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042 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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Speaker 1: And it's time to ramble on what's been going on.
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Speaker 1: I found out there are jaguars in Panama, so that's fun.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the National Forest soon. I know
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Speaker 1: I was going to weeks ago. But there's really good sushi,
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Speaker 1: and I got some books to narrate. And I discovered
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Speaker 1: this place with fifty cent chicken wings. Oh plus my
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Speaker 1: phone the corner of it. There was a huge loud
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Speaker 1: crack when I was sitting here, actually at the computer,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't see anything in the room. And then
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Speaker 1: after I finished working, I looked at my phone and
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Speaker 1: there's this small purple dot. And purple is my favorite color,
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Speaker 1: so I was fine with that. It was just mildly
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Speaker 1: purpling the corner of my phone, and I have a
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Speaker 1: pixel six or hat anyway, And I didn't like that
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Speaker 1: phone the day I got it, and I just liked
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Speaker 1: it less and less with every day that passed. So whatever,
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Speaker 1: I was fine with it finally breaking, forcing me to
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Speaker 1: get a new one. I don't know why I've been
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Speaker 1: so lazy about getting a new one. This whole time actually,
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Speaker 1: probably because I didn't know where to start. Anyway, that
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Speaker 1: purple blotch in the bottom right corner of the phone
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Speaker 1: just bloomed. Each day. It got a little more and
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Speaker 1: a little more, and it started like invading. It made
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Speaker 1: like a grid pattern and just went out. It was
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Speaker 1: pretty cool actually, because, like I said, purple's favorite color.
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Speaker 1: So it was nice to have my broken phone displaying
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Speaker 1: something I liked. Well, I guess i'll just talk about
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Speaker 1: the phone now, since I already brought it up. When
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Speaker 1: it was breaking. In the beginning, I was like, that's fine,
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Speaker 1: And then it kept getting bigger and bigger on the
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Speaker 1: screen was dying, and before it died, and all the
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Speaker 1: passwords and what's that authenticator keys? I figured I should
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Speaker 1: just get a new phone now before the old phone
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Speaker 1: completely actually dies. Even though I don't use it that much,
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Speaker 1: so the color thing and the dead screen it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a big problem. But I mean, for one, I don't
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Speaker 1: like that pixel sex. I've hated it for like a
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Speaker 1: year and a half. I had to get two because
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Speaker 1: the first one the hardware was like crappy, like the
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Speaker 1: hardware was broken itself. They gave me a second one,
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Speaker 1: and the insides of the pixel shake around like they're
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Speaker 1: not fixed. There's a screw missing or something. But I
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Speaker 1: was like, you know whatever, I'll use it until it
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Speaker 1: breaks and then I'll just get a new phone. And
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Speaker 1: then I kept working for like three years or two
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Speaker 1: years or something despite me, and it got super hot.
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Speaker 1: The software updates and features almost invariably made the phone worse.
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Speaker 1: The camera is absurd. It looks nothing like real life,
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Speaker 1: Like the lighting is terrible. Even when I take a
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Speaker 1: raw photo, it does an AI picture to it because
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Speaker 1: I took two screenshots. When I click the button and
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Speaker 1: it takes the picture, takes screenshot, and then like a
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Speaker 1: quarter of a second later, all of the filters and
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Speaker 1: colors are adjusted, even in a raw photo file. So
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Speaker 1: that camera is really irritating. There's like fifty things that
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Speaker 1: could go. I literally wrote out a rant with all
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Speaker 1: like twenty huge problems with that phone, and I was
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Speaker 1: just I was happy to finally see that purple, to
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Speaker 1: see the screen dying. I found a place and they
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Speaker 1: were like, yeah, we can fix it for eighty bucks
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and I was just, man, if I fix it,
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Speaker 1: then I'm going to still have it. I was like, no,
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Speaker 1: just get a new one, because all the phones here
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Speaker 1: in Panama are really cheap. I mean, the prices in
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Speaker 1: the local shops where they sell new phones are any like,
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Speaker 1: they're cheaper than the prices online, and those are the
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Speaker 1: tag prices on the window, so you can always bargain
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Speaker 1: down a little, but I don't have the inclination to
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Speaker 1: bargain over ten bucks for a phone or whatever. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: I noticed all of the phones are very politely priced
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Speaker 1: here in Panama, and I'm not sure why, but I
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Speaker 1: kind of felt that I might be getting a new
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Speaker 1: phone while I was I felt it would be stupid
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Speaker 1: for me not to get a new phone while I
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Speaker 1: was down here, since I hate my pixel so much,
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Speaker 1: or rather, I'm so disappointed with the uselessness of the phone.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe how much I paid for a new
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Speaker 1: phone that is worse than my old ten year old
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Speaker 1: phone with no expandable storage? Are you joking me? In
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes? Google, what are you
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Speaker 1: even talking about? Also, its Bluetooth connection turns out was
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Speaker 1: a trick on the user. I think to make you
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Speaker 1: use the Google accessories. Because I have a new phone
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Speaker 1: now and using my bluetooth headphones with the new phone.
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Speaker 1: My bluetooth headphones sound crystal clear. They're like amazing, and
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Speaker 1: they have been crap for the past year, which I
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Speaker 1: was surprised. I mean, they've been okay enough to listen with,
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Speaker 1: but I thought the quality of the bluetooth headphones was terrible.
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Speaker 1: Turns out Google Pixel was just, I don't know, terrible
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Speaker 1: at casting sound to bluetooth headphones. Because these are the
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Speaker 1: third pair I've got, and I just thought people in
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Speaker 1: the States stopped making any kind of a decent bluetooth headphone.
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Speaker 1: Turns out as my crappy phone. But I didn't know
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Speaker 1: anything about phones, and I haven't really heavily researched them
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Speaker 1: in a very long time. So I figured I'm in
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Speaker 1: cheap New phone Land and it's a very modern city.
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Speaker 1: So I figured if I'm gonna get one, I should
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Speaker 1: learn about phone so I can choose the right one.
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Speaker 1: Because when I got my first phone, it was the
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Speaker 1: HTC one, the one with front facing speakers. How do
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Speaker 1: phone companies not do that anymore? Seems like a terrible
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Speaker 1: decision to not have your speakers facing the person using
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Speaker 1: the phone. Why does only Sony do it? And why
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Speaker 1: does it cost one thousand dollars for speakers that face
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Speaker 1: the human I guess there's going to be a lot
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Speaker 1: of phone talk here, but that's what this is about rambling.
