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095 Crazy Couple: The Trimmings · 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 I have some stories that I don't know
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Speaker 1: if there'll be as much fun as the last ones
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Speaker 1: about my weird couple roommates that I lived with, But
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Speaker 1: they're interesting and weird. If you remember the first story,
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Speaker 1: it was about how enthralled they were by the popcorn
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Speaker 1: maker and my weird Western need for privacy I e.
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Speaker 1: Not changing in public. And again I want to emphasize
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Speaker 1: that these are not bad people. They're just pretty strange
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Speaker 1: people and are the reason they were my first and
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Speaker 1: only roommates in China. I didn't room with anyone else
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Speaker 1: after that. Now I already knew I was getting into
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Speaker 1: something when I moved in with Chinese people because they
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Speaker 1: live six people in a one bedroom apartment. Not weird,
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Speaker 1: just like six people will just live together in a
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Speaker 1: one bedroom apartment. When I was looking for an apartment,
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Speaker 1: the real estate agent showed me a place a bed.
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Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, there's a room here for a roommate.
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Speaker 1: And he showed me a bed in the kitchen, like
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Speaker 1: a mattress on the kitchen floor and said, that's your space.
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Speaker 1: And one of the guys just walked in, walked through
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Speaker 1: the kitchen, started making something in there, and that mattress
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Speaker 1: on the kitchen floor would have on my space, and
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Speaker 1: I said, oh, no, thank you. But I knew I
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Speaker 1: was going to have to make some adjustments and I
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to understand a lot of the parts of
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Speaker 1: me living with Chinese roommates. But after I made it clear,
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Speaker 1: like no, I want a traditional room in an apartment.
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Speaker 1: I found this place with these people, and I walked in.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, not super clean, not crazy dirty,
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Speaker 1: not really dirty either, just cluttered every single piece of
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Speaker 1: the walls, like where's three deep in cardboard boxes or
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Speaker 1: a spare chair or just it was very cluttered when
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Speaker 1: I walked in, and I was like, oh that's I
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Speaker 1: wasn't exactly mister clean or mister organized, but I don't
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Speaker 1: like clutter that much. If you have clutter, you have bugs.
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Speaker 1: They live in the spaces in between. It's warmer in there.
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Speaker 1: They can build nests, and that's where dirt collects. If
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Speaker 1: you have a cardboard box leaning against the wall all
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Speaker 1: the dust, you're gonna have a little dust town under there.
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Speaker 1: But I was like, whatever, if A clutter is the
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Speaker 1: worst I have to deal with. It's nothing to really
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Speaker 1: worry about. And then I went to the kitchen. I
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Speaker 1: decided to take the place. And I went in the
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Speaker 1: kitchen the first time, and when I looked at it,
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Speaker 1: it had been messy. And then when I the day
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Speaker 1: I moved in, I was like, oh, that was them
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Speaker 1: trying to be clean when they were showing the apartment,
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Speaker 1: because when I walked in the second day, there were
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Speaker 1: broken eggs, dripping yolk from the eggshells all over the counter.
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Speaker 1: There were roaches in there in the afternoon, broad daylight.
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Speaker 1: When I walked in, the implements they used to cook
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Speaker 1: were just laid all over, like spoons and whatever tongs
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Speaker 1: and a big walk with oil inside. It was just
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Speaker 1: sitting on the stove with a bunch of oil left inside.
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Speaker 1: And one of them saw me and was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you can cook. You can use anything you want to
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Speaker 1: in here. Yeah, just cook whenever you want to. Do
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Speaker 1: you eat rice? Do you eat spicy food? Do you
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Speaker 1: eat beef? Do you eat hamburgers? And after their questions,
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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, thank you, And I decided to
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Speaker 1: go in there and cook. Maybe a few days later,
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Speaker 1: because the first week or something, I was just walking
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Speaker 1: around the neighborhood because it was a new neighborhood for me,
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Speaker 1: also very close to my school, like a ten minute
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Speaker 1: walk maybe, and I was trying all the local foods.
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Speaker 1: There was like row bing and gmbing, just a bunch
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Speaker 1: of normal Chinese foods around. But I did finally decide
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Speaker 1: to cook in the kitchen, even though there were roaches,
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Speaker 1: and I was not excited about that, but I grew
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Speaker 1: up in a tropical climate. I understood that you're just
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Speaker 1: gonna have them sometimes, especially if you're living in a
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Speaker 1: clutter not super clean apartment, and if you don't clean
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Speaker 1: up your kitchen, you'll have infinite roaches forever, which is
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Speaker 1: coming up in another story. These guys had infinite roaches forever.
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Speaker 1: This one, though, was about the cooking oil in the
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Speaker 1: walk I mentioned. So I was going to cook some sturfry,
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Speaker 1: I think was the first thing. And I don't think
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Speaker 1: I was using my hot pot based trick at this point.
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Speaker 1: I just cooked up sturfry vegetables and meat with some
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Speaker 1: oyster sauce and soy sauce and salt and whatever and
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Speaker 1: mix that up. But they didn't have. They had one
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Speaker 1: walk that was the only thing they had to cook with,
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Speaker 1: and they hadn't cleaned it in a very long time.
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Speaker 1: There was food residue all over the walk, like dried
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Speaker 1: egg scraps or burnt vegetable scraps from whenever they originally
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Speaker 1: cooked that vegetable, and a shallow puddle of oil in
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Speaker 1: the walk. So I decided to be a good roommate
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Speaker 1: and start off on the right foot, and I cleaned.
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Speaker 1: I thoroughly cleaned that walk, and I got rid of
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Speaker 1: all the residue and used a bunch of soap with
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Speaker 1: the oil, just had that walk shining sparkly clean before
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Speaker 1: I actually used it. And then after I used it,
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Speaker 1: I cleaned it all up so was sparkly clean again,
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Speaker 1: dried it off, put it on the stovetop, and went
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Speaker 1: back into my room and I was eating my food.
