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088 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 1: And I've now eaten all of the different Silver Queen
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  Speaker 1: chocolate bars they have here in Indonesia. I just finished
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  Speaker 1: the yogurt and a berries one. It was good. It's
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  Speaker 1: tasty chocolate. It's pretty good chocolate. I actually don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's Indonesian, but I don't recall seeing them before.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to check with me right now? Oh dang,
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  Speaker 1: it really is Indonesian. I wonder if that's why it's
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  Speaker 1: so good, because it, yeah, it's sold in like all
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  Speaker 1: of the little convenience stores. But I tried one and
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  Speaker 1: the chocolate I was like, oh, that's pretty good chocolate,
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  Speaker 1: Like it tastes like smooth, real chocolate. In fact, that's
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  Speaker 1: why I got all of them. I got milk, chocolate,
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  Speaker 1: cashews with almonds. This was the very berry yogurt, I believe, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very very yaugut Silver Queen and uh yeah, so it's
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  Speaker 1: good and it is Indonesian, So it makes perfect sense
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  Speaker 1: why I've been eating so many candy bars lately. It's
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  Speaker 1: not weird or crazy at all. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about. Okay, I'm in Doonesia. Did I already
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  Speaker 1: mention that I like it here? It's nice? Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: did I already mention that I'm in Indonesia? Because I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I haven't talked about the restaurants or the
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  Speaker 1: cookies or anything. I had to write that down. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot going on. I guess we'll just
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  Speaker 1: drop right into this. Then I found seaweed snacks like Nori,
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  Speaker 1: which I have been jonesing for lately, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: thirty five cents a pack something like that. I guess
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  Speaker 1: forty cents a pack maybe, but not super cheap, but
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  Speaker 1: not really that expensive, and I was very excited. So
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  Speaker 1: I bought a bunch of packs of that and kind
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  Speaker 1: of picked out on Nori the other day. Actually, there
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  Speaker 1: were all only nine packs in the entire package that
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  Speaker 1: I bought, and I used to eat literally like a
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  Speaker 1: hundred at a time or more when I bought them
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  Speaker 1: in giant boxes in China. So I can't really say
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  Speaker 1: I pig out on Nori because I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: giant cardboard box filled with hundreds of Norri packages. My
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  Speaker 1: teeth don't hurt after I ate the Norri this time,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't pig out, just had a great snack,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great snacks. And then yesterday I ate
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  Speaker 1: like another twelve or someone. I walked around to the
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  Speaker 1: different stores, like looking who had the cheap ones, what
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  Speaker 1: all the other well what all the different options were anyway, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: eating some Nori pretty pretty into it. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: get my first bus ticket in Indonesia, and it I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. I guess you have to wave down a bus.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really I'm in this neighborhood. I'm only here
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  Speaker 1: for a few weeks, so I don't think I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go all around the city. It's also like literally
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  Speaker 1: a dollar to get a lot of ride shares from
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  Speaker 1: one place to another, so I'm probably just gonna do that.
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  Speaker 1: Plus I met a guy. He offered to lend me
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  Speaker 1: his bicycle, and I haven't got it yet cause I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he's like, you can borrow it for
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  Speaker 1: a day and then go, I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: terms are. But we talked for a long time and
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  Speaker 1: he told me really cool stories about the mythology of Indonesia,
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  Speaker 1: and then we became friends and he said I could
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  Speaker 1: borrow his bicycle if I needed to, if I wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he was like pushing it. He was like,
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  Speaker 1: just take it. And I was like, oh, I was
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  Speaker 1: actually looking at renting a bike. He's like, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: just use my bike, use mine. So yeah, I should
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  Speaker 1: probably just go get that bike because I do want
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  Speaker 1: to ride around a little more so I can get
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  Speaker 1: to the buffets easier, and maybe the zoo, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: but the buffets are really what's on my mind. They
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  Speaker 1: talk about the all ugan E buffets, Well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about him and Gin if I did, they were
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. Okay, so there's one place called Kokoi and
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  Speaker 1: it's good, but the meat isn't super high quality and
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  Speaker 1: they have a higher quality for another couple dollars, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get it because I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: it was like base level good first, and the first
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  Speaker 1: one I went to wasn't really base level good, like
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't really go back there. But a few days
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  Speaker 1: later I went to the second branch of it, which
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  Speaker 1: is closer to my house outside of the city, and
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  Speaker 1: generally when I'm traveling outside of the city means better food,
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  Speaker 1: and like street food is better food. But outside of
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  Speaker 1: the city it's like they they have to make better
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  Speaker 1: food because there's not just a steady flow of people
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  Speaker 1: all the time. So if they're out in a more
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  Speaker 1: suburban neighborhood, there's yeah, there's like they have to draw
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  Speaker 1: people in with their food. It has to be good.
