Episode 25 – The Next Best Thing To Costa Rica

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Want a vacation in the tropics? Peter had one! Scott listens in rapt envy as Peter talks about his new life and his future bungalo. Then Peter gets all Authoritarian, and Scott talks about transcribing the whole thing.
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Friends with Brews.

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That was loud.

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That was loud.

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Whoa.

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Yeesh.

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So, heard any good balloon jokes lately?

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No, but who are you?

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You’re not John Chidgey.

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I’m chatgpt for all you know.

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You’re chatgpt Chidgey?

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I could be chatgpt for all you know.

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Let’s pretend that I’m Peter.

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Let’s do something amazing.

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This will take some effort on your part.

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Let’s not talk about ChatGPT at all this episode

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Okay, you got to admit you’ve talked non-stop about ChatGPT for the last month

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Non-stop just all the time not even gonna mention it

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But you have just say yes, I have that’s not mentioning it. Just admit that you have once I did

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I did once but you’ve mentioned it many more times than I know

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What I said was you have talked about it non-stop for a month. I didn’t say today this

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Conversation I said you have talked about it non-stop for a month. Tell me I’m wrong, but I’m being I’m being respectful

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I’m not telling you you’re wrong. I’m being respectful and not talking about it now

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I’m not just answer that. Yes, you did in the past, right? That’s a yes or no answer. Yes. I already said that

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No, you didn’t you every time I asked you said I’m not talking about it

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Nope, I have a recording of it. So do I and I be the one to go and play it back right now

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Yeah, except you’re gonna edit it out. I have the original. I won’t if you actually said that which you didn’t

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I won’t edit it out. So who are you? I’m the guy who’s always been here and

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Does that mean that our listener knows who you are? I don’t know. I don’t know. Do I care?

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I’ll tell them who I well, I’m Peter your Scott neither of us is that AI chat bot

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We won’t man we have beers and coffee. I have a coffee as well. Oh you have coffee

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I have, well, we have brews. We have brews. Yes. I want to talk about my coffee for just a second.

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Let’s talk about your coffee. This is Backporch Coffee Roasters again.

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This is Costa Rica Santa Maria de Tota. Well, okay, do we get to see a picture or hear you

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open it or anything? It’s a coffee. Peter, I brewed it and put it in a coffee cup.

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You denied our dear listener the sound of the pour and the grind and the stir.

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Have we ever done that on this podcast with coffee? No. We never have.

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Well then why not? Because…

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Sounds to me like you’re biased and you’re not giving them the full auditory love that we could

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give them. Do you want me to get all the clips of every time you’ve had coffee on this podcast with

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you not doing any of those same things? I’ve definitely ground coffee beans on the podcast.

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Not that the listener could hear. Only that I could hear.

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Fine, fine. Once again, I’m being censored. So how is your coffee?

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No, because your grinder and your mic have an entire floor of a building in between them.

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They do.

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They do.

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And it’s a big floor.

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The coffee’s pretty good.

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Talk to me.

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What are you detecting?

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Notes?

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Hints?

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I don’t know.

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Would you call it sour?

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Would you call it floral?

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Acidic?

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Bitter?

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It’s definitely not floral.

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It is slightly bitter and I’m not sure why.

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Is it at what?

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What’s the roast?

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Dark?

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Medium?

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Uh, this one I think is more of a medium roast.

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Let me take a look at what they claim.

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They say, “Cuping notes, clean orange citrus, milk chocolate, and whiny.”

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This is a very whiny coffee.

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We deal with whiny people all the time, so I don’t want to deal with whiny coffee.

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Yeah.

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Well, that’s good.

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How are you rating this?

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Is this a thumbs up?

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Yeah, it’s a thumbs up.

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It’s for some reason, like I said, it is a little bit bitter, and I don’t know if it’s

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just because it’s getting too cold if it’s how I ground it and or brood it.

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Yeah it’s not bad. It’s pretty good. I have a feeling that I need a little

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practice of this one to get it nice and smooth. If this thing came out of a

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narrow press it would probably be amazing. Well I am, since it’s seven

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o’clock my time, I’m not drinking a coffee tonight. And so I went down into the beer

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seller to find a low alcohol beer because I have like an entire drawer of my refrigerator dedicated

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to high alcohol beers and by that I mean like eight percent or more. You have drawers of beer?

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Some of them have been there for more than a year because I’ve been taking my time weeding my way

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through them but they’re so high alcohol. I really, you know, I’ve mentioned this on the podcast before

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I need to have a friend over to drink them so because I can’t finish, you know, one bottle on my

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my own. It took me over two hours to drink a Founders Ultimate Oktoberfest on

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Saturday and even at that time I still felt like wiped out at the end of it. So

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tonight I’m going with a relatively low alcohol Harpoon Dunkin Blueberry Matcha

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IPA. So this as the name implies is a collaboration between Harpoon breweries

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and Dunkin Donuts. Well, now, Dunkin. They don’t, they’re not just Dunkin Donuts

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anymore. But yeah, so this is a blueberry green tea matcha IPA. I’ve had these

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before. I don’t know what to think of that, Peter. I’m not gonna lie here. Well, I

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will tell you what to think of it. I’ll tell you what I think of it. Thank you. I appreciate you helping me out that way, Peter.

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All right, I have now popped the can. I have poured it. Here it is. Cheers. Cheers, my

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friend. I see that. With beer. You’re making me thirsty. Cheers with beer. Oh it’s a nice color.

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I like the color. This is one of the few IPAs that I can actually say tastes pretty good.

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I will pay you to ship me some of that. Do you get harpoon out there? I don’t know. I need to

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find out if there’s any places out here that carry it. I have never seen it. It’s a seasonal thing.

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They started a few years ago I think doing a combo. I think it was around uh Halloween time

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or you know fall and they did a pumpkin you know kind of thing and then they’ve done they do like

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a midnight porter uh you know oh no I think a chocolate stout you know all using supposedly

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using the same ingredients that Dunkin uses in their donuts so two home teams you know

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collaboration it’s a beer I you know what it’s this here this is one of the it’s a beer this is

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This is one of the few times I will probably give a thumbs up rating to an IPA.

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Okay, excellent.

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Thumbs up, it is a beer.

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It is a beer.

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And I don’t have to be desperate.

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I would like to try that because I can’t imagine, I don’t know what blueberry and matcha taste

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like together.

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I can’t imagine that.

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It tastes like this.

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I really like the fact that it comes, that you can get a harpoon dunkin’ dozen.

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Dozen?

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Dunkin’ dozen.

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Dunkin’ dozen, yes.

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Maybe I should be dozen.

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Yeah, it’s a dozen of three, three of each of four different flavors.

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And that was the one that I have.

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So you found it online.

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The Dunkin’ Dozen.

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It comes with the Midnight Dunkin’ Midnight, which is their, what is that?

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The coffee order, I think.

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Their Blueberry Matcha IPA, the maple cream, which is also pretty good.

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And the Dunkin’ Pumpkin.

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So that was their, you know, their pumpkin thing.

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Cause it’s cause everyone around fall does a pumpkin spice pumpkin.

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Yep.

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So anyway, yeah, I like it.

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It’s smooth.

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unlike most IPAs, it’s not over hopped and super bitter. So I

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like that. Oddly enough, recent discovery or realization, I

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never even put this together. I don’t like bitter beers. I don’t

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like bitter liquors. I do like bitter coffee.

