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070 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 1: This is ramble on number thirty four. I believe if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, the title is correct. But I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: this is number thirty four. And I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: this during the day because I'm awake and this is
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  Speaker 1: more casual and they're playing band of music outside and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So if there's some noises, that's what it is. If
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  Speaker 1: you hate the extra noises and want it to be
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  Speaker 1: silent except for the dulcet tones of my hoary voice,
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  Speaker 1: that's hoary. Don't get too excited. Let me know and
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  Speaker 1: we'll go back to just me yapping. But I figure whatever,
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  Speaker 1: it's a day. It's a casual, casual talkie talk. There's
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  Speaker 1: no I don't have to be crazy about the ambient silence.
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  Speaker 1: Although all the main episodes will still be ambient silence.
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  Speaker 1: It's just these ones. I don't know. They're more casual
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  Speaker 1: unless you hate it, and then they will be more produced.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, Okay, So the last thing I have on
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  Speaker 1: this list, which is the first thing I'll start with,
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  Speaker 1: is the parade that I came across, which I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if I wrote down the second parade I
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  Speaker 1: came across. Jeez, I have to write that down. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there was this parade random day, I walked west in
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  Speaker 1: this neighborhood I like, whereas I usually walk east, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole street was blocked off, so no cars are
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  Speaker 1: driving down and there are a bunch of people like
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  Speaker 1: standing around, and I was like, what's going on because
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  Speaker 1: there was no parade in the street yet. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, all right, whatever, and I just kept walking
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  Speaker 1: and I kept walking west and I got my dried fruit.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the way back there were way more
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  Speaker 1: people lining the street and there was a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: people in the middle, and I was like, oh, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's starting, and it was and there were it was huge.
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  Speaker 1: And the crazy thing about this is this is not
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the city. This is I'm living
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  Speaker 1: in San Sebastian, this local neighborhood where there is I've
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  Speaker 1: seen zero other non Peruvian, zero other tourists in my
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood for three months straight. Oh. Actually, there's one woman
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  Speaker 1: from the Dominican Republic. But yeah, okay, so there's one
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  Speaker 1: woman from the Dominican Republic. I love I met, but
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  Speaker 1: if you went to the middle of the city, tons
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  Speaker 1: of tourists from all over and out here, there's been
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  Speaker 1: literally none except that one Dominican Republic woman who also
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  Speaker 1: likes ribs, and we had a good conversation at this
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  Speaker 1: crazy good rib restaurant. It was basically just like, how
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  Speaker 1: good is Peru food. Peruvian Food's the best. I love
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  Speaker 1: Peruvian food, just back and forth, and she was like,
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  Speaker 1: great talk and see you later. So, okay, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: this road and there's a pizza place. I hadn't tried
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't want to spend cash because the fee
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  Speaker 1: is high for my bank card here to take out cash,
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  Speaker 1: and you can only take out small amounts of cash
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  Speaker 1: and Peru. But the thing is, food is so cheap
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  Speaker 1: here that even if you take out one hundred bucks
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  Speaker 1: that can last you a month, that can last me
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  Speaker 1: a month very easily. So once I realized that, I
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  Speaker 1: was like okay, and I took out cash and I
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  Speaker 1: went to that pizza place, got my pizza, and while
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  Speaker 1: I was waiting, the parade moved up. So again, this
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  Speaker 1: is a tiny neighborhood, just locals. They're not doing this
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  Speaker 1: for the city center or tourists or anything like that,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty maybe there were like twenty groups of thirty
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  Speaker 1: people each. The whole street was completely taken. It might
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  Speaker 1: have been forty. I don't even know if it was
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  Speaker 1: only twenty groups. But there were marching bands and girls
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  Speaker 1: dressed up in it's all traditional gear. Also, so the
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  Speaker 1: men were wearing the running skirts and they had like
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  Speaker 1: leopard masks on and feathers, and the girls had more
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  Speaker 1: feathers and kind of sexier jeweled shorter skirts, and I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of them were like in high school
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  Speaker 1: or college. There were definitely a range of ages, and
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  Speaker 1: the leaders were it seemed like the leaders were maybe
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  Speaker 1: their teachers or the dance teachers. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean before that parade and after that parade, there
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  Speaker 1: are so many local displays of culture, just like of
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  Speaker 1: celebration that I love the Peruving people. They're so cool
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  Speaker 1: and they love to party that they're like, which is funny.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that about Columbia. I went to Columbia, and
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  Speaker 1: Columbia is cool. They do like to party, but at
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  Speaker 1: least the neighborhood I was in was pretty chill. I
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  Speaker 1: was next to a police station. Maybe that's oh. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'm next to a police station now. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here when they party, they're like they're partying and they're
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are people who drink, but it's mostly
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  Speaker 1: the parties are cultural celebrations, and I just happened. That's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest parade I have seen in I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how many countries. I don't go to a lot of parades.
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  Speaker 1: They're usually too loud and whatever, and this was pretty
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  Speaker 1: loud with the music. But the dancing was so cool
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  Speaker 1: and everyone, everybody, everyone lining the streets, everyone in the
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  Speaker 1: parade were having a really good time. Okay, But the
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  Speaker 1: other insane thing about this is they were all dancing,
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  Speaker 1: all six hundred or however, let's say six hundred people.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, twenty group of thirty, just a block
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  Speaker 1: of thirty people. It's like five or six rows of
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  Speaker 1: five people each, and they're all doing a choreographed dance,
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  Speaker 1: and then ten feet behind them or maybe you know whatever,
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  Speaker 1: thirty feet behind them is another block of thirty people,
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  Speaker 1: and that just goes back for twenty groups. And they're
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  Speaker 1: all costumed differently. The leopard masks had led lights in them,
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  Speaker 1: so it looked like they had bright red demon eyes
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  Speaker 1: for the men. The women have these like almost burlesque showy,
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  Speaker 1: giant plumage feathers on their heads. And it was just
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  Speaker 1: the costumes. If I just got to see the costumes
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  Speaker 1: from each group, that would have been amazing. But the
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  Speaker 1: insane thing was each group had their own choreographed dance,
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  Speaker 1: and they were so while the music is playing, they're
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  Speaker 1: dancing to the beat of the music while moving forward
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  Speaker 1: just like slowly. They're not dashing to the finish line.