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Speaker 1: And after five minutes I was still in the middle
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Speaker 1: of eating it, I heard the door open. And whenever
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Speaker 1: I did anything in that apartment, one of them would
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Speaker 1: come outside, casually, nonchalantly, not for any reason, but would
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Speaker 1: usually just see what I was doing, try and see
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Speaker 1: what was going on. And I heard them go into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen and I heard like a squawk, like a
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Speaker 1: squawk of surprise, so I knew it was the girl.
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Speaker 1: And I heard her muttering something to herself, and then
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Speaker 1: she went back into her room, and then I heard
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Speaker 1: the guy come out into the kitchen and he squawked,
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Speaker 1: and so I knew it was the guy in the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: And then he went back into the room and I
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Speaker 1: heard them talking like loudly, but my Mandarin wasn't the
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Speaker 1: best and I wasn't sure what they were saying. And
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Speaker 1: then he knocked on my door a couple minutes later
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Speaker 1: while I was almost done with my food, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, hey, hey, kay uh did you cook yep? Thanks?
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Speaker 1: I used the walk walk walk what walk? And after
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Speaker 1: like a five minute discussion about how walking is different
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Speaker 1: than the walk, and he said huh, huh huh, which
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Speaker 1: just how he responded to everything I did. Uh. He said,
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Speaker 1: did you clean out the walk? And he said that
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Speaker 1: like he would say, like did you pee on the
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Speaker 1: bathroom floor, like wh did you clean it out? And
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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, yeah, I mean it's pretty clean.
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Speaker 1: It was a little messy like before I used it,
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Speaker 1: but I definitely cleaned it very well. After I used it,
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Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, oh on okay, okay. So
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Speaker 1: the thing is, I can't remember what fake names I
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Speaker 1: gave them last time, so I'm going to give them
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Speaker 1: a Deborah and David this time. So David continued, Oh,
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Speaker 1: so the thing is Deborah doesn't want to clean the walk,
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Speaker 1: the ghoula, the walk walk just like walking walk. She
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Speaker 1: she doesn't want to clean it. And I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's fine, I'll clean it. I'll clean it every time
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Speaker 1: I use it. Yeah, there's no problem there. He was like,
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Speaker 1: oh no, no, like you know the oil inside. Did
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Speaker 1: you throw that oil away? And I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I threw away the old oil. He's like oh oh oh,
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Speaker 1: like I was stabbing it and he's like, oh, that's
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Speaker 1: some that's the cooking oil. And I was like, no,
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Speaker 1: I know that, but you already cooked with it, right,
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Speaker 1: there's just some left over in the pot. He's like no, no, okay, okay. So,
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Speaker 1: and then Deborah's yells something in Mandarin from the bedroom
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Speaker 1: because she's listening to everything he's saying down the hole,
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Speaker 1: and he yells something back and then goes so kai.
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Speaker 1: So so in the walk, the oil it's it's like
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Speaker 1: cooking oil. But it gets more flavor every time you
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Speaker 1: cook with it. And he kept talking. But when he
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Speaker 1: said that, I was like, and then I was just like, well,
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Speaker 1: where the heck is this going? And David continued, So
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Speaker 1: that oil, you know, we've been using it for a
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Speaker 1: long time. The longer it's in the pot, the more
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Speaker 1: flavor it has. If you cook egg, you get egg oil.
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Speaker 1: If you cook meat, you get meat oil. You get
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Speaker 1: all different oils altogether. And that's just what Chinese people
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Speaker 1: like to do. This is not true, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump in here. That's incorrect because I've lived
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Speaker 1: with many Chinese people and they all clean their dishes.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've had Chinese girlfriends live with me. I've
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Speaker 1: lived and stayed in friends' homes across China. Many times.
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Speaker 1: Chinese people, on the whole washed their dishes like anybody else.
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Speaker 1: They used cooking utensils pants to cook something, and then
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Speaker 1: they washed them after cooking. Deborah and David were unique
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Speaker 1: here by holding onto their prized cooking oil. These guys
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Speaker 1: did not clean their dishes Deborah and David. And David
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Speaker 1: was like, so if you could, like not when you cook,
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Speaker 1: leave the oil inside and then we can use it
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Speaker 1: and you can use it next time, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we can just like do that. And I can't remember.
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Speaker 1: I think I just said yes at the time. But
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Speaker 1: even when I was saying, I was like, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to buy my own pan, and I will have a pan,
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Speaker 1: and I think I did just end up buying a
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Speaker 1: frying pan and using that for everything. But that was
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Speaker 1: a very bizarre thing. And I had heard that in
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Speaker 1: some Chinese households, like the longer you cook with this oil,
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Speaker 1: the better it'll be. And there is a whole industry
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Speaker 1: or there was in Beijing about moving used cooking oil
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Speaker 1: from rest one restaurant to the other and reselling it
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Speaker 1: to a new restaurant and basically just moving old cooking
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Speaker 1: oil around to different restauran. So I knew it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a wholesale fabrication that he was telling me, like, we
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Speaker 1: want to save the old cooking oil, but ew, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't do that. I did not want to do that.
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Speaker 1: It was just old oil that was sitting out that
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Speaker 1: cockerroaches were sipping on every moment of the day. They
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Speaker 1: weren't actively cooking in the kitchen, and that was like
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Speaker 1: I said, not a clean environment in the first place.
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Speaker 1: Even if there hadn't been roaches, there were still just
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Speaker 1: vegetable clippings, meat like fat trimmings all over the counter.
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Speaker 1: The egg yolks were constant, just dripping everywhere, on the floor,
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Speaker 1: on the cow everywhere. It was crazy how dirty their
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Speaker 1: kitchen always was. But that was the oil incident where
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Speaker 1: I learned some people really do. I think they said
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Speaker 1: it was like months old at that point, and I
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Speaker 1: had thrown away. Basically what they saw was like a
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Speaker 1: form of cultivation, and I had gotten rid of their
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Speaker 1: cultivated cooking oil, which is not something I recommend, you
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Speaker 1: know what. I haven't tried it. I haven't really tried it.