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Okay, I was about to make a that’s all bitter lovers joke in

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there somewhere.

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Something about bitter women. Yeah, I knew that was.

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By the way, I want to make it clear. I am not one of those

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guys that always characterizes the women is the crazy. I don’t like that.

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Oh yeah, I know. I’ve seen your bookmarks. I know that you’re on reddit.com/r/redpill

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every day.

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Yeah, 4chan, yeah, yeah.

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4chan, 8chan, 16chan.

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Okay, so my beer-

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Oh, you’ve got a beer and coffee?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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My beer also has berries.

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I do not want to see your beer berries, Scott.

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Okay, this is an Ex Novo Marionberry,

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and not Marionberry the way the berry is,

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but they spelled it M-A-R-R-Y-I-N, berries,

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because this is Marionberry and raspberry.

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So they married raspberry and Marionberry.

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They married the berries, and Marionberry.

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(laughing)

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And I tell you, I tell you,

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this is a sour, sour beer, and I like it.

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And is it, technically, is it a sour,

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like, officially a sour, or is it just a—

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Well, you tell me, it’s a ghost-style ale, G-O-S-E.

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That sounds like a sour. Is that a sour?

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Yeah. Okay.

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That sounds like a sour. Yeah, it’s supposed

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to be a sour. Doesn’t have to be a sour.

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You can tell that it’s definitely supposed to be sour,

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and it’s good, and I will show you the color of this, Peter.

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As soon as I am done pouring it.

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They heard the pop, they didn’t get the pour.

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Can you see the color?

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Ooh, that looks like berries.

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Yeah, it is red, red, red.

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That’s a Valentine’s Day berries kind of thing.

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I think so. I’m gonna go tell my wife that right now. Here’s your gift.

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There you go.

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I’m sure she’ll be pleased.

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Cool.

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So yeah, this is me. And I also like this because it’s not a lot of alcohol. What percentage?

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5.3, which isn’t bad. You know, it’s better than what you were drinking in Porto, wherever

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you were, Costa Rica.

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Well, but it’s higher. If higher is better, then sure, yes. This is 6.6% alcohol, surprisingly

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It’s pretty strong for like a wimpy, fruity IPA beer.

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Well, it’s pretty strong for a guy who just got back

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from drinking 4.0s nonstop.

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Correct, yes, I’m with you on that.

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So I wanna mention something we don’t usually talk about

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on this podcast.

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You’re skipping right over the show notes, huh?

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Oh, we have show notes?

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Yeah, yeah, I sent you a link in the calendar invite.

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Oh, I didn’t see that link.

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I will open it now.

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I am now looking at it.

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You didn’t see the fact that I accepted the invite.

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I didn’t see the show notes in the invite.

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I never got a notification.

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Yeah, it’s a reasonable answer.

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Whatever.

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All right, so let me read this.

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Look at my comment.

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Look at my comment on the Ex Novo website.

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I will read this out.

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Ex Novo, this is Scott’s comment

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on the Ex Novo Marionberries, a beer that he’s drinking.

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And by the way, that link is not to the actual Ex Novo site,

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because could I find a page that had this beer

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or any of their beers on it?

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No, I could not.

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So Scott’s comments, and I quote,

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”Ex Novo has,” all caps,

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”the sh*test website in the universe

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for finding their gut-----ing beers. Mark!

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How many of these do I need? It’s a good thing for copy and paste.

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Indeed, you’re gonna need a lot of copies and a lot of paste. That was a…

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That was heartfelt.

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An emotional… That was a heartfelt emotional comment. Did you leave them feedback on their

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non-existent website so that they know how bad their website is?

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No, but I am going to contact them and say, “Guys, do you want people to find and care

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about your beers or not?”

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Well there you go.

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Okay.

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So anyway, I took the liberty of putting a bullet point in here about your vacation,

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and it is totally up to you as to whether that is a topic that you would like to address.

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Of course.

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Okay.

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Tell us what happened to you, Peter.

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I went to Costa Rica for a month.

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Yep.

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It was great.

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And you called on the phone and it sounded horrible, so I decided never to talk to you

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again until you came back to Boston.

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Never again until those don’t work, but I’ll take it.

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You noticed that there was a John Chidgey episode. Did you notice that?

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I have it downloaded, but I haven’t played it yet.

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Okay, but you knew.

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You told me right out back, you’re like, “Oh, okay, jerk. I’m gonna replace you.”

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I think those were your exact words.

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They probably were, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah. So I was just like…

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I’m not gonna go look for that one. At this point,

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I’m on the hook for looking for too many clips from the past.

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Yeah, yeah. So I was like, “Huh, okay, great. Thanks.” That’s how it is.

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I’m staying in Costa Rica so until you’re ready to record again so that’s what I did.

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Okay so that was it. That was it I was just like okay fine I have to come back to record a podcast

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then that’s what will bring me back. Okay but if memory serves you were gonna you hoteled it up

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first. Yes let’s back it up a little bit. Beep beep. I want to definitely throw in a plug here

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for anywhere.com know that they are not a they’re not a sponsor of the podcast. I just thought too I

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have my thank you Vic I have my shush button which I just used. Yep. It’s good for coughs,

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it’s good for sneezes, it’s also good for belches and I was just thinking we should probably record

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a belch sound and you can use that for you know like swears as well. Oh yeah. Anyway so anywhere.com

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excellent excellent service. I told them you know what I wanted to do and they set me up with a

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great two week itinerary. So I landed in San Jose and right off the bat there was a little bit of a

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mix up. Not sure if it was my fault or if it was theirs, but I flew down on Spirit and they thought

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I was flying Air Canada. And I arrived in the afternoon around 1.30 and they thought I was

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supposed to be there around 11.30. So that was a little concerning. Peter, remind me again which

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country it was that you were headed for for your vacation?

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That was Costa Rica, yeah. And, okay, does it start with a C?

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Ca-co-sta. But it doesn’t go C-A. It’s not, hmm, okay.

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Well, Costa Rica, there are two, there are A’s in there, there are two A’s in the name,

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so Costa Rica. You were headed for Costa Canada, yeah.

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Exactly. But within like 15 minutes of me messaging my contact, they had a driver there,

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Pick me up, no problem. Drove me like three hours in a tour bus van. When I say tour bus,

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it’s like a small bus, large van kind of thing. Private ride, drive for three hours across country

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through windy roads. It was a little rainy and very foggy and I was in the back seat and I get

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carsick easily. So it was not a great… That was not awesome, especially after being on a plane for

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a few hours. But I arrived and landed in the Arenal region in La Fortuna near a volcano.

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And I was in the mountains. And I was in Costa Rica, and it was official. I had my own private

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bungalow. And it was great. I loved it. Wait, you had a private bungalow in a hotel?

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This was considered a hotel, right? Hotels, there, many hotels are separate,

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like each unit is a building. Oh, nice.

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So my room in Bunny Rabbit Ears was a building. So you open up the door, you know, it’s like big

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sliding glass double doors. You open it up, there’s two twin beds there, bathroom, TV, closet, that was

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up. So I was like, this is great, this is great. I’ll be here for a few days, this is wonderful.

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I went ziplining, I went for a couple of runs, I went on a sloth tour and I saw sloths. I went on a

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coffee and chocolate tour. Had a lot of refresher since the coffee shop days, but also I learned

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a couple of new things. That was cool. So which tasted better, the sloths or the chocolate and

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coffee? Absolutely the sloths. Because when you get a good ripe sloth with a nice green coating

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of algae on the outside, nothing, no chocolate can compare to that. And I suppose they move slow

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enough that they all have green coatings of algae. Oh they’re easy to catch. They move about as fast

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as a coffee bean, you know, so you just like grab them there. I have videos of some sloths though,

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it was one that was very funny because he was moving pretty quickly, I mean for a sloth, right?

