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068 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 ramballer, and this week let's ramble on. Okay,
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Speaker 1: my first note is painter man didn't paint the wall.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I'm going to remove
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Speaker 1: that from this list. I feel like I remember seeing
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Speaker 1: a painter man not painting a wall, like he was
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Speaker 1: on a ladder standing next to a wall outside a
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Speaker 1: restaurant or something. But I don't know. That's not a
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Speaker 1: descriptive enough note for me to continue on, so let's
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Speaker 1: keep going. Uh, Patreon, I'm trying to figure out how
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Speaker 1: to do a Patreon for this podcast. I haven't decided
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Speaker 1: on tears. What do you think? I feel personally like
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Speaker 1: five dollars is a little too much because I know
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Speaker 1: how poor US Americans are and they're wealthier than most
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Speaker 1: of the rest of the world. So I'm thinking of
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Speaker 1: like a one dollar tier, but I don't know what
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Speaker 1: to put up there. I have a bunch of video
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Speaker 1: game playthroughs I've recorded, kind of want to sing songs,
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Speaker 1: and I can't sing, but I think that would be
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Speaker 1: funny Patreon content for anybody who wants to listen to
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Speaker 1: dumb songs. I make up or covers of songs. I like,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be worth a dollar a month, right,
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Speaker 1: And also I don't need that much money if I'm traveling,
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Speaker 1: so a dollar seems pretty fair. For anybody who likes
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Speaker 1: this content and wants to keep it going, wants to
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Speaker 1: support it, A dollar a month would certainly keep me
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Speaker 1: afloat if I had one hundred subscribers, which if you're wondering,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have one hundred listeners. But I'm
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Speaker 1: just dreaming, so move on. I was in a restaurant,
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Speaker 1: and don't worry, this episode won't be all food. But
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Speaker 1: I was in a restaurant trying a new food, trying
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Speaker 1: the tire in Pesta, which is like a fried noodle
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Speaker 1: pesto dish, except the noodles weren't good. They were so bad. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I haven't got noodles again because I'm worried that noodles
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Speaker 1: in Peru are bad. And I finally found the first
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Speaker 1: thing that are that are actually like. I don't like
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Speaker 1: the tripe the Big Intestine, but it was prepared very well.
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Speaker 1: That was obvious. These noodles were prepared poorly. The pesto
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Speaker 1: was fantastic. The green pesta they made clearly fresh, delicious,
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Speaker 1: but the noodles were way overcooked, and I was like, guys,
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Speaker 1: these are just like soggy spaghetti noodles. My friends, I
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Speaker 1: still ate. I mean, I'm not gonna say half of them,
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Speaker 1: but almost half of them because the pesta was so good.
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Speaker 1: But I was pretty surprised by how bad the noodles were.
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Speaker 1: And now I want to try the Chinese restaurants here
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Speaker 1: and see if the Chinese noodles here are also terrible
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Speaker 1: like and that's just how like their noodles. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's a new culinary mystery for me to look into.
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Speaker 1: I have to go waste money on tyarine, which are
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Speaker 1: noodles tayarin chow me en. I wonder if that's another
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Speaker 1: loanword from Chinese. Chow mien is like fried noodle, and
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Speaker 1: tiarin is fried noodle and Peruvian. Hmmm. Interesting anyway, not food.
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Speaker 1: I was in that restaurant waiting for my noodles, and
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Speaker 1: I looked up at the TV and I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, because Mike Monroe was on there, and
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Speaker 1: she's like my favorite actress. She's that girl in It
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Speaker 1: Follows and she's she always she chooses really interesting, usually
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Speaker 1: weird sci fi e or black Mirrory movies to be in.
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Speaker 1: And she's a good actor for sure, but she's just odd.
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Speaker 1: She looks a little odd. Her eyes are very large,
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Speaker 1: and she has a very elfin nose. But she's a
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Speaker 1: great actor her and she chooses really interesting projects, so
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Speaker 1: I love seeing her on screen. I was really excited
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Speaker 1: because I didn't recognize this movie, and I've seen most
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Speaker 1: of her stuff, but certainly not all of it. And
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Speaker 1: after I watched it for like five minutes, She's like, Man,
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Speaker 1: this is great. I was like, oh, snap, it's Brent Spiner.
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Speaker 1: What is he doing here? And then I realized it
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Speaker 1: was ID four two. It was the second Independence Day
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Speaker 1: that I think I saw in theaters, but at the
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Speaker 1: time it came out, I wasn't a Mike Monroe fan yet.
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Speaker 1: I don't think maybe I had seen it follows yet.
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Speaker 1: But now I recognized her again. I was really excited,
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Speaker 1: and so while I was waiting for my fry noodles,
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Speaker 1: I just kind of was like happily watching Independence Day
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Speaker 1: two again, kind of want to see it again. Now
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Speaker 1: I forgot Brent Spiner was in it too. I also
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Speaker 1: wasn't aware exactly of who Brent Spiner was. I hadn't
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Speaker 1: watched any Star Trek at that point when I saw
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Speaker 1: the movie, So I don't know. It'd be interesting to
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Speaker 1: watch it again because I had a not great memory
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Speaker 1: of that movie, but knowing all these actors and being
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Speaker 1: more aware of the cinematic process years later. Now, how
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Speaker 1: long is it a decade after? I think it'd be
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Speaker 1: fun to go back and watch it again and see
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Speaker 1: especially Michael mount Road. I'd be curious to see her
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Speaker 1: acting ten years ago versus now, because she was great
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Speaker 1: ten years ago and it follows she was. She's a
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Speaker 1: great actress. That's why she keeps getting good roles. Long
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Speaker 1: Legs got to be in a Nick Cage movie. Great,
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Speaker 1: great in it too. That's her right, Yeah, she was
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Speaker 1: an FBiH and it was awesome. I could watch that again.
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Speaker 1: That dude's so weird. Has anyone ever said that? Has
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Speaker 1: anyone ever said Nicholas Cage is strange? Okay, so Independence
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Speaker 1: Day two kind I want to see it again. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Long Legs. I want to see it
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Speaker 1: again rather see a sequel. Let's see. I got some
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Speaker 1: thread and I've been strengthening my pocket for my jacket
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Speaker 1: because after so many countries in a row, like three
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Speaker 1: countries in a row, I have to use my airport luggage,
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Speaker 1: my jacket luggage. Those are the pockets I've sewn into
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Speaker 1: the inside of my jacket so I don't have to
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Speaker 1: pay baggage rates. I just put all my baggage in
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Speaker 1: my jacket and wear it. I think that's gonna keep happening.
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Speaker 1: If it's happening all across Central South America, and I've
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Speaker 1: noticed it in Asia also, I think everything's just gonna
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Speaker 1: cost money. But they not yet anyway. They don't weigh
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Speaker 1: your body, or your jacket or your clothes. So I
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Speaker 1: strengthened all the pockets in here so they'd be sure
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Speaker 1: to hold all of my baggage so that I can
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Speaker 1: fly free. I've also finally fixed up my son's sleeves,
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Speaker 1: which were just good, but they didn't look very clean.
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Speaker 1: They didn't look like they had clean cuts and sows,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't look great. And now they look pretty
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Speaker 1: cool because they look like the old one that I
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on. And yeah, I just
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Speaker 1: spent an afternoon really fixing them up and making them
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Speaker 1: efficient and looking cool. Poultry Geist. I haven't finished it still,
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Speaker 1: I made it an hour in. There are a couple
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Speaker 1: things I like. That movie's insane. I'm not huge into trauma.
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Speaker 1: Things I don't know. I don't like gross stuff a lot,
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Speaker 1: and Trauma, I mean, it's gross, and it just keeps
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Speaker 1: pushing the gross props relentlessly, and poultry Geist is no different.
