TalkingToNobody Podcast
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Amanda Toll. What? What's going on? Oh, you know, just living the dream. Yeah. Talking, talking to you. Any time someone says living the dream, now it's There's the context of actually, my life is terrible. I like, actually, I'm not living the dream. Yes. Become like the complete opposite of it, Which is funny. Yeah. What do you do? It? You know, just living the dream. And yeah, deep down, I'm dying. But no, I'm actually I am not eating. Oh, hey, that all right? Cool. So I changed the Stig Mom? Yeah. Fact of the positivity. This is my dream Talking to you. It's your dream to just you. Yeah, me, I nobody to create this podcast just to get up. So just for this, your episode 11 isn't that kind of subtle? That that's pretty cool. It's pretty grew up into the double digits now, so no pressure no forced this process to be like the best episode, so don't number 11. Number number 11. It's an odd number. Yeah, I always liked 11. You know, like 11. 11. Make a wish that she She is an important number. Amanda. Okay. All right, calm down. Thats coffee this iron were drinking Irish. Yes, we are. Because that's the drink she chose. And I think it's it's hit me. Yeah, we already. I mean, he said, Yeah, we've had, like, equivalency of two sips of this coffee. Strong way. Didn't have you know, any measuring device that was on me, so I just kind of gave a generous poor, right? Well, I had to represent my people. You wish? Yes. The beautiful country that it is. And the drunks that we are now. I mean right kind. No. No. Yeah, yeah, sure. Don't we all? Then you go there. Recently I did. I went at the end of May of last year, the day after you and I graduated. I remember that. Yeah, because I couldn't find my passport by my passport. Like it was It was It was such a me moment to it. Really? Waas have you start calling that like, Oh, I'm having my Amanda moment. Oh, I mean, you should on that. Maybe Aiken trend it or something. Got hash. I Amanda moment. Yeah, Yeah, I went forward 2.5 weeks. Wow. Yeah. And you have family there, Dio My So my grandmother's from there. She was born, raised there with her sister and they emigrated Teoh America when they were both 21. But her herb older brother still lives there with his wife, and they have five kids on there. Kind of a couple of them are not in Ireland, but a couple of them are, and I've been there twice now, but this last time was by myself. Oh, yeah, and just travel. But it was really cool. Did you drink? Um, it's OK. Let's hold judgment Freeze. I'm not a whole lot. I mean, I'd say an average amount. It's nice because it's it's a lot of people picture Ireland as, like, drunk people wandering the streets with mugs in their hand. And it's only semi true. Okay, it's only semi true. That sounds awesome to be Oh, so well, I mean, it was nice. I did the Jamison, um, walk through. So I had really Jameson whiskey from there brewery, and then the of course, the Guinness factory tour. I did that and I got a free thing again. Us at the end of it, which was really cool. Wow. Yeah. Just having nice, authentic stew. You know food and drinks from there was probably one of the highlights of it. Yeah, on everyone's pretty up to date on restrictions, allergies and things like that. So if anyone wanted to go there, I would highly recommend it, first of all, just because it's Ireland. But also, if you have any, like restrictions or anything like that, it's pretty adaptable. So, like dairy free, dairy free stuff. I've never really had a problem when I was out there. So yeah, my family, I stayed with my my great aunt and uncle out there, and they were just fantastic. They took care of me and I They let me just kind of wander around and do you. My faint I was It was my vacation time, so that's pretty courageous. To go to a different country by yourself can be kind of scary. If there was a point whenever I hit the Border Patrol in Ireland, like trying to cross just into Dublin and the immigration officer almost in and let me through, and I was terrified because I was like, How much of a terrorist do I look, I honestly, I look more Irish than this guy did and he's from Ireland. Well, he just had a lot of problems with me, I guess. I don't know what there was like, little things that kind of added up. I didn't have the address to my family there. I couldn't pull it. My return flight information. I know if I was probably exactly I was having trouble pulling it up on my phone. And I said, Can you give me a few minutes? And he was like, This doesn't This doesn't look good. And I do a little white girl. Yeah, seriously, I look, I look like I do right now. Rain. I had a jean jacket. But besides that, there was no difference to my entire in my appearance. Yeah, I feel like sometimes people in, like, those positions, people of authority just kind of like to get a rile out of you and 100 issues for no reason. Just because they're high on that power. Yeah, 100%. I mean, there was no reason for him to be just rude like, Oh, you know, I would have probably got your cute and, you know, like that's how is when you're little and boys were mean to you. They say it's his only have occurred, right? Because that's a thing that should not exist. Should never have been in vain. Whenever, whenever, like a boy would hit me on the playground or throw something at me or push me down, I go home and cry my moments it Oh, it's because he likes you. What does it make any says? Make any sense? But if I did that to somebody else, and I would get in trouble, right? And it's because they probably had a good reason to do that you have a crush on, right? Exactly. Is beginning now. I really doesn't. Well, I'm sorry that the copper guy is okay. I mean, that was that was probably the scariest point. No, I didn't have WiFi when I was out there. Or like, a sorry cellphone data international usage. So I had to only rely on WiFi if I wanted Teoh message. Somebody, um, like my family and let them know where I was or what I was doing if I was out. And so that made going from one place to another kind of traveling around a little bit difficult, because you can't just pull up Google Maps, right? Exactly. I could pull up. I could pull up the map