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150 Ramble On Interview! · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Kai, and I am a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 2: And today is a very special episode of Clone High.
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  Speaker 2: Actually it's a very special episode of Ramble On. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do a mic test where I test out
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  Speaker 2: this new microphone I had. I asked my friend to
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  Speaker 2: help me with the mic test, and I realized she
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  Speaker 2: had moved to the US and could tell me about
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  Speaker 2: her move here and a little bit about her life
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  Speaker 2: before and after coming to the state. So we just
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  Speaker 2: really just had a talk with a few questions, and
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like a good introduction to the interviews, except
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  Speaker 2: we were clipping the mic the whole time because I
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  Speaker 2: had no idea the input was that powerful, So the
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  Speaker 2: audio quality is pretty terrible, and I apologize for that.
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  Speaker 2: So this will just be a short conversation between me
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  Speaker 2: and a friend from China I've known for a few
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  Speaker 2: years who moved to the U in her thirties mid thirties.
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  Speaker 2: She's been in the States now for six years and
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  Speaker 2: is planning on living here indefinitely. Just a normal person
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  Speaker 2: who left their country and moved to another country to
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  Speaker 2: live there. Now. I travel all the time, but a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people gravitate or when they think of traveling,
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  Speaker 2: they think of it how my friend has done it,
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  Speaker 2: moving from their country to another, or moving from one
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  Speaker 2: country to another and then living in that new place.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just a fun little short chat that
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  Speaker 2: I want to share with the listeners so they can
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  Speaker 2: hear someone who traveled and how practical travel can be.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to travel for a lofty ideal to broaden
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  Speaker 2: your mind and value more of the world. Those are
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  Speaker 2: invaluable insights that will occur after you travel. But to
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  Speaker 2: get to the point where you travel from one country
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  Speaker 2: to another, it often takes a practical matter, a real
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  Speaker 2: world concern, food in our bellies, more money from our jobs,
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  Speaker 2: a nicer place to live. That's certainly what my friend
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  Speaker 2: is mostly concerned about, or was when she arrived in
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  Speaker 2: the US, when she decided to travel from her country
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  Speaker 2: to the US. And that's as good of a reason
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  Speaker 2: to travel as any other that I know of. Once
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  Speaker 2: you're abroad, you do open up your mind, and you
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  Speaker 2: do learn things, and the world is more colorful and
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  Speaker 2: interesting for a lot of people. I hear that all
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  Speaker 2: the time. But to get that kick out the door,
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  Speaker 2: you need a practical matter often to help you take
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  Speaker 2: that first step. And there will be many more interviews
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  Speaker 2: to come. Because even with this dinky little microphone I
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  Speaker 2: got the interview itself was fun without further ado. Here
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  Speaker 2: is Jingjong. She asked for a pseudonym. She chose Jing Jong.
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  Speaker 2: So here's me and Jing Jong talking for a while.
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  Speaker 2: The first question, why did you want to come to
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  Speaker 2: the United States?
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  Speaker 3: Because I like money and I think here can earn
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  Speaker 3: money better than in.
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  Speaker 2: The country through other countries like aatire. What about your job?
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  Speaker 2: Do you mind talking about what your job is?
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  Speaker 3: My job is a buyer. I'm a buyer.
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  Speaker 1: What does a buyer do?
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  Speaker 3: That means you use other people's money to buy.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff that you like, that you like personally?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe oh, our company need I can buy bye bye,
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  Speaker 3: but don't need to use my money. I have to
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  Speaker 3: check it as what's the price, as what was the
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  Speaker 3: minimum or the quantity? As what is the lead? The
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  Speaker 3: term ask how much is the price?
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  Speaker 2: And then you just take all those products home. They're yours,
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  Speaker 2: not miney Oh what do you do with the products?
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  Speaker 3: Sell? Hey?
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  Speaker 2: There Kai here, so I'm gonna jump in here. Her
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  Speaker 2: job is a buyer, which means she coordinates imports from
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  Speaker 2: factories in other countries and with the supermarkets and warehouse
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  Speaker 2: stores in the US. So every single thing on a
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  Speaker 2: Walmart shelf, sunglasses, tools, cookwar whatever has probably gone through
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  Speaker 2: one of the companies jing Jong works for. And that's
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  Speaker 2: how all of your maide in China products are getting here.
