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100 Ramble ON! · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello there. My name is Kay, and I am a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a rambler. Welcome to episode one hundred. That's
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  Speaker 1: pretty wild. If I have reordered the episode numbers by now,
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  Speaker 1: then you'll already know that. And if I haven't, then
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  Speaker 1: this is the forty ninth ramble on episode after fifty
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  Speaker 1: one full episodes, and that's also one hundred. Wow. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for listening. Let's get to current events. I was
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  Speaker 1: getting into the Philippines for my wedding. Okay, all the
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  Speaker 1: airport stuff is done, Let's get on to what happened
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  Speaker 1: in the Philippines. I think I mentioned the beginning. It
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  Speaker 1: was amazing seeing my friends. We watched some episodes of
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  Speaker 1: the Detroiters, had some beers, great time, good fun. I
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  Speaker 1: had a huge list of Filipino food I wanted to eat.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out most of them are not at all in Bacallad.
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  Speaker 1: My friend Annie, who grew up there, has never heard
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  Speaker 1: of most of the things on my list, So I
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  Speaker 1: did try a couple dishes, but not a ton that
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  Speaker 1: were on the list. But we got into Filipino Shenanigan's
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  Speaker 1: right away. We went to her aunt's house, who I
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  Speaker 1: can only remember is Auntie. I just called her Aunty
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  Speaker 1: the whole time I was there, because that was what
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  Speaker 1: everyone called her and start up the KTV or karaoke.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they call it karaoke or KTV actually,
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  Speaker 1: because my friends who were getting married once from China
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  Speaker 1: and KTV is there and his bride to be Annie
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  Speaker 1: lives in China with him, so she called it KTV.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's karaoke in the Philippines, but who cares.
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  Speaker 1: The KTV just means karaoke, so I'll probably say KTV
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  Speaker 1: I mean karaoke when I say that, although now I'm
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  Speaker 1: living in Japan, so maybe I should say cut Okay, No,
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't k TV eleanor Rigby. That was the song
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  Speaker 1: I chose first. That's the song I chose to start
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  Speaker 1: off with because it's kind of done, kind of an
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  Speaker 1: urgent tune. It has a quick melody, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this will be like at least fun, like it'll be English.
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  Speaker 1: I know most of the words to this. I did
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  Speaker 1: actually sing it in a Chinese k TV like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, so I know I can technically
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  Speaker 1: sing it. But then the song started and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh wait, this is an incredibly depressing song. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about like death and lonely people just alone do fixing
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  Speaker 1: their socks and poor eleanor Rigby. But it's a very
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  Speaker 1: fun song and I like the song a lot. So
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  Speaker 1: I sang through and I got to the end and
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  Speaker 1: Annie was like, wow, so that's the song. You started
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  Speaker 1: out with the most depressing song in the world. And
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  Speaker 1: we all had a laugh, and then they were I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I was the novelty because Sean had been
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  Speaker 1: there and he was kind of shy about singing. And
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  Speaker 1: at this point, I'm not shy about many things, kind
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  Speaker 1: of just I'm private, like most of my hobbies writing
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  Speaker 1: or reading or drawing, running even or like usually solo
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  Speaker 1: stuff video games. But I know social interaction is healthy,
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  Speaker 1: and so when I'm in a social setting, I try
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  Speaker 1: to throw myself into it so that I can get
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  Speaker 1: as much social nutrients as I can. Since I am
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  Speaker 1: in the social setting anyway, I might as well go
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  Speaker 1: for it. So if there is a dance contest which
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  Speaker 1: comes up later, I will be in it. And if
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  Speaker 1: there is KTV and people are asking do you want
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  Speaker 1: to sing again, I'm just like, yeah, sure, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: And I kept on singing, and I sang a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I won't go over everything, but I definitely also
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  Speaker 1: sang Clint Eastwood, which is the first karaoke song I
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  Speaker 1: ever sang my life. Back in college, I went with
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  Speaker 1: some friends to a karaoke bar and I was very
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  Speaker 1: nervous and I sang and it came off okay, but
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  Speaker 1: I like, I was totally out of breath. Singing was
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  Speaker 1: very difficult, and I pulled it off a little better
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  Speaker 1: this time. And you know, no one's a native speaker
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  Speaker 1: of English in the Philippines, so I kind of lucked
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  Speaker 1: out there. But they all been studying it since they
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  Speaker 1: were like kids. I had a lot of fun singing
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  Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood, so I was like, what else is really fun?
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  Speaker 1: And when I went on road trips in the US,
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  Speaker 1: to keep myself awake, I would put on There's like
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  Speaker 1: a couple songs that are just like loud and fun,
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  Speaker 1: and I like to sing along with them in the car.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them is all make a Man out
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  Speaker 1: of You from Mulan, the Disney movie and the old
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  Speaker 1: animated one, and that sounded like a lot of fun
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  Speaker 1: and I felt safe, like everyone in the we're all
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  Speaker 1: just having fun. That's the best thing about katie or karaoke.
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  Speaker 1: In the Philippines, there's zero burden to be a good singer.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, that's the only country I know about.
