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Good evening from Southeast Asia. This will be podcast episode or volume number 15 of the Southeast Asia Chronicle podcast things.2
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We got so many podcasts going, I can't remember which one is which.3
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I hate the administrative side of this. I wish Lucy the administrator was back, you know, from the dead.4
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And she could just administer everything and I could just talk and talk and talk.5
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OK. All tapes are copyright 2023 by stock photos worldwide.com. You can go there to find all of our original content.6
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Aliens, the good, the bad and ugly, everything. Probing, probing, probing.7
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You can go to they claim dot com to just go for the aliens.8
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You can go to the RSS feeds around the world for everything. Those are uncut. Those are uncensored.9
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The RSS has not yet started to become an old retentive and woke and censoring shit to fit their own agendas.10
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YouTube has. We only have a few things on YouTube.11
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We hate them. God, we hate them. We told that story too many times.12
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I don't know if we'll do anything more with YouTube or not. I just don't even know.13
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I'm so tired of the censorship. We would never ever, ever, not in 10 billion, trillion years, do anything with Facebook.14
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YouTube probably not. But anyway, it's around. It's out there in the world in the ether. You can find all that stuff.15
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OK. In the last tape, 14, this is 15, 14.16
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We talked a lot about girls and relationships in my early days in Thailand.17
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And I did that too so that you could imagine yourself going there, because those kinds of things are exactly precisely precisely what's going to happen to you.18
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If you're a guy. I've mentioned before, there's not much point in ladies going to Thailand.19
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Other countries, yes. Oh, absolutely. Oh, God, yes. Oh, God, yes.20
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Not Thailand. There's no point. I mean, yeah, you can go. You can see the sights. You can go to some temples, eat some food, play with the monkeys,21
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take pictures of some wild elephants and stuff like that. There's no more wild tigers, you know, they eat all of them.22
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There's drugged ones in the little mini zoos. That's not too much fun. You go to some beaches.23
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You know, OK, it's worth doing, but you know, no ladies are going to go to Thailand to live. Hardly any.24
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I know. God, I can all the ones I know of over 10, 11 years and I can count them all on one baby hand.25
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You know, they just don't do it. Thailand is just not a good place for them. But all the other countries, every other country.26
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Yes, absolutely. Yes, you can. You'll love it.27
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OK. Now, I've gotten backlogged with all these questions that come in from previous episodes.28
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I got a huge long list in here that I just sort of haven't addressed and now I'm just going to have to.29
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I have to, I have a little addendum to just about the last story we covered in 14.30
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You know, refresh your memory on that. I'll just sort of summarize it if you know, if you didn't listen to that one.31
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These really should go in order. They really should go in order.32
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Because they make a hell of a lot more sense if they just go in order.33
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Sequentially, I talked about a girl who worked in a bar. Mom had worked in the bar. She grew up in the bar.34
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Mom taught her the bar. She worked there a long time. She was pretty.35
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She was a 10. Yeah, she was a 10. She had a lot of customers. Two, three, even four a day.36
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Big money. Stinking big money. Her price, as I recall, a lot of the girls would go for a thousand bucks.37
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She was $2,500 and she could get it every time. Guys would just pay it.38
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$2,500, that's nothing to a guy coming there. You know, big vacation, that's nothing.39
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He's never been with a girl like that in his life. Never will again.40
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$2,500. Let's see. How much is this? $60, $75.41
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So they just pay, pay, pay. Okay, so while she worked in a bar, she met a filang.42
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And her mother taught her really well how to take down this filang.43
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He was a big old fat engineer from the US. She was 33. He was 65.44
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And he loved, loved, loved her and he married her and built her a big custom sprawling home45
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60 or 80 miles north of where this bar was. Huge. Almost a complex. Like a movie star home.46
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And he would come down whenever he could. Whenever he could get time off of work, he'd come down for a three month tourist visa.47
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Oh, I just didn't get a retirement visa. I don't know what the hell.48
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And anyway, he would stay in the home that he built with his wife.49
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And of course they slept together. Her brother stayed there.50
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She was pretty good about not letting the rest of her family stay there. Just the brother. Just the one brother. He was nice.51
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The filang got along with him really well. They were best buds. They just loved each other.52
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They did everything. They went fishing, they went motorbiking, they went hiking, they went to the movies together.53
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They were best buds, best buds, barbecues, you know.54
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Her brother could speak passable English and it was good. Good life.55
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And we all watched that unfold.56
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And we all knew that when the filang was due to show up, the brother had to move out of the woman's room.57
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Because that's where he slept. In the bed. With the woman.58
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Because that was her husband. Except the filang was her husband. Except the Thai guy was her husband.59
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Wasn't her brother. Okay. So the husband would show up.60
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And, oh honey, I missed you. Oh God.61
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And then when the filang left, the Thai husband moved back into the bedroom.62
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This kind of thing is so common it's just stupid. It's stupidly common.63
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Nobody made any issue out of it because half the other girls in the bar were doing the same kind of goddamn shit.64
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Or if they didn't, they wanted to.65
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Okay. So she was in the bar one night.66
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And she had a new baby. From somebody.67
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Either from the Thai guy or from the filang or from the pool man or...68
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I don't know. She probably didn't know. Or maybe some customer in the bar.69
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She still worked in the bar. Not a lot. But she did.70
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Just to get fucked, I think. She didn't need the money anymore if the filang was taken care of.71
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She just liked to be fucked. By strange guys. Filangs. Preferably.72
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So she'd work in the bar like one, maybe two days a week. Something like that.73
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And then she went home to her complex. Anyway, so she had a baby.74
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I don't know. Three, four, five months old. Something like that. Little baby.75
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And she had him in the bar.76
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And when she went with a customer or somebody else that held the baby, she'd be back in an hour.77
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Okay. Are you listening to this?78
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Because this is going to be your life if you go to that country.79
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Well, it's going to be your life in any Southeast Asian country, but more so in Thailand.80
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But pretty much also in any other Southeast Asian country. This is Southeast Asia. This is how it works.81
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Listen. Imagine yourself in this situation.82
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Because if you get down there, you're going to be in this situation.83
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Okay. So this girl's in the bar one night. She got her baby. And I was in there.84
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I was sitting quite a ways away from her. I could see her across this little area.85
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She was sitting at the bar. I was also at the bar, but in a whole different area.86
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And I had family come to visit.87
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And I took them to this bar for the first time to just show them they wanted to know where you hang out.88
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Well, this is where I hang out.89
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And so they're walking around.90
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I got pretty special treatment in there. And the mamasan took one guy and was showing him around and like this and that.91
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And this guy saw this girl.92
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I swear to God, his jaw dropped open.93
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I didn't know there was girls like that in the world.94
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Who wants a skank like Miss Universe? Oh, fuck that. No, no, no, no, no.95
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I want this one. This is the one.96
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And he just went right over and sat by her. Nobody was sitting by her. He just sat down there talking.97
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She had really good English. And that's usually a pretty accurate indicator of how, well, how many guys they fucked.98
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They don't learn English that well in the universities.99
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So if their English is abnormally good, that's where they got it.100
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OK, so he sat there for seven, eight minutes, I think.101
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And I finally looked up, I saw him over there. I said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, don't be talking to that one.102
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No, no, no, no, no, I'll tell you about her later. You know, I didn't say that. I was too far away.103
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I was watching him and I was thinking that. And she was feeding him some kind of bullshit.104
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I don't know what it was. I don't know what the story was that she fed him.105
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And he's looking at the baby and playing with the baby, you know. She's probably saying, oh, God, I'm hungry.106
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The baby doesn't have milk. You know, I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow because we don't have any.107
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Probably that was the story because she was that much of a master.108
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And I finally got the idea. I better fucking get over there. I got to head this off. Whatever was going on, I got to head this shit off.109
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I was not going to let him crawl off. It was her.110
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And I got there and just as I got there, he's given her this lot of money. American bills.111
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I can't remember how much it was. It was a hundred or two hundred U.S. something like that.112
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I can't remember. A lot of money for a tiger. A lot of money.113
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You know, that was three tricks, probably right there. And he and he just flipped it to her and give her a little pat and had it.114
