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028 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 here's another episode of ramble on. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: Weird Al Yankovic National Treasure. I was listening to Lump
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  Speaker 1: again and someone brought up that Yankovic made the parody,
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  Speaker 1: and I had completely forgot about that song for like
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years or whenever the heck he made it,
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  Speaker 1: which I assume was a year after, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: immediately after Poosa, which is the funniest acronym for a
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  Speaker 1: band that I know of, made the song Lump. Weird
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  Speaker 1: Al Yankovic made gump uh parody where he pretend sees Forst.
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  Speaker 1: Gump talking about his friend Bubble Gump, which is pretty
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  Speaker 1: funny because Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh and
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  Speaker 1: Gump didn't do that much different. So I was just
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  Speaker 1: watching there's an old video for I Think We're Alone
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  Speaker 1: Now that by what is it? James, Tommy Tommy James
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  Speaker 1: and the Chondell's, And I'm really confused because if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't watched that video right now anywhere, it ends like
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  Speaker 1: five seconds before it should I Think We're Alone Now?
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  Speaker 1: There doesn't seem and then it just ends like right
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  Speaker 1: there in like right after one line, and Tommy just
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  Speaker 1: stops singing. All the band stops playing. But clearly there
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  Speaker 1: should be like another five to ten seconds of them,
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  Speaker 1: like doesn't seem to be anyone around, and there isn't.
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  Speaker 1: It ends extremely abruptly in the original official music video.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they were running over time and whatever show they
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  Speaker 1: were playing on it first, if you know, let me
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  Speaker 1: know a bit of a Ramblergmail dot com. I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: I always like these trivial pursuits, although I also do
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: like complex factual pursuits, So hit me up with any
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  Speaker 1: of those also. Okay, So I finished already five Resident
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  Speaker 1: Evil five fun game. One of the bosses is Impossible,
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  Speaker 1: and I played that one might have been ten times.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say four or five times, but no,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way. I played it four or five times.
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  Speaker 1: In the first hour. I kept getting murdered by this monster,
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  Speaker 1: and then I was like, Okay, well, maybe it's because
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  Speaker 1: you have beers. Just play the game again in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and I did, and I just kept getting my ass
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  Speaker 1: handed to me by this gooey yellow flower pollen monster
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  Speaker 1: and couldn't figure out the pattern or whatever. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: the YouTubers can do it. I couldn't. So after I
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  Speaker 1: played and died, you know, even tense, I was really low.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was like fifty, but all twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Like after I played this thing twenty times, easily dedicating
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  Speaker 1: when I was being real crappy like two to five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and when I was really trying to do like twenty
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  Speaker 1: forty minutes, like really trying to pass this stage without
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  Speaker 1: any weasily skipping the challenge kind of play, I just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. So finally I bought a bazooka, which
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  Speaker 1: you can buy officially in the game. It's part of
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  Speaker 1: the game, and I bought it, shot it once and
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  Speaker 1: the creature died immediately. And that was after it sunk
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  Speaker 1: like six ten hours like into fighting it legitimately, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you're just supposed to shoot it
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  Speaker 1: with the bazooka once and then it died. Okay, well
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  Speaker 1: that's frustrating, but it was. It was definitely interesting playing
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  Speaker 1: it again, Like I was, I don't know, fifteen, like
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  Speaker 1: just playing a video game. We're just like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing today, just playing a video
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  Speaker 1: game that is definitely one of the boons of me
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  Speaker 1: traveling and I don't know, renting out rooms and bringing
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  Speaker 1: my fun gaming laptop and I'm just sitting in a room,
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  Speaker 1: and when I'm not hanging out with people, basically, when
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  Speaker 1: I'm not making myself be social or trying to broaden
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  Speaker 1: my social horizons, I really am just so free that
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  Speaker 1: I get to play the Resident Evil games and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of fun, even if I lose to this ink
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  Speaker 1: putty monster twenty times and then realize that I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: it wrong, and I'll say, Resident Evil three really impressing me,
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  Speaker 1: very similar to four and five. Eight was pretty good
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  Speaker 1: or no, no, sorry, Seven was pretty good. Eight was
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  Speaker 1: just so like why was he in eight? Ethan, the
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  Speaker 1: main character from seven, it's a direct continuation of Resident
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  Speaker 1: Aval seven, acts like he has never seen a zombie
