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Pacific Life Insurance Company, Omaha, Nebraska, and in New York, Pacific Life & Annuity, Phoenix, Arizona. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts. I am your host, Adam Rippon. It's good to have you here. I want to talk about a few things today. I do. Oh, my dog, Tony is crawling underneath something that he could just walk around, but. Yeah, hold on. Here you go there, Tony. Go ahead, Go ahead. He's up. He's looking at me because he wants me to move a bag away from a bed that is really not his size. But. And he's in it. He's in it. Ladies and gentlemen, Tony the dog. Thank you for that. Yeah, there's a few things I want to talk about. I think that it would be nice, too, because I always threaten to do this and start with, let's like, start with a voicemail today. Okay, here we go. Please leave your message after the tone. Hi, Adam. Just getting back into Dancing with the Stars this year, and I'm a little upset that I missed your season, so I'm binging all of them. And I think you still would have won this season. And your costumes are better than everybody and so is Jenna Johnson and you. So that's all I've got to say. You're the ultimate champion of Dancing with the Stars. Wow. The. What a way to start this episode with officially being named the ultimate champion of Dancing with the Stars, which is a huge title and burden to take on, but I'm willing to take it on and I'm willing to accept the title. I think that Dancing with the Stars, especially if not last season, but like last season, including, like this, this just happened season. I think that I remember Dancing with the Stars being this big like, years ago, like, almost at the beginning. So it's actually incredible to see how popular it's become again, because I feel like when I did it, I. I think it's always been popular, but it was definitely not as popular as it. It is right now when I was doing it, because I think when I was doing it, it felt like. Like, I hope this show stays on, like, for as long as possible. And now it seems like somebody could get, like, arrested if this show were to get canceled or. Or, like, not be on the air, you know, it feels like it would be a disservice to the American people. I think people would riot outside of CBS studios if Dancing with the Stars wasn't on now. And so that is sort of the impact that it does have on the culture kind of. At current. At current. Is that correct? It's not at all, but, yeah. I want to tell you a little bit about my Dancing with the Stars experience. I think. I mean, I can tell you more. I'm just trying to think of, like, what would be interesting. I remember. I remember meeting Jenna for the first time, and they set it up so it was like she was surprising me, like, at the rink, and I knew she was coming because obviously, it's hard to hide about five cameramen and to be like, nope, nothing's. Nothing out of the ordinary is happening. So I knew that she was coming. They wouldn't tell me who my partner was, but I did. I did know I was meeting somebody who was going to be my partner. How about that? That's the truth. The truth always kind of comes out when I share it. Eventually, it starts with something that's not true, but it's like, I don't mean to be lying. And then eventually, like, I talk my way into, like, remembering what happened. Exactly. And that is sort of exactly what just happened with the Jenna story. So, yeah, that's how we met. And I did absolutely think. I was like, this is gonna. This won't be that hard. I'm gonna have a blast. And I was right about one of those things. I had a blast, but it was actually quite hard. Um, I think that when you do Dancing with the Stars, a lot of people think, like, well, now you. You know how to dance. And I would say it's more the equivalent of, like, you spend one week learning one sentence in a foreign language. So, like, let's say one week, I have to learn a sentence in Japanese, and so I spend all week learning this one sentence in Japanese. And then at the end of that Week, you say the sentence, and it's like, wow, you sound like you could speak Japanese. And then as soon as that week is over, they're like, now you need to learn this sentence in Italian. And that's exactly what Dancing with the Stars is like. So it's like, yeah, I learned how to do the cha cha, but only to Ru Paul, like, not in any other way. So unless RuPaul himself is singing, I'm kind of completely out of luck. That's the only way I know how to do the cha cha is to sissy that walk. And that's kind of the fault of the Disney Company, not of my instructor, Jenna Johnson Chmerkovsky, that she taught me everything. She did everything she could. But it's the Disney company who did set me up to kind of only learn how to do the cha cha in the way that you can do it to