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040 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I'm a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: I've been playing a ton of Subnautica, which is a
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: fantastic game. The visuals I added on a mod so
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: that everything looks brighter and more flashy, more detailed. Actually,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: oh my god, I have to come clean. I just
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: deleted this entire episode. Oh my god. It's like an
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  Speaker 1: hour long, and it had all this interesting stuff in it,
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: and now it's going to be twenty minutes or something
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: because I don't think I can talk about all this again.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: And my throats already. Oh my gosh. I clicked the
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  Speaker 1: wrong button and I didn't save it. That is the
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: first time I've ever done that. That's crazy. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: re recording the highlights after a very long session. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe I just did that. That's absolutely insane that
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: I did that, and I just deleted it accidentally. Okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Back on the horse. Subnotica super fun game. I played
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  Speaker 1: for twenty minutes the first time and thought it was
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  Speaker 1: very boring. Didn't go back to it again. Oh my gosh,
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I talked about Subnatic for like twenty minutes whatever, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about it again. We're gonna talk about it again.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that's great about Subnatica is that it's very calming.
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  Speaker 1: You're underwater, and I like to swim. I don't like
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  Speaker 1: using the vehicles or anything, and I just swim from
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  Speaker 1: place to place, enjoying what I'm doing. I see that animals,
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: and I've had genuine moments of maybe not terror, but
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: I'm scared playing the game sometimes because day turns to night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the bottom, two hundred meters down in this
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  Speaker 1: alien ocean, bioluminescent flora and fauna moving all around me,
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  Speaker 1: and it's very cool swimming through all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously it can be a little freaky if you're
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of an ocean and I'm playing it at
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  Speaker 1: three am. Yeah, the design and the scale of the
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  Speaker 1: world is a little intimidating all by itself, like so
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  Speaker 1: many things in this alien world are so large, and
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  Speaker 1: you're just one guy who crashed on a planet trying
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  Speaker 1: to survive. But the first time I played it, I
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  Speaker 1: made an air pump and a couple pipes, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what the heck even is this? And I
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  Speaker 1: got bored and stopped playing it. So now I've played
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  Speaker 1: it again several years later. And the first time I
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  Speaker 1: played it for like fifty minutes and I was like, Okay,
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: this is interesting. There's definitely something here. And then the
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  Speaker 1: second day I played it for four hours in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and then five hours a night, and then the
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  Speaker 1: third day had played it for like twenty hours by
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  Speaker 1: the time I was done. And I'm still doing that
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  Speaker 1: And I love the colors. I love the plot itself,
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  Speaker 1: which I didn't know existed. For like thirty five hours,
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  Speaker 1: I was just swimming through the world. Oh, I'm so
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  Speaker 1: happy with this podcast, and now I have to do
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  Speaker 1: it again. I want you to feel my pain at
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: being a freaking idiot. So I played Symnautica for like
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  Speaker 1: forty hours thirty five hours or something before I realized
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  Speaker 1: that I wasn't using any of the l I was
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  Speaker 1: just exploring all this stuff. But I hadn't used the
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  Speaker 1: scanner function, which allows you to find the resources you
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  Speaker 1: need to construct new materials and new vehicles and new habitats.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't even start using that until yeah, forty
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  Speaker 1: hours after I started playing the game. I had just
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  Speaker 1: been exploring and building things just by looking with my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: But the scanner room is an obvious, very important fundamental
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  Speaker 1: function of the game where you can locate the resources
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  Speaker 1: you need to for the game. So I'm actually surprised
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  Speaker 1: I got as far as I did in the game
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  Speaker 1: without using like any of these basic functions of the
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  Speaker 1: game at all. So now I think I'm progressing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit quicker now that I'm playing the game as
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  Speaker 1: it was intended to be played, instead of just swimming
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  Speaker 1: around exploring and building stuff, because I already found a
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  Speaker 1: few of the things that we're supposed to be part
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  Speaker 1: of the main storyline. But now that I finally picked
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  Speaker 1: up that thread, I'm progressing through I think some pretty
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  Speaker 1: big benchmarks, touchstones, goalposts, those are the wrong words milestones
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  Speaker 1: in the game pretty quickly. But I don't really care
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  Speaker 1: about the story as much as I care about the
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  Speaker 1: world they have created. I do like building stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I like being in this ocean and floating around and
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  Speaker 1: finding the new stuff and creating habitats. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to build as many as I have, but
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  Speaker 1: I've built like twenty of them already in different parts
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  Speaker 1: of the world. It's a completely underwater world in case.
