1:41

need

2:00

to discover the world. Maybe

2:02

like Supertramp from Into

2:04

the Wild. We watched that several

2:06

episodes back, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

2:09

Wonder is like when you walk around aimlessly,

2:12

right? No clear destination. Exactly. You're

2:15

just exploring places, right?

2:17

Exactly. It's a great word because I think it doesn't exist

2:20

in a lot of other languages, this kind of sense

2:22

of aimlessly walking about without

2:24

a destination. That is very true.

2:27

Similar to strolling, right? I

2:29

don't think of any word in Portuguese

2:32

that is similar to strolling. We

2:34

usually say the word walk. Yeah. Exactly.

2:38

It's a beautiful English. We have such a rich

2:40

vocabulary to choose from. And

2:44

the reason I was saying this is because we just last

2:46

week came back from our company

2:49

RealLife English Summit in Cusco,

2:52

Peru. And this

2:54

was your first time outside of your

2:56

home country. So

2:58

I was curious if you got bit by the travel

3:00

bug by that experience. Now you're

3:02

going to become this person, a backpacker, a wanderer.

3:07

I'm not sure about being a backpacker

3:09

or to be wandering around, but

3:12

definitely I'm more open now to exploring

3:15

more places. That's for sure. Yeah.

3:18

What does it mean, by the way, Ethan, when you are bit by the

3:20

travel bug in this case?

3:22

So this happened to me when I was maybe

3:24

an adolescent or so. The

3:27

first time I got to go to Europe, had an aunt

3:29

living there, my mom took me and my brother for

3:31

his high school graduation. And we got

3:33

to travel to Germany,

3:36

Czechia, Austria, and Italy. And

3:38

this was just a... It wasn't my first time out of

3:40

the States. I'd been in Mexico, Canada,

3:42

but I don't know. That's

3:45

not so mind blowing as going to Europe. Europe

3:47

was quite a bit different than what I was used to seeing

3:50

in my life in the States. And

3:53

it definitely was a life-changing experience. I got bit

3:55

by the travel bug. Then

3:57

I got the first chance I got when

3:59

I lived abroad. and everything and the rest is

4:01

history of course. And I think

4:04

that all this vocabulary we're talking about, we're going to try

4:06

to bring up lots of vocabulary for you guys with

4:09

today. We're going to be teaching a little

4:11

bit through story, through the story of our

4:14

journey to Peru, to one

4:16

of the wonders of the world, Machu

4:18

Picchu, which was a really spectacular experience

4:20

to have together with everyone on our

4:22

team. But I

4:25

wanted to, I thought a good place for us to

4:27

jump off here would be Tiago.

4:30

I really loved when you arrived in Cusco

4:33

and I was asking you about, okay, it's your first

4:35

experience being physically outside

4:37

of Brazil, what is it like? And I

4:40

really loved what you were saying just about your experience, just arriving

4:42

in Lima, all these differences that you noticed. So

4:44

do you want to

4:45

tell our listeners, viewers,

4:47

a little bit about that? Yeah, it was funny because

4:51

when I landed in Lima, Peru,

4:54

simply by looking around inside

4:56

the airport, I realized,

4:59

okay, I am in a different country,

5:02

because the signs were written in another

5:05

language that wasn't my native Portuguese.

5:08

The people looked different,

5:09

even this male of the place was different.

5:12

And then I was like, oh, okay, I am officially

5:14

outside of Brazil. That's incredible.

5:17

So from the get go from

5:21

the airport, I started

5:23

to just absorb everything. Just

5:25

try to take everything in, because

5:28

everything was new and

5:29

different. And then you start observing

5:31

how people do things, how they walk,

5:34

how they talk, how things work.

5:37

Yeah, so it's an interesting

5:39

experience.

5:40

Dealing with the culture

5:43

shock with being in a country that

5:45

you've never experienced before, I've

5:47

become quite accustomed to it because I've

5:50

lived in different countries, I've traveled quite

5:52

a bit. But I do remember the first

5:55

experiences, the first time I lived in Germany, for example,

5:58

it was even, of course, There's

6:00

the aspect of learning the language too, but even

6:02

just dealing with all those differences, it's a lot

6:04

of stimulation to the brain

6:06

and it can even be exhausting at time. Like you

6:08

need to close up and be

6:11

just alone to kind of process everything,

6:13

reflect, be with something

6:15

more familiar.

6:17

This is very true, what you say. It's a lot of stimulation

6:20

for the brain. And I think as good introverts,

6:23

as both of us are, that can

6:25

be quite exhausting because after

6:27

a while, you do need, like you said, to get away

6:29

and be alone for a while, just

6:31

ponder, reflect about things and just

6:34

process what you experienced. Even

6:38

make a phone call home, speak your mother tongue for a little

6:40

bit,

6:41

have a little bite of familiarity.

6:44

There you go, a little bite of familiarity. I like

6:46

that, a little bite. So we went to Peru,

6:49

as I mentioned, for our Real Life English Company

6:51

Summit, all 15 people on our team

6:53

going there. It's really amazing

6:56

because we work fully

6:58

online most of the time, right? It's really

7:00

amazing when we have these experiences where we can all come together

7:03

in person. It can be really

7:05

femoral or really difficult

7:08

to even explain what the experience is like

7:10

to other people. When we go back home, you can't

7:13

quite pass what that experience was like onto

7:15

them, right? And especially doing

7:17

it somewhere as magical as

7:20

Peru and Machu Picchu and everything

7:22

was especially special. But

7:25

we do this every year so we can kind of get away from it all,

7:27

come together in person, right?

7:30

Yeah, what does it mean, by the way, when you get away from it all?

7:33

Yeah, oftentimes we'd use this when

7:35

you have the hustle and bustle

7:37

of normal life. You're busy, you're

7:40

always working or

7:42

dealing with children or dealing with other

7:44

things, your daily routine, right? Sometimes

7:46

you need to get away from it all, change things

7:49

up, go on vacation or explore

7:51

a new culture, have new experiences,

7:53

be out of your routine and so on, right?

7:55

Yeah, yeah, change scenery, right?

7:58

Change your scenery, yeah.

7:59

What does that mean?

8:01

Yeah, change your environment a little bit. Go

8:03

someplace else, a new place. Breathe

8:06

a

8:07

different kind of air.