sissy that walk. So that is. That was their fault. Not. Not really my fault. And it's just like, that's the setup of the show. I do have something very interesting about Dancing with the Stars. To share one, actually, I want to go back to one thing of you're binging all of the seasons, which see you next year, by the way. That's going to take you forever. But I am kind of impressed that you're doing it, and I think that it is because there's a lot of, like, Dancing with the Stars lore that you need to, like, you need to learn about. You need to know the history. And there's just. There's a lot of it to. To. To learn. And I think it's, like, quite fascinating. I don't really know a lot of it. So, like, I could. I could spare to kind of learn from it, too. But there is something interesting that I want to share. So when I was first starting. When I first, like, got on the ice and was learning how to skate, there was a coach at the rink, and she coached, like, all the good skaters at this. At the rink that I, like, first started to skate at. And her name was Carmina Monaco. And Carmina was. I like. You know, I loved Carmina. She was funny. She said the F word. You know, I thought she was all. She embodied all of the things that were cool. And Carmina had a daughter that lived in Los Angeles, and her daughter was in soap operas. And I remember one day Carmina came in and she said that her daughter was going to do this, like, reality TV show, and we were all like, okay, that's amazing. Like, cool. Like, that's a great opportunity for Carmina's daughter, whose name is Kelly Monaco, who Kelly Monaco. The the reality show that she was going to do was the first season of Dancing with the Stars. And so the winner of the very first Dancing with the Stars, her mother was a skating coach at the rink that I first learned how to skate at. And so it is insane to think that two mothers of people who won Dancing with the Stars were just at a rink in Pittston, Pennsylvania on any given kind of weeknight in 2000. So that's true. And that is, I don't think, I do think that that's sort of like an unbelievable Dancing with the Stars kind of thing that Kelly Monaco's mother, Carmina Monaco. I even think I've taken a lesson from Carmina, like when I was like a little, little kid, which I think that is crazy. That's crazy. Dancing with the Stars Lore Verbo's last minute deals make chasing fresh mountain powder incredibly easy. With thousands of homes close to the slopes, you can get epic pow freshies first tracks and more. Find last minute deals with the last minute filter on the app. Book a private vacation rental now@verbo.com which does lead me to talking about things that happened to me today that actually has nothing to do with Dancing with the Stars. But I do think that we'll go back to it because I did look at one of the text messages that we just got that is going to lead me kind of right perfectly back to a Dancing with the Stars sort of like genre. I'm also, I have an issue kind of of right around me and I'm going to explain it to you. And it's that it is the holidays, which is, is not an issue. Also, don't look at my desk behind me. There's a receipt here. I'll get to it. I'll explain. It has, it's not a prop, but it is, it is here to remind me to talk about something. So in front of me, I'm holding three different broken candy. One is full, but one, two are broken candy canes. And this is the issue that I'm facing. Like I said, the holidays are among us, around us, they're happening. And I do have a slight obsession with candy canes. I like the, the, your straight up regular peppermint one. I think that's just like, that's nice, that's refreshing. It's very reminiscent of post dinner, right? Like that's, that's what peppermint candy cane is. But my favorite candy canes are the Ones I'm holding in front of me. And it truly looks like I'm just, like, flashing garbage in front of the camera, which I kind of am. Like, these are trash. Are the sweet tart candies can candy canes. They are absolutely phenomenal and delicious. The only problem with them is, and it is a huge problem, is that they will completely change the color of your entire mouth. I was having the blue raspberry, which is not a real fruit flavor. I was having blue raspberry. And when I looked at myself in the mirror, my teeth were stained blue. And the entire. The palette of my, like, the. The roof of my mouth, my tongue, the cheeks, every. Every inch of my mouth was just blue. It was insane. It was scary. And this is actually a claim that I'd love to make to. Not even a claim, I guess, like a request. A request. A request I would like to make to candy makers and to the audience, if anybody knows. Here's the thing. I'm not a. I'm not afraid of food dice, okay? Like, I. I'm not. And I know that, like, maybe I should be, but I'm