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Sean Diddy Combs and the Celebrity Pass
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Salman soliloquizes on the P Diddy arrest and finding his wife the ultimate fridge.
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Introduction and Cultural Confusion
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I grew up confused about my culture and identity and felt out of place most of the time until I found comedy, which forced me to be honest with myself and I realized mostly I'm just an expat brat.
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Welcome to my show.
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I'm Salman Qureshi.
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Hey everyone, what's up?
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Welcome back to another beautiful episode of Expat Brad Podcast.
The Audio-Only Decision
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Audio only, where you get to enjoy just listening to something instead of having to watch it and play a video and use up precious data.
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Although data is cheap these days.
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this is a much lesser data sensory overload kind of thing, right?
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Because sometimes we need it.
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We need to just listen to good audio.
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And that is the excuse I'm going to stick to about not going on to a video platform for now because everybody keeps asking about it.
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And I got to have a good excuse.
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And I think what I said was a good excuse.
P. Diddy Scandal Overview
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And besides, there are more important things in life going on, like this P. Diddy stuff.
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Did you see it coming?
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Of course, we all saw it coming.
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I think at this point, if a celebrity doesn't have something going on, that's what's more shocking, right?
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It's horrible.
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If you haven't caught on to it yet because you're not hip,
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and you're like me and you wouldn't have known about this except you accidentally opened some social media platform and went on to the right video because you tend to follow and stay connected with your nephews and nieces through these apps and because they're, what do you call it, with the social media algorithm pushed this onto you by association.
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If you're like me, well then what happened?
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is that the dude has been accused of, I don't even know how to describe it.
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Like, what's the actual crime?
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It's like forceful.
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What is it?
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Like forceful.
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Yeah.
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What's he charged with?
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Like, let me let me spell that out for you.
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OK, yeah, here he's he faces several charges, including sex trafficking, drug possession and firearms offenses, half of which in America is like, isn't that just legal at this point?
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And when I say half of it, I will do three things I mentioned, two thirds of it or maybe all.
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Which two-thirds, I'm not sure exactly when I read these things again and again.
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So that's basically it, man.
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He's been busted.
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Some of the stories coming out are crazy.
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They're really, you know, it makes you kind of feel a little sick in the stomach that this stuff was going on.
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And at the same time, I just kind of go, like, again, you know, this much is like standard now with celebrities
Celebrity Power and Fame
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and stuff.
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Like at this point,
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If the goodest of the goodest celebs, and we all know I'm talking about Keanu Reeves, if it came out that he's running some dungeon under his basement where he takes kids from impoverished countries and forces them to act and do reenactments of The Matrix,
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then I wouldn't be surprised.
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I'm not going to lie.
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I don't think I'd be surprised anymore.
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I think it's so crazy.
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And it's because the more these things come into light, you just kind of look and you go, this is history.
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This is not about a celebrity.
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This is basically when too much money and power is concentrated in too few individuals, human beings in general.
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We're not made for this stuff.
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And that's why I think God has kept me away from superstardom.
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He's kept me away because he wants me to remain a good person, which is still up for debate anyway.
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But maybe I'd be a far worse person if I suddenly obtained power and riches.
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And let's not lie.
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It does go to one's head.
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I'm not justifying these actions, but these, you know, it's just like I'll tell you a story, right?
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It was the closest I've seen experience Beatlemania myself, right?
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What happened was I was performing.
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This is about 10 years ago or something.
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I was performing with a lineup that included the headliner.
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This dude was like big in some circles and with a particular target market.
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Yeah.
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Target audience.
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And and we went to this university to perform and I was on the lineup and we do the show.
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I didn't know how big he was, how crazy they were about him and how crazy in general people can be about what they perceive as someone as being famous.
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And as soon as our sets and as the show ended, he he closed off.
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We had about 500 people in that room who were which filled up the theater we were in.
