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010 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. Welcome to ramble On, where I just
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  Speaker 1: talk about what happened this week, starting with pickled vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: I am actually going to do a whole like talk
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  Speaker 1: on pickled vegetables because I've always liked them, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about them now because I finally made
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  Speaker 1: pickled vegetables for the first time ever, which is crazy because,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, I've tried so many hobbies and lifestyles
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  Speaker 1: out with all the time I had because I was
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  Speaker 1: teaching English, and I never tried to pickle anything. And
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy because it's easy. You can you know, ferment
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  Speaker 1: and pickle stuff naturally, all that kind of stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: you can also slip slap real easy pickle stuff. Half water,
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  Speaker 1: half some kind of acid, salt and sugar. Done ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, pickled vegetables one day later, even better pickled
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  Speaker 1: vegetables two days later, decadent pickled vegetables. Ugh. Wait, you
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  Speaker 1: know what. One time I actually used old pickled juice
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  Speaker 1: to try to make pickled vegetables or pickles. I bought
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  Speaker 1: a cucumber, cut it up, put it in old pickled juice,
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  Speaker 1: and then left in and they came out gray and spongy,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, okay, I guess you can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. You can do that. Mine probably just had
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  Speaker 1: a bacterial infection, because that's super common apparently with pickling
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  Speaker 1: if you don't do it correctly, which I just cut
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  Speaker 1: up stuff and throw it in old pickled juice without
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  Speaker 1: doing anything. But now I've been doing it for I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, several days a week now, and I boil
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  Speaker 1: my water first hand, I mix in the salt and
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  Speaker 1: acid and sugar, and then the pickles work and taste great.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was so weird that I hadn't tried
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  Speaker 1: pickling any vegetables because I love pickles, and every country
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  Speaker 1: to pickles differently, like in Southeast Asia, it's very common
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  Speaker 1: to pickle fruits like mangoes, and you get pickled mango.
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  Speaker 1: In a lot of places, they pickle cucumber, but kind
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  Speaker 1: of differently than Westerners do it. Westerners obviously love pickling
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  Speaker 1: onions or cucumbers, Korean obviously cabbage for kimchi. But pickled
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  Speaker 1: vegetables are so good. They had such a depth of
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  Speaker 1: flavor with just some shots of acid into anything. So
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  Speaker 1: I've always loved pickles, and then I was like talking
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  Speaker 1: about pickling stuff and how good some pickles I had were,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, why the heck haven't I pickled
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  Speaker 1: anything yet? So thanks YouTube, saw a video you can
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  Speaker 1: do it in five minutes, so I tried it. I
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  Speaker 1: made pickled white onion, green onion, carrots, potatoes in five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any sugar on me, so I used
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  Speaker 1: these like candies that I had, and so it turned
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  Speaker 1: out so good. Even after ten minutes, I was like, Holy,
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  Speaker 1: this tastes like a pickle. This is straight up a pickle,
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  Speaker 1: every single little thing. The potatoes I didn't wash, so
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  Speaker 1: they still had starch on them, but I put them
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  Speaker 1: on all my sand I put them on everything I
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  Speaker 1: ate that day, and after doing that a couple more times.
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  Speaker 1: Onions are definitely my favorite. And I pickled a whole
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  Speaker 1: white onion and then I pickled a bunch of red onions,
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  Speaker 1: and the red onions have an even better depth of flavor,
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  Speaker 1: so good. I threw them in with some curry I
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  Speaker 1: made today. So if you don't know how to pickle,
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  Speaker 1: go watch the YouTube videos because and you like pickles,
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  Speaker 1: now you can pickle literally anything you want, and it
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  Speaker 1: takes five minutes. You cut up the vegetable, you heat
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  Speaker 1: up half acid, half water. Just gauge half the jar
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  Speaker 1: that you have. Just fill it up half with water.
