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036 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Kai and I am a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to ramble On, where I talk about the more routine,
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  Speaker 2: everyday pedestrian events of my life. And there's been a
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  Speaker 2: lot of video games going on this week, so I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably hear about that. Man, a lot's been going on.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually watching some TV show and they played
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  Speaker 2: I Think We're Alone Now, which is originally by Tommy
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  Speaker 2: James and the Chondell's, the guys who did Crimson and Clover,
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  Speaker 2: and I never saw the video for I Think We're
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  Speaker 2: Alone Now, but I always liked that song, so I
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  Speaker 2: went on YouTube and I looked up the video and
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  Speaker 2: it was great. It's a good song. And then right
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the song, like during the last chorus,
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  Speaker 2: some announcers starts talking and the whole band kind of
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  Speaker 2: just like stops playing their instruments, and Tommy stops singing,
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  Speaker 2: and they all just like happily smile at the camera
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  Speaker 2: and it goes away. It's a live performance somewhere, but
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was really funny that they have the
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  Speaker 2: full uninterrupted song. It looks like a regular music video.
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  Speaker 2: And then they don't get to finish it because right
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  Speaker 2: in the last few seconds of the song, someone starts
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  Speaker 2: talking and the whole band just sort of like stops
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  Speaker 2: playing the song and looks around but is smiling because
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  Speaker 2: they're like, I guess we're done playing that song now.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was really funny and weird that they
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  Speaker 2: didn't get to finish the last few seconds of their song. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I think the song was Undead to Me somewhere. That
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  Speaker 2: TV show I've been watching recently, which is very funny,
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  Speaker 2: but given a couple shows of watching recently, it's pretty funny. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I liked it a lot. I watched the whole series
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  Speaker 2: of Dead to Me, and I did laugh out loud
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  Speaker 2: a couple times. Like, there were a few funny moments
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  Speaker 2: in the show, and there were some really good dramatic
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  Speaker 2: moments in the show too. Overall, it is a good story,
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  Speaker 2: but there were a couple things that kept hitting me,
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  Speaker 2: Like one, it is set in rich Personland. It's set
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  Speaker 2: in a United States where everybody can afford enormous six
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  Speaker 2: bedroom houses with guest houses in the back, and all
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  Speaker 2: of their neighbors have the exact same giant house, and
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  Speaker 2: all of their sidewalks are like sparkling clean that you
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  Speaker 2: could eat off of, and manicured lawns in a quiet
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  Speaker 2: suburb with zero traffic, Like it's the kind of place
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  Speaker 2: that buys their kids fifty thousand dollars cars for their
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  Speaker 2: sixteenth birthday. And considering how poor and desperate all the
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  Speaker 2: Americans I know are, it seems a little out of
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  Speaker 2: touch to have such a fancy backdrop for the show.
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  Speaker 2: It is about two middle aged Ish women, so maybe
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  Speaker 2: they're like, well, women have more money, but even so,
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  Speaker 2: considering the shenanigans they get up to in the show,
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  Speaker 2: they would be bankrupted after the first thing goes wrong
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  Speaker 2: with legal trouble or health or anything like that because
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  Speaker 2: they're in the States and they don't have any money
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  Speaker 2: trouble the whole show. They're just constantly and consistently very wealthy,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a bit off putting. The only other thing
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  Speaker 2: is that one of the main characters in season two,
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  Speaker 2: I think is a chiropractor, and they make a pretty
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  Speaker 2: big deal, like they insert a full line but as
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  Speaker 2: a dramatic straight read where the character says, well, but
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  Speaker 2: I am a real doctor, and everyone's like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: we know you're a real doctor. We know chiropractors are
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  Speaker 2: real doctors, and then the show moves on like that
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  Speaker 2: scene was specifically to establish that chiropractors are medical doctors,
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  Speaker 2: which it should be pointed out that chiropractors are not
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  Speaker 2: medical doctors and there is very little evidence supporting any
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  Speaker 2: of their claims other than a supplemental touch therapy that
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  Speaker 2: works along with regular exercises. So I was pretty uncomfortable
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  Speaker 2: with how the show basically was advocating for chiropractic and
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  Speaker 2: it's a really small part of the show, Like the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the actual show is good, but every time
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  Speaker 2: the chiropractor showed up, I was like, you should probably
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  Speaker 2: backpedal how strongly you're advocating for this character, because it
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  Speaker 2: seems like they just tried to slide in like oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's a real doctor. It's like okay, but not a
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  Speaker 2: medical doctor. Just make that clear that this is a
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  Speaker 2: sort of massage thing and it's not a medical practice.
