Episode 25 – The Next Best Thing To Costa Rica
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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
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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
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know, Hatha flow, Vinyasa kind of stuff, power. But yeah, I walked in and I was like, this is
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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you know? Like, that’s, you could easily face plant if you miscalculate something like that.
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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.
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Exactly. So it was amazing. So paragliding, absolutely was great.
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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
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and the reason is they upsold me on video as well but the video was not worth it because they used
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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?
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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
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how I was sitting. Peter doesn’t want to be caught on video with his legs spread wide. Not like that.
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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
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10 minutes of The Authority for us. Like a dramatic reading type thing like that?
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Yeah, yeah. You’re gonna have to be very descriptive because you’re gonna be
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reading what is in essence a graphic novel or a comic book. Perfect! On a
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podcast which does not, which we do not have a visual component. So I can do that
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just, it’ll be like, like subtitles, right? You know, I say like dramatic crashing
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effects or, you know, like holds car overhead or something like that.
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Right. Yeah. Peter’s subtitle.
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Perfect. I like it.
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That’s your new name. Peter’s subtitle.
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Works great.
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OK, that’s cool.
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All right. I think we’re probably about out of time, but I do want to say,
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speaking of subtitles, as you know, Peter, I’m working on getting transcripts up
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for the site, and I’m actually working on that right now.
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But what it means is that eventually we’ll have subtitles that people can search
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for content, and then we can also search for content to see what we’ve talked about in the past.
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Maybe to settle arguments like the one we had at the beginning of this podcast, but who said what?
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Because who has time to go back and listen to an episode, right?
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Yeah, right, exactly. So anyway, I am working on that, so if people have heard us talking about
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different strategies for generating transcripts and stuff like that, yes, it is something that
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I’m doing. So at some point, transcripts will become available. I think it’s important to be
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as accessible as possible and also because there’s really no good way to search audio
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right now without being a huge conglomerate like Google, yeah, it’ll be good.
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Well there you go.
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It won’t be as good as your vacation but it’ll be pretty darn good.
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That’s the next best thing.
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The next best thing.
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Transcripts are the next best thing to Costa Rica.
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Next best thing to Costa Rica.
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And there’s your episode title.
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Okay, well isn’t there something about a button?
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Have you forgotten the button already?
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Oh, Peter, how can people find you now that you, Peter Nikolaidis, are not in Costa Rica?
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Well, I hang out in the Boston, Massachusetts area, but I don’t think that’s what you meant.
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You won’t be home anyway because you’re going to be over at John Siracusa’s house knocking
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on his door waiting to give him a hug when he opens up.
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Or Somerville guy.
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Dan Moren?
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Dan Moren, yeah.
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I just found out he’s in my neighboring town too, so yeah.
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I mean, I could show up with like a home cooked meal and stuff and just say, here, you know,
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like I heard you had a baby.
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So, you know, here you go.
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Chill out.
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Chill out.
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So my Twitter account is not all that active anymore.
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So the best way really the best way to find me, the best way to find me is nickelidus.com.
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And that has links to me on LinkedIn.
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It has links to my yoga site, my consulting site.
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It is my personal site has links to my Mastodon profile.
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And oddly enough, I open up my Mastodon page and the first thing I see there is a post
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by Dan Moren.
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And he’s catching up on Star Trek Prodigy.
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So he says, “Finally caught up on Star Trek Prodigy.”
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So I think he has time for me to drop in.
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He might.
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He might.
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He may not appreciate it, but he has time.
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He may not appreciate it, yeah.
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Whether he has the desire or not, he’s got the time.
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Oh, brother.
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Well how can people find you Scott Willsey?
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ScottWillsey.com and I’m sure there’s a link on there for my Mastodon account somewhere
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so click on that.
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By the way that’s another site that I need to do some work on.
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It only has a dark mode right now and that’s probably not good for some people so I’m gonna
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make it have either a toggleable light or dark mode at some point soon.
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And I’m gonna also make the friends with bruise theme toggleable.
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Right now it just decides what it just looks to see if you’re in light mode or dark mode
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and shows you the mode that matches correspondingly, but I’m going to change it so people can choose
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which one they want to see.
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Well, there you go.
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Give the people what they want is what I say, and then yet we still record the things that
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we say.
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Yeah, I don’t think that.
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I think we give them what we think they need.
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We give them what we want them to have.
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Give the people what we want.
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That sounds like, oh my God, that sounds like the people running the country.
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much. This podcast is a dictatorship. Oh, so so so so I
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said that my Twitter account isn’t really active anymore.
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That’s not true. It does retweet if you will, anytime I post a
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mastodon by saying hey, I just posted on mastodon and giving a
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link to it, you’re gonna get banned and while waiting for
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that, but it also posts a link anytime there is a new post to
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Twitter is going great.com. Two news articles I heard last week,
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which were classic. I mean, this guy is such a brilliant manager.
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Apparently a senior engineer, uh, he was in,
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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.
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And the engineer had to explain to him that Elon’s just not trending anymore.
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So Elon fired him. Yeah. Brilliant, brilliant businessman.
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Brilliant business. God. Yeah. Brilliant.
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I saw him and what’s his name there?
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Rupert Murdoch at the Super Bowl together last night.
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I was like, yeah.
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Boy, did they deserve each other.
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Unfortunately, apparently they’ve decided the planet deserves them too, which is not
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good news for any of us.
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Yeah, that’s the problem.
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So anyway, enough of that.
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Time to hit the big red button.