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  Speaker 1: Dump that in a frying pan. Fill it half up
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  Speaker 1: with vinegar. White vinegar is what I use. Dump that
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  Speaker 1: in a frying pan. Add in salt and a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of sugar. Couple tablespoons of salt, tea spoon and
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  Speaker 1: sugar or whatever balance you think you'll like. I like
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  Speaker 1: less sugar. Mix that up once it's simmering. Pour that
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  Speaker 1: into the jar with the chopped up vegetables that you're
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  Speaker 1: going to use. Let it cool down to room temperature
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  Speaker 1: so that the jar lid won't get stuck after you
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  Speaker 1: put it in the refrigerator. Boom, pickles, And they do
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  Speaker 1: taste that good. Oh pickles, pickles, Oh pickles. Really glad.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to try that, and again flabbergasted that I
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  Speaker 1: haven't tried to make pickles yet. So I had a
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  Speaker 1: goodbye dinner to the apartment I've been staying in in
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  Speaker 1: Guatemala for most of the time I've been there, and
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  Speaker 1: I had a big pickled vegetable that they make in
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  Speaker 1: Guatemala called Escabace, and they did pickled onions, I think. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: they did pickled radish, I think. So I had a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of pickled radish and a haul of panio and
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of carnitas and it was really, really,
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  Speaker 1: really good. And I tried to go to all of
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  Speaker 1: the places, all the restaurants that I really like before
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  Speaker 1: I left that apartment. So there was there's this pizza
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  Speaker 1: place that's great, and I just got a large ham
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  Speaker 1: pizza through some vegetables on it at home because I
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  Speaker 1: had fresh onions and it was delicious. Had some beer
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  Speaker 1: with that. I haven't had any beer in a while,
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  Speaker 1: so kind of having a party week right now, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: And then I went to this crape guy who makes
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  Speaker 1: the best nutella crapes and just half nutella and no
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  Speaker 1: Hershey syrup which is usually on it, so there's just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of sugar, and then a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of bananas and strawberries and just a super great crape
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  Speaker 1: get a big old fruit kick and a hamburger and
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  Speaker 1: just all the But they make hamburgers very different in Guatemala.
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  Speaker 1: They're a lot thinner, a lot softer, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more stuff inside, like vegetables and whatnot. Oh for me,
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  Speaker 1: tastes way better than just a fat hunk of ground meat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I had a whole bunch of good foods. Ooh
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  Speaker 1: when I got some mandarinly Moon ice cream again from
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  Speaker 1: my ice cream guy. But then the day before I left,
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  Speaker 1: I was going to get two scoops of Mandarin and
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  Speaker 1: they were all out and none was coming in until Monday.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for your service, my friends, because I've been eating ice
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  Speaker 1: cream there for like three months, and that's a nice
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  Speaker 1: little neighborhood. Like I walked around that neighborhood literally every day.
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  Speaker 1: I like the markets out there, I like all the
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  Speaker 1: people out there. I like that it's higher up than
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the city, so I can kind of
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  Speaker 1: look down on the rest of Guatemala City. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to make my way to Shella. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: stay in the city for a little bit, then jump
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  Speaker 1: on a bus and head over to ketsaltan Ango and
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  Speaker 1: see what it looks like. One thousand meters higher than
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  Speaker 1: Guatemala City. And I was gonna go to Ecuador after
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  Speaker 1: as I may have mentioned, but boy, it really does
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  Speaker 1: seem more dangerous than is worth the risk right now.
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  Speaker 1: Like express kidnappings, which is where you hail a taxi
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  Speaker 1: and then they just drive you away somewhere until you're
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  Speaker 1: isolated and mug you pretty common these days. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at other countries. I'll see, I'll see the safety
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  Speaker 1: list and then see what tickets look affordable and head
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  Speaker 1: out to somewhere. I'm thinking of the Yucaton right now
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  Speaker 1: in Mexico, because that's the safer part in Mexico in
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  Speaker 1: the southeast. And it's kind of wacky that I started
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  Speaker 1: my travels from the US kind of and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: end up in either Canada or Mexico. Yet after traveling
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  Speaker 1: for so long, I really want to go to Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what I'll do. Maybe I'll chill out in
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  Speaker 1: Mexico for a while and then it'll be summer in
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  Speaker 1: Canada so I can see all the nice stuff before
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  Speaker 1: it's frozen over, like sort of take it from there. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I found some business card when I was cleaning out
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  Speaker 1: my wallet that has been there since India. Everybody was
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  Speaker 1: so nice to me in India and I got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of business cards, but I only had one left.