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Speaker 1: The eight minute diarrhea scene not my favorite. Don't like
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Speaker 1: looking at diarrhea, but I'm glad it exists. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: the movie exists. It's still I love creative art, and
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Speaker 1: trauma is about as creative as you get because they
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Speaker 1: just let you do whatever you want. And they do
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Speaker 1: some crazy stuff in poultry Guys, And I did laugh
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Speaker 1: a few times. That's the other thing. They're so wild
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Speaker 1: that it's always a novelty at the very least, even
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Speaker 1: if it's not particularly enjoyable. I still had a few
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Speaker 1: good times. But I haven't finished the last thirty minutes
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Speaker 1: because it was tough pushing through an hour of like
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Speaker 1: poop and barf jokes. And it's amazing that they made
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Speaker 1: the movie at all, considering well the story behind the
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Speaker 1: movie and considering how low budget it is. It's just
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Speaker 1: amazing that people make movies at all. It's crazy, fun
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Speaker 1: funny enough to watch. Not to recommend so far, probably
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Speaker 1: unless you like gross stuff. If you like gross stuff,
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Speaker 1: then I recommend all of Trauma, including Cannibal to Musical.
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Speaker 1: My absolute favorite trauma movie and one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: movies of all time. That's Trauma, right, let me check. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I only knew about I think the Toxic Avenger, which
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Speaker 1: I didn't get super into the first time I saw it,
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Speaker 1: and I haven't seen it since in like twenty years,
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Speaker 1: but I should probably go back because of its reputation
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Speaker 1: and accolades. But Cannibal the Musical, that's how I first,
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Speaker 1: That's how Trauma became a thing in my mind, because
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Speaker 1: I love that movie still. It's so good. If you
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Speaker 1: don't know Cannibal the Musical, Trey Parker Matt Stone created
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Speaker 1: South Park in college made a musical about the first
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Speaker 1: American cannibal, Alfred Packer, and it's super super super funny.
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Speaker 1: It's very well made, considering it's a trauma movie, super
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Speaker 1: low budget. They got their friends college professors in it,
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Speaker 1: and they just they did great. It's really funny and
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Speaker 1: it's a fast story, It's really fun. Can recommend it enough? Man.
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Speaker 1: That was recommended to me in my first year of
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Speaker 1: college by a girlfriend who likes b movies, and it
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Speaker 1: was recommended to her by her brother. So thanks first
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Speaker 1: college girlfriend's brother for that recommendation, because that has stuck
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Speaker 1: with me my whole life. More than half my life.
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Speaker 1: I've been alive longer than the time before I knew
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Speaker 1: about Cannibal the Musical, or I guess I doubled it,
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Speaker 1: but still half my life I've known about Cannibal the
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Speaker 1: Musical and been a better person for it. I love
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Speaker 1: that movie. I used to use it as a litmus
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Speaker 1: test for when I had a new girlfriend. I'd be like,
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Speaker 1: have you seen this movie? It's like really funny, And
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Speaker 1: if they watched Cannibal the Musical and cracked up, I
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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is a good person. And if
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Speaker 1: they didn't get it, I was like, we're probably not
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Speaker 1: gonna work out. These jokes are gold. He loves his
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Speaker 1: whorse Hush, but doink, old boy. I love that movie,
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Speaker 1: but I can't watch it because I've watched it too much.
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Speaker 1: So I have to just wait until maybe a next girlfriend,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll watch Cannibal the musical together. So a
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Speaker 1: guy asked me to help him, well, not really help
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Speaker 1: him move to Portugal. He had already decided to move
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Speaker 1: to Portugal, but he just wanted to know about Portugal,
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Speaker 1: and so I just gave him a bunch of advice
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Speaker 1: and told him about my experience there, even though it
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Speaker 1: wasn't there that long, maybe a couple months, I can't remember,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't super long. But I just told him about
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Speaker 1: all the visa procedures and the ancestry stuff and the
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Speaker 1: language and what he could expect moving out of the
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Speaker 1: US for the first time, and why it was one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent a good idea. And he seemed a lot
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Speaker 1: more sold on the idea. Like I said, they were
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Speaker 1: already going there, but he wanted to confirm that he
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Speaker 1: wasn't making a mistake, and I was like, nope, go
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Speaker 1: that is a very good idea. He's living under Trump,
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Speaker 1: where civil rights have been disbanded, women don't have access
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Speaker 1: to healthcare, the prices are exploding, that it's crazy to
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Speaker 1: live there. And of course regular rent been terrible in
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Speaker 1: the US for I mean, since the first Trump administration,
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Speaker 1: there's been a real crisis and he doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: live with that. Oh, Plus the gun violence, right, gun
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Speaker 1: violence is a huge one for him. They have a kid,
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Speaker 1: and he can't imagine putting his kid in schools and
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Speaker 1: even having his kid in an American city because there's
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Speaker 1: a shooting. Let's check in twenty twenty five. There have
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Speaker 1: been thirty thousand shootings in twenty twenty five so far,
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Speaker 1: so that's about one hundred shootings every day in the USA.
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Speaker 1: Two thirds of those are non fatal, and thirty percent
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Speaker 1: of those a little over thirty percent of those, thirty
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Speaker 1: five percent of those result in a death. So if
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Speaker 1: this guy who's leaving the US wants to keep living there,
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Speaker 1: as he told me, he's terrified of the gun violence,
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Speaker 1: just stray bullets catching his kid, or his wife or
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Speaker 1: his parents. So they're all moving to Portugal because in
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Speaker 1: the US, one hundred shootings a day means that there
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Speaker 1: is a shooting every twelve minutes in that country where
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Speaker 1: someone is injured. There are more shootings where people aren't injured,
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Speaker 1: but every twelve minutes someone is either getting injured or
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Speaker 1: thirty five percent of the time dying in the US
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Speaker 1: from a gunshot, and he doesn't want his family or
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Speaker 1: kids anywhere around that every twelve minutes is a lot,
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Speaker 1: and someone's dying every fifteen to twenty minutes something like that.
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Speaker 1: Now thirty six deaths per day, so that's like every
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Speaker 1: forty minutes one of those people are being killed by
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Speaker 1: a gunshot in the US, and of course there's school
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Speaker 1: shootings just about every day in the US. Yeah, he
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Speaker 1: was really concerned about the gun violence, and you cannot
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Speaker 1: blame him when every ten minutes someone's getting shot. All
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Speaker 1: that terrible business aside, it was really good to talk
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Speaker 1: talk to someone who reached out, needed some help with
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Speaker 1: travel advice and yeah, the vis procedures and just language
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Speaker 1: in general, and how it felt to live abroad, and
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Speaker 1: if he was making the right choice by leaving this
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Speaker 1: incredibly violent country where everybody is terrified of each other.
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Speaker 1: The US is a quite scared country whenever I visit it, anyway,
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Speaker 1: And it was good to talk to someone who needed
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Speaker 1: a little bit of direction and I could let them
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Speaker 1: know that the decision they made sounds like the right
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Speaker 1: one to me. I don't want to get shot. That's
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Speaker 1: not the reason that I'm not living in the US.
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Speaker 1: I don't feel super unsafe in the US. I stay
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Speaker 1: out of gunshot heavy areas often, but a guy was
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Speaker 1: shot in the head right outside a restaurant while I
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Speaker 1: was eating a hamburger in my quiet Denver neighborhood while
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Speaker 1: I lived there a couple of years ago. So it's
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Speaker 1: just a fact of US life that you kind of
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Speaker 1: have to live with if you're gonna be anywhere anywhere
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Speaker 1: near a city. There's more on the East Coast than
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Speaker 1: the West Coast, but really anywhere in the country, it's
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Speaker 1: at the prevalence. It's at the rate every twelve minutes
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Speaker 1: there's a shooting that results in an injury or death
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Speaker 1: that you're just not going to avoid it by living
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Speaker 1: on the West Coast instead of the East Coast. Guns
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Speaker 1: are too popular in the USA. Luckily, the new generations
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Speaker 1: don't seem to be as interested in shooting each other,
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Speaker 1: and they don't seem to be as scared of each
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Speaker 1: other as older generations of US Americans are, so hopefully
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Speaker 1: that is changing. I'm happy that guy reached out and
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Speaker 1: felt more comfortable with his decision about traveling got the
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Speaker 1: information he needed. If you want to leave the US
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Speaker 1: in particular, but if you want to travel in general,
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Speaker 1: Just contact me bit of a Rambler Gmail dot com
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Speaker 1: or bit of a Rambler on lem Me and Blue Sky,
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Speaker 1: and I will give you accurate information and advice and encouragement.
