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ASpecial bunny.
BIt.
CShould do an oil massage. It's been a while.
AYeah, but it's full.
CYeah, but it's worth it. Can you lie down? Straight symmetric.
BIs this okay? Yeah.
CAnd can you tie up your hair?
AThat's a hard one. My hair doesn't get tied up anymore. Genetic. Love.
DThis.
CWhat do you call this?
BIs this a dress or call them pajamas?
CPajamas. These pajamas are bit too slutty, baby.
AYou can use these clips to clip them out of the way. Just use the flat clips and put like this.
BLike this horizontally.
AI mean to be whatever is wrong.
BOkay.
ASo it was getting suffocated by the pillow.
CThis is not helping you table.
AOw, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
CYou take your normal stance. It's fine if you want to lie down, but I don't need. Now see how slutty.
BThese are his pajamas.
CDude, my hands look so big on your body.
ANo, no, no.
CTell me if.
BIf you want intensity high or lower. Correct. Sam,
ACan I do a little less?
BYeah, this much. Can you do outwards from here? It. Honestly, it's just kind of nice to feel your hands on my skin. Like this. Maximizing contact. It. Do you want a massage? Like a proper massage or. I mean that too, obviously.
CNo,
BNo. I think I'm gonna make you keep this on so you can paint a little bit.
CIt's kind of like that other transparent
Bthing I came over weeks earlier. Which one?
ASome transparent thing for the red one.
CNo, no, no. White.
BOnly white.
CI think you're wearing it throughout the day.
BAlso have a white transparent thing.
CYeah, like meshy almost. Not a sex thing.
BNormal clothes, not animal bells. Such an item of clothing. It was hard though.
CIt was more see through than this.
BThis is not meant to be see through. Yeah. It's just cheap quality. Ironically. Can you squeeze and press more?
AJust sitting on a butt all day. That can't be good for me.
BFat as you are. That's not enough. It's more than a palm for your goodness. Definitely trying very hard.
DSa.
AYou don't need to. It's there.
BBut not complaining.
AYou really have put on good chest muscle.
BLook at that. I don't know if this chest muscle teddies. Yeah.
AI don't know. The way it's shaped. Feels.
CIt's bold. I think a little bit.
BYeah.
AI was going to try and ask if like. Never mind. After sex I can do. But yeah, it's looking good. Whatever it is,
DBaby.
CMaster of co.
BThere's. Sam.
DThere's. For. Like surrendering.
BDon't think about anything Else just wake
Cup.
BSee.
CYeah.
BInterference goes. You know what? That's something today. If you think about it though it. You help me mess them up. No. Yeah. Thanks baby. So long.
AIt.
BSam. This nice little cute dog. Show me how much you like it.
COh, you said you hurt me. You broke it.
BOh. Sam.
AI was gonna ask if you have a hereditary of it.
CHereditary?
AYeah. And I was like yeah, obviously his mom has Ted.
CGood call on not bringing it up.
AImmediate mood kill.
CImmediate thought of mom's boobs.
AYeah but like that's a weird direction to go.
CExactly
Awhat I was trying to ask. Obviously if your dad has fists.
CI don't know. Little weird fattiness. Only I wouldn't call them tits.
ABut I don't think yours is fat. I mean little bit maybe not like 2% body fat. But the look shape wise more muscular. Which is when like.
CYeah, I guess
Ahoney fat like abhi fat is here.
CYeah. Yeah, I guess.
AClever. Clever baby to be push. No clever carefulness comes.
BBoys having sex is so funny to me.
AThey need five business days to recover from sex. I feel too sensitive to come again right after coming. But I don't feel any exhaustion.
CI didn't have good lungs.
BFamous foods
Awith.
BNoodles with meat substitute.
CDon't know.
ARound. To night and day. Sorry. It is pamavas and poornima. Yes. I forget how bad you are at Henry. You make me look like a scholar. Baby. Vocabulary.
DSo
Chow else do I prove vocabulary?
APretty bad. I gave an example. You said literally me I think numbers in fact 51. Correct. But don't. Don't cave in your chest when doing that. Yeah,
CHe's already Nietzsche.
AOh, coming in five.
CI told him five to 10 minutes
Bit.
C25 but a little windy.
BIt.
CLight lure. Both of us losing track of time is a little sus. I don't care.
DBut
Cdo you think you'll give it away? No, but I'm not even asking about the implications. I'm asking whether you think it actually gave it away or not. Irrespective of what giving it away implies. Do you think Chokshi actually thinks we have had sex from the simple one sentence?
AIt didn't sound like it. Like he would have if he had connected. He would have said something.
COr he thought it and did.
AYeah, Either way is fine.
CI'm ready. Just walk and sit on benches also. You don't have to take.
AI can do it while talking also.
CYeah, yeah, but we can sit on benches.
AI don't mind sitting on benches, but I'm gonna knit.
CPolylenium. I don't need it. I'll also drink.
BOkay.
CWhy do we need the thing? Sure.
AOh yes. I said denim jacket.
COh,
BMachines.
AEven jokes didn't get Phoebe versions.
COh, we should. We have time and then you can.
AYeah, we can try. It's her new album which she's like. The whole thing was. Your phones will be put away. This. Yeah, A problem.
DNorthern Europe, it's a desert right now because of the heat. Copenhagen obviously. 15 degree time 1718. But Copenhagen was n. Like you can. Brussels was genuinely hot.
