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080 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Kai, and I am a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories,
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  Speaker 1: and let's ramble on a bit. I was in Lima, yeah, Lima,
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  Speaker 1: finishing out Lima before my next my next adventure, onto Hawaii,
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  Speaker 1: and I was walking around. I checked out another boardwalk
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  Speaker 1: that was apparently popular in Lima, but when I went
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  Speaker 1: up there, it was there was a river. It was
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  Speaker 1: a river boardwalk, but as far as I saw, it
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  Speaker 1: was all rubble and garbage, just all along this tiny
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  Speaker 1: little river bank.
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  Speaker 2: And there wasn't even.
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  Speaker 1: Like a public path that I could walk down and along.
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  Speaker 1: It was all blocked off by a bunch of chain
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  Speaker 1: link fences. So yeah, kind of tied in with how
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  Speaker 1: I feel about Lima. And I just kept walking and
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  Speaker 1: walked around and got an ice cream, I think, and
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  Speaker 1: then sat in a park and watched a bird gather
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  Speaker 1: twigs for its family, which was pretty fun or for
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  Speaker 1: its nest anyway. It had really bright blue eyes, like
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  Speaker 1: crazy bright blue eyes, and it liked all the twigs
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  Speaker 1: near where I was sitting. So I just sat and
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  Speaker 1: ate an ice cream and watched this little bird flip down,
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  Speaker 1: check out the twigs, pick one up sort of like
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  Speaker 1: hafed it and then fly off. I did that for
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes and then headed back. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I did try a pisco sour.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were selling them in the supermarket, so
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed one of those, but it was just sugary
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  Speaker 1: vodka whatever, sugary rum or something, so not too into it.
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  Speaker 1: The ice cream was also terrible, so I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: any more ice cream while I was in Peru because
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  Speaker 1: all the yeah, it just wasn't very good, like all
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  Speaker 1: processed fake cornetto ice creams. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: I liked the real cornetto anymore, because I've had so
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  Speaker 1: many of the fake, crappy cornetto's. I can't even remember
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  Speaker 1: if the real ornetto tastes that bad or if it's good.
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  Speaker 1: I remember it being good, but it's been some time. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I can get one while I'm in Hawaii. So
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  Speaker 1: there is not as much chicha marada in Lima, the
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  Speaker 1: purple corn drink with like fruit and sugar. And I
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  Speaker 1: really like the chicha marada, the purple one, more than
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  Speaker 1: the regular yellow chicha that everybody gives away. But I
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  Speaker 1: guess marada, I don't know, maybe it's more expensive or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but I only had it once. I only saw it
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  Speaker 1: once while I was in Lima. I think I saw
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  Speaker 1: a couple signs that had it, But in Cusco it's
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  Speaker 1: like fifty to fifty and tons of places advertised the
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  Speaker 1: Chicha marata, but only one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I only actually got it in one place at Tomey's,
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  Speaker 1: of course, with the best dang food in Lima, at
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  Speaker 1: Mercado Pastora Pastor Market. And when I got it, Monica
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  Speaker 1: poured it out his like grandmaish waitress there who's there
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  Speaker 1: a few days a week, and she poured it out
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  Speaker 1: and I was like.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, chicha yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then she turned back to Tommy and she was
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  Speaker 1: like he just said, ooh, chicha, yeah, he likes chicha,
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  Speaker 1: and uh yeah. It was pretty funny. She's very funny.
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  Speaker 1: She's very busy and busy anxious, like moving around very
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  Speaker 1: fast and getting everything done. But she forgot to give
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  Speaker 1: me my fork and spoon. But luckily one of the
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  Speaker 1: other regulars, who was sitting in front of me at
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  Speaker 1: the next table, without even looking behind him, just grabbed
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  Speaker 1: his utensils and handed them back to me behind himself
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  Speaker 1: without turning his head or anything. And I just grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the bucket of utensils and got a couple from myself
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  Speaker 1: and said thank you mucho. And that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: So I had great food at Tomy's again. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: there was another regular a couple days later, and she
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  Speaker 1: was asking me how much, like how much I made
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  Speaker 1: and what I did when I traveled, and like how
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  Speaker 1: people made money when they traveled, and well, my friend translates, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: translates stuff, translates books and speeches and whatever, and transcribes stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And she asked, how much do you make per oha?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is all in Spanish and I couldn't remember oha.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it sounded familiar, but like she kept asking me,
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  Speaker 1: and I told her, well, I couldn't figure out oha,
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  Speaker 1: and I couldn't look it up for some reason I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember. Oh no, I did look it up eventually.