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The baby said, this is for the baby. You know, now he can have food.115
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And I was I was like two seconds too late to snatch it back from her.116
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You know, what down her bra or some goddamn thing. I couldn't get at it.117
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And I got him out of there, just got him out of there quick as I could.118
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And told him later what she was.119
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So the point is, you go down there, you're going to be that family guy.120
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And you're going to fall for that shit, just like he did.121
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Now, I had been working on it for years, years, telling him all these horror stories about Southeast Asia, Thailand.122
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I had been prepping him because I knew he was coming.123
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And I'm training him, trying to make him cranky, you know, cynical.124
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And that's how well it worked. He popped away two, three hundred bucks there in the space of eight minutes.125
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Now, you guys listening, you chances are very high you don't have anybody telling you this shit.126
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You go to YouTube and you and you listen to the travel logs.127
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Oh, Thailand is pretty, it's beautiful.128
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OK, you're not getting the goddamn story on YouTube because YouTube censors every motherfucking thing.129
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And they cannot tell you the truth on YouTube. All they can say is silly, frilly, fluffy shit.130
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YouTube is nearly fucking worthless because of their censorship attitude.131
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I mean, Facebook, loud the road, YouTube's driving on it.132
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And I don't know what they're thinking. I did a whole podcast about YouTube and this insanity of theirs.133
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It's somewhere. Where is it? It's on the stock photos worldwide.com.134
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I'll make sure it's on this page if it isn't already.135
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Anyway, on the Southeast Asia Chronicle page, I'll make sure it's on there.136
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Probably is already. So.137
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He had been prepped. He had been advised and warned and trained and still.138
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He still did this to one of the skankiest females on the face of the earth.139
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Two, three hundred bucks. He could have just dropped down the drain into the sewer.140
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Would have gotten more enjoyment out of that. I would have.141
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So if you're not trained, if you're not listening, especially close to these tapes142
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and you go down there and you don't have me sitting across the bar watching you, watching every move,143
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you're going to get fucked over so bad you just can't even comprehend it.144
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Because if that's you, this girl's going to take you home.145
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Somewhere, not to her complex, but to some shitty little room she's got somewhere, some little fuck room.146
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And she's going to confess that she had a husband, you know, that he beat her.147
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He tied her up and let the buffalo fuck her, you know, like that.148
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Oh, he's a bad, bad, bad, bad man. Oh, God. And she just, she'll cry.149
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She'll fall into your arms when she's naked.150
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And she'll just cry and cry and cry.151
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And then while she's sobbing, you know, she'll start dry humping you.152
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And you're just in love. You never experienced anything like it in your life.153
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And you're in love. You're in love. You would die. You would kill.154
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You would kill the population of the earth for this girl because you must have her heart.155
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If there's nobody there to, you know, put the hook around your neck and drag you off that stage.156
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I'm just going to keep harping on that all the way through it. And I know it's not working.157
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I know when you, even if you believe all this shit and you get there,158
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it's just going to go out the window, gone. Because this one, you know, you're a judge of human character.159
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You know this one is okay. You know it. Stick your life on it.160
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Well, you are sticking your life on it because they kill a lot of guys in the rooms. They do.161
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And even after they marry them, pretty often they kill them then because they're not getting as much of their bank account as they hoped.162
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And so they just come go run up their ATM cards, get into the bank account somehow.163
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I had one do it. Had one try it. Well, she did. She got a lot of money.164
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And we'll go through that one too. But anyway, so that bad girl, bad story.165
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Bad relative. You know, I. Okay. Now, what did he do? Did he learn?166
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Okay. I'll tell you what happened to him. We went to another bar.167
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It might have been the same night after I told her the truth.168
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Might have been the same night. We went to another bar just a hundred yards away.169
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And that was a big jumping raucous bar full of bar girls. What else? And phalanx.170
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Hot, hot bar girls. And he has a certain look that he likes.171
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And the girl that was the epitome of that vision was there.172
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I mean, never met her before, but his dream came true right there in front of him.173
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Couldn't believe it. You know, that I mean, 30 minutes later, he had a different dream.174
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He's got this dream. Okay. And she was a bartender and they got to talking, you know, she just, they'll just come over to you.175
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Beware of the ones that come over to you. That's the biggest goddamn red. That's a red fucking flare.176
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Shooting out of their ass. Multiple flares shooting out of their ass. And they come over and talk to you.177
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And then just run. You're not believing me. I knew it.178
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I should do a guide service over there. I'd have to charge you so goddamn much because I,179
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it would be so hard on me to watch you guys go through this shit.180
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I'd maybe I'd shoot 10 grand for a week, you know, keep you out of trouble.181
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But still, even then I wouldn't be able to keep you out of trouble because you would fire me and go with the girl anyway.182
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Because we're guys and we can't fucking help it.183
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Most girls in the world, they don't know how fucking stupid we are. But the bar girls know.184
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And they use it. They can retire on it.185
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Okay. So we're in this other bar and I'm just looking around, not talking to anybody.186
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And this girl came over. She's talking, talking, talking. And he's, oh, God, oh, God.187
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Oh, I'm sure glad you got me away from that other girl because this one's even better.188
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Oh, I never believed there could be another one half as good as that. Well, this one's even better.189
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Okay. That was his attitude. I didn't know this girl at all.190
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And that was still in my fairly early years. And so I was still I still held out a teensiest little bit of hope.191
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There might be a good one somewhere. Could be, you know, right when the lotto too.192
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And a meteor might come down right through the roof right now. Right now.193
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And it might go through the top of this computer. It could.194
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How long do you want to wait?195
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I think I hear it coming. I hear it coming.196
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Oh, no, fuck it. Went over to the other house.197
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She's talking and pretty soon she gets him involved in a game of.198
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What do they call it? I'm sorry. Tequila shots.199
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So the girls will set up this whole entire tray, like a big old cafeteria tray with little ounce glasses of tequila.200
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I don't know how many is on there. 50. I don't know.201
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And if you want to see him get drunk and fall down and puke, you give him enough money to keep drinking these tequilas.202
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That's the deal. You give them what they ask and they'll drink them till they fall down.203
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And so he was playing that game with this girl and she was drinking down, down, down.204
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And the crowd is clapping and chanting. And, you know, for me.205
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Probably about six or seven. You know, I'm down in the dirt with my tongue hanging out, ants crawling up there.206
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You know, I'm drunk after three, six or seven. I'm down. I'm down. I'm out.207
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Down for the night. Gone. She got up to like 25.208
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As I recall, you had to pay, depending on how many she could drink, you had to pay more.209
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And so he's just paying, paying, paying. And she let him know, you know, she falls down.210
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He's going to have to help her out because she didn't have any friends there. She's new. She doesn't know anybody.211
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He's going to have to help her to her room. And he's thinking, oh, baby, oh, baby, I take care of you for your whole fucking life.212
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And. And so.213
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I got to be really careful.214
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And so finally, after I don't know, I'm thinking 40, 40 shots.215
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She's not down. You know, she's acting a little, little bit like this. Drunk and buffalos.216
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And. But she's not down.217
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And I don't know what happened to stop it. Somehow it got stopped.218
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Maybe he got tired of paying. I'm not sure.219
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Or maybe she just said, no, I can't drink anymore. I don't know what happened, but it stopped. OK.220
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So. She wanted to see him again.221
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We stayed there for hours.222
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And of course, she sobered up really, really quickly, you know, because it's water. It was just seven up, you know, of course.223
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Welcome to Thailand.224
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And they talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked. And then she wanted to see him the next day.225
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So he came back the next day and then the next day and the next day. I don't know how many days he kept showing up there.226
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And then she was all excited because his.227
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Her her birthday was coming up just in a few days.228
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And she's priming him for this, you know, like.229
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Oh, baby, my new baby.230
