I have discovered the greatest place on earth and I think it’s where we should retire to well let’s talk about that hi We’re ha article I’m off for me right Minnesota good mythical morning good mythical morning link I’ve been doing some thinking and you know what happens when I start doing thinking your head gets hot and you start complaining and so I need to take a walk and you do all the work while I cool my head off because I’ve been thinking for once you know how it is me and you are not spring chickens no we’re not you know every day is another day towards um death I mean things out what you get not yeah people have been saying that my my beard makes me look fat faced I have been seeing comments about that yeah but I also know that my beard makes me look old elderly almost well I’m not I’m not I’m not gonna deny the fact there’s some white whiskers in my beer yeah and you look like an old man and there comes a time in life when you have to begin thinking forward thinking ahead yeah both me and you I’m doing it listen I do all the thinking for both of us so all you got to do is just sit here and enjoy the ride well okay especially well if it’s if we’re gonna divide who’s gonna think about what you think about dying and in that part and I’ll think about the now okay I’m just living for the moment well listen I’ll be the moment guy you be the later guy when it comes to you and me and our long-term future I’m on the motorcycle and you’re in the sidecar okay you you all you do is just sit and smile like a little child we okay psycho just agree that’s all it takes I know I am assuming that we’re gonna retire at some point you know maybe the next for three to four years and yeah weird if we have necessarily on that trajectory we have a couple of really big years like gears that are bigger than all the years combined up until this point and then times 10 yeah we may retire early and even if we don’t even if we retired at 78 which will be when you qualify for Social Security in the future um I know where we’re gonna go because there was an article that said this place is the best place to retire so the article did that thinking yeah yeah right yeah well I get other people to do my thinking and then I get on the motorcycle of thought hood and you get in the sidecar and we go into the future whoo who came up with this love you Reuters which is spelled like Reuters as an article and they have said that for the fifth year in a row Ecuador Ecuador which means equator in Spanish okay is a country that is in Central America is on the equator is the best place to retire for people from North America mean you’re from North America yeah and in Ecuador is on the equator and this comes as a surprise to me but they have reasons it does to me too because the first thing I think when I think about Ecuador is isn’t gravity less there and then the second thing I think is isn’t it really hot there and who wants to be floating around at a bunch of heat hmm not me especially when I’m old so I think we would know I’m missing some pieces of the equation here I think if people were able to defy gravity in Ecuador a I would be there now I would be living there and retiring there and be we would know about it I thought I did know about it it’s got a very low cost of living in a balmy climate you don’t like balmy yeah yeah I mean you’re cold all the time I’m freezing right there’s a heater right here and we’re freezing in Southern California so fingernails are blue that’s great it’s got cheap property prices and it has an estimated living expense monthly living expenses ranging from 900 to $1,400 now it now what once you start getting these facts can I at least ask the question of for the people at home questions many of which that are younger some much younger than us they got to think wow why do they care what why should they keep watching listen the little children that watch this show I’m on the motorcycle you’re in the sidecar and they’re on a sidecar a bunch of little side cars attached to your sidecar well our trailer I think for you you think for them they think for their friends and everyone think of their retirement yeah this is I mean that you can’t start too early Mike I have a four year old son that has a 401k really yeah we started it when he was one that is not true okay so it is hot it’s not what it’s cheap and it’s it’s actually it surpassed the top four other places to retire Panama Malaysia Mexico and Costa Rica there’s something in common they’re all kind of in a similar song except for Malaysia in a similar region of the world but listen it doesn’t stop there fun facts these things what I’m doing trying to do is I’m going there listen 78 I’m there my wife kids we’re gonna be there I want you to be there I think we should continue maybe we’ll have like a little podcast old guy podcast or something like that you know sure podcasting will be around and you’ll still call it that there are no stop signs okay now we’re talking they do not have stop signs as in traffic stop signs when you come to an intersection you maybe do a little honking baby and on your horn and that is the only warning that you’re coming you would love that because you I love the idea of it but a bunch of retirees driving cars there’s no stop signs but is but sounds pretty dangerous but that’s a good way to go you know hit by another retiree in Ecuador at an intersection everyone’s going kind of Sun yeah well we don’t have to stop with just have to halt well you’re gonna be especially vulnerable cuz you’re gonna be a sidecar no stop signs really okay what else trash trucks play music like ice cream trucks in the US trash truck – play music that is smart and as you know old people love trans music what is that crash music dark playing that crash you get boom boom boom boom boom every