really not. I've like, oh, the artificial color. I'm. I'm not one of those people. I'm like, whatever. I'll take it. I. I'm from a generation of people who, like, the Lehigh Valley Dairy Company was dying the milk green for St. Patrick's Day. I'm fine. I lived, right? Like, we had a day of green milk. They were opening the thing and putting the drops of green in there. Like, we'll be okay. That's St. Patrick's Day milk. And so I'm not afraid. I just. I'm not. I'm, like, not afraid of the colors. And I. I understand why some people are. It's scary. It's not natural. Like, I agree with you. Like, milk isn't green, and mouths shouldn't be blue. So this is the problem that I have is that, like, I'm not looking is there. And I'm 100% sure that the reason that it's, like, dying my mouth is that it's, like, the ink or whatever, like, the dye, you know, it's not the blue raspberry that they're, like, you know, crushing in a vat, right? Like, I know that that's not how they're getting the flavor. It's chemically created, right? Like, it's a. That's a lab flavor. So I understand that really well, but I wish that. And. And if anybody knows candy that doesn't have any, like, food dyes in it. I know what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm asking like a, like a, A woo woo question. But I'm asking because I just want to eat candy and I don't want my mouth to turn a color, right? Like, I'm not worried about, like, I'm gonna have a birth defect. Like, I'm born already and I'm reborn. I'm reborn too. Like, I, I just, I'm not worried about that. Like, I'm worried about, like, showing up to, like, a meeting, being like, hi, guys. And it's like my mouth is green. Like, that's, that's what I am concerned with. Like, because my other favorite candy, blow pops, the famous candy where you just. What is it? What? I can't remember. Lollipop. Oh, my God. I couldn't remember the word lollipop. I was also yawning at the same time. Not that I'm like, I'm not bored at all, believe me. I'm like, never been so engaged in anything in my life. Um, but yeah, I love a blow pop. And I did make the mistake once of, like, let me just have like a quick below pop before this zoom meeting. And then I had to do a closed mouth smile and like, I'm not like, like, mumbling the whole time because I was afraid to open my mouth. I think the, the least offensive color for your mouth to turn is red because it's just like, oh, that's just hot, right? Like, I don't think anyone's like, oh, but blue and green are. Those are really tough ones and sometimes those are the best flavors. So unfortunately, that is sort of like what you're dealing with now. That is actually not what I wanted to talk about at all in the slightest. I wanted to talk a little bit about my, my day so far. So I have been at the medical spa. I've mentioned it many times on the podcast. I'm opening up a medical spa. Long process, labor of love. Today we got WI Fi in the office, and it's a big day. I feel like it's. When you get WI Fi in the office, it's like officially becoming like an office, right? WI Fi is a big thing to get because now it's just like, not a shell. Like, now you can, you can do a meeting in there, you can take a phone call in there. Like, things. It's getting real and I, I did something wrong when setting it up. So basically what happened was I got there this morning and I'll Give. Listen, I'll share the company at&t. The guy who came was, like, awesome. Like, he was great. But I think AT and T. Tried to pull something on me that I fell for that I didn't mean to fall for. Let me, like, just, like, explain. So I. Here I go again. A yard. Oh, that's. I'm not. Oh, God. And now. Can you hear that? There's, like, a dumpster rolling down a hill now. It just. When it rains, it pours. When it rains, it pours. Okay. All right, all right, all right. Let's talk this out. So I guess, like, the wiring that was going to the unit, our unit was, like, old. So they needed to, like, take the wiring from outside and then, like, wire it to our building. And listen, I don't know if you've ever. If anyone out there has ever, like, leased commercial space or at least a place in a building or something. It is crazy because we have drop ceilings. And now I know why offices have drop ceilings. It's because, like, you need wires that are back there. Quick, lickety split. And I saw in action why a drop ceiling in an office is ideal. Because the wiring that we had was, like, old. I'm like, that's where you can connect the WI fi. It looked like the first phone jack of all time. I'd never really. Like, I wasn't taking a good, hard look at it when I was looking at it, but then when the guy from AT&T was looking at it, he was like, yeah, that's pretty old. Like, I think it was, like, original to the building. 