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Foreign. And welcome to Intrusive Thoughts. Also welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts. If you've been here before, I'm your Intrusive Thought master leader, Adam Rippon. And it's good to have you back. It's good to have you here. To kick off the show, I need to publicly and like in this public setting, I need to go after a corporation and I really do need to do this publicly because seemingly I can't settle this issue privately. And so now I need to take it to the public. And the company that I need to call out today is Royal Caribbean Cruises. Yeah, I've had just about enough of your emails. You guys have got to stop emailing me. I'm begging you. At this point. I have unsubscribed to your emails about 1 million times and I get them now into multiple different email accounts because, yeah, I have multiple different email accounts. Who doesn't in this day and age, right? I'm still rocking with an at a I m dot com and with one of those emails that's right@aol instant messenger dot com. Not even AOL. That's not my primary one. Okay, that's just the one that is kind of stood the test of time, right? It just kind of followed its way into the present day of my life. And maybe that's on me, right? Maybe that's on me. And maybe that's why Royal Caribbean is emailing me non fucking stop. When I say non stop, I mean at least once or twice a day. I can guarantee you, you guys, I'm not going on a Royal Caribbean cruise. I don't even care if it's. I have the email in front of me. California Vibes, Last chance mega sale from 1 99. I don't care. I'm not going on a cruise with you. With anyone. Have I been on a cruise? Is a completely different story. I have. I've been on two cruises actually, and they were with Celebrity Cruises. And I was on that cruise because I did get hired to host a Pride Night on the cruise. Okay? So I didn't pay for that cruise. I was paid to be on the cruise. Yeah, I'm bragging a little bit until I will tell you what I discovered about cruises and that it's interesting. You know, you really need to think of it as a floating island. All right? It's a floating island where you just. It's all the same people and you don't really realize that until when you're on the cruise, you get your first dinner and it's great. And then the next day you go, I'm going to try a different restaurant. You try a different restaurant and it's. It's good. But the food is similar to what was at the first restaurant. Then you go to the breakfast buffet, and then you realize that the food at the breakfast buffet is just what you had at the restaurant last night and then also the night before. And it's this vicious cycle. And then you start to realize that the person who was the maitre d, the host, the server at the first restaurant, is now the piano player at the jazz bar, because there's a jazz bar there, too. And it just, you know, it's. It's just. It's this pool of people. And then you start to think about it. Of course, it makes sense. You know, it's. They. They can only have so many employees on. On the ship, so they're all doing a little bit of everything. It breaks the facade a little bit, I will tell you that. Where did the cruises go that I was on? Well, I did the famous ride from New Jersey to Bermuda and then I got off right. Flew home. I was only on that ship about three days, enough to get unlimited amounts of pizza, that's for sure. And then the next cruise that was a little bit more lavish. That was from Barcelona to Rome, and that was, you know, throughout Europe. It was. That was a beautiful cruise. A new ship for celebrity, the X. Now, for somebody who says they'll never cruise, I am sort of dropping a lot of cruise lingo. Like the ship, that's a big thing. You can't call. It's not a boat, it's a ship. And they're very strict. They're big sticklers on it being a ship and not a boat. That's something if you do go. Listen, if you decide to take up this Royal Caribbean, California Vibes last chance mega sale. If that's for you, just know that when you get on there, it's a ship, it's not a boat. Okay, but. Yeah, another public plea. I'm just going to say it one more time. I'm not interested. Please stop emailing me. I don't care if you put the palm tree emoji in the subject line. You do it every day. I am sick of it. I don't want to hear from it. I'm going down right here. I have it right in front of me. Where else do they go? Freedom of the seas? Yeah, I don't think so. Utopia of the seas. You guys, please stop. Please. I'm I'm begging you. Oh, hold on. The plot thickens. The Royal Caribbean Group. Here we go. I'm an idiot, but at least I found out I'm an idiot with everyone. Okay, now I know why I'm on this list. Royal Caribbean owns celebrity cruises, which I just found out right now in this second. That's all making sense. So, yeah, Royal Caribbean, I have been on your ships. They are nice. The X. I have been on the X. That's a nice ship, not a boat. I take it back, but please, I just don't. I don't need these emails. Is there a way to unsubscribe again? Update email preferences? I'll get to it. I'm