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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts. I am your host, Adam Rippon.
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I want to start this episode off and say happy Thanksgiving to everyone, every single person in the world. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the whole world.
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I hope that you had a great holiday. I.
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I know that, like, the deep breath that I'm taking right before I'm describing my holiday is gonna make it seem like, oh, what happened? Honestly, kind of nothing, which is good. I. I'm. I'm gonna just say this. I know what I'm about to say is maybe not.
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I don't know if this is a hot take more than just like a bad one, but I don't really like Thanksgiving for no particular reason. Reason. I just don't like the idea of.
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Of eating all day. I don't know. There's just something. I just cannot get behind it like a holiday. And I know that, that Thanksgiving is not about that. Do you know what I mean? It's about the dog show that's on every year that I usually put on when I panic. Google a recipe that I say is. I say it in quotes, a family recipe, when really it's just like a recipe from like11lemons.com where they talk about, you know, how to pickle things. That's what I'm doing, like, in a. In a very hasty situation. But I'm watching the dog show. That's what Thanksgiving's about. And being with your family.
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But in my family now. I almost lost my voice there. Don't worry. I have it.
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In my. So I'll tell you, like, my history with Thanksgiving is this. Is that.
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When I was competing, like, the most important time of our season is around this time of year. So I was really never going home for Thanksgiving. Like, that wasn't really ever in the cards for me because I'm. I live on the west coast, but my family is like, all on the East Coast. So I was always kind of, like, doing my own thing on Thanksgiving, like, maybe going to, like, a friend's family's house or doing something with, like, a roommate or some other friends or something, you know, like, so it was never this really important family thing. And now in my life, my husband is from Finland, so he has no connection to, like, Thanksgiving at all, obviously, like, the first year that he was here, because we were long distance for the first, like, few years that we were together, that the first year that we could celebrate Thanksgiving together, I did, like, pull out all the stops.
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I will back up and say all the stops where I made stuffing and I bought those King's Hawaiian rolls. And to me, that was every stop I could have pulled.
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And now when I'm saying that out loud, I'm going, that's. That's it. I think I also made, like, sweet potatoes because I wanted a way to eat brown sugar that. That day, which is kind of all the sweet potato was there for. It's just like, the sweet potato is just a vessel to eat brown sugar. But this Thanksgiving.
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I kind of just did nothing. I didn't have a mental breakdown, but I did have a mental disconnect from reality on that day, which I really needed. Um, I've been, like, so busy with the medical spa, and I was traveling for a little bit. I mentioned I was in Lake Placid, and I've just gotten, like, back into the groove, and I've just been, like, working a lot, and the Olympics are. Are coming up, like, very quickly, so there's just, like, a lot for me to do in prep for that. And so I was just like. And now you want me to eat turkey? Do you want me to have tryptophan on top of everything I have to do already? I don't. I don't think so. I really just don't think so. And so I decided that I was going to.
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Leave the meal to JP because he was like, I want to make a. A roast. I said, okay, great, knock your socks off, because I will not be participating in the making of any meats this holiday season. I don't know if I have it in me. And I didn't. I'm glad that I kind of relayed that responsibility to my spouse, because it was just. It wasn't going to happen for me. It wasn't going to happen for us. And so I said, you know what? I'm going to do something. I'm going to contribute something, because I don't want to look back on this calendar year and be like, you did nothing on Thanksgiving.
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Because you don't have any emotional connection to it. Well, that's wrong, right? I didn't want to do that. So I said, you know, I'm going to make two things. I'm going to make two desserts. And one of the desserts I made was I saw this obviously online because that's where crippling addiction kind of comes stems from, is from you pick it up online. And I was scrolling, scrolling, and I saw somebody overreact to the taste of some sort of dessert, obviously, which is like one of the most famous reactions one can have to anything that they make or post online is to overreact to it. And this specific recipe, recipe is, I say that so lightly because you're, you'll hear me explain. It was cranberries that you soak in a 7Up or Sprite sort of mixture overnight for like 24 hours and then the following day you will drain the 7Up Sprite concoction. Sometimes you do like 50% Sprite, 50% orange juice. I, I, that even that was like too much effort for me. Like I said, like not mental breakdown, but like mental disconnect from reality. And my reality did not include orange juice when I was collecting the ingredients again, ingredients, a loose term for the recipe. Second loose term that I was making this again. Third loose term, Thanksgiving. Right. So no orange juice. You can do that as a, at a 50, 51 part orange juice, one part 7Up, which I wasn't going to do. And does 7Up even exist anymore? Because I had to get a starry and I did a diet starry, which I feel like I needed to do. Regular, full on sugar starry.
