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092 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 today I'm going to ramble on about this week.
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  Speaker 1: What do I gotta talk about? Oh, the Gambiri Loka Zoo.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to turn that into a full episode because
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  Speaker 1: there's so much to talk about. And I had a
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  Speaker 1: really fun time. But basically huge thumbs up. I advise
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  Speaker 1: anyone who happens to be in Yoga Karta to stop
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  Speaker 1: by this zoo. I'd be curious if all Indonesian zoos
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  Speaker 1: are this nice. Gambirri Loko Zoo is the nicest zoo
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  Speaker 1: I've ever been to. The animals were superactive, they looked clean,
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  Speaker 1: they looked healthy, The people looked like they were taking
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  Speaker 1: really good care of everything, and they had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of cool animals. They didn't have a Kimodo dragon, so
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  Speaker 1: you have to go to BKS in Surakarta for that
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  Speaker 1: or like another city. But which is that? Seems crazy
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  Speaker 1: to me, But it was still a really fun time,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a bunch of kids and I got
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  Speaker 1: to say hello to the kids and they spoke really
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  Speaker 1: good English and it was very impressive. It was a
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  Speaker 1: fun trip. Oh, and I exercised too. I walked all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to Gambira Loka. It was like sixteen
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  Speaker 1: kilometers total, ten miles and a great time. It was
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  Speaker 1: just good exercise. So I've been jogging since then, been
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  Speaker 1: doing barefoot running since I talked to some people over
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  Speaker 1: in the running Lemming community about barefoot running, and I
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  Speaker 1: was giving all of this advice and then I was like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, how long has it been since I've
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  Speaker 1: been running, let alone barefoot running? And it has been months.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's a great track, Like on that same day,
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  Speaker 1: I was walking around my neighborhood and found a great
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  Speaker 1: running track specifically for barefoot running. I mean it's not
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  Speaker 1: for that, but there's small paved flat stones that make
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  Speaker 1: up the running track. And so I've been barefoot running
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  Speaker 1: since the second week here because it's mucho el comfort
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  Speaker 1: hoblay as they say in Indonesia, just kidding and man,
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  Speaker 1: the running track like, it's a really nice running track.
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  Speaker 1: It's fairly empty unless they're having a soccer game, which
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  Speaker 1: happened once, but that ends at sunset and I usually
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  Speaker 1: start running around sunset. But what else was really cool
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  Speaker 1: was they have exercise equipment there, but the sky is
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  Speaker 1: like insane looking, like it looks really nice from my
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  Speaker 1: house here, but from that track field it is right
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  Speaker 1: bright orange like sky fire orange and brilliant fluorescent pink
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  Speaker 1: in the other direction, like the whole sky is different
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  Speaker 1: orange and pink and yellow colors at sunset. I was amazed.
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  Speaker 1: I was amazed at what it looked like. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a great place to run. I get to do barefoot.
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  Speaker 1: It's very comfortable and modern, and the it's surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of trees. One side has all these snacks
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  Speaker 1: if you want to get some food, and then the
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  Speaker 1: sky looks amazing every single time I run there. I
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  Speaker 1: also got to run in the rain there. There's a
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  Speaker 1: huge rainstorm going on and I just got to jog
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  Speaker 1: through the rainstorm and that was really fun. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure everyone looked at me like I was an
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  Speaker 1: insane person. But it was super fun, so that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: There was definitely a guy who came out of his
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  Speaker 1: house to look at me, and he was just like staring,
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  Speaker 1: like does that guy know it's raining and he's running
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  Speaker 1: in basically a rainstorm because there was thunder. There was
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  Speaker 1: lightning and thunder and NonStop rain for hours. But I
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  Speaker 1: was so into the barefoot running of it all and
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  Speaker 1: how comfortable it felt, and it had been so long
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  Speaker 1: that I just kept going around the track for I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a couple hours. And after the first one,
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  Speaker 1: this guy just came out and like looked at me
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  Speaker 1: from his driveway and he's like okay, and he went
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  Speaker 1: back in after a while. It's a big track. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he was there the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: but he was there a couple of the times I
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  Speaker 1: went around. And I got a running partner here. That
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  Speaker 1: was fun. She was embarrassed because you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: a very conservative country, but we went running together too,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked and I got to share my running.
