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060 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 we're going to bran Boulogne. So I'm in Cousco, Peru,
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  Speaker 1: which absolutely rocks. It's dusty. That's my only complaint for
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  Speaker 1: the city. And I mean they're doing a ton of
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  Speaker 1: construction in my neighborhood, specifically San Sebastian. So but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's generally dry because we're at eleven thousand, six
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  Speaker 1: hundred feet or whatever it is. And yeah, I can
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  Speaker 1: say whatever it is because you can climb a mountain
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  Speaker 1: for the extra few hundred feet if I'm minus a
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  Speaker 1: few hundred or plus a few hundred. But I've been
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  Speaker 1: digging Cusco a lot, and no small part of that
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  Speaker 1: is my absurd apartment. I have had that problem with Airbnb,
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  Speaker 1: which Airbnb reached out to fix themselves, and they found
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  Speaker 1: me this place and gave me a fifty dollars credit
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  Speaker 1: or something because it was fifty dollars above what I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to pay, and so I got this place and
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  Speaker 1: it's a three bedroom, two bathroom, huge living room, huge
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  Speaker 1: full kitchen, and a washing machine and like a laundry
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  Speaker 1: room as well, it's pretty palatial. It doesn't have floor
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  Speaker 1: to ceiling windows, but it has like waste to ceiling
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  Speaker 1: windows in two of the rooms and one of the
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  Speaker 1: bedrooms and one of the in the living room. Giant
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  Speaker 1: flat screen TVs, hardwood flooring, tiled flooring, tiles, everything's new,
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  Speaker 1: it's very nice. It's very nice living here. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is four hundred dollars a month, which is more
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  Speaker 1: expensive than I like to pay for apartments usually, But
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  Speaker 1: if you're used to living in someplace like the US,
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  Speaker 1: you can understand that this is a pretty solid fine.
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  Speaker 1: Except I just found another apartment that looks as big
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  Speaker 1: in the listing and it's one hundred dollars cheaper. So
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  Speaker 1: three hundred is what I like to pay for a
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  Speaker 1: nice private apartment usually. And I'm going to move to
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  Speaker 1: a different apartment next week or something. And yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to see what that one's like because it has
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  Speaker 1: the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms, giant living room.
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  Speaker 1: It looks amazing, and it's only three hundred instead of
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  Speaker 1: four hundreds. It's actually a little less than three hundred
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  Speaker 1: per month. So Kusko Wow certainly has some nice lodging
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of and if I didn't get one
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  Speaker 1: of these apartments that I would have been fine, because
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  Speaker 1: there are tons of hotels and motels and living apartments
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  Speaker 1: that you can directly rent from the locals, and directly
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  Speaker 1: rent apartment buildings here, especially in the neighborhood I'm in
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  Speaker 1: sound Sebastian. Oh that I do live not too far
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  Speaker 1: away from the airport, so you might hear an airplane
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  Speaker 1: landing now and then, but I mean it's pretty quiet.
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  Speaker 1: I still work overnight, so that it's just easier for
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  Speaker 1: me to do any audio work. But yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: a nice comfortable place for me to live. The beds
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  Speaker 1: are very comfortable. I hope the beds in this new
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  Speaker 1: place are as comfortable as the beds in this first place,
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  Speaker 1: because they're pretty comfortable here. And what else is really
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  Speaker 1: nice about Cousco is that it's quite chilly a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the time, especially at night. The temperature plungers really quickly,
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  Speaker 1: so there are really thick comforters that are good because
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  Speaker 1: I can use them for audio work. They're great at
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  Speaker 1: trapping sound, and also they're super comfortable to snuggle up in.
