October 27, 2025 • 26 mins
My grandma always said: a yellow vest and a ladder will get you anywhere. Have you seen China's glass waterslides? Wanna hear how I defended my honour against dirty gloves guy? And why rainy days don't fully suck? Sprinkles on top with tips on how to sleep a baby with a Pilates ball. Lastly, why classic books like '1984' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' are banned in some schools? And let’s not forget my Instagram take down for being a self-doubting teen. Join me as I dive into these eclectic, self-deprecating musings, unraveling the absurdities of the past week as some AI would say.00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 00:45 Mushroom Hunting and Brain Hacks 02:07 Standing Up for Yourself: A Personal Story 06:04 The Louvre Heist: A Modern-Day Robbery 10:57 Parenting Challenges: Baby's First Viruses 15:17 Innovative Hiking and Water Slide Adventures 17:13 Banned Books in the USA 19:48 Confession: The Instagram Follower Fiasco 25:44 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsIG: https://www.instagram.com/yet.another.expat.podcast/
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Hi, hello, and welcome to Another expert.
This is episode 74 recording live from Berlin.
I hope you're not getting too much of a bad sound.
The equipment is a little bit different.
Today I'm recording from my laptop.
I don't know how it is for you, but right here it's rainy, it's
windy, and most of the trees have lost most of their leaves.
(00:28):
So brace up because the winter is here.
The time just changed this morning up.
While the real clock is 1 hour less.
It means that the sand will go away faster.
Less daylight. Winter mode is fond.
Now yesterday I went for some mushroom hunting.
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It would be an overstatement to say it was a mushroom hunting.
We just went for a walk in the forest.
But the friends of ours that invited us and actually did
mushroom hunting, they said something interesting.
They said one of the reasons they started mushroom hunting is
because the best time to go findmushrooms is right after a
rained. So if it rains and you wait for
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a day or two, that's when the mushrooms will pop.
And this friend said that he wanted to rewire his brain of
how he thinks about rain becauserain is so annoying.
There's nothing good about rain unless you are depressed and
you're listening to Radiohead, and that's a vibe.
But in general, rain is not good.
So he said. Now at least when it rains, a
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part of my brain is thinking, hey, we can go pick up
mushrooms. And if anyone likes a good brain
hack, that's me. Now without further ado, let's
get this podcast started with a few notes, news, and thoughts
from the week that passed. For anyone tuning in, this is
what happens here. I gather interesting things from
(01:55):
life, the world, the Internet, and I just speak them out every
Sunday for your kind and patientears.
Note #1 I stood up for myself. When is the last time you stood
up for yourself or something? I don't do it that much,
(02:15):
especially in a subset of things.
I make people pleaser. If you episode single, I share
two stories of that, but here's an example.
A small one, an everyday situation where I rose up.
One thing I've mentioned at least two times in previous
episodes is how much I hate whenpeople prepare food wearing
gloves, but also with the same gloves, dealing with money.
(02:39):
This is something that happens much more than you can imagine.
If you start noticing, then there is no turning back.
So this is my small moment. I was going to work, it was a
difficult day, so I decided I can buy something to eat.
As I walked from the train to the office, and as I did yet
again, another person was grabbing some money, getting
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paid. He grabbed the sandwich with the
glove, put it in the bag. He brought it in front of me and
I had a moment and then I said, you know what, I'm sorry, You
touched the money with that lobe, then you touched the
sandwich. This is not OK.
His immediate reaction was to get so mad.
He got very upset and he said no, I didn't do it.
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And I even remember how much money it was because I could see
the coins and the €5. And I said, yeah, it was instead
of 650. You just grabbed.
You grabbed with this hand and with the same hand you grabbed
my food. And visibly upset, he threw the
sandwich on the back of his on the back of his thing.
And he started saying in German how he always grabs things with
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a napkin, never with his hands. He just forgot.
He was saying to me very aggressively that he forgot.
I was like, OK, dude, I don't, Idon't care.
Good that you forgot. Just give me another sandwich.
I wasn't saying anything, but that's what I was implying.
I was just looking at him while he was doing this mini show of
you know how you caught someone red handed?
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They just raise the voice, they raise the volume so they don't
have to talk about what actuallyhappened.
This is what was going on. But he got me another sandwich
very aggressively put it pop there for me to pay.
And it was funny how he was behaving like he had the upper
hand, like he was in the right and I had done something wrong
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to indicate he's not following basic hygiene.
But anyway, it was my time to pay.
I topped my card and then I, youknow, sometimes when you top the
card, they tell you that it's OK.
You know, you wait for an eye toeye acknowledgement from whoever
is selling that the payment wentthrough.
So this was a second moment of just making him comply.
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I just waited after tapping and I said, are we good?
