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030 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: Thank you so much for listening. I think I left
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  Speaker 1: off at carbolic soap, Korean Chicken, and a higher withdrawal
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  Speaker 1: Panamanian city limit for the ATM, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: continue with that because it's so nice not having to
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  Speaker 1: worry about how much I withdraw from the ATM, because
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  Speaker 1: that it's kind of a pain because I don't use
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  Speaker 1: any cards with international no international transaction fees or foreign
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  Speaker 1: transaction fees, so I'm kind of careful about my cash.
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  Speaker 1: And Panama has a lower limit than a lot of countries,
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  Speaker 1: and things are more expensive than a lot of countries,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm glad I found that ATM. But moving right along,
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  Speaker 1: there was a cool motorcycle helmet. While I was walking
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  Speaker 1: to the store to celebrate my new flush staff and
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  Speaker 1: by a bunch of micro party beers and preshudo and
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  Speaker 1: other snacks, and I was walking down the street and
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  Speaker 1: there was a guy with a guy Fox motorcycle helmet.
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  Speaker 1: So the visor was the guy FOWX mask, but it
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  Speaker 1: was entirely made out of multicolored sequence. So there was
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  Speaker 1: gold and emerald and ruby, an opal and amethyst like
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  Speaker 1: all in this amazing carpet of jewels that made the
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  Speaker 1: guy fox mask on his visor of the motorcycle helmet,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of it was decorated like the actual
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  Speaker 1: head protective part was decorated with another sea of jeweled
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  Speaker 1: sequence of all different colors, mostly gold, with patterns going
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  Speaker 1: throughout it. But it was a stunning motorcycle helmet. And
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  Speaker 1: he was just doodling on his phone on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road while I was walking down to the
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  Speaker 1: store and I kind of got stunned and I just
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  Speaker 1: stopped in my tracks and stared at him. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, can I see that. That's amazing, And he
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  Speaker 1: flipped it down so I could check it out and
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  Speaker 1: let me look at it, and I was like, yep,
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly as cool as I thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: That's such a great design and implementation. That is great
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  Speaker 1: taste and great execution, my friend, like it was done
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  Speaker 1: so well, and it was crazy because there could easily
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  Speaker 1: have been ten thousand sequins on this single motorcycle helmet
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  Speaker 1: and they were immaculately specifically presented and designed like they
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  Speaker 1: looked so good. Anyway, Guy Fox motorcycle helmet made out
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  Speaker 1: of sequence. Color me impressed. Oh, I found a new supermarket,
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  Speaker 1: which right in time for the cool higher limit atm
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  Speaker 1: What's all, There's a supermarket called mache Tazo in Panama
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  Speaker 1: City and they have everything all of the other supermarkets have,
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  Speaker 1: but all of the produce looks way fresher to me,
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  Speaker 1: particularly the meat. The meat looks really fresh, like Reba
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  Speaker 1: Smith does look fresh, but this place, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I should look it up, but it has that like
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  Speaker 1: local fresh look, like the blood hasn't like the blood
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  Speaker 1: vessels haven't gone limp yet, like the meat isn't fatigued.
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  Speaker 1: You know, now that I'm talking about it out loud,
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably just crazy and making this up in my head.
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  Speaker 1: But the meat looks extremely fresh, and it's cheaper than
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  Speaker 1: the meat everywhere else, and they have all these like
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  Speaker 1: local deals. I don't know, it just feels like a
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  Speaker 1: much more local store to me, even though it's very clean, huge,
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  Speaker 1: has a giant array of everything. It just feels like
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  Speaker 1: the local supermart, like that's where you go if you
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  Speaker 1: live in Panama City, is a local so I'll be
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  Speaker 1: getting my meat from there. And also they have super
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  Speaker 1: cheap beer, like forty eight cents for a beer, which
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  Speaker 1: is very cheap for Panama. So I got a few
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  Speaker 1: of those. And they have a whole aisle of ciders,
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  Speaker 1: which is really funny. I don't know, I think I did,
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  Speaker 1: but they called them cidras here ciders, and I was like, cidras,
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  Speaker 1: What a cool name. I wonder what that And I
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  Speaker 1: drank like three siddras before I realized they were siders.
