John Boseak

Well, they upgraded it because at first, they would go strictly off your credit score. Then I guess it became a problem. So they said, okay, well, we'll ask them some qualifying questions.

So when they started doing that, I'm like, well, I don't know where all that information is. And I met someone in jail that told me, oh, that's just LexisNexis information. I said, are you kidding me? Not credit file, LexisNexis, which tells you LexisNexis is a company where the government was actually taking information from all angles and compiling it into one source.

Your automobile and tag, where you've gotten mail, where you've had utility bills,

Not at all. Well, you can, but it's expensive. And then it takes certain certifications for a different company.

In case you skip on a bond.

And they're able to break down each. Yeah.

people with good credit. So that also, it's something you have to obtain. So you, in order to pull it off, you have to have information of who has good credit. They would qualify.

Oh yeah, that was the, those green dots.

So they, they want the credit for getting you signed up. So he's, what he's saying is that they'll, they'll let you, they'll run the credit and approve you just on knowing what your ID and knowing all your personal information and a debit card. So then you'll take the receipt becomes the credit card because then if they scan the receipt, it accesses their credit card account.

So when, so he's like, just give me the receipt. I'll run to the house and get the ID for you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I just made 25 bucks for getting you approved for a credit card as a clerk.

It could be any ID. Oh, because the name's not even on it.

That's how it was.

Target was our favorite.

Best Buy. Circuit City. Circuit City.

Oh, yeah. So we'd have the Lexus Nexus report and we'd be outside and he'd have an earplug in. So when they call and ask you those questions, like what color was the such and such car that you owned? And he'd be like, what color? And he would just repeat it back because she can hear you on the phone. She can't hear the person because you're actually on a telephone.

So she can't hear the person on the telephone. So you just repeat the question back. I remember what's so funny is I remember us talking about that. You're like, well, how the hell is she going to hear the person on the phone? I go, repeat the question back.

Oh, what color?

Remember, we were outside in the... One time we were outside, but a couple times we were out in the car, but we might be back at the house.

This is back in early 2000. It was huge. Just because I have that on doesn't mean I'm on the phone. Everybody wore those back in the day. I'm not hiding it. I'm not hiding it. I'm on the phone. Not that you're on the phone. I have the phone attached.

Yes, of course. Those were popular for a while. With the older. This is all prior to the iPhone, by the way. Yeah. This is all Blackberry. Pre-2007. Yes. Blackberry time.

But yeah, you'd have to get, in order to get a fake ID, generally you have to know someone that has a connector that made them. And if you had them, you would tell people like, look, I got them this much money. And then you would get surrogates that, let's say you had a fake ID for $200. Mine were $300.

Then I would tell everybody it's $400 because I'm going to make $100 because I'm going to deal, like I'm going to be the middleman. So I'm going to bring you custom, and you put the word out. So generally, people who are in the scamming arena know someone that's doing IDs. But I think, my friend, let me call it. It's kind of like you send a word out.

That that also requires what I call mining.

So you'd have to ask, like, where can I get? And probably like now you can buy it online. Back in early 2000, that shit was... Dumpster diving and shit. Dumpster diving? Yeah. Or employees of banks and companies. That's my thing. You know somebody. That's my thing. I'm going to follow. Oh, I was huge.

Ask him.

Oh, she works at you. Really? All three of you guys. That's part of the conversation. All three of you guys. What do you do for a living?

That reminds me of the... Talk about a scam. And that's before OnlyFans.

I wanted to hear Boziak's opinion of what you offered as opposed to what I offered on the mail-in

Said she was giving out something like a Snickers bar and a blowjob. And then he said, hold up, the Snickers bar is like... I think she went up there. LAUGHTER

I think she went that way.

That's why it ended up having me go to jail like three times. Using people with good credit.

But if you were inclined to participate, then that's where he grabbed. Because that's where they grabbed me. Because it's like, hey, this is $11 million. It's the carrots. And I'm like, are you, so you're saying this woman died.

In fact, there's no contesting what's filed in public record.

They certify. I'm sorry.

I was going to say there was a transaction and what's in public record is legitimate.

So analyzing that.

I knew I saw you. analyzing that because everything is now online.

How horrible.

It's messed up.

But I looked at her and I could tell she wasn't the brains of the operation.

I knew immediately. And that comes from all of our experience because you can always, we can always tell like, oh, that's not your scam. Yeah, right away.

I can ask you two or three questions and know that you're not the brains. So who was actually doing the, paperwork. Oh, that was, uh, yeah. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

There's one in Tampa? No.

Yeah, there's a handful. I've seen several.

Somebody was asking, hey, where's the Bitcoin ATM? So I'm looking it up. I'm like, I think I had given them an address, and they went, and they're like, no, that one's not there anymore, and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, bro, I don't know, man. I don't even deal with Bitcoins.

I thought it was like one.

Okay, let's see.

But he targeted people. I understand, but they don't.

But once it goes into the pot of the exchange, it's not guaranteed that all of that line of Bitcoins came out and went to. So they don't know specifically. It kind of gets lost. No. You couldn't do a deep dive. You have to do a deeper dive to find out.

If it's a million dollars, I'm sure they're not going to do all that resource. If it's a million dollars, yeah.

I think it works because your friend Because he's like, all right. God, who's calling? Who falls for this?

You know what, like the generic, the mail fraud and with the money laundering or the access devices. Those are just the most generic. It doesn't matter. I don't give a damn what you did. You've done one of those three. You've done one of those because they're so broad. That's so broad. If I had your social security number, oh, that's access device fraud. How?

A social security number is an access device to that person.

And they just...

But we're going to tell everybody in the country.

All right, so somebody's sending out letters to people telling them that someone died and you can get part of the inheritance.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

They're like, no, they did that after they ran your name. Is that what made them?

That's a mind slip.

It's during release. It's during release. Well, during the release.

What? That's all that ever happened to me. When we lived in Atlanta, we were searched Constantly. On a weekly basis. We got searched so much, I started saying no. I'm like, hey, I'm not dealing with all these freaking searches. So we're searched so much constantly, they always tell us, we smell weed, we want to search the car. I'm like, what?

And then they search the car, they're taking apart the seats, and then they're like, okay, y'all can go. I'm like, but whoa, whoa, whoa, you said you smelled weed. And you found nothing. How the hell do you think you smell? Yo, I'm... And the counter to that, these days... What's your name? You might as well take the loss, bro. Take the loss and leave.

So didn't you tell me that one time in North Carolina, they searched, was it North Carolina or South Carolina? Were you in South?

It's confusing. What are the Carolinas? They did not search your car. And you had Becca. I suppose you had Rebecca in the car.

You didn't tell me that?

Please note that this is a clean cut white guy talking about multiple pullovers.

That might have been what I remember.

No, no, it was in the passenger side. Damn, why would you stick them over in the passenger? But I don't know why they got comfortable or comfortable. You know how we do once we're making money and all that. Invincible. Yeah.

I just thought, wait, what? What?

And the guys at home going, man, I hope I get that mortgage.

I like that mortgage guy. I like it. No, no, you know what I did? I would take those guys' lives.

You don't go all the way down.

How is there a victim?

Come on, he is not a big guy with victimless stuff. No, I was going to say, you had the wrong person here. Can I borrow $5? And you're like, hey, six, six, I thought you were victimless. You're not that big with it. That ain't going to work.

Matt will get them financed. Just have them call for the application. My name got changed.

I met him and he was doing that. And I'm like, that doesn't even look like you. He's like, listen, most cashiers, bank tellers, I'm like, how do they not look at the picture and go like, that is absolute. But I want to tell you something about that. He says that. He says that. But the person that you would never go to would be a black woman. Like absolutely, you would never hand a black woman.

Oh, what? They'll be like, that is not you. They don't even ask like, is this you? Like black guy, white guy, somebody might ask, is this you? A black woman would tell you. That is not you.

Period. In the conversation.

Congratulations. Cancer does make you taller, but go ahead.

That's an identifying. No, it doesn't have your weight on it.

That's a lie.

I remember they, like, that used to be crazy. Hmm.

I got busted with the Tennessee license.

Oh, yes, that's right.

That was my favorite place to live.

From Atlanta to Tennessee is about an hour and a half. From downtown Atlanta to Chattanooga was like about almost two hours. But from downtown Atlanta to Nashville was about three hours. Do you remember when I was supposed to get...

You know what's funny? In Tennessee, if you didn't have a Tennessee driver's license, this was back when I was doing it, they would make you take the driving test.

Yeah, I thought that was, I'm like, no other state does that. They should do it. You want to drive? You got to take the drive. You need to make sure you can drive.

I've met people who've done that, but this kid was dumb.

Without a license, I see.

Man, in my mind, that makes them pull you over. I'm the opposite. I'll take my chances. I'm the opposite.

So you think the mega hat's gonna help with a black cop?

Let me say this real quick, because that thought came to my mind. I was in Costco, and this is like a week ago. I'm in line in Costco, and an old guy turning one of those drivable, whatever those electric carts, completely bumps me to almost knock me over. And I look back, he's like, move. Wow. Wow. That's exactly what he said. I want to tip that card over. Oh, my God.

I'm like, you. Was he an older? No, he was probably like 60-ish. You know, and I want to say I'm 60-ish. You know what I'm saying? 60 years, I'll get it. No, sir, I'm joking. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Like, and the only thing that came to mind is probation because I'm like, okay, one more month.

You did get that vibe. Yeah, because I'm in line and he's like right here and I'm just standing there and he doesn't say, excuse me, let me get by. He just turns the cart and hits me. It wasn't a hard hit because the cart moves slow. You didn't get like the senile. He's just an old senile guy. No, look at me like you got the move. I'm like, what the? He goes, move. Like, I hit you.

You're not facing me. I hit you. You should have moved. Like, move. He's just an old dickhead. Like, what the? Move. I need to get by. Move.

I don't like confrontation, but my analysis was anything is going to escalate this. Yeah, probation is a difference. I'm thinking like I'm on probation, but my mind goes, anything's going to escalate this. anything's going to escalate this because I want to escalate it. And I'm not even like, you can ask anybody. I'm not even like that.

Like you told me out there, I have a lot long patience, but my mind said, anything you say is going to escalate this. So I had to let it go.

What are you going to do in Thailand?

You cut me off. I'm like, but that was an hour ago.

My problem is I'm not getting bonded out. That's my whole issue.

That's the RDAT program with letting things that matter the least affect the things that matter the most.

And that's what happened to me because my reaction was like, anything I do is going to escalate because I did want to, I wanted to say something. I wanted to spit in his face. Like my, my reaction was I got to react. But I'm like, anything I do is gonna escalate. And this is a white man, I'm a black man, and I'm on supervisory list. So the absolute loser is me.

But look at all – if you think about all the work he put into getting – like where did he buy all those CDs, putting them in cases, labeling them all? He did a lot of work to get whatever he get. So that's just kind of like what you're talking about. That's the small scam you're talking about.

