Shadowing Practice: REAL American English Conversation With Native Speakers - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hello, people of the internet.

I have a special guest with me today.

We have a very special video.

I am finally giving you a conversation with a native English speaker other than me, because, you know, I have conversations with myself on this channel.

But in this video, we're talking to Gustavo, also known as Gus.

I know he is the second Gustavo on this channel that I've had.

The other one was from Argentina, but he wasn't a native speaker.

This one is a

um puerto rico i don't know what else you want me

to say in spanish um puerto rico calm down before you click off he grew up in puerto rico

but he is a native english speaker

when i first heard him talk i thought

that he grew up in the continental united states now puerto rico is a u.s territory

but normally people in puerto rico they don't speak like you know like exactly like english native speakers

that grew up in like new york and colorado and california and you know but this man

if he told me i grew up in new york colorado

california i would say of course you did i don't notice the difference between him

and other native speakers if you want to fight me in the comments about it don't

because he is a native speaker tell us how you are

a native speaker even though you grew up in puerto rico

i basically um learned both languages at the same time um

even growing up early my grandfather would speak english to me

he grew up in new york he was puerto rican he moved there with his family early on

and then he moved back to puerto rico started businesses here met my grandmother, you know, all that.

So he used to speak English to me when I was growing up.

And I also went to a school that had a pretty good English program.

They had most of the classes were in English.

So I got a good exposure to it.

And just, I think I took more into it because of like American pop culture, music, video games, just media in general.

I consumed a lot of TV shows in English.

Just having a lot of exposure to the language early on

um i think i i developed pretty good um a pretty good accent from

that just just from like listening i think a lot of

of it was comprehensible input just spending a lot of time listening to the language just helped

and i was exposed to it a lot

so i think that's what contributed to me having less of

a noticeable accent than other people especially older people in the

island i think a lot of the older people they didn't

grow up with the with american pop culture the internet

so they don't have as they're not gonna have as good of an accent

so i think just growing up being gen z growing up around the internet i think

that that helps a lot that helped me a lot

and you also told me that you had exposure with people who weren't your family okay so

when i was growing up um i used to live in

a community that's like it's um like it's villas it's basically uh um

but it's a lot it was a there was a pretty big community there

and there were people from all over um there's some people

from new york some people from tennessee like literally left lived right next to me

so i used to hang out with them i'll play board games with them you know i talked to them

because they were friends they're family friends so they would come over i i

so i had a lot of exposure to speaking english with neighbors

and early on so

that probably helped a lot too um you played with kids

oh yeah american kids yeah definitely i would go i lived literally next to a hotel

so i would just sneak in there and i would make friends there

so that was yeah i was very towards the area too

so it's like next to hotels and it's dorado um if you know in puerto rico dorado um

there's a lot of hotels there's a lot of um tourists it's a tourist um town basically

and you also went to a school all in english yes pretty much anything more to say about

that like can you imagine like your school 100 in english

like everything in english you're gonna learn english yeah definitely

that helps a lot yeah the only class

that was in spanish was the spanish class that's funny

so you essentially went to like the same school i went to

but just in puerto rico exactly yeah

and the students were puerto rican yes most of them were

puerto rican there were some who came from the mainland

and just studied there

because they could um they had the clashes english it was easier for them

so there were some americans at that school okay but just to be clear

like gus is a special case because he's acting like oh

if you just expose yourself to american culture blah blah blah blah

but he was privileged

because a lot of puerto ricans like we have a friend he's fluent as hell in english

but he still has a very strong like puerto rican accent yeah

so gus gus had the opportunity the privilege to like actually learn english like a native speaker learns english basically

so we're or almost like that so so yeah

so don't be thinking everybody in puerto rico talks like him

but um i would say

that on average like compared to the rest of spanish speaking

latin america puerto rico has a higher level of english yeah i think

so yeah and the younger generation are gonna be better at it i think gen z

and gen alpha the new generation coming up like my um

my cousin um her her her daughter speaks perfect english too

and like she speaks this

because she's always on her she's always like on social media

on tick tock on just watching american content tv shows the owl house she watches