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  Speaker 2: That's how every single thing in the dollar store is
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  Speaker 2: getting to the United States. Someone like Jingjong is coordinating
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  Speaker 2: with the factories from China so that Americans can sell
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  Speaker 2: Chinese proput ducts at lower prices to US Americans. So
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  Speaker 2: where are you from in China?
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  Speaker 3: I'm from China from sounds of China, near Hong Kong.
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  Speaker 3: The province I live is Groangdong Province. My time is
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  Speaker 3: Foshan Shunda.
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  Speaker 2: And what's popular about Foshan kong.
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  Speaker 3: Fu like Huang fay Home is there? What's that Hung
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  Speaker 3: fay Home is a person who good at kung fu.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Lee was born there, right, Yes, what about Jackie Chan.
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  Speaker 2: There's Lisha Along. What's Jackie chance? Jackie Chang is What's
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  Speaker 2: what's Bruce Lee's name? In Cantonese, Nissa Long is Li
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  Speaker 2: Si Long, Chang Long is sing who do you like better,
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't meet Bruce Bruce Lee before he did. He
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  Speaker 3: already there before I bought, so I I only The
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  Speaker 3: only I can't pick is change.
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  Speaker 2: You met Chang Long?
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  Speaker 3: No I see the movie?
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  Speaker 2: You haven't seen any Bruce Lee movies? Did you ever
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  Speaker 2: study Kung fu?
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  Speaker 3: Never?
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  Speaker 2: How many years have you been in the US now?
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  Speaker 3: Fixed?
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  Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, it's a long time.
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  Speaker 3: I think for slow world knife slower life. Yeah, in
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  Speaker 3: China is fast. Like in China, have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: overtime and people push you through something and you have
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  Speaker 3: to do it or you do a lot of overtime.
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  Speaker 3: But in America, I can, you can't finish it. It's okay,
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  Speaker 3: everything still go like what it is.
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  Speaker 2: When you say overtime paid overtime? Did they pay you
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  Speaker 2: in China?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: You just work. Yeah, that's terrible. How much unpaid over
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  Speaker 2: time do you think you did every day as a
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  Speaker 2: buyer in China?
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  Speaker 3: In China, I'm a self, I'm not a buyer at
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  Speaker 3: least one hour or day.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think the most unpaid overtime.
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  Speaker 3: In one day you ever did was eight hours? Because
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  Speaker 3: I work at Saturday on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: That means Saturday, that's your day off, but you have
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  Speaker 2: to work all day. Wow, that is is awful. So
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  Speaker 2: the work environment for you is better here in the
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  Speaker 2: US for.
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  Speaker 3: Me, yes, because some some job in America. Some people
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  Speaker 3: maybe don't like it. Some people may think I want
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  Speaker 3: to go back to China or I want to go
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  Speaker 3: to China to find a job. Some people may think
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 2: So I add for me, yeah, but for your situation,
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  Speaker 2: you still think it's better living and working here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Why is it better living here?
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  Speaker 3: The air is fresh?
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  Speaker 2: Did you only work in fush On or do you
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  Speaker 2: work in different cities only?
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  Speaker 3: I never worked at the price.
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  Speaker 2: You left until So do you like your new apartment
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  Speaker 2: you just got?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a tiny apartment, four hundred twenty seven square feet.
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  Speaker 3: And is that one to three four one to three
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  Speaker 3: four four windows? Like those windows? Is the windows facing
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  Speaker 3: to the east so I can get a lot of
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  Speaker 3: nature light in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: And you're getting paid enough that you can afford your
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  Speaker 2: apartment pretty easily.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I don't want to say pretty easily, but I
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  Speaker 3: will say I can afford.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a better financial situation for you than when
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  Speaker 2: you were living in China.
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  Speaker 3: Live in China, I don't need to pay.
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  Speaker 2: Anything for living well because you were living with your family.
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  Speaker 1: But is that worth it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So what would you want people to know about China?
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  Speaker 2: Like US Americans? Southern China where you're from. The If
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  Speaker 2: anybody knows anything about China, they probably know something from Beijing.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think someone not from China should know
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  Speaker 2: about southern China?
