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Good evening from Southeast Asia. This will be episode or volume number 10. I was going to say it in Thai. I can't remember. Oh, this is pathetic.2
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I, uh, man, my brain is really, really small. You ever watch the Bundys? Greatest show ever made. I remember Kelly. She was hot back then. Not so much now. I'd still marry her.3
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She had to go get a job somewhere. I don't know, a waitress or something. I can't remember what it was, but she had to memorize something like maybe use a menu or something. I don't know. It doesn't matter.4
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But she couldn't because her brain was not big enough to fit all the new data in there. So she had to forget some other stuff in order to fit the new stuff into her little female brain. We're not going to go through right now.5
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Enough ladies want to kill me already. So she had to forget some stuff. She didn't know much. So there wasn't a lot to forget. So she had to forget, you know, kind of semi important things like her address, you know, phone number, stuff like that.6
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And once she like purged those out, then she could memorize the menu. Kind of like me with languages. My God.7
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I start to learn one new language and some other old one just, it just gets pushed on out. That's just really suck. Okay. The purpose of these tapes is to help people decide if they want to move, not visit, move to Southeast Asia.8
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Okay, so moving to South East, moving to Southeast Asia, pretty much means first you got to visit, you know, but if you want to go to Southeast Asia, and you know you're only going to be there two or three weeks and you're going to go home and you're never going to come back, then these aren't for you.9
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I don't want to talk to you. No, this is for people who think they might want to or probably want to move to Southeast Asia, because this is in depth. This is detail. This is nitty gritty. Some of it not too pretty.10
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Really a lot of it not too pretty. And you got to have that stuff if you're going to make a true truly informed decision.11
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So that's who we're talking to. And if you do want to move here, then how you're gonna do it. Where are you going to get the money? Are you going to kill the wife? Because women alone don't want to come here.12
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Almost never. Very rarely. It's guys. It's guys who come to Southeast Asia. I don't know why it's really all that much. They go to Thailand because they want girls.13
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But the other countries are not big prostitution hubs. You know they have some, but so does San Francisco. You know they go to San Francisco anywhere. Peoria. I don't know. Probably. I don't know.14
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A lot of guys just, I don't know, they like the whole notion of Southeast Asia. They just like it. I don't know why. It's born into a lot of guys. Maybe in past lives of lots and lots and lots of us, we were like Chinese.15
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You know, four and a half million turkey heads in China and lots and lots of them die and then they come back and they become, you know, live in Oregon and then they miss. I don't know.16
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Okay.17
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Trying to clean up the mouth. Not working really too much.18
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All right.19
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Oh man, we got monsoons going again. Holy crap. Oh, there's been like two, three days of hard rock and roll monsoons.20
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I was out there a while ago in the dark and the rain and man it was like Alaska. I mean not cold. Well it was cold. I wanted a jacket.21
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Who knows.22
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That's cold.24
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Okay. In the last tape, number nine, we dropped you off in Bangkok. You made it to Bangkok. You decided you wanted to go. You made it to Bangkok. You made it to the hotel. You're messing around.25
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You got a girlfriend or you're close to getting a girlfriend and you're seeing some sites and you figured out how to go order food, you know, at least like that.26
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Let's hit on that for a second. If you've been there for a while and you're ordering food around restaurants, you've already noticed something. Many restaurants you go and you sit down and they bring you a menu.27
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Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'm so hungry and it smells so good.28
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And there's a list of 50 or 80 or 150 dishes, you know, items you can work, except 40% of them have a little white sticker over that item and it says, no have.29
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No have. My me.30
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That's one of those things that's going to drive you31
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sort of apoplectic after a while. Sometimes I've gotten into ones where 85% my me. No have.32
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It's two things.33
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One thing is that that means they don't have that dish. They don't have that dish.34
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Okay. And they might not have had it for a week.35
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Okay, one thing, one problem is that when they need to replenish supplies and they place an order for whatever, some kind of meat, some kind of noodles, some kind of something, the Thai suppliers just might not bring it.36
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They might lose the order, might fall off the back of the truck.37
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They might just forget. They might take the money and just forget to ever bring it.38
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And that's really, really common. Third world countries are third world countries for a reason.39
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Because they're backwards, because their thinking is backwards and logic is largely missing.40
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Okay. I'm not going to go into my theories of why. At least not right now.41
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That's part of the problem. The other part of the problem is Southeast Asians, all of them.42
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Maybe Thailand's the worst. I'm not sure. But I see it in every single Southeast Asian country.43
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Let's say a business is going along and they're selling noodles. They're selling noodles. Some certain kind of noodle. Okay, they've got 50 kinds of noodles.44
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But there's one certain noodle that's hot. Okay.45
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Just call it the ABC noodles. Okay, whatever. It doesn't matter.46
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And they're going along and they get a big old, I don't know, they got a 50 gallon drum of noodles, you know, dry noodles.47
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Then they're going along and over a year, the supply of noodles goes down and down and down and down and down and down.48
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It gets lower and lower and lower. Okay.49
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In a philang business, when it got down to, I don't know, maybe 25% full, maybe 25% remaining.50
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The owner of that business, a little bell will go, and a light like that.51
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And he said, oh yeah, time to reorder that stuff because we don't want to run out. That's our how to sell it.52
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Now, if you've got a database and a computer and stuff, that's going to tell you automatically.53
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You know, you're getting close. You're getting close down there. You know, time to reorder. Okay.54
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But most, the vast, vast majority of Southeast Asian businesses do not run on databases and computers.55
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They just don't. Might be decades or generations before they do. I don't know.56
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And so the manager, the owner, whatever, he has to manually watch the level of every single thing.57
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Okay. Now, maybe a month ago, he noticed that barrel of ABC noodles was getting pretty low.58
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He's watching it go down over a year. You know, it's just going down, down, down, down, down.59
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There's a disconnect in the brains of Southeast Asian people. And they see that. They see it.60
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I showed it to them sometimes. When I had a favorite restaurant, I like to order some particular dish.61
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And I noticed their supplies that are going down. I said, hey, you got a lot of that? You got more of that?62
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Chai. Yeah, yeah, yeah.63
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And then next week it's lower. And I said, hey, you know, you have to order that very often?64
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Well, sometimes. Okay. And the next week it's gone.65
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And the little sticker on the menu says, no have. It'll say it in English.66
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And they might have it for three or four or five or six weeks because they just can't get around to reordering it.67
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It's a mind boggling problem all through Southeast Asia.68
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They can't make this connection. It's.69
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I can tell you exactly why. I know this. I know the answer to this.70
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All kinds of people are going to disagree. But it's fact.71
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Southeast Asians have had pretty easy lives if you didn't expect much out of life.72
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Yeah. What do we get going? Get a little earthquake again?73
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Looks like it. I can always tell. We get these jello-y earthquakes when when the equipment and the booms and stuff start swinging.74
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My camera was swinging there. Sometimes you can't even feel them.75
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OK, anyway. OK, Southeast Asians have had pretty easy lives if they didn't want much out of life.76
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If all they wanted to do was sleep in a hammock, eat bananas and poppies, get some fish once in a while, some rice.77
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If that was the height of their aspirations, their lives were easy because when they ran out of poppies, they walked out got some more.78
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Bananas, whatever. It's just there was no planning required.79
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No forethought required ever in the entire history of Asia. It's in the warmer climates. Southeast Asia.80
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They didn't have to plan for anything.81
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So they don't have that circuitry in their brain. It's simply not in there. Or if it's in there, it's latent. It's dead.82
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People come from the northern latitudes, you know, northern, western, northwestern European, let's say.83
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They had ice ages and they had shit and they had horrible seasons.84
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And by God, you better get some wood in and some food stocks in before the snows hit, you know, in about September.85
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Because if you didn't, you're going to die. Period. You're going to die and your whole family is going to die.86
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And then you aren't making any more babies. And so that faulty little gene in your brain, that faulty little error in your brain doesn't get passed along.87
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Only the ones who planned and brought in wood and food, they got to fuck all winter and make more babies, you know, and those babies got that gene.88
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Or they got taught it, you know, nature and nurture, whatever, argue it however you want, combination of both.89
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So the people learned to plan or they died. Southeast Asians didn't have to plan for anything ever, ever.90
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And they didn't die. That's the difference. So they're coming along then.91
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Noodle stocks are going down, down, down, down, down and pretty soon they're zero.92
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And they're like, oh, let's see, what do I do now? I don't know. Next week I'll think about it.93
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OK. In the meantime, they can't sell that noodle. They're losing big money. And also they're pissing off customers. They're pissing them off.94
