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Six Months in Mexico City and Ohio Is Still Calling · onefjef

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Hey, Jef, it's . Yeah, I heard your podcast, and you put my address out.
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That's gonna come back to haunt you, motherfucker.
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This is episode 59 of onefjef.
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Hola, mis amigos y amigas.
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Hello, everybody.
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Hello, my friends.
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Hello, you.
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Hello to you.
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I see you.
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Yeah, you.
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You.
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Listening to this podcast, I see you.
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You are doing great.
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You know what you're doing?
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You're thriving, and I like to see that, all of you.
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Whether you know it or not, you are thriving.
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Am I thriving?
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Yeah.
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Sure, I'm thriving.
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Seems rather non-committal, I understand, but that's about
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where I'm at right now, you know?
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But I do have an exciting announcement.
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Today is my six-month Mexico City aversary.
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Yes.
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I've been here six months.
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I mean, on and off, but let's just for the sake of celebration and joy,
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let's-- and, you know, marking occasions, all-- Let's just go with six months,
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because I arrived here on-- Well, when you're listening to this, it'll
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actually be, uh, six months and one day.
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Sorry about that.
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But right now, when I'm recording this, it is September 8th, and I arrived
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in Mexico City on March 8th, which if you do the math, is six months.
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That's a hard word to say, six months.
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Months.
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In Spanish, it's much easier.
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Meses.
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That's much better.
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Seis meses.
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That actually is a winner.
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That's better than six months.
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Para seis meses, or it's por seis meses.
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Porque por is with time, I think.
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So I think it's por seis meses, for six months.
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I'm getting better, poco a poco.
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Anyway, yeah, six months.
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Hard to believe, and also not hard to believe.
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Like it feels like longer, of course, because so much has happened.
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So much has happened.
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But you're asking in your head or out loud, whatever you choose, you're
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saying, "Jef, what are some takeaways?
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What have you learned?
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What have you not learned?
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Uh, what's been surprising?
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What's not been surprising?" Et cetera, et cetera.
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And I'm not gonna tell you that because I feel like these questions have been
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well covered in many episodes of the podcast over the past six months.
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So yeah, I'm not gonna tell you.
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You'll have to go back and listen.
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What you will get is a brand-new episode, a CDMX Dispatch episode with a bunch of,
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uh, exciting random things of me talking.
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For example, I got locked out of my apartment yesterday.
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Well, no, I didn't get locked out.
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I locked myself out of my apartment yesterday accidentally, of course.
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Why would I do it on purpose?
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Why would anybody?
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Why would I even have to say that word accidentally?
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Disregard.
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I locked myself out yesterday.
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I left my apartment without the keys.
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Two sets of keys I have.
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I left them both in the apartment.
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Uh, I thought I could just text the landlord and they'd come over and unlock
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the door, but they're out of town, so had to get in touch with a locksmith.
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So I reached out to Estie, bless her heart, and she called a locksmith for me.
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She called a few actually, and this very, very nice locksmith came, said
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a bunch of things in Spanish to me that I didn't understand, but he was
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smiling while he was saying them, and I just kind of nodded and laughed.
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Not laughed at him, laughed with him, and then he came up and unlocked the
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door, and he asked for, I think it was 300 pesos or something, which is not…
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It's like 20 bucks.
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So yeah.
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Good story, Jef.
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You got any other of those?
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You got anyth- got anything else like that?
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I do in fact have more like that
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I finally rode the subway here in Mexico City, uh, last weekend.
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Estie and I went to Centro, the historic center of the City of Mexico,
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and we went kind of sightseeing.
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We went to, um, Templo Mayor, which for those of you who aren't aware, I think it
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was 50 years ago or something, they were digging for electric-- burying electrical
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wire or water lines or something, and they hit this giant area of historic
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ruins from, like, the Aztec times, back when the Aztecs were living here and,
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you know, ripping people's hearts out while they're beating and then holding
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them up to sacrifice, you know, whatever.
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Crazy shit.
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Anyway, Templo Mayor is now this a, a huge open air archeological
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site, like, right in the middle of the historic center of Mexico City.
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It's really something else, and it's just right there, and next
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to these very historic churches.
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I mean, Mexico City is the oldest city in the Americas, I believe, and when you
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go there, you're like, "Oh, I get it.
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Yeah, it is.
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It's old here.
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Very old." Like, you know, BC kind of a thing.
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BC. It's weird that we delineate time by saying before Christ and after Christ.