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  Speaker 1: So and not every restaurant outside of the city center
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  Speaker 1: is going to be good. But I find on the whole,
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  Speaker 1: outside of the city center, there's better food than inside
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  Speaker 1: the city center in every single place I have been to,
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  Speaker 1: every single city I've lived in, I mean, and this
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  Speaker 1: was better. The second branch was not way better, but
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  Speaker 1: the quality of meat was better, and more importantly, I
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  Speaker 1: think the quality of the hot pot base was better.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a shabu shabu all you can eat,
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  Speaker 1: and you can choose two different broths, and I chose
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  Speaker 1: the ma la and the whatever the heck the other
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  Speaker 1: one was, and the second one, I think the meat
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  Speaker 1: was better, but definitely the soup was much better, and
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  Speaker 1: it just the whole thing seemed just a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: like they were I don't know, like they had breathing
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  Speaker 1: room or something. It was, I'm not sure, but I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the second one much more. And after the first
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  Speaker 1: branch of this hot pot restaurant I went to, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't need to go back there, But
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  Speaker 1: after the second one, I'm like, I'll probably go back there.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a sushi restaurant really close to the hot
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  Speaker 1: pot restaurant I went to, and the sushi is also
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  Speaker 1: all you can eat, so I might have to do
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  Speaker 1: that next and break up my buffets a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I might do that today. Actually it's early enough, I
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  Speaker 1: could still go. It's called sushi yay with an exclamation point.
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  Speaker 1: Seems fine. Did I talk about Indonesia at all? I walked, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. Indonesia's great. The airport's incredibly nice. I took
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  Speaker 1: the train into the city very very easy. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: incredibly cheap here. Everything's like a dollar or under. Like
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  Speaker 1: it's it's I mean the food. All the plates of
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  Speaker 1: food are a dollar or under. And a huge bunch
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  Speaker 1: of food is maybe a dollar fifty if you get
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  Speaker 1: the it's called it like a jumbo portion of something,
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  Speaker 1: and that could be a dollar fifty, but that's that
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  Speaker 1: is a lot. Like between seventy five cents to a
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  Speaker 1: dollar is pretty normal for all of the restaurants I've
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  Speaker 1: been to so far. There's a restaurant I want to try,
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  Speaker 1: and everything was, yeah, everything's seventy five cents or so,
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  Speaker 1: or ten thousand out of sixteen thousand, so more like
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  Speaker 1: sixty cents. Yeah, everything's sixty cents. That's crazy because it's
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand rupia and almost seventeen thousand rupia is one
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  Speaker 1: US dollar, so it's only about sixty cents for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the dishes here. I am studying Indonesian. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty good at it. It seems a lot easier than
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  Speaker 1: other languages I've studied, and I was really excited the
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  Speaker 1: first couple days. But I am only going to be
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  Speaker 1: here a few months, and turns out there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of English speakers in Indonesia and they're really happy
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  Speaker 1: to see me. I've actually had two different people asked
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  Speaker 1: to take pictures with me, two dudes from two restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I talked to them, they both spoke English, and
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  Speaker 1: then they both asked for pictures when I left. I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably going to go back to the first guy today
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  Speaker 1: because I haven't got the miagarang in a while, and
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  Speaker 1: theirs was really good because it was very dry, fried
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  Speaker 1: and delicious. It sounds like there's some kind of ceremony
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  Speaker 1: going on outside for the last hour anyway, the first oh, right,
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  Speaker 1: So that guy with the mia Gorang, there's another restaurant
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  Speaker 1: with Adele and Baban, a wife and husband who run
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  Speaker 1: a food stall, and his food is the best though.
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  Speaker 1: He has the most interesting flavors, and it seems like
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  Speaker 1: he has his like recipe, his method, his cooking method
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  Speaker 1: on Locke Like I've been there, I think three times now,
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  Speaker 1: maybe twice, maybe only twice, but I got several things
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  Speaker 1: both times, and all of his stuff is very good,
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  Speaker 1: very unique, very focused, and just distinct flavors, whereas like
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  Speaker 1: you can go to a lot of places and if
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  Speaker 1: the food's similar, just tastes similar. Like I went to
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  Speaker 1: a Nasi Gorang place the fried rice and it sucked.
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  Speaker 1: But I saw his fried rice yesterday and it looked good,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get that the next time I go
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  Speaker 1: over there. He also used to work in a hotel,
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  Speaker 1: at a Chinese hotel and cooked in the kitchen there,
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  Speaker 1: and so now he has a little section of Chinese
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  Speaker 1: dishes also and Java food like on this island, Indonesian
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  Speaker 1: on the island of Java is pretty sweet most of
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  Speaker 1: the time, there's always some sweet thing, but all the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese stuff is really salty. So the Chinese menu was
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  Speaker 1: all salty, so I'm gonna get that next time I
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  Speaker 1: go there. Probably the black pepper chicken. I don't like chicken,
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  Speaker 1: but chickens. You know, it's big everywhere and it's not. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: he has a lot to choose from. I got fried
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  Speaker 1: chabe Gram shrimp, which was really interesting. It's breaded and
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  Speaker 1: fried shrimp. But his breading and frying was so good.