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After two or three times that, I just don't go back. I don't go back to that restaurant.95
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And lots and lots of guys do that. The ties will go back endlessly forever because it's just the way it is.96
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Oh, well, they don't have it today. Well, they don't have it next week. They don't have it next month.97
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They don't care because they do it themselves.98
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The other thing you're going to run into is you're going to have some certain dish in mind.99
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And you're going to think, man, I really want something. I want this certain something.100
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Only one place has it. They're eight miles away across Bangkok. Oh, God, it's a horrible long trip. Oh, God.101
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You try to call them up, make sure they're open. Well, they don't answer anyway. They don't answer their phones.102
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None of them answer their phones. They don't understand that concept either.103
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So they don't answer the phone and think, well, that doesn't mean anything at all. You don't call them anymore.104
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You know, you just don't call them because you know that's going to be the case.105
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So you get in a cab and you go eight miles across Bangkok and you get there and it's, you know, five o'clock on a Friday afternoon.106
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And closed. And they think, what the hell? What the hell?107
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They just closed. They just didn't want to work that day. Maybe there's no sign.108
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Nothing says when they're going to reopen. It is closed.109
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How many times are you going to go back to that place? OK, now I had that five story shophouse, five four, five story double shophouse in Thailand.110
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We had quite a number of businesses in there. My girlfriend had one, two, she had two and she had to manage all the other businesses.111
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Her busy hour would start at say five o'clock p.m.112
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And she would run until sometimes two, three in the morning. She had food stalls in the front of our shophouse.113
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And by six thirty, she was hopping. She was hopping. That's where she made her money.114
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You know, let's say from six to ten. That was the meat of her day. That's where she made her money.115
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That's how much you do. Very often between six and ten.116
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She went to some other so and played badminton with the kids.117
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Probably four days, at least four days out of every week, sometimes five, sometimes six, at least four days.118
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In the beginning, I thought, well, you know, it's not my business. It's her business. It's you know, she can do what she wants.119
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And then little by little, it started driving me kind of buggy.120
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And I would I would say, look, you know, I'm getting kind of tired of people coming and finding me saying, hey, why isn't your shop open?121
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I said, well, it's not my shop. It's girlfriend. I don't know where she is. You know, I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do.122
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And that went on for months like that.123
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And she would finally come back and I'd say, hey, you know, you had a lot of customers here. I had to deal with them.124
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I had to tell them that you weren't open. Up to me.125
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Satya responds to everything. Up to me. OK.126
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It's up to you to a point. But when they start bugging me, then it's up to me.127
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What I did was to try to fix this problem was I made her some really nice.128
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I was doing a lot of photography, doing a lot of printing.129
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Had a lot of equipment and I would make her I made her some really nice signs, laminated them.130
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Grommets in there. She could hang them, you know, little strings on them, the whole bit.131
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And when she's going to go play badminton or whatever the hell.132
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She could hang them on the outside of her booth. She had two separate little businesses in front.133
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So she'd hang one on each one.134
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And the first few days I hung them up there when I when I saw she was leaving, I would hang them up.135
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Say, look, this is what you do. It tells the people you're going to be back at such and such a time or whatever.136
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Or that you're just closed, you know.137
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OK, so she'd go off.138
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Play with the kids.139
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I bought her a really nice electric e-scooter and she would just ride that thing endlessly.140
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Take the kids and tow them around in their wagons, you know, stuff like that.141
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It was a lot of fun. I agree. It's a lot of fun.142
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OK, then don't have a business. She didn't have to have a business.143
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That was the problem. Her rent didn't depend on it.144
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You know, I took care of everything for her.145
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So if she only wanted to be open two days a week, that's perfectly fine.146
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Just if I got open, if you're going to be open two days a week, then by God open.147
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If you're going to be closed Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, you know, put a sign.148
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We're closed these days.149
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And she never once for herself put that sign up.150
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Never one time.151
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And I got testier and testier and testier.152
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It was a problem.153
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But you're going to run into that. You're going to go to these restaurants or other businesses all over the place.154
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And they're just going to be closed for no reason, just no reason whatsoever.155
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And I see that in every single Southeast Asian country, even in the malls, even in the malls.156
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Shops will be just dark and empty.157
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Some of the malls try to put it into the contract that they must open, period.158
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They must open unless they, you know, got probed by aliens and they got to recover or something.159
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You know, better be serious.160
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Some reason they didn't open and they're only allowed so many of these emergencies per month or they shut them down.161
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They close the shop.162
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And Southeast Asians just rail against that.163
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Well, that's not fair. That's bullshit.164
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Well, it's called professional business.165
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You know, you whine and you moan and you cry because you're not making any money or enough money.166
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What's the first rule?167
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Open.168
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What's the second rule?169
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Have something to sell.170
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Oh my God, what a revelation.171
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OK, so you're going to run into that all the time.172
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If you have girlfriends and you're helping them do businesses and stuff like that, you're just going to get that all the time.173
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I was going to say I never saw one that was better about that, but I did.174
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I dated an engineer up in Bangkok for a while.175
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And I should have married her because I'm stupid because I deserve a ping pong paddle for that.176
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Let her go.177
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Fool. That's the word. Capital F O O L.178
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I should have married her.179
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I should have married a number of girls, but I'm stupid.180
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OK, so that's the thing that's going to drive you crazy.181
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I just I got a bunch of random notes here.182
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It says these are things that people asked, wrote in and asked.183
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Yes, if you have an accident with a motorbike or the car, whatever, doesn't matter what happened.184
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You're at fault. Doesn't matter what happened.185
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I know a guy who was T-boned twice by people running.186
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Once was a stop sign, once a red light.187
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T-boned him twice.188
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And he was at fault both times.189
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One time he paid the cop to write the report accurately.190
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Had to pay him a lot of money.191
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The guy that hit him was T-y. In both cases, they were T-y's.192
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And it was just a principle of the thing for him.193
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He had insurance. He was going to cover it anyway.194
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It didn't matter to him at all.195
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But he just wanted something to be done correctly.196
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So he had to pay this guy a lot of money, this cop, to write the report accurately.197
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And he did. And then he got off.198
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But if you have any kind of accident, if anything happens anywhere in your vicinity, you're at fault.199
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OK. It says if you come upon an accident, you might be implicated.200
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Do not help. OK.201
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People used to tell me that all the time. T-y's used to tell me, don't stop.202
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And I was like, I can't help it.203
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That's what Americans do. We stop and we help.204
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We do the best we can.205
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No, no, no, no, no.206
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Even if it's not an outright setup where some group of robbers have staged this thing to make you stop and then to rob you.207
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Even if it's not that, even if it's a real accident, T-y's very, very often.208
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Maybe you come along 10 minutes after the wreck and you just see bodies in the street.209
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And you stop and you want to help and you want to call or you want to take somebody to the hospital.210
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You want to do something. Just put light on the scene. Anything.211
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Anything you can do. That's what Americans do.212
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Don't do it.213
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The T-y's very, very often will try to find some way to implicate you.214
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They will say, you know, 10 miles back, this car, they cut us off and that made us nervous.215