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Okay, well, we'll get there. It works out in the end. But like I'm in this moment troubleshooting what I should have done better or different.
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So then you take those, the drain that soda mixture, liquid saturator marinating liquid, and then you mix the cranberries up with a powdered sugar and then you put them in the oven at like 200 degrees for about like seven or eight minutes. And they are, it's delicious. Okay. Like that putting them in the oven just like hardens the outside and the powdered sugar like combats the tartness of the cranberry. So it's amazing. It really is.
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It's nothing to write home about. It's nothing to be like, I made this recipe. It's just like you put a bunch of cranberries in soda Overnight and cover them in sugar the next day. Like, that's not a recipe. That's a craft.
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And when I say craft, I mean, like, arts and crafts. Not like it took any skill. Like a craft. Right.
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It's like a diy. Nothing to write home about, as I mentioned. So that was the one thing. And the next thing was sort of in my mind. I felt like, well, I can make a chocolate cream pie.
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Okay? So I got a pie crust, which I obviously, like, did not have the wherewithal to, like. Like, Google how to make a pie cr. Like, like, I wasn't gonna do that. Like, smash graham crab. Like, no, no, no, no. Had to draw a line somewhere. I had to put up a wall.
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And build the wall. That was the kind of the theme for my Thanksgiving. And the wall was, like, against doing anything for it.
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So I got a piecrust, the Keebler elf kind of brand, which is. Keebler is the brand. Don't know why I brought the elves into it, because they're, like, on the label. So that's why. And.
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I was like, well, then what do you do? You just make pudding, which I love pudding. And I've. I've made pudding before. It's just like that. Especially instant pudding, right? Instant pudding is just milk and mixture. Like scrub, scrub, nut, scrub, mix, mix, mix, scrub, scrub, scrub, mix, mix, mix. Wait, five, and you're done. That's just pudding. Like, I don't understand the science or how that kind of comes to be, but it is what it is. So I was like, okay, you just put. Putting in the Keebler PI Thing and done. That's kind of what I thought. But what ended up happening was I made it, and it was, like, too thin. I should have probably used, like, doing what it said to make pudding. So basically, I made, like, soup that got. Went. Got put on top of a graham cracker. Delicious. Just not aesthetically pleasing in any sort of way. Actually, whatever the opposite of pleasing would be, it was aesthetically displeasing, if I had to be honest. But it did taste delicious. You know, it tasted like pudding and chocolate graham cracker. So there was no losing there.
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But there was no winning with the way that it looked. So I really did not contribute anything to the Thanksgiving dinner, except for on the Thanksgiving Day.
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Well, let me back up before we get to Thanksgiving Day, JP Wanted to make a roast, but then he decided he wanted to make, like, a stew. So he made the stew on Wednesday and was like, should we just eat some of it now? And I Was like, shouldn't we wait till Thanksgiving? And he said, why? And I went.
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You'Re right. What do you. What do you say to somebody being correct? So we had Thanksgiving stew on Wednesday. And so then by Thursday, I was like, should we just have the stew again? He was like, if you want. We were both disconnected from the reality of what Thanksgiving was. I don't. It's just not. It's whatever. The pilgrims, like, do we need to talk about them?