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  Speaker 1: That was in the first podcast that I deleted, and
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  Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned that yet. So I'm just building all
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  Speaker 1: of these underwater habitats all across the underwater world so
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  Speaker 1: I can swim from one to the other and distribute
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  Speaker 1: resources and keep breathing and explore cave systems. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a very fun way to explore and just feels very
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  Speaker 1: calm as I swim because it takes a couple minutes,
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  Speaker 1: Like if it's one thousand meters away, it'll take a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes to swim there at the fastest speed
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  Speaker 1: at least by like hand without a vehicle. But that's
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  Speaker 1: a good minute of not quite meditation, but just a
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  Speaker 1: calming swim through a beautiful ocean. Then might have a
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  Speaker 1: shark that's going to eat you. I mean that definitely
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: has sharks. If you see them, they will they'll eat you.
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  Speaker 1: Sub not a big recommend. I met these Irish people
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  Speaker 1: at the bar I go to to buy my Seltzers.
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  Speaker 1: You can buy them in cans and just take them
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  Speaker 1: to go, so I usually get that with my dinners,
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  Speaker 1: and I bought a couple of cans of the Seltzers,
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  Speaker 1: one mango rouju and mango verde. I get the red
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: and green mangos, one of each, and there's a guy
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  Speaker 1: at the bar and he's like looking at me, and
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  Speaker 1: I was the only one that wasn't dressed in a
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  Speaker 1: suit because it's a super touristy like bar, so everyone
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  Speaker 1: kind of all the tourists get up, get dressed up
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  Speaker 1: and go there. And I was just wearing my shorts
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  Speaker 1: and T shirt, had my floppy touristy hat. And he said, like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you up to or like something irish? And
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  Speaker 1: I answered him and he then asked if I was Irish,
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  Speaker 1: and I realized I must have been copying his accent,
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: because when I hear an accent, I like, I tend
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  Speaker 1: to respond to them with the same elocution and phone
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: ames that they use. So I turned that off. And
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: he asked me what I was doing and how I traveled,
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  Speaker 1: and I explained about the Hammock camping. Then asked another
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  Speaker 1: question and another, and he just kept asking questions about
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: what it was like to date while I was traveling,
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  Speaker 1: and he said he was here with his friend Claire,
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  Speaker 1: but she should definitely meet me because they both wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get out of their capitalist lives and I had
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: clearly done that, but she didn't seem super interested in
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: getting out of her capitalist life when she came and
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  Speaker 1: joined us, so I think maybe he wanted to leave.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Let's give them nicknames, Deborah and Georgie. I think Georgie
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  Speaker 1: was more dissatisfied with how his office life had turned out,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't want to admit that, because then, if
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  Speaker 1: you like self, examine what you really want to do,
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: which seems like a big task I think for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. But he was very curious about how
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: I was living, and he kept saying, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: just fate, because Deborah keeps asking me about how she
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: can get out of and I think he was just
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  Speaker 1: vicariously curious about how someone could live half off the
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  Speaker 1: grid but still be in the city whenever they wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: How much money it took, what jobs I did beforehand,
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  Speaker 1: how I invested all that basic stuff. But he kept
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  Speaker 1: asking me question after question, absorbing all of these answers
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  Speaker 1: like a sponge. So Deborah wandered off to another table
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  Speaker 1: and then sat down with them, and we wandered over.
