A Hotel Bed, A Double Quarter Pounder, and a Dream

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:04][music] >> Hello everyone and welcome to Intrusive Thoughts. If you're watching today's episode, you'll see that I'm doing it from a hotel bed. That's correct. I'm laying in a bed right now. I don't know why I've literally never done this before. This is so I don't know. It's like so comfortable.

[00:00:30]It's such a great idea.

[00:00:31]Um we'll kind of see like I'm going to have to change positions because I'm about 1 second into the podcast and my arm is asleep.

[00:00:40]So why am I in a hotel bed?

[00:00:43]I'd love to tell you.

[00:00:45]I was traveling today and I'm in the great state of denial and Colorado. They're both of them.

[00:00:55]And it feels great. It feels incredible. Um I'm going to tell you that for the first time I really feel like today was the very first time in my life I've ever gotten off of the plane and stepped outside and I feel like I lived a true Californian's experience of getting off of the plane and when I stepped outside, I went, "Whoa!

[00:01:23]It's cold here. It's like winter like I've never You know, as an East Coaster born and bred I always felt that I wouldn't lose my East Coast sensibility. And I know that there are some people out there. I'm from Pennsylvania, by the way.

[00:01:46]I know there are some people out there who like really try to hammer home that a Pennsylvania is the Midwest. I really rebuke that. I just I really really hate when people say that cuz I just like don't feel like I mean, there are many I will say this, many aspects of a Midwesterner's sensibility that the people of Pennsylvania do have.

[00:02:20]And you might even say a state that's landlocked would sort of insinuate that it's in the middle of something, right?

[00:02:30]It's not a coastal city, but I just feel in my heart I've never ever associated myself with being somebody who's from the Midwest.

[00:02:42]To me, the Midwest is like further west, even more mid, right? Like Pennsylvania is still like up north in a way, right? And also like I'm from northeastern Pennsylvania, so there's like an eastern part of like where I'm from.

[00:03:02]I just feel like there are too many big like cities that don't read Midwest in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, how about that? Philadelphia doesn't read Midwest.

[00:03:15]Pittsburgh teeters on it. It definitely does. But then if I think of all of the other cities, Scranton, that does read Midwest, where I'm from.

[00:03:27]Uh Allentown a real Midwestern sounding place. Uh what's another kind of I mean, Quakertown? I don't know if that sounds Midwest, but it definitely doesn't sound East Coast.

[00:03:44]So I guess I do understand. I understand where people are coming from. It doesn't mean that I need to like respect or agree with anything anybody says ever about anything. If I don't believe in it, it's not true.

[00:04:01]Uh so, before I get into today's episode and my travel, because there absolutely will be a huge large portion of this episode is going to be mostly about my traveling.

[00:04:17]I want to start by hitting the ground running.

[00:04:22]By I really want to talk about these people who are speaking at these college graduations and bringing up AI.

[00:04:34]I think this is just such a fascinating concept.

[00:04:40]I think [snorts] these videos I don't know if any of you have seen them. I'm sure the majority, if not 100% of everybody who listens to this podcast has had to have come across some of these videos, but if you have not, if your algorithm is just the dodo and, you know, gorillas dancing at the zoo, like that could very well be your algorithm, right?

[00:05:10]But if it's not, you've certainly come across these videos. And there's multiple of them. This isn't like one instance.

[00:05:20]Okay, so basically a video that I'm talking about, it will go somewhat like this.

[00:05:28]Someone will go on stage and in the middle of their speech, they'll bring up like the power of AI and they'll bring it up in a tone that's like it's this amazing thing.

[00:05:44]It's this amazing tool, right?

[00:05:49]And what ends up happening is that the entire student body they end up booing like loudly booing.

[00:06:02]And there's been a few different like reactions to the booing from the speakers, okay?

[00:06:11]So, I came across one video where the speaker I don't even know who these people are, by the way. So, I'm just referring to them as speakers. So, I just, you know, bear with me.