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  Speaker 1: And I am spending a lot more time in bed
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  Speaker 1: than I normally do. If I'm not out exploring the ruins,
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  Speaker 1: which I do like to do, or I'm not doing
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  Speaker 1: audio work or playing video games for the Patreon, I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably cozying up in my bed with the comforter, reading
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  Speaker 1: a book or playing on Lemy or browsing whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: just hanging out swathed in this very soft cocoon. Who's
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  Speaker 1: speaking of which, Hollow Night is the next video series
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  Speaker 1: for Patreon, So that's cool. Yeah, I'm going to launch
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  Speaker 1: a Patreon. I'm building up some content for it first
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  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 1: But in the beginning, I'm just going to play some
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  Speaker 1: video games and tell some stories and we can just
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  Speaker 1: kind of hang out while I'm playing the video games.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be live streaming. I can just upload them
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  Speaker 1: directly to Patreon, apparently, the videos and stories that I'll
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  Speaker 1: be recording, so that'll be fun. I know I should
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  Speaker 1: look into Twitch, and I still haven't, but people keep
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  Speaker 1: telling me about it. So just like people kept telling
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  Speaker 1: me to start a podcast for ten years and that
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  Speaker 1: if I only did so, maybe I'll look into Twitch
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  Speaker 1: in a decade or something. Yeah, So this crazy new
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  Speaker 1: giant apartment. I mean, the shower is very spacious. The
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  Speaker 1: shower is bigger than the last bathroom I had when
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  Speaker 1: I was living in Columbia, like just the shower part
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  Speaker 1: of the bathroom, and they're not huge huge, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a very comfortable shower and a very comfortable bathroom. And
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  Speaker 1: there are two of them. I only use one. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to clean anything, you know, And I only
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  Speaker 1: use one bedroom also, But it's just nice having all
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  Speaker 1: this space. It's actually a little I don't need the
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  Speaker 1: extra bathrooms or bedrooms, but if I'm getting the bedrooms,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just getting them for free. So even though I
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  Speaker 1: don't use them, and I'm just walking from the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: to the living room back to the bedroom. I like
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  Speaker 1: the best, which is the one most isolated from the roadway.
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  Speaker 1: It's just nice having yeah this space, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: more crafty, like I've been doing stuff. I made my
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  Speaker 1: water filter. Did I talk about that? Oh man, Okay, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: I have a giant new apartment. There are windows. It's
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  Speaker 1: lovely if you want to live very very very comfortably.
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  Speaker 1: Kusto Peru Cousco Peru is a place with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of very nice apartments for you to choose from and
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  Speaker 1: to live inside for three hundred two four hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: three hundred dollars a month. So I got this giant one,
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  Speaker 1: but all the regular, really nice private apartments are also
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  Speaker 1: three hundred dollars or less. I just happened to get
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  Speaker 1: the palace accidentally. So if you're gonna start moving around
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  Speaker 1: and you like mountain towns especially, I mean, Cousco's great,
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  Speaker 1: and all the food here is so good. I finally
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  Speaker 1: started trying some of the local foods. I'll get into
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  Speaker 1: that a bit later. I just wanted to say that
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  Speaker 1: I moved. When I saw the listing for this apartment,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, it can't be that huge as
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  Speaker 1: it looks in the pictures, because they always, like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Airbnb listings, take a picture from the corner
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  Speaker 1: of a room, so a room looks bigger, and these
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  Speaker 1: rooms looked huge. The living room is enormous. The living
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  Speaker 1: room is larger than most apartments I rent on Airbnb,
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  Speaker 1: just the living room by itself, and so I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: it can't be that big. And then I moved in
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  Speaker 1: and it was even bigger than it looked in the pictures,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, holy moully cow duty pie and Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just can't get over the size of this place,
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  Speaker 1: and I just want to share that. Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: rent really nice giant places in Cusco, Peru if you
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  Speaker 1: want to do a quick flight down here three hundred
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  Speaker 1: bucks a month, like goodbye financial stressors. There's plenty of
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  Speaker 1: room for activities. So this is my nice new apartment.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to go around looking because if this
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  Speaker 1: place is available for three hundred, then if I go
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  Speaker 1: ask the hotels in town for a monthly rental, I'll
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  Speaker 1: probably be able to find a place, a very comfortable
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  Speaker 1: private apartment for about one hundred dollars a month based
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  Speaker 1: on what I know about housing prices. But there's just
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  Speaker 1: no need to you know, I'm paying three hundred bucks
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  Speaker 1: a month. I have pretty good sound isolation, I have
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  Speaker 1: a comfortable audio setup. I'm comfortable. I don't I'm not dying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not financially struggling like I would be if I
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  Speaker 1: was in the United States. So I'm willing to pay Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: probably one hundred and fifty two a couple hundred extra
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  Speaker 1: dollars a month for this nice apartment that is perfectly
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  Speaker 1: accessible to you as well, and anybody listening to this.
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  Speaker 1: They're just available apartments on Airbnb. You can buy them
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  Speaker 1: right away. So let's move on. I wrote down, I
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  Speaker 1: want to mention my bottle bidet is still with me.
