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126 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 today I get to talk about Busan, which is surprising.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: The most surprising.
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  Speaker 1: Place I've visited in a long time. Been to Japan
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  Speaker 1: before going back was cool, but nothing really surprised me.
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  Speaker 1: I just got to explore more and enjoy more of
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  Speaker 1: all the things I liked in Japan. But I have
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  Speaker 1: not been back to South Korea in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I used to go there for visa runs while I
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  Speaker 1: was in while I was living in China, and I
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  Speaker 1: never liked so I never got into it. The city
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  Speaker 1: was extremely dull for me, except for the Cartoon Museum,
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  Speaker 1: which is my favorite museum ever. It's so cool, but
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  Speaker 1: the city itself was just eh. So I figured other
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  Speaker 1: Korean cities would at least be similar to Seoul and
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  Speaker 1: not as exciting as other places I could visit instead,
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  Speaker 1: So I only went to Soel a bunch of times,
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  Speaker 1: and then I didn't visit any other Korean cities. Cities,
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  Speaker 1: and this time I had to get from Japan Matsuyama
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  Speaker 1: to Beijing on my way to Mongolia. So when I
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  Speaker 1: got my tickets, I realized that if I just broke
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  Speaker 1: my trip into two legs, one to Busan and then
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  Speaker 1: one to Beijing, it was one hundred dollars cheaper than
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  Speaker 1: a direct flight from Matsuyama to Beijing.
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  Speaker 2: Well not even a direct flight. I would still have.
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  Speaker 1: Two legs, but if I let the airline charge it,
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  Speaker 1: then it would charge me three hundred something. And then
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  Speaker 1: if I just got one ticket to Busan and then
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  Speaker 1: from Busan a separate ticket to Beijing, it would only
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  Speaker 1: cost me one hundred and fifty bucks. So I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's makes sense, and I do that a lot. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good trick for any travelers if you're getting like
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  Speaker 1: a bundled ticket with multiple legs, specially like if you're
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: going from California to Japan, it's going to give you
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  Speaker 1: options for California to Hawaii than Hawaii to Japan. Check
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  Speaker 1: that price against separate flights one from LA to Hawaii
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  Speaker 1: and then one from Hawaii to Tokyo or something. You
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  Speaker 1: can often get much cheaper flights if you do it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It started the price parody I noticed like last year
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: or something, but I don't know why now. Maybe it's
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: the US invasion of Iran. I'm really not sure, but
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  Speaker 1: that has I've been doing that the past few flights
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  Speaker 1: this year and last because that price parody is gone.
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  Speaker 1: The airlines have gone back to overcharging for bundling the
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  Speaker 1: flights together instead of just giving you the actual price
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  Speaker 1: of the flights, so you can often get a cheaper
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  Speaker 1: one of you book the legs yourself instead of having
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  Speaker 1: the having the airline or ticket finder service book them
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  Speaker 1: for you. So I was kind of like ah Busan
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  Speaker 1: because I was worried it would be like Seoul. And
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  Speaker 1: then I arrived and I already told you last week
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  Speaker 1: about how I got on how incredibly convenient and easy
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  Speaker 1: and inexpensive way cheaper than Japanese public transportation.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the ticket from busant Korea. I guess they
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  Speaker 1: have less to like less infrastructure in general, but in
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  Speaker 1: the city anyway, they had great infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: So I loved that.
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  Speaker 1: Getting from the airport on as far to the west
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  Speaker 1: end of the city as possible, all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the east end of the city was really easy for
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  Speaker 1: me who speaks no Korean. At midnight, I did luck
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  Speaker 1: out with the last public bus, but I was already
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  Speaker 1: like eighty percent of the way across the city, So
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  Speaker 1: if things hadn't worked out, I would have walked over there.
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  Speaker 1: But it did work out, and even at midnight, the
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  Speaker 1: trains were still running, which by the way, does not
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  Speaker 1: happen in Japan, just as a comparison, because people are
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  Speaker 1: more aware of that Japanese transport infrastructure. Japanese buses and
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  Speaker 1: trains generally they stopped running early, like eight thirty, maybe
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  Speaker 1: ten pm for the latest one, but all of Busan's
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  Speaker 1: were running until midnight, and some of them like twelve thirty,
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  Speaker 1: which is really convenient for people who take flights into
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  Speaker 1: the airport that land at ten. You got to go
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  Speaker 1: through immigration, and then you get out and it's eleven.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, everything shut down. But no, not in Korea.
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  Speaker 1: The rail was still up and the public transportation, the
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  Speaker 1: buses were all still running. Anyway, I got over there,
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  Speaker 1: I already mentioned that last week. I was very impressed
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  Speaker 1: by the transportation right away, and I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: excited to use the transportation, although I didn't end up
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  Speaker 1: using it until I went back to the airport. I
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  Speaker 1: was there for one week in Busan, and the first
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  Speaker 1: night I arrived, I got off the bus at I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, midnight, midnight thirty, and I stepped off, thinking,
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  Speaker 1: just like most other Asian countries, everything kind of closes
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  Speaker 1: down at ten or earlier ten pm, it's generally, but no.
