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008 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: Welcome to Ramble on my Casual Companion podcast. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: very happy to announce that everyone in Guatemala is born
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  Speaker 1: in spring. I think last week I mentioned that I
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  Speaker 1: already had a few people I knew who were born
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  Speaker 1: in spring, and if I met one more person who
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  Speaker 1: was also born in spring, late March or early April,
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  Speaker 1: then it would be done, like everybody was born in
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  Speaker 1: spring from that point on. And now I've met two people,
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  Speaker 1: the local grocery store worker Amil Karr, who proved the theory.
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  Speaker 1: So now it doesn't matter when you were born. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's on your driver's license or your
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  Speaker 1: passport or your Facebook. Whenever you were born in Guatemala.
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  Speaker 1: From now on, you were born in spring. Actually, three
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  Speaker 1: other people, the security guard today, late's spring June first,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, April May or one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: spring June first, that's a spring birthday. June fifth, now,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, you're blurring the lines, but June first,
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  Speaker 1: I think we can safely say that spring. So Guatemalans
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  Speaker 1: enjoy summer. Loven they are. They rise up in the
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  Speaker 1: fairest season like a crop of high altitude mayze, strong
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  Speaker 1: and nutritious. I actually did meet someone who said her
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  Speaker 1: birthday was in July or August or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But she told everyone when she was younger that her
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  Speaker 1: birthday was on April twenty second, because that's Earth Day spring.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we can all agree she just didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be the only person in Guatemala not born
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  Speaker 1: in spring. So it's wonderful to be around all these
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  Speaker 1: spring babies and to have discovered, like an undercovered, hard
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  Speaker 1: boiled sleuth, the truth about generational births in Guatemala. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm happy to report that everybody in this fair
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  Speaker 1: country is born in spring. I heard a funny joke
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  Speaker 1: about Catsaltenango. I'm going to Shelli soon, and the streets
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  Speaker 1: here in my neighborhood in Guatemala City are pretty narrow.
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  Speaker 1: But I've been told that shallow streets are so narrow
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus can't extend his arms all the way out.
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  Speaker 1: He has to go sideways and twist his body because
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  Speaker 1: the streets are too narrow for him to go full crucifix,
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  Speaker 1: which is really funny and that dogs don't walk across
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  Speaker 1: the streets in Jella, only up and down the streets
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  Speaker 1: because the streets are so narrow. So now I'm really
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  Speaker 1: excited to go because I love narrow streets and alleys.
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  Speaker 1: Who tongues in Asia and there's who tongues. There's alleys
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of different countries, but they're all different,
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  Speaker 1: like straight up looks like Aladdin, like there's no they're
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  Speaker 1: towering alleys and it looks like they're going to fall
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  Speaker 1: over at any moment, and they're really really narrow as well,
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  Speaker 1: so it feels kind of like foreboding a bit. Chinese
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  Speaker 1: alleys are extremely uniform and very short, so not as
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  Speaker 1: looming as other countries, and there's so much life within
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  Speaker 1: them all the time. There's a shop or a restaurant
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  Speaker 1: or a gamestall, or there's like everything just going on
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  Speaker 1: a little souper restaurant. There's always some sort of life
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  Speaker 1: going on. So they feel very safe and open and
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  Speaker 1: friendly because there's so much bustle going on in Chinese
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  Speaker 1: who tones all the time. Japanese hu tones just feel
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  Speaker 1: you know, cool. They clean organized, very quiet, but not
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  Speaker 1: in a creepy way. They're all also not very tall,
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  Speaker 1: and they're all very residential, but they're so organized that
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  Speaker 1: even their alleys are beautiful. So I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 1: these Shellis streets because the ones here near where I live.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's going to be kind of like this,
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  Speaker 1: because we do have really narrow streets out here in
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  Speaker 1: the furthest zone away from the city center, and they're
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  Speaker 1: still like Deli and there's kids playing soccer and there's
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  Speaker 1: bustle going on. So yeah, eager to go to Shella. See. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Burning Judas. So it's the week of the Saints Samana
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  Speaker 1: de la Santa, and they celebrate by dressing up as
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  Speaker 1: Roman soldiers and ceremonially chasing Judas down the streets. And
