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048 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 we're gonna ramble on. I am back into
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: the pickling game. I'm happy to announce I pickled some cabbage,
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  Speaker 1: which smells weirder because cabbage is real farty sometimes, but
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  Speaker 1: it tastes great after it's pickled. Pickled cabbages delicious, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not as good as red onions. And I got
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  Speaker 1: some advice to add some raw garlic clothes in there, which,
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  Speaker 1: woof not it's too spicy raw garlic. I used to
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  Speaker 1: eat raw garlic cloves because I thought it would be
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  Speaker 1: like medicine, but I'm not sure about the science on that.
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  Speaker 1: It just felt like it should be good because they
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  Speaker 1: were such a powerful vegetable. So when I put this
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  Speaker 1: sliced garlic cloves, not a ton, just like a few
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  Speaker 1: little pieces. And then you know, maybe the problem was
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't slice them thin enough, because I really
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  Speaker 1: just cut a few cloves in half and put them
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  Speaker 1: in there to see what would happen. But they didn't
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  Speaker 1: pickle all the way through. They just made the onions
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  Speaker 1: crazy spicy, also with all the Allison. But I love pickling,
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  Speaker 1: except I only got to do it once. And then
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  Speaker 1: the hot plate I'm using in my apartment here, the
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  Speaker 1: wire it's just two wires really that are connecting the
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  Speaker 1: electricity to the heat element, and one of them straight
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  Speaker 1: up just melt it in half and disconnected from the lead.
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  Speaker 1: It melted off the lead into the heat element. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that was disappointing. So I can't really heat up
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  Speaker 1: the vinegar water salt solution anymore to pickle stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it because I can definitely repair it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking if it's worth it to repair, because
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: I still have the air fryer and that thing is
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  Speaker 1: treating me real well. There's a great supermarket up the
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  Speaker 1: street here, and I have been buying chicken wings, getting
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  Speaker 1: them cut up and then I fry them up with
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  Speaker 1: I've tried two marinades. I've tried the chimney cherry marinade
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  Speaker 1: and the beer barbecue marinade. They're actually like salsas, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm rubbing them on the chicken wings first and then
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  Speaker 1: air frying them and then they turn into this slick
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  Speaker 1: glaze and it's pretty good, but they're not strong enough
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  Speaker 1: strongly flavored enough for me still, so I'm still using
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  Speaker 1: the all spice plus chili pepper spice mixture I have,
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  Speaker 1: which if you ever have like a pouch of spices
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  Speaker 1: and you wish you had a like an easy way
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  Speaker 1: to shake the spices on there, but you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a salt shaker, what works even better, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: is a empty plastic drink bottle of any kind. Clean
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  Speaker 1: it out, dry it out, pour the spices in, put
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  Speaker 1: the cap on. I hold a knife over the fire,
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  Speaker 1: and then I poke three holes in the top plastic
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  Speaker 1: cap and then you can shake on as much as
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  Speaker 1: you want. Or what I do is just squeeze the
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  Speaker 1: plastic bottle and it puffs out just a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of the spice mixture, and when it breathes back in,
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  Speaker 1: you're ready for another puff and it's yeah, it's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they do for all spices in Chinese barbecue,
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  Speaker 1: and pretty much whenever I have spices that I want
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  Speaker 1: to put on food, that's how I deploy the spices
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  Speaker 1: a little diy plastic bottle. I usually use a coke bottle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, but it always, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe no, I'm not even using coke bottle. Now, no,
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  Speaker 1: it was just cocktail drink that I washed and then
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  Speaker 1: put the wash dry, put the spice inside. Poke those
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  Speaker 1: three holes with the tip of a heated knife on
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  Speaker 1: the top of the cap. Works perfectly. Squeeze, squeez, squeeze,
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  Speaker 1: and I get it around. It's perfect for an air fryer.
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  Speaker 1: I throw all my French fries or chicken wings or
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  Speaker 1: whatever I'm cooking in there. The garlic cloves, spray or
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  Speaker 1: puff out a few puffs of spice on top of it,
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  Speaker 1: heat it up perfect. It's better than shaking, honestly, it's
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  Speaker 1: more I don't know. It feels more controlled. Actually, even
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  Speaker 1: though I'm puffing out stuff instead of shaking it on
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  Speaker 1: maybe it just doesn't take as long. Actually, maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: what I like, because I bet the salt shaker is
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  Speaker 1: more controlled. But I don't want to shake from a
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  Speaker 1: height war I don't want to get in there either,
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  Speaker 1: because there's not a lot of room to shake around.
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  Speaker 1: I can go at the perfect height and just puff
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  Speaker 1: out the spices. So that's my word to the wise,
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  Speaker 1: And I'll stop talking about spices and plastic bottles. Now, well,
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. It is the rainy
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  Speaker 1: season here, and it did rain for several days, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a few days, like three or four days, and it
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  Speaker 1: rained super hard for thirty minutes and then I walked
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  Speaker 1: for one hour and then it rained crazy for two hours.
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  Speaker 1: But I got back to my apartment a minute before
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  Speaker 1: it started really coming down. I just felt a few splashes,
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  Speaker 1: but they were big, and I was like, Oh, is
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  Speaker 1: it going to rain again? And then I get in
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  Speaker 1: close my door, turn on my laptop and then bam
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  Speaker 1: and just starts pounding against the streets. But now it's
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  Speaker 1: been four days and I don't think it's rained at all.
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  Speaker 1: Which it's the rainiest season of the month right now
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  Speaker 1: in medi Ian, so I would have expected it to
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  Speaker 1: be raining more, but who knows. And it's nice when
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: it does rain. But I did get caught in the
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  Speaker 1: rain a couple The last time it rained, it was
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  Speaker 1: coming down like crazy, and I stopped into this sushi
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  Speaker 1: restaurant that's rated five or four point nine really high
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  Speaker 1: rate lot of reviews, I mean enough, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was like seventy six reviews something like that, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, okay, that's pretty good. And I didn't
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  Speaker 1: expect a lot from you know, five thousand feet elevation sushi,
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  Speaker 1: you just the ingredients aren't going to be as fresh,
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  Speaker 1: but I figured it'd be fine, and it was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that's because, you know, I was so spoiled
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  Speaker 1: after the Panamanian sushi miagi, but this was some terrible
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  Speaker 1: sushi if I've ever had it. Now. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to throw the restaurant under the bus or anything. Because
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  Speaker 1: I showed up early. The whole family showed up after
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  Speaker 1: I did, and then he brought out their food before
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  Speaker 1: I got mine, but they all ordered something else, so
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: I think maybe he just hadn't made the rice yet.
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  Speaker 1: Even though the restaurant was open for an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half before I went. I went by there at
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  Speaker 1: six or something, and I saw that it just didn't
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  Speaker 1: look i open, and no one was really in the front.