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  Speaker 1: And they say cider in English on the bottle. Actually
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  Speaker 1: some of them say sidra, but you should still figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. I should have since it's an alcoholic apple
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  Speaker 1: beverage and I made ciders for years. So it was
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  Speaker 1: really cool to find this new supermarket, Machitazo, because they
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  Speaker 1: have brusquetted chips which are so good. They have tomato flavor,
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  Speaker 1: vegetable flavor, sour cream, and onion flavor. Brusquette chips that
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  Speaker 1: are like ooh, not burnt at all. It's just perfect
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of flavor on each chip. Love them, man.
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  Speaker 1: I got so many good snacks from that supermarket and ciders.
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  Speaker 1: But I did have a bit of a trouble, a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a trouble that day when I was walking
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  Speaker 1: around afterwards because I was going to stop by the
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  Speaker 1: Asian supermarkets. I needed to pick up more hot pot
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  Speaker 1: based for my cooking and some egg noodles because I
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  Speaker 1: had finished the last one of my ten pack. And
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  Speaker 1: while I was leaving the Asian supermarket, my slipper broke.
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  Speaker 1: I kicked a tree stump, which is already weird, and
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  Speaker 1: then my slipper broke, which was strange because they're not
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  Speaker 1: that old. It's only been two months maybe maybe too
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  Speaker 1: oh maybe that was the other one that broke before,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever. It's been a matter of months since I
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  Speaker 1: repaired the sandals the last time. And there's a plastic
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  Speaker 1: cap on the bottom of the sandal that holds the paracord,
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  Speaker 1: the cord that wraps around my foot to hold the
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  Speaker 1: sandal securely to the heel and the balls of my feet.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a very form fitting, comfortable sandal. It's been
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  Speaker 1: not too long since I redid that, so I was
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  Speaker 1: surprised it broke so easy, and I thought that was weird.
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  Speaker 1: And then I sat down I was fixing it, and
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  Speaker 1: I realized I would have to re sew one of
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  Speaker 1: the strings, and I was like, oh man, so I
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  Speaker 1: checked in my pocket for something to cut them with,
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  Speaker 1: and I realized that my keys were gone. And I
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  Speaker 1: am two miles away from my hotel, ten minutes way
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  Speaker 1: from the Chinese supermarkets, twenty minutes away from the first
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  Speaker 1: super that giant mache Tazo super I just mentioned, just
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the road with cars driving by
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  Speaker 1: because it's rush hour. It was like six pm, so
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  Speaker 1: the sun's just going down, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: I realized I don't have my keys. My key has
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  Speaker 1: an RFID chip so that I can beep the door
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  Speaker 1: so I can get in at all. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: one door that I have to enter into my dorm area,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's a second key to enter my personal
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  Speaker 1: private room. So I lost everything because they're all connected
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  Speaker 1: by a key ring, and I was just overwhelmed by panic.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh no. And it was weird because
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned that a girl had locked herself out of
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  Speaker 1: her room and that night after she did that, I
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: was just hanging out watching TV and the thought popped
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  Speaker 1: into my head, Oh man, I'm gonna lose my keys.
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  Speaker 1: What a pain. And then it was gone, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, wait, what what do you mean You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to what are you talking about? Brain? And Brain
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  Speaker 1: did an answer, and it just let me know that
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  Speaker 1: I was going to lose my keys. And I was like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: I hope not. Brain didn't say anything. And then like
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  Speaker 1: three days later or whatever, or a week, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Bad with time, I'm walking down the street, I weirdly
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  Speaker 1: kick a tree stump and that lets me know that
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  Speaker 1: I have lost my keys. At some point I took
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  Speaker 1: everything out of my backpack. I couldn't believe it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very careful with my belongings, especially critical belongings like my
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  Speaker 1: keys from my wall and anything like that. I have
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  Speaker 1: buttons on my pants, so you can't just take them out.
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  Speaker 1: I have zippers, so stuff's not going to fall out.
