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Chapter 1: What did Lauren experience during her trip to Spain?
They come out with an excuse for them to be gone for a certain amount of time. And we just didn't do that, Lauren. Well, I did. I said she moved to Mexico. You know, on the Grace O'Malley episode? Yeah.
I didn't hear it, but someone told me about it.
Oh, yeah. I didn't realize she didn't know the bit, so I said that. And then she was like, Lauren, enjoy your new life in Mexico.
That's funny. Alright, Lauren, tell us all about it. What happened? Hit me. What didn't happen? Okay.
Am I right?
Never mind.
Can I tell you the one thing that just happened before I forget it? I was just biking here. Isn't that insane? Yeah. No. And I was running a little behind, so I was hauling ass. Well, I also like to just haul ass. And I got my tunes in, I'm on the boardwalk, I'm flying on the bike path. Well done. Flying down the bike path.
And then I have to gain like a ton of speed to get up the hill to our office. Explain to the people at home, like I walk up this hill. Yes.
And if I... Wenn ich jemandem spreche, der auf dieser Strecke geht, bin ich aus der Strecke.
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Chapter 2: What was the craziest thing about flash drives?
I almost lost you. You were going so fast. It's kind of awesome.
I was like, oh my god, holy shit, thank you so much. Thank you. You know, like one of those... Did you have cash? Nein, ich hatte kein Geld, also konnte ich es nicht haben, aber auch wie du die Art und Weise ist, wenn jemand deine Wallet zurückgibt, gibst du ihnen, was in der Wallet war. Ich meine, ich hätte es gefordert, wenn ich etwas hatte, aber ich habe es auch.
Dieser Kerl war wie ein guter, wie es nicht war. Ja, also Lorenz, er war einfach ein guter Samariter. Das ist ja, das ist ein Schuss. Ich wäre so verdammt. Ja, Lorenz, nur damit du es verstehen kannst. Es wäre wie Geld ist wie Dollar. Cash is like dollars. George Washington, Ben Franklin.
And it would be kind of like if you dropped like your little purse or something, like you would give the man lip gloss and like the phone number of some hot guy that gave it to you at the bar or or like, oh, sorry for you.
He's been waiting to get you back.
For you, you would give him like your flask of alcohol that you like put in your coffee and other things like that. I, oh, that feels so good to call you an alcoholic.
I've been waiting two weeks. Hast du etwas Sangria getrunken?
Sangria? Tinto de Verano war unser Lieblingsgericht.
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Chapter 3: What is Edward 40 Hands and how did it go wrong?
Oh, das weiße Sangria? Nein, es ist... Warte, warte, warte. Lass mich versuchen, es zu übersetzen. Es heißt Summer Red. Okay. Also, es ist... Oh, ja. Es ist roter Wein. Und ich habe gesagt, weiß.
Ich denke, ich verliere meinen Spanisch.
Nein. Was ist Tinta? Ich denke, das ist, wie du einen roten Wein beschreibst.
Tinto wäre rot und Verano ist Sommer. Und also... Ich bin ein Idiot. Sie machen... Also, es ist roter Wein und dann Limon-Soda.
Mhm. Like a San Pellegrino?
Oh yeah, I know that.
Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I never drank it, but my host mom would do it.
It's so good. We had it every single day. Because I had Sangria and then I realized, what? I was on vacation.
You drank for two weeks. Did you drink every day?
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Chapter 4: What are the funniest marathon signs that don't exist?
I... How was that?
So fun.
Chapter 5: What plot ideas for Curb Your Enthusiasm should exist?
Who'd you go out with?
My sister and my hostel friend Cabas from Montreal.
Were you staying at hostels?
Wir haben in einem Hostel geblieben.
Cabas ist ein wirklich spanischer Name für jemanden aus Montreal.
Nein, es ist ein französischer. Nein, nein, nein, es ist eigentlich ein arabischer Name. Wir haben in einem Hostel in Barcelona, in Madrid geblieben. Und dann haben wir ein Hotel in Sevilla und ein Airbnb in Valencia geblieben.
Waren das Party-Hostels?