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Isn't that… Is that right?
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It's BC and AD, after death, before Christ.
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It's really strange now that I think about it, and the whole world has to
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use this calendar, the one that's based on the, quote-unquote, "birthday of
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Jesus", who they don't really believe in.
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Huh.
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I never really thought about this.
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Has anybody thought about this like this?
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It's very strange.
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Very strange.
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Jesus, it's gotta be great.
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I mean, gee, what an ego he's gonna have.
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I mean, they name-- they, they're, they're telling time based on his birthday.
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H-His birthday is zero.
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How do you possibly go through life with a n- with, without an inflated ego if
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they're literally basing time, the, the, the measurement of time on your birthday?
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But apparently, according to all the records, Jesus stayed pretty humble.
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Of course, that was-- I don't think they decided to base the
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years on his birth until long after he was dead, so he never knew.
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But again, according to a lot of books, you would suggest he does know 'cause he's
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up there looking down on us or whatever.
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Um, yeah.
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Anyway, weird.
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Long story short, we took the subway to get to Centro.
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We took it from Insurgentes and, uh, took it, I don't know, five stops.
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It's very much like the New York subway, except there's
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no announcements in the cars.
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Maybe some cars have them, but there was no… You know, in New York City
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in the subway, there's usually an announcer that tries to say things
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sometimes, at least there used to be, and you would never understand a word.
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But
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then there's recordings.
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"Stand clear of the closing doors, please. Bing bong." That's New York City subway.
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It's iconic.
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Nothing like that in Mexico City.
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You just get in and the doors close.
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I mean, there's screens telling you, you know, where you're getting off
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and what stations and stuff, but there's nobody saying, "Be careful
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of the doors," anything at all.
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So that's interesting.
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Also, there's, like, rubber wheels on the cars, which I don't
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understand, but there we have it.
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There you have it.
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Apparently, the first two cars, I think, are meant for women and, like,
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the elderly, I guess, which is nice.
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In New York, they just had the special seats that you'd give up to pregnant
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women or elderly people or whatever.
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But I guess there's a lot of perhaps groping on the subway sometimes, like
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late at night, so there's a place for women to go and feel safe and not g- like
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they're gonna get groped, which is great.
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The non-groping cars or whatever.
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Anyway, it was fine.
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It was kind of, uh, anticlimactic in a way 'cause it was really just a subway,
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and I hadn't, like, been avoiding it.
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I just hadn't ridden it.
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So now I have.
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And now I plan to ride it again because it's profoundly inexpensive.
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I think the Mexico City subway is one of the least expensive subways in the world.
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It's literally, like, 20 cents maybe.
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Yeah.
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Very clean too.
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Of course, it doesn't run all night like New York, which is
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their excuse for the filthy state of most of the subway stations.
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"Well, it runs all night. We have no time to clean." Okay.
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Okay.
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Look at me getting triggered by the New York City subway again.
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Anyway, rode the subway, checked that off the old Mexico City list, and got
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it in under the six-month mark as well.
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So hooray me.
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One of the things about Mexico City that I don't care for is the
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disregard for pedestrians, the general disregard for pedestrians.
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It is a car-centric city in a, an unusual way.
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The streets here … New York City has a grid, right?
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They have the grid, Manhattan.
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You know, it's very clear, first, second, third.
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Very easy to figure out.
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The way that the streets were planned out here in Mexico City is very
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confusing, and it seems very haphazard.
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A lot of the parks and Cibelis, which is the s- traffic circle near
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me, it's just got streets kind of shooting out wherever, wherever, right?
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And as a result, the subsequent streets outside of these parks and
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circle areas become a mishmash of strange intersections, confusing, weird
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intersections, which wouldn't be so bad if it were not for the pedestrians,
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because it's extremely confusing to be a pedestrian in this city.
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There are walk signs and don't walk signs some, some places.
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Not a lot, but some.
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And even those, in places, will be like, w- why can I walk halfway
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across the street and not … And then I have to stop in the middle
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of the four-lane, eight-lane road.
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Insurgentes, I'm speaking of.
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If you know, you know.
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But, like, what's going on with those walk lights?
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It doesn't make any sense.
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And this is common.
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And in other places, you just have to look at the traffic light to
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see whether you're able to walk.
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I run across the street more often than I walk, I'll say that.
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I'm often running across the street.
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Like, not running, but, like, I'll start to walk, and then I'll, like,
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kind of do a, like a little jog for the last several steps, 'cause
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I don't wanna get hit by a car.