AI miss hot. I've forgotten about hot.
DNo, no, this was bad hot also because you're not going back to home. You're not going back to home. You're sweaty. You come back home. So I guess that's why. But evenings were really nice.
ANice.
DBut yeah, the weather. Denmark is amazing.
AYeah.
DWho the Nordics are like they have sorted out
AI think the meaning of life.
DNo, no, not meaning of life at all. I think they have sorted out making maximum number of people happy. Everything is there. Just like you can see the money there in Denmark. Like because there's no. I mean it's basically like Manhattan. But like there are no homeless people. Yeah. And then everyone. You can see the clothes everyone is wearing and like everyone talks in English and Danish. Whatever you want. No one. There's absolutely no.
BThey're very interesting.
DEven in small towns people talk. Yeah. Sweden also. So even in Belgium. I think my friends were telling me in France, Spain, everywhere there it's a problem.
AOh yeah. France definitely. They prefer the things that they doing will pretend not Danish.
DThe metro announcements come in English. English and Danish board. Colonize language. They don't have anything. We just do it for tourism. I know. Yeah. No, I had a great.
AHow was the wedding?
DWedding was fun. It was like yours only except I mean everyone was just more dressed.
AFamily.
DFamily was there. Like we just literally went to their city hall which was again very beautiful. It was a 400-500-year-old building with murals and everything. After the thing was over that there were some gardens. So after there they tell you after the study all this is over. You can go to the garden and take pictures for some time.
AOh nice.
DSo they are. Got like champagne and sh.
AManageable
Coverheads. Bother. But did he have it pet?
DNo, no. Also he. He doesn't like like at all. He stays in the studio. Oh yeah.
CHow is his apartment compared to down?
DI mean this is. It's. Honestly dad was technically bigger because he had a whole room and access to a separate kitchen. But of course. Here he's in a studio. He's not sharing a bathroom with anyone. There is no stray mouse in the apartment.
BWhat?
DYeah, like one side street over to the. How he saying by day? My roommate saw a mouse few days back. Like, what do you mean saw? How can you tell me that before sleeping? I'm not going to. How will I go to the bathroom?
ADude? One time we were at a random hotel, like near the forest.
DLike cockroach, a mouse.
AI think we were like in one room. I was like five years old. So we. It was just four of us in one room with extra mattress. And me and my mom were sleeping on the floor while I'm at this. And BH and dad were sleeping with us. And in the middle of the night mom has yelled and like angrily, very angrily. What happened? She's like,
Doh no,
Ait's four in the morning.
DHoly false.
CBut the animals really don't come that close to you. Like even if they're there. What the hell? What did she experience, bro?
AShe also got started out of rats. I don't know. One rat.
CYou didn't get checked like this?
AWe did. Tough Khadiya travel long in that day.
DHe stays in a decent area. It's near a city center. Copenhagen is like smaller than Brooklyn. Like all of Brooklyn. It's not. But technically I feel the rent is more like he's paying around 1700, 1800 USD. And the salaries there are not very high.
CYeah, yeah.
DLike they're probably like that's a B. There's a B. It's a B. Probably like uk.
ABut I mean there's also then healthcare
Dand all healthcare is covered.
AYeah, yeah. How about public transport?
DIt's insane.
AWhat's the cost? What do residents say? What do you say cost was around.
DI was not Lucy. What is the cost? Also there there is zone wise law. I didn't like London. In London also you based on what zones you're going to and what is very cool there is where local trains they interconnect with the out out out of Copenhagen trains and out of Denmark trains. Everything is interconnected.
CSo kind of like the suburban train
Dbut doesn't have in which I put my point A. Like if my point is a bar in England and point B is like a bar in Gothenburg, Sweden. You just take the most optimal zone routing and just charge me yes to Sweden like this 2, 3, 4 hours journey. You just charge me what I need to pay and then I can just reach my final destination. Destination like without worrying about now to
Awho do I pay?
DDo I pay mta? Do I pay NJ Council? Do I pay this? Do I across countries as like those
Acountries are very small country
Dand it's like this New York, New Jersey country. Not a lot but should I buy
Asome smoother of an experience than India.
DI think the it was around 23 which is divided by 6.
CThey're not the euro.
DNo. I think they were the last country that the EU allowed to not to maintain their own currency.
BInteresting.
AAnd their currency is purely is weaker than the euro.
DIt's weaker than the dollar and the euro. Yeah divide by six point something. All all the Nordic countries have me nor yeah even I didn't know they just in she and they in NATO but not in easy. And plus I think everyone mostly everyone owns a bike there and most distances in the city are like within a 15 minutes 20 minute bike. So what I've seen in the morning I've seen people like people bike. There were buses in front of them. There are children inside the basket and they're biking at full speed. Yeah bike very fast over there.
AI was thinking the other day you know how like here the natural progression is you get a car and then like whatever furniture shopping you do anything you buy. You take your car to Ikea you fit it and you bring it home. But you buy like the biggest car possible for situations like that. Whereas like in most countries you buy the smallest practical thing you need for day to day. And then like for any furniture deliveries etc you just hire a truck as like a one time.
DBut you know there are a lot of things which because of their system it's good but everything moves very slowly. So I feel lot of things America gets all much faster.