He said yeah, and I left. He got so mad.
I don't know why, I guess because he's not used to being
called out. And I got a lot of pleasure out
of this. I have to say.
We're not expecting that much tension.
I only expected the tension inside of me.
When I need to tell them that they're wrong, what they're
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doing is not right. But that was also an external
tension this guy brought and I didn't mind.
So this is my small rebellion. Saying no to The Dirty hands guy
with the gloves. I don't know.
What was your latest? Standing up for yourself?
Getting pushed in a bus. Asking someone to move to the
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right of an escalator so you canwalk.
Asking someone not to smoke in front of your face in a closed
space. Whatever it is, maybe this is
something you can keep for this week.
Do a small standing up against the unfurnesses we counter every
single day. But enough about me, enough
about me. Let's talk about what happened
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in this. This week we have the highest in
the Louvre. That's a difficult, you assume
to pronounce the Louvre. The Louvre.
Well, there was a theft that everyone in the world knows by
now. So what do I have to say about
this? You've seen it already.
You've heard about it already. I have a few points to make.
One, it's not a robbery. A robbery is when someone is
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threatened. A robbery usually has violence.
When something is just being stolen, then it's a theft.
And if it's stolen with a fancy cool way people don't realize
it's A, it can be a heist. Same thinking in Greek.
It's not that you steer, it's Club B.
Things are being stolen. But anyway, the whole thing just
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proves again the ladder theory. The ladder theory says that you
can walk anywhere if you're justholding a big ladder.
People assume you have some workto do, that you're a technician,
an electrician or whatever. Just grab a ladder, walk into
any space. No one is going to ask a
question. Now there's a second theory that
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says if you have a yellow vest, the yellow vest theory, you can
also walk anywhere without people asking you questions.
Now what did these guys do here?They combined the two methods.
They got a big ladder and the yellow vests and they managed to
walk out with 102 million in worth.
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This is wild 102 million and also it's untraceable.
They, they cannot, they will notfind these pieces because they
can just take out all the the gems.
They can cut the gems again, they can melt the gold, they can
resell, they can make other types of jewelry.
There is no way that they are going to find them.
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Sad, sad. But the yellow vest theory and
the ladder theory, they've been used also for hacking into
places, like for penetration testers.
If you need to get into the servers of a company, you can
just grab a ladder and walk intotheir central offices and maybe
no one stops you and then you goto the floor and blah blah.
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Like it's it's something that happens.
The funniest example of a yellowvest hack I have seen was not
using a yellow vest. It was two people had bought
garbages and salad, like big bags full of garbages and salad,
just walking through a very big festival.
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And when they were stopped at the tickets, they just said no,
no, we work at the burger place inside.
We've run out of garbage. We're just bringing more
supplies in. And then they just let them
through. So they paid, they paid their
entrance to a very expensive bigfestival by buying 5 or 6
garbages. But back to the Louvre, 102
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million. It's a really, really big
amount. I was just looking do you know
the movie The Ocean's 11 right where they all go and rob these
casinos and they have this entire movie of trying to do it.
They have a hacker. They have the person with the
architect and the blueprints andall of that.
The the crew of the 10 best thieves in the world to do the
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best, highest in the world. Do you know how much they made?
They made 160 million in the movie, which means about
16,000,000 each for the entire thing.
And now here you have 4 guys making 25,000,000 each in 7
minutes. Mind blowing.
And yes they could have had better security.
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Now the Louvre has a solution which was to move everything
away. That was their solution.
They moved all the other jewelrynow into the the say a safe 50
meters beneath the earth where France keeps the jewelry there.
So they're not going to be in display anymore.
You know what? They could have fake ones in
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display and just show the real thing.
That's what we do with a lot of ancient stuff.
But if there was 1 clear winner besides the thieves, it was the
German company that made the lift that they used the crane.
Because if you haven't seen thisphoto, they used a truck that
has a ladder that extends high up and it has a lift, the same
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that people used to go clean windows and whatnot.
So they wanted these thieves used.
They just left it there. They left it beneath the window.
And the company that manufacturers them made an
advertisement using the same photo of the heist showing the
broken window of the Louvre and their own truck with the title
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saying for the times you need togo fast, use our company.
And then they say Germans don't have humor in other updates.
We have the baby life at nine months reporting in.
Now. It's the phase where the baby's
job is to get sick. This is what they do now.
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They start getting sick. And it's the way to learn every
virus and every pathogen and patch it up.
It's like updating the firmware.Do you remember back in the day
when you had the antivirus and it would download all the
updates and it will tell you howmany viruses it caught?
Well, this is what the baby is doing now, catching viruses
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together with experiences. I guess my son is something like
Limewire. In his journey to experience the
content of the world, he comes back also with a few viruses.
