Everything is Coffee: Coffee Time LIVE 3 Mar 2024

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and okay so uh weather's awesome it's been great right now it's about 75° and we'll probably have a high of about 78 maybe a lowest 64 I know you hear that every week but you know that's how it is and uh Colombian Peso still hovering around that 39 something Mark which is good so that's cool um as far as the weather goes it was one of the headlines Let's see we got ready the umbrella Columbia entered the first rainy season well technically it starts in April but um we're seeing less of the El Nino and more of normal weather and normal weather means it usually doesn't rain during the day unless it's later in the afternoon last night it rained uh somewhere around 3 or 4:00 in the morning and uh that's perfect get lots of rain and sleep through it and let's see we got uh let's see here we go lousy picture lousy color but you can see it's pretty overcast and it's not raining but but it's you know it it's getting over it it's the way we like it actually all right let's uh where's that button there's the button okay let's see we've got some chats here Juka thank you very much Jerry thank you very much it's all really get some good use this week um I don't know if I'll talk about it today but a lot going on I was busy as hell this past week I'll be busy as hell this week Juka greetings from oops Finland now I want to say there's a little town here called fandia and everybody calls it Finlandia it's not it's fandia it's your tip for the day Rob good morning from Fort Lauderdale 432 days you poor SOB I don't know what to say about that Mr Michael Myers good morning from Los Angeles good morning aka Ben Lake good morning from the northern edge of bario oron negro let's see Sebastian greetings from P what are you doing down there Mr Sebastian thank you so much he he brought me a a treasured item from the US uh William good morning folks how you doing Mr William turtle an albor tuna sandwich in Corin what could be better I could think of a lot of things better but that's not bad Jimmy greetings how you doing oh La NE okay didn't know what that was yeah couldn't be better now now we're talking Mike survived two months in Asia awesome okay let's see see a couple new people welcome welcome to the channel and today I don't have a specific topic but I got a number of things to talk about uh first thing I'm going to talk about is the the coffee meeting this week was in a new location location was pretty good but it was a bit noisy it's wide open it's awesome if you're going to have lunch afterwards because it's like a food court kind of thing um but we're going to change it up for next week and I want to show you uh the address it's in the uh Facebook page Adventure in Grand Columbia but let me show you this is this is where we're going to go this [Music] Wednesday [Music] that's right we're going to onl and noise won't be a problem it's kind of tuck back in the buildings let me show you if you're if you're here you know where I'm talking about if if you go to the entrance for Park de laita and then you turn around you got a Mexican restaurant an axm that's a burger place and the arrow is pointing between those buildings and that's where I started that little clip that you just saw you walk back through there take your first right and it's down on the end and it's a very interesting place uh you're not going to want to miss it all right I got to I've got to confess to something let me go back to this map okay if you look below that Arrow you'll see a silver car and then next to it on the other side of it there's a motorcycle with somebody sitting there okay where that silver car is imagine that I'm backing a car into that spot there was nobody sitting on the motorcycle this isn't a current picture but there were several motorcycles there on the other side of that car so I'm backing into the spot and I'm driving a car that's got a blacked out rear glass so I've got the right mirror and left mirror so I'm backing up and I'm backing in slow and I'm just chugging in there because it is kind of a tight fit so I'm backing up back and up back and up and then all of a sudden we through of us we hear this no it was more of a yeah more like that we hear that and I go holy crap so of course I stop and I look in the mirrors and I I don't see anything and this was sad and so I don't know I'm not all the way back in so you know I'm thinking okay I'm going to back up but obviously either somebody slapped the trunk or I hit something but there wasn't anything there when I pulled up there was nothing there so I don't know I I'm not sure and um one of the gentlemen that was with me he jumps out of the card he's going to take a look and then in my mirror on the driver's side to my left I'm looking in that mirror I see a guy picking himself up off the ground and he he gets partway up and he falls again I holy crap now this was actually happening rather quickly get partway up and he falls again now this is pretty serious but let me tell you I'm going to show you the conversation we had immediately after this episode he he he was trying to get it looked like Joe Biden trying to get on an airplane he fell down he tries to get up he fell down he tries to get up he fell down and I see that woman you know and she and she's just watching I I don't know they're together y I see they guy I see day and I think like okay he will walk and a song like and he was like