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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts. I'm your host, Adam Rippon. It's good to be here. I really feel like if you're watching this episode, I am giving some sort of. It feels very like Adam in the corporate world. I feel like that's what the video is sort of portraying the story of. I'm in a collared shirt. I'm in a space that looks like. There's a bulletin board behind me, a clip thing, you know, push pins. That's. That's the. The world of which I'm in right now. I'm in a push pin world, and I'm just living in it. There's doors with locks on it. And I just. I feel like it's giving very corporate America. Corporate Adam in America. And I like it. I do kind of like the vibe that it's giving. Hopefully I am. I'm doing the vibe justice. There's a refrigerator behind me now, if you're wondering, well, where the hell are you? I'm just. I'm in the office space of the Atami Aesthetics Club, the medical spa. So that's where we are recording today. And I just felt like I would shake it up. There's really good lighting in here, windows all over the place. And so I thought, you know what? If you have access to light, you should let it shine on you. And for the viewers and listeners, because they can tell. They can tell when you're just getting that light shone on you. There's a lot of things going on, and I felt like I should address them all. Everything, every single thing we just experienced as a culture and as a community. The devil wears Prada to red carpet, which seems pretty important. Um, there's not a lot of things that make us feel like life is worth living. I can say that because it's a free country. And I think that then a lot of people might agree with me. Right. I feel like one of the last Things that we have is the ability to feel joy. And I did feel joy when I saw Meryl Streep on the red carpet of the Devil Wears Prada, too. I felt a lot of joy. I loved seeing just her black arms. Because she was wearing gloves, right? Loved seeing her black arms. And I just have to say whatever, Ann. And I say this as somebody who's recording from the office of a medical spa, whatever Anne Hathaway is doing during drinking, eating, and wearing, I need to know something's going on. I don't think she's ever looked better in her whole life. There's something going on, and I just. I don't know what it is. I want to figure it out. And I know it's not just water. I know it's not. I know it's not 128oz of H2O a day. I know that there is some sort of. There's some sort of animal DNA involved somewhere. There's definitely. There is some scientific intervention. And I must know. I think we must know. I want to know. We all need to know, and I mean this, like, wholeheartedly, that I just don't think Anne Hathaway has ever looked better. And I think we can all agree. I. I mean, I'm just seeing these pictures of her, and I've just never seen anybody, like. And I'm not even gonna say that she's, like, aging backwards because she doesn't look, like, younger than she's ever looked, but she does look better than she's ever looked. Do you know what I mean? And if you've seen pictures of her, you know exactly what I mean. I don't know. She's just. Wow. That's all I have to say. I just think that she's, like, so beautiful. And I think that's really good for her. I do. I just think it's really good for her. It's good for us. Because I just will tell you that, like, I just don't. There's a lot of times where I see, like, fashion, right? And I mean that as, like, as the general of when people go, oh, fashion. I love fashion. Like, to me, I always think, like, well, what do you mean? What does that mean? You love fashion? Because if I had to, like, if I were an alien to come down from Earth. Well, not from Earth. I've come down to Earth, right? If I were an alien and I came down to Earth and I had to kind of analyze everything in my vicinity around me, which is sort of the exact same Thing as vicinity. But if I had to do that and I had to distinguish the define what is fashion based on the people who say, I love fashion. It would just feel like what they love is a collection of items that don't match in shape, size, or color all worn at once. Things that don't fit, they. And that goes in both directions. Things that are too big and too small. I for one, hate that. And so if somebody goes, I just. I love fashion. And they're in a pair of pants that look like they like borrowed daddy's suit and like, comedically sized things, I just. It's not for me. I just, like, don't consider that fashionable or good. And so that is my take on people who say that they love fashion. I just. I think you just love attention and you're calling it fashion because I don't think what you're wearing