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Speaker 1: So I have noticed many phone shops around, and some
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Speaker 1: of the advertised prices I see, because these are all
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Speaker 1: new phones, like eighty dollars, ninety dollars for one hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty eight gigabytes or two hundred and fifty six
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Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM eight gigs of RAM, and I was
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Speaker 1: just those numbers. I was like, well, that's a pretty
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Speaker 1: good That's as much as it would cost for them
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Speaker 1: to replace the screen on my pixel that I don't
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Speaker 1: like for so many reasons. There's got to be a
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Speaker 1: better phone close to that price range, is the first
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Speaker 1: thing I thought. But then I was like, I don't care, Like,
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Speaker 1: whatever I pay, it'll be less than the stupid pixel
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Speaker 1: cost me. So I started compiling a list of all
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Speaker 1: of the phones I saw. I just walked into every
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Speaker 1: shop and every model that they had with a stickered
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Speaker 1: price on it. I took a picture with my phone
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Speaker 1: of their counter of phones. Basically it's like fifteen in
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Speaker 1: a picture, and I just did that for one day,
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Speaker 1: I just walked around for I don't know, two hours
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Speaker 1: or something, all the phone shops in my neighborhood. There's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: six seven, and I took pictures of all the phones
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Speaker 1: that they had, and then I went home and I
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Speaker 1: opened up in a calque spreadsheet actually, and I put
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Speaker 1: down all the models, and then I went down to
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Speaker 1: GSM arena and I put in the data in my
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Speaker 1: spreadsheet of raw ram es, expandable storage, battery size, charging rate,
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Speaker 1: pixels perrinch, and a couple other things, the things that
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Speaker 1: were really important to me. I needed expandable storage because
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Speaker 1: not having storage because of that pixel weird thing they do,
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Speaker 1: even with their new phones. It's just crazy, like you can't,
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Speaker 1: like a video file a minute of that is one
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Speaker 1: hundred megabytes, and I have one hundred and twenty eight
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Speaker 1: gigabytes or two hundred and fifty six. My old Taiwanese phone,
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Speaker 1: the Oppo, had five point twelve installed when I got
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Speaker 1: it ten years ago, and you could put in two
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Speaker 1: gigabytes of expandable storage on an SDXC card. And Google's
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Speaker 1: telling me I can only have one hundred twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: I can only have five percent of that storage ten
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Speaker 1: years later. I didn't understand it. I got the phone
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Speaker 1: because everyone talks about flagship phones and how they're so
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Speaker 1: much better than whatever the heck. So it's like, fine,
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Speaker 1: i'll try it. I'll try a flagship phone. And then
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Speaker 1: it was the worst phone I've ever had by far,
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Speaker 1: like nothing compares. And the HDC ten was a disappointment.
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Speaker 1: Seven was amazing. Eight pretty good, not as good as seven.
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Speaker 1: Ten fine it was. It was fine, not great. So
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Speaker 1: I decided to go outside of HCC after that. I
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Speaker 1: think that's when I got the pixel and that made
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Speaker 1: the ACC ten look like the seven. So now I
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Speaker 1: have this fancy spreadsheet with maybe sixty different models of
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Speaker 1: phone in them, and I just every day for like
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Speaker 1: two nights, maybe three nights because it's a tedious work
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Speaker 1: and I was busy reading comics or feeding the raccoons
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Speaker 1: down at the coast, but I would put in the information.
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Speaker 1: I eventually had a full sheet and I organized it
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Speaker 1: buy price after that, and I went down and there
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Speaker 1: was one phone that had everything I wanted except for
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Speaker 1: charge rate. The charge rate of the Motorola G fifty
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Speaker 1: four to five G is raided at fifteen watts, which
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Speaker 1: is crazy because you know, any standard anything is thirty
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Speaker 1: watts now, but the Pixel six charge is slow at shit.
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Speaker 1: Also it's garbage. So I was like, this has way
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Speaker 1: more than my Pixel six had when it was new,
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Speaker 1: and it only costs one hundred and fifty bucks. That's less.
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Speaker 1: That's like twenty percent of what I paid for the
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Speaker 1: Pixel six when I came out. And this thing comes
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Speaker 1: with charger, phone case, screen protector, one year guarantee or
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Speaker 1: a one year warranty. It just has everything for one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bucks and I can walk down the street,
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Speaker 1: buy it and go back. So after I went through
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Speaker 1: the whole list, and I even when there was something
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Speaker 1: I didn't want, like if a phone didn't have expandable
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Speaker 1: storage or did not support eSIM functionality, I would right no,
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Speaker 1: and then I would highlight that cell in the spreadsheet
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Speaker 1: with a little red thing. And the more red a
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Speaker 1: phone model had, the worse it was. And most of
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Speaker 1: the ones under one hundred dollars, like half of the
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Speaker 1: fields were read too little ram to a little ram,
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Speaker 1: no eSIM whatever, except for the Motorola, but even up
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Speaker 1: to the five hundred dollars phone, some of them didn't
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Speaker 1: have expandable storage or ESUM functionality or some of their
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Speaker 1: charging was very slow. And looking at the phone game
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Speaker 1: now I can see what has happened. There's I can't
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Speaker 1: believe how many phones are being released every year. There's
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Speaker 1: a different one every single month, at least, you know,
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Speaker 1: a decade ago, there was one every few months, maybe
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Speaker 1: I mean like announced in flagship and all that. But
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Speaker 1: with the proliferation, like it seems like there's just a
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Speaker 1: sea of crap. So I'm really glad I did the
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Speaker 1: spreadsheet because when I did that and then organized by price,
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Speaker 1: it became super clear which phones were readily accessible in
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Speaker 1: my neighborhood, ready to purchase and had everything I wanted.
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Speaker 1: And there's only one shop that was selling Motorola phones.
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Speaker 1: And I guess they're not cool is why people don't
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Speaker 1: like them? Because they don't waste a lot of money
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Speaker 1: on advertisements. I'm not really sure. I know there's some
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Speaker 1: what do you call it, stigma against owning a Motorola
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Speaker 1: because it's not on an iPhone or a Samsung. But
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Speaker 1: Motorola has everything the newest Samsungs don't, with expandable storage
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Speaker 1: and all that. So oh, and the one that happened
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Speaker 1: to have everything I wanted except for that charging right
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Speaker 1: which fifteen watch just seemed impossible, like I didn't see
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Speaker 1: how modern phone could charge that slowly. But since it
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Speaker 1: had everything I wanted, I thought about it for the
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Speaker 1: night and I was like, I'll go down and look
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Speaker 1: at it and like, these stats look good. But then
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Speaker 1: I just woke up. I was going to wait and
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Speaker 1: go down to the shop later in the afternoon, but
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Speaker 1: I was just sitting there thinking like, well, they're only
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Speaker 1: selling one in that shop, and when they sell it,
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Speaker 1: they're not going to have it, and you're gonna get
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Speaker 1: a new phone. That's the one you want to get.