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  Speaker 1: I got to brag about doing marathons and stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: she has done marathons also, so it was cool with
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  Speaker 1: another runner. She was a pretty good runner, but she
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  Speaker 1: only ran for thirty minutes. So we were meeting there
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  Speaker 1: and I was going to go out early to run
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  Speaker 1: before her, but instead I ended up only running thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And then we went and got tahucha, big a ram
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  Speaker 1: and other good food from that delicious restaurant down the
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  Speaker 1: street from me. She let me drive her motor scooter.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even ask to drive it. When we left
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  Speaker 1: the running track, she just asked if I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: drive the motor scooter over there, and I was like, yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I have owned motorcycles, so this is fine. And then
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  Speaker 1: I went out toward the main road and I was like, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: left side of the road. You got to drive the
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  Speaker 1: left side. And then I was like, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: just go the backstreets because I don't want to even
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  Speaker 1: risk a left side of the road driving incident. And
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  Speaker 1: it's so like busy enough road before sunset, So turned around,
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  Speaker 1: what the backstreets and it was a lot of fun
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  Speaker 1: the Monthsouns is kind of chilled out this month, after
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  Speaker 1: that big one that I ran in for a few hours.
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  Speaker 1: The skys were like, all right, I guess he really
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  Speaker 1: likes these because he's running in them. Let's pull them back, folks.
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  Speaker 1: So there haven't been as many giant rainstorms. Rain still
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  Speaker 1: comes down, but it's quite brief, even if it is heavy.
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  Speaker 1: But who am I to complain. I'm going pretty crazy
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  Speaker 1: over coconut water here. The coconut water is delicious here,
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  Speaker 1: and so I've been drinking a lot a bit. That's
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  Speaker 1: the whole story. But I mean, Thailand has great coconut water.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if brand is you know, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: check that if Hydrocco is Indonesian. But it tastes really fresh,
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  Speaker 1: and so I got a whole bunch of it. But
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  Speaker 1: then there's this cranberry juice that's just fruit juice with
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  Speaker 1: no added sugar, and it's also so good. So I've
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  Speaker 1: been having I'm man, this is my healthy month for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Next week I got to go to the Philippines. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be with my Chinese friend who likes to drink
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  Speaker 1: with me, so things are probably gonna get off the
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  Speaker 1: rails pretty soon. But then after that, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be in Japan by myself in a house. Well I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't say, I junx myself knock on wood. If I
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  Speaker 1: get this house, I have to deal stupid. There's a
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  Speaker 1: credit card. US banks are really slow, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to use this credit card for the Airbnb rewards. So
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  Speaker 1: the guy is holding it for me, the Airbnb host,
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  Speaker 1: until I can get it. But I feel bad because
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  Speaker 1: I've never had in all the time. It's only since
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  Speaker 1: I've got this credit card with its absurdly low credit limit.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as I book this house in Japan, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to call up the bank and ask them to
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  Speaker 1: raise the credit limit. I just don't want to do
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  Speaker 1: anything out of the ordinary until I book the place first.
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  Speaker 1: But right now I'm like, how it's because I went
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  Speaker 1: to Hawaii and then I flew to Indonesia, so I
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  Speaker 1: flew across the Pacific, you know, twice, and then I
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  Speaker 1: had to book housing in both places. And now I'm
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  Speaker 1: flying not a very far flight but pretty not short flight.
