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Hello everyone and welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts by Adam Rippon. Surprise. It's me, Adam Rippon. Welcome back everyone. I hope you're well. I hope that you're having a great week and I hope that this episode finds you at just the right time in this week to just give you that last push over the hump. Right over the hump. That, that famous Thursday hump in the week. Even though it's a bout over now. That being said, you know I always try to keep the podcast positive. You know, I always try to keep us in a light hearted mood and that's just not going to be the case today because I have a few things I need to go over and they're all for the first time ever, everyone, for the first time ever, they're all related to each other. Yes. Because I did have one clear conscious thread of thought. So this will be exciting. And it might not seem that way at first, but it'll all come together. So I want to talk a little bit about like fitness. I start tearing up a little bit, I'm getting nervous, my hands are clammy. So I want to talk about fitness. And now what does that mean? Well, it means getting fit, obviously. And when I talk about getting fit, I want to talk about how I have before on this podcast talked about how I felt like there was a time when I needed to do a full and complete overhaul of like the system, which is what in this scenario I'm calling my body. So overhaul of the system. System of a down fall. System of a downfall. Good title of ep. Save that clip it. All right, so I've talked about that before of how I saw this picture of myself and I had the, the, the body of like a baby doll, you know, like the little round, very smooth belly. And I just, it had to go. And so that's when I started going back to the gym after taking a few year hiatus. And I've been back in the gym and you know, I've been doing all of that stuff. Now there's one component of being in the gym that I've really like foregone and I wish I could forget, but I can't. And it's the cardio. Like I just have not wanted anything to do with the cardio. And I have also mentioned on this podcast that I got the flu, which I've been using as an excuse for two months. In those two months I did not go to the gym because I was still, I'll say it in quotes, recovering well, I think I've recovered, but now it's time to recover from the recovering. And so I decided, okay, I'm going to go to the gym and I'm going to, like, take it kind of seriously because I'm going to be 36 years old this year. If you tell anyone, I'll fucking kill you. But I'll be 36. I know it's shocking, but it's the truth. And sometimes the truth is a bit shocking. And I feel like at 36, I want to be, like, in, like, great shape. And I think one of the goals I have is I want to take, like, a hot, slutty picture of myself just for old time's sake. That's sort of the goal. And I think it's kind of whatever can get you out of bed into the gym. You shouldn't complain about it. You shouldn't focus too hard on it. Whatever it is, use it as the motivation. That's my motivation. Okay, so cut to a few months from now. I'm looking, you know, really good on Instagram, let's just say that. So to hold myself accountable, I was like, I'll take down my measurements of, like, you know, what, how measurement, like, are my arms and legs and whatever, and, like, the weight. And I thought the weight was interesting. Okay? The weight is always interesting, believe me. So I got my weight. You know, I did that in the very famous way of just stepping on the scale and seeing what that said, and I didn't really care for what it had to say. And I'll tell you, well, what do I care? You're only seeing me from the neck up on this program. But this scale, the one that I used, which was in sort of like the US Metric of pounds, did tell me, and I believe it because I stepped on it a few times because I went, that can't be right. And it was correct. Actually, the scale told me I was 172.8 pounds. Okay. I don't know if that means anything to you. Doesn't. Honestly, doesn't really even mean anything to me. But I'll tell you what it does mean. It's like the benchmark of, like, where I'm starting. I also don't feel like I need to lose, like, a lot of, like, lbs, right? Like, I think I just need to, like, there's some fat on here, all right? There's some juicy fat on the bone. That's for real. Like, we gotta be honest. I can't be one of those people that's like, I'm just I don't have anything to lose. And it's like, no, you've got a. A little bit to lose. Like, let's get real, because I ordered one of those, like, fat pinchers. Because when I was competing, I'll tell you, there was nothing. It was like a piece of paper. I could, like, grab a little bit of skin, and if I pinch too hard, I'm sure it would have broken through. It would have been like popping a bubble in, like, bubble wrap. Like, that's how, like, thin. I could have broken the fat with my finger. Not. Not now. You know, the. This fat is here to stay. So I did the little pincher. And if I'm right, I think I'm like 19. 20% body fat, 80% lean, USD meat, baby. That's what that means to me. 80% lean beef, but 20% body fat. Okay? So basically, I just want to cut some of the. I want to trim some of the fat. But I'm telling you the number 172. 