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Foreign. Hello everyone and welcome to Intrusive Thoughts. I'm your host, Adam Rippon. It is such a pleasure to be here today. If you are a listener of the podcast, you'll know that at times I will say it's 11pm, it's midnight, it's 1am and we're starting to record right now. And today is actually not one of those days. It's actually one of the opposites. I myself am a self described night owl and today I am recording the podcast at an hour that I do not appreciate. I don't appreciate it enough. I know it exists, I acknowledge it. But I don't want to to acknowledge it. If any of this makes sense to you. I am recording the podcast today at. I started collecting my thoughts at around 6:30 this morning. I'll tell you why it is my nightmare to record anything around the hour of 7am and it's my nightmare because like I'm not warmed up. You know what I mean? My vocal cords, that aside, it's like my mind just feels like a bowl of oatmeal. Like it just is a mush. It's a mush. Like a singular mush. So that's just like where I am. But how did I find myself in this predicament? Well, it's easier to get here than you'd think. So what happened was that I, well, long story short, kind of lost track of time. But it wasn't my fault. It was the fault of the holiday. Memorial Day. That's what really got me. And what happened? Well, oh God, it's at 7am this is what I mean. We're gonna, we're warming up together and. But this is the other thing about what I'm about to do and say that I am up this early. One for two reasons, because I need to record. It's a promise that I've made to the world, the entire world is that I'll record. I made that promise to the, to everyone. And so I have to follow through. And aside from that is that usually I will record on like a Tuesday and God forbid, a Wednesday show release on Thursday, you know, if you, if you know, you know. And what happened was I just forgot that Monday existed because of the holiday. And then I realized it existed when today was happening Wednesday because I'm like, oh, I'm getting a notification that my flight is today. No, I'm traveling. Did I mention that? I'm not sure. I don't know. Okay, so basically, long story short, actually, long story makes sense. Please to Anybody. Because I don't know if this is making sense. Basically, here's the. Here's the deal. I am not a morning person. I'm recording this episode in the morning, and I'm recording it in the morning because I didn't realize yesterday is usually the day that I record in the afternoon because of Memorial Day. That's it. So. So basically, whatever the first, like, few minutes of this episode were, I've explained to you now. I've, like, summarized it in about, like, a shorter span of time. Hopefully you appreciate having the two versions, right. To kind of pick and choose from of how you got that information of how we got here. But something I mentioned, and I'll go back to it, is that I am traveling today and I am traveling to go to my sister's wedding. And what I, um. I'm. Additionally, what I'm excited about this trip is that I get to do it with my husband. And we actually have not traveled together probably in, like, a year. Usually. Like, I think last year, the only time we traveled together was he. Okay, yes. This is how it went. He went to Finland. I went a few weeks later, and then we traveled home together. So we only did, like, the half of the trip together. And so that's the last time we, like, traveled together. And I was thinking about it because I was traveling last week. You know, you're just, like, walking through. You know, I'm looking for my strawberry milk out of Hudson News, and I'm walking through the airport. I'm like, oh, this would be fun to do with somebody. And it's sort of like, careful what you wish for. It will come true. And so it's coming true today. So we are traveling together to go to my sister's wedding. I am not packed literally at all. Behind me currently, I have, like, a suit that I'm planning to wear. Not like, it's like a jacket and pants. I wouldn't even go as far as saying suit. The wedding is in Pennsylvania, which. Okay, we got a. Some text messages about, like, last week on the show. I was talking about how some people consider Pennsylvania the Midwest, which I completely disagree with. Somebody told me that Pennsylvania is considered mid Atlantic. Okay, that makes sense to me. You know, it's not coast. It's not the East Coast. It's not the coast. You know, it's the Keystone State. It's landlocked. The Mid Atlantic state. These are just things I've never heard of before. You know, I've only heard of East, Midwest, West. Those are the only Three I heard of because we had another listener text me and say, and if I could find it, I would read it. You know, this is the. The problem with doing the show at 7am Is that if you thought I was usually ill prepared for the show when I was recording later in the day or at all in general, just wait. Just wait for this episode. If some of these episodes, like, they lack factual content, this will lack the most. It'll be the most in factual, and that's okay. And at the same time, right now I'm thinking