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044 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories,
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  Speaker 1: and today I'm going to ramble on. I want to
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  Speaker 1: start out with some pretty cool news. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: a couple people are actually listening to this podcast. According
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  Speaker 1: to the extremely vague beat Boop numbers I get on
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  Speaker 1: the production side here from speaker, there are definitely more
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  Speaker 1: listens and downloads than I have people I know. I
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  Speaker 1: have a very I know like nobody, but I've shared
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  Speaker 1: it with a few people and there's definitely some people
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  Speaker 1: listening to it because I don't know where those listens
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  Speaker 1: are coming from otherwise, and I have got a few
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  Speaker 1: comments on them. So yeah, I just want to say
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  Speaker 1: thank you real quick, because it's really cool that you
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  Speaker 1: guys and gals and others were wolves obviously listening to
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  Speaker 1: this podcast. It's fun for me to make, and I
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  Speaker 1: just had so many stories that I would tell so
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  Speaker 1: many times, and I still tell them occasionally. But considering
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  Speaker 1: how important all of these stories are to the person
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  Speaker 1: I've become, I'm glad that I can finally put them
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  Speaker 1: up somewhere in a sort of static collection of all
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  Speaker 1: of these important facets of who I've become. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: thank you everybody for listening, and let's go ramble on
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  Speaker 1: some more. Oh, you know what I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about first. I've had this Motorola phone now for over
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  Speaker 1: a week and it is still better in every way
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  Speaker 1: than the Pixel six, And a huge part of that
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  Speaker 1: is the just fundamental, bare bones, no bullshit os. It works.
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  Speaker 1: There was no bloatwear. There were a few extra apps.
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  Speaker 1: I got rid of them. I put on all of
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  Speaker 1: my apps that I had on my Pixel six, and
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  Speaker 1: the Motorola is running as fast as when I initially
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  Speaker 1: finished all the updates for it. It just there seems
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  Speaker 1: to be zero burden on the phone itself from installing
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  Speaker 1: all the apps. Now on the Pixel six, it is
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  Speaker 1: noticeably slower after I install ten twenty app I'll say,
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  Speaker 1: like twenty to thirty apps. After twenty apps, it's just
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  Speaker 1: not as fast or responsive. But the Motorola, I literally
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  Speaker 1: can't tell the difference. I turn off animations on all
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  Speaker 1: of my phones, and so the animations are off on
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  Speaker 1: the G five to four here G fifty four, and
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  Speaker 1: it is instant. Everything is still instant. I am blown
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  Speaker 1: away by the performance so far. It's just it's nicer,
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  Speaker 1: and I know the screen is technically worse, but instead
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  Speaker 1: of whatever the heck the Pixel six did with its screen,
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  Speaker 1: I can set this to a constant one hundred twenty
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  Speaker 1: hurtz refresh rate. So although it is I believe an
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  Speaker 1: LCD screen, the one hundred twenty hurts refresh rate makes
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  Speaker 1: it feel way smoother and more fun to play with
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  Speaker 1: and more comfortable to play with, and I think, to
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  Speaker 1: look at it, I love staring at and I don't
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  Speaker 1: like staring at the pixel. The other weird thing, and
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  Speaker 1: by weird, I mean totally expectable expected from Google is
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  Speaker 1: that they claim a higher knits brightness, a higher display
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  Speaker 1: brightness for the six and of course all their phones
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  Speaker 1: than this Motorology five four. But I don't see it
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  Speaker 1: at all. This phone definitely seems at least more clear
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  Speaker 1: and I believe brighter, although it still has a pretty
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: low brightness rating. But usually when i'm outside, i'm listening
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  Speaker 1: to podcasts anyway, and I am pale and burn like
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  Speaker 1: a side of bacon, so I don't go out in
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  Speaker 1: blaring sunlight anyway usually, so it's fine. For it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: bright enough. I'm usually at thirty to fifty percent brightness
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  Speaker 1: on the display anyway, especially right now when I'm narrating
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  Speaker 1: through the night, podcasting through the night. Oh see, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a werewolve. That's why I talked about were wolves. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love everything about this freaking motorol Oh oh oh right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's really there's no heat? I mean, so when the
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  Speaker 1: Pixel six has to do more than one operation literally,
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  Speaker 1: or it downloads anything, even just one download, it gets hot.
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  Speaker 1: Not like hand is burning, but it definitely gets warm
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  Speaker 1: enough that, like your palm will sweat if you're holding
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  Speaker 1: the hand, and if you're holding the phone on your
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: palm for a while, like it's a warm phone. And
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  Speaker 1: any process seems to do that to my Pixel six,
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  Speaker 1: the moto it's handling. I think that extra eight gigabytes
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  Speaker 1: of virtual memory that I set aside from the internal
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  Speaker 1: storage is working. This thing handles every app. It keeps
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  Speaker 1: all apps open all day, which you can't do on
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  Speaker 1: a freaking pixel And for this thing, I can hit
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  Speaker 1: recent apps and just everything that I didn't close is open.
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  Speaker 1: I can switch back to any of them without Android
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  Speaker 1: background processes or whatever. The pixel background processes are shutting
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  Speaker 1: down my apps, so I have to reopen everything. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: I really feel like I've gone back to the HTC
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  Speaker 1: one again, which is the only smartphone I was ever
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  Speaker 1: truly satisfied with. The Moto G fifty four is fine
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  Speaker 1: filling that niche again, and there are things that would
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: be nicer, I guess, like, yeah, if the display was
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: m led like that would probably be cooler. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred twenty hertz refresh rate. So far, I
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  Speaker 1: love the screen. I love the form factor. I did
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  Speaker 1: not like the Pixel six asymmetrical balance. It's only forty
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  Speaker 1: no twenty or forty grams heavier than the the Moto
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: I have, but because the camera sticks out from the top,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like twice as heavy. Because there's so much
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  Speaker 1: more leverage from the weight, it's much easier to hold
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  Speaker 1: this and much just it. Yeah, it feels nicer the
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  Speaker 1: form factor. The whole phone is smoother and slimmer, even
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  Speaker 1: though it's bigger. It feels more controllable, much more like.
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  Speaker 1: I find it much easier to hold one hand and
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  Speaker 1: use the phone than I did with the Google Pixel six.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't heat up. I can I can be
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  Speaker 1: downloading stuff, switch to my note taking app, and tight
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  Speaker 1: type stuff. Go onto the web browser, go have like
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  Speaker 1: twenty forty tabs open, switch between those. It will I
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: can switch between every frickin' app on the phone. They'll
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: all be in recent aps still because I just set
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: it to not turn off anything and not restrict background usage.
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  Speaker 1: And I did that constantly on the Pixel six and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't work. The Pixel six just keeps closing everything
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  Speaker 1: and ignores your battery usage rules. The moto has. I
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: set the option once and they haven't changed at least
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  Speaker 1: in I don't know, eight or nine days so far.
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  Speaker 1: It just takes the options I give it and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get hot. I can do as I have done
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  Speaker 1: as much work on it as I have done on
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: other things. Oh, drawing, there's this drawing program I do,
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  Speaker 1: and that on the Pixel six devoured my battery when
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  Speaker 1: I was doing art, designing a T shirt or writing,
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: drawing a comic or whatever. I love this app, Infinite Painter,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, yeah, devoured the battery on the Pixel six,
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  Speaker 1: And I think the Pixel six either. It's the same.