Zach has always been like that, like low-key, cool. So one of the times the cops came to my house, Right? And they're knocking at the door and I answer the door and it's the police. So when I see it's the police, I get nervous. Just the apprehension of... My palms are sweating right now talking about it.

Everything I've been through with them, I get nervous because I'm like, I don't know what they want. Okay. So I answered the door. What happened was there was a car stolen out of our complex and they wanted to know if I had a ring camera. And then all of a sudden I get very nice.

I'm like, oh yeah, no, I don't have a ring camera, but I happen to know my neighbor and I get very courteous and helpful. But like, I... I don't, I agree to have a job to do, but you know, I'll fake the happiness and friendly guy, but I'm like, get the fuck away from me, please. But I still get, I still get nervous. I still get nervous. I feel like if they get behind me, I get nervous.

You know, I just, but it's not like, oh shit, I'm finna go to jail, but I still get nervous.

And sincerely means, how can I help you? Yeah.

Like, what can I do to further your job? Yeah, you guys are... How can I help? It was a black guy and a tattooed white guy. Oh, yeah, they went that way. Absolutely. I just came from the store.

I wasn't snitching.

But I fell for it.

That's true. I mean, I wouldn't compare it. What were you going to say, Matt?

I go hard no matter what I'm doing. Living next door to the teacher is a guy with the skeleton tattooed on his face. And they give all these opinions. I'm like, how do you know the guy's a criminal? Have you seen him? He's got tattoos all over his face. That does not necessarily mean he's a criminal. It's a stereotype. 20, 30 years ago, yes. It's a prejudgment. It's a prejudgment.

Unfortunately, that guy that lives next door to that is a criminal. So I've talked to him.

But everybody knew that. Everyone with a fully tattooed face I'm sorry.

He doesn't give a fuck about what society thinks about him. I think it could be military. It could also be military.

I'm only semi in your corner, Matt, because I've been- These guys are risk takers. I had my car searched. The point where I said, you know what? We're not agreeing to any more searches. They all have to get search warrants. And they had to get a search warrant three times after that.

I think it's because they run that name. Was it the area you were in, maybe? That and black guy, white girl, Mercedes Benz in Atlanta, Georgia. Stolen. Like, it was horrific.

I don't know if it was him or it was another guy I knew that, and I hung around a lot of guys that had stores, but he had a white customer similar to Matt or Kobe who got food and before commissary day ended up getting released. He's like, oh, bro, I promise you I'm going to bring the money and put it on your books.

And the white guy got out of jail and actually came back up to the jail and put the money. I've had that happen to him. Yeah. I think it was you.

That is the difference between a white customer and a black one. It's just like when one of my friends from high school named Jennifer, who's license got suspended. And she's like, how am I supposed to drive? My license is suspended. I'm sitting there looking at her like, you're right. What are you talking about? You don't have anything to worry about.

The judge goes, Mr. Allen, your license is suspended, so no driving. Absolutely not, Your Honor. How are you getting home? I'm driving. In the car that I drove here. Yeah, I don't know what the fuck he's talking about. When he said no driving, he meant don't get caught driving. I'm driving. I don't give a fuck what the hell he's talking about. I'm the same way.

If a judge says, Matt, your license is suspended for a year, no driving. Matt's like, I can't drive? Are you kidding me? They said I couldn't drive. Your wife didn't go to the hospital.

I'm not driving.

That's exactly, that's the whole difference. The integrity of Matt and Kobe is just like, we have no Caucasian corner.

good stuff i'm not gonna go out there and wing it yeah so before we have to close out i wanted to ask matt did have a conversation that wasn't on the right side of the tracks with me and so i want to ask him what was your thinking then like that you wouldn't drive a car if you didn't have a license but when i had a warrant and i took i was gonna turn myself in and you're like why oh yeah

That's where he's on your side. Because I did turn myself in. But once again, it was never. He goes, I think that's overrated. That's not even an option.

Oh, no, that's not, no. Yeah, yeah. No, in the feds they do. Oh, that's feds. That's how the feds do. In feds, the judge will go, you need to do a 10-year sentence. You've been sentenced. And I'll give you 30 days to get you.

But the funny part is both of them would agree. So Mr. Boziak, you're going to leave now and you're going to turn yourself in in two months for the 10-year sentence? You're like, oh, absolutely. Absolutely. 10 o'clock, should I be there at 10? Yeah, all right.

You have to have another name set up. Well, you'd have to go before it was time for you to turn yourself in.

In a different state, you might want to leave with it.

What about the podcasting? That doesn't give you meaning? Well, it's something that I want to do, that I choose to do.

But that's the difference between you and about 85% of the population is that 85% of the population buy into the, this is what I want to do. And the 15% that don't buy into that are entrepreneurs or in prison because we're criminal. Because we're thinking like, why do I have to do that?

Right. If they didn't have a job or something.

He's getting exposed.

Not for us. I can see his vision. Not for us. We're going to provide the basic functions of what we need. They're not going to clean our house. We'd have to do that ourselves. There's going to be other jobs.

You asked me if I've been exercising, walking.

Steps, exercises.

No, no, no.

It's a monitor and it helps keep it at a certain rate. It helps keep it from going in the... Because they want to figure out why my heart goes into rapid beats and not pushing the blood. Because whenever it starts doing that, my blood pressure drops. So they're thinking it's some kind of... So they want to know if they need to thin my blood or if I'm formulating for blood clots or whatever.

But yeah, every once in a while. And I take pills for that. And every once in a while, my heart still kind of goes, tries to go. And I think the pills are like, get back in place. Like, okay.

What's weird about that is I believe the cloning and splicing happened way back eons ago. You know what I'm saying? Where people have... Like pictures of half man, half bull and shit like that? Yeah, I don't think it happens. I do. Hieroglyphics of that shit? You think that shit's people like, hey, you know what I'm thinking, Bill? I'm going to draw a picture of a half man, half bull.

But we're not doing it because it's ethnically wrong. Or how do you think the pyramids were built?

Really? Have you read anything about that?

phenomenon anomaly anomaly like to because there's no welding those together they're together they're block i know and they're they seal upon contact so that's that's you know that is 20 tons each and like pulleys school bus the pressurization yes of it the air ducts

Go ahead.

He's got them all lined up and ready to go. All right.

Yeah.

Because I kept asking myself, where is the scam? Because I'm like, everything seems too perfect. Where is the scam?

But I disagree with that on that scam because he's he's looking for like I think his was brilliant because he's looking for people trying to get over. I'm serious because he's basically saying, hey, there's somebody that died with the last name Cox. Right. I'm saying that I understand that. I agree with that.

So I think asking you for money to get money to participate in a scam, I think that would scare more people. Because if I told you, look, you're not related to him, but I'm going to try to get you there in inheritance. Give me like $400 and I'll start the process. You'd be like, why the fuck would I start the process?

I was taken in because of the, and this probably shows my character, but I was taken in by the fact that he was trying to do something that wasn't legal. It's kind of like I'm fishing.

Right. And I was allured in because he's basically saying, look, you know, they have the same last name and this money will go to, like, he interests me in the hustle because he's saying, otherwise this money is going to go to the state. If nobody claims this money, then it's going to go to the state. So there's all this money is going to be thrown away.

So I'm kind of like wondering if you're interested in getting it.

I'm saying that.

Can I ask one qualifying question so I know how to think of this? Who, from what angle are we saying, are you trying to improve the scam? From the scammer or from the you know what I'm saying? Are you saying, so you're saying as a scammer, we'd make more money.

If, if, if like we did what you said, like better website, better paperwork, um, put more into it and then ask for a less amount of money for more people, smaller amount of money and keep mine too. I might, I might agree with that exercise with today's exercise.

I think the profit margin is low. It's lower if you're going to do small amounts, higher quality.

But you have to have somebody monitoring the phone. You're talking about a lot of expense.

I understand because people buy numbers and send out text messages that you have a package in order just to get your credit card number to sell it on the dark web. I mean, and I'm thinking to myself, like, what are you selling for, 10 bucks? So you send all those texts out. I mean, I'm going to ask myself, what is the profit margin? You know?

Or four or 500. I don't know. But, and that's what I, that's what I asked myself. Like, like what the hell can you be gaining? So I don't, I think the profit would be lower, but Because you're going to have to have someone man the phone. You're not going to be able to send because you've got to send out more.

You're not sitting at home answering the phone yourself if you're doing $499, bro. You've got to send out... He might have sent out like $300 or $400. I think he was a rookie.

And he sounded like a hood anyway.

It's socialized. So the public transportation is part of your taxes.

Yeah.

Before you ring that up. That's why I always remember it at the counter. That was what I was going to bring up. Like you said, a scam. What would be instant credit where you would go into stores and try to buy something, tell them it's outside of your budget. And then the store would say, well, hey, how about getting one of our credit cards?

You want to apply for one of our credit cards and we'll extend you to credit. That way you can leave here with whatever you want. So that that's kind of a scam, but it's not like a scam against another person. It's kind of a scam against the company and the bank. You know what I'm saying? We have been talking about scams against other individuals.

He's safe. You two are safe. Thank you.

All right, the way it works is you get a fake ID of someone that has good credit, someone you know that has good credit. Then you take that fake ID into, like Six was just saying, into a department store or a store. And then they ask you, hey, you want to apply for instant credit? All you need is the ID. So you show them the fake ID.

You give them the person with good credit social and the date of birth is on there. And then they run it. And they basically just base it off of their credit score. And if they have a good credit score, they issue them credit and allow them to purchase whatever they want out of the store. Me and my ex, we used to call that like, what is it?

Take the flat screen TV for $2,850. What do I got left? The dinette set for $1,700. Load it up in the truck. They go, well, you want it delivered? Yeah. You want it delivered? Yeah. No, I already brought a truck. You bought it, ironically.

That's right. Ironic, and it's backed up at your dock. And it's back there. So that's the instant credit.

That's a good question. So, and what normally happens,

I booked a one-way ticket to Thailand. I've done a lot of things in my life that many people don't get to do because they chose to do the right thing. You know what I mean? They chose to have a job and a family and go to work every day. I didn't do any of those things. I've just been being a maniac my whole life. So now, I'm going to be turning 40 in February, and it's halftime.

Yeah, and I don't see that trend changing anytime soon. I mean, the current political arrangement I happen to agree with. Let's just put that where it is. But I don't see things getting cheaper anytime soon. I don't see the cost of living going down just because we have the president, just because Trump's in office or whatever.

Like a million baht or something like that. What's how much? It's like 30 grand, $30,000 US.

But what do you need every month? Five, five, 10 grand? Yeah.

One good Diddy video a month.

Yeah. Yeah, so that's, you know, the cost of living is just, like I said, it's a quarter of what it is here. And what you get for your money is a lot different than what you get for your money here. You know, a cheeseburger and french fry here is $22 goddamn dollars. Right. That's ridiculous. Like, what are we doing here?

When you go to McDonald's and for two people to eat, it's almost $40-something. Right. Like, what is this?

So the Western menu is going to have Western prices pretty much over there. But if you eat like a local, if you eat just Thai food, go out for just like a plate of pad thai, which is like chicken rice with an egg and some noodles and some other shit. It's like $2.50, $3 a meal, $4 a meal. Do you get that meal?

