Another TBB post featuring the most eclectic links around the web such as The Age of Doom, India transforming, the weight-loss drug revolution, best mountain towns, more devaluations are here, the US economy and stock markets are rocking, trillions of global debt, Jamie Dimon Chase machine, hopefully the luck of Elon Musk has run out, a review of Putin’s “press conference”, chimpanzees escape and a massacre follows, amazing read by a handyman, an account of a 45 year old ER physician giving birth that may give you nightmares, we travel to Mars and to amazing gas stations and streets with Christmas lights, soccer referees being punched and the madness of fan violence in soccer outside the US and then we always end with the latest in the miles and points world where we try to take the banks to the bank (pun intended), enjoy the weekend and see you on Tuesday next week.
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This blog publishes on Fridays. This is a one man labor of love operation, enjoy it white it lasts. I may post on another day too. Update: Come back on Tuesdays when I will be posting a collection of 2023 Annual Best of lists, something I have been doing over the years around Christmas/New Year’s holidays.
PERSONAL FINANCE
If you have been reading my blog for a while, you would know that I have been talking about how excellent the economy has been overall. And how everyone is bitching about it. Yeah, a portion of the population are permanent pessimists and of course we have the ever polarizing politics. Anyway, this is the best article I found to try to explain this phenomenon what the hell is going on here, I highly recommend it: The Age of Doom. Meanwhile, the reality:
Maybe this is just a structural part of how social media works. If I knew how to ensure that positive news goes as viral as negative news, I’d be screaming it from the rooftops. But I’m not sure there is a way. Society is going to keep shifting further from mainstream news and more towards social media. The share of people getting news from Tiktok influencers is only going to increase. And the incentives to go viral will ensure that doom narratives continue to flourish. Even if we can’t stop it, we should at least notice the patterns. We’re in the age of doom, where even if everything is great nobody’s happy. [Fight back by sending my blog to a loved one, it is up to us to defeat the clickbaity loud fake “shocking” shit flooding the internet, thanks! THINK Before You Click!]
Also, where is the recession? I swear, some people bitching live in another world!
Some good general observations how to diversify inside asset allocation classes. Fixing Your Mix. But the most important part of the article came at the end of it which is likely going to be a lot more relevant these days as financial salesmen come out in droves pumping these private “investments”, beware!
Across all asset classes, there’s another key decision to make: whether to invest only in publicly traded investments or to get involved with private funds. To be sure, private funds have an allure. But they’re also characterized by high fees, illiquidity, lack of transparency and often tax-inefficiency.
That’s why the late David Swensen, who promoted the use of private funds during his long tenure running Yale University’s endowment—and had great success with that strategy—went out of his way to advise individual investors to do precisely the opposite. In fact, he wrote an entire book on the topic. As you think about investment choices for 2024, this is a key factor to keep in mind.
Visualizing $97 Trillion of Global Debt in 2023
ELON MUSK/JAMIE DIMON
I sure hope the writer is right! Elon Musk’ s luck has finally run out. It exposes how Elon’s finances are so interconnected and it is only a matter of time. Unless, this guy again finds a way someway somehow…again.
Great article on the guy who is primarily responsible for all the amazing travel for my family over so many years at a fraction of the cost. And when I say a fraction I mean it. Thanks Jamie, much appreciated and…keep going lol. Jamie Dimon’s $4 Trillion Machine He made JPMorgan Chase the biggest bank in the world. What is it, exactly?
GEOPOLITICS
Excellent Ezra Klein podcast about India Is Transforming. But Into What?
Putin does these “press conferences theater” every year (skipped it last year because, you know, his troops were retreating in his disastrous plan to take Ukraine in two weeks). Here is a summary of what took place by Illia Ponomarenko, yeah, I bought him 5 coffees because we need to support good people people (see what I did there?).
ODDZ & ENDZ
I learned a lot about these hot anti-obesity drugs in this podcast: The Weight-Loss Drug Revolution, Part 1: Why These Drugs Work So Well. Now that I am not running. Maybe I should look into them one of these days. Listening to this makes me feel much better about them, we shall see. Looking for reader feedback, please comment.