1970s. It's like Brady Bunch style. Like, it was old. And listen, I didn't know how they were gonna get the fiber optic 5G in there. And then I realized they needed to rewire the unit, so they did that, and, you know, they needed to do some stuff, whatever. Listen, it's. I'm not. We're not going to go into the details of the WI fi. Not because I'm. They're, like, under wraps in a secret. It's just because I don't care to. I don't care about them, and I don't think you do either. Okay. I think more people would care about if we could find candy that doesn't have dye in it that really like it, that has to exist. Look, I'm, like, looking to the left and to the right of a completely empty room, hoping somebody will give me the answer, and nobody will. I'm begging, actually, like, on my hands and knees. If someone is out there. If someone is out there and you know of a candy that doesn't have dye in it. And not because I'm scared of the dyes, but because I just don't want them to dye my mouth. You have to call the podcast. You have to call, not text. Or you could text, but you have to contact the podcast. Okay. Please. 310-90-9717. Okay. You have to. Have to. I need it, like, specifically need. We have needs and wants as human beings. I need. Okay, back to the WI fi. So I signed up for something because I was like, I want us to have a phone number, but I don't want a hard line. Like, what? I think it's ridiculous that places have hard lines. I was like, can't we just have, like a cell phone that just, like, lives in the building, right? Like, that lives in our suite and it's like a cell phone. And I guess I thought that's what I signed up for. But when the guy was setting up the WI fi, he was like, okay, now where's your hard phone line? And I was like, you have to be joking. What do you mean, where's the hard phone line? What does this look like to you? What year do you think it is? And he's like, well, you signed up for a hard phone line. And I went, well, damn, that's kind of not what I thought I was getting when I quickly was accepting terms and conditions. So I have to figure that out because I have no idea what kind of, like, phone situation I got. But all I know is that I got Internet and a phone line. What? Like, come on. The for it was. It's like $115 a month, which I feel like is not a bad deal, is it? Sound off in the comments. If it's a bad deal, if it's a good deal, then just like, kind of. We'll keep listening. Okay, so I did that. I had to do that. This morning. We got drapes inside of the medical spa and I had to get them hemmed. And I picked them up at the dry cleaner yesterday. So we got them hemmed, installed them, and now I'm training them. And if you don't know what training your curtains are, I'm going to need you to sit down for a second and I'm going to teach you what it is. This is going to be quick that you're going to sit down, you're going to stand right back up. So to train your curtains, all you do is basically like, you bunch them up at the top. And then you see where they're, like, rippling and folding into themselves. And you make sure that they do that all the way down. And to do that, you, like, take a little piece of, like, I used painter's tape. Let's see if that's a bad idea. But you're supposed to take string and, like, tie them up at the top, in the middle, and at the bottom. And so you're gonna like, put them in that, like, accordion shape, and you're gonna leave them like that for, like, a few days, maybe even hit them with the steamer. And you're going to train the curtains to, like, stay in that accordion pattern so it's not like, bunched up at the top. And then it's just like, like, no waves at the bottom. It just looks like a sheet. Right. Like, the curtains need to be trained. And, God, it was taking a long time to do, but we. We did the lobby, and then the friend I'm opening this medical spa up with, she is a nurse. Her name is Tamar. So Tamar and her sister were training the rest of them. And I just love saying, like, the phrase training the curtains. It does feel like we're taking them, like, on a workout, but really, it's like, the workout is for us. It's. God, it's a lot of work. It's, like, so much work. Anyway, I love it. Now, what did I need to do also at the medical spa? So this is just. I'm gonna go through, like, the day so that we can kind of just go through it together. I. With jp, My husband, we decided that it was time to, like. It's time now in this process to take all of the. That doesn't belong there out. We need it out. There's so much stuff in there that, like, doesn't need to be there, that we just need to take out and, like, move on with our lives. Like, that's what we need to do. Okay. It's just like, I've. I bought too many of this or, like, one extra of that, and now it's just time to, like, return some of this stuff. And so some of the stuff that, like, we