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  Speaker 1: But singing publicly with other people, I mean, you're usually
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  Speaker 1: doing it in a house, but even if you don't
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  Speaker 1: know anyone else there, there's never any embarrassment about how
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  Speaker 1: bad of a singer anybody is. Like I say, and
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  Speaker 1: there's people singing like in markets advertising their wares, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll have a little speaker in a KTV microphone and
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  Speaker 1: they'll sing karaoke just in front of strangers, and they're
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  Speaker 1: not good at singing, and they don't care at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's really nice. It's a nice comfortable environment to
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  Speaker 1: be in. If you're uncomfortable at all singing publicly, you
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  Speaker 1: just don't have to worry about that in the Philippines
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  Speaker 1: because it's such a salient part of their culture. It's
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  Speaker 1: like the big part of their culture. There's karaoke everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's wild. So I wasn't too worried about sounding dumb,
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  Speaker 1: and I just belted out, man out of you. I'll
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  Speaker 1: make a man out of you. I'm never gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the cut. Say goodbye to those who knew me. Boy
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  Speaker 1: was I a fool in school for cutting gem So
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  Speaker 1: much fun and no one jeered or laugh They were
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  Speaker 1: just like, great, next song. And my friend's Chinese mom
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  Speaker 1: sang a song. Amazing, She's sang actually well, she's saying
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  Speaker 1: my heart will go on very well. That was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: We had so much fun karaoke. And I had lived
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  Speaker 1: in Cebu for like a month before in the Philippines
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  Speaker 1: ten years ago, and Bakala didn't feel too dissimilar. But
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  Speaker 1: I had never gone to a KTV thing in Sibu,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy. But I was traveling with other people
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  Speaker 1: at the time who did not want to sing. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're in the Philippines, go sing karaoke or KTV.
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  Speaker 1: Just go do it. Like it's crazy not to That's
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  Speaker 1: that's like going to Alaska and being like, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not interested in seeing the northern lights. Thank you. It's
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  Speaker 1: such a salient fact of the culture in that location.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in the Philippines, go sing some KTV. And
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  Speaker 1: I did. I say much stuff and my friend sang
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of different songs and we were all terrible
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  Speaker 1: and there was great food that Aunty and her friend
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  Speaker 1: was making, and we just ate great food and sang
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  Speaker 1: songs and grabbed like a few beers at a time
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  Speaker 1: around the corner from some shop and there's buy one,
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  Speaker 1: get one free French fries, so we brought those back
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  Speaker 1: for snacks also and shared them with everybody. It was
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  Speaker 1: a ton of fun. It was just a great regular
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  Speaker 1: karaoke party. But I could already tell I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think this is like out of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: I think they just do this every Tuesday or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And then we went back literally like three days later,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, yep, no, they just do this
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  Speaker 1: every other day. This is this is how this how
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  Speaker 1: life is in the Philippines. So if you like to
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  Speaker 1: sing and you want a cheap place to live that
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  Speaker 1: you can like sing with friends every day. Basically, just
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  Speaker 1: have a casual party any day of the week the Philippines.
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  Speaker 1: Where you want to go, there's gonna be KTV, there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be some food. Everyone will be laughing and clapping
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  Speaker 1: and having a great time. That is like a low
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  Speaker 1: stakes culture. Nobody's really worried about their job, Like they
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  Speaker 1: go to their job to make enough money to go
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  Speaker 1: to the next party and buy fish to share with
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  Speaker 1: everybody and fry whatever, hamburgers. I don't know, whatever. The
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  Speaker 1: food is very cheap, even with considering like the low
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  Speaker 1: cost of living in the Philippines, so it seems like
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  Speaker 1: a pretty comfortable place for most people to live in,
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  Speaker 1: although there were a ton of homeless kids begging there
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  Speaker 1: for money, so I don't Their civil services certainly don't
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  Speaker 1: seem so great. It doesn't seem like they take care
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  Speaker 1: of the less fortunate in the society, which my Filipino
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  Speaker 1: friend was explaining to me. That's what her problem was
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  Speaker 1: with the Philippines. Going back there. It was really difficult
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  Speaker 1: for her to see a lot of the poverty compared
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  Speaker 1: to the rest of Southeast Asia and especially China where
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  Speaker 1: she was living, where things were so advanced. So we
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  Speaker 1: all sang all sorts of stuff. That's I got to
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  Speaker 1: sing Shiny for the first time, and I am like
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  Speaker 1: addicted to singing that song now. I sang it. I
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  Speaker 1: sang it in my hotel room after that party. That's
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  Speaker 1: like the first song I sang when I went back
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  Speaker 1: a few days later to that same house for the
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  Speaker 1: next KTV party. Like the treasure from a sunken pirate wreck,
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  Speaker 1: scrubbed the deck and make it look shiny. What a
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  Speaker 1: fun song. I think I did that same thing in
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  Speaker 1: a previous episode, and I'm sorry that you had to
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  Speaker 1: hear me do that twice. So karaoke parties pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: I had a great time. If you just want an
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  Speaker 1: easy life and you don't know what to do for
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  Speaker 1: a while, I mean the Philippines. The kids on the
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  Speaker 1: street will ask you for money, but there's so many
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  Speaker 1: all you can eat buffets there that are not expensive,
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  Speaker 1: that are five dollars a person. There are you know what.