AThat's true. Like if I want something I can have it here I can drive it
Dmyself same day their doing deliveries is very tough because the labor cost is very very very high.
CYou didn't have like door there is
DUber E do slightly more expensive and Amazon deliveries and all are very difficult. Like they have weekly and they you have to pay more usually most of his stuff gets delivered to a grocery store nearby and he goes and picks it up from the grocery store.
ANo that they have to batch them like once a week or he's like you know like how casual we are with the day.
DYes. I don't know that I didn't ask but like for example people don't keep most people out there don't keep a like a box of garbage bags. You have a common area amongst buildings where there are trash Cans you go there, another city gives you three garbage bags. So there's a whole roll of garbage bags. You just pick two, three every day when he goes to put trash it's a new garbage bag from there day. Yeah like if say I need 25 garbage bags at once there'll be a supply issue over there. Like people. The whole system will break. Like If I take 25 garbage bags, people around will not have garbage bags.
APeople moving houses sometimes I've seen like 800 garbage.
DThat's what I'm think so like there that's why the carbon footprint and also lesser but then like they have a very weird thing. All of Denmark, most of the payments are executed by this thing called Nets. Just like how Amex, Visa, MasterCard does with your. You pay with Visa but like the payment is executed by nets.
AOh it's like a like a Visa
Dtype thing over now it's I think it's some public private own public owned company and it is is the government has monop made the company a monopoly because they don't want all these Amex, MasterCard and everyone to take advantage of now. But the problem is so nothing like no. When we were there Nets was down for 3 and 12 hours because of some bug. Credit card was not working and and. Most people use debit cards. No one uses credit cards.
CSo debit or working?
DNo debit and credit tap and site was not working. But they had some internal app like how we have API that was working for most days and even if it was not we were a good food market. No one was freaking out.
APicnic blanket?
DYeah, mine. I have one. Wait, is mine mine still with you?
CWe do good. We do it.
DYour still with mine?
CYeah, we do. Oh yeah, it's in our bag.
AYou took it from.
DThe whole and we were seeing on Reddit. Apparently the Same thing happened 10 months ago and I don't think they found the bug. Engineers be on call out of office.
CYeah, actually it's like pretty level and all like good size for. No, but the terrain is also level. The pitch.
DYes, but like this only grassy or the.
CNo, the pitch is not grass. But I mean yeah, tennis ball. Oh they're making a team.
DLike I had a flight from Brussels to Copenhagen cancelled. I'm at Brussels airport and I asked
Cthem
Dyou talk to the SAS which is the customer service service now at 7pm on a Sunday customer service is not available. I'm like but what do I do that? Who do I talk to like that the counter has closed at the airport. What is this? Like how do you deal with all these issues? Like an airport. Us. Maybe.
AYou are in airplane jail because they can't let you exit because customs. Shopping. I can buy a salwar suit. I can buy full clothes like even Mac and like all these w. All these clothing stores, makeup stores are open
Dtill I think even Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, everything basically wherever.
CCheap labor. Wherever you can buy human dignity.
DI landed in Oslo for a bit. It was 999930 were like few people but there was a fridge. You could pick up snacks and self pay and take it. Like could you.
AHave you seen that John Green video of his Reykjavik story? Or have I told you he want to walk.
DThere was no Uber available.
ANo, they were in a cab and the cab driver was like it's too much you to get off here
Bbecause
Athe first time that team was in some Olympic park finals.
DBut whoever. I know a lot of people think that these Nordic countries are socialists. They are not at all socialists. They ask capitalist as can be, not as America, but they are capitalist countries. People don't understand it. It's actually, I would argue it's an example that capitalism can work well.
AWhat do you mean?
DOh, I mean Novo Nordisk is from Denmark, Volvo from Sweden.
AI don't know.
DNo, not GLP1 ozempic. Huh. Norway has a. Literally a sovereign. Well, one of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the world. All that is capitalism.
CI don't think that makes it capitalism.
DI mean it's not. You people own private property over there,
Cbut it's a spectrum.
DNo, clearly there are social reforms, but overall it's within the ambit of capitalism. He was telling me one way. There are some weird laws on property ownership over there. So basically if you are a tenant you cannot. The owner cannot ask force you to leave the apartment. Like you. Even if you signed a lease. Like you can stay as long as you want, as long as you're paying rent. They can't remove you from their own property. And I don't know he was saying all this, it sounded too much like I have to check. But apparently there's another law where if you own a second property, then the second property must. Someone must live on rent over there or you must live there. You cannot own empty properties over there. Like the second property cannot be empty.
AI mean even that strikes me as a bit of a social.
DThat is that. That struck me as socialist. That is. That is.
AYeah, it's clearly disincentive, but I don't
Dthink it'll be black. Oh, I Don't think it'll be blanket like that. I mean, number.
AI'm sure there.
DWhat. There are very rich people there. What, they don't own more than one property or what?
CLike.
AYeah, I mean, if you're rich enough to a caretaker,
Dthere must be exceptions around or it must be in some areas of Copenhagen only.
AOh yeah, maybe.
DYeah. Just to keep brands under control. I don't think it'll be in the country.
BYeah,
DYeah. It's a spectrum only. It's. They are not as capitalist as the US but overall they're still under capitalism.
CPeople's perception is it's a socialist.
DYeah.
CThe social.
