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  • EXPAT FILES SHOW #1486 - 12-19-25
    Dec 19 2025

    #1- 3rd world optimism versus reality:

    #2- Why 3rd world countries remain 3rd world as 1st world countries slwly slip into 3rd world status:

    #3- How Latinos score on the big 5 personality traits as compared to gringos and expats:

    #4- Getting the Nobel piece (of shit) prize:

    #5- Latin Americans have a certain idea of what your previous life in the USA was like…. and it is all wrong:

    #6- Latin American party etiquite:

    #7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min
  • The Expat Files: Living In South America #1485, FRI, DEC 12 (12-12-25):
    Dec 12 2025

    #1- Expat landlords in Latin America:

    Is being a landlord worth the hassle?

    #2- 3rd world landlord rental property dilemmas you won’t encounter in the 1st world:

    #3- Why Latin American real estate deals don’t seem to make sense to gingos and expats:

    You need to look beyond the obvious. Chances are you're not analyzing the secondary factors...

    #4- Yo must get it into your head that Latin America is a “renter’s” market:

    #5- How smart Latin American real estate owner’s low-ball their property tax bills:

    #6- Why it's true that for most Latinos owning a home is practically the only way to beat inflation:

    #7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min
  • The Expat Files: Living in Latin America - #1484, FRI, DEC 05 (12-05-25):
    Dec 5 2025

    #1- Latina eating habits that bug gringos and expats:

    Should you mention them or hold your tongue?

    #2- Poor food safety and bad hygiene habits in Latino markets:

    #3- The foolish dating app traps gringos and expats routinely fall for:

    #4- Guilty pleasures -Part 2:

    #5- The Latin American minimum wage battles:

    #6- Data shows we are about 20% worse looking and less handsome than we think we are:

    Is that good or bad news?

    #7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min
  • The Expat Files Show #1483
    Nov 28 2025

    #1- The downside of being bilingual:

    Yes, it's true, some people say there is a downside…

    #2- The 3rd world inferiority complex:

    #3- The “not so obvious’ signs that you are experiencing a 3rd world country:

    By the way, the USA is moving along on that fast track path…

    #4- Driving self-defense tips when on the road in Latin America:

    #5- A word about gringo fashion sense or lack of it, sometimes referred to as the Gringo / Latino “bling” gap:

    #6- Latin American “Acts of God”(or not);

    #7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min
  • The Expat Files Show 11.21.25
    Nov 26 2025

    #1- DYK there groups of expat gringos holding no kings protesters in Latin America?

    WTF?

    #2- Travel… the best education in the world:

    #3- The things your cleaning lady gets away with behind your back:

    #4- No one likes a gringo “know it all”:

    #5- Why is it so many fakebook expat groups seem to be made up of vocal, cringy,anti-capitalist, anti-trump wokesters?

    Thankfully though, they're found almost exclusively on the gringo tourist trail…

    #6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min
  • The Expat Files 11-14-25
    Nov 14 2025

    #1- Guilty pleasures:

    I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours…

    #2- The dark side of love and romance in Latin America:

    #3- TEN more good reasons to get the hell out of Dodge:

    #4- Do Latina women lie when they openly compliment average gringo men on their looks and tell them that they are sooo handsome…

    #5- How Latinas classify and rate other Latinas:

    Often times Latinas are their own worst critics…

    #6- comparing Latin American Junk food versus typical American junk food:

    #7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min
  • EXPAT FILES SHOW FRI, NOV 07 (11-07-25)
    Nov 7 2025

    #1- The cost of dying in Latin America:

    #2- What about wills, testaments and powers of attorney in Latin America:

    #3- You won’t believe the crazy differences between Latino funerals held in the campo (out in boonies) versus a typical funerals held in the city:

    #4- Being a weekday Catholic in Latin America:

    Its awful confusing and definitely not logical…

    #5- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min
  • EXPAT FILES SHOW 10.31.25
    Nov 4 2025

    #1- Nagging tax problems certain expats have long after they get out of dodge:

    #2- The real cost of being middle class in Latin America:

    #3- Why gringoized enclaves in Latin America can often be so disappointing to certain types of expats:

    #4- Living in Latin America means you eventually will get passed counterfeit money:

    It's not a matter of if, but when…

    #5- How I can easily spot a counterfeit funny money bill:

    My personal trick…

    #6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

    bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com

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    28 min