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And he was moving along and he was, you know, like moving like about twice the speed that they

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normally do and he slipped and he fell but he caught himself and then slowed way down.

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He learned his lesson. This is why they’re slow. This is why they’re slow.

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It was hilarious because you know watching him and he’s just like you know you just imagine him

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saying like okay I’m done showing off now I’m just gonna dial it back and not sure do that again.

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Exactly. So yeah so that was that was the first uh few days and then uh I hopped on a uh hopped

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on a bus and the next thing I knew I was in Tamarindo which is one of the most touristy

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beach resort towns.

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It was great, super hot, like on average 89 degrees, 89, 90 degrees in the afternoon.

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Definitely have to like find shade or be in the water there every day.

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Found a great little coffee shop where I had for my first time coffee flavored kombucha

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and it was really good.

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We’ve talked about kombucha before and I can’t remember if you said you have had it before.

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I used to make my own.

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I used to make my own.

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That’s embarrassing.

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Yeah, no, when making coffee was too time consuming, I switched to kombucha for a while.

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But it’s been a few years since I’ve done either.

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So, anyway, so I hung out in Tamarindo. It was nice.

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I was out one night just wandering around in the city and I passed a real estate agency, as I want to do.

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do. And for the same price as my place here in Boston, I could get a 5000 square foot,

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five bed, five bath with a 1200 square foot outdoor yoga studio place for the same price

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as my two bed, two bathroom place in Massachusetts.

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I thought you were gonna tell me for the same price as the building you’re standing in right

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now you could buy Costa Rica.

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No, but I could buy a large chunk of Costa Rica.

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That would be awesome, dude.

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For the same price as my kitchen remodeling was supposed to cost, I could buy a one unit

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bungalow within like a stone’s throw of the beach.

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Supposed to cost.

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Obviously it did not-

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I never actually did the kitchen.

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I did not do the kitchen remodel.

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Oh, okay.

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Because I would rather spend that money on a bungalow in Costa Rica.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So anyway after Tamarindo I went back into the mountains to Monteverde. I had

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an absolutely amazing tour of the National Park in their cloud forest. That

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was amazing. It was great. I got lots of pictures, videos of hummingbirds. I heard

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howler monkeys. I saw all kinds. The guide that I had was amazing. He was like the

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equivalent of multiple PhDs. Anything you wanted to talk about naturalists,

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botanist, plants, animals, you know, geology, geography, everything. This guy just knew

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it all. And I was like, I tested him with a couple of things that I knew and like

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right off the bat immediately, you know, he’s like coming right back to me with

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volumes of information. I was like, this guy’s legit. So very happy and most of the

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time when I was out there, when I was on tours, like when I went ziplining, it was

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like a large pickup full of people all going up to the top and zooming on down.

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When I went on the chocolate tour, I booked it myself.

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There were six of us, five or six of us on the tour.

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This Cloud Forest tour was just me.

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So I had a private guide all morning.

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He shows up at the hotel, picks me up.

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Wait, this was the PhD guy?

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Yeah.

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How does he make money when one Peter Nikolaidis shows up?

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You know, apparently the dollar goes a lot further down there.

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I mean I don’t know exactly what he… so that’s the thing is I booked through

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Anywhere.com so they took care of a lot of you know like all the reservations so

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anything they did I didn’t know exactly how much that cost. Right. So I’m not sure

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exactly how much he paid but I gave him like a $20 tip on top of it though

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because you know he was worth it. It was amazing. As we were driving there on the

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way over too you know he noticed another tour guide had stopped because like

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there are people whenever you drive by and you see people looking up there’s

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probably birds or monkeys or sloths or something. So he stops and he asked the other you know the

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other guide who was there. Or balloons. A tripod. Or could be yeah it could be balloons. Well they

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were zing and they saw some toucans and I found out that there’s a type of toucan that doesn’t

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actually have a giant beak but it’s still considered a toucan. So I saw one of those.

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Yeah. And then I got loads of hummingbird videos. I’ll share some of those with you later. And then

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you know we spent like hours walking around in the cloud forest. That was great. I came back

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So, and then that day I went out for another run in the area, tried out a couple of different

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places.

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And this is a mountainous town.

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Very steep.

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It’s like San Francisco steep on steroids, but the roads are only one lane wide.

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Are they paved?

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Sometimes.

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Well, I guess I’m just trying to figure out what kind of surface you’re running on here.

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When I went for a run, it was a mix.

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So when there were sidewalks, I would run on the pavement road, paved roads.

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But I ran on dirt roads that were reminiscent of the quality of those in Vermont, which

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is to say terrible, but super steep, like super duper steep.

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So you know, I got in some hill climbing work there and that was a lot of fun.

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From there I went on to another beach town, Manuel Antonio, had another national park

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tour.

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Lots of fun, saw butterflies, that was great.

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Saw a bunch of other wildlife.

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Saw some of the same stuff, but this was more like rainforest territory rather than cloud

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Forest territory. So you know not a ton of overlap and this was a beach town and

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this is where I went parasailing for the first time. That was a lot of fun. I saw a

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very short video of that. Oh much fun. That did look pretty cool. So much fun. Yeah so for

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like 40 bucks they would throw a DJI drone up in the air with me and it you

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know you just stand there the boat starts going out you take about five ten

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steps and next thing you know you’re flying and that’s it and then you know

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400 feet up over over the ground I was double checking it I had my Apple watch

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so I was like how high am I you know what’s my elevation so yeah so that was

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a lot of fun it’s like a 20-minute ride or so and then that pretty much wrapped

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up the first two weeks and then I went to Hukko which is apparently as of about

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you know 15 up to about 15 years ago it’s just a sleepy little surfing

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community and now I guess it’s like the second most popular beach town in Costa

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Rica not so sleepy not so sleeping so the place I got was a few miles out of

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town and it was okay it was it was a good location if you have a car I did

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not have a car the reason I did not have a car is my driver’s license expired

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while I was on the road and they wouldn’t want to rent me a car with an

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expired driver’s license. So, we got really good at calling private drivers and Ubers.

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This is what Adam was making fun of you for.

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Yes.

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When he was referring to people who go on vacation without making sure that their

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driver’s license is going to not expire.

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Bingo.

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Okay.

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Exactly. Yep.

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You know, so I was a little bit landlocked, but I like to walk a lot, like to run a lot,

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so I would get out on foot. And one of the things I noticed was half a mile from my place

00:23:45.580 —> 00:23:50.940
was a yoga studio. So I went there a few times. That was fun. They do like retreats, Costa Rica,

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yoga retreats where they’ll do like week long, you know, or month long 200 hour certifications

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and stuff. What kind of yoga are they doing there? More, most of the more of the dynamic stuff, you

00:24:00.940 —> 00:24:06.700
know, Hatha flow, Vinyasa kind of stuff, power. But yeah, I walked in and I was like, this is

00:24:06.700 —> 00:24:11.820
great. Beautiful outdoor studio. It’s, you know, so much of the stuff, the buildings down there

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are made for outdoors all the time.

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Like in San Jose, you’ll find places that,

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yes, they have bars.