looks nice. That's just how I feel. That's how I think. I just, like, not everything should be cropped right. And also not everything should be at the knee. And I'm talking about shirts now. And now with pants, I'm talking about, like, not everything should be. Look like you could shove a whole honey baked ham down the front or back or down the legs. That's where I'm drawing the line. And I'm saying the honey baked ham in addition to your own mass. So that's what I'm thinking with that. And obviously the same goes for like, the other direction of like, too tight. Just, can we wear things that fit? Right? Can we start with, like, things that fit? Because a lot of people don't want to wear things that fit. That is true. That. And sometimes I'm totally down for things that might be like a little undersized or oversized. Okay. I think that can be fun, but comedically, under or over, it's just. That's where you lose me. And I think we should just always think, would Anne Hathaway wear that? Probably not. You know, I think she would wear something that looks like she's going to the stables to care for her horse or horses. I don't even know if she owns horses, but she does. I mean, like I said, she looks better than ever. It looks like she's like in the stables brushing the hair out of, like, her million dollar mares. Their horses called mares. I think what it doesn't. It's like neither here nor there. It does not matter. There's another big story that I think that we should tackle since we are sort of tackling the Most important things happening here. And now there's the Alex versus Alex. And of course, I'm talking about Alex Cooper versus Alex Earl now, as of a few days ago. Okay, if you're kind, I'm. I am a little confused, but I have gathered some information because I want to be in the know, and I want to know stuff, and to be in the know, you have to know things. And so I've compiled as much information as possible, and I want you to know that I have not checked my sources, and I am unsure of a lot of the details, and they're very fuzzy, and some of them may be wrong. And what I say can be and probably will be misleading. Take it with a grain of salt. So if you're unfamiliar with either Alex with an E, a L, E, X, or Alex with an I, A, L, I, X, Alex Earl with an I, E, Cooper. Okay? So if you're unfamiliar with either one of them, let me give you my quick rundown of what they are. Of what they are. Okay? I'm just. I'm painting a picture. Alex Cooper is. Call her daddy. Okay? That's basically what you need to know. Alex Cooper, big Spotify deal a few years ago, $60 million. Okay? Her Spotify deal ends. She signs a new deal with Sirius Radio for 125 million. Okay. If there's one thing about Alex Cooper, it is that I believe that she's an incredibly savvy business woman. Okay? I think that, like, I mean, I think it's pretty incredible somebody was able to cut these deals. Deals for themselves. Now, that's. These are the bullet points. Now the next Alex Charles, somebody I'm very less much informed on. Okay. Very much less informed on. Don't quote me on that. I know that. That. That is a lot of the right words I wanted to say just in the wrong order. You know what I mean? We don't need to dive any deeper. Alex Earl, I believe. Again, I did not check this, and I don't plan on doing it. She is a rising risen star of TikTok. And I don't know if she had a podcast or Alex Cooper hired her to create a podcast, whatever, but. Okay, okay, so. But she is Alex Earl, right? She was on Dancing with the Stars, maybe last season, the season before, very recently. Okay. And she seems perfectly nice. Okay. That's all like that. That's my general impression of her. I'm not explaining you. I'm not explaining you. I'm not explaining her to you. I'm telling you my general impression of Her. Okay, now here's some side notes. Alex Earl Trumper, huge, huge bad thing, right? Trumper really hate when that happens. To the point of, you know, posting things with, like, Trump flags. I don't know if she's, like, at the rallies, right? But Trumper. Ew. Okay, Alex Cooper had Kamala Harris on Call her daddy before the 2020. What year is it, by the way? Everyone, what year was the presidential election? Is it 2026? Yes. Before the past presidential election. Right? My God. Wait, hold on. I'm having, like, a mental breakdown. When did we elect the last president? Hold on. I'm being dead serious. I cannot remember. When did Donald Trump unfortunately take office? Okay, 2025. Okay, great. Oh, my God. He's been president for. Oh, God. It's only been a year. Okay. Yes. Okay. The 2024. Oh, my God. It just felt like. It felt like it couldn't have been that long ago. All right, sorry. Okay. Before the 2024 presidential election. All right. I just have