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  Speaker 1: That parade probably lasted a couple hours, and it was
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  Speaker 1: so cool. They're dancing was so good and so expressive
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  Speaker 1: and so emotional. Like the men's dancing was very worriery
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  Speaker 1: and very acrobatic, but very masculine, and the women's dancing
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  Speaker 1: was very acrobatic and very feminine. They even used similar
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  Speaker 1: moves some of the time, but just the little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a difference, like when the girls would kick their
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  Speaker 1: knees a little higher up, crossed over their other leg
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. That immediately looks feminine when you
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  Speaker 1: see that dance move compared to the men's, which would
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  Speaker 1: be wider legs, kicking up away from each other and
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  Speaker 1: landing more solidly on their feet when they land. The
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  Speaker 1: dances are amazing, and they were all good. Okay, now
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  Speaker 1: you're like, well that's not too crazy choreographed dancing in
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  Speaker 1: a parade, Yeah, except we're at a eleven thousand, two
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  Speaker 1: hundred feet so these people are at literally higher than
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  Speaker 1: base camp at Mount Everest Dancing Complex routines for well
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  Speaker 1: over an hour. They took a couple breaks, but they're
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  Speaker 1: dancing for like ten minutes at a time for two
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  Speaker 1: hours straight and then maybe like a five minute break
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  Speaker 1: or a three minute break or something in between, if
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  Speaker 1: that it was. And they weren't sweating, they weren't like,
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  Speaker 1: none of them, none of them stopped. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: might have been a little slower, and you could see
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  Speaker 1: them like breathing in this eleven thousand, three hundred you know,
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  Speaker 1: three thousand, five hundred meter thin oxygen. But they were
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  Speaker 1: leaping into None of them stopped leaping like no matter
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  Speaker 1: how tired they were. When that right beat hit on
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  Speaker 1: the drum for them all to dance, they were in
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  Speaker 1: the air. They leaped up, they landed into like aon
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  Speaker 1: flux crouches or what's popular now black widow crouches, like
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  Speaker 1: acrobatic sexy crouches, and they swept their legs around and
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  Speaker 1: like some of them were singing, they shouting. Shouting was
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  Speaker 1: a big one, actually, you know what they all were. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was parts in the song where the girls would
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  Speaker 1: yip or the guys would shout and declare their bravery.
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  Speaker 1: I assume this was amazing to see. I was just
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  Speaker 1: completely blown away by their acrobatic display, their breath control,
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  Speaker 1: because they stayed in choreography. The choreography moves by themselves
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  Speaker 1: were like, Wow, that's pretty good. That's that's impressive. And
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  Speaker 1: they're on cobblestone street. They're on uneven cobblestone streets in
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  Speaker 1: a back pueblo of Cusco, Peru, just doing this for
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood, just displaying pride in their culture. And they
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  Speaker 1: should be proud of their culture because before that, their
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  Speaker 1: art is amazing here, and their art extends to everything
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  Speaker 1: they create, act and do all the Cousco people here,
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  Speaker 1: whenever there's a demonstration or a mural or anything. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really into their art. I like the Columbian art, I
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  Speaker 1: like the Guatemalan street art. I probably like the Peruvian
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  Speaker 1: art the best. There's something about the vibrancy of their colors.
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  Speaker 1: The brightness and how they match colors with each other
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  Speaker 1: here that really appeals to me. Even in their clothes,
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  Speaker 1: like their woven alpaca hats, they're so bright, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't come off as garish or tacky. The designs, the
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  Speaker 1: square designs somehow mitigate how bright the colors they use.
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  Speaker 1: They don't look too bright. They look like in appropriate,
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  Speaker 1: Like like in those Thor movies, right, they have to
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  Speaker 1: go on a rainbow bridge. And ten years ago when
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: nobody knew who Thor was, or what is that twenty
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  Speaker 1: years ago? Now twenty years ago before the world knew
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  Speaker 1: who Thor was because those movies hadn't come out. If
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  Speaker 1: you told people, yeah, there's this group of like really
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  Speaker 1: badass warriors and they come to Earth to save Earth
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  Speaker 1: and they have like axes and you know, horn helmets
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  Speaker 1: and they're like just really vicious guys. Really, how did
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  Speaker 1: they get to Earth? Oh? They walk on a rainbow bridge.
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  Speaker 1: The person anyone you told that dud would be like
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  Speaker 1: a rainbow bridge? What that's not very manly. But in
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  Speaker 1: the movies you see them on the rainbow bridge. There's
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  Speaker 1: they use bright lights to make the bridge look cooler.
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  Speaker 1: And it's shooting by so there's little meteors in it.
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  Speaker 1: It looks really cool. So everyone now is like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the manliest warriors in the universe travel by rainbow.
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  Speaker 1: Back you know, twenty years ago you'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: are they sailor moon? No, No, they're super manly, masculine,
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  Speaker 1: vicious warriors and they travel by rainbow. And people have
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  Speaker 1: accepted that because of how the rainbow is presented esthetically
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  Speaker 1: in these movies. That's how the Peruvian art is. The
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  Speaker 1: color is so bright. You would think like, well, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna look silly. You're gonna look like you're wearing Lisa Frank.
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  Speaker 1: But they can have bright yellow, bright pink, bright red
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  Speaker 1: girls are boys, and with the geometric patterns separating all
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  Speaker 1: the colors, it just looks cool. It just looks like
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  Speaker 1: a secret legend of Zelda Temple design. It just it
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  Speaker 1: looks awesome. And when I see the people painting murals,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll see them a lot, like all of their
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  Speaker 1: fences even are painted pretty new, even in the rural neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: There must be a government program where they pay local
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  Speaker 1: artists to keep everything nice. There are so many murals,
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  Speaker 1: some of them are really emotional. There's one I think
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  Speaker 1: about the killings and Lima because there's been a gang
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  Speaker 1: violence against bus drivers and Lima, like an extortion racket
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  Speaker 1: going on. And there's a woman screaming that I is
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  Speaker 1: stuck in my head now a mural of a woman
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  Speaker 1: screaming in a coffin beside it, and her expression is
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  Speaker 1: so evocative. And all of the murals here, they have
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  Speaker 1: mermaid murals that I'm kind of taken by. It's just amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing art up here. And I've seen a few of
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  Speaker 1: these mural artists and just painters, fence painters painting, and
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  Speaker 1: even the fence painters. Each piece of the fence will
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  Speaker 1: be a different color and they're always choosing the perfect
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  Speaker 1: color that again is very bright, but not garish, not
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  Speaker 1: silly looking at all. And again part of that is
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  Speaker 1: the way they used their bodies. Okay, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: close the windows a little just in case I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's really loud and maybe it's getting to you.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, Okay, well, now there's a plane. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: think that's better though you. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: you hear any of that stuff outside, because my microphone
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  Speaker 1: is pretty cool. But no, I could see the waveform.
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  Speaker 1: You must be able to hear something. Oh, but that
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  Speaker 1: is better. If it's bad again, just tell me and
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back to silence. It's just if I can
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  Speaker 1: record these more casual podcasts without worrying so much about
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  Speaker 1: the ambient audio, it would save me a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: It would help my schedule quite a bit. Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: freaking parade, man, So I was like, what is happening?
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  Speaker 1: Because it was so elaborate. There were so many people
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  Speaker 1: both in the street, in the parade and on the
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  Speaker 1: street like watching the parade, Hundreds and hundreds of people.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, the parade alone was probably at least
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  Speaker 1: three hundred people. There were so many, or six hundred
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  Speaker 1: right thirty by twenty If there were I'll say three
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  Speaker 1: hundred at the very least ten groups of thirty people each.
