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026 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 this week I got some stories just about what's
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  Speaker 1: going on this week. So I'm getting a second month
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  Speaker 1: in my Panama apartment, my little private hostel. Thing going
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  Speaker 1: on here. There's no windows, which would be a problem
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  Speaker 1: if they didn't clean this place every day, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: very clean with my own private room. But they cleaned
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  Speaker 1: the bathrooms every day, they cleaned the hallways every day,
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  Speaker 1: they clean the kitchen every day, so the place is
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  Speaker 1: just very clean. And also I asked them if I
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  Speaker 1: could stay a second month, and they offered me a
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  Speaker 1: substantial discount, and I don't know why, but I accept
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  Speaker 1: it immediately because it was like a twenty five percent discount. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: almost exactly twenty five percent. I paid three point thirty
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  Speaker 1: the four first month for my private room with a
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  Speaker 1: shared bathroom that, like I said, is cleaned every day.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been in there, and it's dirty. They emptied
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  Speaker 1: the trash every day. There's a kitchen you can use,
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  Speaker 1: four different gas burners with two propane tanks hooked up.
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  Speaker 1: They've never been out. There's a hot shower. Actually the
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  Speaker 1: shower went cold a couple days ago and you had
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  Speaker 1: to turn it off and on, and then it worked again,
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  Speaker 1: and then just today, actually that doesn't work anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: I reported it and they said they'll have someone out
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  Speaker 1: immediately to come look at it and fix it. And
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  Speaker 1: considering how they take care of everything here daily, I'm
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  Speaker 1: expecting a quick resolution to the cold water situation. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here in Panama in the summer, so it's like
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  Speaker 1: ninety degrees outside, and even though it's cool inside with
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  Speaker 1: the air conditioning, I took a cold shower yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: it was not so bad. Still eager for them to
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  Speaker 1: fix it, and pretty sure they will. Been kind of
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  Speaker 1: an eventful week. Another wonderful thing that's happened is four
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  Speaker 1: days ago that crazy racist lady I mentioned who lives
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  Speaker 1: here and screams at her cam friends or maybe nobody
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  Speaker 1: finally left or I haven't heard her for four days,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure if she were still here, I
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  Speaker 1: would hear her. So it's even quieter here than it
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  Speaker 1: was before, which is another reason I'm staying. It's so
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  Speaker 1: quiet in here. I can record audio during the day,
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  Speaker 1: which is usually a problem wherever I rent because it's
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  Speaker 1: it has a window. This room has no windows, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the end of the hall, so the windows
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen, which the entire wall has windows, it
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  Speaker 1: has to go around like three corners to get to
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  Speaker 1: my room. So for audio recording, it's a very convenient setup.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very effective setup. Then there are four paintings
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  Speaker 1: on the wall. When I walked in, and I really
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  Speaker 1: like one of them. It's of a woman and her
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  Speaker 1: eyes are covered with blue hair and she has purple lipstick,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like my favorite shade of purple. And as
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  Speaker 1: soon as I walked in and saw the purple, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, favorite color. And then I got room
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  Speaker 1: number seven, which is my favorite number because I have
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  Speaker 1: come I think I came to the conclusion when I
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  Speaker 1: was like thirteen or fourteen or something that seven was
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  Speaker 1: the funniest number and therefore my favorite and certainly the
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  Speaker 1: most unique, because any even number is divisible by two.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever number one, it's number one is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: divides into everything. It fits everywhere. Number three is like
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  Speaker 1: the most stable configuration of base bases, like in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: you can just anything on three legs. Is very stable.
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  Speaker 1: Five we have five fingers on each hand, five toes
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  Speaker 1: five holes on the front of our faces, and nine
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  Speaker 1: is just three threes. I guess the head actually technically
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  Speaker 1: has seven holes, but that's the only connection you can
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  Speaker 1: really make with it. Seven sort of stands alone, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go into anything, isn't particularly known to be a stable number.