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  Speaker 1: So if any of you need a personal fitness coach
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  Speaker 1: and you happen to be in Bubaneshar in India near
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  Speaker 1: Atalla Road, contact Lali Tendu Patra because that dude was
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  Speaker 1: jacked and he seemed like a really nice guy and
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  Speaker 1: he gave me his business card. So I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: why not shout it out here? Some people in India
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  Speaker 1: are listening my friends in India, and I hope they
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  Speaker 1: hear this and go hit up Leetu lee Lutulan. I
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  Speaker 1: was really bad at Hindi when I was in India,
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  Speaker 1: and after I left India, I was even worse. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my tamalis with rice, which are my favorite tamalis in Guatemala,
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  Speaker 1: I had to get a few of those and I
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  Speaker 1: ended up just getting four of them and freezing them.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm taking them with me so that I can
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  Speaker 1: cook them for the next week until I get to Ketsaltanongo.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and I tried tacos for the first time from
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  Speaker 1: place where I get the tamales and rice, and the
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  Speaker 1: tacos were so good and fully loaded with a scoop
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  Speaker 1: of pickled vegetables and regular diced vegetables and lettuce and
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  Speaker 1: some cheese and guacamala like they were fully loaded great tacos.
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  Speaker 1: The tacos and Guatemala, interestingly, are not open. They are
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  Speaker 1: rolled like floutas, but they're the tacos. All tacos in
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  Speaker 1: Guatemala are rolled up before their fried, so they're tubes
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  Speaker 1: of food and they're a lot easier to handle than
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  Speaker 1: US American tacos or any open tacos because they're more compact,
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  Speaker 1: but they have basically the same amount of food. They
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  Speaker 1: like shove everything in there. It's pretty great, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: really bummed I never tried these tacos from that place before,
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  Speaker 1: because they were totally delicious and very fancy and elegant,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew a lot of people went there for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different foods. I did get a chili
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  Speaker 1: royano from there. Also. They have a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: typical domestic local fair and all of their food is great.
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  Speaker 1: And there's that restaurant in particular, always has so many
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  Speaker 1: locals eating there every single day of the week that
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  Speaker 1: they're open, so I knew they were good. But there's
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  Speaker 1: another spot and they sell on the street, like their
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  Speaker 1: tacos and they also have a huge spread of toppings
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  Speaker 1: that you can add yourself, including escabech the pickled vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: So I always went there instead, but I should have
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  Speaker 1: just branched out. Why not eat everywhere. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: like I'm not going to get another chance to try
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  Speaker 1: good tacos. Well, I'm in Guatemala, Catsaltenango Sella. Oh, and
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked about potato chips. It's really funny. They
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  Speaker 1: have potato chips here in Guatemala, but they're called chips.
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  Speaker 1: Like the brand name is c Chips chips, just the
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  Speaker 1: regular word chips, and they have natural flavor original Jlapano
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  Speaker 1: and barbicoa barbecue flavor. But it's really funny. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was so funny that I saw they were just
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  Speaker 1: called chips, and then I bought it back because that
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  Speaker 1: was a funny name. And they're the best potato chips
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  Speaker 1: in the country I've had so far, and I tried
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  Speaker 1: pretty much every different brand they have. But what I
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  Speaker 1: like about the chips chips is that they are actually crunchy,
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  Speaker 1: like they're thick slices of real potato. They're not whatever
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  Speaker 1: Lays makes, which seems to be like mashed potatoes smashed
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  Speaker 1: into patties and then baked or something, so you just
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  Speaker 1: have a really crumbly chip that isn't crunchy at all.
