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Unknown
Good evening from South-East Asia. And now for something totally different. Lots of you probably have followed our alien anal probe, the com alien podcast for years and years and years now. I don't know. We've got about 300 of them out there, something like that. They are at alien anal probe dot com and they are accessible through their or stock photos were wired.com or through the RSS feeds which don't have video, but our stuff does.00:00:44:02 - 00:01:23:09
Unknown
So we're doing a new thing, really new, brand new, more fun. Maybe this would be episode or volume one of the alien. No, no, no. So used to say that I'm going to trip up a lot. Volume one of the Southeast Asia Chronicles. You will fill to that for now. We might change it later. I don't know. Okay.00:01:23:09 - 00:01:57:16
Unknown
This is going to be fun. I hope. I hope it's going to be fun. This is going to be a series of podcasts. And I don't know how many. My guess would be somewhere between five and 20. That really pins it down. This is going to chronicle how I came to be in Southeast Asia, why I won't leave it and all the good, the bad and the ugly about it.00:01:57:16 - 00:02:28:03
Unknown
Firsthand experience over a decade. Man, what a journey. Okay. A normal person. A professional person. Somebody who gave a shit. Oh, by the way, these are just for for swearing. You know, you can't handle it. Well, I'm sorry. Go listen to Howard Stern. He swears more. Well, I don't know. Somebody told me he swore off. I swear. I don't know.00:02:28:14 - 00:02:58:09
Unknown
He's a jackass. Anyway, I don't care. I mean, I love him or hate his fucking guts. It's one of those deals. Well, anyway, lots of swearing here. Sorry. Not going to change. I tried once, you know. No, no, no. Anyway, a professional person would have created a comprehensive outline of all the subjects to be covered. You know what?00:02:58:09 - 00:03:07:08
Unknown
Subheadings and you know, chapters and stuff like that. Well, I ain't going to do that.00:03:10:21 - 00:03:36:03
Unknown
This has to come. This has to be stream of consciousness. It still has to be organized. And so the only way I can organize it is to do it chronologically from. From the beginning to the end. We're not at the end yet. You know, someday, you know, unless the aliens come and inject me with some kind of live forever juice, you know, then there will be an end.00:03:37:15 - 00:04:02:05
Unknown
I hope I'm here in Southeast Asia somewhere when that happens. I don't want to go back to the U.S.. Sure, I don't. I don't respect hardly any part of it anymore. It has killed my respect off over my entire life. I'm old now. I mean, I look. I look somewhat old or older than you think. Really? You know, you would be.00:04:03:04 - 00:04:11:14
Unknown
You would be, I don't know. Surprised. At the very least.00:04:13:15 - 00:04:44:03
Unknown
Okay. So chronologically, first of all, what I'm going to do is the purpose of the here's the purpose of this. First of all, let's set the foundation. The purpose of of making these podcasts is that I know so many people, most of them guys, 90% guys, not all guys, 90% are guys who are living out lives of quiet desperation.00:04:45:08 - 00:05:20:09
Unknown
Can't remember who said that. But he was right. Life in the U.S. is a life of quiet desperation. It is, unless you are just incredibly lucky, your whole life is going to be one of quiet desperation on one front or on many fronts. Maybe on all fronts. I was luckier than most. I did cool things and they occupied my brain, my sense of adventure.00:05:20:09 - 00:05:47:13
Unknown
They all took care of that to a very large degree. For most of my life. So I was lucky for a while. I was way luckier than most. But still, in the end, the US just ground me down. All of western western civilization ground me down. I couldn't take it anymore. And I wandered out and I started to realize that, well, shit.00:05:48:00 - 00:06:21:11
Unknown
I started to realize that at about age five, I used to watch cartoons when I first got to TV, when we didn't have a TV. Neighbors had a TV. There was like one or two stations available. You know, you get the tinfoil just right. You could get them kind anyway. Every once in a while in cartoons, the there would be some backdrop, some background of Asian or Oriental countryside or cityscape or something.00:06:21:11 - 00:06:58:19
Unknown
And I was transfixed and transported. I could hardly breathe. I just wanted to go there badly. I was just drawn into the TV. I just. Just wanted to go there. I wanted to be there. I, I just hadn't experienced it. I don't know why. Maybe in a past life, you know, God knows every Chinese. Who knows? And so that's when it started about age five, maybe before that, I don't know.00:06:59:00 - 00:07:18:12
Unknown
And it continued that fascination with Southeast Asia, continued my whole life. And I, I spent most of my life, most parts of my life. I spent thinking, man, if I could just get to Southeast Asia, at the very least, it would be exciting, you know.00:07:20:16 - 00:07:53:16
Unknown
And so that was the theory back dark recesses of my brain. That was a dream. Now, most guys, I think, don't share that dream. Maybe they maybe they kind of sort of do now and older when they were younger. Probably not. Probably not. But they share the weariness they feel with their lives of quiet desperation. Most of them are living shit lives.00:07:55:04 - 00:08:37:11
Unknown
They're not all and not in every category, but significantly so they have a job. It was unfulfilling as fuck. The wages are low. You can barely afford their cars. They marry the wrong girl out of high school. She drags down, doesn't encourage them, doesn't nourish and doesn't support it. They get 2.3 kids. They have a divorce. They lose house struggling through some unfulfilling job for the next 20 years.00:08:37:11 - 00:09:36:06
Unknown
And they're just they kind of want to die. They don't die because they're scared of what might come after. But the situation they're in, they want to end or change or better, better. When they get older, they know it's not going to get better and they're just tired, weary to the bone. Yet their bosses are fucking morons, most of them bossy little fucktard cheat every chance they get, just barely inside, you know, you go to get your paycheck and huge swaths of it are missing.00:09:36:06 - 00:10:19:05
Unknown
Going to finance Hunter Biden's sex parties and and you just tired you tired you just tired in your bones you're tired of everything. You're tired of women. You try to meet it Western women and they're an attractive and they're bitchy and they're loud and not all particularly that clean. And they smell bad, not all of them, but, you know, pretty good percentage guys are unhappy with Western women, period.00:10:19:05 - 00:10:58:21
Unknown
That's a goddamn fucking fact. Suck it up, ladies do better. If you want guys to like you do better. If you can't do better, stay alone. Get a cat, get ten, get 20. Okay. I'm not going to go on an anti female rant because some of them are good. I was lucky I had a good one. There are some I know a very small handful of guys that have had really good ones or have now at this moment, Western women.00:10:58:21 - 00:11:31:06
Unknown
But the vast majority of guys, even the guys who were smart enough or had the energy or whatever to go start their own business. I'm tired of bitchy fucking customers and they're tired of government regulations that hamstring them every time they turn around. They're tired of the taxes that eat every little bit of goddamn profit they ever made.00:11:33:15 - 00:12:19:06
Unknown
Fuck. And at the end or close to the end, we get up into our later years. So some guys, a growing number figure out how to get out, how to escape the fucking matrix. Most guys dream of it, only a few attain it. There are a lot of guys who could attain it, but they're scared. They don't know where to go or what to do or how to live or if they can live work.00:12:20:09 - 00:12:53:06
Unknown
Oh God they want out of there. So fucking bad they're ready to offer themselves as a plastic butter knife. You know, took a while to soar into the carotid with the plastic butter knife, but they're on the edge trying it. Oh, God. I feel for those guys. If I was one of those guys and I did escape and you can.00:12:53:06 - 00:12:59:16
Unknown
Most of you can't. Most of you can. You just don't know.00:13:03:21 - 00:13:25:23
Unknown
Some of you, if you do escape, you are going to regret it and you're going to end up thinking, God, Jesus Christ, I didn't know it was going to be like this. Oh, fuck. How do I get back to the U.S. or the UK or Canada or some fucking place? You know, Germany, whatever? Something Western. How do I get your.00:13:25:23 - 00:13:51:10
Unknown