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  Speaker 1: Oha means pages. So she was wondering how much my
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  Speaker 1: friend is paid to translate per book, and I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's usually more like time for them, so the amount
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  Speaker 1: of hours they worked, they'll get paid per hour. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure my friend it was like sixty dollars
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  Speaker 1: per hour for her.
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  Speaker 2: That was a while ago.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to her in a while, but she
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  Speaker 1: seemed to like that job a lot because she just
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  Speaker 1: got to travel and translate stuff and yeah, live her life.
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  Speaker 1: That was actually the last day of Lima. The ohas
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  Speaker 1: lady who taught me oha, and I thanked her for
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  Speaker 1: teaching me the word for oha, learning a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of spanished. By the end, I was talking to everyone
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  Speaker 1: pretty comfortably, and all the people that day that I
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  Speaker 1: saw asked me when what my last day in Lima was.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd been going to Tommy's for like over a
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  Speaker 1: week and nobody had asked that, and then they all
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  Speaker 1: asked it on the same day, and I had to
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  Speaker 1: tell each of them, like, oh, today, today's my last day.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't want to tell Tomy Harmonica and make
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  Speaker 1: a big deal out of it, but I said thank
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  Speaker 1: you and paid and said it was nice to know
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  Speaker 1: all the regulars who asked me, and that was my
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  Speaker 1: last day. I had a good talk with the guy
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  Speaker 1: in front of the market. He sells like cheeses, and
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  Speaker 1: he's always out there and he's always excited to talk
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  Speaker 1: to me, probably just because I am a traveler, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and we just talk nothing. He knows my Spanish isn't amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and he talks to everybody, everybody who walks into the
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  Speaker 1: market unless they're buying cheese and he has to go
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  Speaker 1: back to his shop. He just stands in front of
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  Speaker 1: the whole market and has like really shallow small talk
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  Speaker 1: conversations with everyone. So I always show up and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: what is you're gonna eat lunch? And we talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. The menu is good, it's the best, and
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  Speaker 1: then I go in there. So I said bye to him.
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  Speaker 2: But that was the last day.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Tomy every day because his food was crazy, Like,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, there's like no second place to the
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  Speaker 1: food that Tomy made in Lima. Tomy's was the only
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  Speaker 1: food that tasted like the Peruvian food I was used
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  Speaker 1: to in Cusco, like very high quality, very strong flavors,
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  Speaker 1: prepared fairly quickly, and like pretty complex dishes and everywhere else,
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  Speaker 1: like you could get that stuff, but it would be
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  Speaker 1: very expensive and kind of not. It just didn't seem local.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like processed food, like they're making it even
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  Speaker 1: though I know it was fresh. It was just there
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  Speaker 1: was no care going into the food at all. And
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  Speaker 1: in Cusco. All of the restaurants care a lot about
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  Speaker 1: their foods. But I went to a few Lima restaurants
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  Speaker 1: and none of them seemed to care what they were serving,
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  Speaker 1: and the people who were eating it didn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: care either. They just like inhaled it. Whether it was
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  Speaker 1: crappy savice with a bunch of gristle in it, or
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  Speaker 1: like really land soup.
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  Speaker 2: Or just I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It was always unimpressive world. It was unimpressive, and the
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  Speaker 1: few restaurants I went to told me's food fantastic. I
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  Speaker 1: had the best turkey I've had, maybe ever, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever had turkey that good except
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  Speaker 1: the one I made it a Christmas one day one Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: and his pork ribs and beef ribs. His fried chicken
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  Speaker 1: is the best fried chicken I have had in memory.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember having better chicken than that. The one
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  Speaker 1: I always go to was this Portland restaurant I liked,
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  Speaker 1: like as a twenty year old something. But in terms
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  Speaker 1: of fried chicken, Tomy's fried chicken was the best. It
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  Speaker 1: was in the Japanese style, so pretty thin and kind
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  Speaker 1: of spread out and then lightly coated with breading and
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  Speaker 1: deep fried. But it again there wasn't too much oil
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  Speaker 1: on it, which Tomo was really good at. And it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't super crunchy, but it wasn't really soft, and the
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the soft too much, but there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: so but it wasn't too crunchy. There wasn't so much
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  Speaker 1: breading that it took away from the flavor of the chicken,
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  Speaker 1: which was very soft, and the breading that he used
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  Speaker 1: was very flavorful. So there was a bunch of salt
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  Speaker 1: and spices and good stuff in there. And it's seriously
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  Speaker 1: the best fried chicken I can remember having I fried
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  Speaker 1: chicken specific I cannot remember having better fried chicken than that.
