Butter But No Spatula

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This is episode 42 of onefjef Douglas Adams picked 42 as the answer to

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life, the universe and everything precisely because it was boring, and

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yet it keeps showing up uninvited.

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It appears in cosmological critical density calculations

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as though the math is in on the.

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Louis Carroll loved it enough to put it in Alice in Wonderland as a rule

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that banishes anyone over a mile high from court and in Japan and China.

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It sounds like the words for to death, which when you consider it's also the

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answer to everything feels less like a coincidence and more like a punchline.

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The universe has been sitting on for a very long time.

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Hello, my friends.

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Hello again.

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How is everybody doing?

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Are you doing well?

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I hope you're doing well.

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I hope you're thriving.

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As always, thriving is a word that I enjoy.

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I actually released this week's episode to my patron subscribers last week.

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As the first episode of this new series that I am calling CDMX dispatch,

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which is just Mexico City Dispatch.

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CDMX is a abbreviation for Mexico City.

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I was going to just make it a series for my Patreon subscribers, but I made

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all new cover art and came up with a title for the series, so I feel like

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I should release them to the public.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to release them to the

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patron subscribers a week early.

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And then the public will be getting them the week after.

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So that's what this week's episode's going to be.

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It's going to be a very short glimpse into my experience of life here in

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Mexico City, my first couple weeks here.

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The weird things, the different things, the confusing things, all the things.

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And I plan to release one of these every week.

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To my patron subscribers who've already listened to this episode.

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I apologize, but you are getting a new intro, so that's exciting maybe.

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Anyway, the point being is if you would like to hear these new CDMX

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dispatch episodes the week that they are happening in real time, if you will.

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Go to patreon.com/onefjef and sign up for as little as $5 a month.

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I would really appreciate it.

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I am trying to add new and exciting content to that Patreon subscription to

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make it more appealing to people because I haven't gotten a new subscriber for

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quite some time, and I would really like to get some new subscribers.

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So.

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Please do go patreon.com/onefjef and sign up.

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I would tell you what happened today in my life, but that would be

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going in this week's episode of CDMX dispatch, so I can't, I can't do that.

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Uh, I'm confusing myself and that's not good as always and forever.

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Thank you for listening.

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Thank you for being here.

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Here is episode one of CDMX Dispatch from last week.

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I am in Mexico City.

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It rained today.

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It was like a thunderstorm.

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It was amazing.

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Mexico City does good thunderstorms.

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I'm gonna learn that or I did learn that today.

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And uh, I'm here for it.

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I love a good thunderstorm.

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I'm sure that during the rainy season I will get tired of the rain, but

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for now it was pretty sweet too.

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Hear the thunder.

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I think it's thundery because it maybe that goes off the mountains.

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'cause we're kind of surrounded by mountains here.

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Anyway, that was pretty cool.

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What else?

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Yeah, I mean, I suppose I'm settling in.

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I still need to fill my refrigerator with more things.

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I Eating is still kind of a struggle as it is in foreign countries when you

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don't speak the language and don't really know where to go and so forth and so on.

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I'm getting better at it, but.

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I need to find some cheap, cheap taco stands nearby my place.

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Listen to that.

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Mexico City kick ass cars outside.

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Um,

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but yeah, I mean, I have butter now, so that's exciting.

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But I don't have if a spatula, so I have to get a spatula tomorrow.

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It's the small things that this place doesn't have.

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I still love the apartment, but there's just like random things

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that you're like, well, why do we have five pans and no spatula?

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Hmm.

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It's fine.

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I learned about garbage and how garbage is handled here in Mexico City.

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You know, in the United States, generally speaking, you have like one day a week or

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two days a week when the garbage people come and take your garbage cans away.

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You put the garbage cans out, they take them away, et cetera, et cetera.

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In New York City, this causes a lot of rats because people just

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put their garbage outside and it sits outside and the rats come.

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And honestly, there is a lot of garbage everywhere in New York

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City, and I hadn't even noticed it

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in all the times I've been here in Mexico City.

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And I'm sure maybe it's different in some of the other neighborhoods

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because I am in, you know, somewhat bougie neighborhoods.

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But.

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There's no garbage, and the streets are very clean.

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And I think it's in part because, you know, I'll often see people taking care

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of their particular area of the block, like storekeepers and so forth, which

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I find very charming and wonderful.

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But also because of the way the garbage is collected, you'll hear these trucks go

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by ringing a bell sometimes, once a day, sometimes twice a day, however often.