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  Speaker 1: I love my bottle bidet. That's just a water bottle,
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  Speaker 1: little hole poked right under the cap area on the
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  Speaker 1: neck of the bottle, and then it shoots out a
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  Speaker 1: thin scream of stream of water when I squeeze the bottle.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a bidet. And it's the same bottle bidet
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  Speaker 1: that I originally made back in Panama. I think I
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  Speaker 1: originally made it. And it's still working, great good plastic
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  Speaker 1: bottle designed Desani. It's still holding up, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so happy with it. I'm so happy I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to mess with toilet paper and I feel very hygienic
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  Speaker 1: using a bidet, And I love that now it was
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  Speaker 1: easier to choose this apartment and other apartments without even
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  Speaker 1: worrying about what the bathroom looked like, because if I
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  Speaker 1: have a bidet, that makes my bathroom five star. And
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  Speaker 1: now I have a bottle bidet, so every bathroom I
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  Speaker 1: go to, even public ones here, have a bidet. Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm carrying my bottle with me, fill up the bottle
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  Speaker 1: with water from the sink, use a bidet. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: If I go to the mall or whatever. I don't
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  Speaker 1: go to them all, but if I wherever I go,
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  Speaker 1: if there's a bathroom, now I have a bidet with
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  Speaker 1: me all the time. It's truly wonderful. It really is
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  Speaker 1: an improvement in my already quite comfortable quality of life.
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  Speaker 1: So bottle bedet thumbs up. Streams out. So there are
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  Speaker 1: tons of local breweries here. There's a lot of artismal
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  Speaker 1: like craft beers, and then there's a couple like there's
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  Speaker 1: like three main big breweries just in the city of Cusco.
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  Speaker 1: And a guy told me yesterday that if I go
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  Speaker 1: to them on the weekends, I can try their beer.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the weekend today, so I might do that
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  Speaker 1: after I go get some lunch and walk around today.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite one so far is called seven Vetas seven
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  Speaker 1: Lives and seven Lives cat a lot of countries. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I found out, say seven lives instead of nine lives
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  Speaker 1: for cats. And I don't know why, but this seven
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  Speaker 1: Beatas beer is really good. My favorite one is the
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  Speaker 1: quene Wa seven Vitas beer, it's quene waw. I can't remember,
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  Speaker 1: but it's really cool that cats like wearing a Peruvian hat.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a delicious beer. I climbed a mountain
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  Speaker 1: over to overlook Cusco and drank this tasty see that
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  Speaker 1: they vit us beer. And then I drank a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of pilsner yesterday or a few days ago, and that
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  Speaker 1: was not as good. And then I drank the dorata
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  Speaker 1: which was very good. But yeah, I didn't drink too much.
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  Speaker 1: I drank like four beers when I was happy with
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  Speaker 1: the amount of food and beer I had. It was good. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: my list, I feel like I talked about some of
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  Speaker 1: this before, so I'm sorry. If I have, I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'll try and go through real quick. Have I I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure? Anyway. I was introduced to this apartment and
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  Speaker 1: shown around by this guy named Percy, and he asked
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  Speaker 1: me what I did for a living. He showed me
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  Speaker 1: around the apartment really funny too. He said this is
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  Speaker 1: a bedroom, and then he took me down the hall
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  Speaker 1: and he says, this is a bedroom, and then took
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  Speaker 1: my third one and did the same thing. Did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with the bathrooms too. This is a bathroom
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  Speaker 1: and they took me. He was like, come come home,
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  Speaker 1: this is a bathroom. It's like okay, great, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And he asked how many people were with me, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, just me, just me, living in this
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  Speaker 1: giant palace. And Percy asked me what I did for
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  Speaker 1: a living. And it's really difficult to explain to people
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  Speaker 1: that I don't have a job really anymore, that I'm
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  Speaker 1: just living off passive income from investments after saving all
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  Speaker 1: my money teaching English. That's not something most people understand,
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  Speaker 1: especially coming from a younger appearing person. And so I
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  Speaker 1: just told Percy, well, I teach English, and he was like, ah, great, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you can teach me English. You and I can talk.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't want to, but I had to say,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I'm just this is my vacation. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: vacationing now, so no teaching English. And he was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you can teach me sometimes and we can talk and
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  Speaker 1: I can learn some English. And I had to be like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to teach any English. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: vacation for me right now. So it is and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh okay, and that's why I have to come up
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  Speaker 1: with a better job title to tell people so that
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  Speaker 1: I don't become obligated to teach everyone English. They just yeah,
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  Speaker 1: people think time is free, and I like my time.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I have so much time now is because
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  Speaker 1: I spent so much time and effort devoted to getting
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  Speaker 1: more time for myself. So I want that time for myself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to spend it teaching people English full free.