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  Speaker 1: It was so good and I wanted to get another piece,
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  Speaker 1: but I had already also gotten a piece of pork ribs.
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  Speaker 1: I think with that chicken, I just every day I
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  Speaker 1: went back there because the menus rotate daily in Peru.
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  Speaker 1: They just get whatever's fresh and then they cook it
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  Speaker 1: every day, so there's a rotating menu. So every day
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  Speaker 1: I would try another new thing, and I'd be like, man,
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  Speaker 1: he nailed this too, and he was the only guy
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  Speaker 1: in Lima that was that good. There was one other
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  Speaker 1: good Savice guy, but the Sevice or well, the chichern,
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  Speaker 1: the fried breaded fish was breaded pretty heavy, and it
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  Speaker 1: was inconsistent, and the quality of the squid was inconsistent.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing about Tomy was that everything was consistent.
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  Speaker 1: It was just always good. And the chicharon was really good.
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  Speaker 1: I got it twice, but I always felt really heavy
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  Speaker 1: after I ate the chiicern. So yeah, it's really just Tomy,
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  Speaker 1: but that's enough. It was super close to me. I
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  Speaker 1: only eat once a day anyway, so I would just
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: go over to toll Me's little restaurant in Marcata Pastora
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  Speaker 1: and eat a couple lunches usually, and they were great,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'd have enough food and it was great.
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  Speaker 1: I went down to the ocean boardwalk during the night
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  Speaker 1: on a walk, and it was much nicer at night
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  Speaker 1: than it had been during the day. During the day,
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  Speaker 1: the boardwalk just looked kind of abandoned and dusty, like
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  Speaker 1: I know that's odd to say about a yellow sand beach,
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  Speaker 1: but it just looked like there was a thin.
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  Speaker 2: Layer of.
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  Speaker 1: Grit over all of the beach, and there weren't many
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  Speaker 1: people near the water or anything. I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: saw anyone actually on the beach, but there were stairways
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  Speaker 1: from the main avenue leading down to it, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty far walk, like to get down. There
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  Speaker 1: would have taken fifteen minutes to eventually get to the
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  Speaker 1: water if you decided to walk from the main avenue
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  Speaker 1: of Lima all the way down to the beach. And
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: there looked like there was a little fair ground down there,
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  Speaker 1: but there just wasn't a lot of activity in the
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: day and it just wasn't super pretty, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: go down to the beach at Lima. I did go
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  Speaker 1: back at night, and because it was night, everything looked nice.
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  Speaker 2: You could just see the waves and.
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  Speaker 1: There was a really nice walking path that went along
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  Speaker 1: the boardwalk. So the area I had walked on maybe
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: it was just too hot, so I couldn't pay like enough,
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  Speaker 1: attack couldn't really enjoy the pathway. But there was a
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  Speaker 1: nice pathway to walk along the boardwalk looking over the ocean,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemed pretty safe and comfortable, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a good walk. It was fun. The first thing I
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  Speaker 1: found that was cheaper in Lima than Cusco and pretty
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: much the only thing ever was the orange juice. But
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  Speaker 1: you do get a smaller portion, and it is not
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  Speaker 1: as good as the orange juice in Cousco, So I
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  Speaker 1: guess that is fair. Now the savice, I might have
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: mentioned this this the savich is so much better in Cusco,
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  Speaker 1: but really just at that one spot, I guess no. Well,
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: you know what, I had a lot of bad savice
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  Speaker 1: in Lima. It was just they left all of the
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: gristlin and it was bonito, which is, you know, a
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: type of tuna. It said it was bonito. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if they were talking about the tuna or what.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of the meat in the savice they
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  Speaker 1: served in Lima, which I had never seen in Cusco,
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  Speaker 1: and I got a lot of savice in Cusco was
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  Speaker 1: blood soaked, like the red flesh was and it tasted
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  Speaker 1: like blood. That's why I'm assuming the flesh got stained
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: by blood or something. It was really weird and I
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  Speaker 1: had that. I tried a few savices in Lima also
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: just to make sure that they were all bad, and
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: they were all pretty bad, especially compared to my favorite
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: place that I mentioned last episode, the crazy Piranha in Cusco.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I like that more. Okay, I met this
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  Speaker 1: girl in Lima and we hung out a few times,
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  Speaker 1: but she didn't know she I didn't know a lot
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  Speaker 1: about Cusco or Lima. It became a parent like very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and it was kind of funny. I said buenas to
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  Speaker 1: someone walking down the street and they're like, oh, buenos
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: and she said buenas. Why not buenos dias or buenos tardes.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, in some countries to say it
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  Speaker 1: full like that, but a lot of them it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of informal. You just say buenas. And she's from Lima
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  Speaker 1: her whole life, born and raised. She was like, I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard that before. And I was like, that's impossible.