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  Speaker 1: At the very least there were three hundred people. Six
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  Speaker 1: hundred does not sound crazy at all to me. It
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  Speaker 1: was a very long, huge parade with many groups. And
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  Speaker 1: I was curious what was going on. And I asked
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  Speaker 1: a person outside, like, Hey, what holiday is this and
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: they were like, I don't know, it's a parade. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like okay. So I went inside the pizza
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  Speaker 1: restaurant I was gonna go to that I mentioned way
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  Speaker 1: before before. I got distracted and I got a pizza
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  Speaker 1: and while I was waiting, I was like, do you
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  Speaker 1: guys know what's going on outside? And they were both like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a parade. And I was like, why is the
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  Speaker 1: parade going on? Is there some kind of holiday? And
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  Speaker 1: they were like, I don't know. I was like, so
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  Speaker 1: do you know why they're dancing though? Because I thought
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  Speaker 1: maybe I was asking the word for holiday incorrectly dade festiva,
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  Speaker 1: but I wasn't. I was a correctly and they said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they just like dancing. And that was the answer. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those people just like dancing. And I was like that
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  Speaker 1: cannot be correct because there's an obvious organization, like it
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  Speaker 1: is a parade. They blocked the streets that you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're police officers keeping the cars out, and everyone's it's
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  Speaker 1: a parade. There's something going on. But the first because okay,
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  Speaker 1: So after the pizza place, both the guy and the
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  Speaker 1: girl told me, oh, those people just like to dance.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's not what's happening. So I got
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  Speaker 1: my pizza, went back outside and I ate that whole pizza,
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  Speaker 1: just watching this parade go by for the next hour,
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  Speaker 1: just again gobsmacked at the athletic prowess, dancing, costuming. And
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  Speaker 1: I probably asked five more people, like what holiday is it?
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  Speaker 1: And some of them just shrugged like I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: with a smile on their faces, like pretty cool, though, right,
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  Speaker 1: And some of them told me like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what holiday it is? And I was like, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: How can all of the locals in this neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: let nobody knows what holiday it is? And when the
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  Speaker 1: parade was over and I still didn't have an answer,
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  Speaker 1: I watched the whole parade wrapped though. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: was I love I love choreographed dancing, and these guys
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  Speaker 1: were really good at it, and they're all like young people,
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  Speaker 1: so they all look good too, and their costumes are
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  Speaker 1: all cool. It was just an amazing procession, and everybody,
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  Speaker 1: the hundreds of people lined on the sidewalks, were just
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  Speaker 1: We're all just like this is so cool. But you
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  Speaker 1: could tell the Peruvians, all the locals watching it, were like,
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  Speaker 1: this is another cool parade. They must have so many
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  Speaker 1: of these, which I found out they do, they have
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  Speaker 1: a bunch. So parade finally ending, everyone's walking out up
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  Speaker 1: the street, and by ending, I mean all ten or
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  Speaker 1: twenty groups whatever had passed by me. But they weren't
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  Speaker 1: even halfway down the street, so they were still gonna
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  Speaker 1: go for like the other half of the street, and
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  Speaker 1: they did. I was like, holy cow. But I had
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  Speaker 1: already been watching for an hour, and I watched from
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  Speaker 1: the first group to the last, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I could just go to the front again
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  Speaker 1: and watch all of them more, but that seemed excessive.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I should take my treasure in memory
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  Speaker 1: and just be like, man, I just had a crazy
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  Speaker 1: how crazy is that this is? This is not a
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  Speaker 1: famous neighborhood. This is not a famous street. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of famous that there's a market.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not a super big street, not
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  Speaker 1: a super big neighborhood, nothing really distinguishing it. And I
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  Speaker 1: walked down the street without getting an answer why this
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  Speaker 1: amazing parade had just happened by all of these people
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  Speaker 1: and nobody even knew what was happening. And there was
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  Speaker 1: this old man inside his house. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: houses here like the door opens directly onto the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 1: and he was looking out after the parade, and I
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  Speaker 1: just took a chance and asked him, like, hey, do
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  Speaker 1: you know what the Odai festiva it is? I'm tyking
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  Speaker 1: to everybody in Spanish, and he said, oh, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's to celebrate this specific neighborhood. This neighborhood's kind of
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  Speaker 1: an important cultural neighborhood to Cusco, and it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the older neighborhoods in the city, and so this is
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  Speaker 1: just a cultural displays of appreciation for this neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: that plaza where that old churches. So that's what it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a cultural appreciation parade with hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: people and choreographed dances and costumes, just so they could
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  Speaker 1: celebrate their culture. And they should. Their culture is cool,
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  Speaker 1: their art is cool, their food's amazing, and they're just
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  Speaker 1: they're friendly, chill people here. You know what I really
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  Speaker 1: like about Peruvians, at least the ones in my neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood here, they are chill and they are cool. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the really old ladies might try to overcharge me
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  Speaker 1: on a carrot, but as soon as I'm like but
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it's not one point five, so they're like, yeah, it's one.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: They're there, and some of them just give me the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: right prices. Most of them give me great prices the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: first time. They're not. It's not even worth it to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: these people who are so cool to try to overcharge
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the obvious tourist for most of them. And like I said,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the ones that do try to do it, they're like,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: it's one point five. I'm like one, and they're like, yeah,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it's one, and it's not even Yeah, they're not even
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: like scalping me. They're not grifting me real bad. It's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: like an extra half a cent. But when you're traveling,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: if you know the price of something, use the correct price,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: they'll respect you more. You'll be more local and in
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the fold, if you get the correct price for your
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: cabbage rather than overpaying for it's probably gonna feel silly
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: because like a cabbage is whatever, two bucks maybe for
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the whole cabbage. You can buy a portion at a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: time and for one soul and that's like thirty cents
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: whatever or less. But if they're selling them and they say, oh,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that's three solace and if you just take that and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: buy it, they'll be like, come on, man, they'll they
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: want you to hag them and be like, uh, it's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: one right, that's the correct price is one, which if
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you go to the supermarkets you can get a slightly.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: All the supermarkets are like ten to twenty percent maximum
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: more expensive than the local markets. So if you know
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a slice of cabbage is one soul or one point
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: five soldays in the supermarket, you can go to the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: local markets and know that you should be paying one
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: soul for that same size slice of cabbage. So if
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the lady's selling it for three and you say one,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the happy they're like, okay, he knows what's up. Here
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: are your vegetables, and then everything else will be normally priced.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: They won't try it again. And that has actually never
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: happened with the vegetables here. That did happen with one thing.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I think Elo Negro, the string I use. I asked
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: one guy and he was like thirty and I was like,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: there's no way that's thirty cents. He was like it's
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: twenty and I was like, yeah, come on, man, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I don't even think it's twenty. I think it's actually ten.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: But I'll pay a little more, which is like polite
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: for the tourist who has more money and can willfully shop.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Just my own perspective, you don't have to pay morey
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I overpay a little. I'll pay supermarket prices at the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: groceries at the local markets. But even then, if you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: try and do it, you're gonna get cheaper prices at
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the local markets anyway. It's just so cheap. I still
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: make the goal gopen eat it with potato chips. Just
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: thatslid mix. So I'll buy a slice of cabbage for
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: one soul. I'll buy an onion and a tomato for
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: one soul altogether, and then maybe a carrot for another
