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A Barber, a Spider & Pepe the Squirrel · onefjef

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Hey, Jef.
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It's Kirsten.
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Big fan of the podcast.
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Mostly wanted to call and say I'm loving the podcast as usual, so thank you.
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Um, and then also, Mike Mall didn't seem into it, but I really appreciated your
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comment about weather people in places where there's Celsius versus Fahrenheit.
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I never thought about that this whole darn life of mine.
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This is episode 66 of onefjef.
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Hola, mis amigos y amigas.
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¿Cómo estás?
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¿Está bien?
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Very good.
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Very, very good.
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Yes, you heard right.
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This is episode 66 of onefjef, not to be mistaken for episode 666,
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which would be the episode of Satan.
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And that'll be coming in quite a few years from now.
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But rest assured, episode 666 will be a very special episode of onefjef.
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I hope you're all thriving, as I always do.
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Hope you're all living your best lives.
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Hope you're all happy, wealthy, and wise, as I've said before, and I
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promise never to say again because that's a annoying clichéd phrase that
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I regret using in the first place.
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Thank you very much.
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Oh, yeah, so this onefjef the podcast, it peels away your mind like a banana peel.
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Exciting news.
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The podcast has been rising in popularity quite a bit over these last
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few months, and I'm happy to report, truly, that we are number 24 in the
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places and travel category in Mexico.
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I don't know how many podcasts in the travel and places category there are
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in Mexico, but I imagine there's quite a few more than 24, I would think.
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So hey, look at me.
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I mean, we're number 170 in places and travel in Germany.
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And in Canada, we're 194.
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And I know that Mexico has more people than Canada.
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So just based on population, you would think there'd be more.
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Who knows?
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If you are a new listener, thank you for joining us.
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I hope you're doing very well.
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I mean, I hope you're thriving, of course.
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Forgot to tell you.
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So yeah, number 24 in Mexico.
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Thank you for those of you who have helped to make that happen.
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It's a slow burn here, here at onefjef the podcast, and, uh, slow burn is a good burn
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I had put off getting a haircut here in Mexico City for a long time, for a variety
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of reasons, most of which is that I don't know a lot of hair terminology in Spanish.
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And when you go to the barber, usually you need to be able to use some hair
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terminology in order to communicate what you'd like done with your hair.
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So I had just let my hair get quite disheveled, quite disheveled.
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It had been three or four months since I'd gotten a haircut,
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and it was getting annoying.
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I was starting to trim it myself, and it was uneven, and
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I just don't care for that.
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It was, like, curling up in the back, which, not my jam.
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So I thought, "Well, I have to get a haircut."
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So I go on the internet, and I look for English-speaking barbers in Mexico City,
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and I find a Reddit post from somebody a, a year ago who, you know, found
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this barber who spoke very good English apparently, and said that they're great.
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You should go to these people.
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So I found them on the internet.
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They're only 10 minutes away by foot.
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Sent them a WhatsApp message saying, in Spanish I said this, "Hi, uh, I am
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looking for a barber who speaks…" Something… This is paraphrasing.
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"I'm looking for a barber who speaks fairly good English because
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I'm learning Spanish, but I don't speak hair terms very well, ha ha."
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I was trying to make it light And they respond, "Oh, of course, yes.
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When would you like your appointment?" And I'm like, "Okay, how about tomorrow
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at 10:00?" They're like, "Yes." Great.
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So it sounds good.
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Sounds like I'm gonna get a barber who speaks good English and will
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be un- understand me, 'cause I have had bad experiences with
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barbers in foreign countries.
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When I was in Russia many, many years ago, I got a haircut, and I didn't
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s- really speak any Russian at all.
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I'm not even sure how I communicated e- or if I communicated at all what I
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wanted, but I got it cut quite short.
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Like, I had a lot of hair, and I cut it all off.
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And he cut it in, like, this bouffant, which if you don't know what that is,
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you can look it up on the Internet.
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And if you know me, you know, not a good look for Jef, a bouffant, no.