[00:06:23]So, the speaker's talking about like an an AI is changing the landscape, the entire crowd boos, hisses.

[00:06:31]Boo, right?

[00:06:34]And this guy this slick dick Willie decides to go, "Yeah, get over it or get used to it." Like some It's crazy.

[00:06:46]It's insane.

[00:06:48]And then there's another guy who goes out there and he brings up AI, the entire student body again, boo, hiss, boo, like they're booing.

[00:06:58]And he just kind of like smiles and smirks.

[00:07:03]Then there's a woman who goes out there and she brings up like the beautiful AI and the entire student body again boo.

[00:07:16]And she's shocked.

[00:07:19]She's shocked. She She even audibly says something along the lines of what what's happening?

[00:07:26]>> [laughter] >> And she like turns her back to the audi- like she's shocked.

[00:07:34]She's shocked. I'm going to tell you why she's shocked. I know why she's shocked.

[00:07:38]Because she went over the speech with Claude.

[00:07:43]Right? She said, "Hey chat." Like she went into her chat GPT and she did her speech and she redid it with her chat GPT subscription.

[00:07:54]And she added this thing about AI cuz she's it's so amazing. Like she she did that and the AI told her, "This speech is incredible."

[00:08:04]And so she never got any real [ __ ] feedback on it.

[00:08:09]Right?

[00:08:11]And the thing I find fascinating is that like it's just these boomer ass looking people who are like, "I know you're scared. I know there's some worry. I know there's some worry." It's like all of these kids in this audience are like, "Yeah, cuz there will be no like entry-level jobs.

[00:08:32]There like won't be any jobs. That's why we're worried." And this guy is one of these guys is giving the speech and he's like, "I know you're scared. I know you're worried."

[00:08:43]And they're like, "Yeah."

[00:08:45]"Yeah, woo! Yeah, we're scared."

[00:08:49]And it's like he's like, "No, but like you've got to embrace it. You've got to embrace the AI." And the my favorite part about all of this is that there's a 100% chance, believe me when I say this, there's a 100% chance that the man telling all of these 20-somethings who will struggle to find work, they will absolutely struggle to find work because of AI, right? He is telling them that it's this wonderful tool. There's a 100% chance that the font on his phone is extra [ __ ] large. I could probably read it from the I could be in the back row of that auditorium and I could probably read the text messages. The font is probably so big. There's another 100% chance when he's reading those text messages and going through his phone, he's using just his index finger to scroll up and he's using two fingers from the opposite one from one hand, one pointer from the other to to blow things up to to zoom in.

[00:09:59]I'm sure he looks like an absolute freak using a phone.

[00:10:04]So, AI is beautiful. I'm sure it [ __ ] is.

[00:10:10]I'm sure it is.

[00:10:12]But I just feel like the I don't know what they're thinking.

[00:10:17]This is like this is what happens when you talk to Claude too much.

[00:10:22]Cuz Claude doesn't I mean, come on.

[00:10:25]There's a time and a place for like the chats and the AI and stuff.

[00:10:32]Now I'm giving the commencement speech and I'm like, it's beautiful and we should learn to embrace it. And uh yeah, I just think it's just like it's so fascinating to me because it's absolutely the people giving these speeches. I'm certain that they couldn't work a new MacBook Air and they're trying to tell these kids that they should enjoy what's taking their jobs.

[00:11:01]Right?

[00:11:02]Anyway, I just I find these people the stupidest [ __ ] people in the world right now. They just have some people and I hope I'm never [ __ ] like this.

[00:11:15]There are some people that as they get older, they just like completely lose touch with reality. As I'm saying that, it's like I've never had a touch of reality, but I have a sense of like I can like read a [ __ ] room.

[00:11:32]Right? Like I can kind of figure out a kind of do do do do do do like I can kind of analyze the situation that I'm in and go, "You know what?

[00:11:42]Maybe I'll hold back on my love for the chat.

[00:11:46]Hey chat, you know, I maybe this isn't the crowd for it for it. I just Did I just malfunction? For it for it. I don't It's okay.

