WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.820 Okay, I'm so nervous. It's like... 00:00:01.820 --> 00:00:03.020 You just missed the stop sign. 00:00:03.020 --> 00:00:04.020 Oh, oops. Sorry. 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.740 We just sold my car that I've had for eight years. 00:00:09.740 --> 00:00:15.020 Also, we were joking that Frank doesn't have a escape vehicle anymore. 00:00:15.020 --> 00:00:18.960 So, he wanted to just get up and leave. Can't do that anymore. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:23.820 Yeah, so we basically sold off our car to a dealership 00:00:23.820 --> 00:00:29.320 because we didn't want to deal with all the hassles of finding a buyer, 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:35.800 We never imported the car into Canada, which is why we came to the States to sell it. 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:40.500 And the first dealership we went to, they actually wouldn't even buy it 00:00:40.500 --> 00:00:43.500 because the title was in Massachusetts. 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:47.540 My driver's license is now Canadian, and the plates are from IOP. 00:00:47.540 --> 00:00:51.600 And apparently, it's like more work for them to actually buy the car. 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:53.480 So, essentially, they're just being lazy. 00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:57.420 And they're like, "Oh, yeah, if you get the title in Washington, we'll buy it." 00:00:57.420 --> 00:01:01.900 But obviously, we're not going to go to the DMZ for three hours, and there's no way we can really get a title 00:01:01.900 --> 00:01:05.380 because we never lived in Washington. We don't have an address here or anything. 00:01:05.380 --> 00:01:08.380 So, we just went to a different dealership, and they bought it. 00:01:08.380 --> 00:01:10.420 We bought it out on $500, though. 00:01:10.420 --> 00:01:15.860 Yeah, it was $500 less than the other dealership, but it's not a big deal to us. 00:01:15.860 --> 00:01:21.400 Because we could have probably gotten like $3,000 to $5,000 more if we sold it to a private party. 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:25.880 But we don't live in the States, and it's going to be like over a three-hour round trip. 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:27.880 And we're not even in Seattle. 00:01:27.880 --> 00:01:33.880 We're in a city called Bellingham, which is another hour and a half north of Seattle. 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:36.920 Yeah. So, we made a whole day out of this. 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:41.880 We sold the car, and then we went to Trader Joe's, and we just stopped at Costco. 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:47.160 Now, we're on our way back. And surprisingly, that took us all day. 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:51.320 Well, we also went to the mall. We also ate food at this random place. 00:01:51.320 --> 00:01:52.920 That was really good. 00:01:52.920 --> 00:02:02.600 And we also got a new phone plan for me because if you have Google Fi or AT&T or T-Mobile or any of these phone plans, 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:08.600 like a U.S. phone plan, and you're in Canada for an extended period of time, they'll actually cut off your data. 00:02:08.600 --> 00:02:13.880 Because even though they allow international, they allow roaming, they allow calls between like Mexico, U.S., and Canada, 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:19.160 you don't actually, like you can't keep it for an extended period of time. 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:21.960 So, my data got cut off maybe like a half year ago or something. 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.120 So, Frank just does not have data. 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.920 I just don't have data. I always have to tether out with Annie's phone. 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:33.080 Yeah. One time, I lost Frank at Costco. I just like could not find him for the life of me. 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.720 I walked around for at least 40 minutes or something. 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:37.880 No, you didn't. That's such an exaggeration. 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:44.520 Anyways, and then I was like almost, I was about to give up, and then my friend calls me, 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:50.120 and she just happened to be at Costco too, and she saw him at the door just like wandering around outside. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:56.440 No, okay. Annie like never tells stories truthfully because she tries to make it more entertaining. 00:02:56.440 --> 00:03:01.560 But like whenever she says something, you have to think about it. It's like exaggerated at least 50%. 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.840 So, like she was not wandering around for 40 minutes. 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:08.680 I was not like, so like what happened was I couldn't find Annie. 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:12.040 So, I assumed like, okay, maybe she's like at the car waiting for me. 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:16.920 And so, I went to the car. She wasn't there. Then I go back to the entrance, but I don't have a Costco card. 00:03:16.920 --> 00:03:24.040 So, they don't let me in. Like I can't go in. And then Annie's friend comes out and she's like, oh, like I just saw Annie. 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:28.440 And it's like, are you here with Annie or whatever? I'm like, oh, I actually can use your phone to call her. 00:03:28.440 --> 00:03:33.800 And so, I call Annie. And Annie is like furious. And she's like cursing. She's like, where the hell are you? 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.760 Blah, blah, blah. And then the friend is like, oh my God. Like, did she get here at this screen? 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:42.120 Yeah, my friend was the one calling me. And she was like, oh, Frank is over here. I was like, oh my God. 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.920 Oh, I'm so mad at him. At that point, I was just so pissed because of the phone thing. 00:03:46.920 --> 00:03:51.720 Like Frank hasn't had a phone plan for a long time, which means I can never find him whenever I want. 00:03:51.720 --> 00:03:57.320 And it's something that I've like, already like got so upset over multiple times. 00:03:58.200 --> 00:04:01.800 Listen to why she's upset though. She's upset because she had to push the cart and it's so heavy. 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:07.720 The cart that I literally push every single time without complaint. You have to push it once 00:04:07.720 --> 00:04:09.480 and you get mad. Yeah. 00:04:09.480 --> 00:04:15.480 Think about that. Well, I was like tired and my feet hurt and like nowhere to be found. 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:19.560 Wow. On top of that, Frank's phone is always on silent, which means like, 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:25.240 even if he does have like wifi or the days that he used to have like, like phone service, 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.680 I would never be able to find him because it's just always on silent. 