that she's always watching you know american cartoon

so of course you're gonna pick it up that's true that's

cool do you still feel like there's just a certain level of effortlessness

and comfort like when you're speaking spanish compared to english

or do you feel like like what our friend ari said like

because he has explored so many advanced topics in english

but not in spanish sometimes he feels like he can communicate even easier in english

so how does your brain think about speaking spanish versus english

at this point yeah i think um maybe in english is better for like deeper topics

because i've read more books in english

so i think yeah i think my vocabulary is a little bit better um

when it comes to like more advanced things

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but i don't know i think i can do both

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but i want to use spanglish if it's like

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if i start speaking spanish

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and doing in those topics i'm probably going to switch to

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english for certain things i'm just um certain i think yeah i think i do that but

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when you're just like at home farting around you know just

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whatever like you're you wake up in the morning your brain

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isn't even like fully awake yet like do you go to like thoughts in spanish the comments in spanish first

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or no it depends it depends on what i was doing the day before

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if i was interacting with a lot of people who speak english then i'm probably gonna go to english or

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if i was like watching um videos in english then it's gonna be my brain's gonna be in english mode

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but if i was um watching something in spanish

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or talking to people in spanish all day then i'm probably

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gonna be in spanish mode i think it just switches yeah that's kind of crazy

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but cool yeah that happens to me if if I'm speaking a lot of Spanish.

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Switches.

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I mean, I also speak a little bit of German and sometimes German gets in there.

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Like I'll start speaking it out of nowhere.

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You're not fluent in German.

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No, not at all.

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I'm like an A2 to a B1 maybe at best.

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But you want to be fluent.

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I would like to learn more.

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And you want to go to Germany?

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Definitely want to go at some point.

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This man grew up in the Paradise Island of Puerto Rico and he just dreamed of being on the streets of Berlin.

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Oh yeah.

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It's hard to see as interesting as the opposite.

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So you kind of want to see the complete opposite when you travel, I think.

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You want to see something you don't have access.

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Do you think Berlin is really the opposite of Puerto Rico?

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Very different.

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Yeah.

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People are less, they're colder probably.

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They're, the, the language is different.

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The culture is different.

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Public transportation is better.

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It's a different society.

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It's a different culture and completely, completely different culture.

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Yeah.

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You know, we always want what we don't have.

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The grass is always greener on the other side, right?

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But, but you love Puerto Rico.

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I do love it, yeah.

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And I appreciate it more the older I get, the more I've appreciated it.

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Why so?

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I don't know.

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I appreciate the climate more.

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I've interacted with people who live in the States with the cold weather.

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And the more I've gotten into fitness, surfing, cycling, the more outdoorsy I've become, the more I appreciate living here because I can just do that year round.

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If I was living somewhere where it was cold, I couldn't do the things I do year round.

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so I've come to appreciate that way more as I've gotten older I don't think about that much

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but I used to want to be in the cold I used to like oh I want to see snow

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so fucking bad I've never seen it and yeah

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but every person I talk to seeing snow they're like fuck

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that it's the worst thing ever you can't go outside like yeah

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so yeah I am from there but you always have

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that curiosity about something you can't experience

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so you just want to see the other thing you know

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the new thing I think that's different from what you grew

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up with no I I grew up in snow land and I am a tropical woman at heart.

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That's what I always say.

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I always dreamed of the tropics.

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So I am happy here in Puerto Rico.

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Yeah, same.

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I'm happy.

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Yeah, I do want to do more traveling.

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No, traveling is great.

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But yeah, I don't think you're missing out on snow.

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Yeah, no, I don't think so.

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You can travel to warm places.

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You can go to Germany in the summer.

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Exactly.

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That's what I'd probably do.