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  Speaker 1: After a bit, the bar was closing down. We had
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  Speaker 1: been talking for so long, and Deborah was sitting with
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  Speaker 1: two guys, one normal person and one who was dressed
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  Speaker 1: like an extremely fashionable Jedi. And my only regret from
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  Speaker 1: that night was that I kept how he looked like
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  Speaker 1: an extremely fashionable Jedi. Because Georgie had asked me why
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  Speaker 1: I was in the city at all if I liked
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  Speaker 1: Hammot camping so much, and I explained that I love
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  Speaker 1: the multicultural aspect of big cities and I like to
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  Speaker 1: see fashionable people again and just remember, like, civilization is
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  Speaker 1: there if you want to come out of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, like, this fashionable Jedi, and I
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  Speaker 1: think the first time, I remember the guy saying thank you,
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  Speaker 1: but like I must have said it like five more times.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure anybody gets tired of a compliment after
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  Speaker 1: a certain number of time. It just sounds weird, even
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  Speaker 1: if it's completely genuine. Because he did dress very well,
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  Speaker 1: and I was dressed like my usual hobo shorts and
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  Speaker 1: a T shirt self. But the Jedi decided to go
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  Speaker 1: to a nightclub, and so he took Georgie and Deborah
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  Speaker 1: along with him and invited me. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Yeah, I haven't been to a nightclub
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  Speaker 1: in forever. Why not go, and so so I went
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  Speaker 1: with the three of them, and I of course had
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: to check my ratty hand sewn pink backpack because it
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  Speaker 1: was filled with eight beers to go from that bar
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  Speaker 1: we had just left. But they let me in because
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  Speaker 1: I was with one extremely fashionable and two fairly fashionable
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  Speaker 1: people at least city slickers, city folk, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the hobo can come in. But once we
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  Speaker 1: were inside, it was clear like we could also come
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  Speaker 1: in because there was like thirteen people in the entire club,
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  Speaker 1: and it was nice enough, and a few people were dancing,
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't hopping. Georgie started doing this. Georgie was
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  Speaker 1: sloshed by the way. He couldn't stand up straight, he
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: was falling. He was slurring. Every police test you fail.
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  Speaker 1: That's where Georgie was by this point in the night.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't far behind by any means. But we each
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  Speaker 1: got a beer, and Deborah and the Jedi went off
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom and Georgie started doing that thing where
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: you stick up your hand and then when the other
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  Speaker 1: person shakes it, you throw your hand back, do a
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  Speaker 1: high five, and then pull your hand away at the
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  Speaker 1: last second. And I think he thought he was genuinely
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  Speaker 1: tricking me, because every time he did it, he got
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  Speaker 1: this gleeful, like so excited face on him, and he
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  Speaker 1: just kept doing it, one after the other, high five
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  Speaker 1: to low five handshake, like all the different things you
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  Speaker 1: could do, and then pull your hand away, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I can't believe you keep falling
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  Speaker 1: for it. And so I think it was genuine faith
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  Speaker 1: that I was trying to high five, and I just
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: didn't understand the joke. But I've taught hundreds of students
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: and they do goofy things all the time, or they'll
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: tell you a joke that's not funny because they're four.
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  Speaker 1: So when something like this happens, whether you're a child
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: or a full grown man, adults are just tall children.
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  Speaker 1: So this was just as funny to me as if
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: I was watching a finger painting kid smear blue all
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: over his face or something. So Deborah comes back and
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  Speaker 1: the Jedi comes back, and Georgie is like, you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it, Deborah. You can shake his hand. He thinks
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  Speaker 1: he won't get it. You just pull it away and
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: he won't. You can just pull your hand away every
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: time he doesn't understand the joke, and Deborah walked around
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  Speaker 1: the table and gave me a solid for real high
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  Speaker 1: five and like, shut Georgie, you'll look. That was pretty satisfying.