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  Speaker 1: There was a chicken restaurant open when I stepped off
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  Speaker 1: the bus, and it was pretty expensive, but I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what the heck, It's my first time in
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  Speaker 1: Korea in years, and Busan seems much different. There were
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  Speaker 1: cherry blossom trees lining the streets, which was really exciting
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: because I thought it would be I realized that it's
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  Speaker 1: much norther, much more north in latitude, and so the
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  Speaker 1: I was right back in peak cherry blossom season. I
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  Speaker 1: was about one month past it when I was in Japan,
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  Speaker 1: but I just flew super far north. So now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm in peak cherry blossom season, and
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  Speaker 1: Busan loves cherry blossoms. There are cherry trees everywhere in
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  Speaker 1: that city. So I stepped off the bus onto a
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  Speaker 1: boulevard lined on both sides with cherry blossoms in full
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  Speaker 1: bloom every few meters. There were hundreds of them on
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  Speaker 1: this street with an eye distance and a Korean chicken
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  Speaker 1: place right in front of me, and it had just
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  Speaker 1: like rained a little bit, so it was a little
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  Speaker 1: like it looked clean and sparkly and like a fancy
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: nighttime nightscape. And I was just feeling real good.
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  Speaker 2: And I.
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  Speaker 1: Could I know, I couldn't hear it, but I looked
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  Speaker 1: where I was and I was really close to the beach,
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  Speaker 1: so I was like, let's just go in. This place
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  Speaker 1: is open at midnight for you Korean traveler. And I
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: went on in there, and I got it's very expensive
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  Speaker 1: for traveler because usually food just I pick and choose,
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: and I can find just as good food for a
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  Speaker 1: cheaper price. But this was just too serendipitous. And I
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: hadn't had Korean fried chicken from Korea in such a
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  Speaker 1: long time. And I don't like fried chicken. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like breaded fried chicken in general. I like like fried wings.
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  Speaker 1: But there's only one country on Earth that makes breaded
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  Speaker 1: fried chicken that tastes any good to me, and that
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  Speaker 1: is South Korea. I really don't like USA fried chicken.
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  Speaker 1: It just tastes like oil and maybe some salt and flour.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bomber for me to eat fried chicken. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the States, and I've tried it
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  Speaker 1: in China, and it's even worse because it just tastes
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  Speaker 1: like flour there. There's not even any salt or spices.
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  Speaker 1: China has regular plenty of fried foods that are not breaded,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm happy with that, but I try it when
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: I go to different countries. Thailand has it, Europe obviously
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  Speaker 1: has fried chicken that tastes almost as bad as China's
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  Speaker 1: or the US.
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  Speaker 2: Is I don't know. I do not there's something I
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  Speaker 2: don't get.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you all can educate me, but you know, I
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  Speaker 1: never had like deep South fried chicken, so I guess
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  Speaker 1: I should try that because that's like a big thing.
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  Speaker 2: In the US.
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  Speaker 1: But in general, I don't like bread fried chicken. It
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  Speaker 1: just tastes like flour and oil to me, and I
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  Speaker 1: get full and sick very quickly, except with Korean fried chicken,
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  Speaker 1: which I know is breaded with oil and flour. But
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, I don't get sick and heavy and
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  Speaker 1: feel like crap after I eat Korean breaded fried chicken,
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  Speaker 1: and I like the sauces, even though I don't like
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  Speaker 1: sweet sauces. Generally with Korean fried chicken, they're like garlic
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  Speaker 1: sauce will still be a little bit sweet, and they're
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  Speaker 1: spicy ones will and it just tastes good. And Korean
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  Speaker 1: fried chicken is always crunchy, no matter if they fr
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  Speaker 1: it once or twice. Every single place in South Korea,
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  Speaker 1: when they make their breaded fried chicken, it stays crunchy.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the glaze makes the breading crunchy perpetually or
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  Speaker 1: at least for hours afterwards, whereas most places I've been
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  Speaker 1: to in most other countries, especially in the US, it's
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: often not crunchy when it comes out. It's just like
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  Speaker 1: an oily doughe mess on top of the chicken. And
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  Speaker 1: even if it is crunchy, after like five minutes it
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  Speaker 1: gets less crunchy and becomes a oil sod and mess.