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  Speaker 1: These chips chips seem to be slices of actual potato
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  Speaker 1: fried with flavor, and the Hall of Pain is probably
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  Speaker 1: my favorite, but they're all pretty good. So if you
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  Speaker 1: like potato chips or you want some Western snacks while
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  Speaker 1: you're in Guatemala, I highly recommend chips chips. They're great.
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  Speaker 1: I had a funny thought to do a live stream
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  Speaker 1: in different countries, but like actually a stream, like a
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  Speaker 1: small river, and I just take a video of that
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  Speaker 1: for an hour and then put that on TikTok. But
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  Speaker 1: I definitely don't have the inclination to post a lot
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  Speaker 1: of videos. I just like that idea that I could
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  Speaker 1: claim I was doing live streams and then someone would
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  Speaker 1: go to my channel and it would just be picture
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  Speaker 1: or videos of streams in different countries. Every time I
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  Speaker 1: came across a stream, I would take a video of
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  Speaker 1: it for some amount of time and then post. That
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  Speaker 1: seems really funny, but you know, kind of impractical, not
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  Speaker 1: like the rest of my life, which is super practical,
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  Speaker 1: and you know business oriented, you know productivity. I am
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  Speaker 1: jumping back into video games because the last of US
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  Speaker 1: two was so much fun and I haven't played any
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  Speaker 1: in a while. Oh of course I decided to jump
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  Speaker 1: back into the games right after I got rid of
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  Speaker 1: my USB controller that plugs in and functions with my
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  Speaker 1: laptop perfectly, so I have to use my mouse and keyboard.
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  Speaker 1: But playing some really fun games. Played The Invincible. You're
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  Speaker 1: a stranded astronaut on the planet, have to find everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Very pretty game. It's basically just a visual novel, or
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  Speaker 1: you know, a more upscale visual novel, because there's a
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  Speaker 1: whole world to walk around in. But it's based on
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  Speaker 1: a book called The Invincible, and you get to play
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  Speaker 1: through the book, which is really fun. It's a good book.
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  Speaker 1: I assume I haven't read the book. It was a
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  Speaker 1: good story. And I'm also jumping back into Subnautica because
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  Speaker 1: I started playing it and for whatever reason, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like it. But it's consistently like ten out of everybody
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  Speaker 1: absolutely loves that game, and it seems like a game
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  Speaker 1: that I would love because you're just underwater building stuff
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  Speaker 1: all the time, and there's cool plant life and animal
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  Speaker 1: life all around and geology. It just seems like my
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. So I started playing it again and
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  Speaker 1: left it and I was like, yeah, of course. And
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  Speaker 1: I played it for two hours before and didn't like it.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't don't know. Maybe I was hungover or
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  Speaker 1: something and I was just not giving it a chance,
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  Speaker 1: didn't really get into it. I don't know, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: definitely keep playing it. I got waylaid by Ghost of Tsushima,
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  Speaker 1: which is another one of those games that everybody has
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  Speaker 1: been talking about for a decade, and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: then I'm not going to play it, and then they're
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  Speaker 1: all right. It's a really great game. The design and
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  Speaker 1: mechanics are so well done. They're so efficient. It feels
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  Speaker 1: very natural to play, and I really like how they
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  Speaker 1: put in quest markers and unobtrusively with the environment, allow
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  Speaker 1: you to follow quest markers or hints or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Very fun, very beautiful game. My only problem is that
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  Speaker 1: they put so much emphasis on how Samurai protect the
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  Speaker 1: normal people, like that's the whole thing of the that's
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  Speaker 1: the point of the game. They just keep reiterating how
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  Speaker 1: the whole point of Samurai is to protect the innocent
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  Speaker 1: and do all these good deeds, but in real life
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't much what the samurai were all about. They
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  Speaker 1: were the aristocracy and they took advantage of that power
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  Speaker 1: very very often. But the fighting and the game is
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  Speaker 1: so much fun. They did a great job developing the
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  Speaker 1: melee fighting, and it's not like I get angry at
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  Speaker 1: other games for not being realistic, what with them being games.