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My birthday is coming up and I want to do something really big, really big, really big.231
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And I want it to be with you. You know, he hadn't gone with her or anything like that.232
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She always had an excuse of why she couldn't go that night.233
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And he wouldn't he wouldn't pay for girls. He strictly, positively would not pay for a girl ever wouldn't give him a dollar.234
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So if she would have said, hey, you want me, we can go, you know, about fifteen or about, you know,235
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that would have been the end of it. I think she sensed that or maybe she told her that he was he was pretty.236
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Blunt about just telling him, you know, ask me for a dollar. We're done.237
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And anyway.238
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So he's pretty excited. She wanted to spend her birthday with him.239
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Big day, big fucking day. So night before he's all ready and he's prepping, you know.240
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And that next morning, he showered probably three times and like he got a haircut, stuff like that.241
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And.242
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At the appointed time, whatever it was, three in the afternoon, something like that, he well, we both went to pick her up.243
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And.244
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Walked in. She wasn't there. Figured she's in the bathroom.245
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And she didn't come out. We waited and waited. Finally, he asked one of the other barmaids, you know, where so and so is.246
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And she just as she's walking by, she says, oh, she have customer today.247
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And that broke him. That fixed him for Tiger Hills forever and ever.248
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Because he's smarter than the average bear. And most of the people going there are not.249
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They're as smart as the average bear dung.250
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There's an awful lot of guys who was OK, and then we come back the next day.251
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You know, give her another shot at.252
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Fleecing them, you know, oh God, there's a lot of guys. How many? What percentage of that?253
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50 percent. 60 percent.254
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I'm serious. OK, so now we've got to go through some of these notes because they're getting just too long.255
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I'm going to keep asking this as we go through.256
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This note says, are we really escaping the matrix at all by moving there?257
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You know, well.258
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You're escaping one matrix, that's for damn sure. In the Western countries that they're they're they're a shameless matrix there.259
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Jesus. So you are escaping those. Yeah, you're going to get out of that matrix or you go to another matrix.260
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Well, yes and no.261
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The thing about Southeast Asia is that not all of it is a matrix.262
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Western countries. You know, that's up around 98 percent is fake matrix shit.263
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It's hard to find any real anything in any Western country in Southeast Asia.264
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You do find. But how a lot of reality there probably.265
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More like 35 percent matrix. So, yeah, you're going to get out of the matrix.266
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You're going to get into a place that's less of a matrix, but you still got this kind of crap.267
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I keep telling people I see this over and over and over before you go.268
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Six months before you go, you go to the doctor, you start getting some kind of chemical castration injections, something that kills that testosterone.269
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And by six months later, your libido ought to be gone.270
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And then you go to Thailand and then you're going to have a happy life.271
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The complication, irritation, annoyance factor is going to go down by 85 percent.272
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You're going to go around, you're going to sightsee, you're going to eat delicious food, go to the hospital afterwards.273
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You're going to travel. Cost of living is going to be cheap.274
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Just get castrated. I don't know anything about chemical castration.275
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I know the Swedes and Scandinavians tried it for the pedophiles for a long time, and that was a long time ago.276
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They said it didn't work to stop the pedophiles. I don't know if it was reversible ever.277
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I don't know anything about it. But if it's reversible, you know, then that's fine.278
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Then have that done before you go, probably four, five, six months before you go, get it done, whatever they're going to do.279
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I don't know where it is. And you go to Thailand, you have a great time.280
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And then when you go back, then you get it undone, I guess.281
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Or if you stay in Thailand, you don't ever get it undone. And your life is going to be hunky-dory, peachy keen.282
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I'm in Manila right now. I had a girlfriend for a while. Well, I had a few of them.283
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The one I had for the longest time, I threw out the window, you know.284
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God, she was annoying. Good girl. God, she was a good girl. Good girl. Good girl.285
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In every way except she was just annoying.286
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She ruined every single appliance I had in the condo. Every single one, because she had never seen them before.287
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She didn't know what to do with them. Every single appliance, I had to go buy every single appliance.288
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Even the toaster, even the counter cook, cook, counter top cooker thing. The rice cooker I had to buy a new one.289
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Every appliance.290
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She would take a shower.291
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In the freezing cold water, because she'd never seen a hot shower before.292
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She didn't know that you could flip this little switch and have hot water.293
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You know, it was just like that. Well, okay, some of that stuff, you know, maybe that's cute, you know, teaching stuff, I guess.294
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But she wouldn't clean up after herself. She wouldn't just clean up anything at all.295
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She just wouldn't clean up anything.296
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She always had her friends over here, spending the night, you know, saw them in there trying to sleep and they're out here cackling.297
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Bunch of Filipino girls. They tried to be quiet, but the Filipinos can't, you know, that's not in their genes.298
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You go to a place like Singapore, a few other places, you go on public transportation, there are going to be signs on the inside of the buses and the cars and stuff.299
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They're going to be in Tagalog only.300
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And they're going to say something like, please keep your voices down, please respect your neighbors, because this society is quiet, you know, or something like that.301
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The variations of it. It's only in Tagalog, it's only in Filipino.302
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So anyway, she out the window.303
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Now, when I dumped her, I did it politely, you know, I had bought her a bunch of shit and I packed up all the stuff I had bought her and, you know, took her to her work.304
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Sent her a text, you know, it's polite, right?305
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And that ticked her off. She went around and told everybody who had listened that I was gay.306
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Because if I wasn't gay, I couldn't possibly have kicked her out, you know, princess syndrome.307
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So anyway, that's life in Southeast Asia. All the countries, you know, subtle differences between them, but they're all whacked.308
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Okay, so are you escaping the matrix? Yeah, yes and no.309
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You are to a large degree, but okay.310
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And then I still got that note there. Somebody wrote in that just had one word, it says driving.311
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I'm trying to think of what I'm missing there. And then another one here. I think I covered this. It says, why would anyone like Cambodia?312
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Well, I worked for a long, long time, years for a ranch.313
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They had 1100 sections of land.314
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I had a lot of cattle out there. A section of land is 640 acres.315
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So they had 1100 square miles of grazing. And they're not a homeowner. It's all just high desert scrub.316
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And they were getting hit pretty hard by rustlers.317
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And they hired me to be rustler patrol because I lived exactly on the other side of their range from the ranch headquarters.318
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So they hired me to do rustler patrol. And I had a couple of good horses.319
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But if I wore them out, I could use any of theirs. They rode only Mustangs.320
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These are tough guys. Jesus Christ, they were tough guys. I cowboyed around with them for a while and I couldn't even begin to keep up.321
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Holy Jesus. They would take off from their ranch headquarters and they would ride 100 miles as a group to get to the starting point for the 100 mile race.322
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And that's all yuppie horses, you know, and shit like that. Oh, they're very color coordinated. Pastel colored.323
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Pink sables. These guys rode 100 fucking miles from the ranch to the starting point of that race.324
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And they'd ride the race and they'd fucking win and then they'd ride 100 miles home. Okay, tough. Fucking salt of the earth. Jesus. God damn Christ.325
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Anyway, so I rode rustler patrol for them for some years. And if I saw somebody out on the range and they parked out there, they got a cattle truck, they got a horse trailer.326
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And they stop in the middle of nowhere and they get out and they're looking around, looking for our cows and they'd see them.327
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And then they walk over and they'd flank them and they very slowly, you know, just start moving them toward the open doors of their stock trailer, you know, shit like that.328
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I'd be three, 400 yards away on a little ridge somewhere.329
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And they'd hear it.330
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And then just a couple of seconds later, they hear the pop from the gun from the rifle and I take their tires or their engine.331
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The owner of the ranch wanted me to shoot them. They said he had many, many times.332
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And some of the ranch hands showed me little mountains where he claimed to have buried him. We never dug him up. Never told anybody.333
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He wanted me to do that. And I said, no, I'm sorry. I'm not going to go to prison. You know, maybe they deserve it. No, I'm not going to prison. Oh, we'll protect you.334
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Oh, I don't think so. You know, old, old Jesus Christ.335
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Anyway, the point is that I don't have a problem with rough life like that. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it really quite a lot.336
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So Cambodia is a rough life.337
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And if you have a problem with a robber in Cambodia, you can take care of it. Thailand, you can't. Thailand, if somebody robs you and you hurt them, you're going to jail. You're going to get deported.338