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  Speaker 1: His English was pretty good already anyway. And also, it's
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  Speaker 1: my time, it's my time, it's my vacation time, Percy.
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  Speaker 1: He was a nice guy though, and we talked a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and then he eventually left me alone. I
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  Speaker 1: got to settle in and everything, and I walked around
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  Speaker 1: the apartment checking just making sure everything was working. And
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  Speaker 1: I walked into one of the bedrooms and when I
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  Speaker 1: walked out, I closed the door by standing on the
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  Speaker 1: outside of the door and pulling it closed. And when
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  Speaker 1: I pulled it closed in the doorframe, the door got
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the doorframe, like it wouldn't close all the
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: way into the doorframe, and the doorknob came off in
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  Speaker 1: my hand, and I was like, oh, oh no, what.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those perplexing moments because everything is
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  Speaker 1: very solid. I checked the other doors, all the other
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  Speaker 1: doors in the apartment if that was like a problem
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  Speaker 1: with Peruvian doorknobs, but they all held very strong. They
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  Speaker 1: were normal Peruvian They were normal doorknobs. They didn't fall
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  Speaker 1: all apart in your hands. But this one bedroom just
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  Speaker 1: had a bum and it was only one side. The
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  Speaker 1: other side didn't fall out when one side fell out
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  Speaker 1: or one side was pulled off, it was just that
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  Speaker 1: side of the doorknob was very easy to pull off, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and I was so surprised. I just messaged the people,
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  Speaker 1: the hosts, like, hey, your doorknob fell off, and I
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  Speaker 1: sent them a picture. And then right after I messaged them,
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  Speaker 1: I figured out that if I twisted the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the doorknob and then slid it in, then it
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  Speaker 1: would like lock back into place. It was still easy
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  Speaker 1: to pull out, but I could put the doorknob back in,
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  Speaker 1: And so I messaged them, I don't need help fixing it.
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  Speaker 1: I've already reattached the doorknob. I just wanted to let
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  Speaker 1: you know. And the host here, for some reason, just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't respond directly to the messages. I'm saying. They just
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  Speaker 1: have a one sided conversation basically, so she sent back, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're sending help immediately, and I wrote back again, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: no problem, I've already fixed it. You don't need to
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  Speaker 1: send any help. And she wrote back, Percy is coming
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  Speaker 1: right now, and I was like, okay, so it's only
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  Speaker 1: like ten minutes later or something. And Percy knocks on
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  Speaker 1: the door. Hey, and I take him to see the doorknob,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and I give it to him and he looks at
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  Speaker 1: it and he does this very common thing when something
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  Speaker 1: breaks in an apartment. If they don't want to fix it,
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  Speaker 1: they attach it and then like treat it very delicately
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  Speaker 1: and then go see, it's fine as long as you
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: treat it super super delicately. They don't say the delicate part,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: but they treat it very delicately. So he couldn't figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to reattach the doorknob, and so I showed
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: him if you turn this and then push it in,
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  Speaker 1: let this go and push it again, it'll click into place.
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  Speaker 1: He's like oh, and then he very slowly and delicately
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  Speaker 1: closed the door and he saw the doorframe, and I
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  Speaker 1: had already told him, like, the door gets stuck here
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  Speaker 1: on the doorframe. So he closed it on the doorframe
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, it gets stuck on the doorframe,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like yep, and he pulled it, and
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  Speaker 1: he just pulled it super super slow and holding on
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  Speaker 1: to part of the doorknob. It like bolted to the door,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: not just the doorknob, so it wouldn't pull right off.
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  Speaker 1: He did pull it off himself the first time, and
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  Speaker 1: then the second time he just closed really delicately, and
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  Speaker 1: then when he was done, he turned to me and
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  Speaker 1: spread his hands and I was like, see, it's okay,
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  Speaker 1: just pull slowly. It's fine, it's not broken. I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I know I fixed it already and I told you
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  Speaker 1: about that, but thank you very much. And he didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave right away. He asked me if I the couch
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  Speaker 1: was okay and if the kitchen was okay, and it's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: all fine, like it all is fine. I told him
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: everything else was working fine. He's like, okay, so, so
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  Speaker 1: what you doing And I was like, oh, you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: just getting settled in, just trying to decide where I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go. He's like yeah, that's good, and then
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: he walked away from me toward the living room, like
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: not toward the exit. Like toward the windows of the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: living room. He's like, ah, come here, so this is
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Ana and he told me the name of the road
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: and I was like cool, cool, that is the market
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  Speaker 1: over there. You can buy vegetables, you could buy fruit,
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  Speaker 1: you could buy chicken. Market right there and I was
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: like cool. He's like, ah, see see that, and I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: looked down at the road. He was pointing to a bus.
