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New Year, same extra value meals at McDonald's now get a savory sausage McMuffin with egg plus hash browns and a small coffee for just $5 for a limited time only. Purses and participation may vary. Prices may be higher in Hawaii, Alaska and California. And for delivery. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts. I am your host, Adam Rippon, and these are my Intrusive Thoughts. I'm so glad to have you here. I'm so glad to be sitting down, recording another episode. I have something that I want to go over today that I alluded to having in the last episode, and it's right here. I haven't not looked at it. Okay. I. Did I make it? Yes, I did make it, but not recently. I don't. I think maybe we'll get like, more D. I'm. I want you to know, before we even begin. Actually, let me just take a beat. I want you to know that I'm acting like, what's in this? And I'm waving the folder in front of the microphone so that you can hear it if you can't see it. I'm alluding that this is like that. Like I'm going to be reading the Epstein files. And it's. It's not anything close to that. Okay. It's nowhere near that. But we're go. We're going to get there. We're going to get to what this is, but we're not there yet. There's a few things that we need to talk about, a few things that we need to cover right off the bat. Right off of the bat. Okay, I guess. You know what? Go with that. So right off of the bat, I want you to know that I got something that I have been like. I am susceptible to propaganda, as is everyone and anyone. And the propaganda that I was most susceptible to is beauty related. And I. This is. We're going to talk about something that I. Again. Like, this is what happens every time. I was not planning to talk about this, but we're going to talk about it for a second at least. I have been. How do I put this? Persuaded to buy. It's okay. Do you know what gua sha is? If you don't know what gua sha is, I'm going to explain it to you. It's basically this, like, very smooth stone that, like, somebody will take and they'll like, lightly massage over the face. And this is to help, like, lymphatic fluid drain from the face. And there's a few different sort of people actually I'm not even, I'm not even going to call them people. I'm going to call them characters. There's a few different characters you'll meet online when you fall down the rabbit hole of lymphatic drainage. Okay, the first, and this is like Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole, right? So it's like you're falling, falling, falling. And. And some of these characters that you'll meet. The first one will be like an Eastern European woman who goes, this is what I used to look like and this is what I look like now. And it's a picture of like truly like a woman whose head is the shape of a pumpkin. And then the next frame is her now where she looks like a mail order bride. And you're like, well, well, I want to look like mail order bride. Like, I want to do that. And then she'll continue. And there's a few different kind. Like this isn't one specific person. This is like, this is just like what I'm saying, like one of the characters that you'll meet in your lymphatic drainage rabbit hole. And every character has the same background story. And the background story is that they actually weigh more now than they did in the picture where their head was this size of like a prize winning zucchini at the state there, like oblong, swollen to hell and back. And then you see them now and it's like they look like a tiny little newborn fox. Like sharp features, a tight little button nose. Like that's what they look like now. They're always from Eastern Europe. I don't even want to peg this on Russia because I am more inclined to. This is, it's Ukrainian vibe, but I don't. There are, you know, there are other Eastern European countries out there where, you know, listen, a gig's a gig, a job's a job where you've got to sell something. And what are they selling? One, they're selling like their own facial exercise courses, which obviously I'm a sucker for coursework. I've never bought into the courses. I just like, I want that to be on record. But sometimes they'll be selling like Guasha tools. Okay. And I know that this started with like, do you know what Guasha is? But it's okay. We're like on the lymphatic drainage sort of quest. That's one of the characters. It's not the first. And there is no sort of correct order to meet all of these fools and ghouls. Okay. Another person you'll meet is somebody who's, like, truly not interested in lymphatic drainage at all. They're just trying to pedal you a product, okay? And you know, they're a scammer. Like, you're gonna be seeing them trying to sell, like, batteries and, like, end of the world solar powered batteries is, like, what I'm talking about. Not like double A's, AAA's. I'm talking about, like, crank it when you. When, like, all the power goes off. Like, you could live off the grid. And then, like, three weeks later, you'll see them and they're like, I'm selling tox and a stick. If I hear one more person talk about a Dr. Malaxin toxin. A stick. Like, I don't know if our algorithms are aligned, but basically, like, that's another, like, facial product where somebody's always trying to sell that to me. And I won't fall for it. I'm not gonna fall for that. We're gonna talk about, like, that another day. I'm still on lymphatic drainage, okay? I'm not talking about, like, I'm a nurse and I used to talk in his talks. And a stick. You're a liar and you're 22. Shut the up. So what I'm talking about is so, like, you know, I've named some of the characters, right? Like, that's basically it. Oh, and then you'll get, like, a professional. Like a gua sha professional, where they'll teach you, like, a routine or something, and then they'll. Whatever. But one of the things I've been dying to try, because obviously I have a gua sha. Like I said, it's just. It's a polished stone. That's what I was trying to say earlier. It's a polished stone. And it's just to kind of like, help, assist, you know, the lymph. Okay. Now, if you've ever done this yourself, like, you need to put a little, like, oil on your face, like a facial oil on your face, so that there's a little bit of, like, a slide to this stone. Otherwise it just, you know, it's