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Why Are There Strings on Mexico City's Garbage Bags? · onefjef

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Tamales oaxaqueños, tamales calientitos.
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Traemos de salsa roja, verde, mole y dulce.
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Y también traemos atole calientito.
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This is episode 56 of onefjef.
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56.
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Hola, mis amigos y amigas.
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It's Jef Taylor.
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Remember me?
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It's been a minute, but I'm back.
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Here we are.
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We're here.
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Are you here?
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I'm here.
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We're all here, aren't we?
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That's like a callback to the very first episode, I think, actually.
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For those of you who have been listening for that long, I love you very much.
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I love all of you, but if any of you caught the reference,
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then you get a big old prize.
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Anyway, yes, this is the first episode back from the hiatus
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of 2026, as I have dubbed it.
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It's a great name for the break that I took.
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The hiatus of 2026.
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The word hiatus is the word.
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It's a part of the I really enjoy that.
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I wonder how you say hiatus in Spanish.
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I'm sitting here on my terrace here, uh, at my apartment
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in Roma Norte near Cibeles.
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Cibeles.
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Cibeles?
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Cibeles.
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Cibeles is a traffic circle.
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In the middle of that traffic circle, there is a, uh, I believe
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it's called Cibeles, the statue that is a exact replica of a statue
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in, um, Mexic- or Spain rather.
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What city in Spain?
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Mm, Seville?
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I don't know.
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I couldn't tell you that.
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There's also a replica of David, you know, Mi- Michelangelo's David, in another,
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uh, park nearby, which also confuses me.
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There's a lot of strange replicas of things here.
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Something to think about.
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Anyway, it's lovely, this terrace.
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It's lovely.
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It's a little piece of heaven is what it is, and so it's made a certain
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element of my life quite nice.
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I can get up in the morning and walk out on my terrace and drink my coffee and
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have the sun in my face and look down and see all of the city happening below me.
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And there's plants.
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There's bougainvillea, I believe it's called.
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Bougainvillea, which is a purple, viney, flowery plant.
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It's very pretty, but it's thorny.
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So beautiful but dead- not deadly.
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Dangerous, but deadly sounds better.
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Sounds good.
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Beautiful but deadly.
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Bougainvillea.
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How have you been, Jeff?
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I've been all right.
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It's a mixed bag, really.
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It's been five months.
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A little more than five months I've been living in Mexico City, minus a couple
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month-- weeks that I was in Cleveland, whatever, so four or five months total.
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And it goes through phases, right?
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I- it still feels like time has gone very slow because, like, if I was in my
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house in Columbus and five months went by, I'd be like, "Oh, yeah, five months."
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But here it feels like I've lived several lives in these
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five months, four or five months.
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'Cause I've already moved, for crying out loud.
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I've already lived in two places.
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I mean, that's-- Uh, speaking of which, how is the, uh, getting the deposit back
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going from your last apartment, Jeff?
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Oh, great question.
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Thank you for asking.
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Um, it's not going great.
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So I hired a lawyer, uh, for twenty-five hundred pesos, which I
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thought was quite a good deal, really.
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And this was, I mean, three weeks ago, four weeks ago now.
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And so he wrote up a, a lawyery letter, sent it to the ex-landlord.
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No response.
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Then he kept calling and calling and emailing and just bothering him.
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And then about a week and a half ago, he messages me, and he's like, "I got
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a letter back from their lawyer." So he-- Now, my ex-landlord has hired a
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lawyer, and the ex-landlord's lawyer, you know, wrote something back to
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my lawyer saying, "Well, no, no, no.
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It's all wrong." Like, I'm right in this situation, and I'm not
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just saying that because it's, you know, my brain and my ego.
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I'm saying it because it's, it's true.
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I'm correct.
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I deserve to get my money back.
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However, whenever I tell anybody that I've got a lawyer to try to
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get my deposit back, like somebody who's from Mexico or Mexico City,
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they laugh at me like I'm an idiot.
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"Ahaha, nobody gives their deposit back here, Jeff.
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Nobody gets their deposit back here.
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Ha ha ha ha ha.
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How naive, gringo." You know what?
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I get my deposit back.
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That's who gets their deposit back.
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I do.