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I remember when I got off the plane in Cleveland, when I had gotten back
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from Russia, my dad picked me up.
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The first thing he said is, like, "What happened to your hair?" And
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then he said, "What's that on your nose?" And on my nose, on the very
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tip of my nose, was a giant zit, which was very obvious to anybody,
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but thank you, Father, for pointing it out right as I got back from Russia.
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Anyway, so there's a history here.
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I get to the haircutting place, the barber as they call it, and it's closed.
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And I'm like, "Oh, all right. It says it opens at 9:00, but I guess… I
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don't know." So I message on WhatsApp.
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I say, "Hey, there's nobody here.
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It's closed." And they're like, "Oh, the, the person who's
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cutting your hair is on the way.
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Sorry." So about 10 minutes later, the person who's cutting my hair shows
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up. Very, um, quiet, you know, trying to be friendly. I'm, "Mucho gusto.
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Soy Jef," blah, blah, blah.
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And he's just not really being very responsive.
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So I'm like, "Okay, he's, you know, just got up, whatever." So I wait,
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you know, while he gets the store together, and, uh, then he's ready to go.
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And I go and sit in the chair, and he's like, "English or Español?" And
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I'm like, "Oh, I don't speak a lot of Spanish, so English would be better."
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And he's like, "Okay, okay." And so I explain to him what I'm wanting my
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hair, how I want my hair cut, and I get the impression he's understanding,
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'cause he's like, "Yeah, okay.
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Okay, okay." And at one point, I made a gesture.
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Like, I was showing him that I part it on the side, and I was kind of, like,
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gesturing to my head, and I think I just swept the hair back And I think that was
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my mistake, so we'll get back to that.
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So then he starts to get me ready, puts the bib on and everything, and the apron.
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Then he goes to his phone.
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He's looking at his phone for a while, and he shows me a picture of, like,
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the side of somebody's-- of a man's hair, and he's like, "Like, you know,
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like this?" And it was, like, how f- and I assumed he was just asking
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how far above the ear it was cut.
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And I was like, "Yeah, about that." But the hair, the picture was, like, of
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slicked back hair, and that should've raised a red flag right there, but
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it didn't because I assumed, again, that this man spoke good English and
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had understood it when I said, "I part it here, and this is how I…"
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Because he had said, "Okay." So he starts to cut my hair, but the first
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thing he does when he starts to cut my hair is, like, spray my hair
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down wet and then slicked it back, directly back like a gangster, like
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somebody in The Sopranos or something.
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And I think, "Well, this is just the way that he cuts hair.
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You know, he wets it down.
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Everybody wets it down.
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This is kind of…" But as it goes on, as the haircut progresses, he
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never actually changes the pulled back thing, and I start to realize, "Oh.
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Oh, no, no." I mean, the haircut's very awkward.
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There's no music playing.
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We're the only two people in the entire shop.
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I tried to make a little conversation, but he didn't really respond.
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And then at a certain point, he's like, "Can you excuse me?" And he goes to the
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bathroom, and I hear him literally, like, coughing up a lung and blowing his nose.
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So he's got, he's got a cold too, which is great 'cause he's
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right-- he's cutting my hair.
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So I breathe through my nose for the rest of the haircut, which I'm not a
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mouth breather, but, you know, sometimes.
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So that was exciting.
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But yeah, by the time I realized that he was-- he had misunderstood how I
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style my hair, it was too late, and I really just wanted to get out of there
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because there was no redeeming it.
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The amount of effort it would've taken to explain to him.
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When he finished up, he gets the mirror out, and I'm thinking,
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"Oh, Jesus Christ, he's done?
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That's really it?" Like, you know when they pull the mirror out, you know that's
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the end of it, and you're like, "Oh.
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Oh, no." 'Cause it was still… And so I start to, like, brush it forward,
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kind of give him an indication, but it's not brushing forward because it's
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been pushed back for so long, so it's kind of making this Conan O'Brien-esque
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waterfall of hair in the front.
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It was quite a look.
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Pretty ridiculous.