like. Like, it's like getting stuck to your skin, which feels. How do I put this? Bad. Yeah, feels bad. And so I've been seeing this thing, and I think I've kind of like, you know, been fiddling it, fiddling around with it, like, on my desk right here. And it's basically like. It's a brush. Like, can you hear this? Kind of. That sounds good. Oh. But basically, it's like a facial brush that, like, will work as a gua sha, but it's a brush. And so a lot of times, like, you'll get, like, the real, you know, vacuum salesman trying to sell. Sell this kind of thing, and they'll be like, it's much easier to do it better for the. But I'm more interested of, like, I don't want to put oil on every time I want to gua sha. And so I got this brush because this, you know, it's my latest propaganda that I've fallen for. And I want you to know that it's, um. It's exactly what I expected it to be like, and it's incredibly disappointing. But it is sort of this, like, hard look in the mirror that I'm gonna have to take because what the fuck did I think it was gonna do, you know? What the fuck did I think this thing was gonna do? It's a fucking brush, and I'm just brushing it on my face. It's a fucking brush. I don't know. In my mind, it was like, this will feel like a Swedish deep tissue Thai massage. You know, that famous Swedish Thai sort of hybrid massage. It'll feel like that. And when really, this feels sort of like a brush. You know, it feels like I went to a Sephora and I said, hey, can you give me that brush? And I'm just going like that on my. It's a brush. So if you've been tempted to buy this, I don't know, it was $10. I would. I would get it. I would get it. And it's kind of does the. It does. It does exactly what it says. I'm. I'm happy with it. But I want you to know that, like, I am incredibly disappointed in myself. There's nothing special. There's nothing. It's just abroad. Like, I, you know, what can I say? There's really nothing to say. The next thing I want to talk about is something I saw right before I started this episode, and it is Nara Smith. Now, if you don't know who Nara Smith is, she's this incredibly beautiful, very young girl who's married to this, like, also. He's young, too. Very Utah. The whole thing is very, like, Utah, like, coded. They're both, like, in their mid to early 20s. I want to say they have, like, four kids together. Her name is Nara Smith. His name is Lucky Blue. You got. I hope that this has to be ringing a bell, right? Like, you have technology, you're on the Internet. You gotta know who These people are. And Nara Smith has sometimes gotten a lot of heat online for kind of promoting, like, a trad wife sort of lifestyle, which. I'm gonna explain what trad wife stands for. It stands for traditional wife, which, you know, you might be going, yeah, obviously, I had to look that up the first time because I didn't know what the trad wife meant. But now I know, and it may. It's basically like, a woman should, like, be at home and, like, doing the home. Like, that's kind of trad wife life. Because what basically she's doing is, like, she's showcasing her life. And she has, like, four kids. She's in her early 20s, and her who kind of shtick is that she's, like, making everything from scratch. It's like my kids wanted a Hot Pocket, so I decided to make that from scratch. And so she does that with everything. Like, what's the most insane thing? I don't know. She just. She's like, Lucky came home from work today, and he really was hungry, so I decided to make him a loaf of bread and a stick of butter from scratch. And she, like, does that with every single kind of meal, anything. And so that's her thing. Oh, and while she's doing it, she's wearing, like, couture, because I mentioned. She's, like, drop dead gorgeous. Okay? She's, like, gorgeous. She's clinically insane, as is, like, Lucky, because he's walking around with a toothpick hanging out of his mouth like he's like James Dean. And he's going, coming home, going, like, I want a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich. And she's going, I'm gonna make that from scratch. Like that. Like, they're both. They're both insane. Love them to death. Okay? I love them to death. Another thing that she does. And this is what I'm gonna talk about, and kind of briefly. I don't have a lot to say on it, but I just need it to be out there. Sniff. She has the most insane names for her children, okay. And I have them in front of me. She has four children, as I mentioned. She just had. And I. I took a screenshot of it with my phone. It's sitting on my computer right now. This baby that she had is, like, fresh. It looks still wet. She's holding it like. I mean, she's holding it like a bowl of hot soup. Like, oh, it could spill at any moment. She's being very careful. But the baby looks wet. It's that fresh. Okay, These are the four names of her children Rumble, Honey, Slim, Easy, Whimsy Lou and Fonny Golden. I wanted to like kind of, you know, riff off of those names, like as I was going, but I was like, I can't do that. You. You're gonna think that it's part of the name. Like I wanted to go, slim Easy, good night. You'd think that the whole name, the whole name could be Slim Easy, Good night. Right? Like it's in like these names are wild, completely out of left field. And this is what I want to say. Every time she does a video about her, her kids names, she talks about other names that she like really loves or like wanted to use or like, whatever. Okay. Every time she talks about what her children are named and then the names that she was considering, I get so mad that I didn't think of them. I get so furious that I didn't think of those names first. And I might be in the minority here, but I do not care if I had a child running around and their name was Rumble, Honey Slim. You have to be so you have to know one that your child is going to be drop dead gorgeous. You have to like, bet on that. You have to know Whimsy Lou, Kill me, Fawnie Golden. She was talking about like a name that she wanted to consider. Whisper. Oh, my God. What was another one? Oh my God. Dainty. Like they're. It's genius. I'm, I, I don't know if you're gonna agree with me. I don't actually care if you agree with me, but my daughter, Dainty Whisper, it's so good. Oh, wait, there was something like she wanted to name her one of her kids. I can't