Oh, God, please let me go back and and that's fine. Then you learn stuff. You learned a lot of stuff from you really like it, you know speed school of concentrated learning about life because you are you you are if you've always been in the U.S. or Western country you have not seen real life. You don't see you're in the matrix and you don't know maybe some of some of you do not.00:13:51:23 - 00:14:32:14
Unknown
So you don't. So this these podcasts are for you guys and there are quite a few ladies who are who have adventuresome spirits and they love Southeast Asia or Asia and they want to experience it. Their passion for it probably is as strong as mine always has been, and they should do it. But I think they're much more timid than the guys cause they're thinking, okay, I can afford the plane ticket.00:14:32:14 - 00:14:49:14
Unknown
Okay, what country do I go to? What can I get a hotel? How do we get a hotel? I can't. I can't speak lotion. You know, what the fuck? Where do I go? To a dude. Are the people friendly? Will they kill me? Will they eat me? Will they rape me? Well, they steal all my money. It's like, well, you know, all of the above.00:14:49:14 - 00:15:22:12
Unknown
You know, and it happens. But hopefully the series, a podcast will explain to not just the guys but to the ladies. Also what they can expect if they do it, if they just step off the balcony on the 89th floor. So next up, Southeast Asia, what's going to happen? What's it going to be like? What can they do?00:15:22:12 - 00:15:54:02
Unknown
How can they navigate? That's the purpose of this stuff. I'm going to try really, really hard to answer those questions and and and give guys the parachute that they need, that they desperately need to get out of that fucking miserable shit life they might be in right now. Okay, so the way we're going to do this is I've got to give you a foundation.00:15:54:02 - 00:16:32:05
Unknown
I don't like talking about myself, like, well know sometimes I do. I've but I still legitimately. I've got to give you an overview, a background on who the hell I am and what colored glasses I'm seeing the world through. Okay. So if you come here to Southeast Asia, any country and you look at the world here and you see and you perceive that it's different from what I told you.00:16:32:21 - 00:16:54:03
Unknown
Okay, go back to this tape and and remember, I'm telling you, I'm giving you the background on who I am. And that will tell you how I see things. So everything I'm going to tell you in all this podcast is through those glasses because I, I am my experiences are what they are and I am who I am.00:16:54:03 - 00:17:24:13
Unknown
And I can't take those glasses off. I can I can try, you know, I can do it a little bit, but not really. So you got to know who the hell I am. So, you know how I see stuff. So I'm going to summarize it as best I can. I was born in the U.S., you know, horrible family.00:17:25:09 - 00:17:57:09
Unknown
Horrible family. And I'm not going to go into detail on that. It was as bad as it gets. As bad as it gets, there is no pedophilia. You know, I lucked out in that regard. But every other fucking way, it was violent and drunk and irresponsible and miserable and lots of moving, lots of insanity. It's as bad as it gets.00:17:57:09 - 00:18:27:04
Unknown
We usually had food, you know, that was a saving grace. Usually had food. So that's what I got hatched into. Okay. I hated my life and my family so much. I remember at age seven going to my father and saying, Look, I want out, I want to go. I just want to go. I, I don't know what I'll do.00:18:27:04 - 00:18:44:21
Unknown
I don't know where I'll go. Maybe I can sweep floors somewhere. I'll ride on freight trains or go live with the bombs. I'll steal food. I don't care. I just want to go. I want out of here. I want out of here. I want out of here. I want you to tell me you're not going to look for me.00:18:45:06 - 00:19:19:06
Unknown
I was seven. That's fucking seven. And my dad just laughed like you. All right, well, what are you going to do? You know you're not going to work out. And of course, he was right. But that's how badly I wanted out of that family life. And that never changed through my whole life. That sentiment never changed. And those people died often when I was told, I said, Oh, okay, so life, lots and lots of you guys had shit lives.00:19:19:08 - 00:20:00:19
Unknown
Some of you lucky guys had good lives, good families. Maybe you still do Latino. I did book out at 14 is left is packed up who bishop left stole a sleeping bag for my dad left and I went hitchhiking around the country for years. I hitchhiked probably 150,000 miles. That was the hippie era. Hitchhiking was okay. It was in it was easy as pie.00:20:01:22 - 00:20:29:18
Unknown
Your your thumb was your lifetime bus ticket. And usually when you get rides, people feel sorry for you and the treat you, you know, your skinny little 14 year old runt piece of shit it feed you. There were hippie enclaves everywhere and you just show up at one, you be taken care of and fed and it was high adventure for 14 year old.00:20:30:04 - 00:21:09:03
Unknown
You know, it's frickin high adventure. I wandered around like that for quite a few years. I did meet up with some old family members in a in the central state back to school for a while. Hated it, just hated it, hated it because yeah, in one day I went in to see the counselor and I gave him a list of all the facts that our history teacher had told us in class that were wrong.00:21:09:20 - 00:21:25:07
Unknown
Well, all the dates that he had quoted and I look him up and say, no, it wasn't 1854, it was 1869, you know, like that. And I just showed him this list and I said, look, you know, I know you're not going to do this. I know you're not going to help me. I know you. There's nothing you can do.00:21:25:07 - 00:21:47:10
Unknown
But I'm just I'm just letting you know. I just got to tell you. I want out of here. I, I want out of the school, and we're drop out and we're formally drop out in the please, please, please. And this guy looked at me the very odd moment I had talked to him a few times before. So we had a tiny little bit of rapport.00:21:47:10 - 00:22:19:19
Unknown
And he looked at me and he thought for a minute and he said, you know, I have always held that there are a few people in this world don't need school. And I thought, Yeah, well, that's what I feel like. You know, maybe it's a mistake, but I can't take it here one minute, you know, either you're going to sign the form and I'm going to walk out or I'm going to walk out.00:22:19:19 - 00:22:51:00
Unknown
So what's it going to be? I couldn't stand teachers. I couldn't stand that childish mentality, that stupid fucking kids. That was early 10th grade. And he looked at me for another minute and he signed the papers, flitted across and he wrote down a number. Well, know the paper gave that to me and he said, You call this number, they'll give you a job, not you.00:22:51:03 - 00:23:39:03
Unknown
Thank you. Out done and got walked out called the number got a job great job great boss did well restaurant business. After a while the restaurant shut down probably because the boss was so nice that he was not cut through enough to keep it above water. So they shut down and suddenly I'm adrift. I'm just adrift. So at this point I'm 15 with those distant family people that I'm staying with a lot of drinking.00:23:40:22 - 00:24:04:02
Unknown
The, the, the father figure there was a pedophile and rape and his boys for. Well, since you were born I suppose I don't know how long tried to get me interested to learn to fuck off. And from that moment on our relationship was, to say the least, strained. And so it's time to get out of there. Fucking pedophiles come back.00:24:05:04 - 00:24:38:09
Unknown
I'm really tired of the files. I knew. I know a thing or two about them. I was taught about them by a friend who worked with them for the state and maybe I'll mention some stuff about them in here. Maybe I won't. If it's appropriate, I will. Whatever. So I'm adrift again. Just adrift. Just defined. Just adrift. No money, no nothing.00:24:39:07 - 00:25:09:19
Unknown
No prospects, no nothing. I could have gone and gotten another job, but honestly, it didn't occur to me. 15, 15 year old stupid little button, you know. And I still had my stolen sleeping bag in my backpack and put on with it and hitchhiked around the country for another while, another year or something. The hippie movement. I know.00:25:09:19 - 00:25:38:12
Unknown
God, I tried to be a hippie. I tried so hard to be a hippie, but I couldn't find them. They were just so whiny, limp wristed. I couldn't do it. I could. I couldn't. I just oh, the hippie thing was beginning to wind down anyway. And it was becoming. Most of the communes were abandoned because nobody would work, you know, only only 10% would work and the rest of them left.00:25:39:01 - 00:26:31:04
Unknown