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  Speaker 1: And I like that crunch. So here I was back
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: in Korea, there's a place still open at midnight. Literally
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  Speaker 1: where I stepped off the bus. Right in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of businesses were closed down, but in front
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  Speaker 1: of the bus stop, this guy wisely kept his fried
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  Speaker 1: chicken shop open and it was opened for another half
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  Speaker 1: an hour. So I went in ordered my food. He
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  Speaker 1: said it'd be ready in fifteen minutes, so I went
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  Speaker 1: and walked around just to check out the neighborhood. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't right at my hotel. I still have to walk
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  Speaker 1: for I don't know, twenty minutes or something, but I
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  Speaker 1: always the first thing I do when I get to
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  Speaker 1: a new place is explore the neighborhood. I'll be living
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  Speaker 1: cause you'll always find the good restaurants and supermarkets and
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  Speaker 1: interesting parks and whatever. And I noticed that the ocean
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  Speaker 1: was like a five minute walk away from me. So
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  Speaker 1: I walked up and down the street. I got a
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  Speaker 1: couple beers from a twenty four hour convenience store. Takes
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  Speaker 1: my credit card. Fine. South Korea is very credit card friendly.
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  Speaker 1: I found out, like it's known for that it just
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: accepts credit cards pretty much everywhere, and I didn't have
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: to take out any Korean one. I used my credit
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  Speaker 1: card for the public transportation from the airport into the city,
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: for that fried chicken, for every supermarket, for every convenience store. Yeah,
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: it just worked everywhere, even the fancy crab dinner. So
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: I walked around for ten minutes, went back at fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: The guy gave me my food, and I walked down
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  Speaker 1: to the beach and there was a huge surf going on,
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  Speaker 1: like the waves were crashing against and it's midnight, so
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  Speaker 1: it looks really cool. But a bunch of people were
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  Speaker 1: still out hanging out down near the boardwalk.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you would call it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sidewalk concrete sidewalk cement, so I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but there was a whole bunch of people hanging out
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  Speaker 1: and talking, and I don't know if any of them
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  Speaker 1: were drinking. But I just cracked a beer and ate
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  Speaker 1: my fried chicken and I was like, yep, corean fried chicken,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: still the best fried chicken, and drank some beer and
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  Speaker 1: had a little party next to the roaring, crashing ocean.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised it looked like Pouquette. At
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  Speaker 1: least on the north side of Pouquette, the waves were
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  Speaker 1: just crashing constantly, or the whole time I was there
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: for what was I like a month or something, The
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  Speaker 1: entire month waves were just pounding the shore all on
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  Speaker 1: the north side. On the like west and southwest and
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: southern parts of Pouquette, the waves seemed pretty calm, but
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  Speaker 1: the entire north shore in Pouquette where I was, was
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  Speaker 1: just a constant mailstrom of pounding surf, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I got off. That's what this reminded me of.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was violent, the waves were going crazy
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  Speaker 1: and there was a high wind, but I wasn't getting sprayed.
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  Speaker 2: I was just far enough.
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  Speaker 1: Back and high enough that the sea spray wasn't hitting me,
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  Speaker 1: so I just got to watch the grandeur of the
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  Speaker 1: ocean frolic in front of me, happily biting into a
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  Speaker 1: three flavored South Korean fried chicken box and having a
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  Speaker 1: couple crappy beers. It was really fun. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this is exactly how I want to like say hello
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  Speaker 1: to each country. It doesn't know it be fried chicken
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  Speaker 1: every time, but like landing and there being a restaurant
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  Speaker 1: right next to me that looks pretty good, and then
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: going down to the beach and just watching the ocean
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  Speaker 1: go crazy while I have a little midnight snack. Actually
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: it was a huge, huge box because he only sold
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: giant boxes, so it was maybe I don't know, twelve
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  Speaker 1: dollars US, which is pretty expensive for travel, like you
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: would not have to pay twelve dollars US for Korean
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  Speaker 1: fried chicken in Bussan, but he only had giant boxes
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  Speaker 1: of it. So I got one of those giant boxes.
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  Speaker 1: So I had three different sections of different flavors from
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  Speaker 1: his shop, and I just and I just crunched through
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  Speaker 1: all of them and had a fun time. And I
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  Speaker 1: even got a little full because it was huge. It
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  Speaker 1: was a giant box and it was fun. That was
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  Speaker 1: my introduction. I was real happy. And then I found
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  Speaker 1: a public trash can threw away my trash. And there
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: are not a lot of public trash cans, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I found one and kept walking and I
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  Speaker 1: just walked to my hotel. And the hotel did not
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  Speaker 1: have a name on the building and it had a
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  Speaker 1: wall around it, so it was not easy to tell
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  Speaker 1: that was my hotel. But only took me, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: five minutes to figure it out. And it wasn't nicely.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the exact spot located on Airbnb. And
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: I walked up and I had received messages that the
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  Speaker 1: key was in the room and I enjoy my stay.
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  Speaker 1: And I walked in and the room was nice. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't like gilded with I don't know, roses on the
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  Speaker 1: walls or whatever scattered on the bed that's romantic.