8:09

The different smells

8:11

of the Lima airport. The different smells

8:13

of the airport. Yeah, appreciate all of that.

8:15

All different. And I

8:17

thought that we could also, you know, starting from

8:19

this being your first trip abroad, I

8:22

thought it could be interesting to just talk about the trip. I

8:24

know you started in

8:26

Quertechiba and the place where you live, and

8:28

you flew to Brasilia.

8:30

You had a layover in Brasilia, right? And

8:32

then a layover also in Lima. So

8:35

how did it go? Was it pretty smooth

8:38

sailing or did you have any challenges

8:40

on your way, on your hero's journey to

8:42

Cusco?

8:43

Yeah, it wouldn't be the hero's journey

8:45

or an interesting story if we hadn't

8:47

had any obstacles, right? Exactly.

8:51

Yeah, at first, everything was

8:54

fine and dandy. You know, by

8:56

the way, you mentioned layover. Layover is when

8:58

you have to wait in the airport,

9:00

you know, for maybe a few hours until

9:03

the next flight, right? I

9:06

would say that inside Brazil, everything was okay.

9:08

You know, I went from Quertechiba to Brasilia. That

9:11

was fine. But then in Brasilia,

9:13

something happened because, you know, we were

9:15

going to take the flight

9:17

from Brasilia to Lima already. And,

9:21

you know, I'm a person who likes

9:23

to travel light. I like to travel light.

9:25

I don't like to carry a bunch of

9:27

bags with me. I'm very minimalistic with my baggage,

9:30

you know.

9:32

Part of that is because

9:34

I like to take with

9:36

me the bags on the plane, you know, like carry

9:38

on bags, you know, I don't like to dispatch my bags.

9:41

But in Brasilia, the woman

9:43

there from the airline company, she

9:46

told us that, you know,

9:47

the aircraft was full as

9:50

it was. It was its full capacity.

9:52

And we had to dispatch

9:54

our bags. So I didn't

9:57

want to do it, but me and two

9:59

other...

9:59

members who were traveling

10:02

with me, we dispatched our bags.

10:04

And what happened was we were supposed

10:07

to get our bags back in Cusco,

10:10

but then in Lima, we found

10:12

out that we

10:14

were supposed to get

10:16

them there because they had been retrieved.

10:19

And it was interesting because we were in

10:21

Lima

10:21

and we were already at the gate waiting

10:24

for our flight to Cusco. And

10:26

then it was really packed, crowded. And

10:29

then I saw this airport

10:32

employee, this woman, walking

10:34

around there

10:35

and she was calling out some names.

10:38

At first, I didn't make much of it, but then

10:40

I started hearing, Alincar, Akino, which are

10:45

my last names. And I was like,

10:47

I think she's calling me. It

10:50

took me a while to realize that. And

10:53

then when I noticed that she was calling me

10:55

and then I went to talk to her and then yeah, she told me that

10:59

we were not supposed to get our bags in Cusco

11:02

as the plan was. We had to

11:04

get them there in Lima because they

11:06

had been retrieved. Not only my bags,

11:09

but also my other team

11:12

members who were with me. So

11:15

long story short, we missed our flight

11:17

to Cusco because of that, because it took a

11:19

while. We had to kind of

11:22

get out of the airport, come back in,

11:24

and then we had to go through security at least two

11:26

times again to retrieve the bags.

11:30

And then

11:32

we actually missed the flight to Cusco and

11:35

it was an adventure because I don't

11:39

know, people don't seem to speak much English

11:42

there.

11:43

So I don't speak

11:45

Spanish, neither of us spoke

11:47

Spanish. So we tried to communicate in English

11:50

with the little English that people spoke

11:52

there. We ended up, I think, spending

11:55

the whole afternoon in Lima. Yeah,

11:58

it was about a four hour layover.

11:59

They pulled that on me as well on my way to

12:02

Cusco. They took my bag and the

12:04

one I'd like I said, I don't want to, I want to keep

12:06

my bag with me. She assured me, you know,

12:09

it'll be one of the first ones out. It'll be

12:11

really well taken care of and everything. And

12:13

of course, I get to Cusco. It's

12:15

the last one out. It's, you know, got

12:18

scratch it new scratches on it.

12:19

And our

12:21

trials and tribulations didn't stop

12:23

there. The first day we planned

12:25

to do sort of an escape room, which

12:28

in retrospect, looking back,

12:31

that might not have been the best choice for our first

12:33

day because many people listening

12:36

or watching might not know Cusco is at

12:38

approximately 3000 meters. That's

12:40

really high for people. I mean, I come from Colorado,

12:43

but even my hometown is 2000 meters.

12:46

So it's

12:48

an intense experience for most people going

12:51

to that high of altitude and the escape

12:53

room. It wasn't really an escape room. It was more

12:55

of a scavenger hunt around Cusco,

12:58

which was super cool, but just not the

13:00

best plan for the first day because Cusco is a very

13:02

hilly city, a lot of ups and downs that you have

13:04

to do. And Chiago and I actually, we

13:06

were in three teams. Everyone

13:09

in our organization were broken to three teams and

13:12

Chiago and I were actually on

13:15

the same team. So we had this shared experience

13:17

that it was a lot of fun. It was super interesting,

13:20

but absolutely exhausting.

13:22

All these ups and downs, the hot sun of

13:24

midday beating down upon us. And

13:26

it was really cool though,

13:29

right? We got to know some, we

13:31

got off the beaten path a little bit. We got to know

13:33

some lesser known

13:35

attractions of the city.

13:38

Yeah, just to explain very quickly here, it

13:40

was like a scavenger, scavenger hunt

13:42

in the sense that we had missions to

13:45

perform around the city

13:46

and we had a map. So it

13:48

was a really cool way of kind

13:51

of forcing you to explore the

13:53

city on

13:54

foot and getting to know the different

13:56

places and learning more about the city was really nice.

13:59

But since it was the first day, Today,

14:00

the altitude was much higher.

14:03

It's harder to breathe there. It seems like

14:05

there's less oxygen. And

14:07

like I said, it's a helium place. So we go up

14:09

and down. And especially

14:12

going up, I would say. Going up, man, walking

14:14

up, it was like, ugh. Not

14:17

again.