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  Speaker 1: There's not as much housing in Bacalid, but you can
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  Speaker 1: still find rooms for Oh wait, that was for the week.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I don't know, because even for the week, I
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  Speaker 1: found something for three hundred and fifty equivalent per month,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe there is fifteen No, I guess that's like
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  Speaker 1: four to fifty. I'd have to check. Let's check. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: that was because I was renting by the month. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you're renting by the or sorry, I was renting
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  Speaker 1: by the week in Bacalid rather than the month because
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  Speaker 1: I was staying there so briefly and my friends had
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  Speaker 1: already gotten me a room for a week and a
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  Speaker 1: half or something, so it's as expensive as anywhere else
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  Speaker 1: if you rent by the day or the week. But
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  Speaker 1: if you rent by the month, you can still get
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  Speaker 1: three hundred dollars for a company private apartment across the Philippines.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, live there. The food is a dollar a
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  Speaker 1: plate for the more expensive foods. It's like fifty cents
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  Speaker 1: a plate for the cheaper foods for rice dishes. You
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  Speaker 1: make two friends. Everybody's family is connected there, so you'll
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  Speaker 1: be invited to fifty KTV parties a week and you
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  Speaker 1: can have some fun. I say, go for it. Have
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  Speaker 1: if you just want to relax. The Philippines pretty easy
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  Speaker 1: place to do that. It's a laid back place to
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  Speaker 1: live for a while for sure, and especially if you're
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  Speaker 1: nervous about singing, it might be worth just to go
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  Speaker 1: there to sing karaoke for your first time because zero
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  Speaker 1: judgment ever quite nice. I didn't yeah, I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: it would be that open, but it really is. Just
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  Speaker 1: they all just like singing. That's just a people who
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  Speaker 1: like singing, and it doesn't matter if you're good, as
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  Speaker 1: long as you're enjoying singing, then that's good. What else
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  Speaker 1: happened in the Philippines? My sandal broke and there was
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  Speaker 1: a street lamp in front of seven to eleven, and
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  Speaker 1: so I sat on the street lamp and started to
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  Speaker 1: fix my sandal, and like ten of the homeless boys
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  Speaker 1: came over and they were like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: And they spoke like flawless English, and well one of
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  Speaker 1: them did anyway, the one who was made speaking the
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  Speaker 1: other kid. Yeah, there were a couple of them who
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  Speaker 1: spoke good English, and so I just explained that I
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  Speaker 1: make my own sandals and their diy and the kid
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, how do you do it? And he
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  Speaker 1: seemed really interested in it, and so I told him,
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  Speaker 1: like how to make it out of parachord and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of soda can tabs and it'll last for a
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  Speaker 1: month or longer. I mean, yeah, that last one lasts
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  Speaker 1: for like two months, doubling up the soda can tabs. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: they were really interested in this crazy foreigner fixing his
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  Speaker 1: sandals in front of seven eleven where they were all
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  Speaker 1: hanging out, and they asked where I was from. I
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  Speaker 1: showed them some pictures recent travels, and then they watched
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  Speaker 1: me repair my sandal, and it was cool because they
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  Speaker 1: all were like, that's pretty cool because it's very clear,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, it's not a wealthy country, and so
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  Speaker 1: they do make a lot of their own stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: the main one that was asking was clearly interested in
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  Speaker 1: like doing it himself because he didn't have to spend
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  Speaker 1: money on a new pair of sandals. All you needed
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  Speaker 1: was string of basically any kind, and then a couple
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  Speaker 1: soda can tabs and you can make your own sandal.
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  Speaker 1: So it was cool explaining that because those are the
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  Speaker 1: most comfortable shoes that I've ever worn. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: wear those sandals in most countries and make them myself.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was really fun explaining that to this
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  Speaker 1: kid who was interested and talking to the gang and
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  Speaker 1: all right, bye guys, and I went off to look
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  Speaker 1: for some shoes and pants for the wedding, which I found.
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  Speaker 1: My nice black pants ended up costing two food dollars,
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  Speaker 1: about two dollars, and then my shoes I found that
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  Speaker 1: same night and they were only what's a two fifty, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: about two fifty. So I got my wedding attire because
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  Speaker 1: my barrong, the traditional Filipino like fancy dress shirt was
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  Speaker 1: already going to be supplied to me so that I
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  Speaker 1: looked the same as the other people. We all had
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  Speaker 1: matching barongs, you know, except for the groom, of course,
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  Speaker 1: who was a little fancier. But I was really happy
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  Speaker 1: to find I just went to outdoor markets because I
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  Speaker 1: went to the mall and I went to some stores,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, this isn't correct, like in this
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  Speaker 1: in a Southeast Asian country, I'm going to find local
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  Speaker 1: markets that are that where everything costs nothing and are
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  Speaker 1: just as nice. And I found a bunch of secondhand
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  Speaker 1: markets like that, got some perfect shoes, and the guy,
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  Speaker 1: the guy was he saw me, but I was clearly not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get price gouged as much, even upfront. I
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  Speaker 1: just have I'm I think it's just I'm comfortable in
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  Speaker 1: these secondhand markets in countries, even though I'm so obviously
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  Speaker 1: not local at all, and with my big goofy hat,
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  Speaker 1: I look even more touristy than ever. But they just
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  Speaker 1: don't even start that high anymore with me. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's because I look comfortable at these markets. And so
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  Speaker 1: the guy was like two hundred, which is like two dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and no, that's it's like three dollars in the Philippines
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  Speaker 1: two hundred pesos and I was like, eh, he's like
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  Speaker 1: one hundred forty, and I was like okay, and I
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  Speaker 1: gave him one hundred and forty, which is like two
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  Speaker 1: fifty or whatever, two twenty two forty, yeah, something like
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  Speaker 1: I had two dollars forty cents something like that. But
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, i'll pay. And I was already
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  Speaker 1: I had never been in there. But I saw other
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  Speaker 1: people buy a pair of shoes and I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: she paid two hundred, and those are kind of nice.