[00:11:58]Um but yeah, I just I find it a case study.

[00:12:03]It's such boomer energy.

[00:12:08]Such boomer energy.

[00:12:10]Um you know, from somebody like people who don't know how to use emojis are out here telling people like don't be afraid.

[00:12:19]Don't be afraid.

[00:12:21]I This guy was like you you feel you are fearing that you're inheriting a mess that you did not create. like cheering.

[00:12:31]They're like, "Yeah." Like they throw the caps off.

[00:12:34]Like yeah, you created this mess. Now you got to embrace it. Hold on, let me check my text messages. Takes out like a monocle like [ __ ] Sherlock Holmes.

[00:12:44]Ha, scrolling through the thing using one finger.

[00:12:49]And you know what? Like I just hope I never lose my sense or sensibility.

[00:12:56]Not I'm not Not that I like have them.

[00:12:59]But I do. I do have sense and sensibility. I'm getting into a more comfortable position.

[00:13:06]Ah, I'm leaning up against a headboard.

[00:13:10]I don't know. I really don't know what to make of like um the way I look right now. Should I be holding this? Anyway.

[00:13:17]So there's something I want to tell you and it is that um in addition to people losing touch with reality.

[00:13:29]I am just learning that there's so many different ways that you can do a podcast cuz today, cuz I was traveling and like I mentioned in an episode prior, I got a new MacBook and that MacBook is like not by any means travel friendly. It's about 30 lb.

[00:13:52]Um yeah, it's like the weight of a rescue dog. And so I'm like not going to be bringing that on a plane, especially when I was sitting in row 37H today. And now I like I have not I feel like I've really lucked out on the last few trips that I've done because for the last few trips that I've done, I've whoever hired me to go out to them, like I've flown out on a business class ticket.

[00:14:23]Humble brag.

[00:14:25]Well, don't worry. I'm about to be brought right back to reality.

[00:14:29]Oop, there goes gravity. Okay. And the bringing back to gravity comes like this where um I am here for a work trip.

[00:14:43]But I was um but I got an economy class ticket.

[00:14:49]Economy is the class that isn't business class. It is sort of when they say economy, it means community.

[00:15:01]And when you are back there, you are in a community.

[00:15:06]And that's the way it go. And there AI can't take that community away and it will actually not even strengthen it.

[00:15:12]But I was uh in the back of the plane as I was mentioning in row 37, seat H.

[00:15:22]Um I once had a substitute teacher. Her name was Mrs. Kovulic. And she used to say H like H.

[00:15:32]And I This is probably like the first stand-up I ever did at Our Lady of Peace School.

[00:15:42]Uh and I would like repeat that over and over and I would have my classmates in actual stitches.

[00:15:50]They thought it was the funniest thing that like they've ever seen.

[00:15:54]I say that and I it's like I'm saying that and as I'm saying it I'm like I don't actually remember anybody laughing.

[00:16:01]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I don't remember anybody laughing at that. I know I did. I had a hooting and hollering good time over it.

[00:16:11]Uh so yeah.

[00:16:12]I am in Colorado. I'm in Colorado Springs to be exact.

[00:16:19]Uh I'm going to tell you a little bit about my trip so far.

[00:16:25]So to travel here I had to take a plane. Yeah, I did.

[00:16:31]Uh and I had to execute a few things to make this happen. So to travel to Colorado Springs, you can take a flight to Denver and then to Colorado Springs, which I would consider that a fate worse than death.

[00:16:46]Because Denver is about I would say an hour-ish from Colorado Springs, okay?

[00:16:55]And the Colorado Springs Airport from downtown Colorado Springs is about 30 minutes away, okay? So it's like an extra 30 minutes to drive.

[00:17:07]All that being said, I want you to realize that when you fly into Denver, you have to wait like 4 hours for your flight to Colorado Springs.

[00:17:16]So why the hell would I do that? So, I was so smart for when they booked my ticket here. I said, "Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh Don't you dare put in the airport code COS.