No, they don't give us one. Sometimes they do. They call foreigners farangs. F-A-R-A-N-G in Thai. They do have farang pricing.

The Thais actually like the white, the white skin. So they don't go out in the sun. They don't sunbathe. They don't because like to have like the whiter the skin in Thailand is like the better. Right. Yeah. They're super racist over there. Like, I'm just going to go ahead and say it like they don't like the blacks or the browns too much in Thailand. They like the whites. It is what it is.

Go do your own research. Google it. Go watch a couple of YouTube videos. It is what it is. I'm not saying... I'm not telling tales outside of school here.

racist like yeah though if you're fat they'll tell you you're fat if you're not attractive they'll say that they'll they'll call you i mean they're they're just blatant um and typically they're racist like they'll no you're not married yeah we have the offended the woke offended culture here and it just permeates through every aspect of our life over here in america but you go to japan and they'll have stores they'll call fatty and that's where the fat people like it's crazy like you just don't understand you know so

We really do live in a bubble here in the United States. We really do live in a bubble.

figure out what's the easiest thing because you're traveling initially my plan uh initially is to come into the country uh do the the 90 days and i want to see all of thailand uh you know so what i've been doing over the past year is i've kind of just been every time i get two or three hundred dollars saved up i'll pay for like a week in like a resort in some part of thailand

so when i get there i have a week in bangkok paid for at like a really nice hotel and then i'm flying down to southern thailand to phuket and i got a seven day stay paid for at a resort there and i'm gonna check out phuket and all like the surrounding little islands and stuff for that week while i'm there like krabi and kosamui kosamet all those little places that are down in southern at the southern tip of thailand

Then I'm going to fly from there. I'm going back to Bangkok for a few days. And then I'm going to a little beachside town called Hua Hin. And it's kind of small. It's very small. It's on the tip. It's on the... I'm on the other part of the world here. I'm trying to get my bearings. So it's on the western side of the kind of in between Bangkok and like...

It's about two hours south outside of Bangkok. It's called Hua Hin. So I'm going to go there. I got like four or five days planned in Hua Hin. So I'm going to see that whole little section of Thailand. And then I'm going north to Chiang Mai.

So like Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, all those like super northern countries where it's like mountains and jungle, you know, and like rural, like little villages, like rice villages. There's no skyscrapers. There's no none of that shit. It's the boonies. It's the boondocks. So I'm going to go up. I'm going to go up there.

And then from there, I think I'm coming back to Bangkok and then I'm going to Pattaya, Thailand. And I'm going to hang out in Pattaya for four or five days. And then that should bring me just about to my 90 day mark. And then after that, I'm going to figure out which route is the best way to go for a long-term visa. Where to stay?

No, no, no. I'm definitely going to live in Bangkok. Oh, why not?

So I grew up in Miami. I grew up in Miami. I'm used to Miami Beach. And Pattaya is a beach town. It's a tourist town. You know what I mean? I grew up in a tourist town from Miami Beach. So it's like I don't want to—I'm used to living at the beach.

And so I know a lot of people that move to Pattaya and like Phuket and those places are from like the UK where they get like five days of sunshine all year. Right. Or if they come from the US, they're like they're from the Midwest, places that don't have beaches. I'm from Florida. I grew up on the beach. I'm used to the ocean. You know, I like big cities. That's right.

I've never really lived in like a giant metropolis. Yeah. Outside of Miami, which is like – I don't know. I guess the downtown area of Miami has got big buildings and shit, but it's not – Yeah, it's like Tampa.

Like even, even, and even those cities don't even compare to Bangkok. Right. Like, like, so if you take Manhattan, downtown Chicago and like downtown Dallas and you put them all together, that's only like one little section of Bangkok. Right. It's such a massive city, and the whole city's developed like that. It's skyscrapers, and they've got three or four different forms of public transportation.

They have an above-ground, which is called the MRT, and they've got a subway below-ground that's called the—I don't remember what that one's called. And then they've got the buses, and they've got our version of, I guess, what you would call Uber over there, which is Grab, and they have Go.

So like if you order a go, like some dude will just pull up on a moped and you hop on the back of the moped and wrap your arms around them and take off and take off to your destination. Like it's just wild. Yeah, it's a whole different system over there.

So I've had a passport, and then when I went to prison, the first time I had to give them my passport was even part of my stipulation. Like on day one when I went to the pretrial services office, Like when I reported after I got out on bond, they made me bring my passport with me.

And I never got it back.

You know, I never got my passport back. I don't know what happened to it. So, and like, so I wasn't even, you wouldn't even know if you, I didn't know if I could get one.

No. I've been to federal prison, and I got my passport, no problem.

They'll hold you hostage here in this country. Right. Yeah.

Yeah, not only did I get it, it came like that. I got it a month or two before I even thought I was going to get it.

Yeah, they said three or four months. And then it came in like, I think like five weeks. It was like five weeks. It was like a month and a half it came. And then the day my passport came, I booked a one-way ticket to Thailand. Right. So I got my plane ticket that day my passport came.

Because that was about nine hundred and six or eight months ago. It was nine hundred and sixty dollars for one way.

Yeah, about nine months ago. round trip. If I'm, if you're booking a round trip ticket to Thailand, you're going to come out of about 1500 bucks. It's a 26 hour flight and I got to catch three planes. I got to go from here to Atlanta and then to South Korea and then from South Korea to Bangkok.

The longest flight, 16 hours from Atlanta to Korea. I'm on a plane for 16 hours. And then when I get to Korea, I got a two hour layover and then another six hour flight to Bangkok. So yeah, it's gonna be, you know. A track. It's gonna be a track.

I have my neck pillow. I've got my iPad. I've got movies downloaded that I've never seen before, you know, so.

Yeah, I agree.

Yeah, I'm going to work on the YouTube channel. Obviously, I'm going to be vlogging daily, hopefully, you know, the day in here to a year for myself, because, you know, the thing is, I don't want to go over there and experience everything for the first time through the lens of a camera or, you know what I mean?

Like filming and vlogging and like I want to be able to kind of just put the camera away and aside and not worry about filming and then just kind of enjoy myself and experience the culture. So there's going to be days where I'm just not going to film just because I don't want to. Like I said, I don't want to live through a camera lens. But no, yeah, it's going to be permanent.

I don't plan on coming back. Unless the real estate here hits the shitter and I can come back here and live for relatively nothing, which that's never going to happen. Things are only going to continue to get more and more expensive.

No, it'll never get down to, like you said, back to the 90s.

So I'm not going to start a YouTube channel. I have a YouTube channel. I have like 13,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. I've had my YouTube channel for five years now.

your youtube channel yeah i guess you could say that unless you're gonna start interviewing i'm not starting from scratch well i understand but i'm saying zero subscribers that's that's bananas dude going over there with just and just starting a channel from nothing dude that's that's uh quite the the undertaking

But I think since I already have a following kind of on YouTube, kind of if right ish, you know, just because I've been doing doing content for five years and I've got, like I said, 13000 subscribers currently. And yeah, once I start putting out, you know, YouTube or Thailand YouTube content and I'm sure the demographic that I'm looking for, I'll find in the channel will grow.

Oh yeah. So I'm not, you know, I'm not going to be like one of those, this is how you live in Southeast Asia kind of channels. I'm just going to wake up every day and vlog my own, my own life.

I would do some videos on just like, cause to me, like this is what it costs me to live in Thailand because, but that's, I've, I've watched so many videos and I've gotten one guy was like, Oh, I can't live here for under $3,500 a month. And I watched another video where one guy was, was surviving on like $850 a month and living just fine.

So it all depends on the individual and how you live, how do you eat. Are you a drinker? Because if you're a drinker and you like to go out to the bars there, that's going to swallow up all your money. One of those little Thai girls are going to get a hold of you, and next thing you know, you're going to be at the ATM every 15 minutes. So... That's how it goes over there.

There's a lot of negatives. The guys who have no self-control, Thailand is the worst possible place for you to go because you will go bankrupt. Unless you have an unlimited supply of money, you're going to go bankrupt pretty fast. Because you don't realize how cheap everything is, so you're just going to be spending and spending and spending.

Especially, like I said, when those little Thai girls get a hold of you and you're at the bar every day drinking, that's one of the main things that kind of just ruin people going over there.

Oh, there's so many videos. Listen, the whole dating and women scene over there is treacherous. Right. Those girls know what they're doing, first of all, because they've been doing it for a while. And you will get absolutely rinsed if you're not careful over there. So a lot of these guys that... A lot of, like, so I'm not, you know, it is what it is.

Like, a lot of guys go over there specifically for the women. Right. I mean, yeah, the cost of living is one thing. Yeah, cheap food, cheap accommodations, you know, you can travel around. But let's be honest. A lot of these guys are just going there straight for the women. Right. The passport bros thing has kind of taken off in the past few years.

And a lot of these guys going over there haven't really been getting a lot of attention from women their whole lives.

You know what I mean? Like they've never been really in love. They've never been with like a really beautiful girl before. So they go over there and these girls get a hold of one of those guys and it's over for them. It's over. They're calling people borrowing money. They're maxing out all their credit cards.

They'll fly back home and take out a second mortgage on a rental property, sell all their classic cars they got in the garage and go back over there. They'll build her a house. They'll buy her a car. And then she'll tell them to fuck off after like three years.

All of those things are already baked into the economy. You can't just throw the brakes on everything and just hit the reverse button, you know, and back it up just like, you know, so there's no there's no there's no solution. Yeah, it's just, you know, things are just getting more and more expensive here. And I'm not I don't really I don't really like to work hard. That's another big part of it.

So there's a YouTube channel called Thai Talk with Dan. He's a guy from the UK, and the whole premise of his YouTube channel is that people who have been there and have gotten rinsed by these girls, they'll write out their story and send it to him, and he'll just read it on his podcast. And I've heard one after another after another.

I mean, this one guy, it's happened to him three different times with three different girls. Like he got, he'll build them a house, marry them, build them a house. He bought, look at this one girl.

He built their parents a house, bought land, bought her, built her parents a house, built them a house, put her daughter through, put her daughter through school, paid for her college over there, bought them all vehicles. And then she divorced him. And there was nothing he could do. Thai law. Because in Thailand... Foreigners can't own property, can't buy land.

You can't have any kind of say-so in their political system, voting or whatever. You can't own a business. You can't go there and just start a business and all that. And a lot of people gripe about all of this, but I agree with all of this. Like I think it's 100% exactly what they should be doing because Thailand wouldn't be Thailand if they didn't have all of these measures put in place.

Because you have all the foreigners would go over there. They'd buy up all the property. They'd buy up all the land. They'd start getting involved in the political system. And then you'd have a situation like you do in the UK.

It's gone. Like the Indians and all the foreigners came in. They just... That's it.