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  Speaker 2: No, it just wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the nicest place I've ever been, but Bussan
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  Speaker 1: is a very crowded city and it's more expensive than
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: other Asian countries. Generally, the housing not as crazy as Japan,
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  Speaker 1: but pretty close. So this time I actually didn't have
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: a private bathroom for the first time in a very
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: long time. So there was a shared shower and actually
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: two shared showers and two shared toilets in the building,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: but I had a private room. But the room itself,
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  Speaker 1: it was clearly cleaned, very well, like the walls were clean,
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  Speaker 1: and there was no smoking in there. That's the nice thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of smoking. I just came from
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  Speaker 1: China and everyone just smokes right in front of no
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  Speaker 1: smoking signs, So it was nice to be in a
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  Speaker 1: no smoking spot that didn't have any smoke smell. And
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: the floor was swept, and there was a large HDTV
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: flat screen, and the bed looked very coffey and it
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  Speaker 1: was very comfortable, and there were blackout curtains on the windows,
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  Speaker 1: which I really liked. But the clean thing is huge.
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  Speaker 1: If the room is immaculately clean, then I don't care.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Well I care, but I'm not very worried about how
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: ornate the decorations in the room are. Just give me
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: a super nice place with a comfy mattress. It doesn't
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: have to be a queen bed, as long as it's
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: very comfortable. And this place was very comfortable, blackout curtains
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I was very excited about. And I took a shower
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: and then I passed the heck out. Oh and they
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: even had a hair dryer in the room, which was nice,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: and the towels were clean and new. Yeah, everything was
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: very nice. I was very happy with that. Actually, I
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: want to say it was a little dingy in that,
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  Speaker 1: like the air didn't smell fresh, so I opened the
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: window on the air and then the air smelled fresh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man.
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  Speaker 1: But then I went downstairs and there's a water filtration
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  Speaker 1: machine so I can get free filtered water directly from
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: this machine, and a free washing machine just throwing your
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: stuff and click start. And after I found those two things,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, coupled with the two shared showers and two
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: bathrooms which were all very clean, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a fine state. The bed
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  Speaker 1: super comfortable, the air is very nice in the city,
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  Speaker 1: and I have all the honest like privileges like filtered
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  Speaker 1: water and a washing machine. That's those are pretty nice amenities.
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  Speaker 1: So I was very happy from the first night, and
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: then I just got happier the longer ice in Busan.
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  Speaker 1: The first day I walked around and I hadn't been
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: in Korea for so long. There was a lot to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: figure out. But it was great because it was cherry
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: blossom season in Busan still I had just extend. I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: just got another free week of cherry blossom in full bloom.
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  Speaker 1: It was wonderful. It was beautiful, and then I got
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: to check out all the little shops and Korean food
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  Speaker 1: looks so good. I love all the little side dishes,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and so every time I walked by the window of
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant, I would look in there'd be like fourteen
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  Speaker 1: side dishes and them having hot pot, and I just, man,
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  Speaker 1: looks so good. And that happened to every five seconds.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I went into a supermarket and I was like, I'm
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: in Korea. Get me some norri and which is the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: like thin sheets of crispy seaweed nori. And it actually
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't as popular as I was expecting it to be.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, now I'm in South Korea, which
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: is the country known for seaweed laver or nori, but
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: not every supermarket it had it, and some of them
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: only had one type, which I just was not expecting.
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  Speaker 1: But I eventually found a couple different supermarkets that had
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a huge variety and somewhere on sale, and so I
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: just bought a huge pack of nori, which is my
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: favorite snack. And then I got some lemon Seltzers that
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I had never tried before, and it's been so long
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: since I was in Korea, I probably if I did
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: try them, I wouldn't remember. And I went to the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: park and enjoyed my snacks and lemon selt oh. I
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: got snacks, lemon seltzer and Seltzer water, so that I
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't just drinking an alcoholic sugary beverage. I just got
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: one of these cans of lemon seltzer with alcohol and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: then a big thing of Seltzer water, so that one
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: lemon Seltzer turns into four lemon Seltzers because it's just
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: seltzer water and lemon syrup and a little bit of vodka.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Or probably showed you in Korea. And I just had
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a little party and it was super fun. But wait,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: that's not the first thing I did. I did that
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: after I found in all you Can Eat a Fat
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: which I don't even I don't think I knew this.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think I ever went to one while I
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: was in Seoul, which is maybe I just wasn't on
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the all you can Eat a Fey game yet in Seoul. Maybe, Yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: because Korea, I would have visited that. Yeah, I visited
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that in my first year because of the visa runs.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And I went to Thailand also, and I know they
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: didn't I wasn't aware of their all you can Eat
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a fase at that point. Yeah, so I just didn't
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: know about South Korean. But it's very common to have
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: large sort of shared cafeteria sort of thing, and there's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: like twenty to thirty different dishes. You go in, you
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: pay six bucks and it's all you can eat, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: then you leave when you're done, and to a lot
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of the construction workers and students and local people whoever's
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Really, I saw everybody. Businessmen go in there,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and they get there, they get all the tasty food
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and it's all the side dishes, so you get like
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: fermented spiced bean sprouts and different types of fried cabot