remember, but she wanted the, the, the middle name to be Melon. What was it? It was like Coco Melon. Coco Melon? Is. Isn't that like a name of a children's like, iPad game? Whatever. That's basically like what she's naming like her, her children. It's. But I want you to know that I get filled with like jealous rage. I go, I wish I thought of those names because I think that they're genius. I think that they're like amazing names. You have a child named Slim Easy? I'm sorry. That's cool. That is so. And people give her a hard time because I can see in my screenshot, in my like hard hitting journalism, I can see it right here, somebody says, I love the names Blort, Cheddar, Summer Sausage, and obviously Brick, which that's, you know, it's A funny comment. I'm not here to, like, read, do, like, reaction videos, but I. That is funny. A child named Brick. I do, like. I mean, Cheddar is a cute name, too, but it's, like, all about the delivery. Like, she's a cool girl. Like, if she's like, I want to kind of do what things that she's doing, you know, like, be 20. I want to do that. I want to try that. Tried it once, but I didn't try it with four kids and with money. So, yeah, she's. She just, like, kind of makes me feel like maybe it's worth a shot. Who knows? Okay, now we're gonna move on to something else. The next thing that we're going to talk about is in the last episode, I was talking about that I'm looking for the perfect slipper, and I gave this, like, whole monologue. We're gonna get to this slipper in a second. But I talked about how once, and I'm pretty certain that dhl, okay, the delivery company, that when I ordered something from Australia once, like, it's. It showed up delivered, but I never got it right. And I blamed this on the company, dhl, which I don't take back, but I don't even know if that was, like, the company. But I don't take it back because I don't get, like, a good vibe from them anyway. Okay. They could use a little, like, talking down to, I believe. But now I'm here to say that, like, I have not thought about, like, a stolen package. Like, in that package. I'm gonna go back and say, that package wasn't stolen. It was, like, never delivered to, like, anyone on the block. It just said delivered. So that's why I'm, like, it was. That was stolen by the driver. This happened to me yesterday. Okay? I have not. And it's because I talked about it again. I know it. So I was ordering things from Best Buy. How is that place even still around? God knows whatever. But I was ordering things from Best Buy. I am opening a medical spa. I needed a few electronic things, which were. I got three Google speakers. Okay. And two iPads. Okay. Now, before I go any further with this story, I want you to know that I do know that that's like, if a bank robber, like, an electronics robber could, like, rob things, they'd go, I'll get three speakers and two iPad. Like, it sounds like a fake order. Like, it sounds like an order where, like, you know, I'm plotting with the robbers, right? Like, why else would you order two iPads and three. Like that's not a normal order. I understand. It's an order I made. It was a normal order for me pour moi. But it happened to me yesterday night where it was like it's delivered and nowhere in sight. And now I know what the company is and I'm about to ring them. I'm about to knock on the front. Hello. Knock on their front door. The only reason I'm not giving them hell yet is because I'm not in a work week yet. I'm still in the weekend when I'm recording this episode. I'm not. Once I get into the work week. Ring, ring. Adam Rippon on the line. I need to speak to your manager. I say that now, I'm a complete pushover. When I'm gonna get on that phone, I'm gonna go, happy New Year. How are you? I just have a qu. Like I know I'm gonna be like that and I'm gonna hate myself or a. But I am 110% certain that this package was stolen by the, by the delivery driver. And it's from the company on Trek. On track. Hold on, give me a second. I'm going to tell you exactly what it is. And you know it. Like we all know it because it's the dumbest name for anything. Hold on. We're gonna find it. We're gonna find it. We're gonna find it. God. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? I mean I have all of these, these emails where it was like, it's delivered. No, it's not. It's literally never gotten here on track. What is it? Hold on. You have. We're gonna, we're doing this together. Okay. View order details because I want you to know. And it's always, it's like this courier service, but this sounds familiar. And then I like was googling it and obviously there's a full Rhett yes. On track. O N T R A C them because they're hiring thieves and sticky fingered little criminals. I'm so mad. I'm so annoyed. I'm gonna get all my money back because I'm gonna call amex. I'm gonna be real chummy with whoever get on the line with. And I go, yeah, I know it sounds like a fake order where I got two iPads in three Google speakers. I'm so furious it delivered. It never got here. I'm looking at it right now. I could chuck my computer out the window. Anyway, I just want you to know that it happened and Now I have a real company. D. Chow. I just was kind of throwing out there, truly just throwing them under the bus, like I didn't give a. I don't care about the repercussions. They could. They might want to sue me for defamation. It's not my problem. Right? But now, now we have a company, okay, that we do have to publicly hate. And I looked it up. Like I said, I was Googling it, and there's a full Reddit thread, and that's basically like, is on track. Just stealing everyone's packages. I'm like, here we go. So, yeah, I was. I'm the victim of a crime again. What else is new? But it will get resolved. And you know what, to whomever stole those, I hope you really needed a iPad. Now you have two of them. And now you have surround sound. Furious, though. I am so upset. But I want you to know something that makes me not upset. And it requires me playing a voicemail, actually. Right. I ask for voicemails all the time. You do? Everybody follows through, which is amazing. But sometimes I just get on here and I just can't stop talking. Okay. But here, let's get to the first voicemail of the year. Quite exciting. Please leave your message after the tone.