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Most days I love it here.
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Most days Mexico City is kind of magical and different and unique
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and exciting and all those things.
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But then other days I am just not in the mood for Mexico City,
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and today is one of these days.
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I mean, I woke up in a bad mood, but
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Went for a walk and I'm just-- Sometimes when I go for a walk,
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y- I just feel like an outsider.
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And of course, I am an outsider, right?
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And I'll always be an outsider to a degree.
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And usually, again, this is okay, but some days it's just like I am not in
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the mood for the, the, the inherent difficulty of, of navigating Mexico City.
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Which, you know, makes sense
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It makes sense.
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I have no routine here, I've been realizing.
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Like, I've been here almost six months and I don't have a routine.
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Like, every week is different, which is kind of what I came here for in a way.
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But I'm finding myself starting to crave a consistent routine of sorts, and like
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the last two weeks have been this teeth thing, so it's always something or other.
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And maybe that's a good thing.
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Maybe that keeps the life interesting.
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But I do wish that there would be some constants, you know?
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I mean, can life be unique, fun, and exciting forever?
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I know I'm putting unique, fun, and exciting in the
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same box, but it kind of is.
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I mean, that's what keeps life interesting is uniqueness, new stuff, right?
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But some weeks I'm just like, "I don't want new stuff. I just wanna
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process the, the old stuff, the current stuff. I wanna process that."
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My favorite Spanish word is rompecabezas, which means puzzle.
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Ro- hold on.
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Hold on.
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Here we go.
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Rompecabezas.
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Rompecabezas.
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God, I just can't get it.
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It's like I have to… Rompecabezas.
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Rompecabezas.
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That's not bad.
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Correr.
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Guitar.
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Guitar.
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All right, that's enough
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I was in a yoga class last night.
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It was about 5 or 6 PM, 7 PM.
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I don't know.
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It's a place I go to a lot.
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You have to walk up five flights of stairs to get to the studio,
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which is on the t- very top floor of this, like, old, strange building.
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I'm not entirely sure if it's offices or what.
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It's a very old, weird building.
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And this top floor is, like, got, like, a metal roof, you know?
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Like a… I don't know if it's tin, but whatever.
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You know, a metal roof.
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And as I was walking there, the-- you could-- there's thundering,
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and it's a storm coming in.
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I brought my umbrella.
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But then as we're doing the yoga class, the storm is kind of
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developing and starting to rain.
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Right towards the last quarter of the class, it starts to rain
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a little bit, and it starts to rain harder and harder and harder.
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And we're in Shavasana.
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Uh, like, who doesn't know what that is at this point?
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Even if you don't do yoga, it's the part where you lie down at the end.
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Corpse pose they call it in English, which is…
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I go-- I'm gonna go with Shavasana, frankly, because
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nobody wants to hear corpse pose.
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Um, we're all lying there and, like, I-- you have your eyes closed, and
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I saw this big flash like lightning, and then about four seconds later,
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the loudest clap of thunder.
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And I think I've mentioned other loud claps of thunder on this podcast
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before, but my friends, believe me when I tell you this was the loudest
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clap of thunder I have ever heard.
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The, the building shook.
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Like, the, the, the, the roof rattled.
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It-- and it was, like, not just one.
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It was like boom, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-boom.
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And I saw a video on Instagram of the same thunderclap, and it checks out
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So Shavasana ended at that point because there's no way anybody could like
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relax because the thunder was… And another few happened like just crazy.
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I have never heard thunder like I've heard in Mexico City and I love it.
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I mean, I do love a great storm, so I'm not complaining about it.
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If you really zoom out, it's like, whoa, it's-- I mean, how weird
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it is to be here at all, but then also that there's water that falls
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from the sky and then this noise.
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I don't know, something to think about, like a constant electrical
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storm above our heads, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, it was an exciting yoga class
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One of the other things with Mexico City is, is there's so many restaurants.
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Like, I don't know how all these restaurants, and coffee houses
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for that matter, I don't know how they all stay in business
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because there are so many of them.
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And so often when I walk by many of them, they're empty.
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They're empty.
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So I don't really know how it all works.
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I understand that there's a lot of people who live here, but even
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that, it seems like the proportion of restaurants, it seems very high.
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And the fact that many of them are empty, it's very confusing to me
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But my point is, is that due to this abundance of restaurant, this
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insane abundance of restaurants, that you get overwhelmed m- by choice.
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And I've talked about this on the podcast, too, the old toothpaste dilemma.