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They put down bars at night,

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like not drinking bars, but steel bars.

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Right. Yeah, yeah.

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But there’s always airflow.

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There aren’t like windows shutting,

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shut through, so there was a place

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that was like a storefront set back

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about 20 feet back from the road.

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So the bars come down, but you can see inside,

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it’s all open, like, you know, set back,

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and it’s all exposed effectively, effectively outdoors all the time.

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And this yoga studio was the same way.

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It’s like wide open with a roof.

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That was really cool.

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So lots of bugs and stuff that bugs weren’t really that bad.

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We’re really not. Yeah. Yeah.

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So, yeah. So that was that.

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So Haka was, you know, it was a lot of fun.

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I also went paragliding there for the first time and ziplining again.

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That was fun. Paragliding was amazing.

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Absolutely amazing and that one was even funnier. They have a big field which I guess I’m guessing

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is probably around a half mile to a mile long and they have a pickup truck and you strap on your

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paragliding harness and everything and they strap you onto the back of a pickup truck

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and you start going and you run after about 10-12 steps next thing you know you’re flying.

00:25:34.700 —> 00:25:38.220
But yeah you’re either flying or you’re getting dragged behind a pickup.

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I was gonna say, that was the first time I ever got dragged behind a pickup truck.

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But that is…

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Oh my God.

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It is an experience because you know, you’re flying before you know it.

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It happens very quickly.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But you know, just like going higher and higher and higher and higher.

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And the way that it’s done, it’s you’re in tandem.

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So there’s a pilot is behind you.

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So you just hang there.

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the moment the instant when he pulls the ripcord where it just disconnects the cable. That’s like

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the scariest moment. And it’s like boom, and all of a sudden, you know, you’re like banking off it.

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But these guys were amazing. Like, you know, still like took me into a jungle and you know,

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like dodging in between the trees and things. It was just, it was insane.

00:26:23.460 —> 00:26:26.660
Wow. That sounds amazing.

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It was absolutely amazing.

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I imagine these guys aren’t taking too many risks with the tourists, but…

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I don’t think so. I never felt like they were, you know, other than the fact that I’m up in a

00:26:38.980 —> 00:26:43.220
paragliding, you know, thing. Right. Yeah. Things can still happen, but…

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Right. But I saw one of the guys, and I can’t really describe this very well, you know,

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it’s easier to show, but like one of the guys before we got there, because they just, these

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guys are just doing like tours all day. They go up, they come down, they go up, they come down.

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I saw one guy come in for a landing and normally you know you would imagine that you know you come

00:27:00.820 —> 00:27:06.260
down just like a straight and then you you know pull down and you touch down so one guy came down

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in and he banks in at about a 45 degree angle so it’s like lying on his side like he’s lying on his

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side as he arcs around in a corner like scraping the grass and then comes up and lands he was by

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himself. He didn’t do that with a passenger. But I’m like, you know, just like, that’s gutsy,

00:27:27.300 —> 00:27:31.620
you know? Like, that’s, you could easily face plant if you miscalculate something like that.

00:27:31.620 —> 00:27:34.260
Yeah, you could, and I’m sure he has a few times, but…

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Probably.

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I’m sure that guy going up all day every day of his life, he’s got some pretty stellar control.

00:27:40.420 —> 00:27:44.740
Exactly. So it was amazing. So paragliding, absolutely was great.

00:27:44.740 —> 00:27:46.660
How come I didn’t hear about any of this?

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because I was busy. I’m gonna give that though the overall that tour was like a four star out of five

00:27:53.380 —> 00:28:01.460
and the reason is they upsold me on video as well but the video was not worth it because they used

00:28:01.460 —> 00:28:11.540
this like 360 degree type video camera thing which just takes really bad video. I’ll send you a sample

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but I won’t bother like including it. Is it like extreme wide view and you can’t really see anything?

00:28:16.740 —> 00:28:23.060
Extreme wide fisheye lens kind of thing going on. And the angle, like the angle makes it look like

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I have my legs spread completely wide apart like the whole time. I was like this is, that’s not

00:28:28.820 —> 00:28:35.460
how I was sitting. Peter doesn’t want to be caught on video with his legs spread wide. Not like that.

00:28:36.660 —> 00:28:43.700
hang out in midair. But then also I went on a couple of catamaran tours. I went snorkeling

00:28:43.700 —> 00:28:50.500
where I had an encounter with a sea urchin. Oh. It hurt. Oh, you mean you actually encountered

00:28:50.500 —> 00:28:56.420
it. You didn’t just see it. Oh, there was physical contact. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, you’re not supposed to

00:28:56.420 —> 00:29:01.460
do that. Yeah, I didn’t really see it until it was too late because I was floating. Now don’t sit on

00:29:01.460 —> 00:29:06.260
the sea urchin. Well, no, the current was actually, you know, like drifting me backwards and I couldn’t

00:29:06.260 —> 00:29:12.740
really tell. And all of a sudden I feel this sharp pain in my heel. And I was like, “Ow!”

00:29:12.740 —> 00:29:17.380
And I reached up, I bent my knee and I reached down with my hand to touch it and just stuck the

00:29:17.380 —> 00:29:23.700
other end of the stinger or spine in my finger, which is great. So then I was in pain for two,

00:29:23.700 —> 00:29:29.460
you know, two places from the same stupid sea urchin. Which, you know, I, this was not called

00:29:29.460 —> 00:29:35.060
for. Like, I don’t eat uni. I don’t eat the sea urchin, you know, like I don’t get, I never,

00:29:35.060 —> 00:29:39.620
I don’t know why. It was uncalled for, unprovoked.

00:29:39.620 —> 00:29:43.700
I sent you that video of the goose fighting the cows and winning.

00:29:43.700 —> 00:29:46.580
It sounds to me like the sea urchin fought the Peter Nikolaidis who won.

00:29:46.580 —> 00:29:51.380
The sea urchin did have me on the defensive and retreating, yes.

00:29:51.380 —> 00:29:57.380
Anyway, so then I worked, you know, remotely for, you know, a few days.

00:29:57.380 —> 00:29:59.780
And then I decided, okay, let’s take a couple more days.

00:29:59.780 —> 00:30:06.420
and went to San Jose and just to see the capital city. Got in a couple of good runs there too. Did

00:30:06.420 —> 00:30:11.140
a few, you know, a couple little 5ks. That was fun. And then before you knew it, it was time to

00:30:11.140 —> 00:30:14.820
come home. And here I am. That sounds absolutely amazing.

00:30:14.820 —> 00:30:19.620
That sounds way better than what I knew you were doing. Oh, I wanted to save the best for

00:30:19.620 —> 00:30:23.780
the cast. Did you tell Adam any of this stuff? He… A couple. A little of those

00:30:23.780 —> 00:30:28.580
things, yes. Did you guys record yet? No. This is coming… This is… You got

00:30:28.580 —> 00:30:30.080
I got the exclusive man.

00:30:30.080 —> 00:30:34.380
But it sounded like you recorded at least one while you were down there still.

00:30:34.380 —> 00:30:36.880
Wait, didn’t weren’t you on that one?

00:30:36.880 —> 00:30:42.880
No, no, we recorded one, but it sounded but you were also talking to him and you were like,

00:30:42.880 —> 00:30:44.780
here’s the show notes or whatever it was.

00:30:44.780 —> 00:30:47.780
Here’s the topics and then I said, hey, I don’t want to hear your stupid phone anymore.

