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064 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 1: And today another ramble on. Oh what's been going on?
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  Speaker 1: Still in Cusco? Still cool, Alice in Borderland? Have you
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  Speaker 1: heard of that? It's a Japanese show Audi Su. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a Japanese show about these guys who get
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  Speaker 1: left behind the rest of the world, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world all the people in it disappear and
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  Speaker 1: then they're forced to play games where they murder each other.
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  Speaker 1: And it was pretty good. I watched all three seasons.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, I don't know, I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: problem with it was that the games were not winnable.
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  Speaker 1: You just had to lose them very often, so it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't very suspenseful because it didn't so much feel like
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  Speaker 1: squid Game. It felt much more just like Jason X.
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  Speaker 1: It just felt like a horror movie where they kill everybody.
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  Speaker 1: So the games weren't as interesting. Actually, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: not true. The games were interesting. The games were fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that they were completely unfair, so it wasn't like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: at least it's fair, like a person could do this
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  Speaker 1: if they were good in that skill. These were just
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  Speaker 1: like five of you died by bullets. Nah. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to spoil any of them. But the firework one
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  Speaker 1: was super cool. The fire arrow one. I just watching it.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty fun. It ended well enough. It just got
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  Speaker 1: a little goofy at times, and it got like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the games were unfair, so there wasn't any tension because
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  Speaker 1: you weren't like, oh, I wonder how many of them
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  Speaker 1: are skilled enough at this, because there was no The
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  Speaker 1: skill wasn't It was almost never important. It was more
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  Speaker 1: just like, I wonder, who's randomly going to get killed
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  Speaker 1: except the two main characters of the show, and then
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  Speaker 1: everybody gets killed except the two main characters. But I
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  Speaker 1: do like the like the world disappears since you were
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  Speaker 1: still there plot like, not summary, not plot device. I
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  Speaker 1: like that concept. I like that initial theme, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: always interested in that. It was fun enough, Alison Borderland
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  Speaker 1: pretty good if you like crazy weirdo shows. So I
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  Speaker 1: had KOOI I had Guinea Pig at this really great restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: It's outdoors, so the all of the tables and everything, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everything's outdoors. You can sit under umbrellas, under trees in
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  Speaker 1: the courtyard, of this restaurant. It's kind of expensive, i'll
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  Speaker 1: say that, but the food was really good. I got
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  Speaker 1: to try guinta pig for the first time. Super tender meat,
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  Speaker 1: pretty tasty. But I also got this fruit piyada, which
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  Speaker 1: is very popular here. It's different fruits mixed in a Chica,
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  Speaker 1: usually the corn, the sugary corn, but which they have here.
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  Speaker 1: And I tasted it and I was like, Oh, that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: But I drank it and it tasted like super strong
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  Speaker 1: fermentation I used to make wine. And then I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's really strong. And I went to bed when I
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  Speaker 1: got home for like an afternoon nap, I guess, and
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  Speaker 1: then I got up and then I barfed and I
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  Speaker 1: barred four times and then I was okay, But it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty crazy. I think it was a bacterial infection
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  Speaker 1: in the fruit piyada, because when I tasted it, there
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  Speaker 1: was a weird texture and it kind of tasted like
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  Speaker 1: wine gone bad, like home brewed wine gone bad. So
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe it was old and they didn't switch
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  Speaker 1: it out or make a new one, and I just
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  Speaker 1: drank the old, tainted one. I went back to that restaurant, though,
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  Speaker 1: and the food is still really good. It's just that
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  Speaker 1: drink at that time. I just got unlucky. I guess. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of making things cleaner though, DIY filter. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mention this yet. The water filter. So I
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  Speaker 1: love it when a apartment or house that I rent
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  Speaker 1: has a water filter in it. That's not very common.
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  Speaker 1: They usually do not, or they usually have an antiquated
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  Speaker 1: system that doesn't really filter the water much at all.
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  Speaker 1: I get like, that's pretty common, especially in western countries.