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  Speaker 1: I saw did I mention this last time? I saw
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  Speaker 1: like six different processions of these Roman soldiers and all
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  Speaker 1: different kinds of garbs chasing down ceremonially Judas. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see any of the running through the streets like I
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  Speaker 1: have heard there is. Yeah, still pretty cool to see
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  Speaker 1: all those processions I did see. I know this is
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  Speaker 1: new Burning Judas. So they make a scarecrow out of
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  Speaker 1: old clothes and stuff it full, and then the night
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  Speaker 1: or a couple nights after they burned this effigy they've
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  Speaker 1: made to yeah, make him pay for his sins, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: but I actually saw one of these stuffed judases. It
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  Speaker 1: just looked like a chubby, happy fella made of straw
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  Speaker 1: or grass, whatever the heck they stuff it with. I
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  Speaker 1: asked to stick around for the burning, and the guys
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  Speaker 1: that had built the effigy told me, yes, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do it right away. Do you want to take
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  Speaker 1: a picture. It's only twelve cats all, And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I'm okay, that's not a real person. Plus
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  Speaker 1: I had already taken a picture with my phone. But
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  Speaker 1: they were not sober, and I could tell because I'm
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  Speaker 1: an expert in not being sober. And it was five
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  Speaker 1: forty five and I was like, Hey, when are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna burn this thing? When are we going to light
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  Speaker 1: it up? And they said six o'clock. It's going at six.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'll hang out. And then I
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  Speaker 1: hung out at six and there was music playing. There
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  Speaker 1: was a big boombox next to Judas effigy sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the street corner, and then six came and went, and
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  Speaker 1: then it was six fifteen and this other family came
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  Speaker 1: by and they were like, hey, are you going to
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  Speaker 1: burn it? And they're like seven, definitely seven. I was like, oh, man, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and I hung out for a little while more, but
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  Speaker 1: then it didn't I don't know when they were going
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  Speaker 1: to do it, so I just left. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to wait all day waiting for someone to light a lighter.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen things on fire before, but that is a
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool tradition. Building a effigy and lighting it on
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  Speaker 1: fire seems pretty fun. Oh. I've been thinking about Laos
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  Speaker 1: constantly because they have new flavors at the ice cream
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  Speaker 1: spot that I've lived like right next to, so I
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  Speaker 1: get ice cream every single day and they usually have
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  Speaker 1: mango or strawberry or mania, which I think is peanut.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: I can't maybe it's not. Does anyone know mania? It
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  Speaker 1: tastes I don't know. Is that apple? I'm very confused
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  Speaker 1: by the taste of that. It's good, but it's I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It tastes very bland compared to the other
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  Speaker 1: strong fruit flavors. They just got in lime and mandarin,
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: and Mandarin's my favorite. I love orange flavored ice cream
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  Speaker 1: of any variety, and I've been getting double scoops every
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  Speaker 1: day because they got my new favorite flavors mandarin and lime. Now,
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  Speaker 1: but that's making really really homesick Laos sick for the
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  Speaker 1: Laosian handmade ice cream in the long probong that I
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  Speaker 1: got every day, and I would get like six scoops
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  Speaker 1: of that on the rag, four scoops pretty much every day.
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  Speaker 1: I hate way too much ice cream when I was
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  Speaker 1: living in Laos because the handmade ice cream there was
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: so good from this one shop. And if it wasn't
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: for finding out about Ecuador more, I might just go
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  Speaker 1: straight to Laos. But Ecuador, I was reminded, is named
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  Speaker 1: Ecuador because it's on the equator and they actually have
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  Speaker 1: a line there and apparently they set up a bucket
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  Speaker 1: and a water drain so that you can see the
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  Speaker 1: water spin in different directions depending on which side of
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  Speaker 1: the line you're on, which is insane, and so I
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  Speaker 1: think I have to go see that before I leave
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  Speaker 1: Central America and South America. Ecuador will be my first
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  Speaker 1: South American country. Also, they eat guinea pigs and cappy
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  Speaker 1: bear and Ecuador, which I've always wanted to do ever
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: since reading this book about owning a pet capy bearra
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  Speaker 1: and thinking it looked delicious and I really like that.