day when you gonna pick up my trash boom boom boom shaking like cans rattling me pants rat are you gonna pray are you gonna revert to talking like that when you when you get elderly omong hunched over like kniffen boom boom boom and listen I was thinking about you because I know you have an affinity for this speaking of ice cream trucks Ecuadorians love ice cream and as a matter of fact you can basically get it anywhere anytime they sell it on the street they sell it in different stores and shops you can get it at midnight you can get it at 7:00 a.m. breakfast anytime you want ice cream listen you’re sitting there on me and you on the back porch we got ice cream here comes a trash truck playing a sinatra tune know what I won’t make him ice cream and listen to this Ecuador is also the originator and the maker of the Panama hat that the Panama hat they actually make it in Ecuador so here we are waiting for the trash truck eating ice cream in our Panama hat and we’re also not observing daylight savings time because they don’t I deserve it which makes all the sense in the world why do we have it why do we have to change up the rules all of a sudden in the middle of the year and then change up the rules again that’s a whole other subject they do have daylight there right well but you know you know that why they don’t do it because they’re only Ecuador and if you’re on the Ecuador you have 12 hours of Sun and 12 hours of night yes because you’re right in these Tainter we’re not necessary also floating according to you you’re on the line that goes around the gold listen because it’s Latin America time even though they don’t they don’t observe daylight savings time they also don’t really observe appointments I mean if I’m like hey buddy come on over at 7 p.m. you’re gonna be there at 9:00 you know you’ll definitely not be any earlier than 90 minutes late from when I ask you to a lot so no one cares it no one cares I expect it it’s like you get there we’re all eating ice cream oh hey welcome huh okay are you with me on this well I like to be on time for things but when I get older I suppose I could let that go they accept them if I eat enough ice cream I’ll be fine doing anything they accept the US dollar and they don’t deal in change just paper so listen if you get an ice cream you just give the dude a dollar and you don’t get anything back now I know you’re you’re cheap your very cheap but think about it no more you’re not to worry about coinage you don’t to worry about actually swallow swallowing a penny because they don’t have them they don’t they don’t practice change good I finally can remove myself with the burden of the fear of swallowing pennies and here here’s the kicker link they don’t use change I do like that simplifies things papers lighter they eat guinea pigs hey you know the pets and the things we experiment on here in this country I like a hamster but cuter Oh a Ethier and bigger it is a delicacy so listen here we are come on over from my barbecue be here whenever you want to we’re cooking guinea pigs all-you-can-eat yeah okay are you in are you with me but it’s it’s funny because when you said they cook guinea pigs I literally pictured whole hairy guinea pigs on like a grill and whenever you know they’re done because they pop up like a hobo burger yeah well the guinea pigs done then you by removing hair from where they skin them and then they cook them whole mmm they do cook them whole so I would like give you like three and you would like pick him up and like a corn on the cob oh and last but not least this is probably more of an advantage to me but it was also an advantage you are you booking your your retirement to Ecuador already the indigenous population is incredibly short like five feet in under so I would be like Dikembe Mutombo okay you know I would be like the most popular guy in the neighborhood the huge giant The Kooks guinea pig serves ice cream you show up whenever you want to drives a garbage truck drives a garbage truck we could drive a garbage truck we go ice cream could own that place man but deed maralell old people come over here kids usually as like human size Dikembe Mutombo monkey bars but listen serious wing on my arm if you could reach him I want to know I boom boom boom we might go to Ecuador in all seriousness we might go to Ecuador but I mean when listen when we do retire you still gonna be still gonna hang out we’re still gonna like you’re gonna come over for the barbecue even if it’s here I think there has to be an endeavour if there is a if there is a mutual endeavour that we’re still working towards something that I’ll continue to what about just our come each other’s company just enjoying each other’s company in our old age I think our friendship is defined by what we want to accomplish together that goes away Pigs together I well I’m intrigued by the garbage truck ice cream salesman thing so in all seriousness I would I would be willing to do that because I don’t know if I mention see I don’t I don’t believe in retirement really you never retire no that’s the lazy man’s excuse for just giving up on life tell that to your Merrill Lynch representative tell that to my mom retiree I do hahaha it’s a lazy man’s excuse my boy that’s morbid is that what I said you said for giving up on life oh yeah that’s better yeah I love you mom listen in this episode and then I think all the Real Estate’s being snatched up right now try to get on it talk only in third person Rhett has his eyes set on the future and the good old lakester is right there with him Rhett in a sidecar Rhett questions whether or not link is gonna be with Rhett when rat goes off into the blue horizon and the sunset that is Ecuador in a life of I screaming Guinea but link is way ahead of you how’s that Rhett wonders in everyway linkster is