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And then we couldn't drive correctly. And that's why we had this accident.216
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Take that to court. The T-y's, T-y's court's going to find against you.217
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Any reason, it doesn't matter or no reason at all.218
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Don't stop.219
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You come upon an accident at night with babies laying in the road bleeding.220
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Don't stop.221
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That's a horrible thing for a felon to choke down, especially an American or a Canadian.222
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We're not built that way.223
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We can't process that. How can you not stop?224
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How can...225
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Nobody could just keep going.226
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If you can't safely get around them, and I mean way around them, you stop early, you turn around, you go back the other way, find another road.227
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Don't stop. Maybe someday that'll change.228
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I don't know. Maybe dash cams are going to help to start getting around that.229
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You know, you got a recording that shows that you were driving for the last 10 miles with nobody around you.230
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And then you come up on this scene, you know.231
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Maybe the court would accept that or maybe the recording would just disappear.232
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I'm trying to get across to you just how corrupt Thailand is in most Southeast Asian countries.233
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You're not going to have that happen in Singapore at all.234
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Period. It's not going to happen.235
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Probably.236
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Probably.237
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Well, maybe not Malaysia either, but it will happen in Thailand and Cambodia and probably Vietnam and right across.238
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Right across. And then Laos.239
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Laos.240
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Now I'm starting to talk like a...241
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Okay.242
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Just don't stop.243
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So I just got some random other tips here.244
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Girlfriends who gamble and do the money pyramid things.245
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Watch them.246
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Don't for God's sake don't let them on your phone.247
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Not until you've been married five years, not even then.248
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They will plug you into every kind of scam gambling network there is.249
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They will take control of your phone.250
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And you might not even be able to recover that phone.251
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You're going to have to swap out the sim.252
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Wipe it.253
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Start from scratch.254
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Once they get that shit in there, there's no way to just take out that stuff.255
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Now I've had that happen a number of times.256
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They don't know what they're doing.257
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They're just clicking on links as fast as they can in their little gambling schemes and scams.258
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The online gambling I'm talking about.259
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If they get into the money pyramid schemes with quote unquote friends, they're going to lose their money.260
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One hundred percent.261
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Do not let them do it.262
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They're not going to probably tell you if you if they think you know about this stuff, they're not going to tell you.263
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They're going to lose all their money, whatever money they've got.264
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They can go really heavily into debt on these things.265
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And then suddenly Guido, you know, has come and call him.266
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He wants his money and they're panicking.267
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And they start looking at little random things of yours they can sell.268
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They'll take them things that they think you won't miss for a few months.269
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And then when you do miss it, well, I don't know what happened to that.270
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You got to think long and hard before you decide to come here.271
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I can't count how many times I've had things like that happen with with girls that smart me thought I could trust, you know,272
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that I had vetted and lived with for six months or whatever.273
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The gambling gambling is huge.274
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Oh, God.275
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You got you got about three different problems with Southeast Asian girls.276
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You got gambling, you got drinking, you got other men.277
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They're all kind of equally prevalent.278
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The other men won't bankrupt you. The gambling will.279
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You know, if you care about some stupid girl and she, you know, racks up fifteen, twenty thousand dollars US in debt on one of these scheme scams,280
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then you don't want bad things to happen to her because they will find her.281
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They will find her in the dark. They'll find her.282
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You know, someday when she takes a tuk-tuk to the mall, they'll find her.283
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And something bad can easily happen to her and also to you, though they can end up at your house.284
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Two or three guys with guns.285
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They just clean you out because she owes them ten or twenty grand.286
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Really common.287
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And you won't even see it going.288
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The drug thing, if they get into drugs, you'll probably know it.289
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They'll start getting skinny and they'll start getting wacky and they'll start hanging around with bad friends and they'll start disappearing for a long period of time.290
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That could be because they got some boyfriends too, you know, stuff like that.291
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OK, so somebody wrote in the weird thing here.292
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I don't know where the hell they're coming from on this.293
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They want to know if Thai girls are clean, quote unquote, there.294
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We know where there is.295
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They must have been talking to somebody who told them some kind of shit.296
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I don't know.297
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Thai girls are the cleanest girls there are.298
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More so than other Southeast Asian girls. Thai girls are the cleanest there, quote unquote.299
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Thai girls virtually never smell bad there.300
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That was a humongous turnoff for me with Ferang Western women.301
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Oh, God, so many of them just can't seem to figure out this hygiene thing.302
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Not all, but way too many.303
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OK, let's not belabor that stupid thing.304
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OK, here's a thing about Thai girls.305
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It might bug you, it might not. Don't know.306
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Southeast Asian girls, all of them, think nothing of prattling on about their periods.307
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It's just open conversation.308
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The dinner, doesn't matter, whatever.309
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Anytime, anywhere, it's a fair game. Open subject.310
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Now, some of us, some Westerners, were raised in an environment where it's not talked about.311
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It's a private, personal thing that a lady takes care of privately and personally.312
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Nobody knows about it, ever.313
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The only time they ever know anything about it is when they see the supplies, you know, in her grocery basket.314
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Other than that, they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything about it.315
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In Nepal, pronounced Nay-pon in Thailand, Nay-pon, I don't know why.316
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Up until just a very few years ago, girls on their periods were made to leave the house until it was over.317
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Sometimes a family had a shed they could go live in.318
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This is Nepal. This is 3,000 degrees below zero.319
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Bigfoot's and Vomitable Snowmen and 29 feet of snow and shit like that.320
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But they got to go live in a shed until their period's over.321
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If they didn't have a shed, they'd live under the house.322
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I mean, no, I'm not bullshitting you. You Google a shed. Do it.323
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I'm not bullshitting you about anything.324
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And so they'd just go live under the porch, under the house, under the porch.325
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People would drop food down there, blankets, shit like that, until it was over.326
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Five, six, seven days.327
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And then they were allowed back in the house. Google it.328
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I mean, really? OK. So, you know, the other side of the coin is that there are plenty of guys who just don't think anything about it at all.329
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They don't care. They talk about it. They'll go buy the supplies.330
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It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.331
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It's just an absolutely open subject to them, just like it is to the girls.332
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So you got different sides of this.333
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But virtually all Southeast Asian girls, for them, it's an open topic.334
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Suitable for any mixed company, for meal time, for in the restaurant. It just doesn't matter.335
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If you are, I mean, I'm not wackadoodle like Naples guys.336
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I'm not like that, but I don't particularly want to hear about it.337
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Why would I want to? For what reason?338
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I mean, if I ever have some kind of weird problem, you know, quote unquote down there, I'm not going to mention it.339
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Why would I? Personal, private. Take care of it.340
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Nobody needs to know. I mean, guys don't have that because we're God's people, you know.341
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But, you know, if it ever happened, I'm not going to fucking bring it up.342
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So that's if you are perfectly open about it, you don't care.343
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Well, you know, there's no need to even listen to this part because you just, you know, it's just normal.344