That's why the communes didn't work. If you if you ever wondered about that, it was communism. You know, communism doesn't work because 10% work and 90% love. It's, you know, so finding free room and board with the hippies got harder and harder and harder and I was in San Francisco when they didn't hate Inmate Ashbury and a couple came through a weird couple and they had an old car and they said, Hey, we're going to Vancouver because we live there, we're Canadian, and if anybody wants to go, you can long as you got gas money.00:26:31:04 - 00:26:51:13
Unknown
And I thought, Oh my God, Canada, that's the wilderness, that's adventure. I want to go see the wilderness. I wanna see bears. Oh, sweet shit like that. And so I said, Well, you know, I get like $8. You have it all. I said, get in. I did. And two of the guys had a few bucks. Both of them were bald.00:26:51:13 - 00:27:13:11
Unknown
And I thought, What are you, bald? You know, this is a hippie era. Where are you bald? Turned out they were they were all from the army or something upstream. Didn't want to go to Vietnam. So they got in and we drove all night to Vancouver, to the to the border. We got to the border, stopped at Customs.00:27:13:11 - 00:27:47:01
Unknown
In those days it was pretty lackadaisical and we were in the backseat of three guys in the backseat. The guy and his girlfriend in the front seat in it. Canadian Vancouver Police and Customs guys shined a light in the back and he said, You offering Vancouver driver's ed? Yeah. Okay, go on through, said. So I went to Vancouver, hung around Vancouver for a while, stayed with those people a while, stayed with other people for a while.00:27:47:01 - 00:28:03:15
Unknown
It was still a dog's life. It was it was a you know, what kind of life you're going to get. You know, you're 15, you don't have any skills. So, you know, you can flip burgers, you know, you do that really fucking well. That's all you can do. And you can't work in Canada anyway. You don't have any idea.00:28:03:18 - 00:28:29:15
Unknown
You're, you're kind of fucked, you know, but still I knew that I was getting closer and closer to, quote unquote, the wilderness. Yeah. So I just kept hanging around, hanging around, hanging around and getting food where I could stand, where I could. And I was there quite a while doing that. Well, I can't remember how long. Six months, eight months.00:28:29:15 - 00:28:50:14
Unknown
And what. And finally I was doing some things in the in the old gastown bars. You can't even find a reference to Gastown anymore. But in back in the day it was a big thing. I was doing some things in the bars that I shouldn't have been doing it, but I had to. I had to get spare change to eat.00:28:50:14 - 00:29:22:12
Unknown
So it you know, you had to do with carrying little bags of things from one bar to another. And one night when the bars closed, I was walking back to some kind of a hostel thing. I was staying in, you know, designed for freeloaders like me. And so guy, so really well-dressed guy, few feet in front of me, across the street in the crosswalk and he slipped and fell down, knocked up, and everybody just walked around him.00:29:23:17 - 00:29:43:09
Unknown
You know, I thought Canucks were little better than that, but they weren't, at least not that night. And he just laying there and it's raining and it's in a puddle. And so I thought, what the fuck the fuck is this fucking shit? How can you just walk around? And I stopped and I ask a couple of people to help me, you know, nobody would even look at me.00:29:44:14 - 00:30:10:07
Unknown
And I knelt down and kind of roused him and got him to wake up and he's all fucked up face all bloody shit. And I helped him up and he said his hotel is like a block away and I helped him to his hotel getting shuttled in and he said, Well, you know, God, you really, really did a nice thing for me.00:30:10:07 - 00:30:45:06
Unknown
Really. He was a logger. He was on vacation down from the farm way up north next to Alaska someplace. And he said, come on back tomorrow. And you know, I'll buy you a meal. Okay, one, one, one more premium. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Great, pumpkin. You know, nice thing. So I went to my hostel thing and in the morning went back to his hotel and he bought me the meal and we ended up hanging out and we liked each other.00:30:45:06 - 00:31:15:10
Unknown
It turned out his dream was to live in the woods. Just, you know, Grizzly Adams kind of thing. And I said, Fucking Jesus, what a coincidence. That was mine. And he had some money. He had about a thousand bucks, and that was a lot back in the sixties. And he said, Let's go, let's just fucking go. I said, okay, you know, he said, This money you left us all a long time.00:31:16:08 - 00:31:39:15
Unknown
So we just went. We just got on the bus or some damn thing. We went way up north and got to a town, stayed in hotel in the morning. We saw a cab and we talked to the guy and we said, Hey, do you know anybody who might have a cabin in the woods for rent? And he said, No, no, no.00:31:39:17 - 00:32:04:04
Unknown
But I thought, I'm not a fucking real estate agent. What the hell? And then he stopped. He said, Oh, wait a minute. You mean I do? I do, I do, I do. I do know somebody. And he said, Get in, I'll take you there. So we got in and and it was fucking far. It was like half a day's travel ended up on dirt roads and then trails and said, Oh fuck, he's taking us out here, he's going to kill us.00:32:05:06 - 00:32:29:16
Unknown
And we got there and he wanted like $100, which was, you know, a 10th of our money to live on, you know, retire on. You know, that's probably that was in the back of our mind. We had to pay him 100 bucks. And this old lady came out and we said, we heard you had a cabin for rent.00:32:29:22 - 00:32:54:10
Unknown
And she said, no. And we're like, Oh, fucking hell, we're going to pay a hundred bucks to go back to town, another hotel. We can't afford this. It's fucked up. And we talked to her for a couple of minutes and she seemed nice and I guess we seemed nice to her. And so she said, you know, I got the cabin right over there, you can rent there.00:32:55:14 - 00:33:29:23
Unknown
And we said, How much? And she said, $6.45 a month. We said, So we open up the trunk, we get all our shit up, took it to the cabin, and that was our home for a long time. But three and a half years from there, we had just adventure upon adventure upon adventure upon venture. You see ventures. I ended up getting a job working for her brother, logging.00:33:31:08 - 00:34:05:20
Unknown
He trained me as a faller, made some money. We fished. We had a tugboat. I learned about tugboats. I noticed that there were shipwrecks all over the down place on the beaches. And I thought, What the fuck? And well, the value there, you know, something of your value here. And so I went around and I got myself a crappy little boat and I started going around and getting these things and figuring out how to refloat them, get them off the beaches.00:34:06:13 - 00:34:33:14
Unknown
And then I would touch them with my outboard motor for days and days and days and days to people's place is there. Remember, this is really unique and remote. We were way past the end of the road and I started to run around to places where I knew people lived that had boats that they might be able to use the parts from these boats on.00:34:35:01 - 00:35:17:17
Unknown
And sometimes I could sell them and you know, sometimes I couldn't. I told back into the bay off of their beach, cabin and sinker, you know what I did? I just did that. And I learned about boats and salvage and things like that. Three and a half years of that. I also went more than two years of that time working on again, off again on a square or rigged sailing freighter pirate ship.00:35:18:20 - 00:35:58:14
Unknown
And we would fill that turkey full of supplies down Vancouver and we would head up the coast and stop at every Indian village and log and camp and sell whatever we could. We, we would we would set up a regular store out on the decks, piles and scales and cash register and the whole bit. And people would come out to us and we'd sell them whatever we could sell, and we would keep going until we got to Alaska and then we would turn around and head back down.00:35:58:14 - 00:36:20:10
Unknown
If there was anything left, we would try to stop along the way, places we hadn't hit and sell it. And if there wasn't anything left, then we just went straight, straight to Vancouver all the way down, and we did this every 30 days. We had to be on a schedule every 30 days, regardless of the weather, through every kind of goddamn gale and hurricane and every motherfucking thing.00:36:20:10 - 00:36:54:20
Unknown
And there were some rough times on that boat. It was well, to me. I mean, it was high adventure. I didn't realize how close to death we really were, but I was I had to go up the rigging, you know, and deal excuse me. With the square sails. You can look at old pictures of people in the old days dealing with square sails.00:36:54:20 - 00:37:15:21
Unknown
