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Hey, Humans.

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How's it going? Susan Ruth here.

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Today, I'm talking with Todd Davis,

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Expat American now living in Thailand.

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He was a mover in shake in Los

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Angeles in the tech world back in the

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day,

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and

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he checked it all in and decided he

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could live with 100 things. Well, 300 things,

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but who's counting.

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So off he went on a new adventure

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and a new life.

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An interesting story.

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Maybe it's your story.

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Here we go.

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Hi Tab. I Susan. How are you doing?

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I'm well. How are you? You I'm well.

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Thank you for being here in the outside

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that we're recording outside. Yeah.

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Thank you being here in the world. It's

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a rare, cooled day it I'm during my

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stay in Nashville. So yeah. Right. Is this

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cool? You this is covid. I'm wearing a

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jacket. I guess.

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I serious to Thailand being. This... Yeah. This

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has been the whole thing. The whole

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trip here, like, not only here, but in

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Florida

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every place I go to air conditioned. Oh,

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I know. It is... It's ridiculous for me.

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I mean, I'm freezing. Yeah. That's why people

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get sick, You know, they go from the

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outside warm hot and then they come inside

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the. It's really cold and then they go

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back outside in your body's. I don't know

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what. What else 3 doing right now. Yeah.

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Well, that's how I fell. I... Well, I

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got cold... I got sick the first week

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I was here. So... Oh, you did. Maybe

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that was it. I... I don't know if

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it was... The

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because it it was, like, 20 hours. Oh.

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Yeah. Like, they... The to get from

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tokyo... I think I wanna do for 20

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hours straight. Yeah Not even sleep. Well, that's

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where Xanax and red wine comes in Andy.

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Yeah.

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10 a red wine. Go to sleep just

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outside of Hong Kong. Can wake up in

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Melee. So... Different than Ambient. Right? Ambient that

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makes you hall. Yeah. Ambient can do Really

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crazy. Sleep walk king and yeah Yeah. To

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be kind of exciting on a plane house.

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No. I'm tell folks and find folks. I

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yeah. Hello friend folks.

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Tad lives in Thailand, but I. But he

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did not always live in Thailand. You began

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your life in...

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Oh, Mail, Ohio? To state with the most...

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We have the most astronauts.

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Are you kidding? Yeah. Ohio. Okay. I think

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the most presidents too. I'm, I could be

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wrong the most astronauts. The most astronauts from

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our from... At least it used to be...

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Who know... Do we have so many astronauts

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now. Wow, because, you know, Now they've been

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sent up all the scientists or something that.

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I think that's changed. But I think back

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in the

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the astronaut days,

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They're good

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take off back Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Apollo and

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stuff like that. I think we had the

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most astronauts were from Oh ohio Oh my

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goodness. I need to go to Ohio. Yes.

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Exactly. You saying You Lance bass. You can...

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Oh, yeah. But he doesn't play my team.

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So he quit. He he quit my team?

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No. He quota Yeah. I quit in sync.

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I don't think he was ever wrong... No

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You know he was... He paid

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the the russians when they were running out

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money, paid them a couple million dollars, and

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then he dropped out for health,

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well, yeah. It's pretty hardcore on you to

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go into space. Yeah. I've been. Definitely the

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muscles and, you know, it's. Yeah. I'm for

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a week, though. I bad could it peak.

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No gravity for a week. Got it.

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Maybe you just couldn't handle the cheese or

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whatever. I used to think it would be

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nice to do but now, like, I'm the

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you know, sometimes standing up too quickly. Yeah.

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I'm like, whoa. Yeah.

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Yeah. They're I I would love to try

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on 1 of those anti gravity rooms sometime.

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And that be so cool. You mean in

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the plane where they open up and down?

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Wherever it is when you get to float?

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So eat. That's cool. Let's die Although. I

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might vomit. I don't know. I who knows.

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Most people do is what they say. Really?

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Yeah. That is your inner ear can generally.

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Yeah. Not enough drama I mean on the

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planet for there.

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Yeah. So, okay. Born in a while, and

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My dad was,

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his job, we was with a major hotel

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chains, so we moved all over the East

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Ended up doing high school in Florida, don't

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do it.

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It's Florida oh.

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Lovely state. I'm sure. So...

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went to College in Boston, ever college,

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Jay Len. That's the...

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Jay Len went. And he was not an

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astronaut. He was not an astronaut

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he's letting the team down.

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I was thinking up I my miami alley

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Florida the other day, I was nursing that

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the at the the call sign for landing

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there. Is m mia.

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It's not interesting. That people go to Miami

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to get lost and it Well there's

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Osaka is k.

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strange.

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Know I think they've run out of letters.

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No everybody gets the the the best ones.

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The best ones early on. Yeah.

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Anyway. See, Seattle where on from is c.

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Sea. Yeah. And That's a good 1. Easy.

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1. Makes me think of hamburgers.

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Like burger cambridge.

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I front of them. Yeah. Y'all all can

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send me a check. No

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So you moved around. You went to. Moved

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around went to school and Austin,

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wanted to be in the film business moved

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out to La. Was in the film business.

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What a short time. And you made movies

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or... Well, no. I

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I studied screen writing and with the intention

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of becoming a producer director.

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I went out there, and I just took

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the first job I could find which was

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foreign building Not born. But not porn now

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if that that was the last job I

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could find.

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It's a competitive porn.

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I'm kidding... I think it is. It it

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well not for men. It's not. No. I

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guess. Yeah. There's the... Yeah. Men are of

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dime it dozen. I think women are 2,

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Rash Jones and documentary Great documentary.

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Everybody should watch this. Goodness. That's it's oh.

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It would... That's depressing. Much that. Yeah. It

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anyways so... Anyways... I got into the film.

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I got into the film industry just building

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sets for Hbo. That's pretty long. It was

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cool. But, like, I felt, like I could

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do better, so I quit that and what

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do you mean? In... Well, just that they

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were we were working 14 hour days. Oh,

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6 days a week for 500 bucks a

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week. Exhausting. It it is exhausting, and did

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that for about a year.

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And so I'd decided to quit and look

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for something else and it I took a

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what I thought was gonna be a

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interim job. At the house of Blues, they

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were opening up the new house of Blues

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it was the corporate headquarters right on the

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sunset strip. And it's what year was this?

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Let's see. I graduated. Yeah. So around 94

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And that when I ended up staying a

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house of Blues for a number of years

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because I into there.

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This was before anybody knew what Internet was...

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Internet, but nobody knew what email was. It

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was before the world what web was known

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by anybody. Yeah. And we had a...

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in the... In the foundation room.

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this 1 of the guys of the staff

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talked the

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Isaac Tiger. It was the man who was

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also behind

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Hard rock cafe. Okay. And he... So he

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he had started house of blues and this...

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So you were at House of blues of

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the ground floor? I was at the ground

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floor. I was a host. I was, like,

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you know, is so amazing. I well they

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had already opened

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4 or 540,

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okay. But this was gonna be the big

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1. Yes. It's the big deal with all

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the movie starting

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California.

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time to be there on the... Like, early

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nineties on the sunset strip which was insane.

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I mean, it's just crazy party all the

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time and, you know, that was right around

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what River Phoenix was 1 of the investors

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a house of Blues, and he died just

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like, a couple months before it opened. So

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sad. Yeah And

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what a talent inside? Yeah. Well, well, his

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brother's done him

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good. Yeah. Yeah Joaquin amazing. Yeah.

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with the guy Was working for.

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Talked Isaac Tiger into starting a new media

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division, which was gonna deal with all this

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stuff called email and worldwide web and

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I said I know computers. So I was...

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Went in

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immediately

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corporate management.

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I just... I had computers from when I

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was young.

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I, in

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college, we we used some computers, but it's

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like, all the way, Ellen and I were

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talking about this, Ellen, your our

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jewel the acquaintance.

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It's

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trying to relate to kids nowadays. Like, all

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the way through... I didn't... When I graduated

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college, I was still working on a type

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writer,

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and I would do research in a library.

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I know these are things this, you know

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What's a love. It's people are listening to

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this kids say, Other library crazy magical places.

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I love libraries. I go to every library.

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I'm a big fan of real books. You

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cannot sniff a kindle. And I'm a big

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sniff. I am a love

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great. Oh Yeah. God, especially old book. Right.

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So Sorry for everybody out there in the

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audience who's sniffing their I ipod and not

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getting anything out of it. That'd be a

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good mention a scratch and snip. Just.

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Pod Just sort of sprays out whatever scent.

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Somebody come. Somebody will happen that

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So you said I know I know computers,

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so we got into this. We did the

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second

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streaming concert... Streaming video concert ever. Who was?

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It, Spear, which Michael Front. I don't know.

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I don't know who that. It was a

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Charity event.

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It was really cool, but we did it

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2 weeks to the day after the rolling

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stones did theirs.

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So, of course, they get all the credit.

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Sure. We got the... We had the first

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Is

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phone line or 1 of the first Is

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phone lines in Los Angeles,

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and it was, you know, Is is...

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Somebody out there is gonna know what you're

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talking about Yeah. I

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really slow, You know that

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Oh, the This was, like, the next step

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up, which nowadays people would call and complain

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if they had these speeds the sound that

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he makes and he's calling home. Yes. On

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the speaker spell. Yeah. Okay. I got it.

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That's the 1.

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But, yeah, this phone line, it was

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you know, AAA hundredth of the speed most

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people have today, and It took up a

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whole closet of equipment. Well. Yeah. That with

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3 guys install it, and it took 2

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days and it's just ridiculous yeah.

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But we did always fun

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stuff. You... I can take shit on the

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Internet. Okay. Yeah. Internet if

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Okay. Okay. Cool. And so then I'm I

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went along the Internet route,

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and that was cool. And it was... Because

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it was Call. Of that. It was also

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entertainment. Yeah. I fell into it. And this

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is just when it was taken off. I

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mean, literally,

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I... People did not you'd say, when I

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work on websites, and they they say, what's

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a website. He say, well, I have an

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email address and they... What's an email. Like

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just

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that nobody knew this stuff. You're not even

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that old. So... And No. It's not that

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long ago. It's really not 20 years. How

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far we've come.

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Short time is phenomenal. Yeah. It's amazing. And

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in the in the way... How fast things

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are now. You know, this is, you know,

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what my phone can do in my pocket

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I used to dream about. You know, some

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day, maybe my children will be able to

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watch streaming video on their phones. Now here

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it is.

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So, yeah, I moved there, I went to,

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I left house of Blues reluctant, but I

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got a really good offer from Gt

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interactive television where they were doing,

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the first,

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you know,

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you with your remote, you could play quiz

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shows and do all this kinda stuff that

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was kinda fun, but it was really...

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It was it was a 19 eighties idea.

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Mh. But nowadays you would just laugh at

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it, know, know, press a on your remote.

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Press b on your remote.

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It worked pretty well, and it... But I

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don't think it ever got out of the

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test market area.

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And then I got hired by Aol. Time

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Warner. Well, it was Aol at time.

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And out for those of you who are

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from, like... America on line, which... People still

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use Aol. Do people say... My parents are

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still aol?

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I they took my email address away from

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when I left it Was nearly upset about

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that. Yeah.

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Yeah. It's so Aol.

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That was a dial up service. And it

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just... So you came in at the ground

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believe aol. No. No No. Aol was well

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established when they hired me, but they were

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opening this Los Angeles division. They had actually

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bought a

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entertainment asylum, which was

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a website. That was already doing putting entertainment

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content on the web Right? And so Aol

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wanted to get into this, so they just

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bought this company out outright.

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But Aol

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was because Aol had its own

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a browser that lived on your computer and

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you got all your stuff that you didn't

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go... It didn't... It wasn't using websites. It

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was using Aol content. Oh, sure. So they

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didn't really know that much about the web.

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So I was the first... This is what

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they told me. I'm the first web master

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that was ever hired by Aol. How my

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god. Which was cool. Your picture is probably

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there somewhere. Oh, yeah. Maybe. Yeah. I doubt

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it. That's really cool. It one's really cool.

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The time. And and they gave me

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oh, I hell of a lot of money

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because back then, everything

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Internet was a lot of money. Yeah. So

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did that for a couple years. And the

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best part about that job,

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looking back on it.

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Is here we were in Los Angeles and

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a big part of my job was talking

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to people from

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movie studios

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and,

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a record companies

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and Tv production company. And you could already

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speak that lingo because you were because I

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had the entertainment background. Yeah. And with the

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music stuff, I learned it house of blues.

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And... What was that like to be in

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California the boom of computers and making hand

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fed's money wise. We know it. Well, it

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was... It was... I wasted as much as

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I got. You. You you you... There's this...

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I there's gotta be AAA term for it,

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but you spend what you earn. Immediately.

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Immediately. It's, like, I was waste. That I

402
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was going to stupid sushi every other night

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and stuff like that. No. So I I

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mean, it did... You're keeping up with the...

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Keeping up with the culture. I mean, it

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out there It's a it's a tried Kardashians.

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So keeping up with the, like, Kris Brink.

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I don't know it's big and Oh, but

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everybody was the it's everybody

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at that time in in La, Like, it

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was a it was kind of a boom

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time. Yeah. And everybody's making money. So it's

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always a a lot of cooking bigger car.

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Off. IIII

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managed to dodge that bullet.