Amazing writing by a handyman. Actually, if this guy is as good fixing things as he is writing about it I would hire him on the spot if he was in the area. Just Your Handyman. Some people build skyscrapers. I address that damp spot on your kitchen ceiling.
Home repair helps pull me back to the primacy of human relationship. I begin with attention: I show up, attend, observe, and listen. Sometimes the customer needs someone to talk to as much as he needs his floor replaced. [Yeah, do that with AI huh!]
That was a painful read. One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees. When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice. This is the story of the most dramatic 72 hours of their lives. Not a good ending for the chimpanzees, you have been warned.
Amazing and super scary story from a mother giving birth at 45. Who is an ER doctor being on the other side fully aware of what she was faced with. And how close she came to dying right there. The Train Wrecked in Slow Motion I gave birth at 45. It was a miracle that almost cost me everything.
TRAVEL
Mars in 4K. Wow!
Cool: America’s Grandest Gas Stations. Years ago I identified a hack with the Speedway frequent shopper program (which is still in existence, I mean, the program not the hack!) and made out bigly, oh those were the days lol.
Hey, every link I share you with you is cool. In my humble opinion. The Best Mountain Towns to Visit in America. Yeah, I would love to visit but I would not want to live there.
Christmas is coming so there you go! America’s 17 Best Streets for Christmas Lights.
BUZZING
A section where I go on and on about some stuff that happens in my life and anything else that just does not fit in another section above
Ok, this is funny. You are handed this amazing marketing opportunity but you are too nice to take advantage of it smh: Ford CEO Jim Farley tweets about Ford Super Duty rescuing Tesla Cybertruck in viral video.
Soccer outside the US is in another dimension. The violence is ever present, it is like a disease. Soccer games are currently suspended in Greece because of threats to a referee causing their union to walk out. Same thing over in Turkey when an owner of a team did this smh.
This blog started with a focus on miles and points and travel. It has evolved since then. Everything below deals with the hobby of collecting frequent flyer miles and points and maximizing your travel experiences. If you are not interested, you can stop here, thank you.
MILES & POINTS NEWS/PROMOS/MY ACTION
I am going to try separating this Section this way:
GENERAL NEWS/PROMOS/ETC.
I am starting to think Choice Hotels really really wants Wyndham and they may well succeed soon: Choice Hotels goes hostile in $8 billion takeover bid for Wyndham after being repeatedly rebuffed. Grab your popcorn. I am no travel thought leader but my guess is that this goes through by February 2024.
This could have been a lot worse actually. Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Changes in 2024. No more elite qualifying via segments, elite miles qualification remains the same, partner flights do count, some elite miles with credit card but only up to MVP (lowest) elite, elite bonuses slashed starting in 2025 and milestone rewards coming. Because one of the eight flights was on a saver fare.
Another week, another devaluation. Thanks for the no notice British Airways: British Airways Hikes Award Rates on American & Alaska Flights. We have redeemed LOTS of British Airways Avios for trips to New York flying AA over the years. It will now costs us 8,250 instead of 7,500 per flight, boo!
NEWBIES
More than 90% of the blogs in the miles and points online space will quit when the US banks stops paying them to sell credit cards. This blog is still trying to sell one this month, please laugh. Anyway, as long as US banks allow this it will keep going. And you will see content neatly packaged to get you to apply for them so they get paid. You need to recognize that almost every single blog business out there is selling you plastic and they are not doing it so you can travel for free, ok?
So, you get numerous posts like this: 6 Big New Card Bonuses for Under $100 in Annual Fees.
A colleague asked me what are the top bonuses to get right now and I am shocked that the two No Annual Fee 90k Chase Ink cards and 75k Capital One Venture X card offers are STILL alive!
Always check my TOP THREE TRAVEL REWARDS CREDIT CARD OFFERS RIGHT NOW below. At this point, the two no brainer cards are still the two 90,000 NO Annual Fee Chase Business Ink cards, by far! Available HERE. Chase will give you around $1,000 for free, come on! And also available with my REFERRAL link.
MY ACTION
I am at 57 Hyatt elite night credits and later today I am checking in for my last three nights to hit 60 and requalify as Globalist. Looking forward to another free night cert for a hotel up to Category 7, another 2 confirmed suite upgrades and I hope they assign me the same Globalist Concierge, he has come through a lot for us this year.
