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From Nebraska to LA: The Remain Rome Return Story with Christian & Damien #0038 · Whereabouts Tales | Stories of Belonging and Immigrant Experiences

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  Has any of you thought about moving abroad?
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  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very regularly.
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  Yeah, I think same for us as well.
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  Whomever wrote the this season of the United States of America,
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  he did a crap job. I'm just waiting for the
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  Dragons. You're literally there in the
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  best case scenario where you have the excess money already in
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  your pocket to blow on irresponsible things.
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  My mom was like, you're going to get killed.
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  And I was like, no. It's always you're going to get
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  killed if you're going into a city.
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  I'm just going to move to Italy and all my problems will be
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  solved. And it's like, how much do you
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  know about Italy, though? You've just been there twice.
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  So you like it. Like, have you looked into it?
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  It's to be on the other side, ain't it?
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  It is very strange to be on the other side, but we are here with
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  the God Stang, Content King himself.
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  So because of you, my wife calls me.
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  I told you before. Yeah, King as well.
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  It's only because of you. And we are laughing about this
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  all the time. I.
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  Love it. Influencer.
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  Influencer right here. No.
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  Now influencer in the other way, like in the bad now.
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  Yeah, he's like that friend. He's like.
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  You won't jump off the bridge, will you?
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  I bet you won't. But if you do it, just do it
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  completely down. Don't don't break your leg or
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  something. Yeah, just head first.
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  Exactly. You'll break your fall.
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  Goodness. Oh my God, I'm so happy to be
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  able to do this, guys. Yeah.
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  Let's go. I'm so happy today to have
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  Christian and Damian the. Why was his name first?
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  Alphabetical word or dummy? No, no, left to right.
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  Cut that start. Over on my screen.
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  Sorry. Oh shit, yeah, because I'm more.
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  Important. And that he's doing the social
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  media most. Probably Christian.
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  You wouldn't drop off this call, would you?
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  You wouldn't do that. Well, we'll we'll see if the
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  microphone doesn't. Break and the your guitar.
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  And the guitar. And my my ukulele no.
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  Love to. So yeah.
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  Hello everyone, and I wish you an amazing welcome on today's
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  amazing episode. It's going to be amazing.
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  It's going to be amazing. One more time with the amazings,
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  please. I learned from the best orange
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  guy I have the The hilarious Door Behind the Remain, a Rome
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  Return podcast. Let's go, I have.
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  AI have the one coming among the other normal person Christian
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  from Nebraska and I have the one coming from the stars living as
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  a star between the stars in LA Damien.
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  That's the best entrance I've ever gotten.
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  Yeah, it is. In the stars within the stars, I
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  mean. Amazing.
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  And I said amazing before. That's you twice.
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  I'm still waiting on the third one, but.
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  Exactly. I'll come later.
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  I would like to start from the beginning.
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  How did you got to do this? How did you start your podcast?
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  First of all, you're both from coming from the same area of the
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  US because you're living in separate areas now, but.
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  So I'll, I'll steal it with Damien's famous quote from our
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  podcast, Taking It Back. Way back.
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  So how me and Damien even know each other is fro a mutual
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  friend? We can't say his name.
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  We can't legally say his name, which we've.
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  Said the I guess this last. Podcast.
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  That's true. It is not.
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  Why you cannot say his name? We have a cease and desist from
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  him. So anyway, this so we because me
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  and this mutual friend of ours, we were went to university
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  together in Nebraska and we're all from the same hometown of
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  Omaha, NE and like Damian just kind of kept hanging around, you
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  know, like. Well I was friends with the
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  unspoken friend since high school and he met Christian in
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  in college. Yes, so that's how Christian and
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  I met, but I was just essentially 4th Wheeling on
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  every situation. I don't know who the third wheel
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  was, but we apparently you're you're the even actual one.
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  Yeah. Admitting admitting that makes a
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  special. Yeah.
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  And because of that, when Keegan would go back up to Omaha from
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  the universities in Lincoln, which is only about an hour
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  drive away, about 60 miles or 100 kilometers, because we're
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  international. 60 miles is a kilometer.
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  Just just see. Yeah, that just.
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  Yeah, wait, 60 miles is a kilometer.
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  It's 100 kilometers, sorry. That's what I was like.
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  That's what he said. That's what. 50.
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  No, I said 100. OK, that OK, that's the, that's
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  the. We're shopping away at the
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  content king, one at a time. And so when Keegan would go back
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  up to Omaha and hang out with his Omaha friends, that was
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  Damian was a part of. And so me and Damon started
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  hanging out that way and then. Said his name.
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  I know which we did say his name.
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  Cut it, cut that, and then I was the first to move away from
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  Nebraska. And then a few years later,
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  Damian did. And then Damian can take it from
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  there. Yeah.
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  And then essentially how this podcast came to fruition was I
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  needed an outlet for my crazy behavior and I just didn't have
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  the guts to do stand up comedy. And so I reached out to several,
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  several people to see if anybody wanted to start a podcast.
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  I had multiple different ideas. I had multiple different like
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  the people I would reach out to, I had an individual theme for
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  each of those people and nobody ever wanted to do it.
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  And so Christian, I reached out to at one point and sent him,
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  you know, the request to do a podcast and he essentially
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  ghosted me for about 6 months. And so I, I told myself when I
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  was sending it to Christian, I was like, all right, if
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  Christian doesn't want to do this, I'm done.
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  I'm not even going to try to do anything like this anymore.
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  And so he didn't mess with me for six months.
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  So I just dropped the whole idea of doing a podcast.
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  I will say to stand up for myself, I didn't use Instagram
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  before, like doing a podcast really, or like I I had two
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  Instagram because at this time, I think why Damien reached out,
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  I was doing stand up. So I had like my own like more
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  personal Instagram account and then I had more my comedy 1.
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  And so at that point I was already using my comedy one and
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  didn't check my personal one for like a year.
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  And then one day when, as we all do, when we first opened
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  Instagram, is I was pooping. And so and then I was like a
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  level. And then I was like, oh, yeah, I
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  have this Instagram account. Oh, Damien reached out to me six
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  months ago. And then I profusely apologized.
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  Yeah, he did. Nobody, nobody, and I mean
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  literally nobody has ever used in a sentence pooping and Oh
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  yeah, and after that saying, oh, they didn't return to me.
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  Honestly, that's the only way I get in touch with anybody is I
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  just have to catch them while they're pooping, catch them
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  unawares so they. Call them poop hands.
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  They call me poop hands, but yeah, listen.
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  To our podcast for that reference.
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  Yeah, tune into the Remain Rome Return podcast.
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  You'll get that reference later. But yeah, so Long story short,
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  we were friends from a long time ago who both had the desire to
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  had our have our stupid voices be heard over the Internet.
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  I have to come back to, to, to, to something Christian, you said
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  before you, you moved away from Nebraska.
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  Now you're back in Nebraska. Or not.
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  Yeah. So I'm, I'm back.
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  So that's kind of how we even came up with the idea for our
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  podcast Remain Room Return. See, This is why you're the
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  king. Yeah, good, good segue.
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  It's so kind of the theme is, is it like better to stay in your
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  hometown and never leave? So remain Rome, which Damien is
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  a roamer, as we call him. He left and is never looking
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  back. He never really wants to move
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  back. And then returner, which is kind
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  of me where I left my hometown, went and did some stuff and then
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  now I'm back, which, and then we kind of first we kind of started
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  out being like, Hey, you know, it was almost like a middle
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  America small town life versus like West Coast big city life
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  kind of thing. Or if it, you know, is it better
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  to stay in your hometown or not? And then we kind of pivoted and
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  started having guests talk about like, Hey, are you still in your
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  hometown or you're not in your hometown?
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  And then kind of we've met a lot of really cool people like
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  yourself, man, doing this. Like it's been, yeah, it's been
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  absolutely insane. It's we've had people from all
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  over the world. We've had friends from Nebraska
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  do this and family members, family members.
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  And so yeah, it and we figured it was a unique topic where
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  people and everyone has an opinion on where you grow up
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  because it's where you grew up. But but first, first question,
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  what? Why?
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  Why have you left in the first place?
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  As for most people, as we've learned from interviewing
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  people, I left for a job because the industry I was in at the
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  time wasn't a lot of opportunity in Nebraska.
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  And so and even with that, I bounced around within the states
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  a bit. And then I kind of did his
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  career path switch that let me go full remote and my wife had
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  followed me to all these different places.
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  And so I was like, where do you want to go?
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  You know, happy wife, happy life kind of situation, very jokingly
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  saying that. And she said, Hey, I like, you
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  know, we want to eventually start a family.
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  I want to be back near my family.
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  And so we made the decision about two years ago to move back
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  and we we are so happy. We did.
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  We absolutely love being back. Where?
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  I would say you're thriving more now than you ever did when you
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  were travelling and moving around.
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  Yeah, yeah, I would say for sure it's and we like we're in within
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  our same city, but big enough where we're like we moved to a
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  different area than where we had ever lived.
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  And I think that made a big difference.
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  And so like it's been a really nice combo of we still have our
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  friends from when we before we left, who stayed.
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  And now that we're back, we have a whole new set of friends that
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  we never knew. And so that's been really cool.
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  It's been in a really nice combo of like having friendships to
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  fall back on, but still making new friends, which the thing we
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  talked about on our podcast, which probably gets brought up
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  with your podcast talking about expats.
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  I'm talking a lot. I'm sorry, Damien of like when
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  you move to a new city and you don't know anyway, it can feel
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  so isolating. Oh yeah, especially like I
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  Damien can agree. I'll let him talk about this so
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  I can stop yabbering for a bit. But like, so something during
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  COVID when you couldn't leave your home?
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  Yeah, so many questions. But, but, but first, first, I
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  would switch to Damien first. Yes, you left as well for the
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  job, Damien. Yes, he's.
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  He's the younger of all three. Yes, I did leave for a job, but
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  not my job. I left for for my wife's job.
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  So I was essentially following my wife for her for her job
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  opportunity that she got. So my wife and I had been
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  planning since we were together that maybe once we retire, we'll
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  leave our hometown. Like that's how uncommon it was
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  for people to leave their hometown where we're from.
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  It was like, oh, yeah, once you retire, you can go anywhere you
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  want, but until you're retired, you need to make sure that you
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  stay here and build roots and build a life and and do stuff
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  like that, Right. So we were thinking about that
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  and then all of a sudden she applied for a traveling nursing
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  job and the first place that reached out to her was in
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  California, which is where we ultimately wanted to live.
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  And so within a month of her getting contacted, we had
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  completely packed up and moved halfway across the United
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  States. It was literally actually less
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  than 30 days from time of offer to moving full time to
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  California. That I would call it that
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  extremely fast, but it's it's something that you surprised me
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  with Damien, because usually I know that people are moving a
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  lot in the US. Is it something special in in
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  the Midwest? I mean, I would say, so I'm
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  biased. So I, I mean, I would, I guess
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  defer to Christian because he's a little bit more well versed
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  and stuff like that. But I I will speak directly from
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  my family's point of view. Nobody except for my
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  grandparents has ever lived outside of Omaha, NE.
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  And my grandparents moved away to Atlanta for like 6 or 7 years
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  and immediately came back because I hated it.
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  So it's like I was just not aware that people just up and
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  left their hometown. Yeah, I will say I'm very
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  similar my both sides of my parents.
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  I was 4th generation to be born in my hometown and so it's
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  becoming less common now or or a big thing where with the
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  specifically like Nebraska or even other parts of Midwest.
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  I live in Iowa, which is the next state over, but it's more
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  of a lot of people will do is they grew up in a really small
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  town, like, you know, of 1000 people.
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  And then they moved to the big city of Nebraska, which is
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  because that's where jobs are for like their particular thing.
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  I would say specifically for like our parents and older
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  generations, our grandparents, they stayed just because that's
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  where the like not opportunities, but just family
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  was there. It was safe.
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  I think another big aspect is like both me and Damien's
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  families aren't highly educated. I would say it's probably the
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  best term. So the jobs they were doing,
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  we're just always going to be in the city they were at versus now
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  of like education wise. Like I left because that's where
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  I had to move for jobs. And so I think more with our
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  generation of like millennials, we are moving because not
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  necessarily jobs we want like they're not a lot of tech jobs
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  here. They're they're trying, but for
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  a lot of like, you know, some of the higher paying jobs or you
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  need a higher degree or like, you know, are are in the big
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  cities like LA or like for us, a lot of probably our hometown
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  friends moved to Chicago or Minneapolis.
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  Like as your international listeners of like places they
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  might actually have heard of, like big, big cities, as we call
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  them. But still Midwest.
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  But still Midwest. So Midwesterners generally don't
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  leave the Midwest very often. I think, I think what Christenda
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  said is the fact that they are moving from a small place to a
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  big city. You get shocked all over your
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  your ass because you're not getting used to anything.
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  You are used to know every neighbor of yours by name, every
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  child you had to. You knew who's whom, who's
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  friend with whom, who's talking to whom and so on.
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  And you get in the big city everything.
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  No, I have a problem. And I think that's a big shock
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  that nobody wants to have. Yeah, 100%.