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Speaker 1: But also I haven't left out dirty dishes because I
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Speaker 1: hate cockerroaches, so I'm not going to try that. Maybe
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Speaker 1: if I'm living in like northern Sweden and it's negative
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Speaker 1: fifteen all the time, maybe I'll try that and see
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Speaker 1: what they're talking about, because I like a good experiment,
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Speaker 1: but not in any place where roaches could smell three
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Speaker 1: month old cooking oil soaked with tofu egg and fat essence.
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Speaker 1: David always wanted to spend time together because he was
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Speaker 1: excited about learning English, and he told me that, oh,
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Speaker 1: we should definitely spend more time together. You can just
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Speaker 1: teach me English. And after he said that a few
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Speaker 1: times a few different times, I told him, like, well,
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Speaker 1: that is my job, so I don't want to do
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Speaker 1: it in my free time. Also, like we can spend
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Speaker 1: time together sometimes you and we can just go get
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Speaker 1: dinner or something, but I don't want to formally teach
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Speaker 1: you English. That's a lot of time investment for me.
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Speaker 1: And like I said with the popcorn story, he would
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Speaker 1: come into my room if he would ever get the opportunity.
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Speaker 1: He was very hovery. They were both always trying to
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Speaker 1: spend time with me and practice their English or whatever,
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Speaker 1: just mark themselves with prestige for spending time with a foreigner,
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Speaker 1: which was a very common practice in China. This is
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Speaker 1: my foreigner friend. And one time I was going to
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Speaker 1: my favorite sports store to kathlon, and it's a good
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Speaker 1: hour plus bike ride away from where I was in
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Speaker 1: like the sort of center of the city. There was
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Speaker 1: a big maybe forty five minutes in the northeast, and
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Speaker 1: I want to try my bike up there. And I
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Speaker 1: was out the door when David rushed out of his
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Speaker 1: room was like, hey, hey, where are you going? And
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Speaker 1: I told him I was going to decathlon and he says, oh,
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Speaker 1: I can go too, Let's go together. And I said,
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Speaker 1: oh no, I like to listen to podcasts by myself
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Speaker 1: when I ride. He's like, no, no, no, no, we
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Speaker 1: should talk. You and I should talk. We can talk,
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Speaker 1: will be better friends, it'll be better. And I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'd rather go by myself and he was like, no, no,
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Speaker 1: we'll go together. Wait wait, I'll get my stuff. And
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Speaker 1: we hadn't really hung out at all, so I figured
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Speaker 1: I'll give it a try one time, and he came
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Speaker 1: out several minutes later. I'm just waiting for him. And
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Speaker 1: then this what is usually a fairly leisurely and enjoyable
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Speaker 1: bike ride because I'm just listening to an audiobook or
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Speaker 1: a podcast on the way up and getting some exercise,
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Speaker 1: turned into David screaming at me from his bike over
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Speaker 1: the traffic, and me having to respond to do you
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Speaker 1: like spicy food? How long have you been here? Do
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Speaker 1: Americans eat pizza? Only pizza? Right? No other food? Like?
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Speaker 1: Just the most fundamental questions, over and over for forty
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Speaker 1: five minutes, all the way up to the store, and
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Speaker 1: then more questions as we walked around the store, and
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Speaker 1: after ten minutes, I was like, well, time to go back,
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Speaker 1: and on the ride back, the same questions until we
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Speaker 1: finally got back. And then when we got back, David said,
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Speaker 1: that was so much fun. We have to do that again,
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Speaker 1: like what a good bike ride? Like it was such
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Speaker 1: a great time. I was like, that was pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Usually I ride by myself though, because I listened to
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Speaker 1: audio books, So if I have time, I will tell
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Speaker 1: you on another bike ride. He was like, good, tell me,
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Speaker 1: definitely tell me the next time you ride a bike
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Speaker 1: and I said, well, like I said, I'm probably gonna
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Speaker 1: be listening to audio books because I do that a lot.
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Speaker 1: But when I do have time, I will tell you.
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Speaker 1: And I spoiler alert, never did. But I did, I think,
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Speaker 1: go to dinner with him a couple times or something
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Speaker 1: so he could get some FaceTime in. But I that
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Speaker 1: was the longest I was ever forced to spend with
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Speaker 1: either of those roommates, and I made sure to never
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Speaker 1: put myself in that position again. I think he did
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Speaker 1: try and go on a bike ride again after and
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Speaker 1: I was just very firmly explaining that no, I will
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Speaker 1: go on this ride by myself. Another strange occurrence happened
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Speaker 1: with their washing machine. It didn't work and they knew
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Speaker 1: that and didn't want to fix it, and I was like, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe you should fix it. How long has it been broken?
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Speaker 1: And they were like, well, it's not really broken, like
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Speaker 1: when you turn it on, it makes noises. It just
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Speaker 1: doesn't wash clothes like good. And I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: that sounds kind of broken because it's only for washing clothes.
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Speaker 1: That's what the whole machine is for. Like if you
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Speaker 1: turn on and off. If you can't use it to
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Speaker 1: wash clothes, then it's broken in some way. And David
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Speaker 1: was like, I guess, so, well, we just don't wash
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Speaker 1: our clothes as much these days. It's like, oh, how
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Speaker 1: long has it been broken? It was like eighteen months
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Speaker 1: it's been broken. It's it was like a long time
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Speaker 1: that it hasn't been working. And they were like, we've
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Speaker 1: been meaning to get a new one. And they got
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Speaker 1: a washing repair man washing machine repairman in and I
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Speaker 1: ended up helping him repair the washing machine and it
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Speaker 1: worked for like a week and then it broke again
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Speaker 1: because the guy just opened it up and cleaned some
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Speaker 1: stuff and cleaned one hundred like literally one hundred roach
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Speaker 1: corpses out of the bottom that were like gumming up
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Speaker 1: the gear so it couldn't turn the drum. And that's
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Speaker 1: what was wrong with it. There was just like too
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Speaker 1: much dead roaches in the bottom of the washing machine.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how I got Maybe I washed my
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Speaker 1: clothes in other places, maybe my girlfriend's house at the time.