were returning, we got at Ikea, and so we threw it in the car, we went to Ikea, and I had an amazing, absolutely incredible kind of breakfast. Ish time. It was early, early lunch. And I got chicken tenders. And I want you to know what I did. I. Something inside of me is really. It's broken because I decided to do something pretty disgusting to the Outside world, but to the inside of my head was completely rational. Rational, rationable. I almost said. And it's that I. I'm gonna tell you what I did. And it was like, I just want you to know I had the most delicious lunch. And I said, I'm getting chicken tenders. And so then I went over to, like, where they have the sauces, and I did one little Dixie cup. You know what I'm talking about? Like, little plastic thing. Not pla. Paper. Excuse me, Paper, Dixie cup kind of thing for sauce. I did one of ketchup, one of ranch, one of barbecue, and one of honey mustard. And you might be. And it looked insane, right? Like, it looked insane when I put it on my tray. Okay, so I have four sauces for three tenders. I go over, I sit down, and I want you to know, before I begin, I'm a sauce guy through and through. You know, I'm from the East Coast. Pennsylvania, barely. East Coast. Some. Some even dare to say, like, Midwest. I don't consider Pennsylvania the Midwest because I consider it the east coast because it's literally on the East. Okay. Like, the Midwest is like Chicago, Detroit. Okay. Pennsylvania's close. It's. But it's not close enough to call it the Midwest. No. Sorry. If you can drive to New York and back in the same day, New York City, like Manhattan. I don't think that that's the Midwest if you can do that in one day. On the. On the flip side of that, I do consider Ohio the Midwest. I don't consider that the East Coast. I don't know if that's fair or not, but just because I consider Philadelphia an East coast city, I don't consider it a Midwest city. I'm from northeastern Pennsylvania. Like, it. It's a further east than Philadelphia. Okay. It's worse. It's definitely much worse than Philadelphia, but it is further east. Okay, I digress. I digress. What was I talking. I really don't remember a single thing that I was talking about before this. Okay, let's do it together. Like, let's walk back together. What did they say? Touch your nose. Touch your nose and it'll come back to you. I don't. I think I'm making that up. Okay. Pennsylvania. Oh, sauces. Chicken tenders. Right, right, right, right. I remember. And so this is what I did. And yeah. So I'm just saying, like, you know, I have that Pennsylvania sensibility of, like, you know, if it's not that good, just put sauce on it. Put sauce on it. And it always really does work. So this is what I did. One chicken tender. I take the chicken tender. I act like it's a French fry. It is. I want you to know it's like a full breaded breast. I'm holding it in my hand like a. Like I got a letter from the post officer, man. And I dip it in each sauce individually, and then I take a bite. Yeah. And I am feeling a bit of shame explaining that to you and saying it out loud. I want you to know that. Yeah, I do feel a bit of like, I am sorry that I did that. For each tender and also each individual bite of said tender, I was going ranch barbecue, ketchup, honey mustard, like, every time. But there is something about the mixing of sauces that is just like. It is finger licking good. But, yeah, that's how I like my tender. I actually could probably put sauce on anything. Do you want to know my secret? I'm going to tell you a secret. One of my favorite secret things to, like, have at home is I have a ton of salads. Like, I mostly eat salads at home. Not because it's like, I'm watching my figure. It's just because it's, like, so easy to make. And, like, I'm never disappointed with the salad because the salad is all about sauce. It's all about sauce, and you're eating vegetables at the same time. Like, it's a win win. Like, you can't lose with a salad. Right? You can only win. You're only. Things are only going up with a salad. That's why I'm a huge, like, I'm on the front lines of defending salad, big salad everywhere. And so I mostly have salads at home. And my number one little hack, my hack for salads is I take a. Like, I do my normal, like, oil, vinegar, salt, pepper. Put it in there. Thank you, worst cooks, for teaching me how to season things properly. And then I will do a splash, like a tablespoon. That's a big splash, but it's a splash of buffalo sauce. Oh, yeah. Or I'll do barbecue sauce, and then it's a barbecue salad. I'll do buffalo sauce. Then it's a buffalo chicken salad. It is. I'm telling you, your sauces don't need to just be for chicken tenders or other, like, miscellaneous, free, styled meats. They can be for your salads, too. I think I would draw the line at ketchup. I don't think I'm