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: or spinach and different types of meat. There was Kalby and.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: All sorts of foods. Soldier soup was there.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: But yeah, on a whim, because that's like one of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the first things I check now when I live in
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a place whereas your all you can eat buffets, and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: then I try them because it's almost always worth it
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to go there instead of regular restaurants for me, anyway,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I can if the country at all hasn't all you
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: can eat buffet presents, you go to a few of
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: them and you just find the best one. I like
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to go to all of them, and then I go
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: back to the best one. But I walked around the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: city thinking, there's no way a city this clean. Okay,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that's the I gotta start with that. That's how this
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: first day started. I walk out of my like, what
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: is it shared apartment building?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, they have a.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Name for that in South America, I can't remember now,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: private rooms, but shared facilities, restrooms and showers. Anyway, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: walked out of my thing, and the first thing that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: struck me was how clean Busan was, which is weird
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: for a bunch of reasons. I'm right, next to the ocean.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I mean literally, like maybe ten minutes walk tops from
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the violent, crazy ocean shooting sea spray up. But none
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: of the buildings are worn. That brown moisture leaking down
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the water stains are not on the outside of busan buildings,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: at least in hand day. I'm still perplexed about that,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: because if you've been to Hawaii, all of the buildings
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: look like they're consistently broken down because it's so humid
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that the it's breaking down all of the buildings and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: signs all of the time. And unless it's a super
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: high upscale hotel, the businesses just seem to shrug it
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: off because what are you going to do. It's so
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: humid and their salt spray. You can't maintain building appearances.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: But I found out later someone a local, gave me
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: an answer. I'll get to that later. But what was
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: so strange And I walked all around Haynde, which is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: actually a pretty big area, and almost every single building
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and these are like thirty story apartment buildings, and in
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the middle of the city, in the rural outfields, every
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: building looked like it had been painted that week. It
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: was so strange to see a city this large, this clean,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't just the buildings. There was trash along
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the sides of the river, not a ton like. It
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: wasn't one hundred percent immaculate, but it was the cleanest
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: city I think I've ever been to. Japanese cities are clean,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: but they still have trash on the side of the roads.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Not a ton, But if there's like a out of
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the wayt spot in a corner, there'll be a bunch
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: of trash there there was in Japan where I was.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: There was a bunch of trash on the beach, like
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: in this little small alcove under an alcove area that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't see right away. And in the waterways there
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: was trash. And on the streets you'll see trash from
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: convenience stores and stuff. And I basically didn't see any
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of that the whole time I was staying in Busan.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Now I was in Handay, which just separates the East neighborhood.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't really go into the main city more than
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: twice after I arrived in Handay, but I can certainly
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: say Handay in Busan is remarkably clean, and not just
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: how they keep all the trash I can't. I still
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: can't get over how clean the buildings were.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: That's weird.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Buildings shouldn't be that immaculately clean, especially the thirty it's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: like painted brick. And these are thirty story, forty story buildings,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: dozens of them. Like out in the rural areas there
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: are these huge apartment complexes, and if you go to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: if you go to China, for instance, they have those
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: same things. They have giant apartment complex neighborhoods. But those
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: buildings look old, even if they were built five years ago.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: There's the brown watermarks streaking down. Even though it almost
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: never rains in Beijing and it's not near the ocean.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Everything's rusted, Like the brackets for the acs are rusted.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Things just look.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Old and broken down. And that's the same in the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: US and most other countries I've been to. Certainly Japan,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: their signs are faded and all that kind of stuff.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: But every single place in Handay looked brand new and
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: cleaned and freshly painted. And I couldn't get over that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the entire week I was there. It was bonkers and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: extremely nice. It was very nice to walk around this clean,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: new looking city that didn't have a fresh paint smell everywhere.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It just looked like everything had been freshly maintained, no
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: matter where I was in the city, no matter how
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: rural or urban the environment was. So now I want
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: to go to another place in Korea and see if
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: it's only Soul that was so broken down relative to
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: other parts of South Korea. And I know some people
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: like Soul, and you can go to rooftop parties in Seoul,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: like you can pay one thousand dollars whatever for a
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: nice room, and Soul certainly, but in general, the maintenance
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of the city no comparison at all between Buson and Salt.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Buson winds hands up, and then Soul just has stumps
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: for hands in my relative estimation. So I'm so curious
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: if this is a Busan specific thing, or if it's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: an all Korean cities except for Soul kind of thing. Hey,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but I was talking about the food, okay. So I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: searched on my maps. I might have used Google actually
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: for this and for all you can eat BFE and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: there was a place listed, but it was all in
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Korean and there were no pictures, so I couldn't tell anything.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: But I just decided to walk there because it was
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in the city and I like walking around, and I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: got there after I don't know, half an hour or something,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and I'm walking on these giant boulevards that are immaculately clean,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and there's no cars on them, and there's nature all around,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: like green trees on hills and not. I walked over
