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076 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 about stuff that
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  Speaker 1: went on this week, something that was funny. I was
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  Speaker 1: playing on my phone, scrolling through Lemmy or some such
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  Speaker 1: and an ad popped up, as they always do, but
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  Speaker 1: this time it was for uchukuta, which I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: before and never heard about before until I landed in Cusco,
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  Speaker 1: and it just looked so good, and then it tasted
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  Speaker 1: so good. It's a creamy sauce cream sauce made from
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  Speaker 1: Rokoto peppers and some spices and probably mayo or so.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know, but Rokoto pepper sauce cream sauces
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  Speaker 1: are very popular here in Peru, especially in Cusco, because
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  Speaker 1: all the peppers are up from the mountains. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I became hooked on the uchukuta sauce. I ate it on.
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  Speaker 1: It tastes great on meat, it tastes great on vegetables
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  Speaker 1: like in a salad, to taste great on French fries.
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  Speaker 1: It's way better than like ketchup or special sauce, mustard whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a great sauce for everything. And I kind
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  Speaker 1: of got obsessed with it for especially the first couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. I was just like, well, I'll just eat
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  Speaker 1: this on everything, and I did, and now I eat
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  Speaker 1: it on a lot of things, but like at a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable pace instead of just constantly like an insane person.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's so good, but I eat it normally now.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was it just popped up an advertisement
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  Speaker 1: for it, and I just, you know, cheek on my fist,
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  Speaker 1: elbow on table, just like watched them pour it over
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  Speaker 1: some French fries and I was like, yep, that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what it's for. I was just excited to see the advertisement.
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  Speaker 1: And then I saw it twenty more times because I'm
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  Speaker 1: in Cusco, of course. Oh oh, I'm glad I started
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  Speaker 1: to do this podcast. I think it just started to
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  Speaker 1: rain outside. That's fun. The rain's telling me goodbye. That's cool, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Uchikuta's fantastic. I had mango after a big hike. There's
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  Speaker 1: this dried fruit store, and mango is probably still my
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  Speaker 1: favorite favorite dried fruit. And so after I went on
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  Speaker 1: this huge hike for eight hours, I walked down to
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  Speaker 1: my dried fruit store and just stopped in and they
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  Speaker 1: had mango, which they didn't have last week, and I
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  Speaker 1: bought a whole bunch of it, and I just walked
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  Speaker 1: around the city for quite a while. After I got back.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go straight home after the eight hour hike.
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  Speaker 1: It just marched around the city, eating dried mango and
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  Speaker 1: feeling great, because walking for really long periods like that
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  Speaker 1: always makes me feel great. You know what, I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about that hike, but it's gonna take more
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  Speaker 1: than this whole episode, so I'm just gonna make that
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  Speaker 1: a separate episode called Waka Cowrie. I believe h Uacaca
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  Speaker 1: u Uri or maybe all just call it Mountain near Cusco.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But that hike, i'll briefly say, was
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  Speaker 1: very awesome. It was eight something hours. I did get sunburned,
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  Speaker 1: but it was so worth it. I passed by this
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  Speaker 1: like Narnia idyllic town on the way. I went up
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  Speaker 1: several thousand feet in elevation. The mountains were cool. Everything
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  Speaker 1: was amazing about that hike. So if the Cusco hike
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  Speaker 1: is up yet, I suggest you go check it out.
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  Speaker 1: It probably won't be, but look forward to the Walk
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  Speaker 1: of Cowery episode. It's about me walking for eight hours.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty exciting. Okay, let's move on. My stuff sack broke
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  Speaker 1: from my jacket, which is a bummer if you don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff sacks are tiny pouches that you can pack like
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  Speaker 1: a puffer jacket that it's really big and bulky. You
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  Speaker 1: can pack that into as small area as possible and
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  Speaker 1: then more efficiently that way. I make all of my
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  Speaker 1: own stuff sacks or packsacks, and I always make them
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  Speaker 1: from leftover shirts or material or the best material umbrella, nylon.
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  Speaker 1: It's very very strong. Even when you sow through it,
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  Speaker 1: it's usually ripstop. It's hydrophobic. It's just a perfect material,
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  Speaker 1: super light weight, very easy to craft with. And so
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  Speaker 1: I found a umbrella on the side of the road
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  Speaker 1: here in Cusco a little while ago when I needed
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  Speaker 1: to make a pocket something and I used it. But
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  Speaker 1: I had all this umbrella material leftover, fabric left over,
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  Speaker 1: and that's great. So I've just been trying to think
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  Speaker 1: of what I can use it for and I've used
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of things. I've made two pockets for my daypack.