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  Speaker 1: It's just goofy, just hanging out by itself with the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the one through ten, who all have a
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  Speaker 1: specific colloquial roll. And then seven's just sitting there with
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  Speaker 1: its Scotch taped glasses in the corner. I sympathize with seven,
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  Speaker 1: the odd man out. What else is good about this? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of a great neighborhood. I'm like
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of Panama City, so I can
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  Speaker 1: walk to the Pacific Ocean within twenty minutes, probably around
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. And then there's great phondas right next to
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  Speaker 1: me with fantastic stick beef every day and shrimp today,
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  Speaker 1: although the shrimp wasn't as good as last time, so
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  Speaker 1: I cooked my own, and my own was so much
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  Speaker 1: sweeter and fresher, because yeah, I bought raw shrimp and
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  Speaker 1: cooked it myself. So the phone dolls are good, But
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm just going to cook my own from
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  Speaker 1: now on. Oh, last week I talked about the DESI
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  Speaker 1: observatory or instrument I guess the dark Energy Spectroscopic instrument,
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  Speaker 1: and it's primarily being used to construct a three D
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  Speaker 1: map of the universe. But I couldn't remember why I
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  Speaker 1: wrote it down on the outline last week. It's because
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  Speaker 1: a scientist has come to the conclusion that the universe
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  Speaker 1: isn't accelerating, which is part of the standard model, that
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  Speaker 1: the universe is just going to keep expanding until all
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  Speaker 1: energy is dissipated enough and the universe dies in a
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  Speaker 1: heat death. But the same scientist that worked on that
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  Speaker 1: and figured that out is now thinking, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's actually beyond the speed it should
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  Speaker 1: and it probably will come to some stable configuration close
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  Speaker 1: enough that it won't die of a heat death by
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  Speaker 1: spreading out from itself too much. So that's what's interesting
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  Speaker 1: about the DESI that if that's true, then the standard
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  Speaker 1: model has to be changed. I just read an article
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  Speaker 1: about it, thought it was cool. Didn't even know there
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  Speaker 1: was a dark energy spectroscopic instrument until I read that article,
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  Speaker 1: and then I realized that they were making a map
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  Speaker 1: of the universe, which is already crazy. But then one
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  Speaker 1: guy who helped every like every scientist basically agree that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the acceleration rate probably is going to end up with
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  Speaker 1: everything spread out so far that all heat escapes and
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  Speaker 1: just be a bunch of cold void. But with more data,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, Nope, maybe not. It's just so crazy. How
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  Speaker 1: many paradigms shift all the time about existence and we
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  Speaker 1: all pretend that anything is permanent when our understanding of
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  Speaker 1: literally the entire universe is changing constantly. Turns out, right now,
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  Speaker 1: as far as we can tell, the Earth isn't accelerating
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  Speaker 1: beyond control along with every other piece of debris in
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  Speaker 1: the universe. You know what, there are a lot more
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  Speaker 1: beers here in Panama switching topics than there were in Guatemala.
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  Speaker 1: In Guatemala, maybe nationally, I tried like ten different beers,
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  Speaker 1: including imported beers. I tried three, I think Guatemalan beers,
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  Speaker 1: and then they had the same half dozen other beers
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  Speaker 1: from other countries, but it was a pretty limited selection.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the one store that had all of them,
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  Speaker 1: it still only had less than ten beers different kinds
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  Speaker 1: of beers. I think there's hundreds, at least one hundred
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  Speaker 1: different types of beer just in my neighborhood here in Panama,
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  Speaker 1: but I've tried most of them, I mean before. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of imported beers that I've had before. I
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  Speaker 1: bring it up just because it's nice to reflect on
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  Speaker 1: the variety a busy multicultural city has after living without
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  Speaker 1: a lot of intercultural trade. Also means I can get
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  Speaker 1: the Asian hot pot base that I love to cook with,
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  Speaker 1: and I am still cooking nearly every day with that.
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  Speaker 1: If I get some beef, cook of the beef, throw
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  Speaker 1: the Asian hot pod bas on top, or I'll fry
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  Speaker 1: up a bunch of garlic, Chinese cabbage, maybe some egg noodles,
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  Speaker 1: bunch of hot pot based on top. Those shrimp I
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  Speaker 1: cooked up after I cook them, melt some hot pod
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  Speaker 1: base hot pot based poured on top with some garlic.