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  Speaker 1: It's like seventeen hour flight to Japan, and then I'm
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  Speaker 1: booking another house in Japan's a very expensive country, so
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  Speaker 1: it's like ten dollars outside of the credit limit. And
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  Speaker 1: US banks take so long to complete a payment to
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  Speaker 1: a credit card, like seventy two hours. I've had it longer,
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  Speaker 1: but generally seventy two hours, which is a very long
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  Speaker 1: time for me having been in like living in most
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  Speaker 1: of the rest of the world, where all payments are instant,
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  Speaker 1: So dealing with this credit card. US credit card infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: is a little goofy. But this guy, the host is
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  Speaker 1: being really cool and hopefully I'm going to get this
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  Speaker 1: house because it's in the tiniest town. There's like seven thousand,
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  Speaker 1: literally seven thousand people in this town, so it is
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  Speaker 1: a town. And there's not even a public bath in
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  Speaker 1: this town, which was difficult to swallow. I almost didn't
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  Speaker 1: even get this place because there was no public bath.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a train that goes straight down into Matsuyama City,
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  Speaker 1: and I know there will be public baths there. There
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  Speaker 1: might even be one in the town close by. And
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  Speaker 1: I have, you know, all the time in the world,
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  Speaker 1: So if I really want a public bath, which I will,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just take the train down to one of the
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  Speaker 1: neighboring cities that does have one. There's also one that's
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  Speaker 1: like a five hour walk away or something, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking that might be really fun, like in the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: and I found a crazy nice mountain public bath before,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm thinking I'll just go hike up into the
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  Speaker 1: mountains one day and go do that. Also, I got
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  Speaker 1: some interesting ideas, but I'm I've every time I've been
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  Speaker 1: to Japan so far, three or four times, I really
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  Speaker 1: can't remember. I have been walking across it. I've been camping,
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  Speaker 1: urban camping or wilderness camping across Japan in one form
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  Speaker 1: or another. I rented a place for two weeks once,
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  Speaker 1: I think, but I think those two weeks are the
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  Speaker 1: only time. It might have been one week. It was
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  Speaker 1: not a long time. Out of the months I've been
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  Speaker 1: to Japan multiple times for cherry blossom season, I have
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  Speaker 1: spent less than a month indoors. Mostly it's been outdoors.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the first time I'm actually renting a house,
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  Speaker 1: like a house that I will be living in for
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  Speaker 1: the month and a half that I'm there, because i
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  Speaker 1: know once I get there, I'm gonna be there longer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like hesitating because i want us to go to Mongolia,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, just get a month in the go
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  Speaker 1: to Mongolia. But I know once I'm in Japan, and
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  Speaker 1: I certainly want to stay for the cherry blossom full bloom,
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  Speaker 1: and if I stayed a month, I'd be two weeks off.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just staying six weeks instead and making sure
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  Speaker 1: I see the cherry blossoms. And I'm wondering how it'll
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  Speaker 1: be like to live in a house. It's also a
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  Speaker 1: good deal for Japan. Japanese housing can be very expensive,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm getting Oh, also, you have to pay like
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  Speaker 1: accommodation fees if it's any sort of registered in but
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  Speaker 1: this is a private accommodation so the host doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to charge the accommodation fee. And it's in Nowheresville, in
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  Speaker 1: a tiny town. So all these combined it's expensive, more
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  Speaker 1: expensive than a lot of countries, but a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: deal for a very nice large house in Japan, it's
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  Speaker 1: like six hundred and fifty USD per month roughly, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a very good price for an entire house to
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  Speaker 1: yourself with everything included. Like a similar sized place could
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  Speaker 1: be a similar sized place could be twice as much,
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  Speaker 1: even in a tiny town like that with accommodation fees,
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  Speaker 1: or there might be extra charge. Japan has so much bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 1: They have so many details that they do that you
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  Speaker 1: could have. There's extra charges. They don't try and stick
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  Speaker 1: them on you after you rent it, but all the
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  Speaker 1: descriptions will say like, by the way, you have to