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Speaker 1: And I just rolled out of bed, went down there,
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Speaker 1: talked to the guy. He was like, yep, that's the price.
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Speaker 1: We'll take five dollars off the sticker. There's no taxes
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Speaker 1: even with the credit card, and because they like cash
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Speaker 1: more here in Panama, and you'll get a charger, cable
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Speaker 1: phone case, what's called the screen protector, and the one
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Speaker 1: year warranty on the hardware. I was like, yeah, so
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Speaker 1: I got it, and when he plugged it in, it
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Speaker 1: took like ten seconds, twenty seconds to even start charging,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, uh oh, but it did charge
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Speaker 1: up to twenty turn it on looked fine to me.
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Speaker 1: It looked a little clunky, like a little slow the software,
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Speaker 1: but I was like, whatever, I'll take it home, turn
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Speaker 1: off animations, like check out all the basic stuff to
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Speaker 1: make a phone go faster. And this phone came with
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of RAM, so I
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Speaker 1: had way more. I had twice the memory I did
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Speaker 1: on my old phone. Well on this freakin' picks I've
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Speaker 1: had for a couple of years anyway. And then it
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Speaker 1: had eight gigabytes of full RAM inside the phone, and
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Speaker 1: then eight gigabytes of virtual RAM, which is a thing
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Speaker 1: a lot of phone companies seem to be doing now.
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Speaker 1: They'll double the RAM they have by using part of
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Speaker 1: your realm as RAM like virtual RAM, like Windows used
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Speaker 1: to do with spe boost or whatever it was called.
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Speaker 1: With the USB key, you could throw it in and
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Speaker 1: get extra RAM for your system. So I got my
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Speaker 1: phone back home, and I just spent the afternoon updating
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Speaker 1: it because it came out in twenty twenty three and
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Speaker 1: it's a couple of years later. So I just kept
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Speaker 1: updating restart, updating restart, and it kept getting better, I mean,
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Speaker 1: like faster, right in front of my eyes. And it
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Speaker 1: was pretty cool, like it just responded better. And I
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Speaker 1: also realized that it was so slow because it was
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Speaker 1: a dead battery. It had never been charged or hadn't
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Speaker 1: been charged since it was in the box two years ago.
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Speaker 1: And once it hit like fifty percent, everything it was
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Speaker 1: like a normal phone. Then it just acted normally. I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, right, the battery was dead for this long,
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Speaker 1: and now it can go down to twenty percent still
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Speaker 1: functions normally. It seems like it was just that first
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Speaker 1: time it hadn't been charged in so long that all
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Speaker 1: the circuits were waking up. I don't know how that works,
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Speaker 1: but that's what happened. And it finally updated to the
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Speaker 1: current month, and I opened it up and I was like, hmm,
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Speaker 1: something's weird with the animations, and so I just went
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Speaker 1: to the system, turned on developer options, turned off all
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Speaker 1: the animations, and all of a sudden, the phone was
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Speaker 1: blazing fast, and I was like, WHOA, that's pretty nice, Like,
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Speaker 1: way way faster than the Pixel, Way faster than any
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Speaker 1: phone I've had, because it had the same full ram
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Speaker 1: as the Pixel six eight gigabytes and then I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh right, and I went and turned on the virtual RAM.
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Speaker 1: So now it had sixteen gigabytes, eight of full and
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Speaker 1: eight of virtual, and it was even speedier and it
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Speaker 1: could clearly handle more programs at once. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I pushed it to the limit before when I
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Speaker 1: only had eight because I didn't turn on the virtual RAM,
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Speaker 1: but it definitely seemed more I don't know, capable after
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Speaker 1: I added the eight gigabytes of RAM. So this new
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Speaker 1: phone is now performing all tasks instantly, and it has
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Speaker 1: two fifty six gigabytes of storage. I transferred all my podcasts,
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Speaker 1: all my apps and everything over to the new phone,
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Speaker 1: and it is doing everything that the pixel couldn't do.
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Speaker 1: I like the form factor better. It's just a simple rectangle.
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Speaker 1: It has better hardware inside. It's functioning faster, and it's
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Speaker 1: functioning better. It's not getting hot. Even when I was
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Speaker 1: downloading two hundred and seventy six different podcast episodes onto
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Speaker 1: the new phone, because it was just matching all the
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Speaker 1: data exactly, still didn't get hot, and it was downloading
17:54
Speaker 1: that stuff straight for like hours. I did art on
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Speaker 1: it using Infinite Painter for my comics and T shirts
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Speaker 1: and all graphics really and that would heat up the pixel.
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Speaker 1: The pixel got hot when it connected to Wi Fi.
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Speaker 1: The pixel got hot constantly, like pretty hot to hold.
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Speaker 1: And in the first month I was like, this is okay,
18:18
Speaker 1: but I was living in Denver in winter, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's okay in Denver in winter, but it was very hot.
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Speaker 1: As soon as I'd go inside, the phone would get
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Speaker 1: weirdly hot. It would get uncomfortably hot the pixel. And
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Speaker 1: this motorola can do all of that and more at
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Speaker 1: the same time. And it got like warm once during
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Speaker 1: the initial while I was doing everything on it, and
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Speaker 1: since then the past few days it hasn't gotten warm again.
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Speaker 1: And I've downloaded stuff on it, and I've done art
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Speaker 1: on it and everything. It's just handling all of these
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Speaker 1: processes with ease. The environment too is so there's no bloat. Basically,
19:05
Speaker 1: Facebook was installed and there were like three four games installed,
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Speaker 1: and all I did was uninstalled the games and then
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Speaker 1: uninstalled Facebook and I just dragged it to the top
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Speaker 1: like any other app and had uninstalled. You can't do
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Speaker 1: that on pixel phones. It won't let you delete the
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Speaker 1: bloat wear And they don't just have Facebook, they have
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Speaker 1: all sorts of shit, you cannot delete the Google search
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Speaker 1: bar from your home screen on a Google Pixel. I
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Speaker 1: am very clean and organized with my phone home screens,
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Speaker 1: and the fact that I had this ugly search bar
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Speaker 1: that I didn't need constantly there was just in the way,
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Speaker 1: just why why not? Just let me get rid of it?