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  Speaker 1: So I walked around for another hour or something, and
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: then I went back and it looked a little more open,
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  Speaker 1: but it was still kind of empty. And just as
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  Speaker 1: I was turning around to leave, which I just should
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  Speaker 1: have done, I just felt it was still too early,
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  Speaker 1: the guy came out and asked me if I wanted anything,
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  Speaker 1: and I said sushi, and he said yeah, and then
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  Speaker 1: I waited like forty minutes, forty five minutes until I
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  Speaker 1: got the sushi, and it was one roll, and no
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  Speaker 1: part of it was good. The fish was okay. The
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  Speaker 1: fish was probably the best part, but it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of thin and obviously mountain fish, it's not super fresh.
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  Speaker 1: The avocado was pretty bland and watery, so it was
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  Speaker 1: probably a little old. But the rice was undercooked, like
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  Speaker 1: to a shocking degree. It was straight up crunchy, like
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the grains of all the rice was crunchy.
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  Speaker 1: And I checked the Google Maps rating again after I left, like,
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  Speaker 1: even if it was not made at all, forty five
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  Speaker 1: minutes is enough time to put rice in a rice
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  Speaker 1: cooker and let it cook fully before you make the roll, Like,
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  Speaker 1: don't make it with undercooked rice, and you would feel
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  Speaker 1: it when you're making it. You can feel undercooked rice.
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  Speaker 1: It feels completely different. It's not fluffy and soft and
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  Speaker 1: all that. It was bizarre. I couldn't I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I could believe it. I was just extremely disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: I still wanted sushi, and I was like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'll go throw myself off a cliff. But
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  Speaker 1: since it's not actually a big deal at all, since
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  Speaker 1: it was a piece of sushi. I just went walking
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  Speaker 1: around the neighborhood instead. And I was walking back and
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  Speaker 1: found a really good ice cream shop. I got chocolate
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  Speaker 1: covered strawberries, which are really just strawberries and bowl and
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  Speaker 1: then they pour in some melted chocolate and that was fun.
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  Speaker 1: But I also got two scoops of ice cream Mandarin
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  Speaker 1: and something else, Marakuya i think, and they were good.
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  Speaker 1: The Marikuyah was better. I'm gonna go back to that place,
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  Speaker 1: just because they made really good tasted like real ice
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  Speaker 1: cream made with real cream, which if you've only had
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  Speaker 1: store bought ice cream, real ice cream is much more
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  Speaker 1: like gelato. It's a lot smoother and there's more air
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  Speaker 1: in it, so it's just puffier in all that. It's
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  Speaker 1: not compacted like Blue Bunny or whatever those tube cans
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  Speaker 1: are you get in the supermarket. But I was really
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  Speaker 1: happy to get that after my sushi let down. I
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  Speaker 1: think I forgot I was in the mountain. If I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm up in the mountains, I probably
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  Speaker 1: would have gotten something else instead. I was just talking
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  Speaker 1: about this recently. Also, how if a place serves sushi
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  Speaker 1: it's really difficult to have like ramen or oudon or
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  Speaker 1: other types of food or hamburgers, whatever it is, and
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  Speaker 1: make all of those different kinds of food well. So
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  Speaker 1: this place may maybe their other Japanese food is good,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody ever gets the sushi there, but that there's
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of reviews for this place and it's
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  Speaker 1: five stars. So I didn't even leave a bad review.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that because there's always some
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  Speaker 1: day something goes wrong, and maybe I just took that
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  Speaker 1: upon myself by not walking out like I felt I
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  Speaker 1: should have walking out the second time, I was just
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  Speaker 1: real curious about the sushi. My bad. Oh. But it
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  Speaker 1: was raining like crazy after I went to that ice
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  Speaker 1: cream shop with the strawberries and that I just stood
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  Speaker 1: under a small awning while I ate the strawberries and
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  Speaker 1: ice cream. But it sure did not feel like the
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  Speaker 1: rain was gonna let up anytime soon. And I was
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  Speaker 1: a good like thirty minute walk from the house still,
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  Speaker 1: so I just started jogging, and I just jogged for
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes through pouring, pouring rain, and everybody else was
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  Speaker 1: just hanging out underneath the awning. But I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get back for something not too important. I bet, I
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  Speaker 1: bet it wasn't critical, but I did want to get back,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe I just wanted to run. I can't really remember,
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  Speaker 1: but I ran all the way back to my apartment
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  Speaker 1: and it was pretty fun running in the rain and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't slip, and I was listening to a podcast
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  Speaker 1: and I was just just going. But it was coming
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  Speaker 1: down the street. Food vendors were all battening the hatches.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was. It was a heck of a rain store.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: I got a Cinnabon for the first time, and who knows,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: actually last Christmas half a year ago or no more now,
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  Speaker 1: when I was visiting family, we went to a mall
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  Speaker 1: and there was a Cinnabon and I did get an
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: original Cinnabon for the first time in then, I really
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: don't know, a decade more, a long long time. But
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  Speaker 1: there's like a mini Cinnabon Kiosk in the mall here,
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  Speaker 1: not even like behind the counter, like an actual kios
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  Speaker 1: And they had many pecan caramel nut cinnaba mini cinnabums,
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  Speaker 1: like four in a little slidey tray. And maybe this
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  Speaker 1: is the most common thing in the world. It probably is,
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  Speaker 1: but I haven't been there in so long that I
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  Speaker 1: was delighted by the look of them and thought caramel
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  Speaker 1: and pecan sounded great, and they tasted fine. They were
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  Speaker 1: like pretty good. They were sweet and there was caramel
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  Speaker 1: and pecan, so yeah, that's what I asked for. It
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  Speaker 1: was good. But now I can't eat any more sugar
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the year because that amount of
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: sugar is insane. But I'm also lying. I've been buying
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: candy because there's also a little candy kiosk with sour belts,
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  Speaker 1: you know that like sugar sour sprinkling of sugar sour
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  Speaker 1: crystals on a gummy belt. And I got hooked on
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: those few years ago. I lived near this mall that
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  Speaker 1: had a little candy shop, and I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if they have them here, and they do, so
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  Speaker 1: I got a little bag of those, but they're they're
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: like the most expensive thing I've bought in the city.