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  Yeah, Yeah, it was, it was weird.
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  We used to more saw in Iowa where like me and Damian grew
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  up, I would say in a city, city like Omaha is metropolitan is
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  about a million, which is a decent size.
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  And so we were only really new people from Omaha.
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  And then I lived in Des Moines, IA, which is slightly smaller
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  but the biggest city in that state.
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  And all of our friends were from small towns.
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  And, like, me and my wife aren't from small towns at all, where
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  they were like, oh, yeah, like I raised cattle.
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  And it's like, that's not a thing where I'm from.
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  They're like, yeah, my family still runs a farm.
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  And I was like, that's not a thing people do where I'm from.
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  Which is ironic because we're from Nebraska.
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  So when you say, yeah, people don't really have farms in
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  Nebraska, they're like, what? Yeah, at.
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  Least not the people we know like I.
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  I was like my family left farming generations ago.
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  I think the, the, the, the, the important thing is that you have
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  benefits in both. And I see, I see from you, both
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  of you that you have really big benefits involved.
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  Both depending on, on which side of the, let's say on, on which
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  side of the decision you are. And depending also the, the
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  things that you would take in consideration.
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  Because I think switching from from same size to same size is
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  important. Switching maybe to find the top
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  place where you can find the community.
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  But has has any of you thought about moving abroad?
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  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very regularly.
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  Yeah, I think same for us as well.
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  We, we try not to get too political on our podcast.
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  I won't bring them up, but like, you know, in America right now,
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  it's an interesting times, we'll say.
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  And so always just being like, oh, but again, as just finding
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  the opportunity to, I know we're, we're very privileged of
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  having an American passport can pretty much get you wherever you
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  want in the world. It would just be trying to find
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  like a long term visa kind of situation.
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  I I don't know if you you have seen the episode with that Jen
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  and there wasn't an an interesting one because she also
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  thought that it is quite easy to do it, but it does a hell of a
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  job in the independent of the passport.
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  I have to say who whomever wrote the this season of the United
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  States of America, he did a crappy job.
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  And I would, I would try to compare it with the last season
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  of Game of Thrones, Yeah. I'm just waiting for the
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  Dragons. The main dragon left but I I I'm
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  I'm being a lot of on different subreddits because I'm stocking
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  my future guest here to. Be honest, yeah.
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  Same and there is a subreddit in which I mean, which is called
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  Emer exit, so American exit. And I read a lot of posts with
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  people saying I don't feel safe here anymore.
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  I don't want to get in the get in the political and I, I want
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  to talk from my point of view. I'm, I was in the US last year,
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  as I told you, the road trip on the East Coast.
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  I never in those three weeks, I never had the feeling of being
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  unsafe. Yeah.
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  Yeah. What is that I don't get from
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  the outside? It, again, not to get to where
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  we're not marginalized people, I think is a big aspect of it.
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  I'm not sure who these posters were, so I'm just, you know,
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  assuming, but it can be tough for marginalized people,
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  especially depending where you're at too.
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  What Nebraska, I love it dearly and there are great aspects of
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  it, but they're also not great aspects where I can understand
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  why if a person that is from a marginalized group, it probably
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  doesn't feel the most welcoming. It could feel kind of dangerous
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  and some like. And another aspect of it is like
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  there are good parts of the states where the IT is more
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  accepting of Mars. Like again, LA is going to be
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  better just because it's bigger. They're more, I don't want to
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  say open minded, but kind of. Don't have a choice though with
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  with damn near 8 million people, yeah, you kind of have to be
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  accepting because it's like, what?
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  What's your other option? And it's also a place where
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  those people who don't feel safe maybe in Nebraska do move out to
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  those areas because they are more welcoming and they're big
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  when they can choose to be who they want to be, I think is a
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  good point. And maybe, maybe I'll take the
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  the devil's advocate approach and, and go the other direction
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  with it. This isn't necessarily how I
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  feel, but we're talking about it.
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  And I was like, I wonder if maybe this could be part of it
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  too, which is the grass always looks greener from where you're
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  currently at, right? And I think for Christian and I
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  specifically, too, we travel a lot, right?
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  We've been all over the place, all over the world.
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  And every time I go somewhere, I would say 90 plus percent of the
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  time, I'm like, oh, yeah, I could see myself living here.
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  But you're not, you're not living there.
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  You're literally there in the best case scenario where you
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  have the excess money already in your pocket to blow on
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  irresponsible things. You're only getting the best of
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  that country or the best of that city while you're there.
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  And I'm always on, you know, we travel and I'm pulling up Zillow
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  like, oh, what does a house go for over here?
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  Oh my God, that's so cheap. We can easily buy house.
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  But you're not considering the living conditions.
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  You're not considering the politics of that place.
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  You're not considering the fact that we are free to say whatever
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  we want for the most part in America.
• 22:43
  You go somewhere else. You don't know that you can do
• 22:45
  that. You don't know what is and isn't
• 22:46
  off limits because you don't have to deal with it, Right.
• 22:50
  So I think that's part of it, too.
• 22:51
  We were like, well, I'm just going to go to, I'm just going
• 22:54
  to move to Italy and all my problems will be solved.
• 22:56
  And it's like, how much do you know about Italy, though?
• 22:59
  Yeah, you've just been there twice.
• 23:00
  So you like it. Like, have you looked into it?
• 23:03
  Every holiday that you do, you see a demo version of the
• 23:06
  country. You see a demo version in which
• 23:08
  you have money, in which you are seeing only the nice places
• 23:12
  where you will not live for sure, because those are
• 23:15
  touristic places. You will start to hate the guys
• 23:17
  like you in the future because whenever like look at what's
• 23:21
  happening, I don't know if you're aware of what's happening
• 23:23
  in Barcelona since I don't know, two or three years where people
• 23:26
  are actively demonstrated against Airbnbs because they
• 23:30
  increase the prices of living, of housing.
• 23:34
  I actually sorry to cut you off. I actually ran into it.
• 23:36
  So I lived in Fort Collins, Co, which is not super touristy, but
• 23:41
  very big for Airbnbs because it's in the Rocky Mountains.
• 23:44
  So it's a gorgeous place to live.
• 23:46
  And they started to kind of do that.
• 23:48
  So I lived in a condo complex or like, you know, flats or
• 23:54
  whatever you want to call them and like out of the let's just
• 23:58
  say 35 were Airbnb. And so it is becoming an issue
• 24:03
  where like you have sometimes these companies are like private
• 24:09
  equity groups coming in and purchasing these places and then
• 24:14
  cutting out. I know it's very, very, very bad
• 24:16
  in Vancouver is another great example of where they yeah,
• 24:22
  people just couldn't afford to live because these.
• 24:25
  Well, and you're not, you're not competing with other families to
• 24:28
  my houses. You're competing with companies
• 24:30
  who have endless supplies of money and will just pay in cash
• 24:35
  over what you're going to. Be.
• 24:36
  Paying off in 30 years? Yeah, I I heard of like one of
• 24:40
  those companies paying like for cash, like 10% over asking price
• 24:45
  just because they could. Spain and Portugal has a has a
• 24:49
  different problem as well, because there is a big country
• 24:54
  which is war now and people are flying from there as much as
• 24:59
  possible and as fast as possible and with a lot of cash.
• 25:03
  Yeah. And the problem is that they go
• 25:07
  there and they ask for the price and they don't give a rat's ass
• 25:10
  about the price. They just pay the price.
• 25:12
  Yeah. And this made everything
• 25:14
  exploded. Lisbon is a disaster at the
• 25:17
  moment. I have friends working in Mike,
• 25:19
  in the company that I work from here in in Lisbon.
• 25:21
  And it's telling me that the city is something which is
• 25:24
  unlivable. So the cost of living is crazy.
• 25:27
  Barcelona is the same. Madrid, Costa del Sol in in
• 25:31
  Spain, Mallorca, the southern part of of Spain.
• 25:34
  So yeah, there are a lot of place in which you have the same
• 25:38
  issue. So a lot of Airbnb a lot.
• 25:39
  And that's what I'm saying, It's nice to visit, it's amazing to
• 25:43
  visit, but it's made to be amazing to visit.
• 25:45
  And ironically, those places, all, every single one of those
• 25:48
  places that you just rattled off is basically what Americans say.
• 25:54
  That's where they're going to, they're going to escape to.
• 25:56
  I'm going to leave America and I'm going to go to Portugal or
• 25:58
  Lisbon or or Spain. I'm like, OK, I mean.
• 26:02
  Yeah, but you know, my problem is that nobody goes wants to go
• 26:05
  in a countryside, nobody wants to go.
• 26:07
  Nobody wants to go in Tuscany in the middle of Italy, where you
• 26:10
  have at least 2 1/2 hours to both of the coasts.
• 26:14
  But it's because that would be so uncomfortable.
• 26:16
  Exactly. Nobody knows how to live like
• 26:18
  that here. Exactly.
• 26:19
  And trust me, it's it's nice there as well.
• 26:22
  It's nice. You have nice views you have,
• 26:24
  but you have a lot of work to do if you want to live your life.
• 26:27
  You have a bit of a farming to do.
• 26:28
  You have a lot of vineyards of things that you should take care
• 26:32
  of. I mean, if you want to or pay
• 26:33
  someone to take care of it. And I don't think it's that
• 26:36
  easy. But Damien, it's there.
• 26:40
  I heard the same thing, that there is a huge difference
• 26:44
  between a dream and then and something that you want to do
• 26:48
  because you need the action plan.
• 26:49
  Nobody, most of the cases are just dreams.
• 26:52
  I'm sorry to say it, but I talk a lot about things that I want
• 26:55
  to do, but I never actually do it.
• 26:57
  And I think that's it. But one, one thing that
• 27:01
  travelling is doing, and I see this for both of you guys and
• 27:05
  travelling is opening the minds a lot.
• 27:09
  Travelling is opening the mind to to cut the prejudice out of
• 27:12
  your life, to to have an open mind about everything.
• 27:18
  And this question goes well first.
• 27:21
  First for Christian. But for both of you, Christian,
• 27:25
  do you think it's Are you different from the people who
• 27:30
  never left your hometown? Yeah, I, I would very much say
• 27:35
  that for sure. And it is a big topic.
• 27:37
  That's why I on our podcast very much are talking about like I
• 27:41
  think being a returner is the best because I get the best of
• 27:44
  both worlds. As I was talking about.
• 27:47
  Yeah, I got to go to places like I still stayed still like kind
• 27:52
  of mid, like middle of the country area.
• 27:55
  But I got to go live in Detroit, MI, where there is a lot of
• 28:00
  prejudice against that city because for a bit there, it was
• 28:05
  not the greatest place to go is extreme poverty just because of
• 28:09
  what happened with the auto industry here.
• 28:12
  And I got to go and I I was like talking to my parents about it,
• 28:15
  who again, have never left their hometown.
• 28:18
  And I was like, oh, yeah, we're going to go like out for like
• 28:22
  food and drink in like for out for the night in downtown
• 28:25
  Detroit. My mom was like, you're going to
• 28:27
  get killed. And I was like, no.
• 28:29
  It's always you're going to get killed if you're going into a
• 28:31
  city. And then I was like, no, like
• 28:35
  there are trust me, there's still parts of that city that
• 28:38
  like even like my Co workers were like, Oh yeah, if you're in
• 28:41
  this part at night, don't stop at stoplights.
• 28:44
  And I was like, they're like no, no seriously.
• 28:46
  Or they would be like. They live there.
• 28:48
  It's not. It's not based off of like.
• 28:51
  No, it's actual like, not out of like fear.
• 28:54
  It's actual like to just what happened or like, and so that
• 29:00
  that was just, yeah, being a different situation like that
• 29:02
  and being like, Oh yeah, no, like big cities aren't scary or
• 29:07
  like I I even talk about a lot is like every place you go, no
• 29:11
  matter where you go. I bet Paul, even in your like
• 29:15
  small town, not small town of where you're in German probably
• 29:19
  has parts you not necessarily want to go to, right.
• 29:21
  Like every city's going to have the not so great parts and then
• 29:25
  the, you know, the parts you want to show people and you just
• 29:30
  find a way to live. But that's the part that always
• 29:33
  gets hyper focused on. It's the same in LAII live.
• 29:37
  Yeah, sure, I live in LA technically, but everybody's
• 29:42
  like, oh, you got to be careful in LA because of all of these
• 29:45
  things that they've heard through the Grapevine.
• 29:47
  And legitimately I every time that they say something, I go, I
• 29:51
  don't have that experience. I've never I've never had that
• 29:55
  experience. I don't live in the part of LA
• 29:58
  that you're talking about. LA is huge, you know what I
• 30:02
  mean? So you can't just say LA is
• 30:04
  dangerous. It's like, yeah, parts of it
• 30:06
  are, but so is Omaha, NE. Yeah.
• 30:09
  There are there are parts that are, you know, very rough.
• 30:13
  Unfortunately, I think the difference is, is the real
• 30:17
  experience because I think the opinions like that you were
• 30:21
  talking both about our news opinions, everything that you
• 30:23
  get from the news and what do you get in the news?
• 30:25
  Whatever they keep you there. Exactly.