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  Speaker 1: They'll like show you and this is the water filter,
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  Speaker 1: but it's clear that it has not been maintained at
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  Speaker 1: all and it doesn't really filter much. So here I
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  Speaker 1: am in Cusco, which is not super modern, but my
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  Speaker 1: condo is very modern. The only thing they don't have
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  Speaker 1: they have like energy efficient appliances and whatever, hot water
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  Speaker 1: and new piping. It's all very nice, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a water filter. And I know that you can
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  Speaker 1: filter water through activated carbon and activated carbon which is
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  Speaker 1: just if you burn like wood at a low heat,
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  Speaker 1: like a regular campfire heat, then it's going to turn
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  Speaker 1: into activated carbon when it burns, which is a very
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  Speaker 1: very high surface area mineral and because of its giant
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  Speaker 1: surface area it filters extremely effectively. It even filters pfas.
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  Speaker 1: For some people who asked about that. When I posted
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  Speaker 1: about the water filter in the Lema community, someone was like,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't filter pfas, but carbon activated carbon actually filters up
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred percent of pfas. Now, my homemade one
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  Speaker 1: probably doesn't, but I'm I'll take what I can get.
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  Speaker 1: Filter up to one hundred percent. That's pretty good. So
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  Speaker 1: I went to campfires and got a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: activated carbon because I noticed some capfires around here up
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  Speaker 1: by their ruins. And I put the pieces of wood
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  Speaker 1: and stuff that I found into the blender here, blended
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  Speaker 1: them all up, got some really smooth activated carbon out
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  Speaker 1: of that very easily. And I put a little piece
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  Speaker 1: of cotton, like I bought some cotton at the pharmacy,
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  Speaker 1: and I put cotton and I poured the water through
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  Speaker 1: the cotton, and the taste was terrible. So even though
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  Speaker 1: it said there were no chemicals or artificial artificial smells
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  Speaker 1: or perfumes, there was clearly something in that cotton that
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  Speaker 1: I got that set one hundred percent cotton because it
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  Speaker 1: tasted like perfumed and that it didn't smell perfume. But
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  Speaker 1: it tasted like perfume, and the taste didn't go away
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  Speaker 1: even after like twenty flushes. So I just threw that away,
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  Speaker 1: went out got a different brand. It also set one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent cotton, and that one was because I poured
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  Speaker 1: through water and after like a flush, one full flush,
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  Speaker 1: it tasted like water. So on top of that layer,
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  Speaker 1: I put about three quarters of an inch of activated carbon,
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  Speaker 1: and then another layer of Actually I didn't even put
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  Speaker 1: another lay of conon. That's all. I had the cotton,
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  Speaker 1: then the activated carbon, and I poured in the water
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  Speaker 1: and all the carbon went up and swirled around and
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  Speaker 1: got on the sides of the bottle. But when it
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  Speaker 1: filtered through, it did taste much cleaner, far fewer minerals.
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  Speaker 1: It just tasted like really good water. I was really
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  Speaker 1: excited about that. So I put another layer of cotton
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  Speaker 1: on top of the first layer of carbon, and then
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  Speaker 1: I processed a bunch more of activated carbon. Put on
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  Speaker 1: two inches or more of activated carbon in the fourth layer, cotton,
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  Speaker 1: activate carbon, cotton, activated carbon, put on another layer of cotton,
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  Speaker 1: and then put some sterilized pebbles that I boiled on
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  Speaker 1: top of the cotton to hold it down. And that
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  Speaker 1: holds down the activated carbon, so when you pour in
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  Speaker 1: the water doesn't fly around everywhere, and that tastes pretty
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  Speaker 1: much like water. So now I'm using this DIY water
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  Speaker 1: filter that works super great and was very easy to make.