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  Speaker 1: I bought six avocados, like six half avocados for sixty
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  Speaker 1: cents about, so, like that's nuts cheap. But these little
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  Speaker 1: sour belts, I got like ten of them, and that
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  Speaker 1: was three dollars, so five times as much for less
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  Speaker 1: than a third the weight of one of auto probably,
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  Speaker 1: and I like them. It was worth that initial indulgence,
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  Speaker 1: but I probably won't be getting too much more candy
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  Speaker 1: at those prices. Oh. They did also have this chocolate
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  Speaker 1: covered with caramel inside sphere, and the chocolate was so fresh.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe if I finish some milestone or whatever something big,
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  Speaker 1: then I can go back there and get a couple
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  Speaker 1: of sour belts in a chocolate sphere. Oh. I had
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: my first genuine complaint about my new phone, which by
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: the way, is still a month in running circles around
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: the best day my Pixel six ever had. I just
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: can't believe how much better this hundred and fifty dollars
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Motorola phone is than the six hundred and fifty seven
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars whatever Pixel six I got when I came out.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: But my first genuine complaint was that the G fifty
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: four alarm control seems to go to zero, so out
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: of nowhere, I would set an alarm and it would
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  Speaker 1: go off. When I opened it up, it said the
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: alarm was at zero. And it turns out there are
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: two separate volume controls I found out after poking around,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: and one of them works totally normally, and it's in settings,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: but the quick action alarm button, you can set that
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  Speaker 1: higher or lower and it doesn't really matter. The one
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: in settings determines the alarm, and that one doesn't go
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: to zero. That one works totally normally, but for some reason,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: this quick action alarm button isn't connected to the actual
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  Speaker 1: alarm settings, so it's just faking me out that it
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't work. So I thought that the alarm wasn't working,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: but it turns out that I just had to turn
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: on the actual alarm settings and ignore the quick Action
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  Speaker 1: alarm settings, and that took me ten minutes fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: compared to the amount of time just figuring out that
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: now playing is completely useless on a pixel phone. I
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: just figured I was doing something wrong when I first
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: got the Pixel six, but it turns out now playing
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: just doesn't work. That's the thing where it'll tell you
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: which song is playing, and you can have it on.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: You can actively scan with it. It doesn't work. It'll
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: work for I don't know ten percent of the songs,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: but obviously that's pretty useless. And that's just one of
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: the dozens of features that are useless or harmful on
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: a frickin pixel so working out which alarm setting is
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: genuine on the G fifty four for fifteen minutes. I'm
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  Speaker 1: fine with that. Also, it turns out because I when
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  Speaker 1: the alarm went off, the sound was coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the phone, but that's in my pocket and it wasn't
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: playing on my Bluetooth headphones. My Bluetooth headphones, yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: didn't get any alarm sound. They just kept playing whatever
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I was listening to. After I just did the genuine
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  Speaker 1: alarm settings in the actual settings app, then it comes
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  Speaker 1: through on the Bluetooth, though it still plays concurrently with
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: whatever I'm listening to, rather than pausing what I'm listening
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: to and playing the alarm sound, which is kind of weird,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: but it's not even worth it for me to fix
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: it because I still am aware that the alarm's going off.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I freaking love the G fifty four. Still.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I heard that the White House is trying to shut
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: down Wikipedia, and if you're not aware of it, there's
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: a cool app called Kiwix, and you can download all
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: of Wikipedia for one hundred gigabytes, or you can download
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Wikipedia no Pictures for forty three gigabytes, or short Wikipedia,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: which is just one paragraph for each entry for twelve gigabytes.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: So if you're worried about the White House outlawing Wikipedia,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: just so you know, there's an alternative. You can download
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the app Kiwix, download Wikipedia, and have it on your
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: phone as long as you don't have a pixel six
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: because their space starved, they have no memory or storage
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: on them. Wow. I wonder how long I'm going to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: be retroactively mad at the phone that I chose to
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: keep for more than two years. Like that was my fault.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I could have just I could have got rid of
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: it at any time. It wasn't a money thing. Was
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: it was a bad experiment. I would have wasted money
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: if I got rid of it. But how much happier
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: would I have been and how much time would I
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: have saved if I just got rid of that pixel
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: six earlier and looked around for something new. I just
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: couldn't believe how bad the pixel was. I just every
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: time something bad happened for the whole first year, I
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: was like, I guess I just don't understand it. I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: guess this is just like you know, when I was
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: a kid and I had to figure out how Windows
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like works for real and where all the settings and
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: options are. That's not the problem with pixels, They're just
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: they're just garbage. Their settings are garbage. And now Android
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: wants to block users from installing Android apps unless they're
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: safety approved, which just means unless they're feeding your data
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: back to Google. So you're not even going to be
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: able to install the software you want on your phones
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: next year, apparently according to Google. And if that happens,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I'm finally gonna take the leap back to installing a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: different ROM and just stop using Android because if I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: can't even install software on Android anymore, it's basically just
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: an iOS system. It's just gonna be Apple, where I
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: won't be able to use anything I want to either.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But that's okay. Linux desktops are taking over now, they're
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: user shares rising month by month. Now there are already
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: good alternatives to Android os. The only problem is with
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: me abroad, banking apps won't work as easily because they'll
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: insist that they have to be Google verified, which is crazy,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: but I will burn that bridge when I come to it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: So is that from the weird alarm thing? Though this
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: g fifty four fantastic, I am still loving it. Oh
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: also the camera app. Have I mentioned that I didn't
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: like how the camera looked when I got the phone,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And on the G fifty four you can just uninstall
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the native camera app and install any of the other ones.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: And someone had a great suggestion for the G fifty
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: four camera on GitHub, and now it works like a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: normal care It looks great now, like I'm taking really
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: good pictures. Before whatever the native camera app is, the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: colors are messed up and it's blur. It's just not
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a good app. And I was worried that it was
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the hardware. It turns out was just the software. So
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I installed the native camera app, installed a different one
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: works great. When it was drizzling here last week, I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: was walking around in the rain under the street lights
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: with all this greenery. Medi Ian is so green, super green.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I think I said that last time, but there's been
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of Chris Tucker memes online lately dressed as
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Ruby Rod, so I just keep thinking of him. He
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: is so funny in that role. Man. But anyway, I'm
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: walking around in Mediian and it's such a crazy green.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: There's so many trees and grass and exercise parks that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: are all green, green hills, surround the city entirely. There's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: rivers everywhere. It's just a shockingly green city. Considering it's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: as high as Denver. I really expected it to look
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: like Denver in the US, just not green, very very pale,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: minty gray sort of thing most of the year. But
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: there's so much water. And I am here during the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: rainy season, which isn't too short, but I'm right in
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the middle of it, so that must be playing a part.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Because yeah, it lush, lush grass everywhere and beautiful trees everywhere.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And it reminded me of when I was walking around
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: my neighborhood growing up. There was there's a bunch of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: trees and street lamps and I would walk around at