Yep. They took over the – they changed all the laws in their own favor. They took all the expensive land. They drove the economy into the shitter. They brought all of their own people over there, took all the jobs. So yeah, it's like – Even if the –

native-born uh uk citizens rebelled right now it's there's nothing they're outnumbered there's nothing well they already have been they've been rioting and setting fires there's nothing you can do yeah you're a minority now in your own country and you let it happen yeah so it is what it is and the thais are just gonna not let that happen over there because thailand like i said it wouldn't be thailand uh so i agree with i agree with this shit you know what i mean like i can go over there

Luckily, I have a Thai girlfriend that I've been talking to for about six months now. And, you know, so things will be a little bit different when I get over there. I'm probably going to get married and do all that. She might take me for everything I have and tell me to go fuck myself at the end. But, you know, you have to roll the dice. You know, you have to gamble. I'm a gambling man.

Never with my money, only with my life and my future, you know. It is what it is. Like I said, I got the visa. I got a plan. I've been saving a little bit. The past year, I tried to save money working DoorDash, but it just didn't work out for me. Worst job I've ever had in my entire life. If any of you out there are thinking about doing DoorDash, just don't do it. Just don't do it. It's bullshit.

I'm just not like I'm just I'm kind of a lazy guy. I don't like to work hard. I kind of just like to do the bare minimum and kind of get by and, you know, kind of live comfortable. You know, I don't have these big dreams of financial success and Lamborghinis and mansions because you have to work too hard for all that stuff. So I don't really care about it.

Yeah, if you want to just make 20 or 30 bucks here or there, like if you need an extra $50 or something. It might work out for them. Yeah, that's great. It's a great opportunity. But trying to do it full-time? No. It's a joke.

60,000 to buy it. And yeah, he lives in his car. He door dashes 12 hours a day.

Fuck that.

There have been very few times when I've almost lost my mind in my life. And over this past year, doing DoorDash every day, it's one of these times in my life where I'm going to look back and be like, I was this close to losing my sanity.

DoorDash?

You'll drive for eight, 10 hours a day and make 80 bucks, 60, 80 bucks. you'll get to a restaurant and you'll have to wait 15 or 20 minutes for the order to even for the food to even get brought out to you.

You know, I'm getting older now and it's just like, I don't know.

And they put all of these measures in place so that you can't like when you get there and if you're waiting too long for the food, like you can't just say, oh, I don't want to do this order and cancel it and leave the restaurant. Like you have to wait there for the food and there's no way for you to go back on the app like to get out of it.

I mean, you can, but like they so there's like this point system and And like the lower your points go, the shittier orders you'll get. You know what I mean? So like if you like just... So let's say an order comes up and it's for like $4. And it's like 13 miles. And it's like a McDonald's order. You're like, I'm not doing this order. You can go fuck yourself. I'm not doing this one.

So you just pass on it, which you have the right to do. You can pick and choose the orders you want. But... if you pass on too many orders, your, your acceptance rate will drop and they'll only give you shitty orders. Like all of your orders will be $2, $3, $4. And you'll never see an order over $4. So the higher your acceptance rate goes in theory, which I've tested this in this bullshit.

So the higher your acceptance rate goes, uh, you're supposed to get the bigger orders. So you'll get an order for like $20 or whatever. Those are good orders. Like if I get an order for like 20 bucks, dude, I just made my day. All right. You know, but it doesn't always work like that, you know? So it's just like, and then they'll have you driving.

Like I was, I was driving probably 3000 miles, like 1500 miles a week, 1600 miles a week. Cause I was driving from, I would go out at like eight, nine o'clock in the morning and I would stay out until, Sometimes 3.30, sometimes 4.30, but usually around 5.30, 6 o'clock is when I would come home, and I would do that seven days a week. So I'm driving 1,500, 1,600 miles a week for $320, $450.

Come on, dude. It's frustrating as fuck. And then sometimes you can't find the address. You'll pull into an apartment complex, and the address they give you is the number that's on their door. I don't have a building number. I don't know where this is at. So now you're driving around this apartment complex for 30 fucking minutes trying to deliver for a $4 Wendy's. Dude, it's horse shit.

What are you doing?

It's absolute horse shit. And then the road ragers. Dude, people here in Florida, unbelievable. Unbelievable. They don't let you merge. They cut you off. They speed. The speed limit here in Florida is just unbelievable.

recommendation right it's just a suggestion nobody nobody goes so if the speed limits say what's it out here on 56 55 50 45 i don't know what it is because nobody drives it 55 i think no i think yeah 55 or 65 if you're not doing 30 miles over speed limit they drive this close to your bumper right like if you're not driving as fast as the person behind you thinks you should be driving they'll drive this close to your bumper and i'm not exaggerating like that's not me being you know

To me, that's not a real job. Tattooing for me has never been a real job. That's why I liked it. That's why I liked it so much and I put in so many hours at the shop because I could sit there for most of the day and just play on the internet and watch TV and do whatever I want to do and then occasionally get to do a tattoo. You know, and tattooing is something I enjoy doing.

Going off on a tangent here, these motherfuckers will get this close to your rear bumper and road rage on you. Like, tailgate the fuck out of you until you either get over or you slam on the brakes and they smash into the back of you and you cause a major accident. So you gotta deal with that all day long. And it's just one thing after another, after another.

You'll go out one day and you'll have every order will be a problem. You'll show up to the restaurant and some asshole will just come and grab your order before you got there. So now I gotta get on the phone with customer service. I gotta tell them that somebody already picked up the order. That's a 15 or 20 minute ordeal.

Then every time they're like, well, can you just ask the restaurant to remake the order? Are you kidding me? This restaurant smashed. It's a lion around the corner. It's like a 45 minute wait just to even talk to somebody to get a table. And you want me to just ask them to redo the order now and I have to wait here for another hour? Come on, dude. For nine bucks?

Because I'm only making like eight or nine dollars on this order. Horse shit, dude. Horse shit.

Oh, I'm only taking one duffel bag and a backpack. Yeah, I'm a light traveler.

I don't believe in, you know, I'm not one of those guys that shows up at the airport with like 15 or 20 suitcases, you know, bringing five pairs of underwear, five pairs of socks, five t-shirts, actually six, three black, three white, two pairs of shorts, three pairs of shoes, my toothbrush, my deodorant, some soap, and then, you know, my laptop and my MacBook and my iPad.

You can bring as much shit as you want, but you're going to have to pay for all those bags to go up underneath the plane. You can bring 30 bags if you want. You're going to have to check every single one of those bags, and they all have to be under 50 pounds, I think, 40 pounds to get them out of the airport.

Get checked in at the hotel. And then depending on how I feel, I don't know how bad I'm going to be jet lagged because I've never, you know, 26 hours, I've never really been on this kind of crazy flights before. I don't know how it's going to affect me.

No, no, no, no, no. You got to get a SIM in country. Yeah, you got to get a SIM either at the airport or, you know, outside of the airport or whatever. But I already have all that kind of laid out. I have so much like laid in front of me. Like I'm not just getting there and be like, oh my God, I don't know what to do. I'm going to wing it. Yeah.

So, you know, I never really felt like that was a job. But, you know, I worked for many, many years in warehouses, 50, 60, 70 hours a week, moving boxes around, driving a forklift, unloading trucks. You know, I worked from the age of probably 17 until I was in my mid 20s at a window company. just doing windows outside here in Florida, working outside like on construction sites and whatnot.

No, like as soon as I get to the airport, I got somebody meeting me at the airport that is from Bangkok, speaks the language, you know, so there, you know, there's going to be no like getting ripped off by taxi drivers outside the airport, which is extremely common for people who just show up there and have never been there before.

Uh, you know, and like, you know, go to the hotel, check in, uh, you know, which is up on Khao San Road, which Khao San Road is a part of Bangkok. It's extremely popular with all the backpackers, you know, so it's like very busy. There's a lot of tourists, the super touristy area.

Uh, and I decided to stay there because I wanted to kind of get, uh, that kind of vibe going in, like as soon as I get there, you know? So yeah, like I said, I don't know. It depends on how I feel when I get there. If I'm not jet lagged, I'm just going to go out probably all night and film, um, because they're, they're 12 hours ahead of us. So 9 PM there is AM here for us.

So it's going to take me a while to get my, what do they call that? My circadian rhythm back, you know, in line with the nighttime and daytime over there. So when I get over there, like I'm going to be used to being up all night. I'm at the price day up all night for the first couple of days until I get it, the equilibrium, you know, kind of back in check.

There's a handful of YouTubers, yeah, in Bangkok. Well, in Thailand that I watch a lot of them. One dude, his name's Wayno, Wayno's Adventures. I love his videos. Is that the one we watched? He's an Australian dude. He's the Australian with the mullet, kind of heavier set with the chipped tooth.

That's hashtag Brady.

He hopped on like a little tuk-tuk and they were chasing the tuk-tuk down, jumping on the back of it, holding on to the tuk-tuk.

Yeah, it was wild. But that was India.

No, it was like a 15-minute ride. Yeah.

You got six eight-year-olds on the back of the rickshaw. It's pretty wild. But that's India. No, so Wayno's Adventures is one. But he's been to Thailand.

Yeah. So there's a channel called Mashtag Brady, which is... He goes all over the world. Oh, okay. But I first started watching him in Thailand. Oh, okay. So his Thailand series when he was in Thailand is when I first started watching his channel. All right. Because I was watching Thailand videos. So... Yeah, and then there's another guy, Keys, Keys.1, another Australian guy.

His videos are, like, super clean. It's, like, super clean cut. You can tell they're, you know, he probably writes out the scripts before he does it. He plays around with different camera angles. Super polished, you know, very, very well put together. And, like, the B-roll and the music and everything's well crafted.

Have we watched him? There's different spectrums of... The YouTubers that are over there. There's guys like Keys who does very, very well, you know, manuscripted, crafted, put together videos that present themselves well and they're fun to watch. And then you've got, like, on the other end of the spectrum, you've got guys like Wayno who just, like, you know. He's a maniac.

Dude's just an absolute maniac.

No, that's mash tag Brady. Yeah, you're taking a mash tag.

Yeah. You're thinking of my mash tags and absolute maniac. Yeah. He, he does videos where he just gets blackout drunk in every city he goes to. And that'll be the title of the video. Blackout drunk in Barcelona, back blackout drunk in Amsterdam, blackout drunk in Bangkok, blackout drunk. And he does, he gets complete, he's on the ground. He's puking everywhere. Like he's just an absolute maniac.

And that's why every video he puts out gets half a million views. And everywhere he goes, people recognize him. Everywhere he goes, like every doesn't matter what city he's in. He could be on top of a building where there's like a rope swing going. Like the other day he was in Germany, I believe, where they do like the big Christmas thing.

So I've worked hard my whole life, you know, and I'm not, I'm not a corporate guy, you know, because if I was, I probably could stomach an office job and just sit there for 20 or 30 years and collect my pension, my 401k. And, you know, I think I could see this, but I'm just not a corporate guy. Not only because of my aesthetic, not only because of my, obviously prior to this,

Because like in Cologne, Germany, you're like the biggest Christmas on planet. Okay. Well, I guess he was there, and there's some kind of swing up in the top of the building where it's like you get in a harness, and it swings out off the ledge and comes back. He's walking up there. He's waiting for his turn in line. The guy swinging is like, is that Mousetag? Mousetag Brady!

