274 -- TOMA 17 (Barcelona/Alaska/Snake)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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A long-awaited TOMA episode in which lots of worlds interconnect: an apartment in Barcelona, a drunken night in Kenai, and a snake at a water trough in Sicily.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been a while since I did Atoma. |
| 0:06.6 | Yeah, travel, talking out my ass, not ranting out my ass. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm in Barcelona. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm sort of at the nexus of memories here. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm in our flat in Barcelona, which we purchased in 2003. |
| 0:23.7 | It's the only place I've ever owned. |
| 0:26.6 | And I don't really even own this. |
| 0:28.1 | And Cassilda's name. |
| 0:31.4 | But yeah, we went in on it together. |
| 0:34.2 | And we fixed it all up with our friends, Vieram, and Matt, |
| 0:38.7 | and senior race, who came down here. |
| 0:43.7 | This is sort of a strange story. |
| 0:46.0 | We bought the place. |
| 0:47.4 | And I budgeted about 30,000 euros to hire someone |
| 0:52.5 | to do a renovation. |
| 0:53.9 | But what I didn't understand was that in Spain, when you buy |
| 0:56.5 | a place you pay all the taxes at the purchase, |
| 0:59.4 | you don't have high property taxes every year, like in the states. |
| 1:05.6 | So the 30,000 euros that I had budgeted for renovation |
| 1:10.6 | were reduced to about 8,000 euros very quickly. |
| 1:15.8 | By the time we walked out of the lawyer's office, in fact. |
| 1:19.2 | So the place that we had bought, which |
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