14:20

At some point, because Albertine

14:22

was me, you, Ice-T,

14:25

and Rodrigo, right? We were in four.

14:28

At some point, we just let you and T take the lead. Because

14:33

you guys were in better shape. And Rodrigo

14:35

and myself were just behind like, oh yeah,

14:38

let the young guys do it. We can go

14:40

slowly. We're parents. I

14:43

also remember we had to stop off for a beer

14:46

break, right? We did, right? To

14:49

wet our palate, wet our whiskers. Yeah,

14:52

we did. It was nice. Cool.

14:54

We mentioned, both

14:56

of us mentioned it was like a scavenger hunt.

14:59

Traditionally, a escape room, I've done several

15:01

escape rooms. And usually, you're indoors.

15:03

Usually, you're inside of a place. And you have to solve

15:05

puzzles. And maybe the last one I

15:07

did, there was even a crazy clown

15:09

trying to kill us. So this

15:12

was a very different sort of escape room in that

15:15

there was no room. So we said

15:17

it was more like a scavenger hunt. What's a scavenger? It's

15:20

a person who goes looking for treasures,

15:22

right? Treasures. Exactly. Mm-hmm.

15:26

And our team actually won, right? Like it was

15:28

kind of a competition. Yeah. And we were

15:30

the fastest ones and also the ones with the most convincing

15:32

story for the Padre

15:34

Loyola, I think was his name. Yeah.

15:38

That was really cool because at the beginning,

15:40

we receive a bag that is locked with

15:42

a padlock.

15:43

And in order for us to find the

15:45

password or the code to break

15:49

open the padlock, we need to explore the city,

15:52

gather the clues, and then we can open

15:54

it and see what's inside. And yeah.

15:55

Mm-hmm. We even had to learn some of the local

15:58

language, some Quechua, which is actually... It's

16:00

really a language, it's the language of the Incans,

16:02

a language that many people there learn

16:04

before they learn Spanish. I think for

16:07

a lot of us too, we didn't realize that

16:09

there was another language spoken there, right? You

16:11

mentioned the altitude sickness, right? And something

16:13

really interesting there is that they

16:16

chew coca leaves. So most people know the

16:18

drug cocaine is derived from coca,

16:21

coca leaves, which is a plant that comes from, I

16:23

believe it originates also from Peru, from the

16:25

Andes. But the leaves

16:28

and such aren't a drug, right? It

16:31

goes through a process, a chemical process to create cocaine.

16:34

But the leaves there, they're legal and it's actually something

16:36

that you can chew on and it really helps

16:39

with the altitude sickness and they suggest this when

16:41

you're in Cusco, when you're having to climb up

16:43

and down these hills, when you go to Machu

16:45

Picchu as well, many of us hiked up to

16:48

Machu Picchu and the coca

16:50

leaves can help a lot to deal with

16:53

the reality of the high altitude.

16:56

Yeah, it's true. It's very simple, you just grab

16:58

a bunch, you know, maybe roll them,

17:01

put it in your mouth and chew them. And

17:03

you keep chewing until you extract all

17:05

the flavor out of them.

17:07

It pretty much tastes like grass, right? And

17:09

then once you felt that you have chewed

17:13

all the,

17:14

everything that was there to chew, just spit

17:16

it out, just like a llama.

17:17

You just spit it out. Living

17:21

like a local. Live like a local, there

17:23

you go. That's that kind

17:25

of thing that a lot of people might have a stigma about

17:27

or a taboo about,

17:29

as in they find it's not, we

17:33

tend to think down on these sort of things because

17:36

cocaine is illegal in most countries,

17:38

for example, but it's just a plant, right?

17:41

And it's not like a really strong

17:43

drug effect or anything. It just helps to give you a little

17:45

buzz, which helps you to deal with many

17:48

of the symptoms of altitude sickness like

17:50

nausea, lack of oxygen,

17:52

lack of energy, and so on.

17:54

Yeah, still about the weather

17:57

there in Cusco. I found the weather

17:59

pretty harsh. especially for people

18:01

who come from other countries. Because

18:05

not only we have the altitude that is high, it's

18:07

harder to breathe there, but I found

18:09

that it was really cold.

18:11

During the day, it was around 20 degrees,

18:13

that's fine. It was hot

18:15

actually during the day because it's close

18:18

to the equator, so the sun was

18:20

really strong. And it can be deceiving because in the mornings,

18:23

we always started out so

18:24

bitterly cold, right? But then it started

18:26

and you'd go out with a jacket, but then by midday,

18:29

you're sweating and many of us even got sunburns

18:32

and everything because the sun there is no joke. It's

18:34

really powerful.

18:36

Yeah, it's true. So early in the morning,

18:38

zero degree, one, you

18:40

know? And also at night, it

18:42

was really cold as well. And

18:45

I found that they are really dry as well, really

18:48

dry air.

18:49

Combining that with the cold, I mean, you

18:51

got nosebleeds and chapped

18:54

lips, and it wasn't

18:56

a pretty sight. So what does it mean if your

18:58

lips are chapped? You have little fissures

19:01

in them and they hurt because

19:04

they got so dried up that you

19:07

got fissures, right? So

19:09

a chapstick is definitely

19:11

useful there because

19:12

of that. But I remember that

19:14

I think by day three or four, I

19:17

looked at myself in the mirror and it wasn't

19:19

a pretty sight. The lips

19:21

were chapped and my

19:24

nose was bleeding and I had gotten sunburned and

19:27

I was like, man, I look

19:29

awful. It's

19:31

a harsh place, you know, like in terms of weather,

19:34

climate, you know? We've

19:36

been talking for a while and we

19:39

shouldn't leave off the highlight, the

19:43

climax of our adventure, which of course

19:45

was journeying to one of the seven

19:47

wonders of the world, one of the old seven wonders,

19:49

which is the beautiful ruins of Machu

19:52

Picchu hidden up in the mountains. So

19:57

we had to... we actually did

19:59

a tour first, right? of the Sacred Valley, which is

20:01

really cool, because I'd been like

20:03

seven years ago or so, I went to Machu Picchu, but

20:05

I didn't do, it was a very fast

20:08

trip, and I didn't get to see

20:10

all these cool places that we saw along

20:12

the way to Machu

20:14

Picchu, like the, I think it's called Oyintaytambo

20:17

or something, that I even would've

20:19

liked to have spent more time in that town,

20:22

because it just had this really cool backpacker

20:24

vibe, had all these cool shops and little

20:26

restaurants in the plaza. I think that

20:28

was the last place we visited

20:29

before Machu Picchu, right? It

20:32

was also kind of a hill that you had to

20:34

walk up. It's where we caught the train. Yeah, another

20:37

difficult journey, right? Hiking up

20:39

the ruins there. Yeah, yeah, but it's

20:41

really high,

20:42

and it's funny because you start walking,

20:45

and you don't realize that you're actually climbing.