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I also. I'm gonna tell you what really this stems from, is that, like, when I was in preschool, I went to Step up preschool with Mrs. Hodge and Mrs. Pesina. I think that those are the names that I called them. Were they. Were those the real names? I don't know if, like, that's just, like, my kid brain, but those were my teachers at Step Up Preschool, and we had to choose if we wanted to be a Pilgrim or an Indian. Please bear with me. It was 1995 when I was in preschool. Okay, that's. I'm just telling you what the choices were. I'm not telling you that I made them.
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And I chose.
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I wanted to be a Native American. Right. I'm updating the kind of culture on it now. But the only reason.
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Actually. Wait, no, no, no, no. Everyone in my class raised their hand because they wanted to make, like, a vest out of a cardboard bag. Okay. But I didn't hear what they were raising their hand for. So they all got to be Native Americans, obviously. You know, it's not a good look now. They made feathers, whatever. I guess I kind of knew into the future because then I realized that they were asking what you wanted to be. And so then they said, okay, everybody who wants to be a pilgrim, raise your hand, and it's me and, like, two other snotty nosed preschoolers. And I'm like, what are we raising our hands to? And then that's when I realized that I was sort of tricked, but only because I wasn't listening into being being a Pilgrim. And I was furious. I cried.
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Which wasn't uncommon for me to do in preschool. I'll be honest. I cried when I got home from preschool because I wanted to make a paper bag vest like everyone else. I cried that whole day, the whole next day when everybody was cutting out their vest. Cried the whole day because I had to make a giant, like, comically sized collar out of cardboard, paper, and a hat with a buckle. I hated everything about it. Still, to this day, I get shivers down my spine thinking of having to make that Ugly pilgrim fucking hat. In preschool, I cried all that day. I. And you know what?
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I was right to cry. It was an ugly fucking thing I had to make. And ever since then I've just really not liked Thanksgiving.
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And that's the truth. And I know sometimes the truth hurts and in this case, sometimes the truth doesn't make any sense, but it makes sense to me. And that is sort of what really does matter in this scenario. So ever since that moment at Step up preschool when I didn't realize I should have been raising my hand to be, as they put it, hey, I'm sorry about it, Indian.
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I did raise my hand to be a pilgrim.
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Horrible. If I wish I could find a picture of this. I, I don't think that there's a picture of me from that day that I don't have like bright glowing red eyes from sobbing. I. I'm sure it's like tear stained. I'm acting like it still is like out there. It's. I'm for sure it's been discarded of now it's leading me to remember that that's 30 years ago. All right everyone. And that was 30 years ago. So do forgive the teachers that did put me in the position to have to make that choice.
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So then on Thanksgiving Day I just, I made a broccoli and green bean sort of thing which was like good, right? I did the emergency look up a recipe. But this time I went to Tick tock and like searched something and that was kind of. That was it and that was Thanksgiving.
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But I had to take like a mental like, like sabbatical that day. I just like, like I said, there's just been so much going on, which is great. Like so much medical spa stuff which it's sort of like tick tock on the clock. We gotta got to get it together. I've hinted, I don't know if I've hinted at this, but I've like threatened myself with like we are going to open in January of 2026, which is like very famously next month.
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And there's so many things to like do before then.
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I pass out. I fell through a trap door. But yeah, there's so many things to do before then. And then again with like the Olympics are also just like right around the corner. So it's just like there's so many things that I need to like get together.
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That I just couldn't do it. And then turkey on top of that. Not for me. Not really for me. I will tell you there's.
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Should we. I feel Like I've been talking for so long. It might be nice to do one voicemail before we continue. Right, let's do a voicemail before we continue.
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Please leave your message after the tone.
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Hello Adam, I'm just feeling kind of down right now about the state of the world and how, you know, so much of the money in the world is controlled by like six people. I just want to know, like, what are your opinions on billionaires? Also, would you commit the atrocities that Elon Musk and other billionaires have for a billion dollars? What is your selling point? What would you sell out for? Thank you. God bless.
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And God bless you too. Our incredible callers.
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Opinions on billionaires.