8. Because it also means another thing that I went back and so when you're like a. An elite Team USA athlete now, I mean, anybody can do this, but they had the technology, like, years ago, like 2015, 2014, that you can go get this thing called the DEXA scan. All right? So a DEXA scan is basically where you, like, lay on this X ray thing, and it doesn't matter what shape you're in. You could be like the thinnest person in America. But, like, you'll lay on this thing and it's just like you're laying on it. So it's like every part of you is, like, flattened out. So it didn't matter that at the time I was thin. I had the, like, they show you the picture and you're like, that's me. And you look like. You look like the Venus de Milo. Like, wide hipped, hair dripping down. You're standing in a clamshell. Like, I'll have to. I'll find this photo and you'll get what I'm saying. So I found. I was looking, I wanted to see, like, what did I weigh? Like, what. What was the deal when I was competing? Because there's definitely been, like, a shape shifting with the, you know, system as I mentioned earlier. And I was curious, like, what was it when I was, like, an athlete? And I found one of my old DEXA scans and I've only found one of them, and this DEXA scan was from 2015, so it's like 10 years old, and it said that when I was competing, I was £148. My eyes roll out of my skull like marbles. I'm searching for them. Yeah, £148. Now, I was in the trenches of an eating disorder. All right, let's get a grip on that. What was I eating? Just yogurt. That can't be good. And it wasn't. Tasted good. Love yogurt still to this day. But yeah, so. But I do know that, like, when I was, like, like, good in shape, like, doing well, 150, though, so still, that's 20322 pounds more than now. And I think that, like, I'm not trying to do, like, more than that. Whatever. Who cares about any of this anyway? This isn't even what I want to talk about, but it still, like, connects with what I want to talk about. So if you're still here, thank God. Sorry for that. Okay. Anyway, now you know that I'm 172 pounds. My driver's license says 160. Now. That's kind of a goal weight, I think. So the driver's license has a goal weight. Reminding me of one thing. I have a friend whose driver's license says that they weigh. And they're 510 fully, like, adult human man. Their driver's license says that they weigh 45 pounds. Yeah. That they're lighter than one of my dogs. 45 pounds. And they said I just did the measurement wrong. They're not from the U.S. they thought. I don't know. Because that's not even what they would weigh in kilos. So I don't know what was going on. But if you do ever run to run into a man whose driver's license says he's £45, that's my friend. Just call me. We'll get it all figured out together. So what do I want to talk about? So, okay, if you go to the. The gym. You have to go to the gym if you want to, like, get into shape or a shape or train or whatever. Right. Okay. Finally, the episode's picking up. Sorry, I had to get warmed up. Oh, God. I talked about an eating disorder. Whatever. We can't take back the past. We can only focus on the present. Okay, let's go, let's go, let's go. All right, you gotta go to the gym now. You're like, oh, finally the episode's picking up. He's talking about going to the gym. I swear, there's a point. All right? And it's really. I do need to talk about this, because it really. It bothers me so much. So I, when I was training, would go to, like, a small gym that was, like, either inside one of the rinks that I was training at, or if I was training in an Olympic training center, I'd use, like, the gym there, which was, like, gorgeous and beautiful and fantastic. Well, now, you know, I'm a normal person. Well, ish. Okay, now I'm not a normal person, but I have to do normal person things. Like I have to join a gym, which I never had joined a gym before. You know, there was a moment in time when I, like, was a member of a 24 Hour Fitness. But I believe that there's a reason that other gyms aren't 24 hours, because needs to be a few hours where they hose that down, which they're not doing at a 24 Hour Fitness. It's just. It's basically they're just letting the disease, like, fester and nobody's ever clean. They just need to take a power washer inside that 24 hour fitness and hose it the hell down. It's insane. Okay, what I'm getting to, like, get to the point, get to the point. I know, I know, I know, I know. But what I'm getting to is this. You know, in my journey, I'm trying to change the system, as I said, trying to rewrite the rules. You got to go to the gym to do that. And so the gym that I go to is. I go to an Equinox. Okay, I know some of you are going. Of course you do. Of course you do. You're the part of the coastal elite. I want to. I want to explain a few things. I'm not. I'm just like you. I'm not. But I'm like, I. Let me finish my thought. We're not that different, you and I. And what I mean by that is this. If the gym is good, I don't care where I'm going. Now. I live in, like, I don't live in, like, the heart of la. I live in Pasadena. I've mentioned it before, but I live, like, downtown Pasadena. And so, like, it doesn't matter where you live. If you, like, live in a downtown area, whatever state, whatever city, you're getting, like, the busiest gyms, like, no matter what. So to the people who, like, live in the suburbs are like, I don't understand why people do that. Like, that's because the equinox that I'm trying to go to is like, the Planet Fitness that you're going to in the suburbs, okay? You're paying $10 to go to like an empty, clean gym. We are not talking about the same thing. Because if that were the case for my Planet Fitness, I'd be walking in there with a stack of tens going, this one's on me. To everyone. I'd be paying for everyone's membership if my Planet Fitness was an empty, beautiful, clean Planet Fitness, which some of you are going to. And you're going, well, I'm going to Planet Fitness. Well, of course you are. Yours is clean. All right? The Planet Fitness where I live is a. It's a war zone. It's that you're not getting out of there unscathed, right? You're not leaving there without a few bruises, without getting into a fight with a 16 year old. That's happening regardless. And that fight is happening. Maybe it's happening in the parking lot, maybe it's happening at the front desk, maybe it's happening at a machine or at the weight rack. Like that's what's happening at my Planet Fitness, at my local Planet Fitness. So that's not. I'm not doing that. I cannot do that. I'm so, so sorry.