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: fifty cents the way everything. Yesterday, the lady did that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and she was like eighty cents. Eighty cents of soles,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: so that's like twenty cents American, maybe twenty two cents.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: It's so inexpensive to shop with the local markets, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: most people just give you the good price. I don't
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: even like to do the it's one soul, not two
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: soles thing. So I'll go to different stalls a lot,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and then as soon as I find the one that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: weighs it and gives me the correct price, I just
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: keep going back to that person if they have the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: fresh vegetables. I love local markets, just walk around looking
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: at all the amazing food that somehow spoils very slowly
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: for some reason. I mean here, it makes sense. Up
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: in Cusco, there's not there's less oxygen, less oxidization happening,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and it's very dry up here with the elevation, so
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it makes sense that food stays preserved longer. But in
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: all countries like it chungdo superhumid place, all their produce
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: just somehow stays fresh for longer. Maybe it's because it's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in a big pile, because you know, if you have
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: fruit in a pile, it'll kind of last a while.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So that man explained to me what
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the parade was about. It was over. I was like
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: cool cultural celebration. It was awesome. It was absolutely amazing.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I had one hundred pictures and videos I took, just like,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: what is happening? Who are all these beautiful people costumed
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: elaborately dancing professionally in eleven thousand thin air elevation? It
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: was so it was so entrancing to watch. So I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: have evan pages to get through. That was the first
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: item on the list. Yeah, it makes sense. That was
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: a huge that was that was amazing when I saw that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: That happened in the first month I came to Cusco,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and when I saw that parade, I was like, Yep,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: this was the correct decision. I wasn't sure if I
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: was supposed to go to Cusco next, or even if
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I was only supposed to stay a month and then leave.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: But when I saw that parade, all the other things,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: all the colors, the clothing, the food, everything clicked into place,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and I was like, no, this is definitely where I'm
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: supposed to be, and I have to start climbing those mountains.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And Cousco is my place, just like other places. I
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: almost always when I go to a new place, I'm like, yeah,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I could live here. Like Panama, I could live there
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: for sure, uh medi Ian, Yeah, I could live there
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: for sure. Cousco, I could live here, and I would
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: be happier than in the other Central South American country
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: that I meant to. I can just walk for third
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: minutes and be in the mountains. If I work for
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: another thirty minutes. There's not a soul around in the Andes,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the endless peaks of the Andes mountains, and I can
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: walk around as long as I want to, and then
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: spend a few hours walking back, and there's just all
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: of my favorite foods like waiting for me, except Chinese
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: hot pot bas I will say that, but I'm sure
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: there are Chinese stores here where I could buy the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: hot pot base and make it myself. And every time
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I walk down everyone who sees me too, they recognize
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: me obviously as the tourist after the first time I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: visit them, and they're happy to see me, and they're
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: kind and they're happy that I'm buying their food and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that I like their food so much, and they try
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to talk to me in Spanish, and they're very empathetic. Here,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they're very good. They're much better than other countries many,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I'll say, so far, the people in my neighborhood have
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: been much better than people in most other countries in
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: terms of gauging my actual level of Spanish and then
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: adjust their language level so that I can understand and
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: we can actually have a short conversation, whereas in like
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Guatemala or Panama, especially big city like they just usually
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: spoke too quickly and stayed at their level of Spanish,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: which is totally fine and completely fair. But it's just
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: nice to be to feel so welcomed in this city,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: in a beautiful city that I love climbing the mountains
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of with great food and cool people and great clothing.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I want to buy a big, thick Peruvian jacket and stuff,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: but it just wouldn't really fit my style. And I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: actually have a Peruvian knit alpaca wool cap from in
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the Peruvian style from Peru that was ship to the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: US that I bought in Colorado and I've taken around
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the world with me. Oh wait, yeah, maybe that's a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: new one. So for five years or something like that,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: when I visited in Colorado, Cusco rocks. Maybe all of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Peru rocks. I am going to go check out Lima soon,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: so we'll see. I don't like cities in general, especially
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: relative to smaller towns, but who knows, it'll be fun
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to be back in a city. It's been a while
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, okay, folks, okay, okay. So that was
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the Peruvian parade. The episode's almost over. That's so funny.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: The first item to me nearly half an hour. But
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it was such a good parade. I still remember. I
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: have clear flashes of memories of the people leaping and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: dancing and their costumes, just the colors and the athletic
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: prowess and the beautiful girls of course, can't deny, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: just how happy literally everybody was, even the panting dancers.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: You could just tell they were like, yeah, I'm doing this,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: this is like representing, and they were all representing, and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: everyone on the side of the street, we were all
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: so into it. Oh, it was so cool. Okay, okay.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Next item on the list crazy tefil jobs China is
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: what I wrote down tefol teaching English is a foreign language.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: So I think I mentioned this on the last one.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: If I didn't, I'm gonna talk about it again. I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: checked English jobs for this guy I helped move abroad
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: from the US because he was like, hey, are you serious.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: The US sucks. I don't want to live here. And
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I was like, great, I can help you live abroad.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: It's way better. It's costs pennies on the dollar to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: live out here, the food's better, nobody is shooting children. Yeah,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: come travel And we talked for a long time. He
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: has started traveling, and I was looking up jobs that
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: he could get in China because I also told him, like,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you speak English. That is a skill you have that
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: is valued around the world two billion English students. You
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: should go teach English if you need some money. And
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, I need money, and I was like, okay,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: if you're a native English speaker, you're good. You should
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: get the Tefel certificate because then you'll automatically get higher pay.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: So I think he's doing that right now. But because
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: of him, I have looked up the jobs that were
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: available these days in China. Last time I looked up
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: was like six months ago. And if I haven't talked
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: about this, this is going to shock you. If you
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: haven't heard this yet, which I don't know maybe it
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: wasn't in the Rambalan episode. You can get paid ten
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month for a forty hour work week
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: right now in China for teaching English for one on
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: one tutoring English. So when I arrived in China, the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: regular rate was like fifteen hundred to two two thousand
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: was common enough to get so, like twelve years ago
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: something like that. If you showed up in China and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: you were fluent English speaker, they would pay you two
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: thousand USD flat. Which is the same as a high
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: paid salary man, like a middle aged salary man in Beijing.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: So you're getting paid pretty well relatives to the cost
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: of living there. Housing is one hundred dollars for an apartment,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: food is maybe a dollar plate. It's a very good
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: salary two thousand a month. Then five years ago I
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: checked the prices and the salaries again and it looks
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: like the median was like twenty five hundred. And when
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I went back this time and checked all of the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: another five years later, all of the starting positions started
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: at three thousand USD per month. But I was just
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: in China last year and none of the prices, at