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  Speaker 1: These are just basic black sneakers, and so yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: guy offered me two hundred and he was like, and
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  Speaker 1: all I have to do is go nah, he's like
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty. It was one hundred and fifty,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like sure. So I got these great
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  Speaker 1: shoes for two fifty. And then I went to another
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  Speaker 1: local market. I found a Chinatown market actually very close
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  Speaker 1: to our hotel that my Chinese friend didn't know was there,
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  Speaker 1: and they had tons of pants and I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: if I keep walking around, one of these people are
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  Speaker 1: gonna have the exact wedding pants I need. And I
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  Speaker 1: found perfectly perfect, perfect pants. They fit me very very well,
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  Speaker 1: and they were among the cheapest ones. All the pants,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, were three hundred and then this lady's
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  Speaker 1: pants were all one hundred and fifty or something, and
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  Speaker 1: they're all secondhand like everything everywhere. But I just found hers,
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  Speaker 1: and among hers, I was like, maybe maybe these are good,
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  Speaker 1: and then she gave them to me. She also did
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. She was like, those are one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty, but one hundred and fifteen for lowest price
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  Speaker 1: is what I can give you. And I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen, which means you should barter and
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  Speaker 1: get like ninety instead of one hundred, but come on,
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  Speaker 1: less than two dollars. I just couldn't. I even gave
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  Speaker 1: her extra coins. I was just like, here, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to take these coins. She was like, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: it's one hundred and fifteen, and I was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I just don't want these extra coins. It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: So for four bucks whatever, I got my cool wedding
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  Speaker 1: shoes and pants, and I'm very happy about those, and
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  Speaker 1: I might be wearing those to my next wedding as well,
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  Speaker 1: because they still fit great. Okay, So I was very
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  Speaker 1: happy to get my wedding stuff. And then my friend
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  Speaker 1: gave me my barrong, and like I said, the barrong
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  Speaker 1: is the traditional Filipino dress shirt, which is kind of nice.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to go look for a suit jacket also,
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  Speaker 1: which I definitely would have gone back to that Chinatown
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  Speaker 1: market for. It's just a it's kind of interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to describe it. It has sort of
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  Speaker 1: puffy sleeves and it has a sort of mosaicy type
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  Speaker 1: design patterned on the front of the shirt. But other
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  Speaker 1: than that, it's just a very light sometimes see through
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  Speaker 1: almost usually see through. You need a white undershirt to
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  Speaker 1: wear where everyone can just see your chest through the
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  Speaker 1: extremely thin fabric and then poofy sleeves. And I had
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  Speaker 1: to get an undershirt for that. And I found a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: great undershirt from some mom's birthday party, probably back in
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the States or something, in a secondhand market, and it
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: was like fifty pesos, so eighty five cents, and it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: said it's great to be Chucky's mom in faded pink
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: on the shirt, but otherwise it was it looked great
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and I was really happy to be wearing that faded
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: secondhand Chucky's mom party shirt underneath my super fancy embroidered
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: but wrong. That was very nice. My people, people who
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: invite me to weddings and I'm part of the wedding
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: don't generally tell me anything until it's time to do it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: And these people in general seem more I don't know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it seems they have jobs that they go to every day.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: They seem like more concerned about schedules than I do.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I guess, but I've been to two weddings in the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: last couple of years and people are like, Hey, you're
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the best man, don't worry about you, don't have to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: do anything. And they'll show up and they'll be like, okay,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so you're gonna give your speech first. And then I'm like,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: oh speech, and they're like, I didn't tell you have
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to do a speech. It's like, oh, yeah, okay, which
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: sure makes sense that the best man will give a speech,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: but just let me know anything about the schedule. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: this one was the same thing where Sean was like,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: it's so good to have you here. And it was
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: really funny because I was actually the only person aside
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: from his mom, from his side really that was flying
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to the Philippines to go to his wedding, so he
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: seemed very happy that I was there. But the day before,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: two days before I think the actual wedding, Annie the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: bride to be, told me, okay, so you're going to
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: give a speech. And then when I got to the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: actual wedding, I ended up having to give two speeches,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and so I only had a couple of days to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: come up with one speech. But I was like, this
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: is fine. I've done this a few times. I can
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: come up with a nice speech. And I did. And
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: then the MC of the thing was like, okay, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we're going to have a second speech from Kai and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I had to make one up in ten seconds and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I thought it went fine. I participated in the dance
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: contest anyway, What do you want from me? Was pretty funny.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: We can move on to that. I think Sean is
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: from China. That's not a Christian religious country. It's polytheistically religious,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: but they don't think of themselves as religious at all
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: because they don't have a monotheistic God, and that's what
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: they think of as religious in China. Even if they
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: like pray to gods. In China, it's just a poly
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it's much more casual than most religion in other countries,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: so they just don't have religion. Philippines, in contrast, is
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: extremely monotheistically Christian and religious, and they're big on church
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and praying to the One God and saying grace before
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: eating and all that all that kind of stuff. So
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it was it was really funny being at the wedding.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's so much to talk about at
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the wedding. What do I you know what, I'm just
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: going to try and start from the beginning of the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: wedding and then I'll try and go through it as
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: quickly as I can. So I took an uber or Grab,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the local uber in the Philippines called Grab down to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the wedding venue and it looked like a broken down
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: old street, but behind it was this really nice wedding
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: venue and I was like, oh, I see okay, And
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: there was big lawns and a lake and a pond
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and a bridge and all this kind of stuff. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I had to show up at ten Yeah, I had
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to show up at ten am and the wedding started
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: at five pm. That was the schedule. And I was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: not excited to do that, but neither was the groom,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and I was like, you have to support him as
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the best man. And so I showed up because we
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: were going to be taking pictures all day and if
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I was there at ten, then the schedule would be fine.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So I showed up at ten and then nothing was
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: really ready, so we just kind of hung out. The
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: girls started on their dresses and the guy started putting