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  Speaker 1: They're about the same size battery. The battery on this
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  Speaker 1: motto lasts so much longer, and I'm sure it's because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't have all the background shit and all the
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: bloatwear that the Pixel six had. This thing is so
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  Speaker 1: slim and efficient. I have no need for anything but
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  Speaker 1: the Stock OS so far. The Stock os is totally
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: fine for me. It's entirely customizable and you can add
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: as much as you want on but there's basically nothing
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  Speaker 1: on it except for the core Like there's a camera
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: also camera. You can just uninstall this core camera app,
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  Speaker 1: which definitely not a great camera app, but there's all
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  Speaker 1: the other ones online you can choose from use, download it,
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  Speaker 1: install it, boom. And so I didn't like the stock
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  Speaker 1: camera app, I downloaded a new one and then I
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: was just like, I can do everything else. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: can just uninstall this and the stock Camera app uninstalls
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  Speaker 1: just like any other app. So it's just so simple
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  Speaker 1: to use and so simple to swap out. And it
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  Speaker 1: just is user friendly, Like there's no secure environments not
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  Speaker 1: letting you do what you want to do with your phone,
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  Speaker 1: like run an efficient machine. This thing just runs. It's great. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so easier to hold the screens at least as good,
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  Speaker 1: I think, much smoother than the Pixel six. There's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty high PPI too, it's about the same as the
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  Speaker 1: Pixel six. It's like four forty one or something, which
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  Speaker 1: is also what the HTC one was. And then ever
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  Speaker 1: since then, I've gone down to like three ninety six,
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  Speaker 1: three forty with the other HTCs, and I knew whatever
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  Speaker 1: the next one was, I needed a higher PPI. That's
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  Speaker 1: partly why I chose the Pixel six. But that was
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  Speaker 1: the the only thing it had going for it. And
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: the refresh rates sucked on the Pixel six. What else
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  Speaker 1: with the fricking Pixel six? Oh, just the build itself.
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  Speaker 1: My Pixel six, I said I had to return it,
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  Speaker 1: and then the new one like rattled. This one just
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  Speaker 1: feels like a phone, like a solid piece of construction.
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  Speaker 1: The phone case isn't stupid slippery. It's smooth, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fall off of any not completely flat surface, which
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  Speaker 1: the glass Pixel six just slid off everything, to the
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  Speaker 1: point that I had to put a sticker on the
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  Speaker 1: back of it to add some texture so it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: slide off everything. I'm not afraid I'm going to drop
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  Speaker 1: this phone all the time. Oh and the price this
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  Speaker 1: was less than twenty five percent of the pixel The
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: pixel was like six fifty when it came out and
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  Speaker 1: this is one hundred and fifty and this has e
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  Speaker 1: SIM which the Pixel had. The Moto also has expandable storage,
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  Speaker 1: which the Pixel did not have underd twenty eight gigabytes
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  Speaker 1: of memory. Shut up Pixel. So I already got a
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  Speaker 1: two fifty six expandable storage so I can put all
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  Speaker 1: of my music on there and offline Wikipedia, which I
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: used to have on the HDC one. But the other
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  Speaker 1: phones I had, I don't know, some of them didn't
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: have expandable storage, and it just ugh, this phone. Yeah
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: I can. Yeah, I can put my offline Wikipedia and
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: my giant music library, which I am liking so much
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  Speaker 1: more than streaming all that crap. Maybe it's just because
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: I don't have Spotify, or maybe it's because I travel
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  Speaker 1: so and I just don't like having to be connected
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  Speaker 1: to the Internet to on a whim just choose the
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  Speaker 1: song I like and play it. I love having an
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  Speaker 1: offline music library. I can't believe I've been without an
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  Speaker 1: online music library now for like two three years whatever
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  Speaker 1: since I got the Pixel. Yeah, it's so great to
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  Speaker 1: be back to that. And I have so much more space.
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  Speaker 1: I have five twelve gigabytes total now, so I can
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  Speaker 1: download all of my podcasts and everything, and they're just
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: there and I can just play them now everything's offline local.
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  Speaker 1: It's wonderful. I can't the operations are crazy too, like
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: it just yeah, it's so fast and it doesn't get hot,
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  Speaker 1: and it just keeps working so far. I mean it's
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: about a week. I'm sure it'll slow down as time
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: goes on. But again, it costs one hundred and fifty bucks.
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  Speaker 1: So if whatever, after a year, I can do a
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: factory reset, put everything on the SD card, restart it
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: and see if it's fast again, or I can just
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: get whatever the next model is going to be in
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  Speaker 1: a year, because they put out a new one every month.
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  Speaker 1: If it's just going to be this but better, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so blown away by how good this phone is. And
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: when I that first day I got I was already
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: blown away, but I was like, maybe I'll notice something
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  Speaker 1: I don't like. The camera software was the only thing,
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  Speaker 1: and I can I just uninstalled it like any other app.
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  Speaker 1: And I am trying different cameras now and I've already
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: found one that works fine. But they all have that
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: purply tinge which is partly due to the software or
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  Speaker 1: the hardware. Apparently but I don't use the camera that
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  Speaker 1: much anyway, and it's fine in highlight situations and it's
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  Speaker 1: not terrible in low light situations, so it doesn't bother
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  Speaker 1: me much at all. And there's a bunch of forums
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to the G fifty four camera. I just like
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: I said, I don't use it that much, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: not too worried about fixing a slight purply tinge Yet
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: the only reason I noticed and got rid of the
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  Speaker 1: stock app was because my face was super red and
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: it looked weird. The front camera looked normal, but the
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  Speaker 1: selfie camera, and this is what all the forums say
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  Speaker 1: has it's terrible. So the selfie camera apparently does bad
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: skin tones. But the new camera I had pretty normal,
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  Speaker 1: looks pretty normal to me, maybe a little red, but
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  Speaker 1: much better camera. And all I had to do was
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: uninstall the old one install the new one, like any
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  Speaker 1: other app. Yeah, So if you're on a pixel and
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  Speaker 1: it's frustrating, I'm can't recommend a Moto phone for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bucks or whatever. It's so worth it.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked on Amazon. This model is even cheaper
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: on there, they have like one hundred and thirty dollars,
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: except mine was new, and I think the one hundred
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: thirty dollars were refurbished, but maybe they were new. I
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: don't know. Go if you want a good phone, I
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  Speaker 1: like this phone. I'll like this phone a lot. It's
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  Speaker 1: so fast and it's so efficient and cool, and I
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  Speaker 1: like the virtual memory. I think it's doing something because,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: like I said, it's fast, it just handles everything. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's move on. Oh Subnautica. What how did I must
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: have mentioned that before? Right? There's a second Subnautica game
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  Speaker 1: already out. I didn't realize it. It was supposed to be
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: an expansion. They made it into a full game below zero.