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Chapter 6: How did the gang handle a sex scene on a plane?
Ja, du hast mir literally gesagt, dass der erste, den du besucht hast, zu viel von einem Party-Hostel war. Und deshalb warst du gespannt, zu verlassen.
Oh, Barcelona. Nein, es war nicht...
Waren es nicht Leute, die nach Hause kamen, um 4 Uhr morgens zusammenzutreten?
Ja. Eine Nacht, also ich war bereits ein bisschen krank in Barcelona, weil ich geflogen war und dann nicht wirklich schlafen konnte. Weil diese eine Frau, sie war so süß. Ich denke, sie ist aus Hongkong. Sie war alleine reisen.
Warum denkst du das?
Und sie hat mir gesagt, dass sie aus Hongkong ist. Ich kann es einfach nicht.
Carry on, carry on.
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Chapter 7: How do the boys feel about relationships?
Sorry, I'm done. She didn't look like your typical party-goer. She just was probably in her 40s. She left for the night in her little running shoes and T-shirt. She comes home at 3 a.m. From God knows where. It's like me, Jane, and then these other two sisters, friends we made in our hostel. We're all asleep. Those poor girls had a flight in like three hours. This woman comes home.
Take a shower, starts blow drying her hair, turns on all the lights. Is the shower in the room with you guys? Basically, so some of the hostels have like a communal one in the hallway, but then ours, it was like in the suite, technically. So it's just like a sliding door. But she leaves this... A glass sliding door? No, no. Where did glass come from?
Er wurde aufgeregt. Er hat einen 40-Jährigen aus Hongkong gesehen und er hat angefangen, eine Foto zu machen. Wo ist dieses Hostel? Kannst du dir eine Foto machen?
Barcelona.
Barcelona. Warte, ich verstehe nicht, wie kannst du sie nicht schlafen sehen? Es war so, dass schlagartige Türen nicht aussehbar sind.
Sie hat nie gesagt, dass es aussehbar ist.
Name eine schlagartige Tür, die nicht aussehbar ist. Jack, denk an, wenn du... Oder wie ein verbranntes Glas. Yeah, but then they can still see, like, her, like, the silhouette of her. What is, what is your hyperfixation with?
Yeah, I'm just saying, like, I wouldn't want, like, I, if I'm staying in a hostel, I'm paying good money, I don't want to see, like, the... Dude, you're not paying good money. That's kind of the whole point. I don't want to see the silhouette of some, like, sexy woman from Hong Kong and then get all excited.
That's also not, that's also not, it's, that's, that's the door to the bathroom. There's, like, stalls for the showers. There's two showers, two bathrooms. It's, like, it's, you feel like you're, it was, like, a hotel, basically, but it's, like, a hostel, because it's, like, a dorm room.
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Chapter 8: What happened during the podcast pitch submissions?
Alright, keep going.
I want to hear all about your trip. Well, that's pretty much just what happened there. This woman was just completely oblivious. Was she hammered? I think she was. So after probably 30 to 45 minutes... What?
I'm just happy to be hearing your story. I'm allowed to smile. Jesus.
He's thinking about that lady naked again. I can fucking see it in his eyes.
So Jane goes in the bathroom and she goes... Hi, can you, like we're trying to sleep and she, I guess she had the hair dryer, what do you call it, blow dryer, wrapped around the corner, like she was trying to be quiet, but it wasn't blocking any noise. So she was standing like in the stall of the toilet, like blow drying her hair and she's like, oh my gosh, yeah, I'm so sorry.
So I think she was hammered. Und dann beginnt sie mit dem Telefon zu sprechen und zu schreien. Ich weiß nicht, es war einfach... Das war das ganze Ding.
Aber ist das nicht so... Und dann war ich krank in Valencia, weil ich nicht gut schlafen konnte, was ein bisschen unfreundlich war, aber... Du wolltest... Zumindest hattest du den AirBnB, was wahrscheinlich bedeutet, dass du gut schlafen und sich wiederholen kannst.
Ja, ja, ja. Ist Valencia nicht wunderschön?
Valencia und Madrid waren eigentlich mein Lieblingsplatz. Ja.
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