Some travel targets are starting to shape up for 2024. I need to see what I can do as my wife wants to return to Malaysia for a few weeks to see her mommy and join a school reunion in her home town. We have the same business conference in Huntington Beach again and I think I am going to see if I can get the direct flights on Delta and pay for the tickets again because I can deduct the cost.
My wife is running the Marine Corps Marathon in late October and I have the New York Marathon on November 3 as a target but at the present time I can’t run more than a quarter of a mile so I am not sure how feasible it will be. I should go back to Greece to see my mother next year, maybe in late April or early May. Still thinking about another trip to Asia in November and wondering how I could combine Danang, Vietnam with Bali and, of course, check out another place in Thailand…yeah, way too ambitious to hit all three but I am known for putting together complicated itineraries, we shall see. Always looking for feedback, thanks. Actually, maybe get to Machu Picchu before I get too old and fat, when is the best month to get there?
Son enjoyed his award flights on Hawaiian Airlines to South Korea. In addition, we screwed up in getting him to reach MVP Gold status from a 6 month challenge he enrolled in through his targeted employer.
Other than that, not much action, you know, holiday mode is here.
ADVANCED
Not sure what is going over at Amex lately: End of Year Warning: American Express is Running December like a Snail Going Uphill.
I really enjoyed this podcast with a miles and points aficionado who is also a pilot: TravelStories Episode 23: A Pilot’s Perspective. He starts out with “I am one of you!”. Well, that is a good start lol.
Get workarounds on award calendars for Virgin Atlantic, Air France/Flying Blue, Turkish, JetBlue, ITA Matrix. Sadly, the United legacy award calendar is now gone which is a huge blow. I need to burn my United miles and move on.
MILES & POINTS
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This section is about my hobby addiction of collecting frequent flyer miles and hotel points since the early 1990’s! SKIP if you are not into it!
As of today, I have burned 1,126,350 miles/points year to date in 2023 and have 4,362,669 miles/points in the bank. Some do drugs, I do miles lol!
Thanks to US banks, very lucrative travel rewards credit card offers come and go all the time. This section will act as a reference point on the best CURRENT offers. I will designate new material preceded by NEW.
TOP THREE TRAVEL REWARDS CREDIT CARD OFFERS RIGHT NOW
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Everything You Need to Know About the Chase Ink Business Cards
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As of tomorrow I’ll be AA executive platinum. Would trade that for Hyatt globalist in a heartbeat. Speaking of AA, I caught up with a family member a few weeks ago and he’s got 750k AA loyalty points earned this year from his travel but he had no idea how to select the rewards at each level in the app–e.g. the systemwide upgrades. I got him on the right path though.
Regarding the ‘age of doom’ article, agree to disagree I guess. I saw a chart yesterday with real wages since 2020 (as opposed to 2019 in the chart above). There was a spike in 2021 with all the stimulus dollars and wages have fallen since then. That matches my experience as my pay hasn’t kept up with inflation so my real income is down. Food in particular is killing me with four kids.
I suspect that has something to do with Biden’s base starting to turn on him. It’s not really his fault if the economy is bad but the president always takes both the credit and the blame for how the economy is doing regardless of responsibility.
AA Executive Platinum-Looks like MSing all the way 😉
We’ll have to agree to disagree on the Age of Doom and stats I posted. Real wages have grown and inflation is pretty much taken care of. Actually, inequality has finally reverted. I mean, if Biden does not get credit for THIS economy WTF is going on here? Maybe Nick, you need to look elsewhere and get a big raise, maybe Jamie will take care of you too 🙂
Saw a trailer of a new moving coming out. It has the title of what someone who asked me what keeps me up at night some time ago. My answer: “Civil War”.
Other than that, everything is peachy with me and my clients. I just need to get them to actually SPEND some of their capital gains…it’s a struggle lol. If I could only sell a phucking cc here for a change lol.
9 coffees will not do it, just got Mailchimp bill, it is now officially up to $31 per month.
On a shocking development though, I got a Capital One Venture X referral, good for 25k points, FIRST! And….
Got paid for the first Proton VPN referral, thanks to Sam for clicking on it months ago, FIRST!