[00:17:31]You better type in DEN right now, or I'm not getting on the plane." I said something along those lines, maybe a bit softer. Like I said, "Well, my actually probably said something like Hey, sorry to bother you, but can we change this?" And they did change it.

[00:17:51]And so, I rented a car.

[00:17:52]Um whenever I travel anywhere, I just There is nothing better than having a rental car. There's nothing better. I just love the freedom of it.

[00:18:05]I hate Hate hate hate is such a strong word, and I mean it 10 times stronger than you could even ever say it.

[00:18:15]I hate being somewhere and not being able to get around on my own.

[00:18:21]And maybe it's because I live in Los Angeles, but I just really appreciate my own private car time.

[00:18:33]It is something that is so important and sacred to me, being alone in the car.

[00:18:39]And if I'm on a work trip, like I want to be able to like sneak away. And I'm not even like Oh, where do you want Like where the hell do you want to go? It's like I just want to go to a grocery store.

[00:18:50]Okay?

[00:18:51]I just want to be able to like get an Egg McMuffin. Like I just want to be able to do that on my own accord.

[00:18:59]I don't want to have to be like, "Hey, tap tap tap on the shoulder of like somebody who's like moving me around. Can we stop at McDonald's?" Like I'm not going to do that.

[00:19:11]So, I I just like really appreciate when I can be self-sufficient.

[00:19:17]And um actually, to be completely transparent and honest with you, McDonald's and the grocery store are actually the two places that I did drive to before I got to the hotel.

[00:19:31]And laid in the hotel bed that I am Mm, I'm laying in it right now.

[00:19:38]And so, um yeah.

[00:19:40]I just I didn't eat all day.

[00:19:43]And so, I said, "You know what would be so good is like a double Quarter Pounder with fromage cheese."

[00:19:51]And so, that's what I got, and I'm like not I've never felt better about any decision I've ever made. Obviously, there is um a toll that I must pay, and that toll is that um I love to make deals and challenges with myself, especially when I travel.

[00:20:14]And they're always like health and diet-related.

[00:20:18]So, I bought a gallon of water and 2 L of sparkling water.

[00:20:26]My goal, cuz I'm in altitude, and the last thing you think I'm going to get altitude sickness while I'm here?

[00:20:31]Absolutely not. I always take a trip, and when I take it, I use it as an excuse to become the healthiest version of myself, and I use it as a like a reset, a cultural reset. I'm the culture, it needs resetting.

[00:20:48]So, I when I am traveling, I'm like, "I'm going to be healthier than ever, so that when I come home, I'll be unrecognizable."

[00:20:57]And that's really the way that I want it. I don't want to be recognized um for the person that I was 48 hours before I left. I want to be recognized as a new person, as a healthier person, healthier version of me.

[00:21:13]Um you could argue that getting a double Quarter Pounder with cheese is kind of starting this trip off on the wrong foot, but I would just say it's like we got it we had to get fuel in the tank right before we like move forward.

[00:21:30]And so the challenge that I've made here is that um I'm not going to eat any room service.

[00:21:38]And ooh, okay, I'm tired from my trip. Oh my god. So my my challenge is no room service. Okay, easy.

[00:21:51]And I don't And that means like I do I don't want to have to get breakfast or I Oh my god, wait.

[00:21:59]I wonder if breakfast I'm going to have to like look around and snoop in the room to figure out if breakfast is included.

[00:22:07]Let's see. Let's see. Oh, this is a list of missing must-haves. It has like nothing. I'm going to have to do a little investigating cuz Okay, I'm going to take back something.

[00:22:18]If they have breakfast here, I've stayed at this hotel before and they have a [ __ ] good breakfast. I know that for a fact.

[00:22:28]Okay.

[00:22:29]We're recalculating cuz I was in my mind I was like I'm going to have to order like an omelet or something in the morning or get breakfast or something or blah blah blah.

