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Hey, everyone, I'm Adam Rippon. Let's get right into the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast. I think like usual, let's begin with just some top of mind intrusive thoughts. And as I'm saying that, I'm thinking, would intrusive thoughts have been a better name for the podcast? I don't know. We'll never know. But we'll always have to wonder. But we'll never know. I want to share with you something that I've been going through. It is that I feel like when it comes to pens and notebooks, I don't know about you, but I know for me, I need and love a good pen and notebook. It's really important to me. I'm always writing things down, I'm typing them out, but when I write them down, they really get into the cracks and grooves of my brain. That's how I really remember things. I've had a bit of a journey when it comes to what kind of pen do I like to use now for a while, and I don't know why, I was incredibly, and to a fault, dedicated to your normal standard Bic pen pen. And when I say the Bic pen, I mean the one that you needed to apply like your entire body weight to so that the ink would come out. Like, this is the pen that they give you at the doctor's office. Like, there are no frills to it. And for a while I always felt like, that's the pen for me. That's just, that's the pen for me. I had a friend who said that they had a favorite pen and this was like a gel pen, ballpoint pen. And I thought, ugh, it's just too easy to write with. Where's the challenge? Where's the struggle? Because I think really what I wanted was, I wanted it to be a struggle. I wanted to have to put my entire body weight onto a piece of paper for the ink to come out. And I just felt like it can't be too easy. It just can't be too easy. Until I really started to think, I think we need to graduate. I don't think that this is a sustainable way to live, and I'm glad that I did. Now I have a notebook of choice, which I'm feeling like I don't know if this is the one for me anymore, but it's always a five star notebook. There's just something about it where it's the perfect size. I like the feel of the paper. If you, if you get it, you get it. If you don't, you don't. If you're. I still want to write in lined paper in lined notebook paper because I don't live in a lawless land. Like, I still want structure. I still want. These are the lines right on the lines. Because otherwise, you know, if you're just writing on a piece of loose leaf paper, it just. It's all over the place. I need lined notebook paper. Now back to the pens. So I started for a while using these Uni Ball Vision Elite pens. And I like them a lot. Like, oh, did you hear the click of that? Just feels good. Now I'm writing and it's. It's really smooth. I really do like it. And I always have this type of pen with me because now there is no going back. I've paid my dues. I've used that Bic pen for years. Like I said, I was dedicated to it. I do not get it. Do not know why. I just. I liked the feeling of really getting in there. And I don't need to do that anymore. I don't need to do that anymore. Recently, I started using the Pilot G2. What do I like about the Pilot G2? Now? It's a thicker sort of line that it makes. And I like that a lot. I really do like that a lot because I just. It's loud, it's proud, and that's just kind of where I stand. But I. I do feel like it. It doesn't glide as I'm. I'm like, writing in it now. Like gibberish. It doesn't glide. Let me go back to the Uniball. There's something about the Uni Ball where it glides. Click. It just glides nicely across the paper. There's just a lot of. Feels good. It feels really good, actually. So I don't know. I'm in a bit of a conundrum, you could say. But I'm just feeling like I need to kind of upgrade the situation a little bit. Moving along, I took a few notes on what I wanted to talk about. So we'll just kind of go through them and. And then we'll get to some voicemails. I was going to talk about a few of the shows that I'm watching. And in my notes I wrote trailers. Yeah, the famous show on Peacock Trailers did mean to write traitors, because that's what I wrote in the notes of what I was going to talk about. Let me talk about trailers. Didn't put anything in there aside from that. So Traitors Traders is quite Good. At first, Tom Sandoval was freaking me out. To just put it lightly, he was freaking me out. And in the most recent episode, I mean, what can you say? That was. It was genius work, the singing backwards. I mean, Dylan Efron is quite a good player. I'm a bit surprised. I don't know why I'm surprised. I just wasn't expecting it. But. But he got me. I love Gabby and I love, love Carolyn. And you know what? Danielle is so dramatic. I do love Danielle as well. But ride or die for Carolyn. She can mumble her way out of any situation and she's done that the entire season so far. A master class in skirting around any subject. I started White Lotus. You can always count on Mike White. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. You can always count on Mike White to deliver a White Lotus season of television. That's all there is to it. My number one takeaway after watching the first episode is that when I listened to Parker Posey talk for the very first time, I went. And that's how I know she nailed it. Something else I want to talk about is, is that I think AI is out of control. We know that. You know that. I know that. I'm sure you're wondering how did I come to this conclusion on my own? How did I get here? How did I arrive here? Well, I'll tell you how it happened. I was watching a TikTok and now these were all AI generated photos. I mean, I could tell that they were AI generated easily. Didn't even need to look twice. But in the corner. And it was. It was like this video was trying to use the green screen effect. So there's photos and then there's this small talking head in the corner of the video and the talking head in the corner of the video. I just want you to know off the bat, I know that this is an ad because there's like a product that you can buy, okay? The clues, they're all there. The signs are all there that this is not to be taken seriously. But. So the video starts with. It's this woman and it's. And she's in scrubs and that's the photo. And she's in a hospital hallway. And the talking head is this woman, where I can obviously tell this is an AI generated person speaking. Like, this is not a real person speaking. All of the clues that I'm finding are not clear enough. She starts speaking and she