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  Speaker 3: The weather, it's humidy weather, a lot of mosquito, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of jug lang, a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of john lan are cockroages, a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: The weather is hot. And and the girl when they
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  Speaker 3: go out, they don't make up because the the heart
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  Speaker 3: weather will make their face, moving out their makeup and
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  Speaker 3: around at March and August, no sorry, and March and April,
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  Speaker 3: there would be a lot of water growing inside the
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  Speaker 3: house because the the changing weather from interto spring will
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  Speaker 3: make that like in ten days, even you hang your
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  Speaker 3: crows outside or inside the house, your clothes not only
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  Speaker 3: won't be dry, but also will more wet, more wet,
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  Speaker 3: and it will smell stinky. But south of China, like
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  Speaker 3: through some jail, the very rich, the most rich area
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  Speaker 3: in South China, people like living there because their g
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  Speaker 3: GDP is high and they build a lot of work
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  Speaker 3: and people happy to work there. You know, people who
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  Speaker 3: grow up in there and for many generations people live
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  Speaker 3: in there. That will make make them don't want to
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  Speaker 3: leave that city. Like me, if I don't need to
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  Speaker 3: go to America, I think I would just live and
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  Speaker 3: stay in South of China forever. Yeah. If I don't
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  Speaker 3: choose to live in America, I will just stay there forever.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you choose to go? The money?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and better life?
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  Speaker 2: I will say in what way?
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  Speaker 3: What I mean?
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  Speaker 2: In what way is living in the US a better life?
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  Speaker 3: Driving? Easier to drive? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Because people follow the traffic rules here?
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  Speaker 3: Better follow?
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  Speaker 2: What places do you like in the US?
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  Speaker 3: So far? Philadelphia? Because the Chinatown food is mostly close
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  Speaker 3: to Guangdong like my hometown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of restaurants US Chinese restaurants are Guangdong style.
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  Speaker 2: Are southern China not Northeast China?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is that because? Do you know why?
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  Speaker 3: I think? Because the Guangdong food is very famous and
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  Speaker 3: very good. Because in people say, if you find there
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  Speaker 3: any food best in the world, you would pick China.
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  Speaker 3: If you pick a city that where the best food
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  Speaker 3: from China is usedul to pick sounds of.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, people say that, but I will choose Guangdong.
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  Speaker 2: I want to jump in here real quick, because there
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  Speaker 2: is a common conception in China that there's a place
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  Speaker 2: where the best food comes from. But almost nationally everybody
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  Speaker 2: says it's Sichuan, which is a different province, more geographically
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  Speaker 2: center of China than the south of China that Jingjong
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  Speaker 2: is talking about. But every province also they can be
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  Speaker 2: very prideful about their province's food.
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  Speaker 1: But even though.
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  Speaker 2: Sichuan's in the geographic center of China, most Chinese people
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  Speaker 2: consider it southern China. And again, all the Chinese restaurants
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  Speaker 2: in the US, so many of them are from Southern China.
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  Speaker 2: As in Guangdong, the five percent of the population that
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  Speaker 2: speaks Cantonese from a relatively small region is a pretty
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  Speaker 2: high percentage of Chinese restaurants that I've come across in
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  Speaker 2: the US. So maybe that is popular. But when I
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  Speaker 2: lived in China, every Chinese person I asked, literally every
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  Speaker 2: single one told me that Sichuan has the best food.
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  Speaker 2: Either Chungdu or Chung Ching has the best food in China.
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  Speaker 2: So It was interesting to get that answer from Jing Chong.
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  Speaker 2: And if you've listened to this podcast at all, you
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  Speaker 2: know that I am crazy about Chinese food. What I
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  Speaker 2: want to know is what is her favorite food and
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  Speaker 2: her favorite dishes from her province.
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  Speaker 3: Hoebury uh, some vegetable like choice, some vegetables that like
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  Speaker 3: CHOI also stained boil and then fries boil. Person.
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  Speaker 2: So what was your favorite food in fushat chicken? And
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  Speaker 2: what's your favorite food now in the US?
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  Speaker 3: From Hap?
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: How do you communicate with your people back.
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  Speaker 3: In we chat? We Chat?