in the middle of a show. Come on, you guys. Please be professional. Well, now that I have that off of my chest, let's continue. I want to talk a little bit about a few things that we've seen online that have been in the news, so on, so forth. Obviously, Jimmy Kimmel, he was taken off the air by the FCC and, you know, the Sinclair syndication, back on the air. Kind of scary time, you guys, for First Amendment rights. I'm just gonna put that out there. Not really liking the feeling of that. Moving on. Right, because what's. What can be said if there's. If it's already been said. And. And to be honest, I'm still sort of feeling the. The. The jolt of learning that Royal Caribbean is kind of monopolizing the cruise industry. Troubling on all fronts. Something. I've seen a lot of statues of Donald Trump. Can we please not. We need to stop. You know, even if some of them. I'm like, yeah, stick it to him, you know, because recently there's this statue that popped up, and it's of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands. Okay, Obviously a political statement of, hey, these guys were buddies. By the way, another statue is the gold statue of Donald Trump holding a bitcoin. Please, everyone, I'm needing you all to be serious. I really need everybody to get serious for a moment, because we just don't need rubbish like this out there. Donald Trump holding a bitcoin, also bitcoin. Can we please not. I don't think we need just. I. Every time I think of bitcoin, I think of people going, well, I mine bitcoin. What? No, you just, like, run the power on your computer nonstop. That's what you do. You're not mining anything. You just. You're not doing anything. You're just running up the electricity bill. I just. It feels like, it's only for things that are illegal, right? I think we have to get on the same page on this. That that's what bitcoin exists for, right? There's no, like, paper trail. We gotta cut it out with the bitcoin. It doesn't exist. It's not a real coin. How about we do real coin, real money? Which also always makes me, without fail, always, always, always makes me think of NFTs. Do you guys remember NFTs? They were going to take over and luckily, because I never felt for it, you know, the people who fell for NFTs, they are currently, you know, undergoing religious psychosis. Like, those are the people who are like, yeah, we have to invest in NFTs. NFTs were just like clip art, you guys, like non fungible tokens. Non fungible doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. We need, really need to kind of think, buckle down and reassess. I just need to buckle down and reassess. We need a. A reset. I think, I think we need to turn it all off, turn it back on and just check for an update. I think we need to check for an update and then we turn it back on and then we just, we reboot. We just take it from there. Because another thing I've seen online is the White House keeps posting out this picture of it coming soon in a, like, in abundance to all of the other fucking shit that comes out of the White House Twitter account. But they keep posting out this image of like a UFC fight on the White House lawn. Now, it wasn't too long ago that it felt like a lot of people were complaining about the Ukrainian president Zelensky not wearing a suit inside the White House. But now we're going to be selling tickets to a UFC fight on the White House lawn. It is absolutely hell that we are living in. And that is true. Which makes me. This is kind of gonna bring it all back together. The religious psychosis, the UFC fight, living in the hell, depending on the release of this episode. Because we do sort of try to do them in a little bit of advance just in case comes up. Show biz talk, me going on yesterday, as of me recording this right now. Yesterday was supposedly supposed to be the Rapture. The. The rapture. And so, yes, like, a lot of people aren't. Well, right. Like I said, a religious absolute psychosis. The Christian nationalists are. They were ready for the big one. And I am going to say, unfortunately, some of the most miserable bitches in the world are. Yes, they're still Here, because the rapture didn't happen yesterday. It just. It didn't happen. Which really goes to show you that sometimes you win some and sometimes you don't lose anybody. And that is tough. It's a huge loss not to lose those people. Because it's tough, you know, it is tough. I saw a video online of a girl being dropped off to school and her mom saying, if I don't see you later, we'll meet in the clouds. Which is bone chilling for a few things. One, when her mother thought it was supposedly the last day of the world, she said, well, I still gotta get my girl to school. I gotta get my girl to school. We'll meet in the clouds. And then she does follow it up with, or I'll see you at 2:30. Which is so crazy, cuckoo nuts. I'll see you in the clouds or I'll see you at 2:30. And that's how psychosis works, where you reason to yourself that I'll either be raptured, it's either the last of days, or I'll be in that carpool line picking you up at 2:30. Okay? You need to take a good look in the mirror, my