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Yay. We were working so hard. Because of

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the Internet business also this thing where he

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you kinda had to work all time. Because,

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like I was saying, part of my job,

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big part of my job, was convincing these

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record Tv and,

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movie studios

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to

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put stuff on the Internet.

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Because they thought we were nuts. They they...

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You know, they'd say, who who's gonna listen

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to,

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you know, music off the Internet.

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Who was gonna look on the Internet to

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find out what's on Tv?

431
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Who was gonna, you know, read movie reviews

432
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on the Internet or watch movie trailers on

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the Internet? They thought we were crazy. They

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they they humor us.

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They gave us stuff to, you know, the

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the same stuff that they were handing out

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to people in newspapers. So we have to

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scan in photographs. And stuff like, no nothing

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was digitized. And they just... They thought we

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would be gone in a year. And so

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they just kinda of, you know, rolled their

442
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eyes and handed stuff over. Please tell me

443
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that they gave you stock for the whole

444
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time. Oh, I did get a lot of

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stock at Aol.

446
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That's what it at the end of the

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day. I mean, this during this period so

448
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went from

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nobody...

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Aol was at the time when people... Oh,

451
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everybody knew what the Internet was, but nobody

452
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was gonna last

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to... Then by the time I left Aol,

454
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Aol had made so much money that they

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bought the largest media company in the world,

456
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Time Warner. Right. Which set the stock through

457
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the roof

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and

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was probably the... But, I think it's it

460
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as the worst business decisions and it was

461
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ever made in the history of... Really? Business

462
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this is Yeah because it almost immediately started

463
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fa because, aol well, they had no

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knowledge of how to run a media company.

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And,

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Time warner and they were both really inflated

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and then the

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the

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the second bursting of the Internet bubble what

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happens, you know, where everybody said, hey, you

471
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know, this company is valued at a billion

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dollars, but it doesn't make anything.

473
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Happened still there? And I was still there

474
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when that started. Yeah. That was the thing

475
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my, you know, the stock

476
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it it went to really high.

477
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Aol time warner and then in this space

478
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of year, it went really low. Did you

479
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sell nice I sold it an okay time

480
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but not at the best time. I have

481
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some friends who sold the day that they

482
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could... The first... The day of this the

483
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purchase,

484
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and they made out like bandit. I'm that.

485
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But then again, they probably spend all their

486
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money too. Yeah. Like, at this point, I've

487
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spent all that money. So now you're you're

488
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at the kind of the heyday

489
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California's

490
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Internet stuff. You're going through the the craziness.

491
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And yeah. So then I got Well, the

492
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when Aol when all the value got lost,

493
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they started laying people off.

494
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And I got laid off,

495
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there was belt tightening type of stuff. Did

496
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you know that was gonna Well, we kinda

497
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knew because there was 1 round of lay

498
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and a lot of people left, and then

499
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we we got wind that there was a

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second round coming. And we... At that point

501
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worked really

502
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producing that much because we had

503
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established such a...

504
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Well, now there was competition. Yeah. Because it

505
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4, nobody was doing it because they thought

506
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we were crazy and it later on, they

507
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saw how much, you know, money in marketplace

508
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we'd taken advantage of. And so then everybody

509
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started doing it. So then it was competitive.

510
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So,

511
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you know, we weren't as busy as we

512
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used to be. So we, you know, you

513
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look around and everybody's got the feet up

514
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and hanging out. You know it's... Something's gonna

515
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change. And it did. And I got laid

516
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off, and they were very nice about it.

517
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And I got a lot of money out

518
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of it, And

519
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but then I didn't... III

520
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didn't wanna work because I was young and

521
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stupid

522
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So I just kicked back and I had

523
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a lot of money.

524
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So... And you had a house a car.

525
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I had a house and a car. While,

526
00:18:50,724 --> 00:18:52,730
I was still renting at that point. I

527
00:18:52,730 --> 00:18:54,956
should've have bought the the house I was

528
00:18:54,956 --> 00:18:56,888
renting, they offered it to me for

529
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300000 dollars

530
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And

531
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My guy, He mentioned would be worth today?

532
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It's worth about 2 and a half million

533
00:19:07,158 --> 00:19:08,434
the in the spot where it is. Because

534
00:19:08,434 --> 00:19:10,121
it's in the Hollywood Hills in the that...

535
00:19:10,676 --> 00:19:12,261
Yeah. There's a dozen. I was talking with

536
00:19:12,261 --> 00:19:14,005
my ex girlfriend just a couple weeks ago.

537
00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,303
There... We we used to... Just for fun

538
00:19:16,303 --> 00:19:17,909
go out on the weekend open houses.

539
00:19:18,628 --> 00:19:20,626
And if we bought any of the houses

540
00:19:20,626 --> 00:19:22,864
that we looked at, we it would have

541
00:19:22,864 --> 00:19:25,581
been, you know, a huge... A great investment

542
00:19:25,581 --> 00:19:26,081
because

543
00:19:26,794 --> 00:19:29,031
date is through the roof. Yeah. Exactly. It's

544
00:19:29,031 --> 00:19:32,227
all Su woulda. You can't try over that.

545
00:19:32,467 --> 00:19:34,715
So you're laid off, you're spending you're having

546
00:19:34,715 --> 00:19:36,942
a big... Taking my... I take an acting

547
00:19:36,942 --> 00:19:38,158
classes. I'm

548
00:19:38,852 --> 00:19:39,908
directing classes,

549
00:19:40,283 --> 00:19:40,602
you know,

550
00:19:41,413 --> 00:19:43,165
comedy classes. I was with the ground links

551
00:19:43,165 --> 00:19:45,157
for a little mile. That was fun. That's

552
00:19:45,157 --> 00:19:46,432
a that's a... That was a good time.

553
00:19:47,149 --> 00:19:49,220
Acting classes were great. I was at Play

554
00:19:49,220 --> 00:19:50,358
house west, which

555
00:19:50,829 --> 00:19:52,504
1 of the instructors is Jeff Gold bloom.

556
00:19:52,823 --> 00:19:52,982
Wow.

557
00:19:53,860 --> 00:19:55,774
1 of their most famous. I mean,

558
00:19:56,492 --> 00:19:57,608
Jim Carrey went there.

559
00:19:58,566 --> 00:19:58,885
Wow.

560
00:19:59,443 --> 00:20:00,400
Not when I was there.

561
00:20:01,134 --> 00:20:02,412
Ashley Judd. Yeah. And,

562
00:20:03,211 --> 00:20:05,230
but James Franco is their number 1

563
00:20:05,768 --> 00:20:08,266
guy. He's... I think he's still... Oh, he's

564
00:20:09,219 --> 00:20:10,815
a billion other things city he days. Yep

565
00:20:10,895 --> 00:20:11,395
Rent

566
00:20:11,772 --> 00:20:13,847
Franco that... Yeah. The man who doesn't sleep

567
00:20:13,926 --> 00:20:15,841
I guess. Yeah. He must not. He must

568
00:20:15,841 --> 00:20:17,551
not. Yeah. He's like my,

569
00:20:18,006 --> 00:20:19,755
seventh grade art teacher who only slept 3

570
00:20:19,755 --> 00:20:21,981
hours and Night. Really mister La. Yeah. He

571
00:20:21,981 --> 00:20:23,571
only had 3 fingers on 1 hand. I

572
00:20:23,571 --> 00:20:25,967
think he probably was tired. But, yeah. When

573
00:20:25,967 --> 00:20:28,662
he lost the other 2 Guessing. Shopping care.

574
00:20:28,820 --> 00:20:31,198
It's right halfway. Maintaining all his fingers so

575
00:20:31,198 --> 00:20:33,765
far, which is good. Yeah So yeah. It's...

576
00:20:34,164 --> 00:20:36,164
So wow, You're living it up. I was

577
00:20:36,164 --> 00:20:37,605
living it up, and then I decided it,

578
00:20:37,684 --> 00:20:38,904
and then I ran for

579
00:20:39,765 --> 00:20:40,805
Hollywood City council.

580
00:20:41,779 --> 00:20:45,216
Which? There wasn't 1 Then I was 33

581
00:20:45,272 --> 00:20:46,383
something. Any

582
00:20:46,939 --> 00:20:47,677
And I

583
00:20:48,606 --> 00:20:48,765
yeah.

584
00:20:49,654 --> 00:20:50,533
Maybe 32.

585
00:20:51,412 --> 00:20:51,912
And

586
00:20:53,250 --> 00:20:55,647
counsel of Well, somebody had this bright idea,

587
00:20:55,807 --> 00:20:57,005
Hollywood's only a neighborhood.

588
00:20:57,979 --> 00:20:59,097
I don't think a lot of people know

589
00:20:59,097 --> 00:21:00,456
that that Yeah. A lot of people don't.

590
00:21:00,696 --> 00:21:01,355
It's like...

591
00:21:02,134 --> 00:21:03,413
City in the world it's not really a

592
00:21:03,413 --> 00:21:05,944
city. Yes. He always figured that all the

593
00:21:06,064 --> 00:21:07,902
parts all their own cities, but, you know,

594
00:21:08,141 --> 00:21:10,059
Had mentioned earlier that Yeah. Los Angeles is,

595
00:21:10,138 --> 00:21:13,426
like, the biggest city in the world. With,

596
00:21:13,585 --> 00:21:13,665
like,

597
00:21:14,618 --> 00:21:16,922
the 8 acreage wise, I guess. You can

598
00:21:16,922 --> 00:21:17,081
fit.

599
00:21:17,955 --> 00:21:18,908
I found this picture

600
00:21:19,385 --> 00:21:21,464
the other day you can fit, like 12

601
00:21:21,464 --> 00:21:24,401
major metropolitan in American cities inside the boundaries

602
00:21:24,401 --> 00:21:25,274
of Los Angeles.

603
00:21:26,623 --> 00:21:29,105
And so each of those like Hollywood and

604
00:21:29,265 --> 00:21:32,455
Hollywood. The brand Silver. Hollywood all that stuff.

605
00:21:32,694 --> 00:21:34,449
Except for, like West Hollywood is its own

606
00:21:34,449 --> 00:21:34,689
city,

607
00:21:35,486 --> 00:21:38,453
which is really, you know, Burbank city pasadena

608
00:21:38,453 --> 00:21:40,211
in its own city. Okay. But outside of

609
00:21:40,211 --> 00:21:42,368
that, everything's kind of in Santa Monica.

610
00:21:43,487 --> 00:21:46,212
But everybody else is all lumped together,

611
00:21:46,768 --> 00:21:47,086
and

612
00:21:49,071 --> 00:21:52,168
Hollywood was putting 75000000 dollars per year into

613
00:21:52,168 --> 00:21:52,906
the kitty

614
00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:55,043
more than it was getting back in services.

615
00:21:55,602 --> 00:21:57,836
So this idea came about. Well, let's separate

616
00:21:57,915 --> 00:21:59,112
Hollywood. Well I put it up to a

617
00:21:59,112 --> 00:22:00,708
vote. We'll separate Hollywood, and then Hollywood will

618
00:22:00,708 --> 00:22:03,057
be its own city. We'll have 75000000

619
00:22:03,113 --> 00:22:05,182
extra dollars to spend on it because I

620
00:22:05,182 --> 00:22:06,772
don't know if you been to Hollywood. It's

621
00:22:06,772 --> 00:22:07,488
a little ghetto.

622
00:22:08,363 --> 00:22:10,707
It's been changed a lot in the past

623
00:22:10,922 --> 00:22:12,273
the the 10 years, I was just there.

624
00:22:12,353 --> 00:22:13,783
It looks a lot nicer, but at the

625
00:22:13,783 --> 00:22:15,134
time, it was pretty ghetto.

626
00:22:16,962 --> 00:22:17,462
And

627
00:22:19,126 --> 00:22:20,641
yeah. And then we'll have a City council.

628
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:21,858
And so

629
00:22:22,713 --> 00:22:23,271
they had a...

630
00:22:25,025 --> 00:22:26,595
They had a... What is it? On the

631
00:22:26,714 --> 00:22:28,311
it was should Hollywood would be a city.

632
00:22:28,471 --> 00:22:30,466
And if Hollywood a city, who's gonna be

633
00:22:30,466 --> 00:22:32,222
on City Council. Who gets a vote for

634
00:22:32,222 --> 00:22:34,218
that the... Everybody in los Angeles. Oh my

635
00:22:34,218 --> 00:22:36,970
god. It's the thing. And if we're outnumbered

636
00:22:37,029 --> 00:22:39,589
because Hollywood a tiny little neighborhood in a

637
00:22:39,589 --> 00:22:40,950
big city, and they'd used,

638
00:22:42,470 --> 00:22:43,829
I learned so much about politics.