DIt's not like
Ca country has a sovereign wealth fund. And they clearly buy into the idea of wealthy usually.
AHow is it traveling with Shruti as organized as she wanted it to be?
DYeah, bro, she's very. See, honestly, it was. It was pretty. Honestly, I'll say it was pretty good because we had a whole plan every day what to do. Rough plan. I mean toda. It was annoying sometimes, but I didn't have to. I didn't put in so much effort into like looking for a restaurant. She had honestly done a great job mapping out things and was not insane that she was not saying, oh, it's 8:30, we are not here. It was just the day's agenda was sort of decided, which was good. Like I. I think I would like to do that for a future trip rather than just one day before or like one week before thinking
Bthough.
AYeah, it is helpful for sure.
BYeah.
CHaving a rough time always and then
Ayou never feel like.
DAnd the restaurants also reservations. I mean, I. I think it was. It was good. Like I. Yeah, nice. I wouldn't be able to put in the amount of effort she put in. Like, I don't think any of us would, but a little bit more than I usually do. I think. I also, I. We did a weekend in Sweden, Gothenburg and Malmo. Malmo is like full of a lot of Middle east immigrants. So I had some great Iranian food there and chole batur and chutney nut biryani.
CI had an Indian restaurant, Bro, if I travel to any foreign country, I crave Indian food.
DYeah, yeah, always. We reached Gotham and the first thing we had was Chatty n Biryani.
AWhy not?
DYeah, I mean, how much will you like? They have good food. But when I say like even Copenhagen, it has great food. It's not Nordic food like they have. We had. I had West African food for the first time there. In West Africa, like Nigeria, Ghana.
BOkay.
AI don't know what that cuisine.
DYou know what jollof rice is?
AOh, yeah, I've heard of jollof.
DIt's basically pulau.
AYeah, yeah.
DIt's a chicken. Pull out, veg. Pull out. And they. Dude, the African food is like very, very similar. If you close your eyes and you eat it, like, you won't be able to tell the difference. Like, they were. They had this one bean dish, Indian food, North Indian food. Like Ethiopian though, North African, West African. Then I had the. They had that Peri. Peri chicken. South African Peri. Peri chicken. Yeah, I've. We've had Thai. Like a lot of random cuisines. Like, I think the whole point is that immigrants, they make good food. But you. I can't eat Scandinavian food for 10 days.
CClassified as a cuisine in the first place. Like American cuisine.
DHey, American cuisine. It's American.
CIt's more local cuisine. Like pizza. I wouldn't say there's an American cuisine.
ATexan starter, main course, dessert meal plan.
DIt's just they don't have their own old culture and civilization. Otherwise. The new American is like, lot of the tacos and everything. It's very salmon, heavy sausages. Salmon, like in. Lot of. Similar to German. Belgian cuisine, very focused on bread.
CThey do obsess with vegetarian.
DHuh?
CVegetarian food.
DOh, by the way, Copenhagen, much better for vegetarian scene than New York. And I. I've seen that in your. When I say that, of course the number of veg restaurants here will be higher. But you know, a lot of restaurants, you just go here and that one veg option is there. Just. It's forced. It feels forced, and it's not unique.
AUsually the best.
DOr sometimes there won't be a veg option. It'll be just vegetables. It's not like that. They're there. They genuinely put an effort to have a interesting vegetarian option. And I've seen that everywhere. Like, I. I went to this place called Paulette, which I had one of the best fried chicken sandwiches I've had.
AI mean, is that that the name of the restaurant's chicken?
DRight? Yeah, it's. It was apparently featured in the Bear. I've not seen it. But they also had two things on the menu. Fried chicken and a fried tofu sandwich. The same thing they had in fried tofu. I don't see that in Chick Fil a anywhere here.
AYeah, I can't eat at most American restaurants.
DRandom. I had gone to this Viking. Viking museum and they had a restaurant, Udarbi. They had this way sado bread or Scuba fried fish. They had a vegetarian version with asparagus on. And then they had one beef. One I don't have. I saw a vegetarian option even. Even in Gothenburg. We went to a doner kebab place there. Also I got the halloumi one. They had a halloumi option.
AInteresting.
DI don't want people have told me that Europe they are more vegetarian and vegan friendly. I saw that in Belgium and I've heard in London. It's also very good.
AYeah, London. But I mean I didn't really explore the restaurant scene too much because I was staying at her house. So we were mostly like cooking. Yeah, no, sometimes we cook. But she was taking me to restaurants she knew. So I can't say random sample. She knows I'm vegetarian. She had planned.
DI'm sure New York has like some really good grade meat vegan vegetarian restaurants. But I. I just felt other options at a random average place. There's always one interesting vegetarian option most places.
CSo this reminds me how I used to play football colony. Like we used to play football. Five guys always chasing the ball. It's not our normal football. And then.
DThen one team would remove the T shirts.
COh, we didn't do that.
DWe had to differentiate in the colony Pala version. In the school we used to do
Cschool T shirts used to come off after. After ties.
DNo ties. We didn't have ties now any before
Aour winter uniform had ties. Summer.
BDid we always.
DYou had a.
AYou shared school with me.
CNo, I'm down on mar.
DThat's why I ties winter uniform. You have been a good skill to
Ahave until 5th standard. It was elastic band time and then 6 standard onwards. Actual.