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:33.240 Yeah. And then WhatsApp made a feature that it would like override the silent feature. 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.360 If you made someone like a important contact, which I eventually did. 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:37.880 My iPhone does that too, I think. 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.840 Yeah. But like at that point I didn't even have data anymore. So it's not like it mattered. 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:51.560 But on a similar subject, we can kind of talk about the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard trial results. 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:56.600 Like I've seen surprisingly a lot of mixed feelings towards the trial. 00:04:57.320 --> 00:05:02.680 So there's like a group of feminists that are like, oh, everyone's using this as an excuse to like 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:13.240 bash women. And like, I think that they're really focusing on the wrong thing. And I was shocked to 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:19.080 see a bunch of people on social media being like, no one should be celebrating this. This is like an 00:05:19.080 --> 00:05:25.160 excuse. This is like a hoax. This is like Johnny Depp tricking everyone. He's so powerful. He's so rich. 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:33.720 And I'm just thinking, like, how did people get into such a brainwashed? How do they get so brainwashed 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:39.480 into thinking this? And like, are they just really do they actually believe this? Are they trying to get clout in 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:46.920 some way? Are they like because I can't understand the logical reasoning on why you would try to make 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:55.240 this into such a like, man versus woman? Because it's, it's not gender specific, like you would support 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:59.240 a victim of physical abuse, regardless of the gender, right? But apparently not. There's a lot 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:05.160 of people who are just like, anti men now. And I read one quote that was really kind of telling 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:11.080 on this subject, whereas it's like, feminism means equal rights, it doesn't mean putting one gender 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:15.800 over the other. And I think a lot of people, when they think of feminists, they think of like, 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:21.640 man hating. And I think it's like a very radical, small group of like, man hating or men hating 00:06:21.640 --> 00:06:26.280 feminists. And it could be guys and girls, I've seen both of them in this party. And I think it 00:06:26.280 --> 00:06:31.000 gives the rest of the group a really bad look. I think it's the same with like, political affiliation. 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.480 So regardless if you're Democrat or Republican, I think most people are pretty normal, like they're 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:40.040 closer to the middle part of the spectrum. But then you have like the extreme right and the extreme left, 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:50.360 who are so passionate and so vocal and so like, outlandish in their opinions, legal experts on social 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.280 media, prior to the results were saying how like, Oh, yeah, he's probably not going to win, like he's 00:06:54.280 --> 00:06:59.480 going to win the public opinion. But like proving this defamation case is like incredibly hard to do. 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.920 And now that he actually won the case, and even like airing out all this dirty laundry, 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:09.480 and like having his life effectively ruined for like the past five years, and like having his career 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:15.400 completely really like kind of ruined just the past five years. I didn't yeah, I don't know. I'm 00:07:17.080 --> 00:07:23.400 I'm surprised that there's any support left for Amber. Really, I think like there is a 00:07:24.520 --> 00:07:29.720 semblance of truth. Whereas like there are a lot of misogynistic people who will use this as a way to 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:34.840 like attack women in general. But again, I think again, that's like a small, vocal minority, like 00:07:34.840 --> 00:07:41.000 most people everywhere support Johnny. It's like, I don't know how you could not especially after seeing 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:47.880 everything that happened in the trial. And like, Amber is obviously a liar. And she not only lied under 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:53.320 oath during the trial, she also made up all the claims like, and her testimony was like such a terrible 00:07:53.320 --> 00:07:58.840 acting job. It was like her acting coach later came out and said like, Oh, yeah, Amber has always had 00:07:58.840 --> 00:08:03.720 trouble crying. And like, that's kind of hilarious. Because it's like, you think as an actor, that would 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:09.240 be like one of your main skills, like you'd be able to fake cry on demand. Yeah. But the funny part is 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:16.280 like her crying, fake crying is also just so, so bad. It's like not even like, what's she doing? 00:08:16.280 --> 00:08:22.120 And she's like wiping away her eyebrows. Like, what are you thinking? Like, oh, this looks like I'm 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:27.400 crying, right? If I'm doing this, or like making such an ugly cry face, but it just like looks so 00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:34.680 pathetic. Okay, but I think back on the topic of like, you know, all these people still supporting 00:08:34.680 --> 00:08:42.520 her, like, there is a group of people that will kind of just like, undoubtedly support a specific 00:08:42.520 --> 00:08:47.800 party or person, no matter what type of news or evidence comes out against them. 00:08:47.800 --> 00:08:54.360 Yeah. And I think they're like, there's actually so there's both of these groups that in this 00:08:54.360 --> 00:09:00.040 trial. So like, there are a bunch of men who will unequivocally hate women, regardless of what 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:05.080 happens. And then there's also another group of women that will unequivocally hate men, 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:10.360 regardless of like the results or whatever. And then also, you know, both genders might fall into 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:16.920 one or both of these groups somehow. I think the fact that it was like, there was overwhelming 00:09:16.920 --> 00:09:22.680 support for Johnny Depp still proves that a majority of the people do look at evidence are normal. So I 00:09:22.680 --> 00:09:30.520 do think that like, you can't expect the entire population to be radical and like, yeah, I mean, 00:09:30.520 --> 00:09:36.920 I think I used to hold the thought that like, everyone was a somewhat rational human being and 00:09:36.920 --> 00:09:42.360 like with presented with evidence, like irrefutable evidence, they would be willing to change their mind. 