Well the thing is is like I don't know what crickets eat, but it's like not in your house


I hope not.


because like I know that um that um if you want to breed your own crickets for pets, you have to buy like special cricket food.


Yeah. So in order to feed like that is a bit much like instead of buying crickets for feed you buy feed to feed your crickets. Two seems a bit


Well I think overall it's cheaper because like the food you get for the crickets last like forever. And so and the crickets read really quickly, I don't know. But um and I don't know how expensive crickets are uh comparatively, but I used to get crickets um and you can also get them like canned, but they're already dead, so that wouldn't be of interest to my cat, but I used to sometimes get canned or and you can get them free stride too. Um I used to get those when I had sugar gliders because insects are actually a natural part of their diet. I love my sugar gliders. I gave my last one away though because there in the wild they live in like big communities and if you have only one sugar glider they can get really depressed. So um When I was down to two and one of them died. I there's a network online for people who have adult sugar gliders who either are looking for a companion sugar glider or who have a sugar glider who can be a companion. And so I found a home for her because I didn't I wanted what was best for her. But it raised her since she was born and she was the sweetest thing.

yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh, interesting. Uh huh. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.


Yeah. Sounds like you did the right thing. That's sad.


Well I knew that I knew that I wasn't in a place where I could take on a new sugar glider and I also wasn't in a place where if you want to keep a single sugar glider you seriously need to spend like eight hours a day with your sugar glider. And they're nocturnal. Yeah. Uh huh.


Yeah. It will be a significant lifestyle shift.


Yeah. Um So yeah I found a good home um with a woman who uh has an adult son who's mentally disabled and he are has he had a sugar glider who's others and his other sugar glider died. And so I gave her lavinia and like all of Albania stuff, and I got the weirdest, weirdest gift back ever. So I was raised jewish, but I'm pretty much an atheist, I'm not officially an atheist, because I'm one of those, you can't disprove a negative, so I can't say God doesn't exist because you can't prove that something doesn't exist, but I'm like, if there is a God, I don't think God's doing shit. Um but I wanted to be like, nice, so this woman, like as she's leaving, she asks me if I celebrate christmas, because this was like the middle of december, I was like, sure, you know, because I didn't want to be like, I wasn't going to go into anything, and she was like, here merry christmas, and I was like, thank you, and she hands me like a gift bag and I opened it up and it's like this hollow plastic bust of jesus and I'm like, if you're meeting someone that you've never met and have never really talked to, is that really an appropriate gift?


Yeah. Seems a bit forward. Also possible that someone gave it to her and she was like, I don't know where I'm going to put this


I love


unless


that plastic


for


bus.


lady.


I give it like a place of prominence as like an ironic thing. I also love the fact that like, if you look at it, it looks like it's like clay or ceramic or something and then you pick it up and it weighs like two ounces, so it's like this really, really cheap since the thing, but it looks like it's like got this grubby task. Um but like, yeah, like, I don't know, you go out and like, I mean she knew I was a woman, so like she got me like a candle or something, you know, generic, like even if I didn't like a candle, like candles like it's something easily re gift double, not you can get one for like $2 at like the dollar store or yankee candle or something. Like a plastic bust of jesus. Yeah at least he didn't have his crown of thorns.


Well, you know there's a boundary somewhere about what you're willing to put in someone else's home. I live in the south, so that sounds less far fetched like. Yes. Goodbye.


she


That


was


alone.


from, she she drove I think an hour and a half or two hours. She was from more central new york like west, she was like in um she wasn't like the like the Cornell Ithaca area. Um But so she was and I mean so she was in a more rural area and like rural new york is more conservative and um religious and like Republican, a lot of people don't realize but like new york when we vote as a whole state like for president were very democratic because all of our major urban areas our Democratic and they have many many more people than our rural areas. But um for all of the local stuff, so like not the Senate, because again to people whole state votes but for Congress and all of the state legislature in the state senate, it's very mixed because like I said the city centers are Democratic, but a lot of the rural areas are Republican and most people don't know this, but like with the exception of the city centers, new york is pretty much a farming state. Like If I go to my local farmers market and this is like a farmer's market that only has things from within 30 miles, like there are apples


On your


and peaches and and like homegrown beer from hops and liquor and wine and uh honey from a blueberries and maple syrup, various berries and fruit, various vegetables like just in like a 30 mile radius. And


true.


And that's a 30 mile radius from the capital of the state. What the city centers like are very concentrated, it's like urban and then like And then like two miles from urban, it gets rural like I'm in my parents house right now. Um it would take 10 minutes to drive and get to downtown Albany. There's a corn field across the street from where I am right now.


Yeah. Yeah. I feel that


But


I grew up in indiana which is our city centers are not as Dense, but we have about four big cities and the rest of the state is corn. Like You can have, I mean I grew up in a town of about 100,000 people and I lived in town across the street from a cornfield. Yeah.


Like most people don't realize this but for all of the 90s we had a Republican governor that with the exception of like the last term and like the second half of the last term was pretty popular and he didn't get reelected because he didn't run for re election. I don't know if he would have gotten reelected.


interesting. Yeah, California is like that too. Like like you obviously have southern California but the northern California is mostly farmers and it's fairly rural and fairly conservative. Just is interesting. Yeah. Electricity.


I just I think a lot of the U. S. Is like that it's like so much of things are assumed because people don't know, people think oh it's Arkansas, everybody's like a hick there but there are actually urban places. You know like you can be in a city and be in Arkansas or like you can be in a cornfield and be in new york two


fascinating. Yeah. Mhm.


Yeah.


And you know it's it's those things that you know make politics in this country a lot more complicated than they otherwise could be because people are like, well why don't the Blue States and the red states just like as if we were going to have another civil war and just like split them off except the blue states aren't all blue and the red states aren't all red. You know what are we gonna do? Split it up by county and like all the blue counties can be one country and all the red counties can be one country. It's like or like have like a mass migration. Well, I guess if we wanted to like, well I guess if we did reparations for slavery and we included land ownership, then we theoretically could do that because we could take land ownership and redistribute all the land in the country and that way, all the people who feel one way can go in one area and all the people feel another way to go in another area, then we can split the custom, but that's never gonna happen, you know? Okay.


Yeah. 50 times. Yeah.


Yeah,


And who gets to decide


just


which area b other group gets to live in because both sides are going to be like, I would like colorado, please. Mhm. To


colorado


me,


can be colorado can be the neutral zone. Like, you know how like whenever there's a war there's like the neutral zone in between. That's that's colorado.


I feel fat. Yeah. Okay. I think we could probably draft this as a bill like.


Well, no, because first we have to get the republicans to agree to give reparations. What I mean if you think about it like how would you how would you feel if like


Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh.


okay like they talk about ancestral wealth and it's like they talk about how there's no ancestral wealth because black people weren't allowed to like own land or buy houses or things like that. But it's not only that but it's like If you were a slave for 400 years, That's four even not even including land ownership, that's 400 years worth of wages that they don't have. Just wages, not even including interest or what they could have done with those wages in terms of like investing and land ownership or anything they did with that. We just wages like they were like just be happy you're free like just be happy with what you get. I'm sorry but that's just not cool for me. Yeah. Yeah.


ethical. It is Oh I things are complex.


Yeah, and then like I just I don't understand so much about what's going on with the country these days, like I know how people are feeling, I just don't really know what's happening, you know, like I know what various people want to happen, what what people want to happen and what actually is happening are two completely different things. Yeah, and like it just everything that's going on just seems so opaque to me.


Yeah. And intentionally, so there are very few people that benefit from reality being the narrative regardless of what it is, it is generally more beneficial for anyone to be able to spin whatever is going on, hide whatever is going on or make something up whole cloth, it hurts. Yeah. Yes. Uh huh. Yeah.


and I like, I remember earlier today, I was just telling my dad, I don't care who wins the presidency, I just want to go to sleep and wake up four years from now.


Uh slim pickens, yeah.


and people are like who are you voting for president? And I said, I mean I'm in new york, so it doesn't really matter who I vote for president because I'm not in a swing state, but so I have the liberty to do this, but I'm not voting for president. And they're like why are you voting? And I said when you can give me a candidate that hasn't been accused of sexual assault, I'll vote for president and I'll vote for them.


Mhm. Because unlike other years, it's not even an issue of like, well if you vote third party, like you're taking a vote away from someone that might agree with you a little bit, it's like they all dropped out. There are not 3rd party candidates, no one's running, we're in the middle of a pandemic. Uh


well, well we could always um we could always do a write in for Kanye West


how Lauren come quickly,


and what was that about?


mm uh have you seen fiddler on the roof?


I should have, but I haven't,


Okay, it's bad, but it's good, but it's sad. There's a there's a line at the end where all the jews are being um and hoisted out of Russia and one of the and one of the men in the town goes to the rabbi and he says Rabbi wouldn't this be a good time for the messiah to come? And he's like, I guess you will have to wait somewhere else, It's like, but now it now would be an okay time. I think that would be okay anyway, chicken, It is not the worst pandemic the world has ever seen. So there's that


but actually I if I were to believe in all of that, I wouldn't be surprised if the messiah came soon because I have always said that Oprah is the antichrist and I have good arguments for it.


I'm intrigued.