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: on their bearrongs, and I was already wearing all my stuff.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: That was the earliest I was ready for anything in years.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And I just practiced dual lingo Japanese on the bed,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and all the girls would like rush through to the
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: dressing room and put on their dress and then rush
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: out and be like, also, pretty, there's a bunch of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: pretty girls here. This is nice. And that's what I
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: did for two hours, played on dual lingo and helped
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the girls hang up their dresses or whatever until it
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: was time for our photo shoot. And you know what,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I got to say, the people at this wedding venue
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: were very professional, and the pictures themselves that they took
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: in the videos turned out very nice. They looked great,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and it was a pain in the butt to do
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: all these you know, shoots where they're like, okay, turn around, okay,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: hold up the thermos, hold up the gift bags, whatever,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and then put on the glasses and take them off
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and walk there, walk back. But you know it's gonna
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: look okay. I was like, this is fine. These are
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: memories for him, and it was fun doing it because
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we all felt stupid doing these poses. And then the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: photos that came out at the end of the night
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: were very nice, and the videos that came out were
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: very nice, So it was great that we did it,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and Sean and Annie have these great memories. Oh speaking
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: of which, I was going to do wedding interviews when
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I got there, but that would have been a disaster because,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: unlike a lot of weddings, this is very heavily m seed,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: so even if I had brought my microphone that plugs
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: into my phone, it would have been almost impossible to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: get any sound clips out of anybody there. But that
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: was okay because that's what the photographers and wedding coordinators
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: were doing. They were also getting audio clips from everybody.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: But I was able to test my I Mike set
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: up with Sean in like a couple days before in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: my hotel room, so I have that set up now,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and hopefully I'll be able to get some interviews from
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: local people wherever I'm traveling out to you guys in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the following episodes. The next person I hang out with
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: so probably here in Japan, except Japan so private. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: don't know how that'll happen, really, and I'm in such
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a tiny little Nowhere'sville, but whatever, I'll figure it out.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I should have done with the lady on the train, yep.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I'll try and figure out an interview for
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you people and put it up here so that you can. Yeah,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just listen to people from different countries talk about their
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: lives because it's really interesting. It's every time I talk
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to a local. That's part of why I love traveling
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: so much. I love talking to people about their lives
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: because because it's just different and I get to learn
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: something every single time. It's fascinating, like the Eightya temples
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: are just part of their life because they live in
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a region of the world. The island I'm on now Matsuyama. Sorry,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the island is Shikoku and the city's Matsuyama where I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: am that there are eighty eight temples. Like everybody knows
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: that in Japan. If you're on the island of Shikoku,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: there's an eighty eight Temple pilgrimage, and that's just part
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of their life. So it's really interesting how that shapes
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: how they see their world. So I want to get
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: some interviews going on, because it's different wherever I go.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I did get a short fifteen minute interview about Sean
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and Annie together. Sean was telling stories about them, but
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I screwed up the audio completely and I realized I
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: basically was just out of sync and I didn't want
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it to do it like, not perfectly in sync, and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: rather than fussing with it, it was very loose anyway
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and didn't sound great because I wasn't I didn't worry
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: about microphone placement. I also learned the microphone has to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: be a little more angled correctly. So but the next
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: interview it should sound pretty good. It should sound pretty good,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and maybe you'll hear that sometime. I'll probably any interviews
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and I'll probably throw them on these further Saturday episodes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm figuring it out. Back to the wedding.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: So the wedding, we took our photos and then everything
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: was over after an hour so maybe by twelve thirty
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: pm it was done and we're just waiting for the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: wedding to get going. But I just followed Sean around
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: because he was starting to get nervous about his wedding.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: You know, Oh, you know it's great. Did I tell
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you they both love Shameless? And so the reason they're
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: having the wedding is because they were watching Shameless? And
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: oh I did? I think I mentioned this in the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: last one. Two characters were getting married, and Sean turned
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to Annie and said, hey, let's have a wedding because
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: they had had a civil union, but they didn't like
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: have a wedding ceremony yet, and that's why they decided
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to have the wedding. I think that's great. That's such
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a good reason. That's like my favorite reason to have
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: a wedding. But we're all waiting for the wedding to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: get started, and I don't have anything to do, so
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I just go back to playing du a lingo. But
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: then I see Sean walking in and out of the room,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, best man, step up and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: just be there for whatever he needs. And there were
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a bunch of like little things like where he had
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to go or where their kid was or where Annie was.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: What he was supposed to do. Basically, he like the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: coordinators would tell him, okay, be in this room, just
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: wait here, and he would not even hear them because
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: he was so nervous. And it was clear like it
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: was just nice for him to look over at me
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and I'd be like smiling laughing about him running around,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and that would make him smile on laugh which made
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: him a little more comfortable. Or when the wedding coordinator
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: took us out to explain all of our parts, he
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: had no idea what she was saying. And that's fine
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: because that was she was coordinating many people at the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: same time. But these are where he the groom was
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: going to be standing when he was supposed to turn
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: what he was supposed to do, like all the traditions
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: with the Filipino parents, And she was just like, Okay,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: so you're gonna walk here. You pause here for one step,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you walk down here for five steps, you turn to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the rug, turn back up so you can watch them
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: come in, go over to the parents, make sure to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: kiss their hands, turn around, seat them, sit And I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: could see his mind just like like everything's going crazy
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: in his brain about how this was going to work.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So I was focusing like it was a test in
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: my university, and I memorize everything, and I just walked
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: him through it again after the coordinator was like, you
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: got it, Okay, I'll be right back, and then she