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In Cambodia, you can take care of yourself. And a couple of other countries you can't too. Cambodia more so than any other.339
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They have a little bit of a code of decency, you know.340
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So I respect that. And Cambodia is OK. I could easily end up back there. I'm not sure.341
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So anyway, why would anyone like Cambodia? Well, that's why.342
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OK, well, here's one. Somebody wants to know about what it's like driving around Thailand. OK, well, I told you many times it's the number one most dangerous, deadly country in the world, period.343
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Statistically, it is.344
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Documentably.345
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And I have crisscrossed the country, east and west, top to bottom.346
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I don't know how many times, can't count. On every kind of motorcycle, big and small, every kind of car.347
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In the early days, you know, I'd see the posted speed limit.348
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But I go pretty much that speed limit. You know, if I said 90 kilometers, I'd do 105. You know, the ticket's not going to be that big.349
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And a lot of these stretches, they just go for fucking everywhere. Like out in the East, it's a pool table. It's just a flat pool table.350
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They just go for river, straight lines, just straight line, roads forever and ever. And they're flat and straight.351
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And you're going to piss along at 100 kilometers. See how many miles an hour is that?352
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I think 100 kilometers an hour would be353
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70 miles an hour or something. You're going to do that forever? No, you go crazy.354
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So I had355
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Well, I had one motorcycle. It wasn't much of a motorcycle, but it would do 150 miles an hour.356
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And I would just peg it. I just peg it at 150. You know, lock the throttle wide open and just do 150 all the way across. OK.357
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And for the first few trips, I was careful.358
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I was getting a little faster, a little faster, because you won't see cops in patrol cars.359
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Or if you do see them, you don't kind of recognize them.360
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Mostly they get you with cameras or they get you with roadblocks.361
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They don't follow you around and hit the lights and pull you over. It can happen. And they do it very occasionally, but not like America. Jesus, God damn Christ.362
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I don't think there's anybody left in America who hasn't been pulled over 23 times363
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by cops in cars.364
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I mean, people are being raped and killed and365
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they got to do that for seven over, you know, really? And then they'll threaten to shoot you.366
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OK, well, anyway, I finally made one trip way up north.367
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Kind of like from the south to the north. And I was bored and I hadn't gotten any tickets before.368
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And I was starting to think, well, shit, you know, I don't know. I don't see any cops. I'm going to go a little faster, a little faster, a little faster.369
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And I did. I drove all the way up at whatever speed, kind of fast and370
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spent a few weeks up there and got done, came back and didn't think anything about it. I'm lucky I didn't get any tickets, you know.371
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And then like a month or two later, they started coming in the mail.372
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They got me on cameras.373
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And I was doing fast, you know, if it was posted374
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90 KPH, I was probably doing 140. OK.375
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So that's a little bit over.376
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And I said, oh, fuck, oh, fuck, Jesus Christ, three of them came in one day.377
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This is fucked up. And I opened them and looking at them and they're all in Thai.378
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You know, it's hard to figure out what's what. I did figure out how much over I was going and shit like that.379
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Looking around, looking around, trying to, you know, trying to read the chicken scratch, you know, Thai.380
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Their alphabet is like if you ever see a chicken walking through the mud or 10, 10 chickens walking through the mud, that's a Thai alphabet.381
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You're not going to figure it out. They have 44 characters and I think they have 48 or something like that.382
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They don't even use like the last four.383
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So I finally got down to the bottom looking for, OK, how much, how much is this ticket? How much is this ticket?384
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And one of them, I remember for doing 140 or 145 and a 90 is like nine dollars.385
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I thought, what? Oh, no, no, no, no, that must be like the tax on the fine or something like that.386
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And the next one was about the same. You know, one was 11.387
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Anyway, the whole bunch, whole bunch finally showed the entire ticket load for that entire trip was 32 or 36 dollars.388
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And of course, that was just letting the genie out of the bag. You know, they should have never done that to me.389
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It would have been much better off to never tell me how much is going to be because I would have stayed down around 110.390
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Once I did that, then the genie's out of the bottle.391
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And after that, I did what an awful lot of guys finally end up doing. You just drive as fast as you want to drive.392
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And if you get some tickets in the mail, what the fuck ever, you know, you saved a day getting to your destination.393
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So if you can do 200, you just do 200. I mean, the roads won't support it.394
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It's dangerous to be going that fast on American roads. It's almost suicidal to be going that fast on those roads because there's no really controlled access freeways.395
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There's a couple that are kind of sort of a little bit. But no, they still got dirt roads coming out to them.396
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And you're still be hauling down there at 165 miles an hour.397
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And up ahead, you see some dork head and a goddamn tuk tuk and he comes down some dirt road right onto the freeway.398
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Doesn't look, never looks. And hopefully you're not going to be able to slow down in time.399
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You can just swerve over and get around him. So it's really dangerous. And dogs, there's dogs everywhere. It's lousy with dogs.400
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You're going to hit a dog, you hit a dog on a motorbike at 160. You need to have some really good anti-skid gear, you know.401
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:51,000
You'll probably survive if you had really good gear. But if you don't, it's going to grind every inch of skin off your body.402
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,000
You're going to look like a skinned chicken. So anyway, that's what it's like driving in Thailand. It's really dangerous.403
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:05,000
The people are somewhat rude, but they're just stupid. I mean, I went through one stretch.404
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:14,000
I was going from Western Thailand over by Myanmar. I was going all the way into Isan in a...405
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:26,000
Oh, it was a pretty good bike. It was a sport bike. And I went through this long section of highway where it was raining lightly.406
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:33,000
And they had sanded the roads, so there was a little film of sand on the road. So it was pretty bad slippery shit.407
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:40,000
And it was two lane, narrow two lanes. And you're on the left side, of course.408
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:50,000
And for this long stretch, probably 60 or 80 miles for whatever reason. I never figured this out.409
00:43:50,000 --> 00:44:00,000
The traffic, the opposing traffic was kind of clogged up with trucks and things. So there was a lot, a lot, a lot of passing.410
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:11,000
And the people coming at you would not look to see if there's anybody coming at all. They would not look.411
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:20,000
They would just jerk it out into the oncoming traffic and try to pass the truck or whatever.412
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:26,000
It was the craziest fucking thing. There's nothing you can do. There's no way you can stop fast enough.413
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:33,000
You just got to get over onto the shoulder at 100 miles an hour, you know. And they're just barreling right on by you.414
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:44,000
They won't get over at all to help you. So you're going in the dirt. And I got to the point for that whole stretch, the whole 60 or 80 miles,415
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:50,000
where every time I saw them doing this, I would get over far enough so that they weren't going to hit me, but only by inches.416
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:59,000
And then I would just hold my hand up like that so they could see me. You want to stop and come back and fight motherfucker? Come on.417
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:08,000
I did that probably, I don't know, 30, 40 times in that stretch. Just hold it out in front of me. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.418
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:15,000
Fuck you like that. And they saw me. They don't care.419
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Nobody wanted me bad enough to come and fight. Probably couldn't have caught me anyway.420
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:29,000
Everybody has a wreck in Thailand. Everybody. I don't care who you are.421
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,000
Especially if you're on a motorbike, you're going to get hit. You're going to get hit.422
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:40,000
I can't even count the number of people who got really screwed up being hit on motorbikes all across Thailand.423
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,000
Now, I rode there for 10 years.424
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:56,000
I don't even know how many miles I had. I had probably had 14 or 15 motorbikes in that time.425
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:05,000
I never put less than 10,000 miles on them on each one.426
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:15,000
And I just bought them all the time because I liked them. I liked to have different colors and they liked to have different...try this one, try that one. Slow ones and fast ones and whatever.427
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:25,000
So 150,000 miles in the 10 years. I rode all day every day. All day every day.428
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:40,000
I had many, many, many, many close calls that I survived by dumb luck. Probably a lot of stuff I survived just from skill because I was good.429
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:49,000
I was a good writer. I came from Hayabusa in the USA doing over 200 miles an hour. I was careful and I had driven truck.430
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:59,000
I had been a semi tractor trailer instructor for a long time and an examiner for a long time. I knew what people were probably going to do.431
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:05,000
And I was pretty good, but I don't care how good you are. I don't care if you're Jesus or Buddha.432
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:15,000
Being good in that kind of an environment is not going to keep you alive. If you want to stay alive, you're going to pray for luck because luck's only thing is going to keep you alive.433
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:25,000
Being good, skillful will keep you alive a little longer. But eventually I would have got hit, maimed, maybe killed. Eventually it would have happened.434
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:34,000
There's no question it would have happened sooner or later. It had to. It's just the odds. It's just going to get you.435
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:45,000
If you're going to go there, if you're going to do any driving, whether you rent or buy, get the biggest SUV you can that you can afford. Only SUVs.436
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:53,000
Only SUVs. Big ones. Big old Toyota, whatever.437