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  Speaker 1: Now I've made a new holder for my water bottle.
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  Speaker 1: What else? Well, anyway, now I made a packsack because
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  Speaker 1: my jacket packsack broke. I tried to close it, it ripped,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, this is great timing because
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  Speaker 1: I have all this cool umbrella material and I made
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  Speaker 1: one and I made it a little too small the
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  Speaker 1: first time, so I had to make a second one,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it's the perfect size. It crams my jacket
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  Speaker 1: down very small. It's just it feels like a little
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  Speaker 1: too small because I don't want to work hard to
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  Speaker 1: pack the jacket inside. But it'll certainly work for now,
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  Speaker 1: and I can always make another one some other time
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  Speaker 1: if I want to. But I'm glad I have the
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  Speaker 1: packsack for now and it turned out very nice. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty good at them after making them for so long,
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  Speaker 1: And now my jacket will pack down easier, which will
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  Speaker 1: be good because I'm going to hot locations in the
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  Speaker 1: near future, so I won't be wearing my jacket like
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  Speaker 1: I have been for the past few months or several
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  Speaker 1: months before here, I was in Colombia. Columbia, wasn't that cold.
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  Speaker 1: It's only a Denver level up here at thirteen thousand
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  Speaker 1: feet or whatever. I uh, yeah, I do use my
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  Speaker 1: jacket every other day. So very happy to got a
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  Speaker 1: little craft project to work on the pack sacks and
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  Speaker 1: then I made them and they look cool. Okay, Triangulo
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  Speaker 1: Triangulo chocolate. There's this brownie at actually at a store
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going back to today to get some vegetables
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  Speaker 1: and papas Pecanti's spicy potato chips. Um, there's this brownie. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's one brand I really like, called Mister Brownie, and
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  Speaker 1: then there's this other one that's fine and not great.
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  Speaker 1: But the weirdest thing about this other brownie is that
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  Speaker 1: the only difference I can see. They have three flavors,
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  Speaker 1: but the only difference between the flavors is the shape
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  Speaker 1: of the chocolate that they put on top of the brownie.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think the brownies are any different. Except
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  Speaker 1: there's a white package, a blue package, and a red package.
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  Speaker 1: And I asked the lady like, hey, what's the difference
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  Speaker 1: between these packages? And she was like a stolo and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Trianglo. And she pointed and it says
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  Speaker 1: tri angulo on the on the wrapper, which means triangle.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, but what's the difference between
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  Speaker 1: these two and and she was like, well, that one's Trianglo.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so I got it and
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  Speaker 1: I ate it, and I can't tell any difference between
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  Speaker 1: the two except that this one has triangles on top
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  Speaker 1: of it and this one has tiny squares of chocolate
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  Speaker 1: on top of it. But it's just a standard, crappy
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  Speaker 1: process brownie, pretty good with chocolate on top, just in
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  Speaker 1: different shapes. And there's a third one that's like points.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's very I found that very odd
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  Speaker 1: that they would have such big distinguishing packages and wrapping
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  Speaker 1: for this same brownie, but the chocolate isn't a different shape.
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  Speaker 1: Weird anyway, they ran out of the brownies. I do
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  Speaker 1: like mister Brownie, because I bought them all at the
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  Speaker 1: one store, about one like every few days, maybe a
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  Speaker 1: couple times once a day, but they just, yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: ran out, and then they haven't restocked and no other
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  Speaker 1: supermarkets have them, which is a bummer. But I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: it was incredibly unhealthy for me, and I was eating
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them because they were so good, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's a good thing they ran out. Star Wars.
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  Speaker 1: I've been making a lot of parody Star Wars T
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  Speaker 1: shirts lately, so there's Luke Skinwalker and Princess Leah Organ
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  Speaker 1: just like a ton of organs everywhere. And a new
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  Speaker 1: one's up that I really like, called bright Saber instead
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  Speaker 1: of Lightsaber, and his whole lightsaber. He's swinging it against
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  Speaker 1: a stormtrooper and it just completely explodes and breaks apart
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  Speaker 1: because it's just a whole bunch of like little light bulbs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know the light bright toy,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought that was funny, and so I made
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  Speaker 1: a T shirt of it. I've made a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these Star Wars parody designs lately, and I really like them.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole story. I've been having a ton of
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  Speaker 1: fun making them, getting some creative outlet going, and it's
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  Speaker 1: been a great time. No one is buying the shirts,
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  Speaker 1: of course, because one I don't ever want to advertise anything.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't seem worth it because I don't need money,
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  Speaker 1: so anytime I spend advertising just doesn't seem that fun
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  Speaker 1: or worth it to me. But if someone does buy
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  Speaker 1: any of those shirts, if someone buys one of those
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars shirts, one day, I'm gonna feel so validated.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh the one you know what, I really like Leah
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  Speaker 1: Arkhana too Cane Arcana, and she's like a witch and
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  Speaker 1: she has all these occult symbols on her face and
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  Speaker 1: there's lightning crackling from her eye. I really like that one.