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And I'm saying this because I want you to know that, like, listen, I. If we had the same option of Planet Fitness, I'd be going there now. There's another, like, local gym. There's a 24 Hour Fitness, which, like I used to go to. I went to like 10 years ago. And like I said, I don't believe in fitness being 24 hours. I believe in fitness being about 12, maybe 14 hours. Like, I believe in 14 hour fitness. I don't believe in 24 hour fitness because there need to be about 10 hours of hosing down things, letting things air out, right? Like there need to be a few hours of that, maybe at least four or five hours of hosing down equipment. That's what I believe. So I, I believe in 20 Hour Fitness. How about that, but not 24 Hour Fitness. So I'll never go there again. If those doors never lock, I'm never entering. So that's. That's my deal on that. Now the next kind of gym is like an LA Fitness, which again, I think Pasadena, we have, like, one of the best LA Fitness in la. Like, it's clean, it's big, but still, you're gonna get into a fight with a teenager. I don't want to do that. Right. Like, I know that the teenager can't afford to go to the Equinox, so I'm not gonna get in a fight with a teenager. I can get into enough. I can get into a fight with an adult at the Equinox. So, you know, that's where I stand on that. And I'm just surprised that there aren't more. Like, there aren't different options. Like, I have. And I'll tell you this. Like, I've walked in like I was presenting a deal at a shark tank, and I've walked into, like, a local hotel. I don't know if I thought I was being, like, so clever doing this. And I'll tell you, it never worked out. So I walked in going, hey, I want to know if I can work out some sort of deal so that I can use the gym here. And it was like, I don't know, like a Hyatt. And they looked at me like, I told them I had a bomb strapped to my chest. Like, they were like, get out. We never want to see you again. So, okay, that didn't work. I thought that was genius. Because these hotels, there's one of them that, like, I walk by, like, there, it's all glass windows. There's not a soul in. In there. Like, it is completely deserted inside that hotel gym. I thought I'd at least be at least lubing the equipment up in there, you know, helping them keep things in working order. But, you know, they weren't. They were not into that idea, so I never did that. And then the other problem is, it's like the other gyms around my area are like, specifically, like, CrossFit. Like, they don't have real equipment. It's just like ropes and, like, hammers and, I don't know, other things like that. But if they're like specialty gyms, so it's not like they don't have, like, equipment and stuff. So I go to the Equinox and I do that to just sort of like, just. I just don't want the kids in there. Right. I'm Very pro kid. Just, I don't think, I'm not like pro kid in gym. I think if you're a child, you should go to the park and work out outside or get a part time job or you know, something. But I'll say I like that the kids have a place to go because you see a lot of them like hanging out at the LA Fitness, which I think, like, if you're the kid in the scenario, that's a good place to hang out. Like you're hanging out at the gym with your friends. But I don't want to be around you when you're doing that. So that's why I am. Long story short, you know, cut to. It's been about 45 minutes of me talking straight about complete nonsense, whatever it's called, intrusive thoughts, you know, what you signed up for. So I go to the Equinox and I'll tell you, it's not worth a dollar of the money I pay. I don't know what it is. I cannot remember the amount. I think it's like 2:30. I know even I'm like, I'm. I'm getting hot thinking about it because I'll tell you that it's just the best option around me because I can go. And for the most part things are like, it's empty enough, but it's still like incredibly crowded. Okay? Like, it's still very crowded. There's still a lot of people there. And this is what I don't like about it. And this is how I know it's. It's not worth the money at all. Like, it's just, it's just expensive. LA Fitness, like, it's not, it's not good. Okay? And before I go off completely off the rails, before I go, I want to say the staff is phenomenal. Like, they are worth the, the money, the. Hi, Adam, welcome back. Like I always. And they say that to everybody. I mean, because, you know, when you check in, it shows your name. So it's not like they're, you know, bartenders, you know, who have the greatest memories of any huge humans alive. They're just sort of, you know, normal people. Yeah, but I don't. That does not. I'm gonna go back to it. Not negate the cost of $230 a month. Okay? I know that Planet Fitness is $10 a month. Right. I know that LA Fitness is $40 a month. But this is how I reason it to myself, because I know, I know, like, not even now, like, I'm hearing the Echoes of my former, you know, comments now kind of hitting my ears going, what the hell? Yeah, I know, I know, okay? But this is how I reason it to myself. Okay, let's say it's $40 a month, right? If I see some sneezing, coughing, 17 year old group of boys. Right, which you are. I'm still afraid of them. When I was 17, I was afraid of the 17 year old boys. Now when I'm an adult, I'm afraid of them too. I don't know what they're going to do. I don't know what they're up to. I would pay them $200 to kind of scram. So I am sort of thinking at the end of the day I'd be 2:40 down anyway because I'd be walking in there going, hey, here's 200 bucks, knock yourself out at Chipotle, just please leave. So if you think of it in the terms of like that it all evens out, right? If you're at the 24 Hour Fitness, if I remember correctly, maybe it's about, I'm, I'm assuming it's about the same price as like LA Fitness, maybe 30. Because since it's open and it's not clean, so you know, I would pay 200 to be like, hey, let's clean this whole thing up. I'll help you, I'll help, I'll chip in. Let's clean it all up. So. And if you think of it in terms of you are absolutely intolerable and insane and you'd end up kind of breaking even at the end. Yeah, I, yes. And I'll say, listen here. Sometimes I do take advantage of this. At the Equinox you have like with your membership you can pay for. Now I'm like on the front lines of like, hey, it's not that bad. It is, but you can do as many classes as you want. So like I've taken like some of the yoga classes or you know, whatever. So you're not paying for any of the classes except Pilates. Somehow they've reasoned that Pilates you have to pay for whatever. Like off with that please. But you can do any other class and you're not paying anything. And I have friends who like their form of fitness is to like go to a Barry's boot Camp. Never. You'll never see me at a Berries because I don't believe in working out in the dark. I believe the lights should be on and then. Yeah, I just, you know, we all have to save money. But let's not save money by turning off the LED lights, which are maybe costing you $20 a year in lights. Energy saving. They're not Edison bulbs. Like, come on, turn them on. And I have friends who go to Orange Theory or, or Soul Cycle. Same thing. It's like $30 every time you step foot in that godforsaken building. It's fun, but some people are going like a few times a week, right? Like, let's say you're going three times a week. Three, three, three, that's nine. Add a zero on the