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:47.000 But like, time and time again, that's proven to be not the case. Like a bunch of people are just like 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:51.480 irredeemable, regardless of how they got there, regardless of like how they were radicalized or 00:09:52.040 --> 00:09:57.480 what brought them to this current state. But they're just like, unwilling to change their opinion, 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:01.560 either because they don't have like the mental capacity or empathy to see another person's point 00:10:01.560 --> 00:10:08.200 of view, or they're just like have some sort of internal, like, I don't know even what to say, 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:15.000 like brain disease. It's like, it's like almost like a mental disease at this point where it's like, 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:21.400 people are so off the rails. And it's, it's crazy, because I feel like it's getting worse. I 00:10:21.400 --> 00:10:24.600 don't know if it's getting worse because of social media, because everyone's like 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.520 a digital native nowadays. But I don't think it was this bad 10 years ago. 00:10:28.520 --> 00:10:35.560 probably social media. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been like, exposed to these opinions without social 00:10:35.560 --> 00:10:44.120 media. But I can't understand if like, a woman was abused by a man in her past, and it's just hurt 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:51.480 mentally by, and they hate men. Like I can totally understand their perspective. But if you've never 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:56.680 gone through that yourself, you don't have friends or family that have gone through that. And you just like, 00:10:56.680 --> 00:11:02.600 literally want to identify with a group of party and feel like, that belonging that I do think that 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:03.800 that's kind of, like, stupid. 00:11:03.800 --> 00:11:10.520 Yeah, I think you're right when you talk about the belonging part. I think that's actually why a lot 00:11:10.520 --> 00:11:14.760 of people join causes that they don't really believe in. Like, they just want to feel good about 00:11:14.760 --> 00:11:19.000 themselves. They want to feel like they're part of a group. And then they start to kind of lose their 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:23.880 critical thinking skills, or maybe they never had them in the first place. And they'll just adopt the views of 00:11:23.880 --> 00:11:31.080 that group. And I think that's like, it's kind of sad in a way, because like, people just want to feel 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:36.520 like they belong somewhere. And I guess they'll find this online group, they'll find some sort of like 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:41.240 moral superiority. That's not true activism, you're not actually making a difference. You're just being 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:46.280 like an asshole on the internet, which I think a lot of people confuse with activism these days. 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:55.640 So one funny thing that I recently saw online was this Crunchy Cult. Have you heard of that before? 00:11:55.640 --> 00:11:55.960 No. 00:11:55.960 --> 00:12:02.360 There are, like, these online groups of moms that push, like, this naturopathic way of, 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:08.440 like, raising your children. So it's like, you have to breastfeed, you have to give them, like, 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:15.480 essential oils, you have to co-sleep, like, basically a way of life or a way of raising your kids, 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:21.400 but super extreme. And they will, like, mom shame you, if you don't do it the way that they do. 00:12:22.280 --> 00:12:27.800 And then on the other spectrum, where they call it silky is, like, if you do everything by science, 00:12:27.800 --> 00:12:34.200 like, if you, you know, put them into a crib to sleep, and you, like, give them formula or something 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:42.600 like that. But, like, I just thought how, how funny it was that, like, people can turn this into a cult. 00:12:44.040 --> 00:12:50.120 Yeah, I think people these days, it kind of goes to the common theme of people are lost. 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.800 Like, not only are they lost, and they're looking for a group to belong in, 00:12:53.800 --> 00:12:59.000 but they also don't even have critical thinking skills. Especially when I see people argue online. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:03.160 It's like, they're unable to defend their own position if you actually ask them why they believe 00:13:03.160 --> 00:13:08.680 what they do. They're able to, like, memorize and parrot other people's thoughts, but when you actually, 00:13:08.680 --> 00:13:14.920 like, have a conversation, you realize that a lot of people, they don't actually know why they believe, 00:13:14.920 --> 00:13:19.480 or they're unable to, like, articulate exactly why they believe what they do. 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:26.200 They're able to, like, repeat what they think they should say, and what kind of sounds smart, 00:13:26.920 --> 00:13:31.000 but, like, they're actually unable to actually, to just defend their own position. 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.160 Which has always probably been true to an extent. 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:42.680 Um, I think the average person probably just is not that smart, honestly, but it's not, 00:13:42.680 --> 00:13:46.680 that's not the only problem. It's not like the average person is not that smart is a terrible 00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:52.840 thing, but it's that most people are unwilling to change that about themselves. Like, they're unwilling 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:58.760 to learn more, they're unwilling to improve, and they'd rather just complain and blame everyone else, 00:13:58.760 --> 00:14:04.520 and make enemies out of whoever's unlike them. As, like, a sort of excuse, saying, like, oh, well, 00:14:04.520 --> 00:14:10.280 it's not my fault that I'm not successful, or rich, or XYZ. It's because of this other group. It's because 00:14:10.280 --> 00:14:18.360 of minorities. It's because of women. It's because of, I don't know, like, a religious group. Like, who knows what the excuse is? 