00:47:53,000 --> 00:48:01,000
And that's going to give you the most amount of safety you can get. You're better off to fly to wherever you want to go. Take a train to wherever you want to go.438
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:13,000
Even a bus. They get down. They got some buses to kill for. They have stewardesses on the buses. In uniforms on the top end buses.439
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:21,000
And by Thai standards, they're super expensive. By our standards, they're pennies.440
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:29,000
And they're nice. That seats are... Oh my God. And you can order food and they'll bring it to you. Stuff like that.441
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:34,000
Drinks. TVs. TVs.442
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:42,000
So take one of the high end buses. Not that many of them in Thailand, but there's enough. You reserve a seat beforehand.443
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:53,000
They're usually not too crowded because they're considered too expensive. Each one will have two or three stewardesses. What's the modern term for that?444
00:48:53,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Flight crew. You know, I guess flight crew. In fact, one of them even has the word air in its company name.445
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:16,000
So take a bus. Take a train. Take a plane. When you get to where you're going, then you rent the biggest SUV you can get.446
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:26,000
Reserve it in advance because they're in high demand. They're going to be a little bit expensive because a car costs what a car costs, regardless of what country you're in.447
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:37,000
Sometimes you get way up in the north. North of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai up in there. And it'll get a little nippy sometimes.448
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:47,000
Maybe one or two times for a winter, it'll actually get frost for 20, 30 minutes. That's nippy.449
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:58,000
Don't be surprised when your windows are all fogged up and you go to hit the defrost and it doesn't get warm.450
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:07,000
And the windows won't defrost. You think, wait, wait, wait. Oh, God, fuck it's a brand new car. It's broken. It's broken. How do you turn the heater on?451
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:14,000
You can't. There's no heater. There's no heater in any car in Thailand. It's not installed. It's not like they don't have the controls.452
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:20,000
The heater itself is not installed in the car. They don't have one. No home has a heater.453
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:29,000
So that has been a problem, you know, quite a few times for me. Gas is, you know, fairly cheap.454
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:38,000
They get a whole bunch of grades of gas. It was always confusing to me as to which one I should have for which vehicle.455
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:45,000
They pump it for you. All the place, you know, like Oregon used to be. Pump it for you. I don't know why.456
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:52,000
Well, because I do know why, because labor is just stupid cheap and they don't want people pumping and then pump and run.457
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:59,000
You know, that would that would be just rampant if they let you pump your own gas.458
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,000
So traveling is OK. The traffic is going to be insane.459
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Insane, just insane. Obstacles everywhere. You're going to stop at big old truck stop kinds of places.460
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:18,000
Get your gas and then you go park and then you go to the bathroom and then you want to go relax for a while and eat, you know.461
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,000
Well, you're not going to find Denny's or any kind of place you're used to.462
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:27,000
It's going to be weird Thai restaurants are going to give you rice and hot dogs, you know.463
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:32,000
That's pretty much it. Pretty much it, really.464
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:44,000
The rest stops, the places like that, the truck stop kind of places are not comfortable at all.465
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:49,000
The Thais think they are. And it's always going to be a little dirty and dingy.466
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,000
You know, nothing's going to be constructed properly.467
00:51:52,000 --> 00:52:08,000
You know, it's almost always a 7-Eleven. You go to 7-Eleven, get some horrible shriveled old hot dog that's been on the grill for eight or nine hours.468
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,000
So that's what that's what driving is like.469
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,000
Road rage is rare.470
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,000
Except with the Phalangs.471
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Phalangs, road rage, wherever they go, they bring it with them.472
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,000
Almost always the Brits. I would say, I would, okay.473
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:32,000
The vast majority of trouble I ever had in traffic was with the Phalang.474
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:38,000
And in those cases where I could identify where they were from, it was God.475
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:45,000
Almost always a Brit. Almost always.476
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,000
Jesus Christ.477
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:53,000
Okay, so driving. Let's just take that off of there because we've covered that enough.478
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,000
I think we hit on it one time before.479
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,000
Okay, cross country trips.480
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,000
Getting gas. Cover that.481
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:07,000
Okay, people want to know more about the various nationalities you're going to find here.482
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:11,000
I told you in the beginning that the first thing you're going to notice are the Brits.483
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,000
They're going to be the loudest.484
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:18,000
And there's a lot of them. Good God, there's a lot of them there.485
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,000
There's a lot of them.486
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,000
The second most prevalent nationality is probably the Russians.487
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,000
There's a shitload of Russians.488
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:34,000
You're going to see freeway signs in Russian, even if they're not in English.489
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:39,000
So the Russian presence there is huge.490
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:44,000
Now the Russians, I never had one positive experience with a single Russian there.491
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:48,000
I did have a few positive experiences with the Brits.492
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:52,000
Some of them were damned nice.493
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000
Good friends.494
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,000
Not very many.495
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,000
Easily count on one hand.496
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:01,000
If I was missing two fingers, I could count on one hand.497
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:09,000
The positive experiences I had with Brits.498
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,000
Hundreds of bad experiences with them.499
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,000
The Russians, I never had a good experience with a single one.500
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,000
No, that's not true. That's not true.501
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,000
I did have one. He came and bought a motorbike and a computer.502
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,000
Nice guy.503
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:30,000
What was that cartoon series?504
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,000
Terrible Me or Despicable Me?505
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,000
Yeah, you remember that guy in Despicable Me?506
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,000
I'm pretty sure that was the title of it.507
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,000
Okay, this guy was that guy.508
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:45,000
He was exactly that guy in every possible way.509
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,000
Came with his wife.510
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:51,000
And while we were doing the forms and filling stuff out and making photocopies,511
00:54:51,000 --> 00:55:01,000
she wandered around, looked at my photographic equipment, and stole a $1,300 lens.512
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,000
And the positive, there's no question about it.513
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:07,000
I don't think he ever knew it. She was a Thai, that was his Thai wife.514
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,000
I don't think he ever knew it.515
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,000
And I didn't have her on video.516
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:18,000
I had everything except her on video.517
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:24,000
Because I was moving and I had taken my cameras down.518
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,000
And she got that lens.519
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,000
Into her purse, gone, out the door.520
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:41,000
So I did, I'm not holding that against this guy, maybe poor choice of women.521
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:49,000
My girlfriend saw through her instinctively, hated her within 15 seconds,522
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:56,000
hated her vehemently, violently, and was just screechingly rude to her.523
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:00,000
I couldn't see it because the cultures are that much different.524
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:07,000
You cannot see evil, except after a long, long time.525
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,000
And they can't see it in us either.526
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,000
That's why they keep getting screwed over by felons.527
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:18,000
Anyway, the girlfriend ended up with just a running, screeching fight with this woman.528
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,000
And I'm thinking, God, she's going to fuck this deal, you know.529
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:28,000
Because it was going to be like a $3,500 computer and about a $4,000 motorbike.530
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,000
And my flight was coming up. I needed to get him gone.531
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,000
And I didn't want to blow that deal.532
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,000
And, you know, God, that girlfriend was, she couldn't help it.533
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,000
She hated this woman that much.534
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:44,000
She saw through the woman, and I didn't.535
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,000
Anyway, so one good experience.536
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:55,000
I don't know anybody for the whole decade I was there.537
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:03,000
I don't know one single person who had a single positive experience with a single Russian.538
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,000
And I know lots of guys who tried.539
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,000
Lots of guys who would bring him in and help him.540
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:13,000
They always need money. You know, they can barely get there.541
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,000
And they can only get there when the Russian economy is up.542
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,000
If the Russian economy collapses while they're there, they're fucked.543
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:25,000
They can't get home. They're there on shoestrings and panties.544
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:30,000
So I got to the point anyway where no Russian was allowed in my complex.545
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:35,000
I didn't know that guy was Russian till he got in.546
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:39,000
They walk around in little groups and they'll start fights.547
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:43,000
They go into bars, start fights.548
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,000
They are just ignorant pit bulls.549
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:53,000
Now, I just came from that region last winter. Ukraine, Romania, the whole eastern block.550
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:59,000
I dealt with lots and lots of Russians and Ukrainians.551
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,000
I didn't understand either language.552
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,000
Now, the Russians are all mixed in with the Ukrainians in Ukraine.553
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,000
It's an uncomfortable situation.554
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,000
I didn't understand either language. And of course, they look the same.555
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,000
And so I would meet all these people.556
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:18,000
I was working in an orphanage charity kind of thing.557
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:24,000
