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June Delivery | 2025 · Podcast Delivery

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  Speaker 1: Podcast delivery. Hello, friends and family, it's me again. Hope
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  Speaker 1: you're all doing great. You're about to hear the most exciting,
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  Speaker 1: or at least the most significant moments of my June
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So let's start with the random thing
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  Speaker 1: of the month. I'm sure most of you know how
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  Speaker 1: intensely I love the office. Well, when I moved to Vienna,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed that pop quizzes are a big thing here,
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  Speaker 1: but I hadn't come across at the office theme one yet,
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  Speaker 1: or if I did, I couldn't find a team to
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  Speaker 1: go with, or just bad timing. So I guess life
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  Speaker 1: just didn't want me in one of those pop quizzes
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  Speaker 1: for some reason. Fun fact, people here them really understand
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  Speaker 1: me when I say trivia. I used to say a
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  Speaker 1: pop trivia, but if they just didn't understand, So out
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  Speaker 1: of curiosity, if I invited you to a trivia night
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  Speaker 1: at a bar, would you get what I mean? Or
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  Speaker 1: it's just here that the word sounds weird to people. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just call it pop quiz. So I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: can already guess where this is going. Yes, I finally
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  Speaker 1: found at the office quiz night at a bar in Vienna,
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  Speaker 1: And it turns out that some people at my office
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  Speaker 1: are really into serious and the office is a favorite
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  Speaker 1: for a few of them. So I asked two of
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  Speaker 1: them if they wanted to join. I ask if I
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  Speaker 1: if she was in, and the four of us made
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  Speaker 1: a team together. It was a dream come true. I
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  Speaker 1: was so happy that night. I had so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: I also really liked that I got to hang out
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  Speaker 1: with those colleagues more. I genuinely like them. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're very nice and very fun. So yeah, that made
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  Speaker 1: it even better. And guess what, we won second place.
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  Speaker 1: The questions were super hard, I would say, especially the
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  Speaker 1: ones about seasons nine, six to nine, because I'm personally
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  Speaker 1: not a huge fan of those seasons. I usually watched
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  Speaker 1: from season one to five in a loop. But we
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  Speaker 1: made it second place out of eight or ninety teams,
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  Speaker 1: so I think that was okay. We even won a
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  Speaker 1: bottle of Prosecum, and I felt like I won at life.
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  Speaker 1: I was so proud of us. Yeah, Ifa, of course
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  Speaker 1: she thought we were the biggest nerds, but I was
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  Speaker 1: just so happy. So yeah, this moment definitely had to
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  Speaker 1: make it into the month's audio. Next update Picnic season
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  Speaker 1: so I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic, and honestly
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  Speaker 1: I like that about myself. That's something I'm really glad
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  Speaker 1: I didn't lose for a while now, picture like tragic music.
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  Speaker 1: After so many breakups and failed love stories, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that I was kind of empty. I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: had nothing left to offer to a future partner, and
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  Speaker 1: at some point, honestly, I didn't even want a partner
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  Speaker 1: anymore until I met Iva. I have to say, she
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  Speaker 1: brings out that cheesy side of me, and I'm honestly
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  Speaker 1: so happy it's still there. So if I was away
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  Speaker 1: for a week at a conference in Madrid, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: this feels like a lifetime ago, but it was June anyways,
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  Speaker 1: and while I enjoyed the alone time like I had
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  Speaker 1: a friend over. We played Super Mario and Smash Bros.
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  Speaker 1: Until late, we ordered pizza, and I had the bed
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  Speaker 1: all to myself. I really missed her, so I decided
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  Speaker 1: to welcome her back with some kind of surprise, and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do something special, especially something outdoors, because
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  Speaker 1: by then Vienna was finally starting to feel like summer,
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  Speaker 1: so I know she'd been wanting to go on a picnic,
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  Speaker 1: so I planned a breakfast picnic, and let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: breakfast picnics are the best. Seriously, if you ever want
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  Speaker 1: to do one, here's my tip. Go on a weekend
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  Speaker 1: and try to head out early, like really early in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. That way you get the place to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You still catch that cool morning breeze. It's not too
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  Speaker 1: hot yet, but warm enough to enjoy. No kids yelling,
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  Speaker 1: no balls hitting you on the face, that's what she said.