DOh dude, I love the Danish breakfast. I had the same thing for seven days.
AWhat did you have?
DIt's just.
ADo they like. Is Danish is a thing there like what we call cherry?
DNo, they just call pastries there.
AOkay.
DYeah. I mean it's just a pastry with the fruits.
AWhat we call it Danish here.
DIt's just a normal pastry. Like it's cardamom bun or like something. I didn't see the word damage written anywhere but. So their classic breakfast is. It's a sado bun with white butter and aged Hawaii cheese. It's like their Danish cheese. It's just this bun, butter and cheese. It was too good. The bread butter and the cheese was. It tasted amazing. I've just had that every day. Slightly flavored, stinky flavor.
ABut it's not like one of the cheddar dryish cheeses.
DNo, no. It's not.
AIt's like a bit more creamier.
DYeah. Your mouth doesn't feel dry. And then the butter is really nice and the bread is fantastic. Same cheese. Rose. Yeah.
AThank you.
DCuisine wise, there's no comparison to Asian. It's very. If you see a Danish restaurant menu, it's very similar to your new American food. Like baked salmon with like asparagus. So you get everywhere.
ANo, I remember.
DAnd nowhere close to the breadth of food that we have. Of course,
CNorway,
AWhen they came to our house. So she had come for a longer trip. He came for the last two days. And he is Lithuanian. Correct. So Prabhu, I think when she comes to Jersey, her whole thing is I don't get Indian food in Chicago properly. Like, unless I go to the suburbs
Dand have a car.
AI want to maximize it. So Madhu was going along, but he was eating a lot of Indian food. And so at the end of three days, I was like, oh, yeah, you've eaten a lot of Indian food food now. What did you think? Because I think together also when they cook and all they make like stir fry or like chicken rice as a type don't necessarily make Indian food. But overload. He's like, yeah, it was nice. It was nice. I just find that Indian food has a lot of flavor. I could feel in his face, feel like, please. Flaming bland food again, like masala.
DWe had gone to this. They have a very old amusement park called Tivoli Gardens. They're just very classic rides. And it's pretty. And in Copenhagen, only food court. There was one Indian place in the food court. So they had chicken tikka masala and rice. And in the condiment section they have achar, which you can take. And they have one whole jar of. Yeah, like straight up powder. I was very hungry. I opened the jar. My body was jet packed, natural jet packed. Only next morning. And these guys are telling me. These guys are telling me chicken tikka masala. It's like from a packet. I said, I don't care. It tastes amazing. Because my taste buds were out, bro.
AI yesterday we were out for a walk. So I like, we crossed a Chinese place and I got some mapo tofu near exchange place area. That mapo tofu has the highest concentration of Sichuan spice that I've ever put in my mouth. Like after finishing the meal for two minutes, my tongue is actively still tingling and I still have like 8 kilos of it left.
D8 kilos.
AThey've given no big wala dabba.
DOh, microblasting stuff.
ANo no, no. Not the one you're thinking of. The black dishwasher. Microwave says it's the deep black, like ramen size serving.
DOh, huge.
CDamn.
ABut I love mahapoduvu. But like.
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AEverywhere you go they have this propaganda that we do the best chocolates in the world. You get all of them here because all these are like global companies. Nihaus or they're like three knee houses in New York only. Yeah, that's the main one. And I feel it's the same what I've had if it's just a chocolate. And the other propaganda is fries. I went to a fries museum and they were like, oh, you went to a fries museum? Yeah. And like Belgian fries. I ate the fries. I was like, same milk. Literally waffle fries. Taste wise it's the same thing. Pretentious.
BWe tried that fries place in West Village. I quite like that.
ABasically it's that only you get thick fries with dips.
BYeah. Like thicker than you would get at like most fast food places here.
AAnd everywhere you go you see Belgian chocolate. Belgian chocolate, cocoa. And I'm like, where did Coco doesn't grow anywhere in Belgium. Where did come to Belgium from? That is the important question to ask. Was there any genocide that happened? Congo. They did it in Congo. Even, even I went to this biggest. One of the biggest church is in Copenhagen and you, you can climb up the staircase and see the view of the city. There at the entrance of the church they have two elephants. And I was like this, the area doesn't give me elephant vibes. So I went and read up on the church and it said that the king who commissioned this church, he wanted the elephants symbolize some. Some fertility, some, I don't know, some chat GBR nonsense was written and said that it showed the glory of the Danish empire extending to lands where there are elephants. I'm like, then I. Then I messaged Shrey. I'm like, yeah, this all doesn't seem right. And apparently the Danish, they tried to colonized Tamil Nadu and they were kicked out by the British.
BInteresting.
AAnd I was like, I told Shreki bro. But also I think, I think you spend too much time in Europe. All the cities start to seem the same.
BI mean the structure is the same.
ASo there's that one church. There'll be one cobbled city square.
BYeah. One city center,
A24 7.
BLike a little castle or like something on a hillock, like on top of a hillock.
AOr all the history also sounds the same. Like it's all.
BYeah, there'll be one local trade that this city was a specializer in ex local trade.
AAnd you go, the church in Leon, the church was built by some king. Yeah, it's all, it's all the same. Like you can just like I can close your eye. Close your eyes and you can just come up with a story.
BThen you have to be a real like a person who knows so much about architectural history. Then it all looks very distinct to you.