goes, I've been a coochie doctor for 13 years. And nobody believes me when I say this next slide, cucumber, lemon balm, and pineapple salad, will make your coochie taste amazing. And I could see that this video had, like, maybe half a million likes. And it had thousands of comments that made me really nervous. And when I opened the comments, I was right to be nervous because there were people asking this robot, what kind of lemon balm do you use? Does it matter if the cucumbers are cut or not? Asking real questions. And it wasn't until I got to the maybe 10th most liked comment that somebody said, this is obviously AI and it made me feel sick to my stomach. It is alarming how some people cannot tell something is AI. Now, this is a sad kind of story. I don't mean to bring the mood down, but I do want to share it. When I was young, let's say ages 10 to 13, one of my favorite snacks was a Slim Jim. And I loved eating Slim Jims. Delicious, salty, nutritious. Mmm. A big factor in liking a Slim Jim is that I could buy them at this concession stand, and they were a dollar. And so every time I had a dollar, I would splurge. I'm going to get a beefy treat, I thought to myself. And so whenever I could, I would get a Slim Jim. It was $1. $1 to get that high. I would do it, and I would enjoy this Slim Jim. I loved the tear of the wrapper. Just. I loved it all. And then one day, in the middle of eating a Slim Jim, I thought to myself, these are kind of disgusting. And once I thought the thought, it was over. I then could feel the barf forming. I could feel it kind of bubbling over, and I could feel like, whoa. I could feel it, like, coming up in my throat, and it was that quick. I just. I couldn't do it. I had to muscle through the little bit of Slim Jim that I just. I had in my mouth at that time because I didn't want to make a scene. I didn't want to spit it out, but I sure as hell didn't want to eat it. But at that point, I didn't have a choice. I was in way too deep. And I remember I swallowed that last piece of Slim Jim, and I thought, I don't think I can do this anymore. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I was at the grocery store yesterday, and someone was fiddling with the Slim Jims at the counter, and they dropped one on the floor, and I went to pick it up. And I just, I haven't felt that feeling in we're going on 20 plus years. I've been Slim Jim free and I'm just sharing the story to let you know that sometimes life comes at you quite quickly. And sometimes your favorite food, which, which is a heavily processed meat snack, sometimes you just can't eat that anymore. And I think that it's for the greater good. It's scary out there. It's really scary out there. Something else I've been seeing that I want to talk about is I think we need to stop celebrating ill fitting clothes as good fashion. Stop that. I just don't really approve of it. I am not a fan of the baggy untailored pants with suit jacket dressed up look, as I say from my sweatshirt that says creature across the chest. Now would be a good time to get to our first voicemail. Please leave your message after the tone.
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I don't know if you remember, I'm sure you do, your celery juice era. But I'll never forget that Covid time where, you know, you were forcing celery juice down your throat. And I was just curious, is that still something that you partake in or you know, how are you keeping yourself healthy and what have your. What are your current habits you've been into? Thank you so much.
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Well, first, you're welcome. So much. I vividly remember in the pandemic I was heavy into the celery juice and I don't really know the point of the celery juice, but I will tell you that the first few days that I was drinking it, I did feel like this could be the end. Now, the thing about the celery juice that I wasn't told and I did have to kind of find out on my own, was that you absolutely will have violent diarrhea. And I didn't know that. I didn't know that. So in a way it was an incredible blessing that I was home and I had no nowhere to go because I didn't know that. I was just told that the heavy metals would leave my body. I just wasn't told that they would leave my body as a liquid out of my ass. I that part I wasn't told. I was just told about the heavy metals, about the copper and about the aluminum. Like I was told about that stuff, but I wasn't told about the way that it would be expelled would be vicious. So needless to say, I'm not doing the celery juice anymore. It wasn't because of the violence that had ensued in my own body. It was just because got bored, Got really bored of doing it, which is kind of a typical me thing to do. You asked, are there any new health things that I'm doing? Well, I did a new health thing yesterday that I would love to share with you. And it is that instead of having a glass of water with lemon in it, I put an entire lemon with the peel, everything in the blender and blended it into its own lemon liquid. Are you following at all? And it was good. I am afraid of it. I only had half of it. The other half of it is still in the refrigerator. I'm afraid of it because as I'm drinking it, I can feel like the enamel of my teeth eroding. And so I am afraid to be drinking that consistently. Maybe I will drink it consistently. I doubt it. I think I'll have it once in a while. It's not bad, but it's acidic. I think the only health thing that's kind of stuck is red light. Now, I want you to know that when you see the kids out there wearing their red light masks, I'm watching those videos going amateur because I have a red light panel that gets plugged into the wall. So I don't really mess around with the red light. It's a heavy panel. Because I am just a believer that being plugged into the wall means strength. And being on a battery pack is less strength. And if you think about it, it's right. And when I plug that thing in, the entire floor of my home does look like I am being abducted. I have turned the panel on and gone to the street and seen the red light coming out of all the windows. So it does absolutely look in sane all that to say red light is sort of the only health thing that I've been doing for a little while now. Am I doing it every day? Absolutely not. I'm forgetting it for weeks on end. But then I'll do it every day like it's my job. And then again I will forget about it for weeks, months. But I am always coming back to it eventually. Please leave your message after the tone.
