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Cracked Wide Open · onefjef

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Well, I think leaving times are a special time because it's a transition, and so
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you're closer to the scene, you know?
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And so it's a time You are closer to the scene.
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So it's a time that you have more truths apparent, more love apparent, more sadness
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apparent, more suffering, more joy.
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Opens you up.
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Yeah, so your heart is really open.
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Cracks you wide open.
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You see the life thing in a way.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's totally true.
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Yeah.
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That's a very good way of putting it, actually.
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Yeah.
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It makes me feel seen.
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Yeah.
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Yes, I am cracked wide open.
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I arrived in Mexico City about a month ago.
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Give or take a few days.
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And for much of that month I've been in the mindset of a tourist.
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Albeit one who has an apartment here.
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I've been existing from excitement to excitement.
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From dopamine hit to dopamine hit.
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Rarely allowing myself the time to stop and just breathe.
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To process the reality of this new life of mine.
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To actually take the time to create a life here, instead of just pretending.
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Because when you're a tourist, you can stand on the outside looking in.
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You're kind of expected to, really.
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The glimpses you do get of the inside are fleeting and often somewhat inauthentic.
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You don't have to figure out where to buy toilet paper, or spatulas, because
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your brief time staying wherever you are staying won't require that, and
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in fact it rejects the mundanity of day to day life wherever you are.
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That's part of the fun.
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The fun of travel, right?
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Escaping your day to day life.
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Escaping the mundane.
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And for the last month, in spite of the fact that I've had to buy
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toilet paper and a spatula, that's largely where my head has been.
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A feeling that this isn't my real life, when in reality
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this is precisely my real life.
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This right here sitting in my apartment in Roma, on a Sunday morning, drinking coffee
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in a living room, that has gradually started to feel more More and more
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like my own, in spite of the books and plants and unfortunate motorcycle decor.
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This is where I live now.
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This is my normal life, in spite of its present abnormality.
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And I need to start living as if it is.
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I need to stop living on the outside of Mexico City and
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start living on the inside.
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I need to stop avoiding interacting with this place.
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I need to stop drinking so much.
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I need to stop distracting myself so much, I need to find a routine, I
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need to stop ordering food from Uber Eats, and it feels appropriate on
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this Easter morning, almost a month into my time here, that I do a reset,
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because isn't that what Easter's about?
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Rebirth?
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Reset?
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They both have re in it, so.
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I'm running with it.
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And I think that this is what Jesus would want, really.
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When he did the best magic trick of all time, came out of that tomb, and
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scared the shit out of everybody.
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Why isn't that in the Bible?
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If a friend of mine got crucified, died, and was buried, and then
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a few days later was alive, I would be freaked the fuck out.
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Pardon my French, but I don't think there's any indication in the Bible that
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people were like, whoa, what the hell?
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Jesus, what?
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I thought you were, you think there'd at least be one line that
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says, I thought you were dead.
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Maybe there is.
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I thought thoust was dead, said Jimmy, who's the apostle
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nobody ever talked about.
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Little Jimmy.
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Yeah, he didn't get the credit he deserved.
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He cooked most of the food, except for the body of Christ.
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Course only Jesus cooked the body of Christ.
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Usually they ate it raw.
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So anyway, that's what I've been thinking about this morning and this weekend.
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And um, I just got back from a yoga class and that feels like a good start.
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So here we go.
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Month two.
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I also made some new music.
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What's your overall opinion of Mexico City after what, five days here?
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I think it's all right.
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I wouldn't want to stay here.
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Oh, well.
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It's a little big.
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It is large.
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Yeah, it's a little crowded.
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Parts of it are very crowded, yeah, but parts of it aren't.
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Most of it's pretty crowded.
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You even think that the neighborhood you're staying
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in, Condesa, is, feels crowded?
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Just the way that, like, the, the traffic flows.
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Oh, there's a lot of traffic, yeah.
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Yeah, and that, that, to me, symbolizes crowded.
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Yeah, I wouldn't want to drive.
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No, not at all.
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No, we didn't try the subway.
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So that's true.
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It changed a lot of things actually because the subway I think in the middle
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of the day would have been just fine.
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Yeah, and that would have, um, but it's still a lot more crowded, you know,
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oh, yeah, it can be yeah, but I've never actually ridden the subway once.
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I think rather than the super long uber rides I think it
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might have actually been faster.
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That was fine.
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Yeah, I don't mind uber rides.
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But what was your favorite thing about your trip?
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I need to think you go first.
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That's the knife guy, by the way, you hear the whistle?
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He's riding a bike and he's got a knife sharpener.
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I saw, we saw a knife guy over by the tree.