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  Speaker 2: But they didn't. They really tried to make it clear
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  Speaker 2: that according to the show, chiropractors are medical doctors, which
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  Speaker 2: they are not. Also, like they have chiropractic medicine for
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  Speaker 2: babies and toddlers, which is insane in real life, Like
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  Speaker 2: that's a thing you can get. You can go to
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  Speaker 2: a chiropractor and they'll be like, here are the chiropractic
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  Speaker 2: regimens for an adult. These ones are for a baby,
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  Speaker 2: and you can get an infant chiropractic program for your baby.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's crazy and unhelpful. Kids joints are fine, Like
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  Speaker 2: let them develop into people and make their weird choices
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  Speaker 2: to visit medicine with no evidence before you start snapping
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  Speaker 2: baby necks around, And they don't have clinical studies when
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  Speaker 2: they advocate these things. They owe and always says many
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  Speaker 2: parents find that or some parents find that the digestive
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  Speaker 2: health of their children gets better after an infant chiropractic session,
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, okay, so a few people said that
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  Speaker 2: that's all of it. That's the whole evidence for chiropractic
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  Speaker 2: sessions working, especially on infants. Anyway, that's just it. Every
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  Speaker 2: time he shut up in the show, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: is he one of the people that are like twisting
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  Speaker 2: baby necks? I think I already talked about the show.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm not talking about the good parts of
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  Speaker 2: Dead to Me, which I really liked and recommend everybody
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  Speaker 2: watch like in real life. One of the actresses is
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  Speaker 2: undergoing a health issue and she looks totally different in
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  Speaker 2: the third season from the first two seasons, but they
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  Speaker 2: act through it and the show keeps going and the
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  Speaker 2: show is really good, Like the whole story is pretty
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  Speaker 2: good altogether, little soapy, but I liked it, and out
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  Speaker 2: of all three seasons, really those two things were only
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  Speaker 2: my only problem, so I'll stop talking about it. Well.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the Panama Canal three times because my
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  Speaker 2: friend wanted to see it three times. And the first
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  Speaker 2: time there's this place, the Pedro Miguel Locks, to the
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  Speaker 2: north of the city a bit and you can see
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  Speaker 2: the boats and the lock and everything behind a chain
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  Speaker 2: link fence. It's a public area so you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to pay. So after a tasty buffet meal, we went
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  Speaker 2: north to the Pedro Miguel locks and watched the Pedro
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  Speaker 2: Miguel locks open and close and saw a boat. But
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  Speaker 2: we only stayed there for like ten minutes, and there
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  Speaker 2: were a bunch of boats. Because I realized I left
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  Speaker 2: my son's sleeves, which are these sleeves for the sun
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  Speaker 2: that I wear over my T shirt so that I
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  Speaker 2: don't get murdered by the sun. I left them back
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  Speaker 2: at the buffet, so we stayed there for ten minutes
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  Speaker 2: and then I was like, I think, I remember where
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  Speaker 2: they are on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go get a taxi back.
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  Speaker 2: And they were there, so that worked out fine, but
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't the perfect viewing of the Panama Canal. So
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  Speaker 2: we went again to the main mirror Floras locks, like
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  Speaker 2: the famous locks that everybody goes to.
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  Speaker 1: The locks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that, like you know what it was, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what it was before I went to visit.
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  Speaker 2: The Panama Canal works with three separate lanes, and there's
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  Speaker 2: eight inter there's eight locks in a lane of the
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  Speaker 2: Panama Canal. So the boat drives in, the lock closes
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  Speaker 2: behind the boat, and then water fills up, and as
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  Speaker 2: the water fills, the boat rises. Then they open the
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  Speaker 2: lock in front of the boat, unlock it. The boat
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  Speaker 2: goes through to the second part, closes behind it, the
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  Speaker 2: water fills up again, the boat goes up another eight
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  Speaker 2: meters or eight feet actually, because I think it's only
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine feet altogether, so eight or nine feet, and
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  Speaker 2: the boat does that each time they get water filled
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  Speaker 2: up in the section the boat is in, the boat rises,
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  Speaker 2: it goes into the next section, the water fills up,
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  Speaker 2: it rises another eight or nine feet, goes into the
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  Speaker 2: next section, and that's how they basically cross over Central
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  Speaker 2: America from the Atlantic into the Pacific. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: huge thing. It's an engineering feat that humans did that
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  Speaker 2: is pretty cool, and tens of thousands of people died
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  Speaker 2: trying and France tried to make it first, and then
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  Speaker 2: the US succeeded in making it, but Panama Holy owns
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  Speaker 2: it now and they make like eight hundred thousand to
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  Speaker 2: a million bucks for each ship that goes through the
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  Speaker 2: Panama Canal, and generally over three dozen ships go through
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  Speaker 2: the Panama Canal each day, so it's a good way
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  Speaker 2: to make a cool eight billion dollars or whatever that
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  Speaker 2: is every year. So the Pedromguel locks is in the
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  Speaker 2: north and then they go from the Atlantic side down
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  Speaker 2: into the Pacific side where the mirror flo As locks is.