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I'm not gonna go into it again, but, you know, if you know, you know.
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So it becomes very hard to, like, just choose where to eat
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'cause you got so many choices.
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And as a result, you know, I'll often eat at the same place, this little
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cafe over in Cibelis that I like, which feels lazy, but it's also familiar and
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then it, it gets rid of the choice.
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I can just choose one kind of toothpaste and stick with it.
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But then you want variety, but the, the toothpaste metaphor
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falls apart at this point 'cause who wants variety in toothpaste?
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But food, yes, you want variety.
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Anyway, there's too many fucking restaurants in Mexico City.
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Hey, Jef, it's . Yeah, I heard your podcast, and you put my address out.
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That's gonna come back to haunt you, motherfucker.
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My ex-landlord, who I've talked about quite a bit on this
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podcast, and who I thought was out of my life forever, you know.
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One of the main reasons that I moved is because of this gentleman, if you recall.
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And I thought, "Thank goodness I am no longer in that house.
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I will not have to deal with him ever again." But then also, there
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was a little piece in the back of my head that was like, "Eh, I think
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you might hear from him again.
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I think you might." Like 10%.
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And lo and behold, two or three nights ago, I get a call from the one and only
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ex-landlord of me saying he was going to sue me because he had apparently
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discovered the podcast and heard that I had mentioned the address on the
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podcast and that that was grounds to sue.
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I think he was also just, like, butthurt because I had spoken the truth about him.
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Because I, I actually went back and listened to the things that
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I said about him on the podcast.
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Well, I looked it up.
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But I, I couldn't find any place where I said the address, so if anybody who's
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listening is a very detail-oriented listener and remembers this, please
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let me know what episode or where it is that I did say the address.
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Just so I know, 'cause I don't remember that at all.
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But really, I think he's just butthurt because, you know,
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I spoke the truth about him.
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All the things I said about him on this podcast were 100% true.
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I'll stand behind every single one of those things.
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But he was saying he's going to sue me for endangering the neighbor somehow,
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even though addresses are public records.
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A lot of nonsense.
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I would feel sorry for because he is like a, he's a lonely alcoholic.
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Like, I don't know.
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He d- he has, he never had a job while I was there.
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But I would feel sorry for him if he wasn't such an
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asshole But he's an asshole.
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He's an asshole.
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And a little bit sociopathic, I think.
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And I think it's been fairly well established at this point
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because, like, what the fuck, bro?
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Hey, Jef, it's . Answer the phone, you coward.
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Come on, man, answer the phone or call me back, you coward.
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But now he's going to sue me, he said, for a hate crime.
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A hate crime.
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Apparently, he's getting in touch with his lawyer, so I am excited to find out
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what the crime that I have committed is.
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I remember one time I was living there, and I was probably working in
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my office, and I heard screaming, and I went out-- I think I went out to my
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porch, my back porch, and looked out, and the landlord was out there screaming
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at an Amazon driver, screaming at him.
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That's not cool.
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I don't care whether he dropped your package or not.
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That ain't good.
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I must have sent him the text message two or three, four times that said, "I would
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like for our relationship to be strictly a landlord-tenant relationship," basically
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asking for a very clear boundary.
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One time he-- I sent that and he wrote back, "Ha," which is great.
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The other times he was very just dismissive of it, which if I was a
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landlord, I would want my tenant to be as comfortable as possible, and
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if that meant that I couldn't, you know, treat him like my buddy, which
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I don't even know, then so be it.
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Like I made it a clear-- That was a clear way of me saying, "Hey, leave me alone."
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But no, no.
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In fact, almost every time when I was out of town all last year, I would
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get texts from him asking where I was.
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"Where are you?
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Where are you?
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Where are you?
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What are you doing?" I almost never answered.
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I never answered until one time he said, "Is somebody in your house?" He
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texted, "Is somebody in your house?"
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And then I was worried, so I was like, "No. Who is-- Is everything okay?" He's
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like, "Oh, it must have just been the storm, the rainstorm. Where are you?"
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So I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by this popping up in
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my life again, whatever it is.
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When I moved in there, I had to buy my own fire extinguisher.
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Y-y-- A landlord's supposed to provide a fire extinguisher, of course.
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And when I asked him about it, he said, "I don't deal with fire extinguishers."
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I basically stopped asking him to repair anything towards the end unless it
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was absolutely necessary because every time I w- I had something to fix, he
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would try to schedule it when I was home so he could interact with me.