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: this beautiful river.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I loved Man really like Bussan. I was by the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: first day.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I was like, maybe I should.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Just live here for a while because this is nice,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: which would be funny because now I can speak Chinese
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and really crappy Japanese. So if I do move to
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Korea and live there for a while, I'm gonna have
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to learn the third major East Asian language, also from scratch,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: because I really have never studied that. Because when I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was going for visa arounds, I only stayed a few
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: days at a time, and this time also I was
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in Busan, and I'd be happy to stay longer, but
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I was only there for a week, so I got
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: no Korean. Really, I got a few words, but pretty
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: much nothing. I don't even know most of the food,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: how to say, most of the food in Korea. But anyway,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going down this beautiful boulevard and I get into
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the busier part of the city, but it's still well
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of this district of the city of Handay, so there
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: is traffic, but the sidewalk is the sidewalks are. The
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: sidewalks are like, I don't know, four meters wide, like
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: fifteen feet wide. They're huge. It's very comfortable, and the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: whole city is like that. There's always very broad sidewalks
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: or greenways, so like a belt of pedestrian walkway in
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the middle of trees and grass, even if you're in
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: traffic town, if you're in the city, very comfortable district
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to walk around in. And I'm just walking down this
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: broad boulevard and I get to the spot where there's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: supposed to be the buffet, but everything's in Korean, so
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I translate it and it says buffet on the third floor,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: fourth floor, whatever, And there's no sign. It's just on
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the side of the building. It says buffet and it
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't scream real. I'm just it looks like
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: maybe it's an old sign or something like that. Not
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: like I said, they're all like new looking signs. Just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: didn't seem there wasn't an arrow pointing somewhere that made
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: it obvious, but whatever. I walked into the building. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: went to the third floor. I walk out and boom,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: right on my left there's what looks like a cafeteria
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and I walk in. I'm like, yep, here's the buffet.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: There's thirty something plates lined up, and this lady sees me,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: walks up. I give him my credit card, she swipes
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it and I'm in, and I think it was six
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: dollars for the all you can eat buffet. I could check,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure it was six thirty three. It
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: was something like that. And the only problem with this
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: buffet was that the meal trays weren't heated. If they
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: were heated, I would have liked the meat dishes in
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: particular more, but there's so many cold, delicious vegetable dishes
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that I guess that's why they just don't bother because
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they only have like two or three meat dishes. The
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: soup was heated and the rice was heated, but yeah,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they didn't heat the meat dishes
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: as well. But that aside, that's the only I'll give
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: it four stars instead of five kind of thing, because
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the food itself was delicious. Even the meat, the meat
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: that was out the colby was great and like I meant,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: those pickled fermented bean sprouts. Oh, there was so much
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: good food. They had the spice see soldier stew I
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: think it was, or maybe it was just a tofu
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: spicy stew that was delicious. The rice was perfectly made,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: like fluffy and a little bit not sticky, just.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Perfect.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It was very well made, firm, a little sticky, but
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: not sticky sticky rice. And then they had miso soup
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and some other soup at the end of the thing,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and fifteen vegetable dishes.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: What else did I get there?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Was? I mean, the meat was so good, but there
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: were several vegetable dishes. I really Oh kimchi, Yes, they
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: had two different types of kimchi, and I got a
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: bunch of that. I just piled up the plate and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I was extremely happy. I got a cast beer because
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I'm in Korea and they had beer there. And that's
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the expensive park because the all you can eat b
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: fet is like six dollars, but then each beer is
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: two bucks, but well worth the luxuriating in. Oh, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: there's tables right next to open windows, so you can
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: get the fresh air in your face while you're eating
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: this freshly mat food that is delicious. And while I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: was there, I could, of course say thank you in Korean.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: COMESMANI da wait is that correct? Oh jeez, I don't
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: even know. I can't remember. Come somni da. Yeah, yeah,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: so that's how you say thank you in Korean, so
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I need that in like two other words beers like beauty.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: No, that's Japan.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I said thank you, and then the ladies who
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: ran the cafeteria were like excited to see the foreigner there,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and one of them kept when I went up to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: get food. Each time she was like, try this, try this,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: it's very good, but in Korean, so I none of
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: them spoke any English, so I had no idea what
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: anybody was saying.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: But you don't need due.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: They swiped my credit card and I was into the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: oh you can eat bfet and then everyone's very nice
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and everything's very clean. I knew how to say delicious also,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and I can't remember that right now, but I said
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: that to everybody, so they knew. And then the lady
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: who made it seemed very happy about that, so she
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: brought out a huge new tray of Calby, and after
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: she pointed it out to me, she was clearly saying, like, get.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It, get it new hot. It's new, come get it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: And so I did.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I went up and got some of the new piping
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: hot Calby and it was so good. It was, you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: it's just as good as the other Calby. I already
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: had some lukewarm Calby, but this was just piping hot