love. You need to take a good look in the mirror. And if you're going, well, it's either the last day or I'll be in that minivan at 2:30. I think it's time to put down the juice and read a book, right? We should read a book. People don't want to read books. They absolutely do not want to read a book. And I get it. Books are long, they're hard. Reading isn't for everyone. And not everyone can do it. Kind of obvious at this point. Another thing I would like to talk about. Let's move on a little bit. We're going to move on to like, more social media sort of focused things that I've seen that I do want to bring to everyone's attention. The next thing I want to talk about is what I think is a recession indicator. We are headed towards one. Sorry if this is the first time you're hearing of that. Tough. It's tough. We are. This is a recession indicator if I've ever seen one. And I'm gonna explain to you what I saw. It's a post that I saw on Instagram and I'm gonna explain absolutely, like, every detail to you because we need to break it down. All right? Hoda Codby, formerly of the Today show. Love her. We love Hoda Codby. Okay? She's going on a Book tour. Great. Go, Hoda. Let's get another book on that New York Times bestseller. I know she can do it. Now I want to paint the picture of how this starts. She's going on a book tour. She's packing a bag. She wants us to see what she's packing. She wants us to see what bag she's packing with. Now we need to paint the whole picture. She's in her bedroom. She's packing this bag on her bed. What is she wearing? Like I said, we're going to break down every single element of this video. Is she wearing. She's wearing jeans. She's wearing a T shirt. She looks cute. She looks great. She's wearing AirPods. They're in upside down. Completely twisted the wrong direction. Okay. She's wearing AirPods. Someone else is filming her. I don't know how that happened, right? I don't know if she was like, hey, get in here. We gotta show me packing this suitcase. I'm not taking these out. I have the noise canceling on because I don't want to hear myself. I don't know. I don't know. Real big. It's a. It's a big. Like, I have headphones in right now. I'm putting them in. They're like. If you're watching this or you see a clip of this, the headphones are in like this AirPods, though, it's not comfortable. And there is a person of a certain age who always puts the air airpods in upside down and twit. They cannot figure out the schematics of their own earlobes. It is just like the. Huh? Like, I don't. I don't. It's not comfortable upside down. You know, like the. The noise part should go towards, like, the hole, right? You put the headphone into the ear, and the noise part goes into the hole of your ear. Not like the. The crooks and like the cr. Like cracks and crannies of the earth. Right? You avoid those. They're just. They go right in the hole. And if you. If you did that, they'd work a lot better. Okay, so I want you to know, jeans, T shirt, AirPods upside down. Now, like I said, she is packing a bag to go on her book tour. This is Hoda Codby. She's in the broadcasting hall of Fame. One of the most successful and beloved morning anchors of any morning news program ever of all time. I can't think of, in our modern day and age, somebody who is probably beloved by every single person, if not by every person the majority of people in America, okay. Incredibly successful. Incredibly successful woman and kind a great. She's a great lady now. Okay, We've gotten that out of the way. AirPods upside down. Okay. She has this bag that she has out laying on the bed. It looks like a garment bag. I want to paint the entire picture for you. She says, I have a couple dresses and a suit in here. And now watch this. And she starts to try to zip it up, and she's zipping up the garment bag into like, what now starts to turn into a duffel bag. So I know that, like, I know what this bag is supposed to do because I've seen ads for a bag like this, if not this bag, something incredibly similar. Like, I know what this bag is supposed to do. She is fumbling with these zippers. It takes her, I don't know, roughly 25 minutes to kind of get the. Get the whole thing zipped up. And she goes, I don't. It's usually easier than this. You know, she's kind of like pulling things up, and it's just. It's not really kind of going her way. She shakes her, like, to take a break from the real hall of trying. Not hall what I'm. What word am I trying to think of? The, the brute force that she's trying to give these. These zippers to kind of close the bag because she is having trouble with it. She takes a break to shake her wrist and she goes, bracelets. Thank you, Andy Cohen. Which I want to take a pause in this story and I want to say, if you haven't ever YouTube, a personal treat I always give to myself is every once in a while I'll YouTube Andy Cohen talking about Hoda Codby's jewelry. It's quite funny. It's very good. So I don't know because Hoda's known, at least to me, for always wearing at least 45 bracelets all at once. And they're always like some sort of, like, rubber Livestrong esque sort