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Actually, my aunt, who travels a lot, she likes to go to cold countries

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because she's from Puerto ricos she likes to go to norway

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she likes to go i think she went to very south

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of um argentina like to the very like the coldest places

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you can go she likes to go into europe in the

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winter time she like loves the snow some people love it some people are like

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that yeah they're like the different vibe some people like to

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freeze yeah i guess i would like to try it i

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would like to do crazy where it's really cold just to

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see how much i can bear like maybe cycling in like very cold conditions

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or like running in very cold conditions or just jumping in lakes

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that are freezing i would love to do shit like

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that just to challenge myself it just popped into my head

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that we have a good topic we could talk about

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because you're like an extreme guy into i guess everything like

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fitness related right yeah pretty much bodybuilding calisthenics cycling surfing rock

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climbing i've done a little bit of um just yeah challenges in general calisthenics i do a lot of um

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so yeah i do a lot of it i'm very passionate about it i love it

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and you yeah you could do that anywhere

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so you like the idea of challenge challenging yourself in different climates

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and places fitness related challenges well definitely i would love to

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do like the crazier the better like doing like 100 running

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100 miles in the freezing cold it i'll do it like

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that's yeah i love the extreme like the like challenging myself

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making myself as uncomfortable as i possibly can i love doing like

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that the more challenging the better you like taking cold showers uh i've done it

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and yeah i do ice baths ice baths i haven't done

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because i just don't feel like setting the thing up but

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if i had had access to it I probably would even

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though I don't think there's much of a benefit to them

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I think it's just more for like the mental thing

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or for like the the fun of it because I don't think plays

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that much of a role in recovery I could be wrong

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but I've heard people study saying that it's not that important

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but that doesn't do much I've heard it's more of a fad thing

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but I don't know yeah wake up shock your system yeah I don't think you have to do

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that but not only are you super into fitness

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and you have a great physique and you're very strong

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and capable and you're a cyclist

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and you can bike all around the island like it's nothing

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in the heat in the sun you are also vegan yeah

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so tell us tell us about how you are a vegan

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athlete um yeah i've been vegan for about six years i went vegan around 2019 i think 2019

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and yeah i found that like not only

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when i first went vegan um i was worried

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because i didn't know much about it

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and there's a plane just right now god damn it ruining

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my train of thought you can you travel at a different time

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when i'm not doing an interview no but um

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when i first went vegan i was already into athletics i

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was already into power lifting bodybuilding i was doing all that

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and i was maybe worried okay i wouldn't begin for ethical

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and environmental reasons like it was the ethical arguments

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that appealed to me the environmental arguments

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and i was like already into bodybuilding power lifting at

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that time and i was worried i was going to lose my gains

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but at the same time i was kind of having like

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um my conscience was like um i was fighting with my conscience i was like i'm exploiting animals um

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I'm like causing environmental damage.

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So I was like, I can't keep doing this just to like look better or be stronger.

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So even if I would have lost muscle, I probably still would have been vegan.

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But not only did I not lose muscle, I noticed I would get leaner.

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I was able to like increase all my lifts.

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I would be getting stronger and stronger every time I was able to like, after I went vegan is when I started biking, doing more the cardio, the surfing.

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So I noticed like my energy levels improved as I went vegan.

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Like people will say, no, you're going to get brain fog.

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No, no, no. Everything athletically I noticed improved as I went vegan.

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So I haven't noticed any downsides to it.

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At worst case scenario, it's the same as an omnivorous diet that's well-planned, that's like a bodybuilding diet.

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But at best, I think it has benefits for athletic performance.

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And I think I've noticed that.

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Like vegan and healthy are not synonymous.

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You could be an unhealthy vegan because veganism is really about animal exploitation and rejecting that.