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  Speaker 1: So it was super bizarre to pat down my pockets
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  Speaker 1: and not feel my critical belongings in my pockets. But
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, what have you done recently? I
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, went to a bunch of places, got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of beers, I bought stuff, and so I
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  Speaker 1: just walked back one store at a time. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just walk back to all three stores. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of some of them have my keys. That's all I
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  Speaker 1: can do. If they say yes and have the keys,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. If not, sela V, I'll get new keys.
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  Speaker 1: So I walked into the first supermarket or tiny market,
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  Speaker 1: I guess the Chinese market that I'm familiar with that
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  Speaker 1: has the hot pot base I like, and the egg
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  Speaker 1: noodles I like, and good cheap vegetables too, And there
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  Speaker 1: they were lying on her counter, and I had clearly
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  Speaker 1: taken them out when I was pulling out my change,
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  Speaker 1: because I paid her four point fifty in coins and
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  Speaker 1: that's the same pocket I usually keep my keys, and
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  Speaker 1: so I must have taken out my keys so that
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  Speaker 1: I could access the coins more easily. And she knew
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  Speaker 1: me you just put them aside. And I was effusively
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  Speaker 1: thanking her, Oh duche, douche, oh buch zamo, and she
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  Speaker 1: was just like, I don't care, just take your keys,
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  Speaker 1: just go. She was just I kept explaining like, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is so great. I so appreciate and she was like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: fucking whatever, You're welcome, leave, which is so Chinese. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I saved your life. I know. Bye. So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: belabor the point. I tried to thank her. For like
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  Speaker 1: twenty five seconds. I was like, thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: and I bounced out, because that's the greatest gift you
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  Speaker 1: can give somebody, leave them alone when they're not looking
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  Speaker 1: for company. But now my slipper was bro I walked
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  Speaker 1: into her store carrying my two slippers in my hand
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  Speaker 1: because I was like, don't fix your slipper right now.
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  Speaker 1: Go look for your keys. After you find them, you
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  Speaker 1: can fix your slippers. So I walked into her place,
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  Speaker 1: slightly rained on, holding two slippers in my hand, unshaven,
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  Speaker 1: but you know what, she had my keys. She was
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  Speaker 1: cool about it. I got my keys. Things are gravy,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, except my slipper was broken, so I did
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  Speaker 1: want to fix it. But I had snapped the seam ripper,
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  Speaker 1: that little thing you slide under threads so you can
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  Speaker 1: cut one at a time very precisely. I have a
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  Speaker 1: perfect one, and somehow I broke it in my panic
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  Speaker 1: while I was trying to repair my slipper and trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out where my keys were before I had
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  Speaker 1: found them again, and it's rush hour and I'm just like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, what do I how do I fix my
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  Speaker 1: slippers two miles from my house. I forgot to bring
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  Speaker 1: the plastic caps that I usually have just in case
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  Speaker 1: the sandals break and just pop one on real quick,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't have anything to fix. Actually, I did
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  Speaker 1: have one thing that I'll tell you at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this story, but I did have one tiny half
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  Speaker 1: in circle keyring on my hotel keyring, and I had
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  Speaker 1: now found my keys. So with that extra keyring, I
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  Speaker 1: removed that connected the keys again, and I slid that
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  Speaker 1: keyring through the parichord in the bottom of my sandal,
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  Speaker 1: and the keyring was wide enough that it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: pulled through the hole in the sandal. So that was
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  Speaker 1: my temporary fix to hold my sandals shaped together and
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  Speaker 1: walk home. And once I got home, I figured it'd
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  Speaker 1: be an easy fix because I create these sandals from
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  Speaker 1: nothing all the time or upcycle materials, so I knew
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  Speaker 1: i'd be able to fix it permanently once I got