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Fine for you. If you are one of those guys who either are totally disgustingly creeped out by it or, you know, like me,345
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I'm not totally disgustingly creeped out, but I just don't care to know about it.346
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There's no reason for me to know about it. You know, why?347
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Okay. So then it can be kind of a small point of contention for you in Southeast Asia because virtually all of them,348
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all of them, they're going to talk about it. And the psychology of it is I studied this a little bit, trying to figure out why,349
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why they keep shoving this in your face. And I finally figured it out.350
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Well, I didn't figure it out. Other people figured it out and I discovered it.351
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Okay. It is a sign of trust by opening up to you about this subject and what's going on with their body.352
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They are showing you that they trust you almost completely.353
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They feel they can share anything with you and that makes them feel good, makes them feel warm and fuzzy.354
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You're kind of like a girlfriend to them now on some level. They can just talk to you and they don't have to feel uncomfortable.355
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Okay. It's a nice thing for them. And it's actually a...they're showing you that they're kind of putting you on a pedestal.356
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You are special. You are trustworthy. You are their man. You are their friend.357
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So, you know, when they start talking about this stuff, instead of saying, oh, honey, you know, I don't need to really hear about that,358
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that will insult them. It'll make them feel really bad. When you do that, you're like jerking the friendship rug out from under them.359
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You're jerking the trust out from under them. And it's a bad thing. Don't do it. Even if you don't want to hear about it.360
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Go along with it. Just find a way. Rearrange your brain. Realize that she is showing you almost an ultimate trust.361
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It's a good thing for a relationship. So don't throw that away. Don't kill it. Don't wreck it. Don't insult her.362
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Rearrange your brain. Because they do plenty of rearranging their brains to try to accommodate our stupid shit like our tempers and our bad language.363
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You know, there's some flanks. It costs a lot. You know, those fuckers. I hate them. I hate those guys. Fuck them.364
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I don't ever want to be one. But, you know, if we are one of those guys, they'll do their very best to kind of look at you in the way, you know, they think it's very juvenile.365
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Well, we are. We're eternally juvenile. OK. Oh, man. Monsoons again. Holy crap. OK. Another note.366
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People want to know if they should take a beautiful girl to an expensive restaurant to impress her. No.367
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It's only going to impress one kind of girl. And that's not the kind of girl you want to impress anyway.368
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It's only going to impress the gold digger. She's going to be thinking, oh, my God, let's see. She's a little calculator. She's going to light up in her brain.369
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She's going to be thinking, let's see, he spent this much on this meal.370
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So therefore, how much more can I get out of him for something really stupid? You know, makeup or clothes or something like that.371
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I went with some family people one time. We went to the top of the Labue.372
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The big hotel in Bangkok was in the movie. We had three people.373
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One of the family members paid for it. Food was just mediocre, just mediocre. Top of the list up on the roof deck.374
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Service was four star. And the total bill was about, it was pushing 700 bucks.375
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And nobody was impressed, not even the girl. It's a waste.376
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Take her to a little Thai cafe, a little food stand with seating. And then if you want to show off, get her some shrimp, you know, get her something like that.377
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Let her eat food that she likes, that she's comfortable with in a place she likes. It's going to cost you, you know, 10, 15 bucks.378
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And she's going to be happier than any girl at the top of the Labue hotel.379
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That was the movie. I mean, that was the hotel in that movie with the tiger and the, what the hell was that called? I can't remember.380
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There was like three of them. I think only one of them is worth watching, but it's really worth watching. It was filmed there.381
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It was an okay hotel, super expensive. Food was mediocre. No better than mediocre.382
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Nobody cared. It was a waste. Total waste. Well, no, it wasn't. We learned. We learned not to do it again.383
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Okay. Expensive restaurants. No. Take it off your list. Fuck it. No. No.384
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Okay. You will get girls who, their dream in life, especially Thais, poor Thai girls, their biggest dream in life is to have titties because they mostly don't have any.385
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For a lot of guys like me, just don't care at all. It's a, it's a no point. It means nothing. It means less than nothing to me, big or small. I don't care.386
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I only don't like them big and sloppy and nasty looking. But the girls, of course, they want titties. You know, guys want big cocks, girls want big titties. Okay.387
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The guys can't get big cocks if they don't have them already, but the girls can get big titties for not a lot of money.388
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First of all, if she's bugging you for that, it's not a girl you want to have around. If she mentions it in passing sometime, she's kind of letting you know what's on her Christmas list, but not really asking for it.389
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You know, she'll mention it like one time and never mention it again. Then, okay, that's, you know, not that you want to get them for her, but that doesn't take her out of the running.390
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If she's harping on it, you know, once a month, oh, I wish I had titties. Oh, my titties are so terrible. Oh God, whatever will I do? Just help her pack, get her gone, because she only wants things like that from you.391
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Then once you get the titties, it's going to be another thing and another thing and another thing and another thing and pretty soon a motorbike and then a car and then a condo and then a bank account and then it's just going to, it's not going to end.392
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De-ver. De-ver. Trust me. If she's bugging you for titties, say, well, you know, you're going to have to go find somebody who can give you titties because they're, that's too expensive for me or whatever, you know.393
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And she'll probably shut up about for a while, but sooner or later, it'll come up again because that's, you know, kind of like at the forefront of her tiny reptilian brain.394
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Thing is, chances are extremely high that you're not going to stay with this girl or any other, especially if she is bugging you for titties, it's not going to work.395
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Okay. So I know a lot of guys, oh God, I can't count the number of guys who've done this. They go buy them titties.396
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Maybe 80,000 bots, something like that. Let's see how many dollars I can remember.397
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Let's see, 10,000 bots is about $300. So times eight, you know, whatever.398
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The cheap, you get the cheap guys in Bangkok and a lot of times they'll, the girl ends up dead. You pay a lot of money, like 120,000 bots.399
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It probably all gone up by now. So, you know, chances are much higher she's going to live. Okay. Anyway.400
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I was going somewhere with that, God bless it. Kelly Bundy.401
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We'd be mates. Oh yeah. Okay. The chances are exceedingly high, like up around 99.999999.402
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:34,000
How many nines do you want? Percent. That you're not going to stay with this girl very long.403
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:42,000
And if she's pestering you for titties, it's pretty much 100%. You're not going to stay with her. Other things are going to crop up.404
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:51,000
So you bought her the titties. You paid a lot of money. You went through the three or four months of care, all the bullshit.405
00:42:51,000 --> 00:43:08,000
Now she's got big, beautiful titties. And now instead of 300 guys a day hitting on her, she's got 1500 guys a day hitting on her.406
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:20,000
And she just can't wait to try these titties out on a new guy who will really appreciate them because maybe you don't.407
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:28,000
Does wanting big titties and having big titties mean she's a slut?408
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Not automatically.409
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:41,000
But it's a huge factor pointing that direction. I mean, girls want big titties for themselves, yes.410
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:48,000
But they want big titties for guys, too. It's to interest guys.411
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:53,000
Well, if she's committed to you, why does she... and you're happy with her titties, why does she need other titties?412
00:43:53,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Well, for me, I want them for me. I want to feel good about myself. Well, okay.413
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:09,000
You really want them, you know, get a job. Save it up.414
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:17,000
I've had a few girlfriends that I... I was stupid and naive and I thought, man, this is the girl for life.415
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:24,000
Maybe, possibly, very, very well could be. And she just wants these titties and she would make her really, really happy if I bought the titties for her.416
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,000
And she'd be like, oh, God, she'd love me more. She'd love me more.417
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:33,000
And I almost did it a few times, maybe two or three times, I thought, kind of semi-seriously about it.418
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:39,000
And then I came to my senses. Usually, I'm really slow to make decisions like that, which is a good thing.419
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:49,000
And so during the time that I was waffling, waffling, waffling about it, more and more of her character would start coming out.420
00:44:49,000 --> 00:45:00,000
And I would see, oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Now I'm seeing the bigger picture about this girl. Okay.421
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,000
The other thing is you buy her the most gorgeous titties on the face of the earth.422
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:11,000
And then she runs off with another guy and then he gets to enjoy them, you know, at your expense.423
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,000
So forget the big titties. Just don't do it. Just don't do it.424
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:22,000
You know, you've been married for five years. Hell, even then, they fuck you over even then.425
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:35,000
So I just got to say no to big titties. I don't see any upside to them except in the very short term.426
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:43,000
And that's not enough to justify the cost and the risk to her life and her health.427
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:49,000
No, just just say no.428
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,000
Girls like that will pretty soon start bugging you for especially if you get them the titties.429
00:45:53,000 --> 00:46:03,000
Then it just opens a floodgates. Pretty soon they want a motorbike and then a car and then a condo and then some land and then the business.430
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,000
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.431
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:12,000
I've had a number of girls that wanted to have a business and they wanted me to give them, you know, a huge amount of money.432
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:19,000