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  Speaker 1: I love just being able to access that all the
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  Speaker 1: international food I like. And of course with such an
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  Speaker 1: international city, you are paying higher prices for grocery items.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, the rent's three hundred bucks here
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  Speaker 1: and now two fifty per month, so I don't really
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  Speaker 1: have any complains about paying six dollars a pound for shrimp.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't found a croc yet, still looking, will keep looking,
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  Speaker 1: Gonna find me a crock. I walk along the wall
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  Speaker 1: a lot and there's still all the apaches, but yet
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  Speaker 1: to see the crocodile. Again. I just think my eyes
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  Speaker 1: are slipping over them because they're so well camouflaged in
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  Speaker 1: their environment, because everyone else sees them. Everyone I've talked
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  Speaker 1: to sees crocodiles everywhere, apparently, and they're escaping me. But
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. I don't hold it against them. They're naturally
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  Speaker 1: hidden creatures, bastards. Oh, I finally got a credit card.
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  Speaker 1: It's being shipped to me now. I've never had a
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  Speaker 1: credit card before, which is kind of crazy, considering even
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  Speaker 1: basic cash back would have been quite a boom this
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  Speaker 1: past decade while I was traveling, but I just didn't
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  Speaker 1: need one. I've always been good with money, so I
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  Speaker 1: never needed to use a credit card. In the States,
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  Speaker 1: I lived within my extremely mean budget. And then, as
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  Speaker 1: I've mentioned, once I started teaching English, I had plenty
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  Speaker 1: of money to travel or do whatever I wanted, so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need a credit card, and so I just
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  Speaker 1: never got one. But now I'm sitting around, and there's
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  Speaker 1: really no reason not to get one, and I can
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  Speaker 1: use it for international transactions without any foreign transaction fee,
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  Speaker 1: which in a place like Panama is actually quite useful
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  Speaker 1: because it's more expensive than the country is. I'm usually
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  Speaker 1: in three dollars a pound shrimp rather than six dollars
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  Speaker 1: Panamanian shrimp. But I can only take out two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty dollars at a time while in Panama, So
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  Speaker 1: if I do that, I'm paying the foreign transaction fee
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  Speaker 1: and conversion fee to get out not that much money
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  Speaker 1: if I want to have fun and just live whatever,
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  Speaker 1: Just eat a pizza one day if I want to,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, not watch my money so carefully. So
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  Speaker 1: if I get a credit card with no foreign transaction fees,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about that. I can use
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  Speaker 1: that card pretty much anywhere, especially in a more modern
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  Speaker 1: city like Panama City. Then I don't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about using my cash so fast. I tried to get
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  Speaker 1: one that gives extra points for Airbnb rentals because I
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  Speaker 1: use Airbnb very often. But credit card companies are weird.
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  Speaker 1: I called them up and none of the companies can
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  Speaker 1: tell you what they categorize as travel or rather, they
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  Speaker 1: will not tell you. You have to get the credit card
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  Speaker 1: and charge it, and then they will tell you if
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  Speaker 1: it worked and you got the reward points. But after
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  Speaker 1: you charge it, you're going to know anyway, So like
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  Speaker 1: you know it before they do. And when I called
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  Speaker 1: up the credit card companies and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb is very common, people must charge it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Do people receive the reward points for travel if you
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  Speaker 1: use Airbnb? And the credit card companies all told me
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  Speaker 1: there's no way for me to tell. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's that cannot be true. But whatever, I don't trust
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  Speaker 1: you anyway, you creepy institutions. I'm just gonna make you
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  Speaker 1: pay all my foreign transaction fees. Oh. The podcast just
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  Speaker 1: came out about how I got my start traveling and teaching,
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  Speaker 1: which is just such a great story. I love how
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  Speaker 1: it starts. I was looking for a Nintendo sixty four
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  Speaker 1: controller on Craigslist, and in the for sale section of
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  Speaker 1: Craigslist someone posted an ad for an English teacher and
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  Speaker 1: I answered it, even though it was specifically asking for
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  Speaker 1: female teachers, and they hired me and things took off.