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But you try to eat healthy for the most part

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and you think that that has really helped you improve your performance yeah 100 like

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if you're healthy i mostly do like whole foods i'll have

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like a little bit of like stuff that's not whole foods here

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and there especially when i'm doing like cycling i'll have sugar i'll have like stuff

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that you need to consume to like be able to perform at

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that level like process sugars here and there but for the most part

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when i'm eating normally it's just um whole food plant-based for

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the most part that's mostly what i do beans soy exactly

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say 10 oatmeal i do a lot of oatmeal protein powder in the oatmeal

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and veggies i'm not veggies fruits i'll like throw fruit in there um for dinner i'll have like salads

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or um sweet potato tempeh um tofu i'll do a lot of

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that seitan here and there so yeah i just mix it up

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but usually this whole foods plant-based for the most part do

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you eat rice pasta bread um rice i'll eat rice um often i think i do more sweet potato um

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and potatoes in general i think it's easier to cook

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but um rice i'll do i just don't have to i I don't have access to a fridge right now, so I'm just using potatoes more.

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But yeah, rice is good.

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Pasta I love.

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And I'll do some of those protein pastas that are with chickpeas here and there.

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Those are really good.

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Like the protein pastas, the edamame pasta.

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Those are good.

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Are you focused on like hitting a certain protein goal?

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Like do you count, you know, your protein grams?

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I try to get around like 0.8 grams per pound of lean body weight.

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So for me, that's like around 120 grams.

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So I'll try to aim for that most of the time um

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but like sometimes i go above like usually i go above

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because that's pretty low and i'm eating a lot of calories

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so sometimes i'll hit a gram per pound of body weight protein like 170 grams

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but yeah like the minimum is like usually 100 120 that's like the minimum

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and i don't notice much of a difference going higher than

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that and when you hit 170 grams do you feel like you're like forcing yourself to eat protein at

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that point or it's easy um not really because i'm eating

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so many calories like i'll easily eat like 4 000 calories a day so 4 000 3500 something like that so

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At that point, it just comes with the amount of calories.

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So it's super easy.

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I think when you're cutting, it can be a little harder.

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But still, especially if you know the food state, those goals, like it becomes easy the more you do it for the long, if you do it for a long time, you're going to get the hang of it.

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That's true.

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You're so active.

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You can eat so many calories and you still be shredded.

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Yeah, I'm like working as a surf instructor.

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I'm there.

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I'm going to the gym.

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I'm biking around the city, going to the gym.

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Like I'm doing a lot of physical activity on my days off.

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I'll do like 60 mile bike rides, all that shit.

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He never stops moving.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Most of the day I'm moving.

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Even in his sleep, his legs are doing cycling.

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Anything else you want to add about being a vegan, a Puerto Rican athletic, high athlete, high training.

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Well, not high, like, you know, not on drugs, like high athleticism, no steroids, no natural, completely natty, 100% natty.

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Anything to add about your lifestyle?

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Anything you want to share?

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I don't know.

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That sums it up pretty well.

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Is it easy to be vegan?

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It's fucking super easy.

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Yeah.

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And if you want to be like me and be like, have no muscle and be skinny and not move very much in a day and also eat plant-based,

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you can do that too because that's another option yeah

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but his options are better yeah no that's what um what

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you want to do like you don't have to different people

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like different things um i'm gonna ask you some random questions

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on the topic of food i want to ask you what is your go-to comfort food

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or what is your like favorite food

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or foods uh lately comfort food um probably granola and monster

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and how do you eat your granola i eat the whole fucking bag usually and i eat it dry

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dry the whole bag in one sitting yeah that's what i'm working

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so it's like easy it's easy calories so i do

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that a lot does it have a lot of protein it

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the one i have has like 58 grams of protein

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because it's like a protein granola

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so the whole thing is like 50 50 what is the

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protein in it coming from i think it's soy protein

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or some sort of protein powder pea protein i don't know what's in it

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but yeah and do you drink water

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when you eat yes i do usually usually a fucking white

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monster here are my bad habits i'm talking about my bad habits

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but yeah yeah his guilty pleasure is monster yeah i love

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fucking caffeine i have a serious serious caffeine addiction coffee

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and monster yeah pretty much coffee i used to try matcha

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but it much kind of sucks okay yeah the same kick

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doesn't it doesn't taste as good it's not strong enough yeah

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well what about have you ever compared like caffeine versus just

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loading up on like a sugar like a sugary drink for energy I'll do a lot of sugar

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if I'm doing like 100 plus mile bike rides.

