Hello and welcome to the Think Bike podcast.

I'm back from China and I'm here with Dario and Dario has a little cold, so he's got a little

deeper voice today.

That sounds huskier than normal and I apologize for that.

Stefan's doing great.

So yeah, I'm thriving out here. It's sunny and beautiful. We're good. I know. It sucks to be sick when it's beautiful out, but I'm still riding. It's a good way to get all the snot out. I feel like riding with a cold, sometimes I feel like it can shake it out of you. So maybe you just got to go. That's my logic, Yeah. I try not to rev too hard and I just go for like a nice spin and it's great. It just works it out of your system. It's not like a thing. First, we should talk about some things that happened over the last week. Well, I was in China. So that was different. That was much different than Bellingham. Yeah, I have so many questions about China.

I feel like this mythical place.

Well, one of my, somewhere to start, I guess, was all the funny names.

I saw Dario, your comment on one of your random way.

I didn't want to punch down, but that was, there were too many things to.

Frog wakes, snail cranks,

Fortin Fox, jumping hairs, bat fox lid. They're really into the animal names. Yeah. It's, I mean, it's the thing, it's one of those things that gave us say, we don't want to punch down because obviously Chinese to English translation is tricky, which... My English to Chinese translation would be famously bad, I think. Yeah.

It's really cool.

Like I hadn't been somewhere in a while where i had to do much translation but in china i did have

to and the apple translator any kind of like phone translator thing is so cool to have because you

just talk in your phone it turns into chinese they speak in their phone it turns into english

and just trying to imagine even just 10 years ago going there and communicating without it, it's so much harder. So that was kind of a cool use of technology. Like, oh, this makes it a lot easier. And one of the guys with us had his meta glasses and he could listen to someone speak in Chinese and it would speak in English in his ears, which it just seems like a sci-fi movie. That's insane. Yeah, like live translates into your ear. And if you see, like, you know, Chinese characters, you can aim your phone at it, take a picture, and it will just change, like, overlays, which is really cool. So, uh, that was a side helps. That helps. Yeah, it does help. But as far as translation goes, I, I feel like these companies could hire just a native English speaker or someone who's like fully, fully fluent and it would save them so much. I'll do it. Translation. I know. That's a lot of thing. I think like, I know some German companies have done that. And I think that's like a smart thing to do. It just gives you slightly more cachet with your target audience. and like, given that that's the goal here, like, I don't know why that's not more common.

Yeah, because you. And like, given that that's the goal here, like, I don't know why that's not more common.

Yeah, because you see like, you know, Faust suspension, like FOS, but it's just printed the same as Fox.

You know, it's, yeah.

And there's also definitely a fair bit of copying, too, which.

Yeah, the IP theft is interesting.

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