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  Speaker 1: I might get that one. I've still been getting a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of piccarones. It is a lot of sugar, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't get them every day anymore because the pikaronas
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  Speaker 1: are deep fried. They don't have a ton of oil
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  Speaker 1: like dripping off them, but they are deep fried. And
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  Speaker 1: then it comes with chichamuraa, which is like a purple
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  Speaker 1: corn drink that is so good and mixed with fruits
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  Speaker 1: and sugar. And then with the piccarons you eat, you
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  Speaker 1: put some honey on your plate and then dip it
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  Speaker 1: in the honey, so it's like sugar sugar, sugar. Deep
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  Speaker 1: fried doughnut. Yeah, it's like a donut, but not as thick,
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  Speaker 1: not as doughe not as thick, and not as bready.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like a sweet potato. It's a ring of
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  Speaker 1: sweet potato flour, very stretchy and tasty. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm going to get it again today because I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about it now. Dang it. I got hooked on them,
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  Speaker 1: and one day I actually went and got two in
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  Speaker 1: a day, which is crazy because that is just the
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  Speaker 1: chicha marata and the amount of honey I eat, which
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  Speaker 1: is not a ton compared to what you see other people.
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  Speaker 1: What I see other people eating with the picorona is
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  Speaker 1: just that is like probably two or three days worth
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  Speaker 1: of my sugar. Oh. Except the other problem is I've
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  Speaker 1: been drinking this crappy coke simulacrum lately that is not delicious,
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  Speaker 1: but I drink it with when I have a sandwich
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  Speaker 1: or something, and then I start drinking two bottles a
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  Speaker 1: day and I just feel it not. I feel it
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  Speaker 1: not being healthy. I feel it in my insides and
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  Speaker 1: like my face gets red and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's inflammation or what. But I stopped getting that coke
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  Speaker 1: thing and I felt better, and then I got one
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  Speaker 1: yesterday just to check and I instantly was like ugh,
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm just not gonna get that anymore. It's
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  Speaker 1: convenient because it's like twenty five cents or something, and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't taste bad. It tastes great with salty food
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  Speaker 1: and sandwiches and all that. But I just I think there,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's very healthy. I think it's very unhealthy. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: it says it has half the amount of sugar that
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  Speaker 1: coke does, and I can't even drink regular Coca Cola,
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  Speaker 1: but I think this kar cola still has too much
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  Speaker 1: sugar for me because I just don't drink soda anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I do eat sugar in the form of picceronis and honey,
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  Speaker 1: and I do drink chica, but I would happily just
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  Speaker 1: have chica instead of that soda. I met a cool
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  Speaker 1: punk girl and she shared a song that her band
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  Speaker 1: is working on, and I was kind of rocking out
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  Speaker 1: to it. I gave her some honest notes when she
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  Speaker 1: asked me what I honestly thought about it, and then
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  Speaker 1: I was like, did I need to be honest? I
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: don't know if she was actually looking for criticism, but
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to tell her I grew up with punk
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  Speaker 1: bands and I see a lot of them live, and
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  Speaker 1: she was just asking, like, how does it feel like
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  Speaker 1: as a punk band? And I was like, I think
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  Speaker 1: you should throw yourself into a couple of the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more, just because the music was so
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  Speaker 1: energetic and pushing forward, and I feel like sometimes her
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  Speaker 1: voice wasn't making it self heard. But this was also
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  Speaker 1: a demo, so it wasn't completely produced, and what, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even play music and sing in a band, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe I should shut up. But I told her that
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  Speaker 1: and she accepted the notes with grace, and that was cool.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pretty good song. I kind of want
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  Speaker 1: to listen to the rest of the album when it
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  Speaker 1: comes out. I got a new dog whacking stick or
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  Speaker 1: dog stick as I'm thinking of changing the name to
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like dog whacking stick sort of upsets people,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe I'll just say dog stick from now on.