it's going to be the last time he got up after tell once yeah like four times he was up he was down he was up he was down he like he fall or he was Ring something well he I couldn't understand because he fell but there was a curve and so he would get up and he would trip on the curb and fall again he would get up and he would trip on the curb and I'm thinking how could you do that well he's old he's just old man then I see he's blind exactly then I see like so needless to say we're all going to hell the man was fine he wasn't doesn't hurt at all but um I don't know I was pretty somber but some people thought it was hilarious I won't mention any names Marley okay so Judy good morning good morning Judy Mr Amil good morning he was at the coffee meeting pretty cool place this a little noisy if we're going to sit around and talk about uh I think 11 people showed up it was it was pretty good showing all right let's see okay uh next all right Turtle who may or may not still be on I put a post up about his foot he broke his foot like in a bunch of places and he's he's having some problems getting around and and so I put a post up about it and I said if anybody wants to kind of he's trying to pick up a scooter for his foot if anybody wants to contribute to that here's his information um and I guess a couple people did but uh his his new family in sakuro um the the gentleman is named Freddy the father took him out to a farm I think it's Freddy's Farm I may not get all the details right but he took him out to a farm and on the farm he had no there's a there's a family that stays there as caretakers and this family has this little daughter and I say little because she's not growing I'm not sure what age she is but she's tiny little thing and she's got some serious medical problems she can't eat so she's got a thing in her stomach and they attach something and they have to feed her this liquid diet well while he was there and he was meeting these people and looking at the farm he starts getting nosy and he's asking questions about it and it turns out that the family it's it's not a cheap item and uh the family was kind of watering it down to make it last so she wouldn't go a day or two a month without eating and so Turtle took the money that had been sent to him for a scooter and he well let me show you the the picture of the girl and apparently she never Smiles she's in pain all the time I'm not sure all the details and so he took the money that um that was sent to him and he bought a few cases of this PediaSure it's not normal PediaSure it's clinical it's it's something special in particular for this kind of situation you can actually live off of this stuff um which is what she has to do so um not sure what to say when I was in Ecuador I got caught up in a number of things like this some of you remember and um you know on one hand you have this this pressing need to do something but on the other hand it's very frustrating because honestly it never ends and um selfish me when I came to Colombia I've steered clear of some of that sort of thing uh maybe a one-on-one here and there it's hard to live down in South America when when you see I mean it's a lot of people live great lives here middle class is the is the largest group and that's why you see all the cars and that's why they keep building malls with you know expensive stores because there's people for it but you got a percentage that you know it's about we're up to about 30% after covid that are very poor and you've got about I forget the actual numbers but somewhere just shy of 10% that are uh critically poor abject poor like don't eat every day necessarily there's categories for this and it's hard to and they don't hide it in South America so well they did in quena Ecuador but uh here they it's not hidden at all you'll see them on the streets and it's hard it's hard to see that and not want to do something even if you're on a Social Security pension and maybe maybe you don't have a ton of money living the lifestyle that you're living which is just average but you just feel compelled to do something and you know he's been bitten by the bug this isn't the first thing he's he's given some personal items in some situations but um this one's hard to argue okay um let's get to some news are we are we there got the I covered the blind person that Marley was laughing at um oh who is Marley well Marley and her father um Robert they they are the people that are setting up the export coffee business and they're transitioning from from doing it as a bulk commercial thing to they're they're going to uh we've had a lot of conversations and I'm happy to see they're going to do this they're going to focus on a lot of these small generational Farms here in Cano that aren't big commercial operations we don't really have those and some of the coffees here are fantastic uh last year 2023 in know in blind taste session of these International coffee tastings and they have different categories but then they have an overall category the overall category for the entire world was right here in condo and buen Vista as a matter of fact and that's not unusual in the top 10 there's either four or five coffee in internationally there's four or five coffees from Cal represented that's including Hawaii including Africa that's everywhere so CIO has a particularly good standing but the Curious Thing is if you're in the United States you can't get your hands on this coffee unless you fly here and pick it