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Ep. 16: Ollantaytambo walkabout before the Inca Trail
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Join Stephy Steph and Bobby as they walk around the ancient Inca town of Ollantaytambo. Both talk about their own well-being journey and how this adventure up the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu will help with their own wellness.
There is also a bonus episode at the end.
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Transcript
Introduction and Peruvian Attire
00:00:01
Speaker
Hey there guys, I'm Debbie Stuff and this is Bobby. Bobby, what do you have on right now? Okay, I got a lot of scarves. Is that a shawl? I don't know what it is. Is that for women or men? We're in the mountains of Peru.
00:00:17
Speaker
Ah, I got my fteevas on, or my flip flops on. What's your footwear look like? These are awesome travel ones. I'm answering the question. Yes. You asked the question. We were in the Peruvian mountains, went to this little tiny community. We're with people who made these
00:00:37
Speaker
whatever we're calling them, scarves and shawl. Okay, it looks like a shawl. The way you're wearing it. It's a little obtuse. You look like a shaman. You're the biggest shaman I've ever seen in my life. Yes. You dwarf. Did you eat the other shamans? I did. You're so raw. We are. Alright, what are we talking about today? So, we need to get you an Americano now. Yes. Okay. So, this is kind of like our travel diaries and and we got
00:01:01
Speaker
We're in Peru getting ready to hit the Inca Trail. So we are specifically in Machu Picchu City. Are we really? Yes, we are. So here's where I got mine. They did a great job. There are other places, too, if you want to pop
Cultural Exploration of Machu Picchu
00:01:13
Speaker
in real quick. Yeah, let's keep walking. OK. You know what? We're seeing someone make one of these show things. Yes, we're going to get there. We're going to get there. Oh, OK. We're going to get there. I was trying to be production Bob. Production Bob, we're going to get there. Yeah.
00:01:26
Speaker
There's also... You know, she's weaving. This is alpaca material. Remember the issue with the... Yeah, pictures and stuff. So this is a super cool kind of town. It is set up for people, for travelers. But we're going to spin around this for a second. Spin around. And you can see way up in the distance. That's part of the cool kind of nature. Thank you.
00:01:53
Speaker
If we were technologically savvy in editing, we'd like to be able to have some stuff. I've never seen that. I haven't walked this way yet. But this is the cool thing about sharing different cultures. Right now we're walking through somewhat of a market with restaurants and it's just it's definitely a unique no gracias.
Peruvian Culture and Market Experience
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Speaker
Your Spanish is excellent and it's really helped us.
00:02:19
Speaker
I don't know if it's really helped us, but I can say I have had a blast trying to speak Spanish. You've been very helpful. We're here with a group of people. You've helped us out a bunch. We're looking out in the ravine. This is awesome. You know, it's funny. YouTube is great for showing people places and taking people on adventures with between two teeth. We want to connect, discover and inspire.
00:02:46
Speaker
Right now, we're kind of discovering. You walk through this town a little bit. I'm discovering. Yes, I know. It's really awesome. I'm a kid in a candy store. I'm going to go this way just to show you guys a little bit of these cars. These little taxis that they have. Oh, these are awesome. Are amazing. I've already sold your Ducati motorcycle. Well, I pulled onto your shawl. Yeah, I got to hold onto my shawl. Yeah, what am I Ducati run? Get you three of these little cars? So part of it is, you know, I was a little cold.
00:03:14
Speaker
You were cold. Well, I don't. So Bob, if you stood next to one of those cars, you dwarf it. Can you fit in one of those cars? No. Does it look like you're a Volkswagen? It would. It would be like those things with the phone booth where. So let's keep moving. All right. All right. Well, listen, I've really go this way. I've never been
Gender Roles and Choices in Peru
00:03:31
Speaker
here. Well, welcome to Machu Picchu City. Thank you. Thank you. And there's just like I said, you can see the mountains in the background right now. I mean, for this Texas girl,
00:03:42
Speaker
Now, we are going to have to be careful. It's really easy to get hit by a motor vehicle in Peru. Watch your step. Things get really close.
00:03:54
Speaker
It's super cool, though, because you get a completely different perspective on life and you get a- You know, I think I need an Americano. Okay. We gotta get back here. Let's do this. Let's do more to come. No, don't do that. Just keep going. I don't like editing. Okay, okay. You were gonna talk about something, right? Okay, well, let's do it. Where do you wanna get it from? Right here. I just saw a coffee shop. Central Coffee. So I'm gonna let Bob get his Americano and I'm gonna kinda- You keep talking what we were talking about before. Oh, man. Look at this. Americano. I got a little coffee shop in here.