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I listen, I don't mean to be taking like a long time, like, let me think about it. That is bad, right? Like nobody should have a billion, nobody needs $1 billion. Right? Like I think like we would be completely fine as a, since like, as a society if like at $999 million we kind of capped it. I just don't think anyone, any one person needs to amass that type of wealth. It's unnecessary. And I think like we've had this mentality of like, well, if people had more money, they'd spend more money. No, not really. People are hoarders and not good at their core sometimes. So they'll just hoard it and then they'll just be less of it for people who need it or sort of like resources. Right. So my opinion on billionaires isn't a good one. It's not like, that's not good.
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I, on that same side of, you know, same, different side of the same coin, I would like a billion dollars, right. I could justify it if I had it, but I don't have it and I don't think anyone needs it. Okay. That's just, that's my thing. Would I commit the atrocities? I wouldn't because I just don't think anyone needs a billion dollars. Right. I think I'd find a way to kind of offload it a bit, you know, get rid of some.
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What is my selling off point? What would I sell out for? Well, it's really interesting that you bring this up because it's making me think of something that I potentially could, would maybe sell out for. So this is a story that begins.
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Maybe a year, about a year ago at this point. And it's like a, it's not really a doozy, but it is funny to me at least. So a few months to about a year ago, I got a DM on Instagram from the company Temu. Okay? Like, you know, the. The, like, site that sells actual trash to people at a price that does feel unethically low.
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And so I got an Instagram DM from them that said, hey, like, we love your content, and we would love to, you know, collaborate on something together. Let us know your rates and, you know, we'll get back to you. And so my first reaction to this was like, okay, let me just. I'll check it out and see if this is actually, like, Teemu.
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Yeah, I'm like, I'm drawing this out to make it dramatic. Basically, I saw the message, clicked on the profile. It was Teemo. Okay? It was. It was just. There's nothing to kind of beat around the bush on that one. Teemu DM'd me. I'm bragging, all right? And so my first reaction is like, I don't want to do a brand deal with the company that's just selling trash, okay? I'm not interested in doing that at all. Not interested in being like, look at the junk that I bought. Isn't this beautiful piece of plastic amazing? Oh, and it smells good, too. Like, I just couldn't imagine.
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I couldn't. I couldn't imagine what I would say or do. But I, you know, the business side of my brain said, you know what? Give them a crazy number that's not too crazy for, like, a company that probably has a billion dollars, right? An unethical amount of money.
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And so I. I don't know what I said, but I said something that, like, was, like, a. A crazy amount. But I'm like, they. If they were really loved my content, like, they do it like it's. It's. Or they'd at least say something back. But I'm like, I'm not putting any effort or thought into this. And so I wrote back and was like, thank you. It's so good to hear from you. Thank you. And my rate is. I think I said $150,000. Okay?
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And. And my rate for what? For what? Right? Like, who. Who knows? Who cares? I don't want to do this, but if they're talking in the 150 range, I'm gonna hear them out. Sorry. You know, I. I am. I am only who I am. And so I'm like, now I'm sure I'll never hear from them again. Don't ever need to. I do, though. I hear from them maybe within a few days, and they go, hey, we're still really interested, but, like, unfortunately, that is like, out of our price range, but we will reach out and maybe we can do something in the future, which shocked me.
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And so I said, okay, great. Like, thanks for reaching out again. Just, like, I'm keeping it cool and casual. Then a few months go by, and I get a message very similar to the first one I've ever gotten. And it's like, we love your content. We'd love to, like, revisit this.
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And, yeah, let us reach out to us. And so I'm like, okay.
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Again, like, I. I don't want to do this. Right? Like, I. I'm not. Like, let's really try to work this out. I'm not trying to. I'm not. I don't want to do it, but I am curious to see, like, where this will go. So I get back to them, and I go, oh, my God, it's so nice to hear from you again. Unfortunately, my rates have gone up, and now they're $200,000, which is, you know, like, it's the numbers getting more and more absolutely insane. But I'm like. But I'm thinking, like, what's a crazy number that they'll say no to? But, like, they might consider because they're. They have a billion dollars. Right? So.