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Me.
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God damn it.
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But apparently, it is a thing.
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Deposits are not often returned here.
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But I don't know that that would change my decision to get a lawyer.
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I think I would still have done it even if I had not been so naive.
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And I'll take it.
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Like, it's not e- at this point, it's not even about the money, it's
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the principle of the thing, right?
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I don't stand for injustice, particularly when it's, you know, on me.
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So we'll see how it goes.
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I'll keep you posted.
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It's interesting to be, you know, uh, dipping my toe in
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the Mexican legal system.
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Who would've thought that would happen four months, five months in?
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I also had to go to the dentist, which, um, I have to go back to the dentist,
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which wasn't hoping would happen in the next four, in the four or five months.
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But I have, like, a toothache.
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Still do.
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And I've had teeth problems for years that I've had to get taken care of.
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I just, I hate the, I fucking hate the dentist.
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Nothing personal if you're a dentist.
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I'm sure, I mean, I've met some dentists that are lovely people, but
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the experience of going to the dentist has always been one that I abhor.
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I'm an anti-dentite.
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And when I was, like, eight years old or nine years old, I don't know how old
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I was, we were going to the dentist.
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My mom was driving us to the dentist, and I didn't wanna go to the dentist,
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so I just pretended that I was asleep in the backseat of the car.
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And I thought, "Oh, well, then she'll, she won't wake me up to go to the
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dentist." It's, like, middle of the day.
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She's just gonna be like, "Oh.
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Oh, Jef, he's asleep.
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Let's just let him sleep.
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You don't have to go to the dentist." What kind of logic is that?
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Like, that's really… Oof.
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I appreciate my inventiveness, though.
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Like, what a weird… Anyway, it didn't work.
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Had to go to the dentist.
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Probably had a cavity, 'cause I had a lot of cavities when I was a kid.
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It's weird how you don't wanna brush your teeth when you're a
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kid, 'cause when you're, get older, it's like, ugh, you didn't brush
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your teeth before you went to bed?
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I don't know, maybe I'm just a teeth freak, but, like, it feels gross
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to go to sleep with dirty teeth.
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But when you're a kid, you just don't give a shit.
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Maybe it's 'cause your teeth are bigger when you're an adult.
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Anyway, I went to the dentist 'cause I had a, you know, a gum toothache, still
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do, and I was nervous 'cause, you know, you don't know what you're getting.
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Mexican dentist, I have no idea.
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I have no idea.
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I'm not being prejudgmental, but I have no idea.
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I do know that it's ch- going to be cheaper, which is great.
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So I go, I find a dentist, like, on some forum, expat forum,
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whatever, you know, English-speaking dentist, you know, Roma, Condesa.
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So go there, very nervous, and, uh, no, it was fine.
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It was fine.
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It was great, actually.
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I was like, "Oh, this is not painful." They have all this equipment.
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They're very nice to me.
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They're explaining things.
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And, you know, they said, "We'll, we'll get back to you," the,
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the, like, the main dentist.
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It was a dental assistant sort of.
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"We'll get back to you." And so really nothing traumatic happened
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at the dentist office at all.
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They gave me an X-ray, and they took some pictures, and they put some sort of
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a filling on top of my gum that said-- they said would make it feel better,
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but it really hasn't done a thing.
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I have a feeling I have to get, like, major dental work done, and
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it doesn't please me, but it has to happen because now there's pain.
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So long story short, I pay, like, $50 for an X-ray and, like, an inspect-
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an inspection, cleaning, whatever.
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But I have to go back again.
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The end.
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Dentist story of Jef in Mexico City.
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Hope you enjoyed it.
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Ups and downs, lefts and rights.
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It's not over.
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That's the thing, the dentist story.
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It will continue.
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That's what I'm trying to say, is I have a very strong feeling that the
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Mexican dentist story of my existence here has not reached its climax
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Some of the garbage bags in Mexico have this string attached
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to it, and I have no idea why.
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Uh, I thought about it.
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I've never looked it up, to be fair.
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I don't really want to.
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But they have, like, weird long strings attached to the bottom.
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And at first I thought it was, like, a mistake.
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I was like, "There's something wrong with the garbage bag," but no.