Well, first of all, the antichrist is actually supposed to be very, very popular because people are supposed to think that because the antichrist is supposed to be someone that people actually think is a savior and that like the vast majority of the world actually follows and almost


Carrie.


everyone loves Oprah. Like tell me someone who doesn't love Oprah,


You look apparently.


but they also do things that are horrible for the world now. These are the things that Oprah is responsible for. Dr Phil Dr Oz, jenny McCarthy's anti vax movement. Okay. Yeah, I mean there are so many horrible things that she has given her support to and used her fame for that are just detrimental to the world that I don't know if she does it on purpose, if she believes in it, if she just doesn't research it but have such a negative effect. But you can't criticize Oprah because she's so popular and she's a black woman who's made it from like the slums to like


Oprah.


superstardom. Yeah, like Oprah, like the only person that you can really compare with Oprah is Michelle Obama, those are like it as far as black, we're going to go if you take away the black thing you can do like endure Gandhi and that's like it. So so like you have Oprah being responsible for people not wanting to get their kids vaccinated and you have Oprah being responsible for um in addition to like black people's normal distrust of the health care system, which is reasonable and systemic because of the way the health care system has treated them before and use them as unwilling guinea pigs and all of that. Um but you also have her responsible for somebody who is a major proponent of non medicine instead of medicine. Like things that have no evidence for them have evidence against them are patently false, have claims that have no validity that people are using instead of things that will actually help them. So that that is my and I mean I don't remember what like all the specific criteria were for like someone having to be the antichrist. I think there was something about like having to have a prostitute as your mother and I don't know if Oprah's mother was a prostitute or not, I'm not going to accuse Oprah's mother for being a prostitute. I think you know that might be a little outdated because

Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah.


He.


I mean me consider mary Magdalene a prostitute and there is no proof of that. There's nothing


No,


in the bible that she's a prostitute but


no.


people claim that that's just


Well.


like slut shaming. Yeah.


Sorry. I know to what you were referring. People who have read the pass it that there's a story about a woman that is um that is known to be in the town. Mhm. Languages hope was probably a prostitute. The next three we have is about mary Magdalene being healed of seven demons, which is why the two are often conflated. But they are widely considered widely I say of the people


they're


I


separate


know


stories


that they're


but


they are


stories.


assumed to be the same person.


Yes. Yes. Probably not the same person. Yeah, but


So I'm not, like I said I'm not going to say anything about Oprah's parentage, I have no idea about Oprah's you know childhood or anything. Um although I do recall her saying something about like being abused as a child. I don't know what specifically kind of abuse it was, but her saying that her childhood growing up was not a good experience. Um But yes, that that is, but I mean I don't personally believe in the antichrist, but if I were to believe in the antichrist, that would be, you know, that would be my, my suspicion. Plus. I mean in addition to the pandemic, we've had like the killer hornets and we've had um I mean what else have we had? I don't even remember all of the different things.


hurricanes are coming.


Yeah. The hurricanes are going the latest we have bunny Ebola now,


No.


bunny


Can it spread


Ebola,


to people


I mean it's


girl?


technically not Ebola because it's a different strain of virus than Ebola, but they're calling it rabbit hemorrhagic fever and they're just shortening it to bunny Ebola. And unlike regular Ebola, this one can be transmitted through fluids by touch on surfaces through the air and washing your hands do not kill it,


that's


it's like super


prevent.


Ebola, but only for bunnies,


Well, okay. I love bunnies. I am. I wish they did not have Ebola


it's


however.


on, it's on the west coast, mostly in the northwest right now, but it's moving down to California. Um it's something that's again, we got it from china. Um we didn't get it directly from china, we actually got it from europe, who got it from Russia, who got it from china and it's been in europe for like over a decade. But we just, we just started getting uh an epidemic of it recently and I saw an article about it last week and I was like not another thing.


Thank you. It is sad and and I love them. But again if


effort.


europe


Who


is not


doesn't


it for


love bunnies either?


I don't


You


thank


love


me


them because you're, they're cute and fuzzy and and you want to pet them or you love them because they're yummy and tasty and their first warm and fuzzy to wear.


I'm more a more on


Well


site.


I'm


It.


more a two but you fall into one of that. You can't. So either way you love bunnies.


yep. Yeah that's true I guess I can't think a bunny laid down in our back yard the other day and it like it like laid down and it stretched out its legs and its like for like twice the length of its body. It was it was so chill. It was just like I'm just going to lay down in the shade Like 101° here. Like it was so chill Ripley lost her mind. She was like, let me add it. No having a nice


Okay.


but. Mhm. Okay.


So so so yeah so people in the west are like not letting their bunnies out, like even if they're bunnies are normally outdoor pets, they're being indoor pets. Like I think I remember like before they figured out what was going on, like an entire vet full of um rabbits that they were um that they were like housing that they were just not sick rabbits but rabbits that like people like were away and they needed somewhere to like how is their rabbits while they were away? Like they all died but at least unlike normal Ebola this one works a lot faster so like at least they're not suffering for as long. Yeah I'm not a fan of suffering.


All right good. That makes me feel better about you. Uh I imagine in a hole growth people's cats dying from Hello. In less sad news. Ebola has been contained to only one country and and we're almost done with it. But like the congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo is the only place with known cases. Yeah.


they're actually various strains of Ebola and some of them aren't actually that bad. This is the bad Ebola


Yes. The one when we talk about Oh no,


When you talk


if


about


you


the one that's like 90% fatal. Not the one that's 40% fatal. Hey?


The one with like travel restrictions and you can't yeah, that the bad one. Yeah.


that's good now let's just hope you know they keep the pandemic away there too. Yeah. What?


Yeah. Yeah. Seems unlikely.


I really


Maybe.


hope I really really hope they don't open the schools. My best friend's a teacher and like I really hope they don't because it will be a disaster.


Yeah. Yeah. I think there are some places where it could be really bad Arkansas, we're currently in our uptick. But yeah, I am pro staying home. I am pro meth, I am pro cleaning. I'm pro many different school options. But there are places in our state that have one active case where it's just not, it is and a non issue. So those,


Well I


I mean


don't


it makes sense that


well I don't think it should be a nationwide thing. You can see a tail. Uh huh. Um Well I don't think it should be a nationwide decision. I think it should be an area decision. One thing I disagree with is them making masks of political issue. People are like it's a free country but you know what try the argument the next time you get pulled over for not wearing a seat belt.


Which actually makes less sense than us making you wear a mask because like literally you are the only person that gets hurt in that. Thank you.


I mean like is when you wear a mask, you only like unless you're someone who's already been wearing a mask for several hours a day, for months, you only need to wear a mask for like at most half an hour to an hour at a time. Like when you're at the supermarket and most and a lot of places you can order your food to be delivered like your grocery store food or you can order it to be like curbside ready and you can just pick it up at the curb.


Yeah. Yes. I find


I just


the reaction


to be


don't I just don't


lot


think


of people.


it should be a political issue, you know?


No.


Um But the thing with schools is like, I think what's going to happen is if they open schools, there's going to be a huge upsurge and then schools are just going to have to close again. But because they open schools instead of doing any prep for online teaching, there is going to have to go back to zoom classes without having had any prep for online teaching and everybody will be scrambling again. Um But also like, I would feel horrible for the kids because what happens if you know somebody in your school gets coronavirus and you get coronavirus from that And you're like, say in elementary school, so you're like eight or 10 and you go home and you're fine because you're a kid, you've got a great immune system. Your parents actually did vaccinate you. So, you know, you've got a strong immune system and you know, your parents have done stuff that's healthy for you, but like, not everybody in your family has such a great immune system and you know, you give it to your parents and one of your parents died and then you feel guilty for the rest of your life because you feel like it's your fault that your parents died of the coronavirus because you're the one who brought it home from school


Yeah, that exact


and try social distancing during recess.


week.


Like


I


you


doubt


like,


that


will be


can you can be six ft away from your friends, you can't be any closer, like how are you going to keep, you know, elementary school kids from doing that? Yeah.


no recess. That's uh in Arkansas, our schools are probably opening and like you're not leaving your classroom, you go to your classroom, you have school, you go home it like you don't get to go to the cafeteria either. Like you have to eat in your bathroom.


What about kids who have uh state funded lunches?


They're making arrangements. I mean like the food because they, because they also have kids with allergies. I am not a teacher, so I don't know the ins and outs, but I know that they are working through a very detailed


Thank


plan.


you.


And so because the kids with you have to be any separate room or a separate area of the room, I don't remember but. Okay.


Maybe they'll get like a partition to block those two, like to like put up between those kids while they're having lunch.


Maybe I don't know. Help him. That might


but


work.


But it sounds really sad


like


like, how crowded are the schools? How crowded are the schools in Arkansas though?


it depends. So uh most It's really small. Most of our counties have less than 30,000 people in them. So


If


the schools are fairly spread out unless you get somewhere like Little Rock or um Fayetteville and then they're fairly crowded. But those schools are not necessarily starting right away or they're doing a staggered approach where like only have the kids come each day. Like your


it's like two days a week and they split the class in half Because my friend teaches 4th grade And they're like 35 kids in her class. So like, even with, even if they split the class in half, it's still going to be hard to get the kids to be six ft away. And like I was in her classroom because I was helping her at the end of the year, not this past year, but the year before. And I don't see how you could fit 15 kids in that room With six ft in between each one. Yeah.


I mean I don't know


I


how are


just


you going?


hope that when they do pass whatever stimulus bill they pass, there's a lot of money going for education. Yeah,


Yeah.


because like we, because I mean also with the cleaning, they can't expect the teachers to do the cleaning because they already do so much. And so they need to be able to hire cleaners who are specifically trained in cleaning for this. And also if if for schools that do physically open, they need to hire people who clean who are trained for cleaning. But also like they should be hiring people to like check temperatures at the door. And they should also like be hiring people um for transportation service, so parents don't have to pick their kids up if their kids have to go home because their temperature was too high. Um Because like if you don't have a car and you rely on public transportation, like it might take you like even if you're not at work, it might take you three hours to get to the school because you have to rely on the bus schedule to get there because you may not be able to afford a taxi or Uber and then you know it's a taxi or an Uber really going to want to let you in their car if you have a fever. Like


Good


if


for


I was an Uber driver I would take the temperature of anyone who is going to get into my car and if you had a fever I would say sorry.


no.


Yeah. But like also like I remember when I was in school they were doing construction and they put up temporary buildings and for places where there is physical room you can put up temporary buildings and and as long as you're willing to hire teachers to teach or if you're willing to do like distance learning and just put in someone to like keep to like monitor the class and have the teacher be on video. You can put kids in a separate room and then have the kids alternate or just have the teacher alternate which room they're in. Um And that way the kids aren't going back and forth between the rooms, there's only one person going back and forth. Um I think not when I was there, but um after I was done with school, one of the schools in my area started doing that um in the junior high because like all the kids were with the exception of the kids who were in like the advanced classes, all the kids were taking the exact same classes instead of having electives and whatnot. So they just had the kids stay in the same classes and they just had the teachers rotate.