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  Speaker 1: And then the three of them decided to go to karaoke,
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  Speaker 1: but it was on the other side of the city,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't want to get back at four am
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  Speaker 1: because it was already well well passed midnight. And I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was just wise to let those three sojourn into
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: the inky midnight the concrete jungle, and all three of
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  Speaker 1: them seemed genuinely interested in having me accompany them. It
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: would be fun and all that. But I was like,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, I'm good to have a great night. Nice
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  Speaker 1: meeting you all. I'm pretty sure I said fashionable Jedi
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  Speaker 1: again at that point. And then I walked home, which
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  Speaker 1: was around the block, like a you know, ten minute
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  Speaker 1: walk or something, and I was very satisfied with my decision.
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  Speaker 1: I was very happy I didn't take an uber for
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes across the city to go to a karaoke
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  Speaker 1: at four in the morning or what of the heck
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  Speaker 1: it was. And I woke up and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: look at that, you survived. You didn't lose anything, and
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: you met a bunch of interesting people. So now you
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: don't have to talk to anybody for a week and
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: just keep playing Subnautica. Speaking of Subnautica, one of the
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: other stories that I deleted because I'm an idiot is
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: that of Fable. I started playing Fable again because when
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: I was a kid, I bought Fable when it came
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: out on my original Xbox, which I set up next
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: to the TV in my room, and I went outside
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  Speaker 1: to get a sandwich after playing Fable for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hours, and when I went back in, the entire
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  Speaker 1: TV was black, and I was like, oh shoot, I
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: must have turned it off and forgot to save, and
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I couldn't see the Xbox. But I sat down on
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  Speaker 1: my bed in front of my TV, so then I
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: could see it, and I could see the flames shooting
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: out the side of the Xbox, like large gusts of
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: orange fire were shooting out my Xbox against my wood
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: paneling wall of the house, my house that I lived
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: in as a high schooler, and I was shocked into
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: silence and inaction for a couple seconds, and then I
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: was like, well, that's going to burn down. The house,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: and I stood up and pulled out all of the
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: cables from the xbox and picked it up from the
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: side that was not on fire. But it was still
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: on fire while I picked it up and carried it.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: And I carried it through the house. Luckily nobody was
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  Speaker 1: in the rooms I had to walk through, in the
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: dining room or the living room. And I walked out
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: and there was a bucket of old rain water outside
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  Speaker 1: and I just placed the xbox down into the rain water.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: And my dad came out and was like, what are
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you doing. And I pointed at the xbox and I said,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: it just caught fire. It was on fire. And I
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: think he went inside to check if like the wall
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: was on fire to the house. But I must have
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: caught it, must have overheated shut off and then started
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: the fire right when I walked back in the room.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Because it was not It wasn't a little bit of
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: smoke and some heat. It was, like I said, gusts,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: like huge plumes of orange flame shooting out the side continuously. No,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: like there was no breath in between the flames. It
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: was just like a flamethrower shooting out the side of
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: it the whole time. I was carrying it out until
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I dropped it in the bowl of water the cauldron outside,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: So it was super dangerous and definitely could have burned
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: down our house. And two weeks later, Microsoft sent out
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: a press really a recall, and they said, hey, look
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: turns out sometimes these xboxes they start blowing up, they
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: start shooting fire out the sides of them. If you
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: have one of those, send it in. We'll replace it
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: with one of the ones that don't burn down houses.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought that's a very nice gesture, probably a
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: very nice way to, you know, minimize legal liability for
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: what must have been a pretty big problem if they
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: had to issue a national recall of their product, houses
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: must have burnt down. And I was like, well perfect,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I put it right in the back of my closet. Well,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I like figured out what to do with this, Like
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know a recall was a thing, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I was a kid. So I went in and looked
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: through my closet for it, couldn't find it. I went
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and asked my mom and she was like, oh, I
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: threw it away, And so that's my uh my mom
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: threw away my mess story. Because I didn't collect baseball
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: cards or anything. I did manage to get the Fable
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: disc out of the Xbox Drive that day, so I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: had that with me by the time I got the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: next Xbox, maybe the Xbox One, I think it was called,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: or the three sixty, I can't remember what it was called. Whatever.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: The next iteration of the Xbox was that I got