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I think it's funny now, but boy, uh, didn't think it was funny then.
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And I think when he looked at me, he actually was amused
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at how ridiculous it looked.
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I think he even recognized it.
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But who knows?
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Who knows?
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And as I'm walking home, like, I'm looking at myself in my phone,
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and I'm, like, licking my hand to, like, push the front of my hair
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down 'cause it's really high up.
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It looks absurd I should have taken a picture, but I was too, uh, angry
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and embarrassed to, to do that.
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So I get home, and I finally get into the elevator, and the elevator's
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got a mirror in it, and I look in the elevator, and I'm like, "Oh.
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Oh, Jesus.
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Oh, Jesus.
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What hath God wrought?
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What hath God wrought?"
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So I go in.
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I get in my apartment, and I go in the bathroom.
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I rinse it down to make the, the waterfall Conan O'Brien thing go
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away, and then I, you know, assess the damage, and it's not horrible damage.
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It's shorter than I would have liked.
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It's shorter than Estie would have liked because she liked the long hair.
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She thought it was very stylish, which I don't understand because
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it literally was a lack of style.
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So maybe that's a style.
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Anyway, it's not as bad as I thought it was.
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It's not great.
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I mean, at least I don't have to get it cut again for a while.
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I mean, I'm not going to.
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Maybe I'll wait till Christmas now.
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I will.
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I will wait till Christmas.
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It would be nice to find a haircutter here.
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I mean, at h- some point I'm going to have to find a barber or haircutter here
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that I can trust because these beautiful locks of mine need the utmost attention.
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If you knew me, you'd know how realist- how ridiculous this whole thing is
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'cause I don't have that much hair.
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But when you don't have that much hair, y- maybe you're more fixated on it.
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You know, nobody else notices when you're having a bad hair day.
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Do you know that?
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Almost never.
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Do, uh, does anybody else but you notice when you're having a,
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quote-unquote, "bad hair day"?
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It's a true story.
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But you notice, and it's oftentimes all you can think about is that
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my hair looks ridiculous today.
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I mean, today I was having a bad hair day, and I'm convinced that many people
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noticed that my hair was looking absurd as I was walking home from the barbershop.
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Like, it's embarrassing to walk out of a barbershop with that on your head.
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I mean, honestly.
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You would think that they wouldn't want that to happen.
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It'd be bad advertising
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This is yet another CDMX dispatch.
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What does that mean?
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That means that I'm just going to ramble here for a while.
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Hopefully, it'll be entertaining and/or engaging and/or, I mean, even
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if you get angry at it at this point or if it makes you afraid, like
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maybe that's even better, right?
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Because If we've learned anything in this political age of ours, it's that
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the worst emotions you can elicit are the most profitable emotions.
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Whatever that means in terms of this podcast, I have no
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idea, but there you have it.
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Speaking of politics, and I'm very sorry in advance, for the last, let's say,
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three, two months, I have been getting bombarded, if you will, number one, with
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text message campaigning from Ohio, which is where my home address is listed as.
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So nonstop.
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And even if you write stop, they don't stop.
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And I've been three to four a day of these messages.
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And it makes me hate politics even more.
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If you're listening to this, please stop.
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And please don't ask me for money.
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I got a message from Vote Blue the other day asking me for a donation
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for Elizabeth Warren's campaign.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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Are you kidding me?
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Do you have any idea how much money is going to be spent on this
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election alone in the United States?
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An obscene amount.
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A truly disgusting and obscene amount of money is going to
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be spent on this election.
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And I'm getting text messages asking me to give some of my money to Elizabeth
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Warren to help her get elected?
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What have you done?
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What have any of you done to make the country better in the last 10, 20 years?
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It triggers me when these politicians ask for money.
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It triggers me because the system is so corrupt with money
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that like, are you kidding me?
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You want me to flush, you want me to hand my hard-earned money to you
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to flush down the toilet, the media political complex that just, ugh,
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sorry, getting on my high horse.
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Where else is there, Jef?
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Oh, I know, I know.