00:04:24
Speaker
Yes. What did you order? You're going to order Americano just like that. Wow. Hashtag boosted. Yeah. Well. So I'm going to step out here while that's being made. But yeah, different perspectives. As your producer staff, people may want to see like the top of my head. They want to see the do-good side. Different perspectives on life. There's Bobby right there. Full shawl. Yeah.
00:04:51
Speaker
Yes, he is. So what did you learn today? So I guess for me, what I learned today was embrace a new perspective. One of my, I felt really bad actually for some of the, for some of the way, what are we doing here? I'm just trying to get the sun out. Yeah, so I felt really bad. I don't know about you, but for some of the women that we saw and kind of their way of life, because women here don't get to choose what they do in
American vs. Peruvian Perspectives on Freedom
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life.
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Speaker
You're born into doing... You are born into your role. You're making the shawls. You are going to be making the shawls. You're preparing the meals. So at one point we saw somebody, she had her baby wrapped up like a gordito on her back. Yeah.
00:05:32
Speaker
her infant and then she had another shawl to carry food for her husband and then in another in her two hands she was weaving like that's triple tasking yeah that's insane to me i i thought i worked hard but uh they work harder and then also they they work hard i gotta go get my americano oh let's see how bob's americano is first place
00:05:54
Speaker
You know, they work harder than a lot of people. And the tough part is, is they... Nueve is 9. Nueve is 9. And the tough part is, is, you know...
00:06:03
Speaker
They never, they don't, they don't get to choose it. They just have to go with it and live with it. Oh, thank you. That's the toughest part. So from an American's perspective, where, uh, if you're a female, you get to choose everything. It's like, Oh my gosh, she just, it's a mixture of, I don't know, compassion and gratitude. What they do is the thing is though, they're really proud of what they do.
00:06:30
Speaker
You know, I asked a question, of course. This is a really small Americano, by the way. So mine cost half as much as yours. Oh. Yeah. Wow. Tourists. Yeah. I think it's because of the shawl. Speaking of gratitude. Yeah.
00:06:44
Speaker
Yeah, so that's really tough for me to kind of embrace and accept. And Bobby, I'm just talking about how the women don't get to choose, but they're still very proud of their work and what they're doing. Big step. Let's get on the main path here, the main drag. Well, and I'd say the men don't get to choose
Preparing for the Inca Trail
00:07:00
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either. No, absolutely. Yeah. So the guys don't get to choose either. You know, some guys just may not want to be. Somebody just ran by there. Yeah.
00:07:13
Speaker
I don't know where he's going. He's just going up an incline. I might wait for him. Yeah, let's go this way. Well, actually, there's a gal doing street side vending. Oh, all right. Well, we're going to wait here. But yeah, if we know how to edit, we can edit this stuff out. To Bob's point though, it's, you know, you really don't get a choice.
00:07:33
Speaker
Uh, I think that guy might be stuck. All right. Yeah. So, you know, for Bob and I'm gonna go over here just to the right here. Okay. Just the right. All right. And then we can go where you want to go. So we got a little street vending here. A lot of the food here, most of the food is homemade and it's cooked almost immediately. Looks pretty cool. Very cool. I love the music. Give us a little dance, Bob.
00:08:05
Speaker
Should I be dancing with the show? Guys, this is what life's about right here. I'm not going to lie. I love seeing these little kids with their hats. Let's show them the mountains. We'll show the mountains for sure. You know what mountains is in Spanish? No.
00:08:21
Speaker
Los Montañas. Oh, I don't know. I just made that up. It sounded right. Oh, yeah. So Bob, what do you want to talk about? I've kind of talked about how the women and the men don't get to choose what they're going to do in life. They just they just they just have to do it.
00:08:36
Speaker
What? You don't have to do that. Here. I'm going to take this. I'm going to hold you a really expensive small Americano. Just so people can see the top of my head. So here's the other side of the argument, though. You literally
Reflections on Life Choices and Wellness
00:08:51
Speaker
just asked me what I wanted to talk about. You're going to hold it. So the funny thing is when Bob holds the microphone, my entire face gets cut off. I don't have a body anymore. There we go. Nothing.