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Speaker 1: And Pixel didn't and the Motorola yep, just get rid
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Speaker 1: of it. You can customize everything out of the box,
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Speaker 1: like I don't have to install graph, which I'm not
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Speaker 1: a huge fan of, which is fine. It's obviously a
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Speaker 1: lot better than the Google OS or Pixel os or
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Speaker 1: whatever the heck it is. But so far, this Motorola
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Speaker 1: software environment is great. It's everything. I don't need to
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Speaker 1: expand anything, or there's nothing I feel like I need
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Speaker 1: to root and flash a ram Onto to fix right now.
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Speaker 1: Maybe later after the honeymoon with this new phone dies down,
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Speaker 1: But right now it is kicking so much ass and
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Speaker 1: it's just so comfortable to use. I've made a new comic,
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Speaker 1: I made a T shirt on it. It's Bluetooth. I
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Speaker 1: listened to podcasts constantly, and all of a sudden, with
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Speaker 1: the same Bluetooth headphones, I feel like I bought a
20:48
Speaker 1: new two hundred dollars pair of Bluetooth headphones. The clarity,
20:51
Speaker 1: the increase in clarity on my Bluetooth headphones versus the
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Speaker 1: clarity on the pixel the embarrassing quality on the pixel
21:03
Speaker 1: is factorial factoral. I can't explain how much better it sounds.
21:11
Speaker 1: It's basically on the pixel. If someone was holding their
21:14
Speaker 1: hand in front of their mouth and talking to you
21:16
Speaker 1: at a normal voice volume, that's what my Bluetooth headphones
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Speaker 1: sounded like all the time. It sounded kind of like this,
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Speaker 1: like you can still understand what I'm saying, but it's
21:25
Speaker 1: not you know, it's not very clear. It's a little
21:29
Speaker 1: difficult to understand. And the plosives the bees sound like good,
21:32
Speaker 1: p's a little bit, and it just sounded terrible. And
21:36
Speaker 1: then this is what my Bluetooth headphones sound like now.
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Speaker 1: They sound completely normal, like speakers used to sound when
21:44
Speaker 1: giant software companies didn't screw up competing bluetooth headphone software
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Speaker 1: so that you would buy their earphones. I didn't think
21:55
Speaker 1: of that, honestly, the two years I've had the pixel.
21:58
Speaker 1: If I knew that the pigixel was dumbing down my accessories,
22:02
Speaker 1: I would have got rid of it. Sooner. But when
22:05
Speaker 1: I bought a better headphone, you know, the quality would
22:09
Speaker 1: improve marginally. But now I have the Modorilla and it's
22:13
Speaker 1: clear as a bell. I wondered why everybody made such
22:16
Speaker 1: a big deal about this Dolby Atmos, and if that's
22:19
Speaker 1: what's doing it, maybe I'm hooked. Like it makes everything
22:24
Speaker 1: sounds better, Like all the speakers sound out loud too.
22:29
Speaker 1: When I'm playing music, they sound better than the Pixel
22:33
Speaker 1: And I know they're not the best speakers in the world,
22:35
Speaker 1: but boy, the boy, boy, that Pixel boy. So if
22:41
Speaker 1: you can't tell, yeah, I'm super happy about this new phone,
22:45
Speaker 1: really curious what it'll be like in a few months,
22:47
Speaker 1: and I'll probably talk about it again later. But I've
22:51
Speaker 1: I transferred everything over effortlessly with quick Share and the phone.
22:58
Speaker 1: It's done everything so without a hiccup. And when I
23:03
Speaker 1: got that frickin' Pixel six, I spent days trying to
23:07
Speaker 1: get it to function just decently, just not embarrassingly, like
23:13
Speaker 1: stop heating up so that it burns my hand, or
23:18
Speaker 1: hold three programs at once and switch between them without
23:22
Speaker 1: freaking out and shutting down Pixel six. That software environment
23:27
Speaker 1: is so cluttered and so bloated and then I have
23:30
Speaker 1: the Motorola and there's nearly no bloat. You know, there's
23:34
Speaker 1: a couple like helpful safety tips and whatever, but they
23:38
Speaker 1: aren't affecting the performance of the phone at all, which
23:42
Speaker 1: is so far skating on ice. I'm amazed at how
23:49
Speaker 1: well this phone functions, considering it has basically the same
23:53
Speaker 1: specs as the Pixel maybe marginal improvements in a couple things.
23:59
Speaker 1: It's supposed has slower processing power, but it's running laps
24:06
Speaker 1: around the performance of my Pixel six. And it costs
24:09
Speaker 1: less than a quarter of the price, so I'm not
24:13
Speaker 1: using a case or a screen protector. I'm pretty careful
24:15
Speaker 1: with my phones anyway, but if this one falls down
24:19
Speaker 1: and breaks in a few months, I'll get another one
24:23
Speaker 1: and I won't have spent a dime more than I
24:26
Speaker 1: spent on the Pixel six. Like I said, I'm very safe,
24:28
Speaker 1: so I'm not planning on that happening. And I knocked
24:32
Speaker 1: on wood, so it should be fine. Poly laminate wood,
24:34
Speaker 1: still wood, it's not wood, but it it is a deal.
24:40
Speaker 1: It has expandable storage. I'm going to put a card
24:43
Speaker 1: on it so I can have local music, which I've
24:45
Speaker 1: really missed having. I thought it would be okay not
24:48
Speaker 1: having my music locally and just using online streaming services,
24:53
Speaker 1: but I don't like it, like sometimes you're just not
24:58
Speaker 1: in a signal place when I'm traveling, and I like
25:02
Speaker 1: to have the stuff local on my machine. I also
25:05
Speaker 1: like offline Wikipedia, which with one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes,
25:08
Speaker 1: you can't exactly download. It's about one hundred gigabytes for
25:12
Speaker 1: all of Wikipedia on your phone. And I had that
25:15
Speaker 1: for years and then I couldn't have it with the
25:18
Speaker 1: pixel and now I can again. So I'm putting my
25:22
Speaker 1: music library back on there because I have this old
25:24
Speaker 1: SD card with it and my new bands Tropical, Thuck
25:29
Speaker 1: Storm and Mannequin Pussy. Those are real bands, and those
25:32
Speaker 1: are very good bands. Deep States Rocks and from Mannequin Pussy,
25:39
Speaker 1: that song drunk is cool Mannequin Pussy. I saw them
25:42
Speaker 1: live and her performance, the whole band's performance was perfect,
25:49
Speaker 1: like amazing. But the reason they're all brought together, the
25:53
Speaker 1: reason the whole band is so powerful is because the
25:57
Speaker 1: lead singer, Screw Dream rocks your fucking face off while
26:03
Speaker 1: shooting around the stage and killing it. I and you
26:09
Speaker 1: know it was crazy. I was listening to a podcast
26:12
Speaker 1: and the guy on it said he went to a
26:15
Speaker 1: Mannequin Pussy show, couldn't believe how good it was. If
26:18
Speaker 1: Mannequin Pussy was playing near the person listening to this podcast,
26:23
Speaker 1: you should go see him. So I checked online Mannequin
26:27
Speaker 1: Pussy was playing next to me next week, because apparently
26:32
Speaker 1: they're from Philadelphia. I was in Philadelphia at the time.