Uh huh. That's really smart. I


that


mean


way


friends.


they don't have to work. And I mean the kids were allowed in the hall in between classes if they needed books and stuff, but they just made sure that the kids lockers were near the classrooms that there stuff was in. And you know, it made it a lot easier and simpler. The teachers complained at first, but then after a while, you know, mm, he calmed down. Yeah.


But I mean, and if there isn't room, if your building has a flat roof and the roof can support it, you can put temporary buildings on the roof. I don't know if you can put enough depending on how big the school is, but you know, or you can set up a school in a different building because how many buildings are currently not being used because there are businesses that are closed because of the coronavirus. If you have a giant, you know, office building that usually uses, um, that doesn't usually use, that usually uses just partitions for desks


No.


that can be easily taken out. That's like a really big room that you can social distance in and if nobody's using that, you know, the government can rent that building and you can use that as your school. But all


I,


these things cost money. So hopefully there will be money for schools because otherwise a lot of people look at that. Mm


yeah yep. And on that we have gone significantly over 25 minutes which is fine. I thoroughly enjoyed this back.


I have enjoyed talking to you too.


if you have to work


I


tomorrow.


talked way too much though, which I tend to do,


It's very


but


interesting though like you said it's not hard if you're talking about things that interest you so


Yeah. Okay, well, have a great evening and


you too.


um, have fun filling out your survey. I could,


Bye.


blow


well right,


hi


how are you?


get diarrhea.


Just using? Good. Uh you hear me okay?


Yes.


Yeah,


Very good.


good


Get get get


what's your name?


uh Justin Justin that


Nothing, I'm Gabby, nice to meet you. So


as a manager to


where are you from?


uh Los Angeles.


That's fabulous. You live there right now? That's right


Uh We're


now.


from


It up in boston originally um And then I lived in Colorado for the last 10 years and now I'm back in Boston for a little while.


Also so right now you're in boston


What?


right now you're in the boston. Mhm.


yeah, the bar scenario at least. Yeah, I


thanks.


like how was the play?


Uh It's okay


Mhm.


it's getting a little bit coat coder. The weather.


it's a mugging or? Not really?


Not really because you heard about news about a wildfire it's like


Yeah, I did. I saw some pictures from like all over California, but in L. A. I heard it was pretty bad at some point to.


it's really uh grew me dreamy it's because of burning so you're right


well I was in colorado until like the end of august and we had some bad fires there too, so before I left it was so smoky, you couldn't


thank


see like


you.


the mountains near me or anything. So um it was nice to leave how I left, but yeah, they have a lot of fire issues still. There's still a lot of like active fires in colorado, unfortunately. So probably, you know, with winter, they go out soon. Yeah.

Mhm. Yeah exactly. Oh nice. Huh. Mhm. Yeah exactly. So


what do you do for even? Mhm.


Uh, well, Covid changed that. So I was working at a ski resort actually in colorado. Um, I worked at a spa, like managing a spa at the hotel, but I, I lost my job because of Covid. So now I'm doing nothing. What about you? Right,


I'm doing engineering jobs


and there


now.


you go. Yeah. Any what type of engineering?


several engineering


The ones hearing? Okay. Do you work for like one company or using multiple jobs there?


Um Just one companies.


Welcome. Thank you. Yeah. How long have you been doing that for?


It's been a while, it's like a seven years.


All right. Let's do you like it?


Uh It was okay. Yeah. Maybe run that nothing to


are


complain.


you saying you went to school for engineering?


Yeah I went to school for injury. Yes.


Yeah. Where'd you go?


Uh USC if you heard about that


You're


and yeah,


and help Universe. You have something California.


Yeah that was in California. There you go.


What about that? You've been and out. You've been in southern California a long time. Nice. Were you born there?


Uh No, actually I've been born locally. Yeah, actually came from china.


Okay. Spent a lot of time in California. Cool.


Uh we passed in the area you come from? Yeah.


Have you been to boston? And you know it well, Have you been to boston before? Nope. You're Yeah, you're kinda got a little, you're back. Um Have you been to boston before?


Uh Not really. All right.


No.


I'm not really familiar with boston's at all.


Like I'm like pretty close to like right in the city, just like the town just next to the city, so almost right like in boston itself. But but it's right on the ocean, so it's nice.


Oh so the boston is actually right next to the ocean.


Yeah, boston harbor, boston harbor is kind of famous and then my towns like this little peninsula that's sticks off of boston. Um Yeah, it's a city definitely on, on the coast. Their speeches. I mean it's cold water, but there's because it's not as nice as the beaches in California.


Yeah, because I think the boston is connected to atlantic ocean instead of a pacific ocean. Yeah, the pacific


and


oceans


it's kind of


that


north north so it doesn't get that, you know the water doesn't get that warm even in the summer. It's pretty cold. You want it in the ocean and stuff. I've been to L. A. And san Diego several times in the beaches. There are so nice.


Yeah, it's sort of a called it as well actually.


I am. What part of, what part of L. A are you in?


Uh I mean uh west coast, like the west side of the way, I'm sure you know where santa


All


Monica? Yeah, so fairly close to that area. Mhm.


Oh I love santa Monica. That's nice. I knew someone who lived in santa Monica and I want to stay with so I'm very familiar with that area. Yeah. Mhm.


as pretty shield.


I'm jealous. All right, joe it is chill. No. So do you go to venice beach more


Oh yeah. Sometimes but not really open.


weird place. But really good. What


it's really called


very


it


life?


uh There's a lot of tourists there.


Yeah. I'm sure I like though that there's that long path along between venice and santa Monica. So you can like bike or um


Yes.


rolling late or whatever. I went roller skating when I was there like a tourist but uh I like that it's all like you know connected like that. It's really


hmm.


cool along the water there.


Tavern. Yes.


Yeah. Um what else do you do with your time in California? You sir?


Actually I don't but uh


I was perfect. I live there.


Yeah, I mean a lot of people that would serve, I don't actually, I will learn serving but because of covid and everything so yeah.


it's different. Yeah.


And you can also ice skating or like ice sport snowboarding here.


Yeah. I snowboard. Yeah


True. I


because


bet.


I, yeah


colorado.


I had a ski resort like I live


it's scared.


and it's from the sea resorts. I would remember it almost every day. Yeah it was nice. There's some good speaking in California you just have to travel a little further. Yeah


A little bit like two


You're like


hours,


well they're around it's not too far but mammoth is the really good one. Mammoth.


yeah, man, that's here.


Yeah I've heard I've never been but I've heard really good things about that place but


And


it's not that. Yeah.


Memory is like a five hours, right. Yeah.


yeah, exactly. Yeah. Together. Oh


How's the colorado? Different?


colorado. It's um well so I lived right in the americans. Um So I lived at like 9000 ft, so very high altitude up in the mountains. Um


Yeah.


It's known maybe eight months of the year where I lived. Mhm.


yeah.


So it starts snowing in october and stop snowing and then in May. Uh So I lived in it, but Colorado in general is beautiful. I mean there's like mountain, so many mountains and uh isn't that a beautiful state? Denver is kind of boring but the rest of the state's ready. Yeah, maybe like an hour and a half from Denver, So I wasn't really in the city, I was really in a more rural area. Um It happened tourist area though and yeah, overall it's it's a cool state. Yeah, a lot of young people like to move there

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Really? Mm. Yeah.


All


so it's kind of like changing, you know, lots of people up to colorado. Thank you. Never been.


I've never been there. Yeah.


Have you been to any of the mountains in California? Like have you been to the national parks like Yosemite and stuff?


Yeah, I went to insanity is it's pretty, it's very high altitude. Mhm. How to do.


Yeah. All right. Yeah.


Yeah and it's pretty nice.


It's appreciate


Pictures look amazing. All right.


especially around probably november. And they started with snow.


Yeah. Yeah. That is prettier. Yeah. Have you been to um Vegas? That's their color, that's not too far from you, right. Like five hours.


Yeah. I went to several


I love Vegas and I just I would drive there all the time if I lived in California Um


Mhm


from Colorado we would drive and it was 11 hours drive, so it's pretty long. All right.


Mhm.


But we still would do it twice a year. But from but from what for you? It's like five hours. I would do that all the time. And there's no Covid not with Covid. I didn't


definitely,


go right now,


definitely.


definitely. Right.


What about boston? Is there anything fun compare with?


Really? Um It's worth visiting. I think it's one of the coolest cities in the country because it's really historic. So there's a lot of stuff like from the american revolution, a lot of history to see and it's just I don't know it's it's a very like old beautiful historic city on the water. And there's lots to do. Lots of like museums and historic sites and good food. Place it really good food. Um Yeah and there's lots of colleges to there's like 30 colleges in Boston alone so um lots of young people and it's just like yeah it's a cool city. Yeah.


There's a lot of stuff to do there like that.


there is a lot to do. Yeah and it's very like tourist friendly like it's really easy to get around if you're a tourist very like it's not as big as new york so you can get to the different parts of it a little bit easier. You can walk a lot of it. Um But yeah it's worth visiting. I think


Two


I like it better than new york. But that's just me


you need to drive there or there is such public transportation.


um depends on where you live. Like if you live too proud of the city you have to drive. But there's a subway system that's really good. So I I'm not taking it because of


ladies


Covid right now.


and


But normally like when I grew up here I went to high school and I would take the subway in high school actually right.


Mhm


But if you're like a targeting your stay in the city you can get really anywhere with the subway is super easy. Yeah.


Oh


We don't really need a car to visit. I mean it's I used to own if you live here because


You're


then you can drive


killing


outside


me.


the city. But yeah you really don't need one. It's really good public transportation. Unlike L. A. Doesn't have very good transfer.


Yeah. It has to drive everywhere. Which just sucks and that's what I think


Traffic.


is really bad.