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Speaker 1: There are plenty of great reasons to live abroad. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't even have to be that your country's terrible. There
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Speaker 1: are just huge benefits to living abroad in general, and
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Speaker 1: it might help to talk about them. Moving on, a
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Speaker 1: dog bit me. I got dog bit on my hike
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Speaker 1: up a southern Cousco mountain. There are over eleven thousand
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Speaker 1: stray dogs in Cousco, a number I know I came
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Speaker 1: across since I looked it up. And all the guide
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Speaker 1: books say that the locals pick up a rock when
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Speaker 1: a dog seems to get too aggressive and you're worried
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Speaker 1: he's gonna bite you. If you pick up a rock,
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Speaker 1: the dog goes away. I can confirm that is true.
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Speaker 1: I did it when there was an angry, aggressive looking dog.
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Speaker 1: This time I didn't. I said whatever, man, and I
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Speaker 1: turned away. And then this big german shepherdy fella bit
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Speaker 1: me on my thigh, a big honking bite, and I
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Speaker 1: yelled at him and he went away. There were two
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Speaker 1: dogs also barking at me. I was up this mountain
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Speaker 1: not too far from the city, but it was a mountainside,
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Speaker 1: so there weren't any houses except for this one, and
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Speaker 1: I was walking by it. I think the dogs didn't
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Speaker 1: hear me. They got scared when they finally did notice me,
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Speaker 1: and they ran out and were very aggressive. And one
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Speaker 1: was a shepherd anyway, so it was big and aggressive.
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Speaker 1: And when I didn't use my stick or a rock
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Speaker 1: and I turned away, that dog bit me. So just
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Speaker 1: like in Thailand, if you are in a rural location,
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Speaker 1: you need a stick or in Peru a rock to
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Speaker 1: deter aggressive rural dogs specifically, although some of these city
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Speaker 1: dogs have been kind of jerks. But I am outside
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Speaker 1: of the city center. So when I went hiking the
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Speaker 1: next time, I definitely carried a stick with me and
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Speaker 1: I'll just have a Yeah, you need a dog whacking stick.
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Speaker 1: You need one in Thailand. You need one in Cusco,
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Speaker 1: especially if you are a explore, self directed, discovery kind
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Speaker 1: of hiker. Take a stick with you because dogs get
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Speaker 1: aggressive out in the sticks, so you need some sticks.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as you have a stick, as soon
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Speaker 1: as you have anything in your hand. It's just like Thailand.
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Speaker 1: If you're holding anything. Dogs are like, all right, fine,
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Speaker 1: and they just don't bother you. But if you don't
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Speaker 1: have a stick. Even the little dogs here are very
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Speaker 1: yappy and have tried to bite me before. Has a
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Speaker 1: lot of stray dogs, and there's like a program to
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Speaker 1: feed them and stuff. But I'm like, guys, you can
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Speaker 1: put down the dogs there. It's fine. That's there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of dogs here that nobody's taken care of and
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Speaker 1: are basically feral animal euthanization makes sense to me in
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Speaker 1: certain scenarios, and there are a lot of homeless sick
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Speaker 1: dogs here. I would never put down a dog specifically
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Speaker 1: for biting me, But I have seen these dogs attack
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Speaker 1: a lot of people, and people walk around with their
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Speaker 1: kids pretty comfortably. It's definitely strangers the dogs seem to
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Speaker 1: go after even though I've seen them going after locals.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's a stranger to that neighborhood. But if there
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Speaker 1: are too many animals and they're not being cared for
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Speaker 1: and they are a public problem like they are biting people,
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Speaker 1: euthanization makes sense to me. And that social circumstance, which
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Speaker 1: I know is a pretty controversial topic in general, and
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Speaker 1: it's a bit ironic because in the US you don't
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Speaker 1: have that problem because you don't see many feral animals
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Speaker 1: on the street. But the reason is we have pretty
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Speaker 1: solid youthanization programs in place so that you don't see
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Speaker 1: the stray animals on the street like you do in
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Speaker 1: a lot of other countries. Boy, bummer topics. All right,
19:51
Speaker 1: let's move on from the bummer topics too. Red Hot
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Speaker 1: Chili Peppers pizza. There's a pizza place called the Red
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Speaker 1: Hot Chili Peppers. I thought that was cool, but I
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Speaker 1: can't find it again. There's a lot of pizza restaurants
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Speaker 1: here and I can't stop trying them. Read out Chili
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Speaker 1: Pepper song. I don't know. I kind of want to
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Speaker 1: try it, but I already found such a good pizza restaurant.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's worth it. Maybe the third pizza restaurant will
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Speaker 1: actually blacken the bottom of the crest on it will
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Speaker 1: just be a perfect pizza restaurant. Why not try it?
20:21
Speaker 1: Why not? Why not? Because I don't have any cash,
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Speaker 1: I gotta get cash out of the ATM. I'm down
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Speaker 1: to the last soul, so now I can only use
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Speaker 1: my card. You know, it's interesting about Cusco. Cusco is
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Speaker 1: so dusty that I'm curious how much dirt the people
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Speaker 1: eat out here. It must be like Kansas or something.
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Speaker 1: There's just dust blowing around constantly. So if you get
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Speaker 1: ice cream, there's gonna be a little dust on it.
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Speaker 1: And if you're eating a meal in the door to
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Speaker 1: the restaurants open, there's probably a little bit of dust
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Speaker 1: on the food. Probably not a lot, because you're gonna
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Speaker 1: eat it comes out right away, but there's just so
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Speaker 1: much dust and the snacks on the street. I'm curious
20:58
Speaker 1: how much dirt people eat because there's bacteria in dirt,
21:03
Speaker 1: and there are empirical experiments that show eating dirt is
21:08
Speaker 1: healthy for you. When you're a kid, developed your gut bacteria,
21:12
Speaker 1: and I'm curious if that's also true for adults and
21:14
Speaker 1: if Cusco people have healthier guts because they're eating this
21:18
Speaker 1: dust all the time. When the wind blows, it certainly
21:21
Speaker 1: doesn't flavor the ice cream you're carrying or any of
21:23
Speaker 1: the food. And I know that because I had ice
21:25
Speaker 1: cream there was crazy windy dust and I was like, good,
21:28
Speaker 1: the ice cream tastes normal, so it's not that bad
21:31
Speaker 1: the dust. I mean, the ice cream rocked. I didn't
21:34
Speaker 1: write that down. I tried this lemon meringe with little
21:39
Speaker 1: bits of pie crust inside. Dude, what good ice cream?
21:44
Speaker 1: They make all their ice cream by hand here, I think,
21:46
Speaker 1: and it's very tasty. So I started watching this TV
21:50
Speaker 1: show moving on called I'm Not Okay with This. It
21:53
Speaker 1: starts that girl that became super popular in the new
21:56
Speaker 1: IT movie, Sophia Lillis. I believe it's her name, and
22:00
Speaker 1: I thought she was good in the ITD movies, thought
22:02
Speaker 1: she was really good in the Dungeons and Dragon movie.
22:06
Speaker 1: She's okay in this movie. The graphic novel of I'm
22:09
Speaker 1: Not Okay with This is so good and so emotional.