to, like, take a huge deep breath because I was like, it had to have been this year. No, we've been living in hell for quite a while. So before the 2024 presidential election, Alex Cooper had Kamala Harris on Call Her Daddy. And I remember. I even feel like we did, like, an episode where I talked about this on Intrusive Thoughts, where it was like, a lot of Call her. A lot of the people who Call her daddy were also ready to vote for Trump, and they were like, you don't know us because we're out here. And it was like, nope, we don't know you. Okay, this is scary. And that. That I remember that being, like, one of the first signs of, like, oh, we in trouble. Like, I remember. Remember that. But I also appreciated that she had Kamala Harris on. Now, like, another thing to. To note is that like. Like, Bloomberg came out with this story of basically saying that, like, working for Alex Cooper is a toxic work environment. I kind of believe that, right? I don't not believe it. But I'm also sort of like, I do also believe that women are held to this impossible standard of. In business, right? Sometimes people need to get yelled at because they're not doing a good job. Me literally defending, like, who knows, right? I did not read this article, by the way. So if they're in there and she's like, she walked around the office with a loaded gun and, you know, maybe. I don't know. Or she. She said, you know, you'll get lashings if you don't do what she says, maybe it says that in there. And I'm like, maybe people need to get yelled at. So, like, again, what I'm saying is, and I'm telling you to just. You do your own research, okay? As everybody famously fucking does. Now, do your own research. I'm not doing it, okay? Everybody does. It doesn't mean I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do little to no research unless I have some sort of ADHD mental fixation on it, which, like, I got close to on this Alex versus Alex thing. Did not get close enough to actually sort of crack open the book. That being said, there is no book on this and there never will be, but I'd like to continue. So now, apparently, now I got this. What information I'm about to tell you. Please, everybody, pitchforks down. Now, if you remember now, all roads are sort of leading back to the 2024 presidential election. And obviously, I wanted to riot when this little Canadian motherfucker who had a Tick Tock account named Be Better, B E E, like the bee. Like the animal, the bee. And was like, this is why I think Kamala Harris is going to lose the presidential election. And I was like, what a. Who ended up being. And that ended up being like, okay, if you're pointing one finger at somebody, you have three fingers pointing back at yourself. That ended up being. That for me, you know, I'm the. All right, let's. You know, I'm gonna be better, but I'm also gonna be hearing you out. So Be better. Is this, like, little Canadian kid, I don't know, 20 some. 20 something from the great North. How I refer to Canada, the Great North. So who has nothing but time? Who did all of this research? And I appreciate it because now I'm relaying it to you because I want you to know a lot of it was going in one ear, right out the other. But what I retained, which was basically nothing I am going to share now, apparently when Alex Cooper, okay, call her Daddy, was renegotiating. Was not renegotiating. Was negotiating her deal with Sirius. She needed to come with sort of like an arsenal of talent, which is when she reached out to Alex Earle, okay? And got Alex Earle to be a part of her Unwell network. That is sort of like the brand of, like, call her Daddy Unwell, okay? Like, have you ever seen those drinks? I've seen them at Target. Like, unwell. Now, I will say this. I would never in a million years, I'm too superstitious to ever name a company a brand or anything that you'd put into your body, have it say the word unwell on the bottle, okay? I am way too down the rabbit hole of witchcraft and wizardry, okay? And wizardry, okay? I am way too down the rabbit hole of both to ever eat, drink, ingest anything that says unwell on the bottle, okay? Whether you be the best businessman or woman in the world. I am not taking those chances, okay? I've seen too many hoodoo voodoo documentaries of, like, you can write, you know, magic, healing water, like, on your water bottle, and, like, the molecules of the water will, like, help sustain your health or what ever, okay? I've seen too many things of people writing, like, affirmations on water. I know I am sounding out of my mind. I don't care, okay? I just had a little plate of popcorn chicken from a little cafe across the street from here. I. And a handful of Swedish fish, okay? I've never felt better in my life, and I've never