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: fresh from the kitchen. And yeah, I probably ate for
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: over an hour, had a couple beers, and then I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was extremely happy, and I walked out, thinking I will
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: go there tomorrow. So I did actually, so after that,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: that's when I got the seaweat snack from the supermarket
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I found, and the lemon seltzer with a bunch of seltzers,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and I was just flown, having a great time, and
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I walked around the rest.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Of the district, which is big.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: It took me a few hours just thinking, Okay, I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: got a week here, no agenda. I will just go
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: back to this buffet every day, maybe get some seaweedt
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: snacks every now and then from the supermarket nearby, and yeah,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: just hang out, have a nice day every day. So glad,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I decided to go to Busan, and that is what
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I did. Every single day I was in Busan. I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: went back to that same cafeteria and what I found
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: out was that they changed dishes every day, so they
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: had maybe two thirds of the dishes were the same,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: but the meat dishes were changed out every two days,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes every day, and the Korean, the side dishes, all
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the cold vegetable dishes were switched out nearly daily, so
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you always had new dishes to choose. I always had
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: new dishes to choose from and eat, which is great,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Like I love it all you can eat buffet. I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: love and all you can eat buffet with a rotating
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: menu even more. And it's all freshly made. You can
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: see them bringing out the fresh trays and putting them
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: down every twenty minutes or something, so there's always fresh
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: food coming out, and the soups were different every day.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: So it was very fun to go there every day
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: because the food was already great, Like there was this
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: one omelet with pieces of sausage, Korean sausage cooked in
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: with like a giant tray of omelet, and that was amazing. Oh,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and then they have the Korean spicy sauces right next
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to it, and they're clearly homemade like go chi chang,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: not the stuff you would buy in the supermarket, So
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that was also crazy delicious. So for all the meat dishes,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I used the spicy toppings, and then all the vegetables
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: are a little spicy fermented anyway. So yeah, I was
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: in heaven for seven days in Busan, just going to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: this six dollars all you can eat bufet every day
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and eating my fill and then walking out just thinking like, okay,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I will see you tomorrow. And then I did every
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: day and they were all nice. One time, the lady
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: accidentally charged me for four seats instead of one seat,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: but she noticed it like at the same time I
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: did immediately after she charged it, and she reversed the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: charge instantly, and because Korea is such a credit card country,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: it went through right away. So after a couple minutes,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: my bank notified me that I had received the twenty
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: seven dollars credit, that I had been charged and done,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: and so it was no problem. She made a mistake,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: she fixed it right away, and even with no Korean
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: on my part and no English on her part, it
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't even an issue. Because she solved to the problems
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: so quickly, and I paid my regular six bucks and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: went in and ate my fatty fill and then walked
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: around for several hours to work off some of my feasts.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I think I got a beer every day. I didn't
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: get two beers. I don't really like cast beer, but
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: a little beer with the spice, with the goatchu jang
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and these just it's a perfect compliment to fermented vegetables,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: pickled vegetables, and like the Korean different because they have
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: like three different main spicy sauces every day. So with
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: all of that, just one beer. So that's what I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: did the remaining six days while I was in Busan.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I would go there, pay my six bucks, get one
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: beer for an extra two dollars, and Lodom I played
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: a couple times and have a beer with my delicious food,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and that was a great day. And then I would
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: go hiking around the rest of the day and take
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: pictures of the absurdly clean buildings, and every now and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: then I met someone really nice and cool. I almost
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: saw a delivery truck hit an old lady crossing the street.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Though that was crazy.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: There was she had the right of way, there's an
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: old lady walking across the street, and for some reason
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the delivery truck went, which is crazy. There's not a
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: lot of honking. The traffic is incredibly orderly in Busan.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what this guy was thinking. I don't
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: think there was a light, so he was just making
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: his judgment to turn at that point. But the maybe
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: he didn't see the lady because he's high up in
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the truck, but he was a foot away from her.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: He was maybe three feet away when he saw her
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and slammed on the brakes and then he was left
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  Speaker 1: foot away from her and almost hit her. But she
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: did that thing that Asian people do when they almost
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  Speaker 1: get hit. By every Asian country I've ever been to,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: they look up slowly and sort of like evil eye
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  Speaker 1: the person and then just shake their hand. They're like, oh,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I can't believe you did that. They don't get like
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: really irate. Maybe in China they do, but they don't
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: get super irate. A lot of the East Asian countries
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: will just like pause, like excuse me, vehicle even paid
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  Speaker 1: in my personal space, and then slowly turn their head
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  Speaker 1: and squint at the driver like you idiot, you broke
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  Speaker 1: the rules of our civilization and then they'll continue crossing
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  Speaker 1: the road, which is what this lady did. But I
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: that truck was so close. I thought she was gonna
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: get creamed, and I'm glad she did not, because he
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: accelerated really fast from a stop to a full acceleration
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  Speaker 1: sprint and for like four meters and then slammed on
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  Speaker 1: the brakes when he finally saw the pedestrian.
