Efron and told him he still doesn't have a driver's license. I need your thoughts. Jake Shane said he takes Ubers everywhere. I can't wrap my mind around this. Thank you in advance. Okay. I have seen this clip of Jake Shane talking to Dylan Efron. And Dylan Efron, in this clip is talking about how he can't believe some people, you know, wait to get their licenses because when he was young, he couldn't wait to get his so that he could start driving and have independence. And basically, Jake Shane, who is a fun podcaster, he sits there kind of silently and then admits that. And I'm not entirely sure how old he is. He's definitely in his 20s, maybe like mid-20s, early 20s, but says that he does not have a driver's license. I've seen this clip. And I've seen this clip. I'm, like, trying to defend myself of being a legitimate journalist. I've seen the clip. And he says that he takes Ubers everywhere. What do I think? All right, before I get into what do I think, I want to talk a little bit about my history of me getting my license, because I did get my license a little bit later in Life. I was 21 or 22 when I got my driver's license. But I feel like I had a good reason. And my good reason was that when I was, like, of driving age, I was living in Toronto, Ontario, and I didn't have money for a car, so I was taking, you know, the ttc. So I was taking, like, the trains and the subway and, you know, stuff like. And the buses. Like, that's how I was getting. And you could do that. You know, it wasn't super easy. And if any of my friends were going to the same place I was going to, I always, like, got in the car with them. But I just. I didn't get a license because there was a way for me to get around in a way where after I lived in Toronto, I lived in Michigan for a little while. And in Michigan, there's no. No. There's no public transit. You've got to be absolute. That's a joke. What? No, no, no, no. So that I did need to get a car and I did need to get a license, because you famously need a license to drive a car, which is what I did want to do with the car. I wanted to drive it. And I did get a used Subaru, which used to be a undercover police car, because they did have, like, you know, the screws in the ceiling where, like, the lights were. Did the brakes work all the time? No, actually, no. I'm. I'm lying. The brakes did work all the time. Did the gas pedal work all the time? No. What do I mean by that? Like, I could be stepping on the gas, flooring the. To the ground, right? Flooring it. I would be going nowhere, nowhere. And then, whoa, you get thrown back, and it would go, like, a little bit. So, yeah, I mean, once it got going, you know, we were going, but it was from, like, from zero to, like, anything over five. That's where we did kind of struggle. We did need to sort of, like, it's okay. Easy, girl, easy. We didn't need to sort of do it that way. And sometimes in, like, high pressure moments, you'd have to, like, really hope that the gas would work in time. But so to go back to it, I got my driver's license when I lived in Michigan, and I needed to have a car to, like, get myself around. Now, I had never really done driver's edge, and I did not have a lot of experience driving a car at all. So one of my friends is the one who taught me how to drive. And I do recommend this, that if you are learning how to drive, I think one of your friends teaching you is actually the best way. And I want to tell you some of the things that my friend made me do, which it did humiliate me in public, but did help me to feel comfortable behind the wheel. And so what we did was we were driving on the highway. I can't remember what the highway was. Maybe the 71 or the 70. It was like, the Detroit Metro area. Okay. So if that resonates with you in some sort of way, I'm glad. And on this highway, my friend was like, okay, drive 50 miles an hour. And I would do that. And she then turned to me and said, now drive 70 miles an hour. Okay, I can do that. And she said, now drive 85. Get the car up to 85 miles an hour and pass that car. I'm sweating. Okay. I am absolutely sweating. Speed limit is 70. I'm not ready to go to jail. I'm not ready to go to jail. But I did as I was told. And then she Said, okay, now bring it back down to 70. Bring it back down to 70. Get in the other lane. Okay. I'm sweating. I am sweating. This is around the time Adele came out with the song Set Fire to the Rain. So that's playing on repeat, you know, I set fire to the rain. I'm going 85 miles an hour, 15 miles over the speed limit. I'm sweating bullets. I do not feel comfortable behind the wheel of this car. But I did have a learner's permit, so I did. I was legally allowed to be doing what I was doing, all right? And so I'm doing as I'm told, and I'm back down to 70. I get into the other lane, she goes, turn the station of the radio. Oh, God, come on. This is just so much. So fast, you know? Turn the station of the radio. My God, can I do it? And I do. I mean, I do it quickly. I'm not looking at. I'm, like, smacking it, you know, just like, I'm trying to get it done, but I'm doing as I'm told. And she turns to me and she goes, these are just real world things that you're gonna have to do when you're in the car. Sometimes you're not gonna like the song, and you're also gonna need to change the lanes. So change the radio station again. And I did it. I did it. And then when we finally got to where we were going, I was getting ready to go into the parking garage, and she said, you're not going into the parking garage. You're going into the city. What was the name of the city? Maybe it was Birmingham. Okay, this is a real. This story leans really into the. Our Michigan listeners. And so I went into the downtown area of Birmingham, and she said, you're parking on the street, buddy. Parking on the street. Yeah. She was going to make me parallel park. Now it was like the weekend. It's, like, busy. She goes, there's a spot. I want you to know that I gave it the old college try. And you might be thinking, what does that mean exactly? Well, what it meant