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  Speaker 1: back to the house. But the keyring worked the whole
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  Speaker 1: two mile walk back home until literally ten feet before
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  Speaker 1: my front door. I made it all the way home,
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  Speaker 1: and ten feet from my door, I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe that keyring worked all two miles. And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as I thought that, like three steps later,
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  Speaker 1: it snapped out. And the pair of cord let loose
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  Speaker 1: and the sandal came apart, but it held the whole
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  Speaker 1: two miles back this temporary fix, and now I was
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  Speaker 1: right in front of my front door. So I can't
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  Speaker 1: get real angry at it not working, because it worked
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  Speaker 1: the entire time I needed it too. So the way
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  Speaker 1: these sandals work. They are any normal sandal, and then
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  Speaker 1: you tie a series of three very simple knots on
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  Speaker 1: your ankles and then under the front hole of the
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  Speaker 1: sandal to hold it all in shape and to stop
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  Speaker 1: the paara cord from pulling back up through the sandal,
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  Speaker 1: I sow the bottom half into a small ball, and
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  Speaker 1: that is poked through a bottle cap usually that I use.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to start trying a soda tap because they're
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  Speaker 1: made out of metal. I think they'll break less easily.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, the temporary fix worked. I got a small
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  Speaker 1: bruise from the metal key ring bumping under the sandal
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  Speaker 1: for a two mile walk home, but it's fine a
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  Speaker 1: day later, and then I permanently fixed it when I
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  Speaker 1: got home. It's a That's the other great thing about
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  Speaker 1: these sandals. It takes three minutes to make a new
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  Speaker 1: pair and another couple of minutes to sew the knots
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  Speaker 1: so that the form holds permanently. Oh and there was
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  Speaker 1: no water. I think I mentioned that earlier, but I
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  Speaker 1: had a little left. I had basically one four hundred
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  Speaker 1: milliliter bottle of water left over, and I just took
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  Speaker 1: SIPs of that and played Resident Evil eight for twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours and took SIPs of water, fell asleep, and
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  Speaker 1: then after I finished the game, twenty four hours later,
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  Speaker 1: the water was restored and I had water again, So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a huge issue. When I was in Morocco,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: I took a bus, a twenty four hour bus from
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  Speaker 1: Marrakesh to Casablanca. I think it was or Esauira, actually,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a long bus ride and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to have to pee on the bus, so I
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  Speaker 1: just didn't drink water. And this was a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: than that, I'll say, because I had little SIPs I
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  Speaker 1: could take. Every couple of hours. I've been rewatching old comedies,
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  Speaker 1: and by old I mean just comedies i've watched before,
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  Speaker 1: not from the current here. And I rewatched Tucker and
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  Speaker 1: Della Versus Evil, and I meant to share that and
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  Speaker 1: watch it with my family when I visited them this Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: But we watched so many things, including Poor Things with
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  Speaker 1: Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, which is such a not
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  Speaker 1: groundbreakingly but emotionally transcendent movie. It's a fantastic movie. I
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  Speaker 1: loved that movie. But we watched so many funny movies
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  Speaker 1: that we didn't get around to Tucker and Dell Versus Evil.
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  Speaker 1: And I had seen it relatively recently, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: push anybody to watch it. But I just had the
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  Speaker 1: itch last week and I put it on, and that
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  Speaker 1: is one of the funniest movies still I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: I got a bunch of Tyler Lebine movies. The guy
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  Speaker 1: who plays Tucker, Oh no, I actually think he's the
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  Speaker 1: guy who plays Dale, although their names are basically material here.
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  Speaker 1: Because his performance was so funny, I wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: him in other movies, and he's pretty good in other movies,
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  Speaker 1: but he just kills this role. I can't recommend the
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  Speaker 1: movie too strongly to anyone. Watch Tucker and del Versus Evil.