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  Speaker 1: That's how everyone talks in this country, or at least
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  Speaker 1: in Cusco. This was my third day in Lima, so
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  Speaker 1: I was like, maybe it's different in this city. But
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: then we walked by like three other people who said
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  Speaker 1: buenas and I was like, yeah, this is wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: am I more Peruvian?
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  Speaker 2: And then we ate some.
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  Speaker 1: Malaya frita and she was like, oh, pork is so good.
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  Speaker 1: But malaya in Peru, even though it means Malaysian, it's
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  Speaker 1: not Malaysian. Malaya just means pork. Sorry, Malia means beef
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  Speaker 1: and she said this pork is so good. And I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Malia's beef and she said, no, Malia's pork. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. Like I asked some people what the
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: difference between Malia Frita and Costillafrita and they said, Malia
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  Speaker 1: is always beef in Peru and she was like, what,
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  Speaker 1: it's no, it's one hundred percent pork.
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  Speaker 2: I know that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And then we asked people and I looked it up
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  Speaker 1: and it's definitely beef, and she just had no idea,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty surprising. I mean, it's kind of like
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: not knowing what a hamburger is after you lived in
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: you know, any American city, you live in New York
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  Speaker 1: for your whole life, and then someone's like, what are
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  Speaker 1: hamburgers made out of? And you're like, uh, pork, I
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  Speaker 1: think no, it's a beef burger. So she didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that either, which was suspect. And she was definitely from Lima.
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  Speaker 1: There was no reason to doubt that she was actually
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: from Lima. It was just she didn't know very ba
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: basic things. I never figured that out. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was really odd. There was a third thing whenos and
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  Speaker 1: the meat oh, in the prices. She was very surprised
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  Speaker 1: at Tony's restaurant, which was twelve for an appetizer an entree,
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  Speaker 1: which was good for Lima, about almost twice as expensive
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  Speaker 1: as Cusco. But when she thought all the prices were
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: like fifty soles and she was like, that's normally what
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  Speaker 1: I pay for my lunch, I was like, fifty, I
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  Speaker 1: paid six in Cusco, twelve and fifteen is normal here.
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  Speaker 1: And I just showed her the markets around the neighborhood,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: and I wasn't living in like a bad neighborhood or
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: wherever things were cheaper. That was pretty normal because I
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: walked all around the city and the prices were all
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: fifteen sols. And I had no idea why she was
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: paying fifty sols or if she was trying to impress
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  Speaker 1: me by saying, look how much I spend on lunch
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: or something, but it was, Yeah, it was just very
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: odd because she said, no, fifty about the normal price
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  Speaker 1: for any lunch in the city, and that's three times
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  Speaker 1: as expensive as most of the lunches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was the only person I met from Peru who
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem to know anything about their own city or
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the rest of Peru. It was, Yeah, it was so
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: odd that it keeps sticking out of my head because
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: it was just so odd. In one of the markets,
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  Speaker 1: there was this huge guy walking around and he had
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: a shirt that said Henny'll Wolf like cool wolf riding
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a bicycle and it was like the best shirt ever.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: And I said, oh, cool shirt, like Henny alchemisais something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and he looked really confused, and the look
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: down at his shirt and he just nodded gruffly and
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: then kept walking. But it was a great shirt and
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I wanted him to know it was great, but he
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: didn't realize he was wearing it.
