WEBVTT - “WE RAN AWAY TO PORTUGAL” 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.960 Hey, how's it going. 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:02.680 Hey, what's up? How you doing? 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.039 I'm doing great. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:06.400 Yeah. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.600 Everyone says this, but I can't believe we're actually talking. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:10.080 Called it like sixty times. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.760 I'm excited, So I'm excited to talk to you too. 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:20.800 What's your name, Dougs. I'm Nico, Nico, Yeah, like Nico Belick. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:22.279 Yeah. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.880 Yeah, let's go bowling, man, let's go bowling. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:30.720 Well, Nico, what's up man? Would you want to talk 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.480 about today on the Gecko podcast? 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:33.920 Uh? 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.680 Well, I I kind of wanted to, so I've been 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.800 thinking about this for a while, Like I called in. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.040 I wanted to pay you a compliment. I know it's 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.240 been kind of an emotional stream for you earlier today 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.680 you had the other call, but like, oh sure, I 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.760 just find you so like wise and empathetic, and I 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.880 love the way that you help people through their problems 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.000 without any judgment. It's it's just super cool and super chill. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:00:59.960 Thank you so much. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.040 Uh yeah, man, but I don't want to make it 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:10.320 you know too uh crazy, I'm calling you from Portugal. Yeah, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.440 I'm here visiting. Uh. I've been here with my girlfriend 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:19.240 for about a month and they're really really fallen in 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.399 love with the place. And one of the coolest things 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.399 that I've done since I've been here is I met 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.119 a famous alpaca. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.840 You met a famous like. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:37.959 An I page. Yeah, if you've ever seen the movie 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.000 Color Out of Space, the new one with Nick Cage, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.520 it's got a couple of alpacas in there, and those 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:52.080 alpacas live in Portugal. And we were looking on, you know, online, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.120 and we found this lady with an alpaca farm and 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.320 she's like, yeah, you know, I've done some filming with them, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.960 with like Nick Cage, and she just casually dropped it. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.680 But obviously you can't just casually drop a connection to 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.000 Nick Cage. So we asked about it and it was 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.680 those out packets. It was pretty rad. 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:16.400 I'm curious more about Portugal too, So what made you 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.360 want to move? What made you come there? A month ago? 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.240 Well, I guess two years ago. My girlfriend and I 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.320 were talking and we're like, what would you do if 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.000 you had all the money or just you know, the 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.679 ability to do anything? And I said, I don't know, 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.200 fuck it, let's just like just go to Portugal and 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:41.320 live and work remotely and exist in Europe somewhere. And 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.040 because there's a lot of talk about how Portugal is 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.639 very welcoming with their immigration programs and stuff like this, 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:52.919 and then we kind of looked at each other after 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.960 I said it, We're like, why aren't we doing that? 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.600 So we took a visit out here last year and 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.640 really fell in love with with the place, and so 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.200 decided this year, let's let's stay here for like a 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:11.600 month and make sure that it's a realistic thing, like 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.320 to live in another country that you don't speak the language. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.920 Really and it's just been awesome. Man, it's been so 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.840 just chill and beautiful, and Portuguese people are so wonderful 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:30.000 and welcoming. Yeah, it's it's been an awesome experience. So 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.480 so we're kind of moving forward with that. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.360 Where are you guys? Are you in Lisbon? 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.520 No, we did visit Lisbon and Lisbon was awesome, But 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.040 we're in a town I get as a city actually 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:48.280 about three hours by train north of Lisbon called a Vedro, 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.160 and it's a it's it's a place that doesn't have 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:59.640 a Starbucks, So like a Vedro, a the a r. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.720 I are a Vero Portugal. Oh wow, that looks that 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:05.840 looks very colorful. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.119 Yeah, it's super like charming and quaint and it's got 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:17.719 like this beautiful old town but with a twenty minute 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.359 walk to like a proper city where you can you know, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.880 like do city things and eat rabin and go to 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.600 the Indian Spices store and stuff like this. I mean, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.960 they have they have everything. It's it's wonderful. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.279 Yeah. So I'm I'm actually very interested to talk to 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.320 you because I'm obsessed with the idea of like moving 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.240 to a foreign country and like seeing what's up and 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.320 you know, all that kind of stuff. And I'm always 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.359 like googling around for places to go and ideas and stuff, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.800 and a Portugal keeps coming up as like an affordable 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.000 expat location. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:05:00.240 Yeah. Yeah, it's been great as far as affordability. I 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.520 mean it's you know, it's expensive to eat out every night. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.479 I'm sure you know. I've been talking about going to 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.599 airbnbs and stuff. It's it's not cheap, but we we've 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:14.919 been cooking a little bit. Groceries are you know, reasonably priced. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.560 There's not a huge tipping culture, which is nice because 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.000 I feel like, you know, you go out and the 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.120 person that is waiting on you is like getting paid properly, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.240 and there's not a pressure to be like, oh shit, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.040 I got to pay an extra on top of it. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:30.680 Mm hmm. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.000 So it's a it's nice from that aspect too. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.000 You know, what do you what do you guys do? 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:38.280 Uh? 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.880 So I work for a software company and I do 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.440 like a little bit of consulting on the side. And 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:51.800 my girlfriend, she's currently she's a medical assistant, but she's 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:58.440 going to school for esthetician like skincare. So the plan 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.040 is right, well, we'll open up, she'll open a business 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.960 here once we get here, and wow, and I'll continue 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.960 to work remotely. And yeah, holy shit. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.960 So you're so your girlfriend was So your girlfriend's a 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.560 medical How does she work from home? If she's a 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.520 medical assistant? I would assume she had to be like 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:15.760 at a hospital or something. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:18.920 Well, she doesn't work from home. She works in a 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:24.080 clinic in Portugal. No no, no, no, no, back home, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:29.200 back home. I live. Atlanta's home for me, for us. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.360 So she works in a clinic there, and uh, she's 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:34.600 right here. She's really excited. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.760 Hi, get go, oh. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.320 Hi, what's your what's your what's your name? 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:41.080 Hi? 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:42.880 My name is Emily. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:44.599 Hey, what's up Emily? 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.039 Everything is good. I'm so excited that we were able 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.440 to talk to you. We've been listening to your podcast 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.159 for a while and every time we're like, oh my gosh, 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.440 we should call. And it's so exciting to be talking 0:06:58.480 --> 0:06:58.880 to you. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.479 Oh, it's exciting to be talking to you too. I 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.440 guess I'll ask you all the questions I was curious about. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.960 So you're you're you work at a clinic in and Okay, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.800 so you guys are both in your you are calling 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:14.520 currently from every year rold Portugal, but you work as 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.200 a as a medical assistant in Atlantas or are you 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.640 like kind of taking a little sabbatical. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.360 So yeah, so we we don't live in the city city. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.960 We leave in Canton. I mean it's for you, five 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:36.040 minutes up north of Atlanta. But you know, if I 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.640 say Canton is kind of like, so we say Atlanta 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.920 And yeah, I work in a clinic and it's a 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.800 Navy clinic. So basically we give infusion of vitamins and 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.240 stuff like that. Two people. And it's been a new job. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.320 Been very excited to learn new stuff. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.480 Very cool, very cool. And so you're gonna play you're 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.160 gonna open a what what kind of business are you 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:00.760 gonna open in in Portugal? 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.920 So The plan is to do an instituition program in 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.280 the United States and be able to bring that knowledge 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.160 to Portugal, so that will open the door to have 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.920 my own business doing facials and taking care of people's skin. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.360 Man, you guys are fing awesome. That's so cool. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:22.320 How did you? 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.960 How did you? How did you? How did you two meet? 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.560 So it's a very cute story. So I was working 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.400 in a paintball field, working in a sorry. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.400 You said, a paintball field. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.440 I have paintball where they should have paint Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.560 So we I was working there for a for a 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.520 while and I started getting along with Nichol's parents, her mom, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.920 his mom. It's very cool. So we are friends and 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:59.280 then I ended up a relationship and one day Nicol 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.600 asked me if I want to go out for treatma, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.520 But then that didn't happen. So we went out for 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.760 New Year's Year and he cooked a traditional meal from 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:15.199 my country, which was very lovely, and we haven't separated. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.319 Sinton, that's so nice. Where are you originally from? 