They can go take some class and they would buy into a franchise for some business, you know,433
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:31,000
and I would tell them every business I ever started in has been a shitload of them through my life, most of which have been successful.434
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000
I did it a dollar at a time.435
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:45,000
I started with nothing and I figured out a way to make some product or provide some service and I would do it on a teensy tiny little scale.436
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,000
And I'd make a little money. And I think, well, OK, then that worked OK.437
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:55,000
And I take that money and best back in and make a better product or a better service.438
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000
And then I make more money. And I went like that.439
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:02,000
And then when I was all done, maybe if I wanted to sell that business, it's just mine.440
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,000
I own it. I never going to make payments on it.441
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:11,000
I don't have to answer to anybody in some franchise structure.442
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:18,000
My wife did that and it drove her crazy.443
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Don't buy our business. Don't do it.444
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,000
It's the same principle as for the Tudys.445
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,000
Don't buy our condo. Don't buy our land.446
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,000
Don't buy our business.447
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,000
Help her start something.448
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:41,000
If you really think, you know, so you're investing your time and your expertise and your knowledge.449
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,000
She's got to want it bad enough to do it.450
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:52,000
She's got to do the grunt work on her own, because if it's just handed to her, she's going to squander it.451
00:47:52,000 --> 00:48:03,000
I see virtually every single Thai girl or any Southeast Asian girl who is handed a business or something like that.452
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:09,000
They squander virtually every single one of them.453
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,000
You come back to me five years after you've been in Southeast Asia for five years and tell me that didn't happen to you.454
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:20,000
You won't be able to unless you're really, really smart and you're following this advice.455
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:30,000
And if she starts asking you for money, flat out for money.456
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,000
Think about trading up.457
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,000
That's a little bit of a tricky issue.458
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:54,000
If you want them to come and stay with you, either they got to go to work and get their own pocket change or you have to give them pocket change.459
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,000
And it's up to you. It's hard.460
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:02,000
If they've got a job and they're gone working all day.461
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:09,000
And you're alone and you don't like that, that can be hard.462
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,000
But it can also be good because it gives you a break from them.463
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:17,000
A relationship can last one hell of a lot longer if you get time apart.464
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,000
You'll be a hell of a lot happier and a hell of a lot more stable.465
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:27,000
So most guys will just give them an allowance.466
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:40,000
I did from time to time. I gave them small amounts or large amounts or whatever, you know, depending on what my thinking was for that girl at that time.467
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:46,000
They were pretty happy when they got an allowance.468
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:54,000
All of them were happy when they got allowance. They could stay home, get on your nerves, start bickering.469
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:58,000
That's kind of, you know, part of the balance scale.470
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,000
That's what's going to happen if they're around 24-7.471
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:08,000
You know, every time you go to open a cupboard, she's right there opening it first.472
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:13,000
You want to go open the fridge and get some milk? Well, she's already there getting the milk.473
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:18,000
You got to wait. You know, people just have a way of getting on each other's nerves.474
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,000
It's just a human thing.475
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:28,000
So if you're giving her an allowance and she's home all day every day, it can lead to the downfall of the relationship.476
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:32,000
It can, really. And that's true of Western girls also.477
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:43,000
It just so happens that in Southeast Asia, what they consider as a big allowance is usually pennies to you.478
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:48,000
I used to canvas guys. Every following that I met, I wanted to know this.479
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:59,000
So I would ask them, I would say, do you personally know anyone who is really happy with their Thai girlfriend slash wife?480
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:07,000
And in 10 years, I think I heard of perhaps two guys.481
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:13,000
One was iffy. The other one was totally happy.482
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:24,000
If her family starts asking you for money, get that shit stopped right immediately.483
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:29,000
Get it stopped. Tell her, have a talk with them. It's not proper for them to ask you for money.484
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:34,000
If you feel like giving it to them, up to you, if you think it's going to do any good.485
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:46,000
I know a lot of guys who got sort of shamed into giving the family a shitload of money, sometimes 50 or 100 thousand dollars.486
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:52,000
And they become the big family in the village. Oh my God. Oh, they're high.487
00:51:52,000 --> 00:52:00,000
So now the biggest house, you know, the fattest buffalo and on and on and on.488
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:09,000
And then right about that time, you find out she's fucking some other guy and that's that and all that money's gone.489
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:18,000
With Thai girls, especially infidelity is God, it's very nearly guaranteed.490
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:34,000
Thai girls, girls raised Christian, at least to get this tiny little seed in the back of their mind. If they cheat on their husband, oh my, maybe they'll go to hell and burn for all eternity.491
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:39,000
OK, in Buddhism, you do a bad thing.492
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:47,000
Well, it's your sister karma, you know, if you want to try to negate the bad karma, then you got to do a positive thing.493
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:53,000
OK, a common favorite thing in Thailand to do, let's say you fucked your husband's friend.494
00:52:53,000 --> 00:53:02,000
OK, that's a bad thing. You don't have to carry that guilt around. You just go do a positive thing for somebody.495
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:10,000
So a really common thing is you go to the nearest temple and you say, I want to make merit, not you the girl.496
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:18,000
And they know what she's there for. She did a bad thing and she's trying to keep from being punished karmically.497
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:26,000
So they will give her some brushes and some buckets and some soap and tell her to go scrub latrines.498
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:31,000
So she'll do that, you know, halfheartedly for supposed to do it for three days.499
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:35,000
She'll do it for half a day and then come back for an hour on the second day. And then that's that.500
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:43,000
And then her conscience is clear because she has made merit and she's absolved now from any guilt.501
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:56,000
And we'll probably go into that more later, but they don't have the same sense of morality or guilt or anything that Western women do.502
00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:05,000
They just don't feel bad about it. They just don't. An awful lot of stuff they don't feel bad about at all.503
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:12,000
It's almost like that little part of that prefrontal cortex is missing.504
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:23,000
OK, family ask for money. It's a terrible thing. Stop it. If it keeps up, if it continues, I'd say get rid of her just for that.505
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:35,000
Either sever contacts with the family between you and them, not between her and them.506
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:42,000
Or get rid of her, sever contacts with her, because if she can't control the family,507
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:49,000
it's a descending spiral and it's just going to get worse and worse and worse.508
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:54,000
They're never going to stop and they're going to start bad mouthing you to the village.509
00:54:54,000 --> 00:55:04,000
And they're going to start bad mouthing you to her because you won't support the village family.510
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:10,000
Family wants to come and live with you. Oh, God Almighty.511
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:17,000
I told you that one girl I had to let her go because I couldn't tolerate two raccoons in the house. She was two raccoons put together.512
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:25,000
A Thai family coming into your home is 70 raccoons. You'll kill yourself.513
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:30,000
You'll kill them or you'll kill yourself. It can't be done.514
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:37,000
Some guys with a lot of money, they'll custom build a house. It's two houses, like a duplex, but there's a door in the middle.515
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:43,000
And she's got her own kitchen. She's got everything. Probably not her own bedroom, but her own kitchen and family room and stuff like that.516
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:51,000
She can do whatever the hell she wants over there. She can cook her stinky food, stinky little fishes, you know, anything like that.517
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:56,000
And it's not going to bother you.518
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:12,000
Okay, guys ask me, they have heard that Thai girls, Southeast Asian girls never turn you down for sex. Is that true?519
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:23,000
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. I don't understand it.520
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:30,000
It's one of two things. Either they're the horniest creatures on earth.521
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:39,000
Or the parents have taught them if you refuse your man ever one time, he's going to dump you.522
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:47,000
And they're terrified of that. So it's one of those two things. And I never totally figured out which one.523
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:55,000
Certainly, there's going to be a lot of times when she just doesn't feel like it. That's a human being.524
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:04,000
But she'll say yes, every single time. Now, personally, I don't want a girl who doesn't feel like it.525
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:12,000
I have a tendency to wait until they let me know.526
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:22,000
Or if I go hit on them, it's very gentle. It's like, hey, we'll feel here. If it's returned, okay. If it's not, done.527
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:26,000
Next time, tomorrow, tonight, whatever.528
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:33,000
I do not want a girl who feels obligated to have sex with me. I don't want that ever one time in my life. I don't want it.529
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,000
That is just disgusting. That's creepy and disgusting.530
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:44,000
But yeah, there's lots of guys who they've got this notion that if they're supporting the girl, she has this part of her duty.531
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:50,000
You know, this is her job. And some girls feel that way too.532
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:54,000
It must be terrible for them if they really, really, really don't feel like it. But they just do it anyway.533
00:57:54,000 --> 00:58:06,000
That must be just nasty. It must be really uncomfortable and just nasty. But a lot of guys will just take advantage of that.534
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:12,000
Ritz. The girl better be ready to put out any given moment.535