AAll the. You go inside that, you paint those churches, those old churches. You go inside and you just see paintings of Jesus everywhere. Why didn't you paint anything else? There's so many things in the. Why the. Would you paint Jesus again and again and again? Like that's why I really enjoyed the Viking museum. I went. I was excited. I said oh now non Christian, non Christian history. Oh, pretty cool. There we. I went on a. We had to row a Viking boat out into the sea. So they had those oars. They are crazy. They have those archaeologists work there and their full time job. Job. They are recreating Viking boats how they were. And they sail in the sea in those Viking boats on how the Vikings sailed. So in 2005 they complete reconstructed one of the boat car wounds that they found and they did save to Dublin.
BYeah. To prove that long distances could have been sailed on Viking ships. It's pretty cool that those ships were not sturdy enough to like actually go long distances.
AAnd they also answered the. One of the main questions I had like on these long journeys. The boat, where's the food stored and where do the.
CAt the end.
AYeah, yeah.
COff the wood.
AAnd I think in 2005 they had like whatever that porta potty kind of thing at the end and it would. There was a compartment. So like someone is looking into the sea and. And they can talk to the teammates but you cannot look at how the Vikings did it. Good. Good for them. I think they.
BAs Odin intended.
AYeah. I wouldn't be able to do this 2004 thing.
CModern. Modern humans are shitting while climbing, bro. Climbing.
AOh yeah, yeah.
CSo this doesn't surprise me. They didn't even have the tech.
BNo. And it's an elegant enough solution. Like the smell doesn't bother anyone else.
AThis is a 2000 the Vikings didn't do.
CThat's what I'm saying.
BLike it's an elegant enough solution.
AThese guys built a porta potty and they had a. They had a modern ship following this for emergencies and like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Like.
BYeah. Who.
AWhat with 50 people you're going to be out in the sea.
BYeah.
AYou can't have like salted meats. No. Like your whole journey you want to have like quest protein chips,
Cbro. Why is the sun not out?
AWhat have we all Been up to last 15 days was chilling.
BAyush was here. New York tourism. He's gotten a job. He's gone back to Austin. July he's starting.
ADid you go for.
BWe went for drama and Juliet comedy. It was nice. And fear of 13 also.
AOh yeah, he was nice.
BI enjoyed. Yeah.
CWhat else?
AThere's so much happening in the city. I downloaded earlier. In fact I downloaded Instagram for the trip. There's so much happening in the city this time this summer. Yeah. One thing I want to do this time I messaged Ayman also about it. I. I am following the World Cup. FIFA World Cup. I follow but I want to go in the city and I want to watch my. They are going to have all these public viewing places at bars. They have this massive viewing happening at Brooklyn Bridge Park. It'll be really fun.
CIt'll be. Yeah.
APretty fun because like everyone is into it.
CYeah. And they're like fans from around the world.
AExact. Exactly. So even Hoboken will be really good. Like Hoboken has bars where they actively watch games like normal games.
CYeah, it'll be down for.
BWe'll go this weekend French Open children. We can just sit at home and.
AYeah, sit at home. We can go to a nice bar, have an apparel and watch the tennis game being played. Hi Pilias. What will you do in a European city, man? It's like it's sunny. They have open air seating and they have these massive, massive beers. Everyone is drinking. The peer pressure. I got. I've got these two small gin bottles
Cwhich is this the finals on the weekend? The final on the Sunday?
BYeah.
AI tried at some random. This Danish gin and I was at a food market where this. Some French guy convinced me and Avi to buy one. One bottle of some apertive wine because it was insane. It was just some homemade. I don't know some small company. But it. It's golden and it. I don't even know if it's counted as it's a sparkling wine aperture. He said like champagne and it was insane. It was like nice. So I got it and we'll have it together.
BI'm. I've been really enjoying my spritzes lately.
AYeah. I also had. I had a. I had a berry spritz over there.
BLike wine with tonic. Even simple wine with tonic and lemon. I really enjoy.
AI gone for this tasting menu and as an apperative I got just gin tonic and a swig of rosemary and it was good. That tasting menu was great.
BYeah. You know what? We haven't experimented. We've experimented like vegetable, fruit like types, but we've not explored the herb. Bloody Mary with celery, rosemary taste. Rosemary with gin and.
AVery good with gin and ton.
BYeah. And it's a normally added like it's
Aa staple variation at some cocktail bar. I had this thing but that will be difficult to recreate.
BWe went to double chicken please. Also with our usual.
AOh, nice.
BYeah.
AYou've gone before.
BI've gone a couple of times before.
CMy first time.
BYeah.
AIt's nice but a little overpriced.
CBut yeah, I had the cold pizza
Bbut I looked up how to make the cold pizza. It's not even hard. Looks like I looked that up also. Again, like you just have to buy one to me.
ATasted like son papdi.
BNow that you're saying it, I can. But to me at that time I was like, how do they get this biscuit taste in a drink?
CBut how do you get it?
BHuh?
AHow do they get it?
BThey use. There's this thing called winter melon syrup which is sold like as a solid block concentrate and that gives you that fruity but buttery, fruity taste which to us translate as butter biscuit taste. Like it's like a butter. Yeah, but it's a. You can buy it Amazon a whole block for like 8, $9. But obviously that'll make 800 gallons of the drink. You need per drink. Per drink. You need like some shavings type.