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Hi, Adam. I'm Scott. Two slippers for you to try. One is Birkenstock. I've got them. Love them. But the bottom of it might not be hard enough for you, and it might be too slippery. If that's not good, try a company called Vionic, which is V, like Valentine, I O and like Nancy, which is my name. I see. So good luck. I understand this problem that you have. Thank you.
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Goodbye, Nancy. It's good to hear from you. And this is what I have to say. I got a lot of voicemails, a lot of text messages, a lot of dms. And I'm going to tell you, the top slippers. The top slippers of 2026. It's in our list. Is in already. And so I'll. I'm going to tell you, some of the top ones at Birkenstock was on there. Another one we had was Bombas. Bomba slippers was on there. We had some LL Beans. LL Bean slippers were on that list. And Minnetonkin slippers. Minnetonkin. Okay. I don't. Whatever. You get it. A lot of those slippers were. Were on that list. And in my quest for the perfect slipper, I'm still on my quest for the perfect slipper. I have kind of dug a Little bit deeper. I've done more research and I have to be honest, when I look at, like, the L.L. bean Slippers, I want to like the L.L. bean Slippers, but I'm just not looking for a slipper that looks like I need to do a land acknowledgment before I put them on. You know, I just. They look appropriative, right? It looks like I'm appropriating culture that's stolen. Like, I don't. I don't think I can in good conscience where, like, wear those, right? And I don't think in good conscience we can be wearing like, the, the L.L. bean. I don't think L.L. bean is. Let's, let's, like, let's look it up before I get myself into it. Like, trouble is L.L. bean Native American owned? If it's not, then we need to know who it is. It's not. It's. It's actually founded by Leon. Leon wood bean. So L.L. bean. Right. A white guy and in Maine. So I do think that L.L. bean has a lot to. They have a lot of explaining to do, I'll say that. But let's get back to the Birkenstock slipper. The Birkenstock slipper is sort of what I am looking for. But I want you to know this is sort of like a personal fact about me that I have flat feet. And it is sort of the. Like, it's my. It's something I hate about myself and I'm being so honest about that. It's something that I despise. I think flat feet are so disgusting looking and I'm. I'm the owner of them. I'm the owner of two flat ass feet. Like, I have them and I hate them. And I don't think people who have just like a little bit of an arch just know like, how much better the foot looks with just like a bit of an arch. It's just like, why is. When I look at my feet, sometimes I'm like, why is the whole thing on the ground? Right? Like, I think me and the whole like, flat foot community, like, when we look at our feet, when I look at my own feet, I look at it and I go, why is the whole thing just resting on the ground? Like, should. The middle should be lifted. And it's not. It's like fully flat to the ground. It's just the. The shape of a flat foot is so, like, it looks like an antique iron. Like, just like American steel. Like, it looks painful. Looks so ugly. It's Awful. There was a time in the. This is so crazy. There is a time in the pandemic when I looked. I'm coughing because obviously, like, I was so mentally ill during the pandemic. And I looked into, like, arch surgery, and it's like, it's just a quick recovery of, like, eight months in bed. And I was like, what? That's not quick. It's like the equivalent. Like, getting that arch surgery seemed like the equivalent of, like, hey, like, I'm five foot five and I'm gonna go to Turkey to get leg extension surgery. And they said I may never walk again, but I do have potentially the. The hope of maybe being 5 9. And it's like, you would potentially never walk again so that you can be 5 foot 9. Like, buy a platform Converse sneaker, buy lifts in your shoes, wear two pairs of tube socks. You'll be able to walk, run. I don't think those people can ever run again. Their legs will shatter like glass. So, yeah, I'm getting off on a tangent. I also want you to know that I. I've been to an L.L. bean recently, and I was so excited. I don't know why. Actually, do know why, because growing up, all the really cool kids in my class, they had L.L. bean backpacks with, like, initials. And then, you know, I had to go to school, like, with a Jan Sport that was kind of, you know, that would be falling apart within, you know, a month because I was bringing, like, every textbook I had from school home. But yeah, those L.L. bean backpacks, they were. They last a lifetime. They really. They do. And so I've always thought, like, oh, wouldn't it be nice to have something from L.L. bean? Right? From Leon. Leon Wood Beans Company. And I still believe that I walked into the L.L. bean and didn't buy. Didn't buy anything. And I didn't even see the slippers because, again, like, a lot of the things there do look like. You have to, like, acknowledge. Do land acknowledgment. It looks. And it's like. And I say that with, like. Yeah, I don't. I don't think we should be stealing those designs. Okay? We've already stolen enough from the native people. We don't need to be still. Like, wouldn't it be cool if these had turquoise beads on them? Like, I don't know. I don't think so. I think, like, it's okay, right? These don't need to look like they're made of, like, bare skin. I think, like, why don't we just Stick to the, you know, gonna basic design of a slipper, right? Let's just do that. The Birkenstock slipper is. It does look good to me. So this is how I got to the flat foot story that I was telling. But the thing about Birkenstock, because I have flat feet and I have a pair of Birkenstocks that I like to wear around the house, it's sort of like a summer slipper, right? And I only wear them around the house because I consider it like a full fledged workout for my foot, right? Like I consider when I put my foot inside of a Birkenstock, like it is, I am trying to like mold an arch into my foot flat, shitty butt. Like that's what I'm trying to, I'm trying to mold it into the foot. And so it's like a painful, painful experience to wear a Birkenstock. And so I'm afraid that like, if I get the slipper, like when I wear a slipper, a slipper is just, it's about me and