Yeah boston definitely has its traffic but you can avoid it if you take the subway so and it's so expensive to park in the city like you wouldn't want to drive into the city anyway. It's better to just jump on the subway and live like near a subway stop. If you lived here, I would always make sure I lived close to one arrows. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I I like subways. There's been good way to get around. Mhm.

Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah mm. Yeah.


Exactly. Yeah. I like I like in L. A. You know there are some nose up with, well the subway is the same way to stop the subway is sandwiches store. So, so first I came to, I, I ask people where is the subway? And they say, you know at restaurants that it was like, what? Okay.


that's a lot of thing there. So


So,


are you working from home now because of covid?


Oh yes. Yeah. So seems Colbert. Everybody's stuck home. Yeah. Yeah,


So you don't have to drive to work, you have to drive in the traffic.


that's the best part.


Yeah. That is nice. Do you think once things are normal, you'll be able to keep working from home or don't make you go back to the office?


I think because my job mm types, so it requires me to visit the site. So I still have to go to the office. But I think after this I won't be frequently with the office published.


Yeah. You know, every day maybe? Yeah.


Yeah. It's more like an alternative schedule. I think like a couple of days home, a couple of days office. Yeah. Because it really safe company a lot of money to put people's home because yeah. Because you


It's


started,


nice to have


no.


like where you sometimes go in and sometimes you get to go home and stay home because then you don't have to dr every day and you know, sit in traffic and waste. Guess.


Yeah. And you consume pretty much you're all utilities instead of companies paying you.


Yeah. No, I think a lot of companies going forward are going to have more people at home are more flexible life between home and in the workplace or that you don't have to drive every day and it will be cheaper for the company's maybe. Right. No, I think a lot is going to change even when Covid is gone.


I think so. So what's up playing I guess? Uh,


My plan. Good question. Um Well, I plan once Covid is mostly over or close to over. I don't know when that will be but I plan to move to a new city and try somewhere new. Um


Uh huh.


So I'm thinking like new Orleans probably just do something really different because it's really different than anywhere I've lived before, but it's a really really fun city. Um It's like a small city that was so you feel like it's not too big and overwhelming. Um And I think I want to get into like I've been doing hospitality for all these years, you know working with working on the spot and stuff. But I think I want to get more into like travel planning. Like um you know not like like a travel agent but it's a really bad time to do it so I have to wait until it was over. So I'm gonna start like working towards that. I've just been doing like side work online in the meantime and stuff like a little bit of money. But yeah, I'm gonna try and get into that kind of area because I love to travel so yeah,

Uh huh. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


Yeah, that's right.


and


Very


your


well.


home and you can do it anywhere you want. But I kind of want a little job, you know?


Yeah. It probably is kind of hard. No industry hit the most hardest. Yeah.


I learned that hospitality is traveler hard, but I think they'll come back really strong because people will be very eager to travel once this is over, including myself.


Do you think, do you think people is going to do virtual traveling first before they actually go into the place? Mhm.


No, I think people are just as soon as over there going to inflict their cases, they're gonna want to get out of wherever they,


Already.


I mean some people already traveling, obviously it's different, but there are people traveling a lot within the United States still all right.


Mhm.


Like when I was still live in colorado, even though my job couldn't open because it was hard to distance at a spot. Um There


Oh,


were a lot of tourists in colorado all summer into like the national like outdoor stuff like going to the national parks and like you know hiking that sort of thing. So people have been doing a lot of travel within the U. S. But I think as soon as borders open people are going to want to go over to these. Yeah.

yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Mm.


Oh, wow.


Yeah they're going to be desperate to get out of the country. For I I had a trip plan to italy in august that I had to cancel. So hopefully next year I can go


Okay. I'm sure next year probably every single


mean


picked


summer


up.


fall fall next year. Hopefully there's a vaccine so fingers crossed. I can we can get back to life. Do you have any plans once converted over?

Mhm. Mhm, mm. Okay. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Oh,


okay. Uh, yeah. I tried to plan a trip to Japan but cancel.


How cool. Yeah. So will you go again? Go once things are normal again?


Uh, probably, yeah, probably gonna take a while because. Mhm. Not sure.


Yeah.


Travel is gonna be soon very soon.


No I wasn't I didn't think before next summer at the earliest.


I think so. Do even the vaccines


you


come


fall


out? Yeah. Even vaccines come on. It's not really prevent anything.


Gonna take a long time to make enough for everyone to get them to to be a very effective vaccine. Yeah. But they will help. Yeah. Yeah. We're all hoping but yeah, they can't rush it. Um What were you going to do in Japan? Just visit to tourists like tori around.


Yeah. I probably just tour around, try some food. Uh huh.


Okay.


Yeah


and transcend cultural around just walk around. I think that's why I'm thinking you know uh maybe in the future the travel agency, they will have a virtual tool.


Oh you can like see what would be like before you go.


Yeah so like event planning and they may just virtual take you around before booking and everything.


That's a good idea.


so


I mean


you don't have a deep.


you don't know what it's like. Yeah.


Yeah so we have some like generally minds like okay that's what I want.


Yeah. Yeah that was, I mean it could go that way. Yeah. Um I'd love to go to Japan. So they have really good skiing in Japan. They get a ton of snow in the mountains there.


employer


So my friends bought a that live in boston. They bought a vacation home in Japan that they own and it's by a ski resort in Japan. So not this winter but hopefully next winter a year from now we'll get to go and stay at their place in Japan and it will be really cool. I'll have a free place to stay there and it's not work.


wow. It's amazing.


Yeah. Amazing. I know there, I mean it's amazing. So I'm really looking forward to it. We should have gone this winter but we couldn't you know obviously so I'm hopefully next winter we'll get to go but I want to stop in Tokyo also and see some other things and then this game that's really cool but it seems like have you been before?


I've been there before. Yeah the big city like also car uh Kyoto.


Okay. Yeah. Yeah. What's your favorite part?


Uh Actually I think the traditional temple. Yeah so


Yes.


it's super amazing because it's so quiet.


Well yeah.


Capital is a city.


Very Tokyo.


yeah, I think they'll be always everything's crowd it. I don't really like a crowded ever. So I like quiet place. So that's good. Yeah, I think Colorado is really quiet, right?


Yeah it depends on yeah it is on the whole, there's lots of very peaceful areas. I mean, Denver is a pretty big city, but yeah, on the whole, you can get away from people very easily.


Nice. Yeah. Man, everywhere, everywhere right now is really kind of, it's not affordable at all.


Yeah, I like it's not affordable.


No, I was on his way shoot out like incredibly expensive.


You live by yourself. Radio of roommates.


Yes. I live with my roommates.


You're right. Yeah, probably expensive if you live on your own.


How about, how about boston, is it affordable? Go?


I mean, you can get like outside the city into the suburbs. Isn't that expensive? But like part of your like right in the city and it's fun and on the subway, it's kind of expensive. But there's um, of kind of range of prices. But yeah, you can find more affordable ways to live. But I think the funnest places to live, a very simple,


Uh, some mascara.


right, right. Thing is uh colorado, it's not, the Denver is a little bit expensive because it's so popular to move there right now. Um, where I lived in the mountains was very expensive because it was so touristy so there's lots of people would really expensive second homes and stuff, but most of Colorado isn't too expensive. Um Yeah I think you know the major cities like boston new york L. A. Definitely san Francisco or you know among the most expensive, but I do think boston has options, so if you moved here you can find like a key way to live so many lives. Um I don't know if that's true for L. A. Right?


No, there was no


There's


word. Mhm.


that's what I hear about California, I like it but I don't know if I moved there because of the price.


Mhm. I think because the tax is so huge, like the state tax,


Is it? Yeah. Gas tax defensive to yeah it's pricey there.


Gas tax. Yeah, They need to drive everything up because the tour is everything.


Yeah. I mean people still live there though. Clearly it's worth it's worth living. Very people will pay.


Yeah, I guess.


Although all of those places deliver expensive, it's hard to avoid that if it's


that's


somewhere


true.


worth living, probably expensive whether like you're in the mountains in a beautiful place or the beach or like this good city you're gonna I've done that right, I want to live with the new Orleans probably because it's actually a very cute city but the minimum wage is much lower than kind of like you know evenness of it, they don't pay people as well so it's still not keep in the long run for a lot of people


who live there


a lot of tradition there too. Right? You all


in


are,


Ireland yeah I've got a really cool history um kind of a lot of cultures came together, they're like spanish french obviously american like it all kind of came and it's got a lot of history and really cool like culture and events and yeah things that you can't see anywhere else in the world except normally.


And also a lot of spooky stories.


Yeah. Yeah I'm not too into like the ghost stories but but yeah it's a big part of it. I mean there's a lot of true stories that were kind of were there. Um But yeah that's sort of like which culture like voodoo and that kind of stuff. It's good for the tourists you know? And apparently Halloween not this year but normally is really fun there.


Yeah, that's


Well


I can't really into it for like a whole bunch but yeah there's lots of like good music that's the best part in the food and good morning. Look in the


summer.


There's a lot of seafoods where All right, seafood lobsters.


scram well lobster is more like boston. Um Berlin's is like a lot of shrimp stop. Um


Okay.


But you're not just seafood, lots of like soul food like kind of like southern food and like fried chicken and all that good stuff. Um Creole


Yeah.


food, like gumbo and jambalaya. It's. Yeah. Yeah it's fun if you ever get a chance visit because it's it's pretty cheap city to visit. You know it's more affordable than traveling to a lot of other cities because accommodation isn't that expensive. And the restaurants are an overpriced and you can find good deals and it's kind of like a fun place to go.


mm. Good to know,


So it kind of feels


Well,


a little bit like europe more than the U. S. In some ways because of the architecture is all kind of a french style, a lot of it. Yeah.


I thought, Oh,


good. I have a record


Oh, thanks. Well, interesting.


few times. Yeah, explain more to. Yeah. Yeah.


Yeah, I was very interesting in boston.


Yeah and just visiting.