It's insane how noticeable and recognizable this guy is everywhere he goes, but it's because he puts out that crazy, crazy content. I don't think I'll be doing those kinds of things, just simply because I'm just not... I'm not a party animal like that anymore. I partied for like two decades pretty much, and now I'm like into my 40s. I don't drink.

I'm not going to be out at the strip clubs every night and all that shit. Those videos do well, and that content's fun to watch, but I don't think I want to make that kind of content. You know what I mean? I just want to live a normal life, to be honest with you.

And that's part of the reason why I'm going over here is because I feel like I can just live a normal life without having to always be stressed about an $1,800 a month rent on a one-bedroom apartment.

You know, car payment. I'm going to have a car note. I'm going to have a cable bill. I'm going to have a phone bill. Insurance. Insurance, you know. And if you want to date or have a girlfriend, that's going to be an extra $300 or $400 every single month for whatever, miscellaneous. And for me, I'm just too lazy to do all of that over here. And I'm being completely honest. I am.

I'm being completely honest. I'm not... I don't have the skills to bring in that big income here in the United States. Because unfortunately for me, if I want to earn a lot of money here, I'm going to have to work really hard physically. That's just my option. I don't have a PhD. I didn't go to college. I mean, I went to college, but I got my degree in graphic design, which I'm not even using.

Because all those jobs got shipped over to India, and now you can't make any money doing graphic design here in the United States unless... you own your own company and you get people working for you.

Yeah, exactly. And then you're outsourcing it to India. So it's just like, you know, what are we doing here?

Listen, I love it here in America. I'm not leaving because I don't like it here. I love it here in America. If I had it my way, I'd get me a trailer home, a goddamn muscle car, and a bass boat on a couple acres. Honestly, that's all I really need, but even that is outside of what I feel like I can accomplish here. I'd be 55, 60 years old before I would even be able to have that.

And that's not really wanting a whole lot. You know what I mean?

I'm American. I like fishing. I like hunting. You know what I mean? I like going out west and going on vacation, but it's like, dude, the crime here in this country has just become unreal. You know what I mean? Like...

Well, yeah, but you never leave the house. But it's like, say I want to go somewhere on vacation. Say I want to go to like Atlanta or I want to go to Dallas and I want to go on vacation. You know, it's like I can't like you can't feel safe. You don't feel safe in the in the large cities anymore in America.

Well, I just don't have the demeanor for it. I don't feel like I have what it takes to be part of the team. You know what I mean?

You can't just if I want to go out at three o'clock in the morning and just go run errands and go do shit. I got to worry about getting robbed. I've got to worry about becoming the victim of a violent crime if I leave my house after 10 p.m. anywhere in the United States.

Any major city in the United States, you have to worry about becoming the victim of a violent crime if you're leaving your house after 10 p.m. And to me, that's no way to live. I don't want to live like that.

There's crime. I'm not going to say there isn't any crime. People get murdered and stuff over there, but it's like you don't have to really worry about it. The crime is so low in Southeast Asia because the punishment for crime over there is swift and severe. You know what I mean? Like you don't fuck around over there.

Like you get caught like stealing or you get caught like, I don't know, hitting somebody over the head with like a pipe wrench or something like that and taking their money and like robbing them. You're done. You're cooked. You're going to prison for a long time.

Just look at everything that's happened since 2020. You know, the state of the country in 2020 when everything happened, you know, the C word. You know, since then, the cost of living has gone up maybe 200 percent. Don't quote me on that exactly because I'm not an economist, you know, but it's just.

Yeah, so I'm going to say something. Petty crime, there's a lot of it. Pickpockets, you know what I mean? You can leave your shit out and nobody's going to take it. It's not bad like some of those other countries you go to. They'll just ride by on a scooter and snatch your phone out of your hand. If you go to the Philippines, that can happen to you.

A lot of the places over here, like Dominican Republic, where's another country? People just snatch shit right out of your hand, you know? Thailand, those things don't happen because they're just, a lot of it boils down to culture. It's not because they, you know, they punished a crime. It's just the culture. Like people over there just don't steal from each other. You know what I mean?

know what i mean i'm just not that guy uh just because the way i've grown up uh being homeless most of my life uh growing up on the streets and then being in youth facilities from the age of probably 13 until i was 19 years old you know pretty consistently every year nine ten months out of every year uh you know i just feel like that kind of molded me a certain way and now i'm 40 years old we're gonna be 40 years old and i'm just setting my ways you know and so i feel like

Like they're just not, you're not going to have to worry about somebody coming up to you at an ATM and putting a gun in your face and taking all your money. Like you just, you don't have to worry about those things over there. You don't have to worry about mass shootings.

You know, I can go to the grocery store and not have to worry about getting my head blown off going just to a Walmart because some guy comes in there and just decides they want to shoot 20 people. Like those things just don't happen in Thailand. They just don't happen.

I'm worried about those things. Those are some of the things I worry about when I leave the house because I still want to go out and like explore and like, you know, be a part of society and experience culture and, you know, go on adventures. Like I'm not at that point in my life yet where I just want to hide in the house and make money. You know what I mean? That's not my MO yet.

Eventually, I'll get there. My MO. I know. That's why I said that. And that's fine. To each their own. Everybody's kind of on their own path, making their own decisions. But it's like, I want to be able to go out and explore a city without having to worry about becoming the victim of a violent crime, period. And you're able to do those things in Asia. Asia, it's safe.

Women don't have to worry about getting mugged. Those things just don't. They don't happen. I mean, they do, but they don't, like I said. Because, like, no place is crime-free.

Yes. Like, no place is crime-free. There's going to be crime everywhere. People are going to be murdering and stealing and robbing and carjacking everywhere you go. But in Southeast Asia, it's just not on the scale of what it is here, you know?

Yeah, I've done it multiple times. So if I was going over there and I was just planning to live on my own, I would probably need somewhere like around $1,500 a month, $2,000 a month to live super comfortable. And when I say super comfortable, that's living more comfortable than...

Probably at any point in time in my life I've ever lived over here, except for when I was committing major amounts of fraud.

You know, so maybe it's like $1,500 a month. And it's super comfortable living on your own with like no roommates or like nothing. But since I do have a girlfriend and we're not going to be like splitting the bills like straight down the middle because she has a Thai wage. She makes Thai money, which they only make like... $500 or $600.

The average tie over there only makes maybe $500, $600, $700 US a month for everything. Obviously, I'm not going to ask her to split all the bills down the middle with me, but... Since we're going to be living together and sharing some of the responsibility, that's going to drastically reduce my monthly expenses every month, as well as she's going to be able to get like Thai pricing.

So if we go to get a condo somewhere, they're going to give me one price, but they're going to give her another price. So I'm also going to get a lot of advantages like that.

Restaurants. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Well, not so much groceries because that's all set prices. Like, you go to Walmart, you're not going to be able to haggle. You know, they tell you it's $2 for a slice of cheese. It's $2 for a slice of cheese.

Yeah. But so say, like, we go to, like, for renting condos and, like, just doing, like, extracurricular activities and, like, going to markets and, like, bartering with, like, Thai people selling shit. She's going to be able to get me a lot better prices, obviously, because she's going to deal with them and not me. So I do have that advantage. I do have that in my favor.

So for financially, so like, yeah, so I'm going to be able to survive on less than a thousand dollars a month over there and live comfortably. Yeah. No problem. No problem at all. I don't know how much you want to talk about it, but how'd you meet her? So that YouTube channel that I watch, Thai Talk with Tan. Yeah. And that's how he does it when he introduces.

So I watch that YouTube channel a lot. So they were talking about like he did a video on like all of the dating sites over there. And they're so like over there, they have Tinder. Obviously, they have it everywhere. But there's an equivalent. There's a Thai equivalent to Tinder called Thai Friendly. And I wasn't even really trying to like find a girlfriend, to be honest with you.

You know what I mean? Like, I just wanted to see what the dating pool was like over there. And listen, I don't know if anybody who dated, obviously Kobe's been with the same girl since high school, so he doesn't understand. But when you go on like Tinder or any of these dating sites here, it's a nightmare. It's an absolute shit show of a goddamn nightmare.

It's like, you know, it's like you don't even know what you're going to get.

You know? But over there, it's like, look, I signed up for the account and I swear to God, I woke up because our nights, they're daytime. So when I woke up the next morning, they were up all day. I had probably 50 matches and out of all those 50 matches, every single one of them messaged me. Which is, you don't get that here, like on dating sites here.

Southeast Asia is kind of more geared towards my demeanor and kind of the things that I want out of life and the goals that I have for myself.

If you get a match, you have to message first.

One might respond and then you talk to her for two hours and then they just don't want to talk to you anymore. It's a joke here. It's an absolute joke. Uh, so I, like I said, I got all of these likes and everything. And I know it's because I'm a white dude and you know what I mean? Like, that's just, I understand like the money part.

Like when foreigners come over there that we bring a lot of money with them, our money's worth a lot more. So every, a lot of the time, not gonna say every Thai girl, but a lot of, that's why a lot of Thai women date foreigners exclusively is for the financial benefits. Right. Like I'm not an idiot. You know what I mean?

Like, I don't think I'm just like just some great looking guy and I'm going to walk over there and, you know, be able to get all this tail.

But... So, like I said, I just wanted to see what the dating pool was. I mean, I know I'm not ugly.

Yeah, and let me just say, it doesn't matter what you look like when you go. I mean, it definitely helps.

Like, if you're more attractive, it definitely helps, like, on the prices you're going to get with the women and all that. But it's like, it doesn't matter what you look like when you go over there. You could have three eyes and a tail, and you're still going to have a 10 trying to take you out, trying to, you know, hook up with you every single day. It's just how it is.

Yeah, listen, these guys. Be reasonable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to have some kind of sense when you go over there. Because listen, there's women over there that that's their job. It's just being in relationships.

That's just that they don't work. They don't do anything. That's their job. They're professionally just in a relationship. And the guy just takes care of them.

You know what I mean? Cause they, and then when that guy leaves the country or whatever, they'll talk them into keep sending money to them and they'll grab another one coming into the country and they'll get with him. And it's just, they'll keep them on rotation. So like one girl have like 15 guys sending her money.

Oh, yeah. No, it was a YouTube video. I can't remember the first one I seen. I think it was just some dude walking around. Because there's these videos. I don't know if you've ever seen them on YouTube. But there's these videos that are, they just walk around with a camera.

Like on a good day, sending her money from out of the country because she's got all these men thinking that they're in love with them and they're going to have some kind of life with her. But I have to go back because most guys that go over there, they only go over there for like a month, a few weeks. They're not like me. They just get a one-way ticket.

There's very few people just are like, fuck everything, and I'm just going to move to Thailand.