was that I did try to park the car in a parallel way. And I was of college age, right? So that would make it the college try. But I did not succeed. I did not succeed. And I. It did. In fact, you know, it was sort of like a public embarrassment of what happened because I. I just could not get the car. I drove up onto the sidewalk, and I was completely perpendicular to the other cars, right? Like, I had half the Car up on the sidewalk, people were. The iPhone was new, right? People were just starting to get the iPhone. We were still, like, debating BlackBerry versus iPhone. People were pulling out the iPhones in the BlackBerry pearls and they were taking pictures because they've never seen a car that wasn't in an accident up on a sidewalk like this. They'd never seen it before. They didn't think it was possible. I'm sure they thought it lacked decorum. It did. And so I said, you know what? I'm going to have to. I can't fix this. And I think I need to tap out. I think I need to know when I've. I've lost. And in that moment, I did lose. I lost. So I had to get out of the car. And, you know, I'm a showman at the very heart of who I am. I'm a show man. So I get out of the car and I go, I know. First time. It's my first time. I'm so sorry. Please keep going. And I think I really did win over the crowd. I won them over. They did like that I was a hein and han with them. But I did have to get out of the car. I did need to let my friend kind of take that over. And she did realize she pushed me a bit too far. You know, I was still sort of white knuckling the steering wheel after having to go 85 while listening to Adele over and over for about the 10th time, which, you know, that was my idea, but I didn't realize it. It put me in a state of such alert. Such alert that, you know, there was only so much I could do. So I. Needless to say, back to the original question of what do I think of people getting their licenses when they're older? I think you need. I think anybody who gets their license. I could not imagine myself having to take an Uber everywhere. That sounds like a prison sentence. Yeah. I would not ever want to do that. I, like, would I try to avoid taking an Uber at all costs, unless it's to, like, the airport or something where I don't want to leave the car. Right. Or if I'm going to a dinner where I know I'm going to have, like, a few drinks, I'll suck it up. I'll take the Uber. But if I don't have to, and I can take my car. I'm always doing that. I don't understand. Especially if you have the means, right? Like if you don't. Like if you don't and you have to Take the bus and, like, whatever. Okay, you take the bus. Listen, we've all taken the bus before. Nothing wrong with that. But if you have the possibility and the option to. I could be taking a car, I would always choose that. You can choose your own music. You can blast it. You can get into fake arguments with people and just scream. Scream at the top of your lungs. You can be an insane person in your own car while driving safely, I will say, but that's what you're allowed to do in your own car. I love being in my own car. I love it. Sometimes I will get to where I'm going and I will just sit in the car for a few minutes and I will just soak up being in that private box. And it feels so good. I could not imagine not being able to do that. I couldn't imagine not being able to get into my own private box with chairs, which is. You know, that's what I call the car. Private box with chairs. I couldn't imagine it. So I do feel like there is a generation of people who have. Who have. It's the British and me coming out who have not ever experienced that sort of joy. And I. You don't. You can't get that kind of joy in an Uber. What? No. Taking an Uber to the grocery store, you just. What do you do? Sit outside with the bags and, like, wait for the car. Oh, it sounds terrible. I could not ever, ever, Never, ever. No, no, no. So what do I think about it? I hate it. I hate that. So that's what I think about it. We're on a roll. We are truly on a roll. We've talked about Christian nationalists, coffee, driver's license, you know, all the hot topics of today. Let's. Why not do one more text message? Because I have a long. A long list of them. And it goes here. Hey there, Adam. You are an Olympian. That is true. Very true. So I feel like you might have a good answer for me. I just started running. Do you have a preference of running shoe? I wear Nike shoes now. Just your basic. Whatever Nike shoe did. I branch out. Thank you. Love the pod. Um, I don't really have a good answer for you, to be very frank. And this is kind of the reason why. I'll tell you. Yeah, Nikes are good, I guess. Whatever. I don't. I'm not a runner. Okay. I'm not a runner. I don't like running. Never have. And I really. There's a part of me that wishes that I was sort of like somebody who went on runs. And somebody who liked running, you know, that. That part of me does exist, because I just imagine that it would be nice, right? Like, I'm gonna go for a run. I love the idea of saying that. I love the idea of saying, I'm going on a run. I'm just gonna do a quick 10k. I'm gonna do a quick 5k, right? I love that. My husband's a runner. He loves to run. Not me, though. Not a runner. I like to walk, but not a runner. Never have liked it. It just feels like my body's shutting down. Does that mean anything? Not sure. But when it comes to the sneakers, this is where I can help you a bit. Now. I'm trying to think how to tackle this, and it's this. Now, Nikes, I think, are. They're, like, nice sneakers, I guess. But I feel like the best sneaker for me is an Asics sneaker. There's just something where it feels, like, supportive, and it feels nice, and they're my favorite kind of sneaker, even though I did break my foot in a Asics sneaker. And I think about that every time I put an Asics sneaker on where I'm going, okay, I guess I'm gonna be fraternizing with the enemy. But there's something about the Nike she where it just feels like it's made of garbage. Right? I'm being a bit blunt here. Like, it