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  Speaker 1: Just cut out the bottom. So I just cut off
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of a regular water bottle, poked a hole
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  Speaker 1: in the cap that was still attached to the water bottle,
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  Speaker 1: so it filters out slowly too, so the water spends
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  Speaker 1: more time in the activated carbon and it just yeah
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  Speaker 1: pours out a very small stream when you pour it
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  Speaker 1: into the top. I have it upside down in a pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: so I pour I boil water, let it cool down,
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  Speaker 1: and just tap water, and then I pour that into
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  Speaker 1: the upside down water filter with the activated carbon that's
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  Speaker 1: held up inside this glass pitcher I have. Then the
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  Speaker 1: water pours down into the glass pitcher and slowly filters
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  Speaker 1: out and a bunch of the minerals are out because
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  Speaker 1: the taste is way better. It tastes basically like brit
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  Speaker 1: of filtered water. And I'm going to be using that
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  Speaker 1: from now on. If the place doesn't have a water
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  Speaker 1: filter in their house, and I can find a campfire
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  Speaker 1: or an easy place to burn some scrap wood so
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  Speaker 1: I can make my own activated carbon. Then I will
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  Speaker 1: make a water filter. And it's really funny because I've
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  Speaker 1: known activated carbon was a good filter for I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: my whole life. I feel like I've always known that
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  Speaker 1: and I've always thought about making a filter, but I
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  Speaker 1: never did. And when I finally decided to do it,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it took ten minutes, baby tops to
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  Speaker 1: actually put it together and have a working water filter.
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  Speaker 1: And then I just add another layer and now it's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a gri eat water filter. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bring it to the next apartment I go to
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  Speaker 1: that's also in Cusco next week. Yeah. So if you
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  Speaker 1: need a homemade water filter, I recommend the upside down
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  Speaker 1: water bottle filter. Cut off the bottom, poke a hole
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  Speaker 1: in the cap, cotton activated carbon, cotton activated carbon or
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  Speaker 1: just cotton, a whole bunch of activated carbon, little layer
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  Speaker 1: of cotton, some pebbles on top of that, and water
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  Speaker 1: filter done. I'm incredibly proud of that just because of
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  Speaker 1: the quality of the water that's coming out. It's really
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  Speaker 1: good quality. I played Silk Song and it was super fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm replaying the original Hollow Night now because everyone was
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  Speaker 1: saying Silksong is so much more difficult than the original
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  Speaker 1: Hollow Night, and at least two of the bosses in
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  Speaker 1: Hollow Night are more difficult than the final boss of
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  Speaker 1: the whole game in Silksong. But I see what they
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  Speaker 1: were saying, Silksong is faster in general. I still I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a huge problem with it and was really
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  Speaker 1: surprised because I remembered Hollow Night being difficult. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of breezing through Hollow Night now and I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm just used to the mechanics of the games themselves.
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  Speaker 1: But Silksong it seems like a very natural progression of
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  Speaker 1: the series. It is more difficult, it's faster, but it
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  Speaker 1: has all the basic elements that are the same, and
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  Speaker 1: so I don't think it's much more difficult. And you're
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  Speaker 1: faster too. In Silksong. I think it's just, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: the next game. They made it better and faster and cooler.
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  Speaker 1: But the bosses themselves, except for one of them, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think are much more difficult than the bosses in
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  Speaker 1: Hollow In fact, they're definitely not because the dream after
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  Speaker 1: you beat the bosses in Hollow Night. You can fight
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  Speaker 1: their dream version, and those versions are more difficult than
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  Speaker 1: pretty much all of the bosses and Silksong that I fought.
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  Speaker 1: They're much more random and much faster. Having said that,
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  Speaker 1: I love Silksong, I loved playing it, and I love
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  Speaker 1: Hollow Night. I'm playing it right now on Twitch. I
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  Speaker 1: started a Twitch because I was gonna just record them
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  Speaker 1: and make them videos for the Patreon, which I still
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  Speaker 1: might do, but I'm also playing Twitch because why not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I've been thinking about it forever. I
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  Speaker 1: talked to a weird guy about it and a long
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  Speaker 1: time ago, and I decided not to do it, But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems fun. Can try it out.
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  Speaker 1: Since I'm recording these video game videos anyway, I figured
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  Speaker 1: why not try out Twitch. Been watching a lot of Alone,
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  Speaker 1: that Survival TV show, which is awesome. I finished twenty
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  Speaker 1: Minutes until Dawn, which is a super fun gunfighter game.