[00:22:37]And now I'm like, huh, okay. So this is my Okay, blah blah blah blah. We have to start over. The whole episode over. Hey everyone, welcome back to Intrusive Thoughts. I'm your host Adam Rippon and I just went to a King Soopers and my old phone number did work for the discounts, which is great. A phone number that I haven't used in about 10 years.

[00:22:56]Um but I still remember it. I won't tell it to you cuz I don't want you getting my King Soopers discounts. Get your own.

[00:23:05]All right.

[00:23:07]I decided that after I did my McDonald's excursion, that the only way to make things right was to go on a health journey.

[00:23:18]And that journey had to begin at a grocery store, which my grocery store of choice Well, my grocery store of chosen, it wasn't of choice, was a King Soopers.

[00:23:30]Okay.

[00:23:32]And now, to kind of hit back home on the Midwest of it all, I will say something I consider it. Colorado is the Midwest, correct? Yes.

[00:23:42]Even though it has like a westerny thing like there's very randomly people out here who wear like cowboy hats.

[00:23:51]And it's like they have I truly have no business being in them.

[00:23:54]I don't care I and I really firmly believe that the people who are in these cowboy hats, it's like you they wouldn't know horse if it hit them over the head.

[00:24:05]I think it's just they're sort of like I'm a westerner guy. Like I feel like people who wear cowboy boots and it's like don't.

[00:24:14]I just I I think cowboy boots are the ugliest shoes in the world.

[00:24:20]I don't think that they look cute on I think they look cute on a girl who's 75 lb in Daisy Dukes in ringlet curls and she is like three breaths of air from like being on American Idol. Like I That's where I'm like, "Yeah, the I guess the boots look okay on her." But I'm never like, "What a cute outfit!" Like never.

[00:24:41]I've never looked at a pair of cowboy boots and was like uh I think that they're the ugliest [ __ ] shoes a person could buy.

[00:24:53]It's a Cuban heel and a leather boot.

[00:24:56]Everything about it Actually, the components of it are like good.

[00:25:02]But, it's like the winged toe.

[00:25:06]I don't know. I just I really [ __ ] hate how I think they look awful. I don't think they're stylish at all. If you love them, great. Give me a five-star review.

[00:25:15]>> [snorts] >> But, if you'd hate them, keep listening. I've got a lot more where that came from. I'm watching myself in the video right now. I'm like sinking and sinking and sinking. I'm going to move the camera down a little bit so that maybe if if I like lay down, does that work?

[00:25:30]Kind of.

[00:25:32]I'll continue.

[00:25:35]So, what I want to talk about right now is kind of a few things.

[00:25:42]Actually, one thing I want to talk about is how did that stain on the ceiling get there?

[00:25:48]It's brown.

[00:25:50]I'm done talking about that.

[00:25:52]Now, next segment. This segment is called where the hell is Hudson News?

[00:26:04]Now, as somebody who was traveling in the airport today, I feel like I have the authority to be like, "Where is Hudson News?" because I'm telling you I couldn't find it anywhere. And Hudson News is a staple in what I thought every airport in America.

[00:26:27]If you are not an airplane traveler, okay? If you're not an airplane traveler, I'm going to fill you in.

[00:26:35]A Hudson News is essentially like a CVS or Walgreens, but it's in the airport and everything is $100.

[00:26:43]Everything. Uh even a Dasani water.

[00:26:47]Even a bottle of Dasani is $150.

[00:26:55]And but there is just something about like when you're at the airport the currency it just feels like it's foreign and you're like I don't know I don't know what this um what's the conversion on this? Like it really does feel like it could be the British pound and you just wouldn't know.

[00:27:14]Um it's Monopoly money. You know time is linear.

[00:27:19]It just it doesn't it is it is what it is it really is what it is.

[00:27:24]Uh so I'm searching and searching for the Hudson News because if I sometimes and it always happens at the airport where there is a part of me that's like oh I'm getting a craving.

[00:27:38]And it's when I'm traveling and the craving is I now I'm about to say it out loud and I know it's insane bordering on crazy.