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  Speaker 1: It's for whacking dogs that get too close when you
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  Speaker 1: are exploring the rural areas of a country by yourself,
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  Speaker 1: because dogs or packs of dogs can be aggressive outside
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  Speaker 1: of cities and towns. And I got bit and so
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  Speaker 1: now I'm carrying around to stick again, and now I'm
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  Speaker 1: not getting bit at all. It's a good plan, especially
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  Speaker 1: like early early morning, four in the morning or something
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  Speaker 1: like when I went on that huge hike I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: early more, when there's less people around and the sun
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  Speaker 1: is not out, Rural dogs get pretty aggressive, so it's
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  Speaker 1: always worth carrying around a stick. Dogs think anything you
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  Speaker 1: carry in your hand is part of your arm, and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, well, that arm's way too long and they
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  Speaker 1: get freaked out. So just carry around a stick. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to hit them like they'll they stay away
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  Speaker 1: if you're carrying a stick with you, so even if
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  Speaker 1: you're hiking, a hiking stick works fine. I just call
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  Speaker 1: it a dog wacking stick because in Thailand I was
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  Speaker 1: attacked by a pack, like a big pack, like a
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  Speaker 1: dozen dogs, and they were straight up trying to bite me,
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  Speaker 1: and I had to actually whack the dogs. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why I always called it a dog whacking stick instead
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  Speaker 1: of a dog stick. But at this point it works
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  Speaker 1: much more often as a deterrent. You almost never have
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  Speaker 1: to actually hit a dog. So dog stick. I have
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  Speaker 1: a new dog stick. I was looking around for one
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  Speaker 1: and then I realized in my apartment, on top of
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  Speaker 1: the washing machine there was a forty centimeter stick from
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  Speaker 1: like mango picker. But it was just the stick just
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  Speaker 1: lying there, kind of discarded, and I was I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's perfect. That slips into my jacket and I can
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  Speaker 1: just take it out and if a dog comes up,
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  Speaker 1: I just pull it on my jacket and then I
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  Speaker 1: have it ready. And it has saved me many times
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  Speaker 1: in Cusco because there are there's an absurd amount of
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  Speaker 1: stray dogs. This is not a huge city, and there
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  Speaker 1: are eleven thousand stray dogs at last count, just going
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  Speaker 1: around and packs in the city all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: if I go hiking, I like to go in the
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  Speaker 1: really early morning, where I said, they're more aggressive, So
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  Speaker 1: good to carry a dog stick with you if you
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  Speaker 1: want to hike solo outside of cities and towns, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the wee hours of the night. I got a
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  Speaker 1: new hat, and then I got a new hat. I
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  Speaker 1: got a new hat that has that flap that falls
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  Speaker 1: down the back the neck cover the neck coverlet, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's only half a hat, and I like that
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  Speaker 1: because it'll pack down smaller than my full brimmed hat.
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  Speaker 1: But here, when I went to that Waka Cowie, my
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  Speaker 1: nose got burned. With the hat I've been using the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of years has never been wide enough for me.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that hasn't been a real problem. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of been a pain. But I never found another hat
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  Speaker 1: that I really liked. And then I went on this
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  Speaker 1: walk of Cowerie height and my face and my neck
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  Speaker 1: got burnt up and it was terrible. So I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it, it's time just get a wide brimmed hat.
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  Speaker 1: You're in Cusco, which is like the highest ultra violin
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  Speaker 1: in the world almost, and everybody here wears sun hats,
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  Speaker 1: so there's probably a good selection of hats, and there
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  Speaker 1: were I found a great sun hat with, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the neck cover and it's only half the brim on
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  Speaker 1: the front right away, and I was like, this is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And I negotiated and I got my new hat, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, heck yeah, and I was really excited
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  Speaker 1: about it. And then I was walking around and I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even rained yet it was still sunny, but I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh wait, that's why I don't get these hats.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I got one before, like ten years ago in Vietnam somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: but I remembered when it rained, the rain instead of
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  Speaker 1: falling off the brim of the hat just falls straight
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  Speaker 1: down the neck cover and soaks your back. And I
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: was like, oh darn it, because I had fun negotiating
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  Speaker 1: with the lady for a cheaper price. It was like
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  Speaker 1: four dollars or something. But then I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna this is not my permanent hat, which I was
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  Speaker 1: hoping it would be because it packs down easy and
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  Speaker 1: nice material, But there's no way that once I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: around in rain, which I love to do, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy having rain just soaking my back, the whole
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  Speaker 1: back of my body. And then it rained like the
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  Speaker 1: next day and it soaked the back of my body,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and I was like, ah, okay, And so I started
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: looking around and this one lady had a very nice hat.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't perfect, it didn't quite fit, but it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. The brim wasn't quite wide enough, but it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty good. It was better than my old one anyway,
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  Speaker 1: my old full brimmed hat, and it was better than
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  Speaker 1: this half brimmed hat because it would stop the rain
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  Speaker 1: from falling down my back. And I tried to negotiate
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: with her, and I got her down to twenty soles,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: which is still like six bucks fifty and it's just
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: not It wasn't a perfect hat, and all the other