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  Speaker 1: It was so good. And then I wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: the bread and fried eel or squid yesterday, and I did,
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  Speaker 1: but he added the sauce on like included to together
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't have separate sauce packets, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the same crunch I did the first time from
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  Speaker 1: the Chabegram. But that's okay. It was still super super
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  Speaker 1: good and I'll probably go back there and just get
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  Speaker 1: it there so that it'll still be crunchy. What else, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they have really good lemon tea here. The lemon teas
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  Speaker 1: are all what fifty so twenty five twenty eight cents
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  Speaker 1: each something like that for a big like half liter
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  Speaker 1: of lemon iced tea. I got iced tea from this
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  Speaker 1: one guy and it was good, but there was like
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  Speaker 1: coffee mixed into the tea, and I just don't like
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  Speaker 1: coffee very much, so the flavor wasn't great. But it
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  Speaker 1: was even cheaper. It was like twenty five cents. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's the prices have really really surprised me here, like
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  Speaker 1: they're they're on par with India, which is even cheaper
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  Speaker 1: than China. And I'm not sure why. Like there're also
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  Speaker 1: nobody here. There's no I know, other foreigners even in
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  Speaker 1: the city here, like zero, I don't I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there must have been, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: even remember another foreigner on the plane coming over here.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if something's up with Indonesia. Just
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  Speaker 1: blissfully unaware. I mean, I know there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of volcano eruptions and people die every ten years because
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  Speaker 1: the volcanoes erupt. It's been ten years, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: so knock on wood for me. But yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just local here. And also I definitely chose the
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  Speaker 1: right city. It's very chill here. It's a city, like
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  Speaker 1: it's a big enough city that it is a city
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  Speaker 1: and there's plenty of stuff to be interested in. It's fun,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also not Bali or Jakarto or any huge things.
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  Speaker 1: It is less than five percent population of those cities,
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  Speaker 1: so it's pretty nice. Ice three percent, which is great.
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  Speaker 1: It's ninety seven percent less people than those cities. Great,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five thousand instead of ten million plus.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gone to the zoo yet. I'm not planning
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  Speaker 1: on going to Komodo Island. I just want to see
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  Speaker 1: a Komodo dragon. I got to look for a reptile house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna write that. Hey, Google, remind me in five
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  Speaker 1: minutes to look for a reptile house because they have
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  Speaker 1: a zoo here. But they don't have a specific reptile
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  Speaker 1: house that I've seen, but I haven't looked, so I
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  Speaker 1: should look because I don't know if they have the
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  Speaker 1: Komodo dragons at the zoo, which they should, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see them in all the pictures, and I figure
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  Speaker 1: if they have a Komodo dragon in the zoo, it
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  Speaker 1: would be in one of the pictures on Google Photos.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go there anyway, though. I think they had like
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  Speaker 1: an elephant, and I was like, what, how would you
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  Speaker 1: have an elephant not a komodo dragon in Indonesia where komodo
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  Speaker 1: dragons are from. What was I talking about good food? Anyway? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I get there's great food here, so of course I've
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  Speaker 1: learned the food first. There's the Nazi grang, there's iam,
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  Speaker 1: there's chumi, which is squid. There's oudong, which is shrimp.
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  Speaker 1: There's bahmi, which is one type of noodle. I like
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  Speaker 1: the quetia, which is a flat type of flower noodle.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been getting a bunch of great food. They
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  Speaker 1: also have my favorite cookies here, which I put a
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  Speaker 1: post on the Lemmi travel community and people. They're apparently
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  Speaker 1: from all over the world, and I thought they were
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  Speaker 1: at least an Asian thing because I found them first
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  Speaker 1: in Taiwan, but I never found their names. I think
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  Speaker 1: someone called them gems or it was on a bag
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  Speaker 1: or something, and a whole bunch of people from the
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  Speaker 1: UK and Ireland wrote back that they're called gems in
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: their countries, and then a dude from South America wrote
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  Speaker 1: back and said they're called one hundred in a mouth
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  Speaker 1: or florets basically like little flowers and florets or little flowers,
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  Speaker 1: as little flowers sounds the best, probably, So they're from everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: They do have them everywhere, and I don't see them everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and I looked for them for years while I was traveling.
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  Speaker 1: They're always like a little difficult to find. But in
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  Speaker 1: England they're just in Tescos. Apparently you can just buy
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  Speaker 1: them in Tescos, which was interesting to find out here.
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  Speaker 1: I was just going around, looked in a dry goods
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  Speaker 1: store or dry food store and there's just giant jars
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, and in one of them was a whole
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  Speaker 1: like pounds of my favorite little bite sized cookies and
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  Speaker 1: they're totally delicious, and I got a bunch and then
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  Speaker 1: I got a bunch more a few days later because
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  Speaker 1: I love them, and I don't know when i'll see
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  Speaker 1: them again. They're just really they're tiny little biscuits with
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  Speaker 1: just a thing of dried powdered sugar frosting on top,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: so they're crunchy, but it's powdered sugar so it dissolves
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  Speaker 1: really quickly and just like a little little little bite.