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  Speaker 1: I'm having I had a lot of fun playing it already,
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: like zoomed through most of it, I think. So I
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: kind of am taking a break because I want to
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: get out a few more episodes I have in mind.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: I've been recording podcasts and then I'm trying to eat
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: like every freaking restaurant in this neighborhood. But yeah, Subnatica,
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  Speaker 1: the other game's really fun too, and then they're gonna
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: come out with the official Subnautica too, like another game
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  Speaker 1: next year, so that'll be fun. Still loving playing with
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the video game controller I got makes playing video games
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: so much more fun. Man. I got those sushi tacos again,
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  Speaker 1: the Norri tacos with a black pale ale, and I
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: don't really like black pale ales. This was delicious animal
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  Speaker 1: brew right next to Sushi Miyagi here in Panama City,
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  Speaker 1: and I took a sip and I was like, holy,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be perfect. And it was perfect with the
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  Speaker 1: Norri tacos, which I haven't gotten in a few days
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: because I've been trying the other stuff on the menu
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: but I'm holding off. They are selling caviar at fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent off in the supermarket right next to me, and
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: it's good caviar. So I got a bunch and I
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: ate so much fish eggs that I didn't need to
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: go eat more sushi. But I'm definitely going to get
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  Speaker 1: the Nori tacos next time I go to Sushi Miyagi,
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  Speaker 1: which is gonna be in two days. I already have
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: a plan. I'm gonna go there. And then he does
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: that like Korean bread cake fish with chocolate inside, and
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat that too. But those sushi tacos I
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: had the black palo with the men. It was such
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: a good meal, very very delicious. She got one beer.
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  Speaker 1: It was good. The only those beers are like five
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  Speaker 1: or six bucks or something. Well, whatever, it was worth
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  Speaker 1: it for the experience that time. It was delicious. It
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: was a good fun time. I tried Sugoi sushi because
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I should try the other ones.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Let's see how they are, and dog shit. The rice
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  Speaker 1: was well, the fish was okay. The fish was not terrible,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't as fresh as miagi, and the rice
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  Speaker 1: was dog shit. It was dry and crunchy and crappy.
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  Speaker 1: Just I'm not gonna keep going to these freakin' half
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  Speaker 1: ass sushi restaurants when I know there's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: There is one other good one that I was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to go back to, But in between going to it
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the first time and going back to it, I found
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: sushi Miyagi, and the flavors are so much better there,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and the rice is better at his place. And this
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: other place is owned by a Japanese family, So maybe
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I just got unlucky that first time. But their fish
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: was very good. You know. Another weird thing about Panama
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: is the pricing of like bags of chips. So you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: can have a small bag that's one hundred grams for
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: a dollar, and then a large bag that's two hundred
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  Speaker 1: grams for five dollars. So if you just buy two
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of the small bags, then you get two hundred grounds
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  Speaker 1: for two dollars, or you buy the big bag of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: two hundred grams and it's five dollars, So you can
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: just buy five of the small bags and get more
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  Speaker 1: than twice as much of the snacks. It's not every
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: single thing, but like a lot of the platinas, the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: platinos do that, like the potato chips do that. If
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  Speaker 1: you just buy a few of the small ones, you
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: get more than if you just buy a big one
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: for more money's and they're not all five to one,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: but you're easily saving a buck if you buy two
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of these versus the one big bag for a dollar more.
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  Speaker 1: And it's right there, So why not get the small ones.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why they do it, but you know what,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I like that they do it because all I have
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to do is look at the numbers, and I'm like, okay,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I'll just get these ones then and save a dollar
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that I can use on no re taco ooh, offline music.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: So I have a lot of comedy CDs I like, Like, well,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: that's not true, but I have a few comedy CDs
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  Speaker 1: I really like. And I have listened to Tom Cardy
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: for the first time in like a year, and his
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: stuff so funny. Red Flags, human Centipede, Human Centipede. He
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: just has a lot of everyday situations that he finds
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  Speaker 1: funny and he communicates them very well through song. Maybe
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: if you know Bo Burnham, he's like an Australian thing.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: That's the style of comedy, a musical observational comedy thing,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: but he's from Australia. And Smokin' Joe about a gun
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: slinger who uses the middle fingers that God gave him
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to defeat his enemies, really funny. It's yeah, if you
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: like funny music, I would say go get some Tom Cardy.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm very excited I'm going to get Flight of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the Concord again soon offline because they are so frickin
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: funny and I've had them forever. I mean I've been
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: listening to them since the show came out, which if
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: you have not seen Flight of the Concords the TV show,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: you have to go watch that it's so funny. I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: assume I haven't watched it in a very long time,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: but I bet it's just as funny as when I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: watched it the first time. I watched through both seasons
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: of it or three or however many I think there's
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: only two, ten times many times. Love all the songs. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get those soundtracks back on the phone. Oh,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I have someone to talk about with Star Trek, one
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of the biggest outliers in terms of not actually being
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: in egalitarian society on Star Trek, which I will say
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: they do very well. They try to advocate for civil
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: rights and equality in a reasonable civil way as much
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: as possible on Star Trek, but all of the women
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: wear caked, caked, caked on makeup, and it looks bad
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: like their faces are a different color than even their
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: neck because they just have so much makeup on. And
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: they make such painstaking efforts in Star Trek the Next
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Generation anyway, to make everything else egalitarian and respectful of
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: all people, regardless of race or religion or culture. But
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: every time a woman, well usually very often when a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: main cast member or a main character woman comes on
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: set just completely caked on, super heavy like super heavy makeup,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and it's you know, none of the men are wearing
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: makeup that heavy. I also disclaimer have al with makeup.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I personally don't like powders and I don't like oils,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: so makeup in general is kind of not my thing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So maybe I'm more sensitive to seeing it than normal humans.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just funny because it's such an egalitarian
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: society and the writing is great. I finally got onto
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the third season. I am enjoying it a lot. Although
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I would say a couple of the episodes in the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: first and second seasons I would put them on the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: same on the list for must watch. Not a lot
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of them, but certainly a few. I'm not sure why
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't be on the should watch list. They're probably
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: on someone's How many should watch lists are there, there's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: probably a billion of them. So I don't like makeup anyway,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But I think it looks especially silly on the Star
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Trek women and in otherwise a galitarian society where mutual
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: respect is incredibly important and not judging someone on their appearance,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and they have warrior women and women in command posts
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and commanders of vessels and all that, but they all
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: still have to work to put on powder and oil
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: on their faces to present themselves to everybody else, and
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: they don't really address that. I think makeup was so
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: especially for women, was so accepted in American society when
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: they were making the show that that just didn't really
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: come up, even though it kind of belies the otherwise
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: egalitarian nature of the show. Oh. I have a list
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: of just a bunch of stuff that I can't really
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: find a specific podcast to put them into, but I
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: think are short interesting things to talk about. So I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: think rather than building a whole podcast out of one
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: little event, which I will do with other stuff, I'm
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: just going to talk about them on the ramble On podcast.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And one of them is this soccer game I played
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: on the beach Insaweira. Saweira is a surfing town on
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the northwestern coast of Morocco, and I stayed there for
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a long time, that was like three months or something,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and I was primarily hanging out with these two girls.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: We were a cool little trio of friends and we
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: went to different restaurants and whatever, and I had a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: crush on one of them and she didn't have a
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: crush on me. But we were still friendly, and it
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: was just cool having someone to hang out with and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: see all these new cool sites all the time. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: just found this video where we were all sitting on
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the edge just watching the waves crash into what was
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: basically a tiny castle like a little fork that we
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: were all standing on, and I went back there very
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: often after they introduced me to that. But anyway, I
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: was in Siuto and some guys on the beach invited
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: me to play soccer with them. I was still barely thirty.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I was like thirty two or something at the time.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Total guess terrible at the time, but it was early thirties,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and I was used to being very in shape because
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I jogged all the time and I exercised fairly regularly.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But I don't think I realized how much beer and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: how much not exercising had taken a toll on me
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: since I started on that trip, which was right after
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the first three years teaching English. I believe I just yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I was drinking a bunch and I wasn't exercising like
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I usually did, even though in my head I was like, yeah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I still exercise every day, but I didn't exercise every day.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So they invited me to a soccer game on the beach,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, man, that is going to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: be difficult because it's the beach. Running on sand is
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: not easy. And all of these dudes looked like soccer
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: underwear models. They were like sculpted from stone, and it