• 30:29
  And and I I heard so many stories about Europe as well.
• 30:34
  I had and in the US news, I read it.
• 30:37
  I don't know that that everyone is raped in the UK by the
• 30:41
  immigrants, that I don't know all kind of crap, which is yeah.
• 30:45
  You're going to get stabbed when you go to London.
• 30:47
  Exactly. You're going to get stabbed when
• 30:49
  you go to London. You are not safe on the street.
• 30:51
  I had the same of thing when I went to US.
• 30:53
  Well, be careful there. If you go to the South, they
• 30:56
  have guns and they have weapons. It's not like.
• 31:01
  As long as you're not in a school, you're safe.
• 31:12
  That's true. Or replace a warship, maybe.
• 31:18
  Or getting a. Morgue, nightclub shit, we
• 31:22
  really do shoot a lot of people on.
• 31:27
  We have to bring some comedy in, yeah.
• 31:30
  Exactly, It's the same thing is that is the prejudice is the
• 31:33
  prejudice that is, is happening everywhere and the the news, the
• 31:35
  shitty news companies were there to make money and they they have
• 31:38
  to keep it there. But the, the, I think the the
• 31:44
  base of it, the base of it is that every place is safe.
• 31:47
  Every place is unsafe, but you have to pick your pick your
• 31:50
  spots. I had one of the episodes, a
• 31:55
  thing in one of my episodes saying from Priyanka who who
• 32:00
  moved from India to to UK and she said first of all that she
• 32:05
  was the first member of her family who travelled across the
• 32:08
  outside of India and Generation Y.
• 32:13
  Then she said something that when you are an expert, you
• 32:17
  belong everywhere and nowhere. That's a good point.
• 32:21
  Damien, do you have this feeling?
• 32:25
  I would say it's a little bit different for me because I still
• 32:27
  am in the continent, like I'm in the US still, but so it's a
• 32:31
  little. Different.
• 32:32
  It's also weird though in the aspects of like like Paul, how
• 32:36
  far is Romania from Germany like in the grand schemes of it?
• 32:40
  Fairly close. 1200 kilometers. Versus like the states are so
• 32:46
  exactly dislike. It's like where I live to go
• 32:51
  from what I live on the most like eastern side of the state,
• 32:54
  to go all the way to the western side is 400 miles for the same
• 33:01
  place. Yeah.
• 33:03
  And I guess the the point that I was trying to make was I'm still
• 33:06
  in the US so I'm still only a three hour flight from my
• 33:10
  support system back home. It would be completely different
• 33:14
  if I was living in like the UK or something like that to where
• 33:17
  it'd be a huge gap where you don't really have a fall back
• 33:20
  plan, right? But it is also different because
• 33:24
  one of the first things I said when we moved to LA was it was a
• 33:28
  culture shock. 100%. It was like living in a
• 33:31
  different country. It was that different in my
• 33:33
  eyes. Maybe, maybe not.
• 33:35
  The grand scheme of things nowadays, now that I've gone
• 33:38
  back to my hometown and seen my hometown is is a big city.
• 33:42
  Like you don't think about it that way when you live there.
• 33:45
  So I would say I agree with that sentiment, but I don't know that
• 33:48
  I would be the perfect person to ask because I still live fairly
• 33:53
  close to where I grew up. In the second business culture
• 33:57
  shock of like, I moved four times.
• 34:01
  Damian's only really moved once. But like, it's the little
• 34:04
  things, the culture socket of like where do the fuck do I go
• 34:07
  grocery shopping like? Why is there 18 lanes on a
• 34:10
  freeway? Yeah.
• 34:12
  Or like just trying to figure out like thank God for a Google
• 34:16
  Maps or Apple Maps because I wouldn't have been able like I
• 34:20
  like wouldn't have been able to find anything.
• 34:23
  I steal Google Maps every time I leave my house and I've lived
• 34:26
  here for seven years. But do you?
• 34:29
  Do you have also in in in food that made a differences?
• 34:34
  Yeah, I, I would say just a selection of food too.
• 34:37
  Or like, you know, you have your favorite restaurant wherever you
• 34:41
  live, right. And then having to find a new
• 34:43
  favorite is hard. Or like, you know, you look on
• 34:46
  like Yelp or those kind of websites and you're like, is it
• 34:49
  actually good or isn't? And then like, you know what,
• 34:54
  maybe what's your favorite style of food where you were at?
• 34:58
  I'll just for example like being.
• 35:02
  In Omaha, it's Mexican. Food is always everyone's.
• 35:05
  Favorite I had I had this in my my my.
• 35:08
  And then you go to LA. I was talking to Milo and I
• 35:11
  asked him what the food that that he meets that that is he
• 35:15
  missing from US and said Mexican food.
• 35:17
  I said man. Everyone says Mexican food.
• 35:18
  How can you say that? Everyone says Mexican.
• 35:21
  Food And The funny thing is, yeah, like my, I didn't realize
• 35:24
  like, you know, being kind of Midwest and like, oh, all
• 35:28
  Mexican food, food is the same. You're like, Oh no, each region
• 35:32
  of Mexico has its own style. So like my like food in Mexican
• 35:37
  food here in Nebraska is very different than Damien's Mexican
• 35:40
  food. It's the same and I don't know
• 35:43
  if you if you know we have an Oriental type of food in Europe,
• 35:48
  which is called kebab or. Love it.
• 35:53
  I love Adani kebab. Literally just had kebabs last
• 35:56
  night. OK.
• 35:59
  And you know that in the middle. You said you weren't sure if we.
• 36:01
  Heard about it I was just saying we have and I had it but.
• 36:04
  We have different kebab our so in at least where I'm at,
• 36:07
  they're more Greek like Greek, like euro and then like I've
• 36:13
  been really trying to find a Donner kebab and it's just kind
• 36:17
  of hard to find. Interesting that somehow the
• 36:20
  German kebab, which has makes no sense because it's yeah, a bit
• 36:26
  of from the from the history, of course it makes sense because
• 36:29
  the in Germany they came the the there was a, there was a thing
• 36:33
  after the Second World War and you had guest workers from
• 36:38
  Turkey and Italy and they came here and they are most probably
• 36:41
  the oldest in Europe here. I'm just getting out of my
• 36:45
  stomach something. But that's, and that's why they
• 36:48
  established donor. But this German donor kebab is
• 36:51
  ever a donor kebab. Like they have the same recipe.
• 36:54
  But if you eat kebab is ever different because the Romanian
• 36:58
  version of the kebab is adapted to the local influence.
• 37:01
  And, and, and I would say in our case, it's different.
• 37:05
  It's not the fact that it comes from different era of Turkey.
• 37:08
  No, it comes in different era of Europe.
• 37:10
  And they took the local speciality, speciality of of
• 37:13
  things. It's the same with the Asian
• 37:15
  Asian restaurants in Europe at least.
• 37:18
  Yeah, no, that's. That's something America is good
• 37:20
  about. Yeah, especially at Asian
• 37:22
  restaurants, depending where you're at, where like again,
• 37:25
  Damian is probably going to have more authentic and then where
• 37:28
  I'm at usually gets more Americanized and depending.
• 37:32
  When we grew up in Nebraska, I thought Asian food was just
• 37:34
  fried rice and meat. That's it.
• 37:36
  Like that and the crab Rangoon. Crab Rangoon.
• 37:40
  Which I love, by the way, but I thought that was just, you know,
• 37:47
  that's just Chinese food. That's just what it is.
• 37:49
  And then you, you come to LA and you're like, Chinese food is not
• 37:52
  hardly even fried rice. Like they put it on the menu
• 37:54
  just because they know it'll sell.
• 37:56
  But it's not that at all. It's unless there's like a like
• 38:01
  gonna steal Damien of like in and out has a secret menu.
• 38:05
  That's what every like Asian restaurant has here, like what
• 38:08
  the actual Asian food is. And like I've, I've gone with my
• 38:12
  friends who are of Asian descent and like, you order for us.
• 38:15
  Yeah. And then like, 'cause when I
• 38:18
  walk up, they're gonna not give me the good stuff.
• 38:21
  They're gonna give me the like, not spicy.
• 38:26
  And then they're gonna get. It's the same with the Indian
• 38:29
  restaurant, so you can go with someone that knows how to order
• 38:32
  and especially in Germany. Germany doesn't eat spicy like
• 38:37
  they are. They are weak.
• 38:39
  I will give credit to Omaha about Indian food though.
• 38:42
  Or Thai, Yeah. Omaha, NE has really, really
• 38:45
  great Indian food. It's it's a pretty big hub for
• 38:50
  that culture in Omaha. Yeah, and like I also, I have to
• 38:53
  always give a caveat of where I live in Lincoln NE is one of the
• 38:59
  highest refugees per capita. So where they were like, oh, all
• 39:05
  these people are coming from like either Warren Torn or like,
• 39:08
  you know, poverty areas from out the world.
• 39:11
  Where should we send them to the states?
• 39:12
  They're like, oh, let's send them to the very middle.
• 39:15
  And so Lincoln NE has a very high Sudanese population, Iraqi,
• 39:25
  Afghanistani and let's see, I'm trying to think people from
• 39:33
  Vietnam huge because I. Can't say the word.
• 39:36
  I've gotten better. I can't.
• 39:39
  OK. What do you call people from
• 39:42
  Vietnam? Vietnamese.
• 39:44
  Yeah, I I've gotten better. I have to like, think about it
• 39:48
  before I say it. When he when he tries to say it
• 39:51
  quick, it's usually Vietnamese. Vietnamese.
• 39:54
  Vietnamese, but it's Vietnamese. My dyslexia switches up the
• 39:57
  letters. Yeah.
• 39:59
  But so because of that, Lincoln, NE, which you would most people
• 40:04
  would think would just be very, very white people is actually
• 40:09
  fairly diverse. And because of that, we have
• 40:11
  very good restaurants like and so.
• 40:16
  I get a little exposed to that, which is nice, which I didn't
• 40:18
  take advantage of as much before I left, but when now I'm back
• 40:23
  I'm like seeing these diamonds in the rough.
• 40:25
  Like Paul said, it opens your mind.
• 40:27
  You travelled, you lived elsewhere, and you realize that
• 40:30
  there's more to going out for a a dinner at Olive Garden, you
• 40:38
  know? Never ending breadsticks.
• 40:41
  Not saying it's bad, just saying there's more to life.
• 40:45
  That's true, yeah. Good Italian food.
• 40:49
  It's everything that the franchises cannot be good.
• 40:51
  It cannot except Panera. Which is funny you say Panera,
• 40:57
  because I would say of like the change that is the one that gets
• 41:01
  made fun of the most in the states right now.
• 41:04
  That is the only place where you can find bread in the US.
• 41:08
  Yeah. It's there.
• 41:11
  Everything else is toast. Yeah, there are.
• 41:16
  Again, it's one of those things where you have to find like
• 41:18
  diamond in the rough good bakeries.
• 41:20
  But yes, for the most part, like Panera is I I jokingly, I used
• 41:26
  to do stand up and have a bit about it.
• 41:28
  They don't put Paneras in bad areas.
• 41:31
  They're only and I make a joke like have you ever felt unsafe
• 41:34
  in a Panera Bread? No.
• 41:38
  Hey, come on, they have unlimited everything.
• 41:40
  They again do refills, so how could they put it in the bad
• 41:43
  place? So it's yeah.
• 41:45
  But if you find a Denny's. Right now we're talking.
• 41:49
  Wendy's. Wendy's I love.
• 41:52
  Wendy's is Wendy's are everywhere, Yeah.
• 41:54
  What's? What's your typical American
• 41:57
  food? Don't say Mexican please.
• 42:00
  I was, I was considering that I I.
• 42:03
  Think the most American, truly American food that actually was
• 42:07
  invented in the States is Buffalo wings.
• 42:12
  Like hot wings? Makes sense?
• 42:14
  Yeah, I think that's the most most American, actual American
• 42:18
  food. But I think, I think when you
• 42:22
  when you think of American food, you always think of burgers,
• 42:27
  burgers and fries. That's I think that's that.
• 42:29
  And pizza, which ironically, is Italian.
• 42:32
  It's like burgers. Are German.
• 42:34
  And burgers are German, but it's like when you think of American
• 42:37
  food, that's generally. And fries are French.
• 42:40
  And yeah, not not my freedom fries, baby.
• 42:44
  Actually, they're they're Dutch. I know that's true.
• 42:47
  That's true, but they're French fried.
• 42:50
  Exactly, they are French fried. Is that French for the cut?
• 42:55
  I really love French fries, so I'm just getting real into it
• 42:58
  right now. The Julianne style cut, is that
• 43:01
  what you're talking about? More of a waffle.
• 43:03
  The waffle cut right. Now that is American waffle.
• 43:07
  Cut the waffle, cut fries that. Very specifically from a
• 43:11
  Chick-fil-A. Yeah.
• 43:13
  Chick-fil-A. Oh my God, that's also something
• 43:15
  really bad, bad, bad I. Don't need it either.
• 43:20
  But no, I would say when you think about it just from a
• 43:23
  shallow point of view, you'd probably think cheeseburgers,
• 43:26
  French fries, pizza, stuff like that.