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  Speaker 1: I gave a homeless guy selling a bag of nothing
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  Speaker 1: free beer. He just had like all this trash. He
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  Speaker 1: was carrying arounts to people and I was eating a
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  Speaker 1: Savi che sitting on a wall, just enjoying my lunch,
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  Speaker 1: and he walked up and talked for a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and then he asked if he could have just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of my beer that was already open, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, eh, and I just gave him one
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  Speaker 1: of the beers out of the six pack because I've
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  Speaker 1: been drinking a bunch of beer here. Five beers for
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  Speaker 1: me was plenty. I think I only drank three when
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  Speaker 1: I did get home, so it was fine to give
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  Speaker 1: it to him and nice to share. And I do
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  Speaker 1: not give money or food or anything to homeless people
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  Speaker 1: very often, because so many people need assistance. It seems
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  Speaker 1: unfair for me to give money to one person when
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  Speaker 1: literally hundreds of other people within half a mile radius
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  Speaker 1: also are looking for the same thing. And I don't usually,
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  Speaker 1: but this guy, I decided to give him a beer.
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  Speaker 1: He was very happy. We had a nice talk and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I was happy, so it was a nice thing.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I have to talk about US Americans concerned
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  Speaker 1: about Western Europe. I feel like I mentioned this before,
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  Speaker 1: right US Americans when I tell them that US Americans
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  Speaker 1: can travel to one hundred eighty countries visa free or
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  Speaker 1: visa on arrival, and most countries cost five hundred USD
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  Speaker 1: to live and the rest cost one thousand. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing they say is not Western Europe. All the visas
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  Speaker 1: are really difficult and they cost like two thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: minimum per month to live. And trust me, I lived
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  Speaker 1: in Europe or I am German. And then I just
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  Speaker 1: send them screenshots of three hundred dollars apartments or six
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars apartments in the expensive countries. I'm like six hundred,
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  Speaker 1: you have four hundred for groceries. That's definitely you can
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  Speaker 1: easily live in Western Europe if you want to. But
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  Speaker 1: when Americans say Western Europe US Americans, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: think they know exactly what they're talking about. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're just referring to countries and literally the west half
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  Speaker 1: of all of continental Europe. But Western Europe is like
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  Speaker 1: seven countries, maybe nine countries. It's not many countries. And
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  Speaker 1: there's one hundred and eighty five to two hundred countries
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  Speaker 1: that US Americans can go live in. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: like they talk about Western Europe like as English speaking
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  Speaker 1: basically US American countries, but they're really not. Like if
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  Speaker 1: you go to Portugal, people aren't going to speak English
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  Speaker 1: with you. If you go to Spain, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be speaking Spanish. If you go to France, they're For
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  Speaker 1: some reason, US Americans think that Western Europe is a
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  Speaker 1: copy of the US, But those are not English speaking countries.
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  Speaker 1: Those are literally just a handful a little more than
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  Speaker 1: a half dollar and countries in the western half of Europe,
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  Speaker 1: not in the very west of Europe. So when I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about how you can live in most countries, I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about over one hundred different countries you could live
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  Speaker 1: in for five hundred US dollars per month, and the
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  Speaker 1: remaining I don't know, maybe thirty countries would cost up
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  Speaker 1: to one thousand US dollars per month to live in.