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  Speaker 1: They're like nickel sized or a little small than a quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and they're quite tasty. And I can eat a whole
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  Speaker 1: bag of them without blinking. So I tried to get
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  Speaker 1: a bus ticket. Didn't work. There were platforms everywhere. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen anyone get on a bus, but the buses
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  Speaker 1: always look full, and you can only get on the
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  Speaker 1: bus at the bus stops. And I was at a
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  Speaker 1: bus stop and the driver and everyone was like looking
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  Speaker 1: at me, and I was looking at them, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't raise my hand to wave them down. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: why they didn't stop, and then they just kept driving.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I was very I'm a little confused
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  Speaker 1: by the bus thing, but I'll probably get the bike
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  Speaker 1: and whatever. I'm perfectly happy living in my neighborhood. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty quiet, except for the calls to prayer, which I
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  Speaker 1: do like hearing. There was a really cool thunderstorm the
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  Speaker 1: other day and I got a good picture of a
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  Speaker 1: lightning bolt coming down. But I missed like three other
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  Speaker 1: really good pictures of lightning bolts. But I should be
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  Speaker 1: happy with what I got. It's pretty. It's the first time,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: well you know what, that's not even true. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: take a picture of it. I took a video and
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  Speaker 1: just held my phone and then I took one of
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  Speaker 1: the frames out of that when I when I was
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  Speaker 1: lucky enough to catch a lightning bolt on film, there
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  Speaker 1: were a couple but they didn't come out, and then
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  Speaker 1: one of them I actually did catch on film and
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  Speaker 1: I took out a frame and it's a pretty cool
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  Speaker 1: looking picture. Oh my microphone bolt. So the bolt for
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  Speaker 1: my microphone stand that holds the actual microphone onto the
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: pole arm of the microphone stand was lost, and I
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: was freaking out because I was like, I guess I
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: can buy a bolt, like an actual screw bolt, to
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  Speaker 1: like substitute for it. And I was trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: it out, and then I just looked through everything and
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  Speaker 1: it was in the bottom of my bag because I
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  Speaker 1: remembered I had to take it out. Someone looked at
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  Speaker 1: it in Japan and I actually had to take it
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  Speaker 1: out and then put it back in, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I just didn't screw it in enough and it
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: fell out in my backpack and I got so lucky,
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  Speaker 1: and it was in the bottom of my rocks sac Oh,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: calls to Prayer starting up. I guess you can listen
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to the calls to prayer in the background because we're
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: just rambling on this doesn't have to be all professh professh. Snake, WHOA,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. He's pretty loud, So there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: call to prayer behind this, And I like it, so snake.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not religious or anything. I just like the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: calls to prayer. I think they just sound better I
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  Speaker 1: think their vowels sound better to me than all the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: other divine chantings that I've heard, more gregorian like, but
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  Speaker 1: they're like, they're like yearning. The Muslim calls to prayer
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  Speaker 1: are all yearning. I can hear it very clearly, where
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I don't. I just hear like boredom in most divine
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  Speaker 1: calls to prayer or cast to prayer. Snake saw a snake.
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  Speaker 1: It had little red eyes with vertical pupils, and a
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  Speaker 1: real skinny neck and a diamond shaped head. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, dang, but it looks like someone had
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  Speaker 1: squashed its head before I showed up. So that's good
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't get bit by a poisonous snake. And
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  Speaker 1: I was worried that it was poisonous because there are
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a bunch of poisonous snakes here. But I threw it
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: online and then I checked and Ai said it was
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: probably a python, and when I typed that, someone responded
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and said, yeah, that's a python, because I guess they
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: grew up in snake country and pythons are non venomous.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: So I was pretty relieved when I heard that because
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: it's right on the side of the road. But apparently
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the Malaysian pit viper is super like pretty venomous, i'll say,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and it also just lies on the side of the road,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: so that's what I thought it was at first, But
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: this has like a fishnet pattern on its back and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: it doesn't have the black stripe that the pit vipers have. Anyway,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it was pretty big. It was, I don't know, easily
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: a couple feet long, so big enough to freak me out.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: But luckily it was dead, so I poked it with
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: a stick and turned it over so I could see
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and took a picture so that I could post it
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: on the travel community and some people were kind of interested. Restaurants,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: so there was the first one. I met a guy
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and his father and they made really good mia gorang,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: which is like fried rice noodles, I think, but they weren't.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: They're not regular rice noodles. That's why I want to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: go back because I'm curious. Maybe they were back me
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: like the regular flower noodles here because they didn't taste
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: like chewy, but he also cooked them dry. Yeah, I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: gotta go back to that guy because that was a very,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: very very tasty mia grang. That might be better than
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the quetiao. Actually, the Quetiao's really good. Maybe I'm just
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: getting too much spice on the quetiao, but I like
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the quetiau. Also, I'll try the mia gorang again, we'll see.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And then the second guy. Yeah, So I became kind
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of friendly with Baban and Adele because they could both
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: speak like a little bit of English, and they were
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: really excited to speak English. But Bon especially, he just
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: wanted to keep talking to me, to the point that
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: yesterday he was kind of ignoring the other customers because
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: he was so excited about speaking in English with me,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: which happens in a lot of countries. People are excited
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: to practice their English. One point seven billion students in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the world, you know, So when you get an opportunity
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and I must be the only English speaker he's seen