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: two or three am sometimes when I couldn't get to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: bed in high school, I think, and same here. It
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: was three am or something. So everything's pin drop silent,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: and there's a little bit of rainfalling. There's a bunch
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of trees, and everything's beautiful and the night feeling and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it's nice. And I was reading The Outsiders or Rumblefish.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I was reading one of those by S. E. Hinton,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and I stopped under a lamp street light on the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: road to read and I just stood under that lamp
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: street lamp for I don't know, ten minutes or something,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: because I was at a really good part of the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: book and I was just so into it that I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: didn't I wasn't completely unaware of what was happening around me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And then I heard someone calling to me, and I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: looked up and I realized that I had just happened
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to stop at the only house that was still awake
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: at this time of night, and there was a group
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: of large adults sitting around a table and they said,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: come over here. And even then I was like, well,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm curious. This isn't the safest thing, but what will
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: happen if I do go over there? And so I did,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and they asked me if I was taking a picture
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of them, and I was confused for a second, but
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I realized the book I was holding by sc Hinton.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a huge book. It was like a young
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: adult reader kind of thing, so it was shaped kind
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of small. And this was twenty years ago, so I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: could see how it could have been the size of
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a like fancy camera or whatever, maybe a polaroid. Back then,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you know, there were no smartphone cameras. I mean there were,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: but they were and I was like, no, a book,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and they were like, let me look at the book,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: like they thought I was lying to them and secretly
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: taking pictures of them sitting around their card table playing poker,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: probably smoking weed. But I wouldn't even have recognized the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: smell back then, and plenty of my friends smoked weed,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: but weed just such a rich scent, and I don't
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: personally smoke. I never got into it. I did it
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a bunch, but I never really liked it that it
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: never clocks in mind. I don't get it right away.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It's now I'm like thirty eight, and now I recognize
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the smell pretty pretty easily. But back then, in my
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: nascent drug years, I couldn't catch a whiff right off.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: But I bet that's what was going on. That's why
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: they looked so nervous, and that's why they kept asking
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: if I had a covert camera. I was taking pictures
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of them with and they were like, what are you doing.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I was like reading a book. He said, give me
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the book, and I took the book out of my
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: pocket and he opened it and flipped through the pages,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: like to determine if it was a book instead of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a camera, which you'd think you could tell after grabbing it,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: but he looked at several individual pages and he was like, yeah, book,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and then gave it back to me. And the adults
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: were like okay, and they all shrugged at each other
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and they were like, it's weird you're standing in front
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of our house. I was like, yeah, sorry, I didn't
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: know everybody's asleep except for me, and I guess you guys,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: so I didn't think. I didn't even think that anybody
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: would be sitting in their garage drinking beer and playing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: poker at two am, and I were just shrugged again.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: They were like, all right, the kid's just fucking weird.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And I kept on walking and reading my book and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: they were red, I'm a freaking weirdo. But that's what
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: my neighborhood now feels like. After eleven PM, it's pretty dead,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and then after one it's basically silent until five am,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: so it's just a completely silent, super green neighborhood. So
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it feels oxygen charged, it feels alive, and I get
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to walk around in it when the whole world is asleep,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and that's really fun for me. I like living in
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a void as long as my ear fryer and chicken
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: wings are back in my apartment waiting for me. Man,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I got some really good tea. They do add stevia
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to it, but you know, there's no sugars and it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a bunch of fruit tea. It's tasty. Oh and mentioning
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: how I used to eat raw garlic, like for health,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I've garlic is so cheap here. When I left the States,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: it was one garlic bulb for a dollar dollar fifty
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: something like that. It was quite expensive. Yeah, it was
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: like five bucks for three bulbs in Colorado the last
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: time I was in the States last year, two years ago. Jeez,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: time ago, an amount of time ago. And here, just
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: like in Panama and Columbia, the garlic is three four
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: one thousand, which is twenty five cents. Roughly, it's a
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: little under twenty five. It's twenty two cents or whatever.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: But yeah, so I can buy as much garlic as
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I want without feeling like I'm wasting money. I could
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: just buy a whole bunch because especially because right now
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I just found out that if I just cut off
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the entire bulb of garlic and then
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: throw the clothes into the air fryer maybe four minutes.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: It peels the clothes for me. Half of them just
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: pop out of their shells after a few minutes, and
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the other ones I can pick them up by the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: pointed part that I haven't peeled and they'll slip right out.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: It's the easiest way now. It's even easier than when
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I steamed them in Thailand. I was like, oh my gosh,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: this is the easiest way to make my garlic dip. Nope,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: this is easier. Throw them in the air fryer four minutes,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: take them out the peels are gone, or I just
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: pick them up and any amount of pressure, even shaking
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the peeled garbarlic, and the garlic itself will just pop
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: right out of the peel. So this is my new
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: life hack for sure. And because of that, I've been
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: cooking them really easily, just cutting up two bulbs at
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a time, throwing them in the air fryer and then
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: having a little bowl of fried garlic. You know what
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I gotta do. I gotta marinade those though, because I've
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: been just doing it dry and the spices that I've
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: been spraying on them before I frym don't stick, so
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I got a marinade those instead of the chicken wings.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I think that'll be better. Powder spices for the chicken wings,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: but a glaze for the garlic. That sounds good. I'm
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: gonna make some more garlic today actually, after I finish this,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: because that's such a great idea, I'll use the beer
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: barbecue glaze I have. Yes, yes, it's all coming together.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I've been really thinking for a long time now. For months,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking of going back to Japan, Asia in general,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and I think I have to because I still have
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: my tenure visa a year left on it. And I'm
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: watching this TV show about Japanese cooking, and it's an anime,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: but every they focus on one thing every episode, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: every episode there's like one interesting fact or one thing
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that makes me curious about an aspect of Japanese cooking.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: And it's been so long since I went on a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: food tour there. I only did that like the first
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: time I was there, when I was visiting with a friend.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: We ate like really good a five waggiu and super
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: good sushi and just like a bunch of stuff. But
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I haven't done that in a while. And I love udon.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I just watched a TV show, so I found out
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that Kagawa Prefecture is like Oudon Prefecture. That's their official nickname, actually,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: So I want to go there and try all the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: different types of oodon. There's just so many good Japanese
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: foods that I either haven't had in a while or
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: have never tried. There's more that I have never tried,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: So I think I want to go back through the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: cities and really get in there. I also, I'm not
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: sure if it's just I'm watching this TV show right now,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: but I kind of want to finally learn Japanese. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: when I was growing up, Japanese was the popular language
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to learn in my school, and I think that's why
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I rebelled and learned Spanish instead. But I do like
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: so much of the food in Japanese culture, and so