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  Speaker 2: It's the last lock before the ships go out into
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  Speaker 2: the Pacific Ocean, and it takes a long time to
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  Speaker 2: cross because they have to fill up and they have
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  Speaker 2: to make sure the boats don't hit anything like sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they do, which we could see a lot better at
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  Speaker 2: the Mirror Flores Locks. Probably could have seen it at
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  Speaker 2: Pedro Miguel, but I was really worried about my son's leaves.
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  Speaker 2: And at the Mirror Flora's Locks there was actually a
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  Speaker 2: guide saying most of this information that I just regurgitated
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  Speaker 2: back at you. And he was saying Stephan English, and
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  Speaker 2: my friend is not great at English, so I would
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  Speaker 2: just listen to him and then i'd repeat for her
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  Speaker 2: what he was saying in English to his group of
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  Speaker 2: what looked like high school kids, like on a tour.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know, but he had all this really
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  Speaker 2: interesting information, like this boat is from nineteen sixty, or
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  Speaker 2: these locks are all the original locks. Apparently all those
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  Speaker 2: locks that we were watching were the original locks they
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  Speaker 2: made a hundred years ago and they're still working. I
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  Speaker 2: did see water leaking through one of them, but if
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  Speaker 2: you make a million dollars on each boat going through,
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  Speaker 2: I assume they're not too worried about a couple weeks
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  Speaker 2: after one hundred years. And then the third visit to
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  Speaker 2: the canal, Oh, my friend did see the movie. They
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  Speaker 2: have like an IMAX movie that you can go to
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  Speaker 2: at the Mira Flora's locks to watch about the Panama Canal.
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  Speaker 2: But I felt like after listening to the tour guide
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  Speaker 2: and this already being the second time at the Panama Canal,
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  Speaker 2: I was okay on the movie. Oh I didn't go
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  Speaker 2: a third time. My friend had already booked a ticket
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  Speaker 2: on a boat that actually goes on the Panama Canal,
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  Speaker 2: and she offered to buy me a ticket. She actually
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  Speaker 2: bought two tickets right away and assumed I would go
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  Speaker 2: with her. But I could change my mind if I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to, because she could refund the ticket as long
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  Speaker 2: as it was more than twenty four hours before the
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  Speaker 2: boat starts. And I was like, okay, no, I'll go.
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  Speaker 2: But then that was before we went to the canal twice,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I think I'm good. I think
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  Speaker 2: I understand it. So I canceled my ticket and she
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  Speaker 2: went and she has to get up. You have to
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  Speaker 2: get up really early to get on the boat. It
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  Speaker 2: leaves it like six. So she did get on the boat,
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  Speaker 2: but then she fell asleep just a little ways into
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  Speaker 2: the boat, so she actually missed the first opening and
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  Speaker 2: closing of the locks because she was just snoozing in
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  Speaker 2: the air conditioned room of the boat. But it was
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  Speaker 2: a little long. It's a six hour boat ride just
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  Speaker 2: so you can go through a lock or two. And
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  Speaker 2: she said it maybe it wasn't worth the one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty dollars she paid for that little boat ride
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  Speaker 2: that took six hours. But you know what, she's been
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  Speaker 2: on the Panama Canal. I haven't done that. What else
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  Speaker 2: is up? Oh, there are so many micro breweries here.
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  Speaker 2: They're called Savi Citi is so Ceve City is like
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  Speaker 2: tap rooms in the States, or micro breweries, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought there were like three and I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of micro breweries right in my little neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: But there are like fifteen, So I have a few
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  Speaker 2: more to go before I can say I've tried all
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  Speaker 2: the Panamanian beers. The Panamanian craft beers are actually really good,
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  Speaker 2: Like it doesn't seem like they're just doing it for tourists.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like they actually care about the beers they make.