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: looked like they just ran twenty thousand miles per day
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and then played soccer after they had finished their twenty
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: thousand miles. And I played, and first I my first
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: thought when I saw them running, I was like, how
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: are they doing that? They made running across the soccer field,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: which is like six inches of sand, looked like they
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: were running on grass on turf. It was crazy. They
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: were just running through it effortlessly, and I was exerting
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: all of my energy. I was using up my reserves constantly,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: just trying to keep pace with the rest of them.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And I made one cool move and I think scored
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a goal, or maybe I passed it to a guy
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and he scored a goal, because I can't imagine I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: made it that far, but I like juked the guy
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and got around him, and everyone's like oh. And then
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: right after that, I was like, well, that was the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: only cool thing I'm going to do like that was
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: my one move. I couldn't really juke them. I did.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I misdirected a couple times, but after like five minutes,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: let's say ten minutes, maybe I was just ragged. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: didn't stop playing, but I was panting, and you know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: like when you're really tired and you've really been sprinting
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: for a long time or me anyway, I get a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: different taste in my mouth, like it's like I'm smelling
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the fumes that I'm running on because all of my
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: energy has gone. And I felt that after yeah, ten
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: minutes maybe, and I was tired after five minutes, but
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: after ten I was like, ooh, by man, I'm running
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: ragged now. And I just kept going and we played
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes, and I was it was fun
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: because they were all good at soccer and I wasn't
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: too bad. But it was also crazy, like I felt
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the extra layer of beer fat on top of my
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: muscles like shaking while I was running around. And I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I'm fad now. And it
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: was a fun game, but I had to quit after
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: like twenty minutes. I was like, Okay, thank you so much.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: That was awesome. Okay, and I left and I was like, wow, okay,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't do too bad. I played like twenty minute game.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I wasn't the first one to stop playing, considering you're
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: running on sand, and it was fun. And then the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: next day I woke up and I was like, all right,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: my legs don't even feel that bad. And then the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: second day I woke up after the game, I was
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: so sore, and then I was just sore for like
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: two weeks after that straight, Like running around in sand
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: is insane. That insane. That was so difficult, and it
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun, and it's this really cool
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: memory have because I, yeah, I couldn't believe the fitness
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of these guys. No wonder they were all cut, they
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: had zero calories left because they played this kind of
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: soccer for hours. They probably played for a couple hours
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: after I left. And some of them, not all of them,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: but some of them weren't even panting. Some of them
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: were just hopping gracefully and running through the sand non stop.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Others were like panting like I was, and some people
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: were in between. But there were a few elite players
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: who were just just like they were running on grass
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and grass. I mean, I would if I was playing
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: on grass, I'd probably be breathing pretty hard too, But
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: these guys were totally fine, untouchable in this sand soccer field.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: It was crazy. So I'm rebuilding my offline music library
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: because thank goodness, like I said, I finally can listen
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to my music offline because I have enough storage and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: something I'm adding as all of them Nightmare before Christmas
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: in different languages, What's This? What's This? I really like
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that song, and I really like Sally's song the Fiona
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Apple cover especially, it's great. But I listened to What's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: This in a whole bunch of different languages, and there's
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: like two of them that are really good. I think
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: it was Italian, maybe was one of them, But the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Chinese one is super weird to listen to because it's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: such a harsh language and there's something in the air
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: is so melodic and stretched out. So it's really interesting
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to see how the Chinese interpreted that song. And so
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a whole bunch of the different language
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: versions of What's This and then a few of the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: other songs I like, just for fun, just to have
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: them because I can finally fit them on the phone. Oh,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I have this water bottle that I have to replace
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: because it has made in China. It's like stamped into
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the on the bottom of the water bottle, and the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: water bottle's fine. I've been cleaning it. When minerals build up,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I pour in white vinegar and then leave it sitting,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and the white vinegar eats away all the minerals growing up,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: lodging themselves on the sides and crystallizing on the inside
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: of the water bottle just gets rid of that really easily.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: So I did that. But I noticed that the bottom
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: of the bottle was wet, and I was like what,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And I held it up to the light and looked
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: into the water bottle and where the Maiden China was
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: stamped out, there were holes in the bottle, and I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: had noted a little leak like a couple countries ago.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: But I don't use that thing that much. I don't
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: really carry it around with me outside that water bottle
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: as often as I used to. But that maid in
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: China completely demolished the integrity of the bottle. Looking into
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the bottle, I could see light through the bottom of
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: it where the Maiden China stamp was stamped on the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: bottom of it, so it was too bad because otherwise
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: it is a great water bottle and it holds a lot,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: but it's thin and it's plain aluminum. There's no dumb
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: design or anything. I really liked it. The water was
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a good seal on top of the cap, kept a
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: good seal. Little well whatever, time to get a new one.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: But there's a bunch of curious about the markets because
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: there's no secondhand markets or like local markets like flea
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: markets open air markets here in Panama City. So I'm
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: sure there are, but I don't know about them. They're
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: certainly not where I am, in the more middle of
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the city, but I bet Columbia has a bunch, so
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to go to some open air markets again.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: The tin can tabs instead of soda can tabs are
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: working pretty good. I should check how much time it
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: was the first one. I kicked something finally and it
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: bent the tin can tab to the point that I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: just replaced it even though it hadn't broken yet. But
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: they are lasting much longer than the soda can taps.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And I found another one today. There was abandoned anchovy
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: bottle can tin can and since it has been raining
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: so much there was no oil left on it. So
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I just popped off the tin and put it in
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: my pocket. Now I have an extra one. But it's
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: great because I know there are tin cans and tins
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: all around and yeah, so I just pop off the
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: little tin. And when I decided to replace the one today,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: it took me like a minute to cut the threads.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: So on the new one. Oh, you know, it's really
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: cool for my sewing kit. I got a Oh I
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: mentioned this already, right, shoeshine tin, and I just cleaned
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it out and then put all my sewing kit in there,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: so it's a way smaller. I'm saving a lot of
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: space by putting it in a shoe cantin and it
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: works great. The only sound is that it rattles in
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: there because it's a tin can. Oh that's what I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: was going to do. Oh, I gotta go get that backpack.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Then I was gonna ligne the tin with a little
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: bit of fabrics so it didn't rattle so much. That's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a good idea. But I just threw away the backpack,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: so I'm going to go dig it out of the trash.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I mean it's on top of a cardboard box that
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I put in there, So I'm going to go get
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it now before someone throws actual trash in there instead
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: of just cardboard. Got it. So I've had a regular
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: sized pink backpack for the past year or so, and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I got it the last time I was in Taiwan.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I really like it. It folds up nice and it's a
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: full sized backpack instead of the decathalon one I had
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: for so long. But it also was not as strong
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: as the Decathalon one, so it was kind of already
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: falling apart a while ago, and I've had to repatch
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and fix it up several times and it's sucking. It
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: looks pretty hope, it's really falling apart. So I just
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: went to the Decathlon here and they had the decathalon
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: bag that lasted for like ten years, the little mini
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: bag and that also folds up into its own pocket,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and it's just a great little bag. And it was
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: four dollars. They had them on sale for three dollars.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: The two colors that people don't like, and then the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: color that I liked, blue and black, was on sale
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: for four dollars, and I was like, it's a dollar.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: And so I have a new decathlon backpack that I
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: really like. I've already modified it so that the tabs
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: are a little wider and easier to loosen or tighten
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the bag itself. But it I see why I kept
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: it so long. I mean, it feels like nothing, like
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: you're caring that even when the backpack is completely full
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of stuff, it's so light that it's incredibly comfortable to wear.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: It's just a great bag. So I'm happy to have
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: a new bag. So I've got to get rid of
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the pink one. But I use the straps from the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: pink one to widen the straps on the new d
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: kathlon bag, so it's easier to tighten and loosen just
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: with my hands, flipping up my phone to make the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: straps tight or looser. And then I'm going to use
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: some of the fabric from the pink one. I'll just
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: throw that in the sewing kit and then yeah, it
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: should rottle around less, so that's perfect. I remember I
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: was gonna do that, and I was right before I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: threw away the pink backpack. I was like, wait a minute,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't I going to use this for something I can't remember?