of band. And then like, lots of beads. A lot of beads. Truly a lot of beads. And she loves it. And I think if she loves it, I love that for her, I wouldn't be. No, I wouldn't be wearing. I personally am not going to be wearing that. But anyway, thank you, Angie Cohen, she says, and then she goes, I'm packing my Jen Miller earrings. My favorite. Okay, great. It's great. So now we get two shout outs. We get an Andy Cohen. We get a Jen Miller. I don't. I don't know. Jen Miller earrings. They're her favorite. I trust her on this one. Okay. And she then goes back to that. We're trying to zip it. It's like not, it's not as easy as they've made it look on, like, the Instagram infomercials. But she's really giving it a go. And she, she can't stop saying as she's like, fumbling and fiddling with the bag, you're not gonna believe this bag. You're gonna be saying, where has this bag been all my life? And then finally she gets it all together where it now looks like a duffel bag. And she's like, see? And then she starts to put in, you know, more into the bag. She puts in some heels, some sneakers, workout clothes. And she really can, like, I'm gonna give it. Get a lot into this bag. And she goes, I just love this bag because I, I need to bring it on book tour with me. And then this is where I get that like, bone chilling feeling. You know, I had it once at the top of the show. I'm getting it again right now. And this bone chilling feeling, I'm thinking is, okay, we really are in a dark place if Hoda Codby is having to carry on all of her stuff, right? She's going on, on a book tour. Hoda Cod be one of the most successful broadcast television personalities of all time, is having to make sure she carries on that bag. Which, you know, I don't, I don't know what that means. Are they not footing the bill for the checked bag? I am a person who, I firmly believe that if you can check a bag, you just should. And I know sometimes they get lost, but I just, I don't want to be caught in the kerfuffle of like, getting the bag down or getting on the plane, like one second too late to put it up there. And then you're just like, I, I don't believe in it. I don't subscribe to it. I do subscribe to the Royal Caribbean email. That's another story. I just found out why I will be unsubscribing from that as well. Because I don't subscribe to the putting the bag up you. Sometimes you got to, right? Like if it's a two day trip, whatever. She's going on a book tour. She's going on a book tour. I think she should check a bag. Okay. And she's making out. Venmo heard the $50 for the bag. If I, I know she loves the bag. But there's gotta be a better way. And it just makes me think if Hoda Khadi is trying to cut some corners, we are really in for the, for a big one. We're in for a big one. But even if we were in for a big win, I think there is one woman who would whip Hoda into shape and she'd say, no, honey, let get the Rima was out get that away suitcase, the four wheels, get them out, get that laying on the floor and start putting that stuff into that bag. Because enough is enough, Enough is enough. And that woman, I know, I know that she would not stand for this is Kathie Lee, right? We were a maybe not completely, but a somewhat civilized nation when we had Kathie Lee on our television every morning, right? When I again, like we bring it all back to the religious psychosis, the people going crazy. Now Kathie Lee, that's a God fearing woman. And you know what she did before 9am Every single day? She had a bottle of white wine on air and she was not putting up with anybody's bullshit. And I think we need her back. We need a bit of kind of, you know, she tell us like it is. And I, I am one to believe that. I do think that she would tell Hoda to get real and start working on her book tour event and just get the four wheel suitcase out there. Like let's bite the bullet. If you don't, if you're, if you don't have any status on an airline, let's get the $50 cash together so we can just deal with this at the airport. We don't need to be carrying and lugging this bag around the zippers. The performance of this bag. I mean, I understand how the back can work, but I'm just telling you like it's, this is Hoda Codby Hoda, like let's get the four wheel suitcase. Anyway, we love the girl. We love her so much. Which leads us right to. Why don't we take a break from my voice and why don't we get a voicemail. Now this voicemail I am going to kind of preface with I again. Now sometimes we do get some calls that are the wrong number. And if you've ever called the podcast Hotline, which is 310-909-9717, you'll know that there is sort of like a voicemail that's like, hi, this is Adam and this is Intrusive thoughts or something like that. So it's not sort of like you Missed, you know, this call, or, like, the call didn't pick up. So there is a. An alert to this not being, like, the right number, but still, nevertheless, she persisted. Okay. And so this call is, I don't think, for us, but in a weird and, like, beautiful way, it still completely works for the show. So we are going to play it. Please leave your message after the tone.