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054 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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Speaker 1: Hello.
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Speaker 2: My name is Kai, and I am a bit of
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Speaker 2: a rambler. I like to travel, learn, tell stories, and
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Speaker 2: today I'm going to ramble on. So I've been really
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Speaker 2: wanting to talk about meda Ian Moore and about this
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Speaker 2: becoming one of my top recommendations for people moving from
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Speaker 2: the States or from their own country for the first time.
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Speaker 2: And I'll probably actually do an entire episode about this
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Speaker 2: because it's pretty much cemented in my head that meda
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Speaker 2: Ian is as good a recommendation for a first time
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Speaker 2: traveler as any of the other cities that I've recommended before.
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Speaker 2: There's pluses and minuses to everything, of course, but this
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Speaker 2: is certainly a top tier travel recommendation city for me now,
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Speaker 2: which is great because I have a bunch of recommendations
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Speaker 2: in Asia and all of Southeast Asia is a great
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Speaker 2: place to travel for the first time, very safe, nice
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Speaker 2: people and all of that. But it's good having it
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Speaker 2: on another continent because if somebody thinks Asia is too
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Speaker 2: foreign or too far even it's a lot easier to
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Speaker 2: get a flight for a US American or anyone in
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Speaker 2: the America's to Colombia than it is for them to
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Speaker 2: get it to Asia. That's not true, it's actually it's
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Speaker 2: not that much more difficult, but it feels easier to
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Speaker 2: go to another one of the Americas rather than going
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Speaker 2: the same distance over to Asia. I guess it's like
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Speaker 2: a little over three thousand miles to Asia, and it's
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Speaker 2: a little over twenty five hundred miles down to Columbia
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Speaker 2: from the north of the US. So yeah, it is closer,
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Speaker 2: but it also just feels closer, you know, it feels
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Speaker 2: more familiar. Because well, let's go through this because a
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Speaker 2: couple people who I'm helping move abroad now, one of
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Speaker 2: them in particular, has become very interested in medie Ian,
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Speaker 2: and I told her, like, yeah, this is now one
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Speaker 2: of my top recommendations for where people should travel first,
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Speaker 2: especially US Americans, for the following reasons. I mean one, okay,
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Speaker 2: let's start with food. Food is great here. That's very
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Speaker 2: high up because when you move to a new place,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna want to be comfortable, and you're gonna want
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Speaker 2: to have easy access and available, like ready available food
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Speaker 2: whenever you want it. The street food here is cheap.
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Speaker 2: The groceries here are cheap, not inexpensive, but cheap, cheap,
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Speaker 2: cheap ten garlic for a dollar. Giant avocados for fifty
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Speaker 2: cents to a dollar and a half maximum one of
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Speaker 2: these avocados there are those big green ones. Here is
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Speaker 2: enough for a meal, and they're usually about a dollar
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Speaker 2: or less a pound of any vegetable. It's like five
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Speaker 2: pound bags of potatoes are less than a dollar. You
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Speaker 2: can get ten pounds of onions for I don't know,
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Speaker 2: maybe two dollars, so five pounds a dollar. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 2: the veta stables. And the meat is also very cheap here.
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Speaker 2: The ribs are under three dollars a pound, and that's
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Speaker 2: one of the more expensive cuts of meat. Chicken sixty
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Speaker 2: cents a pound or maybe seventy five cents a pound.
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Speaker 2: But they all have discount days, so if you go
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Speaker 2: on Thursdays you get an extra twenty percent or thirty
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Speaker 2: percent if you have the VIP card, that's a free registration.
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Speaker 1: If you go.
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Speaker 2: On Wednesdays, then it's all produce is twenty percent to
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Speaker 2: thirty percent off every day. It's a different sale. So already,
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Speaker 2: if you're paying seventy five cents, let's say for chicken,
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Speaker 2: seventy five cents a pound, if you just go on Thursdays,
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Speaker 2: it's automatically to sixty cents a pound. And that's if
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Speaker 2: you don't even have the whatever the membership is. I
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Speaker 2: don't have it, but I still get the discount every time.
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Speaker 2: And they have that for all types. They have it
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Speaker 2: for meat, fish, poultry, and other seafoods. Every day is
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Speaker 2: different and then and you can it's great. You should
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Speaker 2: just go on that day and it's a discount day
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Speaker 2: and everybody gets to take advantage of it. And so far,
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Speaker 2: on those discount days, the meat seems as good as
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Speaker 2: it is on the other days. Maybe it's closer to
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Speaker 2: its expiration. I'm assuming that's why they do it. But
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Speaker 2: I haven't bought bad meat on any of those sale days.
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Speaker 1: It's all about the place I go to.
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Speaker 2: I did get bad meat when I went to Eggs Tooe.
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Speaker 2: I did buy some chicken there, and it was gross
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Speaker 2: with green dots and stinky bacterial smell, and I washed
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Speaker 2: it and I cooked a long time, and then I
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Speaker 2: ate it because I'm fearless and I have an iron stomach.
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Speaker 1: And it was fine.
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Speaker 2: But I wouldn't shop there if I was you. That's
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Speaker 2: the only place I wouldn't shop. All the butcher shops
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Speaker 2: are great, All the other supermarkets are good. They have
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Speaker 2: fresh meat and produce. But for some reason, the meat
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Speaker 2: at Eggs Tooe that I saw looked really weird and
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Speaker 2: smelled way worse at both Eggs Tooes than all the
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Speaker 2: other supermarkets. Don't go to Eggs too or if you do,
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Speaker 2: just be very careful because when I walked up to
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Speaker 2: the meat, I can smell it going bad in both
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Speaker 2: locations I went to, and.
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Speaker 1: That shocked me.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so the food is great, and there is fresh
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Speaker 2: meat everywhere, there's fresh produce everywhere. It's very inexpensive, and
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Speaker 2: this is just going to be all of the concerns
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Speaker 2: that my friend brought up, and these are all the
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Speaker 2: things I told her about. This is a great city
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Speaker 2: to travel to for the first time. That's what she's
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Speaker 2: looking to do. She is trying to live abroad indefinitely
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Speaker 2: for the first time. And when I moved to Panama,
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Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, this is a pretty
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Speaker 2: good place. And it is pretty good, but it's too hot.
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Speaker 2: It's not as cheap as Median. There's way more cars
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Speaker 2: and there's not many sidewalks.
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Speaker 1: Median.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, walkable, cheaper, fewer people, way comfortable climate. I want
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Speaker 2: to go over the climate again real quick, just because
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Speaker 2: it's so crazy. Three hundred and sixty five days a year,
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Speaker 2: it is sixty four to eighty two or eighty three,
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Speaker 2: and then average seventy two. For my Celsia's friends, it's
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Speaker 2: fourteen to eighteen, average sixteen all year long. It's fourteen
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Speaker 2: in the night, it's eighteen during the day, and it's
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Speaker 2: sixteen when it's cloudy during the day or when it's
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Speaker 2: warmer during the night. But that is all year. Even
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Speaker 2: when it rains, it'll get a little bit colder, but
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Speaker 2: not too cold. There's no a c here. You can
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Speaker 2: just be comfortable all day. That's a perfect temperature for
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Speaker 2: many people. It's a little too warm for me still.
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Speaker 2: I like very cold temperatures, which is funny because I
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Speaker 2: live in a lot of tropical places, especially this year.
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Speaker 1: But it's great.
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Speaker 2: That is a great temperature, so it's like, yeah, you
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Speaker 2: should live there. It's called the City of Eternal Spring
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Speaker 2: because it's always springtime here. It's always the perfect temperature
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Speaker 2: for everybody. Language is another big one. US Americans especially
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Speaker 2: view other languages as insurmountable challenges. But I've taught old people,
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Speaker 2: young people, old people you can learn a language, and
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Speaker 2: it's all about mindset. And that's another reason why Columbia
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Speaker 2: or Median in particular, is a great city to move
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Speaker 2: for a first time traveler. Spanish just feels more familiar
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Speaker 2: than something like Thai. Will if you move to Thailand.
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Speaker 2: Now you'll be able to get around Thailand very easily.
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Speaker 2: But Spanish feels normal Spanish, a lot of the sounds
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Speaker 2: are similar to English. So yeah, it's a great place
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Speaker 2: to move because you'll be able to pick up the
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Speaker 2: language easier and be more confident about picking up the language. Importantly,
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Speaker 2: there are also way more resources to pick up Spanish
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Speaker 2: and learn Spanish than there are to learn Thai. So
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Speaker 2: let's get to working. I always recommend English teaching to
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Speaker 2: start out with, just because it's a guaranteed fifteen bucks
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Speaker 2: an hour and all you have to do is talking
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Speaker 2: to your phone at students are talking to your laptop.