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: And then threw it on top of that cardboard box.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's four forty five in the morning, so
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: no one was awake to throw more trash on top
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: of it before I got it. And now I can
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: use that fabric and then throw it away again. I
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: started playing Tetris Elements. I saw a post about it
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: on Lemmi, and apparently there are tons of Tetris mods,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: like variations on classic Tetris, which I wasn't aware of.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I knew there were some, but it there are thousands.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: There are so many. There's this one they were writing
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: about called Tetris Elements, and they have six games modes.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: One classic and then the others are like meteor and
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Meteors like crash down into your Tetris blocks and so
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: they'll take the place of a shape you wanted or
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: destroy what you were working on, and you know, leave
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: behind a blank so you have to fill it all
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: up again. And there's icicles which will fall on the pieces,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and so you can't choose where your piece goes. If
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the icicle hits, it'll just take it straight down to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the bottom. There's a whole bunch. It's really fun. There's
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Tempest and there's Earthquake. That one's pretty fun. Too. It's fun.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun playing Tetris again. I
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: was like, well, just try out and see where it goes.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: And then thirty minutes went by and I was like, wow,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Tetris is fun. What a simple, perfect human game Tetrises.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I finally finished a comic. I wrote the script for
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a year ago or something thing. So that was pretty
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: satisfying because I have a list of stuff to do
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and it's getting longer, and I worked pretty hard last
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: year to like whittle it down, but I haven't worked
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: on it much this year, and so I got a
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, but one of them two or three
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: years old. It's an old idea for a comic, and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I started I want to start drawing comics again. And
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: so finally the other day i'd like, just just do it,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and I drew a very very rough sketch in my notepad,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: which is how I do most of my illustrations now,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: and then I take a picture of it on my
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: phone because the app I like to use for drawing,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Infinite Painter, is on my phone. So rough sketch, take
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: a picture, and then do all the ink and color
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and everything really on Infinite Painter, which is a very
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: fun app to use and very easy to use pretty accurately.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I've designed all of my t shirts that way, all
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: of the covers for books, illustrations. In general, it's a
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: great app, Infinite Painter. If you like any kind of
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: art and you like the idea of doing it conveniently
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: on a mobile device, that's the one I prefer. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: find it very intuitive compared to other drawing apps too,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Like not everything is intuitive, but the toolbars, the default
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: toolbars they have, and when you click on something it
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: opens up into a sub menu. It seems pretty logical
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to me, and the tools are pretty comprehensive, but they're
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: also pretty basic, like there's no mistaking the tool Like
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: in Gimp. I often have very difficult time finding a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: very simple idea like get a border expand at the
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: border of something. I have to figure out the exact
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: right steps to do it in or it doesn't do it.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And I find Painter her as much as I tap it,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I have the selection I click expand or grow whatever. Yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: it just seems very intuitive. I like that app. So
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: let me tell you about this comic because I finally
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: finished it. I'm happy. I'm just gonna describe it to you,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: which is funny because I finally drove it and now
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you what it is. So the
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: first panel is a little girl on top of a
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: small bureau and she's in front of their goldfish in
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a bowl and she's tapping the water with her finger saying,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: come on, fishy. And then in the second panel, the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: fish swims up and kind of nudges her finger like hello.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: And in the third panel, the girl takes out her
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: hand and goes ew aha, and she's laughing. And then
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: the fourth panel is there's no one in the room,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: but the goldfish bowl has been pushed onto the floor
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and there's just cracked glass and water and the goldfish
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: on the floor, which is kind of sad and I
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: felt bad drawing it in, but that was the idea
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: for the comic, and I think it hits. I think
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: it matches my humor just right. So so I'm that's
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: that's the comic that I finally made worth the three
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: year setup. Star Trek Clone episode I wrote here next,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: what is that? They made it a pretty Oh oh,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: there's a clone colony and the clones want genetic material
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: from anyone, literally, any regular human being so that their
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: cloning genetic stock doesn't decay. They can basically renew the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: cloning process centem or will be healthy again for a while.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: And they make like the show writers and the main
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: characters Picard and what are their other Jonathan Freake's Riker, Dianna, Troy, everybody,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: they make a pretty big deal about, Oh no, Noah,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: one of us would lend our genetic DNA to you.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: We wouldn't allow you to make copies of us. We're unique.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I would definitely do it.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: And there's like a thousands of people on that ship.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: The clones only ask three of them, and the Captain's
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: like no, and no one on this ship would do it,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: And I was like, uh, you should maybe let them
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: ask the other people. I don't think everyone's gonna mind
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: having clones of themselves made, Like, who care, there's just
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: more of me that sounds great. Like I would if
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: there's a clone colony and they were like, we need
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: fresh DNA, I'd be like, yeah, take what you need.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I'd love to see me again. Go for it. I
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: don't mind. That's that's definitely the most eager go driven
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: theme in the Star Trek, I've seen so far that
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: a colony is decaying, like physically dying, and you won't
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: give them a piece of your hair so that they
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: can continue their colony. Yeah, it's weird, sure, but especially
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: in that universe, everything is weird. Why not let a
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: clone colony exist with fifty Picards or fifty Jeff the Janitors.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Let Jeff the Janitor give his DNA to the clone people.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: They would be just as happy for Jeff's as they
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: would with pecards. All they need is fresh DNA. I
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: just thought that was a very close minded episode, considering
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: how open minded the rest of them is. Speaking of
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Star Trek, Pamela Adlon is in one of the episodes,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: one of the third season episodes, and I saw this.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: They're a vulcan type alien and she was so tiny
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and her voice sounded like Pamela Adlines and I thought, oh,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: that's pretty cool, like it sounds like and I was like, wait,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: is does that have to be? And it is. That's
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Pamela Adlin playing some vulcany alien in Star Trek the
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Next Generation. Like she's young in this, she's got to
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: be twenty twenty three, twenty five, like she looks really young,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: so she's been I mean, I didn't know she was
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: acting thirty five years ago or whatever. She's she got
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: some acting credit. I feel like there's a lot of
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: famous people like Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks. He's also
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: in that same episode. There's so many famous actors in
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Star Trek, and I feel like if you were in
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: something like the Next Generation, you have some real acting
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: cred that you can be like, yeah, I wasn't seen
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: in three episode three Star Trek Next Generation, Yeah I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: did that. I feel like other actors are kind of like, damn,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I wish I could have gotten in on that while
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: it was going. So it's always fun to see these
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: actors I know from today, forty years ago in this show,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: or thirty years ago I guess right, it was in
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the nineties. Oh here all A lot of the service
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: workers say like muimable or mea more. And I still
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: whenever a service worker says see me and more. When
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: says yes my love to me, I'm like, oh, thank you,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: that's so nice, Like my heart flutters every time because
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: my my Western English speaking brain isn't used to them