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: least for a traveler have increased. Housing is the same,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: maybe because of the huge housing collapse they had in
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: China or cheaper, and food is the same. Everything costs
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the same as it did over a decade ago. But
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: now you're getting three thousand per month starting instead of
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: like I got two thousand per month starting when I
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: started out three thousand USD per month. It would be
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: very very easy to save twenty five hundred of that
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: per month, very easy. But Kai, I thought you said
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: ten thousand. Oh, my friends, I did, okay, So that
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: three thousand per month starting salary that is, that is
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: for a new teacher with a TEFL certificate will certainly help.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: But that's for twenty to twenty five hours. I'll say
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: twenty five hours twenty five hours per week, So if
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: you were working forty hours per week, that'd be an
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: extra fifty percent or what sixty percent, So that's actually
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: closer to five thousand. If you work a forty hours,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you're much more likely to get closer to five thousand USD.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: But kay, I thought you said ten thousand. Oh I did.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: These are for any school. I'm talking thousands of jobs
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: across China at least, it's much more likely tens of
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: thousands of jobs. Again, there are two billion language learners
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: across the world, and about a billion of them are
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: in China. There's so many people who want to learn
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: English there or like seven hundred million. There are so
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: many people, so there are so many jobs. For numbers,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that's six thousand English language learners per willing teacher that
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: are available. There's only two hundred and fifty thousand teachers
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: in the world. Oh, that's a lot. Now, with two
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: billion language learners, that means they need six They need
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: teachers that can teach six thousand students each. That I
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: cannot explain to people how large this industry is. Okay,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and Corli Alikai, I thought you said ten thousand usd
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: per month, Yes, I did so. If if you get
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: any of these entry level jobs, you're making three thousand
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: for twenty five hours of work a week. The highest
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I saw was thirty. If someone's saying forty hours a
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: week for an English teaching job, don't get that job.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. Nobody they're just trying to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: They're like, maybe someone who doesn't know will get that. No,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the average amount is twenty five hours per week in
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: English for a teacher, and up to thirty, but never
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: more than that for any school that I would teach
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: at or that I would trust. If they're trying to
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: get someone, if they're trying to hook an ignorant foreigner
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: for forty hours a week, then there are tricky people,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't go to that school. Okay, So ten
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars per month, three thousand dollars you show up
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours a week, that's about five thousand per month.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: If you work forty hours. You could very easily work
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: twenty five hours at one school fifteen hours at another
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: school if you really want the money and you can
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: get those job. Those jobs are everywhere because the starting
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: salaries three thousand, Like I said, thousands or tens of
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: thousands of jobs across the country just waiting for a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: native English speaker to walk in their doors. Literally, I'm
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: not exaggerating any of this and say Hi, I'll teach English.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: They'll be like, great, we will hire you. If you're
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: walking about around in Beijing, you see a school, you
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: walk in, they'll hire you. It's indescribable. It's so difficult
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to convey this to US Americans, especially who are in
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: such a depressing job market where they're just rejected over
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and over again, overqualified for positions they're being rejected from.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: You have a skill, you've been practicing your whole life.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Go to China. They'll pay you thousands of dollars. You'll
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: save thousands of dollars a month. Okay, anyway, ten thousand,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: ky you said ten thousands. So if you get any
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: entry level jobs you can work forty hours a week,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you will be getting five thousand USD per month. Forty
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: hour weeks one hundred and sixty hours for five thousand
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: dollars per month. That's about the average entry level hourly
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: wage of thirty US dollars per hour per class hour
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you're teaching, which is like forty five minutes or fifty
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: minutes because there's a break in each class, thirty dollars
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: per hour. That's like two hundred remnant b with you
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: want two hundred Chinese you on. That is the minimum
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: rate I saw on all of these schools. So and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: so that's all jobs. Any English teaching job you get,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you'll be getting thirty dollars per hour to read basic
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: English words literally could be the rainbow colors. For ten
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: minutes from a book. You do a small activity, take
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a break, read from the book again to the kids.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: They repeat to each other classes over, you just made
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: thirty bucks thirty dollars an hour. A skill you are
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: you've got down pat native or fluent speaker. I'm talking
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: to thirty bucks an hour. That is five thousand dollars
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: a month us just waiting for anybody. But kay, you
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: said ten thousand dollars. Okay, so two hundred is the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: lowest number I see on these ads. There are multiple
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: like dozens on one magazine, the Beijinger dot com. I
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: have checked, there are multiple jobs offering one on one tutoring.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: So it's just you, the teacher and one student paying
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: a four hundred renman B per class session per hour.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: So now instead of thirty dollars, you're making sixty US
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: dollars per hour four hundred four hundred renman b now
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: obviously five thousand if you're doing that boom times two.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Now you're making ten thousand. If you tutor at four
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: hundred renman B for forty hours a week, that's one
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty hours a month. One hundred sixty times
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: sixty ish is ninety six hundred dollars US per month.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: You can go on the beijinger dot com slash classifieds
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: right now, and that's like kind of a fancy magazine.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: It's the most pop magazine in China, certainly in Beijing.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: So the classifieds there aren't there's less than one percent
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of the available jobs are on there, but you'll still
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: find twenty or thirty English teaching jobs on there that
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: are offering pay rates of three hundred and fifty to
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty remnant B four hundred fifty is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: closer to like sixty five US dollars per hour, so
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: more than ten thousand a month. And they have, you know,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: seven hundred million language learners children and adults. Whatever your
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: level is, they will pair you with the kid, especially
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: if you have a TEFL and you will be getting
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: paid with the TEFL certificate, the higher end of the
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: pay scale. You will be getting that sixty sixty five
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: dollars per hour. Now me, I was getting paid that.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: My highest pay was a little over seventy US dollars
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: per hour per session I had with this kid, which
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: was yeah, per hour, and that was great. And that
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: was ten years ago. That was a long time ago.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: So these rates, like getting paid sixty dollars an hour
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to just speak basic English to one student might sound
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: crazy to you. But I got paid more than that
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: a decade ago. And the companies that are offering these
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: jobs to English speakers, they're probably getting paid like twice
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: as much. They're probably getting paid one hundred or more. Again,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: this was like five years ago. When I was looking
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: at jobs for someone else I helped move abroad. There
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: was an old Chinese guy who said, I'll meet you
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: in a cafe once a week and I'll pay you
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the equivalent of one hundred dollars an hour seven hundred REMMB,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: So that's like one hundred fifteen US dollars per hour.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And he didn't want a lesson. He just wanted to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: talk to a native speaker. His daughter was studying in America.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: He was going to go visit her in like six months,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and he was like, so for six months, you just
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: meet me once or twice a week at this cafe,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: whatever your schedule is good for. We'll talk for an hour.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I'll pay you seven hundred run and B and good
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: to go. So if you met that dude twice a
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: week for six months, what's that eight times forty eight?