end of that, that's 90. You're $90 down. And you didn't even have to pay anybody to get out of your way. But you've only gone three times and you have to ride the bike. I don't believe in that. It's like, I don't believe in 24 Hour Fitness. So you can do, you know, you can do all of that. But usually the, the, like, the real kicker of like the Equinox is that now I used to go to a different one because I used to live on the west side of la. Obviously Pasadena is the east side, but on the west side there was one that I went to in the South Bay and they had like a beautiful gym inside and they had the exact same gym on the roof that was outside. And they had a pool and they had a spa, right? Like you had to pay for the spa and stuff, all of that. But you could do the pool, you could do all of this stuff that was all included in your membership. And I'm getting, I want you to know the cheapest Equinox one because I'm only going to one because I'm not like traveling of like, let me try these out. No, I'm like, I'm not going to the gym to show up and make a scene, right? Like I'm going to like do my thing and get the hell out of town. And I know some people are like, they have a really nice steam room. I've never gone in that thing and I never will. I'll never take a shower at the gym because I can walk there, right? Like, I'm not, I don't even need to get into my car. So I'm not using the things that people are like, well, it's better because of the. I don't care about that because when I walk in the door it smells like a YMCA swimming pool for that amount of money. Come on, you guys. And there's like nothing that they can do, right? Like, I don't I don't know. There's no window that they can open, like, let the steam out. It's always kind of wet. Always. It's clean, though. Like, it's like. That is really important to me because like I said, I was using these, like, little, tiny private gyms before. And I want you to feel bad for me, but I just want you to hear where I'm coming from. Do you know how nice the Olympic Training center gym is? You could eat off of the fucking floor. I could put a full spaghetti and meatballs dinner, throw it on the fucking ground, and I would take a knife and a fork and I would eat it and not even worry about anything. I wouldn't worry about a damn thing. But if I were to do that at this point, this equinox, I'd be worried that I'd get, like, the flu, right? But if I were to do it at, like, you know, the Planet Fitness in Pasadena, I'd be worried that I would be patient zero of COVID 25. You know, that has to be worse than the Wuhan bat that has to be of eating off of the floor of a Planet Fitness in a city, right? But the Olympic Training center, my God, that's just where I come from, you know, And I'm gonna say this to the people who live in the. In the Midwest and like, in the suburbs, you're living the. The going to the gym dream. You're living the dream. Every gym I've ever been to in, like, the Midwest is like the cleanest, nicest gym I've ever been to. Every 24 Hour Fitness, somehow they find the time to clean those. The Planet Fitness, $10 a month. It's like, I want this place to shine like the top of the Chrysler Building. Like, it's that clean inside. So I'm just trying to escape the chaos by creating more chaos. But basically what I'm getting to is that, like, it makes me mad every time I see, like, the charge on my credit card. Like, it makes me furious. It makes me absolutely out of my mind. So mad that I'm sure, you know, you've been. I don't know if they do. I don't even remember if they do this with the other gyms, but with the Equinox, every once in a while they send a survey. And I want you to know that I take the time to fill out that survey. I take my time filling out that survey. Are you happy with your experience on a scale from 1 to 5? 1. No. Please explain why. Oh, and I go In. I write paragraphs. I write paragraphs. I'm not even kidding at all. This is kind of where I shine. Truly. And so I start off and I go, I want you to know that if there was a cleaner option around, I would never set foot inside this building again. It's too wet and it's too dirty, and it's not worth the cost at all. It's scathing. It's absolutely scathing. I'm sure the whomever's reading it, I'm sure it's a fucking robot who doesn't give a shit, but if it's a human being, I know they're shaking at their desk. I know it. I know that they're shaking at their desk. And they're going, sir, they're moving their manager over here. Sir, you. You might want to see this. There's a Mr. Rippon who's not pleased, and I want you to know that he has the cheapest membership available, so we might want to take this seriously. And back to the cheapest membership. They will make you feel like, absolutely. Like you're crazy, right? Like. Like you're absolutely crazy. When I was working the Olympics, the Paris Olympics, I worked it from Connecticut in Stanford, Connecticut, at NBC headquarters. And so I thought. And I was staying in Greenwich, Connecticut, and so there's an equinox in Greenwich. And so I walked to the equinox, and I was like, hey, I know that I don't have access to, like, other clubs, but here's the deal. I gave them, like, the whole spiel, and they were like, let me tag it. Which meant that they wanted me to wait 20 minutes for the manager to come. 10 minutes go by, 15 minutes go by. And I was like, this is crazy. I'm. I hate this place. But it's the. It's my best option. It's not my only option. Like, I know that. I know it's not my only option, but I think it's, like, the cleanest, quietest one. And I just. I want quiet, because I'm going to just tell you about the Olympic Training center one more time as I brush my fingers through my growing mullet. At the Olympic Training center, they had beautiful windows, and they had Astroturf inside and outside. And the equipment was sparkling clean. And it was quiet at, like, the. And it was big. It was huge. At, like, the peak hours of going to this gym, there'd be 20 people inside of it. At the peak hours of the gym I go to now, there's a line of 20 people trying to use some stupid machine. And I gotta say this about the people who go to the gym. God, I have a bone to pick with some of you. Listen, if you're grunting and you're huffing and you're puffing, maybe it's too heavy, right? Like, why are you doing that? Stop being so loud. Be loud somewhere else. Anyway, that's my bone to pick. And I'm currently weighed in at 172.8 as I mentioned. And that's, you know, at the top of this episode I mentioned I have a great, beautiful thing I want to kind of get off of my chest and it all strings through together. Did it really? No. And like usual, didn't really make that much sense, but I needed to get it off my chest. And yeah, actually, before I'm going to get to voicemails, but before I get to voicemails, I have to say this. My dream for myself. My dream. My dream is that I want to get a big beautiful house. And in that house, one of my priorities. And I say that and I want. I am sounding out every single syllable and letter in priorities because it's one of my high priorities that I build a beautiful gym inside that house. And I never step foot inside a God forsaken fucking Equinox ever again. If Equinox doesn't have any haters, that means I'm not here anymore. I will always be a hater of the Equinox. I'll also always keep going. So checkmate Equinox. But one of my priorities, like I mentioned, I'm building a beautiful gym, beautiful equipment, beautiful TV that's playing whatever