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142 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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Speaker 1: And today we dive into more Mongolia rambling on a
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Speaker 1: lot's been going on. Okay, let's start with I think
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Speaker 1: I found my favorite statue so far of every country
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Speaker 1: I've been to. I don't know if this is really true,
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Speaker 1: but they do have a lot of cool statues here,
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Speaker 1: and like the art. There's not a lot of street
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Speaker 1: art or graffiti in the middle of the city in
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Speaker 1: Nulan Batar, But the more I explored the alleyways and
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Speaker 1: backstreets and everywhere's a backstreet if you're not on a
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Speaker 1: main road. There aren't like straight roads connecting any of
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Speaker 1: the main roads. They're all very twisty and turney. So
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Speaker 1: I have found a few cool murals, and I started
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Speaker 1: to find some cool statues. But I found an awesome
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Speaker 1: statue and it stopped me on the sidewalk and I
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Speaker 1: stayed there for like five ten minutes, like a long time,
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Speaker 1: staring at this because it's the Predator from the Predator
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Speaker 1: movies on a motorcycle Xenomorph, the alien from the Alien series.
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Speaker 1: So the Predator is riding a motorcycle that is entirely
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Speaker 1: like one of the aliens from the Alien movies. That
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Speaker 1: photo is in the let Me Travel community and it's
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Speaker 1: fairly new. It's from like five or six years ago.
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Speaker 1: And there's a guy in Thailand who does this. He
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Speaker 1: dresses up like Predator and rides an alien custom built
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Speaker 1: motorcycle that he milt Milt that he built, which is
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Speaker 1: already pretty awesome, and apparently a Mongolian sculpture artist got
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Speaker 1: so inspired by that that he made that sculpture and
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Speaker 1: it's pretty. It's prominently displayed in front of a giant
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Speaker 1: building on a wide sidewalk on a platform. It's not
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Speaker 1: quite life size. I guess it's a little smaller because
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Speaker 1: predators are huge, but this tie Predator probably isn't super tall,
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Speaker 1: so maybe it's based solely directly on him. Anyway, it's
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Speaker 1: so cool. It's extremely detailed. It has all the predators
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Speaker 1: tech and weapons and all that, and the xenomorph also
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Speaker 1: is extremely detailed, like articulated digits. Well I guess they
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Speaker 1: can't actually move, but like they look like they can move.
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Speaker 1: So it looks like this Predator is riding an alien
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Speaker 1: who happens to be a motorcycle it's so cool, it's
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Speaker 1: so great. I say there a long time and people
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Speaker 1: were just walking by me on the street. I was like, guys,
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Speaker 1: don't you get it, don't you see what's happening here?
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Speaker 1: This is an art revolution. And then I went online.
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Speaker 1: I was even more excited to find out that it's
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Speaker 1: real and there's a there's a guy in Thailand. There's
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Speaker 1: an artist in Thailand who dresses up his Predator and
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Speaker 1: has a few different bikes apparently and rides around on
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Speaker 1: Xenomorph or Predator bikes made of bones or looking like alien,
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Speaker 1: like the alien. That's pretty good. That's like it must
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Speaker 1: be his life's work. And you know what, life well spent. Friend,
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Speaker 1: If that sounds cool at all, you can go on
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Speaker 1: YouTube and just search for Predator, Predator riding Xenomorph motorcycle
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Speaker 1: or alien motorcycle and you'll find it for sure. And
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Speaker 1: you can go to the lemmy community. It's just let
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Speaker 1: Me Travel community and there's a recent picture of and
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Speaker 1: it's made in bronze and it's not green to bronze.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it isn't bronze because it's not tarnished at all.
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Speaker 1: It's a very dull bronze color. But man, it looks
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Speaker 1: very cool. It's not like one solid piece of metal
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Speaker 1: for like the Yeah, it's not once all a piece
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Speaker 1: of metal. It's thousands of pieces of metal shaped together
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Speaker 1: into the predator and his dreadlocks and his shoulder mounted
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Speaker 1: weapon and his risk guard whatever, and the alien's legs
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Speaker 1: and muscles and feet and everything. It's wahahldly detailed. So
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Speaker 1: I would suggest getting to let me travel community if
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Speaker 1: that sounds cool at all, because it's worth seeing. So
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Speaker 1: I'm on Crazy People, So that'll be Crazy People dot
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Speaker 1: online slash see Slash Travel and that's it and that
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Speaker 1: will have all the pictures of what's been going on
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Speaker 1: and travel and some travel information. But that statue is
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Speaker 1: so worth it just to see. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I can find it online. Okay, moving on. It's so
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Speaker 1: crazy how how much this is just it could just
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Speaker 1: be called Genghis Khan country and it would make justice
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Speaker 1: much thats when you came here. He's on every banknote,
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Speaker 1: He's half of the brands. There's Con beer, con cigarettes,
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Speaker 1: there's Chingus Beer. Chingus is the Mongolian pronunciation of Genghis. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Genghis is the Westernized version of his name. Chingis, hotels, plazas, everything.
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Speaker 1: The vodka here is named Chingis or con Vodka. There's everything, everything, everything,
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Speaker 1: and there's statues of him everywhere and pictures and it's
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Speaker 1: pretty all encompassing the influence he's had on the country, which,
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Speaker 1: of course I bet if I go to like Macedonia,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be Alexander the Great everywhere, Macedonia, Macedonia, Macedonia.
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Speaker 1: I think I like Macedonia the best. But they would
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Speaker 1: have pronounced some more like Macedonia because they're they didn't
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Speaker 1: have sound for seas. It would have been a kuh Macedonia.
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Speaker 1: Alexander's from what is now North Macedonia. Anyway, Yeah, Gingh's
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Speaker 1: Chingis Khan is the biggest figure in their history. But
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Speaker 1: it's still kind of crazy to see him everywhere. I guess,
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Speaker 1: like in the US, there are a lot of things
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Speaker 1: named Washington, so maybe it's the same thing. Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: on one of the monies. But see, there's not different
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Speaker 1: presidents or different leaders of Mongolia on the different bank currencies.