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: to that, to someone saying my love to me. But
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: that's a pretty common thing. You hear it a lot.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: But it's so funny, like I blush and I'm like,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: oh you every time, like a pretty girl waitress. It's like,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: here's your pizza, thank you, of course, miamore, I'm like,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: oh my god, oh more. We barely know each other,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Gabriel recently one of the points I don't think I
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: made it clear on one of the episodes of the podcast.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe I fix this already, Yeah I did, but I'll
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: put it in here because I talk about English teaching
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: a lot as the de facto alternative to working in
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: the United States, because it just solves all of those problems.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe English teaching. Maybe teaching English is not your dream job,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: but it's pretty unlikely that the job you have now
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: is your dream job. So if you don't have your
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: dream job already, why not move to the country of
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: your dreams. Why not move to an interesting country, make money,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and then start on your career with all the free
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: time you'll have for your dream job, start applying and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: getting a foot in the door in that while you're
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: making money and have more free time by teaching English.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: It's just yeah, if you don't already have your dream job.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe English isn't it, but it'll certainly facilitate your transfer
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: to a job you'll appreciate more because you'll have about
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: twice as much free time because you'll be working half
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the normal hours. And you'll be saving a ton of
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: money if you move to the country you're teaching in.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: So yeah, save money and whatever. Even if it's not
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: your dream job, unless you're doing your dream job right now,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: it still gives you a bunch of benefits to start
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: traveling and working instead of working in the United States.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Guess what I found. I found a ninety dollars ticket
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to Colombia, so I will be going to Median And
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I don't like cocaine very much, so I'm not going
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: to do any of that. And also I looked up
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: the stats and Colombia is still ranked really low, but
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: it looks like that's like a legacy safety rating in
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the world. The actual homicide rate is lower than a
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: lot of American cities, Like all of the violent crime
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: is either America's or lower. Now they've really been cracking down.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: They're trying to get tourists in there for the past
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: decade and a half, so it seems by the numbers,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: it seems just as safe as any other place. And
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: you know, they don't have mass shootings everywhere, so that
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: parts a lot safer than the States. Also, so Columbia.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: He sounds great. And I've met a whole bunch of
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Colombians because it's it borders Panama, so there's a bunch
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: here in Panama City, and they all are cool, and
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: they all talk about how wonderful meta Ian is and
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: how much they love Colombia. So I'm going to Also,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I love Ledo Pimienta, this Colombian singer who I was
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: introduced to through the show Tuca and Birdie. She has
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: this songkasesesok to Asis, and it's just this great song
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: about relationship dynamics and how it's difficult to be in
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: a relationship with some trying to control you because that's
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: not love. So I listened to Lido Pimienta a lot.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: And Yeah, I found that ticket to Colombia, and I
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: was almost going to stay in Panama for another three
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: months and just use it my whole visa here. But
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: it's been three months. I've seen most everything. I've started
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: to learn Spanish a little bit better, I can talk
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: to some people if they speak really slow for my
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: stupid brain, and it just feels I have been here
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: a while. It's been almost three months. That's as long
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: as I like to stay in a country. And here's
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: a great ticket to a country I am interested in,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: and I got it and I'm going. I also realized
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: that I love the Encanto soundtrack and that's sort of
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: set in Colombia, and I love the song that this
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Colombian singer sings about Colombia from Encanto, also Encanto, so
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: it'll be really cool going to Colombia. I think it's
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot different, a lot like going back
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: to Guatemala. But all the Colombians I talk to say
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: that it is super cheap, but it's also very advanced,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: like it's basically like Panama City, just a ton cheaper.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: But they say there's lots more traditional cultural displays, like
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: people dancing in the streets and stuff. So I'm very
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: excited to go. I almost went to Costa Rica instead,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: but Costa Rica does just seem like a modern country,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and that's what I went to Panama for. So now
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: I gotta step back into the local town village sort
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: of thing going on again. Also, it's a domestic flight,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. This is going to be very interesting.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it when I get there. Excited.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited though. I'm excited to see a new country. Oh. Also,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I found out that they're higher elevation than Denver meta Ian,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: So it's a mountaintown with like perfect weather all year long,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: and it's cooler, so I'll get to wear shoes again
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and look not as hobo tourist as I do in
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: hotter climates because I'm always wearing shorts, T shirt and sandals.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I'll finally have pants, shoes. And then Bogata is actually
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: like eight thousand, six hundred feet, so it's very high.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: That's that's high. That's altitude sickness high for sure. That's
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: you know, the beginning of Everest high. That's a high city.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: So that's pretty exciting. So I feel like if I
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: go to Columbia, if I make it to Median, I'm
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: probably I might stay on Median a couple months. I
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: have a good feeling about this city. I found a
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: cool apartment and Airbnb, and it just seems like I'm
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: gonna enjoy it. Shouldn'tsycck myself up too much. But if
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I like it, I'll probably go to Bogata too, because
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I really want to go to an eighty six hundred
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred meter high city. That seems crazy, like
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: do they even have trees that high? I don't know.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure the tree line's like ten thousand feet,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: but it's that's pretty close eighty six hundred eighty. I'm
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: one hundred feet pretty excited to go explore this stuff.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: They have a whole city up there, so there must
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: be trees up there. Yeah, yeah, but there's not gonna
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: be any bugs. I won't mind that there are cocker
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: roaches in this pH and I have not bought a
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: roach hotel little cardboard glue traps since I got here,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and I've been thinking about buying one since the first day.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: And I should have just bought one, because it's stupid
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: not to improve the quality of my stay, and I
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: did other little things like I replace the soap so
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I don't have to wait a couple days for them
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: to replace the soap and that kind of stuff. Should
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: just put down a glue trap for those dirty ass roaches, though,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: so I didn't have to deal with that every day.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Just gross. I didn't even have to do anything. They're
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: just that, just gross. Columbia Encanto. I have the Incanto
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: soundtrack offline now as well. I'm going to be listening
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: to that on my next walk about. It's so nice
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: just listening to music again without having to log into
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: anything or know that the service is providing me whatever.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I just want the MP three's on a frickin phone, okay,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: or I guess there. M four a's now is the
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: popular codek no is that video? Who cares? Anyway? I
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: got the Encanto soundtrack and I that's probably my favorite
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Disney movie right now because the music is so good.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I love all eight songs. All eight songs are very good,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: but I clicked with Surface Pressure, sung by Jessica Darrow,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the big strong sister in the movie. That song is
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: so good. I listened to it a hundred times. Uh,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: you guys should listen to it too. It has great
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: themes and I like it. Oh. I've been trying to
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: get all the rest of the restaurants that I haven't
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: gone to for whatever reason. So I went to this
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: chicken place. It was fine, It's chicken they had good patacons, though.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: I went to a taco place and I got the
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: cow tongue. It was like marinated cow tongue, avocado, a
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: little bit of cheese, some other type of meat, with