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One time the sink was broken.
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I think it was the last thing I asked him to fix was the sink was broken, and I had
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cut my hand on a wine glass while I was washing dishes, not because the sink was
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broken, just because the wine glass was slippery and I cut my hand and I broke it.
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But it was a bad cut, so I had wrapped my hand in like, you know, bandages or
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whatever, and I went up to my bedroom to kind of just like chill 'cause I
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knew he was coming over to fix the sink.
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So when he came over to fix the sink, I said, "Just let…" I
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texted him, "Just let yourself in.
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I cut my hand on a wine glass." And he writes back, "Is that supposed
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to be my fault?" And I'm like, "No.
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No, of course…" It's insane to talk about it.
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Like, like I hear myself talking about it, I'm like, oh, like how was this ever okay?
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When I told him the sink was broken, he said, "If any parts are missing from the
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sink, I'll charge you for a new sink."
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Sometime in, I think it was late last year, I was hanging out on my front porch
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with my cousin Brian, and at this point, I had not interacted with the landlord
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socially for at least two years, and I had given no indication that I wanted to.
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But me and my cousin are sitting there in the middle of a conversation, and apropos
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of nothing, the landlord just walks out on the porch and says, "Can I join you?"
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And I'm, I'm kinda shocked, but I'm also triggered, so I'm just like, "No,
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we're going inside." So I immediately just walk inside and start closing the
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blinds, and he starts yelling on the porch, "Oh, is that how it's gonna be?
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Is that how it's gonna be?" And I'm thinking, "Bro, it's been
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like this for two years at least.
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Like, this isn't new." And then I sent him the message again about the
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boundaries, how I want-- trying to establish a clear tenant-landlord
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relationship. It was probably the third or fourth time I sent it
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And it's interesting 'cause, like, oftentimes when I would tell people these
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stories about my landlord, they would be like, "Oh, he just seems like a nice guy.
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He's just trying to be friends," blah, blah, blah. I'm like,
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"No, you don't understand.
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You don't understand." And even my cousin would say the same thing, "He
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sounds like just a nice guy." But after this encounter with him, he was
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like, "Bro, you gotta get out of here.
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That was creepy." And that was about the time that I made the decision,
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like, I had to get out of there.
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I'm getting triggered again talking about it, and that pisses me off.
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And now he's back, you know.
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Now he's back because he apparently can't-- Like, as my friend John said,
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he's, like, obsessed with me in this creepy way, and he keeps asking for
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my address in Mexico City so we can send the whatever, like subpoena.
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I don't know what you send.
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Whatever you send.
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Absolutely not.
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What are you gonna do, extradite me?
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Anyway, so if I were to predict what's going to happen in this scenario,
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I would say that nothing's going to happen because there's really no law
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that I've broken here, and it will turn out that this is just some bizarre
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way for him to get my attention again.
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That said, I do appreciate him listening to my podcast.
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Any listener is a wonderful listener, and I've invited him to come on the
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podcast, but he has, he has been hesitant.
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So if you do wanna come on the podcast, let's do it, buddy.
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Let's do it.
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It'd be great content.
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Great content
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He's like a, a, a lunatic who thinks that he's a sane genius.
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It's very Trumpian in a way
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There are these two squirrels that come and hang out on my
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terrace mostly about every day.
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One of them I have named Pepe.
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Pepe.
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Pepe.
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And the other one I've named Rojo because red, and the squirrel
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has some red, so it seemed like a very easy and appropriate name.
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Rojo.
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Anyway, they were around on Sunday, and Estee was over, and we were watching,
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like, Pepe was, like, frolicking in the, the tree pot or whatever, rolling around.
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And I said, "I should get them some nuts.
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I should get some nuts or whatever and feed them." And she said, "Oh,
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they'll eat avocados, too." So when Pepe came around today, I had these little
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avocados, and I just rolled one out the old door there, and Pepe was into it.
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Pepe devoured that avocado like you have never seen a person devour an
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avocado, or a squirrel for that matter
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And I think I've created a monster of sorts because Pepe then proceeded
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to bury the rest of the avocado in the tree pot and then come right
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up to the door and just kind of stare at me like, "Where's-- More?
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More?
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Is there any more?" Came back later, did the same thing, and the squirrel,
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Pepe, comes right up to the door.
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These squirrels in Mexico City give no fucks.
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In the United States, squirrels are generally afraid of humans because
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humans used to eat squirrels.