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.840 It's never their own fault. And I think, like, we talked about this before. There is, like, 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.600 a certain level of discrimination and societal, like, imbalance. But, like, 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:30.840 you also have to, like, do things on your own. You can't just expect things to be handed to you, 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:36.120 which I actually think a lot of people do expect nowadays. Like, there's a certain level of 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:42.120 responsibility that government and society should owe people to an extent, which I think mostly the US 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.880 and Western society definitely provide, and most societies around the world provide. Whereas, like, 00:14:45.880 --> 00:14:50.760 the guarantee of safety, for the most part, it's, like, the guarantee of, like, your currency not 00:14:50.760 --> 00:14:56.680 being devalued, which I guess is not really true anymore because of inflation. Yeah. That's a pretty, 00:14:56.680 --> 00:15:02.920 like, complicated topic, to be honest, because I think what you're trying to say is, like, on one end, 00:15:02.920 --> 00:15:09.800 a lot of people kind of self-sabotage in a way or self-handicap, and they blame other people 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:15.080 for them not succeeding. Privilege obviously exists. Like, some people are just born 00:15:15.880 --> 00:15:23.720 in a better position than others, but I think that's not a reason to not try. But a lot of people 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:28.840 will use that as a reason to not try because they're like, "Well, I'm going to try and I'm going to fail 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:35.960 anyway." And it's just easier to say that than to try and then fail, or perhaps, like, a very small 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:42.120 chance succeed, but they don't want to, like, deal with the potential of failing. Like, that's really 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:47.960 hard to swallow. I think a lot of people are afraid of failure, and, like, obviously, things are not 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:53.320 failed. The world is not fair. Like, the deck is stacked against you, and you should be a realist, 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:59.720 and you should accept that as reality. And you should also continue trying to achieve success. 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:05.000 Just because the odds are against you doesn't mean you don't try. And a lot of people these days seem 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:10.200 to have given up. There's, like, the Tang Ping movement in China where people have essentially, 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:16.440 like, given up on the rat race, and they're just kind of getting enough money to, like, scrimp by, 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:20.920 and then just laze around and then make some more money and do it all over again. Or, like, 00:16:20.920 --> 00:16:25.960 trying to mooch off their parents or... And the basic, like, philosophy is essentially, like, 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:30.520 "Well, if the odds are stacked against us, why should we even try?" And I'm not, I'm really 00:16:30.520 --> 00:16:34.360 not a fan of that. Because, like, the odds have always been stacked against you. It's not like... 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:41.800 Unless you're born very wealthy, and you're in the, like, political and racial and 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:48.760 religious majority of wherever you're born, like... And you can even be born ugly or something, right? 00:16:48.760 --> 00:16:52.520 Even if you're born really good looking, that's an obvious advantage. Like, Amber Heard, she was 00:16:52.520 --> 00:16:57.320 voted to be, like, at one point the most beautiful woman in the world because of, like, her facial 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:02.600 symmetry, et cetera, et cetera. And, like, I think she's had a cocaine addiction for a very long time 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:07.240 at this point. That's why she looks not as good anymore. And she's also older, of course. But, like, 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:12.920 if she was an ugly person, she would have gotten decimated, like, much more so than she did in the 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.920 media. And, like, people were giving Johnny Depp crap because he looks older now. He's, like, 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:22.360 gained some weight. And it's, like, pretty privilege is definitely a thing. Like, if you're an uglier 00:17:22.360 --> 00:17:28.360 person, you're just going to get less respect and, like, less goodwill. Yeah. 00:17:28.360 --> 00:17:34.440 But, again, it's, like, I think anyone who uses that an excuse to not try is, like, you're only 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:39.560 harming yourself, really. And I don't know. It's kind of sad. I think that a lot of people could 00:17:39.560 --> 00:17:45.160 really benefit from, like, a growth mindset and just more positivity. And he's super positive about 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:52.760 things. Yeah. Well, actually, it depends. Like, we talked about how, like, I'm more positive about 00:17:52.760 --> 00:17:58.520 things because I always assume the worst is going to happen. So then when something that's better than 00:17:58.520 --> 00:18:04.040 the worst happens, I'm just like, oh, great. That's better than what I expected. And Frank is 00:18:04.040 --> 00:18:09.240 actually an optimist. So he assumes that everything's going to work out. And when it doesn't, then he's 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:14.120 like, well, crap. How could that not work out? How could that happen? Doesn't make any sense. 00:18:14.120 --> 00:18:23.960 Life is tough. And it's, like, mostly really crappy. And I think people need to, like, cope. 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:28.920 And so then they try to put, like, meaning into life. Like, whenever something shitty happens, 00:18:29.800 --> 00:18:35.080 they try to, like, put a meaning behind it. But I don't think there's any meaning in life. 00:18:35.080 --> 00:18:39.160 Yeah. It's kind of interesting because I think that we have it so good now that we, 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:47.000 or a lot of people that live in a developed country can now even ponder, what is the meaning of life? 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:52.200 What's my purpose? Like, what am I supposed to do? Whereas for the majority of mankind's history, 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:56.440 people were just trying to survive. They were just trying to have enough food to get by, 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:01.720 have enough resources to continue living. And it's been a very recent development that people have 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:06.920 really started to ponder, like, or at least, like, majority of people. Like, wealthy people have 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:12.440 thought about this before, obviously. And then religion, to an extent, has also answered a lot 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.560 of these questions for, like, oh, well, what should you be doing? What's the meaning of life? 00:19:16.120 --> 00:19:23.320 And I think the current way I think about it is that, like, everyone's meaning, you, like, 00:19:23.320 --> 00:19:30.120 pretty much live life to try and discover that. And you can make your own why. So the question is a lot 00:19:30.120 --> 00:19:35.480 more interesting than the answer, because you live through life, and you find your own answer. And so 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:40.200 it's going to be unique to every individual. For me, I always thought I wanted to start a family. 