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  Speaker 2: I use what's we chat? Explain we chat to people?
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  Speaker 3: We Chat combine a lot of function including chatting, including
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  Speaker 3: go to aelf shoe like ding dong or all weather
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  Speaker 3: or dingo. Yeah, and combine a lot of functions and
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  Speaker 3: can pay like pay your utility and pay your pay
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  Speaker 3: your packing.
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  Speaker 2: You can get a ride share car with them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can rent bicycles.
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  Speaker 3: You can order food, you can.
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  Speaker 2: Go on the subway.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Inside we chat there are mini apps. You can basically
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  Speaker 2: do anything with we chat. It's crazy. You got to China.
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  Speaker 2: You can use it for everything. It's very convenient. Did
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  Speaker 2: you know these days I can connect my US credit card. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they said they were gonna do it for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: but it never worked, and now it works pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Do you connect yours when you visit China? Do you
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  Speaker 2: connect your US credit cards there so you can get
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  Speaker 2: cash back? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Uh no?
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  Speaker 2: Why not cash back when I.
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  Speaker 3: Go to China?
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  Speaker 2: No, you're not there a long time, so it's not
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  Speaker 2: that important.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want other Chinese people to know about
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  Speaker 2: living in the US?
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  Speaker 3: US? Rento is very expensive US. If in US, if
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: you buy a house, you have to pay property text
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you have to pay hoa and your saving money
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  Speaker 3: speed is snower than living in China.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say one positive thing you want people to know
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  Speaker 2: about China.
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  Speaker 3: China people do stuff very fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, getting things delivered is extremely convenient.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I just really like food delivery or.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet, the straight to your door immediately. And what's one
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  Speaker 2: positive thing about living in the United States for you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? The people, it's very polite sometimes and driving?
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  Speaker 2: Did you drive a lot in China for pretty once
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  Speaker 2: a month? What are your favorite things to do in
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  Speaker 2: the US?
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  Speaker 3: I need money?
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  Speaker 2: What do you do for fun in the US?
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  Speaker 3: Go to a park or go hiking or play walk
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  Speaker 3: with my live or the neighbor's dock. She is a
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  Speaker 3: good dog. She missed me too. See every day back
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  Speaker 3: to the garde door every day.
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  Speaker 2: Which garage door my o.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, the place I used to live in.
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  Speaker 2: So when your old neighbor takes her for a walk,
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  Speaker 2: she barks that your garage door, your old garage door.
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  Speaker 3: She don't need to go go for a walk with
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: the dogs. The doctors lean on the neighbor's gate, and
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: as soon as she saw the bloods door open, she
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  Speaker 3: just back to there, so asking me to call me,
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  Speaker 3: to call me, But.
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  Speaker 2: She said, you can earn money faster in China. So
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  Speaker 2: why is your favorite thing earning money in the US
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  Speaker 2: If you can earn money faster in.
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  Speaker 3: China, because I mean safe, not earn it faster in America.
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  Speaker 3: But save money is faster in China. But in China
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  Speaker 3: even say fast, save faster. But it's difficult, like you
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  Speaker 3: have to spend longer time to get the money. America,
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  Speaker 3: you spend eight hours to earn forty thousand, but in
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  Speaker 3: China you maybe spend eight hours to earn twenty thousand.
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  Speaker 3: But in China, I don't have to pay rents, so
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  Speaker 3: I save money and and in that eight hours. In China,
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  Speaker 3: I maybe do have to think a lot and do
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  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But in America, just city, how much work do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think each.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Day like two to four hours a day?
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  Speaker 2: In your eight hour day, you're working two to four hours?
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  Speaker 2: And what do you do the rest of the day?
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  Speaker 3: It's there? Maybe we book it's good.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think other people in the US work the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: full eight hours or do you think everyone works too?
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  Speaker 3: I think most of people work eight hours.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: It's just me not Oh why why are you lucky?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know?
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  Speaker 3: No?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Great congratulations really worked out for you?
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: What do you like about your new apartment?