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But in Mexico, they never ate squirrels, so the squirrels are
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really not very afraid of humans.
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You can often feed them out of your hands.
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I do not do this, but people do.
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I've seen it happen.
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So Pepe gives no shits about-- does not-- is not afraid of me at all,
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which is cute 'cause it comes r- you know, he comes right up to the door.
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And I apologize for misgendering you, Pepe.
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Pepe is actually, now I've learned, a female because when it came up
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to the door, I saw Pepe's teats.
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Sorry.
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Anyway, I don't know if it was on purpose, but once Pepe realized I didn't or wasn't
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going to give it any more food, him, her, any more food, Pepe proceeded to
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shit all over my terrace and my chair.
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The good news is squirrel's poop is perfectly round like a
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rabbit, so it's easy to clean up.
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But still, you know, fuck you, Pepe.
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I did you a solid, and you shat on my terrace
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And now Pepe is going to be coming back every day looking for handouts because
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I guess that's how squirrels roll.
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I should have known this.
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And it won't, who knows?
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Who knows?
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I shouldn't have started with the avocado.
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I should have started small because now the squirrel has gotten a whole avocado
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and that I feel like that's a prize.
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Anyway, I'll keep you posted on that too.
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So this is a late addition to the podcast.
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I'm recording this on the day that I was going to release this episode initially,
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but as I was editing this episode last night, I was going out for a walk, and
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I locked myself out of my apartment for the second time in as many days.
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Yeah, I don't know either.
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I don't know.
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You tell me.
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I haven't locked myself out of anything for many, many, many years.
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In fact, I cannot think of the last time I locked myself out of anything.
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I locked myself out of my car when I was, like, in my 20s.
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But since then, I really have no recollection.
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Oh, I locked myself out of my house when I lived in Savannah, Georgia,
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but that was 30-- 20, 30 years ago.
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So maybe I'm just making up for lost time here.
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Maybe these two-- I mean, if I do it two times in two days, I'm actually
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afraid to leave the house now or the apartment because Lord knows.
30:56
Double-checking two or three times.
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The funny thing is I have two sets of keys in the apartment here.
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Left them both in there.
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Anyway, also gonna use this opportunity to give a little update
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on the landlord situation, the former landlord situation, that is.
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Since the events I described in the, I guess, earlier segment in this
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podcast, the ex-landlord did finally speak to his attorney, apparently, and
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learned that he has no case, which, of course, I knew from the beginning.
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But, you know, some people, it takes a while.
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So unfortunately, it does not seem like there will be any
31:37
more drama with the ex-landlord.
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He did very gently acknowledge that he was incorrect and that I was right, and
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then he sent me a photo of his breakfast, a text message of his breakfast, and
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that was the last that I heard from him.
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And that's a good thing.
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That's a good thing.
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But again, ex-landlord, if you're listening to this, and I know you
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are, if you would like to come on the podcast and talk it out or yell
32:12
it out, defend yourself, whatever it is, accuse me of a hate crime, shoot
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me an email, onefjefpod@gmail.com, or call me, 1-669-241-5882.
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Anyway
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And that is it for this sixth year and one-day Mexico City-iversary spectacular.
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You heard me.
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What a ride, am I right?
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Like the subway and the Metro.
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What a ride.
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33:33
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Oh, I didn't find that last note, did I?
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Sorry.
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Beyond that, I thought it was all right.
35:02
I mean, not, you know, not a banger, but a tapper, right?
35:08
Call and leave a voicemail.
35:10
And all of this stuff I just said is in the show notes in
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case you didn't get it all.
35:13
In case you're frantically trying to grab a pen and write all this down as
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quickly as you can, don't you fret.
35:18
No need for that pen, my friend.
35:21
Just go to the show notes.
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All sorts of information and clicky things, all sorts of stuff.
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Everybody likes to click on things, don't they?
35:29
Sure they do
35:32
Finally, um, as I'm wont to do, I will end this podcast with a quote that I enjoy
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and find meaningful, and this is one by F.
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Scott Fitzgerald
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For what it's worth, it's never too late, or in my case, too early,
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to be whoever you want to be.
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There's no time limit.
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Start whenever you want.
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You can change or stay the same.
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There are no rules to this thing.
36:05
We can make the best or the worst of it.
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I hope you make the best of it.
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I hope you see things that startle you.
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I hope you feel things you've never felt before.
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I hope you meet people who have a different point of view.
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I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you
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have the courage to start over again
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I'll see you next week Very good, Jeffrey