639
00:22:44,309 --> 00:22:46,321
Like, they, you know, there were show or

640
00:22:46,321 --> 00:22:48,628
the scare tactics were just out in style,

641
00:22:49,026 --> 00:22:50,957
and they're telling people who lived in Hollywood,

642
00:22:51,571 --> 00:22:53,735
you know, oh, well, you not gonna get

643
00:22:53,735 --> 00:22:56,523
fire service. The police won't come... You know,

644
00:22:56,682 --> 00:22:59,969
if say there's a a natural disaster the

645
00:23:00,186 --> 00:23:03,067
police from the you know, ing. I'm gonna

646
00:23:03,067 --> 00:23:04,739
come up to Hollywood and help you, and

647
00:23:04,739 --> 00:23:06,115
it and it was all

648
00:23:06,490 --> 00:23:09,650
bull. Yeah. But nobody knows this kinda is

649
00:23:09,769 --> 00:23:10,987
you know, you're talking about,

650
00:23:12,242 --> 00:23:12,742
California

651
00:23:13,439 --> 00:23:15,832
constitutional law and stuff like this and nobody

652
00:23:15,832 --> 00:23:17,605
knows that. So they can flyer in their

653
00:23:17,605 --> 00:23:18,085
mailbox.

654
00:23:18,565 --> 00:23:20,244
Get. It says that they're not gonna... You

655
00:23:20,244 --> 00:23:21,065
won't have firefighters.

656
00:23:21,525 --> 00:23:23,684
It's like, well, we're gonna have 75000000 dollars

657
00:23:23,684 --> 00:23:23,924
more.

658
00:23:24,579 --> 00:23:25,931
To spend on all this stuff that we

659
00:23:25,931 --> 00:23:28,159
do right now. Yeah. It means including fire...

660
00:23:28,398 --> 00:23:30,546
The money that are currently spending on fire

661
00:23:30,546 --> 00:23:32,694
and police. That's not gonna change. Anything that

662
00:23:32,694 --> 00:23:34,861
they still don't you know, scare tactics and

663
00:23:34,861 --> 00:23:37,094
politics. Yes. That's right. I'm mean, glad everybody

664
00:23:37,094 --> 00:23:38,529
has turned around and now they only tell

665
00:23:38,529 --> 00:23:40,045
the truth and everything's fact paced.

666
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,684
Yeah That's really interesting coming factoring an election

667
00:23:44,684 --> 00:23:46,915
years. Oh how crazy. This yeah. The rest

668
00:23:46,915 --> 00:23:49,146
of the world things work. I am look

669
00:23:49,146 --> 00:23:51,695
get. I'm running touch well but. Yeah. I

670
00:23:51,695 --> 00:23:54,024
wanna... Never England because yeah down there because

671
00:23:54,024 --> 00:23:55,865
they can't say anything. Yeah. So

672
00:23:56,345 --> 00:23:58,024
so you're running for counsel.

673
00:23:58,345 --> 00:24:00,024
City Council so they said should Hollywood would

674
00:24:00,024 --> 00:24:02,035
be a city and if So who's gonna

675
00:24:02,035 --> 00:24:03,471
be on City council. And I was 1

676
00:24:03,471 --> 00:24:04,028
of the guys.

677
00:24:04,746 --> 00:24:06,580
There were, I think there were 14 or

678
00:24:06,580 --> 00:24:08,414
15 us us on the ballot. It was

679
00:24:08,414 --> 00:24:10,340
gonna be 6 people on city council. I

680
00:24:10,340 --> 00:24:11,056
came in 7.

681
00:24:12,329 --> 00:24:14,181
Yeah. I know. But I beat Angel.

682
00:24:14,874 --> 00:24:16,170
Ja. And

683
00:24:16,639 --> 00:24:18,077
yeah. Angel and the girl the

684
00:24:18,637 --> 00:24:19,675
And the girls on all of the.

685
00:24:20,634 --> 00:24:22,732
The the boot and the pink corvette

686
00:24:23,111 --> 00:24:24,960
last name. Yeah. I her by a couple

687
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,030
hundred votes of reach out very proud. Absolutely.

688
00:24:27,269 --> 00:24:30,613
Because she's famous this. Yes. Exactly. Wow. So

689
00:24:31,011 --> 00:24:32,227
that's that's my claim

690
00:24:32,696 --> 00:24:34,601
And... And Had only killed 1 other person.

691
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,458
I could've had. Did Hollywood cater did they?

692
00:24:37,617 --> 00:24:38,966
No. They didn't. They voted it against it.

693
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,643
They've they... All this this tactics worked. I

694
00:24:42,643 --> 00:24:45,360
they often do. And they were funded by

695
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:48,258
the anti succession campaign was funded by

696
00:24:49,276 --> 00:24:50,256
a big

697
00:24:51,127 --> 00:24:52,955
well, I... I wanna say any names with

698
00:24:52,955 --> 00:24:54,545
big property developers.

699
00:24:55,181 --> 00:24:56,691
Got most of their money, and now you

700
00:24:56,691 --> 00:24:58,202
go back to Hollywood now and you see

701
00:24:58,202 --> 00:25:00,164
all these new developments going up and guess

702
00:25:00,283 --> 00:25:01,472
got all the contracts. Yeah.

703
00:25:02,343 --> 00:25:03,849
Yeah. Shocker. Yeah. Well,

704
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,176
tail as all this time. Yeah. Exactly. So

705
00:25:07,176 --> 00:25:09,265
would do after that... So then I needed

706
00:25:09,265 --> 00:25:10,862
a break. So I went... I took a

707
00:25:10,862 --> 00:25:13,597
holiday to Asia, and I went to Thailand

708
00:25:13,656 --> 00:25:15,731
because, I was told Thailand the easiest place

709
00:25:15,731 --> 00:25:16,231
to

710
00:25:16,863 --> 00:25:18,240
start, like, a backpack,

711
00:25:19,334 --> 00:25:21,167
adventure if you've never been I have not

712
00:25:21,167 --> 00:25:23,160
been. To Asia on a backpack venture. But

713
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,116
you... If you do,

714
00:25:25,009 --> 00:25:27,246
start in Thailand. Yeah. That's it's daisy. That

715
00:25:27,246 --> 00:25:30,522
they're wonderful people, Really nice. It's really geared

716
00:25:30,522 --> 00:25:31,341
towards tourism

717
00:25:32,852 --> 00:25:34,682
and it too. Wow. It's a really beautiful

718
00:25:34,682 --> 00:25:35,420
laid back

719
00:25:35,875 --> 00:25:36,375
tropical

720
00:25:36,830 --> 00:25:39,455
country. Yeah. And I loved it, and I

721
00:25:39,455 --> 00:25:41,938
never ended up leaving Thailand in 2 months

722
00:25:41,938 --> 00:25:44,248
that I was traveling. Oh, see. Okay. Yeah.

723
00:25:44,487 --> 00:25:45,683
Yeah. I was supposed to go to a

724
00:25:45,683 --> 00:25:47,675
number of places, and I never left Thailand

725
00:25:47,675 --> 00:25:49,362
because I was having so much fun. Next

726
00:25:49,362 --> 00:25:50,632
year, I went back, and I stayed for

727
00:25:50,632 --> 00:25:51,029
4 months.

728
00:25:51,823 --> 00:25:53,014
And then the next year, I went back.

729
00:25:53,173 --> 00:25:54,046
I stayed for 6 months.

730
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,586
And How were you... Oh, you had money?

731
00:25:56,904 --> 00:25:58,824
I had money, and, I was I was,

732
00:25:58,983 --> 00:26:01,127
you know, Yeah wasting it. They were flushed.

733
00:26:01,603 --> 00:26:03,111
It was flushed. And

734
00:26:03,746 --> 00:26:05,596
but I wasn't so flushed that

735
00:26:06,543 --> 00:26:08,319
I could afford to pay

736
00:26:09,015 --> 00:26:11,647
car payments and insurance and rent and this

737
00:26:11,727 --> 00:26:13,322
I'm back home and a place this before

738
00:26:13,561 --> 00:26:15,715
Airbnb. Like, nowadays, I could just rent it

739
00:26:15,715 --> 00:26:17,799
out. Yeah. Sub it. But

740
00:26:18,516 --> 00:26:20,346
so I'd decided, You know what? Let's take

741
00:26:20,346 --> 00:26:21,221
a grand adventure,

742
00:26:23,131 --> 00:26:25,063
cash out in the states

743
00:26:26,012 --> 00:26:27,071
Sell Alma junk

744
00:26:27,608 --> 00:26:27,927
and

745
00:26:28,565 --> 00:26:30,480
move forward to Thailand. Are he's scared to

746
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,155
do that. I mean, Yeah. I was terrifying.

747
00:26:32,569 --> 00:26:34,880
Yet. But at the same time, I... Well,

748
00:26:35,198 --> 00:26:36,096
I've been there

749
00:26:36,473 --> 00:26:37,907
3 or 4 times in a row. Yeah.

750
00:26:38,624 --> 00:26:40,073
I established French ships.

751
00:26:41,346 --> 00:26:42,403
I had a good

752
00:26:43,495 --> 00:26:45,404
grounding, and I I knew where I was

753
00:26:45,404 --> 00:26:47,289
gonna stay at the beginning and stuff like

754
00:26:47,408 --> 00:26:48,225
that. So

755
00:26:48,597 --> 00:26:49,572
it was all

756
00:26:50,657 --> 00:26:52,717
it it a irrational fear. I like, oh,

757
00:26:52,796 --> 00:26:54,064
no. What if it all goes wrong.

758
00:26:54,634 --> 00:26:55,990
Which you could say that about anything... I.

759
00:26:56,149 --> 00:26:57,664
I don't know if that's an irrational fear.

760
00:26:57,824 --> 00:26:59,897
That's and a pretty... Well, I could always

761
00:26:59,897 --> 00:27:01,811
just hop back and complain back in America

762
00:27:01,811 --> 00:27:03,779
and get a job at Starbucks and you

763
00:27:04,059 --> 00:27:05,097
like, life would go on.

764
00:27:06,214 --> 00:27:09,008
They're okay with Americans coming to... Yeah. I.

765
00:27:09,248 --> 00:27:11,403
They've got a lot of foreigners Yeah. Living

766
00:27:11,403 --> 00:27:14,131
over their ex expat. There's a... It's a

767
00:27:14,131 --> 00:27:14,631
little

768
00:27:16,204 --> 00:27:18,516
bureaucratic and jumping through Hoop. Yeah. But every

769
00:27:18,516 --> 00:27:19,711
time III

770
00:27:19,711 --> 00:27:22,116
get frustrated with it and or you know,

771
00:27:22,513 --> 00:27:23,466
complain about it. I just...

772
00:27:24,498 --> 00:27:25,133
I brought my,

773
00:27:25,768 --> 00:27:28,468
about 4 years ago, I brought my girlfriend

774
00:27:28,468 --> 00:27:30,135
at the time who was tied here to

775
00:27:30,294 --> 00:27:30,611
America.

776
00:27:31,261 --> 00:27:33,088
And just for her to get a holiday

777
00:27:33,088 --> 00:27:35,176
visa To come to America was

778
00:27:35,947 --> 00:27:38,886
ridiculous American stuff on the American side. Americans

779
00:27:38,886 --> 00:27:39,283
are really

780
00:27:40,569 --> 00:27:42,329
Somebody thai person to come here and live

781
00:27:42,329 --> 00:27:44,169
here. Just ridiculous. All I had to do

782
00:27:44,169 --> 00:27:45,849
is fly into Thailand and get off the

783
00:27:45,849 --> 00:27:47,690
plane. Yeah. And that was it. And then

784
00:27:47,849 --> 00:27:50,224
I could change my Visa afterwards and establish

785
00:27:51,065 --> 00:27:51,804
not residency,

786
00:27:52,105 --> 00:27:53,144
but, like, temporary.

787
00:27:54,424 --> 00:27:56,845
Yeah. We're not really based on letting people

788
00:27:57,065 --> 00:27:58,825
come in. No. Not just can't just walk

789
00:27:58,825 --> 00:28:01,338
in. Yeah. Especially And, well, this was post

790
00:28:01,797 --> 00:28:03,476
09:11. Yeah. When I was going over to

791
00:28:03,556 --> 00:28:04,115
Thailand. Yeah.

792
00:28:05,394 --> 00:28:07,631
So you cashed in all your chips and

793
00:28:07,631 --> 00:28:10,039
you... Sold the car sold all my sessions,

794
00:28:10,276 --> 00:28:12,099
you know, what I could sell, Craigslist.

795
00:28:13,208 --> 00:28:14,500
That must have been liberating.

796
00:28:14,872 --> 00:28:17,346
It was it was really liver. Right. I

797
00:28:17,346 --> 00:28:19,574
sent, like, 3 large boxes over to Thailand

798
00:28:19,574 --> 00:28:20,211
ahead of myself,

799
00:28:22,041 --> 00:28:22,996
but that was about it.

800
00:28:23,950 --> 00:28:24,450
And

801
00:28:24,905 --> 00:28:26,911
so... And that stuff since been lost.

802
00:28:27,787 --> 00:28:29,539
So how do... What do you mean? Oh,

803
00:28:29,778 --> 00:28:32,168
I've I've definitely sent to Thailand Yeah.