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Speaker 2: Teach online very easy to get into guaranteed money. At
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Speaker 2: fifteen dollars an hour, you are making twenty hours a
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Speaker 2: week and you have your rent the other sixty hours
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Speaker 2: of that month you work. If you're working twenty hours
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Speaker 2: a week, that goes to food and then you'll be
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Speaker 2: able to save the other whatever one thousand dollars you make. Now,
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Speaker 2: this is great because a lot of people are worried
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Speaker 2: about working. Of course they need money, but a lot
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Speaker 2: of people are unaware of how lax working laws, digital
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Speaker 2: working laws, working online laws are in most countries. One
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Speaker 2: big part of this is because it's so difficult to
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Speaker 2: enforce people like, don't be a digital nomad. Okay, no,
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Speaker 2: I'm definitely not working. But then if you rent your
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Speaker 2: own apartment you can be a digital nomad. No one's
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Speaker 2: ever going to know. This does not mean oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: just flaunt, flout, flount flawn, flout, flout to the laws.
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Speaker 1: Don't do that.
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Speaker 2: But the thing is because of this practical impossibility of
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Speaker 2: making sure nobody works online and the nature of well,
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Speaker 2: you're working for a company, it's not in this country,
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Speaker 2: so how much can we regulate it? Anyway, most countries
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Speaker 2: don't regulate digital nomads. If you want to work in
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Speaker 2: person at a local shop, yeah, you're probably going to
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Speaker 2: need a work visa in most countries. Actually, I think
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Speaker 2: every country I know about you will need a work visa.
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Speaker 2: But if you are working online, such as teaching English
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Speaker 2: online or doing anything online.
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Speaker 1: No, one's no people.
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Speaker 2: Most countries don't regulate it at all, just because it's
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Speaker 2: a pain to regulate and the fuzzy legal things of
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Speaker 2: where are you really working if you're working online at
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Speaker 2: a company based in Spain, for instance, while you're living
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Speaker 2: in Columbia. So yeah, don't worry about it. If you
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Speaker 2: have an online my job, you can work online in
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Speaker 2: whatever country you're in. And at least all of the
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Speaker 2: countries I've ever mentioned on this podcast, I've known people
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Speaker 2: working online in every industry and none of us have
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Speaker 2: ever had any sort of problem. When you walk into
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Speaker 2: the country I'm a tourist. Fine, you are a tourist,
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Speaker 2: and then open up your laptop and work if you
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Speaker 2: want to, or it's so cheap, maybe you don't have
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Speaker 2: to work. If you're already making five hundred dollars or
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Speaker 2: more impassive income, you're golden.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: The reason though, another reason to bring this up, and
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Speaker 2: another reason why medie Ian is now a top tier
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Speaker 2: first travel location is because of the work visa situation.
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Speaker 2: I believe this is the best digital nomad visa I've
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Speaker 2: ever heard of. Now again, you don't need a digital
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Speaker 2: nomad visa to work. You just go into the country
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Speaker 2: as a tourist and like most countries, digital nomad work
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Speaker 2: isn't highly regulated, and you open up your laptop and
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Speaker 2: you can start working in your apartment.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: The thing is, though there are digital nomad visas. About
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Speaker 2: two or three countries have been adding them on line
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Speaker 2: and in their visa schedules every year, so that more
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Speaker 2: and more countries you can apply to. This is the
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Speaker 2: best one and the most accessible one I think I've
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Speaker 2: heard of so far, and the only nice thing. So
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Speaker 2: if you work digital nomad without getting the digital nomad visa,
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Speaker 2: you can live in Columbia for six months, and then
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Speaker 2: you will have to leave for six months and live
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Speaker 2: in wherever Brazil for another six months, and then you
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Speaker 2: can go back to Columbia, so you will have to
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Speaker 2: move every six months. But I mean, you don't need
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Speaker 2: a visa. It's pretty great. It's a pretty good system.
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Speaker 2: You'll get three months automatically, and then you can get
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Speaker 2: three more months online when you're in Columbia. You just
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Speaker 2: apply online and then you have six months in Colombia
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Speaker 2: visa free. It's yeah, it's cool. The thing is with
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Speaker 2: this digital nomad visa you can stay in Colombia for
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Speaker 2: two years, which if you just want to live abroad
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Speaker 2: and you don't want to travel so much as just
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Speaker 2: live comfortably in one place, this is a great way
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Speaker 2: to do it. The Thailand visa is also really good.
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Speaker 2: This one is better though, because there are lower eligibility
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Speaker 2: requirements to get a digital nomad visa in Colombia. According
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Speaker 2: to the information on the Colombian website Visa website, all
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Speaker 2: you need is to be making nine hundred dollars a month,
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Speaker 2: health insurance for the time you're living in Colombia, and
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Speaker 2: a valid passport. Now, nine hundred dollars a month is
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Speaker 2: not a tall order for most people working online. You
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Speaker 2: can easily make nine hundred dollars a month teaching English
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Speaker 2: online for ten twenty hours a week. Twenty hours a
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Speaker 2: week is definitely way more than nine hundred dollars a month,
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Speaker 2: so it's like sixteen hundred. So if you just teach
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Speaker 2: online for a few months, show them your pay stubs
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Speaker 2: is the thing, then you can get this two year
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Speaker 2: visa and then you can just live in Columbia for
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Speaker 2: two years. Okay, the eligibility so it's nine hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: per month. You need health insurance, which is again very
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Speaker 2: easy to get. There's a billion companies. Just choose the
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Speaker 2: cheapest one for the minimum coverage you just needed to
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Speaker 2: get in. If you need medical care, the insurance is
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Speaker 2: not going to matter much anyway. It's just not very
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Speaker 2: expensive to get healthcare outside of you. It'll help, you'll
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Speaker 2: pay even less, I guess, but most people don't even
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Speaker 2: have insurance and they just pay directly here. The application
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Speaker 2: is completely online, so you pay the three hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: registration fee for the form. You fill out the form,
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Speaker 2: show your nine hundred dollars a month pay stubs, health insurance,
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Speaker 2: and your passport. Pay online. That's it, and then you
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Speaker 2: have a two year visa. It's pretty wild. You don't
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Speaker 2: have to go to any embassies or.
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Speaker 1: Anything. You just.
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Speaker 2: Register it within. That's another online form. You register and
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Speaker 2: say I'm in Colombia. Once you arrive. But to get
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Speaker 2: the actual two year visa, proof of income for nine
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Speaker 2: hundred a month, health insurance for your stay in Colombia,
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Speaker 2: and a valid passport. You can live in there for
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Speaker 2: two years, and you can definitely re up this passport
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Speaker 2: after two years and stay there as long as you like.
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Speaker 2: So this is the easiest and most accessible city country
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Speaker 2: that I know about to get your digital nomad visa
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Speaker 2: and live for a long term. If you don't like
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Speaker 2: traveling as much as I do, or the other itinerants,
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Speaker 2: if you would rather live in a place for two
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Speaker 2: years straight rather than six months straight or ten years straight,
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Speaker 2: you can do that. Also, you just get a new
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Speaker 2: two year visa every other year, and a lot of
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Speaker 2: these places, a lot of these digital nomad visa term
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Speaker 2: limits just keep increasing every few years, Like Thailand started
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Speaker 2: at one year, but I think now it's at ten years.
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Speaker 2: It's at least five years. I know that it's way
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Speaker 2: longer than it was when it started. So the digital
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Speaker 2: nomad visas are probably only going to keep extending longer
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Speaker 2: and longer. So yeah, you can easily easily live abroad
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Speaker 2: as a digital nomad permanently in Colombia for as long
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Speaker 2: as you like. And it's I don't know, a few
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars. Yeah, it's three to four hundred dollars. It
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Speaker 2: looks like they dynamically change it according to whatever the
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Speaker 2: tax the fees are every month.
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Speaker 1: But that's great.
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Speaker 2: And then if you are living in Columbia for three
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty days out of the year and you're
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Speaker 2: from the US, then you don't pay foreign earned income
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Speaker 2: tax up to one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars,
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Speaker 2: So you can just exclude all all of the money
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Speaker 2: you're making because you're physically not present in the US.
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Speaker 2: According to the IRS, it's called the FEIE Form two
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Speaker 2: five ft five. They explain all the regulations and rules
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Speaker 2: and everything, but the IRS says that if a US
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Speaker 2: resident is outside of the US for three hundred and
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Speaker 2: thirty days or more of any three sixty five day period,
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Speaker 2: not just January first to December thirty first, but any
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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five day period lying over the
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Speaker 2: tax day, then you don't pay up to one hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty five thousand in foreign earned income income you
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Speaker 2: earned while not in the US, and that will save
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Speaker 2: you thousands per year. That's what the IRS says, And
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Speaker 2: that's what I did for well over a decade. That
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Speaker 2: is just a valid that's just a legal form. That's
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Speaker 2: just a tax form that you can fill out. Oh
16:56
Speaker 2: what else is great? The exercise parks are amazing here.
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Speaker 2: They're all new and they're exercises a big part of
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Speaker 2: Median culture. There's people exercising all the time. It's just
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Speaker 2: a pretty healthy city. And it's also a very fun city.