22:12
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to have to simplify all that
22:15
Speaker 1: into a small, thirty minute TV show and get any
22:19
Speaker 1: kind of the same punch. But what's interesting is that
22:23
Speaker 1: in the TV show she talks about these zits on
22:27
Speaker 1: her thigh that she gets, and she shows them, and
22:30
Speaker 1: the zits on her thigh are in the exact same
22:35
Speaker 1: place and almost the exact same formation as the dog
22:38
Speaker 1: bite I got from that German shepherd, because when he
22:41
Speaker 1: bit me, he broke the skin, but he broke the
22:44
Speaker 1: skin through my ripstop pants, so the pants didn't let
22:48
Speaker 1: his actual teeth go into my skin, so I wasn't
22:50
Speaker 1: too worried about rabies. I was a little worried about rabies,
22:53
Speaker 1: but since the pants weren't ripped at all, I was like,
22:56
Speaker 1: it's probably fine. But I did have a whole bunch
22:58
Speaker 1: of teeth marks pointed there, and they're small. I don't
23:02
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna have any scars. But when I saw
23:06
Speaker 1: the TV show, she was like, Oh, look at these
23:08
Speaker 1: thys zits. They're the grossest things. She pulled down her
23:11
Speaker 1: pants and I was like, Hey, that's the exact place
23:16
Speaker 1: and formation of my dog bit marks. So that was cool.
23:21
Speaker 1: Cuckoo the movie, I'm excited to watch that again. I'm
23:24
Speaker 1: got me go visit family. My mom likes horror movies,
23:28
Speaker 1: and I've been showing her weirder movies lately, so she
23:30
Speaker 1: expands her tastes a bit because she'll watch crap. She'll
23:35
Speaker 1: watch a movie or mini series or TV show that
23:38
Speaker 1: she doesn't like just just because she doesn't know other
23:44
Speaker 1: options exist. Like she watched this eight hour mini series
23:48
Speaker 1: that she thought was bad just because it was there.
23:51
Speaker 1: She's like, I'll just keep watching it. Yeah, I don't
23:54
Speaker 1: like it. And I was like, well, why don't you
23:55
Speaker 1: watch anything else that you do like? And she was like, ah,
24:00
Speaker 1: already watch I'm just already in it. So I want
24:02
Speaker 1: to show her Cuckoo because that is a great movie
24:07
Speaker 1: horror flick, but it has a lot of elements that
24:11
Speaker 1: work really well together. There's psychological horror in there, there's
24:15
Speaker 1: creepiness in general of old man creeping on young girl,
24:22
Speaker 1: a bit of insanity mixed in, and there's also just
24:25
Speaker 1: graphic upsetting scenes. So a lot of things that you
24:30
Speaker 1: would fit really well into one that are generally one movie.
24:35
Speaker 1: It's like, this is about body horror, this one is
24:38
Speaker 1: psychological harr this one is and this mixes. It's quite
24:42
Speaker 1: a pastiche of a lot of different horror elements that
24:45
Speaker 1: fit really well together. And it's written well and it's
24:47
Speaker 1: acted very well. Who's Hunter Schaeffer? Is that her name? Yep,
24:53
Speaker 1: that's it Hunter Shaeffer. She was the best friend in
24:57
Speaker 1: Euphoria and she I thought she was really good in that.
25:01
Speaker 1: Everybody's good in that, well most of them. Some of
25:03
Speaker 1: them are pretty good, some of them aren't, think, But
25:06
Speaker 1: I was curious to see those actors outside of that
25:09
Speaker 1: show and Zendeia obviously very good. Hunter Schaeffer. After watching Cuckoo,
25:15
Speaker 1: I'm like, yep, that's a real actress. She's great. Oh man,
25:19
Speaker 1: Cuckoo has such a good several scenes, but they have
25:23
Speaker 1: such a good I don't want to spoil anything. You
25:26
Speaker 1: should go watch Cuckoo if you like surreal horror psychological
25:30
Speaker 1: horror movies, because that one is great. New jacket luggage pockets,
25:37
Speaker 1: Oh are these new? And I mentioned this? So I
25:38
Speaker 1: have the one main pocket in the back where I
25:41
Speaker 1: carry my t shirts usually because they're very bulky in
25:44
Speaker 1: the bag. But I've added two new inner breast pockets
25:47
Speaker 1: to the jacket, which I have strengthened as I mentioned
25:50
Speaker 1: the stitching, and so now I can fit my electronics
25:53
Speaker 1: on one side and my health pack on the other side.
25:56
Speaker 1: And I still have the hip inner pockets and the
25:59
Speaker 1: hip pockets to fit all the other stuff in my bag.
26:03
Speaker 1: Pretty much. The only thing I can't fit in my
26:06
Speaker 1: jacket luggage is my microphone kit, which probably would fit.
26:11
Speaker 1: But if I just have my laptop and my audio
26:15
Speaker 1: setup in my bag, it's small enough that I can
26:17
Speaker 1: get it on a plane, and everything else is in
26:19
Speaker 1: my jackets. All my clothing and all my gear, which
26:22
Speaker 1: is pretty funny but it works great. And the jacket's
26:25
Speaker 1: not too big that it looks crazy. It's just a
26:27
Speaker 1: little oversized for me. But that's great because then I
26:32
Speaker 1: have all this space and everything fits and I don't
26:34
Speaker 1: have to pay for airplane baggage. Oh man, we're moving along.
26:38
Speaker 1: We've got through like fifteen things on the list. I
26:40
Speaker 1: was kind of worried i'd get I would be like
26:42
Speaker 1: the last one and I'd only get through, you know,
26:45
Speaker 1: five percent of my list and it'd already be finished.
26:49
Speaker 1: But we're doing pretty good this time. Moving on to
26:52
Speaker 1: the next TV show. I watched How to Die Alone.
26:56
Speaker 1: Great TV show. I highly recommend it. It's a lot
27:00
Speaker 1: of fun, it's very real, and it starts it's a
27:04
Speaker 1: black cast, so they are very it's just part of
27:09
Speaker 1: the show. They don't have to insert this is what
27:12
Speaker 1: it's like to be black because everyone on the show
27:16
Speaker 1: is black, so it's I don't know, I'm white. It's
27:19
Speaker 1: a dynamic that I'm not familiar with, and I don't
27:22
Speaker 1: watch a lot of all black shows, so I certainly
27:26
Speaker 1: can't tell how much of this is like, how much
27:29
Speaker 1: of the Weird Family dynamics in it. Like, if it
27:33
Speaker 1: was not an all black show, the weird family dynamic
27:36
Speaker 1: in it, I'd be like, what a weird family dynamic?
27:38
Speaker 1: But because it's an all black cast, I'm like, are
27:40
Speaker 1: they trying to say something about social structure in black
27:44
Speaker 1: families or like how that works? And half the time
27:47
Speaker 1: they make it explicit, so I can understand, Yes, this
27:50
Speaker 1: is a black issue. Racism is a problem. But the
27:54
Speaker 1: story itself is so strong and so well done. The
27:58
Speaker 1: comedy is funny, like pretty much all the characters. It's great.
28:04
Speaker 1: It's a good show that I highly recommend. That only
28:08
Speaker 1: lasted one season, which is fair. I feel like she
28:11
Speaker 1: should have just made it one season. But I also
28:14
Speaker 1: think it's probably like her first creative project. She made
28:18
Speaker 1: the show, the main star of it and kills it
28:21
Speaker 1: in the show. She's also a great actress, so I
28:24
Speaker 1: see why she wants to push it as far as
28:27
Speaker 1: she can. But I think she could have done it
28:30
Speaker 1: in just one mini series, but maybe she had a
28:33
Speaker 1: lot more to say. Who knows anyway, how to die alone? Funny,
28:37
Speaker 1: good show. Oh it's really interesting too, all black cast.
28:41
Speaker 1: I mean there's you know, there's white people in the show,
28:45
Speaker 1: there's Asian people, but the main characters are mostly black.