00:09:01
Speaker
I'll stand back here. We have a high differential. Are you sure we have a high differential? Yeah, we do. Are you different heights than I am? I'm gonna get back to talking about what the question was. I'm a little nervous. We head on to the Inca Trail tomorrow. Part of it is we got to have the right amount of stuff with us. We don't want to weigh ourselves down. It's a little bit of a beating. Talk about the the amount of how much weight can we take with us?
00:09:28
Speaker
That's good walking. You want to walk this way or do you want to walk this way? No. I want to stay in here. Too much traffic, cobblestones, and we got janky old sandals on. Walking's pretty cool. Well, it is, but here's the deal. We're going to be walking the Inca Trail for like the next four days. So just chill out. So I am a little worried I can't make the walk.
00:09:49
Speaker
So there's a really cool part of the city that way. There's consequences. That's why I bring that. Oh, OK. Well, here we go. All right. All right. Well, you're going to have to slow down, Smokey, because I got the camera. Yeah, you got the camera there. So let's do this. Here's the deal. Yeah. You drink your Americano. I was answering the question that you asked. Bobby's grumpy. So continue to answer. Talk about the weight. Talk about what the weight is. Why? So we do have porters that take our tents, and they will take five kilograms for you. You carry your day pack.
00:10:20
Speaker
And the rub is, the challenge is, there's a lot of things you may need. Like what? What do you need? That's a sign for you, by the way. Hola. So you need rain gear. Sometimes up in the mountains it rains like, seriously, I'm losing my shawl here. You are losing your shawl. This is the first time you've actually stopped for a stop sign. Yeah, I'm going to follow, I'm going to do what the locals do. Yeah, that's kind of a righteous thing. Okay, here, you ready?
00:10:49
Speaker
No, he hasn't changed the sign. No, that's not for us. Oh, it's not for us? No. All right. I don't want to call you a name on camera. All right, let's duck in. Let's do it. Rule follower, gracias. OK, so here's the deal. Part of it is the wait for the porters. And they want to make sure the porters are being respected and treated humanely. And there's regulations that say you can't have beyond a certain way.
00:11:16
Speaker
And the cool thing for me is I consider myself a very light packer. I was taking things out of my pack because it did not meet the five kilogram requirements. Yeah. You know, I wanted to take a journal. Yeah. I want to take my book. Yeah.
00:11:31
Speaker
You have like a Henry Kissinger book though that's like 12 pounds. I brought two books that are way too heavy for this trip and I just couldn't not bring them because I love them. So yeah, so part of being on this trail is a spiritual journey. I know Bob you're reworking your why. Yes. And I know that that's just kind of...
00:11:49
Speaker
near and dear to your heart right now. You might want to walk towards the light. Let's wait for this vehicle then we'll try not to get hit. I think everyone loves my shawl. Everyone just keeps looking at it. I can imagine it's probably a female. It's probably a women's shawl. Yeah, yeah.
00:12:03
Speaker
Oh, that was another thing. When we were looking at a wardrobe, they had to dress up in some of the wardrobes. And there's no women and men don't get to really differentiate that much. There's not male and female colors, really, like there are in the States. Everybody wears all the colors. And the men just wear ponchos. And the women have to wear the same skirts and the same kind of shawl wrap like Bob's wearing right now.
00:12:32
Speaker
but it's a little thicker. You don't have like men I think can wear this shawl. Check out these mountains in the backgrounds guys. Yeah, absolutely incredible. Part of our push is simplify your life, take stuff out of the pack of life that you don't need. There's things that are weighing you down. There's things you got to let go of. Take what you... Are you good at letting go of things? Take what you need, leave what you must.
00:13:19
Speaker
It's not must, it's just you look at your life and say, there's stuff I don't need. Exactly. Yeah, but that's not a must. It's like you're, you're making a strategic decision. Say, I got to give up with this. Most people, they don't extend grace when they should to others, including themselves. They hold onto stuff. They drink the poison of life and assume the other person's going to die. But you know,
00:13:21
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Say that again.
00:13:49
Speaker
that doesn't work, they usually end up hurting themselves. How do we get off on this? We were talking about taking stuff out of backpacks. Well, I was kind of talking about the traditional dress of the farmers specifically, the people that have to work. And I thought it was interesting. In America, we are all about choice. Everything is choice. You have all kinds of options.
00:14:10
Speaker
And freedom, and we get really upset if we don't have freedom of choice on a variety of things. But here, there is a certain freedom, is
Exploration and Anticipation for the Inca Trail
00:14:17
Speaker
what I'm picking up, by not having a lot of choices at all. So you really don't choose your job. You really don't choose what you wear. It's all been chosen for you. So self-expression isn't exactly as realistic. It's not a thing. Yeah, it's a little bit of a thing, but it's not as big of a deal as it is in the States. Shall we keep going?