804
00:28:33,761 --> 00:28:36,638
It's... I had some friends who I went

805
00:28:36,638 --> 00:28:37,591
into business with,

806
00:28:39,258 --> 00:28:41,402
and they were... Their business was on somebody

807
00:28:41,402 --> 00:28:44,514
else's property and When I was somewhere else

808
00:28:44,514 --> 00:28:46,268
they had a falling out with the people

809
00:28:46,268 --> 00:28:48,022
whose business was on the... Who owned the

810
00:28:48,022 --> 00:28:50,095
property. Yeah. So they got kicked off the

811
00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:51,849
property, but the people own the property were

812
00:28:51,849 --> 00:28:53,045
very nice to me, and they said, hey,

813
00:28:53,205 --> 00:28:55,046
we kept all your stuff. Oh, don't worry

814
00:28:55,046 --> 00:28:57,348
about it. And then I... The next time

815
00:28:57,428 --> 00:28:58,619
I was back. I it, hey where's my

816
00:28:58,619 --> 00:29:00,762
stuff Oh, it's around here somewhere, and then

817
00:29:00,762 --> 00:29:02,530
it did you have months go by in

818
00:29:02,530 --> 00:29:04,284
years go by and eventually, I see, you

819
00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:04,443
know,

820
00:29:05,639 --> 00:29:07,154
a gift that I got from an next

821
00:29:07,154 --> 00:29:09,785
girlfriend is in somebody's bun somewhere.

822
00:29:10,118 --> 00:29:11,232
On the wall. And, yeah.

823
00:29:12,664 --> 00:29:15,925
And but that was also liberating In all

824
00:29:15,925 --> 00:29:18,174
the stuff I felt, like desperate. This was

825
00:29:18,255 --> 00:29:20,894
I had whittled everything down, like, to only

826
00:29:20,894 --> 00:29:23,215
the things that were the most important and

827
00:29:23,215 --> 00:29:25,295
most necessary. And then those were And those

828
00:29:25,295 --> 00:29:27,864
were taken away and they everything life went

829
00:29:27,864 --> 00:29:28,024
on.

830
00:29:28,821 --> 00:29:30,973
I think it's such a huge lesson in

831
00:29:30,973 --> 00:29:32,807
that. Is that we're so... And my parents,

832
00:29:32,886 --> 00:29:34,775
for example, they have, I think 3 store

833
00:29:34,894 --> 00:29:37,392
lockers packed. Yeah. Pull of crazy.

834
00:29:37,770 --> 00:29:39,288
I mean, it's a cold here and Been

835
00:29:39,288 --> 00:29:40,646
like, you know, their lives are in there,

836
00:29:40,726 --> 00:29:41,765
but being in here now.

837
00:29:42,576 --> 00:29:45,299
Is just nuts. Yeah. Like because I still

838
00:29:45,434 --> 00:29:48,928
have really minuscule amount of stuff. Yeah. I've

839
00:29:49,087 --> 00:29:50,516
I've even thought about. You seen this thing

840
00:29:50,516 --> 00:29:52,363
on hey that they Internet. I don't know

841
00:29:52,363 --> 00:29:53,802
if it's on the Internet or Fixed right.

842
00:29:54,201 --> 00:29:54,281
Yeah.

843
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,519
Let me explain it to you.

844
00:29:57,158 --> 00:29:58,437
You wanna advertise with us.

845
00:30:01,089 --> 00:30:02,068
That the hundred

846
00:30:02,448 --> 00:30:03,087
hundred things.

847
00:30:04,365 --> 00:30:06,463
Is this kind of philosophy

848
00:30:07,961 --> 00:30:08,201
life?

849
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,605
You need is this thermos volume remote control.

850
00:30:11,081 --> 00:30:13,461
Exactly. Yeah. And it's a hundred things

851
00:30:14,255 --> 00:30:15,049
The. They're saying,

852
00:30:15,842 --> 00:30:17,429
just whittle your life down to a hundred

853
00:30:17,429 --> 00:30:20,393
things. Just a hundred material positions. Go through

854
00:30:20,393 --> 00:30:21,908
everything you own and pick out. What does

855
00:30:21,908 --> 00:30:24,221
your house things Well I suppose? No. I

856
00:30:24,221 --> 00:30:27,092
don't know. It's just material possession. Just things

857
00:30:27,092 --> 00:30:29,360
you can pick up and move out. So

858
00:30:29,576 --> 00:30:32,360
and and including clothes. So maybe you have,

859
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:32,519
like...

860
00:30:33,712 --> 00:30:35,144
About this. I think there was a guy

861
00:30:35,144 --> 00:30:36,869
on a podcast I listened to was talking

862
00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:39,293
that. Yeah. Yeah. I've thought about doing it,

863
00:30:39,372 --> 00:30:41,438
but I I think I'm... I'm probably down

864
00:30:41,438 --> 00:30:41,938
to

865
00:30:42,789 --> 00:30:44,855
300 things, and I'm happy with that. I

866
00:30:44,855 --> 00:30:45,593
don't wanna

867
00:30:45,982 --> 00:30:48,051
I I kind of like the little bit

868
00:30:48,051 --> 00:30:49,961
of convenience, but it just goes to show

869
00:30:49,961 --> 00:30:53,779
you how little of this consumer culture, you

870
00:30:53,779 --> 00:30:54,575
must have it now.

871
00:30:55,307 --> 00:30:57,060
Oh, it's so... We don't need. It's such

872
00:30:57,060 --> 00:31:00,327
brainwashing. It is crazy. Isn't buying new cars

873
00:31:00,327 --> 00:31:03,275
every Yeah. Year or 2 and, yeah. Oh

874
00:31:03,275 --> 00:31:05,683
it's ridiculous. Right. We're, from the day we're

875
00:31:05,683 --> 00:31:07,361
born, we're told why we're not good enough

876
00:31:07,361 --> 00:31:08,959
that we don't have enough stuff why our

877
00:31:08,959 --> 00:31:10,397
stuff isn't as good as is that guy

878
00:31:10,397 --> 00:31:12,635
stuff. Why we should look like this or

879
00:31:12,635 --> 00:31:14,006
be like like this or own this or...

880
00:31:14,325 --> 00:31:16,479
Nowadays, I I think I find it even

881
00:31:16,479 --> 00:31:18,632
more insidious, and I don't think it's a...

882
00:31:19,509 --> 00:31:20,945
I don't think it's planned this way,

883
00:31:21,583 --> 00:31:24,792
but, marketing is an advantage of this is,

884
00:31:25,671 --> 00:31:26,171
everything

885
00:31:26,629 --> 00:31:27,129
in

886
00:31:27,588 --> 00:31:29,206
news seems to me

887
00:31:29,585 --> 00:31:31,746
to be be be afraid. Be afraid be

888
00:31:31,746 --> 00:31:33,968
afraid agree with. Time's going down, but still,

889
00:31:34,126 --> 00:31:36,586
you know, there's 4 murder reports That some

890
00:31:36,586 --> 00:31:39,384
purpose. I definitely that's Well, And then for

891
00:31:39,384 --> 00:31:41,941
a speaker all. I I really know I

892
00:31:42,101 --> 00:31:44,018
I think it's... What's a means of control.

893
00:31:44,258 --> 00:31:47,135
Yeah. Absolutely. And and then the marketing side

894
00:31:47,135 --> 00:31:49,143
of it is... Oh, this this will make

895
00:31:49,143 --> 00:31:50,657
it better. It's to make it better. Sure.

896
00:31:50,816 --> 00:31:53,605
I are you stretched anxiety? Yeah. It the...

897
00:31:53,924 --> 00:31:54,902
I remember

898
00:31:55,850 --> 00:31:56,248
you know,

899
00:31:57,122 --> 00:31:58,713
8 years ago when I came back.

900
00:31:59,508 --> 00:32:02,132
To America. To America from living overseas, and

901
00:32:02,212 --> 00:32:03,460
I don't even living there a couple

902
00:32:04,769 --> 00:32:05,269
seeing

903
00:32:05,642 --> 00:32:07,468
every other ad on Tv was... Do you

904
00:32:07,468 --> 00:32:09,214
have nervous lake syndrome and while you're sleeping?

905
00:32:09,611 --> 00:32:11,199
And you buy this and there were 2

906
00:32:11,199 --> 00:32:12,960
or 3 different products out there to treat

907
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,423
your nervous leg syndrome. What happens to that

908
00:32:15,423 --> 00:32:16,853
epidemic of nervous like syndrome?

909
00:32:17,489 --> 00:32:18,998
Because I don't see any ads for that

910
00:32:18,998 --> 00:32:21,565
stuff now? But apparently, it was like the

911
00:32:21,565 --> 00:32:22,842
worst thing ever happening.

912
00:32:23,481 --> 00:32:24,519
And it... It's just...

913
00:32:25,397 --> 00:32:27,951
You if you buy this. Right. Everything will

914
00:32:27,951 --> 00:32:30,119
be better. And thing ever is. It's no

915
00:32:30,358 --> 00:32:33,308
Because it's the... As dealer chuck canon, some

916
00:32:33,308 --> 00:32:34,981
writer. He's it hit some in town,

917
00:32:35,619 --> 00:32:37,466
you wrote a song called God shaped hole.

918
00:32:37,864 --> 00:32:39,454
If that you can't fill a god shaped

919
00:32:39,454 --> 00:32:41,997
hole. In other words, you know, we... We're

920
00:32:41,997 --> 00:32:44,835
constantly on the outside of everything trying to

921
00:32:45,114 --> 00:32:47,267
make ourselves to to pla kate and to

922
00:32:47,267 --> 00:32:49,123
soothe and to solve and

923
00:32:50,059 --> 00:32:51,654
it's to go within. I mean he's very

924
00:32:51,654 --> 00:32:52,872
buddhist and they

925
00:32:53,329 --> 00:32:54,605
to go within and be like, you know

926
00:32:54,605 --> 00:32:56,940
what? I I don't... I don't need this

927
00:32:56,940 --> 00:32:58,859
latest greatest thing to feel better about myself,

928
00:32:59,019 --> 00:33:00,700
but it... It's a real thing. I mean...

929
00:33:00,859 --> 00:33:02,460
It it is and that if people are

930
00:33:02,460 --> 00:33:05,029
making... Somebody's make killing. When I was 20

931
00:33:05,029 --> 00:33:07,023
and would get depressed I would go shopping,

932
00:33:07,182 --> 00:33:08,936
and I would feel so much better done

933
00:33:08,936 --> 00:33:11,488
by shopping. Your releases is Dopamine. I mean

934
00:33:11,488 --> 00:33:14,934
it's an actual factual things. The hunting gathering.

935
00:33:15,174 --> 00:33:15,334
Yeah.

936
00:33:16,052 --> 00:33:17,329
Yeah tapped into that. Yeah.

937
00:33:18,127 --> 00:33:19,804
That's why Amazed so many shopping malls are

938
00:33:19,804 --> 00:33:21,161
going out of business. But now you can

939
00:33:21,161 --> 00:33:21,775
do it from

940
00:33:22,292 --> 00:33:23,646
you know, with your fat ass on the

941
00:33:23,646 --> 00:33:26,195
big couch. Maybe they should combine the hunting

942
00:33:26,195 --> 00:33:28,345
with the shopping mall, so you, like, they've

943
00:33:28,345 --> 00:33:30,279
released Gaze down the the

944
00:33:31,227 --> 00:33:34,012
be I some of these place. Is really

945
00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:35,444
king. Very awesome.

946
00:33:37,433 --> 00:33:40,013
We just solved have the world's from. This

947
00:33:40,069 --> 00:33:41,734
no. It's the homeless. See. Just hunt the

948
00:33:41,734 --> 00:33:43,638
homeless. Oh, we got plenty of them. The

949
00:33:43,638 --> 00:33:45,799
movie was that. That was moved be. Oh,

950
00:33:45,959 --> 00:33:46,538
that's a

951
00:33:46,917 --> 00:33:49,873
man bunch. Yeah. Very dystopian future where you

952
00:33:49,873 --> 00:33:52,110
on the. It's not just... Oh, how even

953
00:33:52,110 --> 00:33:54,460
get me started about... Oh, it's it's very

954
00:33:54,758 --> 00:33:56,693
horribly we treat. We're in this d.

955
00:33:57,071 --> 00:33:59,145
I know. A age with the social media,

956
00:33:59,224 --> 00:34:00,820
and You don't have to go anywhere. We

957
00:34:00,820 --> 00:34:01,958
were talking today

958
00:34:02,415 --> 00:34:04,896
about how kids don't really, it's not a

959
00:34:04,896 --> 00:34:07,044
big deal to get your driver's license. Right?

960
00:34:07,282 --> 00:34:09,565
Because they're not going anywhere. Yeah. They interact

961
00:34:09,604 --> 00:34:11,430
with everybody online. They don't ever have to...

962
00:34:11,747 --> 00:34:13,731
We used to we used to walk 4

963
00:34:13,731 --> 00:34:16,112
miles to to beat our friends. I used

964
00:34:16,112 --> 00:34:18,034
to ride the bus. Yeah. I was in

965
00:34:18,114 --> 00:34:20,181
Los Angeles. I I had a I had

966
00:34:20,340 --> 00:34:22,566
I have, my, credit card. I had some

967
00:34:22,566 --> 00:34:23,066
snap

968
00:34:23,918 --> 00:34:26,541
that... But I had reserved this rental car.

969
00:34:26,954 --> 00:34:28,385
When I arrived at the airport, and they

970
00:34:28,385 --> 00:34:29,817
wouldn't give it to me because my credit

971
00:34:29,817 --> 00:34:31,965
card had some sort of problem. So I

972
00:34:31,965 --> 00:34:32,521
had to take

973
00:34:33,714 --> 00:34:36,115
2 subway trains and then but, I need

974
00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:37,093
to take 2 buses

975
00:34:37,547 --> 00:34:38,047
and

976
00:34:38,422 --> 00:34:40,411
3 subway connections to get from L lax

977
00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:42,161
to Hollywood. We're Staying with a friend.