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:17,000
And if she doesn't, well, there's a hundred more out there.536
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:29,000
Oh, God. I said that Thai girls, especially one of their number one problems was they were unfaithful. And that's absolutely true.537
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:36,000
Their libidos are stunningly high.538
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:45,000
I had, God, I don't know, probably 60, 70 percent of my girlfriends wanted sex.539
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:57,000
Bare minimum twice a day, three times pretty much OK. Four times that was OK.540
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:10,000
And as I get older, that got to be a problem. If you can't keep up, they're just going to start looking around541
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:15,000
because there are plenty of other filings out there who will take care of it for them.542
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:21,000
If you think they're sneaking around, you know, in the US, maybe get a hold of their phone when it hasn't turned off yet.543
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:27,000
Start going through the messages. You can't do that. But you can do it in Thai. It's just difficult.544
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:34,000
You've got to have a translator that will take a picture of an image and then translate it, translate the text on the image, see who they're talking to.545
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:41,000
It's really difficult to do it. And it's sneaky.546
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:47,000
It could be argued that if you can't trust them that much, then you can't trust them at all. Get them gone, get another one.547
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:57,000
Well, OK, that's a nice ideal. But Southeast Asia, you can't trust them. Period. You may not ever find one you can trust.548
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:09,000
Well, can you trust a Western woman? No. No. You think you can. You can't.549
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:15,000
And that was a hard, hard thing for me to learn.550
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:20,000
Before I got married, I was a busy, busy boy and I had a lot of experience.551
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:35,000
And then after I lost her, I was in Southeast Asia and I got more experience than, God, I don't know, probably more experience than any hundred Western men.552
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:44,000
And I just learned shit. I'll tell you stories about that later.553
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:57,000
Is it immoral to check up on her? No. I don't believe so anymore. I used to think so. I used to think, you know, that would be a horrible lowdown sneaky thing to do, asshole.554
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:09,000
I don't think that anymore. If you think something's going on, you know, try to mitigate the pain it's going to bring you and find out sooner rather than later. Just find out.555
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:17,000
If she is, then she's gone. No talking about it. No sorrys. No nothing. Just gone.556
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:25,000
At that instant, when you find out, you help her to the door. You say, wait outside a few minutes. I'm going to bring your stuff out.557
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:33,000
And you don't ever come back here. In a condo, it's nice because they have security and you go down and you tell the desk, I used to...558
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:39,000
Sounds really bad. I used to print pictures of them taken down to the desk to the guards and say, this one.559
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:43,000
But I cannot come in.560
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:47,000
And they'd laugh and they'd pin it up. Okay. Okay.561
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:53,000
They were used to it from all the other guys.562
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:58,000
Put a tracker on her motorbike? Sure. Do it.563
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:03,000
My thinking has changed so much in the last 10, 11 years.564
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:08,000
I would have never dreamed that on any other girlfriend or my wife or anybody. I never would have.565
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:12,000
God, what kind of a sleazeball does something like that?566
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:17,000
And then I just learned. I just learned. Do it.567
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:24,000
Just do it. Put a tracker on her person. I don't care. Do it. Find out.568
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:31,000
Okay. Life in the provinces. What the hell? Is that just a note? What the hell is that about?569
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:34,000
It says life in the provinces.570
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:41,000
Okay. If you come to a city, Bangkok, whatever, and you meet a girl, they all come from the province.571
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:46,000
Almost all of them come from a province somewhere in the middle of nowhere, figuring jungle.572
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:50,000
And they all dream of going back.573
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:57,000
Because life was simple and life was peaceful and they had a lot of friends and that's more of their culture back there and stuff like that.574
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:03,000
Life was easy. So they want to go back and they want to talk you into going back.575
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:09,000
And I've done it.576
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:15,000
Good God. I've lived in Whoville and the Shire.577
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:20,000
What the hell?578
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,000
They have the charms.579
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:29,000
You got to be a special kind of person to do that.580
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:36,000
Chances are if you had enough of a sense of adventure to break out of the matrix and come to Southeast Asia,581
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:48,000
your sense of adventure is going to be too strong for you to live out your life in the province somewhere in a little cabin in the jungle.582
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:55,000
Some guys do it. Some guys do. Not too many. It usually drives you crazy.583
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:01,000
Crazy. I've tried it up in Northern Thailand.584
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,000
Oh God.585
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:09,000
It wasn't horrible, but it was, well it was the Shire.586
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:15,000
You know, Whoville, the Shire, that's what it is.587
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:19,000
I burned out.588
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:27,000
And that's disappointing to them. They don't want to go back to the city. They'd like it in the Shire.589
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:32,000
So it's a point of conflict.590
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:36,000
And some guys figure out a way to get through it and some guys don't.591
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:44,000
With your mate. That's why I keep telling you from the very beginning, you know, go get your anti-testosterone shots before you even get here.592
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:51,000
Such that you don't even remotely desire female companionship.593
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,000
Your life is going to be vastly better.594
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:59,000
You have a far higher quality of life. I mean it.595
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:03,000
All the girls are just shooting arrows at me.596
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,000
Whatever.597
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,000
Whatever, baby.598
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:16,000
If you weren't so damn hard to get along with, guys wouldn't be leaving you all the time.599
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,000
There's a note here that just says snakes.600
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,000
What the fuck? Yeah, they're snakes.601
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:27,000
There's so many snakes you can't comprehend. Even in downtown Bangkok, I do not recommend602
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:33,000
walking around603
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:34,000
hardly anywhere.604
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:38,000
Downtown Bangkok after dark. After sunset.605
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,000
I don't recommend it. I did it endlessly.606
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:46,000
Endlessly. Up and down. Dark little soys, cameras. Shit.607
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,000
I don't recommend it.608
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:53,000
Thailand is the snakiest place I ever lived.609
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:59,000
Maybe they're snake-ier places. I don't know. But snakiest place I ever was. And they are...610
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:04,000
Jesus, they're as common as grass. They're as common as blades of grass.611
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,000
Really.612
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:12,000
When I first got to Thailand, I had this girlfriend and we'd be on a bus going somewhere.613
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:17,000
And I would look off into some, you know, two-acre little grassy place with a little bit of water.614
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:21,000
I would just jokingly say, hey, I think there's snakes in there.615
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:25,000
And she'd just look at me like, well, you're kind of a dumb son of a bitch, aren't you?616
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:29,000
Well, yeah, there's snakes in there. Yeah. And I was like, oh, she's just trying to scare me.617
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:34,000
Oh, Jesus Christ.618
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:39,000
Oh, God. Oh, God.619
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:43,000
You cannot comprehend the number of snakes. And they're in downtown Bangkok.620
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:47,000
And they're living in the sewers and under the sidewalks. And they go up through the cracks621
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:52,000
and bite you in the nighttime. It's dangerous. It's dangerous.622
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:57,000
Oh, God. Oh, God.623
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:02,000
I was walking... I had this route that I used to walk from my little condo to some place.624
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:07,000
Some... Oh, it's a restaurant. And it was two thirds of a mile, something like that.625
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:12,000
Maybe half a mile I'd walk this little route. And then it was, you know, in the city.626
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:17,000
Normal city environment.627
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:22,000
And one night I'm walking by and there's a big crowd there.628
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:27,000
And everybody's rooting around under a car, this parked car.629
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:32,000
And I stopped and I watched and finally they pulled up,630
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:37,000
I don't know, maybe 16 foot constrictor or something.631
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:42,000
He'd been just sleeping under the car because the car had parked there and it was warm under the car and he slept there.632
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:47,000
Constrictors are about as dangerous as633
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:52,000
a venomous snake because they will wait for you.634
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:57,000
The poisonous snake will nail you. And then he backs off to see if you're going to die.635
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:02,000
The constrictor will wait for you.636
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:07,000
He nails you and back off. He stays clamped on.637
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:12,000
Wherever he got a good hold, he's clamped on and then look at the split638
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:17,000
and that lightning speed he has wrapped around you and he's squeezing your guts out.639
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:22,000
And he doesn't let go with his mouth or with his body.640
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:27,000
And you might not have had time to yelp so you can be641
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:32,000
30 feet from business642
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:37,000
and he gets you walking by a parked car and he gets you in the dark.643
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:42,000
You don't have time to yelp and he's got you half way into the car644
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:47,000
and nobody even sees you. And he just wraps you up, suffocates you,645
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:52,000
swallows you.646
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:57,000
Maybe later somebody will see this big old fat snake, you know, slithering off647
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:02,000
towards the jungle or maybe nobody will see him. If it's the middle of the night, he might just slither off.648
