Hey guys, what's up? This is Jacques. Welcome back to On Popular. I'm back from my little week away. I hope you missed me. If you're on Patreon, you wouldn't have because I still did an episode on there. But if you're not, I'm back. So, hello. I was going to have a guest on this week. And then I thought,

you know what, let me just catch up with everyone, do a solo and get everything out of my system that I need to. And then hopefully I'll have someone on fun next week. Although, I feel like when I say that, like when I think, oh, yeah, I'm going to have a really good guest, then it falls through. so maybe I won't.

Anyway, I want to catch up with you guys,

and I know that I said that think, oh yeah, I'm going to have a really good guest, then it falls through, so maybe I won't.

Anyway, I want to catch up with you guys, and I know that I said that I wasn't going to share my personal life on the main pod anymore for reasons that you all understand, but something

happened today, and I just like need to vent. I'm just over it. So I did night shift at work last night

and then when I woke up, I don't know why that's relevant, why I even started with that.

That's completely has nothing to do with anything. But anyway, basically when I woke up,

I went out to get like a late breakfast slash early lunch with my mom at this cafe that we really like.

And then I was like, let me just go out, get lunch and then come back home and work on the

pod for the day, which I had to do. And we went out. I got the knocky. It was really nice. And

then the phone rings. And then we find out that back home, a water pipe had burst.

I don't understand how, like, plumbing stuff works, but like a pipe burst,

because we had this freak, freak, like, downpour here in Australia.

For, like, two days, two or three days straight, and I know that in Melbourne, like, a roof of a shopping center collapsed and flooded everywhere and stuff. So we had some freak weather thing, I know, climate change, whatever. Don't look up, Leonardo DiCaprio. And then they're like, okay, we need to get a plumber in to fix it. And my mom said, yeah, we're going to like turn the water off until the plumber comes. And I'm like, you can't turn the fucking water off. Like, what, I can't access anything. Like, I need to shower, need to go

the bathroom. I need to drink water so I don't like get dehydrated and fucking die. Like,

I need access to water. And it was, it was Sunday that this happened. And she goes, yeah,

the plumber will probably come tomorrow on Monday. I'm like, I can't wait like 24 hours without access to water for a plumber to come. And she's like, well, it'll be cheaper on the Monday. I'm like, I don't care if it's cheaper on the Monday. Like, get the plumber in now. I'll just pay the, I'll pay whatever the difference is to get them on the Sunday. Just get the fucking plumber here.

And then she's like, all right, I'll try and work it out. And she left me in town to go shopping. Not, I didn't really, I didn't do anything. I have one friend here. My friend was away, so I just, like, wandered around. I'm actually, I'm getting tongue-tied. I have a story about shopping actually so annoying.

I'll tell you that in a second.

But anyway, I went shopping story about shopping actually so annoying. I'll tell you that in a

second. But anyway, I went shopping, window shopping, whatever. Basically, I did nothing. I wandered around

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