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  Speaker 1: I would also have a pad capy bearra, but I
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  Speaker 1: would also eat cappy bears that weren't pets, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to find a restaurant that serves pigs and cappy barras.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: And after I don't know a decade, when did that
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  Speaker 1: game come out? Last of Us two, oh, twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know it was that recent. I didn't play
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  Speaker 1: either of those. I didn't play the first one until
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  Speaker 1: like a decade after it came out, and then I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play this one until five years after it came out.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate spoilers so much. If someone just axe
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  Speaker 1: murders all the spoiler people who love spoiling things for
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  Speaker 1: absolutely no reason, it would be tragic and I'd be
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  Speaker 1: really sad about it, but on the inside there'd be
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  Speaker 1: a little little gratitude. So anyway, I finally played the
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  Speaker 1: Last of Us two because it came out on PC
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks back, and it's great. All I remember
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  Speaker 1: is that people were complaining about how Ellie was in
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  Speaker 1: his pretty I think, but she was like nine the
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  Speaker 1: first one, so that's awful. If that was your complaint
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  Speaker 1: about the game. I'm not really sure. I stayed away
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  Speaker 1: from every single online forum for like months after the
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  Speaker 1: Last of US two came out in twenty twenty because
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  Speaker 1: I just knew someone would be shouting some dumb spoilers
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  Speaker 1: and just ruining it. And the game is so good,
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  Speaker 1: the story is so interesting. I wanted to experience myself,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought they did spoil it. I happened to
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  Speaker 1: cross this one comment that mentioned spoiler, spoiler, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh no, and I like shut all the
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  Speaker 1: windows and like looked away, and I was like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: now that's spoiled for me. Oh well, but it was
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  Speaker 1: one big thing. But I was like, I can deal
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  Speaker 1: with this. I can still play the game. It's all right.
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  Speaker 1: But I just played it, and I misinterpreted what they wrote.
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  Speaker 1: I understand what they were actually saying now, and so
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  Speaker 1: none of the game was actually spoiled for me, and
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  Speaker 1: I had a flawless, amazing experience. The game looked amazing
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: on my computer, which I was kind of surprised about.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I've had this gaming laptop for years, so the sixteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty graphics card is kind of out of date at
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  Speaker 1: this point. But the game looked amazing and ran perfectly
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  Speaker 1: like I looked at low settings and high settings, and
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: it looks a little more realistic on the high settings.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't generally play the games for how realistic
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  Speaker 1: they can make foxglove flowers. I'm interested in the story,
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  Speaker 1: the mechanics, how fun it is to play, like what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the game. And the game still looked
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  Speaker 1: on its face great, like the details were. I can
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  Speaker 1: believe how good it looked on my computer. But then
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: the story itself was so great that it could have
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: looked way worse and I would have been just as
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: happy because I'm playing a game. I'm playing a visual,
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  Speaker 1: emotional representation of a story. How this team of developers
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: wanted to present this story, and they knocked it out
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  Speaker 1: of the park. For me, it's so much fun. If
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: you like games and you're not playing it for whatever reason,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: maybe because it's so popular, it can't be as good
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: as everybody says, just ignore what everybody says and play it.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: I love that they fixed the melee for the most part,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: melee durability a bat still breaks after like three hits,
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  Speaker 1: or a lead pipe that's way where they have like
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: lead pipes and steel pipes that you can use for
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: melee attacks, and those break after like four hits. It's
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: a lead pipe. Just I understand it would make the
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  Speaker 1: game a little easier if you always had a lead
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: pipe with you, because they do more damage than whatever
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: the regular punching or switchblade attacks are. But it's a
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: lead pipe. Pipes don't shatter into pieces after you beat
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  Speaker 1: someone a few times, trust me. Anyway, I had a
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  Speaker 1: very fun time playing The Last of Us two. That
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  Speaker 1: is a good game and shocking. I was surprised way
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: more than one time and made exclamations to myself like, oh,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: this is brutal. So it's a very surprising, beautiful, well made,
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  Speaker 1: very fun and fluid game. That's what I really liked too.
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  Speaker 1: All the mechanics work very well together, so you can
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: hop over a sofa and then run away as fast
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: as you can and dive into some bushes and hide
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: out until they're you know, if they can't find you
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: or not. The AI are pretty smart. It's yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a great game. I'm as satisfied as I possibly
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  Speaker 1: could have been, having waited half a decade for that game,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: and having waited a year or two after I played
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  Speaker 1: the first one to play the second one when it
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  Speaker 1: came out on PC, they knocked it out of the park.