I had a steady stream of people coming through.558
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:37,000
And about half of them, I would just instinctively hate their guts559
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:42,000
because of the way they acted or the things that they said after somebody translated.560
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:45,000
Hated them.561
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,000
And the other half, I liked them really quite a lot.562
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:54,000
Hard working, down to earth, friendly people.563
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:58,000
The ones I hated, it came to be. I didn't know it.564
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,000
At the moment, I hated them.565
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,000
They were Russians. And the ones I liked were Ukrainians.566
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:11,000
They are different people. They are different people.567
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,000
So you got a lot of Russians.568
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:17,000
In Thailand, I didn't see many in other countries.569
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:24,000
I don't see really hardly any at all in the Philippines or Vietnam or a few in Cambodia.570
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:28,000
Not too many. They like Thailand for some reason.571
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,000
They've got a foothold there somehow.572
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:37,000
Well, they must because the Thai government has given them freeway signs in their language.573
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,000
So they've got something going on there that I'm not aware of.574
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:43,000
Nobody will ever invite them over to do anything.575
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,000
Nobody will intermingle with them at all.576
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:52,000
You walk around some of the sites and there's four or five of those guys and they're all drunk and they're all loud.577
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,000
They'll smash into you as they're walking.578
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:59,000
You're alone with a girlfriend. They'll smash into you.579
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,000
They'll lurch over and hit you like that, try to knock you down.580
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,000
And they'll just laugh and laugh and laugh.581
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,000
Well, what are you going to do? You can't carry any kind of weapon in Thailand.582
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:10,000
You're going to fight five of them.583
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:18,000
No, you're going to give them a hard look and keep looking at them until they're all sight.584
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:23,000
And that's all you can do. That's all there is.585
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:27,000
So fuck the Russians.586
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:32,000
Next group probably is going to be the East Indians.587
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:39,000
I think I heard people complain about the East Indians588
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:44,000
more than they complained about any other group, any other nationality.589
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:51,000
Everybody complains about the East Indians. Everybody hates them.590
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:57,000
And I do not know why all my life I have liked East Indians.591
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:03,000
I do.592
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:07,000
Not a single East Indian has ever done anything bad to me.593
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,000
They can. Yeah, they can be pretty scammy people.594
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:16,000
I wish they would take more showers.595
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:22,000
If you ask them, you know, really, why can't you take a shower?596
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:25,000
You know, you could use mine. Come on.597
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,000
You're like that because they stink so bad.598
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,000
Really like a dead rotting goat. Really.599
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:37,000
And they'll say, well, in India, we don't have enough water.600
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:41,000
I say, not in fucking India. We got plenty of water.601
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:46,000
You know, just turn on that shower. Oh, no, because it's my custom.602
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,000
We don't take a lot of shower. Well, I don't care what you fucking tell us.603
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,000
You're stinking people can't even sit next to you on the couch.604
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,000
We don't even want you on the couch. You know, God, I love you. I love you.605
01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:01,000
I love you. But you know, you're like that. It's that bad.606
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:07,000
So that's the complaint I've got about East Indians.607
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:13,000
My landlady here in Manila is East Indian. God, I love her. I love her.608
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:17,000
I do. She's great. She's been great to me. Well, pretty much.609
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:24,000
She's a teensy little bit scummy, but nothing like the ties, you know.610
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:30,000
It's mostly East Indian guys, virtually hardly any East Indian women.611
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,000
Sometimes they come with their wife or their girlfriend, but mostly it's guys.612
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:38,000
Because India is not very far. You know, it's just a hot bowl of the Indian Ocean.613
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:44,000
I don't know what it is. It's only three or four hours or something, depending on what port you're going to.614
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:54,000
So I don't know. That's kind of the economy to me. I don't know why everybody hates him.615
01:02:54,000 --> 01:03:02,000
Really, no. I can't remember anybody articulating a logical reason for hating him except for the smell.616
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:10,000
I ate a lot of East Indian food while I was there. Love it. People are nice.617
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:16,000
I don't know what the hell's going on with the East Indians. I could live.618
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:20,000
Well, I don't know if I could live in India because that's... I never tried it.619
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:27,000
But I certainly developed no animosity whatsoever towards East Indians all the time I was there.620
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:30,000
Everybody else does. So you figure it out. I don't know why.621
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:38,000
You know, go Google it. Why do people hate East Indians? I don't know. I never Googled it. I didn't care.622
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:43,000
Okay, next group. Next group, Germans.623
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:48,000
The next smallest number of nationalities are German.624
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:55,000
The Germans are... I don't know about Germans in Germany. My wife was German.625
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:06,000
But you can't judge what you think about nationality just because your wife came from there.626
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,000
All of her relatives were German.627
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:15,000
You know, she was first class as good as they could ever possibly come.628
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:19,000
And I'm not saying that because she's gone. I'm saying it because it was true.629
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:24,000
And I thought that every day. And I didn't tell her enough. That's a fucking mistake. Tell them.630
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:29,000
You think that about somebody, you fucking tell them. Tell them today, this hour.631
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:37,000
And you don't stop telling them because there's a real shortage of decent people in this world.632
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:44,000
I do know that the by far the most... the biggest nationality that takes ladyboys is German.633
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:49,000
By far. By a huge margin. And gays. And the young gay Thai guys.634
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:59,000
They had a beach not far from there. Kind of like the German beach.635
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:05,000
And then the fat old Germans would sit there. The old walruses, they would sit there in their lawn chairs.636
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:10,000
And the young gay Thai guys all knew that that's where they're going to get their food.637
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:14,000
So they swarmed around these guys that sit on their laps.638
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:19,000
Kiss them all there in front of all the tourists. They just kiss and kiss and kiss and...639
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:26,000
tongue kissing with these fat old German guys. The guys were 16, you know, 15, 16.640
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:37,000
They were in bikinis. The guys. With little tops. All tanned and thin.641
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:43,000
And the Germans are just fondling them. They'll have sex sometimes there in the lounges, you know.642
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:49,000
Everybody walking by.643
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:59,000
That cost me a lot of respect for them. I had one landlord who was German.644
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:07,000
He was a nice guy. Liked him a lot. We went around. We did everything together.645
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:13,000
He had gotten in a little motorcycle accident due to a low tire. He'd rented a motorbike tire.646
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,000
It was low. Slipped on some gravel. Went down. F**ked him up pretty bad.647
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:23,000
He ended up in the hospital. They did an operation down in Phuket and fixed him up.648
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:26,000
Pretty well. Fixed him up. Cost him an arm and leg. He didn't have any insurance.649
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:31,000
So he's making payments on that probably to this day. But I fixed him up. Okay. Sent him home.650
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:38,000
A couple of weeks later, he was just getting kind of ambulatory around a little bit.651
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:42,000
And his daughter, I guess, came running over to my place. I lived right next door to him.652
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:47,000
And she came running over and said, Oh God, he's really sick. He's dying. I think he's dying right now.653
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:53,000
I'm going to go out and come quick. I don't know if they knew. I had EMT training.654
01:06:53,000 --> 01:07:03,000
For a smoke jumper squad. Force fighters. And I didn't get to practice it hardly at all.655
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:08,000
I wanted to really bad. I wanted to do some little operations out there in the woods.656
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:12,000
But I never did any shit like that. But I had the training anyway.657
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,000
But that was like five lifetimes ago and I don't remember anything.658
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:20,000
Turnicut. Let's see. Where's that turnicut go? Oh yeah. It goes there, right?659
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,000
That's all I can remember. Anyways, I guess they knew about that.660
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,000
I might have mentioned or something. So they came running over. Come quick. Come quick. He's dying.661
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,000
He's all fuck. He's dying. He's dying in the bed right now.662
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:37,000
So I ran over there. He's laying in the bed on his back and they threw open the.663
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:44,000
The covers threw off the covers. And he's got the stitch line across his belly. Big fucking.664
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:50,000
I don't know. Like five feet long. He's a bigish guy. And.665
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:59,000
It had split open for. 10, 12 inches. You know, for probably half of its.666
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:07,000
Its length. But there was any blood.667
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:12,000
What? What's going on? Your fucking guts are hanging open there and there's no blood. What is there?668
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:22,000
Well, he had gotten an infection.669
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:29,000
And when I looked at it. Instant I looked at it. I mean, within three or four seconds, I knew exactly what it was.670
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,000
I couldn't remember the name, but I knew exactly what it was.671
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:37,000
And I have no clue how I would have known that because EMT training did not include anything like that.672
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:43,000
Our stuff was first aid stuff. We never covered anything about infections that are going to happen after the fact.673
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:47,000