So we are in these cycles of twodays, a little bit sick, then he
is back at it again. Then he goes to a group with
other babies, then he gets sick again.
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And it's not something big, you know, we asked around other
parents and they said it lasts about six years.
So maybe the next episode of this podcast comes in six years.
No, but we're working through everything.
We're working through food and through sleep.
But sleep is an interesting one because a lot of babies cannot
sleep on their own. They don't know how to self
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shooth. This comes later in life.
So they want contact. They want you to hold them, to
rock them around, to wary. That Masuki sling where you put
the baby inside and you walk with them.
This is how they fall asleep. Sometimes they can fall asleep
when you push them with the stroller.
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You've heard the stories. Some people put babies in the
car and they drive around. Sleeping a baby is not an easy
thing. Now one of my techniques of
sleeping the baby involves A Pilates ball and I sit on the
ball and I bounce around with the baby in my arms.
I used to do that without a Pilates ball, but then my back
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got so destroyed that I had to get more clever about it.
So I have my Pilates ball. I have build a dark corner in
the apartment because the babies, they like looking at
everything and if they get the stimulation they don't stop.
So one of the best ways to help him sleep is to literally force
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his eyes closed or make everything dark because then he
doesn't see anything and if he doesn't see anything he doesn't
get distracted. The baby is like is like having
an adult who is always high and also with ADHD.
Jumped from one thing to anothertrying to comprehend it all,
trying to make sense of it all. But yes, bouncing the ball,
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hiding in my dark corner saying if you lullabies, that's how I
get him to sleep. And then I need for my own sake
to be able to transfer him to a bed or somewhere to be able to
enjoy some of life. But the transferring the baby is
a very dangerous task because ifit fails and the baby wakes up,
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it's almost like, do you know when you're updating your
computer and it says do not shutdown before the update is over?
Well, if the baby's asleep on you and you try to transfer it
but for any reason it wakes up, it interrupts the sleep cycle
instead of having a proper nap. All processes are cut, they are
stopped, he is forced to resume and he's not going to be happy.
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Why I mentioned all of this is because my smart ring marks this
activity. It thinks I'm doing some sort of
exercise, but it never knows what I'm doing.
So it's just saying other type of exercise.
It knows that there is some activity, but it cannot guess
that I'm jumping up and down a ball for 45 minutes trying to
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rock him to sleep. Now, Speaking of, you know, the
back hurting. I told you I'm getting
exoskeleton advertisements. This is a real thing.
People use it for hiking. You can look it up.
The battery is in a belt that you put around your waist.
And then there is this metal side construction that straps
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around your legs in three different places and somehow it
can stimulate and make the leg movements.
So I've been getting those suggestions on how to hike, but
the other day I saw something inChina that would be my preferred
way to check out the mountain. Mountains are beautiful, but you
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know you need to climb them up in order to look at them.
You need to do the hiking. And of course there are people
who jump with paragliders and all of that and you get to
experience a lot of beauty without having to do the entire
hike. But it also feels a bit.
You need to learn a lot of things.
You need to learn how to steer, you need to learn how to jump
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with that paragliding parachutes.
So in China they had this brilliant idea.
They have built a gigantic waterslide.
It's a real water slide. It's made out of glass, so you
can see everything. And it starts at the top of a
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mountain and you get your littleinflatable thing.
It's a bit bigger than the ones you usually see in the water
slides, and you just start sliding down together with
water. You're like part of a glass
river that goes in the differentslopes of the mountain and you
literally look at nothingness when you look down.
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I guess it's the closest you canget to a wing suit.
Have you seen these people that wear wing suits and they start
flying on the tops of mountains down the hills?
Well, it's the same experience, but you are water sliding all
the way through. And I thought, this is for me, I
don't know if I would die from aheart attack.
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I don't know if the constructionhas been properly tested and
insured. It had a net to safety net all
around. So I guess they know.
And it wasn't even going that fast.
So here's a business idea for you.
Build a glass water slide on some sort of a mountain and I
will be there. But now, Speaking of things that
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will not be there anymore, apparently there is a list of
books. This is a real thing.
We are of course talking about the land of the free, the USA,
where everything is so free thatthere are lists of books.
And I've got the list with the top books.
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But the irony of what books they're banning is almost too
much to comprehend. Of course, in the banned books,
they target LGBTQIA plus authorsand stories.
So a lot of these books have been banned from libraries and
schools in the US currently, butthey're also targeting books
about diversity, rewriting history, and silencing
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marginalized voices. So here's some books that we get
taught in schools here in Europe, but they have joined the
banned lists in the USA. This is not a joke.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned from
Monterey County schools in Tennessee.
A Brave New World is also bannedin a lot of states.
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Virginia, Aeoga, Tennessee. The Handmaid's Tale.