You got to have guys to go up in the rigging. You climb the rat lines, you go up there, you go out on the yard arms. You I got up there in the top of the top mast one night to do some dancing. And it got so rough I couldn't get down. I was up there about 10 hours, I guess before it calmed down enough I could get down.00:37:16:06 - 00:37:43:15
Unknown
It was just different yard arms in the water, port and starboard, you know, just fucking horrible. You. It was high adventure. It was great stuff. High adventure. So after all those years up there never had any thought of leaving. I was home and I was home. That's. That's where I was born to go southeast Asia. Well, that's cool, too.00:37:43:21 - 00:38:13:08
Unknown
Maybe I'll go there someday. But for the main part of my life, Canada, in Alaska, that's where I belonged. That's who I was. I did a lot of commercial fishing up there, a lot of logging, a lot of tugboat work, a lot of hiking, a lot of exploring, a lot of hunting, everything. This place was so primitive that the landlady well, I mean, she seemed ancient to us.00:38:13:08 - 00:38:34:12
Unknown
She was probably like 40. And she was a lady of the woods. She she had a log cabin. She lived in log cabin. No electric. I mean, we were so far beyond electric, you know, it was ridiculous. Wood, heat and kerosene and energy and stuff like that. And she raised goats and geese and things like that. And she liked them.00:38:34:12 - 00:39:18:18
Unknown
She loved, you know, in the the lions, the mountain lions would come and eat them pretty often. You know, two or three times a month seemed like. And she hated them. Oh, God. It was a war. It was she swore blood off to kill, relying on the face of the earth. And so when the go to would come up missing, you know, really, really way too often, she would get a pillowcase and she'd fill it for 30 rounds, a number many probably ten or 15 and a couple of battery operated spotlights and a kerosene lantern.00:39:18:18 - 00:39:41:13
Unknown
And she took the little glowing dots off of clocks and she glued them on to the seats on her 3030 Winchester lever action so she could see the shooting at night. You had a night and she'd take a little bit of water. You didn't need water up there because a spring or a creek or some dancing about every 50 feet, you know, you just get cold.00:39:42:06 - 00:40:12:05
Unknown
And she took some food. You know what kind of food she took? And a bedroll. And that was it. You know, she was a proper lady, a proper Canadian later lady, and she dressed in a full dress. Full dress. She was a biggish lady, but she still wore full dress no matter what Joplin would carry and would lions kill and lions and lions didn't matter.00:40:12:05 - 00:40:42:22
Unknown
Full dress. She had a proper lady's dress on all the time. And so, you know, about dusk, we'd see her down there packing up her pillowcase chamber and a couple around or, you know, loading the gun chamber around. And we'd wave. And she had this the way the well, the way she hung them. She had a bunch of dogs.00:40:43:13 - 00:41:11:05
Unknown
Any kind of cat is terrified of dogs. And she had a little terriers, little fuckers, you know, like Chihuahuas. And I don't know how she had maybe ten or 12. And she was always them training them how to hunt because on every lion hunt she would lose one or two to the lion. So she had to keep more coming up through the ranks, you know, all the time, continual business training and training.00:41:12:09 - 00:41:47:03
Unknown
And so she'd get her little yapping dogs and they're all jumping around. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Finally. And come on, come on, come on. And she'd just trudge off of the mountain and we might see her in a week, maybe two weeks, and she'd come back with whatever is left of that lion. Sometimes it took her. We get one, you know, the dogs would smell, dogs would get their scent and chase them, and the lion would run for a little bit and he would hear, you know, 12 dogs and you think, oh, this is really fucking bad.00:41:47:07 - 00:42:03:22
Unknown
I'm not going to run forever. Well, see, there's a tree. I'll just climb the street and those dogs can't get me. Ha ha, you motherfuckers. And so the lion would climb the tree and about three leaps, you know, he's up there 40, 50 feet, and the dogs would get to the trunk of the tree and circle around you.00:42:03:22 - 00:42:34:19
Unknown
Can, you can, you can, you can in the lions they can fight you. You know, he's good. He's middle claw out like fuck you evil cockroaches. You know, I can stay up here for a week. How about you and the landlady? Would take out her little flashlight and charge up those little green dots from the face of her clock, and then she'd shine the little spotlight thing and land on the tree.00:42:36:02 - 00:42:58:17
Unknown
And she could see him really clearly in the sights because they were glowing green now for a minute or two and got him and the lion would fall down 30 or 40, 50 feet to the ground. You know, the dogs were on him or on him, you know, like like an ant pile on grasshopper, you know. Oh, God.00:42:59:11 - 00:43:23:21
Unknown
And of course, they very often they were still alive to some degree. They were dying, but they were still alive in their fight for the life from the off you, you know, one or two or three dogs, sometimes four. And I don't know what she did with their scrub. Eat them too. I don't know. But anyway, she'd get the dogs off, she'd dress that turkey up and she kept the hides.00:43:23:21 - 00:43:53:21
Unknown
She kept all hides. Her whole cabin was just covered. Every wall covered with lion. Huge, beautiful line. Oh, my God. And she'd pack up the meat in the pillowcase. I guess she never had any kind of a backpack. I guess everything went in the pillowcase, the pretty heavy goddamn pillowcase must have been. And anyway, she trudged back to the cabin and then she'd share the meat with whoever, because she didn't have any proper way to keep it unless it was winter and it was okay.00:43:54:05 - 00:44:22:01
Unknown
One bed. I remember she got one that made the entire area sick as hell, but we never knew what that was about. It was it had some sickness or some difficulty anyway. So I stayed there for a long, long, long, long time. Well, that was why that cabin was my home base for all the time I was in Canada, even if I was off doing other things, you know, working on the square rigger or or doing whatever.00:44:22:09 - 00:44:41:09
Unknown
And I lived I still lived in a bunch of different places all up and down that coastline, all the way to Alaska. But I still kept that cabin just, you know, $6 or $0.25 multi you can look up. It was a nice little cabin. It was a one bedroom, nice cabin. I could have lived out my life in that plane.00:44:41:09 - 00:45:00:09
Unknown
And then anyway, the the square rigger people got a hold of me and said, hey, you know, you need to come on full time. We got to have you got nobody else experience? We got to have you. You know, you just got to come on here all the time. So I did. I still kept the cabin, but I went on the big boat and and just stayed on it all the time.00:45:00:09 - 00:45:32:08
Unknown
And finally, one day I was in, I guess you could call it sort of like my home town. There and walking around doing something in the cockpit by and he said, hey, hey, hey, hey, what's your name again? And I told him, I said, oh, yeah, yeah. We, we got a message from Vancouver. You, your visa expired like a long, long, long, long time ago and you got to go to jail now.00:45:33:21 - 00:46:09:00
Unknown
I said, Oh, fuck. Jesus Christ, what the fuck? So they took me to jail right in and the next morning they flew me to Vancouver and they charged me with overstaying just basic overstay, which, you know, anybody who travels, you've, you've, you experience that. And then they sentenced me to three months in well, first in the city jail, which was pretty nice because we had the run of the kitchen hauling and they had great, great food in there.00:46:09:05 - 00:46:36:22
Unknown
We just stuffed ourselves. And also they left the door open to the street. So after we get stuffed, we just went out, wandered around, what to, you know, restaurants and shit like that with our prison clothing on. And, you know, in the middle of the night, we got tired. We came back to bed in the cell, you know, that was pretty fucking good deal because even the guards, they thought the immigration the overstay was just fucking bullshit, you know, it just they knew it was just bullshit.00:46:37:10 - 00:46:59:19
Unknown
It wasn't a real crime in those days. I'm not sure it still is. But, you know, the government would think you're a goddamn fucking murderer, you know? So they sentenced me to three months in f after that I did a few weeks in the city jail, and then I had to be transferred to what turned out to be the equivalent of the B.C. fucking penitentiary.00:47:00:08 - 00:47:25:12
Unknown