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: what felt like years later. But to a kid, time
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: means nothing, and time means nothing to me anyway, so
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: it might have been much short. Maybe it was only
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: a year. But I did get the new Xbox later
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and I tried to play it, but I couldn't because
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: there was this big smudge that I assume was a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: flame warp, and the disc didn't play on the new Xbox.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: So I never got to play Fable until last week
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: before Subnautica. I played Fable for like four hours, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the beginning was kind of different than what I remember.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: The activities were different than I remember doing, and it
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: was pretty boring. It was like basically just grinding the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: exact same enemies and the exact same very tiny levels,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and then you get more powerful, and then they get
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: more powerful, but they look the same. They show up
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: in the same place they're identical, and I guess eventually
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: you'll get strong enough that you can just kill everything.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: But I was pretty bored after four hours, especially with
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Marrowind being my favorite game, all open world, all exploration.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Subnautica also huge exploration, building things, so just finding the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: exact same thirteen enemies grinding a way to get a
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: higher level was not fulfilling my video game chakra, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I moved on to Subnautica happy I did. It was
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: like the coolest, It's so much fun having a great
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: time playing that. What were the other twenty minutes? Because
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I delete my notes after I make a podcast, so
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I had just deleted my notes when I realized this
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: saved podcast was not saved. Ah. I know. Part of
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: it was Sushi Miyagi, which you all should go to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: if you're in Panama City. They are a surprising number
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: of five star sushi dishes I've had here. Not every
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: restaurant has, like every single dish is five star, but
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Miyagi has had some stuff that is absolutely top notch.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: And even I don't like cooked sushi rolls ever, I've
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: never liked them, although I've tried them before. I accidentally
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: ordered one here because I did not know apanado meant fried,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: so any royo abinado is a fried sushi roll, which
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I would never order, but Yoursne the guy who owned
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Sushi Miyagi, gave me this fried roll. He said he
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: was surprised because I always got raw fish, and I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I did not translate that well. But
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: this cooked role was perfect. It was crazy. It was
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: wrapped in a lightly battered nor wrapped around the rice
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: around the roll, and fried without any oil. Still very crunchy,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: very lightly battered, very flavorful, and just like the perfect texture,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: perfect crunch, not thick at all, still very thin, so
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: it didn't mess up the rest of the role. It
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: was a very impressive fry, to be honest. So I
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: got the guillotza also, but he fried those differently. They
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: were more steamed than fried, and I like fried gioza.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: But what is crazy about this is that I don't
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: like fried sushi rolls, and the one this guy made
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: was so good that I couldn't not like it. It
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: was still like one of the best sushi rolls I've
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: had in forever. Everything I get at that restaurant is
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: so frickin' good, especially the tunas of vice. Have I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: mentioned the Savch's I got at that place. The shrimpsavich
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: is out of this world. And what's interesting, it's the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: first place I've been served shrimp cut into three pieces,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: which is how I cut my shrimp when I cook it,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: because you get more sauce on each piece. And then
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I think I did talk about this. Sorry, If I did,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: my brain is berating me pretty hard. I also got
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: tunis of ch and it was the best. It was
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the best tune I've had in any edition years. It's fantastic.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: So I go to dinner pretty early, usually in the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: early afternoon. I avoid the rush. It's quieter and then
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting in ac and so when the sun goes down,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I can walk around more comfortably solely my dinner pretty early.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But because I'm usually one of the few people in
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: a small restaurant like this Sushi Miyagi too, it gives
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: your son and me the time to talk while he's
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: preparing other stuff for the dinner rush. And he told
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: me all about his plans. He asked me about my
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: stuff first, how I could travel and what I did
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: for money, and I told him about the investments in
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: English teaching and all that kind of stuff, and then
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: he explained that he was trying to build up his
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: social media following and he wanted to do a bunch
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: of creative things with his business. It's really cool because
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it's obvious he and his wife were both very creative.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Your son creates very like original sushi recipes that I
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: would not imagine I liked, but they have all tasted