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Speaker 1: I'm really not sure how I got past that. But
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Speaker 1: the washing machine was another distressing encounter with a startling
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Speaker 1: amount of cockroaches in a very finite space. So this
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Speaker 1: doesn't get better the roach situation, and this episode is
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Speaker 1: not as uplifting and fun maybe, but it is gross
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Speaker 1: and weird. So moving on from the washing machine cockroaches,
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Speaker 1: one of the craziest things I have ever seen in
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Speaker 1: life was actually partly my fault, I mean, for living
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Speaker 1: in a cockroach and asked, but also for not washing
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Speaker 1: my popcorn bowl. So I was making popcorn all the time.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was really fun that they liked salty popcorn,
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Speaker 1: like salty buttery popcorn, And every time I made popcorn,
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Speaker 1: David and Deborah would come out and ask for some,
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Speaker 1: or they wouldn't even ask for some. They would come
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Speaker 1: out and stare. If I left my door open, they
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Speaker 1: would just come in and stare at the machine while
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Speaker 1: it popped popcorn until I gave them some, and then
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Speaker 1: they'd say something like, oh, no, I don't like salty popcorn.
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Speaker 1: I only like sweet popcorn. While they're eating it and
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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, this is very good. I don't like this,
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Speaker 1: but thank you. This is very good. Thank you, and
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Speaker 1: then they'd go back in their room and like eat
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Speaker 1: popcorn together. I think I offered to buy them a
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Speaker 1: machine at one point because they seemed to enjoy the
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Speaker 1: popcorn so much, even though they told me they didn't
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Speaker 1: like it. Every time they ate it, and they ate
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Speaker 1: it dozens of times because I made it dozens of times,
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Speaker 1: and every time they could they were hovering until I
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Speaker 1: gave them some, but they said no, and they just yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to scavenge the bits I offered them. I
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Speaker 1: gave them huge bowls of it because it's popcorn, and
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Speaker 1: I had a machine. Okay, but I got lazy cleaning
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Speaker 1: the bowl, which maybe that's easy to do because they
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Speaker 1: didn't clean any dishes. And I was like, well, whatever,
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Speaker 1: it's just a little bit of butter and salt and
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Speaker 1: a bowl who gears, and I left the bowl without
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Speaker 1: cleaning it one in the kitchen and then went to bed,
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Speaker 1: and I woke up to screaming and my girlfriend at
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Speaker 1: the time was in my room and we both sat
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Speaker 1: up because there was screaming coming from the kitchen, and
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Speaker 1: I went out and my girlfriend followed, and no one
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Speaker 1: was being murdered. She was screaming at what I assumed
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Speaker 1: were roaches, but I was like, you live in roaches, like,
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Speaker 1: I don't think you should be that alarmed by them.
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Speaker 1: And then she and David moved out of the way
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Speaker 1: so that I could see, and me and my girlfriend
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Speaker 1: leaned in and it was one of the craziest things
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Speaker 1: I have ever seen. I don't know if you've seen
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Speaker 1: snow piercer, but in my popcorn bowl, which I don't
20:51
Speaker 1: know it was like two gallons, I don't know, a
20:54
Speaker 1: decent sized bowl, pretty big aluminum bowl, sheer sides, there
21:01
Speaker 1: were at least hundreds and probably probably more cockerroaches racing
21:11
Speaker 1: around in death circles, like moving the absolute fastest they could,
21:16
Speaker 1: running over and under each other, just crawling around. You
21:20
Speaker 1: could not see the aluminum, and this was a full
21:24
Speaker 1: played aluminum bowl. You couldn't see the aluminum on the
21:30
Speaker 1: inside of the bowl. There was none on the outside.
21:32
Speaker 1: There were no cockroaches on the outside, but you couldn't
21:34
Speaker 1: see any part of the inside of the bowl due
21:37
Speaker 1: to the sheer volume of cockroaches running around in mad
21:43
Speaker 1: death circles, constantly climbing over each other in layers and rows.
21:48
Speaker 1: From every from the bottom to the top of the round,
21:51
Speaker 1: from every single inch of the inside of the bowl
21:53
Speaker 1: was completely taken up by circles, by rings of cockerroaches
21:58
Speaker 1: running over and under each other. And I was so confused.
22:04
Speaker 1: I had no idea. What did I didn't know there
22:07
Speaker 1: were that many cockroaches in their building, like let alone
22:12
Speaker 1: in their kitchen. And I had left the popcorn bole
22:16
Speaker 1: there overnight before and then gone in and washed it
22:19
Speaker 1: the next time I used it. But here I was
22:22
Speaker 1: confronted with a thousand cockroaches in the size of a catcher. Smit.
22:28
Speaker 1: It was crazy. It was truly crazy. I can I
22:34
Speaker 1: still have it like in my mind. And if you
22:37
Speaker 1: know the part in Snow Piercer I'm talking about, Yeah,
22:40
Speaker 1: it looked like that. It basically looked a lot like that,
22:43
Speaker 1: but maybe more cockerroaches. It was so crazy and I
22:48
Speaker 1: didn't even know it did. I was kind of in shock,
22:50
Speaker 1: and my girlfriend was definitely in shock. The two people
22:54
Speaker 1: I was living in, my roommates were even in shock.
22:56
Speaker 1: They were like, we've seen cockroaches, but this is we
23:00
Speaker 1: haven't seen this, and I don't know what to do.
23:03
Speaker 1: I killed cockroaches with an electric fly swatter I had.
23:06
Speaker 1: That was my preferred I could see them and smack them.
23:09
Speaker 1: I didn't like spraying raid around because the smell stayed forever,
23:14
Speaker 1: and the fly swatter worked pretty good. I killed them.