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: left and I explained it to him and his mom
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: like what they were supposed to do in their position.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So I was like, good, I have something to do,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Like I'm providing value here. I feel good and helpful.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: And it was great because he knew where to turn,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: he knew when to get the rings. When they put
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: their vows on the side, I grabbed the vows, and yeah,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: there was just all these little things that he couldn't
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: focus on and Annie couldn't think about because they were
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: about to get married in a few hours. I could
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: just sort of dash around and pay attention where they
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: weren't able to pay attention and help them out with
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: things they might have missed because they were about to
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: get married. Especially when Sean was about to see Annie
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the first time, the coordinator was like directing him on
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: how he was supposed to look when she walked over,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and it was so clear that he had no idea
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: what was happening, and he wasn't hearing the coordinator at all,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and so she gave him like a five minute speech
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: to like all these directions, and I was like, he's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: not gonna remember any of that. He's about to be married.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: So I just walked up to him and was like, hey, remember,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you better look surprised and happy, and he was like,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: ah yeah, And I made it a joke and he
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: was comfortable. And then when he saw her, it was great.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: He spread out his hands and was like, wow, it
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: is so great. When he saw her the first time,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: they were so happy. It was so wonderful, and they
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: took great pictures and then we walked over the bridge
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and then it was three thirty. But the started, it started.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: The wedding just started, and I was like, oh, okay,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And so I told Sean where to stand, the positions
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that lady had the coordinator had told us where to stand,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and I explained things to his mom because Sean was
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: going to be separate. He was usually translating for his mom,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: but you know, he was the groom, so he was
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: going to be in a different part his mom would
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: be sitting. So I had to translate in Mandarin for
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: his mom like what she was supposed to be doing
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and where she should be standing, And the only problem
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: was me and his mom were seated together in the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: one spot that was not covered by trees, and I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: was like, oh no, And the sun was so bright
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: at three point thirty, just like laser being shooting into
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: my eyes. And I noticed some of the guests had
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: like dainty, nice little umbrellas, some of the girls had them,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and I was like, excuse me, coordinator lady. The wedding
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: is already going on. And I tried to stick with
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: it for like five minutes, and then I was like, nope,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go blind and get sunburned. And I had
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to ask the lee like can I get an umbrella?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: And I did and I got to hold the umbrella
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: over my end Sean's mom's eyes, so we weren't dying
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: in the sun for an hour and a half. Because this,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Sean let me know later, this ceremony turned out a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: wee bit longer than he was expecting, and he, not
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: being a Christian, basically just had to listen to a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: pastor talk about how God was the source of everything
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and then tacitly agree every five minutes. Is that correct, Sean, yes,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: just and that went on for ninety minutes, and then
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: we got to the vows, and the vows were so good.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: They were very nice vows. They were perfect, wonderful, funny,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: heartfelt vows from Sean and Annie to each other. And
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I was so happy for the two of them to
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: have found each other and to be with each other,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and for me to be witnessing this ceremony that they
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: decided to hold because they saw it in a debauched
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: TV show. It was great and it was really funny
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Sean like Sean just trying to like follow the past oh,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: because the pastor didn't speak fluent English. It was his
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: second language, and he was pretty good at it, for sure,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: but he made mistakes fairly often, like Sean's English was
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: better than this pastor's English, and Sean was having trouble
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: following the pastor's words, so sometimes he had to repeat
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: words from the Bible after the pastor and he was
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: just repeating the wrong one. And I couldn't like whisper
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in his ear because I'm off to the side a bit.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So it was It's just so funny. Every now and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: then Sean would like like get a break, like a
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: couple seconds where he could shoot over a glance at
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: me just to be like this is crazy. And I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: was like, you're doing great. Just keep saying yes to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: all of the god stuff and the incorrect words. Just
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: say whatever he's saying. And it was just really funny,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: these little you know, the eye communication you have with
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: your friends sometimes. But he made it through the wedding.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: The vows went off, the preacher finally stopped talking. It
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was closer to five pm now, and yeah, everything. We
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: had a little like extra ceremony at the end where
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: we shook streamers and through flower pedals on the new couple,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and it was well, oh, and they had this thing
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: where like they have to kiss, They have to kiss
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: as long as you hoot and holler. And I'm not
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: much for hoot and hollering myself, but at a social situation,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I just throw myself into it. And I especially felt
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: like as the best man, I was there to make
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: this ceremony as easy for the couple as possible and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: as fun a party as it could be, and so
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I hooted and hollered and made sure the energy was high.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: And then everybody else shouted louder because they couldn't let
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: one guy. You know, it's how she hooting and hollering works,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and it was it was great. The video turned out
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: great later on and all the pictures we got. Everyone
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: was very high energy. So anytime there was something where okay,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: let's do energy and then I'd look around and everyone
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in the group was like kind of embarrassed to be
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: going crazy. I would just be the big, dumb, loud
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: person first, so no one else had to be embarrassed.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: They were like, oh, well, everyone's going to be noticing
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: him being dumb and loud, so we can hoot and
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: holler and it'll look normal next to his crazy hooting
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and hollering. And I was like, okay, I've made it
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: through seven hours. Soon i'll give my speech. And once
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: that speech is over, there will be beer. And the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: beer was actually already out, and Sewn was like, hey man,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you can start drinking, and I was like, thank you.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk first and then I'm going to drink.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: And I did exactly that. I gave my speech first,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I believe, and they liked it and it was short,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: which is how all wedding speeches would be should be.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: In my opinion, just like, give him a couple of
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: minutes of heartfelt niceness, a couple jokes, and then get