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: much of the architecture and a lot of the I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: like a lot of Japanese culture. I also don't like
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of Japanese culture. Rigid social strictures don't really
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: fit my mode of thinking or awareness. But I think
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I'm just being judgy and I should just go there
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: because I'm feeling it. I also have been thinking of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: climbing the Pacific Crest Trail or the Appalachian Trail that
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: go along the West Coast or East Coast, respectively of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the United States. You just walk north to south or
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: south to north, but that takes a while, apparently, and
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's worth I don't want to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: walk across the desert part, honestly, I don't. On the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Pacific part. You just you have to walk across, like
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: all of California, but in the desert part of it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: rather than the nice part. As far as I understand,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: there's like a month that's just gonna be desert, or
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: six weeks or maybe longer. And I'm not gonna do that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna walk uncomfortably in heat for an indefinite
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: period of time that is definitely more than a month,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: just so I can get every part of the trail
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: under my belt. But I don't mind the idea of
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: starting from Washington and just walking south through Oregon and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: all the pretty all the pretty states. Get a little
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: frostbite on my way down there. Man, have I been
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: staring at Hammocks lately? They have Decathlon here in Columbia,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and nothing's really on sale, But it's twenty bucks for
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a hammock. I can probably find a bug tent. The
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: most expensive thing. Their freaking athletic foam that I use
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: for the sub zero temperatures is like nine dollars or something,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: or seven dollars. Maybe it's pretty expensive though. At Decathlon,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they're using some fancy kind instead
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: of just regular athletic foam. And I was like, geez,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I'll just look at the regular athletic film. So I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: moved from the camping department to the athletic department where
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: they usually just sell the regular athletic foam. And that's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: fifteen dollars for a piece of foam. Come on, Decathlon,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: they were selling them less and less, and they were
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: only selling the expensive yoga mats and foams starting a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: few years ago. But I guess they got rid of
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: generic athletic foam altogether from Quetchuwa, which is their in
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: house athletic company athletic sportswear and sports company. But yeah,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: now they just don't have any They only have fancy foam,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: which is the same, the exact same thing. It's like
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: not even as good because the plastic isn't as smooth
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: because it's not just a lazy generic foam which works
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: so well for athletic foam and for insulation Guinea Back Decathlon.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: But I've been walking around De Kathlone lately staring at
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: that and trying to figure out a way that I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: can continue doing this podcast and start backpacking again, because
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: kind of miss backpacking a lot. And there's this handheld
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: recorder that I've been curious about for a very long
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: time since before yeah, it might be a decade ago now,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the very first time I ever looked into microphones, there
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: was a handheld one, and apparently the sound is very good.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: But I have no way to test that unless I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: buy one for two hundred, four hundred dollars whatever and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: gamble on its sounding good. And I know this sounds
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: good as long as I remember to stay away from
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the mic. I know I've been speaking too close to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the mic recently in some of these episodes, so I'm
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: giving myself a little more room now. I think it
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: was just living in that cramped apartment I was in
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: in Panama. I just felt like everything had to be
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: closer together. But then I was listening to the equality
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: of some of these ramble on episodes, and they did
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: not conform to my liking. But yeah, I'm really thinking
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: about getting out there backpacking again and just figuring out
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a way to do that. Oh So, in this apartment
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: in medi Ian, the shower stopped working after a day,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: so I got a shower in and then the shower
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: turned off, and I contacted my host and they said
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: they'll look at it tomorrow. And the next day they
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: showed up and they fixed it, and then they told
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: me that if I shower, I should just get Actually
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the host didn't say this, the host's repair man, who
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: maybe was her husband, I'm not really sure, but I said,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for fixing the shower, and he said, look,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: just so you know, if you shower all in Spanish,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: you can just get wet, then turn off the water,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: then use the soap, then turn the water on, shower,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: off the soap, and then the shower won't break. And
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: instead of telling him that I had absolutely no intention
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: of doing that, I pull I said, ah, you're at
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the end, though, I understand, and then I took a
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: regular shower as soon as they left. Because it's easier
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to let people think you agree with them. Oh, yeah,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I understand. That doesn't mean I'm going to do it,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: but I understand what you're saying. It's easier to let
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: people think they're saying something that makes them feel better,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and then they'll leave or they'll stop talking. And what's
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: more important than people not talking. It's the golden rule.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: And you could tell. The repairman was like, oh, it's
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: probably the fuse, but I had told them it wasn't
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the fuse, and I checked the fuse. Then he checked
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and it was the shower and they had to replace it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: But guys, just get a good shower the first time,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: then you won't have to replace it. Oh, I haven't
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: mentioned the shower. The shower heads in Colombia are the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: same in Guatemala, which are different than most other countries,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: including Central and South American countries. In Guatemala and here Colombia,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: they use the heat element connected to the shower head.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: So the water is tap water cold until it hits
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the shower head and then there's a heat element in
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: there that the shower goes through. So the less water
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: you use, the hotter the water is, and the more
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: water you use, the colder the water is. But that's
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: such an interesting design. I was really happy to see
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: it again. I was like, hey, it's my Guatemala shower
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and it works well. But it seems like the heat
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: elements burn out pretty fast compared to a traditional water
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: heater or an on demand water heater. I guess this
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: is technically on demand, but on demand water heaters don't
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: burn out very often. And by the way, the repair
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: man was herm herm grunting. It seems like this shower
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: head broken more than once, and I had only used
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: it once for like, I'll say, twenty minutes, but it
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: was probably closer to fifteen. I don't take very long showers.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Oh you know, it's crazy. Okay, two apps have just
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: stopped working, and at first I was worried it was
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: my phone, but it turns out there's online forms with
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: these issues. A bunch of other people with regular, more
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: mainstream iPhones and whatever are also having the exact same problem. Airbnbs,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: this is a pretty big one that is all over
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: their forums. Well there's actually I shouldn't say that. There
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: are two pretty long threads of unresolved issues for two
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: months now with no response or no fix anyway for
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Airbnb's next button. So the next button stopped working in
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: their apps two months ago, and both of those threads
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: have multiple Airbnb users saying that they haven't been able
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to use the button since it was like August seventeenth
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: or something, and now it's been two months. Oh no,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: it was July. And I called up Airbnb because I
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: was like, okay, yeah, it has been a long time
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: now that I haven't been able to use this next button.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: You can use it if you select wear and then
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: select the date, and then the number of people, and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: then you click where again, and then you click search.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: But the next button or the search button, doesn't work
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: if you click it when you're still on well, you're
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: still choosing the amount of people or you're still choosing
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the dates, which is crazy. That's the most important button
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: search and it just doesn't work on their app. And