Thanks for taking the time to comment, much appreciated. I need to get ready to go checkin at Hyatt…I need to drive to the metropolis of Flint this time lol.
I hope you got my Venture X referral from last week. Read in FT there’s been a lot of delays transferring points out to partners (fraud flag). Any experience there? Portal looks decent. I think the lounge pass for whole family is pretty good value.
Oh, so that was you, got it, thank you!
I have not transferred out my CO miles yet, so no direct experience. Been hearing it has been spotty at best.
I was not aware of a family lounge pass, good to know, thanks.
Well it’s not family, but each AU can bring 2 guests so that’d give entry to a family of 6.
Oh, got it, makes sense now 🙂
I’m more on Nick’s side on this topics. Yes Biden has been stimulating the economy greatly and the economy has been doing relatively better than most OECD members. But life’s relative, people were used to 1-2% inflation and all of a sudden prices went crazy AND housing prices went up by 40% (Fed problem + not enough built). Ppl need gas, food and somewhere to live. Most only got 3-5% wage increases, so yes overall the economy is better than projected, however, good luck buying your first home or even moving….. your interest rate may go from 3% to 7% (which makes it harder to move to CA, HI etc (even TX is bad) and take that new job to bump up your salary). Historically US has had a very mobile workforce, but that has now changed.
“relative better than most OECD members” – very understated 🙂
“Life’s relative” – Certainly. But on average this is the mother of all amazing economies and it is just mind boggling that this pessimistic bend still exists, even in people as educated as you two. So, it is a mystery…this is why I led with the Age of Doom article in this post.
More examples:
So many articles bitching about how gas became so expensive and ZIP on the gas prices that keep falling lately!
Just saw “Leave the World Behind” on Netflix last night. And saw a trailer of a movie titled “Civil War”. This doomerism is ingrained now and…sells. Yes they were always around but with da internet and social media this has exploded. Just sad to watch really.
Yes on housing, I agree. The last bastion of the inflation “plague” that has been fixed for the most part on everything else except housing. Which is a big structural problem. Promised both kids we will help with the purchase of their first home. We bought our first home in 1993 for $89k, those days are long gone…
Still no cc booked sale here in December, wow! If this site goes without a sale for a month they are most likely going to take my cc links away, something that has not been done yet which is shocking as I have not met the stated “quota” of 10 cc sales per month here in ages.
Meanwhile, Frequent Miler does a Saturday post with links to other blogs. And, yep, you know, scratch each others’ backs with links to the following:
View From The Wing
One Mile at a Time
Award Wallet
Thrifty Traveler
Johnny Jet
who all blog how to travel for free to family and friends LOL.
See you Tuesday with the first batch of 2023 Annual Best lists post.
And go Detroit Lions, 10-4 baby with just one win away to lock up NFC North for the first time since 1993. I remember that year, we beat Dallas at home and then went on to get killed at Washington Redskins at the time.
I think there’s a disconnect between how the upper classes experience the economy and how the lower classes experience it. The middle classes and below have been squeezed the past few years (although real wages at the very bottom have finally ticked up a bit the past few years). Things are a lot better for the top 10-20% though.
All of which is to say: I don’t think people who are negative about current economic conditions are hallucinating and I think it’s a mistake by the nation’s elites to ignore their concerns and push the “everything is awesome” narrative
I think things have always been better for the top 10% – 20% throughout history, in general. Since the 80s this has become more pronounced, sure. But only lately we are seeing, in the true economic stats, the lower 80% finally making true progress.
They are not hallucinating but they seem really trapped in that negative “mode”. I think the media always drove that. But with the explosion of social media this has become so entrenched. Which explains the rise of Trump in 2016 and the entrenchment of MAGA voters. I also think Biden has done so much for these voters, something the orange racist bufoon always spoke but never delivered any true economic benefits to them….he actually hates them 🙂
I think I have a major problem with Maichimp sending the emails, I think I broke it.I am not getting paid enough to do tech support too, shit!
Thanks for the great links. The near death at child birth was truly remarkable. So many what-ifs.
Good luck for your travels.
Thank you.