28:50
Speaker 1: One of the guys is in Albino, and that was
28:55
Speaker 1: interesting to see because I don't think I've ever seen
28:58
Speaker 1: an albino with that large role where they never once
29:02
Speaker 1: mentioned that he's albino, and he might be the best
29:06
Speaker 1: actor in the show. So it was really interesting to
29:10
Speaker 1: see someone where the point of the albino wasn't that
29:13
Speaker 1: he was an albino, which I think is all I
29:16
Speaker 1: have ever seen in TV shows or movies is the albino.
29:20
Speaker 1: They have to at least dwell on it that he's albina.
29:23
Speaker 1: What Banshee the TV show that albino he's He's almost
29:28
Speaker 1: just a character of a villain, and his whole defining
29:30
Speaker 1: trait is one he's evil and two he's albino. There's
29:36
Speaker 1: of course Powder, which is albino and weird for a
29:38
Speaker 1: whole other reason. But anytime in Albino is on screen,
29:42
Speaker 1: they're like, man, he's albino, and this guy is just
29:46
Speaker 1: a good actor in a show, and nobody has to
29:50
Speaker 1: be like, look at his different colored skin. I'm just
29:54
Speaker 1: kind of glad that culture media has moved past it,
29:58
Speaker 1: or at least art is star art to move past it,
30:01
Speaker 1: since this is the first time I've seen in an
30:03
Speaker 1: albino where they don't make a whole thing out of it.
30:06
Speaker 1: It's just and like I said, he's a great actor.
30:09
Speaker 1: They don't have to dwell on it. It was very
30:12
Speaker 1: nice that it's when I meet someone on the street,
30:15
Speaker 1: if I meet in albino, or if I meet someone
30:17
Speaker 1: with vitalago or missing a leg, that's not the first
30:21
Speaker 1: thing I talk about. I interact with that person like
30:24
Speaker 1: a person first, And in this show they finally did that.
30:29
Speaker 1: They were just comfortable, maybe because it was a black
30:33
Speaker 1: character centered show. They're more conscientious about disability slash minority
30:41
Speaker 1: status and they're like, yeah, people live with it. We
30:44
Speaker 1: live with it all the time. Live live and let live,
30:47
Speaker 1: and be kind to people and treat them like people.
30:50
Speaker 1: People are cool. I like people. I mean I don't
30:52
Speaker 1: like to be around them all the time. I definitely
30:54
Speaker 1: have a private room most of the time, but I
30:56
Speaker 1: like talking to people. People are good. People deserve people respect,
31:01
Speaker 1: They deserve basic human dignity and decency. Dirty Money the song.
31:06
Speaker 1: There's a song called dirty Money by Eata Maria. She's
31:09
Speaker 1: like Nordic from something. This song is good. It's a
31:13
Speaker 1: fun party song and the line is give me all
31:18
Speaker 1: your dirty money, I'm your favorite monkey, watch me go,
31:22
Speaker 1: which I think is a great line for any performer.
31:24
Speaker 1: It's amazing that she came up with it. Maybe she didn't.
31:28
Speaker 1: It's fantastic, very fun song. It's in Peacemaker season two.
31:33
Speaker 1: Is how I heard it first, and I was like, WHOA,
31:36
Speaker 1: that's going to catch my ear and it absolutely did.
31:39
Speaker 1: And I have the song and I've listened to it
31:41
Speaker 1: like thirty times in a row. It's great. I listened
31:43
Speaker 1: to it. I went through two weeks where it was
31:45
Speaker 1: basically the only song I listened to and it's so fun.
31:48
Speaker 1: It has a great beat. So I was walking down
31:50
Speaker 1: the street grooving to it. Great song, good song, good
31:55
Speaker 1: one Eata Maria James Gunn whatever he chooses, good music, Cauz.
32:00
Speaker 1: Foxy Shazam is the intro. Did I mention that to
32:04
Speaker 1: the new piece Maker season two? Fox Shazam like the
32:06
Speaker 1: best rock band freaking ever. They're so good. Foxy Shazama
32:11
Speaker 1: is so much fun. Ah And they're in peace Maker
32:14
Speaker 1: season two. Every freaking episode. What a good decision, I'll say.
32:18
Speaker 1: The first musical number in the first season. I do
32:21
Speaker 1: like that opening musical number more than the Foxy Shazam
32:25
Speaker 1: musical number. But I like Foxy Shazam more probably than
32:32
Speaker 1: most other music on the planet. Freaking love, freaking love
32:35
Speaker 1: that song too. The song he chose Julian is probably
32:38
Speaker 1: my favorite Foxy Shazam song. It's called Oh Lord, not Julian. Julian.
32:45
Speaker 1: It's a hungry world. They're gonna eat you alive, son. Yeah,
32:50
Speaker 1: what a good song. Let's move on. I started a
32:53
Speaker 1: twitch It is live question and answers for travel stuff.
32:57
Speaker 1: I'm usually just doing kraft, like sewing something or watching
33:02
Speaker 1: a YouTube video or using like drawing a design or something,
33:06
Speaker 1: and I'll just leave on my little office hour sign
33:09
Speaker 1: I made so people can log on and ask me
33:12
Speaker 1: questions about travel. Really only one dude doing it right now.
33:16
Speaker 1: There was one other person, but yeah, I definitely have
33:19
Speaker 1: the free time. If you want to learn about traveling
33:21
Speaker 1: and want some accurate, up to date information on that stuff,
33:26
Speaker 1: ask the dude who's out in the world and has
33:29
Speaker 1: tons of free time. And it's kind of bored. But seriously,
33:33
Speaker 1: even like two people, I'm like, boy, this is a
33:35
Speaker 1: lot of work. So maybe after four people start talking
33:38
Speaker 1: to me, I'll be like, all right, that's enough, no
33:40
Speaker 1: more guys, but you should get in while again's good. Okay.
33:45
Speaker 1: So I think most people know at this point that
33:48
Speaker 1: the US has a terrible healthcare system in general, but
33:51
Speaker 1: they actually don't even have the highest quality healthcare. I
33:55
Speaker 1: was talking to someone about this, and what comes up
33:59
Speaker 1: a lot when people are like, yeah, we have our problems,
34:01
Speaker 1: but at least we have the best healthcare in the world,
34:03
Speaker 1: and that's not true. So I had to get charts
34:08
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and the US healthcare
34:10
Speaker 1: is still ranked really high. I think it's in the
34:13
Speaker 1: same way US real estate is still ranked really high.
34:16
Speaker 1: It's just like legacy from when a generation ago it
34:20
Speaker 1: used to be that much better than the rest of
34:22
Speaker 1: the world. So you'll still find the USA on a
34:25
Speaker 1: lot of charts for the best quality, and they'll still
34:28
Speaker 1: be in the top like fifteen, which I don't think
34:32
Speaker 1: is practical. I don't think that's a practical rating of
34:36
Speaker 1: US healthcare, but in any case, there's still a fifteen.
34:39
Speaker 1: Thailand is number one in the world for certain rankings
34:45
Speaker 1: like quality of care. Thailand has better equipment, Thailand has
34:49
Speaker 1: better professional expertise. Thailand is now beating the US like
34:54
Speaker 1: it's Thailand. There are ten to fifteen other countries ahead
35:00
Speaker 1: of the US and all categories of healthcare. But Thailand, dude,
35:04
Speaker 1: it is so cheap to go get medical care over there,
35:07
Speaker 1: and dental care. It's great over there, and you're paying
35:11
Speaker 1: half any cost in the US. You're paying half at
35:15
Speaker 1: the absolute most for these procedures. Most of them far
35:18
Speaker 1: less ten percent, totally doable, ten percent of the US cost.
35:23
Speaker 1: So dental costs, yes, they're terrible in the US, but
35:27
Speaker 1: say instead of six hundred dollars, you have to pay
35:30
Speaker 1: sixty dollars. That's swingable without insurance. And you can get
35:34
Speaker 1: insurance if you want to, and insurance does pay, but
35:38
Speaker 1: the premiums and the copay and all that kind of stuff.
35:42
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's worth it to get the insurance.
