I heard myself today If I still feel Here's your story Let's begin the waters find Come on diving The future's here It's right before your eyes You need to be careful I am picky about it Because I got sick a couple times So what you want to do if you haven't been to it before Go take a peek in the kitchen If you can't see how they're prepping the food Move on to the next one There's plenty of them Unless it maybe comes highly recommended by somebody you personally know And they've been there more than a few times If you look in some of these kitchens And I do this Some of them are absolutely disgusting I mean, they'll pick their nose And then, you know, put it in the food You see food laying on the floor I saw one where there were chickens on a dirty floor And then they pick them up And it's disgusting There are no standards Most people here know that that's disgusting And they don't do that But there's some that could care less And you don't want to be served out of those kitchens So if you don't know it And if somebody that you trust doesn't know it You need to look in that kitchen Or you may end up sitting on a toilet for the next three days Or even worse Taste buds I never read anything about this But I've come to know that what I'm going to tell you now is true It's true for me and I know it's true for some other people It may not be true for everyone I have very sensitive nose Therefore, my taste buds are kind of on the particular side I'm fussy, I know it It's because I can taste things that a lot of people can't taste I can smell things Back when I used to work around cars I could walk through a shop and dive No, it's based on my sense of smell When you hit the high altitude for some reason Your sense of smell or your taste buds I throw in a skew a little bit They're a little bit off And it will cause foods to have a taste that you're not familiar with Some of it might be pleasant, the majority of it will not be pleasant For a while there were a few things that I was blaming on quality Because every time I went tasted it would be horrible And a lot of other people noticed that too, but some people didn't And I'm thinking how can you not notice this Over time, a few of those things became normal, became okay Not because they lost that taste Because I changed, because my taste buds adjusted My sense of smell adjusted I don't know how it works I'm just telling you that's the way it is Now, it could be atrocious, like milk products here have this horrible taste And beef has a horrible taste And nothing's going to change that No taste buds and you don't notice it So just be aware that your taste buds might be a little off I'll give you a good example A particular bottle of wine from Chile That I knew very well I would have it in the States It was a Merlot And I bought that bottle here And it was, oh my god I don't remember ever drinking anything like this It was really off I tried it again a year later And it was back to normal It was delicious, was it that particular bottle? No, I don't believe that because there's been several things like that Join a language group Oh my god, they are so effective It is, if you want to meet people, it's a great way to meet people There'll be gringos there, there'll be local people there And they want to talk Obviously they're there to communicate Like many of us We've done the classes We've done the online We've done various programs And it's like trying to pour water through a brick It's just not working for you Adrianna, my language partner She has two years of English under her belt Not counting what she learned in grade school And she can barely speak a word of English Because we've spent so much time together now She can actually string it off words together to be understood It's a world of difference doing it that way Very effective Now, if you join one of these groups Like the talk and learn group Facebook, talk and learn You'll find it, it's free But I highly recommend that you donate Because they need the money I don't know why they don't charge something or ask for something They're not doing it for money But they need the money for supplies Things that they put out of pocket So if you join one of these Give them five dollar bill once in a while It keeps coming up over and over and over again And I don't want to make another video on it I've done one and a half I think on this topic But TV programs We're all interested in it And everybody that you see all the time Get a VPN and it works great If it happens to work great right now Soon enough it won't They're onto it They're dropping like flies And they stay in business because in the United States Many people want to look like they're in another country In this past year hundreds of VPNs have dropped off They're no longer usable Like in Ecuador And the algorithm that Netflix and Amazon Prime Hulu that they're using Has been refined to the point That they can be onto these in no time So if you have a VPN don't count on it Because it works great It's worked for me since I got here three years ago But any day it will be gone And so what do you do then go look for another one And I did that I went through three VPNs before I gave up on them So VPN is not the answer There's hybrids VPN based on DNS And some people think well that makes it invisible No, they just hadn't chased those yet But they're not invisible And those will be next on the chopping block And so well it works today It's not a long term solution Next year it's pretty unlikely that's going to work for you So what do you do? Well you can get direct TV Drop 100 bucks a month You can get CNT cable Which kind of sucks is hardly any English programs It's not only cost maybe 40 bucks a month But you don't really watch too much of it You do get HBO in English but not a lot So but those are pay and you know it adds up 1200 bucks a year There's some IP TV systems available Software available That you can buy from between ten dollars to thirty dollars Much cheaper than cable Set TV, SETV.com is one It's twenty dollars and it operates pretty much like a premium cable system There's about a thousand different programs and lots of movies So you don't pay very much and you don't have to worry about masking Because they work anywhere in the world So that's a possibility A lot cheaper than cable It's going to give you everything and it's going to give it to you in your language And you can get subtitles in Spanish if you want That's available And the other thing is what I use is Cody Cody is the Shell program, the operating program For various information programs that load into it That give you everything there is in existence I mean just the other day I watched Wonder Woman on Cody And it was in the theater the week before It was actually available when he came out on the theater But I just didn't get around watching it It's totally free of charge The only downside with Cody is some of these programs are operating Kind of outside the realm of some of the laws in the U.S. Of course it doesn't apply to your Ecuador But some of them, not all of them But some of them are doing that And so they're getting chased down and they have to change names I'm using one that's pretty solid They've got a pretty good way to operate But it's covenant by the way You choose the provider And it operates through Cody The worst thing that you run into, the worst thing I run into Is every few months I need to do an upgrade on Cody New versions And they get better and better Now the streaming is just like Netflix It's just smooth and I don't get any buffering at all Once in a while the provider may drop off But there'll be replacements or maybe that provider Just did a complete new rebuild and you just have to reload it All of that may sound complicated It's actually pretty simple They have programs within Cody now like Aries Wizard Pretty much you just hit the button to upgrade and it's there Cody works on smart TVs, on Apple, on Android Pretty much any platform The six operating systems that will work on That's totally free of charge And so that's what I use It works really well I don't have to worry about any kind of masking In Ecuador here I'm not breaking and violating any kind of laws It works great You know you're good