• 43:28
  But there really isn't anything that I would classify as
• 43:33
  American cuisine because we're such a conglomeration of every
• 43:38
  food that comes to America. What about Tater tot casserole?
• 43:42
  That's just white. Trash that's not white trash,
• 43:45
  that's just Midwest. That's that's just very Midwest.
• 43:48
  That's not. I have to be honest, like I
• 43:50
  said, I had a talk today with with my wife and we talk about,
• 43:54
  I think I think it was the best meal that we've had in the three
• 43:58
  weeks of USI think we stopped. Panera.
• 44:02
  No, we stopped in the middle of nothing in South Carolina and my
• 44:09
  wife found the diner. Thanks Google Maps.
• 44:13
  It was called the South of portal.
• 44:15
  South of the portal of the South is that.
• 44:18
  Oh, South of the border. No, it's also Mexican.
• 44:23
  I love the South I think and they had all you can eat
• 44:27
  southern buffet. Now, Southern food, that's.
• 44:33
  I think that's American. I think that's American.
• 44:35
  A lot of French influence a. Lot of French, a bit of Scottish
• 44:39
  influence weirdly enough. Exactly.
• 44:42
  But that's kind of my point, right?
• 44:43
  It's like even the best, what you would think, fried chicken
• 44:46
  and stuff like that. It's like, yeah, I guess it's
• 44:48
  American, but it all comes from somewhere else.
• 44:51
  I mean, the whole culture is not sold.
• 44:53
  Let's be honest about that. So with over 400 years, you
• 44:56
  cannot miss the, let's say the combination of things.
• 45:01
  But yes, of course, I think if you, my opinion was at least
• 45:05
  that restaurant give me a feeling of I think there's
• 45:09
  American food. Yeah, I would.
• 45:11
  I would say that Southern food is probably the most true.
• 45:14
  Yeah, or actually like diner food in general, kind of like.
• 45:18
  Correct, Correct. I think this breakfast that you
• 45:21
  have in the US, the breakfast that you have in a diner, that's
• 45:24
  also something specific for US. Maybe not every single food that
• 45:28
  you take separate, but that combination that you have for
• 45:30
  breakfast, I think that's something that you only have in
• 45:33
  the US. Well, we essentially took the
• 45:35
  the full English breakfast and just took out the gross stuff.
• 45:39
  Like sausage and the black pudding and the black pudding
• 45:44
  pancakes. We're not eating beans for
• 45:46
  breakfast. Get out.
• 45:47
  I do. Not want beans on my toast.
• 45:51
  Actually it's pretty good I. It's it's actually pretty good.
• 45:54
  But no, we, we, we took the English breakfast, took out the
• 45:57
  things that Americans would find gross and just added sugar.
• 46:01
  We just added a lot of sugar. This is I had the I had the word
• 46:05
  calling from yours who said Paul, come on, you're in the
• 46:08
  South. It's deep fried and sweet.
• 46:10
  Yep. That's Southern.
• 46:12
  Sweet tea. Yeah.
• 46:14
  Oh my God, that we call it diabetes in Europe.
• 46:17
  Oh. Yeah, Yeah.
• 46:17
  So do we there? There's a place, I I lived in
• 46:21
  Texas for a hot second there, but it was a place Southern
• 46:27
  fried chicken place that made that had their own sweet tea,
• 46:30
  but they had used honey in it as well and they nicknamed it
• 46:34
  diabetes juice. Yep, that's fair.
• 46:38
  That's what they call it. Absolutely.
• 46:40
  Now you can't sue them. They they called attention to
• 46:42
  it. Yeah.
• 46:44
  What have you missed from home, Christian?
• 46:47
  While you being awake and awake away, awake and they mean now
• 46:52
  that you are still still gone. What do you miss from home?
• 46:56
  I would probably say the, the closeness of friends and family,
• 47:05
  honestly, it was probably the biggest thing to, to have to get
• 47:08
  used to. I come from, you know, the
• 47:12
  Midwest mindset of like every weekend is spent with your
• 47:15
  family and anytime you're not at work with your family, that's
• 47:19
  when you spend time with friends.
• 47:21
  And so my whole life was just working and hanging out with
• 47:24
  people. And now in LA, it's a lot more
• 47:28
  like working and then doing house chores and going to
• 47:32
  concerts and kind of doing stuff on our own, so to speak.
• 47:37
  So I don't have as many close close like since grade school
• 47:42
  friends and stuff. So that's probably what I missed
• 47:44
  the most. Yeah, I would say a little bit
• 47:47
  of like the term like FOMO, which is like fear of missing
• 47:50
  out a little bit, especially when I first left because I was
• 47:53
  the first one of our friend group to leave, of that friend
• 47:55
  group at least. And so you'd get like, you know,
• 47:59
  the Snapchats of everyone hanging out and like, I'm like,
• 48:04
  luckily my, my now wife travelled with me because that
• 48:08
  helped me so much having another person there, but of being like,
• 48:12
  Oh, I'm missing out on this good time.
• 48:16
  And so I did like, and now, you know, of course everyone moved
• 48:19
  away eventually, but no one wants to be the last man left
• 48:23
  kind of situation. But that that I think that was
• 48:26
  what first got me at first, especially initially because
• 48:32
  like, you know, even though you are 100% about moving, you're
• 48:37
  like, you made the decision, you made all the prep work.
• 48:39
  Like I think with everyone, they're still probably in the
• 48:42
  back of your head of like, was this the right decision or not?
• 48:46
  Like as you're, you know, still waiting for the Internet to get
• 48:50
  installed or like turned on at your new place.
• 48:53
  And you're like that little bit of a freak out moment when they,
• 48:56
  you know, you get your keys to your new apartment and you're
• 48:59
  like, what have I done? Was this the right to the the
• 49:03
  unknowingness of it as well? And so.
• 49:06
  Wondering. One of the other things I really
• 49:08
  miss real quick is Runza. I really miss there's a, there's
• 49:12
  a local restaurant that you can only really get, yeah, I guess a
• 49:16
  fast food chain that you can really only get in part like
• 49:20
  certain parts of the Midwest. No, only in Nebraska.
• 49:23
  Yeah, well, I think they had expanded to Kansas.
• 49:27
  At some point, council blast. Or Iowa or something like that.
• 49:29
  But anyways, it's a very specific restaurant chain and
• 49:33
  you can't get it anywhere except for essentially Nebraska.
• 49:36
  So I do miss that too. It was my first job that I ever
• 49:39
  had at 15 years old. And it's it's, it's a like a
• 49:42
  burger joint place, but like actually like quality
• 49:46
  ingredients. We hype up runs a lot because we
• 49:50
  both love it and I live like it's the best way from 1:00.
• 49:53
  How many how many burger festo chains you have?
• 49:56
  You don't even want to know too many.
• 49:59
  I had like for example, we're raving about this one burger
• 50:02
  place that's very specifically only in Nebraska and I ate at
• 50:05
  the other very specifically 1 Donna Millie's today.
• 50:12
  And those are just two very specifically in our small 100
• 50:17
  mile region of the United States.
• 50:20
  And that's not including all the national brands like you would
• 50:24
  think of McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Five Guys, things
• 50:30
  you would have probably even in Germany.
• 50:33
  I5 guys every I think there are two or three restaurants in the
• 50:39
  whole Germany. Chipotle is only one and the
• 50:44
  Chipotle is very good and Chipotle.
• 50:46
  We're a long time, too. We're rambling about about food
• 50:50
  since a long time, but I have to I have to ask you two more
• 50:54
  things. So I I was a big fan of Crocker
• 50:57
  Barrel. Oh.
• 50:59
  OK. I don't know why I.
• 51:02
  Well, it's Southern food and it's, it's a pretty big chain.
• 51:07
  I don't eat it too often because they're always placed on like
• 51:12
  the Interstate. They're they're they're very
• 51:15
  specifically marketed towards people traveling along the
• 51:19
  interstates and so like, and I never lived near the Interstate.
• 51:23
  I don't even know if LA, if you LA even has them.
• 51:26
  I'm sure they do, but. They're probably like a
• 51:28
  Bakersfield, yeah. And there are, I have to say, it
• 51:33
  gives you such a cozy feeling when you enter the place because
• 51:35
  of that store, which is before the restaurant and the way the
• 51:38
  restaurant is looking like. And I don't know, the people are
• 51:42
  of course, the way they are talking to you because they they
• 51:44
  have the southern accent. But that was just because of a
• 51:46
  geographical problem, because I was there.
• 51:49
  Yeah. But I have so good members of
• 51:51
  Cracker Barrel I cannot take. I cannot even explain why.
• 51:55
  And 2nd, I don't know if I told you the story, but I have AI
• 51:57
  have a guilty pleasure pleasure on YouTube.
• 52:00
  If I told you the story, you have to stop me.
• 52:02
  I have a great guilty pleasure on YouTube.
• 52:03
  This guy called Ralph the Baker. And how do?
• 52:08
  You mention this. And he's from New Orleans.
• 52:12
  Oh, Damien's favorite. My favorite place.
• 52:15
  Ben. Love New Orleans?
• 52:18
  How can someone eat that food? I have to ask.
• 52:23
  Because they have soul and I love tasty food.
• 52:27
  Everything is mixed together and you put spices on top.
• 52:31
  Yeah, so my grandma used to make that for the pigs.
• 52:37
  Just a bunch of slop. Exactly the same.
• 52:39
  The same pot. The gumbo gumbo.
• 52:43
  No, I'm talking about boils. So oh.
• 52:46
  Yeah. Crabfish.
• 52:48
  Not, not only like literally he's mixing up vegetables, like
• 52:52
  all kinds of vegetables and then crawfish on top and that's it.
• 52:56
  Yeah, love it. That was our one of our first
• 52:58
  friends. Actually that was our first ever
• 53:00
  friends getting meal. We did a a crawfish boil.
• 53:03
  It was so good. So good.
• 53:06
  I have to try that once. I really have to try it.
• 53:08
  I. It's an experience where they
• 53:10
  literally like take a trash can, it looks pretty much a trash bin
• 53:14
  and dump it on the table and you got your little bib on.
• 53:18
  Oh, it's so good. Crab and crawfish and corn and
• 53:22
  potatoes. Oh my gosh.
• 53:24
  What do you just smother in seasoning?
• 53:26
  Yeah. But man, this isn't it has to be
• 53:30
  too much. I mean, if you put garlic
• 53:32
  powder, onion powder and always a pack of everything like like
• 53:37
  you don't play with like easy, you just.
• 53:40
  No, yeah, it has a lot of flavor.
• 53:42
  Get some Old Bay seasoning. Oh my God dude, it's so good.
• 53:46
  What I got from him, though, I got the Blackstone.
• 53:49
  I think the Blackstone it's a good idea to have.
• 53:51
  All the griddles. That's a kind of Blackstone.
• 53:54
  Like really to have a Blackstone outside, to be able to do so, to
• 53:57
  cook something there is a. They've gotten very popular here
• 54:00
  in the states in the last like year or two, especially where I
• 54:03
  live. I think a lot of people have
• 54:06
  like my wife's stepdad has one and does the hibachi looking
• 54:10
  stuff. Exactly what what's cool about
• 54:14
  this in in Europe? So in general, at least if you
• 54:16
  live in an apartment, you are only allowed to have a you are
• 54:18
  allowed to have a Everything is regulated in general.
• 54:21
  OK, but I have to state that first.
• 54:23
  So you are allowed to have an Barbican or balcony but it has
• 54:28
  to be gas BBQ, Yeah. Oh, I thought it was.
• 54:34
  No, no. I thought it was electric.
• 54:36
  No, no, no. Gas.
• 54:37
  It it. It's only allowed to be gas or
• 54:39
  electric, but not coal. Oh.
• 54:43
  No charcoal. Yeah, no charcoal, no wood.
• 54:45
  Yeah, that makes sense though. And the same, it's the same with
• 54:48
  black stones. And I think that's why they got
• 54:50
  so popular, because they are easy, easygoing.
• 54:52
  Like you start them in line in 10 minutes, you're good to go.
• 54:55
  Yeah, yeah. You can't have a American style
• 54:58
  smoker out there. You can't do that in America
• 55:01
  either though, when you live in an apartment.
• 55:03
  That's true. You have to.
• 55:05
  Gas or electric? Yeah.
• 55:07
  I still think I'm I'm, I keep saying that they would make one
• 55:11
  day an episode about the German rules because some of them make
• 55:13
  sense. Yeah, some of them don't.
• 55:16
  That'd be fun. And that would be very
• 55:19
  interesting to like hear all of the unique rules and aspects.
• 55:24
  Tune into the Remainder on Return podcast to learn the
• 55:27
  weirdest laws of Nebraska. By the way, we had an episode
• 55:30
  where we did that. Really.
• 55:33
  Oh, OK, I have to. I have to listen to.
• 55:35
  One of our early ones I think that was.
• 55:37
  Very early. Within the 1st 10 or 10 or so
• 55:40
  episode. These are like laws that aren't
• 55:42
  actually, they're like on the books, but like not actually
• 55:45
  enforced. Like I think one of them was
• 55:47
  like, you can't go whale hunting in Nebraska.