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Speaker 2: Like everyone's exercising, but everyone's also drinking beer and watching
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Speaker 2: soccer every time there's a game on. It feels very local,
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Speaker 2: it feels very communal. This whole the whole city feels like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're the Median bros. Like everyone's happy to be Like
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Speaker 2: people literally sing and dance in the street. When my friend,
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Speaker 2: who his wife is from Columbia, when he told me that,
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Speaker 2: he said, yeah, people just laugh and dance like all
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Speaker 2: the time, and I thought that was I was like, well,
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Speaker 2: they don't literally do that.
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Speaker 1: But they do. Like you'll see people.
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Speaker 2: Just laughing and slapping each other on the back, just
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Speaker 2: telling jokes and hanging out all day around all the
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Speaker 2: places I've walked through, Like Colombian's Median people anyway, just
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Speaker 2: like hanging out and being cool together, just having a
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Speaker 2: fun time. Yeah, So as far as remote work goes,
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Speaker 2: one of these people was asking me, if you're going
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Speaker 2: to North Korea, you might not want to do digital
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Speaker 2: nomad work. But one don't go to North Korea because
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Speaker 2: you're just funding terrorism. And two, most other countries have
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Speaker 2: realized how silly it is to regulate online remote work anyway.
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Speaker 2: So it's just not an issue in any of the
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Speaker 2: countries I've been to, in any of the professions remote
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Speaker 2: professions I have been introduced to. So does a remote
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Speaker 2: work Does being a digital nomad have to do with
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Speaker 2: a traditional work visa?
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Speaker 1: It does not.
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Speaker 2: Traditional work visas are almost exclusively, not always, but almost
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Speaker 2: exclusively for in person work for a local company. If
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Speaker 2: you're working online, that that's usually not connected to the
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Speaker 2: work visa of that country, and less all the time
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Speaker 2: because there's no way to enforce it anyway. It's just
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Speaker 2: there's no reason to have that law. Why why have
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Speaker 2: that law? So most countries don't have it, and the
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Speaker 2: countries that do technically have a digital nomad law in
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Speaker 2: the books, they've all introduced digital nomad visas anyway. It
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Speaker 2: hasn't it's not penalized to be a digital nomad without
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Speaker 2: the digital nomad visa. It's just if you want to
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Speaker 2: stay in the country longer and be a digital nomad,
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Speaker 2: that's what those digital nomad visas are good for. Okay,
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Speaker 2: how easy is it to find a place. It's incredibly
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Speaker 2: easy to find a place. In Median there's tons of
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Speaker 2: solo apartments for three to four hundred dollars, which is
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Speaker 2: about the same as you're going to get in the
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Speaker 2: larger cities in Thailand, So three to four hundred bucks
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Speaker 2: a month. You can very easily find your own private
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Speaker 2: apartment anywhere in the city. All there's apartments all over
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Speaker 2: the city and you log onti Airbnb set the limit
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Speaker 2: to four hundred USD or three hundred fifty USD whatever
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Speaker 2: your upper limit is, and there are hundreds there are
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Speaker 2: I don't know, there are a lot. Let me check
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: If you want an entire house or an entire apartment
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Speaker 2: private to yourself, you could run one from the next
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Speaker 2: month right now, for one month for under four hundred dollars.
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Speaker 2: The prices are three hundred, two hundred and eighty one
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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five. Okay, the lowest price I see
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Speaker 2: is one hundred seventy nine. Actually, up to three hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighty dollars for a private house or private apartment
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Speaker 2: all across the city. If you don't need the entire
20:44
Speaker 2: home to yourself, and you can live in an apartment
20:48
Speaker 2: with a shared kitchen or something. Then there's literally thousands
20:53
Speaker 2: of apartments available. So yeah, the housing is here and
20:58
Speaker 2: it's very affordable. You work twenty hours a week, rent
21:01
Speaker 2: is taken care of, you work twenty hours the next week,
21:04
Speaker 2: food and entertainment's taken care of, and then you can
21:07
Speaker 2: save the third and.
21:08
Speaker 1: The fourth week.
21:10
Speaker 2: If you work forty hours a week, room and food
21:13
Speaker 2: and entertainment is taken care of the first week, you
21:16
Speaker 2: can save the three weeks after that. Housing and cost
21:19
Speaker 2: of living is real good down here, and just use Airbnb.
21:25
Speaker 1: It's simple.
21:26
Speaker 2: You can use booking or whatever, but just use some
21:28
Speaker 2: booking app you're comfortable with. It's so easy. You choose
21:34
Speaker 2: the one you like. You choose what amenities you want.
21:36
Speaker 2: Do you actually want air conditioning, you can find those here.
21:39
Speaker 2: Do you want a washing machine? Do you want to
21:42
Speaker 2: make sure there's an ironing board? Choose what you want,
21:44
Speaker 2: you pay. It's yours for as long as you want it.
21:49
Speaker 2: Small apartment, close to everything. Three hundred and eighty six
21:53
Speaker 2: dollars for two months with a shared pool. I mean, yeah,
21:58
Speaker 2: there's a lot of options here. I can't it's wild.
22:03
Speaker 2: This is why it's my top tier. This is why
22:05
Speaker 2: it's competing with Thailand now, because the prices are just
22:08
Speaker 2: amazing and it's a great city to live in. This
22:14
Speaker 2: person I'm helping, I showed her the listings was looking
22:18
Speaker 2: through the Airbnb listings. She had never used it before,
22:21
Speaker 2: and she also didn't quite believe me, even though I've
22:24
Speaker 2: been talking to her for years about the prices and
22:27
Speaker 2: showing her screenshots. The first time she finally looked for
22:30
Speaker 2: herself at the real prices of these apartments. She wrote,
22:33
Speaker 2: this is crazy. You hacked the system because no one
22:36
Speaker 2: else can comprehend how easy it is and how.
22:40
Speaker 1: Cheap it is.
22:41
Speaker 2: It really is some sort of barrier of belief. When
22:45
Speaker 2: I talked to US Americans, especially about the prices, they
22:48
Speaker 2: just don't believe that these prices are available at the
22:54
Speaker 2: drop of a credit card. As soon as you pay
22:56
Speaker 2: for it, that place is yours, and yeah, three hundred
22:58
Speaker 2: eighty six for two months. Mine is like three hundred
23:01
Speaker 2: a month. But I wanted something in a specific spot,
23:05
Speaker 2: so I paid a little more. But still I paid
23:08
Speaker 2: a little more, and I'm paying three hundred and fifty
23:10
Speaker 2: for this tiny studio next to everything I wanted to
23:13
Speaker 2: go to no complaints. Here is what I'm saying. There's
23:16
Speaker 2: good housing all around the city for extremely affordable prices,
23:21
Speaker 2: and please check for yourself. Get the app or go
23:23
Speaker 2: on the Airbnb website and type in medi ian. Set
23:26
Speaker 2: the limit to four hundred dollars entire home and you'll
23:30
Speaker 2: see a few dozen if you don't. If you're okay
23:33
Speaker 2: with a room in a shared with shared living areas,
23:36
Speaker 2: then there are thousands and thousands. And if you switch
23:40
Speaker 2: that from four hundred to four hundred and fifty, then
23:42
Speaker 2: there's about one hundred. If you switch it to five hundred,
23:44
Speaker 2: then there's like.
23:45
Speaker 1: Two hundred houses. There's just Yeah.
23:47
Speaker 2: Even if you if you're more comfortable with five hundred dollars,
23:51
Speaker 2: if you have that money to spend instead of only
23:53
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty, yeah, you have way more options
23:57
Speaker 2: for just one hundred more a month. It's pretty great.
24:01
Speaker 1: It is.
24:02
Speaker 2: Using Airbnb and buying groceries, you can very easily live
24:06
Speaker 2: in most countries in the world comfortably for five hundred
24:09
Speaker 2: USD and a thousand USD to live in the rest
24:12
Speaker 2: of the world. And all of those housing prices include
24:15
Speaker 2: utilities and housing insurance and Wi Fi, so it's just
24:20
Speaker 2: you save so much money by traveling. If money's important
24:23
Speaker 2: to you, if saving money right now is like you
24:27
Speaker 2: need to save money, you can't figure out how to
24:29
Speaker 2: do it. Traveling is instant. It's instant, like saving eighty
24:35
Speaker 2: percent of your income.
24:36
Speaker 1: It's just crazy.
24:37
Speaker 2: How how instantaneously you can go from not being able
24:41
Speaker 2: to afford your rent to saving money and getting better
24:46
Speaker 2: housing and services one plane ticket away. And again, a
24:50
Speaker 2: lot of US Americans are going to tell you that
24:52
Speaker 2: you can't retire or live abroad indefinitely unless you have
24:56
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand saved up and all this kind of stuff.
24:58
Speaker 2: But guess what that isn't try true because it costs
25:01
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy nine to three point fifty for
25:03
Speaker 2: your own place. So maybe if you would never want
25:07
Speaker 2: it to work again, yeah, you get one hundred thousand,
25:10
Speaker 2: but you're never going to do anything that makes you
25:13
Speaker 2: money for the rest of your life. Work ten hours
25:16
Speaker 2: a week, make your rent whatever you can save a
25:19
Speaker 2: couple thousand, move to Colombia and you'll have three months
25:22
Speaker 2: of breathing room. You have guaranteed English teaching job if
25:25
Speaker 2: you're a fluent English speaker. If not, just find any job,
25:29
Speaker 2: any remote work that pays you more than five hundred
25:32
Speaker 2: USD per month. If you can make five hundred USD
25:35
Speaker 2: per month, that is the comfortable living expense in Colombia.