of, how about we do this? I know that in episodes prior to this, I'm like, I really want to touch base on pop culture things first. I don't know if that's going to happen today. I don't know if that's going to happen today because I'm going to use the podcast as sort of like a checklist of things that I need to make sure that I have done. And I think, like, as my friends, you guys are going to want to help me with that. You guys are going to want to help me with that. I sort of heard myself say that and was like, I hate that. Okay, so here's what we need to do. We need to make sure that the dog's food is prepared. Okay. We're going to talk this out loud together. Okay. If this makes this. This might actually be like a goobly goop. This is an episode. I'm already sorry. Like, I'm sorry about. I'm sorry for this. It. It. It is what it is, and I am sorry. Okay, we. Let me just go through the whole itinerary. Hey. This morning we are awake. That's the first step. We need to pack, and then we need to drop the dogs off at daycare, which half of them love. And when I say half, I mean we have two dogs. One of them loves it. The other one is like, don't do this. Tracy being the one who is like, don't do this, Tony. We could leave him there and he'd be like, I've had such a good life. Thank you for everything. You don't need to come back. I'm good here. So they are going to eat breakfast. They're going to eat. Today's Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, we come back on Saturday. Okay? So they need. They need two dinners, and they need Thursday, Friday, two dinners and three breakfasts. Okay. Each imagine I'm like, only for one of them. That works. If I'm listening downstairs, I feel like my husband's on it already. He's probably, like, why aren't you helping? Well, you know what? I've got a job to do. And listen, we've all got our different posts that we need to attend to, and right now, this is the one that I'm choosing. Could I have done this podcast yesterday? Yes, I could have, but what was stopping me? Well, I got completely thrown off by Memorial Day because I treated Memorial Day as if it were a Sunday. So just, like, the whole week felt like it went awry. You know, there was nothing kind of I could do about it. Right in front of me, I have a bell. It's to cleanse the energy around me, but, like, I also don't want to annoy the people that I live with, so I haven't rung it yet. So that's the first time I've ever rung that bell in my house. But I do have it here. I want you to just. I also want you to know what I have going on around me. Also, behind me, almost every piece of clothing I own is just, like, sprawled out. And, you know, that's sort of what I'm doing with that at the moment. It's sprawled out because I have to pack. Have I packed anything? Okay, we've. We've done the dogs, so now we know. Three breakfasts, two dinners each. So basically, the. It's. And I want you to know, like, I'm not, like, okay, let's go, like, scramble egg. Like, they're getting the same food for every meal, and they love it. No complaints. So five meals. They need five meals each. Noted. Okay, so here. Here's the deal of what's happening today. And today, if you haven't, like, guessed it already, this will be a shorter episode because I'm running completely late. You know, I have to be on a plane in a few hours. Have I packed anything? No, of course not. No, no, no. I'm listening to my dog scratch his ear, and it's beautiful. All right, I have to get back on track. I also have, like, not taken my ADHD medication yet, which, like, actually would have been, I don't know, helpful or. I don't. Who knows? We'll never know because I'm already too far deep into this to. To go. No, we're going to start over, because there is no time to start over. We've got to push through. Oh, my God. Wait, Let's talk spa for a few minutes. So everything at the spa has been going well. We've been open for about, like, a month. Ish. Now, at this point, and we. I think I mentioned in the last episode that we're having like a grand opening. It's on June 9th. And I created this, like, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Eventbrite. It's basically like a platform where you can sell tickets or you can like create an event. And. And it's a free event and people get tickets to the event, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Okay. So basically I decided that I was going to create an event on a Bentbrite so I could just get an idea of like the amount of people that were coming. And I thought that, like a nice goal would be like 50 people to come to the opening because it's not like we don't have a big space, but like, I'm. I thought that, you know, people be in and out, it's for like a few hours. They're not going to stay for like all three or four hours of it. But like, within the first, I don't know, day of just posting about the grand opening, we sold out again. The tickets are free. Okay. We sold out all of the tickets. So I added more. So I added like 25 more tickets so we could have 75 tickets to the opening. And so if you are in the Los Angeles, Southern California area, I did add some more tickets. I would love to see you at the