Radio Mano, Papa Tchango.

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All right, I do believe that I have worked out the adjustments

so that you can hear me, I can hear me,

but neither one of us is overly distracted

by the fan that's blowing on me without which I would melt into a pool of

Cytoplasm, is that a word? I forget what it means, but I think that's what I'd melt into a pool of and

and

we're also not distracted by the long tail boats

that are going back and forth out in the bay in front of me pretty far away, but they're extremely loud. If you've never seen

long tail boats, it's a thing in Thailand. I don't know if they have them elsewhere in the world, but

they're definitely sort of one of those classic Thai

visions that you'll see in postcards and travel brochures and that kind of thing.

There are these long boats that they've

figured out how to mount a car engine on the back of it

with a long axle and the car engine is mounted on a pivot with

like a lever and the guy stands there and because it's

it's balanced so perfectly on this pivot.

The guy can just push down on the lever and lift the propeller out of the water and the propeller is like maybe

20-30 feet away from the engine. It's a long axle and so to pivot the boat you sort of lift you press down lift that

propeller out of the water and then you know turn and drop it back in and the boat will make a really nice tight turn.

It's a very

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