• 55:51
  And let me tell you, we are one of the furthest places on earth
• 55:56
  from a body. A large body, a lot.
• 55:59
  But but it's important to know that you're not allowed to.
• 56:01
  But you can't do it. You can't no SO.
• 56:04
  Even if they would come, you have to look at them.
• 56:08
  That's a yeah. Somehow Shamu situation.
• 56:11
  Yeah, which I think we're working on for the the Henry
• 56:15
  Doily Zoo. I think we're trying to get a
• 56:17
  whale enclosure. I don't know.
• 56:20
  I don't know if it's legal anymore.
• 56:22
  Well, you can't hunt them, that's for sure.
• 56:24
  That's true. We rumble around about food
• 56:29
  since a long time, which I love, by the way, because I I love to
• 56:33
  understand how the how the how the things are running in the
• 56:37
  US. But I want to come come back to
• 56:41
  your podcast. You've been podcasting for a
• 56:45
  while, 65 episodes and counting. I hope I was right, right.
• 56:52
  What what surprised you the most the most about about this
• 56:56
  journey? Oh, that's a good question.
• 57:01
  I think the fact that it's still going, it's probably the most
• 57:05
  surprising thing. I think Christian and I both
• 57:09
  were kind of just anticipating us.
• 57:12
  It was just a good excuse for us to hang out and have fun
• 57:14
  together. So the fact that it's still
• 57:16
  going and gaining traction and you know, have having met so
• 57:22
  many people, I think it's just the whole thing is kind of
• 57:24
  surprising to me to be honest with you.
• 57:27
  Yeah, I would also that along with like people reaching out to
• 57:33
  us to be on the podcast, like we've hit that level of people
• 57:37
  being like, hey, I heard about your podcast, can I be on it?
• 57:40
  And we, for us, we're like, why like.
• 57:46
  Yeah, that is that is really, And actually I'll, I'll also add
• 57:51
  this portion of the surprise when we were not even really
• 57:55
  having guests on. We were trending really big in
• 57:59
  the UK for some reason. And we just had a bunch of UK
• 58:04
  like punk bands reach out to us. And so we just kind of out of
• 58:08
  the blue started interviewing people from all over the world.
• 58:12
  And I think that was, and we didn't reach out to, they
• 58:16
  reached out to us. And I was like, that is the
• 58:19
  weirdest thing ever. I, I think that that's a huge, I
• 58:24
  think we've interviewed more international people than people
• 58:27
  in the States, which is. Still.
• 58:29
  Bonkers to me that like I thought it was going to be the
• 58:32
  reverse like. I think we'd interview anybody.
• 58:35
  I thought it would just be us being idiots with each other and
• 58:38
  nobody would listen and then we'd give up after 15 or 20
• 58:41
  episodes. But it's amazing you started as
• 58:45
  well with no expectations, right?
• 58:49
  Yeah, just seeing what's going to seeing what's going to
• 58:52
  happen. Like I said, it's it was just an
• 58:54
  excuse for me to get out some of my frenetic energy because
• 59:01
  otherwise I just I go a little crazy.
• 59:03
  So, and I know I've been fairly reserved on this on this
• 59:06
  episode, but things get pretty wild over on the on the
• 59:10
  remainder on return, the Triple R podcast, as we call it.
• 59:13
  I mostly do it so I have a free place to stay when I go to LA
• 59:16
  now, yeah. Yep.
• 59:19
  Called a long con. Damian, if you ever want to do
• 59:24
  another pro podcast, I'm there as well because I would also
• 59:27
  need a free place to stay there. Right, you got it.
• 59:31
  You got to You got to join my pyramid scheme though.
• 59:36
  And the pyramid's good, where we all just lose money.
• 59:39
  I can, I can, I can offer an exchange in Europe please.
• 59:43
  OK, perfect. I'll take it.
• 59:45
  I'll take that. But yeah, no, it's, it's very
• 59:49
  surprising. I think what I mean, I bet.
• 59:52
  Would you say something similar about yours because I know you
• 59:55
  kind of started out with a Co host and now you're basically
• 59:59
  doing it on your own, right? I'm yeah.
• 1:00:05
  So basically I think everything that you say that you said
• 1:00:10
  already, I can, I can sign on it.
• 1:00:12
  The the the thing which is surprising me still is that
• 1:00:17
  people are reaching out. That's that's something which is
• 1:00:20
  it's, it's just it's always a smile on my face when I see that
• 1:00:24
  e-mail coming in. And it's amazing how many people
• 1:00:29
  I got to meet. This is something which is like,
• 1:00:32
  I meet you guys. I meet.
• 1:00:33
  I met a lot of a lot of guys from all over the world.
• 1:00:36
  And I was smiling when you said that you interview more people
• 1:00:38
  from abroad than in the USI think for me, it's the other way
• 1:00:41
  around. Yeah, because I had, I had so
• 1:00:44
  many guys from US in the meantime, not living in the US
• 1:00:47
  anymore, but I, they are all around Europe.
• 1:00:50
  But I interviewed a lot of persons from US and I have to
• 1:00:54
  say it's an, it's a, it's a, it's a crazy journey.
• 1:00:58
  And I'm so happy that I've did, I've, I've started and I'm so
• 1:01:02
  happy that I, I know it will start sound stupid, but I'm so
• 1:01:06
  thankful for the bloody power of the Internet because we're able
• 1:01:09
  to do this. Being in different corners of
• 1:01:11
  the world, we're in three different time zones and we are
• 1:01:14
  doing this. And there is nothing that can,
• 1:01:16
  that can really stop us. Like we have fun, we have a chat
• 1:01:19
  and that's, it's just amazing. There's nothing attached to it,
• 1:01:22
  which is great. You know, I think anybody who
• 1:01:26
  does a podcast always does so with the inkling in the back of
• 1:01:30
  their mind of if this becomes something, this would be a fun
• 1:01:34
  way to make some extra cash or whatever.
• 1:01:36
  But Christian and I have always said it's not for that.
• 1:01:40
  Our podcast isn't for fans. It's not for anyone except for
• 1:01:45
  us. We do it because we like it.
• 1:01:47
  And either you're along for the ride because you enjoy us, or
• 1:01:51
  you've never heard of us. Yeah.
• 1:01:53
  And we've, we've always said we'll stop when it quits being
• 1:01:58
  fun, which is so generic and so like cheesy a little bit.
• 1:02:02
  Like I feel like everyone kind of says that, but I think it's
• 1:02:05
  kind of true for us. Like yeah, we'll stop when it we
• 1:02:09
  don't enjoy it anymore. Or if it becomes like a burden,
• 1:02:12
  yeah, you know, but right now it's a couple hours a week.
• 1:02:17
  Yeah, I think I can. I can pretty much always make
• 1:02:19
  that work. And our listeners can tell by
• 1:02:21
  our editing. We don't really edit.
• 1:02:26
  Or lack thereof. Yeah, we don't really edit.
• 1:02:29
  We don't cut things unless the guest really wants us to.
• 1:02:31
  But that's kind of the whole point of it though.
• 1:02:34
  That's why I say it's not for anybody.
• 1:02:36
  I'm not going to go through and spend an equivalent amount of
• 1:02:40
  time editing as I spend recording because I, I said it
• 1:02:45
  on microphone. I said it while we were, I knew
• 1:02:47
  we were recording. It's not a surprise that I said
• 1:02:50
  that. So it's like, I'm not going to
• 1:02:51
  cut it. If it's, if it's not something
• 1:02:53
  that you agree with or it's not something that you want to hear,
• 1:02:56
  that's fine. That's you're, you're entitled
• 1:02:58
  to that. But I'm just having, I'm not
• 1:02:59
  having a good time. I'm I'm fully agreeing I the
• 1:03:03
  only the things that I don't like as well is that I see this
• 1:03:07
  cut out of the discussion and it sounds so unnatural.
• 1:03:10
  It's horrible. Like exactly that's.
• 1:03:12
  How people talk. Like if, if you if I do that for
• 1:03:15
  the shorts, maybe to fit it that that length, I might do that the
• 1:03:19
  length of the short, which makes sense from my point of at least.
• 1:03:23
  But in the story, I don't feel like cutting it.
• 1:03:25
  I cut the beginning at the end because I realised that using
• 1:03:28
  reverse side takes 1020 seconds to get a stable connection until
• 1:03:32
  we manage to have a a clear dialogue and then I start the
• 1:03:36
  recording and then I start the episode after a while.
• 1:03:38
  That's something that I do as well, but that's it.
• 1:03:42
  And I think the most important thing, Damian, that you just
• 1:03:44
  said that you have to do it for yourself.
• 1:03:46
  You have to do it for for you. And if you like you, the
• 1:03:49
  question is that I always ask myself is would I listen to
• 1:03:52
  this? Yeah, I would.
• 1:03:53
  Yeah, and I do I I'm probably our most avid listener of our
• 1:03:57
  podcast. Besides your wife, maybe?
• 1:03:59
  You're my yeah, my wife does listen to every episode too.
• 1:04:02
  But yeah, I'm, I'm recording every episode, then we edit
• 1:04:06
  every episode and then I listen again to the final version
• 1:04:09
  because I want to make sure that what we recorded and what was
• 1:04:12
  edited, I'm happy with. So I realistically listened to
• 1:04:16
  every one of our episodes three times.
• 1:04:18
  I was in a whole I was in a hurry a few a few weeks ago in
• 1:04:23
  one of the episodes and I I haven't even listened to the
• 1:04:26
  final version because I exported.
• 1:04:27
  I put it in the editor, I had some visuals and then I put it
• 1:04:31
  inside the inside the studio and that was it.
• 1:04:34
  And my, my first, my first person who's watching this is
• 1:04:40
  my, my mother. There you go.
• 1:04:42
  And she write me. She wrote me after posting.
• 1:04:45
  There's no sound in the second-half of the episode.
• 1:04:48
  Oh, no, that's the worst. And if that was, and if that was
• 1:04:53
  the case on the Triple R podcast, we would leave it up.
• 1:04:57
  Yeah, you are going to have to. Deal with all, baby.
• 1:05:01
  Worse in all. Until next week, you're going to
• 1:05:03
  have to deal with it. You have to guess.
• 1:05:05
  Yep, join the page. We always, we always say join
• 1:05:08
  the Patreon to hear what you couldn't hear on the episode.
• 1:05:11
  We don't have a Patreon, no. Talking about the episodes you
• 1:05:17
  had, you had a lot of memorable stories.
• 1:05:21
  You had Mike twice. Mike Pence.
• 1:05:28
  You know, I avoided the same pain just to not, not to do the
• 1:05:31
  Vietnamese thing. Yeah, Christian.
• 1:05:35
  And you had to do it, Mike. I'm sorry.
• 1:05:36
  Mike paying fucking rules, Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:05:40
  Yeah, we've had some really cool guests.
• 1:05:43
  What was the story that impressed you the most?
• 1:05:48
  Oh man, I know it's hard. Of all of our guests are just
• 1:05:53
  Mike just. All all the guests.
• 1:05:56
  Oh, damn, dude. That's really tough because I
• 1:06:03
  think that not everybody is a storyteller, but everybody's
• 1:06:08
  story is interesting, if that makes sense.
• 1:06:10
  So we had a lot of really, really great guests on who
• 1:06:14
  aren't necessarily storytellers, but their life story is really
• 1:06:18
  interesting and you get it in little segments, right?
• 1:06:21
  Especially on our podcast, we interrupt like crazy.
• 1:06:24
  So it's really hard for anybody to get a full story out because
• 1:06:28
  we interrupt them so much. But I would have to say the
• 1:06:30
  most, maybe not story, but my 2 most still can't believe that
• 1:06:39
  this happened. Episodes would have to be Neil
• 1:06:41
  from Blue Nation and Mike Burns, who is a comedy legend and we
• 1:06:49
  love his podcast. And it's just like we've had on
• 1:06:52
  some people that I still to this day can't believe that we got to
• 1:06:55
  interview. But Neil is the best storyteller
• 1:06:59
  we've had. On I think he'll even admit that
• 1:07:01
  he he is. And like I think if anyone like
• 1:07:06
  probably one of our best episodes that we would recommend
• 1:07:08
  people to listen to if they're gonna, you know, listen to us,
• 1:07:12
  it's probably the Neil episode. It's a very good mixture of us
• 1:07:18
  being just silly heads, as you've seen, but then we go in
• 1:07:22
  like some really deep good. Demands mental health.
• 1:07:26
  Yeah. And so I think that that is a
• 1:07:30
  very good one. And then our first, if you
• 1:07:31
  really want to know, like what our podcast is really all about
• 1:07:36
  is one of our our first episodes.
• 1:07:38
  Our very first episode romanticizing cockroach living.
• 1:07:41
  Yeah, where the? Name of the episode?
• 1:07:43
  Interviewed. We were talking about that group
• 1:07:45
  of friends from Omaha where we interview one of our buddies,
• 1:07:48
  Joe, who is still in Omaha, hasn't had the opportunity to
• 1:07:54
  leave. And I think that was a really
• 1:07:56
  good episode. So I guess kind of answering
• 1:07:59
  your question, but not also, I'm trying to think of me and
• 1:08:03
  Damien's favorite bit where where it's just us 2, probably
• 1:08:07
  the hamster one, the hamster's good PetSmart.