00:30:47.780 —> 00:30:49.880
And you said, boy, are you making an assumption?

00:30:49.880 —> 00:30:54.080
So I thought that meant that you guys were planning blurring the lines.

00:30:54.080 —> 00:31:01.920
”Dupid phone again.” Well, I have a 3 p.m. on January 20th. Did we actually record that one?

00:31:01.920 —> 00:31:04.000
I think you did. You were certainly planning it.

00:31:04.000 —> 00:31:06.000
Well, we didn’t cancel it, so there you go.

00:31:06.000 —> 00:31:10.240
Were you there when you recorded the podcast with them?

00:31:10.240 —> 00:31:12.800
I may not have been. I don’t know.

00:31:12.800 —> 00:31:18.000
All that 4% beer? Yeah, all that 4%. That’s perfect for blurring the lines.

00:31:18.000 —> 00:31:22.480
I know, blurring the memory. But coming back, today though,

00:31:23.600 —> 00:31:27.360
So as you know, you know, I had that knee injury, which is feeling a lot better.

00:31:27.360 —> 00:31:31.760
I’ve been proactively wearing my knee brace, which is helping a lot.

00:31:31.760 —> 00:31:33.760
So that’s great.

00:31:33.760 —> 00:31:38.280
But I, you know, I wasn’t getting in a lot of regular runs

00:31:38.280 —> 00:31:40.360
because sometimes I just didn’t wake up early enough.

00:31:40.360 —> 00:31:44.040
And if you wait too long, you know, it’s like 90 degrees

00:31:44.040 —> 00:31:45.680
and it’s really hot to run when it’s like that.

00:31:45.680 —> 00:31:46.720
So I didn’t do that.

00:31:46.720 —> 00:31:50.440
But my last couple of days there, I got in a little over three miles

00:31:50.720 —> 00:31:55.520
And then I came home, and the first two days home, I did a little over five miles.

00:31:55.520 —> 00:32:01.360
And so yesterday I went out and did another 5k or four miles or so. So I actually managed to get in

00:32:01.360 —> 00:32:09.200
over, I got in just like almost exactly 21 miles this past week, which is the most I’ve run since

00:32:09.200 —> 00:32:13.280
my knee injury back in November. Yeah, I was gonna say that’s a sharp ramp up.

00:32:14.560 —> 00:32:20.800
So between that and travel and coming back to Drury, New England, and being back on a full-time,

00:32:20.800 —> 00:32:26.720
full-full-time work schedule again, I’m exhausted. Yeah, I wish I had an excuse to be exhausted,

00:32:26.720 —> 00:32:30.960
but I don’t have an excuse like you. You have an excuse. Ramping up the exercise is definitely

00:32:30.960 —> 00:32:34.560
a good one for generating a little bit of tiredness. Well, I kind of have to because

00:32:34.560 —> 00:32:40.640
the marathon I’m signed up for is just two months away. Oh, do you have any buddies in that? I have

00:32:40.640 —> 00:32:48.000
two buddies in that. We’re team GCGGGGP, which is go Corolla, go Greg, go Peter.

00:32:48.000 —> 00:32:53.280
Oh, okay. So the three of us. I thought you were trying to tie this to the unnamable

00:32:53.280 —> 00:33:01.600
chatbot. No, nope. That is close, but no. No. So it’s me and my running buddy, Greg,

00:33:01.600 —> 00:33:07.600
and a mutual friend of mine who, she’s run a couple of marathons. We are fully expecting

00:33:07.600 —> 00:33:13.200
that she is going to kick both of our butts. So Greg is getting over a bit of his own knee type

00:33:13.200 —> 00:33:18.320
hamstring injury and I’ve got mine which has slowed me down. Whereas she’s been doing her

00:33:18.320 —> 00:33:23.280
regular thing, doing like half marathons every weekend and stuff and we’re like okay.

00:33:23.280 —> 00:33:25.600
Yeah. Anyway.

00:33:25.600 —> 00:33:27.600
Yeah I’m putting my dollar on her.

00:33:27.600 —> 00:33:30.480
Yeah, Deutschmark. She’s German. So yeah.

00:33:30.480 —> 00:33:31.120
Oh okay.

00:33:31.120 —> 00:33:33.520
Euro Euro I suppose. So yeah.

00:33:33.520 —> 00:33:37.360
Did you tell her about all the German tourists you saw running around naked in Kosteljau?

00:33:37.360 —> 00:33:41.760
Oh, she was one of the ones who referred me to to Costa Rica because she’s been there.

00:33:41.760 —> 00:33:47.680
She likes surfing down there and stuff too. Oh, okay. Yes, yes. She’s fully aware of the

00:33:47.680 —> 00:33:52.560
naked Germans that love to visit Costa Rica. For all I know, she might have been one of them. I

00:33:52.560 —> 00:33:59.920
don’t know. I’m not judging. All right, that was good. That was way better than anything that I had

00:33:59.920 —> 00:34:03.120
in our show notes. I mean, I did have that in our show notes, but that was amazing.

00:34:04.000 —> 00:34:11.120
That was amazing. I’m glad you did that, Peter. I am too, and I really do want to go back.

00:34:11.120 —> 00:34:16.000
And, you know, I want to definitely… Buy a bungalow.

00:34:16.000 —> 00:34:20.400
You know, it’s not out of the question. The question is, like, if I did do that, though,

00:34:20.400 —> 00:34:26.160
like I did real, real quick, really dirty, quick and dirty back of the napkin math.

00:34:26.160 —> 00:34:32.240
Right. And I figured if I was to, like, stay in a hotel at, you know, a couple hundred bucks a night

00:34:32.240 —> 00:34:40.480
for a couple of months out of the year. That cost rapidly approaches that of a mortgage payment

00:34:40.480 —> 00:34:46.000
for a small place down there. So here’s a question. Can you do Airbnbs down there? Could

00:34:46.000 —> 00:34:50.960
you rent your place out whenever you’re not there? I stayed in an Airbnb for the last two weeks.

00:34:50.960 —> 00:34:57.120
In an Airbnb, right. Okay. So you definitely can do that. And they’re very friendly to foreigners.

00:34:57.120 —> 00:35:04.320
I have to double check these things, but apparently they only tax income on income that is earned

00:35:04.320 —> 00:35:11.520
in country. So if you’re a teleworker or something, that doesn’t count. And the property taxes for

00:35:11.520 —> 00:35:17.840
anything that’s like not a luxury property, which they define as a quarter million dollars,

00:35:17.840 —> 00:35:25.440
property tax is like 0.25%. Oh my God. So do they not know what they have down there? They have a

00:35:25.440 —> 00:35:30.040
blooming tourist industry and apparently it’s working just fine for them. So you

00:35:30.040 —> 00:35:33.660
would have to pay taxes if you did an Airbnb thing you’d probably have to pay

00:35:33.660 —> 00:35:37.080
taxes both there and in the United States on that money. Oh I’m sure I’m

00:35:37.080 —> 00:35:41.920
sure. Yeah that’s intriguing. Yeah but still you know despite that there are

00:35:41.920 —> 00:35:49.040
plenty of Americans down there. I was I went out one day for my first run and

00:35:49.040 —> 00:35:52.040
I’m walking around and I hear voices and I hear these you know two guys talking

00:35:52.040 —> 00:35:57.560
And one of them is like, “Yeah, the guy there, my neighbor, he’s renting out his place for

00:35:57.560 —> 00:35:58.960
$2,200 a month.”