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:07,000
And they're plenty big enough to swallow a human whole. They do it all the time.649
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:12,000
So, still want to go to Southeast Asia. I'm definitely afraid of them. I hate them.650
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:17,000
I used to ride rustler patrol for a big ranch. So I was on horses all day,651
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:22,000
every day, almost 24 hours a day.652
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:27,000
And I declared war on them because one of them bit my horse one day.653
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:32,000
And I wore out three guns killing him. Thousands and thousands of rattlesnakes,654
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:37,000
thousands and thousands. I thought over a period of a year or two I would655
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:42,000
reduce the numbers in that area so that they weren't such a big problem. No, it didn't reduce anything at all.656
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:47,000
I was reducing by one millionth of one percent.657
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:52,000
But that's how much I hated them. And I knew they were in Southeast Asia.658
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:57,000
I didn't know they were in fucking Bangkok, though. I didn't know that. And I learned.659
01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:02,000
You got a little motorbike, okay, you take it to the restaurant, you park it.660
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:07,000
It's kind of warmish. You go in, you eat for an hour, hour and a half. You come out,661
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:12,000
you get in the motorbike, start it up. You're going off down the boulevard and662
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:17,000
something catches your eye and you look down, there's a fucking snake.663
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:22,000
The engine is getting too warm and he's looking for a way out. So he's hanging out there a foot664
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:27,000
right by your head, right by your knee.665
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:32,000
And he's looking for a way to get away, maybe looking for something to bite. He's pissed off.666
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:37,000
Okay, people just nail the brakes. They fall down in the street.667
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:42,000
And Thailand has snake experts everywhere.668
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:47,000
And the government is really good at sending those turkeys out, post haste.669
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:52,000
And they'll show up within minutes. Well, not always.670
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:57,000
I moved into a house one time and the hole under the house was just chocked full of671
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:02,000
Malayan pit vipers. Really nasty bastards. You can Google them. Malayan pit672
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:07,000
vipers. I don't know how many were under there, but they were just everywhere.673
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:12,000
And it was quite a process. We never could kill them all.674
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:17,000
The government came and sprayed under the house, poisoned and all kinds of shit.675
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:22,000
Killed some probably, but they were still coming out, coming out, coming out. And we had to concrete676
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:27,000
over. We had to go all the way around the house and concrete over any gaps in the pad.677
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:32,000
We had to dig a trench all the way around the house and then fill it with concrete678
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:37,000
and then build it up to seal that pad.679
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:42,000
It had to be deep enough that they couldn't tunnel out under it.680
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:47,000
And we never saw one come from under the house again. We saw lots of others up and down our alley681
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:52,000
and in our parking space. We never found any place that they got out from under there. So however many were682
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:57,000
still under there, they died under there. Starved to death probably.683
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:01,000
They're a big problem. Got there everywhere.684
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:06,000
I don't know anybody who has never run into a cobra in the685
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:11,000
garden. Everybody does. They're in the gardens. They're looking for the little686
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:16,000
field mice and shit that are feeding on your vegetables. They're on the beaches.687
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:21,000
If you like them, fine.688
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:26,000
Some people do. They like to go out. What's that word for it? There's a word for people who go out689
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:31,000
snake hunting and they like pictures and they like to look at them. Ooh, ah, yeah.690
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:36,000
Whatever.691
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:41,000
Up to you that I don't like them. I got no use for them in my life and692
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:46,000
chances are at least 50-50 you feel the same way.693
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:51,000
So think about that before you're going to Thailand.694
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:56,000
What are we doing for time? Oh, we're doing okay.695
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:01,000
Snakes are everywhere. That's all there is to it. They have anti-venom for696
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:06,000
some, maybe a lot. They don't have anti-venom for some others.697
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:11,000
In pit vipers, you've got to calculate it down to698
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:16,000
17 minutes or 19 minutes or something. You've got that amount of time from when you get699
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:21,000
bit to the time you get in. Everybody has the anti-venom so you don't700
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:26,000
have to go far, a mile or two or three, unless you're way out somewhere.701
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:31,000
Then you're probably going to die. They're nasty because they'll chop onto you702
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:36,000
and they don't let go. They just chew and chew and chew and they're injecting, injecting, injecting, injecting and they don't stop.703
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:41,000
They have a fair amount of trouble with snakes704
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:46,000
coming up through toilets because the sewer systems are crap.705
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:51,000
They just lead out of the building706
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:56,000
and into open sewers. Where else would a snake want to go?707
01:13:56,000 --> 01:14:01,000
Up dark holes looking for mice and shit. That's what they do.708
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:06,000
They'll come up your toilet and you're sitting on the toilet.709
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:11,000
People have been nailed in every possible way there is to be nailed sitting on the toilet.710
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:16,000
There are special valves you can get for toilets. You've got to pull the toilet off.711
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:21,000
Off the floor. You put this special valve in. The water and the poop and everything712
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:26,000
can go out, but snakes can't come in. It's a check valve. It's a spring loaded thing.713
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:31,000
They have a tendency to plug up and stuff and they're a problem.714
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:36,000
Now I mostly715
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:41,000
just stay in tall condos. Although my neighbor is three doors down, they could have a snake.716
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:46,000
He gets into their toilet, comes into my toilet. You don't know.717
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:51,000
You don't know about that. Next time you're squatting down.718
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:56,000
I don't know how you safeguard against that.719
01:14:56,000 --> 01:15:01,000
I don't see any way to really. You're just playing Russian roulette.720
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:06,000
You're playing snake Russian roulette. Bugs and centipedes and other creepy things.721
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:11,000
I had this barber.722
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:16,000
He had a chair. He had a barber chair in the middle of a chicken field.723
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:21,000
Just lousy with chickens and rabbits and cats.724
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:26,000
His barber chair was out there. He had a little tarp hung over it725
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:31,000
for the rain. He was the best barber on earth and he charged me like726
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:36,000
$3 to $2.60.727
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:41,000
For the best haircuts I ever got in my life.728
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:46,000
I went to him for years and years and years and years. I loved that guy.729
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:51,000
One time I went in on my motorbike and I set my helmet down730
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:56,000
on a log thing that he had sitting there. I got my haircut.731
01:15:56,000 --> 01:16:01,000
Got done. Put the helmet on. Cup and crud.732
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:06,000
See you later. Bye bye. Growed away. I got about 3 quarters of a mile away.733
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:11,000
On a little windy, really narrow, two lane734
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:16,000
soy thing through the jungle. And kabam! I got this fucking bolt of735
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:21,000
lightning in. Let's see. It was right behind736
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:26,000
my ear. Right behind my upper ear.737
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:31,000
I thought it was a bee. And it really nailed me.738
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:36,000
I thought it was some kind of African killer fucking bee.739
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:41,000
Oh Jesus God! Christ! What the hell!740
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:46,000
It hurt so much that I swerved over into the oncoming lane. There was a pickup coming.741
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:51,000
He almost took me out. I mean a foot. And I finally got over742
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:56,000
to my side of the road, which is the left hand side of the road, and dumped the motorbike in the ditch743
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:01,000
and jumping around, jumping around. I couldn't get the helmet to release. And while I was trying744
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:06,000
BAM! I got nailed again down about where my earlobe was745
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:11,000
only on my neck. So it was lower down. What in the hell746
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:16,000
is this? And I finally got that thing off. Threw it down in the grass.747
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:21,000
And there was this huge centipede. He had gone up into my helmet748
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:26,000
and he didn't like going for the motorcycle ride. And he just started biting me.749
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:31,000
Oh Jesus! It was one of the ones that are really nasty. And they750
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:36,000
have killed people who are really sensitive to them. I don't know if this guy, this gave me751
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:41,000
dry bites, or I had some immunity to him, or what. I've got a picture of him somewhere.752
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:46,000
Son of a bitch!753
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:51,000
They're everywhere. They're everywhere. Every kind of spider, every kind of creepy754
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:56,000
crawly. They're not so bad in the condos. The higher you go up, the less755
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:01,000
trouble you're going to have. Out in the province, in a house in the jungle.756
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:06,000
It's going to be continuous. It's just going to be continuous biting. I know people who have moved757
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:11,000
out of houses because they were overrun with snakes and they couldn't keep them out. They go around758
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:16,000
hermetically sealed that home. Cocked it. Patched everything.759
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:21,000
Everything there was. It was hermetically sealed and they still got in.760
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:26,000
One guy had something like nine Malayan pit761
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:31,000
vipers come in in one week. And he was begging people to come762
