Several Ways To Live In Mexico City

How many different codecs can you use to record a podcast?

Having covered Trains, we skip past Planes and move on to Automobiles while bringing you only mildly higher audio quality. Nick actually completely forgot about the long-awaited podcasting appointment, along with his microphone and laptop, so Florian goes with it and does a first ever podcast recording over Skype. Also guest starring: Nick's Mom.

Duration: 1:03:36

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech

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(Screenshots in chapter notes!)

BMW X3 (E83)

Background

Wear it on your sleeve – E-Bay’s Kleinanzeigen – C3 Sticker Operation Center – The trail markers Nick pulled up from Blandford Nature Center – A “two by four” is actually 1 1⁄2 inches × ​3 1⁄2 inches or 38 mm × 89 mm – Episode 12: Our Most Popular Episode thanks to Nick’s Mom – The 2019 Chilean Protests – Sebastián Piñera and the Airline Formerly Known as LAN which was actually taken over by the Brazilians and relabelled LATAM – The Rapid’s Wave Card – Michigan’s Seat Belt Law – John Deere Gator –  The Downtown Market – The Forge at Blandford Nature Center – Household of Three – The Dollop 404 : Jan Pieterszoon Coen (Live) – A clip show from clips you never saw (heard?) – Michigan actually does not have a law prohibiting you from operating a cell phone in the vehicle – The DB Navigator App – Day in the Life of an Amtrak Conductor

6,000 Diesel Chugga Chuggas before a Single Satellite Choo Choo.

Nothing says dystopian future podcast like calling in from a Satellite phone while riding cross-country trains in the USA. As you'll hear in the first few seconds, sound quality was not the first priority on this very remote edition of SW2L, where Nick talks all about saving the world through planting trees and riding trains while Florian tells us about the start of his burgeoning music career.

Duration: 00:00

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech

The IsatPhone2 – You thought German cell phone plans were bad, wait till you see these calling prices – The original Union Pacitic map – The California Zephyr – What Nick tweeted – #railroadvista pictures – Track your Train – Abandoned Factories of East Germany – Burners Without Borders – Fly Ranch – Causes of Dropped Calls on Satellite Phones – Switchback – Bushwick Food Coop Needs your Help – Donate to the Feast – Baba Yaga’s house Fundraiser

A Hackerspace, a Hotel Room and a new record distance between our hosts who have never been closer.

Coming out of the last super depressing episode, our guests pull off a livestreamed episode filled with beer, puns, discussion of food from a Spanish speaking country and the end of the world through catastrophic climate change.

Duration: 0:46:15

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech

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A Hackerspace, a Hotel Room and a new record distance between our hosts who have never been closer.

Background

The Picture of the Picture of the Picture – UltraSchall – Chilean Passport – Chilean Salad – What is Chilean Cuisine Anyway? – Another discussion of Trees as Carbon Footprint Offset – So it is an 18 hour flight but not too expensive – Do what you can to reduce your footprint – The Camp is Sold Out, Deal With It – Team Harbor – Cheatha rigged the poll

(Not specifically mentioned in the episode, but perhaps a good thing to read after this episode: I don’t care how green you are, I want you in the climate movement.)

Depression. *sigh*

CW/TW: Depression, Anxiety, Loneliness Further removed from their source of Tacos, Mezcal and sunlight, Nick and Florian discuss their recent bouts with depression upon having returned to their respective places of origin. You will definitely not want to start listening to the podcast with this episode.

Duration: 00:00

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech

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Two grown men about to cry in front of their laptops in their respective houses.

Background

Sport Coats – CrossFit – Atomic Habits – Patient Health Questionnaire 9 – Bruno’s Gerlach – Fly Ranch – Burners Without Borders

(Not specifically mentioned in the episode, but perhaps a good thing to listen to after this episode: Life is a Festival 021: Demystifying Fly Ranch)

Prejudices about Mexico

Duration: 0:41:05

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech
	Bobo
	tatzelbrumm

We are all going to die!!!

Nick and Florian put on their best holiday cheer for what is probably their most depressing podcast to date: How (Western) civilization will end. Because we wanted to cheer you up before the 35C3. Naturally, it was taped at a Starbucks in an Airport.

Duration: 1:21:38

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech

Scene

The Counter outside a Starbucks at the Train Station of the Frankfurt Airport.