20:49

At some point, you've walked so much up

20:51

that when you look down, you are really up there, and

20:54

I don't even realize, like, oh man, I'm climbing

20:57

without gear. Yeah,

21:00

that was something. So from there,

21:02

we caught the train in Oyintaytambo.

21:05

It's a difficult name to say. We

21:08

caught the train to there, all already

21:10

very tired to Machu

21:12

Picchu, and

21:15

we arrived in Aguas Calientes,

21:17

which often is called Machu Picchu Town, because

21:22

it's the, what would we call it,

21:25

I think the starting point for

21:27

when you're wanting to journey up to Machu Picchu.

21:30

So we actually stayed overnight in a hostel

21:32

there, right? And it was a bit of another

21:35

kind of rough experience after staying in a

21:37

hotel in comparison. Staying in a hostel

21:39

wasn't quite as, a bit

21:42

more earthy, we could say, right?

21:44

Earthy, yeah. Yeah, I

21:46

find hostels to be places,

21:49

man, I mean, for young

21:51

single people, I

21:54

mean, you're young, you don't have much money,

21:57

anyone get to know people, you

21:59

are in the, adventure mode, man, it's a perfect

22:01

place for that. For sure. Aguas Calientes,

22:05

they take advantage that it's one of the main

22:07

touristic destinations. So

22:10

even if you're not someone who you're

22:13

not like a single backpack or without a lot

22:15

of money,

22:16

it's still expensive to stay in a hotel there.

22:18

Yeah, very touristic. Yeah,

22:22

you might have to rough it

22:23

in a hostel, depending on what your budget

22:25

is. Yeah, but I found this city quite

22:27

cute, actually. You know, I was... Quaint,

22:30

right, we could say? Quaint, yeah. Like

22:33

picturesque and old,

22:35

but in a cute way.

22:37

To me, it seemed like it had changed a lot

22:39

since I stayed there seven years ago, because there

22:41

were all these... I just remember arriving

22:44

there at night this time, and

22:46

there were all these bright lights. It looked like a Peruvian

22:49

Las Vegas, you know? Wow.

22:51

Nice. Yeah. But

22:54

yeah, I found it very nice. I would have stayed more days

22:56

there, for example, yeah, in Agua Calientes,

22:58

yeah.

22:59

Yeah, we actually... Some

23:01

of us... I know you didn't do this. Some of us actually

23:03

went to... It's called Agua Calientes, which in Spanish

23:05

means hot... It means literally

23:08

hot waters, because

23:11

they have hot springs there.

23:12

And hot spring is a place where water

23:15

naturally shoots up out

23:17

of the earth, and it has the natural thermo...

23:21

What is that called? Thermodynamics

23:25

or thermo... There's a word for this, but the natural heat

23:27

that comes from the

23:29

middle of the earth, right? And

23:32

that was a really cool experience, too, to finish up our

23:34

day after walking around

23:36

in the hot sun all day and Machu Picchu, being able to

23:39

just relax, have a nice piece of sour,

23:41

have a nice hot...

23:42

A hot bath. I

23:45

heard that the smell of the water is a little

23:47

bit... Weird. It's funky. Funky.

23:51

I'm

23:52

also used to that because I grew up... We have

23:54

hot springs in my hometown, and

23:57

there's other towns nearby that have hot springs, and

23:59

this is... It just comes with the territory

24:01

if you're wanting to go to these places which are really

24:04

relaxing and really nice that

24:06

smell because of the Minerals like

24:08

sulfur that's that's in this

24:10

water is really normal and you get used

24:12

to it very quickly Anyways, we

24:15

still haven't gotten to Machu

24:17

Picchu, so we stayed in this hostel, right?

24:19

We got up at the crack of dawn

24:21

To at least you you said you You

24:25

took the bus right did yeah

24:27

So you got to sleep in a little bit more but

24:29

still getting up at the crack of dawn because we

24:31

wanted to get there For sunrise and those

24:33

of us that hiked up which

24:35

was like I think half the people hiked up half the

24:38

people took the bus and we

24:40

had to get up maybe 30 minutes or 45 minutes

24:42

before you all that we're taking the bus and There's

24:46

something like I think it's 1600 steps to

24:49

hike up. So we decided to

24:51

a Group of us decided

24:53

to to do this. I'd already done it seven years ago.

24:55

It's actually I Remember

24:58

being easier then then it is It's

25:00

a challenge to get up there, but

25:03

it was also, you know fun I think we just started

25:05

off too fast started off with a really

25:07

ambitious pace And then eventually

25:10

we changed the person the front have someone slower going

25:12

in the front So that we would have a more moderate

25:15

leisurely pace and then it was much

25:18

better You know and how long did it take you guys

25:20

to finish the climb and to get up

25:22

there?

25:23

I think altogether it might have been

25:26

Our 15 hour and a half we

25:28

it was 25 minutes to get to the place where

25:31

the stairs start so that was

25:33

actually downhill and Then

25:35

it was maybe 45 minutes

25:37

to an hour of climbing up. Yeah,

25:40

I took the bus like I said and I

25:43

would say even the bus right is a little

25:45

bit scary sometimes because you know the

25:48

bus

25:49

Rides up on this very narrow streets,

25:52

you know And sometimes there are these curves

25:54

that it does and then you look

25:56

up like oh man I mean that if this if

25:58

this driver loses the

25:59

control of the car? We're

26:02

done. It's early. You might not

26:04

have his coffee or his coke tea

26:06

yet. I mean, yeah, why do you call

26:08

those places by the way that is full of curves

26:11

and hard curves? There's an award for that, right? I don't

26:15

know. You might say like a jackknife is

26:18

like

26:19

when you have

26:20

something that's kind of like that shape of a,

26:23

I don't know, we can show a jackknife and for

26:25

people listening, if you have

26:27

like one of those knives that folds in on itself and you

26:30

imagine opening it up to 45 degrees or so,

26:32

it's something something like that. But

26:35

there might be another name for that, but it's not coming

26:37

to me right now. Because I can only think of the word in

26:39

Portuguese for that. We call it sinuoso,

26:42

you know, like the road is sinuosa

26:45

because it's very like, you know, full of hard

26:47

curves and turns and it's

26:49

hard to navigate. I think that the word exists

26:52

sinuos, but I don't know if we would use it in the

26:54

same way. But yeah, we got up there eventually.