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  Speaker 2: And I just saw one that had like nine different
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  Speaker 2: craft beers made at that location. And I've kind of
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  Speaker 2: been drinking too much beer here, so I didn't get
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  Speaker 2: that yet, but I am going to get a couple
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow probably has a cool name too, Animal Brew. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm staying in Panama because there's lots to see, lots
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  Speaker 2: to drink, lots to eat, and lots to do. Like
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  Speaker 2: I live right next to this National four that I
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  Speaker 2: have marked on my offline maps, and I just realized
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  Speaker 2: it had become a blind spot because I've been here
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  Speaker 2: a couple months and there's so many things to do
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  Speaker 2: and see in the city, and then the raccoons along
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  Speaker 2: the Pacific coast and I saw the manta ray and
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  Speaker 2: there's so much going on that I totally forgot to
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  Speaker 2: visit the National forest next to me. So I'm probably
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  Speaker 2: going to go try and see that today, at least
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  Speaker 2: get find out where the beginning of the trail is,
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  Speaker 2: because it's really close to where I am, like maybe
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  Speaker 2: a twenty minute walk, and then I'm at the National
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  Speaker 2: Forest entrance place. So I'm going to try that today
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  Speaker 2: and I'll let you know how it goes, because it's
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  Speaker 2: connected to a huge, like real national forest. It's just
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  Speaker 2: that the southernmost tip of the forest dips into Panama City,
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  Speaker 2: like this dagger of green, plunging all the way south
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  Speaker 2: into the coastal city of Panama City. It's really interesting
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  Speaker 2: and I'm marked. It's like one of the first things
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  Speaker 2: I marked to visit. And then I I was going
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  Speaker 2: to all the restaurants and the raccoons and finding new malls.
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  Speaker 2: I went to a movie. They have English language movie
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  Speaker 2: theaters here, like most of them are Spanish dubs, but
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  Speaker 2: some of them are English original English movies, like The
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  Speaker 2: Final Mission Impossible movie I saw, and it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those movie theaters where you can order the food in
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  Speaker 2: the movie theater chair and they'll like a waiter will
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  Speaker 2: bring it to you, which I didn't get the first time,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm definitely going to get whenever I go again,
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  Speaker 2: probably to see the Superman movie by James Gunn. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: a nice Lemmy user reminded me that there's a national
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  Speaker 2: forest and it's their favorite part of Panama City, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh, that's usually the forests
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  Speaker 2: or the first thing I visit in any city, but
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  Speaker 2: this one, my neighborhood is so vibrant and really so green.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many trees and greenery in my neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: that I haven't really been star for forests. So but
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  Speaker 2: when he said that, I was like, Oh, of course,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go to the National Forest and I will
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  Speaker 2: oh one of the micro breweries Central. This really drunk
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  Speaker 2: English older gentleman kept trying to talk to me, but
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  Speaker 2: he was so plastered, and he had been for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. He said he went there every single day.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, do they have tasters here? Like
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  Speaker 2: those little glasses and you can try like a bit
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  Speaker 2: for fifteen bucks and get like four or five beers
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  Speaker 2: and you just try all the different kinds.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I can ask him, excuse me, do you
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  Speaker 1: have one of those the lah La tastierra? Uh? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have one of those?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? And he just kept doing that right in front
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  Speaker 2: of me to the bartender, who was looking between him
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: and me like, oh god, my worst nightmare a British person,
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  Speaker 2: any tourist trying to speak Spanish when they clearly don't
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  Speaker 2: know the world. And he had no idea what the
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  Speaker 2: British guy was saying. Who the British guy had reassured
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  Speaker 2: me He was like, don't worry, I know exactly how
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  Speaker 2: to say this. I've had to ask for him many
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  Speaker 2: times before, and that's why I let him speak for
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  Speaker 2: me to the bartender. But he was just speaking British
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  Speaker 2: English and adding on like an a or an o
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  Speaker 2: to the end of some words, and eventually I tried
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  Speaker 2: to use my Spanish and I was like, uh muchas
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  Speaker 2: vasos de different servesis and the which is just a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of cups of different beers, which is peginyas vasos
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  Speaker 2: de servesis. And the bartender was like, oh no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: solas pintos, it's only pines. And I was like, cool,
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  Speaker 2: give me a red ale and he gave me the oha,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: and then I was like, well, thank you very much,
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  Speaker 2: and I turned away from the British guy and I
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  Speaker 2: sat away from him. He kept trying to start stories
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  Speaker 2: to tell me, and I'm okay with that. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of the time, I don't really care how drunk you are.