23:18
Speaker 1: They they're very powerful. The electric fly swatters in China
23:21
Speaker 1: are not regulated like they are in the States, so
23:23
Speaker 1: they will electrocute anything. And I was like, I get
23:30
Speaker 1: I guess and I grabbed I went back to my
23:34
Speaker 1: room and grabbed the electric fly swatter. I picked up
23:36
Speaker 1: the bowl. I went over to the bathroom and I
23:39
Speaker 1: poured the cockerroaches onto the tennis racket fly swatter that
23:45
Speaker 1: I had, and I shocked a hundred of them, two
23:49
Speaker 1: hundred of them, but there were who knows how many
23:53
Speaker 1: hundreds of them, and they fell over and into the toilet,
23:57
Speaker 1: onto the floor, and just ran away everywhere, and everyone
24:00
Speaker 1: screamed and ran away, and I just dumbly in shot
24:04
Speaker 1: kept pouring them until there were none left in the bowl,
24:07
Speaker 1: and I killed, like I said, hundreds and flushed it,
24:09
Speaker 1: and the others ran away, and I was like, well,
24:12
Speaker 1: they live in the walls anyway, go back to their communities.
24:17
Speaker 1: And that's how I discovered the sheer volume of bugs
24:21
Speaker 1: in that apartment. And that's how I first ever heard
24:25
Speaker 1: about insect death spirals, which are a real thing, and
24:28
Speaker 1: they'll just run in a circle until they die, and
24:30
Speaker 1: they gather like the whole calling these together and just
24:33
Speaker 1: run around in circles. And that was happening in levels
24:36
Speaker 1: and rows in my popcorn bowl, which I cleaned for
24:39
Speaker 1: an absurd amount of time afterwards, outside and in and
24:45
Speaker 1: afterwards I used it again because it was aluminum and
24:48
Speaker 1: it's clean after it's clean, and I used a lot
24:51
Speaker 1: of soap, like a portion of a bottle of soap,
24:54
Speaker 1: it was a lot, and then a ton of water
24:57
Speaker 1: washing it all off, like boiling skull water. Gallons of
25:01
Speaker 1: boiling water cleaning that bowl. It was cleaner than it's
25:05
Speaker 1: ever been. But I never left the bowl in the
25:08
Speaker 1: kitchen overnight again, and I never made popcorn without cleaning
25:13
Speaker 1: the bowl afterward. Because my room was the only place
25:18
Speaker 1: in the house that didn't have roaches because I killed
25:20
Speaker 1: them as soon as they showed up, and I kept
25:23
Speaker 1: my room clean. I swept it a lot. I even
25:25
Speaker 1: mopped the floor. I didn't leave dishes in my room overnight.
25:29
Speaker 1: So I figured I had eliminated the roach problem completely
25:32
Speaker 1: from my room, or hoped I grew up with roaches.
25:35
Speaker 1: I know that was impossible, but my situation was better
25:39
Speaker 1: because there weren't roaches everywhere like there were in the
25:41
Speaker 1: rest of the apartment. Turns out I was wrong. They
25:45
Speaker 1: did have a hiding place in my room, but if
25:47
Speaker 1: you walked into the apartment, anywhere you walked there were
25:50
Speaker 1: just roaches moving around, except for in my room. My
25:53
Speaker 1: room looked pretty clean. The thing is I had hard
25:59
Speaker 1: way would furniture. And my school, I may have mentioned
26:04
Speaker 1: in the Korean Visa episode, was pretty bad finding housing
26:09
Speaker 1: for new teachers. They would hire a new teacher, say
26:12
Speaker 1: that they were going to get them housing, assume housing
26:15
Speaker 1: would be found and taken care of, even if they
26:17
Speaker 1: hadn't asked anybody to find housing for the new teacher,
26:21
Speaker 1: and they would say that's so and so's job, and
26:25
Speaker 1: then so and so wouldn't do it, but they would
26:26
Speaker 1: say they were doing it, and then the teacher would
26:28
Speaker 1: arrive and they wouldn't have housing. So this happened once,
26:32
Speaker 1: and this story is very distressing. I found out that Lara,
26:36
Speaker 1: let's call her, was arriving in two days, and none
26:41
Speaker 1: of the three people who said they were going to
26:43
Speaker 1: find her housing had found her any housing. Now, this
26:47
Speaker 1: is China, there is housing everywhere, and I didn't understand
26:50
Speaker 1: why they didn't just get her a hotel, but they
26:53
Speaker 1: decided to get her an apartment instead, and they needed
26:55
Speaker 1: a couple days transition to get the lease for the apartment.
27:00
Speaker 1: I don't know. They were probably trying to save a
27:03
Speaker 1: couple dollars by not buying the hotel room, which is
27:06
Speaker 1: absurd considering how much money we were pulling in relative
27:09
Speaker 1: to the cost of living, and how much money they
27:11
Speaker 1: were wasting with the school every day anyway, But in
27:15
Speaker 1: any case, the other co owners of the school, who
27:17
Speaker 1: said they were taking care of this housing situation for
27:19
Speaker 1: the new teacher, didn't have a place for her to live.
27:22
Speaker 1: And I said, hey, look, why don't I just give
27:25
Speaker 1: her my room with these people, I keep it pretty clean.
27:28
Speaker 1: They're kind of crazy, but she can live there for
27:30
Speaker 1: a weekend and then we can you can get her
27:33
Speaker 1: the lease. She'll move in on Monday, and she was
27:36
Speaker 1: only going to stay there Saturday and Sunday. So I
27:39
Speaker 1: was like, well, that's fine. I'll clean everything. I washed everything,
27:43
Speaker 1: put on new sheets, moved all my stuff out to
27:47
Speaker 1: a new apartment that was adjacent to one of the
27:49
Speaker 1: schools we had in Beijing, and boom, problem solved. It
27:55
Speaker 1: was good, and they were going to get her. They
27:57
Speaker 1: were going to get the lease for Lara and a
27:59
Speaker 1: new apartment and she could just stay in my place
28:01
Speaker 1: for the weekend with this couple in cockroach town. I
28:06
Speaker 1: thought I had done a pretty good job and my
28:08
Speaker 1: room was clean. I never saw a cockroach in there after,
28:11
Speaker 1: like the first week where I did a deep clean,
28:14
Speaker 1: but just in case, I bought bottles of raid for Lara.