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Every garbage bag has it, so it's clearly not a mistake.
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And if it is a mistake, then boy, it's a big problem.
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They've got a real quality control problem with garbage bags in
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Mexico City because they've all got long strings hanging from them.
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If anybody knows why the garbage bags in Mexico City have long strings
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hanging from them, please send me an email, onefjefpod@gmail.com
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If you're listening to this because you're thinking about moving to Mexico
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City, which I'm sure is a big, big hunk of my audience, is people like, "What
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should I…" And then they're like, "What?
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W- this is not helpful at all.
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I'm not learning anything about what it's like." But really, my friends, if you
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think about it, you are learning exactly what it's like to live in Mexico City
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I may not have tips and tricks, my dear audience, but what I don't
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have in tips and tricks I make up for in, oh, whatever this is.
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You tell me.
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I still don't know what this podcast is
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But yeah, I'd say in general I'm doing okay.
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I mean, there's the loneliness.
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There's the, you know, getting up some days and just not wanting to deal with
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how difficult it is sometimes to interact with the world that I exist in right
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now, you know, because of the language.
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Like it's getting better.
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My, my, my Spanish is getting better, but it's still not good.
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Like I had an Amazon package delivered today.
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It's another horror story.
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Like Amazon here, they don't want to leave it and they can't get in your building.
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So you have to just wait all day for your package to come.
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So number one, I need to start shopping locally, but number two,
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some things I can't get locally.
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So I don't need excuses for you.
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I shop at Amazon, right?
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That's how it goes.
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We all do.
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Let's not pretend.
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Anyway, order from Amazon, they punish you here for it.
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So I had to stay home all day and the package didn't come until
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like 6:45 or something or 6:30.
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So, I mean, I hadn't even showered.
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So it's an airplane going over.
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And part of me felt like, oh, maybe subconsciously I ordered
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the Amazon package because I didn't want to do anything.
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I want like a subconscious excuse not to interact with the world tomorrow,
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but I didn't expect it to come at 6:45.
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I thought it would come at like 2:00 in the afternoon.
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So anyway, it's not as interesting a story as I thought it would be when I started
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jumping in, but they can't all be winners.
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They can't all be winners.
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Also started going to therapy again here in Mexico City.
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Like, maybe I'll go once a month I thought, right?
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Just to check in, you know?
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And so I found one quite easily.
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I, I went… I don't know where I went online, somewhere I'm sure,
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on the, the internet, whatever.
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Probably just Googled it.
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And, uh, yeah, uh, did the therapy in her house, and it, it was great, and she
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seems great, and it's very nice to be like, "Oh, I have a therapist again,"
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which is nice, and one that I like, so…
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And inexpensive as well because, you know.
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So, so that's good.
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But anyway, the therapist was telling me at the end of our therapy, she was
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like, "You know, you ever hear what Salvador Dali apparently…" Years ago,
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he used to come to Mexico all the time.
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Mexico's a big surreal art country.
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A lot of surreal artists come out of Mexico City, and it all makes
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sense because if you've been…
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Or not to Mexico City, but Mexico in general, but, you know.
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And they asked Salvador Dali one time, "Why don't you,
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why don't you live in Mexico?
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Why don't you want to move to Mexico?" Or something like that, and he's
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like, "I would never wanna live in a country as surreal as my art."
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And it's like, "Yeah, I get it."
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And then my therapist proceeded to tell me a story about how one time she
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was in an ice cream shop, and there was an old woman who had a parrot
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on her shoulder and was feeding the parrot ice cream, an ice cream cone.
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So.
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So yeah, there it is.
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I mean, there's many surreal things about Mexico City.
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You know, there's the knife seller who blows a whistle as he's biking down the
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street and has a bike sharp- a knife sharpener on the back of his bike.
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There's the ringing bell garbage.
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There's the… I mean, all the, the camote man, for crying
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out loud, is the strangest.
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I've talked about it, but there's one in my neighborhood that
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just, he seems to love this area.
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He seems… Like weekends, he's just walking around and around and around
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the building, just blowing that whistle.
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Insert sound of camote man whistle here
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Yeah, it's loud.
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And I can't-- I always think about this camote man 'cause it's like
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he's walking around all night.
