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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California
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.
Enjoy our conversation from the past.
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
Please contact Nick and complain about the missing show notes.
Duration: 1:03:40
Klosterbrauerei Andechs