25:41
Speaker 2: And it's such a modern city. It feels so modern.
25:44
Speaker 2: I still haven't gone on the gondolas, which is crazy.
25:47
Speaker 2: There's these gondolas that connect the mountain towns down to
25:50
Speaker 2: the city. I have to go on one of those.
25:52
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I haven't been on those.
25:54
Speaker 2: But yes, it's very cheap here. The housing is cheaper,
25:56
Speaker 2: cost of living is cheap here. You can save money
25:59
Speaker 2: as soon as you get to Columbia or Thailand. If
26:02
Speaker 2: you want to go to Asia instead, please go on
26:05
Speaker 2: Airbnb and check these prices, because that's one of my
26:07
Speaker 2: favorite pastimes, just staring at how cheaply I can live
26:10
Speaker 2: in countries I want to live in oh And you
26:14
Speaker 2: can get cars and motor scooters all around here for
26:18
Speaker 2: cheap for a few thousand. Also, But anyone who's telling
26:21
Speaker 2: you that you have to save up one thousand, two
26:23
Speaker 2: hundred thousand, and you have to make sure you have
26:26
Speaker 2: passive income coming in and all that kind of stuff,
26:28
Speaker 2: it's just not true. By the numbers. You need a
26:30
Speaker 2: few hundred for rent, a couple hundred for food.
26:33
Speaker 1: That's it.
26:34
Speaker 2: So at this point, when she can see the numbers
26:37
Speaker 2: of how cheap it is, she finally downloaded Airbnb and
26:40
Speaker 2: started looking at these housing prices and saw the included utilities,
26:45
Speaker 2: and the longer she rented, the cheaper it was per month.
26:49
Speaker 2: My friend was freaking out.
26:51
Speaker 1: She was like, I can't believe this. This is totally crazy.
26:53
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, and you have to imagine,
26:55
Speaker 2: I've been talking to you for almost ten years. You've
26:58
Speaker 2: been planning to leave for almost ten years, and I've
27:01
Speaker 2: been telling you about these preyer I've been sharing screenshots.
27:04
Speaker 2: But even for you who wants to live abroad indefinitely,
27:08
Speaker 2: it still took a very long time. It's difficult to
27:12
Speaker 2: break through that belief that life should be more difficult
27:18
Speaker 2: and expensive than it is in most countries, for US
27:22
Speaker 2: Americans in particular. So please get on Airbnb and check
27:26
Speaker 2: those prices. Oh, and you don't have to get a car.
27:29
Speaker 2: Like there's public transport throughout this entire city. That's another
27:32
Speaker 2: great thing. Like I said, it's a very modern city,
27:35
Speaker 2: so buses run the entire city, and then there's the
27:38
Speaker 2: gondolas like I mentioned to get around. Yeah, you can
27:41
Speaker 2: get around the city easily. And if you don't want
27:43
Speaker 2: to do public transport, Uber and other ride share apps
27:46
Speaker 2: like in drive are available. It's a couple dollars, they'll
27:50
Speaker 2: drive you ten minutes away. It's very cheap. Ride chair
27:54
Speaker 2: is also very cheap here, just like everything else is
27:56
Speaker 2: cheap here, or we can say appropriately priced, because most
28:01
Speaker 2: countries are this price and the US is five times
28:05
Speaker 2: more expensive for reasons unfathomable. The healthcare system. Colombia is
28:13
Speaker 2: famous for cosmetic surgery, but it's also famous for regular
28:18
Speaker 2: internal medicine and regular surgery and great healthcare. There's good
28:23
Speaker 2: healthcare here. It's one of the frequently listed countries you
28:28
Speaker 2: should go to for medical tourism. And you can walk in,
28:32
Speaker 2: sign up, a doctor will see you, you pay them
28:35
Speaker 2: an you leave. There's no you don't have to mess
28:37
Speaker 2: with all the red tape that's so common in the US.
28:42
Speaker 2: You go to the hospital and they will treat you here.
28:46
Speaker 2: I haven't invented them personally, I should say that, but
28:48
Speaker 2: I've talked to Colombians. Turns out I'm living right next
28:51
Speaker 2: to a pretty famous hospital with great health care. And yeah,
28:54
Speaker 2: all Colombians here are very proud of their health care,
28:58
Speaker 2: and most people here don't have Like if you go
29:03
Speaker 2: to some countries like Vietnam, there are a lot of
29:06
Speaker 2: people with disabilities or problems that could be fixed by
29:10
Speaker 2: modern medicine, but they're their hospitals are not great and
29:13
Speaker 2: are not very accessible to everyone, so a lot of
29:16
Speaker 2: those issues physical disabilities just never get dealt with in Columbia.
29:22
Speaker 2: In Mediian, anyway, I've seen almost none of that. Everybody
29:25
Speaker 2: has been treated in some way for all of the
29:28
Speaker 2: normal I'm missing a limb, or my teeth are all
29:32
Speaker 2: messed up, you know, I need it pulled, or something
29:35
Speaker 2: doesn't happen in places with less accessible and affordable health care.
29:40
Speaker 2: Everyone in Median looks healthy. Even the street people have
29:46
Speaker 2: real hospital crutches and have some minimum health care. So
29:50
Speaker 2: healthcare is good in Median.
29:52
Speaker 1: Oh.
29:53
Speaker 2: Also, while we're on that a concern, but I have
29:56
Speaker 2: a family, so we can't because the kids in school
30:00
Speaker 2: international schools in almost every country, and they have a
30:02
Speaker 2: bunch of great ones in meda Ian also, so if
30:05
Speaker 2: you have your kids, you can enroll them in school,
30:08
Speaker 2: it'll be in English speaking international school, So.
30:11
Speaker 1: There will be kids.
30:11
Speaker 2: Anyone who's traveling in Colombia with a family and their
30:14
Speaker 2: kids sends their kids to these international schools. It's taught
30:17
Speaker 2: in English because that's the Linguo fronco of the world
30:20
Speaker 2: right now, That's what everybody speaks, so you'll have no
30:24
Speaker 2: problem getting your kid enrolled and in class. The art
30:29
Speaker 2: art here is great. For a while, meda Ian required
30:34
Speaker 2: that all new buildings being built set apart five percent
30:37
Speaker 2: of their budget to art of some kind, and that
30:40
Speaker 2: seems to have transitioned into the participatory budget starting in
30:43
Speaker 2: two thousand and three, which is very interesting, or maybe
30:46
Speaker 2: four was three or four. Participatory budgeting in Mediian means
30:51
Speaker 2: that five percent of the city's budget is determined is
30:56
Speaker 2: allocated by the citizens. The citizens to use a delegate
31:00
Speaker 2: for their neighborhood. That guy with the other neighborhood delegates
31:05
Speaker 2: meets with the urban Planning committee every year. They say,
31:08
Speaker 2: we need music, or we need art, or we need environment,
31:12
Speaker 2: we need a park, we need renovated equipment in these neighborhoods.
31:17
Speaker 2: The it's legal in the it's legally written into the
31:22
Speaker 2: urban planning to use five percent of the budget for
31:26
Speaker 2: neighborhood development. So whatever the delegates say, they get an
31:31
Speaker 2: amount of funding split amongst all the neighborhoods, sometimes inequitably,
31:35
Speaker 2: I hear, but still all neighborhoods do get some money
31:39
Speaker 2: from this five percent of participatory budgeting, where the citizens
31:42
Speaker 2: can directly say, we need this playground to be fixed,
31:46
Speaker 2: or this school needs renovation, or well that's probably part
31:50
Speaker 2: of the regular the other ninety five percent of the budget,
31:52
Speaker 2: but we need a park, hero we need classes to
31:55
Speaker 2: teach children about recycling or environmental issues. Participatory budgeting has
32:02
Speaker 2: been going on now for twenty two years or something.
32:05
Speaker 2: It's been very successful, so it keeps going on. There's
32:08
Speaker 2: a lot of cultural development because of that five percent
32:11
Speaker 2: of the city planning. Kids get instruments and free music classes,
32:16
Speaker 2: or they get art classes, so it's not just graffiti
32:20
Speaker 2: that looks terrible. It's beautiful street art now around the city.
32:25
Speaker 2: There's a lot of culture and a lot of education
32:28
Speaker 2: that happens because of this participatory budgeting that the citizens
32:33
Speaker 2: get to allocate themselves. So it's a very cool program,
32:38
Speaker 2: and it seems to be working. And I'll say, this
32:40
Speaker 2: is a beautiful city and everybody seems very happy here,
32:43
Speaker 2: and I bet. Part of that is because when a
32:46
Speaker 2: playground does a worker when they need to, when there's
32:49
Speaker 2: some great guitar player and he wants to give classes
32:52
Speaker 2: to students, he can get some budgeting so he can
32:55
Speaker 2: start that class for those students enrich their life lives.