26:57

It was an adventure, right? To the entrance

27:00

of Machu Picchu, right? The entrance, right? To

27:03

Terra Firma. That's because it could borrow

27:06

some Latin, to hard ground and

27:08

we thought that climbing was done, but it wasn't,

27:10

of course. We had to then climb up into

27:12

the park, climb up to the highest spot so

27:15

that we could be at the perfect place to watch the sunrise, take

27:17

some nice selfies. Yeah,

27:19

that was the highlight for sure, man. Being up

27:22

there in Machu Picchu, you know,

27:24

it's crazy to think that they actually built

27:27

a city on top of a

27:29

mountain. I

27:30

mean, how? That was really, I'm

27:32

really glad too we did the tour so that she could, she

27:35

created a really nice moment for us, the tour

27:37

guide. She told us

27:39

to face where the Sun was going

27:41

to come up and actually put

27:43

our arms up to receive it, right? And

27:47

so like all of us were there in this and

27:49

it was really like, I don't know, it

27:51

felt kind of like a spiritual, a really femoral

27:54

moment, right? Yeah, it was. Yeah,

27:57

it felt so powerful, you

27:59

know? Like you really... you

28:01

were receiving the energy of the Sun, like

28:03

literally. Exactly. And

28:06

then from the top, of course, we had to take

28:08

pictures, right? At the top there. Yeah.

28:11

I don't know, 30 minutes taking variety of different selfies.

28:15

It's really like a...

28:17

It almost becomes like a fight, you

28:19

know, to like get in between people

28:22

because there's all everyone that goes there. Luckily,

28:24

going there early, at first, there weren't many people,

28:26

so we could get some good shots. But then

28:29

it just becomes a...

28:31

I don't know, it becomes kind of like a cluster, it becomes

28:33

like a frenzy of all these people trying

28:35

to get into like a space to be able to

28:37

take a selfie without someone

28:39

else bombing your photo. Some people were really

28:41

like pros, like they really thought out, they

28:43

brought costumes with them, they brought gear with

28:46

them to really get like that perfect

28:48

selfie for their Instagram, right? Yeah. Yeah,

28:51

I mean, getting up there is a journey.

28:53

Yeah. And it's not like you got

28:55

to

28:56

seize that moment to take pictures because otherwise...

28:58

You're not coming back tomorrow.

28:59

Who knows, I'm going to get back there, yeah? Exactly,

29:02

seven years. Right?

29:05

Yeah. And I think we were lucky also with the weather

29:08

because it was really beautiful, sunny

29:11

that day. I know that sometimes people

29:13

go and it's kind of foggy and dark, so

29:15

you don't appreciate the beauty of the place

29:18

as much, I think. With the sun, man,

29:20

we were really lucky also with the weather,

29:22

I guess,

29:23

on that day. Of course, definitely.

29:24

And of the things that we saw in

29:26

the Machu Picchu village

29:28

there,

29:30

was there anything that stood out

29:32

to you as particularly mind-blowing

29:34

or fascinating?

29:36

Man, I mean, two

29:40

things. On the positive side, I found

29:43

the way they worked with the rocks and the stones

29:45

was fascinating because I think the temples

29:48

had different stones that were more polished,

29:51

yeah? And the

29:54

regular peasant houses, they were more

29:56

rough looking, yeah? The stones

29:58

were now maybe so polished.

29:59

Yeah, I found that fascinating

30:02

how they they did that right?

30:05

That was on the positive side on the negative side

30:07

a little bit. I got a little scared

30:10

Walking up there, you know because

30:13

sometimes for you to get from one area to

30:15

the next area of the city You

30:18

have to walk on these very narrow

30:21

Set of stairs made of rocks

30:24

and on one side like cobblestone

30:26

right? Cobblestone there you go and

30:29

on one side. Okay, you have the wall here

30:31

But on the other side you have nothing you

30:34

have the abyss You

30:36

know and there's no protection, you know

30:39

There's only a little rope that I don't

30:41

know what the purpose is because it doesn't

30:43

protect from anything, you know And

30:45

then I was like mental security Yeah

30:50

Better than nothing I suppose But

30:53

what about for you Ethan anything caught

30:56

your attention there, I mean it was my second

30:58

time again and in

31:00

In fact, even I remember the first

31:02

time now they had it very Roped

31:05

off and you you can only go in a certain direction

31:07

and so on and before

31:09

I remember it was just open You know you could

31:11

go If you want to go to this temple

31:13

first you can go there first if you want to go over there If you want

31:15

to come back you could do it in any

31:18

order that you wanted And there were actually like llamas

31:20

even down there by the by

31:23

the village and everything. So I remember it

31:25

was much more Open last time

31:27

but this time really the highlight for me was being there with

31:30

the whole team. It made it a completely different experience

31:33

and I Think getting

31:36

to share that together made

31:38

it so much more special.

31:40

Yeah, it's beautiful You are literally on

31:42

top of a mountain and it's crazy because you look up

31:44

and you can see the the pinnacle the the

31:47

the top Of the other mountain

31:49

like clothes. Yeah, so that

31:51

shows how high you are Yeah,

31:53

I feel I definitely appreciate

31:55

the nature there much more than the archaeology

31:59

much more the history and everything. I do find

32:01

history interesting, but just

32:04

the, even

32:04

if there weren't the ruins there, it would still be like

32:06

a place worth visiting because it's just

32:09

these huge

32:11

pillars of rocks, these mountains that

32:13

just seem almost like they're floating there.