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So let's just round it to fifty. That's forty eight
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: times over six months. He's paying you one hundred and
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: fifteen US dollars per hour that he's probably buying you
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: tea at in the cafe, and just talk about nothing.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: You can talk about iron Man or my little pony
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: or whatever you like crocheting. He just wanted to chat.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Fifty times one hundred and fifteen seven hundred thousand, five thousand,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty. So if you just met with
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: this guy and just talked, you'd make five thousand bucks
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: over six months, which would be two hours a week
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: meeting with that guy. That would more than cover your expenses.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: If you're there for six months, thousand, seven hundred and
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: fifty bucks is almost six thousand dollars. Easily five hundred
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: dollars per month you can spend in Chine. You could
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: let's just say you spend one thousand per month, two
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: hours a week, you'll get one thousand US dollars per month.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: You can drink as much beer as you want, you
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: can go party every day and spend one thousand dollars
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a month very carefully. So for two hours a week
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: with this guy who wants to pay you one hundred
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and fifteen bucks, your cost of living is totally covered
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: in China. Now, great, but I'm not going to get
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: that job. Fine, get a teful certificate. Go get one
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of the jobs that are paying sixty dollars per hour,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: because by that same math, then you only have to
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: work four hours per week. At sixty dollars an hour,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: four hours per week, that's one thousand dollars a month.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: You will easily be able to survive on one thousand
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: dollars a month. A month, if you want to work
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: ten hours a week, then boom, you're saving an extra
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: thousand per month. If you want to work fifteen hours,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: you're saving what twenty three hundred per month? You want
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: to work twenty It just keeps going up. It's crazy.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I have money. I have enough money for the rest
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: of my life because I saved all my paychecks in China.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: But when I see these pays out, when I see
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: these pay ranges, I certainly am thinking maybe I should
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: go back for a year, make another hundred thousand and
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: buy a boat. Like I love living in China. The
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: food's so good, it's so convenient, and I could have
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: a boat or like yeah, but I haven't done it
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: because I really don't need a boat or want a
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: boat right now. If I need one hundred percent, teaching
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: English is my If I ever need money, what should
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I do? Teach English one hundred percent? I've been China's
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: one country. They pay the most, but you can get
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: paid well in most countries in the world. Relative to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the cost of living. It'll be less. In countries like
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Thailand or Cambodia. You'll get paid less, but the cost
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of life is as low as China or lower, so
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: you're still saving five hundred or one thousand a month
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: even if you're only getting paid fifteen hundred per month.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: But I mean, if you're gonna do it anyway, why
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: not just go to the place where they're willing to
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: pay you three thousand, five thousand, ten thousand per month.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: And instead of getting two thousand per month and working
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: for five years and then retiring, go to China, work
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: for one year and then retire or take a break.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: You'll have one hundred thousand bucks if you work forty
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: hours a week, which again personally, I would never do
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: if you really want money, I'm just saying it's right
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: there for you to pick up. I don't like working
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: that much. When I worked as an English teacher, I worked,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: by the numbers, a maximum of thirty hours a week,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and much more often, especially with my second school. My
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: second school, I don't think I ever worked more than
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: twelve hours a week, and I was still making two
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: thousand whatever. It was my own school, so I got
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: all the profit. But I was making more in two
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: thousand a month, and I never worked more than twelve
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: hours a week. Yeah, so I guess I was getting
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: paid at least two hundred dollars per hour to teach
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: English to mostly children, a couple of middle school kids
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: and a couple adults. I recommend it. I recommend getting
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: out of financial destitution because it sucks and that's where
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I lived for the first twenty five years of my
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: life or whatever. And if you're hearing this and being like, well, yeah,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you did it, but Bob, yeah, trust me, dude, if
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I did it, you can do it as a native
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: English speaker or a fluent English speaker, and I will
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: tell you how to do it if you want to
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: know how to do it. If you're like, if you
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: want details and you want examples and proof and all
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: that stuff, email me bit of a Rambler Gmail dot
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: com or hit me up on Lemmy and Blue Sky
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: or even Twitch. I have had a bunch of talks
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: with the guy who's traveling now live Q and days
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: on Twitch. Just talk to me. Those jobs are there.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I can show you the pay ranges online. I got those.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I got better than those pay ranges a decade ago.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: These numbers make total sense to me. There's just and
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: there's more English language learners than ever there were when
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I moved to China about one point five billion people
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: learning English around the world. Almost now there's almost two
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: billion people learning English. So if you have heard anything
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: from anybody who has not been English teaching or has
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: not traveled at all, and they're like, yeah, but all
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: those jobs are taken up, or they don't really pay
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you that much, it's really expensive to travel. All that
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: crap from someone who has not traveled or been in
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: the industry, total belowny, my friend, will I will send
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you the current pay scales and yeah, screenshots, I'll give
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: you the links. Yeah, I'll set you up. You can
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: get out there, start making money, or more likely, if
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you're a US Americans, start paying off your debt. The
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: jobs are there and they are waiting for fluent speakers.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I worked hard once I realized that I could retire
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: much quicker than the sixty years I was always told.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, then I'm just going to work
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: on working less but making the same amount of money.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: And I did that until, like I said, at my
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: second school in Chungdu, I was working twelve hours a
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: week bringing in the same amount of money. Over two
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: thousand US a month, and I was saving most of that.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: My apartment was eighty dollars a month, thank you my
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: friend who set me up with that apartment. Food was
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: a dollar a plate. Maybe. I partied all the time too.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I was drinking and going out to hot poul like
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: every day, so I probably spent closer to ten dollars
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: a day on food. But ten dollars you're bringing in
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred if you spend ten dollars a day.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: If you spend twenty dollars, at twenty dollars a day,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I'll say is exorbitant. But many days I'd be drinking
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: twenty beers, which is like five dollars maybe, and I'd
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: eat hot pot or chuan chwan for literally four to
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: six hours, just sitting with friends eating that. If you
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: spent twenty dollars a day, which would be lavish luxury
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: eating out every day, that's still only six hundred dollars
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: a month, and you're bringing in more than too. Now
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: you're bringing in three thousand a month right with those
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: entry level jobs. But I was bringing way more. I
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: was bringing more than two thousand, so I was still
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: saving at least fifteen hundred a month. And I was
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: working twelve hours a week, so I could have been
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: bringing home at least three times that. It's just a
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: decade ago, and now they're paying so much more for
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: these entry level English teaching jobs. Also, all of the
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: jobs that I'm talking about, all these listings, it's very
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: interesting because they offer so many more benefits than the
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: jobs used to people like big big schools like Disney
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: English that doesn't around anymore. They used to offer sign
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: up bonuses and flight reimbursement and all this stuff, but
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: most schools did not. Now every single listing I see.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: In addition to the much higher base pay of three
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: thousand US dollars plus per month, they also offer work
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: visa assistance really important. There's assistance to help you with
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: all your daily stuff, translating, getting your phone, all that stuff.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Their textbooks are all there so you can do the curriculum,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: so the curriculum is ready to go. You don't have
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: to make the curriculum yourself, you just read from a book.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: They reimburse or flights. They have air conditioning their schools.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: A lot of them mentioned it's just everything. Everything's taken
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: care of. They know now that they lose so many
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: English teachers because they don't offer comfortable benefits that especially
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: younger generations want and believe they deserve, and I believe
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: they deserve. You should be treated well, especially as a teacher.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you're an English teacher or a
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: physics teacher. If you are teaching students, that's a big
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: responsibility and literally one of the most important jobs in
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: the world. So you can also feel good because teaching
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: English is giving so many opportunities to people. It's just
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: it's the skill that makes the language world go round.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Right now. English is very important right now. If you
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: teach a kid English, you are giving that kid material
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: opportunities later in their lives and maybe even earlier in
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: their lives. So you can feel good about the job.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: You get compensated well. The schools are offering jobs that
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: look better than any job I scrolled through a decade ago. Okay,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: now we're through the second item on one page of
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: six seven pages to talk about jeez. Okay, these other
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: ones should go a little faster. But I get so
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: excited talking about these jobs because I kind of want
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: to go back. I I think it's been long enough
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: that I kind of miss China. I won't. I don't
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: think go back to Beijing because there were these security
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: guards and they were like, show me your passport, and
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I was like, ugh, Beijing is like so regimented since
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: it's the government center. But if you're starting in China,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: just go to Beijing. It's incredibly convenient. You're not going
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: to know what's happening. I feel like a local in Beijing.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I speak Mandarin, like, I know how to haggle. I
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: just know a ton of things about the culture. So
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: it was insulting to me to be asked for my passport,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: even though I am the touristiest look in mf in
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood makes total sense. I didn't even get bothered.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I never carried around my passport like that's against the rules.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I never got in trouble or anything. I'm just whining
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: because I want to be treated like a local in
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: like the the country aside from North Korea that is
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: the least likely to ever treat you like a local.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen. But there are It's a
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: huge country. There are so many amazing cities around there.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to other cities. I lived in Beijing
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: long enough. Beijing's also the smoggiest foggist. I'm gonna go
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: live in Yunan with my mountains something like that. Oh,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I want to go to Mongolia too. Oh. I'm excited
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: for my Asia trip. I'm gonna go to Asia. I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: gotta go back. I just I just keep thinking about Asia.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I've had a really good time here. I do love
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Peru a lot. It's probably my favorite country outside of
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Asia so far. But I miss Japan. I miss the
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: cherry blossoms. I miss China and they're hot pots. And
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I miss Thailand and they're buffets and just cool belly
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: rub and lazy people on the side of the road.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Just love Asia. It's so it's pru It's Peru is
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: my Asia of Central South America. Maybe that's why I'm
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: digging it here so much. People are pretty chill, they're pretty,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: They're very proud of their culture, and Asia individual country
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: is very proud of their culture and the arts there. Wow,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: I wonder I haven't thought about that. That's an interesting,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: uh corollary. But I am missing Asia. I'm going back, folks,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure yet. I have to go to a
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: wedding of a friend in the Philippines. I want to
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: get to Japan if I can for Terry Blossom's season.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Really want to go to Unon in China and climb
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: the mountain because I haven't been to that province yet.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Just all excited, so I'm gonna go to Asia. Okay,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: what's next on the list. Let's let's get three things
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: done in an hour? Kai geez, Bit of a Rambler?