28:18
Speaker 1: When she showed up and I introduced her, I showed
28:20
Speaker 1: her some food she could get in the neighborhood and
28:22
Speaker 1: all this, and then I took her up to the room.
28:24
Speaker 1: I introduced her to my roommates. I said, this is Lara.
28:27
Speaker 1: She'll be staying here, so nice to meet you. Then
28:30
Speaker 1: we went to my room and I showed her around.
28:32
Speaker 1: I showed her the bed I like lifted up. I
28:34
Speaker 1: was like, their kitchen is pretty dirty. I keep this
28:37
Speaker 1: place pretty clean, so you can see, like the bed,
28:40
Speaker 1: there's it's clean. I opened all the closets, which were
28:44
Speaker 1: completely clean. I had wiped everything down. And then I
28:48
Speaker 1: went to the desk that I work on, this big
28:50
Speaker 1: hardwood desk, and I said, and if you do, like
28:54
Speaker 1: see any cockroaches, like in the kitchen or whatever, I
28:56
Speaker 1: did buy you account of raid so you can just
28:59
Speaker 1: use it. And again, this is just the weekend. These
29:03
Speaker 1: people are kind of strange, but you'll be in your
29:07
Speaker 1: own apartment by Monday. And she was like, oh, thank
29:11
Speaker 1: you so much. Yeah. I was surprised they hadn't figured
29:13
Speaker 1: that out already. And I was like, yeah, they're not.
29:16
Speaker 1: I just didn't realize you were coming today, or I
29:19
Speaker 1: would have made sure we had the apartment ready before
29:22
Speaker 1: you arrived. But I've been living here for a few months.
29:25
Speaker 1: I have another place. Now. You can live here until
29:28
Speaker 1: the apartment is sort of which should be in about
29:30
Speaker 1: two days because it was Saturday and the lease would
29:33
Speaker 1: be ready on Monday, and she was like, okay, great,
29:36
Speaker 1: thanks for the raid and I was like, yeah, you know,
29:38
Speaker 1: I just bought it. Let me just check. And I
29:41
Speaker 1: shook it and sprayed a little bit on the back
29:43
Speaker 1: of the desk, and like a little puff came out,
29:46
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, good at work. And when
29:48
Speaker 1: I did that, like I started to say, oh good,
29:51
Speaker 1: it works, and a legion of cockroaches flooded up from
29:58
Speaker 1: the back of the desk, mostly small ones. Maybe that's
30:02
Speaker 1: why I didn't see them, or maybe they were like
30:03
Speaker 1: staying nestled in the back of the hardwood, but hundreds
30:08
Speaker 1: of them streamed up suddenly onto the top of the desk,
30:12
Speaker 1: and I was like what And I just sprayed and
30:15
Speaker 1: killed them all, and then we had a desk of
30:18
Speaker 1: dead cockroaches, probably dozens, but if you see dozens of
30:24
Speaker 1: baby cockerroaches, it seems like there are hundreds. And sure
30:28
Speaker 1: they were all dead in a matter of seconds. But
30:32
Speaker 1: that was Lara's unfortunate introduction to China, and she wasn't
30:37
Speaker 1: as put off as you might expect. She was like,
30:39
Speaker 1: that is crazy, that's too many cockroaches. And I was like,
30:43
Speaker 1: I know, I've literally never seen them before. This is insane.
30:47
Speaker 1: I had no idea they were there. Do you mind
30:50
Speaker 1: waiting at the door, and I had her weight there
30:52
Speaker 1: while I sprayed down every other piece of furniture. I
30:54
Speaker 1: two large closets, the bed frame, I sprayed everything else,
30:57
Speaker 1: and there was not There were no no bugs anywhere,
31:00
Speaker 1: but there were hundreds left over on that hardwood, big
31:05
Speaker 1: fancy desk that I used every day. And I had
31:07
Speaker 1: had no idea, but there certainly weren't any left now.
31:12
Speaker 1: And Lara came back in and said, well, thank you
31:15
Speaker 1: for killing them all, and thank you for the room.
31:18
Speaker 1: I guess that was really gross, and I was like, yeah,
31:21
Speaker 1: that's one of the grossest things I've ever seen. I
31:23
Speaker 1: did not mention the popcorn bowl, and I gave her
31:27
Speaker 1: the can and I left, And as soon as I left,
31:29
Speaker 1: she closed the door and I just hurt spraying, so
31:31
Speaker 1: she was probably just fumigating the entire room, and I
31:35
Speaker 1: don't think there were any left. I cleaned up all
31:37
Speaker 1: the ones I killed on the desk first before she
31:39
Speaker 1: came back in. But that was such a horrific sight
31:45
Speaker 1: to just give a test spray of a bottle and
31:47
Speaker 1: see hundreds of these disgusting insects flood out from the
31:51
Speaker 1: back of the desk, and I had been using that
31:54
Speaker 1: desk for months. Anyway, Good on Lara. She didn't last long.