35:45
Speaker 1: It hasn't been worth it for me to get insurance
35:49
Speaker 1: for my dental work. I can say because I've had
35:50
Speaker 1: a lot of dental work done. It's so cheap to
35:53
Speaker 1: get dental work, and I get the most expensive dental
35:56
Speaker 1: work in Thailand. I go to the international clinic, pay
36:00
Speaker 1: the most. I get gold fillings, gold crowns, I mean,
36:04
Speaker 1: and it's still out of pocket for me. It's still
36:07
Speaker 1: perfectly affordable for me. Obviously I saved a bunch of
36:10
Speaker 1: money teaching English, but instead of paying three thousand, five
36:14
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for a root canal and crown, my total
36:20
Speaker 1: cost for the drugs, all the different doctors, the X ray,
36:28
Speaker 1: the root canal, the cleaning, the crown fabrication, choosing a
36:34
Speaker 1: pure gold crown or gold alloy you know, as gold
36:37
Speaker 1: as it is, all of that stuff was less than
36:42
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars. Actually I just checked this up and
36:44
Speaker 1: I can't remember now, but it was something like seven
36:46
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. And that's that's thirty percent of the US
36:51
Speaker 1: of the best US price you're going to find out
36:54
Speaker 1: of pocket. And these are the best dentists I've ever
36:57
Speaker 1: been to. The gold Crown from Tiler has lasted as
37:01
Speaker 1: long as any of the US crowns. I had best
37:04
Speaker 1: quality of care. I mean, they're such great doctors. They're
37:08
Speaker 1: so professional and so compassionate, and there's no time. My
37:12
Speaker 1: whole thing took a week, and the only reason it
37:15
Speaker 1: took a week is because you have to wait after
37:16
Speaker 1: the root canal a week for your mouth to heal
37:18
Speaker 1: and then they put on the crown. But it is
37:21
Speaker 1: so much faster to get dental care in Thailand at
37:25
Speaker 1: a much higher quality and at a much lower cost
37:28
Speaker 1: than it is in the US. And that goes for
37:30
Speaker 1: all medical tourism. I don't have other internal issues. Generally,
37:35
Speaker 1: I've been very lucky with my health, and I try
37:37
Speaker 1: to take care of myself when I'm not drinking too
37:40
Speaker 1: much beer. The one meal a day is a big
37:42
Speaker 1: part of that. Give my time, give my body time
37:45
Speaker 1: to recover. But I will say, like medical tourism if
37:49
Speaker 1: the reason you don't want to you've heard of medical
37:51
Speaker 1: tourism and you don't want to make the leap because
37:53
Speaker 1: you're like, well, the US does have the best healthcare
37:56
Speaker 1: in the world. You can look it up, look up
37:58
Speaker 1: the lists. It's doesn't. It doesn't have the best quality
38:01
Speaker 1: of care, it doesn't have the best equipment, it doesn't
38:04
Speaker 1: have the best expertise, and it just doesn't have the
38:07
Speaker 1: best doctors. The timeline of your care is you know,
38:12
Speaker 1: a swamp. In the US, it takes forever to get
38:16
Speaker 1: medical care implemented at all if you can afford it,
38:20
Speaker 1: if you're one of the lucky seven percent in the
38:23
Speaker 1: US who can actually afford us medical care, and afford
38:26
Speaker 1: is a relative term because then you're paying it off
38:28
Speaker 1: for years. If you have especially significant medical costs, or
38:33
Speaker 1: a difficult medical procedure or permanent medical conditions that you
38:37
Speaker 1: need to pay for all the time, seriously consider medical
38:42
Speaker 1: tourism please. It is The quality of care is better
38:46
Speaker 1: in a dozen countries around the world, the quality care
38:48
Speaker 1: is equitable in probably twenty other countries to the US,
38:54
Speaker 1: and it's pennies on the dollar. So if you're being
38:58
Speaker 1: crushed by medical debt, medical tourism is a great way
39:03
Speaker 1: where you have thirty different options with better or equal
39:07
Speaker 1: quality of care at a much lower price, so you
39:12
Speaker 1: can get out from under that burden. I just talked
39:15
Speaker 1: to someone else who was telling me about their medical
39:17
Speaker 1: costs and they had never heard of medical tourism, and
39:20
Speaker 1: I was like, well, here, you're gonna like this. Those
39:23
Speaker 1: medications you're talking about, they were paying hundreds of dollars
39:27
Speaker 1: a month, which is all the buffer most Americans have
39:31
Speaker 1: every month in their expenses. They were using up any
39:35
Speaker 1: money they would potentially save from their paycheck. It was
39:38
Speaker 1: going away on very generic stuff blood pressure medication, vitamins
39:43
Speaker 1: to keep their levels normal, calcium hypertension, just all that
39:49
Speaker 1: regular stuff that as you get older, a lot of
39:51
Speaker 1: people take. They were paying more than five hundred dollars
39:55
Speaker 1: a month on that stuff, and I told them that
39:59
Speaker 1: is over the counter, probably less than twenty dollars a
40:02
Speaker 1: month for all of those different bottles. You're talking about,
40:06
Speaker 1: maybe maybe less than fifty dollars a month. Maybe it's
40:09
Speaker 1: only going to be ninety percent cheaper than the US,
40:12
Speaker 1: but I would bet on like ninety five percent cheaper
40:14
Speaker 1: than US costs for blood pressure medication. Ah. But the
40:18
Speaker 1: quality of the medicine, Nope, it's the exact same drug,
40:21
Speaker 1: it's the same chemical. But in most other countries, especially
40:24
Speaker 1: in those thirty countries I mentioned that are equitable or
40:27
Speaker 1: better than the US, the healthcare system is made to
40:31
Speaker 1: heal people, and I would include peruin that. And as
40:34
Speaker 1: I mentioned, this is not a wealthy country. This is
40:36
Speaker 1: a very this is a non wealthy country. They're doing
40:41
Speaker 1: great with tourism. They're definitely getting money from that. Visiting
40:45
Speaker 1: Machipichi is incredibly expensive, but on the whole it's a
40:49
Speaker 1: poor country. But you can go to the pharmacy and
40:52
Speaker 1: you can get your blood pressure medication, your hypertension, your insulin.
40:56
Speaker 1: You can get all the basic, the fundamental medication you
40:59
Speaker 1: need at pennies on the dollar, literally at very cheap prices. Instantly,
41:05
Speaker 1: they're right there. If you need a prescription, you walk
41:09
Speaker 1: into any clinic. You don't have to worry about not
41:12
Speaker 1: being seen. You are seen. If you have the condition
41:15
Speaker 1: you're worried about, they'll write your prescription. You go get it.
41:18
Speaker 1: But in the US, all the prescription stuff that is
41:22
Speaker 1: not prescribed in other countries because it's mostly bureaucratic crap,
41:27
Speaker 1: you can get it over the counter. All of the
41:29
Speaker 1: basic medications, the most common medications, A lot of those
41:33
Speaker 1: are over the counter in most countries. And it's the
41:36
Speaker 1: exact same chemical and compound as the insulin that you
41:40
Speaker 1: get in the US, or as the blood pressure medication
41:43
Speaker 1: you get in the US. It's the exact same thing.
41:45
Speaker 1: It just costs what it actually costs to manufacture plus
41:48
Speaker 1: ten percent instead of what it costs to manufacture plus
41:52
Speaker 1: eleven hundred percent. I don't know why I started talking
41:55
Speaker 1: about medical tourism. Oh, because I found all these charts
41:58
Speaker 1: for this guy where the USA was like fifteenth in healthcare,
42:01
Speaker 1: and I had to be like, no, look, it's actually
42:04
Speaker 1: not that great anymore. Like even just the cutting edge technology,
42:10
Speaker 1: they don't even have the edge on that anymore in
42:12
Speaker 1: medical technology in the US. Yes, many new procedures are
42:16
Speaker 1: still developed in the US, but it's really important to
42:19
Speaker 1: note that the quality of care, the timeline, the cost,
42:23
Speaker 1: and now even the equipment and the actual procedures are
42:27
Speaker 1: just not the best in the world. And you're paying
42:30
Speaker 1: ten times as much, twenty times as much, a lot
42:34
Speaker 1: more than you need to be paying for these procedures
42:37
Speaker 1: simply to prop up insurance institutions and banks and private
42:42
Speaker 1: groups of investors. That's what you're paying for in the US.