You know, three weeks later, we positively did not cover that.674
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:52,000
I had never seen this condition in my life. Never heard of it.675
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:57,000
And I said, well, he's got he's got this, you know, oh, we got to call ambulance.676
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,000
Well, you know, he's got to go to the hospital. That's for sure.677
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:03,000
But he doesn't necessarily need an ambulance. You know, we can take him in the car.678
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:08,000
He's not going to die at this minute. He's not going to die in the next hour. He's got an infection.679
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:19,000
And it had created gallons and gallons and gallons of pus, white, yellow pus.680
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:29,000
He was terrified. It had covered the entire bed. It was the bed was a lake of pus.681
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:38,000
It had soaked into the mattress as far as it could. The mattress was saturated and then just build up, built up like a lake around his ass.682
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:43,000
So his ass is the heaviest part. And it's pushing the bed down in the middle.683
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:48,000
And he's got a lake of pus. A lake, a lake. I mean, a duck could swim in it.684
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:57,000
You know, that's how far and bad it was. I know it's disgusting. Well, suck it up. You're an adult. I hope.685
01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:03,000
And it looked really bad. I mean, it looked to him and to them like, oh, God, these are my guts.686
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:13,000
You know, I've got two or three breaths left. That's it. I'm going. Oh, God. Oh, St. Peter. I see. I'm coming now.687
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:21,000
No. So anyway, we got him up. They got all the towels they could get and we wrapped him up.688
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:30,000
And every time he moved, it's glug, another pint of pus. Jesus fucking Christ. It was pretty nasty. It was dead.689
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:35,000
But I had worked on horses, you know, for many, many years and I saw all kinds of horrible shit on horses and cows.690
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:40,000
You know, this was about like, about like that.691
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:50,000
This was like a cow that had died, you know, let's say 10 days earlier and the guts were putrefying, you know, and they split open in the sun.692
01:10:50,000 --> 01:11:03,000
And they're all just look like a bog of eternal stench or, you know, was that green shit in Ghostbusters?693
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:19,000
It was a little bit greenish too. So anyway, we bundled him up and took a bunch of blankets and put him in the back seat so he wouldn't really ruin the back seat of his brand new SUV.694
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:27,000
And we laid him back there, took him to the hospital and they said, Oh yeah, you ain't leaving today.695
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:35,000
They cleaned him all up and they got like some kind of a car wash nozzle thing and they hosed out the inside of his gut.696
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:46,000
It's an infection that happens to the lining of the guts essentially. And there's a clear name for it. What the hell is it called? You can Google it.697
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:54,000
And so the pus just builds up and builds up around that lining. Mostly I think from the, between that lining and the skin.698
01:11:54,000 --> 01:12:03,000
And he was fat and so he probably didn't notice it for a few days.699
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:14,000
So we got him in and they cleaned him up, hosed him out. And they stitched up about half of that. They left an opening pretty big, you know, six or seven inches.700
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:25,000
They just left that open. And they started a bunch of drips and antibiotics, IV, really nasty antibiotics.701
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:30,000
Because this was getting to the point, you know, he had had it for a while, obviously, to build up that much pus.702
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:37,000
So this is something you got to get on top of, you know. I mean, taking an extra 15 minutes to get to the hospital, that's not going to cost him his life.703
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:45,000
And he had no insurance. He didn't want to pay for the ambulance anyway.704
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:53,000
But really, you know, within an hour or two of getting there, you needed to get that shit going into the veins. And they did.705
01:12:53,000 --> 01:13:01,000
This was a really good hospital, same hospital that I had been to 10 times in one year.706
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:11,000
He was in there four or five days, something like that. Just getting bored. And anyway, every single day in the beginning, I think probably a couple of times a day,707
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:22,000
they would come in and then it was still open, you know, let's see, seven or seven inches, at least seven inches.708
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:32,000
And they put the gloves on and they'd reach out with a whole hand in there, you know, halfway up to their elbow, mostly up to their elbow, really inside his guts.709
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:41,000
It was unnerving to see, you know, that nothing you wouldn't see doctor and a horse.710
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:47,000
And we would joke while they're doing this shit. And he didn't think that was all that funny. He still thought he was going to die.711
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:54,000
He was older. He was 65, probably.712
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:58,000
So every day they had to clean this out at least once a day, probably twice a day.713
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:10,000
And they would do that. And once they had manually scooped out all the pus with their hands and they would get shocking them out.714
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:22,000
I'm thinking in the early days, of course, his body is still producing pus, you know, he's on the abs, but the abs don't really start reversing the shit for, you know, two or three days.715
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:28,000
Two or three days it's like stopped and then three, four, five days it starts to reverse.716
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:36,000
OK, in the meantime, the body is still producing that pus. And he was, Jesus Christ, he was producing it.717
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:46,000
I'm thinking they got, I didn't know, it looked like a lot. I want to say half a gallon of pus out of there every day.718
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:54,000
Every day I saw it. Half a gallon, I think maybe it was less, maybe it was pint and a half or maybe pint and a half.719
01:14:54,000 --> 01:15:02,000
Or no, it would have been a quart and a half, maybe no less than that, no less than that.720
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:13,000
So after about five days, whatever, they let him go home and then he had to go back every single day to get this cleaned out.721
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:27,000
He did that for like a week and every couple of days they would take a couple of more stitches and start to close up that fucking shark mouth hole in his gut.722
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:42,000
Jesus Christ. And they were trying to close it up, close it up, because as they scraped out the pus, you know, the inside, the inside of the skin would start reattaching to things.723
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:50,000
And because it was healthy tissue now and it would start forcing out, it would make a smaller and smaller cavity for the pus to be in.724
01:15:50,000 --> 01:16:00,000
So they'd get less and less pus and the cavity would get smaller and smaller. But they never would sew up the hole to the point where you couldn't get a small hand in there.725
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:07,000
And he did that for quite a while and they raped him, they charged him a shitload of money to do that every day. Every day.726
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:11,000
They switched him over to oral abs.727
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:21,000
Really strong ones, made him really, really sick. And he couldn't stop. He'd just lay there and puke from the abs. Not the infection from the abs.728
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:26,000
And he couldn't stop them. It was horrible to watch.729
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:33,000
And then finally he got, he found a Filipino nurse who would, a guy who would come over to his house and do that every day.730
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:45,000
So they set up a little kind of a medical station in his bedroom. And this guy would come in and expertly,731
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:57,000
really fine work, clean him out every day. And every day it got smaller. And after about two weeks, two and a half weeks maybe, they finished this, they sewed him up completely.732
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:08,000
And then they watched him really closely. He had to come in every day or somebody came to him every day to check it, you know, see if he's producing any more pus in there.733
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:16,000
And then once or twice he did. He started to produce more pus. The infection kept trying to come back. And they'd hit him with more abs.734
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:32,000
And it would go away. And he fought that for probably a month overall. And then finally it stopped coming back. And the sutures were healing and they finally came out and he was OK.735
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:48,000
Now, the reason I tell you this long convoluted story is that I have another story about this exact same condition. I'm going to tell that somewhat later. Maybe a pod or two down the road, I'm not sure.736
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,000
That's going to be a longer story.737
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:56,000
Exact same condition because in Thailand this is a common condition.738
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:06,000
Maybe they don't autoclave things all that well. Maybe the gloves, maybe they really don't understand sterile procedures all that well. I don't know.739
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:13,000
But it's fairly common. I heard of it quite a bit. God, I can't remember the name of it. Google it.740
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:24,000
Infection of the lining between the abdomen and the lower belly or something like that. You come up with the name of it. It's a simple name.741
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,000
And they'll tell you exactly what I just told you.742
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:35,000
I always thought it was so strange that I recognized that. I knew instantly what that was. Three or four seconds I knew. Oh, it's this.743
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:47,000
I don't know where I ever... I was positive I wasn't trained at an EMT school. Positive. There was no reason for them to.744
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:58,000
I don't know. I don't know whether or not I knew. It didn't have any bearing on whether or not it saved his life. He was going to go by ambulance.745
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:09,000
If I didn't know anything, he was going to go by ambulance. Maybe I was able to take a little bit of stress off him. Anyway, so I stayed there another year.746
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:21,000
No, I was there two or three years in his house. We'd get along great. We went out to dinners. Played with his kid. I was big into Oculus VR.747
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:33,000
We had several sets. Had a girlfriend and a kid would just come home every day, every day, every day. The batteries were dead.748
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:55,000
He had a daughter who was adult. Half Thai, half German. And spoiled brat. Sorry, she was a spoiled brat. Spoiled brat. Spoiled brat.749
01:19:55,000 --> 01:20:07,000
She was well into her 20s, I believe. Mid-20s probably. Anyway, so I didn't have much to do with her. She had a dog I loved. And we just got along great. We were just great.750
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:17,000
Okay, so I finally... Oh, we started having trouble with various appliances. The stove shorted out. In fact, shocked the piss out of my girlfriend. Shocked her really badly.751
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:27,000
Knocked her down. And we turned it off and told him, hey, the stove shorted out. Something wrong inside. You got it fixed. And he just never would.752
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:35,000
That went for a year, probably. He wouldn't fix it. So we had to bring in a countertop stove and cook on that because he wouldn't fix it.753
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:47,000
A bunch of other stuff went bad. He had a little back storage room in the back right next to the jungle and the fucking snakes and shit were coming in through cracks in the concrete.754
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:55,000
And it was only a matter of time before somebody opened a door and then got struck. Probably right in that fucking wiener.755
01:20:55,000 --> 01:21:07,000
And I was on him, you know, look, you got to seal this up. Just get some caulk and seal some of these bigger holes. Keep the snakes out. He wouldn't do it. So I ended up doing that at my expense.756
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:19,000
Oh, we had one, two, we had three air conditioners in there. It wasn't a bad little unit. It had three air conditioners.757
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:29,000
And one by one they all broke. And he got the last one, he replaced the last one. So then we had one working in the living room.758