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  Speaker 1: or monster before. But the whole game of Resident Evil
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  Speaker 1: seven is about Ethan fighting monsters and zombies. And then
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  Speaker 1: he gets to Resident Evil eight and he's like, why
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  Speaker 1: is this man trying to bite me? It's like he's
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  Speaker 1: one of the zombies you fought like twenty minutes ago,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know it was three years ago that I, oh,
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  Speaker 1: right right three years ago. Sorry, sorry, and I experienced
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  Speaker 1: these strange groups of people attacking me. It's like, wait, what,
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  Speaker 1: Like everyone in everyone in the Resident Evil universe knows
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  Speaker 1: what happens, and they know what happened to Raccoon City,
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  Speaker 1: and like the main storyline, they all know that zombies
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  Speaker 1: attack people. They reference it in earlier games like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are zombies. There are people that die come back
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  Speaker 1: to life, their bodies don't function very well, and then
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  Speaker 1: they attack the living. And Ethan, who is the he's
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  Speaker 1: the protagonist of seven and has to deal with zombies
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  Speaker 1: the whole game for dozens of hours, wakes up in
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  Speaker 1: eight is dealing with the exact same thing and is
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  Speaker 1: like this is so strange. Why are these people so angry?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know why they're angry, man, You've dealt
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  Speaker 1: with all of this before. Very bizarre plot direction they
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  Speaker 1: took that in. But I have to say I do
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  Speaker 1: like the Village of Shadows, the storybook and the art
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  Speaker 1: from the story book and the way they tell the storybook.
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  Speaker 1: I like all of that a lot. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a great introduction. I think that's a great plot device.
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  Speaker 1: I think it fits every single part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. The only problem with the game is that
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  Speaker 1: Resident Evil is pretending that no one has seen a
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  Speaker 1: zombie before, which in the other games you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: oh okay, because they use a different protagonist in each game,
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  Speaker 1: but seven and eight use the same protagonist, and he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't had anything weird happened to his memory, like nothing
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  Speaker 1: strange is blocking his experiences from before. He just sees
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  Speaker 1: a zombie and he's like, oh my gush, there's a
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  Speaker 1: strange there's a bitey human. Yeah, man, that you went
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  Speaker 1: through that for days, like a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know what's going on, but he is
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  Speaker 1: pretending like he doesn't. It's a very strange choice. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like they're clinging too hard to tradition with this
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  Speaker 1: game design choice. Anyway, let's start on something else big
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: and weird. I'm finally going to start Star Trek again,
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  Speaker 1: which I tried to watch the orisk on one before,
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  Speaker 1: and just boy, the production quality. The production value is
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  Speaker 1: so low. It's rough. And people always describe it as
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  Speaker 1: a morality plan. They're like, it's just telling stories, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand that, but I've always found Greek morality plays boring.
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  Speaker 1: As well. I've never had a problem understanding morality. But
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  Speaker 1: so Lower Decks, an animated show of Star Trek, had
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  Speaker 1: five seasons just finished. I thought it would be fun
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  Speaker 1: to give that a shot. And I'm watching it and
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  Speaker 1: it's not that any references are flying over my head.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure a couple are, but you can follow the
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  Speaker 1: story very easily. It's just not super compelling. But I
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  Speaker 1: watched this so that it could fall into the world
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  Speaker 1: and I could get it. And after a couple episodes
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  Speaker 1: of Lower Decks I did, I was like, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: get it. Okay. People are just living their lives and
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  Speaker 1: they just happened to be living in the future where
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  Speaker 1: they meet alien species. But really they're just living their lives,
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  Speaker 1: which is fine but not super compelling for me. And
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  Speaker 1: so I tried to go back and watch the Next
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  Speaker 1: Generation because I feel like I got it from the
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  Speaker 1: Lower Decks. I got the vibes of Star Trek, and
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  Speaker 1: so I could start watching the actual show. And I
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  Speaker 1: asked Lemmy, like, hey, where should I start, And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are like anywhere, and one guy was like,
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  Speaker 1: you have to start with the original, and other one
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  Speaker 1: was like, you have to start with the Next Generation
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  Speaker 1: and one guy, and this is the guy I believed
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  Speaker 1: the most said, start wherever you want. It doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 1: You just have to find something that clicks with you.