33:01
Speaker 2: I'm going to do a full episode on how medi
33:04
Speaker 2: Ian has become co top tier recommendation for first time travelers,
33:10
Speaker 2: and I'll go more into depth about all of this.
33:14
Speaker 2: But I wanted to get all of these basics out
33:16
Speaker 2: there because it's just such an easy place for especially
33:21
Speaker 2: US Americans, to move to and live for six months.
33:25
Speaker 2: Maybe you can just see if you want to live
33:26
Speaker 2: abroad if it does agree with you, if it doesn't,
33:28
Speaker 2: even just to hop back north. But for a couple
33:32
Speaker 2: hundred bucks you can start saving eighty percent of your
33:37
Speaker 2: cost of living immediately, or more like I said, if
33:41
Speaker 2: you move into the one hundred seventy nine apartment. Yeah,
33:43
Speaker 2: I don't even know how much.
33:44
Speaker 1: You'll be saving.
33:45
Speaker 2: Apartments out here are less than utilities, and Wi Fi
33:49
Speaker 2: and data are by themselves in the US. In most
33:54
Speaker 2: of the world, that's true. Okay, Colombia, that's where Pablo
33:59
Speaker 2: Escobar is from. Medaean specifically, so it still has a
34:04
Speaker 2: travel advisory against meda Ian, but that's basically a legacy
34:09
Speaker 2: travel advisory. Statistically, it's a pretty safe city. Everybody here
34:15
Speaker 2: you can see, feels very safe. Children play in the streets,
34:19
Speaker 2: children are playing soccer all night. Basically, maybe they go
34:23
Speaker 2: to bed at ten, but they're going to bed because
34:26
Speaker 2: it's bed time, like they stay out past the evening time.
34:29
Speaker 2: Meant the whole communities do. It feels like a very
34:33
Speaker 2: safe city, and everyone is sure to tell me, especially
34:38
Speaker 2: as a tourist. I don't worry about this, but I
34:40
Speaker 2: understand that many people do. And every Colombian is like, yeah,
34:45
Speaker 2: it was bad a while ago, but there's been development
34:48
Speaker 2: for a long time, and especially since the twenty twenties,
34:51
Speaker 2: the violent crime has just been plummeting down. Statistically, it
34:56
Speaker 2: just seems like a very safe city to me being here,
35:00
Speaker 2: and all of the residents seem very comfortable outside at
35:03
Speaker 2: any time of day or night, and there's bright lights everywhere.
35:08
Speaker 2: It's if you don't feel safe, or if you're uncomfortable
35:10
Speaker 2: traveling for the first time and you want to make
35:12
Speaker 2: sure you're safe, just treat it like if you move
35:14
Speaker 2: to a dangerous neighborhood in the US, and you know,
35:17
Speaker 2: when the sun is going down, get back home and
35:19
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. But you'll see people just
35:22
Speaker 2: hanging out drinking beers and watching a soccer game until
35:28
Speaker 2: late into the night. The street food people here, they
35:31
Speaker 2: are on the street selling chorizos to midnight sometimes often
35:37
Speaker 2: some of them are twenty four hours. They have twenty
35:39
Speaker 2: four hour bakeries here.
35:40
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:41
Speaker 2: Between all of the twenty four hour places and all
35:44
Speaker 2: the street food people out here, and all the children
35:46
Speaker 2: playing soccer in the evenings and everyone just sitting around
35:50
Speaker 2: laughing all the time, it feels like a very safe city.
35:53
Speaker 2: Is there terrorism and violence and drugs in Columbia. Yeah,
35:59
Speaker 2: just like in the UA, and in India and in
36:02
Speaker 2: China and in every other country in the world. Those
36:05
Speaker 2: things exist, but they're not in my little safe community
36:09
Speaker 2: out here. They're not in any part of the city
36:11
Speaker 2: I've seen so far. There must be more dangerous parts
36:14
Speaker 2: of the city than others, like in every city in
36:16
Speaker 2: the world, but Colombians themselves seem very happy and safe.
36:23
Speaker 2: And I jog all around the city. Well, actually that's
36:26
Speaker 2: not true. I jog all around the South half of
36:28
Speaker 2: the city. I don't go up to the north just
36:31
Speaker 2: because it's a long jog and I have to jog back.
36:34
Speaker 2: But so far, everywhere I've jogged in the south at
36:37
Speaker 2: evening time seems as safe as I've been describing. And
36:40
Speaker 2: like I said, there's people outside watching soccer games or
36:43
Speaker 2: watching TV and drinking beers together and just having a
36:45
Speaker 2: good time. Street vendors out in evening at ten eleven twelve.
36:53
Speaker 2: Low cost of living, safe, very fun, absolutely beautiful, super comfortable,
37:00
Speaker 2: nice city. I recommend it. Okay, let's move on, because
37:03
Speaker 2: I talked about this for a while and I am
37:04
Speaker 2: still planning on doing an even more in depth full
37:08
Speaker 2: episode about all of this stuff. So let's go on
37:11
Speaker 2: to what else has.
37:12
Speaker 1: Been going on.
37:13
Speaker 2: Started pickling again. The hot plate here, the electric burner
37:18
Speaker 2: I have here actually broke the wire itself melted while
37:23
Speaker 2: I was using it, and I was like, oh, and
37:26
Speaker 2: instead of fixing it, I it was old and crappy anyway,
37:29
Speaker 2: So I just use the rice cooker to heat up
37:33
Speaker 2: the brine vinegar, water, salt, and then I cut up
37:37
Speaker 2: some red onions, shove them into a glass jar, pour
37:40
Speaker 2: the simmering brine over it. The water, vinegar and salt,
37:47
Speaker 2: and then you just let it cool down, put on
37:49
Speaker 2: the cap, put in the fridge, and instant pickles.
37:52
Speaker 1: It's great.
37:52
Speaker 2: I love pickled red onions, and even if you make
37:55
Speaker 2: them this quick pickling way, they're delicious. And I was
37:58
Speaker 2: talking to a friend about this, who got into pickling
38:01
Speaker 2: since I've been talking about it the past few months,
38:04
Speaker 2: and I was explaining how to do it, and then
38:06
Speaker 2: they did it way better. They put in all these
38:09
Speaker 2: great spices and used all the different theirs looks more
38:12
Speaker 2: like jardonara or something, some Italian fancy concoction.
38:16
Speaker 1: Looks great.
38:17
Speaker 2: And they said they were excited because of the probiotics.
38:21
Speaker 2: Because everybody who writes about fermenting vegetables, that's where the
38:25
Speaker 2: probiotics come in. There's different kinds of bacteria that show up.
38:29
Speaker 2: But you should know that probiotics are in every fruit
38:31
Speaker 2: and vegetable. Probiotics are the healthy bacteria in your gut
38:36
Speaker 2: rather than just vitamins and minerals the rocks that your
38:38
Speaker 2: body needs to metabolize. But my friend was very excited
38:42
Speaker 2: about the probiotics she was going to get from pickling.
38:45
Speaker 2: And that's true. You will because you're eating vegetables, but
38:49
Speaker 2: just eating vegetables, you have millions of probiotics. You can
38:54
Speaker 2: take those probiotic pills, but probiotics are just the bacteria
38:58
Speaker 2: that naturally exist in the world. So when you eat
39:02
Speaker 2: an apple, you're eating millions of those healthy bacteria. When
39:04
Speaker 2: you're eating a cucumber, you're eating millions of those healthy bacteria.
39:08
Speaker 2: So you don't need those pills. Feel free to take them.
39:12
Speaker 2: I'm fine with taking them or not taking them. I
39:17
Speaker 2: don't because probiotics are free in every vegetable and fruit,
39:22
Speaker 2: wheat anyway. But I will say quick pickling is absolutely delicious.
39:28
Speaker 2: It's a great way to get some of those bacteria
39:30
Speaker 2: in your gut. So yeah, I recommend pickling to everybody.
39:34
Speaker 2: It's just so so easy, especially quick pickling, so simple.
39:39
Speaker 2: Whatever container I'm using, I get a glass jar, I
39:42
Speaker 2: fill it halfway up with water, Pour that into the
39:44
Speaker 2: rice cooker. Fill it halfway up with the vinegar, Pour
39:46
Speaker 2: that into the rice cooker, start heating that up. Chop
39:48
Speaker 2: up the vegetables I want. I've mostly just been red
39:51
Speaker 2: onions lately.
39:53
Speaker 1: Put that.
39:54
Speaker 2: Put the red onions in the glass jar, pour the
39:56
Speaker 2: hot brine over the red onions to the top, cool down,
40:02
Speaker 2: screw on the lid tight, and then you're good and
40:04
Speaker 2: you have pickled twenty minutes later. Those will taste pretty
40:07
Speaker 2: good when day later they'll taste amazing pickling. For the wind,
40:12
Speaker 2: You guys should pickle. Pickle it up. Oh you know
40:14
Speaker 2: what did happen? When the wire broke on that hot
40:17
Speaker 2: plate my electric burner. I was like, oh, man, I
40:20
Speaker 2: can't heat this up. I didn't realize I could just
40:22
Speaker 2: use the rice cooker right away. It took me a
40:24
Speaker 2: few days, and that's mainly because I was like, wait,
40:27
Speaker 2: why do I have to heat the brine up anyway?