felt more inclined to share this health information with you. As RFK once said, we got rid of the Biden food pyramid, which again, never existed. And I'm getting rid of. Okay, I've lost track of what I'm saying anyway, Like I said, I am just way too down the path of. And I've seen too many documentaries, okay? When I say documentaries, I do mean Instagram Reels, TikTok videos. That's what I mean when I say documentaries, right? Maybe you mean something else, but me mean social media, okay? We're ingesting our information differently. That is 100% possible. But, yeah, I am too superstitious to ever eat or drink something. And I will let you know I have had one unwell. Whatever it is, drink. I think it's a protein drink. I think it has, like, four grams of protein. I don't know. Okay, again, listen to NPR if you want, like, a real report on this. You're not gonna get it here. You're gonna get my coffee table sort of recap. That's all I have to offer, okay? So unwell. Oh, yeah. It tasted fine, by the way I drank it. It tasted like, fine. But again, like, I was like, I'm never getting this again because, like, I'm not drinking something that says unwell. I want to be well as that young 20 something from Canada. I want to be better, all right? I want to be healthy, be well. I want to be. I want to. I don't. I'm just. I think that's a huge. Because it's opening the door like you, like every day, right? If your brand is unwell every day, you're walking into the office and you're seeing and saying the word unwell, right? You're having the best day ever. You look up and you see unwell. You're seeing like a big old sad face unwell. I'm not. I would never do that. Right. I would abs that. That I would get. Have chills running down my spine if I was like, yes, I work at unwell. I'm unwell. Sorry, I'm. Well, no, that's where I'm like, I would have to. If I work there just for the sake of the name. This has nothing to do with anything else. I'd be like salt around the desk. Okay. Candles on the table, tarot cards at any time within arm's reach. That's just the way that I would. It's the only way that I would be able to cope, survive, do that. Because I just. It does. It's too scary for me. It's way too scary. On. Well, no. No. Okay, so to sweeten her, now we're back to the podcast. All right. To sweeten her serious radio. Radio deal, she signed Alex Earl onto her network. Okay. There's some sort of details. Basically she was paying. Going to pay Alex somewhere about like $1.2 million a year. Okay. And pretty quickly, Alex Earl felt like this was a bad deal, which for her and her. The size of her. Whatever, whatever. Apparently this was true. And she. And basically like her dad is like a big Trump supporter. And apparently again, this is not how they talk about it like on the news, but this is how I'm telling you. This is friend to friend, mutual to mutual. Apparently her dad was like, well, if you are going to have Kamala Harris, like, I don't want my daughter being on this like a left wing network. So if you've reached out to Kamala Harris, I need you to reach out to the Trump team, which did not, like, want an interview or whatever or something, I don't know, blah, blah, blah. Now, I've also seen this video of like some flight attendant girl was like Alex Cooper basically kind of doxed me and took a picture of like me in a training video and blah, blah, blah. And Alex Earl, on the other hand, saw that I was having a rough day when I was like her flight attendant and gave me a hug and was like, so nice. And that's who I'm on the side. I'm like, I'm like, great, you do whatever you want to do, okay? That. And so, in a nutshell, if any of that was clear to you, that is the Alex versus Alex. Now, there's another sort of important notable character in this, and it's when this woman named. And I have no idea who this is. And I. Again, like, this is on me, right? Because a lot of people do. I have no idea. And when I read this name for the very first time, I said, there's got to not be a way that this is true. This has to be some sort of misinformation, misinterpretation of, like, what I'm reading. Because never in my days did I ever believe that I would open a Google Google type, type, type, type, type. Did I ever think that would get onto my laptop, right? Never did I think I would get onto my laptop, open it up, type, type, type, and I would see Briana Chicken Fry defends Alex Earl. These are literal words, sounds that I never thought would come out of my mouth, and they've come out of my mouth multiple times. Multiple times. Now. Who is Brianna Chicken Fry? I do not know. Like, I don't know. I actually. We should, like, do, like, Google that now. But I will tell you, I was like, there's absolutely no way that if so now. And