I want. Whatever season of Love Island I want. How about that? 20 hours a day. Not 24 hours, because that, like I said, no matter even if it's private. No matter even if it's private. The most brilliant sentence I've ever put together. No matter even if it's private, that stuff needs to get hosed down, right? I'm just saying. I am just saying. That's my dream. That's my goal for myself. And if I have to think, like, what's the most important thing there? Like, okay, if I'm building the gym, like, what are the most important things there? I need like one of. I need like a weight. I don't even know the names of the equipment. I don't belong there. Okay, what do I need? I need like a weight rack, right? Where all the dumbbells are for the look, right? I even need the hundreds. Even though, like I. That's just so that the weight rack doesn't blow over. That's why I'll get the hundreds for the look. I need the barbell thing. That's a really important like looking machine in the gym. I need the treadmill, I need the elliptical. I need the Smith machine. Okay. The Smith machine is like the barbell, but like, that's like on the track so like you can stop it. Like, basically like you can do it on its own. I also love those machines that like the. Because I'm going by myself, right, like, and I'm trying to like lift heavier. As you can tell from my massive tits, my 170 pound breasts, you can tell. So I like the machines that you can add the weight onto, but like, it's part of the mission so you're not going to get like hurt or pinned down, right? That's also like a fear of mine that I'm gonna lift like too heavy and I'm gonna get stuck under it and I'm gonna have to ask one of those grunting monsters to like, can you help me get this barbell off of my chest? Like, I don't want to do that. So I want some of those machines that have like the weights into them. I want my own gym. Like, I want a gym and that's what I want. And I have a friend who's a trainer. And my goal is my goal and my dream is I'm, you know, I've, I'm making 10 million a day, right, which is a lot. But we, we aim high. Even if you shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you land among the $10 million a day. And I'm gonna hire him full time. Six figures, buddy. You gotta. You're canceling all your plans. You're showing up to 24 Adam Fitness and we're just hanging out and drinking smoothies and lifting weights. And that's the dream. And we're watching Love island, we're working out all day. I do miss the Olympic training center. I don't miss the Olympic training, but God, it just, I just have to get that off my chest of like, you know, I do. There is a lot of hate of like, people. And I'm, I'm, I'm fully well aware of like, there are people who like, I to like, go and belong to the Equinox because they just want to say, I go to the Equinox because they want people to think that they're like, like fancy. I'm not one of those people. I would be going to like Joe. Shit. The beer cans, open garage. If I there was one around me, I'd be going there. $5 a month, even less than 24 hour. I would be going there if it was an option. But it's not. There's just not one around me. But yeah, I do know. Like, I don't want you to think that, like, yeah, but there are people and I know that as I go to the gym and I see them, there's a. I'm going to tell you about somebody I see at my gym all the time. She's wearing, I think two wigs stacked on top of each other. Okay. Because the hair is very thick. And I don't mean like the hair, I mean like the hair. Like it looks like it's hair that's on a helmet that she straps on in the morning and she walks in. Always, always makeup done straight from like theater. She has just gotten off stage from 42nd Street. Like, fully done makeup, thick wigs, white girl, before we go any further, okay, White girl, thick wigs, full makeup, ass out of this world. Tits. Same. We have the same 172 pounds of breast tissue. Me and her, we see it like, that's how we see Ida. Oh, I see you. And what does she do there? She lifts a five pound medicine ball a few times, lays down on a mat, then gets into one of the workout rooms and takes pictures for 25 minutes. And she does that for the low cost of about 200. I'm sure she has the membership. I think it's like 300 something dollars a month to go to like any equinox. I would rather be caught dead than paying that. I'm sure she has it. So she's paying 300amonth to lift a five pound medicine ball, drink a Celsius and take a few pictures every other day. So I know those people exist, right? They're part of my community of people. But whatever, you can't win them all. Let's get to the voicemails. Please, please, please, somebody take me out of my misery. And I know who that could be. It could be somebody who left a voicemail. Please leave your message after the tone.
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Hi Adam, I love your podcast. Me and my sister listen to it religiously and I just want to ask you a question. As a married person, I am 100% sure that my boyfriend is proposing in the next month, but I have no idea when and I am kind of freaking out. I don't know how to react. I don't know what to wear. I don't know. How do I become prepared every day? I just. I am stressed, Adam, and I need your help. How did you react? Did you propose? Can you tell me the story? Story? Like, please give me some tips on how to prepare for this. Thanks so much. Love you.
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Okay, I. Actually, this is a great change of pace. Like, enough about my weight, which is 172lbs. Enough about that. Okay, so how I proposed in my proposal story, it's, like, very not typical, because I'm not your typical kind of girl. Okay, okay, let me tell you about it. So it starts off, like, kind of not romantic in a way, and I guess let, like, without further ado, let me just get into it. So my husband and I, we had talked about, like, getting married, like, one day, right? Like, we had been together for, I don't know, like, four years at that point. And we. So we were talking about, like, getting married, but we were more talking about, like, living together and what that would look like. Because I'll be totally honest with you, marriage was never something that I was like, oh, I would love to be, like, married one day. And I don't know why. It just was never one of those things where it was, like, that important, maybe. I also think it was, like, part of the reason why I was, like, in the headspace to even, like, meet my husband, because at that point, I was like, I'm good. Like, I don't need anybody, and I like doing my own things, and I like having my own interests and things like that. And if I meet somebody that, like, is into me being as independent as I am, then, like, that's perfect. But if not, I don't really care. And when JP and I met, that was one of the things that, like, initially, like, attracted me to him was that he was also really independent, and he had his own interests and his own dreams and goals, and. And I think, like, that's where we really saw, like, eye to eye. So I. I think because of that, I was never really, like, oh, my God, I'm, like, dreaming of getting married. I knew for a fact I never really dreamed of, like, having a wedding. Like, having a wedding really never appealed to me in any way. I don't know why. Maybe that will, like, change because we never. We have not had a wedding. Um, but so the reason we, like, even talked about getting married, like, more seriously