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.400 I'm from Ecuador, Ecuador. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:26.199 Very cool, very nice. What what was I going to say? 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.080 What was the meal that he cooked from Ecuador? 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:34.480 It's called that meal. It's a pork and it's the 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.199 way that it's roasted as well, and then it's life. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.480 And the way that we that at home is with 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.120 like a sandwich form with a different type of bread 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.000 and then we put something that is called corgio and 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:51.079 basically onions, tomatoes, lemon and that on top with a 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.800 spicy sauce and it's delicious. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.719 How how long you guys been together for. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.200 This genre is going to be three years? 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:07.600 Very nice, very cool. Wow, paintball, paintball led to love. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:14.400 That's cool. I'm saying, that's very good man. I'm excited 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.800 for you. Do you guys know anyone in uh in Avieria? 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.640 Did you meet any crazy people? You got any like 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.320 Kramer esque neighbors barging into your house? 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.960 No, but everybody's very nice. We actually, in every place 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.680 activity that we've been going, we tried to talk to 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.960 people and see like what they do, how they got here, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.480 even my tourists, and it's been very nice to hear 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.160 from them, and then we keep in contact. Actually, the 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.920 last time that we came, we did a cooking glass 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.040 and we got along with some other tourists and we 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.360 still talk to them. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.079 Cool man, very cool. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.719 Are there any other, well, anything else that you. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:04.120 Have planned for for Portuguese life for the future, like 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.280 any things you want to do or like other places 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.760 you want to travel or any of that kind of shit. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.880 Actually, yeah, like Portugal is such an amazing little country 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.199 because he has so many things to explore, like the south, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.040 it's so much forest and then you know, the bitches 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.880 are so so nice, and you know, there are so 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.840 many things that you can explore. And yeah, we're just 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.679 no thinking about that yet because we've been like, you're 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.520 not going to place to place to place and I 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.160 don't know it, but yeah, definitely explore more the country 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.480 and you know the other countries aults in Europe. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.079 That's cool. How old are you guys? If you don't 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.000 want me asking, I'm curious what stage you're at in 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:47.000 life that you're doing this. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.160 Son MIIKOI is thirty nine. He's going to be very 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.000 nine next week actually, and I'm twenty eight. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.840 Cool fucking cool man. That rocks. That rocks. Yes, man. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:11:59.960 Are you guys gonna have a kid? 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:05.040 M So we are planning on not having kids. When 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.360 we met, we talk about it and we are very 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.760 definitely perspectives of having a kid you know, it's not 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.719 just the apparent, it's so much that comes with it. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.760 And I don't know, I don't think we're ready for 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:25.400 that faith on our lives yet or at all. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:27.079 Interesting. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:33.040 Interesting, Yes, what he's saying, nothing can change, things can change. Okay, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.080 it's going to talk to you about this because it's 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.640 being kind of like a long talk. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.000 So he's going to tell you his perspective. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:42.240 Cool. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:52.840 Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of kids, right, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.800 It's a big decision to make, and then you know, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.040 it's a scary world, I feel like. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:04.760 So it's it's hard. It's hard to know where you're 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.840 going to be at that time. My my sister's got kids. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:13.560 They're they're young, uh, and they're they're wonderful, they're beautiful kids. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.360 But like they're a lot man, Yeah, dude. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.200 And it takes so much of yourself, Yeah, to be 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.880 a parent, So it's hard to know. I think if 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.960 you're if you're really ready for that, right. So yeah, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:32.360 so it's it's it's unclear, leaning towards no, but you 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:33.680 know this is a possibility. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.920 Well, it takes for telling me about your life. One 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.200 of the reasons I like doing this part. I really 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.360 mean this, I'm trying to figure out what I'm going 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.480 to do how I'm like, what I want to do 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.160 with my life, and so I like asking people invasive 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.320 questions about what they're going to do with theirs. I'm 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.960 just check, I'm just curious. I'm just like, because you 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.959 there's no roadmap to how to do anything ever, so 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.000 the only thing you can really do is like listen 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.920 into how other people are navigating their lives and listen 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.480 to your own brain and kind of, you know, take 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.080 take in that. It's cool. I love it. I love 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.720 what you guys are doing. I think it's so fucking 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:16.080 cool to just uh, you know, get together with your 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.840 partner and go to a go to a new place 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:24.040 and try to you know, continue continue to expand and 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:29.720 grow your fucking brain and life. I think that's really cool. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.480 Yeah, I mean it's all about, you know, finding new 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:40.600 life experiences and finding a community and contributing to it. Yeah. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.000 I'm becoming part of something, you know. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:47.240 So what's your name, Chris Nico? 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.560 All right, Well this kind of is basically the same thing. Ye. Well, 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.360 well Nico, thanks for thanks for chatting with me. Man, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.280 did you do you feel like you guys, got what 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.280 you wanted out this phone call? 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.000 I yeah, absolutely, I just I just wanted to be 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.880 on the phone because you, like she said to me, 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.280 listening to you all the time. So it's just cool 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.480 to be a part of this community and this experience 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.920 in another way. So thank you for taking our call. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.520 You guys have a good one. Man, You guys take care. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:20.880 Thanks. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:28.000 Then you girls please, oh man, this those two have 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.280 such a nice, beautiful life. That's so great. You know, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:37.080 I really meant that this. I Uh, I ask invasive 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.480 questions about things because well, one of the reasons I 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.040 think people listen to this podcast is too, uh for 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.760 the reason I was just describing is to like getting it. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.400 It's a little you can kind of you kind of 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.880 only have your own brain and your own lived experience, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.800 and it's kind of nice to listen to what's going 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.280 on in other people's brains and lives because it can 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.560 help inform your own a little bit. Uh. I'd like 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.640 to do that some someday. Go to like a well, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.280 I went to Portugal, I went to Lisbon. I did 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.440 a show there a year ago. But like, uh, going 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.640 to some random place to do a weird thing. I 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.760 don't know why I'm phrasing it like that, but uh yeah, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.040 shout out to those people. They were cool. I was 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.040 about to say, I'm sorry I forgot that guy's name, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.840 but I'm kind of not because like if you quiz 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.200 like if you win ahead, here's my thing about names 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.720 with and I've said this eight thousand times, what I'm 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.720 gonna say it again. If you were to like quiz 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.600 me on like that guy's life or like that couple's life, 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.400 if you were to like write down a list of 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.800 if you were like quiz me on like specific things 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:48.040 that maybe they said about themselves, I'd get at least 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.120 fifty percent on that ques I don't remember what the 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:57.480 guy said he did for a living, I would actually 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.640 probably get a forty percent. Here's the thing. I remember 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.120 the vibe of the conversation that I just had, whether 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.919 or not. I remember that I liked those two. I 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:12.320 remembered that I was inspired by them. I remember that 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.959 I enjoyed talking to them, and I remember the general 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:20.960 sentiment and vibe that they get off gave off. Even 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:26.240 if I don't remember a name, uh but I do. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.680 His name was Nico, and I think her name was Emily. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.879 Or maybe it was Chris. I don't know. I don't know. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:34.439 I don't know. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:43.960 Hello, Hello, Hi, what is your name? Walker Walker, Texas Ranger. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:44.640 What's up? 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:45.679 Yeah? 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:46.959 Yeah? 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:47.600 Not much? 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.159 Wait is this Lyle? 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.879 This is Lyle? This is me? Hi? Hello? 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.119 What is who are you? You're a Walker? 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.280 I'm Walker? But I'm dressed as Bob Belcher mom and 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.680 my Halloween costume right now? 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.480 Oh you do have what are your hellen plans? 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:02.280 Uh? 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:03.000 Not much. 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.320 Me and my girlfriend we don't. We don't like party, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.600 but we're going to like hand out candy to kids. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:09.480 It's gonna be great. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:14.119 That's nice. That's a sweet. Do people still trick or treat? 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.760 Or is it has? Has the world just gotten too 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:19.000 crazy for that? 