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  Speaker 1: No techno music from hipsters who want to rave at
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  Speaker 1: ten in the morning, just you and your person or
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  Speaker 1: your people and you can enjoy. We went to start
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  Speaker 1: back here and we had a really lovely breakfast. I
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  Speaker 1: got everything from Little because let's be real, Little has
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  Speaker 1: some amazing stuff, very different from regular supermarkets and at
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  Speaker 1: great prices. This is not paid advertisement. I bought some
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  Speaker 1: delicious stuff for breakfast, a bottle of prosecco. We played
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  Speaker 1: cards and the weather was perfect, So I would say
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  Speaker 1: that we could call this picnic a success. Next highlight
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  Speaker 1: birthday month also well, Gene is always an eventful month
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  Speaker 1: for me, starting with the fact that it's my birthday month.
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  Speaker 1: Every year, it's the same dilemma. I don't really feel
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  Speaker 1: like organizing anything because I hate organizing stuff. Then I
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  Speaker 1: worry I'll regret not doing anything, so I throw together
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  Speaker 1: some random, something random the night before. I always want
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  Speaker 1: to cancel, And every year I just forced myself to
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  Speaker 1: go and I show up, but I ended up feeling
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  Speaker 1: so grateful and happy and having so much fun. This
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  Speaker 1: year was no exception to this dilemma. I organized like
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  Speaker 1: a random brunch with some friends here, and again I
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  Speaker 1: ended up feeling grateful for the people who I invited
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  Speaker 1: and came. I felt grateful for the company, the laughter,
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  Speaker 1: and the feeling of having a little community in this
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  Speaker 1: new home of mine since I leave abroad. My birthday
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  Speaker 1: makes me a bit nostalgic. I think of my parents,
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  Speaker 1: my family, of those birthdays back in childhood when I'd
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  Speaker 1: invite my cousins aunts uncles over. We would eat cake,
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  Speaker 1: probably pizza or tacos, and we would just sit around
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  Speaker 1: table and we would talk for hours. So yeah, my
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  Speaker 1: birthday is also the perfect excuse for my wife to
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  Speaker 1: spoil me and treat me like a princess. She always
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  Speaker 1: makes me feel very loved and special, I have to say,
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  Speaker 1: but on my birthday she really makes sure I feel it,
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  Speaker 1: even more. This year, we went to Salzburg for the day.
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  Speaker 1: It was really nice. It turns out that I have
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  Speaker 1: this benefit card from Ubebe, and if you have this
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  Speaker 1: card you can travel for free within Austria by train.
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  Speaker 1: So of course we utilized that benefit and we went
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  Speaker 1: to Salzburg. Yeah, it was really nice. So now when
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  Speaker 1: people ask my age, I say, thirty six, dude, can
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  Speaker 1: you believe it? I'm officially closer to forty than to thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. And my twenties, well, they just feel
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  Speaker 1: like a distant dream at this point, very glory part
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  Speaker 1: of my life. But I know I once was twenty
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  Speaker 1: years old. Next highlight Pride Month. The next big thing
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  Speaker 1: in June was, of course Pride, and I have very
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  Speaker 1: mixed feelings about it even and I decided. Mainly I decided.