it's about leisurely walking throughout the home. I don't know if I have it in me for a slipper to be about doing a full fledged workout. Because it's a workout because I'm incredibly tense, like my whole. But like, no wonder I have to work out the fat. No wonder my algorithm is about working out the fascia of my face for lymphatic drainage. Like, no wonder. Because if you could just feel every like fiber in my body and it's just like I feel like I have, like, I feel like I'm relaxed, but I know I'm not. When I'm wearing a Birkenstock, I feel like I should feel so relaxed, right? But for a person with a flat foot, a Birkenstock is sort of like, like a, like a punishable act that you could put yourself through. It's painful. It's very painful. And so the other slipper that is really in contention, which I think that I'm gonna go with, because the Birkenstock, I'm looking at it right now, it does look. Everything about it looks right. But this is. I think I'm gonna go with the bombas and I'm going to tell you the exact bomba slipper I'm going to go with. I think I'm going to go with the woman's Sunday mule slipper. Everything about it looks right because there's just something about the men's slipper that I'm just. It looks A little too. Like, it looks dumbed down. Okay. Like it looks dumbed down. It looks like, let's make these slippers for men. And the. I want a mule. That's. I'm putting, like, words to what I want. I want a mule slipper. I want a back. Like, stop putting that trim around the heel. Ah, God. Everybody, please listen to me. The only thing is, and I'm gonna say this, I have no problem buying, like, a woman's shoe over a men's shoe, right? Like, I'm a size eight, which I think is like a nine and a half in women's. If it's. If it's a shoe I want, I'm going to get a shoe I want, right? I don't care. The one thing I've noticed, though, is that, like, the cuts of clothing and can be sometimes different because sometimes if I am buying, like, a sweater, I'll always go to, like, what are the women's extra large or, like, extra extra large sweaters? It'll look like a little. Because I don't know what it is. Girls, listen to me. When you're a man, they want your whole torso to be covered down to the middle of your ass, okay? But when you're a woman, for some reason, somewhere along the lines that became unacceptable. And all women's clothing ends at sort of like the belly button, the waist. And so I. I don't know where we decided and why we decided that, like, the female's torso would just be so much shorter. Is it. Am I being so stupid? I don't. I don't know. But we've decided a lot of things should be, like, shorter. And this is where. And like, listen, I'm willing to take the L on being like, no, Women just always have shorter torsos. And so that's why the shirts have to end. Like, earlier they. Earlier. I don't. You know what I mean? Okay. But the slippers, this is something else where it's like, they're. How do I put this in a way that, like, even I could understand? Because I don't even know if I'll be able to fully explain what I'm saying. Okay. You know, like the top of your foot, right? Like, let's just call the top of your foot like the bridge. On a men's slipper, they're, like, going to cover the whole bridge. But on the woman's slipper, there's, like, a deeper cut, so it's like more at an angle so that there's, like, more of your, like, Bridge showing. Do you know what I'm saying? Where it's like, doesn't a woman want her whole bridge covered? I'd imagine. I mean, if I were a woman, I'd want the option at least to have. I don't need to show my, like, dainty little foot. Right? Like, maybe you do. Like, maybe I just got it, like, all wrong. I'm gonna say that there's some, like, masculine presenting legs of the women woman's Sunday mule, but this looks sort of like the right slipper for me. It's $70. Yeah. I just. I think that this is right. I think this is right. I. And also, I'm like, I'm a Bombas guy when it comes to socks. So it feels good to kind of keep it in this same. Same family, if that makes any sense. Because I'm just. I love my bomba socks. I love them. I'm wearing a pair right now. I only own bomba socks because they actually really mean. They're like, lifetime guarantee. They've sent me so many socks, I've worn through them all, but they keep. They keep sending me. I love that. And. And they. Because that's their guarantee. Anybody can do this. Okay. Anyway, I've been spending too long on sort of a preamble. I don't even know what the hell we've talked about so far, but I said that. That. Oh, my God. Wait. Okay. I talked about this in the last episode. I did it sort of as like a cliffhanger of. Wait, we're gonna get back to the cliffhanger for a second. But I want you to know that I looked up Nancy's other suggestion for. For the slipper, okay? And the other suggestion she had was vionic. Okay? I looked it up, and I want you to know before we go on, don't go. Oh, Nancy, I don't want you to do that, because she does sort of like. Let's let Nancy speak for herself, okay? Because she did. Nancy did leave two. It's a two parter. Okay? So we're going to let Nancy speak for herself before I go on, because I do want to describe what I am looking at. Let's let Nancy talk it out. Please leave your message after the tone.
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Adam the pantsy again. I scared you wrong. Don't do a vionic. I just looked. They all have that little lip in the back that you hate. I think you're really going to find something you like if you go to Birkenstock. By the way, L.L. bean doesn't have it. Either. These little lips, they're terrorizing everybody. So good luck even more good luck now.