on Google Maps, but I couldn't get a turn by turn direction from it. I kind of had. I had to look at where my dot was and where my destination wasn't just hope. I was going in the right direction, which was kind of cool, but it was also kind of scary. Sometimes I got lost a couple times on. I had to ask complete strangers for help. But everybody was so nice. Good at such a stereotype That's true. Grew in positive. Is that everybody? There is super friendly and super nice on willing to kind of help. Maybe they feel bad for Americans. I don't know Stoma American. I'll help you out, right? That's going to least they helped you. I would get help, too, because I think it's really sad. Most people in our generation probably wouldn't know how to use a normal map if they really needed 100%. And I mean I am guilty of A to I don't I would be screwed and really scared and yeah, my grandpa, I mean, he's still when they went into my grandma go on road trips. He'll map it out on oil. Now, remember Mad Quest? Yeah. Mom and Dad would do that any time before we would go to floor drive from Indiana to Florida or something. They would map, map, quest the entire route and be these pieces of paper that they would follow. See? And now we're just so I don't know what's the word Blessed. I guess that we have the blessing and occurs, Yeah, because it leaves us on adaptable to certain situations if we're going out these devices, So you kind of had to fend for yourself a little bit. It's kind of cool that it Woz because it also disconnected me from the media world. I took a bunch of photos, but I, you know, wasn't spending so much time posting them worrying about getting the filter right or anything like that on the moment was just in the moment, living it, I took a bunch of photos and then I just kept living the moment. Yeah, and then later on, if I had time, I uploaded photos. But I didn't I just dump them all on an album on Facebook, right? And then whenever I came back to L. A. Then I put stuff on Instagram saying, That's so smart, I Maybe I should start. I would recommend it, you know? I mean, that's why do away from the experience. It kind of does. Yeah, you know, And I didn't wanna worry about other people enjoying my experience. If that makes sense, yeah, it's not about things. They paid all of that money to fly to Ireland for you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, And I have to credit my family. They were such a big help with everything. They made the experience so much more enjoyable and carefree. And they, you know, they gave me a bus pass and said, It's reloadable. If they kind of it's like the tap card system that we have out here for the Metro. You just load it and then you go each way. And whenever you get off the bus, you let you tap the card again. Yeah, it's pretty simple, and I mean, this is it's the train system that goes through all the way into the city centre into Dublin and then you can go further up north. Third, go further south. If he wants? Um, yeah, it was great. It was probably the best experience that I had. Oh, good. And it was right after graduation. So it's a little get away for you, and literally, Literally. I found my passport. Midnight. So you were meant to go? I was so because I was ready to call it, call it in. I was ready to, like, throw in the towel and just I was messaging my cousin in Ireland, and I was telling her everything that was going on, and I said, I if I don't have this passport, I can't do anything right? Is that so stressful? Yeah. Why haven't they invented another way too? Travel without a passport, You know that? Me. I mean, you have your phone, right? I understand that. It's when you're traveling. You need to have those documents to keep everyone safe and everything. Yeah, there's a system behind, and I get that. But it's so it was incredibly stressful because I it was days leading up to it. It was maybe a few days before graduation that I realized it wasn't in the place that I thought it waas because I was just slowly getting things together was there I totally, totally new. It was in this place. Yeah, And then I looked. And then I kept I tor my room apart 234 times I tore my car apart. I looked almost everywhere until I finally found it in a bag like the one bag that I didn't check because it was in my roommate's closet and I didn't realize that any of that stuff was in there. And all of a sudden she goes, Oh, hey, by the way, you have a bunch of stuff in here. Gosh, so craziness. Yeah, but you want it happened. Yeah, I founded at midnight. I didn't even finish packing. I just went to bed, woke up and finish packing, got a ride to the airport, and that was it. I mean, it was probably the least prepared trip that I've ever made in my life, But then you had a great time. I did. It was so worth it because I didn't even need a lot of money while I was there. There's so much that you can see for free and just the experience of the culture in the architecture there alone is worth doing it? Yeah, I definitely know save money by staying with my family, but yeah, I highly recommend it. If anyone can go anywhere. Definitely. Yes, I remember we went to Germany and I felt this way. Yeah, the architecture and just the history there. I can't think of a place there probably is. But I can't think of a place in America that's really like that. No worried ST where it looks the same as it did so many years ago. Exactly, because the thing about European countries as they adapt Teoh modernization But they keep the old architecture, they things and then they just work around it. Yeah, that's what's so great. I love it was a humbling experience. Yeah, traveling is just very. I think it's important. It is 100% and it make it reminds you that I think it was very humbling for me because it reminded me that I'm not the most important thing in the world, you know? I mean, yes, it's important to love yourself and have self worth, but like sometimes we do, we think our problems with the biggest deal in the world. And it's like when you go when you are reminded that you're not The United States isn't the only country in the world and that there are other cultures and people out there just kind of reminds you like. Okay, I don't really have it that bad. 100%.