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  Speaker 2: That was crazy.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: That was the most dangerous, crazy, ugly thing I saw
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: in Busan the entire time I was there, and it
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: was shocking because everything was so organized. I was like, well,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: certainly a traffic accident can't happen here or in Utopia.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: And then I almost saw this dude straight, straight up
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: accelerate over a grandma. Quite surprising. Okay, some of this
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: is going to be out of order because I wrote
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: so much stuff down because Korea just had so much
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: stuff going on. But before my flight to Busan, I
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: was waiting in the Matsuyama airport and one thing I
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: hadn't gotten in the six weeks whatever I was in
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Japan was the vending machine ice creams, which I love.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: They have very high ye quality ice cream it's like
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: those cornetto cones, but they have so many different flavors,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: and they'll often have like premium real fruit flavors and
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: like mint, chocolate swirls and rainbow sprinkle, vanilla cake flavors,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: like cheesecake flavors, like really intricate cornetto flavors in Japan,
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  Speaker 1: and they sell them in vending machines, and they're cheap.
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  Speaker 1: They're one fifty two dollars or one fifty two one
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: hundred yen, so that's only like a dollar or a
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: dollar fifty for the premium month. And when I was
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: backpacking across Japan, which is pretty much what I did
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: every other time I've been in Japan, if you walk
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: between cities, you'll see the ice cream vending machines. They
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: are around, So every day I would walk by a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: new one, and the different vending machines have different flavors,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: so one of them might have pistachio mint, and then
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: another one might have butterscotch cheesecake, and I would every
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: time I pass by one, I'd be like, Ooh, butter
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: scotch cheesecakes hounds amazing, And I would get that and
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: then keep walking to the next town. But because I
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was in a house this time for the first time
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: in Japan, which was fine for recording but not as
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: fun as walking around between cities and towns in Japan,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't There wasn't one in the town area of
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the town I was at, so I just didn't get
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that fix. But here I was in Matsuyam Airport waiting
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  Speaker 1: to go to Busan. I had like two hours to wait,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and I had a bunch of change with me, and
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I sat down and right in front of me was
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: one of those ice cream cone vending machines, and I said,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: hot dog, I know what I'm doing with these.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: These coins.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I got left and I ended up getting three different
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: ice creams before my flight to Busan, and one of
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: them one of them was a Rainbow Sprinkle something. One
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: of them was a premium chocolate Gallett. One of them
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: was an Orange Sherbert, and I had the Orange Herbert first.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I think. I was like, well that was stupid good. Oh,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: you know, it's crazy.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I picked up a one hundred coin or something on
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: the way there, so if I didn't pick that up,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I would only have enough coins for two. But because
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I picked it up, I had enough coins for three
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: different ice creams, and two of them were the premium ones,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: so that was pretty great, just gorging on ice cream
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: before my flight to Busan. And then I arrived Busan.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: It has everything I like. It's super clean, all you
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: can eat bffet, the room is nice, the shared toilets
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: and showers are incredibly clean. There's filtered water, a washing machine,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: and I was like, hell, yeah, hello Busan. Well there's
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a lot more to talk about with Busan, So I
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: will see you next week and continue this Buson ramble,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: you know it. I'll close it out with this, which
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: is really funny because I was talking to my friend
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: back in the States using text Now, which is a
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: texting program, and I was so excited about Busan, and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: we were just talking back and forth and I kept
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: talking that text Now limited me from sending any more messages.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I have never used it enough to discover there was
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: a limit. But apparently if you send too many messages
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: to your friend, text now says that's enough talking. You
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: can only talk this much, so your account is suspended
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: for twenty four hours. And it's not like I was
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: spamming whatever. This was a dynamic conversation between my friend
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: and I. But I was telling her all of this
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: stuff that I'm telling you, the incredibly clean buildings, the buffet,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the wide sidewalks, the beautiful nature all around the beach, everything,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: And after a while text now was like, stop talking.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Too much fun. So I usually use signal because that's unlimited.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: You can just talk to people and it's way better.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: But this one friend is a leddite and she basically
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: never uses her phone for any so text now is
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the only way we can communicate because it goes directly
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: to her phone number that she is ha for like
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: twenty years or something. And I just happened to catch
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: her and we got to talk about how much fun
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Busan was, and then text I was like, don't talk
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: about it anymore. You can't possibly have that much to
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: say about one city. But I do, folks, I have
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: much more to say about Busan, and I will get
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: you back next week. You can talk to me a
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: bit of a rambler at gmail dot com or bit
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: of a Rambler Blue Sky and let me have a
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: great rest of your day.