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You don't often see people buying anything from him.
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Like, he doesn't seem to sell a lot, but, like, he's out there all night
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on weekends and all… I mean, just you hear him all-- quite a bit.
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And it's just like how much money could you possibly be making?
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I think I bought a camote once, like a, a sweet potato.
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It was a camote.
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And I bought one from the camote man, and it was like five dollars,
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four dollars for the sweet potato, and it wasn't that great.
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You know, maybe I found a bad camote man, but it wasn't that great.
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It's a strange job is what I'm saying.
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You're pushing a cart around like a steamer, essentially, around Mexico City.
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Do they choose when to blow the whistle, I wonder, or do they have
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to release the steam every so often?
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The pressure is… Is it a pressure cooker?
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It must be a pressure cooker, yeah.
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But I really wanna know if they can choose when to release the steam.
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This is why I need to learn Spanish better, so I could ask,
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I could, like, ask him, you know?
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Really so… See, I, I don't… I have no idea.
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Maybe one day.
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Anyway, weird, surreal to have a guy just wandering around selling sweet
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potatoes with a whistle that squeals through the entire neighborhood.
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Like, it-- that sound
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That guy's gotta be deaf or he wears earplugs.
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I don't know.
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God, there's so many questions I have for the kamote man now.
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Does he eat his own product?
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I'm sure he does.
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Does he get sick of s- eating sweet potatoes?
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Does he-- How many sweet potatoes does he eat?
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How did he get started?
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Does he have to buy the cart himself?
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Is that… Do you have to buy your own cart?
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Hmm.
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I don't even think the internet would have answers to a lot of these questions.
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And AI would pretend to know, but then would be totally wrong about it,
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as I found it to be quite a bit, so.
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But yeah, it's a surreal country.
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That's all.
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There's a lot of weirdness here
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Not so surreal, but the speakeasy thing is legitimately
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out of control in Mexico City.
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Like, there's all these bars and, like, some of the best bars in the world
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apparently, and they're like quote-unquote speakeasies because you have to, like,
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go down a back elevator to get to them.
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And, like, it's fine, but, like, what-- can we define speakeasy?
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Can we decide what that means?
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Because it seems to mean a lot of different things.
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Now it just seems to mean, like, a hidden bar, right?
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That's it.
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'Cause you make reservations for a lot of these places.
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Like, it's not exclusive, you just walk in.
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You just need to know where to go.
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It's like a secret-y thing.
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What a speakeasy originally was, was where they would sell
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illegal booze, as we all know.
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So it's confusing that that's turned into just a… Well, like, the hidden
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part was always, but they've just kept the hidden part and gotten
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rid of the illegal alcohol part.
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Hmm, I'm overthinking this.
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Apologize.
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It's rainy season.
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Summer's rainy season here, and everybody told me rainy season, oh,
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it rains for like, you know, an hour or so every day at like 5:00 or 6:00.
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This is what the internet told me.
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This is what human beings to my face told me many times.
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But the reality is, at least so far in my experience, it's been not that at all.
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It doesn't rain necessarily every day.
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It rains most days.
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It doesn't rain for one hour at 5:00.
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Sometimes it rains at 5:00.
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Sometimes it rains at 8:00.
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Sometimes it'll start raining at 9:00 or so and continue raining
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on and off till I go to bed.
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They should have said, "Oh, rainy season, it, it often rains, but it
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doesn't start until after 5:00 PM."
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That should be what, what they say, not it rains every day, because that
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is… Perhaps some years it does, but this year does not rain every day.
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But there are insane electrical storms in the city.
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I've never seen anything like it.
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These thunderstorms and electric- they just, it echoes through Brit- in like
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a, we're like a valley kind of in, up in the mountains here, and so it echoes off
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of the walls of the, the mountains that are around us, I think, or the buildings.
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I don't know.
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So it's quite dramatic.
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The other day, or night rather, there was one going on, and I had
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all of the h- lights in my house off.
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Everything was off, and it was like the lights were on 'cause it was just
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this constant flickering, you know.
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Plus I was watching TV, so there was light anyways.
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I should have left that part out of the story.
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Disregard the part about watching TV.
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I wasn't actually watching TV.