40:29
Speaker 2: It's still vinegar, water and salt. I'm gonna use the
40:34
Speaker 2: same brine. Why does it have to be hot to pickle?
40:37
Speaker 2: Because the vinegar is doing the pickling, so it wasn't
40:41
Speaker 2: heated up. I just poured it over the onions anyway
40:44
Speaker 2: and figured I would wait. And after the first day
40:46
Speaker 2: there was something, but it definitely didn't taste like what
40:50
Speaker 2: I remember my pickled red onions tasting like. And after
40:54
Speaker 2: five days I kept trying it, but it just tasted
40:56
Speaker 2: like vinegar red onion. It didn't actually taste like pickled
41:02
Speaker 2: red onions. Really, it still tasted okay because there were
41:05
Speaker 2: salt and the vinegar, so it was an interesting flavor
41:08
Speaker 2: with the fresh onion, but not the pickled red onions
41:11
Speaker 2: I was going for. So then I heat it up
41:13
Speaker 2: and did it, and yeah, it worked. But what was
41:16
Speaker 2: interesting was that I couldn't find any information of why
41:21
Speaker 2: why you have to actually heat up the brine. I'm
41:25
Speaker 2: not sure still why that makes such a difference. My
41:30
Speaker 2: friend suggested it was because it starts the fermentation process,
41:34
Speaker 2: but it's hot water, so there's not gonna be a
41:39
Speaker 2: lot of yeast. I mean, yeast is in many fruits
41:43
Speaker 2: and vegetables, but you're gonna be keeping the quick pickles
41:46
Speaker 2: in the fridge, so you're not gonna have a lot
41:48
Speaker 2: of fermentation going on anyway if you're not actually fermenting
41:52
Speaker 2: your pickles. Just this quick pickling recipe. So I'm still
41:59
Speaker 2: not sure why you have to heat up the brine,
42:01
Speaker 2: but it absolutely does make a difference, because after five
42:04
Speaker 2: days I was like, this cold pickling cold brine pickling
42:08
Speaker 2: is not quick and it doesn't taste like the pickled
42:11
Speaker 2: red onions I like. So then I was like, there's
42:13
Speaker 2: gotta be a oh yeah, I have a rice cooker,
42:15
Speaker 2: and then it was really easy to heat up. The
42:17
Speaker 2: Brian had the pickles in twenty minutes and then they
42:20
Speaker 2: just get better every day, although they never last long.
42:23
Speaker 2: It's always like three days and then I've eaten all
42:24
Speaker 2: of them. I usually do small batches. I'll do one
42:27
Speaker 2: red onion in a little jar. But if I'm watching
42:29
Speaker 2: a movie or whatever having a salad or some cheese
42:33
Speaker 2: or something that goes good with salted, pickled red onions,
42:37
Speaker 2: then yeah, after a few days, those things are gone
42:40
Speaker 2: because they're so tasty. I gotta get cauliflower. I loved
42:44
Speaker 2: pickled cauliflower down in Sicily, and there's this old Italian
42:51
Speaker 2: grandma who made jars of jardin era and I bought
42:55
Speaker 2: a jar every and that was like a splurge because
42:57
Speaker 2: I think it was eight dollars a jar, just a
42:59
Speaker 2: reilar sized mason jar. But it was so good that
43:02
Speaker 2: I bought one every few days according to my budget
43:06
Speaker 2: instead of buying beeras like, I'll just get jarred and
43:09
Speaker 2: narrow while I'm here. Because that was when I was
43:10
Speaker 2: living on two to three hundred a month, so my
43:14
Speaker 2: food budget was pretty modest. But I could still get
43:17
Speaker 2: great food. But if you're just after the probiotics, just
43:22
Speaker 2: go eat some fruit and veg and you got it.
43:25
Speaker 2: That's why grapes are the best, like wine fruit, because
43:27
Speaker 2: they have so much yeast naturally inside them. If you
43:31
Speaker 2: just leave them out, they'll start fermenting. And that's grape wine.
43:35
Speaker 2: That's why grapes are the fruit wine because they have
43:38
Speaker 2: a great balance of sugars and bacteria and yeast in there,
43:41
Speaker 2: just naturally in there in their little fruit bodies. Yeah,
43:46
Speaker 2: so that's what I've been doing, pickling stuff. I would
43:48
Speaker 2: like to ferment pickles like i'd like to ferment some cabbage.
43:51
Speaker 1: For sure.
43:52
Speaker 2: I bet that tastes I mean, I love kimchi, so
43:55
Speaker 2: I know it tastes great. But I don't have any
43:58
Speaker 2: large glass jars right now, and I'm traveling quicker than
44:04
Speaker 2: usual right now. I'm just staying in each place a month,
44:06
Speaker 2: So I just don't have the time or the inclination
44:10
Speaker 2: really because the quick pickling is so good to ferment
44:12
Speaker 2: stuff yet, But I will at some point probably. I
44:16
Speaker 2: definitely don't want it to blow up like my wine
44:18
Speaker 2: used to. Well, like my wine did one time, and
44:21
Speaker 2: then I was careful and then it didn't blow up.
44:25
Speaker 2: I was reading this article the other day about a
44:27
Speaker 2: tech thing, and then I saw the author's profile picture
44:31
Speaker 2: and he has a mullet and big mustache but no beard,
44:37
Speaker 2: open jean jacket, no shit underneath, and a gold chain
44:42
Speaker 2: and he was writing this interesting technical article. And I
44:45
Speaker 2: was just like, that's your style is as impressive as
44:50
Speaker 2: this well written article, sir, fantastic job. Just had such
44:54
Speaker 2: a boss mullet. I was blown away. Whenever I talked
44:59
Speaker 2: to the America, though. When I touched an American who
45:02
Speaker 2: I have already helped, who are living abroad, they aren't.
45:06
Speaker 2: They just they're talking about politics.
45:09
Speaker 1: But there's a remove.
45:11
Speaker 2: When I'm talking to Americans who haven't left yet. They're
45:14
Speaker 2: so invested in the news cycle, the American, the US
45:19
Speaker 2: American news cycle that's going on. It's like, this is
45:22
Speaker 2: what you have to be angry about right now. Make
45:23
Speaker 2: sure to stay angry about it. It's really important. Even
45:27
Speaker 2: if you don't live in this state, it's total whatever.
45:30
Speaker 2: And I have to very gently remind them, like that's
45:34
Speaker 2: just weird stuff happening in this weird country that if
45:37
Speaker 2: you just move away from there, that's another benefit. You
45:40
Speaker 2: don't have to think about any of that if you
45:43
Speaker 2: want to, sure, stay aware of the political whatever you
45:46
Speaker 2: want to, but if that is really stressing you out
45:49
Speaker 2: and causing you physiological illness or anxieties in your life,
45:55
Speaker 2: which as far as I know, all US Americans seem
45:59
Speaker 2: very very anxious about the things going on in their country,
46:03
Speaker 2: and they should be. Their civil rights are being destroyed,
46:06
Speaker 2: as well as basic constitutional laws and rights. But in
46:11
Speaker 2: the same way, if you're living in the US and
46:13
Speaker 2: you hear about gain violence in Brazil and you're like,
46:18
Speaker 2: oh my god, that's too bad, and then you go
46:21
Speaker 2: on with your day. If you're not living in the US,
46:24
Speaker 2: that's about as much time as you have to give
46:26
Speaker 2: any of that. Like, yeah, it turns out they just
46:29
Speaker 2: repealed the First Amendment, so Americans can't talk anymore. If
46:34
Speaker 2: you talk in front of the police, they have the
46:36
Speaker 2: right to arrest you. Now there's no more freedom of speech.
46:40
Speaker 2: If you don't live in that country. That sucks for
46:42
Speaker 2: the people there, but you're fine. It's too bad that
46:46
Speaker 2: those people are there and living there, But you don't
46:51
Speaker 2: have to live in a constant state of anxious fear
46:56
Speaker 2: just because you were born in a place that terror you,
47:01
Speaker 2: or let's go back to costa living. You don't have
47:03
Speaker 2: to pay that much money for the same housing you
47:08
Speaker 2: can get somewhere else at twenty percent, fifteen percent, ten percent.
47:12
Speaker 1: Of the price.