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maybe there were a bit more 500 600 something like that uh they they the crowd chased us back to the green room and when i say the green room it was like this elaborate ballroom area that was our green room at that point and the security initially tried to close off the audience and they closed the ballroom door uh not letting these people in but there were so many that eventually you know and they were harmless students i suppose university students so they opened the door
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Which has something about the security.
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Now that I look back at it and they let the mob in and they mobbed us.
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They mobbed us for pictures and and, you know, just wanted to shake hands and blah, blah, blah.
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And they didn't I didn't know me.
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They just seen me perform for 15, 20 minutes.
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But I think by association, because of that other big comic.
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We were all famous.
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And I had... You know, the whole chase and then the whole mobbing and just taking so much time to just get out.
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Right up to our cars.
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Right up to our cars in the parking lot.
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We had people chasing us for one more picture and stuff.
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And that was crazy.
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My...
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I think if I had stayed like that, if I had that experience four or five times in a row, I would have been spoiled as hell.
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Luckily for me, as soon as I drove out of that parking lot, no one, two, three people like cut me off on the road.
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And I was like, yep, I'm just normal Sal again.
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That's crazy.
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I've also experienced these kind of things when my dad was alive.
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I went with him on some of his meetings and they were like these huge government things.
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And he took me along for some internship and blah, blah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's the only time my dad did anything that was that that would be perceived as kind of like was not not based on merit.
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He was such a big believer in merit.
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I was shocked when he took me along.
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And I found out later was more his boss.
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who was encouraging him to take me rather than my dad forcing it down anyone's throat.
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So respect to the man.
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But I got lucky and I got to go on a couple of trips.
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And those trips, you know, they get like police entourage all the way everywhere they go.
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The hotel, everything is like, you know, super taken care of.
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And having experienced these things, I just go, I just, honestly, I can tell you,
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It spoils you.
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You hate... I always... My feet are on the ground because I always come back and my friends and family treat me like crap again.
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And I don't have these protocols for me.
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So it returns to normal pretty quickly.
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But I think a sustained...
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environment of that.
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I'm not surprised,
Silence and Misconduct in Celebrity Culture
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man.
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These people go crazy.
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Like this guy, P. Diddy, one of the things he was doing was, what was it called?
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Like a feud off or I got to tell you this word because it was really bizarre.
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He did these things where he got people doing acts with each other for hours sometimes and they needed IV afterward.
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Freak offs.
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That's it.
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Freak offs.
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He got them to do freak offs.
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And I don't think I even need to explain what that term effectively means.
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Eventually, someone complained after like 40 years or something, 20 years.
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I don't know how long this stuff has been going on.
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He's been famous since what, 95, 98?
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There you go.
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So yeah, like, you know, it's just a...
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And I guess it stayed hidden so long like all the other stuff because celebrities just have that kind of power dynamics.
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It's crazy.
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I never understood it until I watched that show on Apple.
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What's that show called?
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The one with the reporters, Jennifer Aniston.
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Whatever it is.
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Look at my memory.
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It's always shot.
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If you listen to enough of my episodes, half the time I sound like a guy with Alzheimer's and an aging old dude going...
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What's that thing called?
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Anyway, I should really get this check now that I... If I remember to, I will.
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Wow, that's... Okay.
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Anywho, that show has this scene in season one where this Steve Carell's character who's like this rich, famous dude...
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He takes someone back to his hotel room.
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They'd been kind of laughing together.
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They'd been hanging out.
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A new girl working at the newsroom.
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And she freezes when he makes a move.
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And he takes her for consent.
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And they sleep together.
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And she doesn't retaliate.
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But to her, it was this frozen thing.
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That...
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scene really was so powerful for me because it really made it so clear what the problem was with these dynamics.
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And I, you know, in other instances, I frozen up in front of people in power.
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It happens to all of us.
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Luckily, my situation wasn't
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so horrible and um and and you know but it still leaves you with that feeling so god like you know you gotta you gotta this wealth fame this influence celebrities have it's just it's crazy and what do you do you know even the legal system kind of with juries and stuff they're human beings they'll look at someone they'll be influenced by uh by all this and maybe that's why i
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there's no justice for this stuff.