00:19:40.840 --> 00:19:45.000 I've always been very family oriented. There are other people who are focused on other things, 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:52.840 like spirituality, or volunteering. Their career, mostly, I feel like. Yeah, a lot of people focus on their 00:19:52.840 --> 00:20:00.760 career, maybe their friendships, maybe individual achievements. Yeah, I feel like a lot of people, 00:20:00.760 --> 00:20:06.760 especially in Western countries, have started focusing on their career a lot in the last, like, 00:20:06.760 --> 00:20:13.080 I don't know how many years. Like, most of my friends now, it's like their self-identity is only 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:17.960 in their career. Like, if they're not doing well in their career, they don't want to start a family, 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:23.800 because they feel like they just, they're not who. Like, they haven't, yeah, they haven't reached their, 00:20:23.800 --> 00:20:29.800 like, potential or whatever. Potential yet. Whereas I feel like my whole thing was always to just 00:20:29.800 --> 00:20:36.120 have a family. Like, that was my goal. So now that I have a family, I feel like I already have pretty 00:20:36.120 --> 00:20:43.640 much everything that I need. And maybe that's why a lot of people in, like, Eastern countries are, 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:50.600 like, like, they feel more fulfilled, because their goals are not really career related. They're more, 00:20:50.600 --> 00:20:56.920 like, family oriented. Like, career is a very individualized goal. And especially, they've done 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:02.120 a lot of research on happiness and longevity, and what makes someone live for a longer period of time. 00:21:02.840 --> 00:21:07.880 And they found a lot of commonalities between different cultures. And one of the main things is 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:13.640 really belongingness towards a community. And so there's, like, an island in Okinawa where there's a 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:19.720 bunch of centennials. Centennials is someone who lives past 100. And they found out that they all had 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:25.160 this, like, group of friends ever since they were little. And it's, like, four or five friends in the, 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:30.040 per group. And they just kind of grow old together. And they have regular contact with each other. 00:21:30.040 --> 00:21:35.480 Same thing with people in other cultures. The ones who live really long report happiness because they're 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:42.280 part of their church's community. They're deeply ingrained in their local town through religion or 00:21:43.800 --> 00:21:50.440 volunteering or something else. It's like they remain active. And another common factor was not 00:21:50.440 --> 00:22:00.120 eating very much. So the less you eat, the better, essentially. And also daily exercise. So not strenuous 00:22:00.120 --> 00:22:05.000 exercise. They're not, like, weightlifting or cross-country skiing or anything. But just, like, 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:12.040 walking, gardening. And it's, like, these things seem so simple. And, like, when you actually break 00:22:12.040 --> 00:22:16.840 down life, if you have your essentials met and, like, a lot of people are, like, hey, Frank, how do I 00:22:16.840 --> 00:22:21.720 become happy? Or, like, how do I get out of this slump or depression or whatever? And it's, like, well, 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:27.640 are you eating right? Are you sleeping? Are you drinking water? Are you - do you have, like, friends, 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:33.720 family, people that support you? And if you have those four things, like, and you're still depressed, 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:37.960 maybe you need to see, like, a psychiatrist to see if, like, you have a chemical imbalance in your 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:42.200 brain or whatever. But most people, like, don't even have the basics down. Like, we don't even have the 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:48.600 basics down. Like, we don't exercise regularly enough. Our diet is not the best. It's hard to prioritize when 00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:53.640 you have, like, two little kids. Yeah, other obligations. But, again, like, it's, um, what you 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:59.960 prioritize, right? So, if we do prioritize our health over, like, anything else, then... 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:05.160 Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I think, also, like, modern society places too much emphasis on 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:09.880 happiness. People always, like, oh, are you happy? Are you happy? Are you happy? It's, like, well, 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:15.640 I think it's better to be at peace and satisfied than it, like, if you're always chasing happiness, happiness 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:20.440 is fleeting. It's, like, you're never going to have a constant rush of dopamine. Like, that's, 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:25.400 that's just not possible. Even if you're doing drugs, your dopamine centers eventually, like, 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:29.720 become weaker and weaker, and you need more and more drugs to continually achieve the same response. 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:35.480 Um, and so, now people are going to, like, dopamine retreats. Like, I'll cut off all internet, 00:23:35.480 --> 00:23:40.600 cell phone, use footage, screen time. It's, like, a popular thing in the SF, like, tech crowd. But, um, 00:23:41.560 --> 00:23:49.480 I think people under value having peace, like, mental peace, peace at home, peace with your family. 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:56.120 Like, that's true happiness. When you don't have to worry about all these things that are stressing 00:23:56.120 --> 00:24:02.120 you out, and your just daily interactions with the people that you love, like, your family, 00:24:02.120 --> 00:24:07.400 your friends. Because that's what life is, really, at the end of the day. It's just hanging out and, 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:13.960 like, these small interactions every day. That's life. This is what we got. Yeah. And when I met Frank, 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:20.280 one time we were going to Big Sur and we were, I was driving like a crazy person because I wanted to 00:24:20.280 --> 00:24:24.920 get to Big Sur before sundown. Like, we left pretty late and it was, like, a long drive. 