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Bye, Nancy. I needed it. I need the good luck. I needed it. I still need it. I just told you how I was robbed, right? Like, I need the good luck. I'm never going to say no to it. Okay? I looked up the bionic, and I want you to know that you know good. Nancy, thank you so much for amending yourself, because you are right. A lot of these do have the lip. Some of them don't have the lip. But I want you to know that the only place that I can find them are on the Bionic Shoes website or on, let's say it together, Ortho feet dot com. I'm looking at these slippers right now. If you're sort of tempted, well, what do they have in order? I'm gonna tell you. These slippers look like these are going to be the last shoes that you buy. Okay? These look like the. Like you're going into hospice. And they go. She's had a really rough go. Why don't we get her some bionics? That is what they're looking like. I'm just telling you what I'm seeing. They look like the last shoes you'll ever buy. Okay? Like, I. That's what I'm. That's kind of what I'm. There's one pair that looks kind of interesting. I buy them. No, no, These. These slippers look like. No, no, these are the last ones. These are the last shoes you ever get. That's what it looks like. Because there's. It's a bit. It's like a bit like the heel is elevated. So I'm like, no. They're also assuming that, like, you're going into hospice care and you have plantar fasciitis. So it's sort of like bada bing, bada boom. They're catching you at both. And you're gonna go, these are the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn. Because it's like they want you to be comfortable in the end. Like, that's. These are not. These are not good with arch support. Oh, no. Yeah. It's really. It's Dire Straits on the Viori website. Viana. Sorry. Bionic Vori is a athletic clothing line. But Bionic. These do sort of look like. They look like one of the last purchases somebody makes on a credit card. It's tough. It is sort of tough to kind of see, like, my neck. My grandma had the issues, and it's like, well, those were the last ones she ever owned. It's just the vibe. So it's not even that I'm actually finding. Nancy, if, like, you're interested in these. I'm finding a lot that don't have that, like, woolen edge at the end. I don't want the heel covered at all, is basically what I'm trying to say. And a mule doesn't have the. The heel covered. And I'm finding a lot of vionic slippers where it's like the heel isn't covered. But I do believe we shouldn't. No. Unless you're, like, trying to be comfortable. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I'm just saying, like, you. Everybody do what you want and do what you please. But that's just the vibe that these are giving me. Okay, we've spent too long on basically, like, our preamble, so we will be talking about what I wanted to talk about. And we are finally going to open this folder, and it's good. This will probably be embarrassing, but, like, we've got to just. We've got to do it. Okay. So in this folder, I'm taking everything out. And actually, I'm gonna be honest. It looks kind of cute. It does look kind of cute. I made sort of like a vision board of sorts. And so if you're watching, like, I'll kind of flash some of these, and they look like kind of like collages. Okay. Am I? Yeah. Okay. They look like collages, and it's like a vision board sort of thing. So basically, I am. Oh, this is quite interesting, actually. Okay, so we're gonna go through it. I'm gonna explain what was on this vision board. And I want you to know when it comes to vision boards, I. I'm not sort of like a one and done kind of person, because I know some people can be where it's like, they make a new one every single year. I don't, because I make a new one every sort of, like, few years. And that's sort of how I kind of navigate the vision of the board. Because sometimes I'm just sort of like, there's still things that I want on that board. Or some of them are, like, kind of evergreen. Like, maybe some of them should be a bit more specific. But. Okay, let's just see. So on the very first one we have, I guess I didn't really think this one through. I put a picture of my. My mortgage that I think that I put it on here so that, like, I could envision it being like, paid off. I just have it on here. So to be fair, to be fair, to be fair, I am still living in a reality where I do still have a mortgage, right? Oh, no, wait. Okay, wait. I take it back. I take it back. I take it back. Oh, I'm g. I'm so smart. I photoshopped this mortgage. Okay? I photoshopped the mortgage, and this is what I did. I photoshopped the mortgage. So it. So it shows amount outstanding, principal, zero dollars. Okay, I. I did put that in there. Escrow balance, zero dollars, days left in billing cycle, zero. Okay, I photoshopped this. Okay, For. For a second, I was like, you're envisioning the mortgage you currently have on the house. Maybe aim a little higher. The next thing on this, like, collage that I have in front of me, it says actor in a leading role. It says Academy Awards. I think I was feeling a bit like, in an actory kind of way, which I will say in this last year. Hold on, let me. There was something I wanted to. Just to see. But this last year, I really have been. I really do want to act in, like, a comedy series. I think that I'd be good at it. Okay, shoot me. Like, I. Just saying. I just think that I would be good at it. And so I've really tried to. I've really wanted to, like, audition more for different things. And last year, I auditioned for. Let's see. 1. I auditioned for seven different shows last year. Okay, One of the show and. Okay, let's go. I can't say what they are. Okay, I auditioned for one. Wait, what did I say? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. I auditioned for seven different shows. One of the shows, I. They had me audition and read lines for three different characters. Okay. And I. I was like, they love me. They can't get enough of me. And that was true until I think they did get enough of me and did not get it. But I did. But I did audition for three different characters. I think there's another one. There's, like, maybe one or two of them on here that, like, I auditioned. They had. I auditioned for one character, and then they had me read for another one. So I auditioned for two different characters. Didn't get any of them, but I did get casted to be in St. Denis Medical, which I'll be in this year. I want you to know, before that comes out, I. I, like. I have posted about it on my Instagram, and I. It does look like I'm, like, leading, like, a main character of this I do have, like, a role that is I. I'm a character who gets stung by a bee. And I have two lines, I think, and one of them is, I think I'm okay. It's more lines that I got for all those other characters. They had me keep coming back. It's a show I wanted to be in, too, by the way, which I'm sure everybody, you know, says that about every