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But also, I can't believe all this went on for so long without people not knowing, right?
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Like it has to be.
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He was doing parties.
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There's no way some people didn't know.
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And the amount of like the culture of silence in the entertainment industry, it's why these... But I don't want to say that because then these conservatives latch on and they go, oh, you know, Hollywood's corrupt.
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When in fact, you get enough stories coming out of like other places like the church and stuff as well.
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So it's not so much of the culture of silence just in the entertainment industry.
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It's surprising how much there's a culture of silence around anything bad happening.
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It's it just goes on and on and calling it out can be so tricky, so hard.
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I think I've been in situations where maybe I didn't call out something.
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Nothing this horrendous.
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Don't worry.
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I haven't been invited to freak offs or anything.
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The most biggest freak off I might have had was on over burgers or some shit like that.
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But yeah, but definitely situations or stuff where you go at that point, you look back, I was younger, I was naive or just not confident enough.
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And you kind of go, maybe I should have said something about those situations, even if they're small, right?
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Because that culture of silence then builds up and people who get away with a few things might feel they can get away with a lot more.
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I'm not preaching here.
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I'm just saying the proof is in the pudding because if you don't...
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P. Diddy going to come for you.
Wealth Influence in Legal Matters
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Right.
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And and it's crazy like that.
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Like, it's just it's this privilege that I'd love to have for myself.
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Yeah.
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The dude offered, just so you know, his team, his legal team offered $50 million in bail, right?
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That's how much money this dude had.
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I don't think anyone should have more than $50 million at all after they reach that amount or so.
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They should just like – they've won.
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They've won Monopoly or something and that's it.
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Like they shouldn't be allowed to make any more money.
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Beyond that, this dude offered bail for that much.
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All right.
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The judges didn't let him through.
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I think they tried twice or something.
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So there's there's that.
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I think in a lot of countries, a lot of courts, people could put up that kind of money and get away with anything then.
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But surprisingly, he's been he's he's going to be spending time in jail waiting for his trial.
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So that's kind of crazy.
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And then.
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The other thing that gets me, though, you know, the sex trafficking bit.
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I get the guns and the drugs.
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I'm sure at that level of fame, there are women throwing themselves at you.
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How perverted or corrupt in your mind do you have to be to turn that into more and more?
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I guess that is the problem with human beings, though, right?
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Like, we get something, we want more, we want more, and then...
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Pretty soon you're running these kind of shitty things and eventually comes crashing down.
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If you live long enough, there are people who died before they should have been caught.
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They should have been caught, but they didn't.
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I don't know, man.
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Their entourage just like hanging around watching this thing.
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It's this whole concept of group thing, loyalty.
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You know, these individuals within these circles is like no one's speaking out.
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No one's asking questions about the ethical responsibilities.
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You know, you're witnessing this.
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You're enabling abusive behavior then.
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It's just crazy.
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Yeah.
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But there was something else about it, too.
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It was these videos.
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He apparently, and again, I know it has to be proven or something, but the accusation is that he had, like, explicit videos of some of the victims to blackmail them, right?
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And that whole thing of weaponization of digital footage and private media, like, that stuff just...
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It's crazy.
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It gets to me scary how much what else is happening, who has not spoken up.
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And finally, for that one person to speak up and and bring this house of cards down, the amount of courage it must have taken, the amount of pain they must have had to go through to go, no, I'm making this call and doing it.
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It's crazy.
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This whole digital world is just crazy.
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Oh, man.
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Like, he's just nuts.
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And then, I don't want to... Yeah, but this one's a bit funny, too.
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Because his freak-offs, it wasn't just about women.
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He was... There was a little bit of, like, male victimization as well.
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Because, you know, there were, like, these male...
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uh, sex workers, strip, whatever they were, it doesn't matter.
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They were forced to carry on and on.
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And it was a drug fueled thing.
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So you kind of listen to that and you go, there's a stigma around male survivors as well.