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  Speaker 1: And if you start with the Next Generation, which I
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  Speaker 1: believe is the second series that went starring Patrick Stewart
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  Speaker 1: deshn Lock Picard, it's good, but it starts terribly like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's an interesting caveat, and man, I cannot make it
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  Speaker 1: past ten minutes of the first episode of the Next Generation.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, everyone's screaming at their earphones right now. I'll
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  Speaker 1: try it again. I'm sure I'll make it past this
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  Speaker 1: blunder of an opening gambit that they have started with
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  Speaker 1: at some point. But I don't think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: introduce a philosophical and moral dilemma I haven't dealt with
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  Speaker 1: in another medium, So I'll just have to dip my
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  Speaker 1: toes back into the animated show and get back to
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  Speaker 1: the live action shows in the future. Oh, I finally
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  Speaker 1: found hypoallergenic soap heure in Panama. I've been looking for
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  Speaker 1: in every single store and it's really funny because I
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  Speaker 1: finally found it in the House of Meat, La Casa
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  Speaker 1: de Kana, and I was like, La casekne okay, I
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: should see if they have beef jerky, because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: find any beef jerky except for these dried cherizos and
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  Speaker 1: Guatemala in the four months I was there. And I've
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  Speaker 1: been looking for beef jerky here, but the most they
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  Speaker 1: have is what is that crappy American brand links jerky Links.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called, but that suffs terrible
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  Speaker 1: and it's super expensive here, probably the same price in
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  Speaker 1: the States, like seven dollars a bag or something, one
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  Speaker 1: of the tiny bags, So I'm not getting any of that.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: I'll literally just buy a fan and make it here myself.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: I'm considering doing that because it would not be very
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  Speaker 1: difficult and I have a dedicated closet space for Actually,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: I should probably just do that because I do want
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  Speaker 1: some beef jerky. Oh anyway, I was saying, I found
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  Speaker 1: hypoallergenic soap in this place called the House of Meat
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  Speaker 1: after I found some beer because I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: their beer section that was two for one. So while
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: perusing the two for one beer in the House of Meat,
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  Speaker 1: I glanced over to my left and found hypoallergenic baby
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  Speaker 1: soap for a good price, and I was like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: weird that this is here and nowhere else in the
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  Speaker 1: country or nowhere else in the city. But I'm very
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  Speaker 1: glad I know where it is and now I have
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  Speaker 1: hypoallergenic soap. I'll let you know how it is. Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Resident Evil, I had a rough Windows blue
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  Speaker 1: screen of death while I was playing Resident Evil five,
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  Speaker 1: and then the whole so it all went blue screen
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  Speaker 1: of death and the computer restarted, but when it restarted,
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  Speaker 1: it just said media failed and then restarted again and
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: said media failed dot dot dot restart media failed on
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh no, because that usually means
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  Speaker 1: that you're hard disc is fried, your hard drive is toasted,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to get a new one. It's dead.
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  Speaker 1: So after I saw it, I think the third time,
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  Speaker 1: I just turned off the computer hard turn hard shut
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  Speaker 1: down via the power the external hardware power button, and
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: when it was off, I went and took a shower,
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  Speaker 1: and then I was like, hey, man, hardware break. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you get a new computer. Your microphone probably still works.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's good. Just get a new computer and keep gone.
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  Speaker 1: So I went back in my room, I turned on
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  Speaker 1: the computer to check, and it started up into Windows,
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  Speaker 1: which I was like, Okay, at least one of the
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  Speaker 1: partitions is still living. But it was weird because it
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  Speaker 1: was definitely booting into the grub menu, which means for
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  Speaker 1: non technical people, and I am one of you, don't
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  Speaker 1: worry that. Before it boots into an operating system, it
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  Speaker 1: basically asks the computer the motherboard, Hey, which operating system
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  Speaker 1: should we load into? How should we start the computer?