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Speaker 1: There is Bogt Khan Mountain, which was another Khan it
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Speaker 1: looked like more modern who led the country into modernity
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Speaker 1: a bit, but he has the Sacred Mountain named after him,
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Speaker 1: but most things are named after Chingis here. When I
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Speaker 1: was walking around, just hanging out, walking around the city,
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Speaker 1: I was walking down the street, and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, I realized that I was walking next to
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Speaker 1: or walking by this like she couldn't have been more
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Speaker 1: than six years old, just this little girl, but she
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Speaker 1: walked like she was a state dignitary or inspection officer.
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Speaker 1: Her hands were behind her back, and she was just
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Speaker 1: wearing little girl clothes, like a little jacket and buckled
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Speaker 1: shoes or whatever. But she very imperiously not marched, but
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Speaker 1: just like she owned the sidewalk, was strolling down the sidewalk.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever read those Eloise books,
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Speaker 1: but that's what she struck me as immediately. Just she
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Speaker 1: didn't look like she was lost or confused or anything,
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Speaker 1: and she was quite young. And I looked around us
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Speaker 1: forward and back, and there was nobody else on the sidewalk,
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Speaker 1: So maybe she her parents worked in one of the
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Speaker 1: shops nearby or something. But we walked for half a
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Speaker 1: block and then I walked past her. My strides are
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Speaker 1: longer than a six year old girls, and I looked
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Speaker 1: back and after I had rounded the corner a minute,
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Speaker 1: and there she was just rounding the corner, still inspecting everything,
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Speaker 1: just observing the world around her. And it was such
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Speaker 1: a funny strut to see from this tiny child. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I just mentioned bogd Khan Mountain. I climbed boked Khan Mountain. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and he was presiding over Mongolia at the time. Mongolia
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Speaker 1: declared its independence from China, who claimed it for a bit,
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Speaker 1: but there was no way they were going to fight
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Speaker 1: the Mongolians again. That never worked out for China very well.
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Speaker 1: All I knew about bogd Kan Mountain was that it
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Speaker 1: was to the south. If I just walked south, I
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Speaker 1: would get there because I can look out the window
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Speaker 1: from my apartment here and I can see it outside
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Speaker 1: of the city far to the south. It's huge. So
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Speaker 1: one day I did exactly that. I just walked out
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Speaker 1: and I started walking south and I just kept walking
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Speaker 1: south for a couple hours. But like I said, the
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Speaker 1: city's not huge north to south. So I got there, yeah,
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Speaker 1: within a couple hours pretty quick. I don't even think
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Speaker 1: it took a couple hours, maybe maybe an hour and
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Speaker 1: a half because I was strolling, and it was a
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Speaker 1: new part of town, and I was looking at statues
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Speaker 1: and stuff I hadn't seen before. But I just walked
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Speaker 1: straight south. And then after yeah, let's say ninety minutes,
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Speaker 1: I had gone through. I got through the outer ring
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Speaker 1: of the city after an hour, and then I was
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Speaker 1: in where they're expanding the city, so there's no apartment
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Speaker 1: buildings going up, and a bunch of construction, and it
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Speaker 1: went through that for twenty minutes. There was a bunch
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Speaker 1: of kids walking home from school, and then I was
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Speaker 1: through the construction area and there was just forest and grass.
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Speaker 1: There was no other structures. And then ten minutes later,
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Speaker 1: on my right hand side there was a so on
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Speaker 1: the western hand side, going south, there was like a resort.
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Speaker 1: It looked like some kind of fancy resort. And there
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Speaker 1: were a couple of wild horses near the river and
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Speaker 1: they spotted me, and I only spotted them because they
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Speaker 1: were like rare and galloped away a couple feet even
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Speaker 1: though they were already I don't know, one hundred meters
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Speaker 1: away from me, and I was like, oh, horses, and
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Speaker 1: I just kept walking and they were a bit skiddish.
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Speaker 1: And then ten minutes after that, I was standing on
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Speaker 1: the foothills anyway, the beginning of Bogdcan Mountain, which i'd
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Speaker 1: heard was the most sacred mountain in Mongolia, so I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to climb it straight away in case it
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Speaker 1: was like Uluru in Australia, like a sacred, sacred rock
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Speaker 1: that you're not allowed to climb. But there was one
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Speaker 1: lady I'm assuming Mongolian, because she was chanting very loudly
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Speaker 1: in Mongolian and it sounded super cool. So I kind
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Speaker 1: of meandered slowly around the foothills while I listened to
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Speaker 1: her shout bellow chant across what was a valley. She
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Speaker 1: was up in the foothills of bogd Khan, and then
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Speaker 1: it dipped into a valley where that river was with
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Speaker 1: the horse that went back up to other hills on
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Speaker 1: the opposite side of the river. And this lady was
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Speaker 1: yeah on those foothills and she would just go and
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Speaker 1: shout out this cool chant that sounded really interesting, and
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Speaker 1: I would like to just stay there and listen to her,
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Speaker 1: but I also wanted to get up the mountain, and
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Speaker 1: I assumed I would be able to hear her for
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Speaker 1: a while because she had quite a voice and she
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Speaker 1: was projecting it perfectly, I guess, into the mountain because
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Speaker 1: it just sounded like it was coming from everywhere. It
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Speaker 1: was really cool, and I don't know if that was
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Speaker 1: meditation or what it was, but I'm glad I got
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Speaker 1: to witness that. And then I just started climbing up
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Speaker 1: the mountain and I figured I would find a path.
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Speaker 1: There were a couple paths marked on my offline maps.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure how accurate they would be or whatever,
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Speaker 1: but they turned out to be very accurate, and there
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Speaker 1: were several other paths beyond the ones that were on
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Speaker 1: my offline maps. So I just walked uphill. Basically, I
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Speaker 1: switched path to paths. Sometimes I didn't even go on
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Speaker 1: a path and I just walked uphill. And then I
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Speaker 1: saw there was like Special Forces Mongolian Special Forces placards
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Speaker 1: and signs on one of the trails that I was
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Speaker 1: going up, and it looks like sort of like an
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Speaker 1: obstacle course, like a running course that they're supposed to
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Speaker 1: run up, I guess because they're the Special Forces, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh am, I supposed to be here.