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, is this like my new
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: phone whatever. Nope, it's there's a bunch of people. This
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: is happening to a lot of people in the Airbnb
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: community that just isn't working for no reason. And I
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: did talk to them, and I figured since there were
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: two pretty big threads, and an Airbnb community manager had
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: responded to one of the threads that they would be
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: aware of this situation, but nobody. Apparently the guy I
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: was talking to he had never heard of it. He
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: couldn't find any related ticket in the Airbnb support center
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: related to the next button not working. And I sent
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: him the two threads on they're on the official Airbnb site.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: These people are like, hey, Airbnb, your app search doesn't work.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: What the heck can you fix that? And so he
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: made a new ticket and they've sent it up the
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: chain and the support team says they're working on it now,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: but it's the next button, the next button, or like
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the search button doesn't work. That's crazy. And another crazy
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: thing is that apparently it is happening to other people.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Tinder stopped working. I use dating apps, and Tinder's one
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: of them, although I have been using a lesson less
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: because it's mostly just prostitutes or or Instagram prostitut. Yeah,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: it's mostly just prostitutes, and I have to talk to
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: them and then they're like, yeah, I'm into mutual benefits.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: And then do they do that emoji with the happy
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: face and its tongue is a dollar bill or something? Okay,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: And it was interesting talking to the first thousand prostitutes
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: on Tender. But I'm pretty tired of that, so the
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: fact that the app has completely stopped working is not
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: a huge loss for me. But it is the first
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: time not the first time. But I don't know. I
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: don't do this often, but I left a one star
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: review for Tinder because it hasn't been great for a
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: very long time. I mean in terms of the quality
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: of real people on it and matches and advertising for prostitutes,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and like, just let there be a filter if it
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: mentions Instagram or mutual benefits, let me block all the prostitutes.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Like that would take care. That would save me a
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: lot of time. And it's pretty easy for Tinder to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: include that in their profile regulations, but they don't. They're
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: not Yeah, that's not a concern apparently. So Tinder, if
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I swipe right, it says you have to complete a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: face check, which I've done before when they first introduced
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: that feature, and I said, yeah, sure, and it says, great,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: your face check is completed without doing a face check,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Please continue using Tinder, So I write, hello, you need
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: a face check, and it's just stuck in an infinite loop.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: So I can't use it at all. I can't use
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the app at all. I uninstalled, reinstalled it, did the
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: storage and the cash just did everything. And then I
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: wrote to Tinder like, hey, the app's completely broken, stuck
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: in an infinite loop. And I explained the steps and
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: what had happened, and that I reinstalled and uninstalled, and
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the first guy sent me back a form letter and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: it said have you tried uninstalling reinstalling the app? It's
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: like yep, that was in the and are you sure
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: it's the newest app? Yes, because again I uninstalled reinstalled it.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: And then the second guy send me a message all
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: different people the exact same form letter, and then the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: third person sent the same. Fourth person said the same,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and I said, please read my replies. I have done
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: all of these basic suggestions. The Tinder app is broken
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: right now, it doesn't work forward and other people are
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: apparently having the same issue. And the fifth reply, I'm
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: sorry you're having trouble. There's nothing more we can do
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: at this time. So, because they were all form letters,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever actually got in contact
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: with a real person. So I just uninstalled Tinder, gave
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: them one star, and told them what happened. The app
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: is completely broken, at least on mine and other phones.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: The issue tenders not addressing the issue, and I didn't
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: get any messages of any consequence back. I was surprised
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: to Tinder still at like four point two. I was
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: surprised the rating was so high, but maybe that'll be
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: changing soon since a bunch of people can't use it
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: at all. There are so many prostitutes on that app.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised most people would rat it a five. Are
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: people having a good time on Tinder? I thought it
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: was like the old Person's the legacy app, But I
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: don't update things very quickly, so I was still using
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: it and I'm not anymore. Okay, So what have I
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: been watching recently that's got me so worked up about
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Japanese food? There's this TV show called Oishinbo. It's animated,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and they work at Tozi News and there's a loud,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: borish fellow and a typical, nice, dainty Japanese lady who
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: works with him, and there's a test and a font
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: turns out that he has great taste. He passes the
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: taste test with flying colors, and so does she, and
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: so they're supposed to work on the ultimate menu. I
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: had watched Food Wars, which is a bit ridiculous, and
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: considering they're all in high school, it's weird when they
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: do the fan service girls flying off or having orgasms
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: at how good the food is. Like, oh, they're like fifteen, right,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: all right, But it's only a couple seasons, so it's
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: like whatever. And the food looks so good in Food Wars,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and that's how I learned to make my favorite eggs.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I forgave Food Wars for a lot of
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: their perversions because the food is so good and it
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: looks so good in the anime. But this show was
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: made in nineteen eighty six eighty eight something oishinbo, so
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: there's no perverted jokes or yeah, just unnecessary sexual jokes,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: which are so popular these days in Japanese anime, a
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: lot more popular than earlier anime. Like I've noticed this
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of the modern ones. I don't know,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: maybe I'm not watching enough old ones, but anyway, this
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: show doesn't have any of that, so I already like
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: it more than many anime. But this was the show
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I mentioned that every episode focuses on garlic, or it
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: focuses on ramen, or it focuses on sushi or sashimi
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: just by itself, and it really addresses some of the
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: parts of Japanese culture through cooking and really points them out.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: And I think there's some real cultural knowledge to be
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: gained from the show. And it's fun to watch because
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: there's a rivalry between a son and his father, and
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the food does look good and it is all real,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: like when they do give a like and that's why
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: this fish tastes better here because da da da da.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: And they make some good points that I can look
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: up and confirm. And a really good interesting point was
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: when they were like, and it's Chinese cooking, so you
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be using Japanese soy sauce. Use Chinese soy sauce.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: All the flavors will mix together better. And I've never
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: really thought about that, but I bet that's true, because
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I bet that's part of why whenever I'm in a country,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: everything all the dishes, even if it's the same thing
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I've had in another country, it makes more sense because
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: they're using all the same country's ingredients, Like Chinese food
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: tastes different in China because they aren't using any sweeter
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: soy sauces. Or anything like that. They're using the sauces
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: from China that have always been from China and drastically different.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I still do not like Chinese food in the US
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: at all. It's like a completely different country's food. So
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: you know, I gotta go back to China and go
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: eat their food again. Gotta go eat some food again.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: This apartment that I'm renting now in Columbia has an
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: air fryer, though, so yeah, I've just been doing chicken wings,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: French fries, and now garlic cloves. Oh my gosh, I'm
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: so excited to try the barbecue beer marinade garlic cloves
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: after this. That's gonna be so good. That's coming up, folks,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: That'll be on the next episode. I'll let you know
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: how that went. I bet it went great, dude. I'm