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Usually casually, I'm not doing that.

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But yeah, the sugar thing can work.

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But I do do it.

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But just for longer rides, I don't do it that often when I'm just day to day.

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It depends what I'm doing on the day.

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But what about like talking about meals?

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Do you have a particular like kind of meal or food that you really love?

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Like some kind of cuisine?

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Like do you love Puerto Rican food

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or some kind of like? do you have any special food

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that you like special food that i like damn i like going to restaurants here

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and there like what we had at hp was good on

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that burrito wraps i like those we went to a vegan restaurant last night me him

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and all those loaded fries i had a burrito like it

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was like a a beyond impossible meat burrito with like vegan cheese

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and some loaded fries that was bomb

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that was pretty good comfort food i had a burger it

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was very authentic i felt like i was eating a cow

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but it it was vegan it almost grossed me out

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because it was so cow like yeah another comfort food is acai

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but that's healthy

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so it's like acai is good i fucking love acai i

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just had one like before coming here i want one

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that is a good answer to the question next one would be i wanted to ask you if money

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and logistics didn't matter what would you be doing i would

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probably be doing some version of the same thing i'm still doing like the hybrid athletic stuff

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but probably travel more i don't know uh go around different

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countries collaborating with people who are doing similar things uh that's

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probably what do you mean similar things um people who are

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athletes hybrid athletes people who are doing a lot of like

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um calisthenics parkour fucking climbing surfing just probably collaborating with different

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people meeting connecting with more people um doing more of that

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because what i actually like doing i'm probably working less than just traveling more

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and doing more collaborations doing more like stuff that's creative and

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and yeah stuff like that that's probably what i'd be doing

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yeah like the question is like if you didn't have to like even think about money or work

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essentially you just like could do literally whatever you want that's what you would do

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yes something similar to what i'm doing right now

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but just not working obviously and just doing it not doing lessons

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and just surfing myself or improving there uh well um rock climbing more

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uh yeah just doing more outdoorsy stuff and with like-minded people yeah

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and traveling cycling the world probably would do

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that too i would probably that's something i've wanted to do

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i wanted to do south america cycle from maybe i think

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all south america probably i have a colombian friend who's a cyclist

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and he wants to go from like alaska to patagonia oh yeah i've heard people doing

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that that's crazy and that's doable yeah that's gonna take you maybe like two years yeah

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but it's it's an amazing journey yeah germany you can go to europe you can do

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that in europe europe is the easiest place to start

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because the infrastructure is really good in europe it's safer there's more of a culture of like couch surfing um

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and just hitchhiking all that stuff is more popular in like europe

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so i think it's easier and safer to do it in europe first

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but yeah i've seen people doing in africa asia

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that stuff is amazing i don't think i would do the middle east right now

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because of what's going on but

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but i would love to go to the middle east afghanistan all those places they're beautiful syria all of it

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but it's a little hot right now basically you would just live an extremely active lifestyle even more than now

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and more in like more social probably yeah

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and in different countries definitely i'm meeting people i'm just collaborating

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and doing stuff and just doing like projects

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and i don't know it's collaborations collabs yeah just meeting people

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who are doing the same thing that's where it's at what's a challenge you faced

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that made you stronger i think just recently i think working

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at a hostel was like one of the most challenging things

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because i think i just overcame a lot of my fears my social anxiety just being forced to be around

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so many people and just running a hostel i think i'm ready for more things

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because of that like i survived that

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so i think i can like uh put myself in those situations more often

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and just be fine with it i think

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that helps with the travel thing

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if you're comfortable just being around a lot of people different

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people different perspective different walks of life i think that's very valuable

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if you want to like travel if you want to do like