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Speaker 1: And then as if financer. Right after that, I saw
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Speaker 1: a like Grandma and her middle aged daughter and a
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Speaker 1: Russian or non Mongolian tourist. Anyway, I assume all of
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Speaker 1: the white people in Mongolia are Russian because there are
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Speaker 1: a ton of Russians here, borders shared and all that.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I saw another non Mongolian climbing and I
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Speaker 1: was like, well, at least there's a couple of us
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Speaker 1: and a lot of normal people looked like they were
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Speaker 1: climbing the mountain, so it seemed fine. And there were
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Speaker 1: also signs like pointing this is the top of the mountain,
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Speaker 1: this is whatever trail, and this is the rest camp.
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Speaker 1: So I assumed it seems I made the educated guess
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Speaker 1: that it was okay to climb the clearly marked mountain
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Speaker 1: that other people were also climbing. While I was walking
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Speaker 1: up the mountain, I was like, huh, are there any
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Speaker 1: predators here? And there are a couple of big cats,
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Speaker 1: snow leopards and a palace cat, and then they have bars,
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Speaker 1: and there's YACs, of course, and there's gazelles and antelopes
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Speaker 1: over in the desert, and a few camels. It looks
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Speaker 1: like there's like three hundred something left. They must be
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Speaker 1: they're endangered at this point but they're in the Gobi Desert.
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Speaker 1: So when I was reading that, climbing up the mountain,
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Speaker 1: I saw leopard and I was like what. And it
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Speaker 1: was still the trees hadn't leaved yet sprouted leaves or
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Speaker 1: spines or whatever. So I just looked up into the
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Speaker 1: trees and I didn't see it leopard looking down at me.
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Speaker 1: So I was like, well, that's good. So I kept
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Speaker 1: climbing and I eventually made my way to the top,
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Speaker 1: and I kept saying special Forces running track on several signs.
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Speaker 1: And I got to the top and I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: me and the Special Forces twinsies. And the problem was
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Speaker 1: that it was still gray, and I assumed it always was.
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Speaker 1: But after the third week in Mongolia, things started getting
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Speaker 1: really green. So yeah, now I know things are turning green,
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Speaker 1: but they're only green for like a couple few months,
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Speaker 1: and then everything goes back to gray and then it's
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Speaker 1: freezing and then it's snowy for six months. And when
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Speaker 1: I got to the top, there was a nice little
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Speaker 1: vista to look over and I could see behind the mountain,
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Speaker 1: and that's when after that mountain, it's just that's there's
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Speaker 1: no more city. There's just a whole bunch of towns
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Speaker 1: and mostly just open country. There are towns all across Mongolia,
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Speaker 1: but there's so few people across such a large area
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Speaker 1: that is just it's just area. It's just huge land.
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Speaker 1: So I do kind of want to go backpacking across
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Speaker 1: this country and not just stay in the city next
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Speaker 1: time if I return, that's that'll be the number one
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Speaker 1: priority to go out hammet camping into Mongolia, into the
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Speaker 1: backwoods of Mongolia. Boatcon was cool. I climbed back down,
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Speaker 1: I got some food, and I headed on home. Actually
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Speaker 1: it was kind of dell because I do like forests
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Speaker 1: and I do like water, and Boatcon had neither of those.
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Speaker 1: On my way back, I stopped at a supermarket and
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Speaker 1: I saw caviaar for two dollars, like a bunch of it,
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Speaker 1: and I was very confused, and I got it and
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Speaker 1: it was really good, and I was like, wait, is
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Speaker 1: this real caviare? Because it was salted and fishy and
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Speaker 1: just tasted good and just a little TACKI so I
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Speaker 1: was kind of confused, and then I translated it something
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Speaker 1: and it turns out it was imitation. It was made
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Speaker 1: from kelp, but that was the best kelp caviar I
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Speaker 1: ever had, And then I saw they had other brands
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Speaker 1: of kelp imitation caviar in other places, but those all
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Speaker 1: tasted like the standard total crappy imitation caviar. If you've
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Speaker 1: ever had imitation caviar, it usually just tastes like rolled
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Speaker 1: compressed kelp balls. It's nah, it's not great. That one
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Speaker 1: I tried was good. I actually had it again, and
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Speaker 1: I was surprided. It does definitely, Yeah, it tastes not bad,
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Speaker 1: but I was confused for a couple of days and
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Speaker 1: thought maybe it was real caviar, until I had the
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Speaker 1: bright idea to translate the label on the package, where
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Speaker 1: it very clearly says imitation caviar, which makes a lot
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Speaker 1: of sense for two dollars for like two big things
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Speaker 1: of caviar. So there's one good imitation caviar i've ever had,
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Speaker 1: Not as good as regular caviar, but pretty good for
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Speaker 1: two bucks, and then a whole bunch of terrible caviaar
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Speaker 1: for also two to three dollars for each brand. Ooh,
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Speaker 1: I got some material from abandoned jacket on the road.
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Speaker 1: I washed it in my washing machine here. It was
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Speaker 1: already clean. It just it was just on the sidewalk
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Speaker 1: and nobody picked it up for four days. And I've
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Speaker 1: been wanting to improve the pockets on my day bag
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Speaker 1: because they can't always hold a can of beer or
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Speaker 1: any taller bottle something like that. They can only hold
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Speaker 1: a short thing. Because I it was just I was
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Speaker 1: testing how a pocket would work on my bag, and
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Speaker 1: then I found this jack in I was like perfect.
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Speaker 1: So I took it up after a few days and
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Speaker 1: it looked clean. But I always just washed the stuff anyway,
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Speaker 1: so I washed it and then cut out the liner
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Speaker 1: and it worked great for the pockets. I made two
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Speaker 1: tall boy sized pockets on my day bag now and
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Speaker 1: now I have a little extra storage on my backpack
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Speaker 1: and the pocket looks better because the ones I made
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Speaker 1: were just a test, but they worked so well then
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Speaker 1: I never took them off, but they weren't sown very
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Speaker 1: tight to my little backpack and they just looked crappy.