[00:27:51]And the craving I get is for please don't ever stop listening to the podcast when I say this.

[00:28:01]The craving is for a strawberry milk.

[00:28:05]>> [snorts] >> Uh good night everyone and a pack of cigarettes.

[00:28:11]>> [laughter] >> Imagine I'm like all I need is my Nestlé Quick strawberry milk and a pack of Newport Originals. That's all I need to get through this trip.

[00:28:28]No.

[00:28:29]Get your head out of the gutter. It's I need a pack of Haribo gummy bears.

[00:28:37]And I was really looking forward to getting to a Hudson News this morning so that I could get to the airport and I could get my strawberry milk and my pack of cigarettes of Haribo gummy bears.

[00:28:54]And I was just going to be like sipping and sucking on those things for 2 and 1/2 hours, which is the duration and length of the flight one would take from LAX to DEN.

[00:29:07]And it just there wasn't there.

[00:29:11]Hudson News is [ __ ] dead. And I searched online so that some smart alec person wouldn't be like, "Well, didn't you know Hudson News got blob Who cares?"

[00:29:24]Yeah, that's not the case.

[00:29:26]When I searched online, it was like, "Yeah, Hudson News is still you know, it's not only known for its airport locations. It's also uh in other places in the world."

[00:29:39]>> [laughter] >> It's in other Like they're like at the mall. A Hudson I've never seen a Hudson News at the mall. I'm like, "That is such a lie."

[00:29:48]People are trying to lie to me today.

[00:29:51]It was Claude.

[00:29:54]If you don't know who Claude is, if you're like, "He keeps talking about Claude is one of the chat GPTs.

[00:30:01]Okay. That being said, so I did uh uh Okay. I did get a strawberry milk at the grocery store.

[00:30:13]I just don't cuz I won't Sometimes I really do need a sweet treat or I do feel like I'd go on a rampage.

[00:30:22]And I don't want to go on a rampage.

[00:30:25]So, the sweet treat I got is the strawberry It's 250 calories for the whole bottle, which I'm as I'm thinking about it and sort of analyzing the situation, I don't think it's that bad.

[00:30:38]I don't think it's that bad. This bottle of strawberry milk will give me the satisfaction of a whole like strawberry sundae from a Dairy Queen.

[00:30:47]Of a Blizzard from Dairy Queen. It gives me the same sort of like creamy milky satisfaction that you'd want. I also did get God, it's really not Basically, why do I feel like I've gone on a health retreat? It's I'm going to drink a gallon and a half of water tonight. I have about an hour to do that before I conk out.

[00:31:10]And I got a bunch of like fruit and yogurt, which I'm going to use as Those will be the meals that I'll be having. I'm probably going to you know, and and that kind of opens the door to me having just like grilled chicken breasts, cuz I'm going to come back a lean mean machine to California.

[00:31:33]Um so that when my husband sees me, he's like, "What the hell happened out there?" And I'll be like, "I just, you know, I just did it right." Cuz I got my strawberry milk, and as I'm like looking forward here, I did get and I love these so much.

[00:31:50]Mother's cookies.

[00:31:52]But I got like the animal crackers that are like covered in frosting. God.

[00:31:58]I just like don't consider that bad though.

[00:32:02]Do you know what I mean? I mean, it's not bad cuz the alternative was to go like get a sun I just needed I felt like I needed a creamy sweet treat.

[00:32:13]And I do feel like this is a better alternative to like a bowl of ice cream.

[00:32:18]Is a bag of cookies. [ __ ] Whatever. But to compensate or to overcompensate, um for dinner, if you could call it dinner, the McDonald's was sort of the dinner, but for the dinner at a more appropriate time, cuz I had the McDonald's around like 4:00.

[00:32:39]So, for a more appropriate dinner at the grocery store, I did get like a bowl of mixed berries.

[00:32:46]Some things at a Midwestern grocery store are just like so much cheaper. The bowl of berries was like $5.