26:34
Speaker 1: I just anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world
26:39
Speaker 1: at that point. I just happened to be in Philadelphia
26:42
Speaker 1: for that week and they were playing next week Mannequin Pussy,
26:46
Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, well you're going then, because
26:48
Speaker 1: you randomly heard this podcast that was made a year
26:52
Speaker 1: two years ago and they just mentioned you have to
26:54
Speaker 1: go see Mannequin Pussy in the city you're in. And
26:57
Speaker 1: I saw Mannequin Pussy and aid fucking changed my life.
27:04
Speaker 1: It changed my taste in music, It changed my It
27:07
Speaker 1: reminded me that there is still something in the US
27:11
Speaker 1: worth visiting, worth living therefore, and that's live music performances
27:17
Speaker 1: in the US. They are great. They're great everywhere, but
27:20
Speaker 1: I can't understand the words everywhere of most bands, even
27:25
Speaker 1: in China at the Apex. The Apotheosis of my Mandarin
27:30
Speaker 1: mastery I could understand like some of the phrases the
27:35
Speaker 1: punk rock Chinese groups would say. Actually, I can't understand
27:39
Speaker 1: Mannekin Pussy either, so that's not a very good argument.
27:43
Speaker 1: But America does have good live music. I'll say Mannequin
27:47
Speaker 1: Pussy was what I was missing. And then I got
27:52
Speaker 1: to see Be your Own Pet like the next week,
27:55
Speaker 1: and I got fucking rocked all over again. Be your
27:59
Speaker 1: Own Pet another band you guys should be listening to, Yeah,
28:04
Speaker 1: manne Can Pussy, be your Own Pet? And then Tropical Fuckstorm.
28:07
Speaker 1: I just stumbled across them on YouTube somehow. I really
28:11
Speaker 1: am not sure. And they're just this really interesting Australian supergroup,
28:18
Speaker 1: which I don't like to use that word, but everyone
28:21
Speaker 1: describes them as that because all the members are from
28:24
Speaker 1: formerly successful Australian bands. I don't know. Supergroup sounds corny, right,
28:29
Speaker 1: but I guess they are. They are super and they're
28:31
Speaker 1: a group, so I should call them a supergroup. Fuck me,
28:34
Speaker 1: I've never been in a band. Who am I to criticize?
28:37
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? If you were listening to
28:41
Speaker 1: this and you're in Philadelphia, go see Mannekin Pussy. If
28:45
Speaker 1: they're there, go see be your own pet if they
28:47
Speaker 1: are there and go see tropical fuckstorm if they left
28:51
Speaker 1: the Big Island. I mean the Big Island as Australian,
28:55
Speaker 1: not the Big Island in Hawaii. Oh So, like I
28:58
Speaker 1: was saying, there were jaguars here. That's what I started
29:03
Speaker 1: talking about. And I still have yet to visit the
29:06
Speaker 1: National Forest. I'm going very soon, but my sleep schedule
29:11
Speaker 1: has been upside down, so I'm usually not a week
29:16
Speaker 1: during much of the daylight, and I don't want to
29:20
Speaker 1: go to the forest at night. The jaguar forest, and
29:26
Speaker 1: they are around the entire country apparently, which I was
29:30
Speaker 1: interested to find out. I found out from Francisco. He's
29:33
Speaker 1: the one who told me about jaguars. I was walking around. Oh,
29:37
Speaker 1: I got such good patacones. So patacons are fried slices
29:42
Speaker 1: of plantains and they're freaking delicious. So instead of like
29:47
Speaker 1: French fries are potato chips, Pataconi's are pretty popular here.
29:51
Speaker 1: They have potato chips and all that stuff, but the
29:53
Speaker 1: patacons are better. And I had the best patacons from
29:57
Speaker 1: this dude in a stall outside a school. There's like
30:01
Speaker 1: a strip mall of fast food places so the kids
30:05
Speaker 1: can buy their lunches or whatever. I think that's what's
30:07
Speaker 1: going on because it's so cheap. And I paid two
30:09
Speaker 1: bucks and got this plate of patacons with like what
30:16
Speaker 1: I immediately thought of as cafeteria food, sloppy joe meat on
30:22
Speaker 1: the top of them, and but like way better than
30:28
Speaker 1: you know, school food. This just take like a thick
30:31
Speaker 1: stew all. The sauces here are like these really thick
30:33
Speaker 1: savory flavors. So even a crappy cafeteria food from your
30:39
Speaker 1: school sloppy joe meat sauce is like incredibly rich and delicious.
30:45
Speaker 1: And I got a checha with it, which is like
30:46
Speaker 1: this little local juice, and man, it was like the
30:50
Speaker 1: best two bucks I'd spent in this country so far.
30:56
Speaker 1: So I was very happy and just jaunting my way
31:00
Speaker 1: down the street. And I started walking down one and
31:04
Speaker 1: one guy just like waved his hands over his head
31:06
Speaker 1: who was casually walking by me beforehand, and then when
31:09
Speaker 1: he saw I was going down the road, he waved
31:12
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, it is to be a Serrado,
31:16
Speaker 1: Like is this road closed? And he was like, oh,
31:18
Speaker 1: heydo and it's not Compania. I still Compania, oh okay,
31:24
Speaker 1: So like he worked there and it was a private
31:27
Speaker 1: company road, so I just turned around and we were
31:30
Speaker 1: walking the same direction, and he asked if I was
31:34
Speaker 1: American or spoke English something like that, and then we
31:37
Speaker 1: talked NonStop for like twenty minutes while we walked through
31:42
Speaker 1: the neighborhood down to the main road, and yeah, just
31:45
Speaker 1: traded stories and all that, and he was a cool guy.