Yeah, normal people don't do that. Normal people go over there on vacation, and they're like, I'm going to have a good time. I'm going to go back home. And like I said, they get roped in by these Thai women. And next thing you know, they're going back to the UK or to the US, and they're just sending them money every month. Because what is it? $300, $400 a month?

And the Thais live cheaply. So Thais will pay 10,000, 20,000 baht a month for rent. Right. Maybe sometimes less than that, 8,000, 10,000, 15,000. So you're sending her money. You're paying her rent. You're buying her all her meals. Plus she's got other guys.

Living good. Their nails are done all the time. They're going out to eat. They got the latest iPhone.

It's like a whole ordeal. And I'm so glad I'm like... Learned about that.

Thai Talk with Den.

Yeah, Thai Talk with Den. We'll have to link it down in the description of this video. But yeah, listen, that channel right there will really... Like if you're one of those guys who are thinking you're just going to go over there and find a wife, I highly recommend watching these videos first because it's really going to open your eyes up.

And I'm not saying that there aren't good women in Thailand because there are. But you're not going to find them working at a bar that... The bar girls over there, you will never find a good bar girl. They're just going to take all your money. That's what they do. Any woman working in freelancing or anything like that, which is prostitution, is basically what it is. I mean, let's...

These girls are prostitutes, and I hate to use that word because that word here in America is associated with— Has a stigma to it, yeah. Very the underbelly of the worst of the worst of society, and it's like, but you don't understand the economy over here. There's no opportunity for these women in Thailand.

You've got all these guys coming there, and they're just blowing all this money, and these young girls see this, and why wouldn't they want to go to these major cities and come and hook up with these foreigners and get paid? It just is what it is. I understand it. It's not like here in America where, bitch, you can go work at Walmart. You're not going to make $100,000 a year.

There's no dialogue. They don't talk. They don't say anything. They just walk with the camera. And I think those are the first videos I started watching of like Bangkok and Thailand. And I'm just like, holy smokes.

Bitch, you can go work at Walmart. You don't got to go sell pussy. Over there, they don't have Walmarts and Dollar Trees and dollar stores and gas. It's a different economy.

Oh, there's slums.

Bangkok is a city of vast, you know, like high society, but then you've got people living in like… You have a whole part of society in Thailand that lives in slums, like tin shacks. Not even proper housing, just some shit they found and nailed together to live inside of. You know what I mean?

There's a train coming through this little... I watched this thing where there was a train coming through this little town, or this little slum, and their houses were built maybe the width of this table away from the train track. If here would be somebody's house and then like there'd be a train track right here with this giant train just comes through four or five times a day.

So, you know, you do have the slums and like they do. There are extreme. There's very, very extreme poverty in Thailand. But to be honest, I could live like that if I had to over there. I could go live in. Listen, from living homeless here in America and starving to death.

I could go live in the... If I had to, I could go live in the slums over there in Thailand right next to the train track and just eat rice every day and hang out, go to cockfights. It's bad.

No.

I think the language is... I don't think we talked about the language.

So the Thais don't speak English over there at all. As like a society. So there are Thai people that do speak good English, but it's normally Thais who were raised in families who could afford to send them to like university. So, like, my girlfriend, the girl I'm talking to, she speaks perfect English. She's actually a teacher. She's a teacher. So she teaches kids.

But her major in college was English. So she speaks—obviously, her pronunciation isn't dead on. Obviously, she's a native speaker, but she gets the nuances and the sarcasm and the jokes. Yeah, her English is just as good as you or ours. She can hold a full conversation, but that's not typical of your average Thai person in Thailand. They just don't—

Like, wow. Yeah, so like our kitchens over here, like they don't have, they call them Western kitchens. So if you see a kitchen like this in a house or a condo in Thailand, it's called a Western kitchen. They just don't cook in home over there. And if they do, their kitchens are outside of the house. It'll be like outdoors, like their stove and all that shit will be outside.

Like they don't cook in the homes. And they'll have a very, like the refrigerators over there are very small. Like they use not the mini fridges, but not the big ones like we have. It's like the medium. Right. It's not like a regular size refrigerator. They're usually smaller unless you got money and you live in a nice house. Then you got the Western kitchen and all that shit. But.

No, as far as language goes, the Thai language, I've been learning over the past six months. I know probably 15 or 20 words right now, like the greetings and I can order food.

And, you know, I know a few other phrases, but yeah, the language is definitely a whole conundrum that I'm going to have to tackle because learning Thai isn't like learning any other language because they don't use the English alphabet, right? You know what I mean? Like, if you see Thai written, you don't even know, it's just a bunch of scribbly lines. You can't even make sense out of it.

They say Vietnam. So Vietnam's cheaper than Thailand. The cost of living is a little bit lower. They don't have the infrastructure that Thailand has, the big cities and the luxury apartments. And then you've got the Philippines, which is a completely different animal.

You know what I mean? Yeah, so the language is pretty wild over there. It's just, you know, it's going to be a feat. Right. But no, like, the more I get into it and the more I learn it, I'm like, okay, there's just, there's words that they reuse a lot where you can, you know, bridge.

Yeah, and I got Google Translate, which I got ChatGPT, you know, that'll act as a translator between two people. If I want to have a conversation with them, it'll relay what I'm saying to them and then back to me.

No, no, no, no, no, it's not like that. Well, in Bangkok, I think, yeah. But as soon as you get outside of Bangkok, no. People just don't. And there's different dialects. If you go to northern Thailand, they speak different Thai than southern Thailand.

So obviously I'm probably going to go to school when I get over there just so I can learn the language well and understand it well because it'll probably take me twice as long if I don't go to school to learn the language. And I think maybe I can get a visa to actually stay and learn the language. It's called a Thai educational visa. So that's one of the visa options I'm looking at when I go over.

Yeah, so when I get over, obviously I'm going to be doing editing for a living when I get over there, and that should carry me through my monthly expenses. But I'm really going to be focusing on my YouTube channel because, I mean—

It was Boziak Conundrum. But, you know, people don't really read even at a ninth grade level. So the conundrum was just too big of a word for a lot of people to even spell when I tell them, you know, what my name, my website or my name and my YouTube channel is. So it's just my name, John Boziak. And that's everything now. That's my TikTok. That's my Instagram. That's my YouTube channel.

That's everything is just my name, John Boziak. Right. Which is still difficult. People want to spell my last name with a Z. There's no Z. Put that in the keywords, in the keyword search. Yeah.

Oh, you're right. Yeah. Misspell it in the keyword search.

There's none.

I'm the only one, but nobody can spell it right. So I'm going to have to spell it. People want to spell it B-O-Z-I-A-K. Right. It's pronounced exactly how it's spelled. B-O-Z-I-A-K. Right. B-O-S-E-A-K. Never mind. That's besides the point. So yeah, John Boziak. And I'm just going to be basically vlogging my everyday experiences in Thailand. And while I'm vlogging, this is how much I paid for this.

uh and the cost of living is kind of similar but philippines is kind of getting a little bit more expensive now because people have been kind of going to the philippines for i don't know probably since the 80s and 90s people have been kind of migrating over there like u.s expats uh the u.s the philippines has a very large uh u.s expat community uh and so like every every country does but especially the philippines does especially so it kind of drove the price up on the cost of living uh in the philippines so

This is how much I paid for that. This is how you do this. This is how you do that. This is how you get around. Right. You know, and I'm going to explore, like I said, different parts of Bangkok. So each, you know, trip will be a different series of, you know, a different part of Bangkok. But, you know, I'm going to get outside of Thailand.

I think after like the first, you know, eight or nine months of there, I'm going to start traveling to like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines.

You're talking about the YouTubers that are already there.

They've been there for a while. And they know what works and what doesn't work.

It's funny you say that because I've heard, I've watched another guy who was over there and he was talking about the same thing. And he was like, I've tried to link up with a lot of these guys that are over here doing content and they just don't.

They're just not interested for some reason. I don't know why. Maybe because the kind of content that I make, they don't want their channel associated with. Motherfuckers are just weird. People are just weird as hell. So it would be cool to be able to hang out with some of these guys and film content.

But I'm not banking on it because just from what I've heard, they don't really like to collaborate with other people. I'd still make an attempt.

And I think there's a – how do you say this? The opposite of having the abundance mindset. Oh, they have the – The scarcity. Yeah, yeah. Where they're like, oh, there's so many people over here making videos that I can't – you know what I mean? Like I don't want to promote anybody else's channel because they might do better than mine. You're like, I don't know. That's stupid.

And obviously, I don't know that, but I'm assuming that's how a lot of the mind frame is with these guys over there.

There's such a big demographic, and my demographic may not be your demographic. The people that watch my videos may not watch your videos, and vice versa. You know, so, you know, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens once I get over there. I'll message a few of these guys.

Let me get on the ground, get there for a while, start traveling around and then, you know, really establish myself over there and start putting out a lot of content. We'll see how my channel does initially. And if it takes off, then I'll start maybe reaching out to some of these guys. Maybe, maybe, maybe not.

I'm going to wing it. I'm going to try and do one every day, like just a vlog every day. But I know I'm not going to be able to stick to that. So I'm going to try and do as much content as I possibly can. And for the first 90 days, it's going to be crazy because I'm going to be traveling and traveling and traveling. So I'm going to put out a lot of content. So the first 90 days, I'm just going to.

just completely saturate with content but then when i get back to to bangkok and i kind of want to like i'm gonna have to figure out like okay now i'm out of vacation mode because the first 90 days i think i'm going to be in vacation mode but then after that i'm going to try and figure out like just like a daily routine wake up gym film you know then i'm have to obviously i'm going to have to have some kind of hobby while i'm over there so right

But figuring all of that out will be a video series. And then once I get settled into my daily routine, that'll be a different video series.

Right. So here's what I was thinking. I want to get over there and I want to set up a podcast studio kind of like this because I want to do the vlogging. But I just honestly, I like the long form content, you know, having conversations. So what I want to do is on the vlogging and all my regular content will go to my YouTube channel.

But then everything I do in the podcast studio, I want to just go straight to Patreon. So I'm going to interview like expats, people who have moved from other countries who are currently living in Thailand. I want to interview those people. I want to interview like the sex workers, the bar girls, the transients, you know, whoever, whoever.

All of those interviews I'm going to have exclusively on Patreon itself. Yeah. Yeah.

I just feel like Thailand just it kind of seems like it's right for me. You know, the aesthetic, the culture, the people, the economy, the religion, you know, the way things work over there, the way of life. I just I kind of feel like that's more geared towards how I want to spend, you know, the second half of my life.

Yeah, it won't be. Everybody can't go and see only the people who pay to see it can see it. So I think maybe if I work that angle, I'll be able to get a lot more of them in there. Yeah. And then there's like this whole like subculture in Thailand. They're called sex pests.

Guys who are just like, they go over there and they're just like, you know, going raw dog and like five or six chicks every single day, just going nuts all over the place. Like that one dude, Osho.

I played it in one of his videos for you. This dude's a maniac. Wears a ski mask, won't show his face. And he, like, he has some kind of hidden camera. Like, he cakes in there with them. And he shows himself, like, picking up the prostitute, going into the back room with her. Obviously, he blurs everything out for YouTube because you can't really show. But, yeah. Oh, yeah.