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: So. I like the song go your Own Way. I
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: heard the song Exploder episode about it, and I was
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: kind of into that, and then when I was listening
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: to him explain the song, I was like that that's cool.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: And then I listened to the song. I was like, yeah,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: that is a catchy tune. You know, I've heard it
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: my whole life, but I never really thought about it
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: or anything has to do with him and Stevie Nick's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: not working out. And then I would like, really listen
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: to the lyrics, and I was like, this is a
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: really like kind of passive aggressive, whiny song like saying
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: it's not fair, like he's doing the right thing and
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Stevie was doing the wrong thing, like they split up.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: But the lyrics are about how if she would just
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: let him show her the world, he could give the
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: worlds to her, and if she would just open her
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: heart to the world, then everything would be okay. And
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: it's basically just blaming the other person and saying it's
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: not fair that you don't like me, instead of a
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: really it like, go your your own way, but it's
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: not go your own way.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Then if you don't like me, like I guess you
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: just don't get it because you want your independence and
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I want you to be with me. It sounds a
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: lot more petulant than I realized once I really started
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: listening to the lyrics in the verses leading up to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: the chorus.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: But it does.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I mean the song it sounds great. There's no no
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: denying that. It's just I was surprised to have passive aggressive.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: The lyrics actually sounded to me when I looked at them.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I was invited by someone else to a dance like
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a disco at a Burger cut it was like a
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: celebration for their end of year, for their dance troupe,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and they had like a little disco ball and some
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: prizes they handed out and it was all ages. It
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: wasn't a crazy drunken bash, but it was pretty fun
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: just to see, yeah, just to see a dance troupe
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: and how into it they were. And I got to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: watch a couple dances for a while and that was fun,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and we just hang out for a little while, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I went, but they invited me to. They had a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: big dance exhibition in a few more days, and I
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: went and it was pretty cool there. I don't like
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: traditional dance as much as I like modern dance, but
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: this was giant choreography and everybody was really into it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And there were like four or five different dance schools
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: doing the exhibitions, and it was pretty fast paced too.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: There was a lot going on.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: But everything in Peru is done late, like really late.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: They eat late, they do everything late. So this dance
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: exhibition wasn't scheduled to start until something like nine to
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: thirty PM, like really late, and because it's Peru, it
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: didn't start until ten ten thirty and then all the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: dances started and they occurred every five to ten minutes,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a new one with a new dance troupe, and they
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: just rotated and changed costumes and it was a pretty
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: big affair. It was like a pretty big thing, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it was really cool to see. And the people from
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the dance troup who invited me to their dinner the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: other night were nice and happy to see me, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: they gave me a free ticket too. That's how I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: got in. So I just got to see this cool
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: cultural exhibition dance recital exhibition. Yeah, and then I was
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: on my way to the airport and I was in
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the car and looking out the car, I saw another
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: like trash three wheel truck or whatever driving down the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: street with some trash in it, and I had a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: trash bag hang off the side and it just slammed
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: into one of these cars parked on the side of
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the road, and that was kind of worrisome. That might
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: have been my last day when I saw the giant exhibition,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the big dance recital thing. And then I think the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: next day I was off to the airport to hop
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: over to Hawaii before I head to the Philippons, which
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I'll probably just be going straight to the Philippines. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: thought I'd have a month in between, but I might
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: hang out in Hawaii for a little while, just not
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to not to go too fast, stop at the beaches again,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: hang out. I've started a new community I might have
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: mentioned on Lemmy, so it's just called travel Crazy People
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Dot Online slash see slash travel. Yes, I did mention that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So it's a new one and it's pretty cool. It's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: already gaining subscribe It already has more than half of
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the subscribers of the old one that took me like
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: nine months to build up. So I'm going to keep
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: adding informative posts because I feel like it's fun sharing stuff.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And obviously that's much easier if I can just share
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: a picture of the ocean or whatever. But the informative
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: posts are what people want to hear about on a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: travel community, I think, until they start asking their own questions.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And I do have lots of stuff that I've written
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: before that shouldn't be too difficult to like healthcare, international schools,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: best backpacking practices, besta packing countries. So I do lots
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of information about travel, and people do seem to get
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: into that. So I'm going to try to put a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: informative post every couple of days, every four days, whatever,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: just more regularly because during the old community that was
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: named after my username, it was just sharing. Well that's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: not true. It was mostly sharing and then maybe once
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a month there would be a true information post. But
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's more fair to subscribers and members of
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the community, people interested in travel if they just get