gonna do, like, a ketchup in there. But you could do Like a ketchup. And isn't. Isn't barbecue sauce, like, mostly ketchup, I think. You know, I don't really know for sure. Never. I've always wanted to make my own. I've always wanted to make my own ketchup. Ever have. Maybe never will, you know? I don't really know. Okay, I want to get to a text message because I feel like, oh, wait, before we get to it, I also want to say that I did have, like, the frozen yogurt on the way out. I was like, oh, I was truly cruising for a bruising today when I went to ikea, but I had the frozen yogurt, and I've got to tell you, damn. The frozen yogurt at IKEA is phenomenal that they have mastered that. IKEA has, like, they have something so down, and they have something so not down. You know, like, some things are so. Some things are so wrong, but some things are so right. So it's mostly all good for ikea. All right, this is a. A text message that we have. Hi, Adam. Love the pod. I have a hypothetical reality show for you, Dancing with the Stars, but for figure skating. Skating with the Stars, question mark. Who would you cast for season one? Thanks and best of luck with the medical spa. Thank you for the luck. And I have to say something to you, caller. You are. That is a great idea. That has been done. Okay, next question. No, I'm kidding. So we're going to talk about this for a second. Okay. There was a show, and this was a few years ago, and I remember because I was still competing, but, like, there was, like, people reaching out to skaters who were retiring or were. Or who were retired that we are looking to cast you for this reality show. And the reality show was Skating with the Stars. Okay. Because just like Dancing with the Stars is based off of a British show called Strictly Dancing. Is it? Or like, something like that? Hold on. Let's Google it. Let's Google it. Strictly. Oh, gosh, Dancing. Is that called. Yeah, Strictly Come Dancing. Okay. Crazy name, by the way. Strictly Come Dancing. That does not roll off the tongue. All right, so strictly Come Dancing, 23 seasons. I mean, aren't there so many more seasons of Dancing with the Stars? Interesting. Interesting. Okay. Strictly Come Dancing. Okay. And that's what Dancing with the Stars is based off of. Now there's another British show called Dancing on Ice, and Dancing On Ice was. It's another British show, which I don't know if it's still on. It, like, comes it. It goes on. And Comes off, but, like, it usually gets renewed. People miss it. They want it to come back, but it's not all of the time. It's not as consistent as Strictly Come Dancing. I mean, most likely it's like, it's way more expensive to, like, you know, have ice time for the skaters to, like, learn programs and all of that stuff. And it's just. I'm sure it's just, you know, whatever the expense of this Strictly Come Dancing or Dancing with the Stars is, I'm sure the expense is, like, 10 times more for. Just have the rank involved. Okay, so there was a Dancing with the. There was a Skating with the Stars, and the British version of Dancing on Ice is. Was pretty popular in the. In the uk. But I want to tell you a little bit about it because there is something kind of interesting that I feel like you will find fascinating. And so was there a Skating with the Stars? Yes. Who would I cast? That's irrelevant. Completely irrelevant. I would cast anybody who would, like, want to take a. Like a lesson. Okay. I'm. I'll kill you. I'll let you know. Okay. But there was a skater. His name was Lloyd Eisler from Canada. World champion Paris skater. And Lloyd. God, I should. Okay, I don't. I really should know if this is true or not. How about this? It doesn't matter if it's true or not. Okay. This is what I'm. Okay. There's a part of this story that I was gonna tell you, but I'm not sure if it's true now. I'm just, like, not gonna tell you because that's gossip, right? But now I'm doing journalistic work by telling you the truth. And this is what I know. And I know that Lloyd Eisler is a bit infamous in the skating world for what reasons? I don't really like. He's kind of, like, before my time of, like, getting involved in skating. But I know that he's just, like, not well. Liked and me, like, I don't know. Like, I. I don't. Like. I don't really know. But what I will share of this story will. It'll, like. You'll all. You'll just get it. Okay, so he was paired up with Christy Swanson. Okay. And Christy Swanson is, like, the actress. What is she, Pretty in Pink? Is that what she was? Yes. Who turned down a role in Pretty in Pink? I don't know. Whatever. She's an actress. You know who she is. Okay. Do you. First of all, I. Let me just kind of go Back and go, I'm doing journalistic work. I'm literally like scouring Google. Okay. That's what I'm doing right now. And I have this, like, it