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Speaker 1: And the new ones look pretty good and are they
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Speaker 1: have more capacity. And then my host here thought that
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Speaker 1: was really cool, so I gave her some fabric because
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Speaker 1: she wants to add pockets to her day bag as well.
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Speaker 1: Oh and then I went to the mall because I
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Speaker 1: was looking for blank. I was looking for something. So
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Speaker 1: I walked around the whole mall and after a while
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Speaker 1: I was just you know, discovering, exploring the different, and
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Speaker 1: nothing really caught my eye except I saw there was
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Speaker 1: an Imax theater on the fourth floor, which I didn't
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Speaker 1: really expect. But they have one, actually they have three.
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Speaker 1: I went to all three of them eventually, but this
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Speaker 1: first one. I went in and there was a giant
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Speaker 1: Mortal Combat too like mural behind all the ticket kiosks,
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Speaker 1: and I thought to my helf, well, well, well, because
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Speaker 1: it seems fun. It seems like a dumb, fun movie.
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Speaker 1: I liked the original, and I like Mortal Kombat. Why not?
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Speaker 1: Why not go watch Mortal Kombat two in Imax? Seemed
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Speaker 1: like a dumb afternoon. So I went a few days
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Speaker 1: later and I saw it an Imax and it was fine,
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Speaker 1: not a great movie, but I think I remember the
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Speaker 1: new Mortal Kombat one where it's basically like sub Zero
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Speaker 1: and Scorpions clans fighting against each other. I think that
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Speaker 1: one was better, but I don't know, maybe I still
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Speaker 1: had fun. I mean, I went to an Imax the
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Speaker 1: other and watched Mortal Kombat. It was a dumb couple
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Speaker 1: of hours that was kind of fun. I think I
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Speaker 1: wanted the choreography to be better. I wasn't blown away
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Speaker 1: by the fight choreography, and I feel like in the
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Speaker 1: first movie the fighting was not bad, but maybe I
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Speaker 1: was drinking a bunch of beer with the first movie,
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Speaker 1: who knows, I mean the first rebooting movie a few
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Speaker 1: years ago. Whatever. That was the second one, and just
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Speaker 1: the fighting seemed very slow and very straightforward, like very
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Speaker 1: very punch. Okay, I'll block this punch, but then I'll
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Speaker 1: punch okay, but I'll block this punch. There were a
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Speaker 1: couple cool moves. I think Katana had a couple of
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Speaker 1: cool moves. But yeah, the fighting didn't super impress. And
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Speaker 1: it looks like there's gonna be a third one, So
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Speaker 1: if that's playing and I'm near an Imax, I'll probably
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Speaker 1: go see that in the theater too. I still had fun,
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Speaker 1: and it's just cool to be an imax, big screen
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Speaker 1: blasting entertainment into your face. Oh and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, after the second week here, where it was cold,
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Speaker 1: like freezing cold one day to the next, it got
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Speaker 1: warm and I couldn't even wear my jacket for several
20:46
Speaker 1: days it was just way too hot. So they have
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Speaker 1: warm snaps and they got cold snaps because after three
20:53
Speaker 1: days of heat, the heating turned off atmospherically and it
20:58
Speaker 1: was quite chilly. And it's been cold again for a
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Speaker 1: week after that. But it was a very surprising warm snap.
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Speaker 1: I wore my jacket out like normal, and then I
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Speaker 1: was sweating within five minutes. And I didn't realize it though.
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Speaker 1: I kept walking and I was like, weird, it's still hot.
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Speaker 1: I wonder why I feel hot because I've just it's
21:16
Speaker 1: been cold the whole time I've been here. And I
21:19
Speaker 1: realized it was hot. It just was a warm day
21:23
Speaker 1: and the second day and third day, and I was like, wow,
21:25
Speaker 1: did the seasons just change? But then they reverted. I
21:29
Speaker 1: found a new word for wandering around aimlessly, tootle tootle.
21:36
Speaker 1: It just means to go around, to sort of wander around.
21:40
Speaker 1: And I was like, hey, that applies to me. But
21:44
Speaker 1: a bit of a toodler, A bit of a toodler
21:46
Speaker 1: doesn't sound as good as a bit of a rambler.
21:49
Speaker 1: Oh Korea Expedition thirty three, it's like America McGee's Alice
21:53
Speaker 1: I already talked about that don't know what that's still
21:55
Speaker 1: doing here. Oh. I went into a tiny shop to
21:58
Speaker 1: get some soda water, and on my way out, I
22:02
Speaker 1: was put the soda water on the table to put
22:05
Speaker 1: my to put it in the in my backpack, and
22:08
Speaker 1: then I realized there was like a fancy purse right
22:12
Speaker 1: in front of me, and there were two ladies a
22:15
Speaker 1: few tables away, and this was it wasn't it was
22:20
Speaker 1: in the corner, but the corner. You could see the corner.
22:23
Speaker 1: Everyone could see it. And it wasn't a tiny bag.
22:26
Speaker 1: It was fairly large, but it looked very fancy and expensive.
22:30
Speaker 1: And nobody was around, and there was only those two
22:32
Speaker 1: ladies and then the clerks, and so I called the
22:34
Speaker 1: clerk over to get the bag, and that was my
22:38
Speaker 1: good deed for the day. I'd been in Ulambatar for
22:43
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks or maybe a few weeks at
22:45
Speaker 1: this point, and I still hadn't been to any of
22:47
Speaker 1: the bars. I don't like bars in general, but they're
22:49
Speaker 1: nice in some countries, like I like pubs in Ireland.
22:52
Speaker 1: They're very comfortable. They're much more comfortable than US American
22:57
Speaker 1: pubs or a Chinese bar, which is just loud, loud,
23:01
Speaker 1: loud music and terrible water down drinks. So I figured
23:06
Speaker 1: i'd check out the Mongolian bar since I was here,
23:09
Speaker 1: and I went to Chingis Club, but it was totally full.