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that so i think that made me stronger as a person having gone through

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that experience living in a hostel

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and running a hostel for a year for a year crazy in puerto rico

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and it was the cheapest one right cheapest one

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so a lot of crazy a lot of like you know

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like not i don't know how to say it without being

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rude i mean just the craziest people are gonna meet veterans

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like they're a veteran there was like a veteran there who was an alcoholic like left the room with

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so many beer cans like the like we had to kick him out i think

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he called me like um i think the n-word

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or something he like insulted me some like you n-word

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or something something like that and uh now we i think we kicked him out

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but afterwards the the people who do get them the housing

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i don't know something veterans something they called um do you know um where this guy went

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or something and they were like uh they were looking at him

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because he was on like suicide watch or something

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that he was like you know they were worried about him

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do you know well he was here last well you know

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they wanted to reach out to him there was a peruvian

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guy who would i would be sleeping in the dorms

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because before i had a private room i would sleep in the dorms

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and there was this peruvian guy

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and he would curse his ex wife in his sleep he would be like

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that that that that that that that that

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and he would have telenovelas on his like laptop

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or whatever playing at full volume what's a book movie

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or show that changed your perspective um books damn let's see uh critique of the gotha program by marks

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that had an influence on me and made me question capitalism

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and all that shit um thinking of a different like i'm starting to think of different alternatives

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and i think capitalist realism mark fisher uh really like

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that one that made me think more about like looking for alternatives

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and stuff yeah those are those are ones

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that i can think of off the top of my head oh i think david graver too um jobs like

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that most jobs are like complete

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and they they serve no real purpose like they're just they're

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like like they don't really serve a purpose in society like society would be just the same

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if they didn't even exist there's so many jobs like

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that i think yeah no a lot of a lot of

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jobs yeah a lot of jobs i think you talk about managerial class um some some forms of lawyers

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that wouldn't have to exist um yeah we pretend to work they pretend to pay us exactly

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if i'm going to read something i want it to be

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non-fiction i want to learn something about some topic i'm interested

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in i'm personally not really interested in fiction what about you i'm not

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that interested in fiction like i don't read it

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that often i would like to get into it i would like to be you know somebody who

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but i think it's good i think imagination is good i think like think even

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if something's fiction it can it can apply i think imagination is good to like

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if you want to envision different um ways society could function

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i think imagination i think create like stuff in fiction could become stuff

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that you can apply into the real world i've never thought about

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that yeah i've heard people talking about how we should like write like fiction

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and into like um how do you say this to think

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of alternatives into different things different ways society could work i

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usually say with fiction books like i just want to watch the movie i don't have time for

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that yeah but usually the book is better everybody who reads the book says is better

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and it usually is because less budget you know more time

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and there are certain like fiction books that are kind of saying something deeper about society like like 1984

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for example that i think should be essential to read we read

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that in school yeah george orwell classic

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that kind of stuff you know is there a skill you've

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always wanted to learn a skill i've always wanted to learn let's see

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that i haven't learned yet front lever i haven't managed to

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do a front lever yet that's like a calisthenic skill where you like um hold the bar

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and you like stay completely um horizontal like i really want to learn

474

that i'm getting closer

475

but i haven't unlocked it yet i'm excited for your journey

476

yeah i think you're gonna be one of the best You're only 25.

477

We didn't even say his age.

478

He's only 25.

479

Oh, yeah, I'm 25.

480

He's so great for 25.

481

Thank you.

482

He's doing very well, right?

483

You're like, what were you doing at 25? Be honest. Be honest.

484

Not this.

485

Okay, I'm kidding.

486

No, but I want to be with you when I grow up.

487

If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?

488

Superpower.

489

Teleportation would be good.

490

Oh, but then you wouldn't have to ride your bike that you like doing.

491

I bet I can still do that, but then I can teleport the bike to fucking Europe

492

or Asia or like fucking South America and just do it when I want to.

493

Get rid of the planes.