42:46
Speaker 1: That's where all the money goes. Why is insulin so
42:49
Speaker 1: much more expensive in the US than most other countries,
42:53
Speaker 1: Because there's a company who owns the patent, and so
42:56
Speaker 1: they can charge whatever they want. That is it. They
42:59
Speaker 1: don't care that you can't afford to pay two thousand
43:02
Speaker 1: dollars per month. Enough people can pay two thousand dollars
43:06
Speaker 1: per month. That the number of people who are dying
43:08
Speaker 1: because they can't pay two thousand dollars per month evens
43:12
Speaker 1: out in the checkbook of these companies. And that is
43:16
Speaker 1: not just insulin, which I know has become kind of
43:18
Speaker 1: a flashpoint in the US because US Americans just became
43:21
Speaker 1: aware that they're paying three thousand percent more than the
43:24
Speaker 1: whole rest of the world for insulin. That's everything, aspirin,
43:29
Speaker 1: blood pressure specific medication, what I say, hypertension, cholesterol, asthma medications,
43:35
Speaker 1: lung medications in general. Those exact same drugs do not
43:40
Speaker 1: cost a lot to manufacture. They don't anymore. We can
43:44
Speaker 1: manufacture them for pennies, and the US companies that own
43:48
Speaker 1: the patents are charging an extra thousands, thousands of percent.
43:52
Speaker 1: Same with surgery procedures in the US. Those procedures don't
43:56
Speaker 1: cost that much. Those root canals don't cost that much.
43:59
Speaker 1: You're getting a very very small piece of alloyed gold
44:02
Speaker 1: that doesn't cost three thousand dollars. You're paying for the
44:05
Speaker 1: cost of that medical education that that doctor had to
44:08
Speaker 1: leverage against his poverty in the US, that he's paying
44:13
Speaker 1: interest on. You're paying for the interest of the loan
44:16
Speaker 1: that is completely unnecessary if your healthcare system is structured logically.
44:21
Speaker 1: You're paying back loan insurance companies and medical companies. Like
44:26
Speaker 1: medicine companies, procedures don't cost that much. You can get
44:29
Speaker 1: the exact same procedure, better quality of care in other countries.
44:33
Speaker 1: Where should I go in general? Thailand? Thailand's good. Thailand's
44:36
Speaker 1: hospitals are great. They're top of tier in the world
44:40
Speaker 1: in almost all fields of medicine at this point. But
44:44
Speaker 1: you can check first medical tourism dot com. You can
44:48
Speaker 1: check the country that specifically is applicable to your condition
44:54
Speaker 1: or your procedure that you're interested in, and that'll tell
44:57
Speaker 1: you the best country to go to for your medical procedure.
45:02
Speaker 1: I always got a rent about this, but the US
45:05
Speaker 1: medical system is one of the most frustrating things about
45:10
Speaker 1: that country and one of the most misunderstood. Americans tend
45:15
Speaker 1: to think they're getting a higher quality of care. They
45:17
Speaker 1: are not. They tend to think they're paying for quality
45:20
Speaker 1: they absolutely are not, and they tend to think that, well,
45:23
Speaker 1: medical care is here and you can't really find it.
45:26
Speaker 1: There's just no other way that I can get medical care.
45:29
Speaker 1: And it's just not true. They can go to so
45:32
Speaker 1: many places with better care for a lower cost, and
45:35
Speaker 1: I always get, well, what about the insurance. It's going
45:38
Speaker 1: to cost so much if I don't have insurance in
45:40
Speaker 1: that country, but it's so much cheaper in these other
45:44
Speaker 1: countries like Thailand or pretty much any country to be honest,
45:49
Speaker 1: that it doesn't even matter if you don't get the
45:52
Speaker 1: insurance and just get the procedure done. Copays are so
45:55
Speaker 1: high in the US, and interest on medical procedures is
46:00
Speaker 1: so high in the US that it doesn't even matter
46:03
Speaker 1: if you have insurance or not. The cost of medical
46:07
Speaker 1: care is so low outside of the US that it
46:11
Speaker 1: completely offsets whether you get insurance or not. It offsets
46:15
Speaker 1: the copay you do have to pay if you do
46:16
Speaker 1: get insurance, it offsets paying out of pocket, and you're
46:20
Speaker 1: very likely to get better quality of care, and you're
46:23
Speaker 1: almost certainly likely to get your procedure done in a
46:28
Speaker 1: much faster timeline way faster, weeks, months, quicker, depending on
46:34
Speaker 1: the procedure, and you just don't have to wait, and
46:37
Speaker 1: you'll probably be getting better procedure. If you go to
46:40
Speaker 1: medical tourism dot Com or go to any of the
46:43
Speaker 1: medical tourism websites and choose one of the first thirty
46:46
Speaker 1: countries in that list that specializes in your condition or
46:49
Speaker 1: procedure I have to hammer this in because every time
46:53
Speaker 1: someone from the US, which is very often, tells me
46:55
Speaker 1: about their medication costs, I'm like, that's insane. That's how
46:59
Speaker 1: much you would spend per year if you jumped a
47:02
Speaker 1: border and bought them here, and it's totally legal, you can.
47:06
Speaker 1: It's the same drug you're taking now. It's the same medicine,
47:10
Speaker 1: same quality and everything. It just doesn't cost ten times
47:14
Speaker 1: as much. Oh my gosh, there's so much more to
47:17
Speaker 1: talk about. Okay, real quick, let's get on some food
47:19
Speaker 1: real quick. Moyahitas. They're chicken hearts or chicken gizzards. I'm
47:23
Speaker 1: not actually sure because they had the texture of chicken hearts,
47:26
Speaker 1: but it translated as gizzard, which I don't usually like.
47:29
Speaker 1: But these moyahthas were really really, really really good, as
47:33
Speaker 1: good as Chinese chicken hearts, which I love, but they
47:37
Speaker 1: didn't taste it. I'm just gonna check they are gizzards. Okay,
47:42
Speaker 1: So I don't like gizzards in China. I don't think
47:45
Speaker 1: that that's just something they don't cook well enough that
47:48
Speaker 1: I like anyway that I have tried in China so far.
47:50
Speaker 1: Maybe I just didn't try that right once but they're
47:54
Speaker 1: great here because they taste like the texture of Chinese
47:56
Speaker 1: chicken hearts, which I do absolutely love the text, taste,
48:00
Speaker 1: everything of and that's what these gizzards taste like here.
48:04
Speaker 1: They are delicious little barbecued brown sauce grilled, tasty little
48:11
Speaker 1: bits of meat that are heart is my favorite cut
48:15
Speaker 1: of meat, and that's what these taste like. So it's
48:18
Speaker 1: a firmer meat but you can bite through it easily,
48:20
Speaker 1: but it has a very strong meaty texture. It's fantastic.
48:25
Speaker 1: So these gizzards are great. They have moyahatas here and
48:28
Speaker 1: I recommend them if you come to Peru. Just another
48:32
Speaker 1: another varied, varied dish in Peru that is fantastic, Chicken
48:37
Speaker 1: walk a tay interesting dish basically just a chicken leg,
48:44
Speaker 1: rice and a couple of vegetables and then swamped in
48:47
Speaker 1: this green mint, pepper garlic sauce that is extremely unique.
48:57
Speaker 1: I don't think I've been anywhere that maybe Morocco would
49:01
Speaker 1: be the closest that really catches this minty, savory, spiced
49:08
Speaker 1: herb flavor in some of their dishes, but this was
49:12
Speaker 1: very unique, this Peruvian thing, and I could definitely see
49:16
Speaker 1: I could definitely see myself getting used to it. It's
49:18
Speaker 1: very tasty. Waca tay just another cool word. That's the
49:22
Speaker 1: other thing. All the everything sounds cool because it's all ketchwass.