978
00:34:42,971 --> 00:34:44,661
And it was... This is fascinating.

979
00:34:45,113 --> 00:34:47,493
Great people watching. Great. Well, not just that.

980
00:34:47,731 --> 00:34:49,969
But and this is something I... I've ever

981
00:34:49,969 --> 00:34:52,286
seen anywhere else in the world. There there

982
00:34:52,286 --> 00:34:55,482
were... I saw 3 conversations between strangers started.

983
00:34:56,201 --> 00:34:57,891
Because yeah, yeah. You barred you're just like

984
00:34:57,971 --> 00:34:59,481
Bar. Yeah. I'm a bartender or 2. Have

985
00:34:59,481 --> 00:35:01,231
you ever worked to bubble on these yeah.

986
00:35:01,390 --> 00:35:03,458
Yeah. On the subway. I love that. Guy

987
00:35:03,458 --> 00:35:05,286
with his bike started talking to me. I

988
00:35:05,286 --> 00:35:07,400
was on the phone with my dad and

989
00:35:07,780 --> 00:35:09,539
he overheard me said where are you coming

990
00:35:09,539 --> 00:35:11,699
from? You just got off the 12 hour

991
00:35:11,699 --> 00:35:13,313
plane flight. And we start we talked for

992
00:35:13,313 --> 00:35:14,908
10 minutes. And I saw a bunch of

993
00:35:14,908 --> 00:35:16,423
people who... I feel like think we're desperate

994
00:35:16,423 --> 00:35:18,737
for human interaction. I... Will see. I think

995
00:35:18,737 --> 00:35:19,476
these people

996
00:35:20,013 --> 00:35:23,699
who are on public transport are I they're

997
00:35:23,699 --> 00:35:25,876
they're in it. They're they're living their lives

998
00:35:25,936 --> 00:35:28,653
and every person that all my friends in

999
00:35:28,733 --> 00:35:30,970
Los Angeles who would come and pick me

1000
00:35:30,970 --> 00:35:32,501
up in their or and you pick me

1001
00:35:32,501 --> 00:35:34,176
up from the train station for that whole

1002
00:35:34,176 --> 00:35:36,489
week. I just used public transport for to

1003
00:35:36,489 --> 00:35:38,563
get around different parts of La. And they

1004
00:35:38,563 --> 00:35:40,318
would all tell me how impossible it was

1005
00:35:40,318 --> 00:35:42,882
to get around La. I'm transport Night. I

1006
00:35:42,882 --> 00:35:44,870
just did it. Yeah. People do it. People

1007
00:35:44,870 --> 00:35:46,882
do it all the time. Sure. And

1008
00:35:47,496 --> 00:35:50,121
but we can't... It's... Yeah. Well we've been

1009
00:35:50,121 --> 00:35:52,048
told we can. Yeah. It's back to that

1010
00:35:52,048 --> 00:35:54,439
marketing thing. We've been told that... Only core

1011
00:35:54,439 --> 00:35:55,873
people do it. Yeah. I...

1012
00:35:56,750 --> 00:35:57,250
That's

1013
00:35:57,865 --> 00:35:59,313
now I don't I don't think my friends

1014
00:35:59,313 --> 00:36:01,085
think that way. But, yeah, it's

1015
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:04,006
your car so much more comfortable. Yeah. You

1016
00:36:04,006 --> 00:36:06,169
sit people in their cars are hilarious because

1017
00:36:06,169 --> 00:36:08,237
they... They're, like in a bubble of solid

1018
00:36:08,237 --> 00:36:09,828
tube. They don't realize that you can see

1019
00:36:09,828 --> 00:36:10,782
them pick in their nose,

1020
00:36:11,578 --> 00:36:13,898
and scratch in so... But we're driving on

1021
00:36:13,898 --> 00:36:15,908
the 01:10. I know is people.

1022
00:36:16,759 --> 00:36:18,427
Really... Oh, yeah. I've seen that 1 for

1023
00:36:18,427 --> 00:36:20,829
a while. Wow. Yeah See that's when 4

1024
00:36:20,829 --> 00:36:22,503
g becomes a problem. I think

1025
00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:24,893
I you think this gonna be masturbating bidding

1026
00:36:24,893 --> 00:36:26,827
in that car. Talk about a distraction

1027
00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:28,980
me and drive me to work. You're just

1028
00:36:28,980 --> 00:36:29,619
jacket it. Right?

1029
00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:32,980
Well, man I think about the self driving

1030
00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:35,300
cars. I get... I say 10:20

1031
00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:37,229
years at most with all gonna be self

1032
00:36:37,229 --> 00:36:38,584
driving cars, and then, yeah, people are gonna

1033
00:36:38,584 --> 00:36:40,098
be jacking it all the time. Yeah. Well,

1034
00:36:40,178 --> 00:36:42,011
they'll probably have a special thing in the

1035
00:36:42,011 --> 00:36:43,820
car that... You can close. You can

1036
00:36:44,811 --> 00:36:46,502
Yeah. Looks like it just sort of.

1037
00:36:47,112 --> 00:36:48,882
Protein rich. There you go, baby

1038
00:36:49,810 --> 00:36:52,839
cell. There you. Yeah. Genius. We should. We

1039
00:36:52,839 --> 00:36:55,456
should we should be along the highway for

1040
00:36:55,456 --> 00:36:57,360
looking. I just want to apologize to my

1041
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,160
mother right now for... Susan dirty mouth. If

1042
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,960
you're listening mom,

1043
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,599
you're that's great because you figured out how

1044
00:37:03,599 --> 00:37:05,920
to work the computer. Your mother, it knows

1045
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,009
my mouth. Tries I have been many of

1046
00:37:08,009 --> 00:37:10,077
the dinner at Ellen alex for your mom

1047
00:37:10,077 --> 00:37:12,304
has been there. That's alright. Don't... It's not

1048
00:37:12,304 --> 00:37:14,850
even go. My best friend, Ellen is ted's

1049
00:37:14,850 --> 00:37:15,645
cousins. So Yes.

1050
00:37:17,098 --> 00:37:17,598
So

1051
00:37:18,137 --> 00:37:19,096
congratulations. Talk about...

1052
00:37:19,815 --> 00:37:20,534
I love I love.

1053
00:37:21,334 --> 00:37:23,331
So talk about Love too.

1054
00:37:24,291 --> 00:37:26,954
You're you're now in Land. You've you've become

1055
00:37:27,169 --> 00:37:28,676
Yeah. So I moved over there,

1056
00:37:30,184 --> 00:37:32,326
I did. You a hundred things or so

1057
00:37:32,326 --> 00:37:34,356
3 everything thing. I had the best job

1058
00:37:34,495 --> 00:37:36,091
when I moved to Thailand. Doing?

1059
00:37:37,049 --> 00:37:37,549
Censoring

1060
00:37:38,645 --> 00:37:40,901
European porn for Japanese

1061
00:37:41,294 --> 00:37:41,373
port.

1062
00:37:42,168 --> 00:37:42,485
Pardon?

1063
00:37:43,121 --> 00:37:44,097
Yes. But

1064
00:37:44,471 --> 00:37:45,186
in Japan,

1065
00:37:46,060 --> 00:37:48,704
porn is censored. It's... Yeah. It's

1066
00:37:49,078 --> 00:37:51,238
pixelated. They... Yeah. They're the kin people the

1067
00:37:51,238 --> 00:37:53,223
world that they don't, well, maybe the germans.

1068
00:37:53,382 --> 00:37:55,445
But but... Yeah. But they don't try.

1069
00:37:56,478 --> 00:37:58,065
They just yeah. Really.

1070
00:37:58,954 --> 00:37:59,454
They

1071
00:37:59,994 --> 00:38:02,315
they pixel all the the naughty bits. Wait.

1072
00:38:02,474 --> 00:38:04,474
That people are watching. Yeah. Oh, yeah Yeah.

1073
00:38:04,554 --> 00:38:06,315
Yeah. You can go on online and trend

1074
00:38:06,315 --> 00:38:07,514
look for Japanese poor nowadays.

1075
00:38:08,167 --> 00:38:10,152
Picks up... Except for export. Like, they can

1076
00:38:10,152 --> 00:38:12,138
show it, but anything inside of Japan. I

1077
00:38:12,138 --> 00:38:14,917
didn't know that. Is completely pixelated. Wow. So

1078
00:38:15,076 --> 00:38:18,189
This is the place that sells panties and

1079
00:38:18,189 --> 00:38:20,973
vending machines. Yeah. Oh, all that's... Yeah. I

1080
00:38:20,973 --> 00:38:22,326
just came from Japan. I could tell you

1081
00:38:22,326 --> 00:38:24,871
a story. But maybe on a different pot.

1082
00:38:25,269 --> 00:38:26,065
Maybe different vodka.

1083
00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:27,358
But I...

1084
00:38:28,157 --> 00:38:28,637
This

1085
00:38:29,036 --> 00:38:31,672
company from Europe, it's the largest porn company

1086
00:38:31,672 --> 00:38:32,951
in the world. They make a lot of

1087
00:38:33,031 --> 00:38:35,041
American importance of of that. But they're trying

1088
00:38:35,041 --> 00:38:35,541
to

1089
00:38:36,238 --> 00:38:39,509
export the the European pork to Japan and

1090
00:38:39,509 --> 00:38:41,596
the Japanese are like, what, we can unless

1091
00:38:41,596 --> 00:38:42,232
it's pixelated.

1092
00:38:42,709 --> 00:38:45,252
So is bangkok cock. It's just the bits.

1093
00:38:45,888 --> 00:38:48,114
It's a it's just the the bikini area.

1094
00:38:48,352 --> 00:38:50,361
Shall we say. On both the man man

1095
00:38:50,361 --> 00:38:52,197
and the woman which are okay. Movies are.

1096
00:38:52,916 --> 00:38:53,954
Right. Everybody loves.

1097
00:38:54,432 --> 00:38:57,088
Yeah. But, you know, any place that the,

1098
00:38:57,307 --> 00:38:59,735
you know other stuff. The... Yeah, The Pan

1099
00:38:59,951 --> 00:39:01,224
or the... I don't know what that works.

1100
00:39:01,623 --> 00:39:02,123
The

1101
00:39:03,055 --> 00:39:03,612
Ko coupe.

1102
00:39:05,522 --> 00:39:07,447
Yeah. The thanks. Yeah. None of these.

1103
00:39:08,561 --> 00:39:09,994
Oh, it's gonna be pixelated, but, you know,

1104
00:39:10,152 --> 00:39:11,346
and I thought it was the goal. This

1105
00:39:11,346 --> 00:39:12,460
is awesome. Was close traveling in the world.

1106
00:39:12,699 --> 00:39:14,927
They did it in Bangkok because Bangkok labor

1107
00:39:14,927 --> 00:39:15,006
cheap.

1108
00:39:15,817 --> 00:39:17,885
And but it's got Internet, and it's a

1109
00:39:17,885 --> 00:39:20,590
high speed technologically advanced city for the most

1110
00:39:20,590 --> 00:39:22,739
part. So years. And it's close to Japan,

1111
00:39:22,978 --> 00:39:25,780
so they hired me. I Craigslist. Craigslist once

1112
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:28,412
again I... Yeah. You signed out a frame

1113
00:39:28,412 --> 00:39:30,725
computer. In 1 frame at a time, I

1114
00:39:30,725 --> 00:39:33,597
pixelated European porn. And you would think. Whoa.

1115
00:39:33,916 --> 00:39:35,765
So best be to work ever. Yeah. Yeah.

1116
00:39:36,563 --> 00:39:38,239
No. No. Because we're in a room that

1117
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,096
that's 20 of us, You know? So

1118
00:39:40,473 --> 00:39:42,242
everybody's doing the same thing sense? No it

1119
00:39:42,242 --> 00:39:45,022
is the... No. It's the least sexy thing.

1120
00:39:45,181 --> 00:39:47,405
You've ever... It's, you know, of what watching

1121
00:39:47,405 --> 00:39:49,787
porn a frame at a time. Yeah. Is,

1122
00:39:49,867 --> 00:39:53,306
like, watching a surgery. Yeah. I. Yeah. It

1123
00:39:53,306 --> 00:39:55,536
is and you have to make sure it's

1124
00:39:55,536 --> 00:39:57,367
all covered up. So you're looking at that

1125
00:39:57,367 --> 00:39:57,845
stuff. Right?

1126
00:39:58,562 --> 00:40:00,650
It's a little squares. So... You do it

1127
00:40:00,650 --> 00:40:03,282
with Photoshop. Okay. You know, you just draw

1128
00:40:03,282 --> 00:40:05,755
a circle, and there's a pixel pixelated to

1129
00:40:05,755 --> 00:40:08,546
filter anything. Yeah. And you get paid for

1130
00:40:08,546 --> 00:40:09,358
that an more.

1131
00:40:10,313 --> 00:40:11,188
Let's see. I made...