Do you remember The Handmaid's Tale?
It was turned into a series about a dystopic alternative
future with a lot of censorship,a lot of sexism, a lot of yeah,
backwards norms. This has been also banned in
multiple states, 1984 by George Orwell.
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It has been banned in Virginia in the US, Fahrenheit 451, you
know, it's the book where they actually talk about books being
illegal and burning them. This has also been banned in
Tennessee. Other titles include The Perks
of Being a Wallflower, The Bluest Eye Sold, an African
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American and Latin X History of the United States, and All in
all in the last year, The PEN America, which is an NGO that is
documenting freedom of press, including publications of books
and Public Library records and all of that.
They documented over 4000 book bans across the US public
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schools, which is a significant rise from previous years.
And all of these books are dealing with race, with gender,
with LGBTQ plus, with censorship, with fascism.
And I think with this, I will start wrapping up for this week.
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But I have one last important announcement to make for all of
you who are still here. And this is that I will be
changing the Instagram page of this podcast.
I'm making a new page. If you haven't been following
yet another expat podcast on Instagram, that's OK for you.
That's not so OK for me. But I've found a way.
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To turn parts of the podcast into Reels and I will be
starting in hard again with publishing content and keeping
that side of things up to date. Now.
Telling you that there is a new Instagram page and asking you to
like it. But why am I making this?
I already had an Instagram page and I think this is less of an
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announcement now and more of a confession because I fucked it
up back in still 2025. Yes, back in February I was
invited to make an interview in the German radio, in Arbebe, in
the Cosmo radio channel. They wanted to interview me
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about this podcast and this is when I thought, oh, that's a big
opportunity. I'm going on radio.
This is where I will get many more followers.
I need to be prepared. So I decided I need to have at
least 1000 people following me on my social because they asked
for my social so they could share it.
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And This is why I thought I needat least 1000 people before I
give them my social so I look credible.
Which means I needed 900 more people to like the podcast
Instagram page because I wasn't working on it.
And do you know what I did? I bought some followers
overnight. I bought 1000 followers and then
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I had 1.1 K and I said now I look like someone.
And I had that interview in RBA radio and it was great and some
people follow. But the problem is that all
these fake accounts that liked my profile in just one day
destroyed everything. It destroyed my engagement score
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because if 100 people follow youand 10 or 15 people are liking
your content, that's a 15% engagement score.
Now if you have 1100 people and only 10 like your content, that
is a 1% engagement score. And basically it told Instagram
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that my page is trash. It has low quality people, low
quality posts. No one is interacting.
On top of that, at some point they realized that I paid for
followers and they restricted myaccount so I could do even less
things. I couldn't promote the post, I
couldn't put an advertisement, or I couldn't put a real and
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boost it to get some more people.
So the entire page was on a deadlock and I decided I need to
clean the page. I don't like having all these
fake people. It served the purpose of me
having more people when they shared my social in that the
radio interview. But I need to clean things up.
So I started, you know how much free time I have, right?
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A lot of free time hashtag not. And I started trying to unfollow
people and not for me to unfollow them to make them
unfollow me, right? I wanted to delete followers.
So I tried to do that one by one, little by little every day
and it would take a very long time of clicky, clicky and
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Instagram is not made for you tobe doing these types of clicks
fast. So it would stop me at times or
it would think I'm a bot that isdoing automated tasks just
because I was trying to quickly unfollow a lot of people by
tapping. I tried to find different tools
that I could use it to unfollow a lot of people at once.
So I went into a lot of different pathways trying to
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clean up. But the most bizarre thing,
besides my low intelligence, highly manual ways to remove my
followers was the fact that thisservice that I bought from
unknown to my knowledge had a guarantee.
They had a guarantee. So if you bought 1000 followers,
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they would give you 1000 followers, which meant that
every day I was removing fake account, new fake accounts would
start to follow me because they thought maybe, you know, they
need to be providing their services 1000 follows.
So then I had to fight them. I literally had to write this
stupid service stop following mewith all the bot accounts.
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Can you please let me delete allthese followers I bought?
It makes no sense. I knew it was stupid, I still
did it and they said they would stop but they didn't.
I think it was just coded into their system so my account would
be followed and unfollowed by these bots for quite some time.
So I need a clean start. If it's going to be 5 people, it
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will be 5 people. If it's going to be 100 people,
it will be 100 people. It will be an honest start.
It's fine. People don't pay attention when
I share different profiles. I have my personal one.
A lot of my friends or people I know listen from there.
I have the podcast one which is a bit more.
It has had enough time, OK, but now clean slate.
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I'm going to be making a new one.
Too bad for all the content I'veuploaded, but it's fine.
Time for new beginnings, new Instagram page.
Go find it and grill me for buying followers.