• 1:08:11
  We're we're just, it's probably actually a tough listen to
• 1:08:15
  because me and Damien are giggling so much.
• 1:08:20
  Yeah. So.
• 1:08:22
  It's a tough. It's a tough.
• 1:08:23
  Thing to answer, but I think that's a good I think that's a
• 1:08:26
  good answer. If you want to hear what the
• 1:08:28
  podcast actually started out being, listen to the very first
• 1:08:32
  episode. If you want to hear the best
• 1:08:34
  storyteller, check out the episode with Neil Murdoch of
• 1:08:39
  Blue Nation. And if you just want a bunch of
• 1:08:41
  silly bullshit, listen to just Christian and I's episodes.
• 1:08:45
  Just by ourselves. It is.
• 1:08:48
  There are two things. From the.
• 1:08:52
  From the episodes where I need a bit of context.
• 1:08:55
  OK. Oh God, I hope I can give it to
• 1:08:58
  you, because there might. Not be any rumor has it that.
• 1:09:04
  Damien's mom calls the 97 Blizzard OK.
• 1:09:11
  First off, you might be 1 of. The only people.
• 1:09:13
  That's actually listened to that episode.
• 1:09:15
  That is one of our worst ranked episodes in history.
• 1:09:18
  That is, nobody gives up what it says.
• 1:09:21
  Yeah, but. The context of.
• 1:09:24
  That was my birthday is at the end of October and I was turning
• 1:09:30
  7 years old and I woke up the day of my birthday in 1997 and
• 1:09:35
  we had gotten Christian. Was it like 3-4 feet of snow?
• 1:09:40
  No, it's it wasn't ice storm like a like a.
• 1:09:43
  Once in a lifetime ice storm. So.
• 1:09:46
  It was still like early in the year, so like all the trees
• 1:09:49
  still have their leaves and it was an ice storm and I think we
• 1:09:51
  have like an inch or two of just like pure ice.
• 1:09:54
  And so it but it had snowed pretty bad too.
• 1:09:57
  Yeah. So it had made like all the.
• 1:09:58
  Tree branches. Crumble essentially and made all
• 1:10:03
  the power lines like fall apart and so no one had power.
• 1:10:08
  Like the entire city didn't have power for like at least a week.
• 1:10:14
  Like it was like catastrophe. I would even say it was bad
• 1:10:19
  enough where like Damien was turning 7, I was.
• 1:10:22
  Six years. Old and we still remember it
• 1:10:24
  very like to this day as like one of my like probably first
• 1:10:29
  real memories. I can still remember.
• 1:10:31
  But it was like, and it was right before Halloween, which is
• 1:10:34
  a very big holiday for the US. And so like, you didn't get to
• 1:10:38
  go as like a Power Ranger. You got to go as a very cold
• 1:10:42
  Power Ranger in your winter coat.
• 1:10:44
  And yeah, yeah, but the the joke of Damien's mom.
• 1:10:47
  Caused a 97 Blizzard was I woke up and looked outside and saw
• 1:10:52
  that it was, you know, a terrible, terrible storm.
• 1:10:56
  And I walked into my my mom and my stepdads room asking if I was
• 1:11:00
  still going to have my birthday party.
• 1:11:02
  And they were arguing because, like Christian said, one of the
• 1:11:05
  big branches of the tree in our front yard had collapsed and it
• 1:11:10
  crushed our cars that were in the driveway.
• 1:11:13
  And my stepdad was yelling at my mom as if it was her fault that
• 1:11:17
  the cars got crushed by the tree branches.
• 1:11:20
  And so that that joke is that my mom, because I was 7 and I was
• 1:11:24
  distraught that my birthday wasn't happening.
• 1:11:26
  So I blamed my mom for the Blizzard because she was
• 1:11:29
  kidding. Yelled at, I mean.
• 1:11:34
  Making fun of. Trauma.
• 1:11:35
  Essentially, yeah. And you didn't know how it's?
• 1:11:40
  Called back then. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:43
  And the second thing where I need more.
• 1:11:44
  Context is. Christian's marathon picture.
• 1:11:49
  From from. Instagram How?
• 1:11:55
  How come the marathon? As a goal, because I know
• 1:11:58
  you're. Joke joking around in the
• 1:11:59
  episodes, but I never understood how come the how come you you
• 1:12:03
  had that goal for yourself, so that was that.
• 1:12:07
  Picture was probably my like I got it 8th or 9th marathon.
• 1:12:11
  So I've been doing marathons for about a decade, more than a
• 1:12:16
  decade basically since I've known you.
• 1:12:17
  Yeah. So in in high school or like
• 1:12:23
  what you would call secondary school.
• 1:12:24
  I was I did we're on like the sports teams like we call it
• 1:12:29
  cross country and track like athletics, maybe for
• 1:12:32
  international. So I've, I've always been very
• 1:12:34
  good at running long distances more and the like mile race or
• 1:12:40
  800 meters or like a 5 kilometer race.
• 1:12:45
  And then kind of stopped running for a bit.
• 1:12:48
  And actually a mutual friend of ours wanted, he was like, hey, I
• 1:12:51
  want to run a marathon. And it was more of his school.
• 1:12:54
  And I was like, well, I'll do it as well.
• 1:12:57
  And then realized I was pretty good at them and then just kind
• 1:13:03
  of kept doing them. And so like, if you look back
• 1:13:05
  here, all these medals are marathon and then these ones are
• 1:13:11
  athletic races. And so I I have a big.
• 1:13:18
  Respect for someone who's doing that because I I I said it in in
• 1:13:22
  in for whoever haven't it has not seen the episodes on your
• 1:13:26
  podcast with me shout out watch watch Paul on our episode.
• 1:13:30
  Yeah, no fantastic. We learn about Romania.
• 1:13:34
  Yes, I learned that it existed. I.
• 1:13:40
  Had AI had a history? Of being fat and not not being
• 1:13:42
  sporty. And I think since three years I
• 1:13:44
  discovered no, since five years I discovered running.
• 1:13:47
  Four years, 4 1/2 And running was your Romania.
• 1:13:51
  You didn't know that running. Existed until running.
• 1:13:54
  Running is a sport in Romania, but only if you're still so if
• 1:13:57
  you. Don't still makes no sense to
• 1:13:59
  run people. It makes no sense.
• 1:14:01
  Who are we running from exactly that's running our?
• 1:14:04
  Demons. That's where I'm running from.
• 1:14:06
  That's a. Regular.
• 1:14:07
  Joke in our in our podcast too. I'm always asking.
• 1:14:09
  Christian, OK, you're, you're running a marathon, but who is
• 1:14:12
  it against? Who is it versus?
• 1:14:13
  And he's like the demons in my head, man.
• 1:14:16
  The crazy The crazy thing is that the is the only thing that
• 1:14:19
  you. Do against yourself.
• 1:14:21
  I think it's the only, it's the only sport in which.
• 1:14:24
  You are fighting. Against yourself?
• 1:14:26
  Yeah, I did this year. The third half marathon.
• 1:14:29
  Nice. I tried to thank you.
• 1:14:32
  I tried to get. A register for the new.
• 1:14:34
  York City Marathon, but unfortunately I was too late.
• 1:14:36
  But next year I will be there for sure.
• 1:14:39
  You said New York. Yeah.
• 1:14:41
  Oh, wow. I have a.
• 1:14:42
  Gripe with the New York City Marathon.
• 1:14:45
  So I. I was supposed to run.
• 1:14:48
  It like I had. It's also from my times and.
• 1:14:52
  I. Got to New York and then they
• 1:14:55
  cancelled the marathon. To be fair, a really bad
• 1:14:59
  hurricane had come, but but they had said like, Oh no, still come
• 1:15:03
  like still take your flight hotel like don't cancel
• 1:15:06
  anything. Had gone to like the huge
• 1:15:09
  symposium got like my race bib. I've trained, you know, several
• 1:15:12
  months and then like 12 hours before the race they cancel it.
• 1:15:17
  And that wasn't even what upset you the most.
• 1:15:19
  What upset you the most was wasting the money going to new.
• 1:15:21
  York Well, now I still had a really good trip, like I still
• 1:15:24
  want got to go see. Broadway and so actually
• 1:15:26
  probably good they cancelled Marathon.
• 1:15:28
  I don't think I would have ran well because I was not eating
• 1:15:30
  great because I was eating like New York City food.
• 1:15:35
  And so I love the city. And I said if I.
• 1:15:37
  If I managed to run my first marathon.
• 1:15:39
  I wanted to be there. So let's see now I I've heard
• 1:15:43
  good. Things you get to see,
• 1:15:45
  literally. All 5 boroughs I've heard.
• 1:15:47
  It's very cool. We'll do a podcast afterwards.
• 1:15:52
  If I'm surviving for sure. Do a podcast during it.
• 1:15:56
  Yeah, the first ever. On the Move podcast.
• 1:16:00
  I mean if I can. Run, it's enough.
• 1:16:01
  Run and talk in the same. Time be a lot of breathing.
• 1:16:06
  Just a lot of heavy breathing. Excite, Dad.
• 1:16:12
  You can't make that joke around me.
• 1:16:14
  I'm still looking for mine. I said it.
• 1:16:20
  Now. Now I said it.
• 1:16:21
  Tuck it. You cannot find me.
• 1:16:25
  Yeah. Oh shit, do you?
• 1:16:32
  Do you have a bucket list with guests that you would like to be
• 1:16:34
  there? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm working.
• 1:16:37
  I'm working on a couple right now.
• 1:16:38
  I don't know. If I should say them now what?
• 1:16:40
  What? We'll probably let you know when
• 1:16:43
  they are. On if they've been.
• 1:16:45
  We actually have three of them in the works right now.
• 1:16:47
  That I'm, I'm trying to secure. Those would be huge, huge, huge
• 1:16:53
  interviews for me. But realistically, Neil Murdoch
• 1:16:57
  of Blue Nation was kind of a a dream guest for me and then Mike
• 1:17:01
  Burns for me. Was.
• 1:17:03
  Because he was one of. The first people like I started
• 1:17:07
  listening to when I started listening to podcast.
• 1:17:10
  And so I was like, that's also a thing if you're thinking about
• 1:17:14
  starting a podcast, like just reach out to people.
• 1:17:17
  The worst thing they can say is no or they just might not
• 1:17:20
  respond at all. They generally just don't
• 1:17:21
  respond if they're not interested.
• 1:17:23
  Yeah, I. Got that as well if they don't
• 1:17:26
  want to. Join them, they are not coming
• 1:17:28
  and that's it. But the off chance that they say
• 1:17:31
  yes, which is. How some of our.
• 1:17:33
  Guests have been where we're like they, they said yes, like
• 1:17:37
  you responded, you know, they, they said yes, they.
• 1:17:41
  Came on the show and then afterwards.
• 1:17:43
  They were like. This was so much like, I don't
• 1:17:45
  know, to have to invite somebody on as a guest and then to have
• 1:17:48
  them tell you that they had a good time is pretty rewarding.
• 1:17:52
  Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 1:17:53
  And that's the that makes the fun of it.
• 1:17:55
  Because you enjoy it. You enjoy it Anyhow, Yeah,
• 1:17:58
  that's how you're doing it. Yeah.
• 1:18:00
  But realistically, I mean, if we're talking real legitimate.
• 1:18:03
  Bucket list like that will probably never happen.
• 1:18:06
  I'd say probably Jack Black would be #1 for me, that would
• 1:18:11
  be a really good one. I've just.
• 1:18:13
  Seen the movie with myself. Or Andrew Santino.
• 1:18:15
  He's a friend of Minecraft. Oh yeah.
• 1:18:20
  I'm not sure if it's just a. Very purely an American thing
• 1:18:23
  are watching it in Germany. Are people doing like the like
• 1:18:30
  yelling quotes or like throwing popcorn or any of have you seen
• 1:18:34
  those videos? Yeah, they did.
• 1:18:39
  So I've there are two things where where they were yelling,
• 1:18:45
  but I was at the English variant of the movie so I might be
• 1:18:49
  biased there because if they seen the video then everyone did
• 1:18:52
  it. But they did with I am Steve for
• 1:18:56
  sure. Like the whole crowd scream at
• 1:18:58
  once with I am Steve. Yeah, but I wasn't the English
• 1:19:02
  person because my my son speaks English and he prefers English.
• 1:19:05
  Oh wow. To see to watch for USA.
• 1:19:10
  You know other like other countries.
• 1:19:13
  Also speak English, specifically England.
• 1:19:20
  Yes, but they didn't. Invent it.
• 1:19:22
  OK, It came from the US. To English to the US.
• 1:19:25
  To be fair though, it is I I joke.
• 1:19:27
  Like, you know. We do speak American,
• 1:19:31
  absolutely. It's a variation of English, but
• 1:19:33
  it's not the Queens. English and.
• 1:19:35
  Canadians are speaking Canadian. Like all these are.