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  Speaker 1: That is a bus. You can take the bus up
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  Speaker 1: to Avenido. So oh, and he just listed a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of places. I was like, great, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Good to know. And there are a lot of buses
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  Speaker 1: on this road, so it is really easy and there
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  Speaker 1: are all only one soul, which is really cool. So
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  Speaker 1: you can just hop on any bus or I can
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: just hop on any bus, pay one soul and get
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  Speaker 1: to any part of the city and even to the
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  Speaker 1: bus station, so I can get to other cities for
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: one soul or thirty cents less than thirty cents, almost
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: twenty five cents whatever, close to thirty cents. And I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: let him talk for like ten minutes before I said, well,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go. I can't remember, I'm going to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: go shower. I'm going to go set something up, have
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a good day, and he left eventually, and then he
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: hasn't insisted on coming by and like saying hello and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: having conversations every day. So that was nice. But the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: host said the same thing to me after she met
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: me and we talked for a little while in Spanish.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: She was like, so, can I come by and you
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: teach me English? You can just teach me English. I'll
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: learn very fast. And I was like, that's cool. I'm
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: not going to teach any English while I'm here though,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to vacation. She's like, oh, okay, that's fine.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: So I have avoided my teaching responsibilities. The new people
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: might ask also, but by that time, by the time
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I move in, I'm going to say I'm something else.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say I'm a writer or a podcaster.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll just say I'm a podcaster. That's popular enough now.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Probably everyone knows what a podcaster is now, regardless of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the country therein. So I climbed this mountain and there's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a nature reserve near this nice apartment I have, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it takes I don't know, ninety minutes something like that
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to get to the entrance of the nature reserve. Itself,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: probably closer to an hour. Actually it didn't take that long,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: but it was the first time I was going there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: So I was walking sort of meandering through all of
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the neighborhoods and checking out the local shops, seeing which
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: ones accepted visa and which ones don't. Which are most
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: shops here in Cusco don't accept visa cards, but some
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of them do, and you might have to pay a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: surcharge of like four point five percent, which I did
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: once for beer. But that's the only store that charges
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a surcharge. All the other places just charged the flat
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: SOLIS rate. And I have a no transaction fee credit card,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: so it just automatically transfers it with no extra fees.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty solid deal. But anyway, I was walking
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: up looking at all these different shops and I stopped in.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple snacks and some chips to climb
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  Speaker 1: into the nature reserve because I was like twenty minutes
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: away from the actual entrance into the forest, and a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of kids were getting out of school at
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the time. And I got up to the entrance to
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  Speaker 1: the nature reserve and there's a giant sign over the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: route that is on my map that said private property.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And then the main road I was walking on that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: wasn't the main entrance to the preserve had a pat
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that sort of veered off to the left that wasn't
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: covered by a sign, and I just walked out onto
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that because it didn't have a private property sign and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: maybe that giant sign didn't refer to the whole road
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and only that one path leading to the nature reserve.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Apparently it's private property. Someone bought it, so you can't
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: go up into there. As far as I understand by
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the sign, they had some details under the private property
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: propria da proibiada proi bi, the PROI bid, thea pre
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: via that something can't remember now it was a week ago.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: But that little trail that I did take instead led
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: up into some of the nature reserve, and I was
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: still able to walk in some of the forests, and
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I just listened to a podcast, and I looked over
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: all of Cusco and all of the mountains from a
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: very high elevation, and it was really cool just to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: be up there, eat some snacks, drinking. I think I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: got inca cola because I never tried that before. It's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the local popular so to hear. It is the color
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of urine and it tastes like fruit. Marrikuyi is yellow.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's like Marrakuyia based. Yeah, And I just had
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: snacks and drinks and walked along this mountain. I couldn't
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: go as deep as I wanted to, but it was
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: definitely a good hike, and I explored a lot of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood that I hadn't seen before, so it was
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. Still pretty good hike. My offline maps have
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: this site's feature and it just tells you all of
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the local sites that there are. And one of them
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: was called the Daniels House. So there was like ruins
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of Wakapunku and the ink and ruins of Hattoon in