AThen I had this other drink I don't know how to make. How it will be impossible to make. Not impossible, difficult to make. It was a basil gin thing but the whole drink was transparent and the whole thing tasted as if I'm having a soda made of basil.
BOh, interesting.
AThe whole thing tastes, every sip tasted of basil. And he did, he was saying something I didn't understand. He said he does something which oxidizes the basil leaf structure. Some shitty side.
BI was like, cool, sounds good.
ASounds amazing.
BWe also yesterday went. There's this website called fallingfruit.org which is a crowd sourced website of actively fruiting trees across the world.
AOh.
BSo like the other day we were just discussing. Both of us were really missing mulberries,
CLong and also small.
BYeah. BlackBerry. Yeah.
AOh yeah, yeah.
BOh, you've tried it. You don't like. I don't like jamun, but I really like chaitul. Anyway, the. So we were randomly looking, people were like, oh, just go to your nearest tree, pick it and eat it. And we're like what do you mean? And someone Put a link to this website. So there was an active database of mulberry trees in the area you found? Yeah, we just walked, picked off a tree and ate.
CAnd accurate. I was surprised. How do they know. We need more of them, bro?
BYeah. I remember this, like, one Tumblr post where a guy who was an employee at the shop, he's like, one day a mother came to the shop, and she was, like, very overwhelmed with all the options that we had. And so she was asking me for help, and it was clear that she didn't know what to ask for. And after, like, after me helping her, whatever, pick the correct things, she was like, sorry, my. My son's autistic, and he's currently really into trains. And I was like, ma', am, this is a toy train store. Like, who do you think the regular class is?
AYeah. Autistic people are really into trains.
BMaps. Tr.
AMaps. But maps. Even I'm into, like, maps are so good.
BYeah.
CEveryone's on the spectrum.
BEveryone's on the spectrum. Like, even I see some behaviors in myself.
AYou could give me a book with, like, 100 pages of just different maps with descriptions. And it's so good.
CLike, you should say, cgp Grace. I'll send it to you. You'll really like it. Yeah. He's also super into flags.
BIt's a great video. He watched it, like, 340.
CHe rates all of America's state flag flags on a tier list. That's really humorous.
BIt's boring, but, like, it's.
CIt's really funny.
ALike, the California flag has a grizzly bear, and the grizzly bears have been hunted out.
BYeah. Extinct for years.
ABut I want to now. I want to. That's why that farmer's market, I thought. But I go, and I want to get good fruits and vegetables.
BYeah. Summer fruits.
CFruit.
AYeah. Like, I want tomatoes, peaches.
BI want to have good tomatoes.
AYeah, yeah, yeah.
CThe.
BLike, just slice salt and tomatoes. Some in random instacart delivery that we didn't order
Aeven yesterday.
BBut I remember one time we got black tomatoes, and they were also so yummy. Yeah, they were, like, not black, but they were dark.
AI was having cherries yesterday. Arshia had. And they were so good. Costco cherries.
BSummer cherries are also good.
ALast time when my parents had come, we had gone to Wegmans and we picked up fruit from there. The fruit was very good.
BDude, I bought a bag of cherries. Last time my parents came, and it was finished in a day. Now it's like, looks like. Like, My dad ate fruit. My dad's not even a big fruit.
AI don't. I'm not. I. I should. I want to eat more fruit. No,
Bbecause we have some bananas. We have a whole big melon.
AThe same thing happened to Asia and Samarth also. They got a big delivery of fruits that didn't order and they were just finishing fruits.
BYeah. Like we have avocados, big giant melon like honeydew types. Bananas.
AGood tomatoes, strawberries. Good quality tomatoes. You can get good quality buffalo mozzarella and good focaccia.
BAnd then just send like not even focaccia, just a capri.
CYeah.
AAnd pesto.
BYeah. Just a simple caprice.
CGood to go. Say quality Charles in $4.
AValue for money here.
CBut definitely
Abike. Bike.
CYeah.
BHe was too scooter like bike.
AYou can unlock such a wide the radius around you.
BHonestly,
CYou just need practice, bro. Five days consistently.
BYeah.
CElectric bike.
AI think once you bike enough, your legs become used to it. Also. I don't think it's that. We are just doing recreationally signal. All the bike lanes also have their own signals. So there's a steel thing like this steel structure with like a nietzsche as a tapering essay. So no, when you're on the waiting on the bike lane, you can put one leg on it like this and you can just wait without touching the ground. You can just wait on it and continue biking.
BYou can put your leg.
CIt's an elevator. Just supports you by your foot. You just put your foot on it and that thing moves uphill.
BIt's just like a little pedal.
AYeah. Myself should install it everywhere. Yeah. I can't.
BMusical road, dude.
CMy mom and dad are buying a new car and I don't know why they're going for such big cars. Like. It was 15 years old.
AIt's a status symbol also. That's the thing.
CI don't know.
AWe don't optimize for efficiency.
BIf I had all the money in the world, I would still want a compact sedan like Ford Fiesta parking, which
Cis not so simple.
BBest parking car.
ATell them if they want a fancy one. Volkswagen Polo.
BOnly Apple car. And we looked up Mini Coopers,
CBut usually arrives late.
BYeah, but this was 2022.
CNo, no model. Must have been like 2017, 2016.