Yeah, I'm visiting. Mhm,


Yeah. Well I highly recommend it. Like I said it's easy to get around with the subway. Um And


Yeah,


walk like whole downtown area. You can really walk a lot of like the tourist areas but the tourist areas that we're going to they're not like to tourists you know there I enjoy them still. And I grew up here so I am then there's lots of cool areas like Harvard Square which is like I'm not technically in boston but it's like this whole in your area with all the colleges like Harvard and M. I. T. And stuff and there's lots of cool stuff like out that way. Right. Yeah. Diamond.


Mhm.


I would put it on your list. Yeah.


correct.


All right. You think creating? Do you think we did 25 minutes? Yeah.


I think so. Yeah. Yeah,


Back in the perfect. Well it was really nice talking to you.


yeah. Really nice talking to you too.


You have addressed your day and then you get to go to Japan when this is all over.


Yeah. You to go to


They


a eight a.


were talking someday.


No,


Okay take care.


thank


Bye.


everybody.


Mhm. Hey. Oh hi, can you hear me


Yes I can hear you hear me.


okay? Yeah how's the lighting?


Uh It's a bit gloomy on your side.


Let me try um switch. Maybe there's that but then there's a window behind me over here so that might be too I could open the side window, I have the lines drawn just because it's hot out and it keeps the little feeler if the windows are not all open. Sorry about that.


Norris.


Sorry. Uh huh. Yeah little better. Yeah.


it's good


Good


good. Yeah how are you doing today? Uh huh.


too bad. Just trying to keep busy. Uh yourself?


I'm not too terrible. Yeah. Trying to keep cool. It's been Today is going to get up around 100, it's gonna be over 100 tomorrow. Um after a couple of days it's gonna start dipping down back into the 80s but we've been having a heat wave. So


Yeah whereabouts whereabouts are you?


the pacific northwest um you know right right on the Washington Oregon border sort of up on Mount Adams a little bit so yeah


okay


and


I


I'm gonna


didn't


write


mean.


between the western and eastern side so the climate is not quite like you would imagine in Seattle or Portland it's a little bit hotter in the summer so. Yeah.


you know


Yeah. How about you where you at?


I'm in


Well


new york city and we're having yeah we're having a heat wave as well. Yeah we're near the hundreds so trying


O. G.


to keep


S. Yeah and it gets humid it's more humid there. It's like a dry heat here. So I think it gets more humid there. Right?


Yeah it's more human over here so. Yeah.


and then you get like I've heard you get like the garbage smell. They're the just the


the


hot city smell. Yeah.


indeed yes the garbage snow is uh it's horse is by far the worse in the summer.


Yeah. Yeah we're out


No.


I'm out in the country so it's you know it's it's not bad at all in that sense. Just fresh


so you're working


air.


from home these days?


Yeah I do some transcription. I do what I can get some you know if I if I can get translation that's better. Um I do what I can so you know it depends. Um There wasn't a lot of work available at first for a while because of the covid, because you know, nobody, nobody had any work to send out. So um but you know, it's picked back up now so I have some work that I can do. Yeah,


that's good yeah it's good to get to get to hear let's pick it up.


How about you?


Well I was actually working like contracting just before the Covid hit and then they shut down all the offices. Yeah


jeez


I was


what?


pretty much out of work out of work since. Yeah.


I was basically I worked for a while too, so um I was going to get a job as a research assistant, you know, like a kind of a part time thing, but that fell through basically um you know because it was a grad student who's going to hire me then everybody, you know like somebody's gonna hire you, they have to have money and if nobody has money to hire you, then it's like a chain of events, right? So same translation, you know, it costs money for people to hire you to translate stuff and if they don't have money from their job to hire you to do that then so and it's the same with transcription right? Because that that stuff comes from you know companies usually or businesses or yada yada so if those were mostly shut down because of the pandemic then they weren't sending transcription work to the transcription company so there would just be nothing available for a while. But then you know I think it started picking up as people as they started getting more set up with remote work and they you know there was they were kind of functioning morgan so what kind of contracting?

Uh huh. Right. Uh huh. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.


I was in like I. T. Business applications you know doing my group supporting the supporting the application so.


Uh I would imagine that would be almost unemployment proof.


Uh Yeah I mean a lot of H. R. S. Holding onto the holding onto the openings and they're actually hiring so I don't know really.


huh.


Uh Yeah.


Uh huh.


Yeah there's opening


Weird.


just I don't know they haven't filled them so I don't know you're done


How'd you get into I. T.


I studied like computers and like networking and all that kind of stuff


Of course


back in school. So I left shortly after I graduated and then I worked for about like six months and I decided to take a different path. I went into like education became an english teacher overseas and now now I'm back I'm kind of back here and I'm doing trying to get back into my original career path. Yeah


Where do you teach english?


I talk a little bit in Thailand, Hong kong and Taiwan


Uh huh. Cool. Yeah I've heard that um you know it's I've heard of the jet program like you can do that in Japan and I imagine you know it's pretty in demand in in places like Thailand


all


and Taiwan too.


yeah, the camp program has been around for a long time now, so it's a credible programs to me if you do want to give it a shot. Yeah, I think they, they're still looking for teachers in Japan, I don't know, but now, but they always look for teachers, you know


Yeah I've considered it I'm like I'm actually


what


thinking about going into computer related field, I was actually in graduate school in the humanities and I left that for various reasons. Um


and


Which that never pans out for people anyway get a PhD in Islamic languages and literature, there's no job openings so even if I did get the PhD you know everybody else is in the same boat but um so I've considered going into that I'm like teaching myself some coding and stuff I figure you know while I have extra time on my hands so um


What?


just like python, html CSS that kind of stuff so we'll see where it goes. But yeah,


Well,


I've heard about the Jet programme, it seems like it could be could be interesting, you know?


well in japan


Why should you?


of the flock, the legal law firms, they hire trans, they need trans translators as well. But mainly I guess japanese to a different thing by two different actually, I guess you can go japanese anyway.


Oh yeah, Well it's the same with Russian, like, I know Russian, um but they like if they're going to hire an interpreter, you know, they're gonna definitely gonna hire somebody who's native bilingual over somebody who learned it as an adult. You know, like somebody who who spoke both growing up, if they can find somebody like that, then they're going to hire them for interpreting interpreting. So I don't really haven't done that. And especially, I remember being in grad school and somebody was like, oh, what about medical interpreting? That's good money. And I'm like, shit, no way, man. Like, that's like your somebody's life is possibly on the line if you mess up the interpreting, you know, like, no, no,


the left kidney. No, not that I don't know left from right, but you know what I mean? Uh


yeah, you can get, can get intense. So you speak, you speak Russian as your second language, well, that's cool.


and then I also know like polish german Ukrainian, um, a little bit of Yiddish, but like, yeah, but when I do translation, I do like written translation, so not really


huh.


interpretation so much. So I translate mostly mostly Russian to english because Russian is my best foreign language. Um, and I think, you know, as far as translation goes, I personally think almost always it's best to hire a translator who is translating something into their native language, you know what I mean? Because it's going to be like, you don't like you want the english translation to be native english, you know, like you don't want it to sound awkward. So like, I think that's the more important. I mean obviously you need to accurately understand the Russian but you also want it to be like a fluid english native translation. So in

Yeah. Right, right, wow. Uh huh. Right. Yeah. Yeah. yeah, you


want to


my


be like


time,


this out of context, you know what happens? Yeah


and like I wouldn't feel comfortable translating into Russian, like


go on.


because it's not my native language, it wouldn't probably be the great, you know, it wouldn't read like somebody who's native language was Russian translating, you know, it would just wouldn't read the same, it wouldn't be as good. So


Mhm. So the same, the same for saying goes as for german you when you went off, you wouldn't translate to german


I mean it depends if it was like I have done just like documents where it's like if somebody needs like I think I've translated english to polish and maybe Vice were like it's um or if it's like a short news article, I did I did some volunteer work for a refugee organization um or I think I translate, I know I did some um english to Russian and Russian to english because people would need like evidence for their refugee files and stuff, but that's, you know, that's more like a short informational thing as opposed to like, you know, an academic book or something like a whole big manuscripts or like documents of like um just like immigration documents or you know, historical little documents or blah blah blah, like shorter things that are more informational as opposed to like kind of long, you know, manuscripts that are kind of more contextual I guess, or more. Yeah.


Do you have you done a letter like something like a letter of intent or like academics,


Um I don't, what do you mean by that? Like?


like someone applying for like a PhD program? They need they need uh you know, maybe their native language was grooming


no,


and


I


they


haven't


needed


done that,


they needed


an english is not bad enough, they needed in english?


I don't know, just like specifically that hasn't come up for me to translate now. Um Well I have um I've helped out a friend of mine named Poland with a lot of stuff. Uh one of them, I don't think it was exactly that, but like application type stuff or assignments in english, but that's less so like translating it for him and more just like he would want to make sure his, his english was good enough, you know? So


it's a proof proof reading it.


yeah, I think I might have translated some stuff, but mostly just proof reading this is english is pretty good.


Mhm. Yeah. So you studied


Mr


a huge uh Slavic languages during your awesome


yeah, oh shit, sorry, I want to turn my phone off or the ringer off Yeah, and then german, I picked up, you know in grad school um kind of I well you need to have a research language, so like a language you at least have reading knowledge of to, you know, because sometimes usually people choose french or german just like because there might be articles you need to read in another language, so it just helps


No.


with that. Um and then I


All


just, I decided to learn to speak german just kind of for the hell of it and I spent time in Berlin and stuff. So I took some german classes for fun because


no.


that's my idea of fun.