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The museum the other day.
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It's the most random thing ever.
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Was that your favorite part of the trip?
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The knife guy?
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Uh huh.
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No, it really wasn't.
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Probably the cooking class.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, that's true.
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I think that was probably my favorite.
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And, and the mariachi bands was fun, but it might not be my favorite.
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What was the mariachi band like?
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They were right up close, and it was very loud.
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We were at a restaurant.
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Yeah, we didn't get that much food, but.
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Well, you said you weren't hungry.
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Well, that's true.
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But then you ate lettuce one piece at a time for the entire time.
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Yeah, but the lettuce tasted really good though.
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Oh, he was?
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I didn't even see that.
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I ate all the lettuce.
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That's where it went.
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Thursday evening, and I'm feeling good.
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I just had my second Spanish lesson.
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And, after the first one that I had last week, I will be honest, I felt stupid.
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But this one, this second one, you know, I'd spent a lot of
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time studying over the week.
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And it went really well.
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It went really well, and I feel good.
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I feel like confident, and I feel like I'm gonna be able to learn this language.
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I mean, obviously not perfectly or at an incredibly high level right away,
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but yeah, and I really had a good week.
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My sister and my nephew were in town, and yeah, we had a really good time.
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Too much to really go into, to be honest, but one of the highlights I'll say
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was last night, when There's a square here, I think it's Girobaldi Square.
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There's all these mariachi bands in the square, and you can just
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go and rent one, if you want.
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Like, rent one for a weekend, take them home with you.
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I'm not entirely sure how that transaction works, because obviously
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I've never done it, but it's really quite something to see.
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And then there's a restaurant there.
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It's just an experience.
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There's just like four or five mariachi bands playing all the time, and I don't
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know, I feel like a lot of people, at least in the United States, who haven't
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been exposed to a lot of mariachi music, have a negative feeling about it.
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And maybe I had that feeling at a time as well, but I do not anymore.
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There's a real joy in mariachi music that you don't get in a lot of other music.
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A palpable feeling of joy.
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And I am all in for that.
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I don't understand a lot of what they're saying, of course.
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Not yet.
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But This restaurant, you know, they sat us at this table that was
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right in the middle of the action.
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So there's like a band playing right in front of us, like a eight
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to 10 person mariachi band playing right in front of our table for
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the entire time we were there.
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Like we had dinner and drinks and it was so much fun.
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Everybody loved it.
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And, uh, yeah, they played one song that was Somewhat inappropriate.
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And you learn the fuck your mother song at the, that I did.
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Yeah.
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we're gonna sing it on the 4th of July.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And eat, uh, on the 250th anniversary.
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And only us and Rachel, Yvonne will know what we're talking about.
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Yeah.
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We're going to, we're gonna eat Mexican food and sing.
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We'll give, we'll say we're gonna on mariachi.
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We'll, we're mariachi Yvonne.
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We need a song sheet for this one.
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Right?
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Right.
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Can you give us a song sheet for Chinga two?
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He will be like, no, no, I cannot do that.
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. Rachel will be like, I'll get you one.
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. You know, Mia's in Spanish three or four or five already.
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I something I think.
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I think she wouldn't know yet.
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I don't know.
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I don't, that's, I don't think she's in Spanish five.
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I don't know.
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Think Spanish five is a class.
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Okay.
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What are you talking about?
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Somewhere?
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There's a class called Spanish five.
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Well, yeah, but it normally only goes up to like four.
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What are you talking about?
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Normally I can find many, many textbooks that are Spanish five.
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There's six and seven as well.
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Really?
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Yeah, it doesn't just stop at four.
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Yeah, but it's just like different levels.
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It's like one, two, three, four, and then one, two, three,
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four again, but just more.
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Why would you start go back to one again?
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Why wouldn't you just continue to go upwards?
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This is like Go on, Owen.
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Let's hear that.
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I need to gather my thoughts.
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Talk about something else.
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I get concerned about What about your schooling and your education
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when you say things like this?
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Don't distract him.
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I want to understand what the logic is here with 1, 2, 3, 4, and then
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back to 1 again if you pass 4.
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But no, but it's like a higher level of 1.
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Well number 2 is the higher level of 1.
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No, no, but it's like, it is 5, but it's just not called 5.
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There is Spanish 5, I promise.
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And 6 and 7 I would imagine as well.
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I'll show you pictures of the book.
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Huh, okay.
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Spanish level six.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, but it's level six.
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This is a class called Spanish six.