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  Speaker 2: I'm at a bar, so I'm putting myself at risk
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  Speaker 2: of listening to drunk people. But he couldn't finish more
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  Speaker 2: than a sentence on one track, and then his brain
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  Speaker 2: would just switch to a different track, so it would
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  Speaker 2: be oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've been here six for sixteen, sixteen years, And do
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  Speaker 1: you have dogs? I really like dogs. I saw this
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  Speaker 1: dog that she has a dog. It's a nice dog.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it anyway? Are you getting a beer? Did you?
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  Speaker 2: Did you? Oh right, We're going to get you a
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  Speaker 2: beer now, aren't we? Because did I have to tell you?
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  Speaker 2: I built my house and I was like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as I think I was out of
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  Speaker 2: his direct line of sight, he forgot that I was
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  Speaker 2: there or that he had been talking to me for
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: ten minutes. But it was a pretty excruciating experience, and
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  Speaker 2: I haven't been back just in case he was there. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I really liked tasters, and so far none of the
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  Speaker 2: groupubs I've found have tasters like the flour ounce glasses,
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  Speaker 2: but you can just ask for a taste of whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want. But I'd rather buy five different beers for
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  Speaker 2: ten bucks and just have a proper couple gulps. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I've added a cardboard flange like sound filter around the
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: border of my door, like the This microphone is very sensitive,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: so it listens to everything. And I'm still in that
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: hostile place because it's such a good deal. The neighborhood
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is so cool. Like I said, I'm a fifteen twenty
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: minute walk from that National forest. I'm also a twenty
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: minute walk from the Pacific coast and all those raccoons,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: with all the exercise equipment and a really nice walk
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: along the coast. It's just a good spot for a
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: very reasonable price two hundred and fifty US a month.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: By the way, I realized I should mention that since
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: this is primarily a travel podcast and the main point
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: of it is to let people know how accessible travel is.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: So if you move to Panama City, you can live
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: here for two hundred and fifty US a month six
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: months visa free. But because it is more a communal
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: living space, there are a lot of rooms and a
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: lot of people, and a lot of TV is going
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: on all the time. And soundproofing doesn't have to be
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: super fancy or high tech, as I've discovered over the years,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and a little bit a little fundamental help helps with
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: sound appening a lot. So on the way home, I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: was walking back here to the room and there was
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: an empty avocado box that just looked new but completely empty,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: left near one of the They have central collections for trash,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: so it was next to one of those garbage cages.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Like the whole community doesn't individually bring out their trash bags.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: It all just goes in one place and then the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: garbage truck can just come by and get all of
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the garbage at one time for a bunch of houses,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: which makes a lot more sense to me than any
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: other system I've ever seen. So I grabbed the top
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: new lid cardboard lid of this avocado box, took that
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: back here to the hotel and just cut it into strips,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: and I put the strips around the border of the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: door itself and taped it onto the door. And just
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: that one extra barrier adds a lot of soundproofing to
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the sound coming into the room here, so I can
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: just narrate. And I usually get a separate recording room
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: than the one I live in. And it's really easy
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to do because there's always some English teaching position available,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: so I can go there work for a couple few
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: let's say, like four hours. I'll get one hundred bucks
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: and I can rent a hole in the wall, but
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: a private room, put the mic in, start talking. So
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: it's really easy to get a private room for recording audio,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: and it's just easier than doing it in the dorm itself.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Or if I have an audiobook I want to record
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: that's quieter, just get a separate room. Although this ramble
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: podcast is in the hotel room itself. What else has
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: been going? Oh? I cleaned up my whole room because
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: everything smelled good. And I've been here for, like I said,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: almost two months, and I wanted to keep smelling good.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And bodies drop hair and skin cells all the time,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and I don't know I eat in here. I just
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: want to keep everything clean. But I was pretty happy
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: because after I cleaned everything up, its still smelled like
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: when I walked in. Still smelled like a new room,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: which was very satisfying. And they have a very fair
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: laundry service here. You can get new sheets and new
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: towels every week just by asking for them, and they'll
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: switch out all the linens every week. So pretty easy
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to stay clean here, which is nice. And there's the
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: maid service every day that cleans the whole building pretty good. Oh.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I was walking a couple days ago down to see
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the raccoons again, and I was just strolling along and
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: there was a garbage truck and they were picking all
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the garbage out of a thing, and then they were
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: standing around while the back of it compressed the garbage.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: And there must have been a glass jar in that
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: at just the wrong angle because there was this weird
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: loud pop, and me and the two garbage men looked
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: toward the sound, and there was a glass like pickle
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: jar sized glass jar flying up into the air, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it arcd higher than the garbage truck itself and then