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: out of there because there's gonna be a lot of
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: speeches and people, you know, they don't want to listen
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to speeches. They want to eat the good food. They
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: want to move this along. We've been here a long time, folks.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: So I give my short little speech. It seems like
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: people liked it. And I sat next to Sean's mom
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: again because he's up with Annie at their like seat
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: of honor for the new couple, and I could translate
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: some of what was happening my Chinese. By the way,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: my mand are in terrible after so many years away,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Like it gets better when I go back to the country,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: but this was just after a year and whatever of
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: not speaking it. I have to translate pretty a lot
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: because his mom only speaks Mandarin zero English. Well, actually
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: she used to be an English teacher. Her English is
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: not bad, but she insists on only speaking Mandarin. Most
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: of the time. She spoke a little English, but it
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: was mostly me translating very poor Mandarin, which she was
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: fine with and understood and was very kind about. So
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I was translating a lot of stuff for her at
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the wedding as well as I could. And as soon
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: as I did my speech, I went and got my
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: first little beer, and me and his mom, who also
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: likes to drink, share it a beer. And then the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: games started, and there were so many games. So rather
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: than like the music just starts, this MC just talk.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: He just took over the whole reception for the entire time.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I guess it was like three hours, and he was
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: just talking and doing different jokes for everyone, for audience
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: members to do, like guess what songs playing in the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: first ten seconds and you get a prize, and so many,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: so many, And it's kind of nice because then nobody
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: has a you know, nobody has the onus of responsibility
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to keep the energy up. Because the MC is MCing
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the entire reception. You don't have to do anything. But
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: it was a little, I don't know, to me, it
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: seemed less fun overall, but it was nice that no
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: one has to think about anything that they're doing because
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the entire thing's taken care of. And the last thing
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: that happened was the dance contest. I will mention that
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: because I want it, so that's why I want to
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: talk about it. There are three rounds. You dance three
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: times to three different songs, and each time the couple,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the wedding couple chooses who won each dance, and then
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the person who went three when's the I don't know whatever.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: That's basically how it went. And I danced, and I
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: guess I won because the first time, uh no one
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: was expecting. They were all just doing like little shoulder
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: bump dances kind of thing. One guy did the budots
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and I took a couple steps forward and then just
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: made up some dance moves with my feet that I
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: pretend would were real, and they looked cool on the video.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: So I got chosen the first round. The second round
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I won, but I was really flailing about at that point.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: But then the third The third round was a single pose.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: It had to be your coolest pose, dance pose, and
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and I thought of the pose
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I had won the Beijing Dance Contest with, and that
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: was still don't know what it's called. You jump up,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: land on your hands and slowly do like a slow
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: reverse push up down and roll your body down, so
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you're like in a push up be almost a yoga
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: pose like pushing yourself up at the end, but you
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: like slide your body onto the ground after jumping up
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: in the air and slowly lowering yourself down using your arms.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: There's got to be a word for it. I don't
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: know what it is. If you know what that word
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: is and you're somehow still listening to this, send me
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: that information. I'm very curious what that move is called.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: So I did that move. It got a lot of applause.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: People by this point in the ceremony and reception were like, Okay,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: this is their fun foreigner friend, who's going to keep
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: things fun for the rest of us. So I was
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: getting applaud like applause whenever I did something fun and
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: high energy, and this this pose was totally ridiculous and
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: very fun. And I won. So then there's me and
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: the girl who won. Because it's all the bridesmaids and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: all the groomsmen, and we were those were the teams,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: so one bridesmaid one and we had to copy what
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the actual couple did. And Sean started right out with
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: kissing on the forehead, and I kissed the maid of
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: honor on the forehead, and then I stuck in a
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: couple other kisses during other times when she looked away
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: embarrassed and I kissed her cheek, and the crowd went
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: wild for that. They loved it, and Sean and Annie
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: were like rolling around laughing, and I thanked her later
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: for being a good sport, just trying to be fun,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and she was also very nice about it. And then
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: it was like three hours later because all these things
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: had gone on, and they showed us pictures and a
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: video of the wedding that they had been taking and
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the preliminary like cut together video, and the video and
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: photos were all very impressive. The audio clips they put together,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: it was pretty amazing that they had all done that
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: basically that afternoon in a couple hours while the wedding
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: was going on, and I was very impressed. I talked
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: to the cameramen and the sound guys and they told
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: me a couple audio things I hadn't heard about before.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: They kept saying there was a diffuser cable. I haven't
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: looked into that enough yet. I don't know, I gotta
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I can't remember what they were talking about because I
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: had now I was like five beers in already, so
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I was talking to them about
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: the right thing audio. I just kept being like, oh,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I have a podcast, I also like audio, and they
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: were like, okay, buddy. So that was the Filipino wedding
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: that I attended. That was very different from other weddings
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: I'd been to, and it was a nice experience. And
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: my friends Sean and Nanny had such a good time
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and they loved their video. They clearly appreciated me high
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: energying everything whenever something happened, just making sure everybody's having fun,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and I was. I felt good in that role of
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: best man. It felt like I was really helping out
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and making some fun happen. Oh my gosh, there's more
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: to talk about it. I can't believe this is already
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: going on so long. I have a bunch more to
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: talk about after the wedding. Wait, okay, let me see
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: if there's any more wedding stuff. First, seafood, oh sea geez? No,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wait was there? There's got to be
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: other weddings. Okay, okay, there are a couple wedding things
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: talk about. I had to give a second speech. I
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: mentioned that there were no cups at the wedding. There