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I think if Trader Joe's is your preferred grocery store, then you have the palate of a child. I'm not saying for those who it's their only grocery store, the only accessible one. I'm saying if you will go out of your way to go to Trader Joe's and hear me out. It's all processed food. You try to get a vegetable, never going to find a fresh One, it's all processed, all frozen. And there's nothing wrong with having a fun Trader Joe's evening, but if that's your preferred, I think you have to learn how to cook and grow up. I'd love to hear your take on that. Thank you. Goodbye.
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Now, I'm gonna say this is strongly worded, but I also strongly agree. The thing about Trader Joe's is when I think of Trader Joe's, I think this is where I can get nuts. This is where I can get cheese. This is where I can get mustard. This is where I can get ketchup. And that is. Is it. Those are your only consistent and reliable products at Trader Joe's. That's what I think. That's what I think. Now, do I love the frozen dumplings and that frozen quinoa dinner thing? Yeah, I think that's great. But I have to agree that I do think if Trader Joe's is your grocery store of choice, like primary grocery store. Yeah. It's one step above having Dino chicken tenders every day. I know that's harsh. I know you don't want to hear that, but I'm going to have to agree with the caller. When it comes to the produce at Trader Joe's, I have a theory, and the theory is that Trader Joe's must hire someone who drives a Ford F150. And they drive this F150 behind an 18 wheeler that has produce for your local grocery stores. And this Ford F150 follows this 18 wheeler around, and every time they open the back of the 18 wheeler and 3, 4, 5 apples fall out of the truck, that person gets out of the truck, they pick those apples up and they put them in their trunk. Now, this is my theory. Never been proven, never been tested. Every fresh b vegetable and fruit that they're selling at Trader Joe's looks like it's been through hell and back. Those bananas are not bruised, they're battered. Now, I honestly believe that if you're going to do fruit at Trader Joe's, this is where they shine is when it comes to the dried fruit, the dried cherries. Perfection. Dried mango. Incredible. You get snacks at Trader Joe's, right? You don't. You go to Trader Joe's to shop and then you go to a real grocery store to get groceries. I don't think that you're ever getting groceries at a Trader Joe's. Is it possible? Maybe. I've never seen it done, though. But you can get a damn good snack at Trader Joe's. Those green tea Mochi ice cream balls. My God, the mini sheet cakes. Unfortunately, those are incredible. Trader Joe's does have a place in the developed world, but like I said, you're gonna get great cheese. You're gonna get great nuts. I feel like one more. One more voicemail. Please leave your message after the tone. I'd like to hear your take on voice text, like leaving a message and making people listen to it. Because I think you might share my opinion and I'd just be curious to hear. Thanks so much. When you're saying I think you might share my opinion, I am leaning towards you thinking I'm gonna have a negative opinion, which I do and I don't. Let me explain. There's a time and a place for it and I know exactly what kind of message you are talking about. It's like the voice notes send as a text message. Now, like I said, I believe there's a time and a place for it. I feel like if you're in the middle of a text conversation with someone and you're actively going back and forth, then it is okay to send a text voice message. And when that's the case, I do like to do that because sometimes I want to tell a story, but I need to tell it with some inflection. And I need to make sure that the reader of these text messages is understanding completely the way in which it should be read and performed. And sometimes I can't guarantee that the reader will do that. So I need to perform it myself and I need to record my voice and send that. I think that that is totally acceptable because it's not taking anyone by surprise. I don't like when the voice text messages take me by surprise. We haven't talked in weeks and I get a voice message. I am not going to check that. I need to be in the right frame of mind and I can't always guarantee that I'll be in the right headspace to hear your performance. So when these come out of nowhere, that's where I do draw the line. That's where I do go. I wish you really would have given me a heads up about this because I don't know if this is something that I can put on my plate today. I don't know if this is something I can handle. And I'd like to imagine that we're on the same page. It's all about the context and the timing. I love to send a good voice text message when the time is right. And I can feel that out. And a lot of people can't and that's a problem. It's a serious problem. On that note, thank you so much for listening to this episode of the podcast by Adam Rippon. I am Adam Rippon. Make sure that you leave us a five star review on whatever platform you listen to your podcasts on. And if you'd like to call in and leave us a voicemail, you can. Our number is 310-909-9717. What can I say? It's been a blast. It's been real. And we'll see you here next week.