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  Speaker 1: pay this and this and this, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: it's also this, and it's just very large additions to
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're already paying. A lot of the time, tourists
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  Speaker 1: taxes basically tourist taxes, which is fair, but if I
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  Speaker 1: can avoid them, I'd like to and now well again
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  Speaker 1: knock on Wood. But the plan is that this host
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  Speaker 1: who's holding the house for me, I'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: rent that and yeah, have a great time. The thing
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  Speaker 1: is there is if it falls through this host for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason, there is another place that I want to
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  Speaker 1: live that does have a public bath near it. But
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  Speaker 1: I've already this host has been so kind that I
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  Speaker 1: just have really good vibes from him, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it just seems cool to live in a little seaside
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  Speaker 1: cliff side town by myself in this house and just
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  Speaker 1: see seven thousand people. So this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a small town, so I'll really be able to know
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  Speaker 1: the entire town by the time I leave and go
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  Speaker 1: on a bunch of hikes and stuff. Also, I bet
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  Speaker 1: very excited about it. Knock on Wood. Oh, I feel
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  Speaker 1: kind of bad about renting it because one of the
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  Speaker 1: people I just helped start traveling wants to go to
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  Speaker 1: Japan but hasn't saved enough money to fly over there yet,
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  Speaker 1: and we've been talking about it and then I just
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  Speaker 1: got a ticket now and I'm like, I am going
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  Speaker 1: because I just talked to them recently but they're thinking
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  Speaker 1: about going to China first, and I'm just one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent Yes, go make an extra twenty thousand in a
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  Speaker 1: few months, and then you'll, yeah, you can visit Japan
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  Speaker 1: all you want. You can live there if you want to.
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  Speaker 1: It's the salaries for English teachers. That's what this traveler's
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  Speaker 1: plan is to go to China and make all his
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  Speaker 1: money and then retire in a few years, which is
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  Speaker 1: perfectly doable. And I know that because I did it,
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  Speaker 1: so I think they should do that. Also. I think
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  Speaker 1: they just want what they want now. But when I
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  Speaker 1: started traveling, I didn't want to go to China. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go to Japan first also and South Korea
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  Speaker 1: and like other countries. And then I got to China,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I love it. So they just
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: got to go. They just got to start. I think
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  Speaker 1: I think that's more important than where they go first.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: They just got to get out there again. Indonesian doritos.
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  Speaker 1: I tried Indonesian doritos. They're gross. They're very sweet. It
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  Speaker 1: tastes like sweet cheese, and doritos are actually really sugary
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  Speaker 1: if you don't eat like a bunch of sugar. If
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  Speaker 1: you stop all sugar for a few days and then
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  Speaker 1: eat a dorito. You'll be shocked at how sweet they were.
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  Speaker 1: I was, but these things are not even You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to not eat sugar for a few days. The
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  Speaker 1: Indonesian doritos are. They're not called doritos. They're Indonesian nacho
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  Speaker 1: cheese corn chips. I don't know. I can't remember what
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  Speaker 1: they're called, and I'm not gonna look it up because
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  Speaker 1: they're totally gross and you should not buy them. Don't
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  Speaker 1: get any nacho cheese chips. Yeah, so gross. Unless you
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  Speaker 1: like sugar cheese, then you'll like these chips because they
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  Speaker 1: are sugar cheese. Jerky tests Okay, I got suki yaki.
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  Speaker 1: I got terry yaki hot pot slices, five hundred grams
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  Speaker 1: of each. I tried them both marinated at first, takes
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  Speaker 1: for ever to dry, just like it always took so
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: many days to do this, like to dry jerky. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally I was just like, wait, why don't I
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  Speaker 1: just dry it first? Because if I don't marinate it,
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  Speaker 1: I can get all the water out and then marinate
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  Speaker 1: it and then all the flavor will get in really
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  Speaker 1: fast and I can dry it again. And it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like extra hassle, But I'm cutting like three days off
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  Speaker 1: of the drying time for beef jerky. So I realized
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  Speaker 1: that instead of waiting four or five days for jerky
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  Speaker 1: to dry, which it literally takes if you marinate it first,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a long time. I can dry the beef first.