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  Speaker 1: I told her that I didn't really want to go
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  Speaker 1: to Pride protest. This year. I feel like the world
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  Speaker 1: and society are going through a strangely dark moment. To me,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like human rights are moving backwards, like hate
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  Speaker 1: is just piling up. People are becoming less ashamed of hating,
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  Speaker 1: less ashamed of violence, and they start acting like senseless beast,
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  Speaker 1: like primitive, aggressive and proud of it, which is I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't understand, and well, the truth is
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  Speaker 1: that I love my life. I love the life my
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  Speaker 1: wife and I are building together, and honestly, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to risk it, not even a little. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: also feel like Pride has turned into this massive sunny
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  Speaker 1: party full of straight people getting drunk, straight men hitting
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  Speaker 1: on fem women, assuming they're straight just by their looks,
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  Speaker 1: so you. Meanwhile, the world feels unstable and dangerous, and
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  Speaker 1: I worry that a big group of visible queer people
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  Speaker 1: could become a target. So in short, I just didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel safe. Instead, if and I run the Pride Run,
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  Speaker 1: it was fun, no drunk crowds, way fewer people than
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  Speaker 1: the march, which, by the way, I still call a
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  Speaker 1: march because that's what it's supposed to be, And even
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  Speaker 1: there we had an escape plan just in case things
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  Speaker 1: got weird. Does anyone else feel the same or maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm overreacting or maybe not. Let me know what you
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  Speaker 1: think about it. Next topic, trips of the month. I
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  Speaker 1: say trips like plural because yeah, this month has been
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  Speaker 1: so hectic. I feel like I barely had time to
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  Speaker 1: breathe Eve and I were like little tornadoes here. So
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  Speaker 1: first there was our quick getaway to Salzburg, and then
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  Speaker 1: two weeks later we went to Belgium and met up
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  Speaker 1: with my sister and Sam. We spent two nights in
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  Speaker 1: Ghent in a really nice flat right by the river. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's always really special when I get to see my
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  Speaker 1: sister here in Europe. I think having her nearby has
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  Speaker 1: made my life so much happier. That deep nostalgic longing
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  Speaker 1: for family is a bit softer and she's around. And
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  Speaker 1: on the third day in Belgium, we went to visit Pay.
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  Speaker 1: Just a reminder, Pay is my Belgian exchange sister. It
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  Speaker 1: was so, so, so lovely. We had lunch in the garden,
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  Speaker 1: the weather was perfect. Honestly, I think I had never
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  Speaker 1: experienced Brussels or Belgium at all in the summer. It
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  Speaker 1: was really nice. We played with the kids, talked about everything,
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  Speaker 1: joked like always like we always do. And I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so happy I got to see her pregnant, because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's pregnant, Ermana, you look beautiful. And to top it
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  Speaker 1: all off, we even picked cherries straight from her cherry
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  Speaker 1: trem Could it have been any better? Like, so it dilish,
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  Speaker 1: they say. Then the week after that, which is the
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  Speaker 1: last week of June, I attended the wedding of two
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  Speaker 1: friends here in Vienna. A Mexican friend married her now husband,
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  Speaker 1: now Austrian. Her Austrian now husband because he's been always Austrian.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, they got married in the Czech Republic, in
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  Speaker 1: the countryside, literally in the middle of nowhere. But it
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  Speaker 1: was gorgeous. We were surrounded by sunflower fields. It smelt
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  Speaker 1: like flowers, grass, rain because yes, of course it rained,
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  Speaker 1: but it was warm and kind of charming. The wedding
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  Speaker 1: was beautiful. We cried, Oh my god, I cried so much.
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  Speaker 1: We laughed, we danced. It was nice. Then we also
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  Speaker 1: took a quick trip to Barnon in the Czech Republic
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  Speaker 1: and walked around the city a bit, which leads me
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  Speaker 1: to a rant of the month number one. Yeah there
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  Speaker 1: is more than one this time. So yeah, we got
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  Speaker 1: here very organically to this new section. Not a highlight,
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  Speaker 1: just let's call it runt of the month. I was
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  Speaker 1: genuinely excited about the hotel we picked in Bernon. It
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  Speaker 1: had great reviews and it had a spa, so I
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  Speaker 1: thought it would be a lovely little moment to relax
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  Speaker 1: and spend some alone time with my wife. We booked
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  Speaker 1: a spa. We went down to the pool area, which
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  Speaker 1: by the way, was more of a hot up than
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  Speaker 1: a pool because maybe it was maybe like three meters
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  Speaker 1: in diameter. And guess what, my dream come true? Not
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  Speaker 1: there were three nine ish year old kids yelling, splashing,
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  Speaker 1: running around the entire quote unquote wellness center. Their mom
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  Speaker 1: was literally picking them up and throwing them into the
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  Speaker 1: water like it was a water park. The sauna was full,
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  Speaker 1: there was nowhere to go, nothing to do, and no
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  Speaker 1: peace whatsoever. So out of curiosity, I checked the spa
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  Speaker 1: rules and of course explicitly written no running, no yelling,
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  Speaker 1: no throwing people into the pool. So I was this closed,
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  Speaker 1: this close you can see me, but trust me this
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  Speaker 1: close to call in reception and telling them to kick
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  Speaker 1: those people out. I was so annoyed. But then we
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  Speaker 1: just left and Rant of the Month number two, since
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  Speaker 1: we're already with the rant vibes. On our way back
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  Speaker 1: to Vienna, we stopped by a Bilam right before the
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  Speaker 1: Austrian border. Now, if you didn't know, my wife has
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  Speaker 1: a PhD in marketing and she absolutely loves visiting supermarkets
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  Speaker 1: when we travel, so she could literally spend hours just
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  Speaker 1: observing layout, packaging, pricing, retail everything. And yeah, I find
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  Speaker 1: that extremely cute. And I also like going to supermarkets,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, of course I go with her. And this
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  Speaker 1: time I got super excited because I found packaged soups. Yes, soups,
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  Speaker 1: And I guess that officially places me in the closer
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  Speaker 1: to forty mindset, And I'm okay with it. It's fine
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  Speaker 1: because it's not about soups and packages that made me excited.