He's like, I've tried everything. I've tried motorcycles, cars. He's like, video games get old. He's like, this is the only thing for me that really... He's like the prostitutes, man. He films himself going to Tijuana, Mexico, Hong Kong, Tijuana, Mexico. He films himself going to Pattaya, Thailand and just hooking up with prostitutes. And yeah, there's no shame in his game.

So there's like this whole subculture of people that are called sex pests. And I'd love to get a few of them guys in there and interview a few of them guys because those guys are just insane people.

Yeah, it's amazing how far the US dollar goes once you actually leave the United States. It's absolute insanity.

And when I do the Patreon, once I film the podcast episodes for the Patreon, I'm going to do a full TikTok for it. So I'm going to do TikToks from the Patreon episodes, which are going to be really good. And I'm also going to do like an Instagram and might even do a shorts channel for the Instagram or for the Patreon. So you know what I mean?

Just cut like 10, 15 minute shorts from every Patreon video. Clean it up. Clean them up a little bit.

Exactly. They'll watch the short channel. Yeah. But oh, just go to the subscribe to the Patreon to get to the. Yeah. So I'm going to work that angle. Being able to set up a studio over there, I can probably do relatively inexpensively. I could probably rent a place for 150 bucks US a month.

He added that for... Then once you get down there, it's right on 6th Street. What do they call that? Skid Row. Yeah.

I thought I was going to get robbed pulling up. I pulled up in a rental car. I got out. I had all my jewelry on and shit. And you're down there in Skid Row. It's rough. I was like, holy fuck. I'm looking around for the address. I'm like, this just can't be right. There's no way. The GPS took me to the wrong neighborhood.

We can dig one up. Yeah, sure. Why not?

He was like, so the Uber drivers won't even go down there.

Yeah. He's in there like... When we were doing my interview, he just laid down on the floor. Yeah. He had the camera on this little tripod, but on the floor, and he just laid down on the floor like this. He was just interviewing. Same thing. He just laid down.

Yeah, he doesn't give a shit. Mark's cool. Yeah, so Softly Underbelly was a thing.

Yeah, I'm going to try and soundproof it the best I can, just because I don't like the ambient noise when I'm trying to have an interview and do interviews or whatever. But yeah, so that's going to be Patreon. I'm going to try and do daily videos. I don't know how much I'm going to get filmed over there.

I'm going to try my best to just show just what a normal life is like when you live in Thailand.

Some of the best on the planet.

I'm going to live in one of those nice buildings that have high speed. The live streams are going to be hard to do because of the time difference. Oh. So like if Sam live stream at like midnight, it's going to be noon over here. So if I'm, if I'm live streaming like eight o'clock in the morning, it'll be eight o'clock at night over here. So I might, I might be able to get like a lot of days.

I can do it. It'll be a day live stream. It'll be watching it at night over here.

So, yeah, so apartments over there, $480, $500 will get you a decent place, but $600 to $800 will get you, like, a nice luxury place.

Yeah. A lot of the guys, this guy I watch, he's in Da Nang, Vietnam, one of the guys I watch. And he does a live pretty much every day.

Yeah, once I get into a routine over there and I figure out my day-to-day life, then I think I'll be able to plan the lives.

Right, yeah. Buy me a coffee kind of thing or whatever it is. No, it can be, what is it, five?

And they also have a members-only section of YouTube. Yeah, it's kind of like Patreon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, like I said, I'm just, you know, doing the daily vlogs, life in Thailand videos. I'm going to do the Patreon, the interviews on Patreon. And then, you know, like I said, I'm going to find a hobby. I have a girlfriend. Hopefully that works out and that goes well. But, you know, I'm not holding my breath. Right. Because I, you know...

I'm 40 years old, and I've been through so many nightmare relationships. Every interaction I've had with a woman historically in my life has just been overwhelmingly negative. So it's kind of hard to go into. And that's not fair for her, kind of going into a relationship expecting the worst, but it's just like, I don't know, dude. But like I said, the culture over there is different.

The women are different. Things might be different, but I'm not, like I said, I'm not putting all my eggs in that basket. You're going to pick up Muay Thai? That's a big thing.

Yeah, I could do Muay Thai. And it's something I've been thinking about. But I was something else I was thinking about is like, if I do Muay Thai, I want to go hard. Like, I want to have like legitimate fights and all that. And like, I'm worried about getting injured.

It's the square footage. What's really killing you, because all the apartments are really nice. All of the condos are really nice in certain parts of Bangkok. Now, you can get the older buildings, which are way cheaper, but you don't have the amenities. You're not 35th floor overlooking the whole city. Right. A lot of those places are, I say, 600 to 800.

At my age, like getting like a breaking a wrist or like a femur or like a like a shin or something at 40. Dude, I'm gonna be out. I'm gonna be down and out for six or eight weeks. Yeah. Dude, I don't want the injuries. I don't want to get the injuries. That's my only thing with Muay Thai. I want to do it.

I might go and just take the classes and go through the motions and hit the pads, but what fun is that if you're not going to get in the ring and fight somebody? What good is learning all this martial arts if you're not going to use it? So I'm going to want to fight, and I'm eventually going to get injured because it happens to everybody when you fight Muay Thai.

Muay Thai is a rough sport over there. I mean, you get kicked right in the side of the head. It's like boxing. It's like kickboxing and boxing put together. Yeah, no, I'm all right. You're getting kicked in the chin. You're getting kicked in the side of the head.

They start fighting in Thailand at 9 or 10 years old is when they get into Muay Thai.

And a lot of people go to Thailand specifically to train Muay Thai because you can get a visa to come into the country and train Muay Thai for a year, two years or whatever. Yeah, but I don't know. Like I said, I don't think that's the route I'm going to go. That could be the backup visa plan.

Listen, my bottom-of-the-barrel backup plan is just becoming an English teacher over there if everything else fails. Because I can tattoo over there. I can become a tattoo artist, and I can open a tattoo shop because I have a Thai girlfriend, so she can open a tattoo shop, and I can go there. So I can tattoo. I always have that to fall back on.

But I don't know what the money will be like tattooing. But if everything fails, if all of my plans fail, if my YouTube channel fails, if the economy goes into the shitter, if the American dollar goes bust, I can always teach English over there. Always.

And, um, I've, I've, I've been tattooing since probably 2003. And professionally since about 2018, 17. And I've tattooed more butterflies in my career than I've tattooed anything else in my entire life.

Infinity symbols, butterflies, feathers with the turning into butterflies. It's just I could tattoo butterflies with my eyes closed. Blindfolded, I guarantee I could tattoo a butterfly. Yeah. So, you know, it's just one of those things with the industry. Yeah. Like if everything else fails, I can teach English and I'll have to live like a local because I won't. They'll pay me a Thai salary.

I won't be making. Yeah. So I'll have to live like a local. I'll have to, you know, I'll eat rice and noodles every day and. It'll be what it is, but I'll be able to survive. And honestly, the quality of life you live, even as a Thai local, is like living poor in Thailand, you can still kind of have a decent quality of life. You're not going to have a brand new car.

You're not going to live in a luxury high-rise apartment. Does anybody even have cars over there?

You know, scooters are probably the main mode of travel just because they don't have the infrastructure build out to have for everybody to own a vehicle. Right. So if everybody owned a vehicle there, you would never be able to get anywhere because there would just be this constant brick of traffic. So everybody drives mopeds and they have the highest fatality rate for...

But then again, it depends on the square footage, well, the square meters. And I've had to learn the goddamn metric system since going into all this because that's what they use over there. So I've had to learn. We don't use it over here for any reason. There's no reason for me to use the metric system here.

Traffic deaths in Thailand and the entire world. Oh, I think India kind of holds the crown, but I think Thailand's a strong second for fatalities over there.

It's like every five or six minutes somebody's getting killed on the road over there in Thailand. Because it's just mad. It's just chaos. Like, if you go watch any video on YouTube about traffic in Thailand, it is chaos. Plus, they drive on the left side of the road over there. The steering wheel's on the right side of the car.

So I wouldn't be able to drive a car over there even if I could afford one.

Because the driving stuff, they could drive on the left side of the road. I mean, I could do it if I'm just driving straight down one side. Yeah, yeah. But like navigating like.

Me being able to navigate, coming up into like an intricate, busy intersection, trying to navigate that on the wrong side of the road. Forget about it. I'm going to lose my life. I'm going to get run over. So, yeah, but obviously I'm going to buy a motorbike when I get over there. I'm going to learn. I'm going to have to learn how to drive. I'm going to have to learn how to ride a motorbike.

10 or 20 percent it's really actually significant no we were spending jess and i were spending 200 a week for groceries now we're spending 350 yeah i seen the tiktok where the kid pulled up his amazon no it was uh uh his walmart a grocery order from like 2019 or something like that and things had gone up like two three hundred percent yeah it was outrageous and it wasn't and sometimes if they hadn't gone up they actually did go up because they actually would

I'm going to have to learn.

You can, you know, which is there's nothing wrong with that. But like for like the longer trips, like say if I move like outside of Bangkok, which I think eventually is going to be the plan. It's just to move a little bit outside of the city, buy a little piece of property, build a house, get married, have a couple of kids. Jesus. Oh, yeah. No, I definitely want kids. I mean, I'm 40.

I think I want... But I haven't been able to raise them the way I want. You know what I mean? I want one where I can just get my hands on them and see the thing all the way through to the end, from the beginning to the end. That's what I really want. You know, listen, I've done all the drugs. I've been to all the parties. I've drank all the booze. I've slept with all the women.

You know what I mean? Like I've done a lot of things in my life that many people don't get to do because they chose to do the right thing, to go to work every day. You know what I mean? They chose to have a job and a family and go to work every day. I didn't do any of those things. I've just been being a maniac my whole life. So now, like I'm going to be turning 40 in February.

People just learn the metric system, you know, just to be like, I know the metric system or whatever. But, you know, I guess over there, all they use is the metric. So everything's in kilometers. Everything's square meters. So I had to do all the math in my head and learn all of the equations.

And it's the second half. It's halftime. Like a midlife crisis kind of ordeal. So now it's like midlife crisis. You move to Southeast Asia. You get the Asian wife. You know what I mean? You have kids. You get married. You kind of live the nice, calm life, you know, where I don't have that overbearing stress of like the mortgage and the car payments and all the crazy shit.

Like, you know, that will put me in an early grave, right? Heart attack at 55, 60. Right. You know what I mean? Like over there, you just kind of relax. I go fishing, you know, wake up in the morning, do a little bit of fishing, go down to the village and get my vegetables or whatever for I'm going to cook for the day. And the kids are coming to and from school. You play with them.

You raise the kids up over there in Thailand with their value system and their culture. Not this mindless garbage here. I think it's the way to go for like the second half of life. for like the second part of the, you know, 40 to hopefully 80. Nobody's really living past 80 these days, but, you know, go over there, get healthy.