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I don't know.

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I haven't been here long enough to know how often they come

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by, but I have heard them.

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And when you hear the bell of the garbage people, you take your garbage out and

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then you give the garbage people, I don't know, five or 10 pesos, 25, 50 cents,

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whatever, and they take your garbage away.

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And so there's no garbage sitting on the street corner waiting to

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be picked up because the garbage men take it away immediately.

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And so you don't see as many rats.

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I mean, you see some rats of course, but not nearly as many,

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so that's interesting.

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It's always interesting, these things that are different from country to country,

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and there's so many strange things like that, like all the different,

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I think there are holdovers from older times, but you know,

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there's a guy who rides a bike around and he plays this whistle.

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And he is the knife sharpener, and you just know that that whistle

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sound is the knife sharpener guy, and he's got like a knife sharpening

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thing on the back of his bike.

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So you just like go out there, bring your knives and he

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sharpens your knives for you.

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You know, there's the comte man, the guy with the sweet potatoes, all sorts of

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different things that seem like holdovers to an older time, but also feel charming

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in today's Mexico City, to me anyway.

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In my first or second week here.

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You know, eventually these noises are gonna start to get on my nerves at some

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point, but for now, I'm finding them charming and I'm leaning into that.

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The weather here, it really has been stellar.

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It's basically between like 70 and 80 degrees every day at night.

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It goes down to maybe 60, 65.

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Mostly sunny, usually, sometimes some clouds.

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Again, they get rain today and there's just green everywhere, you know?

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I just love it.

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I went to this strange poker game on Friday that I'll tell you about,

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but there was a guy there from New Orleans, a professor who was an artist

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who was here researching some specific indigenous fabrics of some sort.

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Interesting guy.

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Before the game started, we were chatting in.

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He said, you know, it kind of reminds me of New Orleans here

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and I had been thinking that.

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It kind of reminded me of Savannah, Georgia, which has similarities to

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New Orleans and yeah, it really does.

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The more I think about it and the more I walk around, especially at night, you

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know, the way the trees on some streets, the way the trees like completely cover

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the street and block the streetlights and.

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Give it kind of a very gothic, picky vibe in some places.

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Yeah, definitely get a Savannah Georgia vibe or a New Orleans vibe and also just

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the greenery, you know, all the greenery.

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Anyway, the poker game, I found this poker game on Facebook.

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It's one of these expat groups.

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This guy said he was having a poker game.

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He has it every Friday or something like that.

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So I messaged him and said, Hey, I'm interested, you know,

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'cause I used to have a poker game of course, in Columbus and.

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I realized that this game was gonna be different than my game in Columbus.

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Of course, I knew it wasn't gonna be the same.

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Of course, they're not gonna have a fog machine.

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I thought it might be social.

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You know, I thought it might be a place for me to meet friends, but it

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was a, you know, a serious poker game.

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The stakes weren't terrifically high.

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I mean, it was like a $50, a thousand peso buy-in.

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These people were intense poker players at the beginning

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when everybody was showing up.

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There was talking and joking around, but as soon as the game started, people

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were just pretty much playing poker and there was, you know, a specific dealer,

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a professional dealer, and we were playing out on a professional table and

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there was even like a woman who walked around with free drinks and snacks if

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you wanted them and so forth and so on.

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Yeah.

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Uh, it was not like my game in Columbus at all.

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Uh, not even a little bit.

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I mean, aside from the fact that we were using playing cards and playing the same

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game, but I mean at one point I paused for like 20 or 30 seconds thinking about

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my bet and somebody was like, do you always pause that long before you bet?

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And I felt like I was being called out for just thinking about my bet.

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'cause it was fast, you know?

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Anyway.

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It was definitely interesting.

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I lost about a hundred dollars and I'm not happy about that at all because I

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don't have a ton of money right now.

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But I'll chalk it up to experience because it wasn't experience for sure,

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and I wanted to get the new guy from New Orleans, that professor, artist guy.

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I wanted to get his number before he left, but he lost all of his money

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twice 'cause he bought in again.

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He lost all his money twice and then left without.

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Much fanfare.

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So the big winner was this French guy at the end of the table who had

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a, I mean, he must have had 10,000.

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20,000 pesos in front of him.

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Yeah, he was doing well.

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I was up for a while, but then I made some terrible bets and at a certain point

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I just wanted to leave and I thought about just cashing out with the chips

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that I had left, but nobody was doing that, and I didn't wanna break protocol.