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But I've also been fed these posts on social media of all
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sorts, YouTube, Instagram.
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I've seen it on all of these.
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It's these videos from celebrities in the United States.
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I think there was a Julia Louis-Dreyfus in one of them.
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Conan O'Brien did one.
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A bunch of celebrities, fairly well-known celebrities doing these
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messages, essentially begging expats to vote in the next election.
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And first off, the number of times I've been fed these ads is also very obnoxious.
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Like, I get it.
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I heard you the first time and the 10th time.
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Beyond that, though, did we not learn that putting, you know,
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elite celebrities up there as the spokespeople for the Democratic
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Party is perhaps not a great idea?
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Did we learn nothing?
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It turns me off to see these people shilling for, and let's not pretend
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this isn't a Democratic thing.
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Of course, it's Democratic.
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More expats to vote.
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Expats generally vote Democratic.
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Yada, yada, yada.
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I tell you, it's like nobody ever learns anything.
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You know?
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It's like if you don't remember history, you're doomed to repeat it.
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We're not for remembering things that happened literally two years ago.
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I don't know who's gonna win this election.
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It looks like the Democrats are gonna do well.
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Who knows?
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Honestly, yes, I understand that this is a consequential election in some ways
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with the man we have in the Oval Office.
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Yes, I get it, but do I believe that things will change much at all if the
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Democrats take over the House and Senate?
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I do not.
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Why does everybody hate the government right now?
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Why is the approval rating of the House and Senate, I think,
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as low as it's ever been?
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Because you're not doing anything, because you're corporate shills acting
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on behalf of your biggest donors.
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That is why
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onefjef the podcast es una revelación divina A large spider has chosen
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to make its web on my terrace.
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It chose this probably three weeks ago now.
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It's been there.
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It's a big spider.
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It's not a dangerous spider.
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At least I don't think it is.
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I tell Estee it's not dangerous because-- but I don't think it is.
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I think I, I looked it up.
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It's not dangerous.
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But it's made a very impressive web on my porch, and it's not really in the
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way, so I've kinda let it go, and bugs, you know, spiders rather very good to
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get rid of bugs and, you know, there's mosquitoes here, so it's good to not have.
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I was calling the spider a him for a while, but I looked it up
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and now apparently the spiders you see on webs right in the middle,
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those are almost always females.
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The male spiders are usually cowering in the side.
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True story.
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I guess they tap the web gently to see if the mate-- female wants
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to, the female wants to mate.
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Like, they just kinda go tap, tap, tap.
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"Excuse me.
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Uh, uh, excuse me.
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Uh, do you, uh, have an ape- No?
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Okay." Yeah.
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Anyway, this female spider, who I've named the Spanish word for spider
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as the spider's name, but I don't remember the Spanish word for spider,
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so you're gonna have to look it up.
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This female spider, very beautiful spider, uh, I went out one time,
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and there was another spider in like the corner of the web.
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And I was like, "Oh, maybe she found a boyfriend or
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something." But so I let it go.
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You know, took some pictures.
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And then a little ways, I don't know, maybe a week or so after that, I
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don't know if it was the same male spider, but another spider had moved
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in and decided to build another spider web, like near the other ones.
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And I'm thinking, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is not spider web
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town." Like, the female was probably like, "Hey, guys. Come on in." No, no, no, no.
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So I took care of the other web.
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One web is all.
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This is not a spider, uh, habitat, my terrace.
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One spider.
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Also, I should try to remem- memorize the Spanish word for
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spider, because it's somewhat embarrassing and, and, and offensive,
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uh, as well for that spider to…
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I don't know, I don't know her name.
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I don't know her name.
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And it's not like Spidero.
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Anyway, so that's real excitement on the porch.
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Speaking of porch or terrace, I was out there today just wandering
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around, minding my own business, and I was leaning on the edge, and I just
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look over and, oh, look who's there.
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Uh, Pepe.
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Pepe the squirrel just peeked her head out right there, right next
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to my hand, like right there.