00:35:58.960 —> 00:36:01.880
And I’m like, “Am I back in Boston?

00:36:01.880 —> 00:36:04.280
What the hell?”

00:36:04.280 —> 00:36:08.720
So there are places that, for instance, that only take dollars.

00:36:08.720 —> 00:36:12.000
They don’t take the Costa Rican colonist, for instance.

00:36:12.000 —> 00:36:16.600
So I thought like the yoga studio, for instance, they’re like, “Exact change is required when

00:36:16.600 —> 00:36:18.600
you go into the studio to pay the instructor.”

00:36:18.600 —> 00:36:19.600
I was like, “Great.”

00:36:19.600 —> 00:36:24.800
So I walk in with a wad of, you know, a handful of Costa Rican currency, and they’re like,

00:36:24.800 —> 00:36:27.040
”Oh, you can make change at the front desk.”

00:36:27.040 —> 00:36:29.240
I go to the front desk, she’s like, “Yeah, I only have dollars.”

00:36:29.240 —> 00:36:33.040
I was like, “Okay, great.”

00:36:33.040 —> 00:36:36.000
And this is why Americans have the reputation that we have.

00:36:36.000 —> 00:36:37.000
That is kind of weird.

00:36:37.000 —> 00:36:39.560
All right, so what is this authority movie?

00:36:39.560 —> 00:36:45.720
So, well, I don’t know if you don’t pay any attention to Time Warner or comic books, but

00:36:45.720 —> 00:36:54.440
Anyone who has been paying any kind of attention to Time Warner and DC Comics.

00:36:54.440 —> 00:36:59.400
DC Comics, that’s the universe with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman.

00:36:59.400 —> 00:36:59.960
Right.

00:36:59.960 —> 00:37:04.600
As opposed to Marvel Comics, Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, right?

00:37:04.600 —> 00:37:07.720
The one we’re all getting tired of slightly.

00:37:07.720 —> 00:37:12.200
Well, there have been a good 15 year run.

00:37:12.920 —> 00:37:16.680
So, you know, it’s okay to get a little tired of that.

00:37:16.680 —> 00:37:20.240
Anyway, James Gunn has been apparently,

00:37:20.240 —> 00:37:21.600
you know, as of a couple months ago,

00:37:21.600 —> 00:37:24.960
tapped as like the DC Comics czar.

00:37:24.960 —> 00:37:29.000
And he is the one in charge of all, supposedly,

00:37:29.000 —> 00:37:32.600
all of the cinematic, DC Cinematic Universe stuff.

00:37:32.600 —> 00:37:35.480
So TVs, movies, et cetera.

00:37:35.480 —> 00:37:38.680
He is the one who brought us Guardians of the Galaxy

00:37:38.680 —> 00:37:41.040
back over on the Marvel Universe side,

00:37:41.040 —> 00:37:46.160
which a lot of people really, really liked because it was a departure from the standard

00:37:46.160 —> 00:37:47.760
Marvel formula.

00:37:47.760 —> 00:37:58.120
He also did the series Peacemaker for HBO, and he also did the second Suicide Squad movie.

00:37:58.120 —> 00:38:02.960
And if you watch any of these movies, James Gunn has a very distinct style.

00:38:02.960 —> 00:38:13.280
He really likes taking these obscure B or C level characters and putting them into situations.

00:38:13.280 —> 00:38:20.580
And he tends to work with really scummy characters that you really don’t want to like or that

00:38:20.580 —> 00:38:24.080
you really don’t like and makes them somehow likable.

00:38:24.080 —> 00:38:31.040
So one of the funny things was a couple months ago, apparently Henry Cavill, who played Superman

00:38:31.040 —> 00:38:36.940
in the last few Superman and Justice League movies, was said, “It’s official, I’m coming

00:38:36.940 —> 00:38:38.180
back.”

00:38:38.180 —> 00:38:46.340
And he quit The Witcher series on Netflix so that he could be Superman again.

00:38:46.340 —> 00:38:50.960
And then it was like the next week they announced that he got the axe and he would not be returning

00:38:50.960 —> 00:38:52.460
in any more Superman movies.

00:38:52.460 —> 00:38:53.460
Oh, ouch.

00:38:53.460 —> 00:38:54.460
Yes.

00:38:54.460 —> 00:38:55.920
Wait, what was wrong with this guy?

00:38:55.920 —> 00:38:56.920
What did he do?

00:38:56.920 —> 00:38:57.920
Nothing.

00:38:57.920 —> 00:38:58.920
He didn’t do anything.

00:38:58.920 —> 00:39:05.520
plays the Flash who has repeated you know like sexual assault charges. Problem.

00:39:05.520 —> 00:39:11.120
Yeah he’s not a good human. Not the same right. Anyway so and there’s so

00:39:11.120 —> 00:39:15.280
much more like like every literally every week there’s a are you effing

00:39:15.280 —> 00:39:19.280
kidding me moment with like what DC and Time Warner are doing it’s just

00:39:19.280 —> 00:39:25.200
ridiculous but one of the things that they said like shortly after that was

00:39:25.200 —> 00:39:28.820
Okay, James Gunn you are now in charge of the DC Cinematic Universe

00:39:28.820 —> 00:39:31.600
Go fix things, right?

00:39:31.600 —> 00:39:36.540
He’s the equivalent of Kevin Feige over on the Marvel the Marvel Cinematic Universe son

00:39:36.540 —> 00:39:44.260
So they said all right, you know James Gunn come save us, you know do everything you need to do and like right off the bat

00:39:44.260 —> 00:39:49.420
You know, they make these announcements and the rumors are flying. They’re saying Gal Gadot is no longer Wonder Woman

00:39:49.420 —> 00:39:54.920
They’re saying Oh Jason Momoa. He’s not the Aquaman anymore, but he’ll be

00:39:54.920 —> 00:39:59.880
He’ll come back as another character called Lobo, which if you ask me is a very good idea.

00:39:59.880 —> 00:40:02.720
Lots of other stuff like the rumors are flying.

00:40:02.720 —> 00:40:08.080
And the latest though, apparently this is an actual announcement, not a rumor, is that

00:40:08.080 —> 00:40:15.180
they’re making a movie based on the superhero team called The Authority.

00:40:15.180 —> 00:40:20.120
The Authority is a team that probably most people have not heard of because it came out,

00:40:20.120 —> 00:40:30.540
I can’t remember if it was early 2000s or late 90s, and it was created by another small

00:40:30.540 —> 00:40:34.460
comic book publisher called Wildstorm Comics.

00:40:34.460 —> 00:40:37.820
You’re basically right on both date guesses because it was 1999.

00:40:37.820 —> 00:40:40.560
Okay, that was pretty close.

00:40:40.560 —> 00:40:46.180
So the authority came out back then and it was written by Warren Ellis, one of the best

00:40:46.180 —> 00:40:47.820
comic book writers out there.

00:40:47.820 —> 00:40:49.740
He’s just amazing.

00:40:49.740 —> 00:40:55.620
really graphic and it was essentially like what if the Justice League or the

00:40:55.620 —> 00:41:01.160
Avengers if you prefer just had no more F’s to give. They’re like you know we’ve

00:41:01.160 —> 00:41:07.880
been nice to you guys all along you know you little humans but you insist on

00:41:07.880 —> 00:41:12.420
waging war on each other and you know destroying the environment and doing all

00:41:12.420 —> 00:41:16.360
these other things. We’ve had enough and you know we’re essentially Superman

00:41:16.360 —> 00:41:20.840
Batman, Wonder Woman, etc. in this other universe.