Uh huh. Yeah. So how do you like uh do like learning german learning Russian, is it? They're not in the same language family? Right.


no, no german actually english and german are in the same language family. English is a dramatic language, although it's so bastardized with so much latinate vocabulary that, but the basic um


huh.


radical structure of it is Germanic although it's lost all of the um a lot of


What?


them more complicated grammatical stuff for historical reasons and uh but and also like the more basic vocabulary is still recognizably Germanic like house in english house and in Germany's house like you know in english, his brother and in german is buddha, you know like so sort of in most languages the most frequently used vocabulary that those are the words that tend to remain the most stable across time. So they're the ones that tend to be more common throughout the languages and a family because they don't diverge as much, you know? So yeah, but, but but english also has just so much, so many over layers of, because it was, you know, the romans came in and the and the Normans came in, the french came in, that these people came in, the danes came in, you know, so there was just like, and then it imports all these words from latin and other languages and so yeah, and the spelling is all kinds of messed up because of the french influence and and lots of different stuff. I had a, I know somebody who made a joke once. Whoa, where'd you go? You disappeared?

Okay. Uh Oh yeah. Okay. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Oh


I'm still here.


Oh, I just can't see you anymore. I don't know why.


Oh did you flick off? Hold on.


Okay, okay, I can hear you. That's weird. I didn't touch anything. Yeah.


Yeah my camera is still on, its still flashing so


Weird weird. Um My


And


camera's on. Let me scroll down and see what happened here. I don't see anything that happened. I see a pair of headphones and I see pretend person. Um I wonder what


wherever.


happened if I tried refreshing. That might ended the conversation though. I don't know. Wait.


Uh Okay. Can you do you? Oh if you hold on sure. Truck.


Oh there I see you now. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Um So yeah I had a friend who made a joke once that english is his base is a is german written in french. Uh huh. But yeah.


it's funny. Mhm.


So what how did you like teaching english? Did you like it?


Oh I loved it. It's I mean it's not really much of a career per se.


Right. It's more like something you do for a while. Thank


I would


you.


say it's good to get out like you know you're a bit too late 20s doing that kind of thing and then Kind of your 30s you need I want to look until like a more stable


Stable career. Yeah.


but yeah I enjoyed I had a blast pretty much both in Hong kong and Taiwan. Yeah I have nothing to complain about.


Yeah. Yeah I've taught Russian and I really enjoyed teaching Russian. Um I mean I was teaching at the college students and also uh you know, it was like I had learned Russian, so I was familiar with all of how to explain everything, like all of the grammatical construction constructs and I had learned all that stuff from classes. Right? So I feel like that was, whereas with english, it's like, I don't know how to explain this shit. I mean, I think I feel like would have to learn how to teach english, you know what I mean? Um


because it's like you were a native we don't actually learn all the rules of the system.


you just, it's


All


like, yeah,


Yeah you just you just speak it and then


especially


you basically have to,


the weird things, it's like, well why is it like this? It's like, I don't know why is the sky blue, you know, like in my hand, like there are reasons just Yeah.


and sometimes it's like you have like a brain freeze. We're trying to explain like a like an idiom or even a word you kind of use the same word, you use the same word to define. Yeah it's part. Okay.


An english american english has a lot of weird idioms. I don't know, have you ever heard of this guy flew a borg? He's a german guy on youtube


No what's his name again?


lula F L U L. A. He got famous on Youtube doing these and this was a while ago videos where he would like complain about american idioms that he didn't understand. Like shooting fish in a barrel is a really fair in 21. He's like, why is it shooting fish in a barrel? It's like you have, and he goes on this whole rand. But he's like, because it's supposed to be something that's easy, but he just doesn't understand the whole, like I already have the fish. I don't understand why


what?


I already have the fish here, why I need to put them put the fish in a barrel and then shoot those like, but he's funnier about it, you know?


Yeah. Uh Yeah I guess I can get a lot of people watching that. You get


But if I think about, I mean shooting fish in a barrel, like to think about the idiom, it doesn't even make sense to me really for some to mean something that's easy.


Does it does it mean it's something is easy but what is it what is it?


it's like oh yeah it's like shooting fish in a barrel, you know it means something that's easy to do. Yeah


With all of that one


it's so weird.


you really thought? I


So


never thought.


I don't think like as a it's a weird way to put it and be like I don't think shooting fish in a barrel would even be that easy. I mean like


No. Yeah.


maybe catching fish in a barrel. I don't know. But


like yeah. Fish shooting fish.


so what are you up to today? Just working?


Yeah. Not much. Just started trying to self study. You operate myself. So when I'm, you know, there's a job interview or there's apply for, I'd be ready for it because I mean I've been out of the field for so long so I'm probably lacking lacking in some areas. I'm not all.


You always want to do the continuing education? Yeah. I'm trying to um you know the transcription stuff it's like for the like when you think about how much you're actually making per hour, it's kind of depressing especially for how you know kind of demanding the work is. So I'm looking at trying to look at you know jobs that are hiring remote workers right now. Um But I mean the market is so tough right right now, I mean


It's


with unemployment


love.


so high and especially everybody wants to work from home so it's like yeah


Mhm. It's extremely


I don't


slow. Like I'm on linkedin, I am trying out the the what we call it the premium because you can try it out for free, right? The first month I get nothing out of it. Like other than like using it for the the continuing and stuff hard to get. Mhm.


Yeah, I'm on linkedin but I never really learned how to use it or what it is good for. I don't know, I mean I guess it connects to you with like networking or whatever but I never really got into


Well,


it, I don't know.


so yeah, I find just based on that, I find it and I also apply outside of it, you know, and other on other websites.


Yeah, I just look at like indeed and job websites like that you know like I pretty much just search for remote work and see what comes up. Yeah. Um


Read


When


it and it also has job boards to read it.


read


You might get.


it really?


Yeah, I heard.


And there's I mean there's craigslist but I don't know who still posts anything on there.


Yeah, that one is, I'm a little iffy about priceless. I don't


I


know.


have found like gigs on Craig's list if you go on there. Especially when I was still living in the Portland Metro area, like Portland Vancouver, you can find, you know like just like gigs. Um When and that's pretty, pretty simple. I wouldn't worry about that. I found


fact.


like paid like study or like paid research types. Like you can go and like wine, do wine tasting and get paid like 50 bucks or like random stuff like that. He just kind of scroll through the gigs every once in a while, so baska.


post that kind of work on craigslist wine tasting. Oh.


I mean it's like and there was another like research study, it was like, it was like a smoking one and I think I made like $150 on that. It was like a couple different sessions. So yeah, I don't know if you're gonna get a little hustles on there sometimes.


Yeah. So you were born in, born and raised in Portland?


No, I'm from out here and from out here in the country, I'm actually staying with my mom right now for a couple of reasons, but one reason that it's great to be out here right now, that's the middle of nowhere, like, there have been three deaths in this county from Covid and just very low active case count right now, so it's like, that's, that's great, you know, and what I was doing for work there, I'm doing for work now, so, you know, it's as, as, as far as there is work, so, you know, like, so


so you


I'm


were


just staying


living,


here


they


for


now


living


and what's in it?


the metro, like the actual


I was living in Vancouver Yeah, until about february more, somewhere around there, I came out here, so, but, and you know, I might go back there, I'm kind of thinking about the midwest, like Madison, I have a bunch of friends in the midwest because I lived out there for um I lived in ann arbor michigan for six years and I have a bunch of friends in Madison Wisconsin. Just coincidentally a bunch of friends from college landed there and I have a friend from grad school who is there? I have friends in Chicago. So honestly, like, even though I'm from the northwest, like I have more friends and more of a network in the midwest than I do here. So, you know, the climate sucks though. That's, that's one


like


compared


go off


to here. Yeah.


in Milwaukee


What?


Wisconsin there, Wisconsin.


Oh yeah, the winters man. Yeah, it feels like that. I mean they don't actually last for eight months, but sometimes it feels like it, you know,


Yeah, it's


about


we


a good six months purple shit.


And you get that below zero. You walk outside and your nose hairs freeze, hurts to breathe like Yeah.


So you don't really Oh, there's no really no real winter where you are Right, There's no winner.


Uh there is here because I'm up at a higher elevation elevation. I'm up on the mountains. Um I'm also a little further east. So yeah, we get winters. Um we get snow. It doesn't we don't get that like frigid like you get in the midwest, you know like um and and it doesn't really get as cold as it did when I was a kid when I was a kid every year without fail. We get snow so many wonders. I mean we still get snow every year but we used to always get like feet of snow and you know all the the winter stuff. We've had a couple of crazy winters, you know, in the past past years. But um Yeah, I know, but but there is winter, I mean it gets cold enough to snow, it gets cold, you know, it lasts for a while, but it's nothing like you know Chicago

Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh


what?


or or you know like some


He gets


place


bigger


like


snow?


that and then shorter like the cold part is shorter like


I would like that.


that. But I mean it'll get down in the twenties during the day, it might get in the teens at night. But you know it's not you don't get below zero almost. That's really rare. That pretty much doesn't happen. So Yeah.


Yeah. You don't even need a park cut right


No


out.


you need a nice you need a good coat. But


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Are we? How much time are running at right now?


It looks like we're at 225 so And my clock says 4 1425.


What?


Yeah it's I use Lennox so it's it's on the 24 hour clock and I can't figure out how to set it to just AM PM. I don't know that you can set the system time to AM PM because it shows the system the system clock on top. So.


Oh I think you can. I just don't remember the this is something


I'd have to


that


look at that problem.


man who I just don't I haven't used it in a long time. Okay. I


Alright.


guess. Yeah.


Uh


It was nice


let you go.


chatting with you.


same here. Yeah take care enjoy the rest of your day


You too. Mhm. Challenge.


frank


Yeah. Well first No. What? Yeah. I booked why? Right. Oh. Very small back done. What? Uh huh. Yeah. I think by bye. The Cold War did not related parts of the world. What? Uh huh. All right. That's good. What is this part? Right, filled with all the oh wait, this is coming to a level of get up. Yeah. No problem. Yeah. Okay. What? Yeah. Hi coming back like you know all things that Yeah. Yeah. What's gonna make it? Mhm. Uh huh. Mhm. What about walking? What? That's a good start. Uh huh. Right. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. It was good for the longest time. Yeah. That's right. This is this little johnny you don't want the military but a lot of time. Yeah. Yeah. Stop. I just didn't work. No. So much popular now. This guy. I don't think both. Oh okay. More than four. No. What this report is your time? I have to walk. That's all the news democrats. Okay. Yeah. Uh huh. A smaller place. Yeah. City water or want to find out Ground for one day. So what? There's only nine of them. Look forward. Not there for what? I want someone to talk. How to get out. Arnold back up to the challenge. Yeah. Hi God, I'm just walking from last time outside for elegance. I'm not in the wedding wearing a doctor working in a cross of fear for me. All right outside. I just laughed so by well, broken their back now. It's inside of these things are being I'm talking about 11, 11 3rd and what I've got is a seven. When people write about this right there on a United States, I'm going myself. All your help like this. Go on. Uh huh.