does look like I'm a journalist though, because it's like empty wrappers of candy canes everywhere. It's just like, it's serious work. Okay. He pairs up and this is what, this is the part that I wasn't gonna share because I don't know. I think his wife, his wife at the time was pregnant. Okay. If he wasn't. If she wasn't, she wasn't. Okay. I don't know. Allegedly, like, okay. I don't, I don't know. I think that's a part of the story. I'm just like, not sure. So just pretend I didn't say it. But I want you to know what I'm leaving out, right? Like, I don't mean it if it's not true. And if it's true, then now you know. Okay? Like, I don't need credit for that. I'm just like telling you what I think I know. And what I think I know is that I think maybe his wife was pregnant at this time. And she's also. I think, Mary, this is another part I should leave out. And so I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm redacting it. Okay. I think she was also married. Redacted. Redacted. Okay. So I'm not sure. I don't really, like, I'm not sure. So let's allegedly suppose that they're both married, which I do think was correct. Well, they have an affair on the show, during the show. Okay, whatever. They both get divorced and then they couple up together. So Skating with the Stars was. And like, you can Google all of this. I'm trying to Google it now, but the computer's way over here. And I'm like, like, you know, I'm trying to. I'm trying to do a one man show at the same time. So I can't really Google it at the same time, but I'm doing my best. Yeah, I just, I really can't. Yeah. Interesting, Interesting. And. But now you're like, well, okay, well, you know, maybe you're thinking, shit happens. Shit happens. Right? I know some of you are probably going, his wife was pregnant at the time and he had an affair with his skating partner at Skate. I don't know if that's true or not. I do think it is. I just, like, I'm not sure. Regardless, Christy Swanson, she Does in this, like, Wikipedia page. They have actually. So they have a son together now, Lloyd Eisler and Christy Swanson. And Christy Swanson has described herself as, quote, a proud Republican and MAGA since 1969. And there you have it. And I think just that is enough. Yeah, I'm gonna say it is. I think. I wonder when she's quoted as saying that, because I will say that it is. I think it's. I'm even willing to hear the people out when they go, I'm Republican. Okay, interesting. But when somebody says they're maga, that's really. When I'm like, something really dark happened to you, and you don't want to talk about it with a professional. You want everyone else to deal with it except for you. That's what I think. And because I think it doesn't make it true, but because you say it, it is true. So that it is, like, that is true. Um, let's see. One more text message. Okay. Hi, Adam. My dad's. My dad's Tassimo, a coffee maker, way better than a Keurig, but is really only supported in Europe now. Recently bit the dust, and he ended up getting a Gaggia magenta after your recommendation. He loves it. Hell, yes. I'm so excited about this. I was wondering if you have any recommendations for other household gadgets that have made your life easier, slash entertaining in a good way. Guessing that bathroom decanters are not on that list. Hope all is well. Thanks for keeping me sane with your pod during the long commute between rinks. Okay, we have a skater here. Okay, well, travel safe through the rinks. So we have a Gaggia Breva. Whatever. I don't know how to say it, but, yeah, that's what we have. And we love it. Love it. It is. It's so easy. All you do is put beans up at the top, and then you just, like, push two buttons, and the whole thing, like, it makes. It makes an espresso. It is really amazing. I'm gonna have to get back to you on the household gadgets, because I really want to make sure that. That I really think of, like, the right ones for you, because I don't want to let you down. I really don't. Okay, I'm gonna do something crazy right now because I just got it on Amazon. It's in front of me. This is, like, the last thing I have been getting. These opalescence teeth whitening thing. I know I'm about to. I hate that I showed it to you, because there are People do ads for these, like, all the time. Like, I'm a hygienist and a generous officer. And I was like, that's what they do. Like, they're like, I cannot believe that you can get this in the tick tock shop. Like, they're doing ads for this. And I did fall for it, but I have to, I have to say, okay, hear me out. It is the it. This is the best, like, tooth whitening stuff that I've ever gotten. Like, for an at home thing. Okay, you do with that with like the, with whatever way you choose. But I'm just letting you know, okay, Like, I'm letting you know that that's what I