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: India years, it's kind of I should go into the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: middle of the city, because more than India, like actually,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I guess there was nobody in India also, but this
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: feels like that. This feels like India where I'm like,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I don't even think if I go to the city center,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to see another non local bubinesh are. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: felt that, And here, I'm like, is there anyone here?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: You know what? There were two there were two non
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Indonesians I remember on the flight. But when they got
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: here they stood to attention at the Indonesian like national
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: song that plays, so they were weird. That's the end
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: of that story. I don't know. I was like, maybe
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: they're cult members. Is their cult here? What? What is
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: up with Indonia? I don't know anything about Indonesia except
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: apparently they have big volcanoes that explode every ten years.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Lightning bolts? Oh, I wrote that down. I already got
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the lightning bolts. So it's rainstorms. It's monsoon season here.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited about that. I love my monsoons. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I just sat out when it was monsooning and watched
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the rain and lightning. It was totally awesome. It was great,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and it sounded like a little rain today, but no
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: no more storms yet. But I'm smack dab in the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: middle of rainstorm season, so I'll hold out some hope
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: for some more violent thunderbolts and crashing rain. Oh dimension
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the host. The host is still being super weird. The
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: shower smells like sulfur, like really strong, and he didn't
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: provide a towel, and there's a weird stain on the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: couch and it's tiny, though the house is very nice.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: There's just I don't know why they would leave this weird,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: obvious stain that could be cleaned up because I don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: even know if it's a stand. There's just something brown
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: on the couch that I'm like, you could. You took
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: so much time to clean everything else in the house,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: why wouldn't you clean that. So maybe it's just new
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and that's why it's still clean. Because it's weird they
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: left that big, gross mark on the couch. But the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: place is pretty nice beyond that, and aside from when
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: there's calls to prayers, which I like, it's pretty silent
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: out here, so I like that a lot too. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: like quiet neighborhoods. There's a bunch of food stalls everywhere.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Everybody in the neighborhood has been super nice. I actually
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: spoke like really crappy Indonesian to a guy who didn't
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: speak any English, and everyone just seems really happy to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: see me. Here. A guy stopped on his moped in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: introduce his son to me. But I was like already
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: walking to go get my seaweed snacks. So we talked
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes, and then it looked like he
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: was like keep this card. It looked like he wanted
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: me to keep talking. And I was like, well, it's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: been great, have a great dinner, like okay, bye. But
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and I was a little brusque, but I answered a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: lot of his questions. I didn't read. I didn't ask
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: his name when he was talking to me. I was
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: listening to a podcast and walking and I was just
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: like in the mode. So uh. And he stopped on
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: like a busy street. He stopped without He didn't pull
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: over at first, he just stopped in the road and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: other people had to stop behind him on their scooters
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: because he had just stopped. And it was only after
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: someone honked that he like looked behind him, realized there
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was a bunch of people and rode off to the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: side of the road so he could talk to me. Yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it was weird, but he was very nice and told
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: me about beer, and he's like, there's a place I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: like to go to drink beer, and I was like,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that's great. I'm not drinking right now. I'm being healthy,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: which is true, except I did go to the beer
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: store just to try all the Indonesian beers and I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: got one of each, and it was incredibly expensive, like
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: maybe two dollars each beer, which like, if you think
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of how cheap every like one a tea that you
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: can buy with as much volume of beer is like
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: twenties fifteen cents or something like that, so it's pretty crazy.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Two thousand eighteen. Wait, two thousand is one eighth, so
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: twelve cents twelve cents for a giant jumbo tea iced tea,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and the beers are like forty twenty times as expensive.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And the beers taste normal, they taste like beers. They
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: actually taste pretty good, but it had been a few
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: days since I had a beer and I didn't drink
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: too much, so maybe that's just circumstantially good. The beers
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: tasted fine, but there's no way it's worth two dollars.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And also they're not super convenient to find. I know
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: where to get them now. But I'm just gonna it's
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: healthy time. I'm gonna be healthy because I just got
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: drink drank drunk back in Hawaii for a few weeks.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: So we're the beers were cheaper. Yeah, I know Hawaii.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: But if there's anything they do cheaper, it's the beers.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: It's bud lights, cheap bud light. Oh there's the rain,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: all right, cool, listen to the rain. Well we finish
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: this up. Rain storms on here again. Because I was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: very excited about those. Oh I got new glasses. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I went through all this trouble to take a test
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and we did a lot of the test and it
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: came out good and it felt good, and we did
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: those test glasses and I was like great, And then
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the lady was like, you should just get one plus
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: one because you're almost forty and the older you get,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the more near s er uh yeah, farsides you're gonna get,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: so you'll need more magnification anyway, these will last longer.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: And I let her talk me into getting the plus
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: one prescriptions instead of the plus point five plus point
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: seventy five that we tested. And it came out as
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: because my left eye isn't as strong, and they're not
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: very good. I also chose frames that I don't particularly like.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: That was dumb. But the nice thing is they have