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I thought, all right, well I'll just call this a wash and then I'll go all in on

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a game that maybe I might not win on.

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And I did and I lost and I left 'cause I was tired.

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I wanted to go home.

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But you know, it was an experience.

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It was,

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I think I'm gonna start going to pickleball, community

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Pickleball games here.

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There's like a group of.

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There's a bunch of groups of people who play pickleball like every

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single day at a court right near me.

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So I might start checking that out.

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And I think the yoga mat I ordered arrived at the place

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that I have to go pick it up at.

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So I'll probably go there tomorrow and pick that up and start going to yoga.

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And that'll feel good because I think my body's starting to acclimate.

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You know, last night before I went to bed, I was looking into, well,

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I was asking, you know, AI about.

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The effects of the body and how you adjust to living at 7,500 feet or so,

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whatever it is here, you start producing more red blood cells to adjust to this.

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And I was like, well, how does that affect the body producing more red blood cells?

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And it apparently makes the blood thicker because you're

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producing more red blood cells.

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And so clotting, I guess, is more of an issue, but not a big one.

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But really not a lot of bad.

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I always thought that there'd be a trade off.

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You know, your body's producing more red blood cells, so it's

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producing less of something else, but apparently that's not the case.

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It's just adjusting to the altitude and it also checks out because I

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have been sleeping pretty well, not great, but I appetite has been

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low, and my energy has been weird.

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It's getting better, but.

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Apparently it takes two to four weeks, five weeks to really adjust.

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So, so, yeah.

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But it is a thing for sure.

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'cause it's like a mile and a half up, you know?

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That's a hike.

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That's a hike.

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And I did get one air purifier from Amazon, but I'm not happy with it.

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So I am returning it and getting a better one.

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I don't know if it'll make much of a difference.

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It's an Amazon basic air purifier and.

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I don't know why I don't trust it to be purifying the air well, but I don't, so

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I'm returning it and getting a better one because I feel like air quality in

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my apartment is one of the more important things for my life here to be good

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and comfortable in all those things.

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You know, I have been reading the news to my chagrin and.

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I am really thinking about not doing that anymore.

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When I was here a year ago, I kind of did that.

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I kind of 'cause it, it, it was a different time 'cause it was like right

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after he'd gotten inaugurated again.

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But I feel like I look at the New York Times and it's kind of the same version

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of the same story like every day now.

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And I don't mean to trivialize it in that way.

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But it kind of does, right?

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It seems like just, oh, war continues, more people dying,

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bombs, et cetera, et cetera.

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And again, it's not affecting me.

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I mean, gas prices, okay, airline tickets are more expensive.

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But I did reach out to my friend from New York.

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I had a friend in New York that I met at Sundance, Saba, who is

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Iranian, and her family's from Tehran.

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I just reached out to her to find out if she was all right and she got back

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to me and said she is in Copenhagen, but her family is all still in Tehran,

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and I don't know, that's gotta be hard.

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I mean, I would want to get my family out of there because I don't know,

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it feels like nuclear weapons are not

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out of the picture here.

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And I don't know how that plays out, but I'm glad I'm in Mexico

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because I don't feel like Mexico is a prime target for anything really.

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But my friend is.

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Okay.

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And that's good.

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That's good to know.

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But yeah, I, maybe I'll just delete the New York Times app.

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Maybe I'll delete.

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All the news apps and just stop paying attention to that shit because it does

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take up brain space and I don't need that.

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What good does it do me to know what's going on, what horrible

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things are going on in the world now?

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I mean, of course it's disaster porn.

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It's, you know, catastrophe porn, whatever it is, it's hard to look away, right?

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It's like the sore tooth.

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You can't stop touching it with your tongue, but it can't be

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good for you mentally to be processing all of this darkness.

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Right on a daily basis.

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And I don't really get anxious about it or, or angry really occasionally.

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But I do understand that that anger and anxiety doesn't do any good.

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It doesn't change anything.

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It doesn't fix anything.

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It just affects my mental health and I just don't need that.

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I wanna use that brain space for something else.

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I wanna make music or.

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Make more podcasts or whatever it is, look for a fucking job.

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You know, all these things that this toxic, toxic news

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is distracting me from.

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And, and even then, I still won't know if it's true.

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I mean, I do know the mainstream media is full of shit for the most part.

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I mean, of course they're right on some things, but the fact that

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there's some rah rying going on.