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  Speaker 1: I did let them know I wasn't female. I was
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  Speaker 1: just like, Hey, I'm not a girl, but I do
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  Speaker 1: want to travel and teaching sounds cool and I like
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  Speaker 1: learning new languages. They're like, thank god the female teachers
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  Speaker 1: are preferred because there are fewer female travelers and fewer
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  Speaker 1: female English teachers abroad. But it's such a wide open market.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many more students than there are English
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  Speaker 1: teachers out there that if you express any sort of
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  Speaker 1: interest to an English teaching school about traveling to their
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  Speaker 1: country and teaching there, they will grab you with both
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  Speaker 1: hands and tug you into their world, giving you a
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  Speaker 1: sign up bonus and airfare redemption recompensation, airfare compensation repayment,
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  Speaker 1: airfair Repayment's got to be a smarter way to say that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so if you hear my stories about teaching English and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know, it might be tricky if
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  Speaker 1: all these English teachers are competing for students, which is
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  Speaker 1: what somebody asked me very recently. They said they had
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  Speaker 1: thought about teaching English, but it must be difficult because
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  Speaker 1: once you actually are in the system, all the teachers
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  Speaker 1: are competing for students. And I don't know where they
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  Speaker 1: got that idea, but immediately I told them no, there's
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  Speaker 1: zero competition. There are hundreds of students globally available for
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  Speaker 1: every viable English teacher deciding to go abroad. China alone
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  Speaker 1: has thousands of job postings right now. For an English teacher. Globally,
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  Speaker 1: there must be tens of thousands of jobs available right now.
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  Speaker 1: If just in one country China, there's thousands, and I
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  Speaker 1: checked Thailand recently also there's hundreds just in the Bangkok area.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there the jobs are out there, the students
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  Speaker 1: are waiting. If you're worried you're gonna have a trouble
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  Speaker 1: getting a posting, once you actually commit to being an
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  Speaker 1: English teacher, that is going to literally be the least
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  Speaker 1: of your worries. You'll have competing offers from every school
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  Speaker 1: that you apply to. Basically, it's crazy how wide open
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  Speaker 1: the market. It's the most wide open job market I
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  Speaker 1: have ever heard of, and I certainly personally know about.
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  Speaker 1: Are you a creep they won't want you, that's like
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  Speaker 1: the one disqualifying factor. But if you're not creepy and
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  Speaker 1: you speak fluent English, you have a job in dozens
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  Speaker 1: of countries immediately. It's wild. It's a wild world. Do do, dude?
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  Speaker 1: And what's been going on. Oh you know what, I noticed,
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  Speaker 1: there's actually a whole bunch of public exercise parks here,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty rare for developed countries. I don't know why,
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  Speaker 1: but like Southeast Asia and Asia have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: exercise parks to keep their population healthy, according to the
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  Speaker 1: government articles I've read that talk about them, and most countries,
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  Speaker 1: most developed countries I've been to don't have many public
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  Speaker 1: exercise parks. Like there might be exercise equipment in certain
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  Speaker 1: German parks or American parks, but they're very spaced out.
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  Speaker 1: And right here in Panama anyway, that place I walk
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  Speaker 1: along looking for the crocs and the apaches, there's i
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  Speaker 1: don't know, every kilometer there's probably another exercise park with
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  Speaker 1: pull up bars and benches to do sit ups on,
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  Speaker 1: and all sorts of joint stretching machines and all that,
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  Speaker 1: which is great because I haven't done pull ups in
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  Speaker 1: a while, and I used to be good at them,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I mentioned it's been like years since
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  Speaker 1: I've been seriously exercising every day. So I tried to
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  Speaker 1: do pull ups and I could do three, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, hey man, it's a good start. But it
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  Speaker 1: was I've been doing push ups a lot for the
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  Speaker 1: past few months. Like I said, thirty seven a day,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, I could probably do pull ups,
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  Speaker 1: but nope, totally different muscles and I got to relearn
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  Speaker 1: from the bottom up. But it's good because I've kind
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  Speaker 1: of been getting bored with the push ups, so doing
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  Speaker 1: something else for my arms and shoulder muscles and all
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  Speaker 1: that that I'm neglecting by only doing push ups. We're
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  Speaker 1: definitely exercised by doing some pull ups the other day.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I'll hop up on there and do
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  Speaker 1: a few pull ups whenever I'm hunting for crocs. I
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  Speaker 1: remember pull ups always advancing really quickly too. Same with pushups.