up and I suggested to them rather than do the commercial thing where everybody and their brother is kind of doing that some of these coffees are very unique and and they're pretty fantastic what maybe you could do that and so that's what they've kind of retooling and they're looking into that I hope it works out I hope they're doing that I will be promoting them if they're doing that it will also allow the farmers here in Koo to get probably somewhere around double the price they're getting by they they'll take their coffee and they uh some of them will bag it up themselves just to sell in local stores um it's difficult and expensive to get an export license so they'll they'll do that with some and then the rest of it they kind of they just take it to one of the commercial operations and sell it for you know peanuts on the dollar it's they struggle to stay alive and all the Farms here in C they're all generational family uh small business kind of thing and so that would be awesome too so that's uh that's who Bob and Marley yes Bob and Marley uh that's who they are and they were visiting me they stayed here and they were visiting from Monday to Wednesday because because they're planning on actually moving from IB where they currently live to um Armenia and that'll be awesome so that's that's who's laughing on that video all right I I know it sound it sounds like it was cruel but he was perfectly fine and after the fact it it was pretty funny um and I don't know the actually well enough of that all right so let's get to some news headlines here fandia uh some of you know this Tower you might recognize it uh nighttime reopening the doors to the Eco Park open again with illuminated routes they have put a ton of money some was sent by the national government most of it was uh by the fandia mayor um Al ated some of their budget and um forget the amount I think it was in dollars somewhere around $100,000 they had to rebuild this this is made out of wood and a lot of the wood was rotted the roof was leaking and so they've replaced a lot of the wood struts they've replaced the the roof and the pass like you walk out of the the town you walk up the hill and and you get to this thing they put uh lights along the pathways to to illuminate it uh so that's that's pretty cool okay next headline and I'll try to put this in context because you're going go whoa all right new blow to drug trafficking assets of criminal organizations were occupied Ino what you have is a government seizure now now we all know that there's criminals in Colombia we all know there's criminals in wherever you're from and criminals here do things similar to everywhere else they get all this money what do you do with all this money well one thing you can do is launder it and then invest it in real estate and so they've been investing in it around Colombia kimbaya which is a town down here in C there was a lot of property for sale out out there and they came in and they bought some of that plus right here in Armenia there were some buildings that they commercial buildings that they had bought well the government as you know U from some of the stories I've been telling you recently like the woman who moved into Montenegro to try to set up a a little criminal ring two or three days later the neighbors blew her in they caught her and ared her and she's sitting in jail well the government has been on this here in C especially they watch these things they check sales they they figured out all the properties that were any way attached to known criminals and in one day they went around They seized it all they got all the documentation they they had people at the properties um maybe hoping to catch some people but um they didn't catch them but they got all the properties so I mean it's a fantastic thing because I'm not turning a blind eye whenever something kind of pops up its ugly head they seem to be on it uh so that's very cool um what do we have here let me look at it maybe I can tell here's a headline oh yeah yeah yeah Armenia ranked 11 in the unemployment rate at the national level and second in the coffee region so I think it's 20 23 or 26 cities um of any size not not towns Armenia has ranked 11th so it's 11th highest in unemployment out of 20 some cities so it's somewhere around midpoint let me um let me get to the whoops no here we go according to the latest report provided by the national administration department of Statistics Dane that's also uh right a bad joke I I'll spare you for the mo for the moving quarter November 2023 to January 2024 the unemployment figure in armania was ranked 11th nationally at 11.7% among 23 cities and the average being 10.6 so it's just below the average and so we've got here monzales is at uh 10% well let me actually let me run down through this so for up to 2024 Armenia is 11.7 as it says but the year prior to that ending January 23 it was 13.4 so it's Fallen a couple percentage it's still high uh preco it was almost half this uh ibag in 2023 it was 17.7 and 24 it's 14 so that's taking a pretty good jump it's still one of the higher ones um but a um they've kind of gone backwards in 23 it was 10.7 and um January 24 the year up to uh 12.6 so it's it's jumped a little bit and monzales it's actually a little bit below the national average no surprise in 23 it was 9.7 and in 24 it's 10 so .3% up statistically you know flip a coin so people ask that so there you go I found that headline and um Mike Mr Jarvis how you doing good to