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On these mainstream media channels, like pro-war stuff?

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No, absolutely not.

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Absolutely not.

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Although I suppose you have to toe the party line and the party

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is the United States, so, and you gotta make the dear leader happy.

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So I guess you have to rah rah the war somewhat just so you can

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appease the dear leader and not lose your license or get whatever.

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It's such a fucking cloud of darkness over this world right now.

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And I don't wanna sit in that dark cloud of darkness.

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I wanna,

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I wanna sit outside of that cloud of darkness because you can, you don't

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have to sit in that cloud of darkness.

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You can choose to sit outside of it, and I guess it's probably harder in

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the United States to sit outside of it because it's kind of all around you there.

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But.

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I am in Mexico City and it's very easy for me to just sit outside of that cloud.

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All I gotta do is stop opening the damn New York Times app or whatever it is.

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Uh, there's some more thunder.

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I think we're gonna get another storm here.

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I hope it's a quick one.

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I gotta go for a walk.

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And I do realize that a lot of people are being affected directly

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by what's going on in the world.

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Is it more acute now?

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Yes, of course.

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It's more acute now, but that doesn't mean that you paying attention is

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going to make it better at all.

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Right.

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It's just gonna make it worse.

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Well, no, it's not gonna make it worse.

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It's just gonna make you worse.

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It's gonna give you anxiety, probably.

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It's gonna give you anger, whatever it is, fear, all the emotions

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that, that I think this government wants you to have, frankly.

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I mean, I think it's them winning, you know?

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And then people would say, so you just want to give up.

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You just wanna throw your hands up in the air and say whatever's

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gonna happen is gonna happen.

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What do you suggest?

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Name something that you would do, that you would suggest that I do that's

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actually gonna make a difference in what's going on right now.

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I'll wait.

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No.

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Call your Congress person, please.

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I gimme a break.

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If it makes you feel better, great.

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But I guarantee that the congressperson is not changing his votes.

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Based on the number of phone calls he's getting about a

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particular issue, the fix is in.

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My friends, the fix has been in for years.

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Our government has been captured by money,

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and I don't think that there's anything that you or I or

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anyone can really do about it.

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Yeah, I realize that there's shining lights of sorts out

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there, your James Telecos, your Bernie Sanders, and so forth.

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But these people are few and far between.

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Most of the politicians have been completely captured by money,

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or at least partially captured.

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And when money controls the system, we don't live in a democracy.

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We haven't lived into democracy for years though, because money's

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been controlling the system for probably as long as I've been alive.

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To different degrees, to increasing degrees as I've gotten older,

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whereas now it's completely controlled outwardly, openly.

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The bribery is now just like part of the thing.

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Yeah, things are as bad as they have been, I think in my lifetime.

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For sure.

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This is in a way the inevitable outcome of the last 50 years of neoliberalism.

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When you put a dollar sign on everything, then of course the government's

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going to become corrupted by money.

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Anyway, I wish I had answers, but I don't.

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The only answers I have are to do something in your community

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that'll make you feel better and help the community around you.

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It'll have a direct impact on the world that you exist in, because

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trying to affect the global politics, national politics, all of that, I just

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don't think that there is a way to do that that is going to be effective.

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But if you disagree, I'm happy to hear your, your rebuttal, your, your solution.

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Should we email onefjefpod@gmail.com or leave a comment on

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this post in the Patreon?

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I'd love to have a dialogue.

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Anyway, enough about that.

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I'm gonna go over to a friend's place and play some music tonight,

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so maybe I'll just wrap this up.

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Maybe I'll just call this the first one.

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25 minutes.

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That's pretty good.

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Thank you Patreon subscribers for sticking with me.

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Continuing to support the podcast.

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I really do appreciate it and please do tell your friends and family to

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listen to the podcast and per perhaps support it because still this is my,

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my source of income, which isn't a lot.

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I'm trying to figure out ways to increase that source of income from

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this, because really the dream is to make a living off of this thing,

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which is a difficult dream to achieve.

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I believe, I believe in the meantime, although I do have to get some, some roar.

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But yes, thank you very much.

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I hope you're all doing very well and if you have any comments about anything

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in this podcast or about anything you've heard, please just leave a comment in

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the um, comment section on this post and maybe we can start a dialogue

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because I'd love to hear from you.

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Until then, thanks be well.

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I hope you're thriving.

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Continue to thrive.

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Put your phone down.

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Put your phone down.

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Very good, Jeffrey.