23:13
Speaker 1: I went to some German thing that was totally full,
23:16
Speaker 1: and both them were just a little too busy for me.
23:20
Speaker 1: And then I stopped by a lounge and pub that
23:22
Speaker 1: I've been seeing all around. There's a lot of lounge
23:25
Speaker 1: pubs here, and it was less full. There were still
23:29
Speaker 1: a bunch of people, but I could get a table
23:31
Speaker 1: right away, and I finally got to try some Mongolian
23:35
Speaker 1: food and I got noodles or rice noodles. They got
23:42
Speaker 1: a spicy chicken noodle dish, I believe. But that's the
23:45
Speaker 1: fact that I can't even remember what I got. That's
23:47
Speaker 1: about how good the food was. It was, I'll say,
23:51
Speaker 1: the best Mongolian traditional dish that I have had up
23:57
Speaker 1: to that point in Mongolia. But it didn't knock me
24:00
Speaker 1: on my butt or anything. You know what I noticed
24:03
Speaker 1: the other day, there's a ton of electric bicycles here,
24:06
Speaker 1: and a ton of people have motorcycles or electric bikes
24:10
Speaker 1: like electric cycles, and Mongolians love weaving on them, which
24:16
Speaker 1: is something I always did as a kid on my bicycle.
24:19
Speaker 1: Whenever I would ride my bicycle, I always would weave
24:22
Speaker 1: back and forth when I was going down the street
24:24
Speaker 1: or in the park. I just loved weaving. It was
24:27
Speaker 1: very fun veering around, and my parents always told me
24:30
Speaker 1: to cut it out. And I saw someone doing it
24:34
Speaker 1: the first day I was here, and I was like, oh,
24:36
Speaker 1: look at that. That's funny. And then the next time
24:39
Speaker 1: I went out, I saw someone do it. And then
24:42
Speaker 1: if I'm out, people are weaving on their bikes like adults,
24:46
Speaker 1: old people, young kids. They all they all do wheelies
24:51
Speaker 1: if they have a motorcycle or an electric bike, and
24:54
Speaker 1: they all weave around like they love weaving. And I
24:58
Speaker 1: wonder what that is, because I don't think if I've
25:00
Speaker 1: seen that in any other country. And I've been to
25:01
Speaker 1: plenty of countries with like lots of scooter culture and
25:05
Speaker 1: motorcycle culture, and this is the first one where I'd say,
25:09
Speaker 1: like one out of five people you see on a
25:13
Speaker 1: two wheel vehicle is gonna be weaving down the road. Here.
25:17
Speaker 1: It's a lot of people, Okay, fine, one out of ten,
25:20
Speaker 1: maybe not one out of five, but even ten percent.
25:22
Speaker 1: One out of every ten people you see is weaving.
25:24
Speaker 1: That's a lot. Even if they're on the sidewalk, they'll weave,
25:27
Speaker 1: or if they're on the road, they'll be weaving. They're
25:30
Speaker 1: just having a good time. There's also a ton of
25:33
Speaker 1: news broadcasts here. Maybe it's because it's such a tiny
25:37
Speaker 1: city and I walk around it so much and I
25:39
Speaker 1: walk long distances generally, But I've probably seen ten news broadcasts.
25:45
Speaker 1: Ten yeah, actually probably close to ten, because some days
25:49
Speaker 1: I saw two in a row and they were just
25:52
Speaker 1: interviewing people. But I walk a lot every day in
25:55
Speaker 1: every country, and I don't see that many news broadcasts.
25:59
Speaker 1: So I wonder if there's like a local broadcasting mandate
26:02
Speaker 1: for news where they have to talk Ulan Batar so
26:05
Speaker 1: that you pay more attention to Ulan Batar. Like that's
26:09
Speaker 1: what Canada did. They didn't want to be inundated by
26:12
Speaker 1: US American music and television, so they made it so
26:16
Speaker 1: that you had to have a certain percentage of Canadian
26:20
Speaker 1: music and television on the airwaves. So I'm wondering if
26:23
Speaker 1: Mongolia has that too, like they need to get a
26:25
Speaker 1: certain amount of news out so you can get a
26:27
Speaker 1: grant from the government if you're willing to go out
26:29
Speaker 1: with a crew and interview Ulan Batar people, and I
26:34
Speaker 1: was always afraid they'd call me over. But that's the
26:38
Speaker 1: one of the nice things about here is that no
26:39
Speaker 1: one cares that I'm not Mongolian, which is very rare
26:42
Speaker 1: in a lot of Asian countries. They're like a tarist
26:45
Speaker 1: and they want to talk or they just want to
26:47
Speaker 1: point or stare, and Mongolian people don't really care. There's
26:51
Speaker 1: a ton of Russians here, so I think that's what
26:54
Speaker 1: it is. They're very used to seeing non Mongolians. Oh
26:57
Speaker 1: you know what I got to talk about. There's a
26:59
Speaker 1: souper great chicken restaurant, Korean Chicken, with a funny name,
27:05
Speaker 1: Mom's Touch. Does that sound weird to you? It sounds
27:08
Speaker 1: weird to me. Mom's touch, I feel. I don't know,
27:12
Speaker 1: it's just I'm sure there's so many close close phrases
27:16
Speaker 1: that you could use for that, like a touch of
27:21
Speaker 1: mom's cooking or mom's cooking, flavor of home like stuff
27:28
Speaker 1: that's really close to that. But they went with mom's touch,
27:31
Speaker 1: which I feel like a marketer should have told them
27:35
Speaker 1: not to use that exact phrase. You want to get
27:39
Speaker 1: some chicken, Yeah, let's go to mom's touch, and it's
27:41
Speaker 1: not written in Mongolian. It's English. Mom's touch. That's the
27:44
Speaker 1: only sign they have. But you know what, mom's touch
27:48
Speaker 1: makes some good fried chicken. Not the best, but pretty good.