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And I was like, "Oh. Well, hello. Where, you know, where have you
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been?" I didn't say this out loud, but I thought it Pepe didn't respond.
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Pepe just kept getting closer to me.
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Pepe really thinks that I am the avocado man of the entire neighborhood.
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Like, it's somewhat creepy.
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Pepe hasn't been around for a while, but Pepe showed up back and fiercely.
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Like, I went into the house 'cause Pepe was getting too aggressive.
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I have this effect on a lot of female squirrels.
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And I closed the door, and Pepe's still, like, on the chair staring at me.
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Just staring.
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Just staring.
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She also lounged on the railing for a while.
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That was cute.
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Anyway, Pepe's fine, and Pepe didn't last long.
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Once Pepe realized that I was not going to give her any more
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avocados, she scurried away to look for love elsewhere, I suppose.
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So lots of excitement on the terrace lately.
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So much excitement on the terrace
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Only about 0.6% of the population of Mexico was born in the United States.
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0.6%. This is as of 2020, so let's say even like 0.8% now, right?
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1% we'll round up.
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In the United States, it's like three or 4% people living in
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the US were born in Mexico.
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And of the 1% of Americans that live in Mexico right now, the majority
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of them are not even retirees or expats or immigrants or whatever.
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They're US-born first-generation Mexicans who have family here and move
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back here because of their family.
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So the reality is, if you do the math like this, quote-unquote, "expat problem,"
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this immigrant problem in Mexico City that so many expat immigrants are coming
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here to and ruining everything, it's such a small percentage of the population.
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Like at this point, we're talking about of the expats or immigrants here
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that are American-born that are not related to somebody in Mexico, it's
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probably like 0.3 or 0.4%, if that, of the entire population of Mexico.
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How many of those are in Mexico City?
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I don't know.
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Probably the majority, but still, this is a very small amount.
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But everybody wants somebody to be angry at and to point fingers
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at, and it's very easy for humans to point fingers at the outsider.
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We do it everywhere in the world.
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Hatred of the immigrant, finger-pointing at the immigrant, it goes on everywhere.
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It's the-- one of the oldest stories, right?
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It's another one of the stories we can't seem to shake because we keep doing it.
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You know, we're all like, "Oh, they treated the Irish horribly when they got
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to the United States," but we're, we're literally doing almost the same thing
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now with Mexicans and whatever else.
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And of course, there's different reasons to dislike the, you know, the American,
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the United States, the gringos here.
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They have the money and da, da, da.
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But it-- you're always gonna find a reason to dislike the foreigner.
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It's just human nature.
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This is what we do.
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This is what the brains do If we could just stop and understand that this
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is what our brains do, so then say, "Well, maybe I shouldn't be doing it.
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Maybe if I can recognize the, the human nature of this feeling, then I can
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then resist it and reject it," because the fire is being fanned by the media.
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The media knows this, and they can… You know, they put a few
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coals under there and just fan them for a bit, and then everybody's
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pissed off about the foreign people.
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They're the problem.
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It's not what's going on.
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It's not the politicians.
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It's not the people in this country.
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The problems, all the murder and all the bad stuff, that comes from the
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people, the, the, the immigrants.
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I'm not saying that it's a different narrative for the United States and,
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and Mexico, but you see what I'm saying.
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All the problems I have, I can't get an apartment because of the gringos.
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I, uh, drugged him.
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It's always something, 'cause it's easier to blame people from another country
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than it is to blame your own country that you're literally sitting on your
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couch eating Doritos, watching a hockey game or something in your basement.
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Barely talk to your wife anymore.
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Sometimes you just sleep in the basement because you don't wanna deal with the
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arguments that happen every time you go up into the bedroom and talk to her.
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She… You don't really know what happened
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It's only been three or four years, and when you first met, you were so in love.
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It was like poetry.
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I remember thinking that.
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Even said it to each other.
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It was like your, your little joke.
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Poetry.
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We're poetry.
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Yeah, and then we got-- you got married, and slowly but surely, things just
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started to peter and peter and peter.