Just like low self esteem teenager that needs numbers for
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affirmation. And with this I will wrap it up
for this week. I hope you had a good time
listening to this. I had a good time recording it.
I hope your dishes had a good time being washed and your legs
have a good time being walked orwhatever it was that you were
doing while listening to this podcast.
Thank you. Thank you for supporting it with
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your time. I will see you next week.
Until then, stand up for yourself in the small things.
Ciao.
Hi, hello, and welcome to Another expert.
This is episode 74 recording live from Berlin.
I hope you're not getting too much of a bad sound.
The equipment is a little bit different.
Today I'm recording from my laptop.
I don't know how it is for you, but right here it's rainy, it's
windy, and most of the trees have lost most of their leaves.
(00:28):
So brace up because the winter is here.
The time just changed this morning up.
While the real clock is 1 hour less.
It means that the sand will go away faster.
Less daylight. Winter mode is fond.
Now yesterday I went for some mushroom hunting.
(00:48):
It would be an overstatement to say it was a mushroom hunting.
We just went for a walk in the forest.
But the friends of ours that invited us and actually did
mushroom hunting, they said something interesting.
They said one of the reasons they started mushroom hunting is
because the best time to go findmushrooms is right after a
rained. So if it rains and you wait for
(01:11):
a day or two, that's when the mushrooms will pop.
And this friend said that he wanted to rewire his brain of
how he thinks about rain becauserain is so annoying.
There's nothing good about rain unless you are depressed and
you're listening to Radiohead, and that's a vibe.
But in general, rain is not good.
So he said. Now at least when it rains, a
(01:33):
part of my brain is thinking, hey, we can go pick up
mushrooms. And if anyone likes a good brain
hack, that's me. Now without further ado, let's
get this podcast started with a few notes, news, and thoughts
from the week that passed. For anyone tuning in, this is
what happens here. I gather interesting things from
(01:55):
life, the world, the Internet, and I just speak them out every
Sunday for your kind and patientears.
Note #1 I stood up for myself. When is the last time you stood
up for yourself or something? I don't do it that much,
(02:15):
especially in a subset of things.
I make people pleaser. If you episode single, I share
two stories of that, but here's an example.
A small one, an everyday situation where I rose up.
One thing I've mentioned at least two times in previous
episodes is how much I hate whenpeople prepare food wearing
gloves, but also with the same gloves, dealing with money.
(02:39):
This is something that happens much more than you can imagine.
If you start noticing, then there is no turning back.
So this is my small moment. I was going to work, it was a
difficult day, so I decided I can buy something to eat.
As I walked from the train to the office, and as I did yet
again, another person was grabbing some money, getting
(03:01):
paid. He grabbed the sandwich with the
glove, put it in the bag. He brought it in front of me and
I had a moment and then I said, you know what, I'm sorry, You
touched the money with that lobe, then you touched the
sandwich. This is not OK.
His immediate reaction was to get so mad.
He got very upset and he said no, I didn't do it.
(03:27):
And I even remember how much money it was because I could see
the coins and the €5. And I said, yeah, it was instead
of 650. You just grabbed.
You grabbed with this hand and with the same hand you grabbed
my food. And visibly upset, he threw the
sandwich on the back of his on the back of his thing.
And he started saying in German how he always grabs things with
(03:49):
a napkin, never with his hands. He just forgot.
He was saying to me very aggressively that he forgot.
I was like, OK, dude, I don't, Idon't care.
Good that you forgot. Just give me another sandwich.
I wasn't saying anything, but that's what I was implying.
I was just looking at him while he was doing this mini show of
you know how you caught someone red handed?
(04:09):
They just raise the voice, they raise the volume so they don't
have to talk about what actuallyhappened.
This is what was going on. But he got me another sandwich
very aggressively put it pop there for me to pay.
And it was funny how he was behaving like he had the upper
hand, like he was in the right and I had done something wrong
(04:34):
to indicate he's not following basic hygiene.
But anyway, it was my time to pay.
I topped my card and then I, youknow, sometimes when you top the
card, they tell you that it's OK.
You know, you wait for an eye toeye acknowledgement from whoever
is selling that the payment wentthrough.
So this was a second moment of just making him comply.
(04:58):
I just waited after tapping and I said, are we good?
He said yeah, and I left. He got so mad.
I don't know why, I guess because he's not used to being
called out. And I got a lot of pleasure out
of this. I have to say.
We're not expecting that much tension.
I only expected the tension inside of me.
When I need to tell them that they're wrong, what they're
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doing is not right. But that was also an external
tension this guy brought and I didn't mind.
So this is my small rebellion. Saying no to The Dirty hands guy
with the gloves. I don't know.
What was your latest? Standing up for yourself?