show. But there's a show that I was like, I really want to be in this. So I was, like, trying to. And I gave them three different. Completely three different people. I'm sounding insane, but there was a few. There's a few things in here in the vision board where I was like, I wanted to act a little bit more. This is maybe, like, two years ago. I did not this. And I had not really auditioned for anything. Okay. I'm trying to, but I'm. Now I'm coming clean. I'm being honest about, like, who I am and what I'm doing. Okay. The next thing it says, and I think it's important that you need to, like, put your, like, name and stuff in these, right? So it says, like, Adam Rippon and stuff. Okay. So. And I've put pictures of myself in the vision board because I do believe, like, it's important. You need to, like, associate yourself with these things. And so, like, throughout them, I have, like, large amounts of money. Of, like, I want large amounts of money. Let's envision that. I thank God I have them here because apparently, for. For a second there, I thought I had my full mortgage on here. Of, like, that's just envision owing money. Okay, so this is interesting. Adam Rippon, Emmy Awards award nominees and winners. Okay. Behind me, I did win an Emmy. That's true. So. And I have a lot of things on here that say Adam Rippon wins. I do love that. Love that. These are. These are good. These are good. I have a picture of Lena Dunham on here, which I think is important. I'll get to that in a second. Adam Rippon comedy series. Okay. See, like, when you're not too specific, things will happen, right? Because, like, St. Denis Medical is a. I love St. Denis Medical, by the way. It is a comedy series. I have time 100 list because I'm like, I. Let's just try to get back on it, right? I'm acting like I've fallen out of good graces with, like, being on the TIME 100 list is, like, quite prestigious. So I just want to be prestigious again. Okay. If this one Says Adam Rippon wins again. I have Outstanding Comedy Series. It says it twice, actually. I was fall tv. Oh. I changed my net worth, I think, like, do I have the same. No, I have, like, different numbers, but I have, like, net worth $11 million. Okay. I think that's. That would be nice, right? To have 11 million in the bank. That's what I. I want $11 million in the bank. It's a vision board. Okay. Like, you gotta. We gotta just say it. Okay. Now, something else. Outstanding host for a game show, huh? I think I was. You know, sometimes you gotta just kind of shoot in the dark here on a vision board, see what sticks. I'm glad Emmy Awards winner stuck. That's good. But there's a lot of in here that, like, it's still. It's still, like, pertains to now. So, like, I'm glad I'm looking at this in the beginning of the year. I don't. You know, I'm not very, like, typical when it. Because I had this, like, hanging on, like, a wall, and it looked horrible. So I was like, let's put it in a folder and let's kind of revisit it in a few years. The 100 greatest TV shows of all time. I think we could do it, right? I think we could find it. I think we could be casted on it. Okay, now we're getting back to the Lena Dunham thing, because right now I have a picture of Lily Collins next to Polly Pocket. I don't even know if you remember after the Barbie movie, every, like, big, like, network was like, we have to do movies about toys. Right? Instead of, like, taking the real reason why Barbie movie was like, you know, success. Because, like, there was no AI and it was like a real story, and it, like, was meaningful and, like. But those people took, like, the meaning of it. They were like, people like movies about toys where it's okay. Right. So there's a Polly Pocket movie. Or there was one that was coming out that was. I feel. I have a feeling like maybe this was scrapped, but Lena Dunham was going to be the director. And I think Lily Collins looks like. First of all, I'm a sucker for Emily in Paris. We can talk about that on another episode. Because I love Emily in Paris. Sorry. But I think my sister. And this is truly, like, you know, I'm not all the way there, but I feel like my sister looks so much like Lily Collins, which in my mind means I should play, like, if Lily Collins is Polly Pocket, I should be playing her brother. Peter Pocket, right? Or, like, I mean, come on, I could play Peter Pocket. I don't even know if that's a real character, but I'm just sort of like, if the girl is Polly, Peter. Polly and Peter Pocket. So anyway, I put that on a vision board. What's on here? Interesting. Something else kind of like, oh, this was for 2024, everybody. I made this in 2023. We've got a ways to go. It's. I'm good. I'm glad I'm looking at. This is not. Like, we're not ready to get rid of this yet. We do need to kind of fix a few things up, though. But a few things I am sort of like, I am seeing, you know, and some of these are, like, old article titles. So I just. I found them on the Internet. I printed them out, and this one says, the Adam Rippon effect, right? And it has, like, Olympic rings. And it's. I put myself in a picture next to Matt Damon and the Rock, like, in Ben Affleck. Like, Why did I do that? What a Vin Diesel. Like, why did I do that? Why did I. On a vision board. Oh, my God. Now I'm really glad that I did not open this. I waited a whole week. I didn't open this because I went, no, I need to do this, like, for the podcast. And I'm so glad because I want you to know that on a vision board that I made two years ago, I put the Olympic rings and I put a picture of myself next to Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, the Rock, and Vin Diesel. Why? What was I trying to manifest? Oh, God. Okay. I hope it gets even funnier. That was really. That really, really got me good. Yeah. Some of these, we need to kind of. We need to. I feel like if they're. They're outdated, they need to go. Because I have something on here of, like, the 15. 