31:47
Speaker 1: His name was Francisco. And I was like, where are
31:50
Speaker 1: the crocodiles? He was like, I don't know, don't worry
31:53
Speaker 1: about those. Worry about the two legged, long haired crocodiles,
31:56
Speaker 1: which I guess was a joke about people. And I
31:59
Speaker 1: asked him if that was a Panamanian joke and he
32:02
Speaker 1: just said it's a joke. And I didn't It was like,
32:06
Speaker 1: is it specifically about me? Then? But that'd be weird
32:10
Speaker 1: because we were having fun talking. But that's the great
32:17
Speaker 1: thing about traveling. You don't really know what anybody is
32:20
Speaker 1: talking about all the time because their entire brain was
32:24
Speaker 1: brought up in a totally different fishbowl than yours was,
32:26
Speaker 1: so all the cultural norms banging around in there just
32:29
Speaker 1: don't make sense, which I like a lot more than
32:33
Speaker 1: sort of seeing the crude vulgarity that you know is
32:37
Speaker 1: someone being uncharitable or means spirited. In the States, it's
32:42
Speaker 1: easy to tell if someone's talking down about someone else
32:45
Speaker 1: or having fun at someone else's expense. And in other countries,
32:50
Speaker 1: until I get good at the language, it's sort of
32:53
Speaker 1: up in the air, so I'm more comfortable talking to people.
32:56
Speaker 1: So Francisco was super cool. He taught only a bunch
33:00
Speaker 1: of interesting stuff. The only one I wrote down was
33:03
Speaker 1: jaguars though. I was walking to the National Park that day.
33:07
Speaker 1: That's why I was out early enough to stop by
33:09
Speaker 1: that food stall next to the school. They're not there
33:12
Speaker 1: in the afternoons, but the way that I'm coming from
33:17
Speaker 1: it's only a twenty minute walk or like thirty minutes,
33:20
Speaker 1: but there's only the highway going to it. So it
33:24
Speaker 1: was just uncomfortable walking along the highway there, so I
33:27
Speaker 1: just turned back. I'm going to approach from the other side,
33:30
Speaker 1: which I should just be able to get to with
33:32
Speaker 1: a couple buses, and then I'll march my way into
33:35
Speaker 1: the forest. I'm still really excited to go, but I
33:39
Speaker 1: am still really excited to do all this. You know,
33:43
Speaker 1: play on my phone and read comics and what I
33:47
Speaker 1: just read, I just read not Black Cloaks. The other
33:52
Speaker 1: one by Meredith Meat Eaters really good, really good as
33:56
Speaker 1: a complete story too. It needed a little more for me,
34:01
Speaker 1: but I think that's because I'm a guy, so I
34:04
Speaker 1: wasn't clocking exactly. Anyway. There's a great graphic novel called
34:09
Speaker 1: meat Eaters, and it's written and arted by the same person,
34:15
Speaker 1: which I really like when the author draws their own novel.
34:19
Speaker 1: No worry, I won't talk about everything I read or watch,
34:22
Speaker 1: but just stuff that's sticking out in my mind, because
34:25
Speaker 1: otherwise this would never end. And I don't want to
34:29
Speaker 1: burden you with watch and read lists like I burdened
34:34
Speaker 1: myself with. So I'm going to that National park. Have
34:39
Speaker 1: I already mentioned the bottle b dat again because I'm
34:42
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it again for five minutes ad minutes
34:46
Speaker 1: the bottle b Day I did? I did. I already
34:48
Speaker 1: talked about it last week. It's just so great. Everybody
34:52
Speaker 1: else here, like a lot of countries use paper and
34:56
Speaker 1: then throw the paper in the trash can next to
34:59
Speaker 1: the to toilet, which is gross, Like why do you
35:03
Speaker 1: want it there next to you? It's just a ruse,
35:07
Speaker 1: Like I throw the toilet paper in the trash or
35:10
Speaker 1: in the toilet in every single country I've been to
35:13
Speaker 1: that has the sign that says don't do it. I
35:16
Speaker 1: think Americans. They're afraid of Americans using too much toilet paper.
35:20
Speaker 1: I use what I thought was a reasonable amount before
35:23
Speaker 1: I started using the bidet, and it always flushed. But
35:28
Speaker 1: now it's all about the bottle bidet. I don't touch
35:31
Speaker 1: that stuff, but don't go near it. I spray down
35:33
Speaker 1: the seat if I'm in a hostel, because people are
35:37
Speaker 1: gross and men pee on the toilet seat, so I
35:40
Speaker 1: just spray it with the bidet, and then I got
35:42
Speaker 1: a clean toilet seat. And if they think I peeed
35:44
Speaker 1: all over it, whatever, because you know it, it was
35:47
Speaker 1: gross and dirty and now it's clean. Or oh, a
35:51
Speaker 1: new guy moved in here. Actually, this place was all
35:54
Speaker 1: girls last month and it's all guys and one girl
35:59
Speaker 1: left this month. And one of the guys that moved
36:02
Speaker 1: in is this Italian guy who's going to start up
36:04
Speaker 1: a restaurant. He's right next to me, and there's another
36:08
Speaker 1: guy from down the hall and he talks on his
36:12
Speaker 1: phone in the bathroom, which it's not a big bathroom,
36:17
Speaker 1: so I don't know why you'd want to be in
36:20
Speaker 1: it with the toilet paper basket I mentioned, but he
36:26
Speaker 1: seems comfortable in there and has conversations so his bathtimes.
36:30
Speaker 1: His bathroom times are like an hour long, sometimes in
36:33
Speaker 1: the morning, at least they were the first week. I
36:35
Speaker 1: think he thought he was the only crazy ghoul that
36:39
Speaker 1: stays up all night. But my day and night times
36:43
Speaker 1: are flipped as well, so he doesn't spend an hour
36:45
Speaker 1: in there anymore. So I'm really doing all these public services. Okay,
36:51
Speaker 1: speaking of shows that I never watched that were huge
36:53
Speaker 1: cultural phenomenons while I was growing up, I finally watched
36:57
Speaker 1: the first episode and then see of Sex and the City,
37:02
Speaker 1: which between the casting, writing, and cinematography, I was kind
37:07
Speaker 1: of blown away by. I can see why it caught
37:10
Speaker 1: on so quickly and rapidly, especially in the States, which
37:17
Speaker 1: is all about glamour and rutting. But I didn't know
37:23
Speaker 1: that Sex and the City started as a actual real
37:26
Speaker 1: newspaper column in real life. I only found that out
37:30
Speaker 1: because I was watching the pilot and I was like,
37:32
Speaker 1: why is this so good, Why is the writing so good?