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I'm We'll look it up on the phone immediately when we stop this
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So that was great and then we went to this tower it's this very tall
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building by the Palais de Belle Arts It's one of the taller buildings
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in the city and you can go to the very top and there's like an outdoor
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observation deck and And It was amazing.
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It was beautiful.
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I'll put some photos and videos in the Patreon.
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But anyway, it felt like a really great way to end their trip and just
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a great day for me because earlier in that day we went to a Mexican
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cooking class that, it was incredible.
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What was so great about the cooking class?
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We cooked a lot and the food was really good.
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It was fun to learn about the food because we got, it was more than
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just the cooking, it was like the history and, and the, the history.
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Yeah, I forgot the chiles.
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Oh yeah, that was really good.
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That was really spicy though.
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Uh huh, some of it.
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Some of it was.
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It wasn't too spicy though.
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Well, some of them were pretty spicy.
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Some of them were pretty spicy.
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The habanero ones.
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Yeah.
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I liked making the tortillas.
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Yeah, that was fun.
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Yeah, even though I never made a perfect one.
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No, me neither.
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No, your first one, your first one was a disaster.
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Oh, well, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, your first one.
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No, but you, you made some perfect ones because you had the better press than me.
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That's not why.
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That's very much why.
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It's not why.
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I made, every one I made was perfect even though my press was terrible.
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That's false.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I thought making the salsa was interesting because every time I've made salsa it's
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been like just chopping up fresh tomatoes and fresh jalapenos and stuff and mixing
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it up in a bowl with a bunch of stuff.
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Yeah, that's not fair.
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That's not what happens at all.
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No, you're supposed to roast the tomatoes and then just squish it up.
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Yeah.
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Which is, yeah, we're gonna do that a lot easier than cutting it up too, frankly.
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Yeah, I bet you could do with some other things too, like with kiwi salsa.
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Oh, you guys, can you go ahead.
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Go crazy.
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That might be good.
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Be sweet.
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A sweet salsa.
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The toma Tomatillo.
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There's mango salsa, you know?
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Oh yeah.
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I've had mango salsa.
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Yeah.
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Good.
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That's very good.
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It's a mango.
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We get.
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It.
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Doesn't really taste like mango though.
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When we all go home for the 4th of July, we're going to make, for
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America's 250th anniversary, we're going to make a lot of Mexican food.
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So,
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it seems appropriate, right?
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Considering the political environment.
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And perhaps we'll hire a mariachi band as well.
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I don't know how much that costs in the Cleveland area, but if it's
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reasonably priced, if they can play patriotic music, I'm all in.
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We did a food tour where we just, one of these tacos we had was just like, they
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Roast it like cook it all day in this oil and then they like marinate the tortillas
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in the fat from the the meat And then you get the tortilla with the juice and
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the fat from the meat and then you get the meat and oh That was a good taco.
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Got me sick though Yeah, well, we don't know what got you
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sick something got you sick.
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Oh, yeah, and you couldn't poop for days died Yeah, tell us about the
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time you pooped It was magnificent.
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Was it?
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Even with the bidet, I clogged the toilet.
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It was Did you really?
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Oh, yeah.
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Was there a plunger?
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Yeah, it took me like three, three sessions.
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Oh, thank God I wasn't there.
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Yeah.
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That was the night I left him at home.
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I had a feeling.
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I was, I was a little worried.
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It was, it was bad.
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I thought it was never gonna go down.
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We're so similar.
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Um, I clogged the toilet this morning as a matter of fact.
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Uh, yeah, I've clogged toilets all over the world.
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I could do a whole episode just about that.
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I've gotten a bit better at not clogging toilets.
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How do you clog it with the bidet?
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I don't know.
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Have you pooped since?
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Uh, no.
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I'm not a very frequent pooper.
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Interesting.
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Actually, not at all.
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Huh.
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But when I need to poop, it happens.
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Well, I mean, that's Not when I, like, need to poop, but like,
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if there's a time where I should poop, it just sort of happens.
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What's the longest you think you've gone without pooping?
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I don't know.
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I want to say there was a time, maybe January last year or the year
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before, I might have gone maybe two weeks, and that was pretty rough.
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One time I was in Korea, I had to put my hand in a garbage bag, stick it
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in there, because I had no plunger.
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Yeah.
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So I just had to take it and start to take it on out of there.
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And we all, as well, got to watch the Orion spacecraft take take off in my
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apartment here in Mexico City, which felt like one of those memories that I'll
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kind of have with me forever, because it was a significant moment, you know?
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Space exploration moments are always pretty big, and we haven't
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gone to the moon in more than 50 years, so, I don't know.
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It was really, it was special to have my sister and my nephew
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here in my Mexico City apartment watching this momentous event.