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  Speaker 1: It'll dry within twenty four hours, whether it's handcut or
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  Speaker 1: hot pot sliced, and then I can put it in
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  Speaker 1: marinade for one to two hours, not even that long
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  Speaker 1: because there's not water already in the meat, pushing out
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  Speaker 1: the marinade, and then put it back on the dryer
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  Speaker 1: for one hour and it's done. I can make a
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  Speaker 1: new batch of beef jerky every day now instead of
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  Speaker 1: every four to five days. It has changed my jerky game, Folks,
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  Speaker 1: change the jerky game. You might be wondering what do
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  Speaker 1: you use for marinate? Were you not wondering that, don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you anyway. Soy sauce, brown sugar, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Find the balance is good, it's real good. So dry
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  Speaker 1: the meat first. If you're making jerky and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: the worst part of this is how long I have
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  Speaker 1: to wait for marinate and meat to dry. That's because
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: we've been doing it wrong. Dry the beef first, then
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  Speaker 1: marinate it for like half the time you normally marinate it,
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  Speaker 1: because it'll get into the meat a lot quicker. Then
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  Speaker 1: dry it again, and you can make jerky every day.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be giving this away because I literally might
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  Speaker 1: start a jerky business because I think my jerky rocks.
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  Speaker 1: But it's too good not to share, because especially because
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  Speaker 1: especially because nobody does it this way. I know other
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  Speaker 1: people that make their own jerky, and everybody marinates the
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  Speaker 1: meat first and then jerkis it? Which is so it's
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  Speaker 1: so much It takes more energy, like drying energy. It
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  Speaker 1: takes more time. It takes so much more time, literally
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  Speaker 1: like five times as much time. I can't believe how
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  Speaker 1: easy it is to make jerky if I just dry
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  Speaker 1: them be first. Now you might be thinking, hey, damn dumb,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: why didn't you think of this before? All right, I
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: gotta talk about the next thing. Having trouble with my
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: credit card at Lottie mart I had to like the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: third time I went there or something, the woman insisted like, no,
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  Speaker 1: we don't take foreign cards, and I was like, you
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  Speaker 1: definitely do because I've used it multiple times. She called
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  Speaker 1: up her manager and I showed her the entries at
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that store that I used the card. I was like,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I've already used it twice, and then I used it
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  Speaker 1: the third and it took like fifteen minutes. Finally I
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: convinced them just put it in and try it, like,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: put it in the card reader hit yes, and they
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: finally did that. But I was just standing there waiting
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: them while they talked to each other for ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: and they put it in clicked yes, worked first try.
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  Speaker 1: They were like, that's so weird. These don't work. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, is there okay, I've already been here twice.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you very much. And that was nice
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  Speaker 1: of them, because I did get my meat and minority snacks.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: What am I complaining about? It was fine. I didn't
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: have anything to do all day. What am I complaining about?
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: It's fine. Sorry, I'm a little excited. I just made
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: beef jerky today and I had some, so I'm a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: little a little pumped up. Someone told me I'm too
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: optimistic because I told them that things change. At first,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, people can travel, like it's not
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: very expensive, and she was like, you're so optimistic, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, this is just math. Like
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: here's here. This is a house right now in your country.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: It costs less than one hundred US dollars equivalent for
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: a room, and then like these are the groceries. This
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: is my grocery bill, and then this is and I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: just showed her the math and I was like, so
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in this country and INDONIESI it'd be like three hundred
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: bucks a month to live pretty comfortably and five hundred
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to live extremely comfortably. Private house groceries and Wi Fi
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: utility is also and she was like that's so optimistic.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: A few again and I was like, no, no, these
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: like these are the actual not I don't think it's optimistic.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: It's just that's how much these things cost. And she said, well,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: things don't always just get better, and I was like, no,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: they definitely don't. Like a lot of things get worse,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: some things get better. Things always do change, though they
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: are changing, whether it's for the better or worse. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: she said, so optimistic. You are so optimistic, and I
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: kept taking issue with it because things do change. That's