And that was the real deal that was a real prison. It was bad. It was fucking bad. Even, you know, Vancouver kind of tends to be pretty humane, but that was fucking bad. That was a bad place. And I stayed there and in at the end of it they came in and said, okay, it's time for you to go.00:47:25:12 - 00:47:44:18
Unknown
You bet your three months are up, time for you to go. And they and they said, why didn't you just pay the fine rather than sit here for three months? I said, What fine the fuck you talking about was fine. And they said, Well, you're fine. Was $250, all you had to do is pay that, and you could have walked out and nobody fucking told me that.00:47:44:18 - 00:48:15:05
Unknown
I didn't know that. But you describe it for three fucking ones I could have paid and actually had the money. So anyway, they took me to the border in a van and said for some reason we don't know why, but for some reason the immigrations has decided that they're going to make an example out of you. And most of the guys that we deport, you know, they're back like the next day, next week, whatever.00:48:15:10 - 00:48:39:14
Unknown
You get a visa, they can come back with you. They made an example probably because you were working here and you can't ever come back, ever. You like to. I should ask for permission to get stuck. And so they took me to the border and went through an immigration building down there and then they came to the big steel door and they open it and they pushed me through and the door closed behind me.00:48:39:14 - 00:49:11:00
Unknown
And I was in a parking lot and I was in America. And what I felt at that moment, I had to walk across the parking lot to get to a place where there were some busses. It was a big parking lot, like 30 or 40 acres and like a big and what I feel when that door slammed behind me, what I felt was that I had entered into hell.00:49:11:00 - 00:49:55:18
Unknown
It was Dante's Inferno. I felt it. It was a palpable thing in the air. There's nobody around me, nothing going on. But what I felt was insanity and chaos after after living in God's garden most of the time for for three and a half years, walking into the US, it was insanity and chaos. It was hell, it was not this internal.00:49:56:15 - 00:50:28:11
Unknown
And I wanted to die. I couldn't turn around, go back through that door. Nothing I could do. I had to walk forward into the US and that was one of the lowest moments of my life and it was a 70. So I did walk for good on best friends and family stayed with them. No idea what the hell I was going to do.00:50:28:11 - 00:50:57:02
Unknown
Got a job doing some dancing, making pennies, and I rent my girlfriend, my Indian girlfriend from Canada. I believe her tribe was close, but I might not be pronouncing that correctly. She got lonely and came down. Indians. Indians have dual citizenship from that region, so she could go back and forth willy nilly. You know, there's the fuck ahead.00:50:57:22 - 00:51:25:19
Unknown
She came down, we got married and we ended up in a logging town where I went logging and then I went commercial fishing and then I got into a sawmill business and I stayed at that for a couple of years. Then I bought a sawmill myself and made really good money for a while a year. And then I thought, Man, well, I had two of them.00:51:25:19 - 00:52:04:06
Unknown
I'd make twice as much money. Well, I bought another one and then I made half as much money. Life lesson, you know, shit. So I then got into a helicopter logging operation. I was doing some work for this or for warehouse or for warehousing. And I they had a helicopter logging operation outside of town and I was doing some work for them.00:52:04:06 - 00:52:32:08
Unknown
And the foreman of that operation, the deal was that on fly days, on the days that we brought the helicopters in and flew out the logs or whatever, the foreman had to hang on the cargo hook of the helicopter and the helicopter would fly around because somebody had to be on the ground to hook up the slings of logs.00:52:32:08 - 00:52:48:07
Unknown
And a lot of times the cutters didn't show up that day or whatever, so so the farmer just had to sit on the hook. So it was a bell shaped thing. And you stuffed it between your legs and you crossed your legs over it and you hung on one hand and you smoked a cigaret with the other hand.00:52:48:07 - 00:53:11:19
Unknown
In the end, you did a circular motion with your cigaret, and in the end they just jumped up off the ground and off. You were at 90 miles an hour. The way that thing was set up was that once they when you hooked up the sling logs, you'd get off the thing and the helicopter would pick them up, fly them to the landing.00:53:12:17 - 00:53:34:19
Unknown
And the pilot had some buttons on the collect, on the cyclic and a push one button. These were all Vietnam birds and the buttons for rockets and machine gun and this and that, you know, the buttons for everything. And so he would push the button and it would release a little electromagnetic hook down there that would release the cable and the logs would fall down onto a pile.00:53:35:13 - 00:54:00:19
Unknown
And then he'd go back in and get the next load logs. Okay. There was also an electric electromagnetic hook on the belly of the helicopter so that if he got in trouble and he was well, that was part of the reason. That was half of the reason if he got in trouble and he and he couldn't maintain altitude or something or he lost an engine, he's going down.00:54:00:19 - 00:54:30:18
Unknown
You didn't really want that cable, you know, maybe 150 foot cable. You didn't want that hanging up in the tree, in the trees to fuck you up on your on your way out or rotating into some little spot, you know, a little clearing. And so there was another button you could release that whole cable from the Billy the helicopter in the the pilot would just squeeze that button on the on the joystick, you know, and the cable would drop.00:54:30:18 - 00:54:54:02
Unknown
And he did that one day, except he squeezed the wrong button and the foreman was on hook in. He landed in some really dense brush. And for a few days they thought they might pull him through it, but they didn't. He died. So I moved on up the chain, became the foreman of that thing, and we did that for a while.00:54:54:06 - 00:55:35:11
Unknown
Everything was fine. And then one day I was down in a canyon when I was slinging up a load and a helicopter was hovering above me, and all of a sudden he wasn't hovering above me anymore. He was on me. He was just fucking on me. And just knocked me that fuck out. And he, he crumpled in the brush, you know, and he got out and looked at me and said, Oh, well, fuck, he's dead, you know?00:55:35:11 - 00:55:56:16
Unknown
So he hiked out and hiked all the way to the landing where the helicopter is. He got another helicopter. He came back like he had a friend with him or another pilot, somebody, and they had a cargo hook dangling from that thing. And they and they spotted me and they took the cargo hooking hook and they thought, well, you know, let's see if he's really dead.00:55:56:16 - 00:56:20:04
Unknown
You know, maybe he's not. Sometimes they're not, you know, they were just covered with blood, had caved in. So they took that cargo hook and started knocking me in the chest with it. Bounced off of my chest, too, to see if they if they couldn't move. And I remember waking up kind of sort of at all groggy and fucked up.00:56:21:00 - 00:56:40:17
Unknown
And I just I was barely conscious and I thought, oh, fuck, off I go, fuck. I must be camping somewhere. And a bear is eating me Oh, son of a bitch. And I just woke up, like, just battle mode, you know, to the death, like that fucking beer and know, punching that thing in the head and punch then punch in the punch and it wouldn't go down.00:56:40:17 - 00:57:05:10
Unknown
It wouldn't leave me alone. I don't know. Oh, that's terrible. And then, of course, they realized that I was alive. And that's my last memory was right in that beer. I don't I don't think I figured out it was the hook at that moment. I couldn't figure that out. I just thought. I thought he ran off or something.00:57:05:16 - 00:57:36:12
Unknown
Oh, I kicked your ass, didn't I? And so then I didn't have any more memory after that for a while, for a few minutes. And they said, after I killed the bear, which wasn't really a bear, I jumped up. I never even looked up at them. And I started running around, slinging up more logs. I have no memory whatsoever, and for quite a while I did that.00:57:36:15 - 00:57:54:23
Unknown
But 5 minutes and they're trying to hit me with that hook again, you know, to sort of get my attention to look, look, look, look, you know, come on, come on, come on. It's time to go. And finally, I don't know. I guess I came around or something. Later, my head cleared. I don't know what happened, but I realized, oh, the helicopter up there, let's see.00:57:55:10 - 00:58:11:02
Unknown
Is it time to hook up? So I would try to grab the hook. And he kept jerking the hook away from me, so I couldn't. And then I know they were pointing at me or some fucking thing. And then I realized my vision was blurry and I put my hand up and I came away just covered in blood metal.00:58:11:02 - 00:58:38:17