32:16

I think we were commenting even that

32:18

those scenes in Avatar where they have the different

32:21

floating islands, I

32:23

imagine that James Cameron took inspiration from

32:26

Machu Picchu for that because it

32:28

almost, it really has a similar vibe of

32:31

what you feel when you watch that movie, but

32:33

it's real.

32:34

It is real, yeah. And it's hard to describe

32:36

it. You have to be up there to feel it, but

32:39

yeah, it's an experience for sure. Yeah.

32:41

So

32:43

dear listener, viewer, we highly recommend that you

32:45

get to Machu Picchu before they're

32:48

restricted anymore. Maybe at

32:50

some point they might close off the actual

32:52

village and everything, you never know. So

32:54

get there while you can.

32:57

And

32:58

we have a short clip actually from

33:01

a documentary that talks about Machu

33:04

Picchu, talks a little bit about the discovery of the history

33:06

that we thought it would be fun to share with you because we got

33:09

to learn all of this with a tour guide and

33:11

it's super interesting how the Incans

33:13

did this. But before we do that, we have a shout out

33:15

to a very special app user and

33:18

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33:20

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33:22

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33:24

some of the vocabulary and expressions

33:26

related to travel, but there's also a lot that I've

33:29

noticed that we've used and we've been forgetting to

33:31

define, but there on the app, you'll have

33:34

all the most important, most difficult words for you

33:36

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33:39

let's check out our shout out.

33:45

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33:47

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34:09

yeah. What

34:12

does it mean if something is worth the hype? When you

34:14

hype about something, you talk wonders

34:16

about it, right? Like, oh, this is great. This is so cool.

34:18

This is amazing. A lot of people are talking

34:21

or speaking good things about something. That's the hype. If

34:24

it's worth it. There might

34:26

be hype around a new restaurant or

34:28

a new bar, a new club.

34:29

There's a lot of hype around Machu Picchu, right?

34:32

We could say that Machu Picchu

34:34

going to Machu Picchu, it's worth the hype. Yeah.

34:37

So it's worthwhile. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

34:40

Exactly. So thanks so much, Elena, for

34:42

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34:47

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34:59

connect to someone from Peru. You can ask them about

35:01

some of the things that we're learning today. All

35:04

right. So that said,

35:06

let's check out the documentary.

35:08

Pablo Neruda, the South American

35:10

poet, called it Tall Stepped

35:13

City of Storm. Hiram

35:15

Bingham, the North American historian who

35:18

found it in 1911, said it

35:20

was like an unbelievable dream.

35:25

Ethan, I think you mentioned that the

35:27

guy who found Machu Picchu was like the real

35:29

life Indiana Jones, right? So, yeah, I think

35:31

we were actually split into two tour groups. Right. And I think

35:33

at first you were with the other

35:36

tour guide. But the our

35:38

tour guide was explaining this to us that Hiram Bingham

35:40

was like the real life Indiana Jones. Indiana

35:43

Jones is based off of him. And

35:46

he heard this this

35:48

rumor or the story about

35:50

a lot of stinking city. And he

35:53

was the one to discover Machu

35:55

Picchu. She was also telling us that he

35:57

made a mistake that he It

36:00

was really difficult to uncover everything, so he tried burning

36:02

off the jungle

36:04

covering, the plants. But they

36:06

say this was a mistake because it probably

36:08

also destroyed a lot of artifacts

36:11

that weren't fireproof. That could have been interesting

36:14

to learn from.

36:15

So should we watch the next part? Yeah,

36:18

let's do it. It

36:21

was the brainchild of Pachacuti, a

36:23

country palace for the Inca, built

36:25

on one of the most inaccessible sites

36:28

on Earth.

36:30

Brilliantly adapted to the natural landscape,

36:33

it is an enduring monument to the architectural

36:36

and engineering ability

36:38

of the Inca.

36:39

One of the first things I noticed there, Chiago,

36:42

is what you were saying about that we were there

36:44

at a time. We were there a good time of year.

36:47

We had good weather. You can tell in this

36:49

documentary they were not so fortunate because there

36:51

was a lot of cloud cover.

36:54

It's still beautiful, but you can't quite appreciate

36:56

to the same level the natural beauty there. Yeah, we

36:59

were really lucky. It was sunny and beautiful.

37:02

It does make a difference.

37:04

For sure. And I

37:07

don't know who Pachacuti is. I'm guessing he was an Incan

37:09

leader, but this narrator

37:12

says that it was the brainchild

37:14

of

37:15

Pachacuti.

37:16

What does that mean if something

37:18

is the brainchild of someone?

37:19

It's the creation. We understand

37:22

that Pachacuti probably

37:24

had the idea that

37:26

he planned to

37:28

build the city. So, yeah, he was his

37:30

brainchild, the brainchild of Pachacuti.

37:33

It was his idea, his creation.

37:35

He was up there hiking one day and said, oh, this would be

37:38

a good place for a village. Yeah, like why

37:40

not, right?

37:42

Despite all the difficulty to get things

37:44

up there.

37:46

And he says it's built on one of the most inaccessible

37:49

sites on Earth. I think also after visiting there, we can

37:51

definitely appreciate that. What does it mean if

37:53

something is inaccessible? It's hard to access.

37:55

It's hard to get to. And, you

37:58

know, Machu Picchu is a city.

37:59

old city, we're an old town

38:02

on top of a mountain, a really high mountain. So

38:05

it is not easily accessible.

38:08

So inaccessible. They

38:10

were even telling us that the road,

38:12

I don't know when they built that road. I

38:15

think maybe it was, I'm

38:17

not even going to guess, but it was

38:19

a few decades ago, let's say, and

38:22

the stairs, I think

38:24

were then from the nineties or maybe

38:26

even sooner, the stairs are quite new. So

38:29

these aren't things that the Incans had created.

38:31

They didn't use those. They had a completely

38:33

different path to getting there. Interesting.

38:37

And I think this word is nice, right? It's an site.

38:41

What is a site in this case here? A

38:43

site. Yeah.

38:44

I'm sure everyone listening, watching knows

38:47

what a website is. So it comes

38:50

from this word. A website is

38:52

a place that you visit on the web, on the

38:54

internet. A site is

38:56

a place where something exists.