1132
00:40:12,621 --> 00:40:13,973
Well, this is Thailand, So I think I

1133
00:40:13,973 --> 00:40:16,440
made about 500 dollars a week. Still, that's...

1134
00:40:16,758 --> 00:40:18,844
That's pretty good in Bangkok. But bangkok was

1135
00:40:18,844 --> 00:40:19,163
expensive.

1136
00:40:19,802 --> 00:40:20,621
Maybe we'd,

1137
00:40:20,999 --> 00:40:22,835
it might have been 500 dollars every 2

1138
00:40:22,835 --> 00:40:22,915
weeks.

1139
00:40:24,112 --> 00:40:27,007
First job he... Yeah. It was nuts. That's

1140
00:40:27,226 --> 00:40:28,000
No pun intended

1141
00:40:28,515 --> 00:40:29,015
yeah

1142
00:40:30,022 --> 00:40:30,522
It's...

1143
00:40:31,132 --> 00:40:33,353
Oh my god. I didn't know. And so...

1144
00:40:33,988 --> 00:40:35,733
But that was just... I have this little

1145
00:40:35,733 --> 00:40:37,423
island that I live on, and it was

1146
00:40:37,423 --> 00:40:39,500
the 1 of the first places that I

1147
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:41,577
went when I moved to Tyler were when

1148
00:40:41,737 --> 00:40:44,385
I've visited Thailand originally. But where you live

1149
00:40:44,385 --> 00:40:46,297
now? And it's where I live now. Yeah.

1150
00:40:46,457 --> 00:40:48,290
It's the same place. And... But I thought

1151
00:40:48,369 --> 00:40:49,724
I'd move up to Bangkok and make a

1152
00:40:49,724 --> 00:40:51,810
lot of money in bank cock with some

1153
00:40:51,810 --> 00:40:52,310
high

1154
00:40:52,765 --> 00:40:55,630
at this point porn century job. And then

1155
00:40:55,710 --> 00:40:56,983
I'd save that money and moved down to

1156
00:40:56,983 --> 00:40:57,460
the island.

1157
00:40:58,335 --> 00:40:59,228
But a big butter.

1158
00:41:01,543 --> 00:41:03,300
The... Yeah. It doesn't work out. It's the

1159
00:41:03,300 --> 00:41:04,657
same as los Angeles. You spend what you

1160
00:41:04,657 --> 00:41:07,132
make. Yeah. Bangkok a big City. There's nightlife

1161
00:41:07,132 --> 00:41:09,642
life. There's lay 80 boys boy. 80 but

1162
00:41:09,780 --> 00:41:12,333
boys. Yeah. I didn't spend IIA

1163
00:41:12,333 --> 00:41:14,009
lot of money on Lady boys. But... They're

1164
00:41:14,009 --> 00:41:16,978
beautiful. They're they're are looking than the women

1165
00:41:17,058 --> 00:41:18,417
Most of the time. That's how you could

1166
00:41:18,417 --> 00:41:20,675
tell. If if a thai woman is really

1167
00:41:20,974 --> 00:41:23,132
good looking. She's probably not. A girl. Yeah.

1168
00:41:23,292 --> 00:41:24,970
Not a girl. Or not born girl. Not

1169
00:41:24,970 --> 00:41:26,921
born girl. Yeah. They're update 5

1170
00:41:27,776 --> 00:41:28,334
I watched a...

1171
00:41:29,211 --> 00:41:31,124
And lady boy is what they call themselves.

1172
00:41:31,284 --> 00:41:33,515
Right? Yeah. Lady boy. Not derogatory. That's... All.

1173
00:41:33,595 --> 00:41:34,646
That's the and it's...

1174
00:41:35,921 --> 00:41:40,086
I think it's Southeast Asian. Okay. Because beautiful

1175
00:41:40,224 --> 00:41:42,476
yeah. South like, all southeast.

1176
00:41:43,251 --> 00:41:43,704
And they have

1177
00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:46,610
the I watched a beauty pageant, a lady

1178
00:41:46,610 --> 00:41:49,715
boy beauty pageant, and I stunning herbs the

1179
00:41:49,715 --> 00:41:51,920
miss tiffany fed. You would never a billion

1180
00:41:52,039 --> 00:41:54,116
years been the tell that that's a guy.

1181
00:41:54,436 --> 00:41:57,791
It is national Tv that pageant. Is it?

1182
00:41:57,951 --> 00:42:00,353
Yeah. Yeah Prime time on what 1 of

1183
00:42:00,353 --> 00:42:01,622
major networks in Thailand.

1184
00:42:02,177 --> 00:42:04,002
Yeah. We could learn a lot. It's not

1185
00:42:04,002 --> 00:42:05,747
it's it's a beauty pageant.

1186
00:42:06,476 --> 00:42:08,700
Not. There's nothing sal suspicious about it. And

1187
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,924
then there's the prostitution into things, but,

1188
00:42:12,036 --> 00:42:14,204
lady boys are out in

1189
00:42:14,914 --> 00:42:16,755
public in Thailand. They Thailand and they don't...

1190
00:42:17,635 --> 00:42:19,795
Like, if a little kid shows an affinity

1191
00:42:19,795 --> 00:42:22,049
for dressing like a girl, they Like, yeah.

1192
00:42:22,208 --> 00:42:24,686
Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. And they don't... They

1193
00:42:24,686 --> 00:42:28,201
have, you know, transgender bathrooms crazy idea. I

1194
00:42:28,201 --> 00:42:28,361
know.

1195
00:42:30,689 --> 00:42:31,246
In schools.

1196
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:32,837
Yeah

1197
00:42:33,553 --> 00:42:34,292
and these

1198
00:42:35,383 --> 00:42:37,770
lady boys are everywhere. They're working at 07:11,

1199
00:42:37,849 --> 00:42:39,960
and they're working in of, you know, transgender

1200
00:42:40,019 --> 00:42:41,880
and Thailand just by a fluke

1201
00:42:42,340 --> 00:42:44,679
Is very interesting are because it's such an

1202
00:42:44,739 --> 00:42:46,993
accepting society, all the people they say in

1203
00:42:47,152 --> 00:42:49,227
America where we're so rep proud. This is

1204
00:42:49,227 --> 00:42:51,222
some... Somebody told me something interesting.

1205
00:42:53,297 --> 00:42:55,541
Where where the tie are very accepting of

1206
00:42:55,541 --> 00:42:56,041
transgender.

1207
00:42:56,496 --> 00:42:59,439
U. They're not so open about gay.

1208
00:43:00,075 --> 00:43:02,565
Oh. So, like, at home with sexual males.

1209
00:43:03,125 --> 00:43:05,844
Like, a lesbian females, they they view that

1210
00:43:05,844 --> 00:43:08,005
as a phase. Oh, And like, a like

1211
00:43:08,005 --> 00:43:10,416
college? Like college. Yes. And and you know,

1212
00:43:10,576 --> 00:43:12,086
when if the girl goes on with it,

1213
00:43:12,245 --> 00:43:14,949
Well, okay. We lost her anyway. Because it's

1214
00:43:14,949 --> 00:43:17,573
a very patriarch society. So the man Is.

1215
00:43:17,732 --> 00:43:19,164
Yeah. Big deal. Sure. Sure.

1216
00:43:19,974 --> 00:43:23,228
So sexual man who I know male? Well,

1217
00:43:23,864 --> 00:43:25,690
that this is me. What a friend of

1218
00:43:25,690 --> 00:43:27,277
mine is told me is it the prevalence

1219
00:43:27,277 --> 00:43:28,968
of, like boys in Thailand. A lot of

1220
00:43:28,968 --> 00:43:31,386
it has to do with, you can't be

1221
00:43:32,405 --> 00:43:34,642
not can't be, but it's harder to be

1222
00:43:34,642 --> 00:43:37,040
an out game man. Oh, that it is

1223
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,351
to be out transgender

1224
00:43:38,724 --> 00:43:38,883
man.

1225
00:43:39,677 --> 00:43:42,218
So there are gay guys who are very

1226
00:43:42,218 --> 00:43:42,615
feminine,

1227
00:43:43,171 --> 00:43:45,497
and they'll do that extra little bit. Of

1228
00:43:45,632 --> 00:43:48,038
dressing out. So they can live openly and

1229
00:43:48,038 --> 00:43:51,234
their chosen sexuality. Sure. And That's really interesting.

1230
00:43:51,634 --> 00:43:53,232
Dressing like a woman makes that easier for

1231
00:43:53,232 --> 00:43:53,391
them.

1232
00:43:54,351 --> 00:43:58,221
It's that crazy. Yeah. It's fascinating. Yeah. Someday

1233
00:43:58,360 --> 00:43:59,719
we'll get to a point in the world

1234
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,157
where nobody will care about any of that.

1235
00:44:01,476 --> 00:44:03,487
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'll play another thousand

1236
00:44:03,487 --> 00:44:04,922
years. And we'll probably help me dead.

1237
00:44:06,197 --> 00:44:07,494
I mean, we'll be dead for

1238
00:44:08,031 --> 00:44:10,343
day. I've no. I plan to live forever.

1239
00:44:10,582 --> 00:44:12,513
Do you? Yeah. I think that's something exhausting.

1240
00:44:13,152 --> 00:44:14,910
And that. I know. Really do.

1241
00:44:15,949 --> 00:44:16,428
Probably.

1242
00:44:17,307 --> 00:44:19,519
But living swear living in Thailand, I'm gonna

1243
00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:21,867
can use longer. Yeah. Because the stress is...

1244
00:44:22,583 --> 00:44:22,901
They don't...

1245
00:44:26,322 --> 00:44:28,072
It's about quality of life over there, or

1246
00:44:28,072 --> 00:44:30,950
not. Yeah. Quantity of possessions. It's starting to

1247
00:44:30,950 --> 00:44:34,130
creep in. The western modernization, and all that

1248
00:44:34,130 --> 00:44:35,981
is starting to erode away

1249
00:44:36,673 --> 00:44:38,079
this whole idea of

1250
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,079
you know, wow, Just living be happy. You

1251
00:44:41,079 --> 00:44:43,239
don't really need all this crap. But now

1252
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:43,980
we've got

1253
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,280
some of the largest shopping malls in Asia

1254
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:46,760
in Bangkok.

1255
00:44:47,653 --> 00:44:50,128
The Bangkok somewhere where you live. I don't

1256
00:44:50,128 --> 00:44:51,804
live in Bangkok. I live. I I did

1257
00:44:51,804 --> 00:44:52,863
the I did the

1258
00:44:53,481 --> 00:44:56,686
my time in, in Bangkok. This that's prison.

1259
00:44:57,083 --> 00:44:58,670
But I lived in Bangkok for about a

1260
00:44:58,670 --> 00:44:59,226
year and a half,

1261
00:45:00,337 --> 00:45:02,321
and then I decided, you know, screw this.

1262
00:45:02,559 --> 00:45:03,615
I'm just kind of

1263
00:45:03,924 --> 00:45:05,753
you know, spinning my wheels. I wasn't go...

1264
00:45:05,992 --> 00:45:07,583
I wasn't going back, but I wasn't moving

1265
00:45:07,583 --> 00:45:07,821
forward.

1266
00:45:08,617 --> 00:45:09,117
So

1267
00:45:10,207 --> 00:45:10,707
just

1268
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,726
decided to move down to the island of

1269
00:45:13,885 --> 00:45:15,960
Ko, which is where I live. Right. It's

1270
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,874
a little bit off the beaten path, but

1271
00:45:17,874 --> 00:45:20,124
it's really close to a couple of well

1272
00:45:20,124 --> 00:45:21,402
known tourist destinations.

1273
00:45:22,361 --> 00:45:23,960
Outside my my front porch,

1274
00:45:25,078 --> 00:45:26,437
I'm, I have a house on the beach,

1275
00:45:27,156 --> 00:45:29,009
and from my the rent there.

1276
00:45:29,728 --> 00:45:32,306
230 dollars a month, and

1277
00:45:33,005 --> 00:45:34,523
I can see P islands.

1278
00:45:35,242 --> 00:45:36,382
If they would retire

1279
00:45:36,761 --> 00:45:39,093
p. And there's a c cool too for

1280
00:45:39,093 --> 00:45:39,833
the children

1281
00:45:40,532 --> 00:45:40,851
vpn

1282
00:45:42,689 --> 00:45:43,488
Laugh Yeah. No.

1283
00:45:44,208 --> 00:45:45,885
Yeah I am toilet No We do too

1284
00:45:45,885 --> 00:45:48,219
it we we... It's at people say, I

1285
00:45:48,380 --> 00:45:49,260
I need to go to the bathroom. Do

1286
00:45:49,260 --> 00:45:49,820
you have a ticket?

1287
00:45:50,619 --> 00:45:53,420
So the to p? 50 P. But I

1288
00:45:53,420 --> 00:45:55,590
can see it from house. And that's where

1289
00:45:55,829 --> 00:45:57,744
the Leonardo cap, the the beach was filmed.

1290
00:45:58,461 --> 00:46:01,173
So I probably getting crazy. It's well. If

1291
00:46:01,173 --> 00:46:03,167
you go there and it's you and, you

1292
00:46:03,167 --> 00:46:04,780
know, it's the most beautiful beach in the

1293
00:46:04,780 --> 00:46:07,019
world or whatever, and it's you and 10000

1294
00:46:07,019 --> 00:46:08,700
other people. That doesn't selling like no. I

1295
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:10,539
don't really like know. Yeah. I'm not big

1296
00:46:10,539 --> 00:46:12,675
on the crowd thing. It's... I don't blame

1297
00:46:12,874 --> 00:46:14,070
dig it to be top list?