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: more hard information. Sharing is great if you want to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: go on that community and share anything you want. It
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be serious or anything. Just share a
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: picture of a dog while you were traveling or whatever.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: My dog wants to trove, that's fine. But I'm going
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to I since I have responsibility for this community, I'm
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: going to put some more informative posts. And yeah, it's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: really It's funny though, starting starting over from scratch, because
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I'm getting all the comments I used to get with
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the old community that died down after it got bigger.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Right now it's still beginning out. So people are like,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's the correct price. It's actually two
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and I have to be like, okay, I
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: have to remove the comment because that's misinformation. Here is
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the link to that correct thing. So I'm going through that,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: but it looks like it'll I'll get through that phase
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: much faster this time than last time, because it's already
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: at ninety subscribers, and the whole time the old one
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: only got one hundred and forty subscribers. So either those
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: two first posts I put up on the travel community
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: are really influential, or I think because it's named travel
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: now instead of named Bit of a Rambler, people are
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: more comfortable subscribing to it as a travel community. I'm
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: pretty excited about building it up again, to be honest,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and I'm really happy with the way the first couple
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: have gone. And I like writing the informative posts anyway,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: they just take so much more time, and I have
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to be really careful because I'm super strict about sharing
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: misinformation on those communities. So my information has to definitely
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: be accurate and sourced every time I put something up there,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: which takes time. But then there's great info up there,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and a couple people have already benefited from it, and
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: so thank you notes, and I'm happy about that, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'm happy people can live better lives through traveling. Oh
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: jacket luggage. So to get to Hawaii, I had four
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: legs of my trip, and three of them didn't allow
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: any baggage at all. Hawaiian Airlines still allows baggage, which
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: is like the only airline that still does that without
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: charging you a billion dollars. But if I wanted to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: bring my bag, my rucksack on board the plane for
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the first three legs through the US, it would have
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: been like eighty dollars per flight something. It would have
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: been some dumb amount of money for a rucksack that's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: pretty light. I have less than like twenty pounds of stuff.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I do not have a lot of heavy items. But
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to pay that eighty dollars per flight.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So I have my jacket luggage I have sewn. When
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I was in Cusco, I sewed extra pockets into the jacket,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: so I sewed two more, and now I have a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: total of two outside hip pockets, two inside hip pockets,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: two inside breast pockets, and a big back pocket that
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I can put all my t shirts in. So that's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: what six seven, eight, nine nine pockets, and I can
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: fit pretty much everything into my jacket now. And it
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: looks pretty normal from the outside, a little puffy, but
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: it's a puffer jacket. So I just put everything in
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: there and then carried my backpack on the plane and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: didn't no problem. So jacket luggage. If you don't want
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to pay these crazy suitcasts suitcase fees, and I mean,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you don't have too much stuff, jacket luggage. Just putting
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: some inside pockets on the inside of your jacket is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a really easy way to do it. I haven't Yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: one had any trouble with it. One guy, one flight
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: attendant I remember, like looked at and he was like, hmm,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: really when I went to Laos, But that was it
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and he didn't he didn't stop me or anything, because
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: they can't weigh you or your clothing. They can only
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: weigh your baggage. So jacket luggage great. Got me to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Hawaii without paying any money. On four different flights. The
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: flight attendant was pissed, like I can't remember if it
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: was the Atlanta one or what. All those all those
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: trips blurred.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Together to me.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: But as soon as we got into America and like,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the flight attendants were so angry and they were like
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: snapping back, especially one of them. She was like snapping
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: back at every passenger and she was like when you
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: sit down, we can go. We can't go until you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: sit down. But it was still active boarding, like people
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: weren't not There wasn't just one person standing up. Can
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I go to the bathroom? Yeah, you can go to
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the bathroom, but if you go to the bathroom then
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: we can't go. Oh, so you have to go fast, okay, quickly,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: quickly roppi dough. She said that a couple times. It
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: must have been the one from Lima because she did
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: say rappido, which was obviously the only Spanish words she
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: knew she knew, and it sucked. It was so bah
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: listening to her be rude to all of these people,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Like as soon as you cross the border into the US,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: all the flight attendants become us and they're just this
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: one especially was just extremely exasperated, and.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: It was weird. It was really weird.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: She was so angry, and the others, all the other
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: US attendants seemed pretty upset as well. Maybe something happened
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: before I know. One thing was weird. Spirit Airlines doesn't
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: provide water.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: They don't.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to have water on Spirit Airlines. You're
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: not allowed to bring water on Spirit Airlines either. If
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you bring water on they make you dump it out,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and then they don't give you water on the plane