doesn't truly feel like. It feels too light or whatever. And sometimes I feel like they're like, the light technology is a scam, right? Why can't the shoe be a little heavy? What's the problem with that? Why not? Just a little weight in the shoe, make me feel like it's something nice, not something that's made of, like, weightless trash. Okay. But I've never had a real problem with the Nikes. Right? Never a real problem. I will tell you what. Shoes last forever. And this is like, go for a walk, whatever. I wear a pair of Converse that I've had for maybe, I'm gonna say, 15 years. I wear them every morning to take the dogs on a walk every morning. And those shoes, they. Yeah, they've given me a lot of life, and they just. They work really well. I know you're not gonna go on a run on that. You're not going on a run in a. In a Converse. That's crazy work to think you're gonna do that in the flattest shoe possible. But if you're looking for a walking shoe, I think you could do that. But, yeah, I. I think the other shoe, I cannot remember the name of it, but those cloud looking shoes, I hate those. They don't look good. I, you know, I did. Did I buy them at one time I did, because I was so curious, like, what's the hype? I needed to know, why are we doing this? Why are people so dedicated to this sort of craft, this cloud shoe? And I went, all right, I've gotta, like, I have to go buy into it now. I'm gonna. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna try it. And it was incredibly comfortable. I do have to say I, like, really did love the way that it felt. It was light, but there was still some, like, a little bit of, like, nice weight to it as well. How could it not be? It looks like a boat. But I saw myself. This is where I lost faith in the shoes. I saw my reflection in the mirror and it looked like I was like Bozo the fucking clown, right? Like, nobody should be wearing shoes that comical. Like, they looked whimsical, and so I just don't like the way they look. Yeah, I'd rather go, like I said, fraternize with the enemy, the Asics company, because I just think that shoe is, like, sleek. I think it looks nice. That's what I have to say. So I'm. I feel like if you're loving the Nikes, you stay true to you. But I've always loved the Asics. They've only done me wrong once. Right. You know, fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice. I will get back up on here on this podcast and I'll let you know. I'll let you know if they fool me twice. But so far, so knocking on wood. So good. Um, and that's what I have to say on that now. I feel like that's it with the text messages. We did three. We did a heavy monologue in the beginning. Let's do something soft to end the show. And the something soft is. I want to talk a little bit about the. The medical spa that I'm opening. And it's this. That still, I'm not talking anything about it except about the space. And at this point in time, I am. What am I? Well, I'm think, like, choosing, like, paint colors and like, acquiring, like, the. The furniture and all the equipment that we need right now. So I am quite excited about that and I am very excited because I want to, like, share more about, like, the process and everything once more starts, like, happening. And I feel like if You've ever started a business before, if you've like ever done something like this before, feel free to like, reach out because I would love to hear from anybody who's ever started a business or done something like this before where they've got like leased out space and they've done a build out and things like that. Because I'm finding it so fascinating. It's very fun, you know, it's very fun. I'm loving the, the process. I am loving the absolute process, but it is, it's like, at moments, intimidating. So far. If I had to give anybody a piece of advice when it comes to this, the best piece of advice I've ever gotten came from one of my friends who was like, basically this is what he said. He said, whatever your dream is, like when you open this space, he's like, cut the arms off, cut the legs off and don't be afraid to just like get it out there. And it's been great advice because there's little things where, when I started this, I was like, no, I'll absolutely do this. Whether it was like, you know, I wanted to have these kinds of, this kind of floor in a space or something. And you know, it's like, okay, it's a new business. You're not gonna spend thousands of dollars on a new floor if there's one in there that like works. So it's been a great lesson to. I also feel like that applies to like, many other things, right? You know, just get it going. You can always upgrade, you can always change. It's great advice because sometimes I am definitely guilty of this, where I will like, get in my own way and be like, no, it's gotta be perfect. And sometimes you just need to remember there is no such thing as perfect. Right? There's no such thing as perfect. Even though I think, like, Asics are perfect shoes, they're not perfect because they did help me break my foot, right? So nothing's perfect. But we're all doing our best, right? We are all doing our absolute best. And with that, I feel like that is the end of an excellent episode. Absolutely incredible episode of intrusive thoughts. Now, if you would like to call or text the podcast, we would love to hear from you. Absolutely would love to hear from you. That number is 310-909-9717. Don't fret. You do not need to memorize that number. It is in my Instagram biography. It's also in a link tree in my Instagram biography. So you can find the number there. But just in case you have a pen and a paper. It is 310-909-7117 we would love to hear from you. And we've loved to. We've loved hearing from everyone. When I say we again, I am in a room by myself with my dog Tony. So we, me and Tony have loved hearing from you. We really have. Please make sure that you give this podcast five stars. We would love that. Give this podcast a great review. It helps people find the show. 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