1298
00:46:14,948 --> 00:46:17,261
Nope. No. No. It the area I'm in

1299
00:46:17,261 --> 00:46:17,761
is

1300
00:46:19,095 --> 00:46:19,813
pretty muslim.

1301
00:46:20,371 --> 00:46:22,659
Oh, which is Southern Thailand is

1302
00:46:23,258 --> 00:46:25,412
is majority Muslim in a lot of places.

1303
00:46:25,571 --> 00:46:27,725
Oh, okay. Yeah and my island is 80

1304
00:46:27,725 --> 00:46:29,661
percent Muslim. Okay. And

1305
00:46:30,132 --> 00:46:31,880
lovely people. I have some dear friends that

1306
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,026
are muslim. Oh no. They're great. You know

1307
00:46:34,026 --> 00:46:35,933
what This. You know what in America, we

1308
00:46:35,933 --> 00:46:37,840
have this sort of idea that that means

1309
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,555
you're probably gonna Yeah. That's. Well, they had

1310
00:46:40,555 --> 00:46:42,143
weird ideas about me when I moved down

1311
00:46:42,143 --> 00:46:42,858
there as an American.

1312
00:46:43,890 --> 00:46:45,717
They're keeping an eye on me. I thought

1313
00:46:45,796 --> 00:46:48,432
I was a plant from some government an

1314
00:46:48,432 --> 00:46:51,137
agency well. You probably are. Yeah baby. Who

1315
00:46:51,137 --> 00:46:51,615
knows? Yeah.

1316
00:46:52,649 --> 00:46:54,717
So you... All in my cover. That's so

1317
00:46:54,717 --> 00:46:56,344
you would to Ko.

1318
00:46:56,876 --> 00:46:59,891
Yeah. And you said I'm gonna... What am

1319
00:46:59,970 --> 00:47:01,319
I gonna do? Now I

1320
00:47:01,795 --> 00:47:04,114
And I did nothing for long time. You're

1321
00:47:04,114 --> 00:47:07,231
gonna that. Yeah look. I'm it's gonna love.

1322
00:47:07,870 --> 00:47:09,629
Like my prime skill in a couple years.

1323
00:47:10,108 --> 00:47:12,047
No. I started with

1324
00:47:12,826 --> 00:47:15,160
the filling people's ipod with music?

1325
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,720
This year your job. But that that was

1326
00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:20,200
my first business. Oh, okay. But that only

1327
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,927
lasted did a year because then everybody started

1328
00:47:22,927 --> 00:47:24,916
filling their own, then we had the Internet.

1329
00:47:25,155 --> 00:47:27,007
When I first moved to where I moved

1330
00:47:27,065 --> 00:47:28,497
where to where I live in my part

1331
00:47:28,497 --> 00:47:29,054
of Cola,

1332
00:47:29,611 --> 00:47:30,780
we didn't have

1333
00:47:31,376 --> 00:47:33,524
Internet. We didn't have telephone.

1334
00:47:34,001 --> 00:47:36,547
We didn't have cell. That sounds amazing. Yeah.

1335
00:47:36,706 --> 00:47:38,627
Yeah. Yeah. It was. It but it was

1336
00:47:38,627 --> 00:47:39,975
also kind of a pain because if you

1337
00:47:39,975 --> 00:47:42,830
need to say somebody to go up the

1338
00:47:42,830 --> 00:47:45,288
island yeah. But there was Internet, but it

1339
00:47:45,288 --> 00:47:47,447
was settle like Internet, and you had to

1340
00:47:47,447 --> 00:47:47,764
pay...

1341
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,250
So the equivalent of, like, a penny

1342
00:47:51,338 --> 00:47:53,720
a penny for every 10 minutes. Okay. I

1343
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:54,831
mean, it wasn't that expensive.

1344
00:47:55,724 --> 00:47:57,502
Sorry for that car horn in the background.

1345
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:58,700
Somebody

1346
00:47:59,478 --> 00:48:01,316
Probably gonna go insane. Yeah. Yeah.

1347
00:48:02,447 --> 00:48:04,510
Modern convenience on the speech. Right? I mean,

1348
00:48:04,589 --> 00:48:06,017
you have... Well, at that time they didn't.

1349
00:48:06,176 --> 00:48:08,080
But now... Well, yeah. We had electricity.

1350
00:48:08,715 --> 00:48:10,405
Stuff. I mean, I'm thinking like self

1351
00:48:10,794 --> 00:48:12,653
or something. Oh, no. Holly.

1352
00:48:13,192 --> 00:48:15,269
There were workplaces that didn't that chose not

1353
00:48:15,269 --> 00:48:17,667
to have electricity early on. But now it's...

1354
00:48:18,147 --> 00:48:20,065
Now we've got a 07:11

1355
00:48:20,065 --> 00:48:22,706
and And fiber. I've got fiber optic Internet

1356
00:48:22,706 --> 00:48:24,537
and my little beach hut. It's really it's

1357
00:48:24,537 --> 00:48:26,287
ridiculous. Yeah. And we've got everything. We got...

1358
00:48:26,526 --> 00:48:28,452
I've got 4 g intern it on my

1359
00:48:28,452 --> 00:48:30,686
phone. Wow. All this kind of stuff. So

1360
00:48:30,686 --> 00:48:32,041
and that happened just in the space of,

1361
00:48:32,121 --> 00:48:35,312
like, 8 years. Amazing. So you started doing

1362
00:48:35,312 --> 00:48:36,189
the ipod thing.

1363
00:48:36,827 --> 00:48:38,756
Searching the ipod thing, but then went in

1364
00:48:38,756 --> 00:48:41,786
a year, everybody had Internet and everybody had

1365
00:48:41,786 --> 00:48:42,105
iphones.

1366
00:48:42,743 --> 00:48:44,736
So they're downloading their stuff their itunes.

1367
00:48:45,374 --> 00:48:46,490
They don't need to get it off a

1368
00:48:46,490 --> 00:48:48,893
hardware anymore. Yeah. But I got out of

1369
00:48:48,893 --> 00:48:50,644
it right before that happened because it was

1370
00:48:50,644 --> 00:48:53,747
boring. Sitting watching somebody sit on your computer

1371
00:48:53,747 --> 00:48:54,247
for

1372
00:48:55,100 --> 00:48:57,659
3 hours while they check out the 5000

1373
00:48:57,659 --> 00:49:00,121
songs they want is a awful job. Yeah.

1374
00:49:00,518 --> 00:49:02,503
So open to clothing store, also an awful

1375
00:49:02,503 --> 00:49:04,979
job. Oh, why watching people try clothes. We're

1376
00:49:04,979 --> 00:49:06,088
not watching them tres.

1377
00:49:07,039 --> 00:49:08,940
You know, waiting for somebody to show up

1378
00:49:08,940 --> 00:49:10,287
all day. And then when they show up,

1379
00:49:10,525 --> 00:49:12,127
they, you know, what kinda of clothing did

1380
00:49:12,127 --> 00:49:13,002
you sell? We...

1381
00:49:13,638 --> 00:49:14,854
My girlfriend and I

1382
00:49:16,104 --> 00:49:18,172
went up to Bangkok and we would go...

1383
00:49:18,570 --> 00:49:20,982
Clothing because Bangkok does have a huge...

1384
00:49:21,941 --> 00:49:23,539
What's the... Where would you call the industry

1385
00:49:23,539 --> 00:49:24,259
fashion industry.

1386
00:49:25,777 --> 00:49:26,277
Before

1387
00:49:27,136 --> 00:49:27,376
export,

1388
00:49:28,508 --> 00:49:31,524
there are a lot of young designers Who

1389
00:49:31,524 --> 00:49:33,032
will open up their own t shirt shots

1390
00:49:33,032 --> 00:49:34,938
something like that. So you could go down

1391
00:49:34,938 --> 00:49:37,215
there and get your average f ball now

1392
00:49:37,334 --> 00:49:39,086
knock off t shirt from any place, but

1393
00:49:39,086 --> 00:49:40,065
we went to

1394
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:41,737
young artistic

1395
00:49:42,113 --> 00:49:44,105
designers and would buy stuff from them and

1396
00:49:44,105 --> 00:49:45,777
sell that. So everything we had was different.

1397
00:49:46,016 --> 00:49:47,700
Yeah. And when year we went to Indian,

1398
00:49:47,938 --> 00:49:50,083
bought a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Ill. Don't

1399
00:49:50,083 --> 00:49:50,718
never go to India.

1400
00:49:51,671 --> 00:49:54,213
I'll let's. I apologize to my Indian friends,

1401
00:49:54,371 --> 00:49:54,848
but... Yeah,

1402
00:49:55,642 --> 00:49:57,401
thanks again, I'm not big on the crowds,

1403
00:49:57,559 --> 00:49:58,352
so I probably wouldn't.

1404
00:49:59,144 --> 00:50:00,911
That's not top so I

1405
00:50:01,442 --> 00:50:03,836
culture is fascinating to me. I'm fully and

1406
00:50:03,836 --> 00:50:04,813
actually, 1 of my

1407
00:50:05,506 --> 00:50:07,653
it's a fascinating culture. Now they just pee

1408
00:50:07,653 --> 00:50:08,051
on it.

1409
00:50:09,244 --> 00:50:11,470
Oh All day lot of people.

1410
00:50:12,362 --> 00:50:14,356
Yeah. But they can find a hole Someone...

1411
00:50:14,595 --> 00:50:16,110
I don't... Oh, I'm not even on in

1412
00:50:16,270 --> 00:50:17,148
India. I just said.

1413
00:50:17,786 --> 00:50:19,721
I I I'm not

1414
00:50:20,338 --> 00:50:22,026
not a fan. We were there for holiday,

1415
00:50:22,105 --> 00:50:25,208
and I... Did not enjoy it. Yeah. III

1416
00:50:25,208 --> 00:50:27,117
decided that, like, there's a reason the Comedy

1417
00:50:27,117 --> 00:50:27,753
came from India.

1418
00:50:28,484 --> 00:50:29,862
Because I've never wanted to

1419
00:50:31,036 --> 00:50:32,871
kill so many people in in my life.

1420
00:50:33,589 --> 00:50:36,380
So not that's that I can understand why

1421
00:50:36,380 --> 00:50:38,787
the non violence movement Yeah. You know, started

1422
00:50:38,787 --> 00:50:39,503
their out of.

1423
00:50:41,571 --> 00:50:43,639
It's... And it's not and I don't mean

1424
00:50:43,639 --> 00:50:44,912
like, I don't like indian people

1425
00:50:45,484 --> 00:50:47,951
It's just the way that the the the

1426
00:50:47,951 --> 00:50:50,100
culture runs over there is just, oh, it's

1427
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:50,817
grading. Yeah.

1428
00:50:52,488 --> 00:50:54,637
It should be chill down thailand to go

1429
00:50:54,637 --> 00:50:57,761
to India must be. Yeah. And insane. But

1430
00:50:57,920 --> 00:50:59,436
I know people love it. And God bless

1431
00:50:59,436 --> 00:51:01,190
him, and I'm just not going back in

1432
00:51:01,269 --> 00:51:03,104
Hollywood. And I and I love I love

1433
00:51:03,263 --> 00:51:05,427
Indian people. I love Indian food. I just

1434
00:51:05,427 --> 00:51:08,047
can't stand being in in India, and Most,

1435
00:51:08,127 --> 00:51:09,477
like, I know a lot of indian people

1436
00:51:09,477 --> 00:51:11,541
who feel the same. Sure. That's why they're

1437
00:51:11,541 --> 00:51:13,606
here. Most... Yeah. Most of my Indian friends

1438
00:51:13,606 --> 00:51:15,533
live here instead of an India so. They

1439
00:51:15,533 --> 00:51:16,888
probably agree with you maybe I don't know.

1440
00:51:17,366 --> 00:51:20,952
So we had this clothing clothing store, and

1441
00:51:20,952 --> 00:51:21,452
then

1442
00:51:21,843 --> 00:51:24,150
girlfriend, she is a chef and she has

1443
00:51:24,150 --> 00:51:25,899
restaurant, so I worked with her for her

1444
00:51:25,899 --> 00:51:26,774
restaurant for a number of years,

1445
00:51:27,489 --> 00:51:29,636
and then, we parted ways.

1446
00:51:30,273 --> 00:51:32,115
And... You got a new girlfriend. Yeah. Okay.

1447
00:51:32,353 --> 00:51:34,257
Yeah. It's working...

1448
00:51:34,972 --> 00:51:37,693
So free advice for anybody living and working

1449
00:51:37,748 --> 00:51:40,025
together for 24 hours a day is... Yeah

1450
00:51:40,303 --> 00:51:42,713
not a good recipe for a a free

1451
00:51:43,008 --> 00:51:44,759
relationship. Yeah. So young people really love that.

1452
00:51:45,077 --> 00:51:46,828
Some people yeah. Some people are crazy too.