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: for like a six five hour flight something like that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: It was a longer flight, and I didn't know that
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: was legal even but I thought that was insane because
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I had three legs with Spirit and all three of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: them did not let you bring water on the plane.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And even if it was through the gate, like you're
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: already waiting at the gate, you're not allowed to fill
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: up your water bottle and then bring on the plane.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: You had to empty it out. And then once you
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: were on the plane, they didn't give you any water.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: They were coming with the drink stray and they were like,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: do you want anything? I said, oh, just water's fine.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: She's like I don't have water, and I was like what,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I have club soda? And I was like, I guess
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: club soda. And then the other guy reached out his hand.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: He didn't even say anything. He just like rubbed his
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: fingers together like they were nineties gangsters or forties gangsters.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And after a couple times, I was like what do
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you want and he was like, hey, I can take
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: your card here, and I was like what. And the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: person next to me explained that these were the paid drinks.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: So I was about to pay like eight dollars for
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a club soda and I was like, oh, then I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: don't need a drink. I guess this is insane. You
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: don't have free water. No Spirit Airlines does not give
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: out free water anymore, which was shocking to find. This
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: seems insane to me, but it happened, of course, right
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: after I crossed into the US, and I was like,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: of course they don't. Of course the US doesn't give
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: people water. Oh man. I had this big conversation with
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: my friends here because they were asking these questions about
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: third world countries and first world countries, and I was like, well,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: let's just define those, Like how would you define a
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: third world country? And they're like, well, you don't have
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: like food and houses and like access to healthcare. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, let's look at what like the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: poorest country, like Cambodia has versus what the US has.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: And Cambodia comes out ahead in transportation and they have
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: food security for sure, there's always a local market where
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you can get and they're like, oh my god, are
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: we living in the third world country. It's like, yeah, dude, time,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I I'm back here. It's it's crazy how privileged US
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Americans think they are compared to all other countries in
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: the world, where all other countries in the world they
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: have far fewer homeless people. There's just so much more
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: housing security, food security, transportation security, education security, healthcare. They
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: just don't have to worry about all of these things
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that US Americans are clinging to buy their fingernails and
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: or just like women don't have access to in the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: US anymore.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Too soapboxy about it, but it was a pretty enlightening
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: conversation for my friends living here in Hawaii, especially because
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of rich people living here in Hawaii,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and talking to them, they just in their head, the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: US has food security and healthcare and housing. In their head,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it has it. But we talked for maybe fifteen minutes
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and then they were like, oh, shoot, we don't. We
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: don't have food security. There's tons of people going hundred,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: we don't have house security, rents insane obviously, and like
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: three people own all of the houses in the country.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: We don't have education like Americans. US Americans can't afford
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: to go. So yeah, it was a good conversation. It's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it's good having those conversations with US Americans whenever I
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: stop by here. But I have to be so careful
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: because they're US Americans have built up their country so
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: much in their heads that even if they're struggling day
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to day, they think they're living in a first world country,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Like even if they don't have access to food or
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: affordable housing, or healthcare or education, it's just bonkers. It's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: always bonkers stopping back in the US for a little
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: while and seeing people like really struggling and then being like,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: thank God, I'm not in China. And it's like, well,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in China, they all have their housing, they all have
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: unlimited great food, they all have access to education, they
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: all have quality healthcare, and I have a huge palm
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: withcegene ping. There's China is not a perfect country. But
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: any place they say, oh, at least I'm not in
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: What if I was living in Malaysia or something, It's like, well,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: they can all eat. They never have to worry about
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: their grocery bills. Like food is affordable. Governments make food
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and housing and healthcare affordable to their citizens. It's pretty
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: much only in the US where that's not the point
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: of civil amenities. In all other country, the point of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: having healthcare and housing and a government to distribute these
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: services is so that all the citizens can afford and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: have access to those civil amenities. In the States, the
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: only motive is profit. They don't provide healthcare in the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: US for healthcare. They provide healthcare to make a profit.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: In most other countries, healthcare is provided so that citizens
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: have access to healthcare. Same with education and other basic
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: civil amenities. Okay, soapbox. Sorry, I get really into that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: There's just such There was just this light in the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: eyes and they're like, wait a minute, are we living
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in the third world country. I was like, yeah, if
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you ask most of the people, if you look at
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: if you just compare the access they have to basic
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: civil amenities, Yeah, the US is the third world country.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, the US doesn't have bullet trains, it doesn't
