It's three days after the election in the USA and suffice it to say, our hosts were not in the best mood over it. Florian takes the reigns as host while Nick is shocked that people actually listen to the podcast.

Our hosts commiserate over the state of the world after the 2024 US Presidential Election.

Duration: 0:52:13

“I know for most Americans, this is about America only”

It’s three days after the 2024 US Presidential Election and our hosts are not optimistic about the state of the world. The inevitability of climate change and how to grow your own food after the climate crisis are some of the inspiring, light topics that come up.

(Nick also apologizes for his breathing noises and getting the show notes done hours before recording the next episode, featuring Florian BACK IN MEXICO!)

40 degree summers will be commonplace soon / Ivory Charts / Reddit’s Am I the A-Hole (Original) / Reddit’s AITA (The more popular one) / The Electoral College is Anti-Democratic / The Christian Democratic Union / Social Democratic Party of Germany / Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance / Atomkraft? Nein Danke / Light Water Reactors / Schwerkraft? Nein Danke / The Muckrake Political Podcast / Behind the Bastards / Better Offline / Trashfuture / Well There’s Your Problem / Federal Tax Updates Podcast

Home ownership, betting on the future, and organizing at work.

Duration: 1:22:57

Nick forgot to mention the reason bringing up the coffee shop story: In 2006, while working as a minimum wage Barista, two twentysomthings were trying to pitch him a no down payment mortgage. That’s when he realized there was something really wrong with the mortgage and housing market.

Did any of you get a good time for when Nick finished his story? Probably longer than 90 seconds.

Nick’s old apartment in Mexico City is an AirBNB: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/53845986

Nick is currently using a Pixel 7. Kristin has a Pixel 6. Raven has a Pixel 4.

Most of the population of the Grand Rapids Metro Area (https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US24340-grand-rapids-kentwood-mi-metro-area/) lives in an area a little bigger than the Saarland, each being slightly over 1 million people. The City of Grand Rapids has a population of about 195,000, similar to Saarbrucken’s 175,000.

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Nick and Florian talk Burning Man. Then Kathrin appears. They talk more Burning Man. Then Raven appears. More Burning Man follows.

Duration: 0:54:18

The OpenAI-generated summaries are so bad, we'd rather publish this episode without any shownotes. That's unless Nick manages to create them within 48 hours of Florian writing this text.

Duration: 0:55:05

Recorded in December 2022. Florian asked ChatGPT to provide some shownotes. But those were really boring, and so even though it was faster than what Nick provided (and more), we still won't use them.

We realize that we haven't talked much since Nevada. But what happened in Nevada stays in Nevada. Nick took a boat to Europe, and Florian learns the trombone.

Duration: 1:07:41

Duration: 1:39:17

Recorded April 18 2022.

No shownotes, because of reasons.

Tell Nick that you miss him!

Settling into their post-pandemic reality, Florian and Nick talk all about sport and trains. All the trains. Trains in Germany. Trains in Poland and Serbia. Night trains. Train loops! And shockingly, unlike several previous episodes, this was not actually recorded on a train.

For not actually being on a train, there's a lot of talk a lot about trains

Duration: 1:02:50

Show notes:

The Höllentalbahn (Hell Valley Railway), Rendsburg High Bridge, Rendsburg Loop, Koper to Ljubljana, Cologne-Frankfurt High Speed Rail Line, Kaiserstuhl

The California Zephyr, Truckee Train Station, Polish Night Trains, The “Infamous” Belgrade to Budapest Night Train, The Vienna to Berlin night train (with private showers!), The Acela

Brass Master Class (in German)

Accuracy Third

Nick left Florian on read for several months, so now they get to talk about it.

Duration: 0:47:37

Two “offices”, one with plants

RC3 World – Collective Insights Podcast – Snow Crash – Metaverse – Tent sizing is a myth – Der Tatortreiniger – Tent Repair Splint – Zero Energy Building – Kirsten Dirksten (faircompanies.com) – Powderrrrrrr – Magpie and Constantine cross the Mackinaw Bridge – Berlin Brandenburg Airport: One Year On

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Duration: 1:29:40