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: not optimism, that's just those are the cold hard facts,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: The ants keep marching on, like things are things are changing,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Things change all the time. That's not optimism. Things just change.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: A guy tried to hug me at a convenience store.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I bought a bunch of stuff, and he spoke Indonesian
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and then I was like, uh, sorry, my Indonesian is
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: not great. And he said I love you, and I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, thank you. That's very nice of you.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And he was with two of his friends and they
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: were all like younger, and they were like joking with
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: each other whenever he said something to me. Everyone's nervous
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and funny around a foreigner. And I guess these were
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: teens or like young kids. Maybe he looked drunk and high,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: so maybe they were like twenty five thirty. I don't know.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: But he said a couple other things, like just bravely
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: talking to the foreigner. And then he held out his
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: hands like a hug, and I was like sure, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I held out my hands and then he turned away
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: bashfully and crussed his arms and they finally fit the purchase.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, I can talk to them for a minute.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And then their purchase took like five minutes and they
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: left and it was fine, but they were very happy
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: to talk to the foreigner, I guess, and that's good.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That's good that they were happy. Wait have I not
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: talked about the tahoo chabegaram here yet. I have a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: new favorite dish and it's Indonesian tahoo chabe garam salty
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: chili fried tofu. Holy crap, it's the best thing I've
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: eaten here, uh by far. So the tofu, it doesn't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: get hollow because it's cut in really small pieces, so
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: like when you fry tofu, it'll get hollow in the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: center if it's like older, too big a piece, And
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: this stuff is cutting small pieces, so it's tofu all
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the way through. But the outside is crispy fried and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it's thick. It's like caramelized crunchy crunchy, but there's no sweetness.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: That's just salty chili. Oh my gosh, I am My
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: mouth is watering talking about it right now. I might
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: go to and All you can Eat Bffe today. If
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I do not, I will be getting tahoo chabigaram because,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's so good. And I only have
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: a week left here, so I have to eat it
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: while I can. Anyway, that's my new favorite restaurant here.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I feel bad because Babana and a Dal have been
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: so cool, but the chabegaram at this new place is killer.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: At least the tahoo Chabegaram. Their other food was pretty
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: good too, but Tayo Chabagaram is it is the standout dish.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. And this dude cooks slow. When he cooks,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he's cooking each dish. He cooks each dish one at
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a time, only he cooks, and everything he cooks he
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: cooks correctly and deliciously, and it's amazing when it comes out.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Every time. Oh, I goes tah Chapem, tahu chapikarm, tawchap
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I want some Tawo Chappegram. I'm sure there were other stuff.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I've been really bad writing stuff lately because I've been
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. Maybe because I've been recording lately
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a lot or going I don't know. Maybe I'm just
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: getting lazy. I forgot to write down a whole bunch
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of stuff. So that's the end of this weekly round up.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I hope it was kind of interesting or fun to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: listen to. I'm glad I have it down so I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: can listen to my journal in the future. If you're
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: there in the future, I'm sorry you're old. It's better
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: not being old, isn't it. I'm sure it is. I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: think about it all the time. I thought about it
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: since I was in elementary school. I've always been like
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: when I was a kid in elementary school, I appreciated it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: As a six year old, I was like, this is
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: good because being old does not look as fun as
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: this having this like young, sprightly body. And now I'm
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: older by thirty years, and yeah, I can feel it
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: bodies break down. But I'm so glad I retire when
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I was thirty so I can enjoy most of my
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: waning years with a fun, good time. I hope you're
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: doing great. If you want to retire at thirty and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you can speak English, I know exactly how you can
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: do it. Hit me up at a bit of a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: rambler at gmail dot com or bit of a rambler
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: on let me in blue Sky and we can chat.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Have a good rest of your day. I am gonna
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: go eat all you can eat buffet. There's an all
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you can eat sushi buffet which I haven't been to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and I should go to. And there's also an all
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you can eat Hot Pop buffet, which I've been to twice.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to a third time and get the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: expensive options so I can get the good meat. And
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: if that doesn't happen today, I'm going to go get
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the tau chabig aram. But I should probably go to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: one of the buffets today. Decisions, decisions,