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.840 I don't we were talking about that. I don't think 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.000 people trick or treat any more because of COVID. I 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:26.359 think it's all like trunk or treat? 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.119 Now, where are you going to hand out candidate? Kids? 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:31.840 We live in. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.400 Vermont, so it's like a little small town called Bristol. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.000 That's cool? Is it? Like? Uh? I mean I grew 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:39.960 up in the suburbs and there were like all these 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.119 cul de sacs and it was you know, uh, do 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.600 you are. What's the like landscape? Are you like in 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.880 a little town? Is it a suburb? 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.680 Yeah, it's it's like a little mountain town. But we 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.680 live on a flower farm right now. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.080 You live on a flower farm. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.600 I live on a flower farm. I work on the farm. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:05.359 Or season's almost over, but yeah, yeah, it's like this 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.840 really dope house. We actually have to move in like 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.399 a few weeks. So I'm actually we're really upset about it, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.520 but it'll be good in the long runs. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.320 Wait, tell me more about your life. You live on 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.280 a flower farm in Vermont. Who who are you? How 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.199 did you? How did you become that? 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:31.960 I'm I'm the Texas Ranger. No, I'm just I grew 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.520 up in South Carolina and I decided I wanted to 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.879 be a sea instructor. So like three years ago, I 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:43.240 moved out to Vermont and best decision I ever made. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.840 So now I spend my life doing seasonal work. I've 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:47.440 been doing it. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:52.280 For like three years. Sorry, I just. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.440 Got a little nervous because I just realized some on the. 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:54.919 Phone with you. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:20:01.200 But but yeah, no, I've been doing seasonal work for 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.480 like three years. So I ski instruct in the winter, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.040 and I've been kind of like bouncing around from different 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.400 jobs for like summer and spring and stuff. 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:15.240 Cool. What's a flower house? Like, you guys make flowers 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:15.879 in the house. 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.240 No, we like so we like grow the flowers, so 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.840 we like work on the farm. But the house is 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.320 just like on the property. So when he hired me, 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:30.280 he was like, do you want to live on the property? 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.119 And I was like, hell yeah. And it's it's a 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.119 really cool howthing. It has curved walls. We call it 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:36.600 like the boat or the beehive. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.920 It has curved walls. 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.520 As curved walls looks like it looks like a beehive. 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:47.680 It does look like a beehive. 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.960 That's cool, man. How long you've been living there? 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.600 Not long? Like seven months? 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:55.880 Are gonna go? 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.840 We're moving down to like southern Vermonts to teach ski 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.200 So I teach skiing at this resort called Mount Snow 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:10.399 and shout out Mount Snow. But yeah, so I've been 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.200 teaching there for the last few years, so i want 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.800 to move back down to go teach there. But I'm 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:16.960 super bummed to leave the house. That's actually why I 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.800 was trying to call you. It was like to debate 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:20.959 if I should move or not. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:24.639 Well, why, yeah, why are you moving? 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.920 Well, mainly just to ski instruct because it's like it's 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:33.239 my favorite thing ever. It's like I'm so passionate about it. 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:38.639 It's like someone who grew up in South Carolina. It 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.679 was like always like a fun thing. My parents like 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:43.720 would take me for spring break and stuff, and I 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.560 just like fell in love with it. So I was 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.680 always like, I want to ski instructure when I grow up, and. 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:50.159 I've just stuck with it. 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.600 I really love it. So I knew if I didn't 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:54.840 do it, i'd be like super depressed this winter. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:21:58.840 And so you're moving to go do it? 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:01.960 Yeah, yeah, so we got Yeah. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.479 That sounds you I don't have you don't it sounds 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:05.720 like a great idea. 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.480 Yeah, I just talk, Yeah, I get. I'm so excited 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:12.600 about It's just like you know how like moving is, 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.879 and it's just it's so stressful. It's like, so I 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.000 read a statistic, it's like the most stressful thing to 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.400 do in your lifetime. And because young people move so much, 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:24.080 we're like the most just out generation, which tracks I think. 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.080 That's a fascinating thing. Is really is that the most 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:28.439 stressful thing you do is moving. 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:31.800