Getting pushed in a bus. Asking someone to move to the
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right of an escalator so you canwalk.
Asking someone not to smoke in front of your face in a closed
space. Whatever it is, maybe this is
something you can keep for this week.
Do a small standing up against the unfurnesses we counter every
single day. But enough about me, enough
about me. Let's talk about what happened
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in this. This week we have the highest in
the Louvre. That's a difficult, you assume
to pronounce the Louvre. The Louvre.
Well, there was a theft that everyone in the world knows by
now. So what do I have to say about
this? You've seen it already.
You've heard about it already. I have a few points to make.
One, it's not a robbery. A robbery is when someone is
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threatened. A robbery usually has violence.
When something is just being stolen, then it's a theft.
And if it's stolen with a fancy cool way people don't realize
it's A, it can be a heist. Same thinking in Greek.
It's not that you steer, it's Club B.
Things are being stolen. But anyway, the whole thing just
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proves again the ladder theory. The ladder theory says that you
can walk anywhere if you're justholding a big ladder.
People assume you have some workto do, that you're a technician,
an electrician or whatever. Just grab a ladder, walk into
any space. No one is going to ask a
question. Now there's a second theory that
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says if you have a yellow vest, the yellow vest theory, you can
also walk anywhere without people asking you questions.
Now what did these guys do here?They combined the two methods.
They got a big ladder and the yellow vests and they managed to
walk out with 102 million in worth.
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This is wild 102 million and also it's untraceable.
They, they cannot, they will notfind these pieces because they
can just take out all the the gems.
They can cut the gems again, they can melt the gold, they can
resell, they can make other types of jewelry.
There is no way that they are going to find them.
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Sad, sad. But the yellow vest theory and
the ladder theory, they've been used also for hacking into
places, like for penetration testers.
If you need to get into the servers of a company, you can
just grab a ladder and walk intotheir central offices and maybe
no one stops you and then you goto the floor and blah blah.
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Like it's it's something that happens.
The funniest example of a yellowvest hack I have seen was not
using a yellow vest. It was two people had bought
garbages and salad, like big bags full of garbages and salad,
just walking through a very big festival.
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And when they were stopped at the tickets, they just said no,
no, we work at the burger place inside.
We've run out of garbage. We're just bringing more
supplies in. And then they just let them
through. So they paid, they paid their
entrance to a very expensive bigfestival by buying 5 or 6
garbages. But back to the Louvre, 102
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million. It's a really, really big
amount. I was just looking do you know
the movie The Ocean's 11 right where they all go and rob these
casinos and they have this entire movie of trying to do it.
They have a hacker. They have the person with the
architect and the blueprints andall of that.
The the crew of the 10 best thieves in the world to do the
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best, highest in the world. Do you know how much they made?
They made 160 million in the movie, which means about
16,000,000 each for the entire thing.
And now here you have 4 guys making 25,000,000 each in 7
minutes. Mind blowing.
And yes they could have had better security.
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Now the Louvre has a solution which was to move everything
away. That was their solution.
They moved all the other jewelrynow into the the say a safe 50
meters beneath the earth where France keeps the jewelry there.
So they're not going to be in display anymore.
You know what? They could have fake ones in
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display and just show the real thing.
That's what we do with a lot of ancient stuff.
But if there was 1 clear winner besides the thieves, it was the
German company that made the lift that they used the crane.
Because if you haven't seen thisphoto, they used a truck that
has a ladder that extends high up and it has a lift, the same
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that people used to go clean windows and whatnot.
So they wanted these thieves used.
They just left it there. They left it beneath the window.
And the company that manufacturers them made an
advertisement using the same photo of the heist showing the
broken window of the Louvre and their own truck with the title
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saying for the times you need togo fast, use our company.
And then they say Germans don't have humor in other updates.
We have the baby life at nine months reporting in.
Now. It's the phase where the baby's
job is to get sick. This is what they do now.
(11:08):
They start getting sick. And it's the way to learn every
virus and every pathogen and patch it up.
It's like updating the firmware.Do you remember back in the day
when you had the antivirus and it would download all the
updates and it will tell you howmany viruses it caught?
Well, this is what the baby is doing now, catching viruses
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together with experiences. I guess my son is something like
Limewire. In his journey to experience the
content of the world, he comes back also with a few viruses.
So we are in these cycles of twodays, a little bit sick, then he
is back at it again. Then he goes to a group with
other babies, then he gets sick again.
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And it's not something big, you know, we asked around other
parents and they said it lasts about six years.
So maybe the next episode of this podcast comes in six years.
No, but we're working through everything.
We're working through food and through sleep.
But sleep is an interesting one because a lot of babies cannot
sleep on their own. They don't know how to self
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shooth. This comes later in life.