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I was.
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I was watching TV.
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Sorry.
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I had dinner with a guy I met, uh, at a Time Left thing a week or two ago.
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Time Left, you can look it up.
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It's an app.
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It's like drinks with strangers.
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It's just an app that facilitates drinks with people you
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wouldn't meet, so I do it here.
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It's fun.
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You meet other people.
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Anyway, I had dinner with this guy, Korean barbecue.
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I'm in heaven because Korean barbecue.
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And it was great.
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He's a film guy, and it had been a while since I'd had a filmy conversation,
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you know, like a talking shop kind of conversation, and it was, it was great.
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I've been in a bad head space for the last couple weeks.
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Two or three, four weeks, I've been in a bad head space.
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Not negative, negative, negative, but, like, just not great.
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Questioning my decisions, you know.
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It's all part of the process.
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It is, and you have to keep reminding yourself of this, that, that all these
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emotions you have, the loneliness, the frustration, the avoidance, and
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the positive emotions as well, it's all part of the selling most of your
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stuff and moving to another country.
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It's all part of it, that you came here because you were looking for discomfort.
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So much talk about getting out of your comfort zone, Jef, last year,
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how great it is, and now here you are outside of your comfort zone.
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You have to remember that.
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Perspective is a gift.
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Anyway, I was walking home, and I don't know.
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It was one of the first times in a while that I was like, "I felt at
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home here." That I was like, "Okay, I live in Mexico City, and it's good.
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It's okay." I even stopped and asked a guy if I could pet his dog, and he
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understood what I said 'cause I could speak that little minimal Spanish.
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I asked him how old the dog was, what the dog's name.
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I felt good about it.
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It's these little victories.
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It's these little victories.
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That's less than 100 pesos now because the exchange rate keeps getting worse.
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I should change it to $6 a month 'cause that's 100 pesos because the
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exchange rate keeps getting worse.
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The peso keeps getting stronger.
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Good for the peso.
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I'm here for it.
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I'm not happy about it, but I'm here for it.
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Being here for it, it's like there's no choice.
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I'm just here.
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So it's not like I'm bragging.
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It's-- it sounds like I'm bragging, but really, um, when I'm saying
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I'm here for it, it just means that I exist in Mexico City right
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now, and I have to exist with that.
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It's funny, though, how, like, it is like an ocean, like a wave, right?
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Your, your emotional state.
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It goes up, and it goes down.
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And the, the older I get, the more I realize and, uh, come to accept that
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it goes up and it goes down because you need the down to appreciate the up.
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This has been said by many people many, many times.
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But I'm saying it again because the reason it's been said so many times by so many
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different people is because it's true.
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You need the low parts to get the up parts.
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In my past, when I've taken antidepressants, the thing that I
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didn't like about them was that it, it takes out the peaks on both sides.
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It takes out the low peaks, like the low lows.
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It takes out the high highs.
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So you just kind of feel like, "Mm."
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So you sacrifice the peaks of emotion when you take antidepressants.
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And I'm not judging or anything about people who use antidepressants.
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I've known many people who've used them for years and are… But for
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me, it numbed things out too much.
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It leveled things out too much.
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Also, makes your penis not work at all, which apologies to my mom.
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Sorry about that
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Where was I?
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Oh, I know where I was.
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I was happy.
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I was happy in Mexico City.
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I was happy to be living here.
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I was comfortable with my place in the world, in this life
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right now, and I still am, so.
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Anyway, patreon.com/onefjef, please sign up.
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Support an independent podcast.
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Support this rambling what have you.
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I know I'm biased, but I think this is a really good podcast.
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I go back and listen to old episodes now and again when I'm just, when
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I'm feeling down about it, and I'm like, "This is good," in my head.
23:19
I'm, "This is good. This is entertaining." Understand, I'm biased,
23:24
but, like, if you're listening to this right now, realize that, like,
23:28
now I'm raising the bar, but, you know, I'm putting work into this.
23:33
I'm putting work into this.
23:34
Is it for me or for you?
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That's the question.
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It's for both, really, 'cause I wouldn't still do this if
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not a single person listened.
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But if one person listened, if I just had one listener every week, I would
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really wanna know who that person is.