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: shot down toward us. And this all happened in like
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: a second, but from the back of the garbage truck, pop,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and the glass jar flew up higher than the garbage
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: truck and then streaked back down and crashed into a
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: billion little shards right at my feet and the feet
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: of one of the garbage men. And we both looked
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: down at it with wide eyes and then looked at
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: each other, and he said something in space. I think
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: about me wearing sandals, but I wasn't cut and he wasn't.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And it was just the craziest thing because it shot
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: out of the back of the truck, but it went
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: almost vertically straight up, and it sounded like it popped,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: so it didn't like bounce out lowly. It went high.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: It was thrown up into the air and then smashed
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: next to us. It was pretty crazy to see, and
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: it landed a foot to the left of my left foot.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: It was very close when I crashed, but everything worked out,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: so it was just this cool glass ballet. I got
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: to watch just one of those weird, unique events that
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: occur every now and then, you know. And it's not
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: even that I didn't get cut. If I had been
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: standing a foot to the left, or if the garbagemen
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: had been standing a foot forward, we would have been
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: conked on the head by this large, thick glass jar.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: But we weren't. We're both okay. Oh, my favorite discount
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: raspberry lemon lime mixed drinks were two for one at
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: this place called House of Meat. It's this place that
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: has like really good meat apparently, but they also have drinks.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: They also have hard Seltzers or whatever you call I
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: guess cocktails mixed drinks two for one, And that just
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: ended at one store, and then now two other stores
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: are doing that with the same drinks. So I guess
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: they imported way too much raspberry vodka recently, because I've
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: been getting it for half off at every store. I've
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: been playing Return to the Savage Planet, which is so
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: funny and great. It's very surrealistic, like hyperrealistic humor, and
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I really loved the first game, Journey to the Savage
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Planet and the second game is like they improved everything.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: There's no more fall damage, which there never should have
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: been because you're so far in the future and there
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: are so many technology advancements in the game. They're just
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: they treated death so cavalierly. It didn't make sense for
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: there to be a lot of fall damage, and it
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: made it less fun doing crazy risky things in the game.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: So that's gone, which is great. Yeah. I loved the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: first game, and the second one is it better in
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: literally every way, which sounds like the first one wasn't good,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: but it was one of the best games I've played
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: in a very long time. And I just played the
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: sequel right after and I was like, oh my gosh,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: they made it even better. The game studio is called
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Raccoon Logic. I'm really looking forward to whatever they make next.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: And if you play video games at all, I would
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: definitely recommend both games. Journey to the Savage Planet and
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Return to the Savage Planet, And Journey is actually chronologically
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: before Savage Planet or Return too, so you should play
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: them in order. And they're both yeah, a ton of fun.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I will say. My friend visited from the States and
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I asked her to bring me a like Xbox one
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: USB controller you can plug into the PC, because I've
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: been playing a bunch of games recently, but they're just
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: more fun on a controller, and she did, and now
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I'm playing a lot of games, but it's super fun,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Like I haven't played a lot of games and now
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I'm just in it. There's so many great games these days. Also,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I play a ton of older games, like I just
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: started Subnautica, which is so that's my current obsession. But
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I'll talk about that a little bit later or maybe
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: next time, because I feel like when I talk about it,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about it for a long time.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Because I didn't like that game at all the first
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: time I tried it, and then the second time I
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: tried it, I basically have been playing it for forty hours.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Outside of recording these or eating or sleeping. And speaking
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: of video games, I also have been all over the
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Resident Evil games. I played through pretty much the entire series. Again.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't play through four again because I've played that
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: a billion times, but I did play through six, five, three,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and two, and they're all very different from each other.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I actually don't know which one I like the best,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: although that number two is really interesting in the police station.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: It's so.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Terrifying to be constantly stalked by one monster monster and
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: a ton of other monsters all around. Oh no, wait,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: that was three right, jeez, No, I was right. That
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: is two. Two is with Leon and Claire something, but
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: that one's in the police station. And I actually played
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: through that whole game two and a half times, a
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: lot of fun. I really like the Resident Evil games.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't until the third time through playing the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: game that I realized I didn't need two hundred percent
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the game in fact to finish the game. I really
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: don't need to do very much. I just need to
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: do the main objectives. I have to find the three
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: stone pieces, and then I have to find the four
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: chess pieces, and then there's only like four things I
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: actually have to do in the game. And it hit