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This, this is hard.
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Eventually a woman spoke up, uh,
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And, man, you know, all of this is so, like, there's so many angles to this story that I just kind of, it's hard.
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Just the whole celebrity apology industry as well.
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You know, I can't wait for P. Diddy to come out on Oprah or something and issue statements of remorse to him.
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to manage these scandals and the whole PR team that get behind it.
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And pretty soon, there'll be a bunch of people that will start supporting him and his fans who don't want to believe the obvious evidence out there.
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You know, they'll perform this whole thing.
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And there's too many businesses riding on it, right?
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There's reputation and business interests of not just P. Diddy, but the people around him to make money off him.
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They're going to try protecting the stuff.
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Why not?
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Right.
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So there let's see how this one plays out.
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I just want to see how this plays out.
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And because, you know, these scandals, the break in this digital era, you don't know how long they're going to take.
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There's P. Diddy's high, high profile case.
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And then tomorrow there'll be something else people want to enforce justice for.
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There's a new sensationalism we want to go after.
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And there are no meaningful consequences.
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You just have to kind of survive it long enough to get out of public memory and the public eye.
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And then it's cool.
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You can go back to doing what you want.
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So that's... I don't know what else to say about this.
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It's just so weird and bizarre.
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It's a whole different world.
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It's this money and power and stuff and all these things that are going on.
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I have a hard time because...
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some of these guys I grew up on and I don't want my heroes to... He wasn't a hero.
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I just want to clarify this.
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P Diddy was no hero to me.
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In fact, if anything, I hated his version.
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Let me come out and say this now.
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Maybe people will be more open to me to accepting this.
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I hated his version of the Sting song.
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Sorry, Police.
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Yeah, whose song was it originally?
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I'll be missing you.
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It was who?
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P. Diddy just, I hated that version.
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And it would be on all the time.
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It would be playing all the time on MTV and Channel V and whatever I had at that time in my life.
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What is this, around 98 or something?
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I don't know.
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But it was, I never liked it.
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There.
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It feels so good to be able to say this out loud.
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I never liked it.
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I loved the original by Sting and just hated that he ruined it.
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But now, hopefully, we can all collectively put it behind us.
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Although Sting might be stung by this, because there was one time I read he was paid an insane...
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It was $5,000 a day or some shit like that.
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Go fact check this if you want.
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But it was something like that that I read a day for royalties because he sampled that song in it.
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Maybe that was a while ago or when it was popular.
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I don't know how far back this news was.
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But that's a lot of money coming to Sting that might dry up too.
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And now I'm in two minds.
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I like Sting.
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If P Diddy was driving money towards Sting...
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Oh, God.
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So many.
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See, this is a problem.
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There's so many moral dilemmas about these horrible situations and the fact that I have to get over them.
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All right.
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So girls, boys, you know, and whatever you identify with, you know,
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I don't say this mockingly, by the way.
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It's another topic we'll get into someday.
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Hopefully, when I have better knowledge of it myself.
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I don't like mocking new things.
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I've got enough things going on in my life as well.
Personal Life and Technology Decisions
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This whole celebrity thing is so interesting to me every time, though.
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I've been around some.
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Some people are seemingly very nice.
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Shit.
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I don't know what they are.
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I've been with some celebrities in hotel rooms.
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And I should clarify, it was like with a group of people and nothing happened.
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And I never got to witness any of these crazy parties.
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So that's a shame.
00:19:54
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No, I wouldn't want to be in one of those where bad things were happening.
00:19:58
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But a fun story with some crazy stuff would have been nice.
00:20:02
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Still possible, I guess.
00:20:05
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Yeah.
00:20:06
Speaker
Why am I even talking about this?
00:20:07
Speaker
I have bigger problems.
00:20:08
Speaker
I have electronics in my life just falling apart right now.
00:20:11
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You know, it's been my Mac.
00:20:14
Speaker
I've had my Mac for like 10 years and it's finally like you ever have a laptop, computer or any kind of electronic and start showing you signs.