All the poison that's in our food supply just doesn't exist over there. All the modified food ingredients and preservatives.

You ain't lying. JFK is coming in there. RFK, I'm sorry. RFK.

You see those videos? I follow Instagram where everyone's like that. They'll cut his picture out, and it's obviously cut out, and they'll paste it on this super jacked, and you'll be able to show a guy reaching. Don't even think about reaching for that aspartame.

The problem with fluoride is it's a byproduct of chemical waste, and it causes all kinds of problems inside the human body. They're saying it's one of the main reasons people are getting Alzheimer's. It causes genetic mutations inside your body that don't really have an immediate effect on your life, but over a maybe 10- or 20-year lifespan...

You have a lot more problems like towards the end of your life with like cognitive ability, cognitive functions, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis. I can't fucking liver function. You know, it just over expanded period of time, like all of these shit that's in our food supply over here. That's what happens. Like, obviously, it's not poisoning us as soon as we eat it or else it would be outlawed.

But over a given amount of time, all of the shit that's in our food supply over here is causing the cancers, the carcinoma.

It's for teeth.

Right?

I didn't dive down this rabbit hole.

You can't drink the water in Bangkok and Thailand.

Bottled water only. Yeah, you can't drink the water. There's parasites in the water. Because they don't have the facilities to treat the water like we do here, which is probably part of the reasons they put the fluoride in the water. I haven't dove down that rabbit hole on the whole fluoride thing, so I don't know enough about it.

But, yeah.

We don't even know why it's in the water supply. So, yeah. So, like, a lot of the things that are in the food supply here, just they're not in the food supply over there. So, being able to go over there and, like, actually live healthy and, like, live, I think, a little bit longer because they do the life expectancy in these Thai countries, in these Southeast Asian countries, there's...

way longer they live well into their 90s over there whereas over here it's usually prostate cancer by 60 you know 70 you're having a stroke or a heart attack and then you're lucky if you make it to your 80s and you're in a walker you're not you're not getting around very well you're being kept alive basically just because of the medication medicine yes because of modern medicine it's keeping you alive not just because you're just

Yeah. Take you up, pull the plug on the medications and all of your internal organs and everything shut down. Brain and cognitive ability goes away. Your muscles stop working. But over there, it's like they live a different lifestyle. They tend to be a little bit healthier on average, like the average person in Southeast Asia. They just tend to be a little bit healthier. Not an obesity problem.

There's I mean, there's fat people over there. There's fat Asians now, but not like here in America. You know what I mean? So yeah, I'm just going to get healthy, focus on just being healthy, having some kind of workout regimen, eating healthy, living healthy. And eventually, like I said, I want to have a family, kids, a wife, everything.

It's probably a little bit different without me here spewing my nonsense all the time.

I'm a good roommate.

Very good roommate. I'm very hard to come by people like me.

I don't like leaving messes. I don't like inconveniencing other people. I don't know how or why I got that way. I'll go out of my way before I inconvenience someone else. You know what I mean? Because if I inconvenience somebody by doing something kind of like, you know, like they have to clean up after me, that'll be in my head for the rest of the day. Sometimes for two days.

Like, damn, I should have washed that plate because he left it and they had to wash it. Like, that'll just fuck with me for two or three days. So that's why I just don't do it because I'll have to live in my own personal hell. So that's why I don't, I'm not, I'm not loud. Like, I don't make loud noises. I don't bring anybody.

I don't bring like, I hate that when you live with somebody and they're always bringing weird people to the house and you're like, dude. You know, like I get it, like we're sharing, but it's like, dude, you're always bringing people over here.

Dude, I spend an uncomfortable amount of time alone, so I have to have fun. Like, I have to have fun.

Yeah, I clean up after myself. I'm quiet. I don't bring anybody to the house, you know.

I think I've developed OCD just from all the extensive incarceration and all the programs I've been in. I think that's why I have the OCD that I have. So I'm not one of those people who are just going to leave shit laying around everywhere. I fold my dirty clothes.

You know what I mean? Like I don't leave things like there's a place for everything and everything in its place is how I truly believe. Like I'll organize garbage like I can't just leave like shit strewn about like it fucks with me on like a subconscious level.

Like I'll just be laying in bed and I won't be able to sleep at night knowing that there's something downstairs that just needs to be cleaned or needs to be put away. It's funny.

I do the same thing. I've washed my hand today.

Sometimes if I'm just walking through the kitchen, I'll stop and wash my hands. If I'm just walking through the kitchen, I don't need to stop.

It's just something you do subconsciously.

What are you doing? He's a hand washer.

Well, there's no kids here either. And that's what will fuck your place up are kids.

Kids and animals will fuck your shit up.

I mean, it's dog shit here. You can't get a hotel room for that much. You can't go live at the whole Motel 6 for $800 a month here.

I think this is the best thing for me. I'm just a single guy. I'm not married. You know what I mean? I don't have a lot of responsibilities.

One thing I can guarantee is I'm going to do my best not to come back to the United States. Really, I've come to peace with I'm probably never going to see my mom again. I'm probably never going to see my dad again. You know what I mean? And my kids are all pretty much grown. I mean, my kids are all teenagers now going into college, so...

If they want to see me, then I'll send them a plane ticket if they want to come over. I have no problem sending them a plane ticket to come to Thailand, but I have no plan whatsoever of ever coming back to the United States. Like I said, I love it here. I don't hate the United States. I love it here. I love the wilderness. The culture was cool up until quite recently.

You know, but it's just like, it's too much, man. It's just too much. And I think that there's such a big world out there that it would be a shame not to get out and at least experience it for a little while.

You know?

When this video gets posted, I'll already be over there. I'll already be in Thailand.

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Yeah. And I'm going to try and do my best at, you know, telling how much everything costs. Because when I watch the videos, the thing that aggravates me most is they'll go out to eat and they won't tell you how much they paid for everything, which I know they don't have to. Right. You know what I mean? But I'm going to make it a point to be like, OK.

Because I know the gap in what we're spending here and over there is so crazy. And I think that everywhere I go, I'm like, this is how much I paid. This is how much it costs in U.S. dollars.

Oh, I'm going to do full-on restaurant reviews. Right.

Because I'm not, listen, I'm not a big drug guy. I never really have been my whole life. And I'm not really a big alcohol guy. But when it comes to food, Listen, I'll tell you what. I know I don't look like I eat a lot, but I love food. Yeah, he eats a lot. I eat a lot, and I eat giant portions. So when I get over there, I'm going crazy on the sweets. There's so many little street vendors.

They make little donuts and candies and cookies and treats. Oh, I'm going to have a lot of fun. Hell, who knows? I might be 200, 300 pounds when I come next year.

Oh, Wayno's Adventures. Wayno's Adventures.

Their YouTube channel, sure, yeah.

Yeah, that's for four thousand dollars a month. You could live like that's everything. You could live like high society. They call it high. So in in Thailand, they call it high. So you could live like high. So high society. Yeah. Oh, and by the way, the YouTube channel is called Project Bangkok. And it's a guy it's one of the guys. He does a lot of condo tours.

He does a lot of Bangkok content, obviously. but this is like one of the first videos I watched of his. And this, this, I think this video made me fall in love with this building. So can't live like that here in the U S for Ashton. Yeah. It's called the Ashton, a soak in Rama nine. Yeah. It's nice. He usually does the area and the grounds and the facilities before he actually gets to the unit.

Look at the pool on like the 40th floor. I mean, just look at the surrounding area.

It's like being in Manhattan, New York. I was thinking Brickell. Imagine working out there every morning. This is luxury. This is a luxury apartment. Look at that right next to your bed. You wake up and you just got the view of the entire city. Well, that unit, that view was kind of shit, but 11 million baht, which is like, I don't know, $90,000. $90,000. So a lot of these units are for sale.

You can buy... Foreigners aren't allowed to buy houses or own land, but we can buy condos.

Oh, yeah. And almost every apartment or condo over there comes furnished already. TV, couches, beds, silverware, dishes, everything. I mean, you get the idea. And this is on the higher end.

Yes, and see, that's the thing is, square footage is basically, so the lower in price you go, you're still going to get the same quality. Your square footage is going to be a lot smaller.

Yeah, a lot of those condos in Bangkok are shoeboxes for $200 or $300 a month. But, I mean, it's like you're on the 30th floor. I mean, yeah, it's only like 35 square meters, which is like, I don't know, like 400 square feet, 425 square feet or something like that, which isn't a lot of space. But it's like...

still sell that but they'd sell less of it but charge you a little bit more yeah that's called shrinkflation they would just you know instead of being 24 ounces they would shrink it down to like 15 or 20 ounces and then they would jack the price up uh on top of that so not only are they raising their prices but they're giving you less of their products yeah you're raising my price as well i don't get i don't get a dozen hot dogs now now i'm getting 10

They have co-working spaces. This is all super high-end shit. That's just the higher-end stuff.

Well, America is, everybody has to get a visa before they come here. Unless you show up at the southern border, then you can just come right in. But if you come on an airplane or something like that, then... You need a visa. Thailand is one of the only countries that allow, I think they allow like 15 or 20 different countries to come in visa free. Like you just show up. Right.

And if they decide to let you in, they give you like a tourist visa, which is good for 60 days. And then you can get that extended to 90 days. Once you're in the country, you pay like a little bit extra, like a couple thousand baht or whatever. And then you get that extended to 90 days, but then you have to leave the country.

And then when you come back in, you get, you didn't, you can restart the tour. It's called a tourist visa. Yeah. Which is like the easiest and best option just to show up and to get into the country.

Or you can even do border runs where you go to Laos. There's like a whole system where there's services where you get on the bus, they drive you to the Laos border, you walk through customs, and then you walk in one door, and then you come right back in the other and get on the bus and go back to Bangkok.

And then it starts at another 60 to 90 days again, yeah. But if you want to stay in the country long-term, that's kind of inconvenient because you've got to do it every 60 to 90 days. You've got to leave the country, and that's just going to cost money over time. And the more of a life you build for yourself over there, you're like, fuck, next week I've got to go and do this thing.

So there's different visa options once you get in the country for people who want to stay long-term. Obviously, there's something called a DTV visa. It's called a Destination Thailand visa. And that's for like digital nomads, people who work online, people who but you have to prove that you have so much money in your bank account. Thai bought in a Thai bank account.

It's I think the visa itself costs five thousand dollars, you know, and then there's a bunch of other stipulations. But then you can stay you can remain in the country up to one year before you have to renew the visa again. No, I'm sorry. For five grand? No, no, no, I'm sorry. No, no, no, I'm sorry. The DTV visa is a five-year visa.

It's a five-year visa, multiple entries, so you can leave the country and come back. And that's like the best option. And then there's like a retirement visa for people who are over the age of 50. Yeah, I think it's over the age of 50, you can get the retirement visa where you're just there indefinitely.

Yeah, you sure can. And you guys can both get the retirement visa. And then, you know, you have to have like a million baht in the bank, which is only like $30,000, $30,000 US dollars. So every year when you go in for your renewal, you have to show them that you are making money and you have money in the bank.