00:41:20.840 —> 00:41:22.280
And we’ve had enough.

00:41:22.280 —> 00:41:24.660
And you know, like, why should we listen to you?

00:41:24.660 —> 00:41:25.660
Because we’re the authority.

00:41:25.660 —> 00:41:26.660
Why?

00:41:26.660 —> 00:41:29.200
Well, because we have the power.

00:41:29.200 —> 00:41:31.820
And it’s really, really good.

00:41:31.820 —> 00:41:35.040
So it was definitely one of my favorite series.

00:41:35.040 —> 00:41:40.440
It came out of another series that led up to it called Stormwatch, which was essentially

00:41:40.440 —> 00:41:46.320
the same thing, a lot of the same characters, same idea, but it was essentially an international

00:41:46.320 —> 00:41:54.040
Peace question mark keeping force. But again, it’s like imagine Batman Superman Wonder Woman etc reporting to the UN and

00:41:54.040 —> 00:41:59.360
Then later on they’re like, hmm. We’re just gonna call our own shots. We’re freelancing it

00:41:59.360 —> 00:42:05.280
Yeah, so I guess the theory is that since things like the boys on

00:42:05.280 —> 00:42:08.480
Amazon Prime and

00:42:08.480 —> 00:42:12.600
invincible animated on Amazon Prime two different

00:42:12.960 —> 00:42:19.540
You know alternate universes not DC not Marvel not the mainstream ones that people are more familiar with did pretty well

00:42:19.540 —> 00:42:25.520
Then why can’t the authority now you say so but Peter you said this is all DC universe and stuff

00:42:25.520 —> 00:42:30.040
Well in the early Peter, you said this was all DC universe and stuff. I did

00:42:30.040 —> 00:42:33.740
Thank you in the early 2000s DC acquired Wildstorm

00:42:33.740 —> 00:42:38.020
And I guess so what they do and this is not this is you know

00:42:38.020 —> 00:42:40.640
They’ve done this has happened a number of times over the years

00:42:40.900 —> 00:42:48.540
Are you familiar with the captain Captain Marvel aka Shazam? Yeah, Billy Batson not like I know the storylines

00:42:48.540 —> 00:42:54.500
But yeah, I know that all right, you know kids kid gets powers from a wizard says the word Shazam essentially turns into a magical

00:42:54.500 —> 00:42:59.360
Superman, right? Yeah, he is part of the DC universe

00:42:59.360 —> 00:43:03.960
So Shazam and Superman fight on you know alongside each other or something

00:43:03.960 —> 00:43:06.820
They’ve often fought each other but Captain Marvel

00:43:06.820 —> 00:43:15.940
aka now now aka Shazam was originally from Fawcett comics and coincidentally all of his adventures

00:43:15.940 —> 00:43:23.380
were based in Fawcett City where Billy Batson lived but DC Comics after several years sued

00:43:23.380 —> 00:43:29.380
and then eventually acquired Fawcett comics and what they do is when that happens is either it’s

00:43:29.380 —> 00:43:33.700
an alternate universe with like a parallel dimension that occasionally Superman and

00:43:33.700 —> 00:43:37.380
and buddies you know the time and space barriers will cross and they’ll meet or

00:43:37.380 —> 00:43:43.620
they just sort of absorb it in. So now Fawcett City is just another city in the

00:43:43.620 —> 00:43:50.140
mainstream DC Universe world, Earth. So they did the same thing with I think

00:43:50.140 —> 00:43:53.620
that you that yeah they did the same thing with the authority now and so

00:43:53.620 —> 00:43:58.360
they’ve merged this in which is kind of funny because the authority has multiple

00:43:58.360 —> 00:44:02.360
characters who are really just pastiches of Justice League characters so there’s

00:44:02.360 —> 00:44:08.440
There’s a Superman, a Batman, a Hawk girl, and they just pull them all over.

00:44:08.440 —> 00:44:09.940
So the number of different…

00:44:09.940 —> 00:44:11.800
It would have been better to make it alternate.

00:44:11.800 —> 00:44:16.000
Well, it was alternate to start, but I guess they decided they wanted to move it in.

00:44:16.000 —> 00:44:22.860
But it’s kind of funny at this point, there are like seven different like Superman equivalents,

00:44:22.860 —> 00:44:29.320
you know, not talking like Superman and Superboy, but it’s like Superman, Apollo, Shazam slash

00:44:29.320 —> 00:44:30.800
Captain Marvel, Icon.

00:44:30.800 —> 00:44:34.200
You know, there’s all these different ones, and most of them are through acquisitions

00:44:34.200 —> 00:44:37.640
of smaller companies, and they just, like, suck them all in.

00:44:37.640 —> 00:44:42.680
Anyway, so apparently, in a couple of years or so, we’re going to have an authority movie,

00:44:42.680 —> 00:44:45.340
and I am psyched.

00:44:45.340 —> 00:44:52.640
If I had time, which I don’t, I would go back and just start rereading the whole thing,

00:44:52.640 —> 00:44:56.320
because it’s really cool, and, you know, some really good stuff.

00:44:56.320 —> 00:45:01.480
Maybe for this podcast, every episode you can read, you can start off by reading

00:45:01.480 —> 00:45:05.560
10 minutes of The Authority for us. Like a dramatic reading type thing like that?

00:45:05.560 —> 00:45:09.400
Yeah, yeah. You’re gonna have to be very descriptive because you’re gonna be

00:45:09.400 —> 00:45:13.960
reading what is in essence a graphic novel or a comic book. Perfect! On a

00:45:13.960 —> 00:45:19.200
podcast which does not, which we do not have a visual component. So I can do that

00:45:19.200 —> 00:45:23.440
just, it’ll be like, like subtitles, right? You know, I say like dramatic crashing

00:45:23.440 —> 00:45:27.080
effects or, you know, like holds car overhead or something like that.

00:45:27.080 —> 00:45:28.880
Right. Yeah. Peter’s subtitle.

00:45:28.880 —> 00:45:29.840
Perfect. I like it.

00:45:29.840 —> 00:45:31.640
That’s your new name. Peter’s subtitle.

00:45:31.640 —> 00:45:33.400
Works great.

00:45:33.400 —> 00:45:34.640
OK, that’s cool.

00:45:34.640 —> 00:45:38.720
All right. I think we’re probably about out of time, but I do want to say,

00:45:38.720 —> 00:45:43.000
speaking of subtitles, as you know, Peter, I’m working on getting transcripts up

00:45:43.000 —> 00:45:46.440
for the site, and I’m actually working on that right now.

00:45:46.440 —> 00:45:51.200
But what it means is that eventually we’ll have subtitles that people can search

00:45:51.200 —> 00:45:55.360
for content, and then we can also search for content to see what we’ve talked about in the past.

00:45:55.360 —> 00:46:00.080
Maybe to settle arguments like the one we had at the beginning of this podcast, but who said what?

00:46:00.080 —> 00:46:04.480
Because who has time to go back and listen to an episode, right?

00:46:04.480 —> 00:46:10.960
Yeah, right, exactly. So anyway, I am working on that, so if people have heard us talking about

00:46:10.960 —> 00:46:15.120
different strategies for generating transcripts and stuff like that, yes, it is something that

00:46:15.120 —> 00:46:19.360
I’m doing. So at some point, transcripts will become available. I think it’s important to be

00:46:19.920 —> 00:46:25.600
as accessible as possible and also because there’s really no good way to search audio

00:46:25.600 —> 00:46:32.320
right now without being a huge conglomerate like Google, yeah, it’ll be good.