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And I'm like, what do I care? I don't want to do this anyway. But look at this. Oh, my God. Like, it. And look, you wear the jacket, and it doesn't even fall apart. Like, I don't even know how you would sell it. Okay. And maybe I'm being, like, too harsh on teemu, but I don't think so. I think we're not being harsh enough on them, to be honest. And so again, I'm like, I'll never hear from them. I hear from them. That's unfortunately a little out of our range. I go, not a problem. Thank you. Like, smiley face, emoji, thumbs up, whatever. I'm keeping it cheerful. And then again, you know, a few. Maybe this was, like, a few weeks ago, I get another message, and I message along exactly the same lines. I get back to them right away. I go, I'd love to. Unfortunately, the rates have gone up. Yeah. I want them to feel like they've missed out on an opportunity. Right. And for, like, we better get them now. And I've decided that every time. Because I think that they'll continue to reach out.
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Every time they reach out, I'm going to go. Rates have gone up, and it's just going to be another $50,000. And so I want to Tell you this story because what would you sell out for? I'm going to say this. If you ever see me do a brand deal for Teemu, just know that the amount of money was undeniable. So if you see me like those influencers who were like in the Sheen factory going, oh my. They're wearing the white gloves going, oh my God, there's no dust in here. Everyone. All the children are treated so nicely here. Like, if you see me doing that, oh, it's. Oh my God. Nobody's injured in this place. It's amazing. There's no blood on the floor at all. Like, if you see me in the factory, in the TEMU factory, just know that, like, they gave me an hush money. So.
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If you just know that like at that point and just know from the point of like this podcast coming out, the year is 2025. If you see me in the year 2030, just know that, like, unfortunately, rates have gone up. Okay? So just imagine rates have gone up. What that number was it. If you see me do a TEU deal a few years from now, just know. I want you to know I don't endorse what I might be saying in that sponsorship.
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But just know that I have no choice. I had no choice. And.
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You know, that's capitalism. And so just know that if I do that, it was an, it was like a seven or eight figure deal of which I had, I had no. Oh my God, I love it. It's. Oh my God. Knock hello Kitty. It's just, oh my God. Does this plastic have BPAs? I hope it, like, that's. I don't know even what I could say.
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Like, it smells flame retardant. Like, I don't even know what the post could be about. But just know if in the future I do it, that like, rates had gone up and I didn't go down without a.
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Fight. Like, I clawed my way.
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To a deal which was probably morally corrupt.
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But I got paid really well.
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So that's. I. That is like kind of my inside joke to myself of what would I sell out for. I would sell out if the, if the Teemu deal did after many, many years. Because I don't even think.
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Would I do it now if they said yes?
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I don't think so. I don't know. Listen, before you start judging me, would you do it right? Would you do it? What's. What's your number on, like, what's the number that Teemu needs to give you before you point your. First of all, I want you to Know, I haven't done it. Okay. And I'm not considering it. Right. Like, there's a number at which I would sell out for. I don't know what that number would be, though. And maybe there's not. Maybe there's not a number. I don't know how I would react in the moment. But I do know that.
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That if forever, you know, if there's ever, like, a post that you see or a billboard that you might come across where it's like, Adam Rippon, like, I'm holding just a bunch of. It's just, like, just trash. It's just trash. To go immediately into a bin going, I love this. Like, just know that that was a deal that was made.
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Years in the making, years and years. Rates had gone up many times since then. So I don't think I'd actually sell out for temu, but if I do, just, like, I want you to know here and now the reasoning and how I got there.
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But this is actually. I never kind of prompted the audience to, like, reach out, but I want to know. You should call and leave a voicemail. I do want to know if there. What's the number that you would sell out for? And it's okay, right? Like, it's like, this is a safe space for you to share that publicly with me, because I'd love to kind of share it with everybody, but I don't know what mine is, and I feel like I need to hear a few people's sellout number to kind of really gauge, like, what mine.
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Should be. Right. That's what I'm. That's. That's what I'm thinking.
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So there was actually more that I wanted to talk about. The first thing was I can't remember the name of the show, but maybe it's like, Phil Eats or something. It's on Netflix.