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  Speaker 1: But most countries, as in one hundred hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: of them five hundred US dollars per month. And in
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  Speaker 1: Western Europe, those are some of those are the more
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  Speaker 1: expensive country. Most of those are more expensive countries, but
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  Speaker 1: those are only seven or nine countries. And I never
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  Speaker 1: recommend people go to Western Europe first. It's more expensive
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  Speaker 1: than most of the rest of the world. It's nice,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, go there to visit or whatever, but if
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  Speaker 1: you're moving for financial desperation, or to go teach English,
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  Speaker 1: or you just want to see new things. Western Europe
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  Speaker 1: isn't what I would immediately recommend to pepeople. You go
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  Speaker 1: fly to Asia and you're going to be fish out
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  Speaker 1: of water. You'll feel fish out of water if it's
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  Speaker 1: your first time traveling in Western Europe. But given that
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  Speaker 1: most people, most of the eight billion people on the planet,
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  Speaker 1: say that they don't have enough money, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they are having trouble. When I recommend people who don't
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  Speaker 1: have enough money, I'm never recommending Western Europe. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to be paying closer to two thousand USD a month,
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  Speaker 1: which is still cheap. But if you're worried about money,
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  Speaker 1: why not pay three hundred to five hundred USD a
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  Speaker 1: month instead of one thousand USD a month. So this
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  Speaker 1: is just for the US Americans who when they hear
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  Speaker 1: that it costs five hundred USD up to one thousand
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  Speaker 1: USD to live per month around the world and you
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  Speaker 1: think not in France. Yes, in France, but much more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: there are another two hundred countries. Even if you take
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  Speaker 1: all of Western Europe, there's one hundred and ninety other
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  Speaker 1: countries that I'm mostly talking about because I'm interested in
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  Speaker 1: the whole world. Not just yeah, a half dozen countries
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  Speaker 1: in the very far west of Europe. I think those
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  Speaker 1: countries get reported on more often in the news, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why people think of them as more important and
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  Speaker 1: maybe even bigger. But those aren't particularly large countries England, Germany, France, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Those are just a couple medium sized countries in one
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  Speaker 1: part of the world. But there's another one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety countries out there to consider, and you should consider
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  Speaker 1: them because they're just as fascinating as any of those
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  Speaker 1: very few countries that you read about in the newspapers. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: for my money, they're more interesting. But everybody, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to live in Western Europe, that's fine. But when
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about how you can live for under five
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  Speaker 1: hundred USD in most of the world, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty countries and a thousand USD in
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the world. I'm still talking about thirty
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  Speaker 1: forty countries, not just those six countries on the very
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  Speaker 1: western edge of Europe. I don't want to be scolding anybody,
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  Speaker 1: but when I am talking about living around the world,
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  Speaker 1: I mean all two hundred countries, not Western Europe. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll say most people understand that it's very much the
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  Speaker 1: limited isolation of US Americans that seem to give that
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  Speaker 1: idea to them that there are only those seven countries
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  Speaker 1: outside of the US. Dang, sorry for these dogs going nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Can you hear the dogs? I thought I would do
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  Speaker 1: a ramble on during the day because it's not too loud,
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  Speaker 1: and then all the dogs start going crazy, which factors
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: into a story down the line. Strawberries. Bought some fresh
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  Speaker 1: strawberries from the locals that come down from the mountains
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  Speaker 1: with all their produce. Got like huge, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it was three dollars, maybe little less than three dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and I got a kilogram that's two point two pounds
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  Speaker 1: of fresh fresh strawberries, and I ate half of them.