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: like these different places. And then one was called Daniel's House.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And I was so curious about Daniel's house, so I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: marked it on my map, and on the way down
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: from the nature reserve, I walked through more neighborhoods that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I hadn't been to before and wound my way toward
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Daniel's house, which was a house. There was a house
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in that area. I guess that was Daniel's house. I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: so curious, like, did Daniel just add his house to
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: sites to See in Cusco or is it a historical
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: marker and my offline maps has a bad label for
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it or what it was. But I just thought that
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: was hilarious that Daniel's house was on the sites to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: See in Cusco category. Good for Daniel. There are a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: ton of Chinese restaurants here and I don't understand they're
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: very popular, but all of the prices are two to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: three times as expensive for the same food of the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Chinese restaurant because the Chinese restaurant doesn't cook Chinese specialties.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: They make chow fan, they make fried rice, and Peru
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: has chalfa, which is, you know, obviously an adopted word
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: loanword of chiw fan, the Chinese word for fried rice.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: But you can get lomo seltato chalfa, which is be
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: fried rie at any Peruvia and many Peruvian restaurants, or
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: you can get neuro chafan at a Chinese restaurant, which
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: is Lomo soltado chaufa, but it's going to be seventeen
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty solas and it's seven solas or eight solas
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: for Lomo soltado chaufa in the regular restaurants, and in
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the Chinese restaurants, most of them don't look Chinese, most
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of them look like local Peruvians. So I'm very I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: don't get why people go to the Chinese restaurants when
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: it's the same food and it costs so much more,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and that is the same in nearly every country I've
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: been to, Chinese food is incredible. Like in China, Chinese
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: food is very cheap. It's a dollar for a plate
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: of something, maybe two dollars for a plate of something,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: but you get a huge plate of something for one
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to two dollars. But every other country in the world,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: whatever the local food is, even if it's the same
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: as the Chinese food, the Chinese version, if it's in
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: a Chinese restaurant, it doesn't even have to be different food,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it costs two to three times as much. So here
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: there's all these signs, and it's eight dollars for a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: plate of local food, even if it's local Chinese food.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: But if it's a Chinese restaurant, it's listed as like
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I said, seventeen twenty five thirty way way more. It's perplexing.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know why every that happens in every country
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure why. Even more perplexing is that
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: they're usually popular. They are usually still packed with locals
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: who prefer to go to the Chinese restaurant instead of
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the local restaurant. I don't get it. Lomo s altato
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: so lomo saltato is marinated beef fried with fried rice
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: or white rice and usually chicha like this sweet corn
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: drink that's really tasty. You get so much food here,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the craziest. The last thing I had was called o
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: creolo and I didn't even order that. I ordered reste nartaigna,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: which is a different type of stewed beef, but I
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: ordered the stewed beef for seven soles. And for seven soles,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: which is less than two dollars, I got creole jo caldo,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: which is Creole soup with a bunch of spices and herbs,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and then quinois and a little bit of milk it
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: must be, and chicken and vegetables like this large beef stew,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a large bowl of local stew. That's the first course.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: And then also I got another huge plate of rice
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and vegetables and beef stew like stewed beef actually, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: with a little bit of stew on the side. So
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: these two huge things and a glass of chicha, that
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: good corn sweet drink that they give at every restaurant,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: at all the local restaurants anyway, you get all of
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that for seven solas for two dollars. And it's good too.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: It's good quality, it's fresh, it's tasty. It is very
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: tasty for seven solas. So I'm going to be eating
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a lot more local food lately. There's actually a place
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: with some chicken wings. Oh, I gotta find that old
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: lady with chicken wings. Maybe today. Maybe I'll do that today. Anyways,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the Chinese restaurants just struck me as odd because I
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: always see those in different countries where everything's more expensive.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: But I do not understand why. If I'm going to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: go to all the local foods I want to go to, though,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I will probably have to get cash at some point
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: because so few restaurants except credit cards in Cusco, especially
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in my neighborhood outside of the city, so I'll probably
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: take out some cash soon. There's a lot of civic
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: arias too. There's a civic area right across from here,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: which is just a place that sells savice and I
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: want to try it, because the first savici I got
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: here was seven sols, again, so very cheap, two dollars,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and I got a good amount of fish, a bunch