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: a tomato sauce, and you could choose from for sauce.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: I got the super spicy sauce and then a little
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: ramikin of the tomato sauce and do the tomato sauce.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: That's so good, creamy, spicy, lots of herbs, with a
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: strong tomato bas but you can still taste the spice.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: It's such a good, balanced, creamy tomato sauce. I have
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: to go back there. I was so impressed by the
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: cow toungue marinade because it was clearly a slow marinated,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: slow cooked tongue. When you cook it like that, it's
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: not chewy. It's just a perfect meat this was made.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: I was so impressed by how they cooked the meat.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: It was delicious. It was absolutely delicious, and the tomato
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: sauce was the best tomato sauce I've had in literal years.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: The food here is really good. I might regret leaving
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Panama when I'm if my options are more limited, but
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: why don't I go there first and see. Maybe there'll
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: be a bunch of good stuff there, Except it's five
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: thousand feet up or whatever, so they're not gonna have
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: as good sushi, I'm assuming, but we'll see. Oh and pizza,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's this Italian pizza place. Of course,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: everybody says they're Italian style pizza, but this place is
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: They blacken the crust on the bottom just enough so
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: it's not really burnt. Burnt. It's just supposed to be
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: burnt like that in an Italian pizza because it adds
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: a bitterness, because tomato sauce is so sweet on its
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: own that the black char adds a really good flavor
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: to it, like you need that bitterness to mix in
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: with the tomato. And that's how these guys do it.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: It's not burnt, but it is blackened on the bottom.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: It's not unpleasantly burnt. It is blackened on the bottom.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: The crust and the tomato sauce is perfect. And I
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: got the ceciliana. So you have anchovies, capers, kalamada, olives,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: and something else, mushrooms. There was something else on it.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was mushrooms, but I was absolutely
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: blown away. The anchovies were all They also tasted like
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Italian anchovies, very strong, fishy taste. They didn't just taste
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: like bland pieces of salt. These tasted like real anchovies.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: They were. It was so good with the capers and
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: the Kalamada olives. Oh man, the kalamada olives were the
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: only parts. I was like, hey, you could have got
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: better olives. But the pizza itself and as a whole
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: especially was delicious. I devoured it. So I'm going back
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: there tomorrow to try a different one because I was
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: so impressed by this pizza place. It tasted as good
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: as any pizza I've ever had. It was, it was
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: not as good as the pizzas I make. I make
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: really good pizzas, and I make really good pizza sauce,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: and I like my pizza sauce spicy and herbie and stuff.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: But I'll say these pizzas, they they surprised me. They really,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: they were so good. I gave them a thumbs up.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: And speaking of thumbs up, I don't like it when
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: people respond to written comments with a thumbs up and
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: no accompanying message. Now that's because I'm an old man,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: but more charitably the thumbs up emoji, Like after you
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: write out a long message and the person just does
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: thumbs up, It's like it's like they're telling Robot Butler,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: just send them my regards, but less charitably and perhaps
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: reflecting more accurately. How I feel about the thumbs up emoji,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: especially with no accompanying message, they just thumbs up. It
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: just feels like someone throwing a raspberry, Like they give
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: you a thumbs up and you're telling them, Oh, I
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: just read this really great book called The Night Circus
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: by Aron Morgenstern. It's about these two fantastical, surrealistic people
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: who meet and it's set inside this world where magic
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: is almost real, and I just loved it. I know
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: you like fantasy books, so you should probably check this out.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: It's such a great romance. And then you get a
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: thumbs up emoji. That's what it feels like. Someone goes
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: in response and shoves out their thumb at you at
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the same time. Or it's like, imagine you were sitting
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: next to your friend on the park bench and you're
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: telling them about The Night Circus and you're like, there's
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: this amazing part where a glass forest is they've redone
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: an entire room of the circus to look like a
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: glass forest. It's beautiful, and the person sitting next to
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: you just puts up a thumb but doesn't say anything
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: in response. That's how it feels to me. I don't know.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't think I do messages like everyone
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: else because I treat them like real conversations, and I
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: feel like conversations on the phone. People just treat them
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: like notifications, like they treat any carefully thought out idea
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: or message as just another notification like their phones, Like
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes, walk the dog, and then your message
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: is like the exact same response thumbs up. Okay, thumbs up,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: but like fucking whatever. Since we're on me being an
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: old ranting man, how do I know I'm getting older?
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, clearly, I look physically the same as I
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: was twenty five, not true, But I was just talking
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: to a younger person, like obviously younger than me, just physically,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: and they were asking me questions about why I traveled,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: how I travel on all this stuff, and we're talking
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: about how much it sucks that America has mass shootings
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Because he works in the United States
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: and He was like, it's so weird that Americans don't care,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: like all the kids are getting shot, and I was like,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: that is weird. I agree. I don't know why they're
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: not more responsive to their children being shot every day.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, it's a little crazier though.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know anything about USA veterans. I don't know
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: if you know this, listener, but veterans kill themselves every
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  Speaker 1: hour in the United States. One US veteran, like in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: a military veteran or another is shooting themselves and killing
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: themselves about every sixty minutes. The latest, I think was
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: sixty five minutes was the last like tally they did.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they stopped releasing the numbers because
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: it's so depressing. They're probably you can find the accurate
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  Speaker 1: thing now, but about once an hour. There's about twenty
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: two military US veterans killing themselves every year, either from
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: brain injury CTEs. You know, they have zero support, so
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: many of them are homeless. It's something like a fifty
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: sum what is it, fifty plus percent rate of homelessness
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  Speaker 1: for military vets for US military vets. Other countries treat
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  Speaker 1: their veterans with a little bit of respect and support.
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  Speaker 1: Not so in the States. Unfortunately, if you don't know
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: that stat, I'm sure it sounds pretty shocking and maybe
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable to you, but you can look it up. They've
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  Speaker 1: done several studies and the lowest is, I believe, twenty
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  Speaker 1: two veterans committing suicide per day. But another study was like, well,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: have you looked into someone's self medicating with alcohol and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: that leads to cirrhosis and death, And when they add
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: those in, rather than only direct suicide again to the
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  Speaker 1: head or hanging, maybe the risks when they add in
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  Speaker 1: something like drinking yourself to death or drug abuse until
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  Speaker 1: you die, it goes up to forty four veterans per
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  Speaker 1: day are dying from some self harming activity. Forty four
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  Speaker 1: a day. So almost two veterans every hour are killing
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  Speaker 1: themselves in the US because they have no support from
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  Speaker 1: their government. Just wild, just totally crazy. So I was
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: talking about that with this young kid, and he would
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  Speaker 1: say something to me and be looking at me, and
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: then I would say something back to him, and then
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: in the middle of my sentence, his head would drop
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  Speaker 1: to his phone and he'd just stare at his phone,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: and I didn't even know if I was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: stop talking or if I should just keep talking and
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: people just don't look at each other anymore. Because I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: know I'm living in the modern world. I know that
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: people look at their phones more than they look at people.