1453
00:51:48,420 --> 00:51:51,226
I don't know. I, it's yeah. We... It

1454
00:51:51,226 --> 00:51:52,822
worked for a while. Yeah. It works for

1455
00:51:52,822 --> 00:51:54,978
a while, but Okay. It just... Yeah. So...

1456
00:51:55,297 --> 00:51:57,054
But we're we're we're we're good friends now

1457
00:51:57,054 --> 00:51:58,730
and we're happy and we and right across

1458
00:51:58,730 --> 00:52:01,299
the street from her restaurant. I've have opened

1459
00:52:01,299 --> 00:52:03,374
my bar. Did that happen right away?

1460
00:52:04,252 --> 00:52:05,928
Yeah. Within the space of 6 months. Oh,

1461
00:52:06,088 --> 00:52:07,699
I had to do something. K. I wasn't

1462
00:52:07,699 --> 00:52:10,731
at the restaurant anymore. And The bar like

1463
00:52:10,731 --> 00:52:13,764
a a cliche fit. Well, I had had

1464
00:52:13,764 --> 00:52:16,172
the building the whole time Because it it

1465
00:52:16,172 --> 00:52:18,166
was the building that was originally the ipod

1466
00:52:18,166 --> 00:52:20,478
shop and then the clothing store. Okay. Now

1467
00:52:20,478 --> 00:52:22,552
transformed it into a bar. And that's been

1468
00:52:22,552 --> 00:52:25,000
great. The bad penny if you're out there

1469
00:52:25,119 --> 00:52:25,998
on Facebook. Look it up.

1470
00:52:26,717 --> 00:52:28,316
I think it's the bad penny dot com.

1471
00:52:30,633 --> 00:52:31,113
We...

1472
00:52:32,471 --> 00:52:32,951
Yeah. It's...

1473
00:52:33,750 --> 00:52:36,307
That been really interesting. It's cliche, though. I

1474
00:52:36,307 --> 00:52:38,452
think I put it off by opening a

1475
00:52:38,452 --> 00:52:41,391
bar for so long because of an American

1476
00:52:41,391 --> 00:52:43,590
who who retire to a tropical island in

1477
00:52:43,709 --> 00:52:45,482
it's a bar. Is same

1478
00:52:45,857 --> 00:52:47,311
about that. And

1479
00:52:47,686 --> 00:52:49,914
Yeah. It but people come in and they're

1480
00:52:49,914 --> 00:52:50,414
still

1481
00:52:50,724 --> 00:52:53,288
Oh. This is so cool. You it America's

1482
00:52:53,344 --> 00:52:55,885
as far is it a... Well, I I...

1483
00:52:56,044 --> 00:52:57,417
It's it's it's American.

1484
00:52:57,870 --> 00:52:59,393
That mean, it's really like an English pub

1485
00:52:59,393 --> 00:53:00,664
or is it? I think it's got a

1486
00:53:00,664 --> 00:53:02,092
style of its own. Okay. It's kind of

1487
00:53:02,092 --> 00:53:04,338
like a pub. Okay. It's the only bar

1488
00:53:04,394 --> 00:53:05,744
bar in this area.

1489
00:53:06,299 --> 00:53:08,461
Everything else is attached to a hotel. Oh,

1490
00:53:08,620 --> 00:53:12,069
okay. Yeah. And either has live music or

1491
00:53:12,127 --> 00:53:12,627
is,

1492
00:53:13,163 --> 00:53:15,076
a, beach thing, and they do fire shows

1493
00:53:15,076 --> 00:53:17,076
every night, and this is the only kind

1494
00:53:17,076 --> 00:53:19,060
of bar bar. It's a regular bar. And

1495
00:53:19,219 --> 00:53:21,838
I did it specifically for... There are a

1496
00:53:21,838 --> 00:53:23,345
lot of people who are like me living

1497
00:53:23,345 --> 00:53:26,221
over there 4 owners. Yeah. And they wanted

1498
00:53:26,221 --> 00:53:28,049
a place to go where they weren't in

1499
00:53:28,049 --> 00:53:31,150
the tourist crush. Sure. So it's telling come

1500
00:53:31,150 --> 00:53:32,978
all my friends. Yeah. So it's like a

1501
00:53:32,978 --> 00:53:34,588
local saying. Out. Yeah. And then we get

1502
00:53:34,588 --> 00:53:36,666
tourists. They bring in their customers because they're

1503
00:53:36,666 --> 00:53:39,723
all working in different industries like restaurants or

1504
00:53:39,862 --> 00:53:42,235
mostly scuba diving and stuff like that out

1505
00:53:42,355 --> 00:53:44,275
and they'll bring in their customers who are...

1506
00:53:44,755 --> 00:53:46,355
And we get... We've got the... 1 of

1507
00:53:46,355 --> 00:53:47,954
the top resorts in Thailand is just down

1508
00:53:47,954 --> 00:53:50,994
the beach. Oh, see. They're overflow? Well, we

1509
00:53:50,994 --> 00:53:52,603
get the the people are slum.

1510
00:53:53,477 --> 00:53:55,541
You know, they're... I mean, these rooms started,

1511
00:53:55,621 --> 00:53:57,606
like, a thousand dollars a night. Holy moly.

1512
00:53:57,844 --> 00:54:00,544
Yeah. They're... They have rooms there that go

1513
00:54:00,544 --> 00:54:02,550
for 10000 dollars a night when it comes

1514
00:54:02,550 --> 00:54:04,306
to the private butler and the Princess of

1515
00:54:04,465 --> 00:54:06,242
Thailand stays there, and,

1516
00:54:06,619 --> 00:54:08,787
you know, I've seen oliver her stuff and

1517
00:54:08,787 --> 00:54:10,458
there's other people. But they never tell us

1518
00:54:10,458 --> 00:54:12,708
who the celebrities are, because that's what the

1519
00:54:13,004 --> 00:54:14,436
celebrities wanted... Yeah. Exactly.

1520
00:54:15,232 --> 00:54:18,034
But you'll get people, you know, who wealthy

1521
00:54:18,034 --> 00:54:21,311
people who are looking for a real feel

1522
00:54:21,311 --> 00:54:22,989
of the island, and they come in, and

1523
00:54:22,989 --> 00:54:25,167
that's cool too. And they're it's just... Everybody's

1524
00:54:25,306 --> 00:54:26,905
So. People are people. It's like cheers.

1525
00:54:27,639 --> 00:54:30,116
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But it can be...

1526
00:54:30,675 --> 00:54:32,913
I don't know if if you've ever run

1527
00:54:32,913 --> 00:54:34,911
a bar but have never our center. I'm

1528
00:54:34,911 --> 00:54:36,918
never it can be rough It's It's hard.

1529
00:54:36,998 --> 00:54:37,633
On just.

1530
00:54:38,030 --> 00:54:40,572
Yeah. Well wouldn't no. It's the drinking. Oh,

1531
00:54:41,525 --> 00:54:43,590
drinking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Not your don't. But

1532
00:54:43,590 --> 00:54:45,440
you're not in Sam. Alone. You're not the.

1533
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,559
Not able but Sam malone is starting to

1534
00:54:48,559 --> 00:54:49,300
become my

1535
00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:53,175
my goal. Yeah. Because he's sober. He's so

1536
00:54:53,294 --> 00:54:53,794
very.

1537
00:54:54,172 --> 00:54:56,086
It's hard to do though. Yeah. It's really

1538
00:54:56,086 --> 00:54:58,000
hard to do because everybody wants to buy

1539
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,132
drinks. Yeah. So I... There's that drink Also

1540
00:55:01,270 --> 00:55:03,756
everybody's tearing. Yeah. And have it be like

1541
00:55:03,756 --> 00:55:05,826
so and there's around a shots or something

1542
00:55:05,826 --> 00:55:06,940
like, yeah. The

1543
00:55:07,657 --> 00:55:09,010
Your head... I did that for a month

1544
00:55:09,010 --> 00:55:11,000
this year. III didn't drink for a home.

1545
00:55:11,254 --> 00:55:12,689
Month and that worked out well. Yeah. You

1546
00:55:12,689 --> 00:55:14,045
got a little bit of really ridicule from

1547
00:55:14,045 --> 00:55:16,357
the friends and whatever. Right. But at the

1548
00:55:16,357 --> 00:55:17,632
end of the day, it was all fine

1549
00:55:17,632 --> 00:55:18,690
and good. And

1550
00:55:19,147 --> 00:55:21,157
that was the best I've felt the whole

1551
00:55:21,157 --> 00:55:21,795
year. Yeah.

1552
00:55:22,434 --> 00:55:25,388
Because... It's in Thailand, you work 7 days

1553
00:55:25,388 --> 00:55:27,304
a week. Like you... Especially if you own

1554
00:55:27,304 --> 00:55:27,703
your own business.

1555
00:55:28,980 --> 00:55:29,632
It's more chill.

1556
00:55:30,663 --> 00:55:32,171
It is more chill, but we have... We're

1557
00:55:32,171 --> 00:55:35,289
seasonal. Yeah. So we get 6 months within

1558
00:55:35,344 --> 00:55:38,467
to make our money. Oh. So you gotta

1559
00:55:38,467 --> 00:55:39,187
make it. Yeah.

1560
00:55:40,146 --> 00:55:41,824
But I think in the future, I'm gonna

1561
00:55:41,824 --> 00:55:44,302
just take that down to to not 7

1562
00:55:44,302 --> 00:55:45,580
days a week, put down to 6 days

1563
00:55:45,580 --> 00:55:47,581
a week. Which day will be off? Monday.

1564
00:55:47,978 --> 00:55:49,509
Sounds like a museum. Like.

1565
00:55:50,119 --> 00:55:52,103
Yeah. I think Air is off on Monday.

1566
00:55:52,341 --> 00:55:54,508
Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. So...

1567
00:55:55,947 --> 00:55:58,204
Yeah. It's That's. Alright. So

1568
00:55:58,584 --> 00:56:00,901
looking back now over your life thus far.

1569
00:56:01,860 --> 00:56:04,104
What do is the the pros and the

1570
00:56:04,104 --> 00:56:06,411
cons of doing what you did becoming this

1571
00:56:06,411 --> 00:56:08,797
sort of this A x expat and just

1572
00:56:08,797 --> 00:56:10,804
saying, sting grit it sell my crap,

1573
00:56:11,759 --> 00:56:14,149
get rid of everything and... Well, that's a

1574
00:56:14,149 --> 00:56:14,547
big pro.

1575
00:56:15,424 --> 00:56:17,452
I I feel like... I've kind of,

1576
00:56:18,145 --> 00:56:19,656
like we said, earlier liberating?

1577
00:56:20,054 --> 00:56:21,565
Yeah. I don't...

1578
00:56:23,077 --> 00:56:26,386
I hope Feels so tied into this

1579
00:56:27,005 --> 00:56:27,564
rat race.

1580
00:56:29,641 --> 00:56:32,204
Alan Watts talks about this. Love. You know,

1581
00:56:32,363 --> 00:56:34,588
they hear kitty kitty kitty, you know, in

1582
00:56:34,588 --> 00:56:36,496
school. They oh, here kitty kitty kitty. You

1583
00:56:36,496 --> 00:56:37,553
go up to the

1584
00:56:38,245 --> 00:56:39,775
elementary school, and then they say, oh, you

1585
00:56:39,775 --> 00:56:41,530
do this well. Here getting Kidding, you go

1586
00:56:41,530 --> 00:56:42,487
to high school, and then you go to

1587
00:56:42,487 --> 00:56:44,880
university and you graduate university and you get

1588
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:46,874
a job, and then and you get a

1589
00:56:46,874 --> 00:56:48,723
job and then you retire. And and then

1590
00:56:48,723 --> 00:56:50,315
at the end, you'd, like, been through your

1591
00:56:50,315 --> 00:56:51,908
whole life and there there was no...

1592
00:56:52,625 --> 00:56:54,456
That that thing that you were chasing was

1593
00:56:54,456 --> 00:56:56,606
never... You never got it, and it was

1594
00:56:56,606 --> 00:56:58,696
never there. It was all just... Oh, if

1595
00:56:58,696 --> 00:57:00,053
you do this, it'll be better. If you

1596
00:57:00,053 --> 00:57:01,489
do this, it'll be better. Yeah. So now

1597
00:57:01,569 --> 00:57:04,043
I feel more like I'm just living my

1598
00:57:04,043 --> 00:57:06,530
life. Yeah. I'm not chasing Sarah you're not

1599
00:57:06,530 --> 00:57:10,031
manufactured concept. Yeah. A dangling carrot. Dangling carrot.

1600
00:57:10,429 --> 00:57:11,145
Yeah. So,

1601
00:57:12,259 --> 00:57:12,498
cole,

1602
00:57:13,294 --> 00:57:16,420
the... Bad man. Bad any. You're on Facebook.

1603
00:57:16,659 --> 00:57:18,579
I'm on Facebook. And on the internet's dot

1604
00:57:18,579 --> 00:57:21,320
com. Yeah. Right? And single. The bad

1605
00:57:21,619 --> 00:57:22,179
girls. Yeah.

1606
00:57:23,140 --> 00:57:25,410
On pixelated women apply. Yes

1607
00:57:26,984 --> 00:57:27,143
Thank you.

1608
00:57:27,941 --> 00:57:29,297
Thank you, Susan. This is So.