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of fried rice, a bunch of the Sevice sauce, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of vegetables two bucks and it was
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: absolutely delicious. So I kind of want to get more savice.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Try that out. I have ribs here listed. Have I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: not talked about the ribs in Cusco yet? That seems insane,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: But if in case I didn't, Cousco, because they're high
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: up in the mountains, does a bunch of smoked ribs
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and smoked meats, and the local ones are covered in
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: this very bright red ahipanka, which is the Peruvian chili pepper,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and I could eat. I eat so many of these.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I think I've got the ribs. Half of the days
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I've been here, at least, probably more, probably two thirds
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of the days i've been here, I've been eating the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: smoked ribs. They're all this smoked meats are pre cooked.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: They're pre cooked and then smoked and then covered with
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: this ahi ponka, and it's so delicious. Actually, the ahi
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: punk is first and then they smoke it because the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: ahi punk is like in the meat and it's dried,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: so they must have smoked it after they put it
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: on there. But it looks crazy because it's bright orange
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and so all the meat looks bright orange and red.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll just get I'll just get a rack
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of ribs and rip it apart. And it's pretty cheap.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: It's like forty for a kilogram, so less than twenty
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a pound, and that's six dollars about. So it's less
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: than six dollars a pound for smoked ribs. For a
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: pound of smoked ribs, probably closer to five because it's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a kilogram, so less than five dollars a pound for
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: smoked ribs. And they're so good, and I don't even
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: buy I'll only buy like ten solis off one because
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: even half a pound of smoked ribs is plenty of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: smoked ribs. It's a good amount because all the meat
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: has shrunk since it's dehydrated, so you still get a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: lot of meat. Oh man, talking about it just makes
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: me want to go get them again. Okay, if I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: don't get them today, I'm getting them tomorrow because yesterday
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I ate fried ribs, so they make good ribs here
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: for sure. In Cousco, they're doing it right. The other
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: dry meat that I found after that, I didn't even
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: realize they had was bacon, and that's twice as expensive,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: but it's still A five dollars bag of bacon is
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a huge amount of bacon. It's a lot of bacon.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: So I'll get a four or five dollars bag and
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that'll be like all my food for the huge thing
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: of bacon. I've been getting a lot of vegetables. I've
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: been making this really good vegetable mixed lately. I just
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: minced a whole bunch of different vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, onions, spinach,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and some greens, put them in, mix it up with uchakuta,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: this spicy Perufian pepper, sauce and mustard, mayo, just a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of like seasonings and all and condiments, and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: then I mix that up so it's kind of like
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a dip, and I get the locally made potato chips
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and eat that like a dip. Even though it's just vegetables.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: It tastes really good with a little bit of spicy
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: sauce and a little bit of mustard and then some
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: salt and hmm, it's great, that's what I ate. I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: have all these plans. I'm gonna go eat local food
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that I haven't eaten yet today, but I really want
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: to get that vegetable dish again too, and I don't
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: want to get the ribs. I gotta start running too,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: because my stomach scam bigger eating all this good food
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: all the time. So yeah, I might have to start
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: running again. It's nice that it's cold, so I'm like
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: burning more calories, but it's not that cold. I'm still
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: getting a belly. And I was so proud of how
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: fit I was in Columbia exercising, running and exercising every day.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I'm still keeping my push ups and sit ups going here,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: but I am not running as much. Fushow. Let's end
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: this weekly recap on the term chugless, which is from
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the Minecraft movie Chugless. It's like the funniest it's the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: name of the town in the Minecraft movie that all
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the characters are from. And I just cracked the frickin'
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: up listening to that word chugless because she says it
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to her younger brother, like, look, Chris, if you don't
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: like chugless, that doesn't matter, and I was like chuggless,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and I nearly spit out my beer that I was
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: sipping while watching it because that's such a funny word.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: So chuggless to you all. I hope I'm getting across
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: how fun Cusco is to hang out in, and I'll
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: be back with another weekly round up next week that
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: goes over my visit to the Inking Ruins that is,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: got some cool stuff there, got some cool stuff to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: talk about with the Incan Ruins. You can talk to
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: me a bit of a rambler at gmail dot com,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: or bit of a rambler on Blue Sky, or bit
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: of a rambler on Lemmy the one I'm on the most.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I will catch you guys on the flip side. Have
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a good rest of your day.