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: fantastic so far, like really good. He let me try
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a new dessert item he's working on, which is fried
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: plantain with ice cream, which reminds me of this fried
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: ice cream I got in high school a lot with
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: this club in JROTC. But what's really nice about the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: dishes at Sushi Miyagi is you get the exact right
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: amount of the dish too. So this plantain and ice
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: cream dish is just five thick sliced or I should
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: say thick slices of plantain artfully arranged around a small
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: scoop of ice cream, and I think that was it. It's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: very simple. He definitely understands the Japanese esthetic and like
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the way they cook in Japan, and he and his
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: wife are planning to go to Japan, so he can
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: study there and just be in Japan for a while.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Oh and Powell is very creative too. She does all
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the decorations for the restaurant, and they're very simple decorations,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: but they look perfect. Like there's one Asian umbrella on
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: each of the columns and that's it. They don't go
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: overboard and have like five umbrellas all around the restaurant.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: On the refrigerator they have in the back. There are
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: sushi magnets that Paula arranged in a very simple asymmetrical
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: pleasing pattern. So I was really impressed by how the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: shop looked, and then how your son made the sushi itself.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: It's like, got the whole package the sushi miyagi place
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I recommended. So I got to try that dessert and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: your son looked up at me after I had the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: first bite, and he was like, it's on the new menu, right,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, man, it's on the new
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you know it's on the menu. Oh uh. While we
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: were talking, he was telling me that his sister in
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: law had just come into town, Paula's sister, and he
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: put down his knife, put his hand on his hip
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and stared at me and said but her boyfriend he
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: is a liar, And I was kind of taken aback
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: because I think that was like the harshest thing I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: had heard him say up to that point. And I
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: was like, a liar, what what does he lie about?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And your son just stared at me and he said,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know, and he went back to cutting whatever
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: he was cutting. And I was just like, wow, that
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: must be pretty bad, like a liar. What is what happened?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And I was wondering, but I didn't want to pry.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And also, it's a little tricky talking to him because
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: he's always cutting something. It's a sushi restaurant, so he's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: preparing the cucumber or the crab or the tune or whatever.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So I don't want to talk to him and have
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: him like cut his hand because I'm distracting him with
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the question. So I didn't follow up. I was just like, well,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I wonder how bad this liar sister in law boyfriend is.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And right after that, maybe fifteen minutes later, Paula and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: her sister came in and your someone was like, oh,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: this is her boyfriend. Is the lawyer I told you about.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, lawyer, Yes, I remember that hello, nice
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to meet too. Yeah, And I was like, oh, lawyer,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: he definitely said liar, like just had the wrong phoneme.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: And I was laughing to myself internally for like five
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: minutes straight because I thought, that's such a great misunderstanding.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: How I didn't understand. I thought he was so angry,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: but I think he was just proud that his wife's
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: sister was dating such a high esteemed occupation businessman. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I get that a lot because I travel. You know,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I'm traveling constantly, so very often someone will mispronounce English.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: But I mispronounced things constantly, so I don't usually like
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to bring it up because it's not Usually it doesn't matter.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: It'll just make the other person feel embarrassed for not
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: saying something correctly. And usually their English is better than
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: whatever I can speak of their language, so far be
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: it from me to you know, cast a stone in
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a glasshouse. Probably not not one to one that analogy,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: but it's okay. And a couple customers had just come in,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: so I didn't bring it up. But I think next
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: time I get him alone, I'll explain that I thought
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: he said a liar, because that's so funny that I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think it's okay about the mispronunciation. He won't feel too embarrassed. Yeah,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: we traded a lot of stories that day when he
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: was telling me about his plans for the business and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: expanding their social media profile and how he really wanted
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to start a podcast and talk to other chefs and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: just keep learning. And I found out he was a
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: few years older than me, which shocked me because he
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: looks like ten years younger. Oh, and I did talk
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: speaking of looking younger. Okay, I'll probably close out with
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: this because I cannot remember anything else I talked about
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: on the last podcast, but speaking of looking younger. When