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: have a rail system.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: That's wild. That's wild.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Man. Travel for your health and for your education, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: travel for your food security.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I got really lucky.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: On I think the second flight, the lady between us
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: really wanted an aisle seat. I think she had claust
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: her phobia or something, so she got to move to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: an aisle seat and it was a full flight, but
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the ile seat guy wasn't there, so she got to
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: go the aisle seat, and then it was a full flight.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: So the only seat on the plane that was left
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: open was the one in the middle between me and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the other guy and the other aisle seat, So we
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: had a little extra space on that flight, and it
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: was pretty nice. Oh, it was kind of funny. I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: was in the airport walking around in Atlanta. Wherever I was,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but there was a guy looking for
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the men's bathroom. But he was standing in front of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the women's bathroom and he'd like walk in a little
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: bit and then looked to his right and left and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: then like step back out and he's like wait, but
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: he looked really confused. He didn't look like he was
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: creeping in the bathroom or anything. He was just looking
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: for the women's bathroom or the men's bathroom, but it
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: was only the women's bathroom, and he like looked left
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to right and then he walked away from the women's
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: bathroom but didn't see another entrance. And it was only
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: like twenty feet down, but he would walk maybe ten
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: feet down maximum and then look around left to right
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and go back in. So yeah, he was very confused,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and I just he tried to walk in again. I
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, it's over there, it's right, there's the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: blue one. Just it's there's a totally separate entrance, but
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it's twenty feet down that way instead of ten feet.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, okay, thank you. Actually he just
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: had okay bathroom and then walked to the men's bathroom
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: and went So I think because usually you walk in
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and you go left if you're lady, and right if
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you're a guy. In a lot of airport bathrooms, I
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: thought maybe he was used to that he didn't realize
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: there was a huge other section. But it was really
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: funny how he kept walking back in and then walking
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: back out, like just staring at the you know, women's
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: bathroom picture of a stick figure woman, like is that no?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: But he kept trying anyway. It reminded me of animals
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: in a zoo where they walk forward and then backwards
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: and forward and backwards like three steps at a time,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: just like locked in this pattern. He kind of seemed
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: really confused by the separate entrance and was locked in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that pattern. So I'm glad I could help. Okay, this
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: was weird. Also, I was waiting on the plane and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: we were sitting, but I was the first one on.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know they went backward groups that time, So
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I got on for the first group and not even
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: half the plane was filled up. And there was a
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: line of passengers getting on the plane behind this one
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: old guy and he stopped and turned to a flight
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: attendant on the plane. In the plane, he was walking
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: to his seat down the aisle and he's like, excuse me,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: are we boarding now? And I was like, what the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: heck are you talking about? You're getting on the plane.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: They called us all to board. There are passengers, we're
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: all putting our bags and overhead compartments. You're obviously boarding.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Why why did you stop to ask? That was the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: strangest thing I had heard all day until I heard
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the super angry lady. I guess spirit I Airlines not letting.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of weird stuff on this trip, actually,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: but I thought that was really funny because there's like
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: two hundred people around him boarding the plane. He's like, Hey,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: are we boarding now?
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Man, you're you're boarding right now. You're in the middle
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: of it, buddy. Then I got to Hawaii and I
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: kicked a toad accidentally. That's a good place to stop, right.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I was walking up the street to go to the supermarket,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and I was walking kind of quickly.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: It was evening.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I wasn't paying a lot of attention, and I saw
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: something in the middle of the road. But it didn't
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: look like dog crap, so I ignored it. And then I
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: don't know if it moved or what, but I swung
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: my right foot forward and punted something that, once it
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: was airborne, I realized was a toad. I was just
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: walking quickly, so I didn't actually kick it. I just
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: kind of the momentum of my leg swung into it
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: and punted it out into the air and it flew
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: like ten feet or something and then landed and hopped away,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and I was like, sorry, man, sorry for kicking you
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Hawaii toad. And that's fun. That's a good way to
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: stop this, kicking a toad. I hope you're having a
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: great day.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I've been having a lot of fun in Hawaii. I've
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: been here a few days now. I've gone to a
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: couple beaches. I had some really good food from Wilu
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: a general store. I'll have to write that down so
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I can talk about that in the next episode. Because
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: their food. I'm going to talk about mostly that probably
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: in the next one. There's so much good food there.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: And yeah, there's rainbows every day. I'm in freaking Hawaii
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and then off to Southeast Asia next. I hope you're
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: having a great day. You can talk to me at
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a Bit of a Rambler at gmail dot com or
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: in the travel communities that I have, well travel community
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: just the one is active now Crazy People dot online,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: slash c slash travel and you can post or ask questions,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: or share or just talk to me. Have a great
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: rest of your day.