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And it's with Phil Rosenthal. I think that's his name. Yes, Phil Rosenthal. And I was watching it yesterday, last night with JP And Phil went to Tbilisi, Georgia, and, you know, he's, you know, doing all the cuisine and whatever. And JP had never really seen Georgian food. I have, like. I've know a few. Few people from Georgia, the country Georgia. So I'm kind of, like, familiar with the cuisine over there. When I was skating, my skating coach was from Georgia, so I am familiar with, like, the, like, the wine was invented in Georgia, and I'm familiar with, like, some of the cuisine. So we're watching it. And if you've ever seen this, like, show, Phil Rosenthal is. I Don't know his background. I'm going to sound so ignorant. Should I look it up? Okay, let's look it up together. But basically I'm going to get to a point and I have. I'm positioning myself sort of like this if you're watching. Because.
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I'm. I've put myself at like a weird angle. Okay, hold on. Phil Rose in Thal. Do I search background? Just. Let's see what it says. That's him. Okay, he's a writer. What did he write? Okay, hold on. We're figuring this out together. Award winning television writer. Oh, okay. Yeah, he wrote Everybody Loves Raymond and somebody feed Phil. Okay, so he's from the.
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Everybody Loves Raymond franchise. That's his like claim to fame. Anything else? I'm just looking, I'm looking quick. I don't wanna. Now I'm like a stickler for the details. I feel like you'd make a lot of money from.
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Everybody Loves Raymond because everybody loved that show. I think I remember that. Okay, whatever, whatever, whatever. Who cares?
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He goes around and he just has. He does a lot of like dad jokes and he's like, he's very like, he's fun, right? I turned to JP after, like watching this like, episode and I was like, I think that I would have like a good six hours with Phil before I would go to the tallest building in whatever city we were in and just jump off.
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And I mean that with all the love in my heart.
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Because I am like, I can imagine that multiple hours of these dad jokes could kind of get on your nerves and get you in the elevator to the tallest point of the tallest building. And I was. That's sort of just what I was thinking. That was kind of weighing on my heart. Wanted to share that.
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But it's a fun show. Now I'm backtracking. I'm like, but it is a fun show. But yeah, I can imagine that. I'm like, just only so much, only so much little bites.
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But you know, on that, on that same note, he's more successful than me. He has written a better television show than I ever have. And he has more money for now until I do that tea mood deal. And he's a nice guy. Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't think that like, like what I mean is like, we'd have a good few hours together is like, then I'd need a break. Do you know what I mean? He's like, he just has the personality of somebody. Like, you know what? I'm actually gonna eat dinner Alone tonight. I'll catch you in the morning and then we'll, like, regroup from there. But I kind of need five alone minutes.
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And I think that's what I mean. That's the softer version of saying, I'm gonna kill myself. Right? I think that's the nicer way to put what I was saying before. And I do want to be nice.
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There's one other thing that I wanted to talk about.
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In this episode that's a personal thing, and it's this. On social media, I will see, you know, these, like, you know, Elle magazine or like, Harper's Bazaar or Cosmopolitan or whatever, right? Like, they do these things with these videos with, like, different, like, celebrities. And I mean, I've done these videos before, but there's like, a one genre of video that I just don't like. I just don't like it. And it's the get your phone out and prank call your famous friend. Like, I hate.
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That video. I hate that genre of video. It feels insane. I am sure.
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Actually, no, not, not I'm sure. I do know I've been asked to, like, do this, like, in the moment. Like, who. If you could pull out your phone right now, who's the most famous person you call? I'm like, the most famous person I call is be whoever would answer 911 at this moment and get me out of here.
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I don't even know what I've said, but I've made it incredibly uncomfortable for everyone in the room when I'm ever asked or if I've ever been asked to do that, because I just don't like that concept of idea. I also don't like pranks.
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So.
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Yeah, I actually kind of have a really hard stance against pranks and people who do pranks on people.
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I think that people who do pranks on people. There's something really dark there. I don't think pranks are funny.