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I was talking to the Irish guy in the bar Georgie,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: he said, you know, it's surprising too that you cap
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: so much because your skin, your skin face looks really smooth,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: looks good. And that was surprising because not a compliment.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I get a much having that ruddy alcohol complexion. But
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I have personally noticed my skin looking smoother these days.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And I have started a new extremely minimal skincare routine
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: as of a couple months ago. A few months ago, now,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I think I stopped using soap on my face. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: was taking a shower one day and I realized that
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the rest of my skin on my body, you know
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: where skin is, the rest of my body all felt
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: pretty smooth, like it still felt like smooth skin, except
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: my face, which isn't a rocky landscape, but it just
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't feel as smooth as the rest of my body.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And I realized that after I put soap on my hands,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: my face was usually the first thing I washed, and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I always washed it with soap, even though I didn't wash.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe the sides of my belly every time or something
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: like that, and the sides of my belly are smooth,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: smooth as a plastic chair. I was curious if I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: could come up with anything, but I'm too tired and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I've already done this, so I cannot come up with
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: any good analogy for a smooth thing. You know what.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: The first thing I thought it was fish belly, which
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: is like eah, But I think it's because I was
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: talking about the sushi so much. Look at that. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: made it to thirty minutes. That's pretty good considering I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: deleted all of the notes and the whole pot. I'm
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: pretty happy with how this turned out to be honest,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and you get to hear me genuinely frustrated about something
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: stupid I did, which, guess what will never be happening again.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Don't say it knock on wood, because it could so. Anyway,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: he told me my skin looked very smooth, and that's
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: interesting because the only thing that has somewhat recently changed
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: in the last two two and a half months or
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: something was that I have stopped using soap to wash
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: my face. Specifically, I'll wash the dirty human crevices with
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: soap still, but I keep it off any outward facing
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: skin generally, so now that includes my face, and I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: personally have noticed my skin looking smoother since I started
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: doing that. After like the second month mark rolled around.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm pretty sure that's making a difference,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: because even though I'm trying all these different Panamanian beers
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: every day, I still look pret okay, I don't look
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: red and blotchy. And now this stranger has mentioned how
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: smooth my skin looks and has asked me about it,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: so it must be real because it was very out
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of the blue. Also, we weren't talking about skin care
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: or hygiene at all, except for the bidet. Oh that
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: was the other thing. Okay, wow, Okay, I think i
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: gotta talk about the bottle bidet. I'm just gonna mention
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: it real quick. The bottle badet has completely changed how
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I travel. The bottle bidet is the best thing ever.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You poke a hole in the neck of a plastic bottle,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: fill up the bottle to water, put the cap back on,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and then squeeze it. You have a bidet. It works great,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: It's all you need. In a lot of countries, they
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: don't have plumbing, or rather they don't trust their plumbing,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: so they have signs that says don't put waste paper
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: on the toilet, just throw it in the trash can.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: And that is gross and nobody has to do that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna put this again. I think I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: went on for like a very long time on the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: podcast I deleted, but I'm just gonna say, you should
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: use a bid day and it having the bottle beday.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I love that. I can make that in literally any
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: country in the world now there are plastic bottles everywhere,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: or I can just buy on it from the convenience store.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Poke a hole in the neck when I've finished drinking
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Coca Cola or whatever, and fill it up with water
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and squeeze a bi day, the day be day. I
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: love having a bad day anywhere. It would straight up
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: control where I rented a house from. And now I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: can just everywhere has a bad day because I can
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: carry it around. I can empty out the water and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: just carry on an empty plastic bottle with a tiny
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: hole in the neck. That's my bidet. It's so great.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I love being clean, and I love never having to
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: touch my own waste and folks, toilet paper is absorbent.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: If you think that tissue paper separating you from your
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: waist is some kind of barrier, it isn't. I guess
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: it is technically some kind of barrier, but it certainly
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: does not stop bacteria from transferring to your skin. And
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I haven't touched that stuff in a long time, and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I don't plant to ever again. Now that I have
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the bottle bedet, I'm hoping I never have to get