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: gonna do the barbecue beer marinade and put some of
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: the spicy dry spices on that, just a little puff
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: on each of them. Oh, it's gonna be so good.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: What was I talking about the air fryer. I love
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: air fryers. I was so excited that this apartment had one,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: and I've been cooking things with it and it's just
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I love being able to cook chicken wings or any meat. Really.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I've cooked chiso in it and butifarras and all these things,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and it's just I can get. I can make it
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: exactly how I like it every time. It's the best.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Air Fighters are the best. They're my favorite kitchen appliants.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe after refrigerators. Those are pretty useful, No, I think, hmm.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: If you had to get one appliance, a refrigerator or
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: an air fryer, I guess I would get the air
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: fryer because the only problem with no refrigerators that I
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: couldn't keep the beer cold. But I bet I could
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: figure something out. Or I would just live in a
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: super cold place and just have the air fer I'd
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: just go live in Sweden, keep the beer outside in
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: a wooden casket my outdoor fridge, and then use the
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: air fyer because I love how I can make perfect
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: food how I like it every single time. I use
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: an air fryer and it cooks everything. Okay, that's it.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Airfriers are the best. Okay. I just saw this lady
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: and it was super funny. She was walking down the street.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I was like the other day I was walking back
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: to my apartment oh no, I just left for my
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: afternoon walk, actually, and I turned this corner and when
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I was turning, a lady was walking across the street
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and this motor scooter drove up and she was in
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: the way, and she looked over and then she recognized
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: who was on the scooter. And I couldn't understand the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Spanish perfectly, but I could understand that the person on
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: the back was pretending to be angry but was saying
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: hello to her friend, and her friend laughed back and
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: flipped her the middle finger and drove off. But they
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: weren't teenagers. These were like fifty year old women. So
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: this was a very matronly, chubby lady crossing the street.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: And she just laughed so warmly and flicked off the
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: motor scooter and her friend and then they kept driving on.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: It was so funny to see that, and that really
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: reflects how Mediean is. This is a very fun city,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: which is interesting because I was told that before I
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: came that Bogatah was a little cold and not quite
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: as fun and Median everybody was out partying every day
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: and just enjoying and laughing with each other, and there
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: is a lot of laughing. Here the street food stalls
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: are open until midnight or later, and they'll have chairs
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: and tables in front of them, and you'll just see
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: groups of people. Everyone's just hanging out, a lot of beers,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of beers and bars, a lot of beer
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: drinking here. But it just seemed, yeah, it's a very
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: fun my neighborhood. Especially, it is a very fun neighborhood.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Well I say especially, but it seems like every part
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: of the city I visited is like this. So yeah,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Median is a very fun place. Everybody keeps telling me
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: how safe it is, though, and that is the only
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: thing in this hole in my entire experience in Columbia
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: so far, in Median anyway, That's the only reason I'm like, wait,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: is it safe? Because half a dozen people have made
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: pains to be like, don't worry, it's safe. I think
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: they're doing that because I'm so obviously not Colombian, and
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: they're this perception of Mediean especially being dangerous because fifty
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: years ago the drugs and all that. So maybe they're
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: just reassuring me, But too many people are doing it,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and now I'm like, how safe is it? But I,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: according to the violent statistics, which I think I mentioned.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: It's safer than most American cities, even without mass shootings.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Just violent crime is a lot less here than in
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: the US. Oh, I was jogging the other day and
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: there was like a bundle of trash or something on
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the sidewalk, because I was like, oh, it's trash day.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And then I got closer and it wasn't a bundle
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: of bags. There was a homeless guy lying head down
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: and like his legs and waste were on the grass
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: and he was lying face up downhill off the grass
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: onto the sidewalk. But he didn't look like he was hurt.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: It looked like he was on drugs. It looked like
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: he was higher than a kite. He looked pretty peaceful.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: He looked very peaceful his drug stoopor so I just
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: walked around him and kept going. And another guy walking
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: past me and he looked down and then just kept walking. Also,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: there are drug gee people here. So since the first day,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: I have seen people living on the streets because I mean,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: this is the perfect climate if you want to be homeless,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: this is the city to be homeless in. It's like
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: seventies in the morning and then it's sixty high fifties
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: at night, and that's three hundred and sixty five days
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: of the year. This is a pretty shocking climate. It's
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: a little too warm for me still, but I think
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: part of that is because I can't I don't have
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: any breeze. I have one window and one door next
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: to each other, the front door, but there's no cross
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: breeze or there's no exit for there's nothing on the
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: other side of the apartment. There's no window or any
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: ventilation at all. So I think I'm warmer in here
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: than I otherwise would be if there was any amount
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: of ventilation outside of the front door, in the window
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: right next to it. I will say. The homeless people
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: here and the druggies whatever, all the street people very
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: very nice people. Everyone's super courteous, like much more so
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: than in city. I'm very used to homeless people and
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: people on the street coming from the US, of course,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: that's like our staple. But like I said, the climate
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: is perfect here and it's really not very expensive to
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: get food, and I think some restaurants must even give
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: their old food to the homeless people or something, because yeah,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: all the homeless people are very nice. They're very talkative
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and happy. They all seem pretty happy. Yeah, it's just
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: a comfortable. This is a very good city to be homeless,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: and it makes sense. There's one dude and whenever he
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: sees me, he's like, hey, he can't speak English, and
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I just say something crappy and Spanish, but he always
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: fist bumps me and he's always like selling little bits
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: of candy. And I told him I can't candy because
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: my teeth are dead, and that's not quite true. I
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: just don't want to buy candy. But it's not quite
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: wrong either, because if I my teeth are pretty terrible,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: but half of them aren't real anymore, so those ones
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: are fine. So I've been using the air fryer a lot.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: And I bought a bag of chicken wings for five
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: bucks and I cooked them and they cooked really fast,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: in like ten minutes, and I was like, WHOA, what
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: the heck? And I checked the bag and said they
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: were pre cooked already, and they tasted pretty good, but
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize they were pre cooked, and I was
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: kind of surprised they were five dollars because all the
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: prices produce and other meat, so they're cheap. You can
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: get a pound of steak for I don't know, fifty cents,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and this was ten chicken wings maybe for five dollars.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: It just seemed really expensive for the country. So I
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: went and got raw chicken wings, and they were or
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: less a quarter of the price. They were five They
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: were a dollar fifty for two and a half pounds. No,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: that would have been three pounds of chicken wings. So yeah,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: like sixty cents a pound or whatever. No, that's like
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: forty cents a pound for chicken wings. The chicken wings
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: do have the back of the chicken connected, so I
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: get like a drumstick and a wing, drumstick, wing, and
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: then the back portion of the chicken. But it's great
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: because it has meat on it. It's just the ribbed part.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: It's chicken ribs. Yeah, it's chicken ribs actually, now that