opening. Uh, we have a bunch of people who listen to the podcast who've come in who are now clients of the Atami. And I just want to say they look better than ever. They do. They really do look better than ever. But I added more tickets to the grand opening on June 9th in Arcadia, California. So if you are around and you were trying to get tickets and they were sold out again, they were free and they were sold out. There are now some available. So please go, go ahead and get them. And again, would love to see. You should come and see it. I talk about this freaking place all the time. Anyway, back to the trip and thanks for coming in preparation. I have tried to. Now I'm still talking about the spa. I've tried to, like, figure out how to do a few, like, DIY things. Right. One of those things is I have invested in a balloon hump. I don't know if pump is the right word. Pump makes it feel like I'm doing the thing. It's like a blower. It was like $20 and it blows balloons for you. It's. It is. I thought it'd be one of those things where it's like you buy it on Amazon you're like, okay, I'll return this. I'm not going to return this. I'm going to keep this. This is going to be a family heirloom. I'm going to pass this down from generation to generation, because I know and I have learned a little bit. Like, have I ever done it? No. Have I seen it been done? Yes. And have I kind of tested out the theory? Yes. And what I'm talking about is making a balloon arch. Now, a balloon arch, they roughly go for about, I don't know, I've never purchased one. Let me just take a stab in the dark. I know that they're expensive. 300 to $500 maybe. I don't know. Maybe they're like, it's $10. I don't know. I actually have no idea. But I know that they can be a few hundred bucks. And I was like, there's gotta be a DIY way. So I. And I wanna learn, right? Like, I wanna. I'm gonna reach out and see how much it is, because I also want it to, like, look professional. So I'll reach out and I'll figure it out. But I was like, I want to know, just in case, just to, like, have the skill in my back pocket, am I able to make a balloon arch? I do believe I have the tools and I have the knowledge and I have the eye. And those are the three most important things. The most important thing, I think, people being the eye of the beholder and of the balloon artist. So I feel like I do have the kind of skill and craft to become a balloon arch artist. That's sort of what's going on in my world. No, I know. I. I know that I made sort of, like a pact to myself and to, like, everybody who listens to the show that I would, like, let's start off with the pop culture. I have not. I have no idea what's going on in the world. All right? It is. Unless it involves Zurf neurotoxin or microneedling. At this point in time, I could not tell you anything about it. Or my sister's wedding. Actually, even my sister's wedding. I can't tell you anything about because I don't remember anything. So that. That is why I'm going to walk through the itinerary of today for me and for you, so that you know what's happening. We will be driving to lax. We get to lax, we will be flying to Pennsylvania, the mid Atlantic state of Pennsylvania. We'll be flying to Pennsylvania. Well, that's Actually not true. We'll be flying to Atlanta, then we're flying to Newark, then we're driving to Pennsylvania. We're staying. We're gonna get there like really early, like 2 o' clock in the morning or something. And we're doing all this because I mentioned the dogs are going to boarding. Like I said, Tony loves it. Tracy, not so much. So we wanted to make sure that she wasn't there like any longer than she had to be. So that's why we're doing like a condensed trip. Got it, Got it. So where was I? I was in a fugue state and I'm about to kind of like make get out of it. And I'm going to explain to you what is happening. Okay, we're flying to lax. Atlanta, Atlanta, Newark, Newark. We drive. We drive to Pennsylvania. We get there around 2 o' clock in the morning. It's like I can't even stare at the camera. I have to like, look forward to like really remember what's happening. Go to Pennsylvania. Two o' clock in the morning. We sleep. Right now, this is a Thursday that's happening. We Thursday, we wake up kind of like midday, let's say like 10 o', clock, 11 o', clock, we get a little bit of shut eye. 10 o', clock, 11 o, clock, we wake up, we see everybody. I see my family. Family. Hi. Like, we do all that. Then we have like a welcome dinner. So we do welcome dinner with like both. With people, you know. Have I like read the itinerary at all? No, I have the gist of it. We do welcome dinner. We go to bed. Wedding is on the Friday. Okay. Now, because we will be going back on Saturday, this is what we've decided. J.P. and I will start to get ready for the wedding. Then we will check out of the hotel. We will put our stuff into the car. We will do the wedding. Aw. Happy wedding. We will do the wedding. Wedding is going to be over roughly around 9 or 10. At that point we will get into the car and we will drive to the Newark airport. We'll drop the car off, we'll stay the night at some hotel, whatever, like in the area close by to the hotel or something. I don't know. Actually, I do know. I like, I made all the reservations. I did this. My, like, this isn't shocking that I was able to figure this out. So then we will drive back to the airport and then we will lie sometime that day. Yeah, yeah. It's gonna be a whirlwind. It will be a mid Atlantic trip from hell. And I can't wait. I really can't wait. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. I don't know if I mentioned this, but this is the first time JP and I are gonna do, like, a trip together. Like, front to back. Like, we're traveling to somewhere and home from somewhere together in a really long time. We haven't done this probably, like, years. I feel like the last time we traveled somewhere together, like, via aircraft was. I mean, a year ago, JP went to Finland, and I went a few weeks later, I was there, and then we flew home together. That sort of counts. But I feel like the like to and from is what really counts. And. Yeah, so we have not done that in a really long time, and I'm actually quite excited. Okay, now let's talk close. I'm actually using this podcast, this episode, because, like, I do actually this is going to be the shortest episode we've ever done. And it's only so that I can just touch base with it. I am going to, like, literally, I'm going to burn out. I know that. And I'm. I. Now this podcast episode turns into, like, one of the longest ones. I missed the flight. Am. I'm not gonna burn out. Before anyone gets worried, I might, though, like, I'm really, like, I am burning the candle at both ends. I don't know if that's the saying. I just feel like I'm, like, always a little bit behind. This is the. Okay, here's the deal. This is the last trip. That's not true. This is the last trip I'm doing for the next few weeks. And I feel like I. You know what threw me off Memorial Day? Whatever, because I forgot I didn't memorialize that it was on a Monday. And so it made it feel like now I feel like I'm one day behind on everything. I'm not packed, by the way. All right, let's talk close. Okay, basically, we are flying today. Today is a Wednesday morning. We are flying today. We arrive Thursday, like, midnight. Okay? So let's just assume Thursday midnight. So we're going to need Thursday outfit. So we need Thursday outfit. And then Friday is wedding. So we need, like, Friday morning casual wear. And then we need outfit, and then we need Saturday outfit. So we need three outfits for, like, your wares and walkings. Right? So we need three wearable outfits. Okay? That means three underwear. Three. I'm not even around. I'm not bringing gym clothes. It's not gonna happen. I'm not doing that on this trip, I'm not even fooling around with the idea that, like, maybe I'll work out. You're not gonna work out. It's not gonna happen. Don't bring the clothes. I do this every fucking time. I'm not going to do it this time. Okay, and we are going to do everything bare bones. Okay. All right, let's think this through. What am I going to wear on the plane? I'm going to wear black. Something on the plane. How about that? I'm a big believer wearing black on the plane. It just. No matter what happens, it's like if you don't wear black on the plane, you get up and you're like, I sat on chocolate. Like, it just. It always happens. Or you're like, how did ketchup get there? Like, it just. That don't. Don't fool around with anything. Don't fool around with anything. As I'm saying. So I'm not playing those games. I'm not doing that. I'm wearing black on the plane. Let's just assume that whatever I wear on the plane there, I'll wear relatively the same thing home. So that's an outfit. So I need a Thursday outfit for the welcome dinner. Let's just. And we'll work it out right now. Let's just do like a nice jean. And I don't want to wear a sweater. Maybe I'll wear. Okay, I'm going to wear a sweater. I'm going to do a jean and a sweater. I'm seeing packing right now. This is actually fantastic. Okay, I'm going to do a jean and a sweater. Then I will do a. Let's do a hoodie for a Friday pre wedding kind of get together like a cozy, like, oh, good morning. Like. So let's do that. So we'll do a hoodie in the same jean. Okay, so we're bringing a jean, a sweater, a hoodie, a T shirt. Let's do two T shirts just in case. It's sort of like, how did that get there? If you're talking about anything, like, you spill a lemonade. Oh, no. It's like, just get your other T shirt. Okay, two T shirts, hoodie, sweater, a jean. I'm doing a travel pant. I will do the same travel pant. Going home. So I'm in one of the pants that I'm wearing. I'm only bringing one jean, one hoodie, one sweater and wedding outfit. The wedding outfit needs shoes, a belt, a shirt. I have all of those over there. That's correct. Yes. You need your jewelry. I'll bring my iPad. Ah, that'll be fun. I'm bringing an iPad, not computer. The computer is too big to travel with. I'm not, like, dealing with any of that here. Sorry. I will bring a tripod. A tiny one. A little tripod. Okay, so in review, I am bringing an iPad. I need AirPods. Are they charged? Not sure. Let's bring medication to stay focused. I actually feel like I'm doing a good job right now. Do I need to