Gobs of good stuff here as usual. Best blog on the internetz, says I. I read that tale of the doctor lady the other day. Both mesmerizing and terrifying! Wow! I’ll nibble away at this over the weekend, got some “Getting ready for Xmas” stuff to do as well. Baking is back up to full speed here.
Looking at starting a new card soon (timing is key for my level of spend) so will be looking at your links of course. That said, the pursuit of miles and points has lessened, for me at least. My travel desires have been changing/lowering. Age and health are starting to bear down a little bit more and, well, the game just doesn’t feel as fun as it used to.
Not sure what is up next but no matter what I so look forward to all your posts and hope you stay with it. It sure is a happy spot for me whenever a new post shows. Thanks very much for all this hard work!
Question for you Carl. At what age do you feel your travels starting to slow down? Do you think CV played into it, or mainly health and age related?
@Vicky I am 66 now, and will be 67 in March this coming year. I would say recently, within the last year or two, the urge to go *somewhere* has been declining somewhat. Having medical appointments scattered here and there on my calendar doesn’t help, especially when the shitty medical system we have in this country means that appointments have to be planned out months in advance.
Plus, I guess the desire to go is just not as strong. I want to go back to my “second home” (not physically, just in my heart), of Florence, but the over tourism and crowding has drained a lot of the joy out, especially the last couple visits.
I do not understand what you mean by “CV” though.
It also doesn’t help that having neuropathy in my feet means that my favorite way of seeing a place, walking, is a bit more difficult and painful at times.
I guess, Vicky, I am just starting to slow down. I have a feeling that some of my “earn and burn” pile is just looking a bit more formidable to dispose of. I am not an “aspirational traveler”, either. Therefore points stretch farther because suites and first class seats and other, “la-de-da” stuff doesn’t matter as much for me. I like them when I can get them cheap but I don’t have to ability to do what in my mind feels like squander.
I think this also is part of the slowing down. Been a lot of places and my home feels more comfy all the time, I guess.
It’s all very hard to explain, but I think for some folks, like me, the effort it takws to go increases with age.
I am feeling it when you say starting to slow down…And just not with my lack of running lately.
Yes age and I think Covid did a number on all of us. And yeah I am starting to feel weird when I get a kind of euphoric feeling when I return home, which was never the case. Starting to feel maybe it is time to start thinking of a second home which is also weird for me. Because, you know, so many places to discover in the world. I am content now that I am just not going to get to them all and I should have ended with a “sad” but I am not going to…it is okay!
Phucking MRI appointment, first available was January 12th, wtf!
I am going to revert to start using some of my miles/points for others…when I used to be incredibly selfish with them. Another weird development I guess.
With those destinations you have mentioned for travel in 2024 sounds like another year of qualification for Hyatt. Hyatt outside the US treats their Gods so well. Don’t even know who my husbands concierge is, even though he has been Globalist last 5 years at least and never used them. We just use the general Hyatt phone number to apply TSU and it seems to work well enough. Maybe we are low maintenance? Anyhoo we have the first 14 nights booked in January in Australia in a suite so race for Globalist 2024 starts early.
The economy is fine even though life is expensive. All the talk about the real estate market being in the toilet, we listed our Honolulu condo and were under contract within 5 days. The whiners are the people with unrealistic asking price and bad product. We did get a low baller who believes everything written in the media about it being a buyers market but that did not go well for him.
As to previous posting re Hawaiian miles, I have no idea where mine even came from, probably credit card signs ups over the years, and occasional flight, but we leave Hawaii this month on Hawaiian first class to Australia on redemption flights again with our balance almost exhausted.
Starting the new year with a bang we see 🙂
The economic stats I mentioned and my take in my post is of course, in general. There are ALWAYS instances that do not correspond with the averages of course. Real estate market may get back on going nuts with mortgage rates under 7%.
We’ll see what happens with Alaska trying to buy Hawaiian…
Great links again George. You should definitely go to Macchu Picchu, it’s one of the few “touristy” places I’ve been that really topped my expectations, by a lot. Avoid Dec-Mar as it’s the rainy season. I went in Nov and it was great as it was less crowded but weather was great. Some tips, Tambo del Inka from Marriott is 100% the place to stay, fantastic hotel with a train station that’ll put you directly in Macchu Picchu village. Also, most people fly to Cusco (lovely city with great historic hotels). If so, I’d recommend going straight to Macchu Picchu after landing and then visit the city on your way back. This way you minimize risk of attitude sickness ( Cusco is much higher than MP). Finally tickets to MP are limited and sell out. If you want to go to the tippy top ( called Huayna Picchu) it’s even more limited and it sells out months in advance. Hope you can go, you won’t regret it.