So they want contact. They want you to hold them, to
rock them around, to wary. That Masuki sling where you put
the baby inside and you walk with them.
This is how they fall asleep. Sometimes they can fall asleep
when you push them with the stroller.
(12:33):
You've heard the stories. Some people put babies in the
car and they drive around. Sleeping a baby is not an easy
thing. Now one of my techniques of
sleeping the baby involves A Pilates ball and I sit on the
ball and I bounce around with the baby in my arms.
I used to do that without a Pilates ball, but then my back
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got so destroyed that I had to get more clever about it.
So I have my Pilates ball. I have build a dark corner in
the apartment because the babies, they like looking at
everything and if they get the stimulation they don't stop.
So one of the best ways to help him sleep is to literally force
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his eyes closed or make everything dark because then he
doesn't see anything and if he doesn't see anything he doesn't
get distracted. The baby is like is like having
an adult who is always high and also with ADHD.
Jumped from one thing to anothertrying to comprehend it all,
trying to make sense of it all. But yes, bouncing the ball,
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hiding in my dark corner saying if you lullabies, that's how I
get him to sleep. And then I need for my own sake
to be able to transfer him to a bed or somewhere to be able to
enjoy some of life. But the transferring the baby is
a very dangerous task because ifit fails and the baby wakes up,
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it's almost like, do you know when you're updating your
computer and it says do not shutdown before the update is over?
Well, if the baby's asleep on you and you try to transfer it
but for any reason it wakes up, it interrupts the sleep cycle
instead of having a proper nap. All processes are cut, they are
stopped, he is forced to resume and he's not going to be happy.
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Why I mentioned all of this is because my smart ring marks this
activity. It thinks I'm doing some sort of
exercise, but it never knows what I'm doing.
So it's just saying other type of exercise.
It knows that there is some activity, but it cannot guess
that I'm jumping up and down a ball for 45 minutes trying to
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rock him to sleep. Now, Speaking of, you know, the
back hurting. I told you I'm getting
exoskeleton advertisements. This is a real thing.
People use it for hiking. You can look it up.
The battery is in a belt that you put around your waist.
And then there is this metal side construction that straps
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around your legs in three different places and somehow it
can stimulate and make the leg movements.
So I've been getting those suggestions on how to hike, but
the other day I saw something inChina that would be my preferred
way to check out the mountain. Mountains are beautiful, but you
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know you need to climb them up in order to look at them.
You need to do the hiking. And of course there are people
who jump with paragliders and all of that and you get to
experience a lot of beauty without having to do the entire
hike. But it also feels a bit.
You need to learn a lot of things.
You need to learn how to steer, you need to learn how to jump
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with that paragliding parachutes.
So in China they had this brilliant idea.
They have built a gigantic waterslide.
It's a real water slide. It's made out of glass, so you
can see everything. And it starts at the top of a
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mountain and you get your littleinflatable thing.
It's a bit bigger than the ones you usually see in the water
slides, and you just start sliding down together with
water. You're like part of a glass
river that goes in the differentslopes of the mountain and you
literally look at nothingness when you look down.
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I guess it's the closest you canget to a wing suit.
Have you seen these people that wear wing suits and they start
flying on the tops of mountains down the hills?
Well, it's the same experience, but you are water sliding all
the way through. And I thought, this is for me, I
don't know if I would die from aheart attack.
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I don't know if the constructionhas been properly tested and
insured. It had a net to safety net all
around. So I guess they know.
And it wasn't even going that fast.
So here's a business idea for you.
Build a glass water slide on some sort of a mountain and I
will be there. But now, Speaking of things that
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will not be there anymore, apparently there is a list of
books. This is a real thing.
We are of course talking about the land of the free, the USA,
where everything is so free thatthere are lists of books.
And I've got the list with the top books.
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But the irony of what books they're banning is almost too
much to comprehend. Of course, in the banned books,
they target LGBTQIA plus authorsand stories.
So a lot of these books have been banned from libraries and
schools in the US currently, butthey're also targeting books
about diversity, rewriting history, and silencing
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marginalized voices. So here's some books that we get
taught in schools here in Europe, but they have joined the
banned lists in the USA. This is not a joke.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned from
Monterey County schools in Tennessee.
A Brave New World is also bannedin a lot of states.
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Virginia, Aeoga, Tennessee. The Handmaid's Tale.
Do you remember The Handmaid's Tale?
It was turned into a series about a dystopic alternative
future with a lot of censorship,a lot of sexism, a lot of yeah,
backwards norms. This has been also banned in
multiple states, 1984 by George Orwell.