[00:32:55]A bowl of berries in Pasadena would have I I wouldn't have ever even looked at the cut fruit at a grocery store at home.

[00:33:03]I wouldn't have even looked at it.

[00:33:05]Because before I would look at a bowl of cut fruit in California, I'd have to make sure that I had enough allowance on my credit card to even buy it.

[00:33:18]You know, sometimes you look at those fruit platters and it's like, "Oh my god, a tiny Dixie cup of cut strawberries is 15 bucks?"

[00:33:28]It's crazy.

[00:33:30]Oof, we live in a crazy world. And I will say, I don't know what I'll say.

[00:33:38]I really don't know. I'm trying to think what else did I get at the grocery store. I'm not getting up to go and look.

[00:33:45]Uh but I am excited about my strawberry milk.

[00:33:49]I really am.

[00:33:51]And it was important to me. I wanted to record today's episode in a setting that wasn't my office or the medical spa. I just felt like it needed to be a safe place. And to me, the safest place is a hotel in Colorado Springs.

[00:34:10]And so, since I'm in my safe place, I do feel like today's going to be a shorter episode because I've been traveling all day.

[00:34:18]Please give me grace.

[00:34:21]And I also still have some work I need to do because I have been sort of flying and driving all day.

[00:34:30]Yeah, and I've been going to McDonald's and I've been having I did not crack open the strawberry milk yet, but I just can't wait. There's 14 g of protein in here.

[00:34:39]Health journey.

[00:34:41]Can't wait. Can't wait to be so Why are you glowing? Well, I did have Did you have your strawberry milk last night? That's what people are going to ask.

[00:34:50]Hey, you look just so good. Did you have your strawberry milk last night? Like I can't wait.

[00:34:56]I can't wait to have strong bones.

[00:35:00]Nothing strengthens those bones like the sweet sweet artificial taste of strawberry. What is in this? Oh, there's red three.

[00:35:11]Why do they dye Listen, not to be RFK, but what is the point of adding dye?

[00:35:19]Just like don't.

[00:35:21]Do you know what I mean? I have read and when I say read, I do mean watch a TikTok of people saying that the reason that they dye food is that if we were to see the real color it is like we wouldn't find it appetizing and we wouldn't want to eat it.

[00:35:39]And if that's true, I'm like so curious as to like what is the real color of food?

[00:35:48]What is it? What's the real color of strawberry milk if they're adding red three? Is it red three? I'll check one more time. It is red three.

[00:35:58]And gellan gum. I'm assuming that's some some sort of um preservative.

[00:36:04]I don't know, but there's vitamin A and D3.

[00:36:08]That's good. Oh, wait, it's also it contains milk on here. That's what it says on the gallon of not gallon.

[00:36:15]How big is this?

[00:36:17]On the 14 oz of milk, it says it contains milk.

[00:36:24]Anyway, the more you know. I um I think I'm going to have to call it.

[00:36:30]I really do.

[00:36:32]Uh Did I read any text messages? No.

[00:36:37]Did I do any voicemails? Absolutely not.

[00:36:40]I didn't, but I have Oh, you know what?

[00:36:45]Now I need to talk a little bit about the med spa a little bit before I go.

[00:36:48]I'm I'm lying.

[00:36:50]So, if you're like in the Los Angeles area, you should 100% come. Everybody's welcome. The tickets are free.

[00:36:58]You should 100% come to our grand opening party. It's June 9th.

[00:37:04]I think that it's between 4:00 to It's I think it's 4:00 to 7:00 or 4:00 to 8:00.

[00:37:09]Um I have a link on my Instagram for it. It's like an Eventbrite invitation.

[00:37:17]Uh but you should absolutely come. It's The tickets are free.

[00:37:22]Um but I made an Eventbrite so that I could just at least I don't not like I can't have too many people there because our space isn't that It's not big to like have like hundreds of people.

[00:37:38]So, there's not a lot of tickets, but um you know, I'm trying to keep it as like intimate as possible.