bring acne control cleanser? I do. So I'll put that right here. Acne control cleanser. I need readers. I'm wearing some. Do I need a lotion? No. See, now this is where it could get a little hairy of, like, should I tan myself while I'm there? Huh? Let me figure that out when I get to the bathroom stuff. Because I am going to try to bare bones the bathroom stuff too. But I've already decided. Three underwear. Three. Three socks, a jean, Two T shirts, a sweater, a hoodie. That's what I need to put into a suitcase. I can do that in five minutes. Two minutes. If I was under a time crunch, which I am. Okay, so now we know what we're packing there. And then technology. We're just bringing phone, iPad, iPhone. AirPods. Done. That's what we're doing with technology. We need to make sure that we have. That means only one USB C wire, right? So it's like I'm checking off everything on list. So we just need USB C wire. Great. I need charging block. I need char. I'm like a caveman now talking about things. I need charging block. Okay, so we need a charging block. I'm looking around. What else? That is it. Maybe I bring, like, one. Let's add a. Like a. A yoga set, right? Like, add a yoga set. So it's like if you need casual, like, around the hotel room, walking wear. So we do one yoga set, a jean, your pants, two T shirts, a hoodie, a sweater. And I'm actually. I'm thinking about the outfit I'm gonna wear for the opening dinner, and I actually don't like it. But it doesn't really matter if I like it or not because it's what I'm packing. And I didn't give myself enough time to kind of rebuttal any of this. So I think I'm gonna hop to. And, you know, I'm. There was nothing in this episode that's like, whatever. This was just a touching base. I wanted you to know That I forgot that Monday happened. I wanted you to also know that I have a flight in a few hours that I haven't packed for. I have five meals to prepare for both of the dogs. Ten meals to prepare. That'll take a second. Believe me, it will not be a long time. And I am gonna go. So it's a shorter episode today, but I just want you to know that I would never skip it, even if it meant that I could miss a flight or my husband's probably gonna get mad at me that I haven't. Like, he's like, where have you been all morning? Anyway, it's the price that you pay for starting to record at 7am which I would never in a million years recommend. But, like, I have no idea, like, what I talked about on this episode. Don't remember a thing. But I do feel that, like, in some sort of way I kept the tempo and the pace up. So in summation, I would like to say thank you to everybody who's coming to the grand opening of the Atami. If you would like to go. I got more tickets. Were sold out, right? They were free. But there are more tickets, so go get them if you're in the area. I would love to see you. I have to go. Go get. I have to go get packed. As I was gonna say, I have to go and get packed, but I know what I'm packing now and this is sort of how my mind works. It's like, if you say it out loud, it's like stuck in my brain. And so now I already know. Two T shirts, jeans, a sweater, a hoodie, three underwear, three socks, yoga wear. That is sort of the name of the game and that is sort of the name of the episode. I promise we're going to do another, like, voicemails, text messages pretty soon. It's not happening today. Absolutely not. And that is that. Also, I'm looking. I need to do like another follow up with my psychiatrist. I will let you know that, like the $25 I mentioned before in this podcast. We'll talk about this later, actually. Okay. Basically I'm going to say that, like, I showed up to an appointment, the psychiatrist was not there. And then I recently just got charged for a cancellation of the appointment that I showed up to that they did not show up to. I have a bone to pick with. And it's, it's not like I'm going to like get into like a heated argument, but I am going to go, hey, I showed up to the appointment and you didn't so then why am I getting a cancellation fee? You know, I just, I'm putting that out there because I'm, like, looking at the. The pills in front of me and I'm like, oh, right. So I just, you know, I'm going to touch more on this a bit later. But basically, like I said that this psychiatrist I started going to because they're covered by my insurance and I pay $25 copay, so. But I have also mentioned that I feel like I'm getting a 25 experience, which is like a hundred percent true. I'm getting a 25 experience. That's causing. That's. That's costing me $150 when they cancel. One jean, two T shirts, a sweater, a hoodie, a yoga wear. I'm remembering it. I'm, like, staying on pace. I feel that, like, I can be packed in the next 10 minutes. All right, you know what? Let's just see how it goes. I love you so much. Please, if you have any intrusive thoughts or things that you'd like to share with me or our listeners, you can call or text the podcast hotline at 310-90-9717. Again, that number is 310-90-9717. My name is Adam Rippon, and these have been my intrusive thoughts. I'll see you guys when I am back from the mid Atlantic state of Pennsylvania. Love you. See you next week. Bye.