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  Speaker 1: If I do ten push ups the next day, I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably going to be able to do twelve with the
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  Speaker 1: same amount of effort, which is a pretty fast improvement.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get to twenty in a few days. Like, It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool how quickly our bodies adapt to physical stress.
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  Speaker 1: Like exercise, You do it, your body learns it, it
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  Speaker 1: gets better at it, and it does it all for you. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Human bodies are cool. What else has been going on?
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  Speaker 1: Like the public exercise parks? Oh, I was I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: really worried about running out of the hot pod base
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  Speaker 1: because my favorite one. I found my favorite one that
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  Speaker 1: I actually used to buy in China, or that's not true,
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  Speaker 1: but I found my second favorite one from China in
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  Speaker 1: one of the Asian markets here. But there was one pack,
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  Speaker 1: and I got the last pack and it has four
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  Speaker 1: small blocks of the hot pot base, but I've used
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  Speaker 1: up two and a half of them, so on they
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  Speaker 1: have one and a half blocks left, so I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to have to go back to what's still like my
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  Speaker 1: fourth or fifth favorite hot pot base, which they have
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  Speaker 1: very commonly all around in every Asian store here for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, I don't know, but I think I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to look in all of the stores and try and
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  Speaker 1: find my second favorite one that I'm eating every day
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  Speaker 1: because the flavor is just so perfect, Sichuan Chili's oil
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  Speaker 1: an a star cinnamon, it's such a great mix. I
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  Speaker 1: bought a bunch of beef and then cut it up
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  Speaker 1: into really thin strips and then small like half inch pieces,
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  Speaker 1: so three bucks I think it was, and I was
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  Speaker 1: able to make four servings of these clippings with scissors,
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  Speaker 1: and now I have four servings of meat that I
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  Speaker 1: can add to any dish I make for three bucks.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a pretty good way to eat on a budget,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you have that freaking hotpot base, which goes
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  Speaker 1: so well with a darker meat like beef, but it
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  Speaker 1: goes so with pork also, and chicken and literally everything,
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  Speaker 1: especially shrimp. Oh my gosh, hot pot bas. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: that's why I'm freaking out about running out of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite one, because I just want the all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But also if I can't find it, I'll look around
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  Speaker 1: and I'll find something else that's also good and probably
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  Speaker 1: a new thing like the one I was using before
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  Speaker 1: I found my second favorite one that I actually used
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  Speaker 1: to use in China is still really good, so if
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  Speaker 1: I have to only use that, it's still a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: spice and oil blend, and it is a mala hot pot. Bas.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not my personal favorite, but I love trying
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  Speaker 1: new things anyway, and I like hunting for new things
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: in stores, and yeah, it's great. I'm having a great time. Oh.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I finished playing Journey to the Savage Planet, which was
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: really fun, very goofy story and like gameplay, but pretty exciting,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and I really like the surrealist humor I was going
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to play Fable next, but then I realized I haven't
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: played Resident Evil eight. Yeah eight yet I kept fusing
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: it with Biohazard seven because it's called village, but most
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of your time is spent in a tiny cabin in seven,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: so I got kind of confused between the two, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if I played eight or not, but
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I haven't, so I just started it and I'm like
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: two minutes into it so far, and it's weird because
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it's the same character Asn't seven and he's pretending or
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: they're making him act like he doesn't recognize there's zombies
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: attacking naturally, and he keeps getting surprised by that, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: it's like, Oh, you fought zombies for forty five hours
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in the last game you play, Why are you acting
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: like any of this is surprising to you. It's weird,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: but still a fun game so far in that whatever
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: ten really it might be for like fifteen minutes, but
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I really haven't. I haven't played more than that, but
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I'm having a good time so far. Oh. An interesting
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: thing happened this week. Somebody locked themselves out of their
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: room and I heard this huge commotion in the hall,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and after a while, I was like, I guess I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: should go out there. And I walked out and there
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: were four women standing in front of one of their doors,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and I thought they were trying to go to the bathroom,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and they were all upset because they couldn't go or whatever.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, she can go to the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: bathroom like the men's bathroom. It's totally opened slowly fine.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: They were like, no, no, she locked herself out of
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: her bedroom. And that's when I realized her bedroom door