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:30.120 And then I saw the sunset and so I, like, stopped at the side of the road and I'm like, Frank, get off the 00:24:30.120 --> 00:24:35.720 car. Like, let's take a sun, like, a photo with the sun. And then we took a photo and I immediately, 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:40.760 like, shoved him back into the car and, like, started driving again. And he was like, what is 00:24:40.760 --> 00:24:46.920 wrong with you? And he actually got pretty upset. He was like, I don't understand, like, why you were 00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:51.800 like that. Like, we had just met at that point so he didn't really know me that well. And he was 00:24:51.800 --> 00:24:56.280 extremely upset because we didn't get a good picture. I was like, the sun was down. I thought the picture 00:24:56.280 --> 00:25:01.320 was fine myself. No, you can't see anything. Like, if you've seen photos of Big Sur online, like, 00:25:01.320 --> 00:25:06.760 it's beautiful and that was the type of photo that I wanted to get. It was pitch black by the time we 00:25:06.760 --> 00:25:12.120 got there. And then, so Frank was like, honestly, like, it doesn't matter what we see as long as 00:25:12.120 --> 00:25:17.320 we're together and we're enjoying the time we spend with each other. Like, who cares? Like, you didn't 00:25:17.320 --> 00:25:21.880 even want to see the sunset as it was setting. You literally took a photo, you didn't watch the sunset, 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:28.840 and then you spent the next like 20 minutes driving. So like, yeah. And I think that was like the moment 00:25:28.840 --> 00:25:35.560 where like, I literally had a shift and I started using Instagram less and less and less. And like, 00:25:35.560 --> 00:25:43.080 it's almost like the more that I enjoyed living in the moment, the less I enjoyed going on Instagram. 00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:50.680 And it's almost like social media is a way for us to like fill this void that we have in ourselves. 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:57.640 And like, we're trying to show this really happy side of us and like, look at what a great life I'm 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:03.720 living because I'm not living a great life. But I, yeah, I don't know. It's like, am I making sense? 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:08.760 Yeah. I think it also depends on the social media platform because Instagram is definitely like the 00:26:08.760 --> 00:26:14.600 picture perfect. Let's Photoshop it, make it perfect. And before I feel like it was more scandalous to 00:26:14.600 --> 00:26:18.360 actually Photoshop your pictures. And if people found out, they would like call you out, but now it's just 00:26:18.360 --> 00:26:24.040 normal. Like everyone photoshops their pictures because that's what people on Instagram do. Like Kim 00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:31.160 Kardashian has an entire team that photoshops her pictures for to make them perfect. And I think that is 00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:36.760 extremely toxic and Facebook, Facebook products, essentially, they're all kind of try to show off 00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:42.120 this like fake persona of like, Hey, I'm living the perfect life. I'm going to all these fun events. 00:26:42.120 --> 00:26:47.480 I'm having the time of my life. Whereas like TikTok is way more organic. Like you still obviously see 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:51.880 that there's people who are trying to show off, but there's tons more of people who are like trying 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:58.680 to teach, trying to be like just normal. Like obviously my production quality is super low. It's not 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:05.960 like I do anything. And I think that like the key difference between like TikTok and something like 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:11.720 Instagram or Facebook or Twitter is that after I'm on TikTok and I'm scrolling through, I'll be like, 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:16.040 Oh, that was fun. Like that hour went by. I learned some cool stuff. I saw some funny things. I saw some 00:27:16.040 --> 00:27:21.640 interesting things. And compared to like Instagram or Twitter, I'll be like, wow, like I feel more 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:29.480 more angry about the state of the world or just like my mood will be worse. And so I think the same thing 00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:35.400 with YouTube, like YouTube is pretty good, except the amount of content on YouTube, like 00:27:36.280 --> 00:27:41.000 their discovery and algorithm, I feel like is inferior to TikToks. It's hard for me to discover new stuff. 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:46.600 Like I'm always finding new creators who have really good videos, but it doesn't show up in my feed. 00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:50.520 Like I'll have to like see it through like a Reddit thread or maybe like a TikTok or Twitter or 00:27:50.520 --> 00:27:53.960 somewhere else where they'll be like, Oh yeah, this creator, like make really good stuff. You should 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:57.000 check out this video. And I'll look at it. I'm like, Oh wow, that was really good. And they'll have 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:01.960 millions of subs, but it's like, I've never seen any of their stuff organically. And there's like no 00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:08.680 way I would have through YouTube. Yeah. We're waiting for our McDonald's order. So let's start with 00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:14.680 what annoys me about Frank. It annoys me that every single time I get McDonald's, 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:21.480 he always complains about how expensive it is. It's so expensive. Just let me. So our McDonald's 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:29.560 meal was $28 for the same price. We could have had like two whole Costco pizzas. I over ordered, 00:28:29.560 --> 00:28:38.680 I ordered two spicy McChickens, a cone, and I'm, I want his meal. So yeah, I got a 10 piece McNugget and a 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:46.120 McDouble, and then she turned the McNuggets into a meal. Yeah. So it could have been like $22. 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:51.560 But my point is, just let me enjoy my $5 McChicken. Thank you. 00:28:52.520 --> 00:28:59.000 McChickens are not worth $5. Every time, like literally every single, every single time. 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:08.520 I'm shocked by how expensive. And the fact that like, it's like, we spend way more money on other 00:29:08.520 --> 00:29:13.000 types of food, like stop complaining about freaking McDonald's. Yeah, because it's more worth it. 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:17.720 McDonald's is a fast food place. It's supposed to be cheap. What else do you complain about? But then, 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:22.360 he'll be like, oh, look at the casino across the street, all in black. 00:29:24.760 --> 00:29:31.320 Seriously, this thing just looks sad. Like, how much does this cost? I ordered two McChickens, 00:29:31.320 --> 00:29:36.840 so you can have one. All right, this McDouble was $3. You can have one of my McChickens. 