Unknown
Oh, fucking hell. Something happened. And so I threw the hook between my legs and they flew me up out of the canyon and over the landing and put some kind of somebody who had a tissue or some fucking thing wrapped around my head. And they flew me into the hospital, which is about 15 miles. And where did ground hospital stitched me up and I went back to work.00:58:39:19 - 00:59:02:23
Unknown
Finish this. You and the pilot, he was a Vietnam pilot straight out of Vietnam. He had been shot down six times in Vietnam and he had three other engine out. So he had three other other rotations that didn't really work out all that well. So he'd he'd go down nine times and but he was ace. He was a fucking ace.00:59:02:23 - 00:59:26:06
Unknown
He he had he had carried off the second highest number of guys wounded in Vietnam. Second, just before he left, some guy beating by two or something. And we got to be really close friends. And he kept saying, God, he just felt so bad, so bad. I got crashing on my head. Oh, no, we have a windows malfunction.00:59:26:06 - 00:59:52:12
Unknown
No, we don't. It's not working. Fuck you, Bill. How about if I teach you to fly? Make up for them? Yeah, that's a deal. So for the next, I don't know, couple of years, three years, maybe. I got to fly. We finally moved up to a nice turbine. Elevate 3 to 3. Really well at three, I think next year.00:59:52:18 - 01:00:17:18
Unknown
And nine passenger and so for the next few years I got to fly all the ferry flights in it and regrettably I did not. I never got to do any external load with it. I sucked at landing. I could take off or fly around. I fucking sucked at landing, you know, I, you know, I needed basically I just got the three flights, you know, point A to point B, that's what I got.01:00:19:10 - 01:00:51:11
Unknown
I didn't get to land very much. So anyway, I learned to fly that way straight to helicopters and no other experience anything before that. And then he came into the I still hold the mill business. He came into the mill business. We started using the one helicopter to get our own wood for the mill, stuff like that. And it was not a bad deal.01:00:51:11 - 01:01:16:18
Unknown
We were making money. It was okay. And then there was a period where it was the off season and he went to go down to Arizona and fly crop dusting. He did that pretty much every year. So he went down there for going to be Montana House and he went down there and they do that in the middle of the night because the winds are less.01:01:16:18 - 01:01:39:02
Unknown
You can have winds when you crop dusting because it'll blow the poison onto crops that aren't supposed to have that kind of poison, you know, stuff like that. And so he was down there doing that, you know you start about 230 in the morning and he get up one night fully full, full of bug juice. And that wasn't a turbine.01:01:39:02 - 01:02:02:19
Unknown
That was a god damn fucking little recent. I think it was a 12 something like that. Unreliable little motherfuckers. I think I think they were running Franklin engines or some god damn thing. They're just fuck. And he got up on night craft and engine and it was dark so he couldn't see how far down it was or anything at all.01:02:02:19 - 01:02:25:17
Unknown
And he got into auto rotation. He was, you know, he was fucking good. He was good even fully loaded. He got into into a stable auto rotation and he's auto rotating down and. Well, God, I wish I could see the ground. Wish I could see the ground. Well, he didn't have to see the ground because hit the fucking high tension leads and that was that killed him.01:02:25:17 - 01:03:01:02
Unknown
So my heart was not in flying or logging or millwork or anything after that. I just didn't have the heart for it. I didn't want to be there anymore and so we sold everything. You know, I bought another commercial fishing boat move to a place across the state and went fish and sharks. And I did that for quite a while, several years.01:03:01:02 - 01:03:28:16
Unknown
And in the early days it was pretty goddamn good there was virtually no competition. There were plenty of sharks. It's good money, real stinkin good money, really good money. And you could pick and choose your days. You could pick and choose your weather. And life was good. Life was nice. And what started to happen was lots of other boats saw that my life was nice.01:03:28:16 - 01:03:49:18
Unknown
And so they started getting into it and actually fished down the sharks to the point where nobody anymore was making any kind of reasonable living or boats were going into disrepair and it was fucked up and they most of them didn't know how to fish sharks. They would buy up all the bait, take all the bait out there to squander it.01:03:49:18 - 01:04:18:16
Unknown
And there was a limited, finite amount of bait. So half the time I couldn't get beat anymore because these fucking yahoos had these were schoolteachers and mill workers, mostly, not fishermen, just looking for extra money, hundreds and hundreds of hundreds of them. And they dragged down that fishery to the point where I couldn't make a living anymore. They weren't either, but they were mill workers and schoolteachers, so they didn't have to.01:04:18:23 - 01:04:46:08
Unknown
This was just a supplement. You know, if they made 100 bucks a week net profit, they all they were fine with just beer money, you know, that's all I care about. I had to make a living and I couldn't any longer. But what I noticed right about that same time was that about every other goddamn day that we came in from the fishing grounds at night there would be some boat ahead of us shooting fucking flares into the sky, screaming on the radio.01:04:46:08 - 01:05:12:09
Unknown
Mayday, mayday. Needed. And the first hundred or 200 or 300 times, I would I would alter course a little bit to where the flares were. And fortunately to God, what's going on? You're thinking, you know what, the fuck was the fire? What for? And there were no we were just out of gas and my wife was scared hundreds and hundreds of times of it.01:05:14:02 - 01:05:32:02
Unknown
And so I had put a line on them and dragged them in because I'd gone there anyway, you know, their boats not going to slow my boat down. And so I'd get them into the marina and drop them off and they thank you. Oh, my God, you saved your life. You know I didn't save your life. You know, you get a fucking clue, for Christ's sake.01:05:32:10 - 01:06:15:06
Unknown
Did you just leave? Go over to my. And they stayed in their slept whatever. And that was beginning to become all that time, at least three or four days a week. And finally I did that one day, some fucking lawyer or something, and he's trophy wife and they had run out of fucking gas because that calculation of how many gallons you burn per hour and how far you're going to go and stuff like that, and that's fucking beyond them, you know, they can sue people and ruin their lives, but they can't calculate that.01:06:15:06 - 01:06:35:08
Unknown
So anyway, they were out of gas and I hooked them and I had gotten to the point where I would just cruise slowly by them. So you want a line or not? And if there if they're. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, please, please, I would toss it over to them and then I would go back to, you know, pretty much full power and a nice long nylon line.01:06:35:08 - 01:06:56:15
Unknown
So it was really stretchy, like a rubber band and either they would get it hooked on to some forward bit by the time it came to the end of the line or it and I didn't fucking care anymore. I hated them so much. They were out there stealing our gear all the time because they thought it look pretty and they would take it home and put it in their rec room, you know, and shit like that.01:06:56:15 - 01:07:26:01
Unknown
And it was just a constant battle with yachtsman pleasure boaters and fucking vermin like that. And so I would throw the line and go back to crews or firemen if they got hooked up. They didn't. If they didn't, they just kept going. Pull the line in. As I if they did get hooked up, then you know that you had a nice strong pull there for a minute before the spring went out of the line dragging.01:07:26:01 - 01:07:49:23
Unknown
And I sort of take them into the Marine and pushing towards us, slip, you know, figure it out, motherfuckers. And then I was gone. I just had nothing but disgust for them anyway. So this one night hold in that lawyer and a stupid wife and they said, thank you, thank you, thank God I didn't water water and went home.01:07:49:23 - 01:08:17:04
Unknown
And it was about a month later something came in the mail from such and such fucking law firm and I said, Oh, cock sucks. Somebody's fucking suing me for something. Opened it up. It was a check for $50. It turned out to be from that guy. It somehow tracked me down, wrote numbers, expert letter, and a little light bulb went off my brain.01:08:17:04 - 01:08:52:15