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It's hard to ask somebody how they're doing every single
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day and get the same answer.
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It's boring.
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It's hard to hear the same stories over and over and over.
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It's frustrating.
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It's irritating even.
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It's hard to see a person and their bad habits in front of you and
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know you have your own bad habits and see it reflected back to you.
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It's hard.
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But that, I think, is love, right?
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I think if you're able to take a step back and see beyond the frustration,
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the irritating, and you can turn these things into things that you, that you
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love, that you love about this person
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Anyway, gringos aren't the problem.
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That's my point.
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Gringos are not the problem
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There are many stereotypes of American expats or immigrants or whatever you
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wanna call them, gringos, here in Mexico.
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Some of them are accurate, and some of them are not.
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Some of them I go out of my way to not reflect or perpetuate because when I
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encounter a group of Americans here in Mexico City, I get annoyed usually.
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I mean, I, I get irritated because usually when you encounter a group of Americans,
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you n- know that they're American because they're talking very loudly,
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and I don't really understand this.
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This is a stereotype that holds across countries.
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Every country you go to, generally speaking, there
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will be loud Americans there.
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I don't consider myself a loud American, and I think many people
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can probably attest to this.
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I'm not just saying this.
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I, I think it's true So I am entitled to talk about it.
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I'm allowed.
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Okay.
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If anybody has any insight as to why American tourists are generally, and
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expats and so on and so forth, are so loud, I would be interested in
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that insight, onefjefpod@gmail.com, because I really have no idea.
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Estee and I were at a bakery this past weekend, um, getting some baked
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goods, and it's a gringo bakery.
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There's a lot of businesses here in Roman Norte and Condesa cater to gringos.
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This bakery apparently used to be, and still is, I mean, it wasn't bad, but
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for some reason, certain businesses get on the radar of gringos, and so
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you go to these places and you see mostly gringos, which is what we saw
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in line at this bakery, mostly gringos.
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More gringos than I've seen in one place for quite a while, actually.
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Very strange, 'cause you would think that if Mexicans aren't going
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there, then maybe it's not good.
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I mean, Estee's Mexican, so she was there, but still.
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Anyway, lots of gringos.
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And we were standing in line, and there was this group of four Americans,
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I'm gonna assume based on the accent, American women probably in their
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20s or early 30s, standing right in front of basically where the line is.
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So we assume they were in the line.
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And of course they're doing, "Oh my God, have you been to this place?
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Oh my God.
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Oh, what's it like with Frankie?
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Is it weird to work with him and also be your boyfriend?
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Oh my God.
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Oh my God, have you heard they have feta cheese at Walmart?
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Oh my God, I love feta cheese." It's a lot.
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And you think I'm exaggerating, but I'm really… I am a
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little bit, but not too much.
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And of course they're loud, so everybody can hear around what
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they're, what they're talking about.
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After about 10 minutes, five, 10 minutes, one of the women looks to us and is like,
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"Oh, we're not in line. Sorry." And, like, we'd been standing there for a while.
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And it's like, w- what, what, what are you… It's not all
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Americans here that I dislike.
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It's those kind of Americans, those loud, inconsiderate, self-absorbed Americans.
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I cannot with that.
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I cannot.
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And it makes it embarrassing to be an American near them, 'cause
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you feel like there's guilt by association to a degree, right?
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So I should be like, start a fe- I could be like, "Oh, I do not
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like those girls." I should start speaking French or something.
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And I feel bad for Estee sometimes because she gets mistaken for an
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American because of her adjacency to me.
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Sorry about that, Estee.
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And that's going to do it for this episode of onefjef.
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Who doesn't like to have their whole name said on a episode of a podcast?
28:45
I mean, some people probably do.
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And I will end this episode with a quote by the late, great Hunter S. Thompson.
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"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd pleasers are generally brainless
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swine who can go out on a stage and whoop their supporters into an orgiastic
30:15
frenzy, then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards
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down the tube for a nickel apiece."
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God bless him.
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I'll see you next week.
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Very good, Jeffrey