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a warranty so I can go back and replace the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: lenses which were not made as good as my Cambodian glasses.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And also those glasses were so unimpressive these new ones,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to be perfectly honest, that I just went and got
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: super glue, fixed the frames of my old ten year
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: old Cambodian glasses, shined it up with the new glass
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: cleaning wipe microfibercloth they gave me, and they look great.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: They look really good, to be perfectly honest, to the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: point that I didn't know they could clean up this good.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I've tried cleaning them with paper towels for a long time,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: but I should try to microfiber, because now that I've
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: super glued them and I microfiber them, they look almost new.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: There's definitely, I think a scratch in the middle of
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the right lens, but I wouldn't even notice it, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: there's no blurring on the edge of any of the lens.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: In the Cambodian one, which is the first pair of
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: glasses I've ever had that have done that that don't
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: have any blurring at the edges of the lens always
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: has that, especially on the bottom. And I, the good
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: guy in Cambodi, was just like, yeah, they're just not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: good at cutting lenses, is basically it. Or they're like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: trying to be cheap and giving you not a new
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: piece of lens. So that's probably what happened here because
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: these ones are blurry on the bottom, the new ones.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But now I paid only paid twenty bucks. I paid
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: twenty bucks for the new lenses and glasses, and there's
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a two week warranty. So I'm going to go back
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and see if I can get new lenses. But if
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: they still suck now that I've cleaned up my my
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Cambodian glasses, I might just keep wearing them until they're
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: completely unseeable because they're because they're great. They've always worked perfectly.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: They still work perfectly. I got like eyestrain and like
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: hurt my eyes wearing these new ones, like it hurt.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: And it's only been a few days since maybe four
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: days in total since I got them. But it's not
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: it's getting a little better, like I can see easier
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: easy through them, but it's also clear now that the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: bottom has that blurriness, and also it's still it just
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: feels too strong for my eyes to use those new ones.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to try and use the warranty and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: get the prescription that we talked about and then if that,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: if that works, that's great. But I actually don't like
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: these frames. That was my bad. I really like the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Cambodian frames I got. They're super super cheap, but instead
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of those little things they have sticking out that stand
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: on your nose, it's just part of the frame, like
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a swooping mante ray fin, much more comfortable for me
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to wear. So I'm perfectly happy just keeping these these
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Cambodian glasses also, if that's what it comes down to,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: because it was only twenty bucks, and that's because I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: got the expensive ones. If I had gotten the cheap ones,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: it's only ten dollars for a pair of lenses and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the frames here, so I can try like ten different
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: spots and if I find one that's half as good
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: as the Cambodian glasses, it'll be great as good as
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the Cambodian glass. These ones that these new ones I
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: got are half as good as the Cambodian glasses, but
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I want better ones. But I was thinking, I'll just
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: go to different countries and try and get a pair
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of ten dollar glasses or twenty dollars glasses in each country,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and I'll probably eventually find one that are pretty good.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And until then I can use my Cambodian glasses that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: have held up incredibly well over ten years. So I'm
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: excited that I at least went through the process of
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: trying to get new glasses, even if I was talked
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: into plus one. I was talked into basically a too
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: strong prescription, and I asked her, and I'm sure she's right.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: She was like, yeah, but the longer you have them, like,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the more this will make sense, like you'll need more
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: magnifying power later on. But I don't that's like a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: decade ahead. I don't want to plan ahead that far.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: So I should have just tried my my prescription that
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: we tested for. And the color's weirder, like the color
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of the Cambodian glasses perfect, and the colors of these
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: ones like block out, like they're yellow tinted or something
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of the new. I don't know. I'm gonna I'm not
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: gonna get the fancy one. If I have to pay
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: for it, I'm gonna get the regular lenses. But just
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: trying to get new glasses means that now I fixed
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: up my Cambodian glasses by myself, could have done for
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a dollar a year ago. But now that I have
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: these and they're all nice, I'm pretty happy with my
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Cambodian glasses. Again. I'm very happy. I'm very happy that
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I still have them, considering I just need some super
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: glue and apparently a microfiber cloth. I thought this rat
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and lenses themselves were way more damaged than they were.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I thought it was just because it's been ten years,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: so I was like, well, it's got to be time.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Like I guess the lenses are degrading, and maybe they are,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: but they still feel way more comfortable than the new
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: pair I just got. But we'll see, we'll see, we'll see,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: because I'm gonna get the warranty redeem the warranty on
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: like Monday, because they told me, well, I wait for
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: a few more days and see how it feels. But
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: it's obvious to me the lenses are blurry on the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: bottom and the magnification is too strong, so I'm just
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: gonna wear my Cambodian glasses. But wait a few days,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: so they think that I'm testing their new glasses. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: then I'm gonna take advantage of that warranty that she
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: told me about very kindly. She didn't have to tell
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: me that, but she did, so that's great. I'm using
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the fan here from the house to dry my clothing