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: me on like a third playthrough. I was like, oh
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: my gosh, I'm collecting everything and organizing everything, and there
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: was there's no reason to do any of that. So
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: that's why you can get through the game a lot
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: faster than I certainly was. I actually want to watch
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: a speed run of that. I had that marked down
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and you can play through the whole game from different
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: perspectives as either Leon or Clear, like from different or
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: within different storylines, and that was really interesting. I liked
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the extra scenes, and I like how more complete they
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: made each story by adding a couple extra contextual scenes
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: throughout end, especially at the end. But on the third playthrough,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I made it like nightmare difficulty or whatever, and every
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: time you die there are no auto sabs, so if
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: you die, you lose all the progress. And I did
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: that a few times and I was like, okay, no,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: still a lot of fun. But two and a half
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: games of this and now I can't even save my progress.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I was going at it like it was a job
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I was being paid for instead of a supposedly leisurely diversion.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: So I had a ton of fun playing two and
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: three and five and six oh in eight, and I
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: played the new one also, But I've moved on now
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: from Resident Evil for a bit. Oh and I still
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: am making DIY sandals, and I have had the first
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: major update in a year or two. It's been a
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: while since I realized I could make the sandals even better.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: And I usually use plastic caps to hold the pair acord,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: so I like make a knot in the paracord and
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: pull it through a circle of plastic, usually just a
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: bottle cap I've cut into a small circle, and that's
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: on the bottom of the shoe and between the front
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: two toes, like on every sandal, the front part that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: comes up through the small hole but holds the string there.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: So I usually use plastic, but I just realized that
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I could use a soda can tab or a beer
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: can tab the metal tab, and that'll be way easier
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: to attach to the paracord. I can just do a
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: couple knots, or I can sew it with like one
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: or two stitches really easily. It'll stay for a good
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: amount of time, and soda can tabs are everywhere, and
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I don't have to cut them first like I have
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: to cut the bottle caps. So this has really improved
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: my builds time of the DIY sandals again because now
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: that front part of it that I used to attach
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the paracord to the sandal, all I need is soda
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: can tab and a minute and boom, I've got a
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: new sandal. It's a lot easier than the plastic bottle
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: caps I've been using this whole time. So I'm very
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: happy with my DIY sandal update and have been experimenting,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: but mostly it's just easier. A couple have broken, but
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: it's so easy to replace that. If I'm walking down
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the street and the plastic bottle cap that attaches the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: paracord to the sandal breaks while I'm walking around, it's
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: kind of a hassle to get a new bottle cap,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: even if I have one on me, and then attach
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: the para cord through it and make sure it's attached,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: and like it's a whole thing, and I have to
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: use up a lot of parachord because I have to
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: tie a new knot with the sodacn tab. If that
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: thing breaks, I cut the two stitches, put in a
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: new soda can tab, sw in two new stitches, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I can keep going. It really only takes a minute
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: or two. It's a very quick process. The plastic caps
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: maybe took five minutes or sometimes up to ten minutes,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: depending on how easy whatever it was, but now it's
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: always just two minutes. It's yeah, it's great. It's another
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: improved to the process, even if I'm out in public
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and inconvenient. Also with the plastic tabs, I have to
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: poke a hole through the plastic so that the parachord
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: can go through that so I can secure it to
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the sandal. But with the soda can tab, there are
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: two holes and a bar in the middle, you know,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: like every soda can tab, so it's right there, paracord
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: goes through, goes up stitch. It connected even simpler than
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: it already was, so pretty great altogether. I'm pretty happy
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: with this improvement. And yeah, they're working. So that's the
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: new design improvement to my DIY sandals. Easier to repair,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: easier to carry around the repair tools. I'm thinking of
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: actually getting a smaller sewing kit bag because the one
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I have is awesome, but it's large. It's actually my
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: old headphones bag. It's great, but everything's about being efficient
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: saving space in my rocksack. That's just what I like
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: to do. You don't have to do that. You can
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: get two suitcases or whatever, but in my one rucksack,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I like to improve things where I can, so kind
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: of thinking about getting a smaller sewing kit back. I'll
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: report on that if it happens. There is really good
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: street art all around this city. I have taken so
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: many videos now of the street art here in Panama City.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: It's everywhere and it's really great and all different styles.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: There is one phrase that says, uh, don't bother Darling
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: or something like that, and they just write don't bother Darling.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: And I've seen it twice now for sure, I've probably
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: seen it around, but it's in my neighborhood specifically, just
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: someone going around to different businesses and on the side
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: of a building writing don't worry Darling in graffiti script