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:36,000
and look at his house and try to help him figure out how they were getting in because he couldn't figure it out.763
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:41,000
Everybody had a theory how they were getting in. He said, nope, nope, it's not that, it's not that, it's not that.764
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:46,000
And he moved. He had three little kids. They had moved. They didn't have any choice.765
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:51,000
Okay, so another note here. They got another one about snakes766
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:56,000
in Bangkok. Okay, we already covered that.767
01:18:56,000 --> 01:19:01,000
Oh, they got crocs and gators. Well, they got one or the other. I can't remember which is which.768
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:06,000
I took a girl in a769
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:11,000
peddle swan boat one time in a slew thing770
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:16,000
in a recreational area. And it was all771
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:21,000
jungle-y and little islands and this and that and stuff like that.772
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:26,000
We were peddling around, peddling around, hotter than hell.773
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:31,000
And I wanted to go over and look at this little island thing because there was a little bit of a beach there. And I thought, oh, maybe we can get out of the swan.774
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:36,000
Sit on that little beach thing for a while. And as I got closer775
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:41,000
to that beach thing, she's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.776
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:46,000
And she is just panicking. She said, you don't go there, don't go there, don't go there because there might be777
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:51,000
whatever gators. Crocs are saltwater, right? Gators are freshwater, pretty sure.778
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:56,000
So it would have been a gator that she was worried about.779
01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:01,000
And I'm like, well, I don't think so. You know, this is a popular recreation area.780
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:06,000
I don't think they have gators here. Oh, yes, they do. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. She had grown up around there.781
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:11,000
And I finally backed off.782
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:16,000
I got no closer than 15 feet from the little beach thing. And she was just terrified.783
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:21,000
She was terrified that if we got up there, one would be in the little jungle, a little ways up on the bank,784
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:26,000
and he would like leap into the boat and we'd die.785
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:31,000
So listen to the natives, really.786
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:36,000
Crocs and gators. Jesus.787
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:41,000
Elephants. Some areas, there's wild elephants everywhere that will kill you.788
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:46,000
You see them on the highway. Don't try to pass them.789
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:51,000
Don't just stop as early as you can, as far back as you possibly possibly can.790
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:56,000
Wait to see what they're going to do. Make sure if they decide to charge you,791
01:20:56,000 --> 01:21:01,000
you've got more than enough time to turn around and right away they can't run, they cannot run a motorbike.792
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:06,000
But you've got to have time to turn around.793
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:11,000
Some guys will think, well, they're over on the edge, you know, on the shoulder. I can go over to the other side, go by really, really fast.794
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:16,000
No, they'll see you coming. They'll head you off and they'll kill you.795
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:21,000
Some of them are pretty nasty. They kill a lot of farmers every year.796
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:26,000
They love farmers' crops. And so they sneak in, they break down the fence or whatever, and they sneak in.797
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:31,000
No, they don't sneak in. They come in and they start eating all the whatever.798
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:36,000
And the farmer's pissed and he runs out there and he's trying to chase them off. And they just say, no, fuck you.799
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:41,000
What are you talking about? This ain't your vegetables. This is ours.800
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:46,000
They'll kill a farmer all the time.801
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:51,000
Okay, monkeys. Monkeys are everywhere. No, they're not everywhere.802
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:56,000
Where I lived a lot of the time, it was lousy with monkeys.803
01:21:56,000 --> 01:22:03,000
You go to... I'll tell monkey stories later because there's a lot of monkey stories.804
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:08,000
Shoes. We already talked about shoes.805
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:13,000
Don't take lace-up shoes there. The most lacy things you ever want are Velcro straps.806
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:18,000
You don't want anything more involved than that.807
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:23,000
What happened here? Did we have a malfunction? No.808
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:28,000
Thank you, Windows.809
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:33,000
Okay, shoes. We covered that. We covered that enough.810
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:38,000
Sandals or pushpuppies, something like that, because you're going to have them on and off.811
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:43,000
Driving. They used to say they were second or third most dangerous in the world.812
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:48,000
Then independent investigators came in, went through the books.813
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:53,000
The Thai government had been cooking the books. Lion. It's called lying.814
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:58,000
And turned out they're the number one most dangerous place in the world to drive.815
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:03,000
I don't know how I lived there. I never had a wreck. Never had anything.816
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:08,000
Never nothing.817
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:13,000
I had ridden, god, I don't know,818
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:18,000
probably pushing a couple hundred thousand miles in the US on motorcycles819
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:23,000
without a problem and really high-end, fast, fast, fast, 200 mile-hour stuff.820
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:28,000
And that probably helped me. I probably had a level of skill.821
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:33,000
But there's many, many, many, many, many times on a motorcycle that skill isn't going to do you a diddly squat.822
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:38,000
It's luck. It's called luck.823
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:43,000
Sitting at a red light, car comes up behind you 30, 40 miles an hour.824
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:48,000
Maybe you don't even hear it coming. Skill is not going to do anything.825
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:53,000
I would always stop well back from the car in front of me so I had a place to go if I saw somebody coming up behind me.826
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I could zoom up between two cars, you know, stuff like that.827
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But you might not see them coming. You might not.828
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:08,000
They might hit a car that's parked behind you829
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and then he comes up and kills you. So it's luck.830
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:18,000
It's part skill and part luck. And I was lucky. That's all it was.831
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:23,000
Just dumb luck that I lived through all those miles in Thailand.832
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:28,000
Thai drivers are crazy.833
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:33,000
Really crazy.834
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:38,000
They're crazy.835
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:43,000
There aren't really any patrols, police patrols.836
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:48,000
They get you with roadblocks and they get you with cameras. That's the big thing.837
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The driving one I'm going to leave here for now too838
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:58,000
because I've got a number of stories about that and we're almost out of time on this one.839
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I'm going to try to keep them a little shorter. Health insurance, we'll do that later.840
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:08,000
And then there's one big question down here at the bottom and we're going to do that one later also.841
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:13,000
So let's go ahead and wrap this up. We'll keep this a little bit shorter so it's a little easier to render.842
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We're at an hour and 25, 26 now.843
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:23,000
Let's see.844
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:28,000
The first 10 are getting routed to the RSS feeds.845
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:33,000
You can see them get them in the RSS feeds.846
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:38,000
The RSS feeds automatically sent I think the first 10 to YouTube.847
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:43,000
And then we stop that because we don't want a lot going on YouTube because we hate YouTube.848
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:48,000
We've talked about it before. Everybody who puts content on YouTube has trouble849
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:53,000
of every type and description.850
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:58,000
And I don't want to have anything big and established on YouTube for when, not if,851
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:03,000
we have trouble with YouTube because everyone does.852
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:08,000
Unless your grandma is showing people how to knit. That's about all they want on there.853
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:13,000
They don't want anything else because they're insane.854
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:18,000
They're clinically insane. That's all there is to it.855
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:23,000
They're stupid, snowflake, insane people at YouTube.856
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:28,000
So we'll have these 10 on there and then that's all. We won't put any more on there.857
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:33,000
If you want the original contents, you always got to go to StockPhotosWorldwide.com.858
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:38,000
You'll find everything. You'll find all the aliens. You'll find all of this. You'll find all the photographs. You'll find everything is there.859
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:43,000
And it will be there forever.860
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:48,000
We could dump RSS at any time. We could dump YouTube at any time.861
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:53,000
So don't count on those things at all.862
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:58,000
Copyright 2023 by StockPhotosWorldwide.com. If you see these hosted anywhere else on anybody else's site, tell us.863
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:03,000
We'll sue them like we've done in the past.864
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:08,000
We'll send you a third of any settlement we get. A third. That's a promise. That's my contract.865
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:13,000
If I don't do it, sue me for that.866
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:18,000
We'll send you a third of whatever award we get. Can be big, sometimes 10 grand, sometimes even 30 grand.867
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:23,000
Tired of those guys.868
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:28,000
Half of YouTube is made up of illegal, infringed, stolen content.869
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:33,000
YouTube won't do a damn fucking thing about it.870
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:38,000
We lost a trademark because YouTube wouldn't honor our registered, you know, the R with a little circle registered.871
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:43,000
They wouldn't honor that.872
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:48,000
And we lost that trademark and we lost a business from YouTube many years ago.873
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:53,000
Anyway, okay, we're done. Hour and a half.874
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:58,000
Any last minute thoughts? No.875
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:03,000
Okay. Thank you very much and good evening.876
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And good night.