Background

(Intro and several thematic elements gently lifted from the Dollop Podcast) – Brompton Folding Bikes – 90 Degree Alley Backing – Piedras Negras Jailbreak Episode of the Dollop – Blandford Nature Center – A cute picture of Nick Feeding a Goat that got a lot of likes on Instagram, and in a way was a perfect Instagram photo because it was the one cute moment that totally defied the reality of the situation, which was literally a few hours of preventing a goat from headbutting or eating the children it was supposed to pose with – The Lost Decade (Japan) – History of the European Coal and Steel Community – The Perfect Bid – Mom wants you to grow up and get out of the house by 2021 – If you don’t do any edits… – The Belt and Road Initiative – China’s Largest Trading Partners – Ralph Hauenstein – Putin’s Gamble – Superyachts that are sailing vessels too – German Reunification Explained in 11 Minutes – Chaos Post

Florian, Nick and a Special Guest enjoy "vaguely authentic" Mexican in Mannheim

In a return to their vaguely Mexican food related podcast past, our co-hosts and a special guest feast on Baden-Württemberg's finest....tacos. Warm up to the faint sounds of this past summer's World Cup as our hosts opine on the usual set of topics: Beer, Language, Food Authenticity and (Reverse) Culture Shock. Also, for the first time on the podcast, food orders are placed in three different languages.

Duration: 1:04:06

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech
	Don

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A Restaurant in Mannheim certified by the Mexikaniche Fremdenverkehrsburo.

Background

Our special guest, Don – German restaurants in the US – Lederhosen – Pacífico Clara – Welde No. 1 (noted for its “oxidized, lemony, cardboard flavor”) – “Due to its convenient position, many long-distance lines connect in Mannheim” – Mexikanisches Fremdenverkehrsbüro – Italian lemons – British Linen Suits & Colonialism – Hard Shell Tacos – Oliver Kahn – Tinga de Pollo – Questions you should never ask – PDF security – “Welcome Home” Burning Man – Fusion Festival – BoboPK – Blast Resistant Trash Cans – Pfennig – D-mark – DB Lounge – Eurail pass – No First Class Railpass will get these guys in the DB Lounge – “There is a vending machine for every 23 people in Japan” – Proper Flan – Upload filters – Save your internet – Single check out line at Whole Foods – Taylorism – Keep calm and… – Ad-Funded Online Journalism – The internet was a mistake – Pepperoni, Pizza and Historical Accidents – Never Wear Shorts

Nick meets Florian for a working lunch in Frankfurt.

What used to be a vaguely Mexican food related podcast is now a vaguely Air Cargo and Freight Hauling podcast. The lovely glass roof of the Frankfurt Airport Squaire shows you HOW LOW THOSE PLANES ARE FLYING OVERHEAD. You'll notice this point come up a lot as a jetlagged Nick meets a fresh-from-work Florian for their first face to face meeting since they both moved back to the countries they are citizens of. Also, for the first time on the podcast, Florian orders in his native language.

Duration: 0:42:48

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech

Scene

A distinctly German Restaurant, at least in the international sense.

Background

The Square – The top 28 things to do in Frankfurt according to an English website – Balccon – Frankfurt Airport Cargo City – chi-deutschland.com – Standard Doubles Trailer that Nick is now Licensed to drive – Unit Load Devices – Air France KLM Boeing 747 Cargo – The Bahn Card 100 – Brompton Folding Bikes – Who is controlling these planes at FRA anyway, I definitely think they need to create more separation – EPIC bars – The Greenmarkets that Nick’s friend Jess works for – The Oculus – Nick actually totally scored a room at the Sachsen Park Hotel but he had to check in on the 21st to get the room for congress

More special guests than headsets!

Recorded LIVE from the 18th Gulaschprogrammiernacht, using transcontinental "your mom joke technology" and enough callbacks to keep a field phone network busy, our intrepid hosts return from their six week hiatus with an all star cast of SW2L's best listeners! No Nerd topic was left behind, as the conversation drifted along topics as diverse as making music with Game Boys to the arcane process of compiling GPL software written by people who make money selling binaries. Our guests also discuss their experiences at the #GPN18.

Duration: 1:03:16

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech
	Sebastian
	Luricaun
	Bobo
	tatzelbrumm

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Gulaschprogrammiernacht 18 (#gpn18)

Guests

Sebastian – tatzelbrumm – Bobo – Luricaun

Background

“It’s actually Gareth” –  Ardour – GPL 2.0  – 29c3 – Field Phones (chaosvermittlung) – chaos.social – Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design – Der Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof (The Federal Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice) – ZKM – Goulasch – Beethoven’s 9th – Endlich normale leute – C3 Post Office

 

 

Florian and Nick almost get thrown off a balcony

Call the waaaambulance, because Florian and Nick ended up getting solidly burned by our special guest and Florian's wife: Kathrin. Between those sick burns, the happy couple reflects on their time in Mexico and what heading back to Germany will be like. Nick does his best to be inoffensive and horribly fails.

Duration: 1:15:09

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	Nick Farr
	Florian Posdziech

Scene

La Galette (no link, no google maps location, no idea)

Background

The Fall – Gran Hotel – Comida Corrida – Ivory Charts – Somebody Call the Waaaaambulance – Podcast Chapter Images – Raspberry Pi – Entropia – Neingeist – Deutsche Schule Mexiko-Stadt – Doner Kebap – Michigan is a Divided State – Costs for Dying in Mexico City – El Amor es de Putos – Mea Culpa – Very Podcast Many Burns Wow