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Oh, you went on the balloon ride, too.
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Oh, yeah, that was fun.
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It wasn't like As fun as I thought it was going to be.
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How, why did you think, how much fun did you think it was going to be?
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I mean, I thought it was gonna be cool, like you're way up in the sky.
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Right.
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Excitement.
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And what.
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It's just sort of like you're sitting there, you know.
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In your mind, what did you expect to be, expected to be?
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I thought it'd be more like, I guess, exhilarating would be the word.
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Oh, all right.
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Like, more like a, you know, like on a big zip line.
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We did that in Guatemala.
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Well, you've seen a balloon.
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When's the last time you, like, saw a balloon that was
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like, looked exhilarating?
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Never, but I don't really see hot air I don't really look at
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hot air balloons very often.
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I've never really seen one in person.
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Interesting.
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I mean, we were high above the ground on those zip lines.
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It's interesting that you're comparing an air balloon ride to a zip line.
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Well, I thought it'd be similar in excitement level to like a zip line.
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That's confusing.
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Because you're like way high in the air and you're like, Flying around.
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Right, I mean in that sense, why, is an airplane ride as exciting as a zipline?
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The similarity between a hot air balloon and a zipline is that you can sort
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of look around and see everything.
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You can look down and see everything.
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Interesting.
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But in an airplane, you only got that one window.
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Like, in a zipline, you know you're sort of just hanging
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out in the middle of nowhere.
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Next time you're here, we'll go do a zipline.
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They're the longest one in the world here somewhere in Mexico.
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Is it very long?
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It's four and a half hours long in one line.
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Well, yeah, all right.
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You have to bring lunch.
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You have to bring lunch and eat it while you're going.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, I'm glad you came to Mexico City.
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You should come by yourself, Owen, because then we could have some real fun.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, go to all the What?
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Go to all the where?
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Gambling halls, of course.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Gotta bet on the ponies again.
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He's not even old enough to rent a bike here.
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You can, you can gamble here at any age.
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Oh, okay.
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Yeah, yeah, anybody.
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All right.
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Maybe jet skis?
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You can rent the bikes.
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Jet skis.
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I don't know if there's anywhere to jet ski in Mexico City because the lake that
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it was built on is pretty much gone.
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Well, we could just like dig up part of the city.
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Okay, we'll do that.
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Any last things to say?
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Uh, God bless America.
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Wow.
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You have to Viva Mexico.
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Okay, that's better than what he was going to say.
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What were you going to say?
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I didn't say anything.
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What was I going to say?
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No, no, no, you have to say it now.
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Yeah, what did you think he was going to say?
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Yeah, you have to say it.
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Yeah, just the lyrics.
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Oh, oh, yeah.
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Yo chinga tu madre.
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Perfecto.
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Patricia invited me over a few weeks ago to her house to meet her sisters
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and her brother in law and their kids.
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And so, yeah, I went over and I had a great time.
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They're wonderful people.
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And, uh, at one point I was talking to the, her brother in law, um,
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whose name escapes me, but he is apparently a very big football fan.
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And when I mentioned to him that I'm from Cleveland, he was like, Oh, I'm so sorry.
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And I thought like, even in Mexico city, the Cleveland Browns reputation,
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It's, it's, it's still there.
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I, who knew how far that the reputation of the Browns went, but
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apparently it goes quite a ways.
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Oh!
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I finally threw my garbage away.
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I heard the bell.
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I looked out the window.
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I saw the garbage truck sitting about a block away.
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I grabbed my garbage.
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I walked down my stairs and I took that garbage right to that garbage
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truck Gave the guy ten pesos and he took my garbage and I felt like a
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king for about an hour Talked to an old friend of mine John tonight And
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I mean it was great to talk to him.
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It's always great to talk to him.
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He's a great guy One of the more wonderful humans I've had the
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pleasure of knowing in my 52 years.
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But, you know, I don't usually bring up the podcast to anybody because
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I feel like I don't want to be the guy with the podcast who talks
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about his podcast all the time.
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But he brought it up.
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So we talked about the podcast and, you know, we talked about
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episodes, different episodes.
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And I can't tell you how much I enjoyed that because I get so
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little feedback on this anymore.
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So When I first started the podcast, a lot of people were like giving me
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feedback because it was new and everybody was like, oh, yeah, I'd love that.
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But now that's died off.
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That died off months ago.
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And now it's just me continuing to pump out these episodes every week.
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And I just don't get a lot of email or, you know, I get some
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voicemails, which I really appreciate.
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And the emails that I do get, I really appreciate, but very few.