31:58
Speaker 1: She was a really bad teacher turned out, But maybe
32:02
Speaker 1: that's because her spirit was broken by the phantoms of
32:06
Speaker 1: a thousand cockroaches. Perhaps she was haunted. Poor Lara. I
32:11
Speaker 1: always felt bad for her because she was such a
32:14
Speaker 1: bad teacher, but she really didn't try at all. And
32:20
Speaker 1: she straight up like told me that she wasn't going
32:23
Speaker 1: to try. After a couple of weeks of her not
32:26
Speaker 1: doing grade at teaching and me trying to give her
32:28
Speaker 1: pointers and help her get better, she was like, look, man,
32:31
Speaker 1: the kids don't care. Like they're not going to learn
32:34
Speaker 1: anything anyway. And when she said that, I was like, oh,
32:37
Speaker 1: that's a problem, because they do learn very well, and
32:41
Speaker 1: the quality of your teaching you have to have at
32:43
Speaker 1: least some minimum so that they will learn, like you
32:47
Speaker 1: have to care at least about teaching the kids, and
32:50
Speaker 1: she clearly didn't care. So she moved on after a
32:53
Speaker 1: while and went to a school that cared less about
32:56
Speaker 1: teaching the students. But I can't help but thinking that
32:59
Speaker 1: cockroachi entered out killed her spirit in some fashion. Also
33:04
Speaker 1: real quick, Lara dressed like a hobo, which I thought
33:06
Speaker 1: was super cool. She showed up in fingerless gloves and
33:09
Speaker 1: like a poor Land Oregon weed beanie, and she looked cool.
33:13
Speaker 1: But she said she loved teaching and was really excited
33:16
Speaker 1: to learn the whole process and all this stuff, and
33:19
Speaker 1: then was not interested in the profession at all or
33:26
Speaker 1: the students. She wasn't interested in the student She just
33:28
Speaker 1: wanted them to be away from her and not bothering her.
33:33
Speaker 1: But back to my mad couple. So something I didn't
33:36
Speaker 1: mention in the first or any of these stories is
33:39
Speaker 1: that they were screaming at each other a lot. This
33:42
Speaker 1: couple fought a lot, and this is not in any
33:49
Speaker 1: way uncommon, especially in Chinese relationships. They tend to scream
33:54
Speaker 1: at their partner until their partner surrenders, which never happens
34:00
Speaker 1: because they just keep screaming both sides. So they just
34:03
Speaker 1: scream at each other until one gets tired or leaves
34:06
Speaker 1: or take a shower, and then when they go back
34:09
Speaker 1: in the room, they pretend nothing has happened until the
34:12
Speaker 1: next time screaming is scheduled to begin. So these two
34:16
Speaker 1: are screaming at each other all the time. And I
34:21
Speaker 1: got a private student to tutor, and when I had
34:26
Speaker 1: my private student over, I asked them, Hey, when my
34:29
Speaker 1: student is here, can you guys not scream at each
34:33
Speaker 1: other so much? Because it looks pretty bad that I'm
34:35
Speaker 1: teaching in a place where you guys are yelling at
34:37
Speaker 1: each other in the hallway. It's not very comfortable for
34:40
Speaker 1: the student if you guys have to argue. Can you
34:43
Speaker 1: argue in quieter voices in your room instead of in
34:47
Speaker 1: the hallway just until my class is finished. And David
34:51
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, of course, I'll talk to Deborah.
34:54
Speaker 1: And I told Deborah also separately, and she was like, definitely, definitely, definitely.
34:59
Speaker 1: And then I had class with Moira. I legitimately can't
35:05
Speaker 1: remember her English name that she chose for herself, but
35:07
Speaker 1: I had this one like high school student and we
35:10
Speaker 1: were studying literature and whatever in English literature, and from
35:16
Speaker 1: outside the room the door was closed. I heard screaming
35:20
Speaker 1: start and I could tell it was from their bedroom
35:22
Speaker 1: down the hall and their door was closed, and I
35:24
Speaker 1: was like, at least they're in there and they're like
35:26
Speaker 1: kind of quiet, and then they opened the door went
35:30
Speaker 1: into the hallway started screaming at each other from the hallway,
35:35
Speaker 1: and I had to open the door and be like, hey, David,
35:38
Speaker 1: Moira's here right now, can you do that? Can you
35:40
Speaker 1: like keep it down until she's gone like thirty minutes.
35:45
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, yeah, sorry, sorry, And he goes
35:47
Speaker 1: back into the room and I hear him in Mandarin going,
35:50
Speaker 1: he's teaching right now, why are you screaming so loud?
35:54
Speaker 1: And they did keep it down like a little. They
35:56
Speaker 1: were just like furiously mumbling at each other while they
36:00
Speaker 1: did that. But then ten minutes later, so there's still
36:03
Speaker 1: twenty minutes left in the lesson, Deborah went out of
36:06
Speaker 1: the room, slammed the door, go into the kitchen, starts cooking,
36:09
Speaker 1: starts burning something. The whole apartment fills up with smoke.
36:14
Speaker 1: David screaming at her from in the bedroom. She's screaming
36:17
Speaker 1: back from the kitchen into the bedroom and they're just
36:21
Speaker 1: yelling at each other. And this goes out for like
36:24
Speaker 1: two minutes, and I just couldn't believe this was happening,
36:26
Speaker 1: and I had to go out and be like, guys,
36:28
Speaker 1: I still have like twenty minutes left in this class,
36:30
Speaker 1: and you are screaming and burning food. Can you wait
36:33
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and then start doing this again? And they
36:37
Speaker 1: were like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, definitely, definitely, And
36:41
Speaker 1: she just turned off the fire of the burning walk
36:46
Speaker 1: and just left that smoking in the kitchen and I
36:49
Speaker 1: went back into the room and I kept teaching with Moira,
36:51
Speaker 1: and we made it another like ten minutes before they
36:54
Speaker 1: start screaming again. And I explained to Moira, just so
36:58
Speaker 1: you know, I am not living here anymore. This is
37:01
Speaker 1: the last time you and I will use this as
37:03
Speaker 1: an office for teaching. I'm going to have a new
37:06
Speaker 1: place next week. Our lessons will be in a new era,
37:09
Speaker 1: like a real classroom at my school. And that was
37:13
Speaker 1: the last time I tutored in my apartment. That was
37:16
Speaker 1: the last week I think I lived with those people,
37:19
Speaker 1: because that's just insane. There's no respect for boundaries. And
37:25
Speaker 1: I told them clearly, they know a child is there
37:29
Speaker 1: learning and they're screaming and burning things and just creating
37:36
Speaker 1: an awful environment. It'd be an awful environment for me.