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  Speaker 1: And online I duel boot into Linux and Windows, and
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  Speaker 1: I get to choose when it boots up Linux or Windows.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't doing that anymore. And I pushed the
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  Speaker 1: button F nine that lets you go into the boot
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  Speaker 1: menu so you can choose whether to boot into Linux
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  Speaker 1: or Windows, and that didn't work. But I noticed that
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  Speaker 1: it was after one am, which is the time that
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  Speaker 1: Microsoft likes to stealthily install their new updates. Do you
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: mind if we install at one fifteen am? I guess
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: now you creep since I cannot decline the upgrades. And
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I just pushed literally every button on the keyboard and
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  Speaker 1: kept restarting it. And it turns out that micro Soft
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: when what happened was I got the blue screen of
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  Speaker 1: death in all likelihood. It seems like because Microsoft stealthily
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  Speaker 1: updated while I was playing Resident Evil five on my computer,
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell me no notifications, and then in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of it, just install an update and everything broke, and
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  Speaker 1: so I had to turn off the system completely, let
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  Speaker 1: it turn it back on, find the new button that
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  Speaker 1: had been re keyed so that I could enter into
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the boot menu, and I found the part where they
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  Speaker 1: were They had changed the boot menu options from the
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  Speaker 1: grub to only Windows just butt into Windows, so I
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: changed it back to the correct setting, and now I
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  Speaker 1: can load into this Linux where I record everything and
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: edit everything and do everything on a computer except for
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: play games, or if I'm on a play game, I
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  Speaker 1: can now load back into Windows ten and play games
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: on that tragic system. But as far as I understand,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: there are a thing called Bazite now in Linux and
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: other game centric operating systems, so I'm probably going to
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  Speaker 1: install a couple of those and see how they work
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  Speaker 1: with my hardware, because I've really only heard success stories
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: and I would love to move away from Windows. It's
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  Speaker 1: just so convenient to use Windows to play games. But boy,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: if I don't have to use Windows at all anymore,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing I would miss. The only reason I use
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Windows is to play a game, and if I can
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: play the games on Linux, then Windows is gone. And
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  Speaker 1: if you know how to do this or have experience
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  Speaker 1: with me, hit me up, tell me that it works
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  Speaker 1: with your system or whatever. I need some kind of
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: external encouragement because all of the warnings online are like, hey,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: by the way, if it bricks your system, by the way,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: if nothing works, you know, it's not our fault. And
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: that's what all of the open source stuff says, because
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that's just safe, legal ease. But it does seem like
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  Speaker 1: it would work totally fine from my extremely limited understanding
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  Speaker 1: of Linux operating systems. What else has been going on? Oh? Man,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: My my roommate and my neighbor opened the door into
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom right when I was leaving and started telling
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  Speaker 1: me a story which was interesting, and I was like, oh,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: maybe we Sh'S talk about it outside of the bathroom,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: because you know, your voice is echoing off the tiles
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: like it's a chamber of sound. It's a megaphone. It's
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: an infrastructural megaphone. And he was like yeah, yeah, So
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: we moved out two our doorways. But then he is
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  Speaker 1: telling a story and kept getting more and more excited
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and told the story louder and louder and louder until
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: someone had to come out and ask us to go
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: to bed so that they could go to sleep. Which
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: is crazy because if you remember the very angry camgirl
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: who screamed morning tonight every day. The thing is, we
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  Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of new people in here, so
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think they know the very loud family that
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: was living next to me or the crazy camgirl who
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: screams the people all the time. Except now there is
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: very loud Colombian who screams and keeps her appliances blaring