[00:37:47]Uh and obviously I haven't invited any of my friends yet. I've just like put it I posted it about it. So, I have I hope there's tickets for my friends.

[00:37:56]>> [laughter] >> Um but uh if you're in the area, if you especially if you live on the east side of LA, please just come.

[00:38:07]Um it'll just be a great You can actually cuz I've been hooting and hollering and I've been talking and literally chewing your ear off of the bone about this medical spa. So, I mean, it's no harm, no foul. Come, please.

[00:38:24]See it for yourself. We're going to have like a raffle where we'll raffle off some treatments that it will be for free.

[00:38:31]And any treatments and services, we're going to think of like some good discount. So, we can reward the people who showed up for their act of good service.

[00:38:43]Their good deed of the day.

[00:38:45]Supporting a local business.

[00:38:47]And so, we can't Wait.

[00:38:53]No, we really can't. I think it's going to be really exciting cuz it'll be a a great way to just for, you know, I've been talking about it for so long and so it will be a great way for everybody to just see it. If you're interested and around, please come.

[00:39:06]Um one thing I've been really bad at is all of the people who have come into the medical spa, all of our like clients so far, I've literally have forgotten to ask every single one of them to write like some sort of Google review or a Yelp review or something. So, it's like I need to get on that. There's so many little parts of a business that you like never think of.

[00:39:34]And when you're when I'm there and I'm working, it's like the last thing I'm thinking of is like, "Did they write a Google review?" But then it's like, if I'm looking to go somewhere and nobody wrote a Google review on something, I'm like, "It mustn't be great."

[00:39:50]So, I have a new found respect for places that have like reviews.

[00:39:56]And that's what I'm just going to say.

[00:39:57]So, I need to get people to write like Google reviews and Yelp review. What else do people need reviews on? Basically, I just need like to get reviews.

[00:40:08]So, if you come to the opening, there is no charge for the ticket, but you do have to write a review. How about that?

[00:40:15]Right?

[00:40:16]I scratch your back, you scratch mine.

[00:40:19]I would ask people who listen to the podcast, I'm like, go write a review, who cares?

[00:40:24]I don't know if that's ethical.

[00:40:27]I don't know, whatever.

[00:40:29]It doesn't really matter.

[00:40:31]What does matter is that my now room temperature strawberry milk is waiting for me and in my little bag of Mother's cookies is over there. I can't wait to I'm going to have like five of them.

[00:40:41]Just five.

[00:40:42]And then I'm going to call it a night.

[00:40:45]And I'm going to head to bed. I fought off Oh, I'm going to Oh, I'm doing it.

[00:40:52]I yawned. I fought off like three yawns throughout the duration of this podcast.

[00:40:59]Um but we made it through. I actually had the great idea and I wish I kind of did it was to record the podcast while I was driving. Maybe I'll do it.

[00:41:08]Hm.

[00:41:10]Maybe I'll try it when I'm driving back to the airport. Let's just see.

[00:41:14]And I do like a from the car. Maybe that would be fun, right? Maybe that could be like my niche.

[00:41:20]Oh, he records his podcast while he's driving.

[00:41:23]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I can't wait. That sounds like a great [ __ ] idea. Anyway, I'm going to go.

[00:41:30]Bye.

[00:41:31]Uh my name is Adam Rippon.

[00:41:35]Oh, wait.

[00:41:37]Right.

[00:41:38]I've skipped something. Back up.

[00:41:40]Okay.

[00:41:41]Here we go.

[00:41:43]If you'd like to call the podcast and if you have any entries of thoughts that you'd like to share with me and our listeners, please go ahead and call or text the podcast hotline. That number is 310-909-7117.

[00:41:55]Again, it's 310-909-7117.

[00:42:01]That number is in my Instagram biography.

[00:42:06]And with all of that being said, my My is Adam Rippon and these have been my intrusive thoughts.

[00:42:16]Good night and goodbye everybody.

[00:42:20]Strawberry milk time. Got to go.

[00:42:22]Bye-bye.

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