Hi


All right. Hello. That make it are you?


okay, how are you today?


I'm good. How are you?


Okay. I can't complain. I'm gonna start my timer, that's what I'm doing. Yeah. So how many times have you done the chat?


This will be my 3rd. What about you?


Same third time, the last time I missed it? And I said, oh my God, so they reschedule it. That's one thing that's good about prolific. If you miss it, they do give you another opportunity. So.


It scares.


So where are you located?


I'm in Georgia,


Oh, what part?


you know where Bonaire is?


No,


That's


I know.


out of the


cluster.


middle of the way. Yeah that's out in the middle of nowhere problem like down south south. Waste


My dad,


not the biggest


my dad is from Augusta Georgia. Yeah. So that's why when he said Georgia was like, okay because I stayed there for like five months but I


little


couldn't


snowflakes.


take it. So I left I was in north Carolina Raleigh north Carolina. So I ended up moving back to Raleigh north Carolina. So that's where I'm at now, but I'm in the, in the process. Um I guess in the next two years I'll be moving to Jacksonville florida. So


that's a nice change.


trying to go warmer because it's it's cold here. I'm


Not


trying to


that


get away from the cold. I moved from


she's


new york to here. So now I'm yeah I'm trying to move from here to to florida make it a little bit more warmer because I'll tell you it's getting colder and I'm so used to not having um coats on to when I get to the point where I have to put on a heavy coat. Okay. It's time to go. It's the climate change. You know Because when I first came here 10 years ago it was very warm. I basically felt like I went from fall to spring. So It's changed a lot. 10 years. Yeah it's changed a lot. So have you voted yet?

Oh really? Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah.


Yeah my absentee ballot was supposed to fill it out with my wife but she was watching her son


Okay. How old is your son?


Just over two weeks old.


Oh well congratulations little


Thank


boy.


you. Yeah the little boy


Okay. I have two grandkids, one is 11 and the other one is nine. So


both boys and girls or


a boy and a girl. The girl


for


is


negative.


the oldest, yeah she's the oldest. Those are my little heart beats but I love them when they're little and they can't talk. They


No.


are beautiful if they could stay like that. I had a bunch of them. But no they grow up and you go through the mode. Is that your first?


That's my 2nd 1


Oh okay. What you have the first time?


and boy too.


Okay. How old?


Yeah He's almost 19 months now,


How many?


19 months. Yeah


that's right. Get it out the way.


that's what people said but wow, I mean there's so much different than the


No


way they behave.


I promise you I have my kids a year in they were a year and a half apart. They fought like crazy as growing


This


up but that's siblings, you know what I'm saying? But they're grown now. That's the good part. So now I'm enjoying the grandchildren. So I mean you know for what it's worth it if you can do it and get it over with. I mean unless you are searching for that girl, uh


I'm done. My wife's claims she's done but she, I know she wants a little girl real badly.


most definitely because you got two troopers, they're going to be following you. Those are daddy boys. So she


The


needs a mommy's daughter. She needs a little girl. Me. I had two boys too, but I was like, no, I'm done.


this


That


is


little


just


girl missed out on a second try.


no,


Yeah, I was done then after that second boy, I was like, oh no, I can't. But boys are, I say they're easier to to toilet train. Um, I don't know, girls are so they're so prissy. You know, they they they're dainty, you know, so any little thing there crying, you know, but their daddy's little girls, so I don't know if you want to try it because she's gonna end up in your boat to that's


know


that's that


that,


would be your heartbeat because she'll be the one that anything she wants, you're going to get her. So, yeah.


Know this 1st 1 he's he's already had his terrible twos despite not being too so, he's already throwing tantrums and crying about every little thing.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm telling you, it's, it's, I love it. It's beautiful. I mean, you know, they have their own little personality, you know what I'm saying? I mean, I consider every child that comes on this earth a blessing. So enjoy them because let me tell you time.


All


Mhm. Before you know it preschool and you'll be like, wait a minute. It was just like


good.


yesterday I had them. No time is flying. And I mean before you know what that little two year old, two weeks old, he'll be a year Before you know it because I'm sure the 19 month of time flew, you know, and


I


all he


remember


was doing was he was getting out the way for the next one.


in No,


That's


I just


what


I tell


half


everybody.


a year ago,


I told


It's


everybody


never happier


that


yet.


whenever you have a child already and then the next one comes and they come fast because they say it's an old saying when they do come they start coming like flies. So yeah that's that's the saying. So usually when one come is not too long before there's another one so you know just enjoy them. That's the only thing I can tell you their blessings. Uh if I could turn it back and do it all over again I would because I had a ball with my boys. You know I mean they were rough, they were rough now as they get older. But yeah I enjoyed them. I really did. So how is the weather there?


um it's starting to shift. Uh no sense trying to be a cooler, No mornings and not get so hot in the afternoons, false


here


simply is


here is like it's cool in the morning and then it warms up and maybe about 8:30 starts. You can start filling the shift of the weather. Like this morning when I got up it was very foggy out. So I mean it was like really dense fog so


No.


I was like, okay, they're gonna get cold in that hot meeting, you know? So yeah, I got my little garden, I'm getting ready to come tomorrow. I'm going to start planting in pots because I'm growing stuff. I got some tomatoes they're still producing because of the weather, you know? I thought I was done, but I saw three tomatoes. I was like, oh I get I got three


You


more tomatoes


should,


come in and then I'm growing Okra. So those two things I'm trying to salvage, I got me a greenhouse, so getting ready to divvy it up so I don't catch none of that frost. And maybe I could salvage the tomatoes. I said I'd probably cut them open and then put them back in the ground. I mean, you know, back in the dirt, just so it could produce a thicker stem. So yeah, I did pretty good. I grew some lettuce this summer and the gruesome tomatoes, I tried to grow corn, but that didn't work. Yes,


corn


requires


is hard.


too much, requires too much,


yeah, it's very hard to grow. So I pulled that out of the ground and left that alone and I got peppers, green peppers, so they're starting up, it's starting to not produce but starting to sprout, grow out. So I said, I'm probably going to get some peppers if I keep them warm enough in the winter time, hopefully I can produce it under them. We'll see other than that, a normal day for me. I enjoyed it. I I'm I met my wits and I said, oh my God, my my my chat is 10 o'clock and I'm fighting sleep


Decision


like crazy. I was I was out earlier and I just got in like about A little after eight and I'm tired. I'm like saying, oh my God, I hope I'm gonna make this. So when they ask you about your, the energy level, I'm enthused to do the chat, But my energy, that was like two. So


Up at my energy have one. I had to put my son to nap at 7:30 because he didn't take his evening nap. Yeah, and then just fell asleep with them and I woke up, it was like he was only 8 30 so I was like, oh crap, I gotta get


Stop


ready so


opinion.


I don't fall asleep. Yeah,


And,


lovely.


and that's the whole thing. Just making it to that. I figured this would be a good time for me because I'm running around during the daytime. So I figured 10 o'clock will be the best time. Uh, 11 of the chats I had, that was winds constant. So they were our behind me and that chat went well. And then I had another chat, she was in Ohio and she was a musician on top of it. So I was like,


No, he was


So she says she does a lot of Youtube and I didn't even think to get her name, but


Well


you


he


know, I probably come across her, you know? And I'm like, oh yeah, I chatted with her. So yeah, I'm documenting every, every time I try to keep up, I think we're allowed to do it six times. So


Six cents.


yeah, this is my third. I was like, well, I'm gonna try to use and utilizes the other three eventually. But yeah, I'm fading out fast, so it's like, oh my God, I'm gonna, I hope I could do this. I hope I can do this because I'm drinking water trying to put water on my face to keep me up. Because I was almost like, yeah, I was like, let me lay down. No, don't


Thank


lay down


you.


that the lay down, that's my worst nightmare. I'll be sleeping that long ago off because I set my alarm to make sure that I don't miss it Because it's uh 10:00. It comes so quick. And I just did a survey before I did the uh the chat. I was like, oh, it's only 10 minutes and it was 9 46. I was like, oh, let me get this one, but I let the other one go because it was 13 minutes. So do you do a lot of surveys on you?


My doing, when I get off work, I try to just hammer out whatever shows up before I spent time with the kids.


Right, Right, right. I've told a lot of people that because they pay us in euros. Um I've earned 505 dollars and some change in your old, So about $600 I've earned from prolific. And I was like, wow, been


that's


with the


good exchange


full,


rate.


Yeah, I'm on it all the time. I'm retired, so I'm on it all the time when they pop up. I'm usually picky. I usually want to try to get at least a dollar or more. So I've cashed out this week past. I've cast out twice. Because


marriage


I did, yeah, I did like so many surveys um $42 when it when it comes into us dollars, it's like $42. So I cashed twice. That's the first because normally it's every week I might cash out. But no, for the first time I cashed out twice in one week, I was like, I'm scared of myself.


wow, that's impressive.