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: all day, and that's the end of this place. High
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: heels are crazy. I saw a girl walking in whatever
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  Speaker 1: pointed high heels and I was just like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: that looks so uncomfortable, Like she didn't look comfortable walking
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  Speaker 1: in him. I felt uncomfortable watching her walk, But there
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: was no awareness in her like oh this is a
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: terrible thing that I'm doing, this is painful for my feet.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: She was just she was just walking. It was like
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: if she didn't have a leg and she was walking
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: with a prosthetic leg. She wouldn't notice because she had
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: done that always. And she was like, yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: how I walk, Like I have one real leg and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I have one prosthetic leg, Like this is walking. That's
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  Speaker 1: how she looked. This girl with the point at high heels,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: even though her her legs were buckling on every step
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and her ankles were twisting on every step, she was
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: just like like baby fawn crippling herself along the sidewalk.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And that's how That's how I feel every time I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: see someone wearing high heels. They look so uncomfortable and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: so unhealthy for your feet. Oh rough, But speaking of muscles,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I did say something really cool today. A project has
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  Speaker 1: finally matured called brain Gate two, and they don't focus
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: on AI deciphering your chemical signals in your brain or
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  Speaker 1: your neurons. It specifically focuses on which muscles you are
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: trying to flex and then reads your intended speech from that,
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  Speaker 1: and it has a ninety seven percent accuracy so far,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a clinical accuracy. That they're talking about brain Gate two,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: And I wanted to watch a video and it's a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: very pro MOE video. So I don't know how accurate
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  Speaker 1: any of their claims are, but I do like the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: fact that rather than trying to read your mind basically,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: they focus specifically on the groupings of muscles and the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: extrapolation of Okay, if you're trying to use this muscle,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you're trying to say this, and if you're using this
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  Speaker 1: extra muscle, it nullifies all of these other examples of
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: speech you could be trying to say. So it's very accurate, apparently,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and it feels like this is the next step to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: paraplegics being able to talk and interact with the world again.
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  Speaker 1: Really interesting. What else has been going on? Oh, yoey
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: fried chicken. There's this Korean fried chicken place up the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: street and I've walked past like five times. Oh wait,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Before I started that, I got carbolic soap. Have you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: ever heard of that? It's usually like a bright, weird
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: orange cherry color, like bright orange red color, and the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: color is from the active ingredient inside it, which I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: can't remember now and I'm not going to look up.
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  Speaker 1: But it also makes it smell like tar. And when
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  Speaker 1: I read that, I was like, oh, that's odd. I
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  Speaker 1: just thought it was interesting because I knew carbolic soap
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: was a thing in the seventies, like it's an old
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: timey antiseptic soap. It's where the hospital smell comes from,
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  Speaker 1: basically like in a TV show movie, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that hospital smell. They're usually talking about
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the tar like smell that carbolic soap gives, because it
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: was a basic fundamental antiseptic used in hospitals as far
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  Speaker 1: as I understand, but I never used it because it
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  Speaker 1: sort of fell out of favor because the smell is
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  Speaker 1: so strong and it's so identifiable that if you see
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  Speaker 1: it and you get it, you know what you're getting.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: You're getting that tar soap that cleans things very well
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  Speaker 1: but smells super strong, like a petroleum product. So a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: lot of people didn't want it. But I found it
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  Speaker 1: buck fifty pack of three bars and I was like, hey,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I mean it's clean, it's hygienic, might as well try it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: And I used it for the first time today, and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: when I cracked a in that package, I was like, oh,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: there it is. Because usually when you smell a pack
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: of soap, you know, a hint of the smell comes out,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: like oh that's alo barbidenzis, or yes, that is mango tangerine.