was I always said to myself that, like, listen, if I am going to get married, the universe will, like, give me a sign, and the universe will. This is where I can get a Little witchy and a little voodoo hoodoo, but whatever. But I'm like, the universe will give me a sign if I'm meant to get married or if I should even get married or if it's whatever, because I don't really care. Because I've had one of my good friends when I was growing up. Like, her parents were never married, and they were together to the day that her dad passed away. And, like, marriage was never a thing. Like, it never was a thing for them. And, you know, I've. So my. My parents are divorced. I know, like, so many people who have divorced parents. So it's just like, marriage was never this thing that. It was really on the top of my mind. So I was like, okay, well, you know, if it's me, if I'm. If I get married, the universe will show me a sign that I should get married. Well, when Covid first started, in the beginning of, like, 2020, JP was in Finland and I was here in LA, and so we had spent New Year's together in LA. So we were, like, celebrated 2019 into 2020 together. And JP went back to, like, shortly, I don't know, maybe two weeks into the beginning of 2020. And then as it was, like, getting more and more serious and the borders, like, closed, there was this period of time when the US Borders were closed and the European border were closed, so he could not come into the United States and I could not come into Europe. And we weren't able to see each other. And so we weren't able to see each other for, like, 10 months. But the exception to this rule was that, like, if you needed to get home, if you had family, and I remember thinking, like, okay, I. I love this person, and I would never want to be separated from them in an emergency situation like this. And so I believed that this was, like, the universe saying that, like, this would be a great reason to get married because you would not have to go through this or this would be a different situation. You could be going through this together. And so we had. When we had talked about getting married and what that might look like, because we had talked about it, you know, even though I mentioned that, like, it wasn't one of my, like, biggest dreams, it was something we still talked about, that there was, like, a few different ways that, like, it could be done where it's like, you could. He could have come to the US and we could have gotten married, and then he'd apply for a green card while in the United States, and then another version of that was. He could. If you've ever watched My 90 Day Fiance, then you're very familiar with the K1 visa. So the K1 visa and why they call it 90 Day Fiance is that you get this K1 visa and once you get it, you come to the United States and you have 90 days to get married before that visa expires. That's why it's 90 Day Fiance. But the thing with this K1 visa is that in the process of applying for it, the person who is applying for it is not allowed in the United States during the process. So when we were talking about this, we weren't really sure, like, which path we would go, but we were well aware that if JP applied for the K1 visa, that he wouldn't be allowed in the US for about six or seven months. Like, it would be a long time, six to eight months. So we were always hesitant to like, kind of go that way route. But when it was in the pandemic, we were like, well, I mean, if we're just sitting here waiting, why don't we just apply for the visa and at least we're waiting for something. And I remember that we were like on the phone with our lawyer who was like, helping us with the process. And I have friends who have like, done the K1 visa process and everything. They've done it completely themselves. I was like, too nervous that I didn't. And JP can be like, so high strung about this stuff. I'm like, this stuff, like the legal workings of the US Government. And I was like, it would. Let's just get a lawyer. And so we were on the phone with the lawyer and she was asking us, she was like, okay, so have you guys proposed to each other? And we were like, oh no, like, we haven't even done that. But you know, if you're applying for this visa, you're like, you should be already like, engaged in all of that stuff. So when we said like, you know, like tongue in cheek on the phone with the lawyer, like, JP's in Finland, our lawyer is like somewhere in the country, and I'm in Los Angeles. I'm like, jp, will you marry me? And you know, funny, funny, haha. But so that's like how we technically, like, began the process. But when we decided that like, we were gonna do like, like rings and stuff like that, I. We obviously wanted to be together. So like, like I said, it was 10 months. So 10 months later, if you. They had loosened the restrictions on getting into Finland and so I took advantage of it. And flew to Finland. Um, and then it was like, on this trip where I mentioned it in the beginning of this episode of. I saw this picture of me with the body shape of a baby doll. So it was on that trip. So just know it was like, 10 months into Covid just to give you a time and a place. Okay. So it was on that trip that I went and I saw JP and we bought. We decided we would go to, like, a Finnish jewelry shop to get the rings. And we were like, we'll just get, like, plain bands. And we were there for, like, one second before JP Was like, I think I'm gonna design my own. And I was like, what if we got diamonds? And so we decided that so that nobody would feel like we were pushing something on the other person, that we would get our own rings. So I got my own ring. He got his own ring. He designed his. I found one that I really liked. It's the one I'm wearing. So we found one that we've liked and then we bought them and then we switched. So we gave each other the thing and we decided so that, like, so that nobody had, like, the upper hand, we would figure out, like, when we were gonna do this, and then we would do it together. So we actually, once we had the rings, we asked each other at the same time. We did like, a 3, 2, 1. Will you marry me? Simultaneously. So we could say we did it at the same time. So that there wasn't anybody who was like, well, I asked, or I asked, Whatever. So that's how we got engaged. Fully, fully planned out. Not a moment of surprise anywhere. Now, the positives to this are that we were absolutely in control of what those engagement photos looked like. Okay. Which is. Now I'm going to get back to your call. So you said that you're 100% sure that your boyfriend is. It's crunch time, basically. Like, it's about time. I don't know where in the process you are. I'm assuming, like, maybe you've gotten the hints that he's looking for rings or he maybe found a ring or you mentioned it. But, like, it seems like if you're 100 sure, like, you've at least had some, like, pretty major conversations about this. So that's not what this is, what this is about. You are absolutely in the camp of the majority of people who get engaged of, like, you are going to be surprised when it happens. And I think that you need to just, like, relax and, like, let it happen when it happens. Because if you're nervous, right? Like, I'm thinking that if you're nervous, you're thinking a little bit about, like, there's gonna be pictures, like, will my nails look right with the ring? Like, I think you're thinking a little bit all about everything, right? And I'm going to ask you to take a step outside of your