• 1:19:38
  Speaking Australian yeah, because you you have different
• 1:19:41
  do you know slang terms that. You use if you, if you've been
• 1:19:46
  to UK, you know the Scottish accent.
• 1:19:48
  Right. Oh God, yeah, it's I had a.
• 1:19:51
  Work colleague who? Was originally from Belfast with
• 1:19:55
  the North Irish Irish accent. Moved to Scotland for 10 years
• 1:20:00
  for work and then. Moved back to Northern.
• 1:20:02
  Ireland. Oh my bloody good.
• 1:20:05
  His accent was a mess. I bet it had to.
• 1:20:08
  Be just. Amazing in subtitles you need.
• 1:20:13
  I always need about 1. Hour to really manage to
• 1:20:18
  understand everything that he's seeing.
• 1:20:20
  But then that was OK. Yeah, that's funny.
• 1:20:24
  I have. My rapid.
• 1:20:26
  Fire questions. Oh, yeah, wrap it up.
• 1:20:29
  I what order are we going or are you just going to ask him?
• 1:20:33
  Oh. God damn.
• 1:20:34
  It it's always Christian. Now.
• 1:20:35
  Now it's alphabetical because I gave him the tip.
• 1:20:38
  OK. OK, last.
• 1:20:41
  Place you travel to. Last place Los Angeles to visit
• 1:20:45
  Damien. Boring.
• 1:20:52
  Mine's even worse. Nebraska.
• 1:20:55
  Portland. Portland, OR.
• 1:20:57
  Boys, we go into. Detail in our our podcast where?
• 1:21:01
  Damian wasn't the cute to stand in Portland.
• 1:21:03
  Yeah, 1st. Thing.
• 1:21:08
  You. Miss away.
• 1:21:10
  From home sleeping. My own bed.
• 1:21:18
  I'm getting old, getting old. There's a point where I'm like,
• 1:21:21
  I just want my. Own bed because like, it's just.
• 1:21:24
  You know, it's what I'm used to. It's what like if I get my own
• 1:21:27
  bed, I like instantly fall asleep.
• 1:21:29
  But when I'm travelling I don't sleep as well.
• 1:21:32
  I mean the first night in every hotel city.
• 1:21:34
  But then. Amen.
• 1:21:37
  I would say the the first thing I.
• 1:21:39
  Tend to miss when. I'm travelling.
• 1:21:40
  Is a good home cooked meal we cook at home a.
• 1:21:46
  Lot I will I will give. Damien, he is a fantastic.
• 1:21:51
  Like restaurant level cook. And by that I mean it's the
• 1:21:55
  Olive Garden. By that I mean in and out.
• 1:22:04
  No, he he actually cooked us a very.
• 1:22:08
  Great gourmet gourmet steak dinner that was plated very
• 1:22:11
  well. Steak rolls, Steak rolls, that's
• 1:22:15
  my. Favorite especially.
• 1:22:17
  Nebraska's meat. Omaha Steaks, That's a real
• 1:22:21
  difference that makes. No difference the the US.
• 1:22:26
  Beef is the best. For sure.
• 1:22:28
  And then no question asked. So like specifically from our
• 1:22:31
  area, like we're known like. That's what cattle is, what
• 1:22:34
  Nebraska is known for. And so like I've eaten steak in
• 1:22:38
  different area. So like you could go to like a
• 1:22:40
  grocery store here in Nebraska and buy like some of the best
• 1:22:45
  quality steak you would have at like a restaurant on like in LA.
• 1:22:49
  It's just at our grocery store because it's LA, restaurants
• 1:22:53
  generally get their steaks. From Omaha Steaks.
• 1:22:58
  Good one. Yeah.
• 1:23:00
  Best road trip snack? Right.
• 1:23:04
  Now I'll say it because summary. And I've sunflower seeds it in a
• 1:23:11
  car that. Is a mess.
• 1:23:13
  No, you have you. Have you?
• 1:23:14
  Have the bottle you just have like an old Gatorade.
• 1:23:16
  Just spit. Into that, Yeah, spit into that.
• 1:23:18
  This is crazy. I that was my favorite as like.
• 1:23:21
  Growing up what in Romania? That's so popular in Romania.
• 1:23:26
  Flower. Seeds.
• 1:23:27
  They're very especially here. In the states they have like so
• 1:23:32
  many different flavors. So like mine right now, my
• 1:23:34
  favorite. They like put like pickle
• 1:23:36
  seasoning on them. Yeah.
• 1:23:38
  The seasoned sunflower seeds are really titled.
• 1:23:41
  Entitled Son of a guns, Yeah, no.
• 1:23:43
  What seasons? What?
• 1:23:45
  No, you take that, you know, BBQ flour.
• 1:23:47
  No, you take the like the big one, then you heat it on the
• 1:23:51
  back to come to get the the seeds out right.
• 1:23:54
  And then you roast them in your in the oven with a bit of salt
• 1:23:57
  on top and that's it. You entitled son of a guns.
• 1:24:01
  No, you go next. You go next.
• 1:24:04
  Closest gas slash petrol station, they get them in a
• 1:24:08
  Ziploc, like a fancy Ziploc baggie.
• 1:24:10
  And they they're a few. You got to choose between two
• 1:24:13
  different brands. There's David's and Spitz with
• 1:24:16
  AZ with AZ and then yeah, yeah, that's that's why I get on road
• 1:24:22
  trips. And so ours is Jalapeno kettle.
• 1:24:27
  Cooked chips and white monster. The best travels.
• 1:24:34
  I need. Context.
• 1:24:35
  There, so let me make myself comfortable.
• 1:24:37
  So let's. Start from beginning Jalapeno.
• 1:24:39
  What jalapeno kettle cooked potato chips?
• 1:24:43
  So they're like, really? So you.
• 1:24:46
  Know potato chips are are kind of like soft and mushy like
• 1:24:50
  they're crispy at first, but then they're soft and mushy.
• 1:24:52
  These are these are like extra extra crispy and thin and
• 1:24:57
  they're like kettle cooked instead of deep fat fried.
• 1:25:01
  They are so good in their jalapeno like.
• 1:25:03
  Flavoured. So we eat those and then white
• 1:25:06
  monsters, the the energy drink, the Monster Energy drink, Yeah.
• 1:25:13
  It's it's like, but we're on. A road trip.
• 1:25:14
  I got to stay away because I'm driving the whole.
• 1:25:16
  Time. That's true.
• 1:25:17
  It's. Like equivalent to like a like a
• 1:25:19
  diet. Red Bull, kind of like the white
• 1:25:22
  version. It's this.
• 1:25:22
  I know monster, I know monster who have it does that, but I.
• 1:25:24
  Don't like the? Energy.
• 1:25:25
  Drinks. I never understood them.
• 1:25:27
  I don't know why I'm a coffee addict.
• 1:25:29
  I'm a coffee coffee as well. Yes, we're we're all.
• 1:25:32
  Very coffee. Addicts.
• 1:25:36
  What surprised? Me talking about snacks in
• 1:25:38
  Crocker peril. What the deep fried Pickles?
• 1:25:43
  I mean deep fried Pickles how Dip them in ranch so like.
• 1:25:49
  Very specifically like the US in general, but very specifically
• 1:25:53
  in the Midwest where me and Damien are from.
• 1:25:55
  Ranch dressing is everything. I ate it today with my feel of
• 1:26:02
  chicken fingers. But and like specifically the
• 1:26:07
  ranch from our like Omaha, NE area is the best ranch in the
• 1:26:13
  entire world. It's like ranch is so important
• 1:26:16
  in the Midwest that we judge a whole restaurant.
• 1:26:18
  Based on how good their ranch is and goes back, there's different
• 1:26:21
  types of ranch. So it's the olive oil, The
• 1:26:24
  Italian olive oil? Yeah, the.
• 1:26:26
  The place we're talking about runs of that fast food.
• 1:26:28
  Restaurant, so it fits the category of best ranches.
• 1:26:33
  Yep, it's OK. What's your favorite?
• 1:26:39
  Home. Underrated hometown hangout.
• 1:26:43
  Oh damn. It's got to be Benson.
• 1:26:47
  It's got to be the Benson. District.
• 1:26:49
  Yeah, but that's changed even. Bless.
• 1:26:53
  I haven't. Been there in a while I.
• 1:26:54
  Guess. I'll, I'll say.
• 1:26:58
  It just because I went back to it very recently and we talked
• 1:27:01
  about it. So also the most American thing
• 1:27:04
  and I love it. It's called the Alpine Inn.
• 1:27:08
  It's in like a foresty area. It's a, it's a fried chicken
• 1:27:12
  restaurant, but it's up in like a very foresty area of Omaha.
• 1:27:19
  And what you do is what they do with the like scrap chicken
• 1:27:23
  bones. They put them on like this deck
• 1:27:26
  area and then they have raccoons come and eat it.
• 1:27:30
  So it's your dinner and your meal.
• 1:27:32
  Sharing your meal with raccoons. Yeah, that's interesting,
• 1:27:37
  Alpine. Inn.
• 1:27:38
  Alpine Inn. And Omaha, NE shout out it's.
• 1:27:42
  It's just one of the places, once you describe it to people,
• 1:27:44
  they're like, how is this a thing?
• 1:27:47
  And like, it's just, it's just great.
• 1:27:49
  The fried chicken's amazing. It's very affordable.
• 1:27:51
  And yeah, it's a dinner and a show and you get to see
• 1:27:56
  raccoons, I mean. It's there.
• 1:27:58
  Are like, I remember I was like eating.
• 1:28:00
  And I looked. Over because I had one of the
• 1:28:02
  best seats in the house for the raccoon show, but I went over
• 1:28:06
  and there were like 8. Yeah, they're coming every
• 1:28:09
  evening there. They.
• 1:28:11
  They just live there and like, like.
• 1:28:16
  Basically, they never live. Yeah, essentially, yeah, if.
• 1:28:19
  Like they know the food's going to be there.
• 1:28:21
  And so like, and yeah, you just see them like, like so low key,
• 1:28:27
  one of my favorite. Spots, yeah.
• 1:28:30
  Yeah, I'd say the Benson district.
• 1:28:33
  It's the best there was the best place to go have drinks and it
• 1:28:38
  was very walkable. So you would just park your car.
• 1:28:41
  You can walk the entire district and bar hop to different styles
• 1:28:46
  of. So they had like a an A beer and
• 1:28:48
  arcade place. They have pool tables in another
• 1:28:52
  place. They have like a dance club.
• 1:28:54
  They have different restaurants you can go.
• 1:28:57
  Yeah, different rooftops. Some of the restaurants are open
• 1:29:01
  late because they know that they are going to have a bunch of
• 1:29:03
  drunk people, so that's probably one of my favorite places to
• 1:29:06
  hang out. Yeah, shout out Beer Arcade.
• 1:29:08
  I will say that that beer kid has.
• 1:29:10
  Held up so it's called beer Arcade, but yeah, essentially
• 1:29:13
  it's a bar with all these like classic arcade games.
• 1:29:19
  So like, and they also like it was one of the first places
• 1:29:24
  because like, you know, the joke is American beer is like
• 1:29:28
  American, the big brand names like Coors, Budweiser, Miller,
• 1:29:31
  not really beer, but beer Cade was one of the first places to
• 1:29:34
  start having like European beers, like German beers and
• 1:29:38
  like started to have like micro brews, like things that were
• 1:29:40
  like like more like coffee than beer.
• 1:29:43
  And so it was one of our favorite places to go to,
• 1:29:45
  especially because I came back from England very Snooty and was
• 1:29:49
  like, I don't drink this piss water.
• 1:29:52
  I I only drink, you know, a 12% stout in the middle of summer
• 1:29:59
  when it's oh, yuck, 30°C ninety. Degrees Fahrenheit out.
• 1:30:05
  You know, and now, now I'm back to drinking the the piss water,
• 1:30:09
  the monkey piss, you know? This is what everyone in Germany
• 1:30:14
  is saying about the beer in UK and everyone in UK is saying
• 1:30:17
  about the beer in Germany. So it's a it's got to be a never
• 1:30:20
  ending story. Yeah, but they know the saying.
• 1:30:23
  They know the saying from. From.
• 1:30:25
  Ireland that whenever you are drinking more in more than three
• 1:30:31
  sips, you drink monkey piece. Interesting.
• 1:30:36
  So it has three sips. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:30:40
  What was? The What was the worst packing
• 1:30:43
  fail ever? The worst packing fail?
• 1:30:46
  Yep. Forgetting the underwear.
• 1:30:51
  Well. Now just just go commando.
• 1:30:54
  That's. Oh, I have a bit.
• 1:30:56
  About that, I can't go commando anymore.
• 1:31:02
  Play PP Lafret. I need the underwear.
• 1:31:09
  To act as a as a dam, to stop all the dribbling.
• 1:31:12
  I can't go commando anymore. The images in my head though
• 1:31:20
  you're. Welcome.
• 1:31:22
  I have because Christian, do you?
• 1:31:25
  Have one. I'm thinking about the time
• 1:31:27
  where like. Full moving packing is what I
• 1:31:31
  was my mind went to but where we like started to pack everything
• 1:31:36
  in the truck and then realized we forgot to pack our bed and so
• 1:31:39
  we had to unpack the truck to try to get to fit.