I think Chicken Fry. I just need. Okay. Before I'm gonna give you my opinion before we Google it together. Not even my opinion what I think it is. I don't even know what a Brianna Chicken Fry is. I think Chicken Fry is a nickname. And I can say this because if it did happen to me, this is how I would react. If anybody gave me the nickname Chicken Fry, I would be seeing their ass in court. All right. That's a horrible thing to call someone as a nickname. Chicken Fry, who is Brianna Chicken Fry. Who is Brianna? We're doing this together because maybe you don't know, and maybe if you do know, maybe you're like, this is amazing. She's a popular barstool sports podcaster. I've lost interest. Born in June 1999. All right, I'm back in. At least she wasn't born in the 2000s. Okay, who is. I feel like I've seen Chicken Fry originated from a 2019 vine video where she likened her legs to Burger King chicken fries. Huh. All right, I'm kind of liking it now. Damn it. Okay. I. I literally thought that there'd be absolutely no way that I would ever turn to, like the name Chicken Fry. I was being dead serious. Okay? I'm liking the name Chicken Fry because in my mind, I'LL tell you what I thought it was in my mind. She's a Southern girl who's like, I'll fry anything. Like, that's what I was thinking. I'm kind of liking the chicken fry now. Okay. I like the chicken fry. I do kind of feel like I. I don't know anything about her. All right? I'm speaking solely, solely, solely on the name Chicken Fry. Nothing about the girl. Again, I've never heard her speak. If there was a lineup of, like, five, you know, ex cons and a Brianna chicken fry, I wouldn't be able to tell you who's who. I have no idea. I think that she's a blonde white girl. God. Everyone in the story is a blonde white girl, right? Everyone. It's. It's really hard to distinguish. It is very, very hard when the two main characters are both named Alex with an e and an I. I don't like clever spellings for. For unoriginal names. I will say that I want that on record. So that is sort of like my. That on that. All right. Do I have an opinion on it? A side I'm taking? No, I don't. Well, one, I would never take the side of a Trump supporter. I'll say that. But aside from that, I don't really know anything else. I. There. I. Yeah, I just don't really have anything else to offer. But I will say I would like. Again, I would never, ever name anything some sort of bad thing, like unwell. I'm not wearing the word unwell on my chest. Like, I'm not parading around unwell. It's too scary. It is too scary. And if there's one thing that I wish that I could go back and I could be, oh, my God, there's a peacock walking across the sidewalk, which happens all the time here, by the way. I wonder if it's still there. And I feel like there's a way that I can show you. Hold on. Where did it go? Imagine it's, like, trying to break into my car. I'm like, get out of my car. Where is it? Hold on. All right, I'm gonna see if I can show you. There. Did you see it? I don't know. It doesn't. Okay. It doesn't matter because this is a podcast and not a fucking video. All right, Just, like, note, there's a. There's a peacock over there. I'm so distracted. They are. I've told you about this. So, like, where we are. Do you know that? I know why there are peacocks. Here. So there's this guy in the 1800s who kind of was like, oh, there's the damn peacock over there right behind me. Oh, my God. I only mean to be excited. It's like, we see them all day, every day. They, like, live around the corner. Okay. They live, like, down, like, the street over, like, behind the medical spa over here. But. Okay, I know why there are peacocks here. So in the 1800s, there was this guy named Lucky Baldwin. Lucky being a nickname. A better nickname than Chicken Fry. Okay. So Lucky Baldwin decided to bring pairs of peacocks from his estate. He had an estate in India. He wanted to bring them with him to California here in Arcadia, California. And now the. The birds since the 1800s have, like, multiplied, and now they're, like, basically native to this area. And so there are peacocks all over the place. And like I said, there are peacocks just, like, walking around. And I thought for maybe a second I was getting robbed by one. I'm not. But, yeah. Unwell, I would just. I would never do that. And like I said, if there was one thing that I could do, I wish that, like, I could imagine. It's like, okay, you can wish for anything. So, like, do anything. And I'm like, I wish that I was in the boardroom where they were naming the Alex Cooper brand Unwell. And I wish that she's just had one witchy person in that room. I do. I feel like a lot of this, you know, it's not hard to believe. Like, toxic environment in a. In a company named