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: hats were cheaper, they were four bucks, and it just
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling it, so I didn't get it, and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I went back again. She was that's when she went
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: down to twenty sols. But that wasn't cheap enough for
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: me because I know they're getting these hats for like
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: five soles maximum from China anyway, and this hat wasn't perfect,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: so I ate crow. I went back to the lady
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I bought the half brimmed hat from because I was like,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I wonder if she'd has the kind of hat. And
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: then I found the perfect hat. That same lady pulled
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: out a box and none of them were perfect. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: then there were two hats and I was like, ooh,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: they both had side vents. They both were the same
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: very light nylon material, but they had stiff brims and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: full brims all the way around, as wide as I want,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: but not too wide, so they would protect everything but
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: not look at like easy like they wouldn't. If I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: wore this hat on an airplane, people would be like, oh,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that's a sun hat. But if I wore anything bigger,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: they'd be like, oh, this is an insane person. Why
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: does they have a hat that looks that crazy, that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: is that large. So it was the perfect hat. I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: negotiated it down to fifteen again, which this time the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: second time, I was just like, so, twelve looks good,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and she was like eighteen, and I was like cool, fifteen,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and then I just gave her fifteen, like there was
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: no there was no dancing around negotiating this time. We
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: both laughed about how we started exactly three away from
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: where we knew we were ending at because I already
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: bought a fifteen hat and I was I'm very happy
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: with my new hat. Now this is a permanent hat
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: for sure. I'm gonna be I'm gonna have this hat
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: for a long for as long as it lasts, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know how long that'll be. But I've already
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: put on a new Paaracord pulstring so it attaches better
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and it fits me great. It's a good hat. It's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a good hat, has those side vents. I like everything
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: about this new hat. There were two colors. There's a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: bright white one, and I was like, well, if I'm
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: gonna put stuff on it, then the white will look
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: better than this alive green. But the olive green just
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: looks cool. So hopefully I don't lose this hat, because
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be a long time before I'm i
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: find one this good again. This is just it just
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: really matches my drab personality, drab, protective personality, very excited
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: about my new hat. You might be able to tell
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: so I got a new hat. I've already used it
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: on a couple hikes. It has been great. It's great
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: having enough brim like I think I need, and being
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: able to tilt the hat to block more sun. It's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: just a great hat. Shoot. You know what, I just remembered.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I was going to climb Pea Cole and today would
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: have been the perfect day for it, and I totally forgot.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I already climbed it once. I'll see how I feel tomorrow.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: But tomorrow is my last day, Yeah, my last full
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: day in Cusco, and then I'm off to Lima to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: explore the Peruvian coast. I hear Cevice is better down there,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and maybe most Civichi restaurants will be, but the sauce
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: at my favorite, Oh my gosh, I should have got
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Civich today. Oh you goofball. Oh I should go there
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and get Cevice. I'll get Civice after this if they're
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: still open. Shoot, I don't know if they will be. Man,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: my favorite Cevice spot here is best Cavich sauce I
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: have ever had. Maybe not the best fish, but the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: best fish I've had in Cusco and the best sauce,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: no doubt I've ever had anywhere. Their Cevich sauce is killer.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's just it's Oh, it's perfect. I think I talked
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: about before. I improve my son sleep. I added a
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: second button so I can protect my neck more with
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the neck, got my ticket to Hawaii, Gonna go visit
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: some friends over the holidays, on my way to the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Philippines for a wedding, and yeah, excited to keep moving on.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I have spent about two months in Cusco and a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: month earlier in No No, no, wait. I've been in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Cusco the whole time for two and a half months,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I think, and I would stay here the whole daying
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: time forever. This would if there wasn't a three month
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: limit of living in Peru, I don't know. I might
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just stay here. Cusco is so no. It's good there
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: are three month limits in so many countries, because otherwise
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I would have probably settled down to live like twenty
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: countries ago. It's so easy in so many countries for
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: me to find like this perfect spot, and especially in Cousco,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: where I can hike everywhere. It's so easy to hike here,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the weather so comfortable, the food is so good, that
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: people are so cool, there's so many great things here.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It'd be easy to settle down here, but gotta continue on.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I guess there's the wedding I have to get to anyway.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: That'll be interesting. I get to wear a what's called
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: buccaload No, that's a that's the name of the town. Uh.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: There's a cool traditional Filipino dress shirt that I'm looking
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: forward to buying and wearing to the wedding. It's like,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it's like a nice button down shirt with traditional designs
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: on it that I think is gonna look pretty cool. Oh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So I was getting a link for somebody from my podcast,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and usually I just type into Google or whatever my