00:20:22
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It's about to die.
00:20:24
Speaker
It's taking a little longer to start up.
00:20:27
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It's taking a little longer to load things.
00:20:29
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And you just want to ignore it because you're like, oh, man, it's going to be a big expense.
00:20:33
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I'm going to have to spend more money.
00:20:36
Speaker
I don't even know if I want this.
00:20:37
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You know, the problem with having a nice Mac laptop, for example, is that I go, I don't use it enough to justify buying a Mac again.
00:20:46
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One of the reasons I got the Mac, I'm not an artist.
00:20:48
Speaker
My wife is, but I'm not.
00:20:49
Speaker
I mean, I'm not into...
00:20:51
Speaker
I'm not an illustrator or artist that way.
00:20:55
Speaker
I got it because I love Final Cut Pro and I wanted to edit videos on this.
00:21:01
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But every kid I know is like moving on to CapCut.
00:21:06
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And even if they're doing it on the laptop, they don't need these apps anymore.
00:21:09
Speaker
You can do CapCut on the desktop as well.
00:21:13
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And I just kind of go, do you need a Mac to edit social media content?
00:21:19
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And that's the part where I'm, you know, I'm just like, is it worth buying such an expensive but great machine?
00:21:28
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Hey, listen, I'm not in the Apple cult, but I got to like once you go Mac, there's no turning back.
00:21:35
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It is a great machine.
00:21:38
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Like I said, it's lasted, I think it's been like eight years or 10 years this thing has lasted.
00:21:43
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Maybe less.
00:21:43
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Hang on.
00:21:44
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Four, five, six, seven.
00:21:46
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At least seven years now.
00:21:47
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At least that I can remember.
00:21:48
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Maybe eight or nine.
00:21:49
Speaker
I'm not sure.
00:21:50
Speaker
But that's good.
00:21:51
Speaker
The last laptop I bought before this lasted me three years.
00:21:55
Speaker
But by the end of it, it was like...
00:21:58
Speaker
It was on life support, you know, in three, four years, max, they died out so quickly.
00:22:03
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So, so I don't know if this, tell me what you guys
Surprises and Gratitude
00:22:07
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think about it, man.
00:22:07
Speaker
I've also, my wife will have found this out by then, but I've got a fridge being delivered because our fridge also went kaput.
00:22:16
Speaker
And it's been one of her lifelong dreams to get like an ice crusher thing.
00:22:21
Speaker
Not just ice, you know, with the fridge that dispense ice, but also like crushed ice.
00:22:27
Speaker
And man, it took me ages to find one that does it because some of them would only do water.
00:22:35
Speaker
And then some of them are too big for the space we have for our fridge.
00:22:37
Speaker
And then some of them would only do ice blocks.
00:22:40
Speaker
But I know she had mentioned crushed ice.
00:22:42
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So I finally found one in my budget and space.
00:22:46
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and I got it, and it's being delivered today.
00:22:48
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She doesn't know it yet.
00:22:49
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She thinks it's a normal fridge, but I'm going to surprise her with this and earn some brownie points, hopefully.
00:22:57
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She's been very supportive of me this year, so I'm very, very lucky to have her.
00:23:02
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This is my way of paying back with a fridge.
00:23:07
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:23:07
Speaker
It makes me sound like a 1940s husband.
00:23:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:12
Speaker
It also makes me feel so old that I'm excited about a fridge.
00:23:16
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Oh, God, this is horrible.
00:23:17
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What a thing to end on.
Closing Remarks and Future Teasers
00:23:19
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Thank you, guys.
00:23:19
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Thank you for making me talk about that instead.
00:23:22
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I'll let you know.
00:23:23
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Keep listening to my exciting podcast.
00:23:26
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In my next episode, I'll tell you about how that whole fridge thing went down.
00:23:30
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Okay?
00:23:31
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All right.
00:23:31
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Looking forward to that.
00:23:32
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Take care.
00:23:34
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00:23:35
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