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  Speaker 1: And then I got tired and left them on the
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  Speaker 1: counter and some of them went bad, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: bad about that, but I ate most of them. I
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  Speaker 1: just cut off the bad parts. But they were really
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: good strawberries. I just can't eat too much citrus fruit,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: or I couldn't before because it would give me those
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: cankers because they're sugary. And but I might have mentioned
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: this since I started brushing my toothpaste with the little
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: bits of activated charcoal or activated carbon. Those instantly get
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: rid of cankers and sores in my mouth. So now
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I can eat as many kiwis or oranges or even
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: apples or strawberries as I want, and I can get
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the cankers. And then I go brush my teeth with
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: activated carbon and it goes away. I can't believe it's
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: such a simple miracle cure that I've never heard about.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It's not on earth Clinic also, so I'm gonna add
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it to Earth Clan. Actually, I have to write that
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: down right now, because I keep meaning to add it
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to the solutions that activated carbon does. It's so effective. Okay,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: what else is effective? Putting pizza seasonings on potato chips
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is very effective. I went to the grocery store and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I was getting some potato chips because I've been making
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this mix of vegetables with a bunch of sauces and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: then I eat it like a dip with potato chips,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and it's so good. And I got to try these
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: limited edition pizza chips, and it just happened to be
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the last one on the shelf. Like this little pouch
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of artisanal, locally made pizza chips and they tasted fine.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I think they have different pizza flavors up here in Peru,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: but they were tasty and I was thought, I got
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to try them. Oh, my friend got her landlord listening
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to this podcast and took a video of her listening
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to the podcast while doing the dishes, which was great,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: because that's about as much as I have ever hoped
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for the success of this podcast. If anybody is folding
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: their laundry or doing the dishes, or jogging and listening
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to this podcast, that is That was my goal when
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: making it. I was like, if someone actually enjoys listening
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to any part of this while doing a menial task
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and this makes it a little less boring, I've done it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I've achieved my aims. Yeah, a shout out to dishwashing
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Landlord if you're still listening. Let's see. I'm helping someone
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: move out of the US right now. I mean giving
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: advice and encouragement. And they made the decision to leave
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: quite soon. They were planning on leaving a couple of weeks,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but it might take longer. But they're really making steps,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: got their passport, researching apartments in other countries, and I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: help them refine their search so that they could find
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the cheaper apartments. But it sounds like they're going to
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: do it, and I hope they do, because they sound
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: like they're struggling in the US, as most people struggle
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: in the US. And as soon as you're not in
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that country, your cost plummets down to five hundred USD
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: per month for rent, food, Wi Fi groceries, and then
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you can just chill out. You work seven ten hours
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a week maybe, and then do whatever you want to
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: do the rest of the time. We were talking about Silksong,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: so that's why I start playing it. I found out
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it was finally out, so that guy when he gets
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: out of the city can just play silk Song for
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a week or two, which is a great way to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: use your time. Enjoy your life, enjoy it. That's what
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: traveling gives you. You get so much free time back,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: you get to choose how to live your life. That's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: what I find so great about traveling and living abroad.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I hope it works out great for this guy.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I have written down the Kalahito trees, those weird spearmint trees,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: but I think I talked about those a whole bunch
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of the last time before I talked about the amazing
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: ink and ruins, so we can move on from that. Okay.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I rendered bacon fat from the bacon I cooked so
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that I could cook French fries in it, like fry
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: some fry some potatoes up in the bacon fat. But
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I keep forgetting and haven't done it yet. So I'm
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: gonna get some potatoes today and try and make some
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: French fries with bacon fat. Oh, it's gonna be so
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: messy though, bacon fat is so messy. Whatever, maybe I
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: won't who knows, render it some bacon fat. Oh? Do
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you watch Workaholics Season six, episode three, Save the Cat?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Gillian and Blake adopt a cat, and there's the funniest
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: part in the whole frickin' show. It's so funny where
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: they're all walking out the door and Jillian's holding the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: cat and Adam screams at it, mew mew. He's talking
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: cat to the cat, and then Hoders waves by cat
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and screams in its face as he's leaving. Also, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I made a T shirt out of the by cat
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: moment because I was just walking around for a week
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: saying buy cat. And just screaming it over and over again,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: laughing so loud to myself. And then I was like, okay,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: just make a shirt out of it, and that did work.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I creatively exercised that demonic exclamation. Okay, So I like
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the apartment I have now. It's enormous. It's one of
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the largest places I've ever rented. It's not too expensive.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: It's four hundred dollars per month. But I was looking
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: around on Cusco for the next month, and that second