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  Speaker 1: It is so funny and very creative, very original. I
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  Speaker 1: went back because I watched Tucker and Del Versus Evil
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  Speaker 1: at the same time a movie came out called This
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  Speaker 1: Is the End, and it's one of the seth Rogen comedies,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so funny. And the end of that movie
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  Speaker 1: is this musical number, which is one of the best
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  Speaker 1: endings to a movie I've ever seen. It's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone looks so genuinely excited participating in the musical number
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  Speaker 1: at the end. I just love it. I love it
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  Speaker 1: as much as I did when I first watched it
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago or whatever it was, could easily be
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: ten years ago, I don't know time. Yeah, it came
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: out in twenty thirteen, so a little more recent than
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  Speaker 1: I was alluding to speaking of movies I or media.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I also recently watched Dead to Me Again. I thought
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I had finished the first season, but it looks like
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: only made it up to episode eight because the last
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: two episodes are crazy, crazy wild and are such a
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  Speaker 1: good ending to the first season. So I made it
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  Speaker 1: all the way through the second, which was also very good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the third, which is also very good, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to finish up the whole show. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a great show and really funny and very relatable
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  Speaker 1: for everyone. I mean, not directly, maybe but certainly indirectly. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great show. I highly recommend it. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to finish the third season. Oh geez, you know what
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: The craziest thing happened this week? There was a huge protest,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: maybe a shooting. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I walked out of my door at like four point
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  Speaker 1: thirty to go to the supermarket to get ingredients for dinner,
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  Speaker 1: and I just noticed everyone was standing on the street
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. I'm walking by and staring at one point,
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  Speaker 1: and that happens a lot around here, through usually watching
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a soccer game, but this time that's not what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the guys near the gas station kept
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  Speaker 1: looking at me, and when I walked up, I was like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Because I could tell he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: tell me, and he was like, you know, my Spanish
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  Speaker 1: is not good, but he said there was a fire.
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  Speaker 1: They lit a fire at the school, and then he
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: said a bunch of other stuff, and he said the
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  Speaker 1: cops are coming, and I'm not sure what else he explained,
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  Speaker 1: but basically I couldn't tell if it was a protest
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  Speaker 1: or like terrorists, but I'm pretty sure I would have
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  Speaker 1: understood like terror rista if he said that. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a college protest and they lit some
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  Speaker 1: kind of fire and everyone was just staring on the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: street and I was like, whoa, Okay, that's crazy, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for telling me. And then I kept walking down the
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  Speaker 1: street in the direction of the supermarket and I was
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: going to and cops like pulled up and a guy
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  Speaker 1: got out the back and pulled out this huge rifle
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  Speaker 1: launcher something and shot a tear tear gas grenade into
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  Speaker 1: the college lawn basically or one of the courtyard gardens
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  Speaker 1: whatever they are, oh before the cops got there, and
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  Speaker 1: after that guy told me that, and I was walking
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: down the sidewalk, I saw people with masks over their faces,
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  Speaker 1: like young people. By the way they moved, they were
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: live running across the campus. And there were explosions and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: they might have been gun shots. I'm really not sure,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: because people were like running away on the sidewalk, But
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: they also could easily have been like soda plastic soda
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: bottle explosions with like baking soda and you know, just
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: making soda bottle bombs or whatever. So I don't know
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: exactly what was going on, But it was a pretty
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: grazy situation. Then the cops showed up, shot the tear
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: gas in, they shot another tear gas can in, and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: then one of the protesters picked up one of the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: tear gas cans and threw it back over the fence
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: at the van. The police fan and like the police
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: quelled the riot or protests or whatever the heck it was.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: There were only a few people. I really I was
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: going to look up what it was, but then I forgot.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But like I said, that convenience store told me there's
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a bunch of corruption going on in the government, and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: everyone feels that way. So if there was a protest,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing it had to do with the alleged corruption
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: in the government, which alleged probably happened. It's a government,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: there's corruption going on. Oh and what was crazy about
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the tear gas? So the cloud Like I can't believe
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the volume of clouds coming out of these tear gas grenades,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Like I just I had seen the video games and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: movies and stuff, but it was different in real life.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Like the clouds of tear gas, we're thicker than clouds,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: if I can describe it that way. If a cloud
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: could be three times as thick if you've ever flown
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: through a cloud and a plane or whatever. I mean,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: it was very, very thick, and they were the size
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: of a three thirty mililter coke can, and clouds like