see you joined us okay um this one's pretty cool too here we have Railways lines spread all over Colombia and they just like in the US they kind of fell out of favor fell into ruin but they're reinvigorating they're rebuilding Rail lines and and The Rail lines at the rebuilding are from wav Ventura which is a port city Ki which is uh east Southeast of wi Ventura major city and cendo it's going to be in laaba um there's a station here but they're they're not doing it to here they're doing it to L Bida so the idea is that all the shipping that currently goes by trucks from buen Ventura uh to kalii to to C and then goes to Bogata they're going to do that part of it by Rail and then they'll load it on trucks and take it from here uh to Bogata so it's it's a good thing it means uh jobs and so that's that's always a good thing and um next I a couple years ago I met somebody she's a she's a college student uh not from this area she lives uh between kie and Popa John and we've kept in touch um on and off quite a bit recently she's uh she's she talked to the university that she works in it's a research University and told them about uh this Channel and then told them about the new coffee project and they were very interested and I don't know what it means but possibly they want to get involved in it some way um let me I put together a couple clips of her and the the last clip is is this coffee thing that they're doing uh it's very it's very quick um the her B outfit reminds me of uh Ghostbusters [Music] but [Music] you meet some interesting people in Colombia that's for sure I want to tell you something about her she just uh you know she's barely over the 20 threshold um I could show you more clips she bought an apartment run down gut it out pays a little bit uh she works she also has a farm which she bought and she also uh University full-time so you know she's busy 247 and so she bought this PL this place it's you know the whole area is just kind of run you know it's your typical stuff but she's putting every penny she's got into creating this it looks like a two-bedroom it's actually pretty spacious uh it could be real nice so they'll have a balcony in the front and it's very close to her farm and she bought a farm and she's always working there uh she sends me clips where she's covered in mud where she one time she was building steps she wears those big uh knee high rubber boots you know she wears farmer hats farmer clothes and she'll be covered in mud and she you know grows plants she's got animals she got a bunch of chickens and all all kinds of stuff going on and um I keep in touch mostly because I have this huge admiration she's such a workaholic she actually she reminds me of me because I was always like that I always had a lot of things going on let me show you the this is the map that's where that's where she lives um it's very close to an area with far and at times it can be dangerous but it's it's on the main road but once you get off that Main Road uh sometimes could be potentially dangerous not for her not for her family they don't mess with the people there but you know if you were to go visit there you never know you want to be careful but I've been invited to go see what's going on I'm not sure exactly what they're doing with coffee um they're experimenting with all kinds of different U types of arabica beans and she was excited about one and that one in the picture you saw the bean was actually a red bean which normally they're kind of white or yellow and this red bean has has an exaggerated red fruit flavor to it and they're all excited about it I I don't know I've been invited to visit bring my camera see what's going on see what they're doing um in which case I would also visit her Farm I've never seen it um she's as you saw she's she's she's learned beekeeping she said that um they just did their first harvesting and she harvested 32 kilos of honey that seems like a lot to me uh she'll hire local people to come and and work on her Farm um as as she needs it it's not like they're there all the time so um it's it's quite a story and I wanted to I wanted to share it with you because [Music] um you know we we look at where we come from and there's always conversation about you know what's going to happen with the Next Generation they is a millennial Gen X whatever gen Z they don't know the you know the work ethic they don't get this they don't get that and here in Colombia there's a lot of Truth to that also here in in in our it's an issue all around Colombia it's an issue it seems that people are just kind of I don't know lazy but the people that work work their tail off and this is one at a young age it's it's her and her mother living pretty much as poor as you can live but working your tail off and putting every last peso in the building this little Empire that she's got going and working in conjunction with the with the university right now uh she's working real hard to obtain a 100% um paid for she's out of high school she got a 50% tuition covered so she's got to pay on the tuition she's got to you know she works the farm and has to pay pay for the land she's paying for this apartment thing got to pay for food for her and her mother um you know she tried doing some videos for a while that's actually how we um met you would say but um I don't know you got to have a lot of respect for it uh Turtle the college student was she with her friend the two college students you met on a bus trip it was when you