37:39
Speaker 1: It was a terrible environment for me to be living in,
37:42
Speaker 1: but it's an especially awful environment for a student who's
37:47
Speaker 1: expecting to go to class and then showing up with
37:50
Speaker 1: insane people screaming at each other and burning things. I mean,
37:54
Speaker 1: I still took full pay, of course, for the day,
37:57
Speaker 1: but I told her, and when her mom showed up,
37:59
Speaker 1: I said, hey, look, just so you know, next week,
38:01
Speaker 1: we're going to be in a new location. We're going
38:02
Speaker 1: to text you the address and we'll be there. I think,
38:06
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't remember, but now that i'm telling
38:08
Speaker 1: a story, I'm pretty sure that is the reason I
38:11
Speaker 1: finally moved out from those people. Like the cockroaches and
38:15
Speaker 1: the weird shower thing and changing in front of them,
38:19
Speaker 1: and just like all the weird things they did, they
38:21
Speaker 1: were all weird, but they didn't really bother my professional demeanor.
38:29
Speaker 1: And then when that happened, when they acted up in
38:33
Speaker 1: front of the students that I was trying to provide
38:37
Speaker 1: a safe, professional learning environment for, that was it. I
38:43
Speaker 1: realized I couldn't stay there anymore. It just wasn't at
38:45
Speaker 1: all worth the cultural experience, which was really what it was.
38:49
Speaker 1: And I had been talking about moving out of that
38:52
Speaker 1: place just because of all the weird stuff. But I
38:55
Speaker 1: found a different place. The next week. I moved into
38:57
Speaker 1: that adjacent department near my school and I just told
39:01
Speaker 1: them I'm out of here, guys. I'm gonna move next week.
39:04
Speaker 1: It was really good staying with you, but I have
39:05
Speaker 1: to be closer to my school. It's just too much trouble.
39:08
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'll be back to pick up
39:10
Speaker 1: some stuff from the room, but i'll see you guys later.
39:13
Speaker 1: And then I left and I didn't go back, but
39:15
Speaker 1: then I realized that I did have to pick up
39:17
Speaker 1: like my popcorn machine or something I had forgotten. I
39:20
Speaker 1: can't remember what it was, but there was one thing.
39:24
Speaker 1: And I went back and Deborah answered the door and
39:26
Speaker 1: she was like ki because she hadn't seen me in
39:28
Speaker 1: a week, and she hugged me, like really hugged me.
39:32
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's weird. And she was like,
39:36
Speaker 1: David isn't home right now. Do you want to come in?
39:38
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, that's a weird way to
39:40
Speaker 1: say that. I just texted you I was gonna come
39:43
Speaker 1: over and pick stuff up. She was like, oh, I know,
39:45
Speaker 1: I know, I know. It's so good to see you again,
39:47
Speaker 1: and she kept touching my arm and I was like,
39:50
Speaker 1: uh oh, And I went in and grabbed my let's say,
39:53
Speaker 1: popcorn machine, maybe that's what I left behind. And I
39:57
Speaker 1: was like, well, thanks, I gotta go. And she was like, oh,
39:59
Speaker 1: but aren't you going to visit me again? Don't you
40:01
Speaker 1: want to come buy sometimes? I really like seeing you.
40:04
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yeah, no, I'll probably stop by.
40:07
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm here in the neighborhood. You know,
40:10
Speaker 1: it's still near my school, so I'm sure i'll stop
40:12
Speaker 1: by visit you guys again. And she was like, well,
40:16
Speaker 1: you don't have to come when David's here. You can
40:18
Speaker 1: just come when I'm here. We can just spend time together.
40:20
Speaker 1: And I was like that sounds nice, but I have
40:23
Speaker 1: to go right now. I do have school pretty soon.
40:26
Speaker 1: And I'm like physically backing away one step at a
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Speaker 1: time while smiling and nodding, and she's matching each step
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Speaker 1: I take backward with one step forward, and she's still talking, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I think it would be so much fun if like
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Speaker 1: you and I spend time together. I thought that, like
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Speaker 1: David always got in the way, and you and I
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Speaker 1: should spend more time together. And I'm like, you're right,
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Speaker 1: we should. And now I'm stepping down one step at
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Speaker 1: a time, slowly backing away from her, and she's following
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Speaker 1: me down the steps and we're on like the fourth
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Speaker 1: floor and we're just going down stairwell by stairwell and
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Speaker 1: I keeping her assurances that I will return to see
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Speaker 1: her specifically, and she keeps asking for more until we
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Speaker 1: get to the bottom and I'm out and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: walk over to my bike, and she runs out of
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Speaker 1: the threshold and grabs my arm and says, do you
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Speaker 1: want to spend time together now? It's only you and
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Speaker 1: me right now? And I was like, oh, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I really can't right now. I have class in like
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Speaker 1: ten minutes. I'll text you soon though, and talk to
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Speaker 1: you soon. She's like, you have to text me, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, I definitely will. I definitely will. And
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Speaker 1: then I never ever texted them or went to that
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Speaker 1: neighborhood again. And that was the end of my interactions
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Speaker 1: with David and Deborah. Flattering and somewhat terrifying. So those
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Speaker 1: are my adventures and living with David and Deborah. Glad
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Speaker 1: I did it. Glad I did it for a short
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Speaker 1: amount of month and never did it again. But I
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Speaker 1: got some funny stories out of it and some funny
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Speaker 1: nightmares out of it. Glad I got to share the stories, though,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening, and I will talk
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Speaker 1: to you on the next one, and out of regard
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Speaker 1: because I'll probably never get to make this funny sound again.
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Speaker 1: For David's strange exclamation at his disbelief in anything I did,
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Speaker 1: I'll close this out with huh h