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Good thing? I named my podcast bit of a Rambler. Huh,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I have a showed So okay, I had to buy beer.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: That's not true. I didn't have to buy beer. I'm
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: actually taking a break right now, but I wasn't taking
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: a break when this happened. I went to detail the
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: telephone company here. They're like five of them, and I
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: had to recharge my phone. But it was one of
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: the smaller places, and even the big places don't use
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: credit card. So I was like, ah, okay, well I
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: have fifty and she was like, I have zero change
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: because you're the first person to walk in here. I
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: was like ah, so I went, oh no, it was
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: like a two hundred. It was a bigger bill anyway.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: I looked around, but people don't like changing money for
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the smaller bills here because the big bills are so
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: hard to spend. So I was having trouble. But then
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I realized right up the street there was a giant
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: supermarket that I had been to a few times, and
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: so I tottered up there. It's called Totis actually, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: there was some beer on sale, and so I was
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: just thing. Thought I was going to start my dry
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: spell for a while and that day, but I was like, well,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: I got to make change, and so I bought a
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: big old six pack of Kusquenya and it was good
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: and I drank it all and I was able to
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: break the change and then recharge my phone. And when
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I went back, the girl was happy, and she was
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: she looked young. She was pretty thin. And they have
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: like a lot of kids who work with their mom
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: or their dad in the markets. So there's like younger
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: workers than you would expect to see that might give
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: you vegetables or whatever when their mom's like give him
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: a carrot. Not very common here compared to other countries,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: but I did see a few younger employees, and she
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: looked younger, and we had been talking a little bit.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I was practicing my Spanish. Oh and her English was
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: crazy good, which was really surprising. So after my Spanish failed,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: she was like, you can't speak English, and I was
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: like yes, And I asked her how old she was
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: and she said twelve with a straight face, and I
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: was like, oh what because she was pretty and I
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: was like uh oh, and then she was like a twenty,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: I'm twenty, not twelve, and I was like, oh, okay.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ like terrified me because like I'm getting older
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and it's more difficult for me to differentiate ages. But
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: I was like, there's no way I missed that that
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: she's twelve. But I was worried that I was just
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: such an old piece of crap that I couldn't tell
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: ages anymore. And twenty is certainly young for me as well.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: But I was like, that's at least an age. I understand,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: you look like an adult human. And she was very
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: appreciative of me going to get changed so that I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: could recharge it at their store. Then I said thank you,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: and her English was great, and I was very impressed,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: and then we said goodbye, and I went and got
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: some dryed mango or something and kept down walking. Well,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I'm so close to an hour I guess we'll just
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: get to an hour. I'm trying to make these shorter
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: these days, but I guess if I do them during
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the day, I can talk for an hour or longer.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: That's fine, have more time. So I moved to a
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: new apartment in Cusco that is still absurdly large. It's
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: three bedroom, two bathroom, giant living room, twice as big
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: as any place I had renting out in the state.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: The living room and kitchen I have here is probably
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: bigger than the three bedroom apartment I had in Portland,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and it costs less than half as much. It costs
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety dollars a month, or I guess
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: ten dollars a day, because it was that was for
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: four weeks. But it's very nice tiles, everything's clean. There's
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: a hole like in the tile in the bathrooms where
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: they put in a valve so you can shut off
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: the water in case it's necessary. And the there's a
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: musty smell from inside the wall, but I just put
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: tape over it and then the musty smell wasn't so bad,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: And it's amaze. This is a great place, Like it's
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: a giant kitchen. There's a washing machine, fantastic. Why am
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: I talking about this, oh new place. I didn't tell
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: you about it yet because I just moved in here
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago, and I like it a lot.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: And it was funny because I always live in the
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: local neighborhoods. I never go to the tourist centers when
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I moved to a new city, so people are often
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: surprised that I would choose to be in the local
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: neighborhoods where the prices and the food are way better.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Don't be surprised. So I checked into this new place
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: and it was really nice, and I was like, oh,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe. I still can't believe. I've
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: been traveling for fifteen years. I still cannot believe the
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: cost of living differences. And this isn't just country to
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: country like obviously, it's incredibly cheap here for a very
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: nice three bedroom, two bathroom, full kitchen, washing machine, all
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: the utility, oh yeah, you don't pay for utilities. Also
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: for three hundred bucks compared to the States. It's crazy.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: But even within this city, if I was living like
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: a mile west, if I was living well, two miles
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: maybe tops, I think closer to like a mile and
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: a half west of here, in the tourist center, I'd
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: be paying twice as much at least. Like they know
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: that tourists like to congregate, and so they build a
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: tourist center and things are more expensive there. You just
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: go outside of the tourist center, you're still in the
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: same city. Buses will take you straight to the city
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: center in ten minutes, but you're paying half or often
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: less for far better accommodations than you would get in
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the city center. It's just great. It's so I walked
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: in here and I was like, oh my god, look
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: at this fricking place. Because the first apartment I got
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: here was also three bedroom, two bathroom, huge, beautiful, very
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: nice hardwood floors. I walk into this one pretty much
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: the same thing. Giant my choice of bedrooms and bathrooms,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: and there's tiles, and it's clean, and a giant kitchen
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: for me to make foods. And I'm I'm not I'm
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: in the location I like, I'm with all the locals.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: There's a market across the street. There's a supermarket where
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: I can go get those smoked ribs that I'm addicted to.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: It's just exactly what I like now. I am next
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: to a car like tapies ETI, a place where they
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: repair cars and like modify cars and stuff. So there's
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: a little machining noise outside you probably heard at some point,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: but if you close everything, if you close all the windows,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: it's pretty quiet. And they work nine to five, So
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: before nine and after five they're not there, or I
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: guess there. It's like eight to five something like that.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: But it's not all ours, and it's certainly worth it
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: for the amazing view of the Andy Mountain Andy's Mountains
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: I have from my giant living room. It's just a
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: very comfortable spot. So I check into this new place.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: But again, the most important thing for people who live
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: this isn't weird to them. All the locals live. They
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: live in like pretty nice places. If you have just
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: an average median income, they're charging me three hundred for
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: less than three hundred for this place. So for this condo,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: they're probably paying one hundred USD. They're probably paying much less,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: maybe like seventy USD for this huge condo. So the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: locals outside, most of them have their own houses or condos.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: They live in pretty nice places relative to their income
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: from what you would think, Oh, my gosh, you make
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: four hundred US dollars a month. That's terrible sort of,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: except the pricing here is so low that they can
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: and everything is so generational here. They have really nice
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: housing at a much much lower price, and they rented
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: out to me, and they're super happy for the extra
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: two hundred whatever on top of their base rent. You know,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: they make a little. They make a lot of extra
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: income actually, and I'm super happy because I'm paying a
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: fair price what I consider fair for this space that
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: I like to live in. So anyway, the guy that
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: brings me up with his mom and introduces me into
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: the apartment is like, this is it? Bedroom? Bedroom, kitchen?