Well yeah, they're they're pushing them up. I mean normally it be dragging, you know, a certain time of the day, they just die out. But I've come on and it's it's been one or two up at like up till 10 o'clock and I'm like, oh okay, let me get this one too. I mean if they're little and there's nothing else to do then yeah, I'll do it. It doesn't matter, you know? So you're gonna do the absentee ballot. I voted already. I went ahead and I did the curbside voting because I could not stand on that line. I was like, I'm not standing, that line was around the block. What?


that long,


Yes, it was very long and I ran into one lady who said she came there at 11:00 AM and she got on the bus when I was on the bus with my friend, she got on the bus, it was quarter to five, quarter to six, she was just leaving from the from the voting places. She says I'm tired and I'm hungry. I was like, well, you know, Michelle Obama said to bring a chair and bring a lunch and she wasn't joking, but I think as it that a lot of people are doing the early voting. So The, you know like I don't know if y'all guys are doing the voting now for us is from October 15 to the 31st. So I went ahead and did it. I try to do it the first day, but it was overwhelming. So the third day and I did the voting I was able to go through. It was it took us about three hours in the curve


That's


side. So


press for block.


yeah, Yeah. But tonight when I looked, when I passed by It was it was seven, 7 11 and it was three cars left outside of the voting thing. So I know that I said, oh it's it's starting to dwindle down. Not as many people are online. You know, I mean you know coming to vocals, they, most of them have voted so hopefully, you know, I don't know we I said whoever wins wins at this point, I'm uh I want trump out, but some people want them in, you know what I'm saying? So I was like, that's our right to vote for whoever we want to, you know, we're going to get stuck with whoever it is, you know, hopefully it's a good one. What? You know, if not, I just say they need to get a lot of people, their money, get the people, their money, because a lot of people are suffering big time and the second wave is getting ready to hit because I got a family in new york and they shut down Jersey, you can only come into new york unless you are only if you are a central worker because a lot of people live in Jersey, they work in the city in new york and they they're the only ones if they're essential, then they can get over. If not they can't come over. I was like, oh, they get ready, shut new york down again. So I was like, the only thing everybody could do, take your vitamins, exercise, do what you need to do to keep yourself healthy, William ass. You know, those are the, the and wash your hands, those are the main things you do, those, you're good, you know, and and take care of the babies more than anything. You know? I see so many people out there, they don't have their babies with masks on, I'm like, oh my God, you know, even though their systems are little, you know, like they're, they're little and their systems are strong, but you don't you don't want to use your child as a guinea pig, you know what I'm saying? Like if they're too small to put on a mask and I say, don't take them, you know what I'm saying? Don't bring them in that environment, you know? But I see so many people come with their little babies and they got on the mask to walk the kid that's walking down the math, but the baby in their arm has no mass or also why? And I mean one of the time don't go in there, you know what I'm saying? But to each his own, but I just feel bad that they, you know, they're not that educated. I say if you go in an enclosed place, you need to have a mass or I don't care who it is, put a mass on it. Even if it's a little baby, I mean they're gonna scramble, but they're probably looking at you like what what you're doing, I mean, but they used to get wrapped up in a blanket anyway. But if you could put that mask on him and they got little ones, if you got to make them yourself make them. But I just look at those people like why y'all coming in here with your babies, You got the the little one with a mass on and they're cute little masses, you know, that they have for them. But I just said the baby need one on too. And I know they're gonna take them off, but you know, it's just we can't bring them in. I just think it's it's really hard right now what we're going through, we were in a situation right now that is I hope it gets better. Uh I promise that uh we will take it more into consideration on how to react to things. But I don't think our generation ever dealt with anything like this. I mean,

Mhm, Mhm, Mhm. Mhm, mm. Mhm, mm, Mhm, Mhm, Mhm, wow, Mhm Uh huh Mhm Mhm, Mhm, Mhm Mhm Mhm Mhm Uh huh, yep, Mhm Mhm, Mhm, mm hmm, Mhm Mhm, Mhm Mhm


Around


you know, I was little but it was when they had that scar scars of disease that came in play. But I don't remember nothing, you know, I don't remember having an ass or none of that on asked my mom. She was like no. So I think this time around the that thing that the pandemic, they played it down, they jeopardize the whole lot of families. A lot of people lost their jobs. I'm studying listening to the stimulus thing. I pray that they pass it because we all need help right now. You know they playing Russian roulette with us


matter.


And they were saying that they if they do issue it is supposed to be bigger than 1200 and do it needs to because if those that got it that the last time it was april like


and there are people who we're expecting another check in june and never got it


that's that's sad. I mean I actually am looking at people being put out of their homes and I'm like this they shouldn't do that because if the pandemic is not over, how are you gonna how you gonna make people get out of their homes and they can't even get a job because of the job they have is not opening up on it. There are a lot of businesses are closing up. I mean I'm looking at like over here we have Hardee's that they closed up some of their stores burger king has closed up some of their stores and I'm like the only one day and I was just telling this lady last tonight, I said you know what's so funny out of everybody that is fighting to keep their business open. Look, I don't know what they got in that chick fil a food but the lines are ridiculous, the lines are crazy and uh this lady said, well there mac and cheese is the bomb and I'm like,


is it good?


is that what it is? She was like bro that that mac and cheese is good. I was like okay, but the lines you would think that if somebody is giving away something, the lines are ridiculous and the cops where I'm at, the cops have to be at the other end so the cars could get out because it's so much traffic, those cars can't get out so they have to have the police to stop the traffic so these cars could come out of the chick fil a parking lot. I was like, oh my God, that is ridiculous. I don't know what else that I think they said because their chicken Israel, I want to say that that's what they said, they serve real chicken. I was like okay but still, I don't see why that live. Like people need money with all of these people who, you know that's on this line where they get their money from, you know what I'm saying? Because that line never died down. It got shut down when the pandemic hit real hard. But then once they open back up and they found a way to handle the food without touching and you know, and handing it off to the person, look, they perked right back up. Like they like nothing ever happened. So chick


I mean, the biggest


are


thing,


now


I mean, the biggest thing is that food prices at grocery stores, I've gone up considerably, especially if you're talking about meat, I mean it's not cheap, like it used to be, it was only


us.


like half a year ago


No, not at all. I bought four lbs of chicken. I used to really by the Flame wings and it's a £4 bag. I get it in walmart And at the time it was $9, I want to say a little over nine. Almost $10. Not quite 10. Now, that same bag I picked up. I put it back because $13. I'm like, what? Are you crazy? It went from $9 to $13.


you know,


Crazy. Remember


ground beef


will?


is crazy,


Okay. I see. It's like when you go to your, I was spending I live alone. I was spending anywhere from $100 to $150 in my food for the month. I'm spitting and this is no joke. I'm spending about maybe 200 now, Whole 50 more. So I've been trying to do like if I make up mill try to have that milk. I I noticed I'm very funny. I might eat things twice and the third time I do not want it. So I always try to cook like two days of that same thing after that. I know I'm not gonna want it. And then when I do cook I try to cook something that I like. I like beef lo mein. So tonight I got me some blue green, the new rules that I had and I had some soy sauce and I don't know what else I put in that thing. And I had some uh it was like beef stew so I shaved it off and made like strips and I made me some beef lo mein and I made enough to last tomorrow. Now I like that so I might eat that three days, but I only put it for two days because I know me, I'll say,

yep, Mhm Mhm, Mhm, Mhm, Mhm, Mhm, Mhm, mm hmm. Yeah,


well,


oh no that's not what I want and I'll go and find something out. Even Yeah the hamburgers. That's crazy. I used to eat the bubba hamburgers because I like them. They're really juicy and thick Man. I think when I bought it used to be $9 and that thing is $15 for already made hamburgers. I was like, are you serious? And I asked the guy says this the right price. He was like, yeah, I was like, oh my God. So I had to cut down on that. I couldn't. I mean usually I used to get two packs of those. I know I got one pack of that because I was like, this is crazy. It's almost like I have to start going to BJ's or or Sam's to bunk up to save, you know, to gain either way, one of the two. But yeah, I just I think everything is like going crazy. Hopefully by next year I'm ready for 2020 to be done with. I've done it's been crazy.


well, the bad news is if trump wins, then we're definitely going to be dropping out of the who? Yeah,


yeah, yeah,


Okay mm.


that's


That's


gonna be. Yes,


that's bad news


it is. And I mean, I don't know about everybody else, but like they said, you know, they was like, oh did you get your food shots? I don't get flu shots.


you hear?


I don't believe in is allowing them to inject a germ into me to make me sick when I'm building up my immune system for whatever is coming at me. So I wouldn't want to weaken my immune system even though it will make it stronger, but I wouldn't want to weaken it. Not during this time, not right now. Maybe they don't want, but I don't take flu shots. I don't have no intention if they get a corona virus and I'm not taking that. I have no intentions of doing that either. So what's all that being said? All I can tell you is blessings and stay safe because that's where we at And we have done our 25 minutes. Yeah,


That was by too quick,


we're done well.


Have


It was


night.


good to know with you and have a blessed one and enjoy those Children.


All right. Thank you very


much.


a good one.


Oh my God, my room's a mass. Yeah. Okay. Uh huh wound from us do my room's month. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I experience. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Oh yeah, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Right. Okay. Okay. It crashed. Mhm. Okay. Right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. This time. Okay. Right. Yeah, dead but Mhm. It's Mhm. Uh huh.


Hey, how's it going?


Hey, can you be


Yeah, I can. Perfect.


what's good? How are you doing today?


I'm sorry. I'm scrambling with my power cord. Yeah.


Uh huh.


Yeah. I'm doing all right. I'm hanging in there. Um


That's good. Um Hi, my name is an um what's your name?


My name is lou.


Hello? Okay, nice to meet you lou


Nice to meet you too. You said dan, Is that right? Yeah.


Yeah.


Uh


What side of the country are you on?


Uh Midwest. Midwest.


All right.


yourself,


On. I'm on the West Coast.


that's carl soccer. All right.


Are you are you uh staying home a lot or you getting out and able to work?


Oh right, now, so I'm a student um I mean my doctoral program for pharmacy and I'm doing a masters in public health, but I'm on my rotations for just, you know, just pharmacy right now and all the rotations I've been on so far. Um Most of them have been just been at home, so we're working at home instead of being in the actual hospitals.


Good. And that's good. I feel awful for those doctors and nurses and everybody who have to just be in the middle of people who keep saying this is no big deal.