27:53
Speaker 1: And I had it twice, so it's not bad. On
27:57
Speaker 1: the other side of the spectrum, and I'm actually gonna
28:00
Speaker 1: because I don't want anyone to eat. There is someplace
28:03
Speaker 1: called chick os chiic KOs. It was the worst almost
28:11
Speaker 1: chicken I guess I've ever had my life. It was
28:13
Speaker 1: supposed to be Korean chicken, but it was not crispy.
28:16
Speaker 1: It was very soggy. It was super super sweet sauce
28:21
Speaker 1: and the texture of it, it tastes it straight up,
28:24
Speaker 1: just tastes like frozen chicken and then way overcooked in
28:29
Speaker 1: the oil. So it was crazy tough to eat. Oh
28:32
Speaker 1: it was. That was some bad chicken. Okay. The other thing,
28:35
Speaker 1: I don't really like chicken. It is my I think
28:37
Speaker 1: chicken is my least favorite meat, but it's so popular
28:41
Speaker 1: here in Mongolia. I've been eating Korean chicken and trying
28:44
Speaker 1: different ones because Korean fried chicken is the only fried
28:46
Speaker 1: chicken I like. And I have had some good Korean
28:50
Speaker 1: fried chicken here, but boy, Chickens really bounced the scales
28:55
Speaker 1: in terms of giving me some terrible chicken to offset
28:58
Speaker 1: all of the good chicken I've had here. That was
29:00
Speaker 1: the worst. Don't go to Chickos. If you go to
29:02
Speaker 1: a Lambatar, you will be disappointed. Hey, did you know
29:06
Speaker 1: Megelobox has a season two? I didn't. I saw the
29:09
Speaker 1: first season a lot of fun, and then just now
29:13
Speaker 1: or I don't know whatever, a week ago I looked
29:15
Speaker 1: it up and I think I was checking something. I
29:20
Speaker 1: can't remember. I was checking something and they mentioned season
29:23
Speaker 1: two and I was like, but what, because it feels
29:26
Speaker 1: like a pretty complete story season one. So I didn't
29:30
Speaker 1: even look for a season two. But they made one
29:31
Speaker 1: and I watched it and it was also good, even
29:33
Speaker 1: though it was completely different, very different attitude and style.
29:37
Speaker 1: But that's good. And it's only thirteen episodes. Love that
29:40
Speaker 1: animes do that. They're like, this is the story in
29:43
Speaker 1: thirteen episodes, then it's done. So I'm glad I saw
29:46
Speaker 1: the second one. I did watch the entire first season
29:48
Speaker 1: again because that's just fun. That's just a good fun time,
29:52
Speaker 1: so that I could prepare for season two. Oh yeah,
29:56
Speaker 1: and there's a totally ridiculous plot line where where it's like, yeah,
30:01
Speaker 1: and you just gave up on him because of that,
30:03
Speaker 1: but the reason was extremely good, Like it makes perfect
30:07
Speaker 1: sense that he gave up on that person and didn't
30:09
Speaker 1: try to contact them. That was really funny in the show.
30:13
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it. You should go watch
30:15
Speaker 1: Megolobox seasons one and two, probably one. I feel like
30:19
Speaker 1: season two is too emotional For a lot of people,
30:21
Speaker 1: it won't be as exciting, but I liked it a lot.
30:25
Speaker 1: I went to chijn Lama Temple. Chijn Lama Temple is
30:28
Speaker 1: a famous Tibetan Buddhist temple and there's a little prayer
30:35
Speaker 1: wheel in the beginning. There's a bunch of cool statues.
30:37
Speaker 1: There's a really interesting red deity of life with a
30:42
Speaker 1: choral mask made up of eighty seven hundred pieces like
30:46
Speaker 1: tiny pieces of coral. Pretty cool mask. I suggest looking
30:49
Speaker 1: it up on the Google or the Duck Duck Go
30:52
Speaker 1: or whatever, because it looks cool. It's intricate, and there's
30:57
Speaker 1: a lot of paintings on it. The funniest thing I
30:59
Speaker 1: saw in the whole museum though, and it was there's
31:02
Speaker 1: a lot to look at there's a ton of masks,
31:04
Speaker 1: and I was really interesting, and the guards snapped at
31:08
Speaker 1: me for taking pictures inside, so I didn't. But definitely
31:12
Speaker 1: the funniest thing I saw there was a so there
31:15
Speaker 1: was like one main booted display thing in one of
31:18
Speaker 1: the rooms in the middle, and then on either side
31:20
Speaker 1: there were cabinet doors open and smaller boodha displays inside
31:24
Speaker 1: there still kind of large, couple feet large, a couple
31:27
Speaker 1: feet hot tall large, And on the left side there
31:32
Speaker 1: was some booty doing something, and then on the right
31:34
Speaker 1: side there was some bood doing something. But then behind
31:37
Speaker 1: these sliding open doors so you wouldn't see it unless
31:41
Speaker 1: you're standing at an angle, so you can see behind
31:44
Speaker 1: the door that's open. There looked like there was a
31:48
Speaker 1: Buddha fanning out his cloak, and then a monk sort
31:54
Speaker 1: of kneeling but sort of leaning into kiss the Buddha
31:57
Speaker 1: on the cheek. And I was wondering if they didn't
31:59
Speaker 1: want to display that because they didn't know what the
32:02
Speaker 1: heck to do with it, because it looked weird, the
32:04
Speaker 1: monk kissing the Buddha. It looked like the monk and
32:07
Speaker 1: the Buddha were about to start making out and I
32:10
Speaker 1: wanted to take a picture of it so bad, but
32:13
Speaker 1: I didn't because I respect the spiritual rules of countries.
32:19
Speaker 1: But I looked at that for a long time because
32:22
Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out what else it would be accept
32:25
Speaker 1: that that monk was trying to kiss that Buddha because
32:28
Speaker 1: his head was not covered and neither was the Buddhas.