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  Speaker 1: So I just try and push that out of my head.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever they're like, ah, the honorable samurai who always protects innocence,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, no, but let's keep playing because I'm
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  Speaker 1: having a great time. And there's a great quest where
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  Speaker 1: you're fighting archers and so there'll be like twelve archers
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  Speaker 1: on allege and you're supposed to shoot at them with
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  Speaker 1: your bow to prove your archery skills in the game.
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  Speaker 1: But I really like the melee fighting system so much,
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  Speaker 1: and the archery system is not as fun for me
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  Speaker 1: because I just shoot someone and then they fall over
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  Speaker 1: in their dead. But doing the melee I have to
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  Speaker 1: dodge in many different ways to succeed. So if there's
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  Speaker 1: twelve archers on a cliff across a bridge that they're defending,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just sprint across a bridge as far as I
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  Speaker 1: can climb the whole cliff, because I love climbing in
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  Speaker 1: video games too. Don't like doing in real life because
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  Speaker 1: it's terrifying, but I really like climbing in video games
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  Speaker 1: like Breath of the While or Ghost of Tsushima. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll spend time climbing up a cliff and then just
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  Speaker 1: cut down all these archers with my sword. It's a
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  Speaker 1: really fun time. You know. I always like books more
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  Speaker 1: than movies, and so that's why I wasn't sure if
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna play The Invincible, But then when I'm
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  Speaker 1: living it, that's what's so good about books. That's what
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I like about books more than movies. There's so much
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  Speaker 1: more content in a book compared to a movie, and
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  Speaker 1: you're so much more active inside a book than you
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  Speaker 1: are inside a movie. Watching these other people in a book,
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  Speaker 1: it's so much easier to connect those events to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: or at least it's much easier for me to connect
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  Speaker 1: the events to myself rather than in a movie. And
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  Speaker 1: The Invincible it's really interesting because I got those benefits
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  Speaker 1: from the video game. I spent probably as much or
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  Speaker 1: more time in the video game than I would have
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  Speaker 1: even spent reading the book, and I'm sure the book
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  Speaker 1: would have been so well written that I would have
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed my time within the story, and I would have
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  Speaker 1: connected even more probably with the book. But the video
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  Speaker 1: game was certainly more engaging than a movie would have been,
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  Speaker 1: or even a TV show, because as long as you
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: can make a TV show, they're probably going to put
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: in filler TV shows. I just watched a Keno no
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  Speaker 1: Tapi episode, and I didn't realize how much filler it
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  Speaker 1: had the first time I watched it. But there's this
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  Speaker 1: one story they stretched into two stories for the TV show,
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  Speaker 1: and after I had read the book, it was obvious
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  Speaker 1: how much filler they had done to stretch out this story,
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  Speaker 1: probably just because it's exciting and there's more fighting in it,
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  Speaker 1: But just don't do filler. If you have a movie
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  Speaker 1: and it's perfect or very satisfying to watch it seventy
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  Speaker 1: minutes and you can stretch it to ninety, don't stretch
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  Speaker 1: it to ninety. Put out a good seventy minute movie
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  Speaker 1: that people will remember instead of a one hundred minute
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  Speaker 1: movie that nobody wants to be there for. So back
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to The Invincible, I was worried because it was a book,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't enjoy it because I prefer books to movies.
