Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa

The glory days of podcasting where you didn't have to have a video.

And I, yeah, I really wanted that change.

So it required a lot of conscious effort versus where I had this big kind of line in the sand moment.

I was in Bali once and my brother-in-law, so my like future brother-in-law, I guess, he went and like found these vapes from some random vendor and

and they weren't in the normal boxes.

They weren't branded.

And I tried it and it tasted like an actual, well, I'd love to, well, I wouldn't even love, what am I talking about?

I'm saying it tastes like an actual battery.

And I don't know what a battery tastes like.

And I was about to say, I'd love to know.

I really would not love to know what a battery tastes like, but it tasted what I would imagine a battery to taste like.

Let's hope I never have to taste one.

And it was the most awful thing ever.

And I remember thinking, oh, my God, but we don't know what's in them.

And then I had this other realization being like, you delusional fuckwit.

Just because there wasn't a box and it didn't come in packaging and it didn't taste good, that vape that I had there is no worse than the shit that I was having back in Australia.

So I thought...

I'm never fucking going to vape again, ever again, ever again.

And that was three years ago, three and a half years ago, maybe more, four years ago.

And I've never touched a vape, literally never.