37:36
Speaker 1: Why does this feel so grounded? And then I found
37:39
Speaker 1: out that it was actually a newspaper column and then
37:43
Speaker 1: a book, and then the show came along, so they
37:45
Speaker 1: had a lot of good material, real material to work
37:49
Speaker 1: from to create the TV show. Oh. An element of
37:54
Speaker 1: it is the fourth wall breaking that Sarah Jessica Parker does.
37:57
Speaker 1: Sometimes she'll talk directly to the camera about her thoughts
38:01
Speaker 1: going on, and that's also an element that American audiences
38:06
Speaker 1: have been eating up for twenty years now. But I
38:09
Speaker 1: don't remember a lot of shows at the time twenty
38:12
Speaker 1: years ago doing that breaking the fourth wall and talking
38:15
Speaker 1: directly to the viewer. So good show. The first two
38:20
Speaker 1: seasons were pretty good. The third one it seems a
38:23
Speaker 1: lot slower to me. It seems like, I don't know,
38:27
Speaker 1: they seem more meandery, but I don't know. I'm impressed.
38:31
Speaker 1: I would definitely recommend watching the first season to see
38:34
Speaker 1: if you're interested at all. OH. I sort of listened
38:37
Speaker 1: to a new podcast called The Nightveil or Nightveil, and
38:42
Speaker 1: it's a fictional like surrealist life podcast set in the
38:45
Speaker 1: town of Nightvale. And they just, at least for the
38:48
Speaker 1: first episode, read funny headlines or goings on about the
38:52
Speaker 1: town that are, Yeah, surrealists don't make a lot of
38:55
Speaker 1: perfect sense, but are very well put together and are
38:59
Speaker 1: funny and eerie, which I like a lot. The funniest
39:04
Speaker 1: thing they did was the NRA gave out free bumper
39:07
Speaker 1: stickers saying guns don't kill people. It's impossible to be
39:11
Speaker 1: killed by a gun. We are all invincible to bullets
39:14
Speaker 1: and it's a miracle, which is super funny and had
39:19
Speaker 1: me laughing out loud while I was cooking in the kitchen.
39:22
Speaker 1: And it's like an hour long each episode, or forty
39:25
Speaker 1: five minutes, and they just throw out zinger after zinger
39:31
Speaker 1: like that for the whole first episode. Anyway, I'll listen
39:33
Speaker 1: to morow. It was really fun and it's very chill,
39:36
Speaker 1: which is kind of nice too. I like to listen
39:39
Speaker 1: to podcasts while I walk around, so having a well
39:43
Speaker 1: metered bit of performance as I stroll is right at
39:49
Speaker 1: my alley. Oh. In the second season of Sex and
39:53
Speaker 1: the City, they get in a whole thing about circumcision
39:57
Speaker 1: and they highly recommend men get circumcised, or that's the
40:02
Speaker 1: position ostensibly of the show, but just for all the
40:06
Speaker 1: Americans who think that's a normal thing, it's only about
40:09
Speaker 1: one in every three men that are circumcised around the globe.
40:12
Speaker 1: That's a very American and religious thing to do. There's
40:18
Speaker 1: very little actual scientific evidence showing it's good, and I've
40:22
Speaker 1: always thought of it as a kind of obviously not
40:25
Speaker 1: as bad as what happens in real female genital mutilation,
40:29
Speaker 1: which is a problem in a lot of countries, but
40:32
Speaker 1: circumcision is certainly a limited genital mutilation. You're cutting off
40:38
Speaker 1: a little part of boys genitals. Always seemed weird to me,
40:43
Speaker 1: still does, and to see it fought for so hard
40:47
Speaker 1: in this TV show was just very nineties to me,
40:51
Speaker 1: very monoculture. That's what's really interesting about Sex and the City.
40:56
Speaker 1: Everything they say is so well, we're all connected, we
41:00
Speaker 1: all agree on everything. This is what racism is, this
41:03
Speaker 1: is what circumcision is, this is what and this is
41:06
Speaker 1: a national show and they're just saying these things that
41:09
Speaker 1: weren't correct or agreed upon. But the culture, the monoculture
41:14
Speaker 1: of the US, was so strong before the advent of
41:18
Speaker 1: information technology that you could show something like that on
41:22
Speaker 1: TV and it wouldn't be viewed as idiotic or shallow
41:29
Speaker 1: or insulting, which I think if it was shown today,
41:34
Speaker 1: there would be a few scenes in that show where
41:37
Speaker 1: you'd be like, oop, Nope, But that's true of all
41:40
Speaker 1: shows from twenty thirty years ago. What do you think
41:43
Speaker 1: about male circumcision? Is it limited genital mutilation or is
41:48
Speaker 1: it body modding? Body modification means the same thing, but
41:55
Speaker 1: body modification at least sounds positive. Ish. Oh I wrote
41:59
Speaker 1: down that I should title this Rambalan episode Meanwhile, because
42:03
Speaker 1: every scene in Sex and the City starts with meanwhile
42:06
Speaker 1: Miranda blah blah blah blah blah. But I'm not gonna
42:09
Speaker 1: do that. Oh. I finally found out what pH means.
42:13
Speaker 1: All the apartment buildings and hotels here, so many of
42:17
Speaker 1: them are pH Maria or pH Coastal. It's always pH
42:23
Speaker 1: in the beginning, and I don't know what that was,
42:26
Speaker 1: and I've been curious. I figured i'd osmodically osmodically, Yeah,
42:31
Speaker 1: osmosis osmodically figure it out, but I didn't, so I
42:35
Speaker 1: finally looked it up. Peace pH is propria dad horizontal.
42:42
Speaker 1: Wait did I talk about this? Sorry if I already
42:45
Speaker 1: talked about this, But it's really interesting because I think
42:47
Speaker 1: it's a really good way to set up an apartment building.
42:50
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, I think I did whatever really quick.
42:53
Speaker 1: They have central air, so instead of each person paying
42:58
Speaker 1: for ac or heating. You can just have everyone pay
43:01
Speaker 1: and the air goes into everyone's apartment, so your housing
43:04
Speaker 1: is way cheaper and you can use ac and hot
43:06
Speaker 1: water in the shower all year long without paying much
43:10
Speaker 1: money at all. Great housing situation. Oh geez, I was
43:15
Speaker 1: wondering why I haven't done a podcast in a while.
43:16
Speaker 1: I just remember that the last one I did, I
43:18
Speaker 1: had to re record the entire hour long podcast because
43:22
Speaker 1: I deleted the first when I recorded for an hour,
43:26
Speaker 1: like a fucking idiot. Anyway, knock on wood, I don't
43:30
Speaker 1: do that again. There that's an actual wood door. Let's see.