experience. And I'm going to say this, that whenever we see, like, pictures online of like, the people getting surprised or like, they're shocked that it's happening, the biggest thing that we're looking for if, like, if it's being recorded or pictures or something like that is like, we just want to see somebody like, in the moment and enjoying it, right? And I honestly feel like you'll be more in the moment if you're just focusing on, like, enjoying the time that you guys are together instead of like, worrying if it's happening right now or if it's not happening right now. Like, just like, let go of that and let your boyfriend do it in the way that he wants to do it in the way that he feels like it's going to be special for you so that, like, you're not, like, you know, I'm saying this, I don't mean it this way, like, manipulating the situation. And I mean that in the way to, like, manipulating it into the thing that you think it should be. Or like, oh, I should be standing on this side or like this, or like, just like, be in the moment and when it happens, it happens. And no matter how it happens, I promise you it's going to be amazing and it's gonna be beautiful and no matter what way it happens, but, like, let go. I think you're just a little worried that it should happen in a certain way. And I think, like, let go of that. Or you're worried that, like, maybe you're not gonna, like, look the way that you want to look when you're getting proposed to. Like, you're. You're gonna be like, in workout clothes when really you should be, like, in a sundress, right? Like, let that all go. Because you can always have, like, the moment. But if you're really wanting something, like, beautiful that like, captures that moment, you can just get pictures. You can just sort of like, fake it. Like, fake the surprise. I'm telling you, all you do is like, have him go down on one knee and you go like this hands over thing. It's gonna look like it's the moment, right? Like, you can get the shots you want, whatever. But my, my thing is you have really nothing to worry about or to be stressed about. Let him be stressed about pulling it off, right? Like, let him be the one who's stressed. All you need to do is stand there and say yes or no, right? Listen, if you're gonna say no, that's a little bit different. You do. You should be stressing. I fully believe that you should be very stressed out. In fact, you should maybe say something now. But it seems like you're gonna say yes. And I'm not sure what exactly you're stressed about because also, if you're not ready to get married, but you're ready to, like, not, not. Not that you're not ready to get married, if you're worried about, like, the planning of the wedding and all of that stuff, or if you can. Can you afford it or whatever, you can always wait to get married, too. Like, you don't need to get married right away either. Like, you have nothing to be stressed out about. So I think that you should just, you know, enjoy it. If you're in your workout clothes, you're in your workout clothes. If you know you're covered in, you're covered in. It's part of the story. It's part of whatever. And if you want nice photos, just go and take nice photos. Just go and do that. Nothing's stopping you. It doesn't matter if they're, like, not in the moment or whatever. Like, you could just take the nice photos. Nobody gives a. Nobody gives a shit. So I think just enjoy the moment that you're in and let your partner and your boyfriend let them stress out about it, especially if that's the dynamic of which it's going. If you're not the one proposing, you have nothing to worry about. If you didn't brush your hair, whatever, say yes and say, hey, hold on. Run your fingers through your hair and say, let's take a picture. Now. The thing is, you're good. You're both going to be crying. It's going to be like an overwhelming moment anyway. You'll both be crying anyway. So that's. That's what I think. Let's do one more voicemail. I know I've been cheating and chatting so long, but please leave your message after the tone.
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Luke
Hey, Adam, this is Luke from Orlando. I've always, like, I think you're the. So cool. Ever since they. Ever since you, like, did the Olympics or whatever, but I kind of forget that you did the Olympics. So I'm curious, like, how does that feel, knowing that people don't Even associate. They may not associate you to the Olympics. They more. More associate you to, like, you just being funny on the Internet and on TV and stuff. What are your thoughts on that? Intrusive thought? Thanks. Bye.
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Adam Rippon
Okay, this is actually quite an interesting question that I actually am excited to answer. Imagine, I was never excited to answer any question before this. I'm like, I just had to drag my heels through a woman scared of being proposed to. And now, finally, I get an interesting question. I am, of course, kidding. And again, relax. Just enjoy those moments. My sweet, sweet friend and her sister who listened to the podcast. Let's get your future husband to listen to it, too. Have him call in. All right. Let us know how the proposal goes. Okay, so with this one, I think it is interesting. How do I feel about it? How do I feel about people sometimes forgetting that I have anything to do with the Olympics? That, like, I myself am an Olympian, even a medalist from the Olympic Games? I am gonna say this, is that I actually really like it. I do. And there's a piece of me that's, like, very proud that sometimes I will go into situations and people will not know that about me or they'll be shocked that they forgot it about me, that. That I'm. That I went to the Olympics. Because if they've forgotten, it's like this little thing I can throw in at the end of, oh, my God, like, I can't believe you did that. Like, it's a fun thing. Like, a fun little fact. And if they, you know, if they didn't know, then it means that they were, like, introduced to, like, what I do now and, like, who I am now. And who am I now? I am 172.8 pounds. I'm a lover, and I'm the host of intrusive thoughts. You know, that's who I am now. And it actually, like I said, it does. It makes me feel like. It makes me feel proud that, like, I was able to kind of transition into a different career because I was always. You know, I'll be honest, there was, like, a part of me that was always, once I was done competing, like, running as fast as I could away from being an Olympian and being a figure skater. Like, I would do anything to have people, like, forget that I did that, because I, in a way, like, wanted to be taken seriously in the spaces that I was, like, entering, like, in comedy or, like, in entertainment. And I wanted people to see me, like, as a comedian or as an entertainer or as a personality or whatever that is. And I Wanted them to see me in that light instead of seeing me as, like, the Olympian on the show or something like that. I wanted to feel like I had the merit to be in that. Those same spaces. And I spent a long time, like, walking away and like I said, like, running from it and pushing it to the side, that I think that it really wasn't until, like, this year, or maybe even a little bit of last year, that, like, I've started to embrace it a little bit more. And I've started to embrace it in the way where I used to see it as this thing of, like, oh, well, he's the skater. We need the comedian to do this. And I now have seen it in the way of, like, well, he's. He can be funny. And he also has done this. Like, it. It adds to the credentials instead of, like, taking away from them in a way. Not that it ever did. It was just like, my mindset. And I think it's also, like, the mindset of an athlete. You know, once an athlete, always an athlete, always complaining about the gym membership, as I did for about 45 minutes. And I am sorry about that, everybody. Really sorry. But I. I think it's that, like, athlete mentality of, like, what you're doing, you give 100%, you can't do anything else, which is, like, not the mentality that you have with anything else that you'll ever do, you know? And so that was just the way it was. I was, like, running from it. And the further I have distance from my career as an athlete and as, like, a Olympian, the more I am open to, like, embracing it. And I see it as something like, that is really cool. Not that it wasn't that. It just wasn't that I didn't see it as cool. It was just I was really trying so hard to, like, start a new career, and I just wanted to be seen as somebody who was in that career, if that makes sense. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's sort of like I was 28 when I retired from being a competitive athlete. But it's like when you graduate high school and you go into college and you just want people to see you as an adult or. And you're just trying to make that decision of, like, I want people to respect my decisions. I want them to see me, like, as an adult and people, like, respect me. And I think, like, I saw myself entering a new career, and I was worried that people wouldn't think that I belonged there or they wouldn't think that I deserved to be there because they had spent more time trying to get there. But I've kind of come to terms and I've, like, have had like, moments of peace with myself. Of like, no, I deserve to be there. I got there just in a different way. Right. And so I think of it in terms of that. But I think that knowing that there are people who like, even forgot I went to the Olympics, or didn't remember that I was an Olympian, or found me like, online and didn't even know that that's, you know, what I used to do. I think, like, those people, when they find out, it's a cool thing. And I think it was like, at the time, it was like a deliberate thing that I did because I was just trying to, like, re establish myself because I didn't want to be like, somebody who's like, holding on to something that they did 10 years ago or 20 years ago of like, I'm going to bring this up. Like, I remember when I was at the Olympics and like, it was just like, I wanted to move on. And so I worked. I actually worked and tried really hard to just like, push it away. And I've, like, leaned more into it now in the way that I'm just like, I'm not ashamed. It sounds so crazy to even say that out loud, but I was, like, almost embarrassed by it in a way. You know, it's. I'm not embarrassed by it. I don't. I hope that this is, like, translating like, that you can understand what I'm saying. I was just trying to, like, start over. And I wanted to be known as this new thing that I was trying to create, whatever that was. You know, I didn't know the name of it. I didn't. Personality or comedian or whatever. It was just I was just trying to be like, something new. And so I dove into that as deeply as I could. And I'm so grateful for, like, all of those opportunities that like, came with it. But it is kind of my dream that I can continue, like, working and be in these spaces where I can be a personality and be a comedian or whatever. And it becomes this, like, fun fact of like, did you know that he's actually an Olympic medal winning former national champion figure skater? Like, isn't that crazy? Um, and so that's sort of like a vision and a dream I've had for myself in the last few years. Um, and what I mean of like, leaning into it a little bit more, like, I had a. A really good friend of mine who's a Figure skater. Her name's Ashley Wagner, if you follow the Olympics at all. I'm sure you know her. Uh, she's an Olympic medalist from 2014, and she's a three time national champion. We trained together. One of my best friends, and she was kind of pushing me to like, hey, we used to train together. And then when we. We both retired around the same time and she moved to the east coast and I stayed in the West Coast. And so we went from seeing each other every day to barely seeing each other a few times a year. And, you know, like, as time goes by, you fall, like, out of touch, which was something that we both didn't, like, want. And it wasn't like. It was weird when we would talk. Like, it felt like we had just talked the day before, even if it had been like, months. But she had this idea of, like, what if we did like, a. A podcast on, like, figure skating? And I was always, like, kind of pushing it off a little bit. I'm like, yeah, that's a good idea. But I never, like, was aggressively, like, following up on it or whatever, because I was like, I'm not a figure skater anymore. And eventually I was like, you know what? Fuck it, let's do it. So I think some of the people that listen to this podcast might be listening to my other podcast called the Run through, which I do with Ashley and our friend Sarah. And it's been amazing because even though I was trying to, and I'm still trying to really, like, establish myself in this new world, it's been really beautiful to, like, reconnect with the world that I was a part of. And in reconnecting, I bring that audience into things that I do now. And I am really grateful that I finally, like, leaned into it a little bit more because it's been really nice to be able to, like, reconnect with that part of me. And I also think I know I'm dragging on and on, but I also think that, like, when I retired, I also didn't know how I fit in in that space anymore. You know, like, what was my point of being in the skating space? Like, I was retired, I wasn't a coach. I wasn't, you know, these other things. And I didn't really know where I belonged. So I think that the time away and the me running away from it was almost like a needed thing anyway. And I think it took really, like, six, seven years for me to finally be in a space where I'm like, yeah, no, that was like, a part of me but in that distance was like, really good and it was like really healthy. And actually, I think on that note, that's a really great way to end this episode. And I hope I've taken you through, like the, a huge range of emotions throughout. I hope I've made you think, I've made you cry. I made you rethink any sort of gym membership you've ever had. And I can't wait for the next one. I just want to thank everybody for calling in and leaving the voicemails. I love being able to have a bunch of voicemails to go through and eventually we're going to like, we'll make it through them, you know. But please, please, please keep calling in, keep leaving the voicemails. Our podcast hotline is 310-909-71117. If you don't feel like leaving a voicemail, you can even send a text message, which I recently found out. So you can call the hotline, you can text the hotline 310-909-9717. And that's been this episode. Make sure that you leave us a 5 star review because this really is 5 star quality content and it would help us a lot. And I love you and I can't wait to intrude into your lives next week with more intrusive thoughts. Until next time, I'm Adam Rippon. I'll see you then. Too fast, Trevor.
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