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  Speaker 3: It's a very great apartment. It's tiny and easy to
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: crean and new is new construction. I like crean and stuff,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: but smaller would make it easier to clean. What if
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: you have a big house, you would take only one
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  Speaker 3: person you clean. You have to wipe the table every
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: day to make sure that doesn't have dust. And if
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: you have three levels like the home O the house
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  Speaker 3: I live when I was a kid, three levels every day,
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  Speaker 3: every especially every New Year's before New Year's need a
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  Speaker 3: big clean. It's difficult to crew.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to live here for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: your life. Nah, where are you going to live?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: So you're going to school?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Why are you going to school.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: To get a degree from America and more money? To
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: have chance get a good, better job and earn more money.
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to use your money for? When
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you have more.
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  Speaker 3: Money, go travel, Go buy some good food.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think people should travel?
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah? What trouble can open your eyes because you will
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: know more things. It's important to know more things.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: What's one of the things you know more about now?
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: People in different countries are different, and people think things different.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: What's something you think different now that is better for you?
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I let things go.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Are you going to get a dog?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I want to what kind of dog? Slan sniry sniry snirry?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Is it a big dog or a little dog?
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  Speaker 3: Little dog?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you want a little dog?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: This house is small?
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  Speaker 2: You want one in the house you're living in now?
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  Speaker 2: But if you're at work all day?
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  Speaker 1: Want the dog be home by itself?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Well, I will get a totle with with.
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  Speaker 2: Hu, a turtle with the dog so they can be
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  Speaker 2: friends together.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to name your dog?
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  Speaker 3: I actually already name me fool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Oh fool.
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  Speaker 2: So when Jing John gets a dog, his name or
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: her name is gonna be Tofu in Chinese doufu. Well,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: that was murder to edit into something that you can
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: at least listen to and understand. And I hope it
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: was funny too, because it was funny asking those questions,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and it was a fun conversation, as it always is
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: with Jing Jong. I think her job's really interesting. She
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: imports like everything in the States for anyone living in
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the States, And as I mentioned, she moved for a
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: practical concern. She she wanted more money, she was working
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: too much, and she tried to get a job in
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  Speaker 2: the US. It worked out very well for her, and
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  Speaker 2: now she lives here indefinitely. Oh, I want to mention.
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  Speaker 2: She gave an answer that was interesting that went.
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  Speaker 1: By really quick.
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  Speaker 2: She said one of the positive things she's learned since
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: moving to the US was to let things go, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: she's explained that in more detail. Before. She used to
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: be super anxious and worried about her job, especially it
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: just stressed her out so much that every little thing exploded,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: like every molehill was a mountain. While she was living
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: in China, but after she moved abroad and again something
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: she mentioned, she saw people think differently. Plus she was
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: working less for better pay, she was able to let
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: things go much more so than she was able to
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: while she was living in China, which is an invaluable
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: life skill that I think a lot of travelers develop.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: They're much more go with the flow because once you
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: arrive somewhere and you see something, let's say Thailand. You
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: get to Thailand, they have bidays. If you've never used
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: a bad day before, it seems crazy, a completely earth
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: shattering different lifestyle. And then you use a biday and
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: it becomes completely commonplace. And that means that the next
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: time you see something like of a day where you think,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this is so different than anything I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: lived before, your brain might not worry about it or
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: get too worked up because you've already been through this.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: It turns out things are different and that's okay, not
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: that big a deal. It seems like the more one
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: travels and the more cultures they interact with, the easier
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: it is to accept new things and realize that they
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: aren't that different at all from what one may be
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: used to. So this was fun. As I'll get out,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I will definitely do a bunch more interviews. It's funny
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: it took this long, but I didn't have a mic.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Actually that was like the that was a giant part
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: of it. But now I have a mic, So more
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: interviews to come. I just want people to hear about
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: other people who think differently but obviously have very similar
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  Speaker 2: practical concerns that everybody else has. There's a lot to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: communicate and comprehend and understand and commiserate even and identify with,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: no matter how different somebody seems at first glance or
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the first time you hang out with them. So look
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: forward to listening to more people from other countries, and
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: if you want to talk to me bit of a
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Rambler at gmail dot com, bit of a Rambler on
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: lem and Blue Sky, I'll answer. Thank you for the
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: people with your questions, and it's fun talking to you all.
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  Speaker 2: I have a great rest of your day. I will
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: talk to you soon.