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So this is just to say that, like, if you are listening to this podcast
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consistently, or even now and again, or right now, this is the first time
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you've listened, it would mean a lot if you would just throw me an email
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at onefjefpod at gmail, just say, you can even just write, I'm listening.
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That'd be great.
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Because sometimes it feels like I am talking into the void here, you
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know, like I'm just talking to myself.
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And in a sense, I am talking to myself.
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And that's okay, because You know, we all talk to ourselves, whether it's in
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our head or out of our head, but my inner voice has always needed something to,
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has always wanted to be heard, I guess.
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My inner voice has always wanted to be heard.
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And this gives me a place to make it heard.
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But my inner voice is also one that is critical, self critical and full of
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doubt and full of insecurities and all the things that we all suffer from.
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And so it's hard for my inner voice to maintain a level of confidence.
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To continue to express myself, be earnest and so forth on this medium
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without any kind of feedback.
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So, John, thank you for that.
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And just for the conversation.
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When you do a move like this, it's really isolating.
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You know, it's isolating.
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Especially when you don't know the language.
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It's really isolating.
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And I took a walk tonight and I was thinking that maybe that's why
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I like Living in a foreign country where I'm a stranger, like, because
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like I've always been an outsider.
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I've talked about this on the podcast
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and maybe this living in a foreign country where I don't speak the
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language very well yet, um, allows me to continue to be an outsider.
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It's like my comfort zone, right?
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Which is weirdly ironic, considering all the talk I've released about
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getting out of one's comfort zone.
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Maybe this has been my.
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Maybe this whole move has been getting into my comfort zone.
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But it turns out my comfort zone is not all that comfortable.
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So, uh, maybe comfort zone isn't the right term for it.
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Perhaps happy place.
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Yeah, I like that better.
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Happy place.
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But I think there's some truth to it because, you know, I went and
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had dinner by myself at a, uh, at the movie theater down the street.
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And it was very crowded tonight.
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It's a Friday night.
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It was crowded.
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So I was sitting by myself at this table eating a pizza, and I couldn't understand
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anything, really, that anybody was saying.
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And I thought to myself, I thought, even if I wanted to be, like, friendly
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and interact with other people, like, it would go only so far.
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I mean, they probably speak English.
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Let's, you know, let's assume that they don't speak English,
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but it would only go so far.
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Although I did once have a extended conversation with two Ukrainian men on a
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park bench in Kiev years and years ago.
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Yeah, I was sitting on this park bench in Kiev, right on the Dnieper River,
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and, uh, There were these two Ukrainian guys sitting there, and I just tried
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to ask them what time the subway closed, because the subway closed at,
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I don't know, what time it was, 10 12.
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And I wanted to make sure that I got on it before I can get back, before I
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went to get a taxi back to the hotel.
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And we just struck up a conversation, but it was so broken English.
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Like, it was like drawing pictures, and we, you know, one of them kind of
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spoke English, the other one barely did.
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But like they invited me on their boat.
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They were sailors.
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I think they may have been gay, but there were sailors and
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they invited me on the boat.
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They gave me a tour of the boat.
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And we sat in the, um, unlike the bar slash dining hall or whatever of the boat.
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And I gave them a cassette of Bob Dylan that a friend had made for me
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and they put it into the sound system.
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And we sat there and drank vodka.
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For, I don't know, a couple of hours, like just shots of vodka
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and tried to talk to each other.
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And then at the end of the, you know, we got off the boat and the one dude
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gives me the shirt off his back.
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Gave me the shirt off his back.
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And I still have it.
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And when I was moving this recent time and I was like trying to get
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rid of things, like, that was one of the things I was like, I don't
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know if I can get rid of this.
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I've never worn it.
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It just wouldn't fit me.
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It was, you know, built like a sailor, this guy.
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I don't know.
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But I still have the shirt that the guy gave me off his back.
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It's called, it says like, Telavia Games on it.
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It's not a nice shirt.
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I mean, he probably didn't even want it.
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He was probably going to throw it away.
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But he's like, oh, I'll give it to this American guy.
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Anyway, I think that's all for this week.
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If I think of anything else to say, I will record it and add it.
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But yeah, I'm hungry now, so I have to get something to eat.
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But As always, thank you for listening.
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So, you.
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It's a smorgasbord.
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Smorgasbord.
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How do you is it smorgasbord?
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God, I struggle with that word.
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It's a variety.
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It's a whole magical world of whatever.
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I don't know.
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God, I'm hungry.
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All right.
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Thank you to all of you.
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I love you all.
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Sending my love from Mexico City to all of you all over the world.
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Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope your life is going as well.
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And if it isn't, you can fix that shit.
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I'll see you soon.