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: was adjacent to the bathroom door, and I had just
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: transposed the two in my mind, and I was like, oh, shoot,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: well call the boss, call the landlords. They have extra keys.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And two of the girls actually only spoke English, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: one of them could speak English and Spanish, and they called,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: but the landlord said they didn't have extra keys, which
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: seemed weird to me. So all of our doors have
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: grates on them on the bottom half of the door,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and the grates are like small, but not crazy small.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: So I tried to help, and I got my head
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and shoulder of my right hand into there, and I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was able to reach up and grab the knob, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I couldn't turn it, and I couldn't figure out what
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: was going on. It just wouldn't turn the handle, and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: so I crawled back out and I was I was like, well, yeah,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it does feel stuck, because one of the girls had
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: told me it was stuck, and I thought that was
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: so weird. But then the original girl who asked for
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: help actually crawled through the hole and was able to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: make get her whole body through that hole, and she
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: stood up and opened the door, and it immediately opened
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: when she turned the handle. So I think I was
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: just coming at it from the wrong angle because the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: door the front door here, you have to pull it down,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and I was pulling down, so maybe you have to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: push up on the door or just access it from
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a different angle. But she was able to get into
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: her room, which was a big relief, and I felt
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: bad for hours after that. I was really beating myself up,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: like you should have climbed through when you should have
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: done this in this And then I realized, oh wait,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I'm making this story about myself, even though this is
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a problem that this other person had and then solved
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: with the help of a bunch of us trying to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: help her out, Like it's weird that I'm making it
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: about myself. Oh, but speaking, the four women here are beautiful.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: It's so crazy how pretty they all are. I it
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: took me like two seconds to gain my composure because
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I walked down into the hall and three of the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: people were helping the one that locked herself out, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I saw the four of them and I was like, oh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: my god, these are the people staying in this private hostel.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: They're beautiful. And then I pretended I didn't notice anything
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: except the broken door, because I didn't want to be
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the creepy guy living at the end of the hole.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: But it's cool to know everybody else in my private
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: hostel is a beautiful woman, just as Ambiance. The same
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: way I like all of the like super green city
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: around me. It's nice to know my hostels full of
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: beautiful people and that the angry racist is gone, because
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: she probably would have been out there too if she
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: was still here. Yeah, that was a pretty crazy situation.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Though she looked really desperate because she had to get
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to work, and it was just yeah, it was such
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a crazy situation. And then she got inside and the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: door just opened. But they had been at it for
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: like twenty or thirty minutes and everyone seemed really worried.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It was weird. It was. It would have been a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: good beginning to a Resident Evil movie, like we're all
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: trying to unlock the door and then the door explodes
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: outward and a zombie rushes the three girls waiting in
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the hallway and eats them. That seems like the beginning
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of one of the more recent Resident Evil games. What
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: else is going? Oh? I went to Chinatown Buffet, which
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is good. Wait did I already talk about it? Okay,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I've already talked about it. I can't remember, so I'm
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: going to briefly mention there's the Korean buffet that I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: did really like the first day, and there's another Chinatown
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: BFFE that's much farther away. But I always want to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: try out a new buffet. And I went there and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: it said it was thirteen fifty in big bull letters.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: But maybe it was because I was there at lunch.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I only got charged ten dollars and they had beef
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: pork shrimp. They actually didn't have shrimp when I showed up,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and then brought out shrimp ten minutes after, like a
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: huge tray of shrimp, And it was really interesting. Maybe
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it's because this is a coastal city, so people eat
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: seafood all the time. But in the States, as soon
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: as they bring out the tray of shrimp and the buffet,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: everyone sprints to the shrimp and grabs it in handfuls
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and just starts shoving it down their gullet. Like people
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: are crazy about shrimp in buffets in the States, but