38:58

So Machu Picchu, for example,

39:00

is an archaeological site nowadays. It's

39:03

a place where archaeologists go to study

39:05

these ruins. So

39:07

he said that it's brilliantly adapted to the natural

39:10

landscape. That's something that we were talking about is

39:12

even if there weren't a village there, it still would be a spectacular

39:14

spot. What does that mean?

39:16

Landscape. It's the natural view of

39:19

the place. So

39:21

yeah, the natural view. Like, you know, what nature

39:23

looks like at a given place. So

39:26

in this case, the natural landscape in Machu Picchu are

39:29

the mountains around,

39:30

for example, you know.

39:33

Yeah. In fact, we call when

39:35

you're taking a picture, when you take it this way, you

39:38

have your phone, you're taking it this way. It's

39:41

called landscape. That's a landscape photo.

39:44

Like horizontally, right? Exactly. And

39:47

he continues to say that Machu Picchu

39:50

is an enduring monument to the

39:52

architectural and engineering ability of the

39:54

Inca. So what does it mean if something is

39:56

an enduring monument to something?

40:00

Yeah, something enduring,

40:02

something that endures throughout

40:05

time. So it lasts a long time.

40:07

I think, I don't know, that

40:09

city has existed for what, 500 years now? Something

40:13

like that. I'm terrible with dates. I don't remember.

40:16

They told us I don't remember. Yeah, but it's been

40:18

many years. So it's

40:20

enduring. It's still standing

40:22

pretty much. That's

40:24

what it means. And a monument,

40:27

could you define that one, Ethan? What is a monument

40:29

in this case?

40:31

A monument, usually it's a building or

40:33

it's something big that is

40:35

man-made, that is something

40:38

that people visit

40:40

typically. Even

40:42

like the, we could say the Eiffel Tower is a

40:44

monument you would want to visit if you go to Paris.

40:47

But it's interesting because he says an enduring monument

40:49

to the architectural and engineering

40:51

ability of the Inca. So when using the two here, what

40:54

he's saying is that it's something that

40:57

gives a good example of these

40:59

capabilities that the Inca had that were

41:01

really

41:02

before their time.

41:04

It was really incredible, many of the things that the Incas knew

41:06

about. They knew a lot about astrology.

41:09

They knew a lot about science. They knew a lot about

41:12

even physiology, about our bodies, animal

41:15

bodies and so on. And they

41:17

were really great at,

41:20

they showed us too, we talked about in Tantambo,

41:22

that

41:24

the stones, so it was kind of like a pyramid

41:26

almost. We mentioned

41:28

that it was up really steep stairs. And

41:32

we had a different guy there who like he pointed

41:34

to a mountain that was on the other side of

41:36

the valley and said that

41:39

the stones that they used to build this were

41:41

from that mountain. So somehow they

41:43

managed to bring these humongous stones

41:46

that I have no idea how much they

41:48

weigh, but they weigh much more than a single

41:50

person or even half a dozen people

41:52

could carry from another mountain

41:55

up a really high hill to build

41:57

something. It's really absolutely incredible. And

42:00

the way that they would cut these blocks, as you were mentioning, and

42:02

sanding them and everything, it's just they

42:05

really,

42:06

really were experts. They

42:08

knew what they were doing.

42:10

And

42:12

he said there was no shortage of stone. What

42:15

does it mean if there is a shortage of something or there's

42:17

not a shortage of something? When there is a shortage

42:19

of something, there

42:20

is not enough of that thing.

42:23

Let's say, oh, there has been a shortage of

42:25

jobs recently, like,

42:27

you know, not enough jobs. But in this context

42:29

here, there was no shortage of stone. It

42:32

means there were many stones.

42:35

Yeah, there were many stones to be carried around,

42:37

to be used in that construction.

42:39

I mean, they're on a mountain, right? They just have

42:41

to cut up another mountain. Yeah.

42:45

And we do have a couple of nice words here,

42:47

Ethan, that I wanted to ask you. First,

42:49

to be quarried.

42:51

Stones to be quarried.

42:53

A quarry is a place where you

42:55

dig up a certain type of stone, like maybe

42:58

a coal quarry. A place where you're searching

43:00

for coal. And

43:02

he's using it as a verb here. So quarried, I think, is

43:05

something like mined to be cut out of the

43:07

mountain, to be cut out of the rock.

43:10

And what about this rampant

43:12

roller? Run by rampant

43:15

roller. Yeah, that's

43:16

some nice alliteration.

43:18

Rampant roller. Something

43:21

rolls. It's

43:23

basically like a ball or a wheel rolls.

43:28

And a roller would be like a...

43:29

For example, you have a rolling pin, is

43:32

a roller that you use in your kitchen to make pies

43:35

and such, make cookies. Rampant

43:38

is something that's with a lot of energy. We

43:40

use this, for example, with COVID-19, was rampant,

43:42

that it was spreading really quickly. So

43:45

this is kind of poetic language, a rampant roller.

43:48

I imagine that they had some sort of carts

43:50

that would move very fast down the hills to bring

43:52

them to the village. Yeah, I was thinking

43:55

of that, some sort of transportation for the rocks,

43:57

you know? Exactly. All right,

43:59

we

43:59

have...

43:59

one more short part that we're going to watch

44:02

with you guys. And we'll

44:04

also, if you are interested in this, you want to learn more about

44:06

Machu Picchu, we can link the full documentary

44:10

in the description and in the show notes.

44:13

Even today Machu Picchu is

44:15

still a place of mystery, the

44:17

most well known of the Inca sites and

44:20

yet the one we know least about.

44:24

What we do know is that after

44:26

just 50 years in use, it

44:29

was deserted and the jungle

44:31

grew back to reclaim and conceal

44:33

the last great citadel

44:35

of the Inca Empire.

44:38

What I found interesting is how he says that

44:40

it's still a mystery today.

44:42

I mean that place, what was the original

44:44

purpose of that city? Was

44:47

it a military base or was it a place

44:49

for the nobles to just go to enjoy

44:51

some time off or something? I

44:54

mean

44:55

no one really knows. Yeah,

44:58

that was actually I remember the first time I went there. I believe that

45:00

was the explanation that they gave us was that

45:03

it was a vacation area

45:05

for the noble Incas. But

45:09

there's a lot of operations and they

45:12

pointed out to universities, to us and so on. So

45:14

it seems like people actually were living there

45:16

and doing the normal things that people

45:18

live. It doesn't seem just like a vacation spot although

45:21

it's quite beautiful.