00:29:36.840 --> 00:29:46.280 No, I'm good. See what a really sweet wife I am. Yeah. We crossed the border. So we went to a 00:29:46.280 --> 00:29:51.320 Canadian McDonald's when we should have tried American McDonald's. I wonder if the prices there are 00:29:52.040 --> 00:29:57.000 ludicrous, like they are here. Yeah. Something that annoys me about Annie, even though I've showed 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:04.520 her how to do it a million times. She never properly opens any bag. And just trying to like shove, 00:30:04.520 --> 00:30:09.560 see how this is like stuck in the middle of the bag? Yeah. She didn't bother to open it. It takes 00:30:09.560 --> 00:30:17.320 two seconds to like... Yeah, I do do that. He has mentioned this before. 00:30:19.320 --> 00:30:22.760 Would you stay in Canada for the rest of your life or move somewhere else? 00:30:24.600 --> 00:30:27.240 I mean, do you want me to answer or are you going to answer? No, you can start. 00:30:28.840 --> 00:30:31.800 Realistically, we'll probably stay in Canada unless there's like an 00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:39.240 amazing opportunity somewhere else. Yeah, because my family's in Canada, obviously. 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:43.800 Was that obvious? Do people know that? Yeah, I think we've said that multiple times. 00:30:44.760 --> 00:30:52.600 I enjoy being close to my parents and hopefully Frank's parents might move to the west coast 00:30:52.600 --> 00:30:58.680 in the future so that everyone will be kind of close together. And then I feel like the only reason 00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:05.400 we would go back is if we ever had to move for Frank's work, which we don't have to worry about 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:11.000 right now. Better place to live, U.S. or Canada? It's easier to make money in the States. 00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:16.600 There's way less people in general in Canada. Yeah, I guess if you're more career focused, 00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:21.480 the U.S. is a better place to be. If you're more like family focused, there are places in the U.S. with 00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:28.280 really low cost of living are safe and have a lot of buses. I've only lived in Vancouver and for the U.S. 00:31:28.280 --> 00:31:34.360 I've lived kind of all over in the Midwest, East Coast, West Coast. The U.S. is an incredibly diverse 00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:40.040 place. It's hard to generalize it as one country because each individual state has its own culture 00:31:40.040 --> 00:31:44.760 and can be very drastically different. So as a similar question, where would I live if I could only 00:31:44.760 --> 00:31:49.480 pick one country? I would pick the United States because there's so many different cultures to 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:55.960 experience and geography and natural beauty. Yeah, Vancouver is great to retire, but like for a young 00:31:55.960 --> 00:32:01.960 person, if you're going to be in Canada, you should at least be in Toronto. Yeah, there's more job 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:07.160 opportunities in the Toronto area. I would say that Canada is really diverse too, though, in terms of 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:15.000 like culture. It's a lot of immigrants. Yeah, a lot of immigrants. Vancouver is pretty much like a mini Asia. 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:21.720 What are my thoughts on retroactive jealousy? Which I googled, I had to google that. Like jealousy towards 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:29.560 your previous or exes, ex-girlfriends or boyfriends. Funny story, I still do not know how many girlfriends 00:32:29.560 --> 00:32:35.320 Frank has had in the past because he refuses to tell me. Because I'm a very jealous person, I will 00:32:35.320 --> 00:32:41.880 probably not handle that well. It could go two ways. He's had significantly more girlfriends than I've 00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:49.080 had. Then I'd be like, very upset. And then the other scenario would be he's had less girlfriends than 00:32:49.080 --> 00:32:56.440 I've had boyfriends. In that case, I will probably be like, ha ha ha, look at me. Like so much more 00:32:56.440 --> 00:33:02.040 experienced than you are. And so, and because he hasn't told me, I haven't told him either. I mean, 00:33:02.040 --> 00:33:08.600 Annie kind of knows because like... I know individual people. I know a few. Like you've had 00:33:08.600 --> 00:33:15.080 probably at least like four. But like, that doesn't tell me anything. Yeah, I mean, it's like before we 00:33:15.080 --> 00:33:18.680 started dating, when we were just friends, we would talk about like our relationships and stuff. So it's 00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:22.600 not like she doesn't know anything. It's just that she doesn't know the full picture. Very dangerous. 00:33:22.600 --> 00:33:29.160 If you meet someone and that you're slightly interested in them to become a significant other 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:34.520 in the future, do not tell them anything about your previous relationships because they'll remember 00:33:34.520 --> 00:33:39.320 that. No, I think it's fine. It's just that like, it depends on how jealous your partner is. Like 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:48.280 one time, I don't know if this is too much to share, but so when Frank and I first met, there was another 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:54.440 guy that asked me out. We knew each other from college and he was also in San Francisco and I just 00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:59.560 moved to San Francisco. So he was like, why don't we catch up? And Frank and I had actually just gotten 00:33:59.560 --> 00:34:08.680 into a relationship and I basically didn't cancel that catch up. So I was like, well, it's a catch up 00:34:08.680 --> 00:34:18.840 with a guy. And so I went anyway. But then, but then obviously, I got there and he wanted more than 00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:24.040 just a catch up. And so I quickly left. And so when I got home, Frank was like, why did you come home 00:34:24.040 --> 00:34:29.240 so, so quickly? I was like, oh, it was like not a catch up. Like he was interested in more than a 00:34:29.240 --> 00:34:34.760 catch up. But he's like, well, I kind of expected that. I just didn't want to say anything. And years 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:44.200 later, another friend came to Chicago to visit and was like, oh, oh, like, do you want to hang out? 00:34:44.200 --> 00:34:50.120 I was like, oh yeah, my friend, like the guy from air that works at Airbnb and Frank got so pissed, 00:34:50.120 --> 00:34:53.640 but he got confused. Like the other guy was worked at Facebook. I thought it was the other guy. 00:34:53.640 --> 00:34:59.640 Yeah. And then when I said Airbnb, Frank was just like, are you kidding me? And so I didn't meet up 00:34:59.640 --> 00:35:02.920 with that guy. But like later, we found out that he thought it was a different guy. 00:35:03.640 --> 00:35:10.360 Yeah. Sorry, random other guy. Got you mixed up. When my TikTok was blowing up. So when I first started, 00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:16.520 I was getting so many messages per day and Annie would read every single one of them. And if I responded to 00:35:16.520 --> 00:35:21.000 one girl too often, she'd be like, wait, who's this girl on LinkedIn? Why are you talking to her? 