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Like, I. There's. Okay, actually, wait. There's a few that I think are funny. Like, stupid ones. But, like, anything besides that. Like, what's a stupid one? I'm thinking of, like, I saw my friend the other day. She was posting a video that she, like, hid the phone to, like, prank her boyfriend. And it was, you know, she put two rolls of toilet paper on the toilet, and then, like, the toilet paper roll in the. Between the toilet seat. So it looked like the toilet had two eyes and had a cigarette in its mouth. And she screamed out for her boyfriend and she said, hurry, come here. The toilet is smoking.
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Oh, God, that Really got me. And now I'm realizing I'm just as dad jokey as Phil Rosenthal. God, we are what we eat. I don't know what that means, but.
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But yeah, that's kind of the only prank I like. But when I think of like pranks that are just awful of like, I think of like Ellen DeGeneres, like pranking Taylor Swift to the point of her like crashing to the bathroom floor and her stu. Like, I do not like that. That's so dark sided. I just don't, I don't know. Don't think it's funny.
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Yeah, Punked hate that show. Never liked the idea of it.
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To tease someone to the point of panic. Like, I. No, I do not like our boy. Do you remember Boiling Point? I'm thinking of all of this now on MTV where it was like, we're gonna annoy the hell out and. And then if they make it to a certain point, they get a hundred dollars. Like nothing. No. In no world would that be okay. I just really don't like pranks. And so that's just making me think of those videos. I've seen a few of them online recently of like, people like, okay, let me just call Meryl Streep really quick and be like, Meryl, I don't like those videos. I don't find them entertaining. I find them.
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Just like, who cares? Oh.
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I'm gonna call someone on a camera. I don't. Could not imagine doing that. I can't. Well, cut to my brand deal with Teemo. I'm. I'm going Merrell. Oh my God. Right? So, you know, I guess everyone has a boiling point. Maybe I get to it one day. I don't. No, I don't think so.
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Listen, I think that after the holidays I'm going to, for this episode, we're going to call it. Okay. I know it's a, it's a little shorter, but this is just to kind of get us in the groove. Because I am saying that because I'm looking at the clock and I'm going. I have to get back to the medical spa. Okay. And that just. It is what it is. Today.
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Was. Am I late doing this? Absolutely. I'm very late to, to record this. But that's all right. We're getting back into it and I just, I can't thank you enough. You, the listener. I, I want to say this actually on a sincere note. I am so grateful. I'm a week late. Whatever. For everybody who listens to this podcast and who calls in and texts the podcast. Very grateful.
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And listen, I think that you should call or text the podcast. Now. Listening to this, you should give us five stars. Those are always helpful. We love all five of them. Yum, yum, yum. But you should call or text the podcast. And the podcast hotline is 310-909-9717. Like I said, you can leave a voicemail or you can send a text message. Do I need to, like, go through them all? I do. I do. So I'm like, kind of like seeing like, oh, the last, like one or two to like, come in and I, I, we deal with those. So I do. I'm gonna comb through, I promise. Please bear with me. Please bear with me. I'm laughing until I'm crying. So, yes, that's the end of this episode. Caller text 310-909-9717. Until next time, I'm Adam Rippon. And these have been my intrusive thoughts.
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Bye. That's a fun way to end the show. Maybe I'll end it like that. I feel like. Here, wait, one more thing. I'm not done yet. I feel like I still haven't, like completely figured out the intro and outro of this show or the rhythm. I feel like I'm getting a rhythm. I don't feel like. I wouldn't say we've got it down, so I'm still figuring it out.
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So. But I do, like, I. God, I can't remember even what I just said. I'm Adam Rippon. These have been my intrusive thoughts. Is that what I said? I don't know. I guess I'll have to. I guess I'll find out tomorrow when the episode is up.
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But another prompt for people to call or text in if you have a great idea for intro and outro what I should say. Just please help a me out, please.
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And that's it for the show. I will see you here next week. Be there or be square. It's your Choice. Caller text. 310-909-9717 okay, I've gotta run. Love you so much and see you next time. Bye.
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