were living in mon uh nope that was something else very different um no this is a very very conservative 1800s Columbia type of person okay do we have any questions I think I've covered pretty much everything I wanted to cover today I wanted to give some time to point out what she's doing in in her little corner of the world and I wish we could say that that's happening everywhere unfortunately it's not those kind of people are few and far between I remember when I was growing up I left home at 15 you know the story and um you know I just work my tail off but I looked around it was easy to succeed because you look around and other people didn't do that and so if if that's how you operate you stand out just by virtue of being hardworking you know you you get the promotions you get the the deals you get all of those things just because you stand out for being such a hard worker and um you know I wish the best for her I will try to um I will try to arrange to get there but it it'll entail I got to go for at least an overnight that means a hotel room car rentals are getting up there so it's something you know maybe maybe uh in a few months I can uh set that aside Rob gig not going to mention a new toy you got this week well I didn't know if I I should bring it up yet but this was actually for the coffee Channel and I received a contribution and uh some of you might know what that is and all of you probably know I've had a lot of camera issues recently and my old uh my old original osmo pocket let's see comes out my original osmo pocket is uh has seen better days some some real issues with it it's practically unusable well in this comes this this it has a widescreen lens that comes with it because this is a Creator kit and this is the original and this is the new one and if you look on YouTube about this pretty much everybody who is into photography professionals they're raving about this thing um you flip a little screen and it turns on right away this had this little tiny screen you could barely make out this actually works pretty good it's a touch screen it's very adjustable turn it off it's got a gimbal so there's no electronic cropping it g always gives you a true picture um it's pretty amazing and it comes with a battery battery inside lasts about 2 hours at 14k um this battery will plug in and recharge this one to 80% in about 15 minutes it's a very fast charging system and it comes with a little uh tripod can screw into here and it's got sorry you ask Rob right yeah let's see see you did ask it's got this little thing that goes on there because it's a little short so you can opt to put that little extension on and it comes with a little um Bluetooth lapel mic this particular brand they they they've been selling these for a long time time this one is unique to this there's no connection required well original setup after that no connection require you turn this on it's automatically here but one of the Beauties is this has three microphones this continues to record the sound and this records the sound so you actually get two lines of sound one from the camera one from here so if you have problems with this or if you have problems with this you've got two chances to get it corrected so that's pretty awesome it's the osmo pocket 3 and this is the creator version um in the United States you can buy the Creator version for about 660 some dollars it came with some extras um he bought a couple of very large U memory card SD cards video style they're quite expensive the ones he sent and I've never gotten that large because of the cost and so I got a couple cuz I do go through those and um and so I've got a couple so that's that's awesome and um of course I can use it for anything but it will get a lot of use uh this coming week because I'm doing a lot of the coffee Channel stuff this week I'm behind because I got sick as you know but I'm catching up probably by the end of this week I'll have the intro video done where I explain what the Channel's going to be about what we're going to do what the goals are what the plans are so there'll be that so when you go to the channel on YouTube that will kick up and it'll be there and then uh the first video will be uploaded should be by the end of the week unless some disaster happens but it won't be through lack of having a camera so that's pretty amazing so Mr uh doana his name known if you happen to be watching thank you so much okay all right Robert M Mr stir up trouble that was Mike Carol what model okay so I answered that we have any other questions I know kind of short today um I've been working my tail off in the coffee thing so I just um I put together today what I could do in about four hours uh let's see are new expats still allowed to obtain sah if so is the plan the same quality of coverage as current residents are able to purchase uh you know that's a that's a great question because at the coffee meeting I I I ran into it headon and I thought about making this a topic but I don't like to go into a lot of details on certain things like that or taxes but there's so much crap information particularly on Facebook people either out of ignorance or they just want to cause problems and they just outright lie um there was a a lawyer outfit out of metagene that I was able to trace back this some months ago where they had put they they they put out a statement making the new changes which were last year sound really difficult and they were so busy trying to do that that they