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: I think about it. And these are fresh chicken wings,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: not pre cooked, so it takes a little longer to
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: cook them all. It takes twice as long to cook them.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: It takes twenty twenty two minutes whatever instead of eleven minutes.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: But it's just an air fryer, so I don't gotta
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: do anything and taste fantastic. They taste fresh, and it
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: cost me a dollar. It cost me a dollar twenty
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: for ten chicken wing is yeah, that's right. It's about
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: a dollar twenty for eight chicken wings, four wing tips
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: and two chicken ribs for a dollar twenty and I
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: just throw them in the air fryer, put on that
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: spice or whatever flavor I want. Yeah, it's great. There's
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: one girl who sells the chicken wings. She's always there
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: and she always talks to me. But she's one of
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: those people that doesn't get I can't understand. And just
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: every time I say like a, no intendolo sando miss
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: pilavarases mas pecanio, No no sofi siente palavoras. I don't
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: have enough words. I can't understand enough words, and she's like, ah,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: he's speaking, and so she just speaks to me faster
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: and more. I'm like, thank you so much. I really
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: can't understand what you're saying, though, and then she just
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: keeps speaking Spanish to me. It looks like she's having
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: a good time, so I mostly let it go. But
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: and if this is a slur or swear word, I
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: don't know. She kept saying waka no to me wakano,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: wakano wa kano, and I looked up in the dictionary
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: how I would think it would be spelled. I'm apparently wrong.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: What is wacano? Are there any Spanish speakers who know
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: what wacano means? Because after a few times I was
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: like wacano and she got really happy and clapped her
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: hands said seeo ocano, and I was like, what the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: heck is that? So if you know, let me know,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: because I can't find out what that word is, but
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: it seems like some kind of cuss word. But you
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: know what they got, the fresh chicken. Doesn't scare me
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: to make a mistake with my Spanish. I've been cooking
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of chicken wings. I've been cooking chicken wings
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: every other day. Instead of one dollar, I got two
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: dollars of chicken wings a couple days ago, and I
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: was like, okay, this is crazy, this is like too many.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize how much this would be because the
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: one dollar twenty of chicken wings I bought was already
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: so much food, but it was so good I ate
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: it quickly. So I was like, well, I just get
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: twice as many. Just have a party, And so I
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: did but that's a lot. It's sixteen little wings and
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: drums and ate wing tips and then four of those
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: chicken rips, so it's like a lot of meat and
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of skin. Because when I have an air fryer,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: I will eat a lot of the skin, not all
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: of it. But I usually don't like chicken wing skin
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: too much because it isn't cooked enough, so it's not
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: crispy if it's just marinated. I don't want to eat
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: chicken skin very much. But if I can air fry it,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I love crispy chicken skin on a chicken wing. Tasty, tasty,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: especially with my sauces or my spices or whatever, and
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I get to cook it exactly how dry I like it,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: not burnt, but real crispy, real, right about eleven and
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: a half minutes. Yeah, so I had way too many
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and I ate half of them. And then I figured, oh,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: you know what, like those ones I bought the first time,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: I can just pre cook these and then put them
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: in the freezer and then i'll have them. I'll have
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: already cooked out a bunch of the oil. They'll cook
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: faster than normal because yeah, I've pre cooked them, And
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I was really excited about this idea. So I also
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: cut up all of the potatoes that I had left over,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: and I did that, but it took forever because I
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: could only fit five chicken pieces in the air fryer
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: at a time, so I had to do I don't
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: even know, and I have to flip them after six minutes,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: so cooks evenly. More of the story is it was
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: not worth it pre cooking all of these chicken wings,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: and my entire apartment smelled like chicken wings because I
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: had to cook fry so many of them in the
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: air fryer, and then I fried all of the potatoes
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: too in the leftover chicken fat, but there was just
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: too much, so the entire apartment smelled like chicken for
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: a long time. And after I did that, I had
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: to put them all the pre cooked potatoes and chicken
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: wings in the freezer, and then the refrigerator was running
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: for like four hours trying to freeze everything, so I
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: couldn't record this yesterday. I think it was maybe two
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: days No, I think it was yesterday. No, it's two
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: days ago probably, And at the end of it, all
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: I had was like one meals worth of chicken for
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: me and French fries, and I was like, Okay, never
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: doing that again. I'll just cook it fresh. Take a
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: little longer, but I just do it once at a time.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: There's not as much smell and just way easier in
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: every respect to cook the fresh chicken wings one time
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: instead of pre cooking things and doing a whole it took.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: It felt like I just cooked everything twice for no reason,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and that is because I did. That's exactly what happened.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: That's why it feels like that. Ooh, the French fries
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: were good, though. I have been eating a lot of
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: French fries because a bag of potatoes is sixty cents,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: so I just buy a bag and then chop up
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: a couple or a few and fry them up for air,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: fry them up with whatever else I'm having that day. Oh.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: I finally got to make my guacamole yesterday for the
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: first time. The avocados I bought for sixty cents, six
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: for sixty cents were not ripe yet, so I've been
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: waiting for them to ripen, and they finally two of
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: them definitely ripened yesterday. Do you know the trick for
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: ripe avocados? I always thought you had to feel them,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: because that's what my parents taught me, and that's what
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: I saw everybody in every store ever in my whole life,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: including today, doing with avocados. They pick them up, they
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: squeeze them a little, and then they put them down
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: or they put them in their cart, depending on whatever
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: they felt. But that is incorrect. There's the little part
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: of the stem left over on the top of the avocado,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: just that little stem part. If that stem part doesn't
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: move it all, it is not ripe. Don't cut into it.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: I used to do that. I just have to cut
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: into my avocados to check. And I did that for years,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: and I was like, there's got to be a better way,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and I looked online. Nobody told me this ever, and
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: apparently this wasn't widely known. Maybe it's very common nowadays,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: common knowledge. But anyway, that's the trick. The little part
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: of the stem on top, if it doesn't move at all,
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: it's not ripe. If it moves a little, it's almost ripe.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: And if it has fallen out or it can be
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: popped off very easily, just really just move your finger
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: and if it rubs right off, then the avocado is fresh.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: It's ready to make guacamole with, or ready to be
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: chopped up in a cell. It's perfectly ripe when that
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: little piece of stem falls off on its own or
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: comes off with very little pressure. And two of my
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: avocados yesterday, it was still a little stiff, but they
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: were loose, and I really want to have some guacamole yesterday,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: so I did it. But I'm probably gonna make some
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: more today because the day after they're almost ready in
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: a batch, all the other batch is gonna be ready
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: the next day. That's probably I haven't checked actually today,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: but if they're ready, I'm gonna make them. And I'm
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: pretty sure they'll be ready, because that's how it usually goes.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: In fact, let's wrap this up here. I'm gonna go
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: make some guacamole. I hope you had a wonderful day today.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: You can talk to me at bit of a Rambler
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com or a Bit of a Rambler
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: and Blue Sky and Lemmy, I am looking forward to
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: hearing from you.