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: were cups that they served drinks in but they had
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: zero extra cups, so Sean's mom can't drink a whole ton.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: But I wanted to share beers with her because I
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: knew she liked to drink. We were good drinking buddies
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: when we karaoked and stuff. And I got one of
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: these apple beers and I was like, it's kind of sweet,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: but you'll like it. And then I looked around and
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, there's no cups. So I got up
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: to look for a cup and I was like, wait,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: there's no cups here either anywhere, and so I went
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: to wait and I was like, hey, can I get
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: a cup? And he looked so confused at me, and
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I was like, just a cup, like to pour a
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: beer into, and he was like a cup, like this
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: cup and he pointed to a tray of cups full
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: of like a fruit juice. And I was like, yeah,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: just any cup at all, any cup or glass so
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I can pour part of this beer into the other cup.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: And he was like he looked so confused and upset,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and he was like yeah, yeah, I'll be right back.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: So maybe he was just busy, but he never came
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: back with a cup, so so I went back to
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: shads and Mom was like, I'll be right back. I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: have to go find a cup. It's difficult to find
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: a cup. And I went outside and I was looking
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: at all the food and drinks tables and there was
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: a drinks table with sodas and beers and Seltzer's, but
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: there were no cups. And the coordinator saw me looking around.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: They're like, what do you need? And I was like,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: just a cup and she was like a cup and
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, like like a drinking cup or
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: a glass. She's like, what do you need it for?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I was like for pouring things into. It was so busire.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: It's like, how am I having this conversation. They're taking
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: out trays of glasses and cups right now full of juices,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: and there's buckets of drinks here. There should be cups somewhere,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: and she's like, okay, I'll find a cup. But she
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: never found a cup. She asked the waiters, who were like, well,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: bring a cup, and nobody brought a cup. It was
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: the craziest thing. There were no cups at this wedding
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: except for the ones that they had already filled with
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: juice before. So I ended up just pouring my juice
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: into an extra glass and then using that one to
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: give to to pour the beer into to share with
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Sean's mom. It was good, but it was I thought
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: it was crazy that there were no cups or glasses
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: at the wedding unless they were already filled with something
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: they were giving to you. And I talked to multiple
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: people and everyone looked at me like I was crazy
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: because I wanted an extra glass. Very bizarre. I felt
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: like that had to be shouted out. Oh, the coordinator
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: ladies all took a picture with me as the best man,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: because I'm obviously the foreigner est whitey tourist guy to
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: take a picture with. And then after the wedding, everyone
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: was tired. Sean was ready to start having some beers
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: and me, his mom and him went to an extra
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: one of the sweets that were part of the wedding
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: package and just turned on the ac had a bunch
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: of beers, had some snacks, and just talked about how
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: nice the wedding was, just hung out. His mom's really
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: cool and so it was just like three drinking buddies
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: hanging out and talking about stuff. It was a fun time.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Had some instant noodles and some other snacks and beer,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and he had a really nice shower, and I asked
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: if I could use it, but it was very janky,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: and I was like, never mind. The water was shooting
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: in different directions and the heat wasn't kicking in right away.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: It was just a big pain in the butt. But
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: that was a really fun hangout, and then I was
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: pretty sloshed at that point. His mom went to bed.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: We walked her to her room, and then me and
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Sean just walked around for twenty minutes and talked. And
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I was gonna grab a grab actually and take the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: grab back to the hotel because I wouldn't be staying
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: overnight there because they had to check out like early
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: in the morning and I don't want to do that,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: and so instead was going to leave the wedding venue.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: But it was late by that point, so the workers
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: had all left and locked all the gates behind them.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: But I was like, that's my favorite thing to I'll
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: totally climb a gate and jump. That would make this
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: wedding complete for me. And Sean was like, ah, we
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: can walk and see if there's another one open, and
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: I like looked tearfully at the gate and I was like,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I'll be backgate. He can't make me not climb you.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: And we kept walking and then there was a huge
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: gate and it was like way higher, like fifteen feet
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: or yeah, i'll say fifteen feet. It was at least
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: fifteen feet, twice as high as the last gate I saw.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: And I was like whoa, and Sean was like, okay,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: we'll definitely look for another one. I was like, nope,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: climbing this one. And I just climbed that gate because
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: that seemed like way too much fun. So I climbed
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: up and over and down the other side very quickly
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: because that's my jam, so much fun. And I was like,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: hey man, it was so great. We had already given
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: our goodbyes and everything, so we just said I'll see
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: you tomorrow through the gate up at the hotel. We
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: can just hang out. Wedding's over, just chill out and
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: be just go to dinner and whatever. He was going
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: to show me the grill de Bellut, which I will
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: talk about in the next episode. And then I was
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: very drunk and I was like, you know what, you
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: should just walk for eight kilometers. And I walked home
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: for eight kilometers five miles or whatever. I was just
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I just walked home for three hours. I was very drunk.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I had some music to listen to and I was
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: full of crap, and I was just like, let's take
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: it and just saunter on back. And it was a
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: very nice walk back. I cooled off in the cool
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: night air, and there were a couple things open. I
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: think I got some snacks on the way home. I
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: can barely even remember. And then I got back at
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: like seven am or something like that, slept until the afternoon,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: and then went to dinner and grilled a bullet with
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: the new couple and their family. So I will talk
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: about the grilled bullet in the next episode. Thank you
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: for sticking with this cast for one hundred episodes. If
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: you have, that's pretty wild. There are one hundred more
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: to come. There are plenty more. I so have so
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: much more to talk about, and I hope you're having
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: a great day. Thank you for listening. Talk to me
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: a bit of a rambler at gmail dot com, a
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: bit of a rambler on let Me and Blue Sky.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I'll be here. Have a great rest of your day.