• 1:31:44
  Yeah. And then we have some serious
• 1:31:45
  answer answers as well, by the way.
• 1:31:50
  You're Christian. I do.
• 1:31:52
  I have. Some I I went with the underwear
• 1:31:54
  because I I went. With the the comedy first, but I
• 1:31:56
  didn't let Christian finish. No, that just Yeah, no.
• 1:32:00
  Did you forget? Like your inhaler?
• 1:32:01
  Yes, so that was that was the worst part.
• 1:32:04
  I have pretty. Severe asthma and enough for me
• 1:32:07
  to be like, you're like it's about to.
• 1:32:09
  Get serious like you forgot your inhaler.
• 1:32:12
  And that's how this is not funny.
• 1:32:14
  But this is damn funny. Yeah.
• 1:32:16
  So that was that was bad. That was probably the worst
• 1:32:20
  travel one. But then moving across the
• 1:32:23
  country, the biggest fail that we had was we hired a company to
• 1:32:28
  take all of our stuff out of our storage unit to bring it to LA
• 1:32:31
  because we finally got a like a place here.
• 1:32:33
  And for about a week straight, we didn't hear from them.
• 1:32:38
  So we thought they just stole all of our all of our stuff.
• 1:32:42
  So we were sitting in an empty house with there wasn't ATV,
• 1:32:46
  there wasn't a couch, we didn't have our bed, we had nothing for
• 1:32:51
  a solid like 5 business days and they would not answer our our
• 1:32:55
  phone calls. That's terrifying.
• 1:32:57
  What happened? What happened to them?
• 1:33:00
  Oh, they showed up. They showed up and dropped
• 1:33:02
  everything off and. We were like, is there a reason
• 1:33:04
  you guys weren't answering? And they're like, yeah, we were
• 1:33:06
  driving. I was like, oh, OK.
• 1:33:10
  I didn't realize I was calling your cell phone.
• 1:33:12
  I thought this was a a business or like you think after like
• 1:33:16
  they were. Driving there to, like, check
• 1:33:18
  their messages and then like, hey, your stuff is fine.
• 1:33:24
  You're not ghosting you. Yeah, that was bad.
• 1:33:27
  That was one of the most stressful packing things.
• 1:33:29
  That I've ever experienced that that checks out.
• 1:33:34
  Roaming solo. Or with a group.
• 1:33:41
  I'm going to go with. The really cheesy answer, but
• 1:33:42
  it's. Kind of true.
• 1:33:43
  I love travelling with my wife. Like that's one of our huge
• 1:33:46
  things. We both have like liked
• 1:33:49
  interest. So I think that like we both
• 1:33:53
  love museums, which is another funny point of our podcast.
• 1:33:56
  Damien doesn't but like so that that works out really well in
• 1:34:00
  that instance. And like, I'm OK doing stuff by
• 1:34:04
  myself, like, but it also is nice to like experience of with
• 1:34:09
  someone, like if their point of view could be a little
• 1:34:12
  different. And then also like eating alone
• 1:34:14
  kind of sucks. Like at a restaurant, especially
• 1:34:17
  like I did a lot of my Europe travelling, not a lot of it, but
• 1:34:22
  half of it was by myself. And so like you really want it.
• 1:34:25
  Like you want to go to this nice or not nice restaurant, but
• 1:34:27
  like, you know, a restaurant. And then it's just like this is
• 1:34:30
  before, like cell phones really had good Internet.
• 1:34:32
  So I'm just like having to like what what like what do I do with
• 1:34:36
  my hand situation. The the the problem is when you
• 1:34:40
  go along the the single tables. Are in shitty places and
• 1:34:43
  restaurants. You're next to the bathroom.
• 1:34:46
  I usually sit in the bathroom. Yeah.
• 1:34:49
  No I so. Fun.
• 1:34:51
  Fact. I.
• 1:34:52
  Never really travelled at all before my wife really, and if I
• 1:34:56
  did it was like a couple of times with the family.
• 1:34:59
  And so I haven't I, no, I've never travelled on my own so I
• 1:35:05
  wouldn't know what travelling solo is like.
• 1:35:07
  Well, you've travelled not for enjoyment by yourself.
• 1:35:10
  And then you missed a. Flight.
• 1:35:12
  That's a good point. Yeah, travelling.
• 1:35:15
  To and from Texas when I was training for a job, but that was
• 1:35:20
  that was for a job that wasn't travel.
• 1:35:23
  Yeah. So I don't.
• 1:35:25
  I don't ever really want to. Go.
• 1:35:28
  Anywhere without my wife realistically because it's
• 1:35:31
  really fun to see how similar we feel about things.
• 1:35:36
  Or what's the difference between how I feel about something and
• 1:35:38
  how she feels about it? I will just pack you both in
• 1:35:41
  some hearts during. This video during this video
• 1:35:45
  that would be appreciated up and down.
• 1:35:48
  Yeah, we're good boys. We're silly, but.
• 1:35:51
  We're good boys. This is the official version
• 1:35:55
  most. What's the most Midwestern thing
• 1:35:58
  that Christian own a house? Not many people have that
• 1:36:09
  benefit. I'm.
• 1:36:13
  Trying to think what's very Midwest.
• 1:36:21
  I was going to say a snow. Shovel, but that's not super
• 1:36:24
  Midwest but. Kind of is mid, I don't know
• 1:36:27
  yet, but Canadian, yeah I do. Own a pair?
• 1:36:32
  Of overalls. There you go.
• 1:36:34
  That's pretty Midwest OR. Like, you know.
• 1:36:38
  Like denim coveralls? Yeah, I own a pair of those.
• 1:36:42
  That's pretty mid. Or cowboy.
• 1:36:44
  I own Cowboy. Boots.
• 1:36:46
  I own cowboy boots. Boots as well.
• 1:36:48
  But that's not Midwest. It's.
• 1:36:51
  Yeah. It's yeah.
• 1:36:53
  That's a tough one because that's very Southern as well.
• 1:36:55
  Yes, yes, man, I think that's that might be the toughest
• 1:36:59
  question and. I don't have.
• 1:37:00
  An answer for you I don't know because I I am like Midwest
• 1:37:06
  cheap car. I guess I don't.
• 1:37:07
  I don't even have a cheap car. Anymore that's true.
• 1:37:10
  I have a. Decent car since with the
• 1:37:13
  podcast success yes yeah, all the.
• 1:37:16
  Money, all the money we're making.
• 1:37:21
  Damn it, I don't know, maybe. Maybe some Nebraska.
• 1:37:23
  Stuff. I do have.
• 1:37:24
  Quite a few Nebraska shirts. Yeah, yeah, that's Cornhusker.
• 1:37:30
  Cornhusk. Your blanket might have to.
• 1:37:33
  That might be the most. Midwestern things I have are I
• 1:37:36
  have a. Plethora of University of
• 1:37:39
  Nebraska like sports team shirts because of that's where I went
• 1:37:45
  to school. I have a lot.
• 1:37:47
  I have a lot of Nebraska oriented stuff.
• 1:37:49
  Here, like I have a little door hang thing that says home
• 1:37:54
  Nebraska. Yeah, I would say that's
• 1:37:56
  probably the most now I can actually think about it I have
• 1:38:00
  AT. Shirt going back, We're going
• 1:38:03
  back again to the Runza conversation.
• 1:38:06
  Yes, but it's it's AT shirt that says Runzas and football.
• 1:38:11
  It's a Nebraska thing. There you go.
• 1:38:14
  That's good. I guess the other most Midwest
• 1:38:16
  thing I have. Is just a gallon of ranch
• 1:38:18
  dressing Can you not make it by yourself in the.
• 1:38:22
  Meantime, oh I, I. Made it myself, yeah.
• 1:38:27
  It tastes it's pretty good. I think that's.
• 1:38:29
  Also why the runs of 1? You can.
• 1:38:30
  Tell it's like homemade, it's not super processed.
• 1:38:34
  Why you make a gallon of it if you make it by yourself.
• 1:38:37
  Because I need it, you use it, I need it.
• 1:38:40
  You think we're eating a? Healthy salads.
• 1:38:43
  Yeah. We're just calling them salads.
• 1:38:46
  Yes, yes. What's there, some medicine
• 1:38:49
  there? What's the most?
• 1:38:52
  No. What's the?
• 1:38:54
  The single stereotype from LA that Damian secretly fits in.
• 1:39:00
  Oh Christian, you gotta answer this one.
• 1:39:06
  Not leaving. Not leaving his.
• 1:39:08
  Suburbs, OH. Yeah, that's that's in LA.
• 1:39:15
  Nobody's doing a suburb. Yeah, so.
• 1:39:18
  Like you like because LA is so. Big your suburb is like where
• 1:39:23
  you mostly go and so like and so I I, I, I joke.
• 1:39:29
  With Damian all the time. I go to the beach more often
• 1:39:32
  than Damian does, and I don't live in LA.
• 1:39:35
  Absolutely, absolutely true. I would say the thing I fit
• 1:39:41
  into. Most in LA.
• 1:39:43
  Is having a podcast? I was either going to say that
• 1:39:47
  or. Like the food scene?
• 1:39:50
  It took it took the long way to to the star.
• 1:39:53
  Better. It took the, it took the long
• 1:39:56
  way. OK, Yeah, that's a fun question.
• 1:39:59
  Yeah, that's a good question. I think I fit in pretty well.
• 1:40:02
  Overall. Yeah, I would you make it work.
• 1:40:08
  So kind of like Capybara. Just Capybara.
• 1:40:12
  Just hang out with everyone. I.
• 1:40:15
  I enjoyed the hell out of this. Yeah, now it was great.
• 1:40:19
  It was fun again. I will miss next Sunday.
• 1:40:22
  Yeah. Make it a weekly thing, yes.
• 1:40:25
  Back-to-back to back, back-to-back.
• 1:40:28
  And that's the thing about these.
• 1:40:29
  First, you know these first. Introduction Episodes.
• 1:40:31
  Is it's a little formal because you got to get to know each
• 1:40:34
  other and you got to introduce each other to each other's fan
• 1:40:36
  bases and stuff. But you know, as we've learned,
• 1:40:40
  the more you have people on, the more unhinged it tends to get.
• 1:40:44
  So any follow-ups that we have, we won't have to do all of the
• 1:40:48
  answering of the questions and getting to know each other.
• 1:40:50
  It's just going to be yeah, insanely I I propose to do 1
• 1:40:55
  about food. I love, I love the discussion
• 1:40:59
  about food. Because I realized the passion
• 1:41:01
  is. There in on the outside as well.
• 1:41:02
  So yeah, I was in the food business for over, over a
• 1:41:05
  decade. Where I'd never worked in the
• 1:41:09
  food industry. But I just enjoy.
• 1:41:11
  Unique foods I just like eating. I just like, yeah.
• 1:41:15
  Nobody's able to see that. On you, Christian, I'm.
• 1:41:18
  Sorry I run so much. I I run so I.
• 1:41:21
  Can eat. As well, That's another good
• 1:41:24
  excuse. I run because I can't run.
• 1:41:28
  Because the the more I. Run.
• 1:41:30
  I was like, oh, I have to. Eat as much as I can.
• 1:41:34
  Like today I went on a fairly like a 12 mile run and so when I
• 1:41:37
  got back I ate a lot of cookies because I was like I need this
• 1:41:41
  for my body. Excuses.
• 1:41:45
  Excuses. Excuses.
• 1:41:46
  Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much for.
• 1:41:50
  Taking. The time I'm happy to.
• 1:41:52
  Have you I'm looking for for the next one because this one is
• 1:41:55
  going to be amazing. Amazing.
• 1:41:57
  We'll get something. We'll get something crazy
• 1:41:59
  planned to. To really bring in the numbers,
• 1:42:03
  yeah, I don't. I love to do this.
• 1:42:07
  I. Let's see if the numbers are
• 1:42:08
  there. Or not, I would love if we yes,
• 1:42:14
  I would love. If one day we are.
• 1:42:17
  Able to do this face to face. I would love to.
• 1:42:21
  I was serious. Yeah.
• 1:42:22
  If and when you do end up coming.
• 1:42:23
  To New York, we could probably work something out.
• 1:42:26
  Sure. So next year, next year for the
• 1:42:28
  marathon. I'm there this year.
• 1:42:29
  I didn't get the place. For me it was even because I I
• 1:42:33
  didn't had any time. I didn't have the place.
• 1:42:36
  But next year I'll be there for sure.
• 1:42:39
  Yeah, maybe we'll plan on that. Yeah, I.
• 1:42:43
  Wish you an amazing. One, you still have a full day
• 1:42:46
  in front of you. We got to go for it now.
• 1:42:49
  Yeah, OK. Then I wish you a lot of fun
• 1:42:52
  and. Tell people where they can find
• 1:42:54
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• 1:43:00
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• 1:43:07
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• 1:43:08
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• 1:43:11
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• 1:43:13
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• 1:43:17
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• 1:43:21
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• 1:43:48
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• 1:43:51
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• 1:43:54
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• 1:43:58
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• 1:44:06
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  You bye, bye.