47:13
Speaker 2: You can just move to the other place and start
47:15
Speaker 2: paying that fifteen percent of the rent for the same
47:20
Speaker 2: housing situation and benefits. But if you're getting a lot
47:24
Speaker 2: of stress from the US news cycle, moving abroad is
47:27
Speaker 2: another thing that will allow you to mellow out. The
47:30
Speaker 2: Internet is going to be tricky. You have to not
47:32
Speaker 2: scroll as much and that or you have to not
47:34
Speaker 2: choose to focus specifically on the US news cycle. But
47:39
Speaker 2: that is a lot easier to do when you aren't
47:41
Speaker 2: living in the middle of it and every TV show
47:44
Speaker 2: on has multiple channels just telling you constantly to be afraid,
47:50
Speaker 2: be afraid of this, Make sure to be afraid and
47:52
Speaker 2: be angry about this, regardless of your responsibility or affiliation
47:57
Speaker 2: with what we're talking about. A lot easier to do
48:00
Speaker 2: that when your a few countries removed. You can read
48:03
Speaker 2: about the news and say, man, that sucks for people
48:06
Speaker 2: living in the US, just like man, that sucks for
48:08
Speaker 2: people living in France. When there's a terrorist bombing. When
48:11
Speaker 2: there's a terrorist bombing in the US, that sucks for
48:13
Speaker 2: the people living in the US. When the Supreme Court
48:16
Speaker 2: orders that women cannot have healthcare in the US, that
48:20
Speaker 2: sucks for women in the US. They can get healthcare
48:24
Speaker 2: in other countries where the Supreme courts have not ruled
48:28
Speaker 2: against women's bodily autonomy. If you're living in the US
48:33
Speaker 2: news cycle and in these constitutional violations and inside the
48:37
Speaker 2: gun violence of the US, if you're in it, surrounded
48:40
Speaker 2: by it, then it seems real and permanent and unescapable.
48:46
Speaker 2: It seems like you have to live with this. But
48:50
Speaker 2: if you get a plane ticket to median or you
48:52
Speaker 2: get a plane ticket to Thailand, or you leave that situation,
48:57
Speaker 2: then you are no longer within that situation. You're no
49:00
Speaker 2: longer within that throttling cost of living that is barely
49:08
Speaker 2: hand to mouth. Travel is a very enriching way to
49:14
Speaker 2: alleviate problems that are not of your own making. If
49:17
Speaker 2: you grew up in the US and everyone's like, you
49:20
Speaker 2: have to pay twenty five hundred per month and you
49:23
Speaker 2: just have to, so you have to work forty hours
49:25
Speaker 2: a week and you have to pay whatever for your utilities,
49:31
Speaker 2: you don't have to. People are telling you you have to.
49:33
Speaker 2: But if you move away from that situation, if you
49:36
Speaker 2: move to a different location, then those prices are different.
49:41
Speaker 2: There are other options. Moving on, I got some artisanal beer.
49:48
Speaker 2: Some nice Servesia makes a pretty good beer here, and
49:52
Speaker 2: they sell little four packs of the glass bottles, and
49:55
Speaker 2: I've been looking around, but they're all expensive everywhere, and
49:58
Speaker 2: then last night I was like, catch, just go get them,
50:00
Speaker 2: and I went to the twenty four hour shop, and
50:02
Speaker 2: for some reason, at the twenty four hour shop, they're
50:06
Speaker 2: about half the price that they are in all the supermarkets.
50:08
Speaker 2: They're usually twenty three thousand pesos, which is only to
50:12
Speaker 2: be clear, it's like six dollars, five dollars, just about
50:16
Speaker 2: six dollars, it looks like. And then if I get
50:19
Speaker 2: them at this twenty four hour shop, then they're only
50:22
Speaker 2: three fifty. So for some reason, they're two fifty cheaper
50:25
Speaker 2: at a twenty four hour convenience store than they are
50:29
Speaker 2: at the supermarket. So I grabbed a couple of those.
50:32
Speaker 2: Haven't been drinking a ton of beer and mediean because
50:35
Speaker 2: I've been all healthy and jogging, but I still enjoy
50:38
Speaker 2: a good bender now. And then got some cured meats
50:41
Speaker 2: and cheeses. That was fun, and then I jogged for
50:44
Speaker 2: a very long time the day after to clear my head.
50:49
Speaker 2: I grabbed a charisa from the street food guys and
50:52
Speaker 2: we talked for a while. The guys who kind of
50:55
Speaker 2: lived near me with the giant churisos, they're like, I
50:58
Speaker 2: don't know, half a meter long, they're probably they got
51:02
Speaker 2: to be at least two feet long. Actually, they're huge
51:04
Speaker 2: chisos for a few bucks, and we were talking for
51:08
Speaker 2: a little bit, and I can get kind of conversational
51:11
Speaker 2: with my Spanish, and I told him I think Columbia
51:13
Speaker 2: has my favorite food so far in Central and South America.
51:17
Speaker 2: And instead of being like oh, thanks or anything like that,
51:21
Speaker 2: all three of them were like, yeah, it's the best here.
51:24
Speaker 2: This is the best food central South America, which a
51:28
Speaker 2: lot of countries feel that way, or a lot of
51:31
Speaker 2: countries citizens would respond that way, but but Colombia, they're
51:38
Speaker 2: just so matter of fact. They were like, yes, this
51:41
Speaker 2: is the best food, which reminds me a lot of Japan.
51:45
Speaker 2: If you're in Japan, you're like, oh, Japanese food is
51:47
Speaker 2: so good. Japanese people do not say I mean, they'll
51:52
Speaker 2: say Japanese people are still polite. Of course, they're going
51:55
Speaker 2: to say thank you, thank you. But if you ask them,
51:57
Speaker 2: like is Japanese food the best food in Japan, They're like.
52:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the best food. This is the best
52:03
Speaker 1: food in the world. Yes, this is great.
52:06
Speaker 2: There's so matter of fact. Does Japan care about its environment, Yes,
52:10
Speaker 2: we care about it more than any other country in
52:12
Speaker 2: the world. There's so matter of fact about their values
52:16
Speaker 2: in Japan and their achievements. It's pretty cool being a
52:20
Speaker 2: tourist there because you're like, oh my god, this is
52:23
Speaker 2: like seeing all these cherry blossoms is the most beautiful
52:27
Speaker 2: thing I've ever seen. They're like, yeah, this cherry blossom
52:31
Speaker 2: orchard is the most beautiful thing in the world. There's
52:35
Speaker 2: just so matter of fact about their cultural treasures. It's
52:39
Speaker 2: really fun.
52:40
Speaker 1: It's great to be in Japan.
52:42
Speaker 2: Or like, you go to a public bath in Japan
52:45
Speaker 2: and lie Dan, You're like, oh my god, this is
52:46
Speaker 2: the most comfortable thing. They're like, yes, public baths are
52:49
Speaker 2: the best civil amenity in the world. That is factually true.
52:53
Speaker 2: I may have mentioned this, but I was talking to
52:56
Speaker 2: someone in the US who wasn't ready to travel, and
53:00
Speaker 2: they had the energy of this other guy who got
53:02
Speaker 2: really angry at me when he found out I had
53:04
Speaker 2: been traveling for a decade and I had all the
53:07
Speaker 2: money I needed to continue traveling, and I wasn't interested
53:10
Speaker 2: in making more money. And when I told the amount
53:13
Speaker 2: of money I made per month, he said, what, You're
53:16
Speaker 2: not rich, So what You're just budgeting. And first of all,
53:21
Speaker 2: that's how people have money budgeting. It doesn't matter how
53:24
Speaker 2: rich you are. That's what budgeting is, managing your money.
53:28
Speaker 2: But that sort of outrage at not being rich is
53:33
Speaker 2: very indicative of this US American attitude that you either
53:39
Speaker 2: have zero money or you have infinite money. And US
53:43
Speaker 2: Americans seemed to want infinite money. And it doesn't matter
53:47
Speaker 2: that you only need three hundred dollars to travel around
53:50
Speaker 2: the world, or housing is three hundred dollars across most
53:55
Speaker 2: of the world, or food is two hundred dollars for
53:59
Speaker 2: cured me and cheeses and whatever you like to eat,
54:02
Speaker 2: you can. It doesn't matter that the budget of cost
54:04
Speaker 2: of a living on most of the world is five
54:06
Speaker 2: hundred USD a month. People in the US and people
54:10
Speaker 2: from actually China a few other places are like I
54:13
Speaker 2: either have no money, or what I'm shooting for is
54:17
Speaker 2: infinite money. I just want infinite money. What would you
54:21
Speaker 2: do with that money? Oh, I travel the world. I'd
54:23
Speaker 2: stop working. Okay, you can do that if you can
54:26
Speaker 2: get a passive income stream of more than five hundred
54:28
Speaker 2: USD a month. But I want but I want a
54:33
Speaker 2: fur coat. But I want to only ride in private jets.
54:36
Speaker 2: But I want to It's like, okay, yeah, if you
54:39
Speaker 2: want all of those things, then you don't actually want
54:44
Speaker 2: to stop working. You don't want financial independence. You want
54:48
Speaker 2: luxury items and status symbols. And if that's what you want,
54:53
Speaker 2: you know some people want that, go for it, chase
54:57
Speaker 2: those status symbols. But if status isn't important to you,
55:01
Speaker 2: and what you want is to retire early financial independence,
55:05
Speaker 2: you can do that for a much lower price tag
55:09
Speaker 2: then is commonly thought possible. Just throw that out there again.