Unknown
I thought, Oh, well, $50 is a fucking insult to what I did for you, but I'll take it. I'll have a pizza in. From this moment forward, you cockroaches are mine. I traded the boat off on a tugboat and went into salvage and rescue business. Just. Just like that. I hired divers to bring stuff up from the bottom, and they fucked it up every single time.01:08:52:20 - 01:09:15:19
Unknown
None. Every single time. No matter what. Divers. I heard they fucked it up royally. And I didn't want to dove. I didn't want to go underwater. Diver Except in the pool. But I got to the point, I had no choice whatsoever, just had no choice. So I had to go learn commercial diving. And then the boat to come up proper, reliable.01:09:15:19 - 01:09:40:20
Unknown
So I got very, very heavy into commercial diving and boating and rescue, pulled the coastguard off the beach twice. Fucking wieners. I watched them kill people. Coast Guard. I watched them kill people. I did a whole tape about that. Some tape. It's illegal. You can go back to the alien anal probe dot com list. Look for the word huebner.01:09:42:04 - 01:10:17:05
Unknown
There was a name of one of the divers that killed and killed him. Goddamn close to a murder. Certainly manslaughter. Certainly manslaughter due to their incompetence and unprofessionalism and stupidity. But anyway, so I came to pretty much loathed the coastguard, but for the next some number of years we did 321 rescues in 131 shipwrecks raised. And we stupid amounts of money, stupid amounts.01:10:18:21 - 01:10:51:09
Unknown
So this would have been the late seventies on an on dives that were as deep as my gear could go. I was making 2600 an hour with the one hour minimum. I could do two a day. It's pretty good money. I get ten grand a day for the club. Well, it's pretty good money. And I. I had stacks of checks that I just didn't have time to send in.01:10:52:04 - 01:11:19:10
Unknown
But certainly the most money I ever made, the most money I ever dreamed of making. And I was fucking good at it. It's. It's the one thing I was born to do. It's the thing I was most born to do. I got to the point, after some years, though, where I had been so good, I was a mini legend, but I knew it couldn't last.01:11:21:07 - 01:11:45:23
Unknown
I knew that someday, somehow I was going to make a mistake and it was probably possibly going to be a fucking big one. Maybe somebody would get killed because it's inevitable when you've got that many variables, you're out and it's blown 100. And literally we were out there blowing 88, 88, not sure it's 110 or whatever on that particular job.01:11:46:08 - 01:12:06:14
Unknown
The Coast Guard had been called out to save some people. They went halfway, said, Fuck, no, we're going to lose the boat. Turn around came back, coastguard command said, No, no, no. You turn around again, you turn around again. You go back there. You're the fucking Coast Guard. That's all they got. You get out there. And they had this really heated yelling argument over the radio.01:12:07:02 - 01:12:29:17
Unknown
The skipper of the Coast Guard boat, he was 81, 80, 81, 80, maybe 82. I can't really cut a deal. And they're just screaming at each other over the radio. And I thought that was pretty good unbecoming. In the end, the captain said, No, no, I'm captain of the boat. I'm going to lose the boat, we're going to die or turn around and go back to port.01:12:29:17 - 01:12:59:15
Unknown
We passed him halfway out. We went up, got the people, saved them, saved the boat to the Coast Guard, was sitting warm and snug at the fucking dock ship and Coco. Now, after a few hundred experiences like that with the United States Coast Guard, I don't have any good thing to say. No, that's not true. I did. I have seen him do good work.01:12:59:15 - 01:13:27:03
Unknown
25% of what they did was good, competent, professional work. Maybe just dumb luck. I don't know. 75% was flawed in some way. 25% was fatally flawed. They killed people. They lost boats due to incompetence and professionalism. And I don't have any good thing to say about that. Now, that is that's the Coast Guard in Lower 48. The Coast Guard in Alaska is a different animal.01:13:27:10 - 01:13:53:00
Unknown
Those guys are good. Fucking good. I'm pretty sure they saved the very best cruise for Alaska. The people got seawater in their brains to go to Alaska and people that got Kemp's chicken soup in their veins, they stay in Beaufort. So I'm not talking about the Alaska guys. Those guys are fucking good. I respect him. I like him.01:13:54:19 - 01:14:37:19
Unknown
I never saw him do a stupid thing. Laura 4870 5% of what they did was stupid. Maybe the lower 48 is just a training ground for see who can cut it. Who can't? I'm not sure. Jesus. Good impression. I'm not going to tell those stories. That's for another another tape. Probably sometime. Actually, I did. I wrote a book about I don't know if it's on stock photos worldwide dot com I'm not sure it put it on there not so after some number of years I got scared I got scared that I was going to make a big mistake.01:14:37:19 - 01:15:17:11
Unknown
We were in the newspapers a couple of times a week and had a big name and respect. When I went to the Coast Guard station, usually with a club, they would move their boats to give me a preferred spot, two more, and they would send people down to escort me up into the office and bring me coffee and brownies and donuts and I never told them what I thought about and I didn't want to lose them.01:15:17:12 - 01:15:45:09
Unknown
I didn't want to make a mistake. On a dark and stormy night and kill somebody. And so I sold it and bailed. And that was the right decision. As much as I missed that work when it was going well and I missed the money offer, that was the right decision. It was time to get out, you know, get out on a high note.01:15:47:07 - 01:16:42:22
Unknown
And that's what I did from there. Okay. We're going to go about 13 more minutes. You're from there. I had a lot of money after school and had a lot of money. And we just traveled for a while trying to figure out where to live. I didn't want to see the ocean again ever in my life, so we moved inland and moved here and moved there all around the Golden Place, a airport in Idaho realized I didn't like Idaho, millions or whatever that, you know, they're called got out of their went to New Mexico, got robbed nine times because we had stopped the Mexican cartels from selling drugs over the counter in one of our01:16:42:22 - 01:17:21:21
Unknown
restaurants. I had spent a couple of years in federal law enforcement, which I didn't I didn't insert that here I forgot time. We started running running into really, really hard time, hard core corruption problems in New Mexico, because I was stupid enough to think that I could stand up against the Mexican cartel. Yeah. And then when it got really, really bad, I said, okay, fuck you people, you're done.01:17:22:10 - 01:17:43:09
Unknown
And I called up to some of my old people up in a, you know, central said, Hey, guys, I got a problem. I need help. I need a fucking team down here. I got names and dates and I got the whole worker, a whole dossier. I want a team down here to talk about a hundred of these motherfuckers right now.01:17:44:06 - 01:18:17:14
Unknown
You know, hopefully we can do this within a week and I was talking to the head of the biggest law enforcement agency in that state, and he said, nope. He said he grew up there. His judge, his father had been a federal in the town close to where we were a mexican cartel, killed him. And that was just the tip of the iceberg.01:18:17:19 - 01:18:36:10
Unknown
He said that his family was not allowed to enter the state of New Mexico. He will not drive through the state of New Mexico. If he had accident on the border, he would not get airlifted to hospital in the state of New Mexico. It was that it was that big of a deal to him. And he just said, nope, we're not going to touch New Mexico.01:18:36:10 - 01:19:06:13
Unknown
It is, for all intents and purposes, Mexico. And I thought, Oh, well, then imagine my chagrin, you know, because I thought, well, I thought I had this Asian whole take care of these folks. And I didn't I had nothing in the whole I had nothing. I had a little piece of toilet tissue healed under the faucet. You know how it's not really very formidable.01:19:07:18 - 01:19:31:01
Unknown
Um, right about that time we had suffered our nights robbery. All of the. All the robbers were known to us. Lots of witnesses there on security footage of it. And they'd come to court again and again and again and say, not guilty. And the judge will say, Yep, not guilty. And we'd say, Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.01:19:31:01 - 01:19:54:21
Unknown