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: podcast name and it pops up and then I choose
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the whichever episode I need. But this time an AI
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: search result popped up and said bit of a Rambler
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: or the stories of Kai a Traveler but blah blah blah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And I was like, whoa, Because it's the first time
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I've been familiar enough in the Google search results that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: it can generate an AI paragraph about me. So that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: was kind of cool and mildly disconcerting. AI is really
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: just such slop. I really dove into it. I was
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: interested in AI lms and they're just they're just not
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: They don't give good information. They give some words and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: then they fill in the blank with words that sound
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: correct but do not have to be correct. So I'm
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: not huge. I switched to duc dout go so it
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't have a default AI search answers, which I mean
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I switched to that years ago, but they're still not
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: super big on AI, although if you want to, you
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: can click for AI assist on Ductugo. It's your choice. Anyway,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I thought that was really funny that AI answered about
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: my podcast. Okay, the Johnny Warrickers series of movies pretty
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: good the first one, The first one was good. The
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: second one was one of the worst, just terrible. It
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was absolutely terrible. It was so boring and meandering compared
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to the first one. And then the third one was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: fun but still felt a little dumbed down, even though
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: it was all back in Britain spy movies. I don't
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: even want to talk about them. The first one was
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: funny enough to watch and Rachel Weiss's fantastic. The second
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: one I was like, oh no, it was terrible, and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: then the third one was fine and it ended well,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: but it was a little boring. Compared to the first
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: one that had good writing. I got a massage. There
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: was an outdoor like business fair going on outside the university,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and after I ate my sandwich, I stumbled upon this
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: fair and I was walking around. There was an outdoor
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: like massage chair and I was like, oh, that's funny,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and I've never done that before. And then my brain
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, you've never done that before, and I
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, and I never had an like
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: massage from Peru either. So I went over and asked
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and it was four bucks, and I strapped in and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I got a massage and it was very comfortable, totally
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: worth four dollars. Neck massage, shoulder massage, all the whole
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: back massage, and butt massage. They like knee yr glutes also,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and then they used like this massage machine and just
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: do a quick thing and then they do another quick
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: shoulder and neck massage. But it was like a good
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: twenty minutes probably, and yeah, very comfortable. It was just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a very nice massage, and I was very happy, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I said thank you, and I forgot my hair tie
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: on the table when I had taken it off. Oh,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: because it was a head massage too, which is bomb,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: which is the best, and she ran over and gave
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: me the hair tie. I did give her a tip
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of five soles, which apparently was very nice. But then
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: afterwards I was walking around all chill and relaxed from
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: this massage, and one of the drunkest people I have
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: seen in years, maybe because I live outside of the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: tourist center. But he could not stand up. His hair
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: wasn't quite disheveled. He looked a bit fancy. He was
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: like wearing a fancy suit jacket and all this stuff,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: but his eyes were not connecting with the world around him.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: But he saw me and locked on. He's like, hey,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I'm a diego or whatever, and held out his hand
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and he spoke very good English. So I talked to him,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: but he couldn't remember what he was saying since one
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: sentence to the next. He was waiting for his girlfriend,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: is the story I got. And they were going to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: go to a bar, and did I want to go
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: with them? Now, I've been being pretty healthy lately with
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: not drinking, just taking a break from drinking again, so
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I declined. Otherwise I totally would have done that. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: would have gone with him and his girlfriend, who I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: get he was waiting for her to get dressed or something.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: She lived in the dorms at the university. But that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: would have been a difficult evening to stumble through because
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: it was barely six pm and he was sh wasted.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: He could not stand up straight for any length of time.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: He kept like falling back on his ankles, like he
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: leaned close in when he was talking. He was just schnockered.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it was okay. I sidestepped that social invitation.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I found out that my favorite supermarket, La Canasta, is
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: not in Lima, so I had to get all the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: smoked ribs now because I don't know if the supermarkets
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: are gonna have as good smoked ribs as they have
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: in Lacanasta. Maybe I should get ribs today for the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: last time. Actually, that would be pretty good because I
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: like them. That's the whole reason. I don't know. I'll
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: think about it. I've had a bunch. They're great. I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: don't need them. But I am sad that there's no
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Lacanasta in Lima because it's like the local supermarket, and
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: it's just I don't know. Maybe it's just because it's
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the first one I went to. So I feel some
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: kind of connection to it. Oh, I went down a hike. Hike,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I went down a walk down this like very nice