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that I wash in the shower. There's no washing machine here,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: but it was a new house and it was far
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: away from everything. And again, I am really glad with
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: this neighborhood. So I just wash my clothes when I
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: take a shower, and then I have a fan on
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the ground pointing up and that dries my clothing. They're
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: also it's super cheap to wash it clothes here. It's
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: less than a dollar. It's like seventy cents, something like
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: seventy cents, no sixty cents. Yeah, it's like sixty cents
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to wash and dry your clothes. But I just don't
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: want to carry them, and it's so easy to wash
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: them in the shower here. I don't know, maybe I'll
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: wash them at a laundromat right before I leave or something.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: But it's pretty and I have all day here. That's
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the other thing. I'm retired, so I just have all
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: day to wash clothes occasionally. Yeah, there's no towel. Oh right.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: The host was kind of weird. He's been weird. So
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the host agreed to my booking. And then after he
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: agreed to the booking, he asked me to pay for
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: utilities here, and I was like, well no, because that
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: was not in the house instructions or rules or the
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: booking agreement, and he got upset, and Airbnb he didn't
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: get upset. He just kept saying, you have to pay
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: for utilities, which is not how it's usually done on Airbnb,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and Airbnb had to like support, had to talk to
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: him for like six days, and finally on the sixth day,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I was just like, hey, I'm not paying for utilities,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: so you can cancel. And I said that on the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: first day too. He asked me to cancel twice, but
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I was like, it's non refundable reservation and you confirmed it,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: so you have to cancel it and then I'll get
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: my refund. And he said that it's impossible to cancel
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: it from the host side, which is incorrect. He can
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: all hosts can cancel their reservations. He probably just doesn't
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: want to get it like a mark or a warning
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: or whatever. But the house itself is nice, and I'm
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: very happy with the neighborhood. And I found great restaurants
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and good people, so pretty happy where I ended up.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: But when I got in the shower smelled like sulfur,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and there's no towels, and the there was something yeah whatever.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: There there was a bunch of small things like that
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: weird stain on the couch. And I told him, like,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I told him the sulfur smell, and I was like,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: does it usually smell like that? And he just said, yes,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: usually smells like that. I was like, okay, and I
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: just flushed the tank a couple times, which took care
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: of most of the smell. It's usually bacteria building up
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: in the filter of like your water tank, and yeah,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I've smelled it before, I've looked it up before. So
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I just flushed the tank a couple times and then
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: it's much less noticeable and it's not unhealthy. Also to sulfur,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: it's just like a gas that bacteria who live in
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: water filters often give off. So the gas floats off.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: So after you take a bath in sulfur water. It's
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: like a hot spring. You don't smell like sulfur after
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the gas evaporates, and you smell normal, a stinky smell
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: while you're showering. But yeah, the host answers questions very obliquely,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: so I'm like, can you bring a towel? And he
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: says if you don't, if you don't know what you're
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: going to get, you shouldn't book a reservation. And I'm like, okay,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: can I get a towel? Oh, the water too? He
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: mentioned there was water here and there's a big tank
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: of mineral water and it was empty, and I was like,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you said the mineral water was supposed to be full, right,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: and yes it is. So I sent him a picture
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of the empty jugon was like this one's empty, and
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: he's like, well, then I guess they forgot and nothing else.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: So I have to ask, okay, so can you replace
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the water? He says yes, but we're praying right now,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: so I'm not. It was just always very hostile and weird,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and I gotta say, this is the first time in
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: a decade that a host has been this weird and
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: non communication. So I just think he's pouting that he
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: filled out the booking agreement wrong, and he didn't realize
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: that Airbnb hosts usually pay utilities because he did not
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: want to pay utilities clearly. So I did get a
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: towel and the water eventually, like but when I checked in,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: he didn't send checking instructions. I arrived here and I
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: was in the city, and I had to ask him, like, hey,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: so I am here. You're the host is supposed to
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: send check in instructions, and every single one for a
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: decade has sent me because that's a basic part of Airbnb.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: This guy just didn't talk to me since he agreed
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: to pay his own utilities, and when I got here,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: he still had a contact in me. So I had
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to message him like, hey, I'm here. Then I had
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to message him again, I'm here. Where do I check in?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: And he just wrote back, meet at the address at two.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: That's it, like okay, And I was like, I'll be
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: there at three. I'm gonna grab some food and he
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: said perfect. So I got there at three and there
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: was nobody there and there was a locked gate and
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I just I could see that was the place I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: was supposed to go, but it's way out in the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it's outside of the city, like I mentioned, and nobody
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: was there to greet me. And I still hadn't hadn't
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: got any message, so I messaged the guy and he
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: didn't answer for ten minutes, so I messaged him again,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and then after fifteen minutes total, he he was like,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: go in. The key is under the ash tray, and
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I was okay, and I realized the key it wasn't
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: actually there's a huge padlock on the gate of the house,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: but you could reach through the bars this is very
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: common in other countries and just lift it up and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: slide it out like the bar locking. The padlock was