love. Like, it really does work. Opalescence. Go. That's the name of it. I'm. And the only reason I'm showing you is because I accidentally put it in front of me, not because I was like, make sure you share that. I didn't. I don't mean that. Okay, I'm going to think of household gadgets. This is a great way to end the episode because I'm also, also ending it with a call to action. I need everyone to one think. You know, we have tons of voicemails and text messages that I still need to go through, and I will be going through them. Please, you best believe I will be going through them. But because the holidays are coming up, and if you thought I'd be taking a break during the holidays, you were sadly and sorely mistaken. I will not be doing that because I, I do believe that it is nice to have podcasts continue throughout the holidays. And I really do hate when people are like, let's do a best of. Or like, come on, I already listened to that. You're really, you're. Don't be stingy or cheap on me. Okay? So I. What I really want to do is I want to have holiday themed episodes from now until like the end of the year, maybe even into the beginning. So my call to action is I need people to share their intrusive thoughts about the holidays. I want you to share your holiday stories. Anything that's going on during the holidays, holiday interactions that you're dealing with that you need an opinion on. I want the next few episodes to be like, holiday themed because we're getting into the holiday spirit and I think you kind of realize, like, what happens when I'm left to sort of, you know, when I'm left to my own devices. It's sort of like we talk about chicken tenders. That happens. And I Think it's important that we talk about them. I don't think other podcasts are talking about chicken tenders enough. We are. We're definitely getting our quota of, like, did you talk about the chicken tenders? Um, and I actually don't think enough podcasts are being sponsored by Purdue, who is our sponsor to. Could you imagine? Like, everyone's doing, like a. Like a. What are they called? Healthy greens. What. It's. What is like, you know, people are doing, like, brands for, like, health food. And I'm like, now. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening to Intrusive Thoughts. This episode has been brought to you by Purdue. Listen, I'm putting it out there, and I want you to know Purdue had nothing to do with what we were talking about today. So Purdue, until we kind of hear back. Also, somebody did reach out to me and say that Teemu's partner company, they're like, parent company. That's what I meant to say, did rake in $34 billion. So we're going to be following up with Timu. I am. I'm going to send them the first message this time and be like, hey, you don't have it in your budget. Let's talk. So we're going to follow up with that. But I really do want your holiday intrusive thoughts. Okay. I want us to be sharing holiday stories. I want the podcast to be holiday, and I need this because I. It does feel like the holidays, but, like, I have a lot going on and I need everyone who listens to this podcast to help keep me accountable and in a way of keeping me accountable to remember it's the holidays. I need you guys to help me feel in the holiday spirit. You know, I can talk about chicken tenders any day. I can talk about the. The mouth dying properties of the. Of a sweet tart candy cane anytime. But I want. I really do want to talk about the holidays. And I think I need people to help me, like, prompt me to remember holiday stories of my own. So that's my. If you could do me a solid that. I think that would be a really nice thing because I want us to share holiday stories. I want the. The next few episodes to be holiday themed because it's coming close, you guys. Like, it's. We're almost in mid December. Please. I literally pass out. Anyway, that's the end of this episode. Love you to death. Really, I do. I forget the cute little, like, slogan I said maybe, like, a week or two ago, but I think it was something like this. I'm Adam Rippon. And these have been my intrusive thoughts. Right. I don't know if that's right. Anyway, make sure that you like this podcast and give it five stars every star. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All five of them. And make sure that you leave your intrusive thoughts that involve the holidays on our podcast hotline. That number is 310-909-9717. If you did not have a pen and paper, you can find that number on my Instagram account, which on Instagram is @adarip a d a R, I, P, P. If you just hit the call button up in the bio, that number will pop right up. You can call the podcast, leave a text message. Yeah, go ahead. Go do that again. That number, 310-909-9717. And until next week, I'm Adam Rippon, and these have been my intrusive thoughts. Bye.