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:40,000
He wouldn't fix the other two. I paid technicians to come out, well, three times, three times, I remember, to fix the one in the bedroom.759
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:49,000
And they tried and tried and tried and they said, look, we can't fix it. And so I'd get another tech and he'd come up, no, we can't fix it. It's got to be replaced.760
01:21:49,000 --> 01:22:00,000
And this German landlord would not do it. He wouldn't do it. He was a well-off guy. Well, his wealth went up and down. It came in streaks.761
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:13,000
He owned about, I don't know, probably, probably 10 houses, owned a resort. He wasn't hurting.762
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:18,000
I don't know why he couldn't pay that hospital. I never figured that out. He should have been able to just cash him out.763
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:27,000
But we finally had enough. We asked him again and again and again and again and again to fix the air cons.764
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:34,000
We finally ended up with a fan in the living room. We'd have to run the big air conditioner in the living room all night.765
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:42,000
Set pretty cold. And then we had a big fan trying to direct some cooler air into the bedroom so we could sleep.766
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:51,000
And he wouldn't fix it. He just wouldn't fix it. He just wouldn't. And we just got more and more frustrated.767
01:22:51,000 --> 01:23:00,000
And finally, that's it. Done. We have notice. It turned out that we were paying X amount for that place.768
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:14,000
We went a couple of miles away and found a gigantic mansion. Fucking two-story, like a six-bedroom, beautiful marble pillars in front.769
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:19,000
Big yard. Beautiful fucking place for the exact same price.770
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:35,000
Anyway, I had given him first and last. I gave him proper notice. I had the place professionally cleaned, like I always do.771
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:41,000
When we moved in, he had a vinyl sofa there and it had arms, armrests on each end.772
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:50,000
And they were all cracked and nasty and shitty, as vinyl always gets. It took years for them to get to that point. Nasty. Nasty.773
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:58,000
Just cracked and spiderweb cracks, you know, like glass gets.774
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:07,000
And I had mentioned that to him once or twice, but it was okay. I put doilies over them or whatever. And he just didn't care. Whatever.775
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:12,000
And so we did the walkthrough, the final walkthrough.776
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:19,000
And I'm expecting my deposit back because the place was way cleaner than it was when we moved in.777
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:22,000
And I had fixed a bunch of these broken goddamn shit.778
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:28,000
And he walked around and he said, well, you know, this sofa, these armrests are cracked up.779
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:33,000
I said, yeah, they were. You know, we talked about that. They were. They were when we moved in.780
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:45,000
No, they weren't. The sofa was brand new. Well, it takes years for those armrests to crack like that. Years.781
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:55,000
And you can't do that through mistreating them. It happens with age because the vinyl is cheap.782
01:24:55,000 --> 01:25:05,000
And in any case, that's called normal wear. And that's not the tenant's responsibility. Yes, it is.783
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:17,000
No, it's not. You come from a civilized country. You come from Germany. It's not the responsibility in any civilized country. Yes, it is.784
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:27,000
OK, what's next? What else you got? And there was a lamp on a little end table thing.785
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:34,000
And it had a wire going from the lamp across the wall in a shallow arc.786
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:45,000
And it went to a plug-in about six, seven feet away. And this cord on this thing had collected some dust.787
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:53,000
And some of that dust had sort of leached over to the wall because the cord was only like an eighth of an inch from the wall.788
01:25:53,000 --> 01:26:08,000
And some of the dust that had settled on the cord had gone over and settled also on the wall in a line that went along that cord.789
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:20,000
And I said, oh, look at that. And I said, well, OK, yeah, the wall's dirty right there where the cord is. This is your lamp. You put it there. We never moved it.790
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:27,000
I didn't put it there. And I said, OK, OK, OK, forget it.791
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:40,000
And I had a handkerchief in my pocket. And I started to wipe off. I just pulled the cord back a few inches and I started to wipe down the line of the cord. And it just came off. It was just dust.792
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:47,000
And he said, no, no, no, don't do that. We got to paint now. This will have to be painted.793
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:57,000
And I'm like, no, look, I just wiped two feet of it. You can't even tell where it was. What are you talking about? Painted.794
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:05,000
And he says, well, you know, it's just fucked up now. We got to paint it. We got to paint it. I said, OK, so you're going to paint this little section of the wall.795
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:13,000
No, no, no, no, no, no, we got to paint the whole apartment. We got to paint the whole apartment because that's, you know, we'll never get paint to match that, you know.796
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:23,000
OK, so that was it. And he just went down the line like that. Every single insane illogical thing.797
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And I got angrier and angrier and angrier because it was just a scam to keep my money.798
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And it wasn't that much money.799
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:45,000
This is a rundown little rat trapped in a shitty soy.800
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:51,000
And the rent had been very cheap and the deposit was only one month's rent.801
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And I just thought, what the fuck? You know, if we're in America, we'll just go into small claims group.802
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:10,000
I had a video of the place when we moved in and I was taking a video as I was going out, we'll just go to small claims group and you're going to pay me. But that's Thailand. You don't do that in Thailand. You can't. There's nothing like that.803
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:20,000
So in the end, he gave me back like 20 percent of my deposit.804
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:28,000
And I didn't say anything. I didn't say thank you. I didn't. I just took it. Got on the motorbike and rode away.805
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:36,000
About two weeks later, he sent somebody over to my new house. They had somehow figured out where we moved to.806
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And asked me if I wanted to come and visit this guy.807
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:51,000
What the fuck are you talking about? This guy stole my fucking money. Why would I go visit this piece of shit?808
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Oh, OK. And then that was the end of that. I never heard frying again. Oh, I did too soon. I saw him in the immigration.809
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I don't know, a couple of years later. And he tried to be friendly and smiling.810
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:08,000
That didn't fly.811
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:13,000
So I'm talking about landlords and we're going to talk about landlords at great length.812
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I've got a whole website. Huge. I told you it's 30, 40, 50 pages of.813
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Well, this one focuses on one particular bad landlord rental agency in Thailand run by Falangs.814
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:35,000
These guys are Australian. And that website has hurt them very, very seriously.815
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And I'm going to make sure it continues to hurt them for as long as I can.816
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But renting a room in Thailand, any Southeast Asia country, any of them, all of them, they're all equally fucked.817
01:29:54,000 --> 01:30:00,000
Fucked. I wish I knew a stronger word. I don't.818
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:06,000
I could use fancy words, but they don't have the same punch as fucked.819
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:12,000
They're going to steal from you pretty much every time. And what I learned was, here's the thing that I learned out of all this.820
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:20,000
I had a little tiny bit of trouble with Thai landlords, very, very, very, very little.821
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:28,000
Everybody screams about the Thai landlords. I don't know, for whatever reason, I had almost no trouble with them.822
01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:39,000
All of the trouble I had, and it was all big trouble, was from Falangs from whatever country.823
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:57,000
Falangs. The Falang businesses in Thailand, on all these countries, they are far more dishonest and scammy than the people over those nations.824
01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:05,000
Jesus Christ. So anyway, we moved out of that place.825
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:12,000
And went on to the next adventure. By this time I had a girlfriend.826
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:21,000
Pisaad. Fucking Pisaad. The Thai word for devil is Pisaad. So it would be like P-E-S-A-D. Pisaad.827
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:33,000
That's the direct translation to devil Satan. So we will talk at her at some considerable length, because you're going to get one too.828
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:44,000
It's going to be Thailand's gift to you. Oh, yeah. And you need to be aware of just how nasty they can be.829
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:57,000
Now in this particular case, she loved me. And here I'm going to say a really terrible, terrible illogical thing.830
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:13,000
I loved her. Still do. Pisaad. I loved Pisaad. And I'll tell you some of the shit that she pulled.831
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:19,000
Don't know why. I don't know why I loved her. No clue.832
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:28,000
Okay, so we're going to wrap this thing up. I have shitloads of notes here. I didn't even cover 10 percent of them.833
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:34,000
We covered various nationalities. What other nationalities are there? Really hard to be any.834
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:40,000
Occasionally we would see guys from Africa show up and they'd be in essentially grass skirts carrying spears.835
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:46,000
I don't know how the fuck they got them on the airplane. Maybe they're like, you know, collapsible spears they can go in the check bags.836
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:51,000
I don't know. They just walk around like, oh, look at that, look at that.837
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:57,000
You would see any and every kind of person there, just anything you could possibly imagine.838
01:32:57,000 --> 01:33:03,000
And that was fascinating to me because I just sit there clickety clickety clickety. Take a picture, take a picture.839
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:13,000
God, that was, I told you I've got 107,000 pictures that I haven't even served yet. They're in Lightroom. They're in folders I haven't even gotten to.840
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:21,000
So, okay, so we're done with nationalities, right? Oh, Americans. How many Americans? Very, very few. Very, very few.841
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:33,000
I think I knew maybe three, maybe three, maybe four. Maybe I forgot one. Maybe there was four. Hardly any.842
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:40,000
Because it's just like a long goddamn way from the US. It's a long fucking trip. It's a long trip to Thailand.843
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:45,000
Jesus goddamn Christ, when they had a direct flight, it was like 13 and a half hours.844
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:52,000
Now you got to hop. So that's going to bump it up to probably 20 hours. The time it's all said and done.845
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That's a horrific fucking trip. So the guys from the US just don't go there all that much. They go to the Philippines. It's easier. It's closer.846
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:10,000
They got directs to the Philippines from almost anywhere in the US.847
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:17,000
Canadians. God, I knew like one or two.848
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:26,000
Chinese. Chinese. Okay, I'll just make a note.849
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:33,000
Okay, we'll look at Chinese and then next time. Oh, I got Chinese stories.850
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:41,000
Okay. So there we go. We're done. Thank you very much.851
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:50,000
Oh, yeah, we're not. We're doing okay. But I'm tired. Thank you very much and good evening.852
01:34:50,000 --> 01:35:04,000
And South Dakota.