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  Speaker 1: It was so good And I can't believe I avoided
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  Speaker 1: spoilers for like all the years in between those games
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  Speaker 1: coming out, and now I didn't. Nothing was spoiled. It
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  Speaker 1: was just a great story. In other news, I'm a
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: kets all, which is a bird with a long flowing tail,
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  Speaker 1: native to Guatemala. It's the national bird of Guatemala. My
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: they have astrological animals here also, but it seems more
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  Speaker 1: complicated than the Chinese astrological circle. But I'm a ketsal here,
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  Speaker 1: so makes sense why I'm digging this country. That's my
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: astrological totem animal in Guatemala, flappy bird with a big
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  Speaker 1: fancy But I'm a rabbit in China, which come man,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: could have been a dragon or a tiger. I felt
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: right in the middle, got a rabbit instead. And I
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: can't explain to you how many times someone in China
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  Speaker 1: would be, Ah, this explains so much, and then they
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: would say, see right here, you're super organized. You always
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: plan and I was like, that's not me at all.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I don't I've planned nothing, and they're like, that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually one hundred percent correct. Maybe it's because you're
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: a foreigner. That's probably that's why the stars mistook me.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: They were like, hey, he's on the wrong patch. I'll
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: land on that little blue dot. I think I talked
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: about Fleabag on both ramble On episodes. I'm just gonna
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: shout out because I finished watching it the other day
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: and that is such a good series. It has a
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: particular plot device that is unique to that show that
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I've never seen anywhere else. And if it's only six
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: episodes of season, there's two seasons. It's a great story.
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  Speaker 1: All the actors are great, all the humor is spot on.
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  Speaker 1: Everything just works so well together. It's very worth watching.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: And that one plot devices so unique and fun to see. Yeah,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you can tell how much I hate spoilers, talking in
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: circles around any actual mention of plot. There are two women, now,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: that's too much. There aren't I lied? There's more than
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: two women? Or aren't there less? You'll never know for me.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: You'll have to watch flea Bag yourself, and you should.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: It's so good. I'm going to give her second show
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a try. I've watched Flea Bag like ten times, and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: I still haven't watched the new one. Ice can't even
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: remember the name of the other one, but I'm going
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: to give that a whirl. Next. Oh man, I found
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: a phone. I found somebody's phone in my Uber and
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I stepped on it and looked like a tiny Nintendo switch,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and then I realized that was a phone case on
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: somebody's cell phone. And I was very confused because the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: driver had just called me, so I thought, oh, maybe
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: he like put down his phone, and then it fell
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: back here because I live upon a hill so like
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  Speaker 1: and back there. And then I picked it up and
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  Speaker 1: handed it to him and say, oh, your phone. And
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: then I realized he was already holding his phone and
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I was giving him someone else's phone, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: oh cool because he saw like the Nintendo switch thing,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, is it not yours? And
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, it's I think it was to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the last passengers and he's like, oh, I'll take it,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and I was like okay, but I already was like,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: oh man, wait wait a minute. And then I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably just he'll give it back, because you know
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: uber tracks, you like they know who was in your
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: car before me, so if you do just steal it,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: they'll be able to find you. But then, when we
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: were waiting in traffic because the traffic was terrible, the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: phone was receiving calls and he was just decline, decline, decline,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and we were sitting in traffic not doing anything. So
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: he could have answered and just said, hey, yes, the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Uber driver, I'll bring it back in a couple hours,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: like he could have said any reassuring message, but he
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: just kept hitting decline. So I am hoping that he
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: just hates using phones while driving. But you know what,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: he was using his phone while he was driving, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that was a problem. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to give that phone back. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: maybe why he was so delighted that I was in
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  Speaker 1: his cab. Also because I just gave him a hundred
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  Speaker 1: bucks basically, so I kind of felt bad about that.