Great feedback, thank you. MP just went up on the priority list. Been trying to phase out my Marriott Bonvoy points but now I am going to be more interested towards them, maybe that offer with the 5 free nights comes back.
You may want to book as many Hyatt Guest Of Honor bookings as possible this year so they don’t count against your tally for next year and beyond when you’ll only have a limited allocation. As an existing Globalist you’ll be able to book unlimited GOH rooms through next year but the allocation will get used up first, meaning you’ll have to build from scratch for 2025. My concierge said that any booking made in 2023 but adjusted in 2024 will count against the allocation, just as a FYI.
Great tip, thanks! Just back from spending one of the three final nights in a brand new Hyatt Place in the metropolis of Flint, Michigan and expect my Hyatt account to show 60 night credits and hit Globalist again.
Knowing me, I am going to think about this and run out of time.
Meanwhile, I am trying to figure out what I did with Mailchimp and caused it to stop sending the emails out. Which really showed in my Monday morning weekly blog traffic. And still not even one cc sale this month. If it was not for Peteco’s CO Venture X referral and the shocking payment I got for one Proton VPN sale from Sam who bought it months ago…the decision to give up would have been a slam dunk at the end of the month.
I definitely need intervention here #sameold
Great post, as always! And I received it via email just fine.
Gracias
Good morning Buzz,
As usual I’m a bit late to the party, though no complaints here.
You should have another VPN credit from me when I signed up in May…or June…?
I was approved for a USBank card using your links yesterday.
Regarding Hyatt, I don’t know how I survived all the years without Globalist, or whatever it was called before. We literally feel like royalty at most locations, incredible customer service.
Funny that you and Carl are slowly losing the itch, I’m in my early 60’s and can’t wait to bag it all and head out on the road for a long walk. Yes I realize that health is an issue, and since Covid I’ve had my fair share of problems, but I’m still looking forward to seeing lands on the horizon,
assuming I win the battle.
As I’ve said before, watching the team in Larissa would be a blast.
Regarding the Lions, I’m pulling for you and the rest of my hardcore MI friends that have been very patient fans. As a Vikings fan since the days of Joe Kapp, I’m sure you know what I mean.
Thank you again for the great post George, I know it’s difficult at times and sincerely appreciate your efforts.
Looking forward to your review of the Flint Hyatt…haha
Good luck with the healing, and my best to you and your family, and have a very Merry Christmas!
Thanks a lot. Post for tomorrow Tuesday is now done for the 2nd time…what a deflating feeling to see Wordpess had a major cough and saved nada! This blogging thing is rough man 🙂
Going to look for that USBank cc sale, so far nothing, you will be FIRST. Or maybe they canned my cc links and I am not even aware of it.
No no I am not losing the itch at all. The Singapore/Thailand trip sure rekindled it. I just have way more many things out there. Well, minus one, the running. Got me new shoes today and let’s see how those work out.
With the Lions, we always fear the worst. As in…losing three straight, two to your Vikings and at Dallas to blow the division and first home playoff game in like for ever. So, next week’s game is a BIG one. Can the Lions deliver another statement win? Two in a row? Goff becomes Montana like when he has protection! It is so bizarre watching the Lions play meaningful games in December while the Pistons are sticking up the joint!
Going to skip the review of the Hyatt Place in Flint. Ok, here it is. Brand new, everything is great about it when you go in with HP caliber expectations. Front desk person did not let me leave without another two water bottles #wow. So, there you have it 🙂
Same wishes back to you. Posting Tuesday tomorrow and Friday if I get around to it from my laptop somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
On the VPN…oh, it that was you too I expect payment from them by June 2024 then! Which is okay, thank you.
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Just did the post for tomorrow, saving it along the way and then poof, gone!
WTF, I can’t do this anymore….phuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Unbelievable.