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: What are you doing here? And I knew what he
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: was saying, but I always I always like asking them like, oh,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: what do you mean? I always like asking it is suddenly,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: even though I know what they're saying, because I like
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: to hear them say, as he did, why did you
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: choose this neighborhood. It's very far away from the tourist center.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: There's not many services, And I was like, yeah, I
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: don't like the tourist centers. I like living out here
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: with the locals and like services. Dude, supermarkets. There's water,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: hotch hours, giant space for me to dance around the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: living room for fun. The mountains are right there, like
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: they're right there. I can just climb into mountains. After
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, after ten minutes, I'm ascending already. After thirty minutes,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I'm I've left Cusco behind. I'm just in the mountains.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. All the amenities are
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: here for me. And there's money changers out here. You
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: can change your money. There are Western Union wires, They're
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: all the services are out here. Also, they're just a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: mile away from all the tourists. But I always think
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: it's funny when a local is like, but why would
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: you come here? Half the time they're like, it's really
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: boring here, by which they mean there are no night
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: clubs to dance, and those are all in the city center.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want a bunch of traffic and
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: loud nightclubs. I want to hang out in a neighborhood
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: that has all the good food and all the normal people.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: I don't want the people who are used to seeing
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: tourists who are very servicey. I want people who don't
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: give a crap that I'm a foreigner, which the further
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: you get out of the tourist center, the less they
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: care where you're from. They might be more interested. They're like, oh, foreigner,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: but they treat you more normal. You're just like this
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: errant fish swimming through their stream. But they're so much
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: more relaxed outside of tourist centers. I just feel more
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: comfortable around regular people instead of around service people. Like
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: if I walk into a hotel and someone says, sir, hello,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: it's so good to see you, I vomit in my
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: mouth and like run away as fast as I can.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: I don't want that experience. Okay, ramble on, geez, Okay,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: we're almost done with the third The thing I wrote
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: down something I already mentioned. I met this cool Dominican
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: in a restaurant who only spoke Spanish and we just
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: talked for a while because I was chowing down on
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: these ribs and she saw me eating the second room.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: She was like, it's good, right, this lady has the
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: best ribs, and I was like, I know. And the
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: crazy thing about that she hasn't been opened once for
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: ribs since I went there, which I'm like, hey man,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: but I found another super good rib play. Oh my god,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go check. What time is it. Oh, it's
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: too late, I got I got distracted. I was gonna
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: do this for thirty minutes then go get ribs guys. Okay. Anyway,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: so it's time with slated about how good the ribs
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: are in Spanish, and I was like, look at me
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: using my crappy Spanish to have a real conversation. But
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: I saw her like face changed and I was like, oh,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that question. And she was like, wait,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: what are you doing out here? There's no tourists out here.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Why are you in this neighborhood? And I, you know,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: excitedly got to be like, it's cooler with the locals.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't even get to explain, though, because as soon
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: as I said it's Massaniel come as locals. As soon
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: as I started saying it's cool with loc she was like,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: it's better. You're right. All the food's better, the people
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: are better, it's way more chill. This is just a
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: way better area. And she was like that's why I'm
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: here too. I'm from the Dominican Republic. Every time I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: travel around and I love Cusco and other Peruvian places.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: I always go to the places outside of the city
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: center because I don't like to hang out with all
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: the other tourists. And we both just was like recognize,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: and then both of us like had our heads held higher.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, we're living with the locals. Even though
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: at all times, especially me pale, white, obvious tourist, she
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: blended in much better as a Dominican. You could tell.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: We were both like, yeah, we're cool. We hang on
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: the local neighborhoods. That's right, and it's just fun to
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: have that with another tourist who likes living outside of
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: the city centers. And she even did the thing that
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: I did. She's like, and if you need to get
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: in the city center, there's like a hundred buses, it
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: costs a dollar. You just go right up there. Or
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: one soul cost twenty five cents. And I was like, totally.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: We just agreed on how much better it is to
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: live outside the city centers. Everything's cleaner, prettier, the local
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: culture is so much easier to imbibe, and the mountains
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: all right here. Baby. Okay, folks, if you want to
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: come to Cusco, you should also talk to me, because
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I got an offline map I can send you with
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: all my spots and tell you where to hike. I
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: gotta get to the glacier. I gotta, you know what.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: I gotta go out and go find a bus company
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: who will take me down to sing Rana Kocha, because
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: I really want to get over to the glaciers before
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: I leave Cusco, if it is at all possible. Oh
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: my gosh, you can't believe how long this lasted. One, two, three, four. Okay,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: not as bad as I thought. We got through only
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: three items on the list, but there are four pages
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: not seven pages left, which is a lot. But they'll
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: probably go faster. Probably, Yeah, a bunch of them about food.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: That's fine, Okay, I loved talking to you. I hope
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: you're having a great day. If you want to talk
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: to me, get me a bit of a Ramblergmail dot
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: com or let me or on blue Sky bit of
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: a rambler all one word. So I'm gonna ask me
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: about Patreon, and I was like, yeah, probably. I think
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do movie and music reviews on Patreon, just
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: like more personal stuff, and then I'll talk about Rambalani
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: stuff too. There'll just be extra episodes of you know, crap,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: that I do talk about that you can listen to
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: on Patreon. I haven't worked out the feat schedule yet.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: I'm heavily leaning toward a dollar a month because I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: keep telling you how cheap it is to live out here,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: and while I might not be doing this forever, I
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: kind of want to put my money where my mouth
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: is and just do a dollar a month for Patreon
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: and you'll just get a bunch of extra episodes. Because
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: I watch a lot of movie I have so much
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: free time, I'm listening to music. I'm always have thoughts
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: about them, but I don't talk about them as much
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: as I think i'd like to. I want to start
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: with one of my favorite movies ever too. I want
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: to talk about Hannah. That's such a good movie. Anyway, Yeah,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: talk to me, let me blue Sky or Gmail, and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: I hope you have a great rest of your day.