AI had rented out some Hyundai and they gave me a Mercedes on the first day. It's. It's a all car. It does not support CarPlay and Android Auto. You have to pay extra for it. They have Mercedes maps in it and the seats were so Uncomfortable. It just feels cool over Mercedes.
BAnytime I hear something like Mercedes maps. Even though it's supposed to strike me with the idea of luxury and all. I know it's a all app.
AThis Spiros hole. Yeah.
BWorks.
AYeah. Google Apple Maps. Is there?
BYeah.
ABut I did the stars thing was really nice. It's pretty good. You see Milky Way but there were a lot of stars.
CYou see Starlink.
AStarlink satellite sticky. I think that I could make out some star. The thing is what we didn't really account for was it was incredibly cold at the cliffs.
BDid we say this to him already?
ANo, no, we did. I accounted for it. Like I as in I knew the temperature wise we had prepped for 5, 6 degrees but feels like your B. It was feels like 5, 6. But that also actually felt like 1 2.
CYeah. It happens because you stop moving for stargazing.
ANo. And we had. And we had that tent with the plastic film. No on top. But the plastic film say it's not clear. It's still not perfectly clear. And these guys were so cold. It wouldn't leave the tent. And then I was like I'm not gonna not leave the tent. But I. I stood outside. It was beautiful. I was a little scared of standing outside. Like it was a dark side. Like I.
BYou couldn't see anything.
AYeah, I couldn't see anything around me. Nothing is going to happen. But it's.
BYeah.
AThen I. I was there for 15, 20 minutes. Then I went back inside.
BNo dude, it does get very cold.
AOh Shruti. I understand Avi the full day he's telling me.
BThat's how you find. Find someone's true. True cold tolerance.
AOh man. I was fine.
CSo did he not go prepared enough you think?
AHe didn't go prepared enough Shruti. And she was. I gave her my puffer jacket. She was not fully prepared. But I'm fine. I can manage. But she's bro. You know she used to own a space heater in Bombay.
CWhat the.
AThat's a crime against humanity. Are like imagine each other space eater and bomb. You know. But Avi just says things for the sake of it. He cannot stand the cold as much as I can.
CGrass with root.
ABut she had a. Protein. Bro. I think my other mainly was Khaira. The poorer than Kanai Karada bin Rad. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
CI to pay. Sure it'll take 10, 15 months. I had this whole olipop bro.
AOh that's another reason I love Den.
BYeah there's much better kept than that area
Apublic Toilet Dal. I all day I was just drinking water and peeing drinking water without any hesitation. Like there was a bathroom everywhere
Badult diaper.
CThat's pretty good.
AWhat are the New York must struggle.
CYou can't even roam around Central park
Bcame here he said house left without.
CYou have a table there and even hotel is lobby hotel.
BI've done that hotel of the pieces
Awhen you want to take a. Those are generally good.
CLike when do you want to take a outside?
AI've never done that happens. Remember when we went to Tadoba and I was. I reached there and was waiting for you all to come. You went. So I went to some Marriott and I asked him hi. The tariff.
BThanks.
AI should not be drinking. You're going to office now?
CNo, just today they had a. We had a Microsoft event quite big. I don't know if it's one of the two big events Microsoft
Asome. You're watching people.
BHe was watching Satya Nadella meet the Chainsmokers.
COh yeah. Chainsmokers came for the build on stage with Satya Nadella.
BWhy is it all so close?
AIt was so.
CIt was so many different things. First it started with Hamne Windows WSL may grep install Grep. Like it's this one supposed to be for developers. Literally. And on the other end they're calling chain smokers. And in the end it ends with quantum computing. Like it's all over the place.
AAnd the people were sharing it.
CThey're like the frontier is evolving and like.
ALike we have some ex IBM partner. He just put out a whole huge post about how his son made his first. His son isn't 12 years old, by the way. He made his first app using Tor code and then he's written ten lessons from it. Do you think when we are in our 40s and 50s, we people our age will also continue to do this? Actually they will because people were already doing it.
BBut I think it is embarrassing when there's like a 50 year old who's trying to be like I'm cool to the youngsters. Like I get youngsters and I'm like, I think that's worse than a 50 year old who's like, I'm comfortably out of touch. Like. Like you cringe at me. I am beyond cringe. Like by that age I want to be uncooled.
AI don't want to give. Like I randomly don't want to give about all this.
BExactly.
ASo to me, my objective in life is to reach a place where I don't need to give that's what I
Bwork towards I don't care like remove
Abeyond I don't want to unlock any value I don't want keys only with me to unlock anything I literally want to do what I did for the last 15 days for my life I want to have good coffee could have good breakfast and drink beers all day and die.
BWe went to Manus's house for dinner also the other day how was it? It was that good. They made like Indian style pizzas. Yeah. And panipuri.
CYeah. But honestly I was.
AAnd that is also still not as
Bgood as what you but like Indiana
Aand even in even in restaurants they
Care good but they're not no they're
Bnot India's curries are not easy on the mouth
Ais it because of is the reason because of scale? Because
Bbig difference what I found is yahape. It's machine made versus wahape. It's handmade. And you can tell because it's very very uniform which clearly indicates. But I think which ingredient may be different so that because I remember when my mom came and she bought she's like you Mana curry but hamjo karita was sujiki. I forget now what she said auto.
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