55:14
Speaker 2: I'm probably going to say that a hundred more times
55:16
Speaker 2: in these episodes. But I really want people to know
55:20
Speaker 2: how accessible a low cost of living is, because that's
55:25
Speaker 2: the issue I hear the most from US Americans especially,
55:29
Speaker 2: but from people everywhere. They are concerned about money. And
55:34
Speaker 2: if you know how to use Airbnb and you know
55:38
Speaker 2: how to cook basic food. Then all you need is
55:41
Speaker 2: five hundred USD a month and you can live abroad,
55:43
Speaker 2: and from there you can if you want to make
55:45
Speaker 2: more money, you can work on that. But escaping financial
55:51
Speaker 2: struggle is very accessible at an affordable price tag because
55:55
Speaker 2: the cost of living in most countries is much lower
56:00
Speaker 2: then we are told growing up, and we're told as adults, Okay,
56:05
Speaker 2: let's move on to soccer, because that's so popular here
56:08
Speaker 2: in Columbia. And I've started noticing there's always large groups
56:11
Speaker 2: of people all watching the soccer game while it's going
56:14
Speaker 2: on together or drinking beer.
56:15
Speaker 1: And having fun.
56:16
Speaker 2: But it's so pervasive that even when they're driving up
56:21
Speaker 2: to an intersection if there's a red light, people on
56:23
Speaker 2: motor scooters will straight up just like flip up their
56:26
Speaker 2: visors and turn over and watch the three minutes of
56:29
Speaker 2: TV while the red light goes on, just totally patient.
56:32
Speaker 2: Nobody hawks a horn or anything. But if there's a
56:34
Speaker 2: soccer game going on, they're generally quiet civil drivers in
56:38
Speaker 2: Mediean anyway. But if there's a game going on, yeah,
56:41
Speaker 2: people in their cars or on those motor scooters especially,
56:45
Speaker 2: just get to the intersection, look at the nearest flat
56:48
Speaker 2: screen TV. There's tons of them on all the little
56:51
Speaker 2: convenience stores on the roadside, and the others wait for the
56:55
Speaker 2: light and then two minutes later they'll go off having
56:57
Speaker 2: watched two minutes of the game. And I really like
57:00
Speaker 2: that that it's it's just normal. It's just that's exactly.
57:04
Speaker 2: That's what every driver does. If there's a game going
57:07
Speaker 2: on and there's a flat screen next to your intersection,
57:10
Speaker 2: you just go over there. That's what people watch here.
57:13
Speaker 2: They see that when they are When a soccer game
57:16
Speaker 2: is going on, it doesn't matter what you're doing. You're
57:18
Speaker 2: paying attention to that game until you have to do
57:20
Speaker 2: something else like drive. If you get a two second
57:24
Speaker 2: pause to park at the intersection, or a two minute
57:27
Speaker 2: pause at that intersection, then that's two minutes.
57:30
Speaker 1: Of football you get to see.
57:32
Speaker 2: Oh so there's barber shops all across this city, and
57:36
Speaker 2: there's barber shops in every country, whatever country I've been to,
57:39
Speaker 2: no matter the cost of living, barber shops seem to
57:42
Speaker 2: be like a spot to there seems to be something
57:46
Speaker 2: with getting a new look, or maybe it's just a
57:48
Speaker 2: communal spot. I don't really know, but I think I've
57:51
Speaker 2: seen my first barber shop with a beer fridge inside.
57:54
Speaker 2: They like beer here in Medie and a lot. And
57:58
Speaker 2: I was just walking down the street and I glanced
58:00
Speaker 2: into the barber shop and there was a full beer
58:03
Speaker 2: fridge right in there, next to the benches where you
58:06
Speaker 2: would wait your turn to get your hair cut. And
58:09
Speaker 2: I walked past it and I was like, wait, and
58:12
Speaker 2: I took a few steps back and I pulled on
58:14
Speaker 2: my phone took a quick snap of that, because that's awesome.
58:19
Speaker 2: They drink a lot of beer here. It's very I
58:22
Speaker 2: haven't sat with any of the people yet either. While
58:24
Speaker 2: they're watching soccer. I'm afraid they're going to talk to
58:27
Speaker 2: me and ask me questions and I won't be able
58:29
Speaker 2: to answer.
58:30
Speaker 1: But that's silly.
58:30
Speaker 2: So next time I see one of these gatherings, I'm
58:33
Speaker 2: gonna watch soccer with them and have a couple beers
58:37
Speaker 2: and call it football and not soccer, so nobody's like,
58:41
Speaker 2: oh US American. I tried a regular Lagger by the
58:47
Speaker 2: artisanal beer I mentioned earlier, and then I tried a Honeylogger,
58:51
Speaker 2: which was pretty good because it wasn't too sweet. There's
58:54
Speaker 2: just a little it was just a little softer basically,
58:57
Speaker 2: and then I tried a rose beer, which I've never
59:00
Speaker 2: had before, but was pretty good for rose, which I
59:04
Speaker 2: don't like because it's so sweet, but this rose beer
59:08
Speaker 2: was interesting. It was still a little too sweet for me,
59:11
Speaker 2: but it's definitely a dessert beer, which I don't think
59:16
Speaker 2: I've ever tried, and it has been successful. This tasted
59:21
Speaker 2: successfully like a dessert beer. It was very interesting. Liquor
59:26
Speaker 2: sales in meta Ian. There are signs all over the
59:29
Speaker 2: store by the way that's say six am to two am,
59:33
Speaker 2: that's when you can sell liquor. And I went there
59:36
Speaker 2: at three am and I showed up and asked, oh, sorry,
59:40
Speaker 2: so there's no liquor sales after two am, and she
59:44
Speaker 2: was like, what do you want? I was like beer,
59:47
Speaker 2: and she's like, yeah, whatever, that's fine.
59:50
Speaker 1: So I don't know if.
59:51
Speaker 2: That lady was just super cool or if the laws
59:55
Speaker 2: are only for liquor and not for beer. Also maybe
59:59
Speaker 2: beer's twenty four and there's four hours of the day,
1:00:02
Speaker 2: or not allowed to buy liquor. But that was pretty
1:00:06
Speaker 2: funny seeing these giant signs telling me I wouldn't be
1:00:09
Speaker 2: able to buy what I thought was all alcohol. But
1:00:12
Speaker 2: I guess I would have said alcohol a non liquor
1:00:14
Speaker 2: and then her just being like, no, beer's good. It's
1:00:17
Speaker 2: three am. That's beer time, baby. And what did I
1:00:20
Speaker 2: do when I had that beer? I watched Flight of
1:00:22
Speaker 2: the Concords. It has been so long since I saw
1:00:26
Speaker 2: that show, and I was like, oh, this is good.
1:00:29
Speaker 2: It's been like ten years or more. I bet I
1:00:31
Speaker 2: can like watch and enjoy some of the parts I
1:00:35
Speaker 2: can't remember, and dude, I remember every frame. I remember
1:00:40
Speaker 2: it crystal clear. I remember that show. I watched that
1:00:44
Speaker 2: show so many times when I came out that I
1:00:47
Speaker 2: remember it in better quality than I can currently watch it.
1:00:50
Speaker 2: I was shocked at how well I remember. I still
1:00:53
Speaker 2: watched two episodes, maybe three, But I was like, no,
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Speaker 2: I just it has not been long enough. My brain
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Speaker 2: has still perfectly preserve this show into all of their songs.
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Speaker 2: I might just go into the second season and try
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Speaker 2: and watch one of the later ones, because I know
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Speaker 2: I watched the first season more than the second one.
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Speaker 2: But I don't even know if that's going to work
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Speaker 2: because I remember, I mean, I remember their leather jackets.
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Speaker 2: I just remember it so clearly, and it is such
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Speaker 2: a funny show. I still have the soundtrack and all
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Speaker 2: their songs on my phone, and I was playing all
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Speaker 2: my songs on random and one of the flight the concords,
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Speaker 2: and I just had this giant grin on my face
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Speaker 2: jogging around that grasstop track. It was so much fun.
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Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh my gosh, I can
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Speaker 2: watch it again because it's been so long. Nope, I
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Speaker 2: remember it. I remember it straight up. Well, that's been
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Speaker 2: my talk on medi Ian. I've just been very excited
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Speaker 2: to find a city that I can so clearly recommend
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Speaker 2: to people now as easily as I can recommend Thailand.
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Speaker 2: The only thing Thailand is safe for I think technically,
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Speaker 2: but again, it feels so safe here and everyone feels
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Speaker 2: so comfortable, specifically in Mediean, that I'm very comfortable recommending
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Speaker 2: this city. Two first time travelers, Thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for listening. I love talking about traveling. I love traveling.
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Speaker 2: Even when I go visit family in the States, I'm
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Speaker 2: thinking about traveling and thinking about ways it can be
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Speaker 2: more exciting, and I love sharing those thoughts on this podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your day. Talk to me
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Speaker 2: a bit of a rambler at gmail dot com or
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Speaker 2: a bit of a rambler on Blue Sky on Lemmy,
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Speaker 2: Talk to you soon.