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: not actually barring entry. So I opened the outer gate,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: found the key under the ashtray and went in and
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: then I found these you know, the shower smelled weird
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. And I messaged him
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: and he said, well, if you don't know what you're
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: going to get, you shouldn't book a reservation, which is
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: not however Bamby works and is pretty rude for a
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: host to say, and he said, if you have problems,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: just talk to Aresee. And I was like, Aresee He's
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: like yes, and is that another host? Because if there's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: another person you're supposed to mention. He didn't send me
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: any instructions for the house who to talk to, and
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: he just told me to talk to a Reese and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: he said the security guard. But there's no security guard
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: booth here, and he didn't say a Reese speaks English,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: or you have to speak Indonesian, or where to find
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a resee. So I just said okay, great, and then
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: ignored that because it's not worth talking to this guy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: He's so oblique with his answers. I'll have to ask
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: like five different things just to get an answer that
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: will probably not be helpful in the end. So I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: basically just stopped talking to the host since I checked
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in here, and I'm just like, well, I'm in a
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: nice house and there is electricity. Oh the electricity went
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: out for like a minute yesterday and I asked him
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: about it, and less than a minute later, the electricity
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: came back on. So I don't actually know if it
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: was just a blackout or if he turned the electricity
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: back on. But yeah, what a weirdo that guy is.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's thinking too, because he I
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: was very nice to him, and I literally said like, hey,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know this stuff because these are
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the Airbnb policies that hosts and guests used together. Like
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: you have to send check in instructions. That's when he
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the check in instructions was when he wrote, if you
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: doubt the listing, do not reserve. Okay, man, but you
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: confirmed the listing and then you refuse to cancel. Still,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Airbnb support totally has had my back this whole time.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: They talked to him, explained the policy. I am living
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: in a nice house with electricity. There's ac it's less
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: than three hundred dollars a month. I mean, there's nothing
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: to complain about. I'm just talking about this because this
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: is a ramble on episode. I only messaged that guy
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: that like one day since I moved in, I think,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and then just yesterday I had to be like, hey,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the electricity is out. But then I came back on
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: like right when I sent the message, so it might
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: have just been a short blackout. So there's no Yeah,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it's still great, Like there's so little trouble. Like imagine
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: if you were living in a house with a landlord
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: and you would sign a contract in all this kind
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: of crap, like it would it's so much trouble to
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: fix any of those problems, like, oh, yeah, I'll send
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: someone out there to blah blah blah blah, and I'll
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: fix it in like two weeks. This. If something breaks
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: in the house and the host doesn't fix it, you
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: call Airbnb support and it gets fixed. So I'm I'm
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: still having great time. And this house is new, so
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: nothing is broken yet. And even though the guy who
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: has been whining, he delivered the mineral water, he gave
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: me a towel and the Yeah, the house is nice.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty pretty nice place to be hanging out
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: for a month in Indonesia. I'm having a great time.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: It's really nice here, Like the food's really good. I
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: would probably stay here longer because it's also so cheap.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: But I got to go to that wedding, and then
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I got to get back into East Asia. Maybe Mongolia,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: maybe some Japan animation. I don't know. I'll figure out
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: where I'm going soon. I still have some breathing room
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: because there's an extra twelve days in Philippines, so I
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: don't have to buy my ticket right away. But I
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: got to decide if I'm going to Japan before I
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: go up to Mongolia because that's the plan, and I
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: want to get up to Mongoli. I just feel like
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: that's where I'm supposed to go next. And do I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: stop at China first? It's tricky. I had decide this stuff.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to all this crap. Uh. It's awesome traveling,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Like there's so little all of this. It's just me
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: walking around, eating great food and meeting super nice people.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: This like irritating text exchange is all of the stress
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: that I've had so far since Indonesia. The first week
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: of Indonesia, I had like a three minute text exchange
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: where I was like, Okay, this guy's just gonna be irritating,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: so I won't talk to him. And then all the
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: rest of it has just been great food and cool
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: like amazing plant life and animals and just a fun time,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: new glasses, all all good stuff. Oh the Sate. I
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: should talk about the sate. Okay, let's end on the sate.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: There's different types of saute which are like skewers of me,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and I tried a couple and they sucked. And then
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I saw Satepa Dong, which is supposed to be better
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and it's so good it's from Sumatra where they have
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: like more curry type spices and marinated meat, and their
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: meat their beef skewers were fresh and the stew was great,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: and they had like fresh rice cakes to dip in
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the stew. Oh my gosh, it was so freakin good.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I went back there and got a jumbo serving of it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Highly recommend. Sate Pa dong I guess it's Padang Satepa
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Dang Padan. Maybe it's Padan, I don't know. It's great Padngi.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: If you want to talk to me Bit of a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Rambler at gmail dot com, or you can go to
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: crazy People dot online, slash c slash travel, that's the
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: travel community. I hope you're having a great day. I
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: am having an awesome day. Bit of a Rambler on
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Blue Sky and Lemmy and uh yeah, I'll talk to
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: you soon.