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let's make sure the giant fits in the picture  hi hi let's sit down and film a little update  

yeah we really need to don't we are you  going to fix your hair this is my hair fixed

let's look at my nasty path your feet are out  of the frame samuel thanks for the concern thank  

goodness for our poor viewers they do not need to  see that yeah you don't want to see them at the  

moment we'll leave it right there we thought we  would sit down and just have a little chat share  

a little update because i feel like the theme of  this trip has been flexibility and just throwing  

plans and preconceptions pre-con preconceived  plans how about that not freaking out the window  

yeah for sure those plans go out the window so i  don't know if i already edited this out of some of  

our previous vlogs where we talked about this but  we were supposed to travel in peru we had a really  

cool trip planned that you were in touch with uh  with a blogger yeah so basically we were going  

on this trip down to ika in wakachina with another  youtuber couple to like film some content together  

have a fun little trip vineyards haciendas good  times and like was it a day before two days  

before we were supposed to leave protests erupted  here in peru um because of the cost of fuel right  

which has been rising around the world this isn't  just happening in peru this is a global thing  

yeah and then those protests kind of like  shut down the highways because they burned the  

what do you call the the toll the toll booths the  prisons so the total blues were being built there  

was just like all kinds of disruptions there  was also protests taking place in the capital  

and so the the president ended up ordering a  flash curfew yes on the day we're supposed to go  

so then we're all so stuck in doors like nobody  is allowed to leave their homes though i will  

say the neighborhood that we're in right now is  very peaceful and people are just like i'm still  

exercising i'm still walking my dog so a few  brave souls were still out during the curfew  

and then because of the curfew there was a  counter protest right in the city center so  

it's just been kind of like crazy don't forget  the banging of the pots and pans oh begging of  

the pots and pans yeah from the apartment i've  never seen that before that was yes that was  

unique to kind of show people's unhappiness  shall we say with the current government

i don't know if you guys can hear it but it  is pots and pans time we've had three sessions  

today at 12 noon at one point in the afternoon  and now in the evening yes interesting time to  

be in peru um but we never felt in danger or  anything it's been we were pretty lucky in the  

sense yeah where we were staying in mirror floor  is but also it's just like it ended up being okay  

for some reason like the cancellation yeah yeah  travel it just doesn't feel like it was meant to  

happen like that that's over a week ago now it  was two almost two weeks ago and um basically  

i've i've been doing work on something a new  website called pictureperfectportfolios.com

i'm throwing that out there throwing this out  there yeah okay okay tell us about your project  

so we didn't travel anywhere but sam okay can  i say you've been nerding out is that nerding  

out to the max not recently like for the past two  and a half years yeah yeah so during the pandemic  

i i developed a like a new passion for investing  and i was just like devouring books listening to  

podcasts reading white papers reading blogs and  just kind of soaking in information like a sponge  

and now i'm kind of expelling some of the  some of the things that's been soaked into  

this bunch so i have things that i want to write  about like um type of investor that i am i would  

say that i'm contrarian i i like i like to get  involved in factor investing value momentum  

i'm also really in to alternative investments  and the other thing that i really like to do  

is build model portfolios that's this hot and so  yeah i'm playing around with that on the website  

i'm interviewing people i'm doing writing about  all kinds of topics yeah and it's super niche so  

you know only if this is something that you  may enjoy i would say this is a very small  

fraction of the population but if you guys  are interested in that like i have to say i've  

read some of your articles and because you've  been talking to me about this for two years i  

understand it but if i had landed on your website  two years ago the information would have gone over  

my head yeah i have no idea what you're talking  about one of those topics it's one of those things  

that like it is it's a niche interest and but if  you are interested please come over and say hi  

leave a comment uh on the website and i'll get  back to you for sure because it's just started  

i think i've only got like eight nine ten posts up  so uh it's in the beginning stages but i'm trying  

to write a post every other day and i've been able  to stick to that so far so yeah yeah really pumped  

about that um you've been able to spend quality  time with family which has been nice i have yeah  

i mean the cancellation of like this trip and  another trip that we also had planned with my  

family down to chincha that got cancelled  it meant we had a lot of time in lima peru

see

also can i just clarify that this video clip  right here was not staged at all sam basically  

ate his way into a food coma and this siesta was  the aftermath there was no getting him back to the  

apartment so he just sprawled out on the couch  we also visited a new to us restaurant called  

fiesta for a birthday celebration this restaurant  specializes in food from chiclado in northern peru  

and the food was really outstanding we started out  with this flambe nigiri which we coated in spices  

and down it went in one bite it was so good  i could have eaten a plate full of those

next came the ceviche the waiter poured the citrus  juice into her individual plates and then we had  

to cure the fish ourselves by dipping it  in the juice apparently they said five  

seconds was enough but as you can see i was quite  suspicious shouldn't it be five minutes at least

this dish came with corn sweet potato seaweed  and these delicious sweet corn croquettes  

then came something called cooked ceviche  or hot ceviche which was wrapped in a corn  

husk this was another wonderful explosion of  flavors and the fish just melted in our mouths  

and then we had the green rice with duck  which at the end of the meal was cooked again  

into this nice crispy rice it kind of reminded  us of a korean dish we used to have and then  

lastly for dessert we had this multi-layered dish  called king kong and some gourmet fudgesicles

okay maybe i'll do 95 on my hands

on my feet like this

these are the choices maybe this would be nice

and in between all the eating we also  enjoyed a little bit of pampering  

this is something i only do when i visit  lima peru and i even roped sam into it  

he fell asleep at one point during  his pedicure do we think he enjoyed it

so i spent a lot of time with family we just  went out to a lot of restaurants tried new dishes  