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:24.840 I'll be like, I'm just answering these random questions. I will go on his LinkedIn and read 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:30.760 all the messages because it's like also new and exciting. And if I see, I will only look at messages 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:35.800 with girls. I just skip over the messages with guys. And typically it's a very like simple exchange. 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:41.080 They ask like, hey, we'd love to like have a one-on-one session with you. And Frank usually answers like, 00:35:41.080 --> 00:35:47.000 no, I'm too busy. But like, there are a few girls that would be like, have a lot of follow-up 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:55.000 questions, like a lot to the point where it's like, okay, you have to prevent things from happening. 00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:02.600 So like, Frank doesn't even like register. He's just so like oblivious. Oh, one time, 00:36:02.600 --> 00:36:07.480 I don't know if we told the story. I don't think so. My friend Cherry and Sarah came to stay with 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:13.080 us in San Jose. They stayed for like two weeks. I was supposed to go up with Cherry and Sarah to 00:36:13.080 --> 00:36:18.040 San Francisco. Frank didn't want to make the road trip. So he was going to stay home. But last minute, 00:36:18.040 --> 00:36:24.120 Sarah was like, I am going to stay home because I have work to do. And I was like, there's no way that 00:36:24.120 --> 00:36:30.760 Frank and my friend Sarah is going to be in left in the same apartment at the same time for a day. 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:38.680 So I made Frank go up to San Francisco for me with me. There was 0.0001% chance that they were going 00:36:38.680 --> 00:36:45.960 to hook up or do anything. But I'm very extra. No trust. No, babe. It's not that I don't trust you. 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:52.200 I don't trust other people. And it's not that I don't trust Sarah either. But like, you just cannot 00:36:52.200 --> 00:36:58.760 let there be any room for accidents to happen. I'm very extra. I'm going to lose so many followers 00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:03.480 after this podcast. I don't think anyone's going to care. People are going to be like, oh my god, 00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:12.280 it's crazy. I mean, you are crazy though. Just showing them your true self. Yeah, Frank always says 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:19.720 if he has like a hidden camera that recorded me, then people... Yeah, people don't realize the extent 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:27.960 of Annie's craziness. Are you sure you don't want my McChicken? I mean, I'll eat half if you don't 00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:33.080 want it, but otherwise you should just eat it. He'll always be like, I'll eat whatever you don't eat. 00:37:33.080 --> 00:37:38.680 So then I'll have to pretend that I'm full and be like, oh, I'm going to throw it away if you don't 00:37:38.680 --> 00:37:42.840 eat it. And then he'll be like, okay, I'll eat it. That's not true. You throw away ice cream 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:47.560 all the time. He's also really bad at ordering food for himself. So he'll always order food that he 00:37:47.560 --> 00:37:53.400 doesn't like or he'll order food that like too little food. So now I'll always have to give him 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:59.400 my food or switch my food with him because whenever he orders something that I'm like, he's not gonna 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:03.400 like it. I'll always order something on the menu that I know that he'll like. So we'll always switch. 00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:12.520 I'm amazing. That's why you married me. Would you guys ever live abroad? China, Japan, Asia in 00:38:12.520 --> 00:38:18.040 particular? It would definitely be China because we have relatives there. It'd be pretty hard to live 00:38:18.040 --> 00:38:23.720 anywhere else, especially because most Asian countries make it very hard for you to own property 00:38:23.720 --> 00:38:29.320 or even like rent places if you're not a citizen there. China as well. But because we have relatives 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:37.160 in China, at least we would have a place to stay and we're ethnically Chinese. So I in particular will 00:38:37.160 --> 00:38:45.560 never live in Europe because I just, I can't like live the way that they they live. Every Sunday, 00:38:45.560 --> 00:38:51.800 every single store is closed and like no hate, but it's most countries are very inefficient. Like 00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:57.000 they're just slow at doing everything. I've never been to Europe. Yeah, we need to go to Europe. 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:01.560 Europe is fun to visit, but it's really hard to live for a long time. Like for the rest of my life, 00:39:01.560 --> 00:39:08.680 like no, I can't. Which Gen 1 Pokemon starter he would choose and why? I'm going to say that you will 00:39:08.680 --> 00:39:17.800 choose Charmander. So it depends actually. When I was younger, I always chose Squirtle because Squirtle has 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:25.480 the best stats as Blastoise. And so like the very, basically Pokemon never had an official difficulty 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:31.800 level, but Bulbasaur was essentially for like the easiest level. Squirtle was medium and Charmander 00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:37.880 was hard because Charmander, it'd be difficult to defeat the first two gym leaders, which fire types 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:43.720 were ineffective towards. Whereas Bulbasaur was effective against both of the, both of the first two. 00:39:43.720 --> 00:39:49.160 And Squirtle was effective against the first one. And it was neutral towards the second one. 00:39:50.200 --> 00:39:54.760 As I grew older, I don't know at which point I actually switched to Charmander. And that was 00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.480 mostly just because I thought Charizard was really cool. The anime really highlights Charizard as like 00:40:00.120 --> 00:40:05.240 one of the strongest Pokemon. And in the movies, Charizard is really highlighted. Whereas Blastoise is 00:40:05.240 --> 00:40:12.360 Gary's Pokemon. And like, no one really likes Gary. He's like a jerk in the anime. Eventually becomes a 00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:18.920 researcher, like doesn't even become champion or anything. And so yeah, I think the anime had a 00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:25.480 large part to do with like why I eventually liked Charizard more and thus Charmander. But originally, 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:28.840 I like Squirtle a whole lot. I never liked Bulbasaur. I thought he was like... 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:31.320 Let's end this. We're going to drive home soon. 00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:38.040 Thanks for watching the Frankly Speaking Podcast. Hope to see all of you again very soon. Bye.