What if we get video, we get witnesses, we get they didn't even wear masks, for fuck's sake. You know, and the judges say you're out or get out of the courtroom. Yeah, that's how bad it was. And we were I had been booking that stuff pretty hard and the corporation that owned our restaurant had called in a whole bunch of different private investigators teams.01:19:55:07 - 01:20:17:01
Unknown
And one by one by one, they just got scared off, I don't think any. In less than a week they started poking around and the local police just said, you know, you know, we're going to kill you. And they just got out. And finally they brought in a P.I. from another state owned and run by retired FBI agents.01:20:17:01 - 01:20:49:19
Unknown
And we thought, Oh, yeah, there you go. Booyah. We got him. We got him now. And they lasted a few months, six weeks, something like that. And they were digging, digging, digging, really pissing people off in the cartels. And one night in the restaurant, the phone rang and my wife, you know, it. And the voice said, go to the phone booth at such and such a corner now and wait for a call.01:20:50:23 - 01:21:20:14
Unknown
So she thought, okay, she was like three feet tall, you know. No, she was five one or something like that, but she was fucking feisty German girl. And at that time things had gotten so bad she was carrying a ten gauge sawed off shotgun everywhere she went under the counter at work. She kept it in her car. She walked to and from her car with this ten gauge, ten gauge.01:21:20:14 - 01:21:42:11
Unknown
So she picked that sucker up, chambered around, walked down to this phone booth, was like 10:00 at night. And she stood there in the phone ring. She answered it. And it was the owner of the P.I. agency that one of the retired FBI guys. And he said, okay, I want you to listen to me not talk. Just listen.01:21:44:02 - 01:22:12:11
Unknown
Something like next Tuesday night, there's to be a raid on your ranch outside of town. And there's going to be they're going to find a bunch of drugs in your home and you're going to try to escape and kill all three of you, your son, to your eight year old son. They're going to kill you. Get up right now, tonight, if you can work tomorrow.01:22:14:07 - 01:22:47:22
Unknown
And so we did. Yeah. In Mexico. So you want to ask me about Mexican fucking cartels? Ask away, you know, mountains. The government can't touch you. You're untouchable. They had boasted to us when we were pushing on them hard, they had boasted to us. Just lastly, look, we get connections all the way to D.C. You cannot touch. No federal agency can touch us.01:22:47:22 - 01:23:30:12
Unknown
Nobody can touch us, ever. And I just left because I thought, oh, yeah, right, turn it absolutely true. So another nail in the coffin of America for me. Okay, so that's podcast number one. Some of my background. So I want the listeners to understand the things that led up to my disgust with America and the things that led to me leaving you.01:23:31:04 - 01:24:01:14
Unknown
Some people got similar stories. Some people stories aren't so bad, but they still want to leave. Some people have had just as much trouble, but in different contexts. I've still got some family in the U.S. they want out. They've got a business that requires them to stay in the U.S.. I know what they're going to do. I don't know too many people who want to stay there.01:24:01:14 - 01:24:25:20
Unknown
Very few people that I know of, honestly. I know that every year the the numbers of people renouncing their U.S. citizenship, it's a new record every year. It's not a big number, but it's up every year. If you start to get tired of the bullshit and bullshit around the world to not only in the US, it's a it's a case of this bill is too soft.01:24:25:20 - 01:24:46:19
Unknown
This bill is too hard. This bill is just right. Maybe you'll never find one. That's just right. But maybe you'll find one that you can sleep on, you know, in some kind of way. And that's all of us guys roaming around Southeast Asia and in some other countries, you know, South America. Well, that's all we're doing. We're looking we we've been around enough.01:24:46:19 - 01:25:16:16
Unknown
Now we know we're not going to find one. That's just right. We're just hoping to find one that we can sleep in. America is not on that list anymore at all for us. We're done. Done. By the way, for you guys on Social Security, you can last time I looked at the law, renounce your citizenship. You don't have to pay taxes anymore.01:25:17:08 - 01:25:45:07
Unknown
You keep your Social Security. The only thing is, if you ever want to go back there and visit, you know, Alaska or whatever, you kids, you can't you have to get a visa. Maybe they'll give you one. Maybe they won't. But the other thing is, you would have to have pretty much citizenship in another country to get a reliable passport so that you could go anywhere at all.01:25:46:16 - 01:26:05:04
Unknown
And citizenship is getting harder and harder and harder to get unless you got a lot of money. If you got a lot of money, you got a whole bunch of options. You can just buy citizenship. But if you don't, I mean, I'm talking half a mill that you can just drop if you don't have that, it's really, really hard to get citizenship.01:26:05:18 - 01:26:23:13
Unknown
If I had stayed in one Southeast Asia country since I got here, I would have citizenship now. I could have gotten it in a couple of different countries, but I just can't move and move and move. And Boone and and I kind of regret that part of it. I should have I should have put that into my plan.01:26:23:13 - 01:26:46:22
Unknown
I could have citizenship in a couple of different countries and passports from those countries. I could renounce. And I'd be fucking happy because there's nothing there anymore. I would miss Alaska, but for good care of it. But I want to see Woods, trees and birds. I go to Canada. Fuck the U.S.. U.S. doesn't have anything I need except what little is left in my family.01:26:46:22 - 01:27:14:21
Unknown
A lot of guys don't have that, so this is giving me a little bit of a baseline as to where I come from, why I left. Well, next episode I'm going to finish up my background. What do I do long? And then we're going to go straight into why I chose to go where I did, how I got there, what my first day was like, what my second day was like, what my first month was like.01:27:14:21 - 01:27:58:21
Unknown
And right on through it, it girls and all I there's too many guys who, who come here just for that. And that's stupid. That's stupid. Well, no, it's not not it's just it's just going to be 123 times harder to find a good one than you ever dreamed it would be. That's the problem. But we'll go through that step by step, by step by step with no tales and no facts and observations and clues and hints and how to live here.01:27:59:05 - 01:28:17:12
Unknown
That's what this is about for people who think they might want to and how this is going to change their mind. It's going to be some guys who think they want to, but then they're going to learn all that. You know, I don't think I want to live there. Well, you know, Oregon's not so bad looking, so that's fine.01:28:17:18 - 01:28:45:13
Unknown
It's fine. It'll help you learn and decide good things and bad things. Good points and bad points. But I'm still here ten or more years, whatever. And I, I went back to the U.S. for the first time last winter and then on to Ukraine and Romania and that region and that just finished the U.S. for me. I went back to do some visiting and my health wasn't all that good.01:28:45:13 - 01:29:05:00
Unknown
And I won't say it was a waste of time going back because it taught me once and for all that America's done. It's done for me, it's done. I always thought all all those years I was in Southeast Asia, I thought, well, you know, it really gets fucking terrible. I just go back to the U.S.. Well, now that's not an option for me.01:29:05:00 - 01:29:34:06
Unknown
I learned last winter, last fall and winter. I learned to hate it so badly. And I'll tell those stories, you know, much later on in the podcast. But fucking you. It's a it's a no point for America's a no point for me. No. And most of the guys here, anywhere in Southeast Asia, that's how they feel. They're just tired.01:29:34:06 - 01:29:53:15
Unknown
They're just tired of the bone of the fucking bullshit history and the harassment in the cops who will shoot you and the government who will steal from you. We'll go through that little by little. So you'll learn it. You'll learn a bit by bit. In fact, project an opinion by opinion. Okay, so we're done for this. We're an hour and 30.01:29:53:21 - 01:30:27:10
Unknown
I don't like to go over that no matter what. So. Okay, thank you very much. Good evening. And well, before I sign off, if you like alien stuff, go to alien probe dot com. We get two or three or maybe close to 300 podcasts on there. Not only about aliens and creepy shit like that and whatever there will be link to these on that page also so you can find these.01:30:27:20 - 01:30:33:19
Unknown
Okay. Thank you very much and good evening and where the hell is where's my camera? Thirties. Okay.