45:24

And yeah, this was

45:26

one of the things that they told us about. So

45:30

there's a nice connected speech here as well. It says it's

45:33

still a place and he connects, he

45:35

reduces the A to A and links

45:37

those to. Still a, it's

45:40

still a place. Then

45:42

we have the

45:44

most well known of the Inca sites and

45:46

yet the one we know least about.

45:50

Yet the one. So a lot of times when we have a word ending

45:52

a T and the next word beginning with a TH, we'll

45:54

just

45:55

drop the T and just keep the TH so it'll

45:57

be like yeta, yeta.

46:00

in yet the one and also we would cut

46:02

the and there so and yet the

46:04

one and yet the one and Least

46:07

about we also have some linking there least

46:10

about least about so that

46:12

a at the getting of we don't say a bout We

46:14

reduce that to a schwa sound Oh About

46:17

and we connect the T from least to it least about

46:20

and he mentioned that I mean I

46:23

don't remember hearing that that it was in use just 50 years,

46:25

but it was a place that Yeah,

46:27

wasn't around for a tremendous amount of time in

46:30

use but that seems crazy if they

46:32

had a university they had all these institutions

46:34

and everything that

46:36

It was in use for such a short amount of time and

46:38

automation the amount of time and energy that must

46:40

have gone into Building that place

46:43

and only to have a used 50 years,

46:46

you know, so yeah, that's crazy most definitely

46:49

He says that uh

46:51

That it was deserted and the jungle

46:54

grew back So we talked about this that her Bingham

46:56

it was covered by jungle when he arrived and

46:59

he burnt it all off probably a

47:01

lot of the Things that might give us more

47:03

clarification about Machu Picchu were destroyed,

47:05

unfortunately

47:07

But what does that mean if a place is deserted abandoned?

47:09

He was abandoned. There was no

47:11

body there Nothing was going on

47:13

exactly. Yeah, and we use this figuratively

47:16

a lot nowadays If for example

47:18

you

47:19

go to the mall on Saturday, and there's very few people

47:22

there you could say wow this place is deserted I wonder

47:24

what's happening. Why isn't there more people here on a Saturday?

47:27

Yeah like a post-apocalyptic

47:29

vibe Yeah, you think

47:31

zombies are gonna pop out exactly And

47:34

he talked about that the jungle reclaimed the

47:37

area the site. What

47:39

does that mean to reclaim? Maybe I took control Yeah,

47:42

I mean, yeah took control

47:44

over it like, you know It's

47:47

mine, you know like

47:50

this area is mine So let me you know grow

47:52

trees and stuff you around. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

47:54

Especially because it has the

47:56

Reclaim, right? Yeah, it

47:59

gives a It

48:01

gives us the meaning that it

48:03

before was this way and it's taking it back again,

48:05

right?

48:06

Yeah. Part of the nature, right?

48:10

Exactly. And

48:11

this last part you said is very

48:13

poetic, isn't it? It was deserted in the jungle, grew

48:16

back to reclaim and conceal the last

48:18

great citadel of the Inca Empire. Wow.

48:21

What does it mean to conceal something? To hide

48:23

it.

48:24

You conceal it, you hide it. And

48:27

a citadel? Do you know what a citadel is? I

48:30

can only think of the new series on Amazon Prime

48:32

video. Yeah, but that's a whole

48:35

other meaning, you know? What's a citadel,

48:37

Ethan? A citadel is a fortress.

48:41

There you go.

48:43

So yeah, I don't think it was

48:45

exactly a fortress, but he's probably using that a bit

48:48

poetically, right?

48:50

Yeah. And, and in fact, it was the last great citadel

48:53

of the Inca Empire because it was, the

48:55

Spanish never found it.

48:56

They destroyed many, unfortunately, they

48:58

destroyed many of the important

49:01

areas and cities of the Incas,

49:03

but luckily they didn't find it. So it's actually quite

49:06

well preserved. So again,

49:08

we'll link the full documentary if you want to check

49:11

it out in the show notes and description. And

49:13

before we wrap up, we have our

49:16

big challenge for you guys.

49:18

All

49:22

right, the big challenge

49:24

is, what was your first travel

49:27

experience like? Did you go abroad?

49:29

Did you travel locally in your own country?

49:32

Any funny incidents happened? Share

49:34

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49:36

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49:38

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49:41

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49:44

look forward to hearing what y'all have to say. We

49:46

just love hearing travel stories.

49:48

All right. And we wanted to make sure to take

49:50

the chance to share a comment from

49:53

one of our recent big challenges. So do

49:55

you want to explain what that was Thiago and what

49:57

the comment was? Yeah, this comes from the app.

49:59

episode where we talked about

50:02

public speaking and how to use your voice

50:04

to become a better communicator.

50:07

And the question we asked was what scares you

50:09

the most about speaking in public and

50:11

what have you been doing to overcome this challenge?

50:14

I actually got here two nice comments from viewers.

50:17

The first one goes, I will sit for

50:20

my IELTS exam soon and I

50:22

am too afraid of speaking. But after listening

50:24

to that podcast, I feel confident. I

50:26

am very thankful to you for your incredible

50:29

work.

50:30

Thank you very much. Good luck on your

50:32

speaking test on IELTS. And

50:34

then Celine says, as far as I'm

50:36

concerned, I did theater in order

50:38

to overcome it.

50:40

The fear of public speaking, she means, right? When

50:43

you spoke about vocal warmups, it reminded

50:45

me of when I learned the tongue twisters.

50:48

This kind of exercises are very useful.

50:50

Most of all,

50:51

when you are afraid to stammer.

50:54

What stammer, Ethan? Stammer is when

50:56

people,

50:58

they won't fully form the words.

51:00

So thanks a

51:02

lot. That would be stammering. Is

51:05

it the same as stutter stuttering?

51:07

Yeah.

51:08

Yeah, I think they're very similar. I

51:10

think stuttering might be someone who actually has like a

51:14

medical

51:14

problem. Right. But it's some

51:16

sort of speech impediment, let's say, right? Exactly.

51:20

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