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  Speaker 1: But video games are so much more immersive and they
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: have so much more content than a movie could possibly
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: have because you're spending ten thirty forty hours one hundred
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: three hundred in the case of marrowind and myself hours
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: inside this world. So I gave The Invincible a shot,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and I'm really glad I did. It was a good
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: story and I was invested in it as much as
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I would have been in a book. Maybe not as much,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: but much more than I would have been in a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: movie which has such a brief time frame. And I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: did want to play those games with a controller. I
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: went to a bunch of different stores looking for a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: controller another USB controller in Guatemala, but they just don't
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: have the tech that Asia has. So all the controllers
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: felt very light, and half of the buttons couldn't map properly,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: like half the time I could bind the trigger to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: a function in the game, and half the time it
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: just wouldn't bind. So I tried a couple out in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: stores but didn't find one that worked. And my perfect controller,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that is purple, my favorite color, is just sitting on
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a desk, not doing shit where I left it behind
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: because I didn't want bulk in my bag. And now
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I regret it and I apologize Purple Controller. I have
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: another short note here about Last of Us Too, but
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like I said everything about
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Last of Us Too. I'm so glad I I avoided
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: all of the spoilers and then I got to play
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the game and it was so good. Yeah, haven't fun
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: with video games lately? Can you tell? Since this entire
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: thing was about food or video games? Right before I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: left my neighborhood, I was walking out of the neighborhood
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and there was an open window and there's a huge
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: mural that says Real Misco. Misco is the name of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. It's like, this is the center of the neighborhood.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And then out of the window directly above the mural,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: take on me right at the part in a Day
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: two was playing out of the window of Real Misco
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: like this Norwegian synth pop song playing. It was pretty great,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: just a great juxtaposition of globalization through music. Also, let
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: me dump on AI for a minute, just because I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: finally came around to AI is a real pain in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the butt. I was hoping it would get better faster
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: than this, and I feel for like two months I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: was asking the AI assistants questions and they were giving
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: me good answers with sources, and it just seems like
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: they keep getting worse until now you can't trust them
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to tell you anything correctly. They just agree with your
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: question instead of giving any proper search result for the question.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: All of them are getting real bad. Bing was the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: one I used for like two months, and it gave
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: sources with the questions, and I was like, hey, real
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: information with sources, And now they all just say the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: same thing. Yeaes dragons could bake cakes. Although there is
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: some debate today whether or not dragons are real or
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: all of the promises that the next one is going
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to be completely realistic. It sounds so much like a
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: four year old telling you a story, and it's like
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a sort of Okay, it's gonna get really good right now.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So anyway, then I was sitting under a tree for
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: like three hours and then okay, no, no wait, wait wait,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the next part's so good. Okay. Then I was like
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: walking along in apart for like three hours. No no wait,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the next part's so good. Like they keep promising you're
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: gonna have a realistic AI assistant, and you don't. You
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: have this irritating thing that you have to speak to,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: not only specifically and accurately, but now you have to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: jump through all the hoops of the sensors and proper
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: ways to address the AI assistant or it won't understand
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: your question. You have to be really careful about politics
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and science. Not that you should be asking them many
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: scientific questions anyway, but boy, boy, do they all just
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: seem like trash? Now I did, okay, you know what
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I did? Like the one I got from Lama Local Lama.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: You can download an AI assistant basically and run it
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: on your computer yourself. So I do have that on
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: my Linux computer. But I like that because it doesn't
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: pretend to be a human. It is very clearly an
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: AI assistant, and it just answers your questions and then
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: shuts up. All these other AI assistants are like, what
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: do you think? Like, shut up, man, you're not even
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: asking me that You're not fooling anybody. And maybe they
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: are fooling enough people that it's worth it to develop
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: these things. But I don't think so it definitely seems
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: like AI assistant development teams are desperate for more attention
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and funding, so they just keep swearing that the next
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: one is going to be a true assistant, the next
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: one's going to be like Jarvis an iron man. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: don't want Jarvis in my devices. So if you're going
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to get one, get local Lama. You can run on
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: your own computer. Your input is still sent back to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the centralized server, but it's as anonymized as you can