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: or not the movie don't Worry Art, Don't Bother Darling.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: And I think it's very funny and great. Oh. I
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: finally started Star Trek. I've tried to watch the different shows,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the original series, tried to watch the next generation, tried
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: to watch everything, and it's always been boring for me.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: So I started Lower Decks because that's animation and it's
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: meant to be a comedy. So I was like, well,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: at least I can get into that somehow. And I finally,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: by like the third season or something, I was like, oh,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I'll be sad when this is over. Like it was
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: funny enough to watch, but I didn't. I couldn't really
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: connect until I don't know, the second or third season maybe.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: I think it was the end of the second season.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: The last few episodes there was something happening, and I
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, I get it. Like the nice thing
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: for me anyway about Star Trek is that they live
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: in a post scarcity, near utopian society. Like the show
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: itself is about the exploration and the cool new stuff
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: they do, but the civilization itself is a compassionate governmental
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: entity focused on taking care of its citizens. So no
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: matter what is happening in the show, the world the
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: show is set in is the point, even more than
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the events themselves. Oh no, the warp Corps is fragmenting,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: or the black hole just opened, whatever, it doesn't matter
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: because the point, the huge nice thing is that the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: commander is a woman or a man, or there are third, fourth,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: fifth genders on this planet, and well you don't have
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to worry about that back home. Everyone's basic needs are
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: taken care of. Like they live in a world where
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the government, which is people banding together to take care
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: of the central necessities of a society, actually functions. I
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: feel like today people are like government the country bosses,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and that's how they think of government. But it's a
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: social compact between the taxpayers who become the government and
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to do distribute necessities and civil rights equitably.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: And a big reason why I travel is that my country,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the United States, does not do that. It's basically a
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: third world country because there is not equal access to
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: clean water, there is not equal access to food. There's
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: not equal access of opportunity to employment, or to income,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: or to land. It's just a very unequal and largely
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: uncomfortable country to live in. Unless you're in a van, baby,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: go get an RV. Then the US is pretty comfortable.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: So I move to places where life makes more sense,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: where people are like, ah, the government, but at least
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: we have like it is providing what they basically what
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: they fundamentally need. There is affordable housing, there is access
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: to healthcare. In Guana they have that, in Thailand they
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: have that. In most countries, they have the basic necessities
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: of society available to the citizens, and that's not the
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: case in the United States for a huge majority of
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: the population. Especially civil rights is trickier in most countries,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: but I know the most about the States and the
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: civil rights. The state of civil rights in the US's crazy,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Like you have women don't have autonomy over their own bodies. Period.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: They do not have control over how they conduct themselves.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: So they're dying because they're not allowed to have healthcare.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: That's not a first world country. So watching Star Trek,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: they're living in that post utopian They didn't reach a
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: peak and think like everything is perfect. Now. They reach
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  Speaker 2: the point where they could make as much food as
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: they wanted, so they chose to distribute it so that
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: everybody had food. They could make as many habitats as
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: they wanted, so they chose to allow housing for all.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: They could provide education for everyone, so they did. It's
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: just really interesting show. I feel like that has to
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: be at the core of why of what that Star
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Trek fan base is. Because the aliens they're blue humans,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: or they're very angry humans with long hair or whatever.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: They're not particularly creative all of the time. Some of
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: the time they are, but there's nothing. It would just
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: be a show of the week if it was not
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  Speaker 2: set in a very civil rights forward, fundamental access for
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: human necessity civilization setting. I think that's really important to
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: why the type of people like the show that like
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: the show, the type of people like Star Trek that
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: likes Star Trek. I think a huge part of that
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: is that they're always in the back of their mind
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: there is a post scarcity, post utopian society where everyone's like, well,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: we have enough food, of course everyone should have it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Whereas in the real world, we have enough food and
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: we just don't give it to people. Governments just choose
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: not to invest a couple hundred million to make sure
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: everybody in their country gets fed even though they have
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: the food, resources and money. That's a pretty good note
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: to end this on. I finally got into Star Trek,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: and it's because they are fundamentally good people, and even
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: when it would be easier to not be a good person,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: they are all very cognizant of the fact that the
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: reason they have this problem to solve is because they've
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: extended did equal compassion to all people instead of hoarding it.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: At the top. Good show, interesting show. I started the
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: next generation. I'll probably talk about that more next time.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: As always, thank you for listening and I'll speak to
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: you again soon.