15 of the most anticipated streaming shows for 20. Well, that didn't happen. Okay. So we need to. We need to clean some of this up. But some of it is still. Like, we should be looking at it, right? Like, we should be looking at it. Varieties, International breakout stars. So it looks like I wanted to do something international. Saturday Night Live, Adam Rippon. I feel like that would be fun. That's a good, like, manifestation. Like, we should put that out there. I think that's fun. Although the older I get when I do think of Saturday Night Live, it does sort of feel like. I don't know if I'd want to, like, hang out with a bunch of 20 year olds for a week. That's kind of. I mean, as I'm getting older, right, I'm. I'm older than I was two years ago. But now when I think about Saturday Night Live, I'm like, I'm sure it's fun, but I don't. I don't know if I want to hang out with a bunch of 20 year olds for a week. Is that bad? It's not good. I'd still. If they asked, I'd still do it, right? I want you to know nobody's banging on my door. I'm auditioning for three different characters in a show and they're going, we'll see you later. How about you go rehearse your lines? I think I'm okay by pretending to be stung by a bee. That's my big, like, my Hollywood break. You gotta start somewhere. I'm an Emmy winner. That's true. Which is crazy. What else in is on here? It says Emmy season. Like, this is good that this is on here. It says a lot of winners. There's a picture of Kim Kardashian on here. I think she's just. She attracts a lot of good for herself. This is pretty good. I think I need to clip out a few of the, like, outdated pieces of it. But this is a good thing to like, still have around. I'm a big believer and like, putting these together and it is sort of like an ADHD thing of mine where it's like, I'll put the whole thing together and then I'll have no sort of desire to do this for. I mean, I haven't wanted to do it for two more years, but it's not worth getting rid of yet. I do think I need to clarify with myself, like, viewing wise. I actually do think that, like, both of these, like, mortgages that I have here, I think the blondes have been like, I feel like these banks have gone under, by the way. So I'll clip those out. We need to clip out a few of the things of, like, the hottest new actor, the hottest new talent. Matt fucking Damon. No, that's not. Is that Matt? No, wait, wait, hold on. Damon. No, it's not Matt Damon. God. Who's the one? He's from Boston. He murdered someone. You guys know who I'm talking about? God. Hold. And he was in. What's that? That show that Ted. Ted with the bear head. Bear actor. I'm gonna kick myself. Mark Wahlberg. This is even worse. In 2023, I made a vision board in Which I put myself next to. Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck, the Rock, and Vin Diesel. Just a picture of all of us together. I don't. Like I said before, I don't know what we were, man. At least I think if it were Matt Damon. That make more sense. Mark Wahlberg, I don't know. I really don't know. Do you know? Isn't he. Didn't he start that F45 thing? That's interesting. He's starting a company. Maybe it's that. Okay. Maybe it's that and I. He did murder someone. I do think. Let me check. I do spread a lot of rumors on here. Okay. Mark Wahlberg, murder. I'm searching it. Okay. As a teenager in 1988. So this was before I was even born. Mark Wahlberg was arrested and charged with attempted murder for racially motivated assault in Boston. He ultimately pled guilty to assault charges and served 45 days of a. Okay, not good. Okay. I think we're going to be cutting the picture. That picture out. Okay. All right. You know, we did. We. We didn't know what we didn't know in 2023. We know more in 2026. Okay. We're gonna focus. We're gonna focus on the good of these. Okay. And the good is, is that I made it. I think I'm gonna call it on the episode. I feel like this was a great one. I would love to know what are your New Year's resolutions? What is on your vision board this year? Because I think that, like, you have to say it out loud, right? You have to say it out loud. Sometimes it can be cringy. Whatever. You just gotta say it out loud. I'm saying it out loud. And if you want to share what your New Year's resolutions are, things that you have on your vision board, you can call or text the podcast. The. The number is 310-90-971 17. Whoa. I almost forgot it. That'd be a first. That number's on my Instagram profile. You can find it there. It's in my link tree. But Again, that number. 310-909-9717. Let us know any of your intrusive thoughts. What's on your vision board? I am headed to St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri. First time in 20 years. I was there 20 years ago. I'm excited for it. The U.S. figure Skating Championships are going to be in St. Louis. So I will be heading there in just a few days and like I said, have not been there in 20 years. I am Quite excited to. To let you know how it is and to talk about everything that goes on while I am in St. Louis. But, yeah, we're starting to, like, really gear up and into a lot of Olympic stuff. I think that it's finally, like, been announced that I'm going to be going to Milan, which I'm very excited for. I'm working. This is the third Olympics that I'm working for NBC. I competed at one, I was a coach at another, and then I've worked three. So I'm very excited. This is actually the first Winter Olympics that I'm going to be working because, like I said, this is the third one that I'm going to. I competed in 2020, 2018. I was a coach in 2022, and this is the first one that I'm gonna be going to working, which I'm very excited for. And I've been to another Olympics. I've been to the one in Tokyo, but it was the COVID Olympics. So I've have not been to an Olympics that is, like, normal with, like, people in the stands and stuff since 2018. So I'm so excited. I'm very much looking forward to it. And then it's crazy that, like, LA28 is, like, right around the corner after that. So we have a lot of Olympic stuff maybe. I'm sure we're gonna keep it. I mean, I'm gonna be talking about, you know, flippers and all of that stuff, but there's gonna be a lot of Olympic stuff that is, like, happening. And, you know, like I said, no breaks. We'll be podcasting right through it. Through it. And it's gonna be great. It's gonna be absolutely great because Adam Rippon is famous. That's another thing that's on the vision board. But, yeah, that's it for this episode. Like I said, anything that you want to share, call or text the podcast. What have you got to lose? Right? What have you got to lose? That number is 310-909-9717. I'm Adam Rapon, and these have been my intrusive thoughts.
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