misspoke and people took it as real um first yes you can have the EPS it's exactly the same it can be S it could be sonitas you got your choice of a bunch of them depending on where you are the best in the country is either surra or Sanitas and whichever one the other one will be right behind it but I believe like ibag I don't think they actually have Sur there they they use sonitas or if they do it's it's it's small and inconvenient I don't know sonitas seems to be the thing fore B here we got we we have everything equally uh so I have Sur but it's all under the EPs and yes you can absolutely get it it'll cost you3 some dollars a month or that full coverage has some dental it's got a bunch of things it's like an HMO um you're popay on medicine work out to about a dollar or less 50 cents so yes um this idea that the change came and now they don't allow foreigners to have the it's just nonsense there's no basis for it whatsoever and um what came up at the coffee meeting was uh one gentleman said hey so and so said that um you now to get a your first Visa you've got to have one year of um of travelers insurance and it's like $1,500 and I said well where did you hear that I said well I heard it from so and so but he heard it from the Visa agent I said well that's that's not true I I I know as a matter of fact that person told me something similar but a little different and I actually had written to the Visa agent like a month or two prior and got the answer back not have anything to do with it the the law is the law and this is what it is and you want to have you know two to three months of travel insurance long enough to get your visa and your sedula and then sign up for the EPs and then once you have that you're home free and then next time around that's that's all you need to have you don't have to have months or year you don't have to have years of travelers insurance and um yeah you absolutely can have it and it is the same cover it's the very same insurance so um hopefully that answers your question but uh yeah you see it all over Facebook and people just they read it they think it's true and then they turn around repeat it and now somebody's well I saw it like five different times it must be true and then more people believe it it it it's crazy and it's all nonsense go to the source and I hesitate on some things like taxes because so much variation so it's not a particular thing um all right let's see Mike I know a US citizen uh you're probably talking about the same guy and I and he told you that and I just confronted him on this and it turns out what he was talking about was something completely different um so I hear what you're saying you and I should talk on this because what he said what what it boiled down to is it wasn't about EPS insurance it was about the um the add-ons that you could get and he wasn't able to get the add-ons well that has nothing to do with what he even thought it was you can't get the add-ons once you're over 60 years old there are some exceptions sometimes you get to 62 65 they're rare but the the the Line in the Sand is basically 60 so once you hit that age you can no longer get the add-ons now you don't really need them because the EPS is good enough and that's what he was talking about and I'm pretty sure that's who you're talking about because you're kind of saying what he said and it just wasn't true and as far as the the one-year travel insurance he decided to do that because he misunderstood what was going on it wasn't the case of that's what he actually had to do and I did I I did I emailed her when I first heard this about two months ago and um I'll email again I tell you what send shoot me off a message tell me who it is so that don't do it here but tell me who it is in uh what's up because I think that's what we're that's it's the same thing and I actually confronted him why are you telling people this and then he explain the situation he was confused and he's been telling something that isn't what he actually went through because he was confused about it he didn't even realize that the add-ons aren't even they're not even required the EPS he he certainly can get so um yeah shoot me a message and we'll compare notes we'll get to the bottom of this but this is how this stuff kind of run rampants rampant because I know people that just went through Lou's last month I know two people that just went through her last month and none of this stuff came up so it's not coming from her okay anything else let's see yeah I just got a message interesting I don't know enough maybe I'll tell you about it next week about coffee all right anything else are we done please Mike send me that name let's let's get to the bottom of it because if there's anything like that I'll make a correction and certainly talk about it next week but um you know like I say I did I I immediately wrote to her and quizzed her on this and then afterwards um there were a couple people that went through the process and it was just like what you did and what I did there was no year requirement for travelers insurance and there was no problem for the EPS so all right I guess that's it um Juka Jerry as always thank you very much this Lifesaver and I have people on on the regular that U that contribute to the channel That keep it going it's certainly appreciated and um that's why we're still here all right so no more questions hate to leave on a cliffhanger but we'll explain it all next week once we sort it out [Music] ciao