32:33
Speaker 1: There was just a monk going from like a praying
32:37
Speaker 1: position mid way up giving a peck to this deity
32:42
Speaker 1: who looks like the other Buddha deities. So I just
32:45
Speaker 1: wanted to know what was up, so I kept going
32:48
Speaker 1: over that displaying, like looking around the door where it
32:51
Speaker 1: was kind of pushed off to the side, like what
32:53
Speaker 1: is going on there? I don't know, but it was great.
32:55
Speaker 1: It was really funny. Maybe it was just paying homage
32:58
Speaker 1: to a Buddha and you can make out with buden.
33:01
Speaker 1: That's cool. Probably is Trojan Lama temple also had a
33:05
Speaker 1: big old bell that you could not ring, and a
33:09
Speaker 1: little donation box, and I don't know, a bunch of
33:12
Speaker 1: cool statues. It was worth visiting for sure. It was
33:15
Speaker 1: only four bucks for the ticket or whatever. I think
33:18
Speaker 1: it was fifteen thousand dubric and there was plenty of
33:22
Speaker 1: amazing traditional ancient art to see. Oh you know what
33:26
Speaker 1: was really cool. I think my favorite piece of art
33:29
Speaker 1: there was the besides the Coral Mask, which you just
33:32
Speaker 1: can't help but be sort of odd by that, the
33:37
Speaker 1: eight Hells of Fire and the eight Hells of Ice,
33:41
Speaker 1: or the eight fire hells and the eight frozen hells.
33:45
Speaker 1: It's something like that, and they're on opposite sides of
33:49
Speaker 1: the room, and it's just a depiction of I guess
33:53
Speaker 1: the Mongolian eight different hells and they have a fire
33:56
Speaker 1: hell and an ice hell, and it's it's really interesting.
34:00
Speaker 1: It's very detailed, and yeah, there's just different punishment, sort
34:04
Speaker 1: of Dante oh Man. So right after I did that,
34:07
Speaker 1: I was walking around the mall again to check the
34:09
Speaker 1: next films playing at the Imax, because I had such
34:12
Speaker 1: fun watching Mortal Kombat, and someone I didn't know texted me,
34:18
Speaker 1: and I was confused for most of the conversation even
34:21
Speaker 1: after I found out who it was. It was the
34:23
Speaker 1: best man from the wedding that I'm going to where
34:26
Speaker 1: I'm a groomsman, and all those people live in the
34:29
Speaker 1: same town and I've been traveling forever, so I only
34:32
Speaker 1: know the groom but this guy texted me really weird
34:37
Speaker 1: like cryptic messages, and I figured out later it was
34:42
Speaker 1: because probably I'm assuming he was texting like that because
34:45
Speaker 1: he was on a bunch of painkillers and meds, because
34:47
Speaker 1: he sent me a gory photo of his calf, part
34:52
Speaker 1: of his calf being ripped off his leg because he
34:58
Speaker 1: kickstarted as dirt bike slipped off the kicker. And then
35:02
Speaker 1: so the if you never rid in a motorcycle, the
35:04
Speaker 1: stationary pedals on either side are peg so you can
35:08
Speaker 1: rest your feet or your passenger can rest their feet
35:12
Speaker 1: while they're sitting on the back of the bike. The
35:15
Speaker 1: peg his peg. He started, so the bike went forward
35:19
Speaker 1: and the peg ripped off part of his leg. And
35:22
Speaker 1: he doesn't know me, but he texted me several messages,
35:26
Speaker 1: cryptic messages, and then sent me super bloody glory photos
35:30
Speaker 1: of his ripped up leg. But it looks like he
35:34
Speaker 1: got to the hospital okay, and they showed him up
35:35
Speaker 1: pretty good. And the last thing he messaged me was
35:41
Speaker 1: sucks exclamation point, which, yeah, it does look like it sucks,
35:48
Speaker 1: I said. Diagnosis and prognosis and one he looks a
35:52
Speaker 1: bit more. Healed up now a few days later, so congrats.
35:56
Speaker 1: I'll see him there can bust some moves at the
36:00
Speaker 1: wedding dance. But that was just a surprise popped into
36:03
Speaker 1: my life the other day. Elevator cat. There was an
36:07
Speaker 1: elevator cat. There was a couple in the elevator when
36:14
Speaker 1: it opened, and there was a cat, and this food
36:17
Speaker 1: bowl was placed directly in the middle of the floor.
36:21
Speaker 1: And I didn't quite parse what was happening right away,
36:24
Speaker 1: but then I walked in and the cat was cute
36:27
Speaker 1: and eating, and he didn't seem bothered at all that
36:30
Speaker 1: when he was not inside a house, that he was
36:32
Speaker 1: in an elevator and that he had to eat in
36:34
Speaker 1: a moving box didn't seem to bother him at all.
36:37
Speaker 1: And it looks like they were just trying to lead
36:39
Speaker 1: him outside. I guess he doesn't like to be carried.
36:42
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't know why they were
36:44
Speaker 1: doing it like that, But I got off first when
36:46
Speaker 1: we got to the ground floor, and then the man
36:48
Speaker 1: picked up his bowl and put it three meters or away,
36:51
Speaker 1: and then the cat ran up to it, and then
36:53
Speaker 1: he let like the cat bite a bite, and then
36:55
Speaker 1: put three meters away again, and I watched them like
36:58
Speaker 1: hop frog the cat toward the door. It was just
37:01
Speaker 1: really fun to see that happening, like when I've never
37:04
Speaker 1: seen that before. I've seen cat carry I've seen people
37:07
Speaker 1: carry their cats, I don't think, and I've seen people
37:10
Speaker 1: even trick their cat like that. But I couldn't figure
37:12
Speaker 1: out why he was doing it to get out of
37:14
Speaker 1: the billing because he had to go. You're gonna have
37:16
Speaker 1: to go through two security doors and then I assume
37:19
Speaker 1: go outside to get to their vehicle. Is that how
37:22
Speaker 1: they always move their cat? They just three meters at
37:25
Speaker 1: a time, move his food bowl to trick him into
37:28
Speaker 1: wherever they're going. That's amazing and I was very exciting
37:33
Speaker 1: to see. I went to the botanical gardens of Ulan Batar,
37:37
Speaker 1: which I could not get into. I couldn't find the gate.