00:46:32.320 —> 00:46:33.320
Well there you go.

00:46:33.320 —> 00:46:36.200
It won’t be as good as your vacation but it’ll be pretty darn good.

00:46:36.200 —> 00:46:37.200
That’s the next best thing.

00:46:37.200 —> 00:46:38.200
The next best thing.

00:46:38.200 —> 00:46:40.400
Transcripts are the next best thing to Costa Rica.

00:46:40.400 —> 00:46:41.920
Next best thing to Costa Rica.

00:46:41.920 —> 00:46:43.480
And there’s your episode title.

00:46:43.480 —> 00:46:45.800
Okay, well isn’t there something about a button?

00:46:45.800 —> 00:46:47.560
Have you forgotten the button already?

00:46:47.560 —> 00:46:54.720
Oh, Peter, how can people find you now that you, Peter Nikolaidis, are not in Costa Rica?

00:46:54.720 —> 00:47:00.640
Well, I hang out in the Boston, Massachusetts area, but I don’t think that’s what you meant.

00:47:00.640 —> 00:47:03.940
You won’t be home anyway because you’re going to be over at John Siracusa’s house knocking

00:47:03.940 —> 00:47:05.760
on his door waiting to give him a hug when he opens up.

00:47:05.760 —> 00:47:06.760
Or Somerville guy.

00:47:06.760 —> 00:47:07.760
Dan Moren?

00:47:07.760 —> 00:47:08.760
Dan Moren, yeah.

00:47:08.760 —> 00:47:13.600
I just found out he’s in my neighboring town too, so yeah.

00:47:13.600 —> 00:47:17.920
I mean, I could show up with like a home cooked meal and stuff and just say, here, you know,

00:47:17.920 —> 00:47:19.580
like I heard you had a baby.

00:47:19.580 —> 00:47:21.360
So, you know, here you go.

00:47:21.360 —> 00:47:22.360
Chill out.

00:47:22.360 —> 00:47:23.360
Chill out.

00:47:23.360 —> 00:47:26.240
So my Twitter account is not all that active anymore.

00:47:26.240 —> 00:47:33.200
So the best way really the best way to find me, the best way to find me is nickelidus.com.

00:47:33.200 —> 00:47:35.200
And that has links to me on LinkedIn.

00:47:35.200 —> 00:47:37.800
It has links to my yoga site, my consulting site.

00:47:37.800 —> 00:47:41.960
It is my personal site has links to my Mastodon profile.

00:47:41.960 —> 00:47:47.540
And oddly enough, I open up my Mastodon page and the first thing I see there is a post

00:47:47.540 —> 00:47:49.980
by Dan Moren.

00:47:49.980 —> 00:47:54.380
And he’s catching up on Star Trek Prodigy.

00:47:54.380 —> 00:47:57.060
So he says, “Finally caught up on Star Trek Prodigy.”

00:47:57.060 —> 00:48:00.380
So I think he has time for me to drop in.

00:48:00.380 —> 00:48:01.380
He might.

00:48:01.380 —> 00:48:02.380
He might.

00:48:02.380 —> 00:48:03.840
He may not appreciate it, but he has time.

00:48:03.840 —> 00:48:05.240
He may not appreciate it, yeah.

00:48:05.240 —> 00:48:08.740
Whether he has the desire or not, he’s got the time.

00:48:08.740 —> 00:48:11.620
Oh, brother.

00:48:11.620 —> 00:48:13.820
Well how can people find you Scott Willsey?

00:48:13.820 —> 00:48:18.760
ScottWillsey.com and I’m sure there’s a link on there for my Mastodon account somewhere

00:48:18.760 —> 00:48:20.100
so click on that.

00:48:20.100 —> 00:48:22.380
By the way that’s another site that I need to do some work on.

00:48:22.380 —> 00:48:26.700
It only has a dark mode right now and that’s probably not good for some people so I’m gonna

00:48:26.700 —> 00:48:31.700
make it have either a toggleable light or dark mode at some point soon.

00:48:31.700 —> 00:48:35.840
And I’m gonna also make the friends with bruise theme toggleable.

00:48:35.840 —> 00:48:39.300
Right now it just decides what it just looks to see if you’re in light mode or dark mode

00:48:39.300 —> 00:48:44.020
and shows you the mode that matches correspondingly, but I’m going to change it so people can choose

00:48:44.020 —> 00:48:45.380
which one they want to see.

00:48:45.380 —> 00:48:46.520
Well, there you go.

00:48:46.520 —> 00:48:51.340
Give the people what they want is what I say, and then yet we still record the things that

00:48:51.340 —> 00:48:52.340
we say.

00:48:52.340 —> 00:48:53.340
Yeah, I don’t think that.

00:48:53.340 —> 00:48:55.740
I think we give them what we think they need.

00:48:55.740 —> 00:48:59.120
We give them what we want them to have.

00:48:59.120 —> 00:49:01.100
Give the people what we want.

00:49:01.100 —> 00:49:06.040
That sounds like, oh my God, that sounds like the people running the country.

00:49:06.040 —> 00:49:11.540
much. This podcast is a dictatorship. Oh, so so so so I

00:49:11.540 —> 00:49:13.780
said that my Twitter account isn’t really active anymore.

00:49:13.780 —> 00:49:18.260
That’s not true. It does retweet if you will, anytime I post a

00:49:18.260 —> 00:49:21.780
mastodon by saying hey, I just posted on mastodon and giving a

00:49:21.780 —> 00:49:24.420
link to it, you’re gonna get banned and while waiting for

00:49:24.420 —> 00:49:29.620
that, but it also posts a link anytime there is a new post to

00:49:29.620 —> 00:49:34.100
Twitter is going great.com. Two news articles I heard last week,

00:49:34.100 —> 00:49:37.040
which were classic. I mean, this guy is such a brilliant manager.

00:49:37.040 —> 00:49:40.520
Apparently a senior engineer, uh, he was in,

00:49:40.520 —> 00:49:45.580
Elon was in a meeting and he asked a senior engineer why Elon asked why his own

00:49:45.580 —> 00:49:52.240
personal tweets and page views were down his own posts.

00:49:52.240 —> 00:49:56.260
And the engineer had to explain to him that Elon’s just not trending anymore.

00:49:56.260 —> 00:50:00.220
So Elon fired him. Yeah. Brilliant, brilliant businessman.

00:50:00.220 —> 00:50:02.920
Brilliant business. God. Yeah. Brilliant.

00:50:02.960 —> 00:50:06.640
I saw him and what’s his name there?

00:50:06.640 —> 00:50:09.920
Rupert Murdoch at the Super Bowl together last night.

00:50:09.920 —> 00:50:10.920
I was like, yeah.

00:50:10.920 —> 00:50:12.720
Boy, did they deserve each other.

00:50:12.720 —> 00:50:16.440
Unfortunately, apparently they’ve decided the planet deserves them too, which is not

00:50:16.440 —> 00:50:17.440
good news for any of us.

00:50:17.440 —> 00:50:18.440
Yeah, that’s the problem.

00:50:18.440 —> 00:50:20.640
So anyway, enough of that.

00:50:20.640 —> 00:50:22.120
Time to hit the big red button.