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: place I'm going to get is one hundred dollars cheaper,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: so it's a little more than a underd dollars cheaper.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So the next one is also a three bedroom, two bathroom,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: giant living room, giant kitchen, washing machine condo, at least
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: it looks like that in the pictures we'll see when
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I get there. And it's only it's less than three
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, so that's a pretty good And I asked
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: these guys if I could get a discount if I
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: stayed a second month, and they basically said no. So
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'm just gonna get the side down. Oh. Also,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: it's it's like a two minute walk from this place.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It's super close to this place, so I'm going to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: leave this with my backpack, walk for maybe five minutes,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's pretty close, and then take a
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: left to the new apartment. It might even be on
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the same street. I'm not sure yet because I don't
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: have the exact address, but i'll message and get the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: exact address soon. This says I had my first rey
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: de la morena in a thunderstorm. I don't know what
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: that means. I don't know what the ray de la
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: morena is, but there have been a lot of rains
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and thunderstorms lately, which I have been enjoying immensely walking
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: around in the drizzling rain. Yeah, it's been really fun
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: with all the rain here lately. Tell me if you
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: can hear those dogs, because if you can, I won't
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: do this during the day again. I'm very sensitive to
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: loud noises, but I don't know if the microphone's picking
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: up those dirty dogs. I've been having really good local
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: food lately, like a lot actually Creolio caldo creole soup.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It's this spicy soup with quin wa and I don't know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: milk and butter and vegetables and meat and a whole
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. And all the food here is seven
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: or eight sods, which is two bucks basically, and you
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: get three two or three plates of food. So this okay.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: So I got res de n'atagna, which is first you
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: get the appetizer, which is a large bowl of called
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: o creolo, the Creole soup, and that would be enough
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: for a meal for me. That's a large bowl of
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: soup with grains in it and vegetables and meat. And
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: then you get the main dish, which is resde n'atanne,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: which is stewed beef rice, a whole bunch of vegetables,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a baked potato, like a large like a hubcat plate
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of this stuff. And so you have even more food.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: And then they usually give you chicha. There might be
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: some bread or something. But you get a lot of
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: food at these local places. And I've been liking a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff. I didn't like everything. There was this
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: green pesto noodles, and the pesta was actually good, but
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the noodles were spaghetti and they were just too thick
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: for the pesto sauce. For me, it just tasted the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: pesto tasted good, but too many noodles. I guess maybe
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: there was just too many noodles. I still ate some
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of it. What other great local food? I just had
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: chicken noodle soup yesterday, huge like a I had to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: use my salad bowl for the chicken noodle soup. You
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: get so much food with every meal you buy, and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: everyone here in Cusco is well fed. I will say that.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can get such good food so easily.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: They have skewers of beef, like barbecued beef and chicken.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Those are three so lets, so a little less than
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a buck and man, I went to a bunch of
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: those like I went to a few different people grilling beef,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and then I found this one lady who must have
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: marinated and tenderized hers first because they were absolutely delicious.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I got a yukita. A yukita is like a baked cassava,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: which is so creamy and smooth compared to a baked potato.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I was blown away by how smooth the cassava was.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: It was totally delicious, and there was meat, eggs, vegetables,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and then a spicy sauce on top inside this baked potato.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And you can choose the spicy sauce, of course, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I need a lot, because that's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: my freaking favorite. Really good. So I th all these
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: good foods and I got a bunch of I've been
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: getting fruits lately. The fruits are super fresh up here
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and kousk go. But I got a bunch of sugary
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and sweet ones and sour ones, and I got cankers
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: in my mouth. And I don't know if I mentioned this,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: but I have to if I, even if I already have,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I should just say it again. When I brush my
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: teeth with the activated carbon, little pellets completely erases the cankers,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the little sores I get in my mouth if I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: eat too much sour or sweet food. Those last for
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: two weeks, generally like one to two weeks, and I
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: grew up never knowing how to deal with them. Oh,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I think I did talk about this right. Whatever, Sorry
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: if you've already heard this, but it's still boggling my mind.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: If I have any canker or sore in my mouth,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I after I brush my teeth with the activated carbon,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: it's gone. There's not like a waiting moment of a
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: few days or whatever. It's gone. It just goes away.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It's so crazy, so I thought I should mention that again. Anyway,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening to this thing, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I will talk to you soon. You can hit me
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: up at bit of a Rambler at gmail dot com
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: or bit of a Rambler on Blue Sky or Lemmy
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you. We can chat. Have a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: good rest of your day and week, month of your life.