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  Speaker 1: It was the flavors. I wanted all the flavors. They
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  Speaker 1: had really nice flavors. So I grabbed one of the
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  Speaker 1: packages and I noticed my fingers were wet. That's what
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  Speaker 1: she said. Turns out there was a booger in the
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  Speaker 1: soup package. A booger. What kind of monster does that?
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  Speaker 1: Not even calling that a person? What kind of monster
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  Speaker 1: leaves their booger in a soup package? Like, No, you
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  Speaker 1: don't do that, and it doesn't. It doesn't end there.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward to London. When we went to London, like April,
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  Speaker 1: I was out in a park, needed to use the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: so I went into a public toilet and when I
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  Speaker 1: went to lock the door. I touched something soft, moist
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  Speaker 1: and brown on the handle of the door. Yes that
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not one hundred percent sure it was poop,
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  Speaker 1: but it looked like poop. I didn't sniff or liquid, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know if it's melt or tasted like poop.
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  Speaker 1: But come on, I really think I touched someone's poop.
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  Speaker 1: So again I ask, what kind of psycho does that?
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  Speaker 1: Who spreads poop on a toilet handle, Who wipes boogers
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  Speaker 1: on a soup in a supermarket? Yeah? So that was it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for bearing with me. And next and last
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  Speaker 1: section recommendation of the month. Speaking of psychos, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you about my current favorite podcast, Smash Reads Reddit Stories.
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  Speaker 1: If you've never listened to it, please do perfect for
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  Speaker 1: your walk, your GM workout, while you're cleaning the house,
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  Speaker 1: or during your commute. In the podcast, they read random
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  Speaker 1: posts from Reddit, which, in case you're not familiar, is
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  Speaker 1: a giant online forum where people post questions, stories, or
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  Speaker 1: ask for advice. They have different subreddits, and one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorites is amd asshole, So people tell their side
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  Speaker 1: of a situation where someone called them out and they
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  Speaker 1: want the Internet to judge. The stories are wild. People
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  Speaker 1: do the craziest shit, like I wouldn't be surprised one
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  Speaker 1: day someone posted amid asshole force me hearing poop on
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  Speaker 1: a public bathroom door handle, and the answer would be yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you are the asshole. Anyways, what a month. If you're
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  Speaker 1: still listening, thank you truly for sticking around. And if
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  Speaker 1: you heard a random ad in the middle of this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm using the free version of the hosting platform,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, sorry about that. If you feel like replying
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  Speaker 1: telling me your highlights of June or just saying hi,
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  Speaker 1: please send me a voice note on what's up, or
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  Speaker 1: better yet, send me your own podcast not a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: you know I love getting those, so yeah, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: of you. Thanks for being part of my distribution link
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  Speaker 1: list aka my Important People. Much love, Gloria. This episode
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  Speaker 1: was proudly sponsored by my Random Adventures of the month,
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  Speaker 1: including people whose knees on stop packages, leave their boogers
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  Speaker 1: on them, and spread poop in public restrooms. Cheers.