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: as large as the campus were flowing out of it,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: like easily, hundreds of cubic feet were gushing out of
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: these cans every second, and they were going the whole time.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I was walking up, like it was amazing how much
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: tear gas was flowing out of these cans. And the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: protesters or whatever, they were cleared out. After a while,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: or at least I stopped hearing explosions, and the police
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: fan started moving up the street. I never stopped walking
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to the supermarket. It was like, I like walking far,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: so it was like an hour away to walk to,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and I was heading the opposite direction, so luckily the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: wind was taking the tear gas away from me, away
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: from the direction I was going in. I was like, well,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: that's crazy, and I just kept walking up to the store.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that was pretty nuts. And then I forgot
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: about it because of course, and I got back and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the guy here who saw the saltwater crocodiles told me
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that he stepped out of the casino and there was
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: an awful stench and his eyes started watering, and I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: was like really, And my first thought was like, oh
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: my gosh, the sewer line because like maybe the power
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: cuts out whatever. But then he said his eyes were
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: really wateringly. He was terrible, and I was like, oh,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you know what, there was a police fan shooting teercut screenings.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, that was probably so we figured out
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: what the problem was with the stench. He said people
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: were walking around holding their shirts up around their faces
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: because the smell was so bad, and I was like,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: that is the craziest thing I ever heard. And then
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh wait, I saw a police officer
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: shoot tier ask Renee. It's onto a college campus like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: two hours ago. That was pretty crazy, so might have
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: something to do with it. Oh you know what, Okay,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: let's go with my favorite. This is my favorite story
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: of what happened recently. I was walking past one of
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the casinos and there was a car parked on the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: curb and he was like, hey, hey man the driver
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this will be fun and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: he was like, hey, hey, are you like from the States. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I'm from New York and like from his accent and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: just Mannerson's, my brain was just like, no, you're not.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But I was like, oh cool, what's up man. He's like, well,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I'm a boat captain. And I was like, okay, this
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: is it's starting off strong. I like it. And he said, so,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'm a boat captain and my crew they took my
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: suitcases to my boat to like load up all the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: trunks for the boat and then we're gonna like drive
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the but we're leaving the dog tonight. But my car
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: is out of gas. And he was sitting in his
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: car and he's like, so, I need like gas for
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: my boat. I am a boat captain. And then he
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: reached over into the passenger seat he's sitting in the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: driver's seat, picks up a construction person's hard hat, puts
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: it on his head and says captain and points at
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the hat. And I was just like, I didn't say
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: that's a construction hard hat, but I was staring at
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: it clearly enough to insinuate that this is not a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: captain a boat captain's hat. This is a hard hat.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And he was like yeah, so, like I just need
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: some gas I just need to get over there because
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: they have my trunks. Then I can get out of here.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I gotta leave tonight. It's like really important. And I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was like, that's great, man. I'm not going to give
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you any money, though, and he goes oh and throws
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: up his hands and leans back, defeated into his already
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: reclined seat in the car, and I was like, all right,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I have a good one just walked away. I couldn't
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: believe it when he put on the construction hard hat though,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm a boat captain and pointed at
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the hard hat like it was a captain's sat. It
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: was pretty awesome. That was my favorite thing that happened
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: this week. That was so funny, and he was so
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: sincere as many con artists are. Oh hey man, it
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: is so good to see you. Yes, I'm a boat captain.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I am from New York and I need to get
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: gas because my crew has taken all of my suitcases.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, this is amazing, Like I
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: got to see, you know, a scene from a Broadway
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: play right in front of me, from this guy who
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: probably borrowed his friend's car or whatever. You could sit
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: in it outside the casino, waiting for the gringo to
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: come by. It was a pretty it was a pretty
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: interesting ordeal, event interaction. So good talking to you again.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I will talk to you soon, and thank you so
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: much for listening. I love telling these stories. I'm so
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: glad I get to share these crazy interactions that I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: end up with like every week, and I never get
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to share really with friends unless I just happen to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: be sharing a room or sharing a place with someone
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: that I get to talk to. So it's fun being
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: able to tell you all about these gossips, about these
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: gossipy stories. Have a good rest of your day. Thank
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you again for listening, and I will talk to you soon.