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: near touching waste through a piece of tissue paper ever again.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I've been using it for three four months, now, five
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: months something like that, and I love it. Every time
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I use the bottle of Day, I'm like, this is
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: such a great improvement to my life. I don't have
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to search for the rare house that has a bidet
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: in countries that usually don't. I just have one with
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: me all the time. Now hygienic simple, So back to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: my smooth skin. I explained the no soap thing to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Georgie and he was quite interested and said he would
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: try it, but I bet he forgot to later. Did
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I already talk about the karaoke thing? I probably did.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about it again if I didn't, Sorry,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it's just they went to karaoke and I didn't, So
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I think I talked about I think I re talked
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: about it. And the only other time something like that
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: skincare thing has happened was when I was fasting in China.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: By the fourth day, I was like, okay, there's no
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: placebo or you're not seeing things like your skin looks good.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: My pores closed up, my eyes were like shockingly white,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the whites of my eyes. There were no alcoholic engorged
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: veins shooting through them like they're is most of my life.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I just looked very sparkling, clean, shiny new but I
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: was I was making that judgment, and I was like,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: it seems undeniable to me. But they were all improvements on.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I always had my eyes, but they just looked like
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they were popping, and my skin looked better than usual,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: but it was still my skin, so I wasn't quite sure.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: It just seemed like, yeah, there's definitely a difference. And
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: then that day when I went to class, I was
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: talking with his dad, who speaks super good English, and
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: we would just talk after class that he brought his
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: son to like I think they came twice a week,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and we just talked for a couple of minutes before
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: they went after class, before they left, and in the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: middle of talking about something completely unrelated, this Chinese dad
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, your eyes the white, very very white.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: You look younger. Your face is smooth, and I was like,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: holy crap, Holy crap, it is working. And I was like,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: you know what, I've been fasting for like four days.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: And we had a conversation about it. And that was
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the only other time that a specific strategy of mine
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: paid off and someone brought it up apropos of nothing
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: regarding like skin care itself. So it was really interesting
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: to hear that again. I immediately thought of like that dad
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: who was like, wow, you look younger, and I do
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: feel better. When I eat less and look, I'm not
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: eating disorders, no joke at all. I have a very
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: healthy relationship with food, and I over indulge regularly, and
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I do not binge, and I do not purge white.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I don't purge, but I do binge for sure. I
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: do have parties. But I'm very comfortable with my body.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with the amount of food I eat. I'm
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: not saying anybody should stop eating food. Just for me.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Fasting is great. I do it occasionally. I feel better.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: And now this no soap on my face thing feels good.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: My skin doesn't feel oily, it feels healthy, it feels comfortable.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: It just feels like normal skin. Like after I soap
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: away all the oils on my face, it would feel
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: clean sort of, but it wouldn't feel normal until the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: oils came back into my skin. Oils are supposed to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: be on your skin. Your skin needs the oil to
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: be healthy. So I do think having more oil on
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: my skin is making my skin healthier, which that doesn't
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: sound crazy, But saying I don't use soap on my face,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I think that sounds crazy too a lot of people.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: But I had already told Georgie and Deborah a thousand
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: crazy things about my life, so I was like, hey,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: why not tell them you don't use soap on your
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: face anymore. Well, thank you so much for listening. I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: saving this one very clearly in a separate file right now,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and this will go out to you. I'm angry I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: have to do this twice, only at myself, never CHEO,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: but I'm really glad I went through this again and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I have the episode done. I sincerely hope you have
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: a wonderful rest of your day. I am going to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: go take a shower, no use soap on my face,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: and then fall right THEO to sleep. I was gonna
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: play a little game or some before, but I'm really
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: tired now. But we did it together. You and me friend,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: try that bottle the day and I have a good
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: night or day any part of the day. Now at
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: this point, you're probably thinking, I thought he said he
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: was leaving. Does he really love listening to himself that
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: much that he's just going to keep talking even though
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: he has nothing left to say.