00:14:37
Speaker
Sure. Let's walk this way so I can throw your thing in the trash. But what's our push for people? What are you trying to get people that are kind of watching this? Hopefully they're subscribers. Yeah, I want people to get out and try some of this stuff because, you know, you can you can walk. I want this to inspire people to go travel. You don't have to travel and do the same exact thing we're doing. Find your own adventure.
00:14:59
Speaker
but take some time from work out of your work week. We had a cool conversation with a pediatric surgeon out of Australia.
00:15:09
Speaker
And she was talking, we were having the conversation about quality of practitioners. And, you know, part of the things you're saying is when you recharge, you come back a better practitioner. And that's what we're about. We left from, we're involved with the American Dental Association's Wellness Initiative. We just came from their wellness summit. A whole host of people, the American Medical Association was there, Federation of State Medical Boards, a bunch of different people. And
00:15:38
Speaker
taking care of your wellness, putting the oxygen on yourself is absolutely critical. You don't want, you don't want to burn out doc, you know, you don't, you want someone who, you know, when we go in the office, we're going to be freaking full of energy. We're going to want to be there. That's the magical spot. Yeah. No, you're not wrong. It's not a prison. It's something we enjoy. And pick your, pick your adventure.
00:16:02
Speaker
Absolutely. So, we have got a lot more stuff for you guys coming up and we are... The Inca Trail. Yes, tomorrow will be day one on the Inca Trail. Day one, training day. It's an easier day. We're going to try to kind of walk you guys through. I'm worried about day two. Make sure you check and figure out. Hopefully we're going to be posting.
00:16:24
Speaker
Yeah, I think it'll be a little easier than you're talking about. I really want to climb the other Pichu. I don't know if I'll be given a chance to do that, but maybe Bob and I can divide and conquer. We'll follow the universe. And do both of those. See what happens. Yeah, see what happens. Well, listen, guys, thanks for joining us. If you like what we're talking about, please hit the subscribe. Hit the subscribe. I'm going to show you guys that cool little corridor. These are Inca aqueducts. And then I'm going to show you the mountains in the background. Here they are.
00:16:52
Speaker
I'm going to show you stuff getting hit by a motorcycle. There we go. We need another motorcycle trip. We got to do that in 2024. So guys, if you like what you're seeing, subscribe, put your comments in the chat. We want to hear from you. Let us know where you're going next. Yeah. Bye. Bye. That was a great one.
00:17:14
Speaker
Hey there guys, this is Between Two Teeth. What's up? Who are you? I'm Stuffy Steph. I'm Bobby. And together we're Between Two Teeth. We are in a mountain town of Peru. You know, where are we? So we're in Machu Picchu City. Machu Picchu City? Right at the base of the hike. We're kind of geared up. We're getting ready to head into the Inca Trail.
00:17:35
Speaker
tomorrow. I didn't bring enough stuff to kind of keep me warm so we kind of... I'm a little worried about some of the mornings. We've got some stuff to help us out. So at Elevation it gets really a lot a lot cooler out and so we'll be it'll be more to come but we're excited. It'll be an adventure and here's the thing there are times that you are served well by getting out of your comfort zone. Absolutely. There are times that you're served well to be really really cold
00:18:05
Speaker
Really, really hot. That's one of the things we've learned on motorcycles. You know, you get cold, you get hot. It's pretty intense experience to say the least. It's intense getting out of your comfort zone and just being in a different culture like this. Some of the food we've had has been crazy. What's your favorite food that you've had?
00:18:25
Speaker
I like the dish you had yesterday. I still don't know what it's called, but it's like a cream sauce. I love the loaded nachos that we had with like the real corn tortillas, the guac, kind of out of the world. I love this ceviche. Ceviche and lima was really amazing. On point, for sure. Absolutely. So looking forward to what we're going to have tonight, and we're going to have to go meet our tour group here in just a few minutes. Oh, that's right. We want you guys to follow the adventure. I'm worried about, I haven't trained as much as I'd like to, figuring out if I can actually get to the Inca Trail.
00:18:54
Speaker
so we'll see we'll see we want to show you guys the mountain background here i want to i want to be able to do the other pichu when we get to the top yeah i'm just trying to get to the machu pichu we'll see what happens but anyways guys thanks for following us if you like what we're talking about please hit the subscribe so we