I don't have my mics with me, so I'm recording this with the built-in mics on the Zoom

apologies for the weirdness of tone, I've already, this is like my third shot at this and

the first couple, the P's were popping and it wasn't working, so I'll do my best with

this and then we'll get right into the podcast. I'm at a place called Shishai, which is a few

hours north of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. I'm at a friend's beach house, if you hear birds

sing in or waves crash in, those are Mozambique and birds and the waves are Indian ocean waves

lapping up on the rocks down a few hundred meters from here. Yeah, beach house, man, beach house is

one of those things, I think there's a whole, there's a whole class of things that I've discovered,

it's better to have friends who have them and to have them yourself. Beach house, horses,

ski chalets, yachts or boats of any kind, children, certainly, possibly wives depending on how

liberal you are, both the sorts of things. Yeah, I don't know, I guess I just like to travel pretty

light through life and as hassle-free as possible and so it's great when you've got friends who

have a boat, you go out on the boat for a week, you say thank you, that was wonderful and you leave

and he's got to deal with the barnacles, you know, in the taxes and the docking fees and the

repairs and the maintenance and all the bullshit that comes with boats and I think we can

extrapolate from that to two other things, other elements of life. But anyway, here I am, you know,

I was on this 130 foot yacht a couple months ago off the coast of Canada and now we're at a beautiful

beach house in Mozambique, probably if you put a drove a nail through the earth perpendicular to

Vancouver, you might come out in Mozambique, I'm not sure, certainly not far from here.

Like when you used to say if you dug a hole deep enough you'd come out in China or what's

that kind of thing. Anyway, Mozambique, amazing, interesting place, great fruit, great seafood,

really, really good seafood, happy people, interesting post-colonial scene here. I don't know,

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