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: walkway they have here in Cusco on one of the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: main streets, Cultura Via de la Cultura whatever Culture street,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and very long street. But in the middle of the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: lanes of traffic, there's a very wide, like twenty feet
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: wide pedestrian lane and bike lane that you can walk down.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And I was just one day, I just decided to
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: walk as far down as I could because I have
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: time and I liked walking down that road, so I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: just went. And when I was walking there was it
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: was all good. I saw new businesses and it was
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: an interesting walk. And then before I got to the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: end of the road, but like maybe a couple miles down,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: my bluetooth started cutting out. And that is weird because
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: it basically never has before or very rarely has before.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: But here, no matter what I did, no matter where
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I positioned the phone, the bluetooth just kept cutting out.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And I was like dang, and I just kept walking
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: because I didn't know what was going on. And then
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: on the walk back, I realized there was a huge
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: like prison. No wait, it wasn't a prison. It was
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: some huge government building, and I realized that my bluetooth
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: was getting blocked anytime I walked by that building. Now
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I was like a football field away or more from
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: that government building, so I wasn't exactly close, but walking
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: by it definitely it was. That building always blipped up
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: my bluetooth. So there's some they have some kind of
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: bluetooth blocker there and I got caught in it. So
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I don't walk that far down Avenita de la Cultura
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: anymore because I don't want my bluetooth to blip out.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: But I thought that was really weird. And when I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: passed by it, there was like another part of town
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: down there, and when I passed by the building and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: was like one hundred meters past, there was no problems
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: with the bluetooth. I thought it was That night there
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: was a huge dust storm and lightning storm, and I
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, it must have been that interference. But
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I found out when I went back the next day.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I paid a lot of attention when it started cutting
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: out again on a clear day and I noticed this
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: government building, this large government building on the north side
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: of Cultura, and I think that's what's doing. I think
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: they're blocking my tunes and podcasts. So that was weird
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: but kind of cool. Okay, I went to Singorena Kocha.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I went to Lake Singorna Kocha sing Rena Coacha means
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: mermaid in Ketchua. Gosh, that's probably a whole episode by itself. Also, yeah,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: that's gonna take up a ton of time, so I'll
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: probably make that into a full episode. But that was awesome.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: That was That was a three hour bus ride, found
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: a guy to drive me over to the town for
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: like twenty minutes, and then walked to this crazy lake.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Then there's a hail storm. Yeah, go listen to the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Singarana Kocha episode if you want that full story, because
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that was pretty interesting. Tons of alpacas, little little creatures,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they were. Yeah, I'll have to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: do a whole episode about that because that'll take a
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: long time to talk about. But if you're in per Te,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: whatever you do. If you're if you're like, man, I
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: want to go explore all the stuff Peru has to offer.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Lake sing Rena Kocha is about as beautiful a place
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: as I have ever seen. And it's higher. It's like
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand feet or sixteen thousand. So it's pin drop
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: silent in those mountains and there's nothing, nothing over there.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: It's wild. It's just all like in. It's so cool,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: so cool glacial mountains. Great great place, great hike. That
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was an all day trip and that was so worth it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Oh the crazy guy on the way back. Yeah, you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: should go listen to that episode because it'll take all
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: it'll just take too long to talk about here. This
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: is for this, for the wrap up of the weeks.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: But I did go to Lake sing Reanokocha. It's incredibly turquoise,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: bright blue, like no water you've ever seen, and all
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the colors sort of shift together. Amazing. Sorry I punched
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the mic. Oh, there are a lot of Christmas tree
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: mountains here. I see a whole bunch of Christmas tree
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: looking trees on mountains in strict serrated rows, serrated strict rows,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and there's hundreds of them on each face of the mountain.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: So I guess, I guess those are tree farms, because
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you know what, they had Halloween, so they probably have
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Christmas here also, And yeah, maybe they really are tree farms.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I noticed them on mountain sides. But when I went
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: out to climb lakes, run a coach. A whole bunch
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of the mountains out there just had hundreds, maybe thousands
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of Christmas trees just going all the way up the mountain.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool to see just a bunch of Christmas trees,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: especially close to Christmas Glacier Rock. There's a whole bunch
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: of mountains. That was crazy. My other friends are getting married,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: my Filipino friends. I mentioned, well, one's Chinese, one's Filipino
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and they already have a kid, but they're like, let's
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: do this marriage thing too, baby, And so they're gonna
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: do that, and I get to flip flap over and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: check out the wedding. Yeah, I'm excited about going over there.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: And it was funny. Someone sent me a message before
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I climbed to that lake Singarandakocha, But because it's in
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, there's no signal, so I didn't
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: have any signal walking up there. And then when I