43:35
Speaker 1: I finished some Nautica that was cool. Is that what
43:38
Speaker 1: they mean by a survival game? I don't like the
43:40
Speaker 1: food and drink thing because I've like backpacked for a
43:44
Speaker 1: long time, and I don't think the food and water
43:47
Speaker 1: gauges I've seen in a lot of these survival games
43:49
Speaker 1: are very realistic. But then I have backpacked, and I
43:53
Speaker 1: guess I wasn't really surviving, so maybe I don't know
43:56
Speaker 1: what the fuck I'm talking about. But I very much
43:59
Speaker 1: enjoyed Somedic and I turned off the food and drink
44:02
Speaker 1: gauges so that I could focus on the game rather
44:05
Speaker 1: than drinking water every couple of minutes. Oh. So there's
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Speaker 1: this restaurant that I like to get chicken wings from
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Speaker 1: and it has half off Tuesday, Wednesday and Sundays. And
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Speaker 1: I walked around for two hours building up the cards
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Speaker 1: to speak Spanish. When I walked into the restaurant and
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Speaker 1: I was finally like outside, I was like, okay, you
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Speaker 1: can do this, you know these words, like you're fine.
44:30
Speaker 1: I haven't been speaking much Spanish here because like I
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Speaker 1: don't know a lot of people speak English, and I
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Speaker 1: had to relearn all of my Spanish. But I've been
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Speaker 1: trying a lot more. And so I finally walked up
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Speaker 1: to the restaurant. I was like, okay, go in there.
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Speaker 1: And then before I was ready, the waitress just came
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Speaker 1: out and asked what I wanted outside of the restaurant
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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, h oi elas alita espera
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Speaker 1: di espara sinco do lares? Do you have the wings
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Speaker 1: today for ten for five? And she was like, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: we have them Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday. And she explained
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Speaker 1: this whole thing to me and I ordered and it
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Speaker 1: was really easy and it felt really good because I
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Speaker 1: was so worried about speaking Spanish, even though I've been
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Speaker 1: finally studying it again. But it worked out great and
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Speaker 1: I got my wings and I'm going to get them
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Speaker 1: today as well. Did you know that Venice is held
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Speaker 1: up by trees? What ky? What are you talking about?
45:31
Speaker 1: That sounds stupid and made up. You're a dummy now
45:35
Speaker 1: I am a dummy, but that's also true. Sixteen hundred
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Speaker 1: years ago, like some Spaniards were like, you know what,
45:43
Speaker 1: there's this like giant bay. There's a huge like swampy
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Speaker 1: lagoon area, and then there's perfectly good land in a forest.
45:52
Speaker 1: And one guy was like, we should make houses on
45:55
Speaker 1: the land, and everyone else was like, no, we should
45:59
Speaker 1: take all the trees from this place them, cut off
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Speaker 1: their branches and smack them into the mud, and then
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Speaker 1: cut off the tree butts so they're all flat, and
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Speaker 1: then build on those. And this one guy was like,
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Speaker 1: that seems like way more work, and everyone was like, no,
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Speaker 1: it's a great idea. And that's what Venice is. All
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Speaker 1: of Venice is built on stilts, I mean technically, but
46:24
Speaker 1: they're bunches of trees. Like I think it's ten million
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Speaker 1: trees in total, maybe it's more, but I think it's
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Speaker 1: about ten million trees under Venice are keeping Venice afloat,
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Speaker 1: and all those trees are mostly older, a lot of oak,
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Speaker 1: until they realized that oak was really valuable, so they
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Speaker 1: used alder exclusively after a certain point sixteen hundred years
46:46
Speaker 1: ago to five hundred years ago. And a lot of
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Speaker 1: these logs are still intact and not even mildly petrified
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Speaker 1: or not extensively petrified. A lot of them are still wood.
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Speaker 1: How crazy is that there's a team that did research
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Speaker 1: on a decade ago. Anyway, that's a good note to
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Speaker 1: end on. So thanks for letting me ramble on, and
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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon, well, you know, just to
47:17
Speaker 1: close out with the phone. Also found out that apparently
47:20
Speaker 1: Motoro was really popular in Colombia, and the reason the
47:23
Speaker 1: shop that I had the only shop in the city
47:26
Speaker 1: I've seen so far with Motorola phones. The only reason
47:29
Speaker 1: he had them is because he is originally from Columbia.
47:33
Speaker 1: So I kind of lucked out there. Thanks guy. Don't
47:38
Speaker 1: think I ever got his name. And he was obviously
47:42
Speaker 1: trying to sell me on this phone, like he uses
47:45
Speaker 1: Samsung and he just had the same like this is
47:49
Speaker 1: a piece of shit brick gonna foist it off on
47:52
Speaker 1: this dumb tourist. And like I said, it's like the
47:55
Speaker 1: best phone I've had in a decade. It's so great
47:59
Speaker 1: so far. This is the mid range, cheap phone basically,
48:05
Speaker 1: so I'm pretty curious about their advanced, their newest ones.
48:10
Speaker 1: I'll probably just wait a few years and then get whatever.
48:12
Speaker 1: The next iteration of this is, I need nothing more
48:15
Speaker 1: than this for my current needs. This is all the
48:19
Speaker 1: data I could use. It can run circles around all
48:25
Speaker 1: the app necessary functions, all the apps demanding things. No
48:30
Speaker 1: problem for this phone so far. And I am a
48:33
Speaker 1: power user, I'd say, except for gaming. I think maybe
48:36
Speaker 1: that's it. Like with the advent of phone gaming, they
48:39
Speaker 1: have to make sure phones can handle some pretty demanding
48:44
Speaker 1: processes and I don't do that. So all the art
48:48
Speaker 1: stuff I'm doing and downloading and uploading and all that
48:52
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that used to be demanding for phones
48:56
Speaker 1: are not because the only problem now is like the
48:59
Speaker 1: new host graphics and the shitty code they write for
49:02
Speaker 1: games so that the graphics have to keep up or overcompensate. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: this phone's great. I hope you have a great day too.
49:12
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have great day with twenty chicken wings. Twenty
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Speaker 1: chicken wings, you can talk to me a Bit of
49:18
Speaker 1: a Rambler at gmail dot com or on Lemmy a
49:21
Speaker 1: Bit of a Rambler, or on all the social medias.
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Speaker 1: Although I might not answer them, I'll definitely answer the
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Speaker 1: email and Lemmy. Thank you for listening, and have a
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Speaker 1: great rest of your day.