49:25
Speaker 1: So there's lots of cues and wacha and lots of
49:28
Speaker 1: lots of cool words everywhere. So food's really good, but
49:32
Speaker 1: it also sounds cool. You know. It's been interesting since
49:35
Speaker 1: I went to Center on South America this year for
49:37
Speaker 1: the first time, I in restaurants. I'll watch TV shows,
49:43
Speaker 1: and I really noticed it here. You know what, That's
49:47
Speaker 1: not true, because I noticed it in real life in
49:50
Speaker 1: Panama especially. I noticed like when in America, if there's
49:55
Speaker 1: a Spanish speaking character, they look typically US, typically Central
50:03
Speaker 1: South American. They look their skin is tan, their hair
50:08
Speaker 1: is jet black, they usually have a mustache or some
50:13
Speaker 1: kind of Latin American facial hair. They're just if they're
50:17
Speaker 1: on TV and they're a Latin American character, then they
50:22
Speaker 1: look Latin American. And then I went south of the
50:26
Speaker 1: border and I was like, oh, this is quite ethnically varied.
50:31
Speaker 1: There are a lot of light skinned people in Latin
50:35
Speaker 1: American countries, and there are quite a lot of dark
50:38
Speaker 1: skinned people in Latin American countries. There are black and
50:41
Speaker 1: white people in Latin American countries, is what I'm saying,
50:44
Speaker 1: that are totally local and that do not look like
50:47
Speaker 1: your typical US Latin American character, which because every single
50:53
Speaker 1: character in US television and movies who is from a
50:57
Speaker 1: Spanish speaking country looks typical Spanish according to US sensibilities.
51:03
Speaker 1: I figured south of the US border, a lot of
51:05
Speaker 1: these countries would have much less ethnic diversity than they have.
51:11
Speaker 1: I just figured everyone would look how US movies and
51:14
Speaker 1: television portray Latin American, Central and South American countries, and
51:19
Speaker 1: I was totally wrong. There are a lot of Asian people,
51:22
Speaker 1: there are a lot of white people, there are a
51:24
Speaker 1: lot of black people, and there are typical Latin American
51:28
Speaker 1: as US portrays them looking people. But there's I mean,
51:32
Speaker 1: there's a ton of ethnic diversity in all of these countries.
51:36
Speaker 1: And I think it's crazy that I don't think. I
51:40
Speaker 1: can't anyway right now, recall a character who speaks Spanish
51:45
Speaker 1: in a US television or show that doesn't look that
51:48
Speaker 1: doesn't have the same sun tanned skin, is not wearing
51:52
Speaker 1: the same cowboy hat that workers wear in the US.
51:58
Speaker 1: It's just crazy. To me thinking back on my whole
52:02
Speaker 1: life of TV shows and movies in the US, and
52:06
Speaker 1: every character from a Spanish speaking country looking the same
52:10
Speaker 1: and having the same facial hair and even having the
52:12
Speaker 1: same accent, which is insane because they're totally different, but
52:16
Speaker 1: more the physical appearance is crazy, because yeah, these countries
52:20
Speaker 1: Central South American very ethnically diverse, and you would never
52:23
Speaker 1: know it if your experience, like mine was seeing Central
52:29
Speaker 1: and South American countries in US TV shows and movies,
52:33
Speaker 1: which are incredibly ethnically one note with Latin American characters.
52:38
Speaker 1: That was really interesting me. I noticed it first in Panama, really,
52:42
Speaker 1: because there's a huge Caribbean influence, So you have a
52:45
Speaker 1: lot of black people, and you have a lot of
52:47
Speaker 1: white people, and you have a lot of Asian people.
52:49
Speaker 1: There's just a huge, very very ethnically diverse country, or
52:54
Speaker 1: I can say, at least a super ethnically diverse city.
52:57
Speaker 1: It looks like as ethnically diverse as or more so,
53:01
Speaker 1: frankly than a lot of American cities. And I think
53:04
Speaker 1: that's particularly interesting because a source of pride, as it
53:08
Speaker 1: should be for a lot of use Americans, is how
53:12
Speaker 1: culturally and ethnically diverse they are, like, that's one of
53:16
Speaker 1: the best things about the country. For sure, about the US.
53:19
Speaker 1: It positively affects our food, our music, Every aspect of
53:24
Speaker 1: US American culture is enriched by their multiculturalism and ethnic diversity,
53:32
Speaker 1: and I was pleasantly surprised that ethnic diversity isn't a
53:37
Speaker 1: sole US treasure. Like if you're in China, it's easy
53:42
Speaker 1: to think like, oh, there's no ethnic diversity here, because
53:46
Speaker 1: there is very little, and a lot of countries are
53:49
Speaker 1: like that. But the Americas, Central South America really surprised
53:54
Speaker 1: me in how ethnically and culturally diverse it was. I
53:58
Speaker 1: certainly actually Asian influence. I did not expect this much
54:03
Speaker 1: Asian influence and this high in Asian population in Central
54:07
Speaker 1: and South America. But there are people, you know, It's
54:12
Speaker 1: interesting sometimes people don't even I'm very white, but sometimes
54:17
Speaker 1: people here they hear my accent first, and then they
54:20
Speaker 1: just start talking to me and even ask me are
54:23
Speaker 1: you from Peru after like a few sentences, because they're like,
54:26
Speaker 1: wait a minute, are you not local? But the fact
54:29
Speaker 1: that I look so white doesn't make them think he
54:33
Speaker 1: can't be local, because there are white people in Central
54:36
Speaker 1: and South America, and there are black people in Central
54:38
Speaker 1: South America, so there's not this automatic. If you're in
54:41
Speaker 1: China and you don't look Chinese, then they're like, you're
54:44
Speaker 1: not from here. But the ethnic diversity is so much
54:47
Speaker 1: greater in Central South America that they don't have that automatic.
54:52
Speaker 1: They're much more accepting in general of ethnic diversity. I'll
54:57
Speaker 1: say just an interesting little I noticed when watching TV
55:03
Speaker 1: in a restaurant, and I was like, huh, they have
55:06
Speaker 1: like a white actor and a black actor and a
55:11
Speaker 1: Tan actor all speaking Spanish. And I was like, that woman,
55:15
Speaker 1: that white woman speaking fluent Spanish because she's a native
55:20
Speaker 1: Peruvian or whatever, would never be cast in a US
55:25
Speaker 1: television chore movie. She's too white, so she's not allowed
55:28
Speaker 1: to be a native from another country. And that got
55:31
Speaker 1: me think about how valuable ethnic and cultural diversity is
55:34
Speaker 1: in general, and how I've seen a lot of it
55:37
Speaker 1: in countries I didn't expect to see it in. Let's
55:40
Speaker 1: close it out with this thing I think I mentioned before,
55:42
Speaker 1: but I didn't delete. I laughed out loud watching Star
55:46
Speaker 1: Trek when Data was stuck in a Chinese finger trap.
55:50
Speaker 1: Do people still say Chinese finger trap? Or should I
55:52
Speaker 1: just say finger trap. Now. Data was playing with a
55:55
Speaker 1: finger trap in Star Trek. He got stuck. It was
55:58
Speaker 1: pretty funny. Brent Spiner is so funny. I can see
56:01
Speaker 1: why Data is a phenomenon. He's great, all right, Have
56:05
Speaker 1: a great rest of your day. Thank you so much
56:07
Speaker 1: for listening. You can talk to me at bit of
56:09
Speaker 1: a Rambler at gmail dot com or a bit of
56:11
Speaker 1: a Rambler on Lemon Blue Sky, and I guess on
56:15
Speaker 1: Twitch if you want those questions answered. Have a great
56:19
Speaker 1: rest of your day and I will talk to you soon.