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It has been banned in Virginia in the US, Fahrenheit 451, you
know, it's the book where they actually talk about books being
illegal and burning them. This has also been banned in
Tennessee. Other titles include The Perks
of Being a Wallflower, The Bluest Eye Sold, an African
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American and Latin X History of the United States, and All in
all in the last year, The PEN America, which is an NGO that is
documenting freedom of press, including publications of books
and Public Library records and all of that.
They documented over 4000 book bans across the US public
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schools, which is a significant rise from previous years.
And all of these books are dealing with race, with gender,
with LGBTQ plus, with censorship, with fascism.
And I think with this, I will start wrapping up for this week.
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But I have one last important announcement to make for all of
you who are still here. And this is that I will be
changing the Instagram page of this podcast.
I'm making a new page. If you haven't been following
yet another expat podcast on Instagram, that's OK for you.
That's not so OK for me. But I've found a way.
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To turn parts of the podcast into Reels and I will be
starting in hard again with publishing content and keeping
that side of things up to date. Now.
Telling you that there is a new Instagram page and asking you to
like it. But why am I making this?
I already had an Instagram page and I think this is less of an
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announcement now and more of a confession because I fucked it
up back in still 2025. Yes, back in February I was
invited to make an interview in the German radio, in Arbebe, in
the Cosmo radio channel. They wanted to interview me
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about this podcast and this is when I thought, oh, that's a big
opportunity. I'm going on radio.
This is where I will get many more followers.
I need to be prepared. So I decided I need to have at
least 1000 people following me on my social because they asked
for my social so they could share it.
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And This is why I thought I needat least 1000 people before I
give them my social so I look credible.
Which means I needed 900 more people to like the podcast
Instagram page because I wasn't working on it.
And do you know what I did? I bought some followers
overnight. I bought 1000 followers and then
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I had 1.1 K and I said now I look like someone.
And I had that interview in RBA radio and it was great and some
people follow. But the problem is that all
these fake accounts that liked my profile in just one day
destroyed everything. It destroyed my engagement score
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because if 100 people follow youand 10 or 15 people are liking
your content, that's a 15% engagement score.
Now if you have 1100 people and only 10 like your content, that
is a 1% engagement score. And basically it told Instagram
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that my page is trash. It has low quality people, low
quality posts. No one is interacting.
On top of that, at some point they realized that I paid for
followers and they restricted myaccount so I could do even less
things. I couldn't promote the post, I
couldn't put an advertisement, or I couldn't put a real and
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boost it to get some more people.
So the entire page was on a deadlock and I decided I need to
clean the page. I don't like having all these
fake people. It served the purpose of me
having more people when they shared my social in that the
radio interview. But I need to clean things up.
So I started, you know how much free time I have, right?
(23:05):
A lot of free time hashtag not. And I started trying to unfollow
people and not for me to unfollow them to make them
unfollow me, right? I wanted to delete followers.
So I tried to do that one by one, little by little every day
and it would take a very long time of clicky, clicky and
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Instagram is not made for you tobe doing these types of clicks
fast. So it would stop me at times or
it would think I'm a bot that isdoing automated tasks just
because I was trying to quickly unfollow a lot of people by
tapping. I tried to find different tools
that I could use it to unfollow a lot of people at once.
So I went into a lot of different pathways trying to
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clean up. But the most bizarre thing,
besides my low intelligence, highly manual ways to remove my
followers was the fact that thisservice that I bought from
unknown to my knowledge had a guarantee.
They had a guarantee. So if you bought 1000 followers,
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they would give you 1000 followers, which meant that
every day I was removing fake account, new fake accounts would
start to follow me because they thought maybe, you know, they
need to be providing their services 1000 follows.
So then I had to fight them. I literally had to write this
stupid service stop following mewith all the bot accounts.
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Can you please let me delete allthese followers I bought?
It makes no sense. I knew it was stupid, I still
did it and they said they would stop but they didn't.
I think it was just coded into their system so my account would
be followed and unfollowed by these bots for quite some time.
So I need a clean start. If it's going to be 5 people, it
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will be 5 people. If it's going to be 100 people,
it will be 100 people. It will be an honest start.
It's fine. People don't pay attention when
I share different profiles. I have my personal one.
A lot of my friends or people I know listen from there.
I have the podcast one which is a bit more.
It has had enough time, OK, but now clean slate.
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I'm going to be making a new one.
Too bad for all the content I'veuploaded, but it's fine.
Time for new beginnings, new Instagram page.
Go find it and grill me for buying followers.
Just like low self esteem teenager that needs numbers for
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affirmation. And with this I will wrap it up
for this week. I hope you had a good time
listening to this. I had a good time recording it.
I hope your dishes had a good time being washed and your legs
have a good time being walked orwhatever it was that you were
doing while listening to this podcast.
Thank you. Thank you for supporting it with
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your time. I will see you next week.
Until then, stand up for yourself in the small things.
Ciao.
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