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  Speaker 1: If I find any more phones, I'm not going to
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: give them to the Uber driver. I will call the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: person and try and return it myself. I'm sorry whoever
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  Speaker 1: had a Nintendo switch cover on your phone. I was
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: confused anyway by the cover, and then I just didn't think.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: In happier news, it rained again. Apparently we're entering the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: rainy season here, but it's still only raining, not often,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't last long either. And also that just
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: made more loosick again. I want to get back to Laos.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I want to get back to long Probong and watch
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the rain beat the crap out of the buildings there
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  Speaker 1: for like four hours. Man, I love rain storms. It
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: is cool here too to see them when it does rain.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: But I need more. I need monsoons. I need some
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: monsoon season. I upgraded the computer. I increased the Windows partition.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: By upgrade, I mean did nothing significant upgrade. I moved
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to the partitions because I can't install games on the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Windows partition. The only thing I use Windows for is gaming.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Everything else is Linux, which is so much faster and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: more convenient. But gaming is still native to Windows, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm using it for But it didn't have enough space
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  Speaker 1: on the Windows partition to install a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: new games, and so I figured out how to use
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  Speaker 1: GParted yesterday, and while this fucking dog was barking and
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  Speaker 1: wood Inch shut up, I had like three hours from
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  Speaker 1: midnight to three am to figure out how to use
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  Speaker 1: GParted and carefully shrink my Linux partition and subsequently move
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  Speaker 1: the unallocated space to the right of the Windows partition,
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  Speaker 1: then grow that Windows partition, so now I have space
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  Speaker 1: to install all the new games, which is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, now I can actually use the Windows partition
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  Speaker 1: as I meant to use it, instead of being blocked
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  Speaker 1: by the not enough space I gave it earlier. I
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  Speaker 1: gave Linux a ton of space, like seven hundred fifty gigabytes,
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't know how efficient it would be compared
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  Speaker 1: to Windows, or how much space I would need for
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: recording these podcasts or audiobooks. Turns out Linux is amazing
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  Speaker 1: in every way, but it's also so much more efficient
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  Speaker 1: and conservative in terms of disk space that I just
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  Speaker 1: don't need the extra five hundred gigabytes lying around, so
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  Speaker 1: I use those for games. That's what I need it for.
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  Speaker 1: I got all my automation working for this podcast, so
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  Speaker 1: now it's posting on Reddit and Facebook and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, except for Instagram and TikTok. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't think those are going to pan out. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're really a pain to set up, and nah, they
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  Speaker 1: just don't seem like my they seem too addictive to
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  Speaker 1: for me to even look at I can. I can't
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  Speaker 1: deal with that. I would be okay with automating posts
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  Speaker 1: for new episodes on Instagram, but for some reason, Facebook
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  Speaker 1: permissions do not work with any of the automation software
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  Speaker 1: I've tried so far. If you know how to do that,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: hit me up, because I can't distribute stuff to Instagram
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: until I figure out the Facebook permissions thing, and everything
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  Speaker 1: is connected already, it just doesn't post anyway, so I
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: don't know. And I used more recycled upcycled umbrella fabric
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  Speaker 1: to repair the my backpack, so it's pretty much new.
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  Speaker 1: It works just like new. Now it's very nice and
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  Speaker 1: all those umbrella fabric is as strong as the original
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  Speaker 1: foldable mesh my backpack's made out of and bonus waterproof,
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  Speaker 1: and it looks cool because now I have three colors
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  Speaker 1: instead of just one fairy pink backpack that people think
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  Speaker 1: is odd the first time they see me, and then
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  Speaker 1: after that you're just like, I guess he just has
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: a pink backpack. I guess that large, unshaven weirdo just
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: has a pink backpack all the time. But now I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: have black and yellow, one on each one color on
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  Speaker 1: each strap, and then the rest of the bag is pink,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: so it looks like hip and fashionable. Now. I also
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: washed it. I didn't realize how dirty it was until
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I washed it and realized that it wasn't like faded
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: because it was so old. It was just dirty, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I had never washed it after getting it from the
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  Speaker 1: Taiwanese thrift store. But now I have a working, functional backpack.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I got to play the last of US two. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: think it took me four days to finish. Really threw
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  Speaker 1: myself into it. I haven't played a game in over
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a year. I found out that my tote of animal
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  Speaker 1: is the national bird of Guatemala, and most excitingly, everybody
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  Speaker 1: is born in spring. If you want to talk to me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a rambler at gmail dot com
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  Speaker 1: or all of the socials. It's been fun talking about
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  Speaker 1: all this blah blah, and I'll talk to you on
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  Speaker 1: the next blah blah