37:39
Speaker 1: There was a big fence all around them, and when
37:42
Speaker 1: I piecked over the fence, it didn't look that great anyway.
37:46
Speaker 1: But I don't know, maybe I couldn't see the actual
37:48
Speaker 1: gardens from where I was. I walked all around it,
37:50
Speaker 1: but I don't know. Maybe they're doing renovations or something.
37:52
Speaker 1: Because I couldn't get in and nobody was in there.
37:56
Speaker 1: I shoplifted a beard this was an accident. I went
38:00
Speaker 1: into the store and I was carrying three beers, and
38:03
Speaker 1: then I had to grab seaweed, so I put one
38:05
Speaker 1: of the beers in my pocket, grabbed the seaweed, and
38:08
Speaker 1: then study boy saw me, the chicken guy, and we
38:12
Speaker 1: talked for a little bit, and then I was like,
38:14
Speaker 1: I'm going to see you later, and I went and
38:16
Speaker 1: checked out, and then I was listening to a podcast
38:20
Speaker 1: very intently all day. I think that was the same
38:22
Speaker 1: day I went to the Botanical gardens. There's this podcast
38:24
Speaker 1: called Intelligence Matters, hosted by a pharmacid director and he
38:30
Speaker 1: just interviews intelligence officials and it's pretty interesting if you
38:33
Speaker 1: want to learn what's going on inside the government and
38:36
Speaker 1: DoD like inside the minds of the people who actually
38:40
Speaker 1: work and worked there. So I was listening to this
38:44
Speaker 1: podcast and I didn't really know. I was just carrying
38:48
Speaker 1: my stuff for like on the way home, and then
38:51
Speaker 1: when I got to the building, I put my hand
38:53
Speaker 1: in my pocket to get my keys, and I was like, oh, right,
38:57
Speaker 1: I had three beers and now I'm carrying two. Third
38:59
Speaker 1: one was my pocket. Sorry about that supermarket, I buy
39:02
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff from them. I'm kind of like,
39:03
Speaker 1: I guess it's okay. I didn't want to walk all
39:05
Speaker 1: the way back. I can't speak any Mongolian. It would
39:08
Speaker 1: have been very weird. I think if I went back
39:11
Speaker 1: and more than that. Honestly, I just don't care. It's
39:13
Speaker 1: one beer. They're fine, That's really what it is. I
39:16
Speaker 1: just wasn't too bothered by it. But you know what,
39:19
Speaker 1: I want to end this on the kushur, which is
39:23
Speaker 1: a word I have heard a few times, but but
39:27
Speaker 1: it wasn't really. It was explained to me very poorly.
39:30
Speaker 1: They explained it to me as like dough with meat,
39:34
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, that describes a lot of foods.
39:38
Speaker 1: And they also said it was a street food and
39:40
Speaker 1: it wasn't that good. But everyone says the street food
39:43
Speaker 1: is not good in their country, and so far everybody
39:46
Speaker 1: is wrong. I usually like, if I'm in Germany, get
39:48
Speaker 1: me a kebab. If I'm in Thailand, I want one
39:52
Speaker 1: of those turmeric sausages. And now when I am in Mongolia,
39:56
Speaker 1: I will want kushur. Kushur is now my favorite Mongolian food,
40:00
Speaker 1: hands down, bar nun noodles, whatever, Bryce, Yeah, sure, the boots. Eh,
40:07
Speaker 1: this was good. This was minced meat. I believe yak meat,
40:12
Speaker 1: although I'm not sure. Actually it was probably beef because
40:15
Speaker 1: it was a little tougher than yak meat. But anyway,
40:18
Speaker 1: it's minced which is really nice, and it's kimchi and
40:22
Speaker 1: minced meat in a very fluffy fried pastry and they
40:27
Speaker 1: make it fresh when you order it. At the place
40:29
Speaker 1: I found, which I was walking by, and as I
40:34
Speaker 1: passed it, a man stepped out, lit up a cigarette,
40:38
Speaker 1: started smoking, and for some reason I turned back. I
40:42
Speaker 1: didn't know what a kushuaa was at this point, and
40:44
Speaker 1: I can't read Mongolian, so I don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 1: But I turned around, and for some reason, I was like,
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Speaker 1: I got to go in there and get the food.
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Speaker 1: I got to check the food at least. And I
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Speaker 1: went inside checked the menu and I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: this is that thing I've been wanting, I've been hearing
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Speaker 1: about that I should try. And I tried the kimchi
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Speaker 1: and meat and hot digging a dang. It was real good.
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Speaker 1: So I went back. Every single day I've been in
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Speaker 1: Mongolia since for over a week straight, I just keep
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Speaker 1: going back and getting two or three kimchi and meat
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Speaker 1: kushur sometimes the cheese and meat one, although I love
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Speaker 1: the kimchi and meat one. It's just delicious. And they
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Speaker 1: have a spicy soy sauce that you can put on
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Speaker 1: it too. Oh it's sod and he has the glass
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Speaker 1: bottle Coca Colas good on him, so I'll get one
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Speaker 1: of those and a couple of kushur. I did have
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Speaker 1: a beer with them once, but it was it's great.
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Speaker 1: It's a great food. And if you go to Mongolia
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Speaker 1: and you're not particularly enthused by the food, I would
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Speaker 1: certainly recommend that kushur because once you eat it, you'll
41:45
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, yeah, they got some going on. That
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Speaker 1: kushu to makes me interested about what other cuisines I
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Speaker 1: should be looking for while I'm here. But I've asked
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Speaker 1: a lot of people and I have basically been getting
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Speaker 1: zero recommendations. Everyone's just like, just go have pizza or
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Speaker 1: Korean chicken or whatever sushi. Thank you very much for listening.
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Speaker 1: You can talk to me at a bit of a
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Speaker 1: rambler at gmail dot com or blue Sky and Lemmy.
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Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your day. I will talk
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Speaker 1: to you soon.