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  Speaker 1: But is it every I don't is it totally normal
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  Speaker 1: to just look at your phone now, especially with younger kids.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the people I talk to are older.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like, especially with younger people, when they're
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  Speaker 1: interacting with someone, it doesn't even change the focus of
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  Speaker 1: their attention if they look down at their phone while
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: they're talking to another person, And it's okay, you can
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: do that, young people. I'm fine with the younger generation
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  Speaker 1: doing anything, because at least they care about other people
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  Speaker 1: on the internet. I feel like younger people are more
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: progressive on issues I actually care about. So if they
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: deal with rationalizing a harmful society by staring at their phone,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: like they're more nervous about eye contact with a real person,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: but they care about saving the environment and maybe preventing
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  Speaker 1: all of these suicides in their country or whatever, great
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: people act differently. I'm not going to start ranting a
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: younger generations for doing younger generational things go ahead and twerk.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I know, twerking is like fifteen years
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: old now. Talking probably isn't even cool anymore, right, you
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: guys don't even say that. What is towerk Now? What
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: do they call it? Now? Who knows? It was a
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: good word though, to work. I think that's why I
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: caught on so well, because it's just such a such
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: a fun word to say. I don't know if you're
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: having as much fun listening to me say to work
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  Speaker 1: as I am having to say, like as I'm enjoying
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: saying the word to work. But you're welcome. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: this guy kept looking down at his phone whenever I talked,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: and then he'd look back up and continue the conversation.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: And I was kind of thrown off by that. But whatever,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably like donating money, like playing some game that
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: gives food to poor He's probably doing some great news
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: thing with the internet while I'm just trying to share
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: my opinion about Rosa Dhamika juice or some stupid thing
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: you play on your phone. Young Colombian who recommended Bogata
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: to me. Also, I have to say, us Americans, I know,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't seem like it from inside your borders,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: but from outside US borders, it very much looks like
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: your government is setting up concentration camps, and eventually you're
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: going to reach the point where they come for you
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: as well, and you're not going to realize you're living
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: in a Reich until after the atrocities happen. Like masked
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: people not in uniform can legally kidnap you, even if
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: you're a citizen, and kidnap you and just take you
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: to a concentration camp. That's just that's a legal thing
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: that they can do right now in the US, and
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: a bunch of states are trying to build extra concentration
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: camps for all of the ethnic minorities. To be frank,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: that ice is rounding up right now, and some of
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: those people are dying, and some of those people are
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: getting flown out of the country without due process, which
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: is completely unconstitutional. And the President is revoking the powers
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: of Congress and assuming them himself, so he's erasing a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: branch of the government, and all of the prices are
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: going up for US Americans. Plus he's a raised all
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: relations with other countries. I mean, you can't even sell
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: American US American weapons anymore, which is that's wild. That
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: was a staple export, not no more. I have to
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: explain these things to non US Americans out here traveling,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: because they're like, Hey, what's up with people not in
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: uniforms can just kidnap US citizens now with no due process?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: And it's just that, what's that about? And I'm like, Yeah,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: the people voted for this guy who said he was
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: going to arrest people without due process and now they're
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: doing that. Americans voted for that. Apparently I didn't, and
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: so that's part of why I'm not living there anymore.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Then they're like, wow, really, is the US that crazy?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: And then I'll tell them like that veteran suicide statistic
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: or something, and they're like, what don't the veterans get
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: housing when they come back? No they don't. Do they
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: get paid? No, they get ten percent off of waffles
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: at Denny's. What a bummer. What a bummer? Start to
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: bring it down, let's bring it up. Oh geez. No,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: the last two things on this list aren't super happy.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: It's kind of good though. I talked to my Jamaican
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: friend Kevin here at the pH and he told me
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: that like a lot of Jamaicans, most of them still
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: hit their kids, and he has children, and after he
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: hit his kid like a couple times, he realized it
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: was wrong and he stopped cold Turkey hitting his kids.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: And he thought it was really interesting of the generational
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: influence and the cultural influence from the United States going
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: on in Jamaica. But he knew his dad hit him,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: and he realized that if he stopped hitting his kids,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: he was this would be pretty big because everyone he
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: knew who was hit was hit by their parents, and
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: who hits their kids was hit by their parents. So
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: he saw himself making this active decision to stop the
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: cycle of violence. And that was a pretty cool conversation
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: to have that he was, Who's like, well, no, I
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: care for my kids. I don't think hitting as actually
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: helping anything. I'm just getting out my frustration, so I
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: don't do it anymore. Cool. Good job, Kevin. Last thing
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: I wrote is I love the tattoos here. Everyone in
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Panama is tatted up. Maybe not everyone, but it's seriously,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: like sixty percent of people here have quite a few
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: tats and they look good. I hope you're having a
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: great day. I'm having a pretty good day. I'm gonna
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: go have a better day after this. It's just gonna
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: keep being cool. I'm gonna chill and then I'm gonna
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: get a good Italian pizza. I think I'm on another
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: break from beer. I had some yesterday and I was
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: just like, that wasn't pleasant. The three were great, and
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: then I got six more and I was like, why
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: did you do that? Because I'm eating within my eating
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: window again, So within like four hours of eating, and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: then I totally forgot yesterday and drink a bunch of
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: beer and it was just nothing. I'm enjoying. When I travel,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: I don't actually drink as much as I do in
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: the States because in the States I sort of feel
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: like I'm stuck, and so I'm just drinking because I'm
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: just in a it's not going to mess anything up
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: and at least the time goes by. But when I'm traveling,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: it's nicer to interact with all of my senses not dulled.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: So I take occasional breaks from drinking while I'm traveling
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: for a month or several months. But the last one
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: I took last like four days. There are too many
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: new beers here in Panama for me to take super
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: long breaks, but I've had all of them here and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: I can at least wait a week before I get
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: to Colombia and try theirs. But I've been enjoying this
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: whole week without drinking beer, all healthy and strapping and
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: thinking clearly and sleeping well. Starting to clean up my
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: room because I've been here for three months. So there's
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: just the cell phone box that I bought in, just
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: like a few things hanging around. But I already ordered
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: most things and clean the floor, so I'm pretty ready.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: I'm packing everything up. I still have a week to
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: go before my flight takes off, but just cleaning up
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit every day to make sure this place
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: is spick and span because it was so nice when
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: I moved in. I want to leave it in a
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: nice state when I depart. And it's fun because every
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: time I clean or organize anything or whatever, I'm like, oh,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: I'm doing this because I'm about to travel against I'm
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: about to go discover a new country again soon. I'm psyched.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: If you have any ideas or comments about all that
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: craziness I talked about, you can hit me up a
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: bit of a Ramblergmail dot com or all of the socials.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Although I'll probably only answer a Lemmy or Gmail just
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: because I won't notice. If I see it on blue Sky,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: for instance, I'll definitely answer. I just don't check those
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: things very often, but I'm always on Gmail and let
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: me lately sort of. I hope you have a wonderful
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: rest of your day. I hope you also live next
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: to an amazing Italian pizza place and we can spiritually
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: go get Italian pizza together. It's a date.