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  Speaker 1: And this time when I smell the carbolic soap. There
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: was a zero smell, and I was like, oh, this
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: tar smell can't be too crazy. And then I cracked
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: open just now and I was like, oh shit, because
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: every time I've gone in the bathroom because I leave
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: my soap in the shower room here, I'm like, oh man,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that is that is potent. I don't even think I'm
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: going to use the other two, or if I do,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I don't think i'll leave them in there. I probably
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: won't too lazy otherwise, but I won't be getting that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: again because I found the hypoallergenic soap at ironically the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: House of Meat, and I don't need to buy orange
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: tar soap anymore. But it is. I don't know, it's interesting.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I'm really curious how healthy it is. I'm going to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: do it, deep dive on it and just figure out, like,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: am I just rubbing plastic and rubber all over my body? Like?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Am I just rubbing oil on myself? I guess not,
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  Speaker 1: because they use in hospitals for so long, so widespread,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't have it doesn't have an urban legend
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: like the Vanderbilt studies. You know, it wasn't some awful
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: thing that happened to American culture and the hygiene situation
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: as far as I know about, and has a cool
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: name carbolic carbolic soap, cool word carbolic. So give it
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a try, but I'll look into it because it smells
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: so strong, and all the descriptions online are like it
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: has a strong tarl like smell. Some people appreciate it
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: for its hygienic scent, others don't seem to like the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: scent very much. And now that I've smelled it, I'm like, uh, yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: it smells like a refinery. Okay, Back to the chicken.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So I've walked past this Yoe fried Chicken place like
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: five times, and every time I walk by it and I'm like, ooh,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: fried chicken. But that great Korean buffet I know has
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: fried chicken and like six no, like how many other
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: g two dozen other Korean dishes for fourteen dollars and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: this plays like ten dollars for just the wings. So
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I'll probably try them at some point. But I almost
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: went in there because one of my most exciting news
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I talked about how I got this weird discount on
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the room for the next month, like thirty percent cheaper
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: down to two fifty a month, and I was like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can get cash because you
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: can only take out two fifty in all of the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: ATMs and Panama two hundred and fifty UI, and that's
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: as much as the rent, so I won't have any
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: left over for food. In the international ATM withdrawal fees
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: are a big pain. But oh wait, did I already
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: mention this? Anyway, BAC Credit Omatic, the bank BAC Credit
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Omadic allows you to withdraw five hundred US dollars, So
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: now I can pay for my rent and have two
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: fifty left over for my monthly expenses until I get
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: my credit card, and I won't have to carry around
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a bunch of cash all the time. But really it's
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: not that much anyway, because two fifty just goes to
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the hotel for the room for another month. But I mean,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: there were all these talks about everybody online said that
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you cannot get more than two fifty out from any ATMs,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and one Panamanian tourist place was like, well, you just
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: go to BAC and then they give you five hundred
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and so I when I hear something, I try it out.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: If it doesn't work, fine, if it does work, great,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and this one I tried it. It worked great. I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: went to every other bank and then I heard about
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: BAC and they don't look like a bank. They look
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: like a I don't know, look at International. They look
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a little more formal than a bank. And they're bright
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: bright red, which is off putting. So I didn't go
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to them before, but now I tried them. They have
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the five hundred dollars minimum instead of a two hundred
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: erth sorry maximum, instead of a two hundred and fifty maximum.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Boom money withdrawal problems solved. It was great to find out.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: So now that I have the hire withdrawal limit, I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: have petty cash. I have cash just flowing around now.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And I kind of want to go to this Korean
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: barbecue chicken or Korean fried chicken place. And I want
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to go to the Korean buffet again. I'm probably Chinese
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: buffet again. Oh. Also, I got to go to the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Panama Canal. Man. I still haven't gone to the Panama Canal,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and going to the Chinatown Buffet would be a great
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: excuse to afterwards go check out the Panama Canal. Oh.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know if politically it's a great time. You
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: know what, I got a great story about that. I
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: will tell you that on the next one, though, because
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I'm about running up on half an hour here and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that was like a whole thing, and I haven't really
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: looked into what happened, even though it happened right next here,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: fires and cops and tear gas and everything. So I
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: will talk to you soon and I'll tell you about
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: what happened. Thank you so much for listening. I love
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: telling these stories. It's really fun. I'm so glad I'm
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: finally keeping a log of my travels in some form
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: or another. And I'm so grateful that anybody is listening
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to this because it's just like when I talk to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: people that I meet, like in these hostels, I have
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: these stories curious, I talk to them and then never
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: see them again. But it's pretty cool doing here where
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I can see people I know are not me, downloading
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: these stories and listening to them as I bounce around
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the world. So again, thank you for listening, and I
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: will talk to you soon.