Unwell. So the environment was Unwell. Everyone was wearing Unwell. You work at Unwell. You're drinking a water bottle every day that says Unwell. Right. It would be much harder to believe if it was. Well. Well, I mean, here's the thing. I would have workshopped something with her, but I really wish Alex Cooper had one witchy friend who would have stopped her. Right? It's very, like, 2016 millennial coded to be, like. You know, like, it's like there were, like, names of restaurants in 2016 where you're like, that's the name of a restaurant. It'd be like, two pancakes and a fucking egg. Like, people thought they were being overtly clever by doing something so loud. And that's sort of what I'm feeling from this Unwell. I just, like, would never. I wouldn't touch it with a 25 and a half foot pole. All right. Something else I wouldn't touch with a 25 and a half foot pole. Excellent segue on this podcast, if you've listened to it before, if you've listened to it once, if you listen to it again, I have mentioned, and it's very famous at this point, people talk about it nationwide, that I am in an ongoing one sided feud with Equinox gyms. I hate them. I've been a member of them three separate times and canceled my membership all three times. I think it is a scam. And at this point in history, the. The price point of an Equinox gym does not. It does not period. Those sweatshirts should say unwell. I, I will publicly stand up against Equinox. And it just, I feel like by the time I left it the second time, I want to say it's been. How long have I been free of the fucking corporate chains of the Equinox company? I want to say maybe a year plus. Maybe a year plus. And I haven't looked back. I haven't looked forward either, but I haven't looked back. And this is just what I want to say. I am at a public. And again, it is one sided. I don't know if they know, but I know and I'll never ever go back. And I just like, I just feel like there was no reason for them to be charging and I think at the end close to 200 plus almost $300 a month. And I mean, there's a way you could. There's no, no, actually, no. There is no way that you can reason that to yourself because it's also not any nicer than like any other gym in the area. All right. And so I took a public stance and was like, I'll never go back. I don't like them now. I got a package in the mail from Equinox. Equinox Jim. And it said something along the lines, and I'm paraphrasing very heavily, we miss you. Something like that or like recharge, refresh. It was a. Basically the whole note inside the box was like alluding to the fact that I was an ex member and that I should go back. Okay. And so I actually, this is like a, a call out to other listeners of if you are also an ex member of Equinox, did you get a box like this or was this like sent as like some sort of PR stunt? Now I don't think I'm high up on their list for them to be thinking like, oh, they're going to stunt out with me. And maybe I'm wrong because maybe my public outrage of Equinox has struck a chord with somebody that works there personally or specifically. Right. It's like, again, again, like these. These feuds, they don't need to be, you know, one man versus the corporate giant. This can be one man versus somebody. It's just struck a chord with at the corporate giant. Right? And so. And then that person sort of by accident turns it into a one man versus the corporate giant. A David and Goliath situation, if you will. And it is. And I do feel that way. I being David, Equinox being Goliath, and I'm one slingshot away from taking down the whole place. Okay? If you don't know the end of that story, David wins. And I'm going to tell you this. In the box that they sent me, they really tried to hook me, and it didn't work. They said, come back to Equinox, because when you come back and you ref. Again, this is. I'm completely paraphrasing. I saved the postcard. I did not bring it with me here, but, like, I was like, I'm gonna save it and read it on the podcast. And I saved it, but I'm not reading it on the podcast because I did forget it. But I'm gonna paraphrase refresh. We miss you. Come back to Equinox because basically now we have La Labo products. Okay? And that's true. So they sent me a shampoo, a conditioner, and a hand wash that all smell incredible. Wowee. That Le Labo product line at the Equinox does smell amazing. Now, part of my problem with the Equinox was sort of the damp humidity of. Of the locker room. Now, I lived close enough to the gym that I could like, walk home, so I was never taking, like a shower there. So the humidity to me was like, it's just wet and like, it shouldn't be wet in this area. That's what I felt like. Right. So I was never utilizing the shampoo conditioner situation. I was