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: here everybody like grabbed two or none. Like I definitely
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: saw people just get more beef and chicken and then
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: walk back. Ooh, they also had fried chicken. They had
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: really good fried chicken and yeah, so the buffet was
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: only ten bucks. I was definitely worth it, especially for
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: me after they brought out the shrimp, because then I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: got fresh shrimp, beef, fried chicken wings very crunchy but
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: still not dry on the inside, great chicken wings. They
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: had a bunch of chow maine and rice too, and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I tried a little bit, but it wasn't that good,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: so I just kept eating all the great meat and seafood.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: That Chinatown Buffet, it's actually called Chinatown Buffet, is a
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: fifteen minute walk away from this mountain that you can
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: overlook the Panama Canal on. But it was a really
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: hot day that day that I decided to walk, like
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out where the bus was, and people
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: kept pointing me in different directions. And it seems like
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the fourth guy who told me about the bus stop
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: to take to the Panama Canal neighborhood like knew what
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: he was actually talking about. But when I checked, I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: would have to walk twenty minutes or something to get
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: just to that bus stop. I don't know how long
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I'd have to wait for the stop, and I was like,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you don't screw it, and I just walked down the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: highway and adjacent roads until I got to the town.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I had to run across like two highways or something,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: but the highways aren't completely full all the time, I
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: mean there were spaces, so when there were no cars,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I just ran across a couple and after I ran
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: across a couple things, and I walked for I don't know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five minutes something like that. Boom. I was
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in the town with the buffet next to the Panama Canal,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: so I didn't have to mess with the bus at all,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and it took me probably about the same amount of
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: time if I had tried to find the bus stop
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and then waited for the bus. I also don't have
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: mobile data right now because without the data, I'm forced
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to use my Spanish more and I still listen to
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: English podcasts all the time and read English articles. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to study Spanish, I have to switch to Spanish mode,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and not having mobile data is a really good way
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: for me to do that. It's really working out, like
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I feel much more comfortable since I've come to Panama
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: speaking Spanish because my brain isn't looking for the out
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of a translation app. It's just like use the word,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you know, and when you screw it up, someone will
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: tell you or you'll hear the correct answer. Just speak Spanish.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So I really think it's working. So I still don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: think I'm going to get mobile internet yet. Is that
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: what it's called in English? A mobile internet? Seems? Oh, data,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that's what it's called. I don't have data yet, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: we're going to stay away, so I just keep practicing
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: my Spanish. Anyway, that was this pretty exciting week. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: crawled through a door and failed, and then somebody helped
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: themselves and got their locked door open. This place I'm
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: living has given me an incredible discount on an already
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: good price, and it's really quiet in my room. I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: really like it, so I can just fall asleep so easily.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I love that they clean everything every day. Yeah, the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: only irritating thing about Panama is that they have such
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a low cash withdrawal limit. But it really is a
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: very small price to pay for so many things I
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: do like about the city in general. It is clean,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: it's a clean city. It's a very green city. There's
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: wild animals that you can see. There's the Pacific Ocean
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: right there. The Panama Canal will probably be cool whenever
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I get around to going over there. Things are obviously
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: still much cheaper than they would be in the States,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and much more multicultural than most cities in the States. Oh.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: When it's the rainy season that's been going on, a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: lot rains a couple hours a day generally here. It's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: so funny because I think I mentioned before, I was
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: in a town with an incredible amount of yearly rainfall,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: specifically the most in one month one thousand millimeters in
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: one month of rain, and I got none of it
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: while I was there, And I'm getting tons of rain
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: storms here, so I'm still really digging. The rain makes
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: me feel alive. Okay, I'm gonna go get back to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: my life and i'll tell you about what happens again
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: next week. Good talking to you, Thank you so much
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: for listening. Have a great day, great week, great month,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you soon.