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: get with one of these AI assistants, and it does
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: give pretty good answers, except you know what. The huge
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: problem with Lama is that it also doesn't provide any sources.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: And I know that because I checked what is your
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: source for this some very basic thing I can't like,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: how does volume work? In on whatever? And it just
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: made up sources. It just gave me real looking URLs
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: that I put in that were not real web pages,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: didn't go anywhere. They sounded real, they sounded like real
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: dot coms with slashes at the end and water volume
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: metrics and then but none of it was real. It
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: couldn't give me the actual sources. So I don't even
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: use Lama anymore. But I don't have much cause to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: use AI assistance anyway. Literally, the timer and reminder functions
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: on my phone are so much more useful than an
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: AI assistant has ever been so far. Lokal Lama got close.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I was writing something and I asked it for synonyms,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and it's pretty good at that. If I ask it
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to list all synonyms, I get a pretty good list
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of synonyms. But that's the most help I've ever got
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: out of using an AI. Everything else, timer reminder function
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: works great. Okay, I got to bash AI as well.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: You know, I had a parking spot in my apartment,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and I had a parking spot the whole time, but
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I could never use it because there's always a gray
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: car parked in my parking spot. There were other spots,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: so I just took other people's spots. But it was
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: weird that they kept telling me, yeah, that one's your spot,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and I'd be like, oh, there's that same gray car,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and I'd keep signing the pictures, and whenever I did that,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: they just didn't answer me. Just had a guy parked
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: in my spot. They told me to park there, then
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: didn't offer any remedy or solution. This Airbnb was not
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: great with communication, but it didn't really matter because I
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: mostly liked to be left alone anyway, and everything worked
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: like the water and everything was clean and all of that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: It was just whenever I did have a question, I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: assumed they wouldn't answer, and that was correct. They did not. Oh,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you know, it was cool. This week I found a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: pool bar like Billiard's pool, and there were a bunch
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of people playing. And I had walked by that place
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a hundred times because it was on the way to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the Rice Tomaly, place I really like. And I finally
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: peered inside and saw a bunch of pool tables and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a little bar, and I went inside, got a beer,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: sat down, and watched a couple games of pool, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a couple guys were really good. I didn't end up
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: playing because I was kinda yeah, just walking around that
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: night hanging out. But it was cool having a guyoh
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the local popular beer and watching people playpool for a while.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And it felt a lot like when I used to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: go to pool halls in high school and college before
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the anti smoking regulations kicked in. There was a lot
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of people were smoking and it was all like faux
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: wood paneling, and there were posters and pictures of hot,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: half naked chicks on all the walls, and it was
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: just a fun scene to be in a dive bar again,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: which had exited my life a very long time ago,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and here one was in my little neighborhood in Misco, Guatemala,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and one hundred percent I appreciate the no smoking bars
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: way better, but I just had fun with the nostalgia
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes while drinking a beer. You know
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: it real quick. There's another food I want to add
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: called choco crispies, and you can get chocolate dipped fruits
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and then they put coco crispies on top. And the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: first time I heard and tried choco crispies, I was like, Ooh,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: what an interesting novel, crunchy sweet treat independently developed by
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: this Guatemalan grandma. And then I realized it was just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: chocolate dipped fruits with choco crispies. Chocolate crispies, Cocoa crispies,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: they're called sprinkled on top of it, so they all
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: stuck out on it. And I still thought, oh, what
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a new novel treat because it tasted great and it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: was really fun. And yeah, that was another one. Of
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: my favorite Misco treats I had to grab before I
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: left the neighborhood. Oh wait, there is another one. Donuts.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: There's so many bakeries like everywhere in Guatemala, and some
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: people make donuts better than others. And I was walking
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: by this great donut place and they brought out a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: steaming tray of donuts that they had just put the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: chocolate frosting on ten seconds ago, and when I picked
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it up, it was still warm and delicious and it
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: was a great time. So that's the last snack I
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: have to talk about. My last Brio snack, a chocolate donut.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I was getting weird feedback for a minute there, so
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: if you can hear any weird feedback in this episode, feedback,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: someone'd say properly, let me know ad bit of a
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: rambler at gmail dot com or all the socials bit
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: of a rambler all one word, and I will talk
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to you with a real ass episode in the next
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: one with a topic that I remember, and you can
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: listen to on Wednesday. Thank you very much for listening,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you soon.