494

Let's just teleport.

495

I'll be fucking awesome.

496

No, that would be that would be great because planes, I don't like planes and airports.

497

They do scare me.

498

Planes are anxiety inducing.

499

And they are not good for the environment.

500

No, they're terrible.

501

They're one of the worst.

502

So we need to work on our teleportation technology.

503

Yeah, I think so.

504

Star Trek they had like a little thing they went in

505

and they would like teleport but they would not be like the same

506

because there's like this thing like if you teleport

507

and you change every cell in your body like like this like how do you say

508

that they separate are you the same person

509

when you teleport back oh yeah scary i think pretty much have to die for like a second right

510

because your your brain your heart all is separated

511

and then it comes back together right comes back together no i never saw star trek no yeah

512

but they had the same kind of thing in harry potter teleportation.

513

Yeah, I saw a few episodes of Star Trek.

514

Are you a nerd at heart?

515

A little bit, a little bit more than I give off.

516

You'd never know he used to be.

517

What would you call yourself when you were a teenager?

518

I would say I was pretty alternative metal goth type of thing.

519

I was really into like all the the fucking goth bands of the cure about house sisters of mercy the joy division.

520

And then I got into black metal dark throne on Satyra

521

Khan Emperor all the fucking black metal bands mayhem all that

522

but you're still into the music i'm still into the music

523

and a little bit i think i still have the undertones

524

of like somebody who was um very alternative you just don't wear colored contacts anymore yeah and

525

and dye your hair oh no you do dye your hair

526

i have like some a little bit blonde a little bit i bleached it

527

and the guy who bleached it was like a norwegian punk guy

528

so at the hostel

529

but you don't dress like a goth not as most of

530

the time yeah not as much he dresses for fitness yeah

531

and hot climate like i still kind of have like uh

532

sort of like a hippie nomad type of like like alternative

533

look i don't think i look like a fucking like your

534

normal like yeah boring no normies here yeah no boring ass like polo shirts okay i thought of another question

535

when is your birthday august 4th are you a leo i'm a leo anything else you want to say

536

or yeah to the world because this is your platform thousands of people will see this

537

so anything you want to get out there or anywhere that like

538

if you want people to follow you on instagram you can

539

put your my instagram is alvegano um that's where i'm more

540

active on vegano on instagram it stands for the vegan hybrid right vegan hybrid athlete basically yeah

541

and what do you mean hybrid athlete uh just multiple sports

542

like not just one thing i do surfing i do cycling i do i'm calisthenics bodybuilding stuff

543

so and rock climbing here and there

544

and i just yeah it's like you do multiple disciplines cycling also

545

and what kind of stuff do you post on there i

546

just post uh mostly training stuff um um just training physique um pictures modeling stuff i do

547

that too so oh yeah he's trying to start modeling yeah i'm getting into the modeling thing

548

and more tv stuff thank you for watching uh hopefully the audio quality came out good

549

because you know it's i don't know there's always issues

550

but uh but you guys are always nice

551

and tell me it's fine it's fine we hear you fine so hopefully

552

that is the case thank you for watching to the end

553

those of you who watch my videos to the end i love you i always tell you this

554

and i will never stop telling you this i love you very much from the bottom of my heart and

555

if you found it difficult to understand uh gus well one

556

like i said you could turn on the captions try it

557

again you can also play with the speed on youtube i should have said this at the beginning

558

but you can like slow it down

559

or whatever you know gus i would say

560

that gus speaks pretty fast that's just him i think like

561

it depends on the person i speak kind of slow generally

562

um even slower than how i'm speaking right now usually some

563

people speak slower some people speak faster native speakers i'm talking about don't be too discouraged

564

if you found it difficult to understand him he talks fast i think he speaks clearly people say

565

that i speak very clearly and that other native speakers don't

566

so this will be interesting to see how you guys react to him

567

if you think that he speaks clearly or not we're gonna go now

568

so have a wonderful day that was fun peace bye bye bye

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