usually utilizing the hand wash. Right. Sometimes you gotta wash your hands when you leave the gym or you're in the gym or you use the bathroom at the gym. You got to wash your hands. You should wash your hands. Otherwise you are wear the sweatshirt unwell. Right? So they tried to hook me back. I would just want you to know it didn't work at all. But I do love that they tried. And so this is basically what I want to know. If you are an Ex Equinox member, did you or did you not also receive Le Labo products in an effort to pedal you back to America's worst fucking jam. Fuck Equinox. Fuck them. I gave them so much money, and they gave me so little in return. The least they can do is give me a Le Labo hand soap. So they're doing the least amount of work possible. Thank you, though. I'm happy to have received it. And I'm using the shampoo and the conditioner, which I like both a lot, so thank you. But I will never step foot in your club ever again. I'll never go there again. What a waste of time and money. But thank you for the soaps and conditioner. I appreciate it. Wow. Anyway, before we go, I guess I could tell you one little story. I'm about to. I'm about to. So a day or two ago, I had to run a ton of errands. Okay. And I'm actually. I'm proud of myself in this episode because usually I start the episode really slowly. Okay. And maybe you're like, you did it again, too. In my mind, I usually end with the pop culture, but I'm like, we should start with it right this. We should start. Start with the topical things. So I made a real effort. Please appreciate that. Okay. And now it's like, maybe you should wear the Unwell sweatshirt. You are not well. Not well. I don't know. I just. Like, someone witchy should have been in the room. Anyway, the other day I had to do a ton of errands, and I was so pleased that I had done them. And the last, that, like, so I had to do a bunch of returns that were, like, from things here at the Atomi Aesthetics Club, the med spa that I just opened. Visit theatami.com please. And so I needed to return a few things for that I did a donation drop off because I had a bunch of clothes. I. I'm also one who. Let's talk about this another time. I'm gonna put a pin in donation because we'll. We'll get there, we'll go back. But basically, long story short, because I want to. I want to talk about it more, but I don't want to talk about it more now. Okay, so donation. I did a big donation drop off, then I went to the DMV because I don't like to pay. In California, you can pay your car registration, like, online, whatever, and then they send you the. The new stickers that you have to put on your license plate, blah, blah, blah. Okay. I don't like to do it that way. I. There's like, an automatic kiosk that you can use at the dmv. And I live. It's. I mean, it's around the corner from where we are. And so I like to go into the dmv, because you can pay it right there. And they print out your stickers because then, you know, it becomes this like. Like, oh, God, I gotta go put the sticker on the car. Like, you just don't want to do it. But when you go to the dmv, you're, like, in the frame of mind to tackle that situation then and there. And so that's why I like to do it that way. Because there have been times where I've, you know, the registration is expired, but I have, like, literally the sticker in my hand, and it's just like, why don't you just put it on the car? I can't. I can't answer that for you. So I like to do when I'm in the frame of mind. So I stopped at the dmv. I did that. And then I had some. I have these two little pieces of jewelry that I've had for a very long time that have been meaning to get, like, resized. And I had this. I. And I have. I have this pendant that I wanted to create with, like, different pieces of jewelry that I already own for, like, a necklace. And so I've been meaning to go to this little jeweler who I fucking love. The guy who owns the jewelry shop. It's at the Santa Anita Mall, if that means anything to anyone. The guy who owns it, his name is Jeffrey. He's. I think he's been a staple there. He probably broke ground. Okay. And he's just this awesome guy, and he's so nice. And I got a ring resized, which I needed to get resized. I'm a big jewelry guy, right? Like, when we think of when, again, it all kind of ties right back to the beginning. I believe that my sense of fashion. And maybe you think I don't have good fashion sense. I don't really believe that I do. I like my style. My style is. I feel like very sort of just like, guy, period. Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't think it's like, oh, he's fashion. It's like I'm pretty much in a collared shirt or a T shirt and some sort of like, jean and sneaker. But what I'm always doing is I'm usually. And this is like, the least amount of jewelry I'm wearing. I'm wearing, like, my wedding ring and a gold bracelet. I'm always in jewelry because I just think it looks like cool and chic. So I'm a big jewelry person. I used to be a big brand person. But if I could go back in time and meet that version of me, I would. And that version of me would be wearing a sweatshirt that says like Gucci across. And I'd be in sneakers that say Fendi. Right? And I would take that person and I would throw them in an active volcano. And that's just who I was. And now I'm allergic to like any label on anything. I would rather pass. I would rather wear un. Well, I would never wear that because I don't wear labels. I don't like things that say anything on them. I like plain colors, not plain colors. I like solid colors and I like label free things. Sometimes you can't escape a few labels. Like on the sneakers I wear right now, big Nike swoosh. I mean, what am I gonna do? Take a chisel and try to take it off? No, it's stitched in. There's nothing I can do. The swoosh is staying right. There's nothing I can do about the swoosh. But any other sort of article of clothing, bag, whatever. I'm a big purse guy. I'm carrying a purse everywhere. Because I'm not. Here's the thing. I'm not ever going to ruin my silhouette with things shoved in the pockets. I'm never going to be doing that. I never would do that in a million years. Sorry. I'm carrying a fucking bag. And I'm. And I'm going to take it one step further. I'm calling it a purse. Because there's going to be some ignorant motherfucker out there who's going to go, oh, is that a purse? And so I'm just gonna go, yeah, it's a purse. Because I would never put things in my pockets to ruin my silhouette. I have a nice silhouette. I'm not gonna have some lumpy, frumpy coming out of my hip, out of my ass. You might. Not me. So I'm carrying. Yeah, I said it. A purse. I'm doing what I'm doing. I'm doing me and I'm doing it well, unwell. I'm very scared of that. I really am. And I, I want you to know, like, how unfunny I'm being right now. Like, I'm not being funny. This is no funny business about it. I would like, I'm. I sometimes I see those clips of like, call her daddy and she's Wearing a sweatshirt that says unwell and makes me, like, uneasy because I'm like, no, you have so many things going for you. Please, like, be healthy. I'm well. So well. Unwell. Farewell. No, no. She needed a witchy friend in the room, okay? She did. She just did. I could have been the witchy friend and, like, we could have. All of this. All of this could have been avoided, right? All of this could have been avoided. Anyway, where was I? I was talking about labels. Yeah. I would never wear, like, labeled clothing. Used to fucking love it. Nothing says, I've just come into money and I don't know how to save it. Right. Like wearing a bunch of fucking labels. Now I won't be caught dead. It's like, it's a game for me. Anything that has, like, a little, like, label on it, I'm like, absolutely no way. The other thing is, like, because I got my colors done, you know, like, they do the color like this green or purple. It's like, I did that. And so I know I'm like, in autumn, fall colors are my colors. So if I buy something and it's not really, like, in my color palette, I don't buy it. Like, the shirt I'm wearing today is not in my color palette. I just like the color. All right? And sometimes I tan my skin, and when I use self tanner, I can wear this shirt. Am I wearing it today? No. I'm, like, completely bare faced. And, you know, it's like, I don't really feel like I'm making a lot of sense, but I don't need to. I just need to have a little common sense. And common sense is telling me that and all. And the common sense is telling me that because while we were recording, I did get a text message that said, your jewelry is ready, and it wasn't supposed to be ready until Saturday. And I'm really beyond thrilled because I'm gonna go pick it up and I probably will forget, but maybe I'll wear it the next time we record the podcast. How exciting? How exciting would that be for me? If you're watching it, probably you'd maybe see, like, a little, like, oh, is that a pendant? Like here or there's. But if you're listening, you would get absolutely no satisfaction out of this whatsoever. And I can almost guarantee you that I will forget that we ever talked about this. And that's okay. And that is also this episode. So I would like to say this to our loyal listeners and viewers. We love you. And by we, I mean me, myself, and I. All right, if you would like to call or text the podcast hotline and leave your intrusive thoughts as a text message or voicemail, please go ahead. 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