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: walked back down, my friends who are having a wedding
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: in the Philippines message to me and told me the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: dates and all this and were coordinating with me. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: then my longtime friend from Beijing, one of the oldest
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: friends I have from Beijing announced to me while I
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: was out of signal range for the only like three
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: hours I've been out of signal range or five hours
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: or whatever the whole time I've been in Peru. They
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: messaged me while I was at lakes and around Kocha
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to tell me that she was getting married. She was
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: very excited about that, and we talked, and then I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: got another message from another wedding guy actually who's having
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a wedding later next year, and he was confirming with me.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him in in months, So I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: just got a flurry of messages while I was at
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Mermaid Lake and for the first time in a long
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: time and completely out of signal. That's happened a few times.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, just being out of signal and cusco, I
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: guess because like on top of Pikole, actually no pikole
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: had signal, but on top of one a COWRII there
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: was no signal. You go into a bunch of mountains
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: at sixteen thousand feet, signal kind of drops off, especially
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: if you're inside a valley or something. Oh and the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Chinese friend who's getting married, she's having a baby too,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: so she was pretty excited to tell me about that,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and yeah, that was my trip. I went on this crazy,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: crazy hike to a magical lake and had a whole
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: bunch of messages when I got off the mountain. That
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was pretty funny. I watched the movie Jill Rips in
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a well maybe a day after that or something, crazy easy,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: weird movie with Dolph Lundgren that I could not believe
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  Speaker 1: was made in two thousand. When I was watching the movie,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is so weird because he looks old.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: But this movie's clearly from like eighty two. It's clearly
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: a nineteen eighties movie. Maybe maybe nineteen ninety, but probably
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: like nineteen eighty two or something. And then I checked
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  Speaker 1: it after I watched it, and it said two thousand,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and I was like, are you insane that The Matrix
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: came out in nineteen ninety nine. This movie looks like
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: it could have been almost in the sixties, to be
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: perfectly honest, except I know Dolph Lunngren couldn't have been
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: alive back then. He wouldn't have been that old back then.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: But I was blown over. This is the oldest looking
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  Speaker 1: movie made in two thousand I have ever seen. No
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: comparison at all. It is nuts, it looks it looks
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  Speaker 1: old and made for two TV. Uh fun to watch,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: interesting performances. The story made zero sense. No talk of
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  Speaker 1: a pivotal character, her mom that they've talked about the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: whole movie arrives at the house. You don't see her face.
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  Speaker 1: She interacts with other people, so she's real. And then
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: and then a character's like, oh, yeah, that was Irene's mom.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: But Irene's mom is supposed to have been killed like
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: thirty years ago, and nobody questions that line in the movie.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: It just shows up, Oh yeah, that was Irene's mom.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: This dead character who's pivotal on the entire movie revolves
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: around her death and never explained, never doesn't make any sense.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: So many things that movie made zero sense. It was
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: such a bizarre movie and funny enough to watch most
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: of the time because it's so fricking weird. Yeah, good movie.
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  Speaker 1: Let's end on a sandwich because there's this sandwich place
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  Speaker 1: that I like, and I got the Hamburger patty. They
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: do the mixed to meat here, so they don't do
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  Speaker 1: like just a steak patty. They do ground beef with
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of tasty spices and vegetables mixed in,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a lot softer than regular ground beef or
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: just strictly only ground beef, and there's more flavors inside
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  Speaker 1: and it crisps up better when you fry it. It's great.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And I got one of those, and then I got
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: two of those, and then I went back and I
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: got my monster sandwich and I posted about it on lemone.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I said, I'm not messing around this time, guys, because
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I had already posted my other sandwiches, which were popular.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: But this time I went there and I was like,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna need everything. I need a beef patty, I
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: need the calibraise of sausage. I need a fried egg,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I need cheese, and I need my cabbage onions, Rokoto
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  Speaker 1: and Dahi sauce or Ahi daho aho is garlic and
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Ahi is the Rocoto pepper cream sauce. I got all
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: that stuff and it was so it was a monster sandwich.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: My stomach was like, good god, man, this is crazy
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  Speaker 1: and I'm happy. I'm happy. I was happy with that sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: I ate it. It was perfect. It tasted so freaking good,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and yeah, let me was pretty excited. To hear about
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: that sandwich also and see it. Okay, there's other cool
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  Speaker 1: stuff I will talk about soon, and I'm excited to
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: talk about. It's Christmas time. That's a hint, so I
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: will catch you on the flippityflops. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for listening. It's so fun doing this thing still, and
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to when I'm like ninety and go
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  Speaker 1: back to listen to these stories and be like, who
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: is that? So yeah, you can talk to me a
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: bit of a rambler at gmail dot com or bit
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: of a Rambler on le Me and blue Sky. Hope
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: your day's going well. I will talk to you soon