they're foodies like we are so it's a really  good match yeah they are they're probably even  

probably even more so like they're at the  uh they're at their extreme pro level we're  

yeah we're here yet we can aspire to be at their  level someday and the other cool thing was you got  

to celebrate your grandma's 94th birthday yes  yes raise a glass you've made it another year

happy birthday have a laugh crack  a smile even shed a tear because  

it's your birthday pop the cork for the  food make a wish and don't forget to  

count the candles now we celebrate  with chairs raise your glass to another  

raise the glass it's time to have some  fun happy birthday yellow cake foreign

raise your glass to another

don't drink it

is

raise your glass

no

okay

yeah that was awesome and what else was i gonna  say oh i wanted to talk about our new filming  

style if you've kind of noticed that i don't know  if you have but we ended up getting the little  

gopro and i find because it's so small and so easy  to just pull out of my purse i've been filming a  

lot more and like getting longer clips just like  showing you the surroundings the city it's a bit  

more easy going a bit more unedited uncut a little  bit more raw i would say i hope you guys are  

enjoying that style but we'd love your feedback  i kind of have more fun filming and editing these  

videos because i'm not spending as much time on  them like it's not taking me a week to get one out  

there we actually had this conversation um about  a night a couple nights ago we were saying how  

things have kind of changed for in on youtube for  a while it's like when when drones first came out  

and when uh you could start filming in slo-mo  easily on cameras it's like everything became  

about the editing and the slow motion and the  cinematics i still think that's a really important  

way to to film and tell a story but i almost think  like things are kind of going back to the original  

roots of youtube reverting to the early days  yeah more of the the rawness the personality the  

the kind of like unrefined element of storytelling  and making videos and quite frankly we're we're  

feeling refreshed with this new style yeah and the  thing is i'm still capturing a lot of detail and  

b-roll with the with the bigger camera but we're  doing way less of the speaking clips now with it  

yeah and yeah it's a it's it's a cool  new style that i hope you guys enjoy too  

yeah i'm really happy with the little gopro and  what it's allowed us to do yeah i also feel more  

comfortable in restaurants because like when  you walk in there with this giant dslr and like  

a microphone mounted on top like it draws a lot  of attention yeah but with this like tiny little  

thing on a stick it's like i can just pull it out  and do my thing it's it's super it's super awkward  

sometimes in the past like to honestly film in a  restaurant with with the bigger camera and the mic  

and the thing too is i couldn't have imagined  a gopro having the quality to film like we are  

today like just several generations ago  it wouldn't have wouldn't have passed the  

test didn't have the a decent enough microphone  extension the image stabilization wasn't great  

and quite frankly the the colors and the and the  graininess indoors was it wasn't up to standard  

but like the advances in technology has allowed  it to become like a viable filming tool that  

can be used in in a versatile amount of ways now  and so we're utilizing it now as a as a primary  

speaking speaking camera i realize this is  starting to sound like an ad it's not we  

pay for our own camera yeah we're just really  happy with it we're just excited it's exceeded our  

expectations and i i honestly held off getting uh  a gopro update i think the last one i had was the  

four three or the four and i i kept holding office  like i kept thinking ah it's not quite good enough  

it needs this it needs that but this one kind of  like put it all together it even has the screen  

that's facing you as well so you can see yourself  when you're when you're recording you'll go pros  

you couldn't you're just guessing so i mean just  just just really really like it and um it's it's  

it's changed it's changed our game it's changed  the game changed everything as they say yes  

so i don't know is there anything else to tell  you we've got two days left here so we're trying  

to make the most of it yeah maybe we'll take you  on a walk show you a bit of a walk that we can do  

yeah yeah we've just got a couple other things  we're going up to to sushi later tonight  

so yeah we'll just film a little behind the scenes  maybe given a little bit of a tour where we're  

staying and also packing up to leave packing it  up packing it in yeah that'll probably be how  

we finish off this video but um yeah it's been  fun and uh i can't wait to see what we can do  

at our next destination that's austin stay tuned  for that oh my hair my hair is stuck to the lens  

this is for the english yes so we are out for one  of our morning walks which has become a routine a  

daily routine oats in a boat in a boot along the  coast i don't think i've missed a day walking here  

yeah yeah seriously this is just this is  the routine for me and lima peru yeah not  

only that but it was also like at the last time oh  pepperoni i got a pepperoni uh you were saying so  

what i was saying was um basically this  this going for a walk along the coast  

has been a routine for me not only on this trip  but on previous trips as well and so it's just uh  

it kind of feels like lima i was just talking to  you about this lima feels a little bit like like  

a hometown a bit we've been here so many times and  it just feels familiar comfortable and we kind of  

settle into like into a local lifestyle we just  get up we go for a walk every day probably about  

an hour and um we love it sometimes we get nice  visibility and on days like today there's there's  

zero so i know i almost feel a little bit guilty  that we didn't bring the camera out on any of the  

other days when we had you know sunshine you can  see the ocean the waves yeah but this is life this  

is what life is this is reality the real deal  guys it's mostly it's mostly like this actually  

yeah this is very typical but um yeah there's  also a really interesting new addition a new park  

it's a chinese garden and yeah we'll show you  that coming up it's really pretty it's really nice

here we are here we are so  

i mean one of the most impressive things too is  just the attention to detail of this new park  

they have bamboo railings yeah very cool so  cool and look at the way that they're even  

tied together as well it's so interesting a  very traditional park yeah let's go explore it

okay so i'm gonna get sam here to tell us  the reason for the creation of this part