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Would I wanna know?
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I don't know.
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It would be my mom, so I already know who it would be
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I love you, Mom, of course, but I'm just saying that's who it would be.
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So then I would probably change the content and not put the part about
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the antidepressant penis thing in it.
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I would have cut that out.
24:12
But there's more than one listener.
24:14
There's multiples, multiples of one listener.
24:17
There's two to three listeners.
24:19
Can you figure out how many listeners there are?
24:20
Because if you are listening right now and you're like, are there
24:23
really two or three listeners?
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Am I one of these people?
24:26
Then you feel special.
24:27
So maybe there are just two or three listeners.
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And yet I'm still recording a podcast for two or three people
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patreon.com/onefjef.
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Thank you so much for your support, for your listening.
24:42
Even if you don't subscribe to Patreon, thank you for listening
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Listen to that tamales playing.
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You guys want tamales?
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I gotta get one of these one of these days.
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Anyway, I'm glad to be back.
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I'm grateful for everybody who's listening again.
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I'll get these interviews moving along
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Is the tamales vending guy, um, like making it charming or annoying?
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That's the question.
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You can tell I'm really in Mexico.
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You hear that?
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Every night, this guy
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Try my mole, something
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Yeah.
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I wonder if they're good.
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I always wonder, are they good tamales?
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They must be.
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I'm not a big tamale fan, to be honest, but I mean, I don't
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hate them, but it's the texture.
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It's not my, not my jam, but I'll try one of those one of these
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days, those tamales from that guy.
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But I won't do that now.
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What I will do now is end this episode by saying thank you
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for listening, my friends.
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I appreciate you.
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I hope that you're doing well in whatever life you're living right now.
25:58
I hope you're finding joy.
26:00
I hope you're finding perspective.
26:03
And I hope your heart is full of love, and I mean that in the
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least cheesy way possible, which is difficult, but here we are
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It does help the algorithmical gods to tell everybody what to listen to.
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Write a little something, something, something, something.
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Say, "I love it."
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And again, if you want to ask me some questions, anything
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26:48
And if you want to vent, scream at the podcast, or love on the
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1-669-241-5882.
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Call it up.
27:18
Maybe I'll leave your voicemail message on the air.
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Play it.
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Maybe I will play your voicemail message on the air.
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I will probably, unless you tell me not to
27:33
This is a last-minute outro of sorts that needs to be added because I was gonna
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have this episode out Wednesday morning.
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I'm not sure when it's gonna come out.
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The power went out on Tuesday night.
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It is out.
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That's not true.
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It was out.
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It's, it's not out now, but it was out.
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And so I couldn't, you know, I couldn't do, I couldn't do the internet
27:57
things and the editing things 'cause my computer needed power to work.
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So I'd been told there's a lot of power outages in Mexico City.
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I have never experienced one until today, so I guess, I guess that's exciting.
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I don't exactly know why it went out 'cause there's no storm happening or
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anything, and it was only my block.
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I don't know.
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Very weird.
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Anyway, it did come back on, so that's good, but I'm not gonna
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have time to finish this right now.
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So I'll finish it as soon as possible.
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And you're listening to it now, so it did get out at some point.
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So yeah, don't worry about it.
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Don't overthink things.
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That's what I always say.
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Is that what I always say?
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It might be what I always say.
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I'm gonna end this episode with a, one of my favorite quotes by
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the late, great Kurt Vonnegut.
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And the first time I saw this quote was a guy that I knew or met in film
28:58
school had a tattoo of this quote.
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Uh, and that guy has since passed away, actually, very tragically.
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He was a guy that everybody loved.
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He was just that guy that everybody knew and everybody really liked a lot.
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And he died quite young.
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I think he was in his 20s or 30s.
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And in fact, I think that I had invited him to my birthday party
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at a bar in Brooklyn, New York.
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This guy, Matt was his name.
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And he texted me, and he said he couldn't make it, and it was, I
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think, the next day or two days later that I got a call saying he died.
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Wow.
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Anyway, he had this quote, which is from Slaughterhouse-Five, tattooed on his arm,
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and it honestly seems more appropriate now than it did when he was alive, you know?
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"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
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I'll see you next week.
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Very good, Jeffrey