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It's a language focused episode .... but with side orderings of randomness as well.

In Conversation #94, Pete and I discuss: our ever increasing range of hobbies, nerding out on language learning, Nigel Richards and his ridiculous memory abilities, why I might be able to pick up Portuguese relatively easy and the type of people who are able to master accents and pronunciation.

As always, I hope you enjoy. Kyrin out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Intro
(0:45) - Melbourne vs Sydney traffic
(4:56) - Kids & cats
(11:19) - Hardcore hobbies
(16:05) - Playing and collecting guitars
(21:14) - Hobbies with a long-term payoff
(25:58) - The hardest thing we've ever done
(29:40) - Hating on polyglots
(34:21) - Language proficiency at a native level
(39:53) - The Scrabble rabbit hole
(43:51) - What it's like to have photographic memory
(47:37) - Lobotomies, split brains & swearing
(55:20) - Portuguese swear words sound so nice
(57:26) - Pronunciation in Portuguese
(1:03:30) - The importance of pronunciation
(1:09:00) - Language community wokeness
(1:13:55) - Who nails the Aussie accent?
(1:22:37) - Managing mental health
(1:26:51) - Aussie English podcast


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What have I done to earn the ire of Instagram and that would have got me kicked out of Juan's gym?

In Episode #396 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: Juan's new language learning through books, the viral clip of Pete Smissen talking about Elon Musk, how we'll approach responding to comments in the future, our ability to not dwell on things and be comfortable with solitude, grinding but still experimenting, a list of bad gym behaviour we both do (eeep) and Juan's upcoming chat with Jeff Yew.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - We say anything we want
(0:35) - Learning beyond Duolingo
(6:25) - Not all English is the same
(9:43) - Clips & comments
(14:35) - Juan still hates Gorillaz
(15:31) - Sucked into chasing views and being polarising
(21:19) - What's easy for us but hard for everyone else?
(29:05) - What would we give a TED Talk on?
(35:17) - We know how to grind
(39:26) - Our lousy gym etiquette
(45:29) - Bitcoin ETF & getting from Lightning to fiat
(53:59) - V4V: Leave us negative comments


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I can't seem to keep Pete Smissen away, he's coming back for his 5th appearance!

In Conversation #89, Pete and I discuss: why you can't control your kid's actions, psychoanalysing our personalities when we were young, the types of language that people use to sound convincing, tangents into music and cool Japanese hobbies, how swearing differs across cultures and my fascinating with AI Harry Spotter.

As always, I hope you enjoy. Kyrin out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Intro to Pete
(1:04) - Disgust sensitivity in children
(4:19) - Pete's child won't eat!
(10:26) - You can't mold your children
(13:20) - Pete was a bully, I was a people-pleaser
(18:50) - I hate telling people what to do
(21:17) - An insecure scientist is a good scientist
(26:20) - Disillusioned by university
(31:37) - Decoding the gurus
(37:57) - Jordan Peterson & confidence
(46:12) - Subjective stories
(53:00) - The future of music (Rick Beato)
(1:02:40) - Tiny Fishing In Japan
(1:09:10) - Bitcoin & scams
(1:18:14) - Coffeezilla & Logan Paul
(1:25:25) - Languages & swearing
(1:45:39) - AI & Podcasting
(1:54:36) - Consuming AI media
(2:00:30) - Using AI for Aussie English
(2:07:13) - Transcribing pains


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I'm kicking the conversations back off again with a casual chat with Pete Smissen (who is making his 4th appearance on the Mere Mortals).

In Conversation #80, Pete and I discuss: horrible things from general history, why basically everybody in Australian history got wrecked, our thoughts on a whole bunch of issues facing the world, cultural nuances regarding how immigrants view education and why (shock and horror) women are different than men.

As always, I hope you enjoy. Kyrin out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Intro to Pete
(0:38) - Using AI to pickup girls
(5:02) - The Last Days Of The Incas
(7:45) - Knights just slaying
(9:36) - Settlers fucking up the natives
(15:53) - Unbelievable animals in antiquity
(18:05) - Bennelong & aboriginal stories
(22:07) - Watkin Tench & Aussie history
(25:11) - More Aussie history books
(28:35) - Books on Australian explorers
(32:49) - Cultural differences causing problems
(38:18) - Effective altruism & useless charities
(40:56) - Using resources more efficiently
(47:09) - Innovation & great men of history
(50:37) - How Pete's English has changed?
(53:55) - Slang & education in Colombian culture
(57:06) - Immigrant education in Australia
(1:03:59) - Pete vs Women
(1:10:52) - Pete vs Patriarchy
(1:14:37) - Pete vs Kyrin
(1:16:23) - Pete vs Plants


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Pete Smissen is now a Three-Pete (get it) guest on the Mere Mortals and is the awesome host of the Aussie English podcast and the newly created Pete vs Plants YouTube channel.

In Conversation #77, Pete and I discuss: some crazy animal stories from his PhD days, shows like Prehistoric Planet and Altered Carbon which appeal to his love of science, random hypotheticals of pre-colonisation days, why both of us have non-conventional jobs (and bloody love it!!), his new passion of exotic house plant cultivation and some unsavoury shenanigans happening online and in the real world.

Hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are in the world, Kyrin out!


Timeline:
(0:00) - Three-peat guest
(0:51) - Sitting on turtles at Heron Island
(4:30) - Stepping in turtles (gross) on Raine Island
(10:03) - Hatchlings storming the beach
(12:50) - Marlins, sloth teeth and missing biology
(16:20) - Dinosaur behaviour
(22:18) - Humans misrepresenting animals
(25:00) - Individually incorrect theories but true as a whole
(29:14) - Evolution & aliens
(36:46) - Biological enhancements
(44:30) - Romanticising the past & foreign countries
(54:23) - High IQ people in non-developed nations
(1:02:33) - Guns, Germs and Steel
(1:07:56) - Two jobless slackers
(1:16:17) - Value for Value explanation
(1:19:51) - Why handstand so hard?
(1:31:53) - Rare house plant YouTubers are girls and camp gay men
(1:42:12) - Anything can be interesting if presented in a passionate and smart way
(1:51:34) - Misrepresenting how you get 'insert X'
(1:57:12) - Protesting against the Julian Assange extradition
(2:03:07) - Conspiracy theorists
(2:13:52) - Check out Aussie English and Pete vs Plants


Connect with Pete:
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