Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - John Boseak Disappears to Thailand Following Fraud Allegations

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

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Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform or watch us on YouTube so you never miss a beat. Let's make sense of this industry together. I booked a one-way ticket to Tyler. 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, like, I'm going to be turning 40 in February, and it's half time. Why are you leaving? What are you doing? How did you come to the decision that you don't want to be in the U.S. anymore? 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... Even if they say it's gone up 10 or 20 percent, it's really actually significant.

No, yeah. We were spending... Jess and I were spending $200 a week for groceries. Now we're spending $350. Yeah, I've seen the TikTok where the kid pulled up his... Amazon. No, it was his Walmart, a grocery order from like 2019 or something like that. And things had gone up like 2, 300%.

Yeah, it was outrageous. You know. And it wasn't, and sometimes if they hadn't gone up, they actually did go up because they actually would 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 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 a dozen huck dollars now.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I don't see that trend changing anytime soon. You know, I mean, you know, the current political arrangement I happen to agree with, you know, let's just put that that, put that where it is. But I don't see things, you know, getting cheaper anytime soon. I don't see the cost of living going down just because we have, you know, the president who, you know, just because Trump's an office or whatever. But I think that what's what I think's funny is that he immediately things have already changed or starting, people are implementing changes automatically. But in the end, I think the economy is what it is.

And it's in real trouble. And he's better for the economy, but it's going over. You know what I'm saying? It's like a building that's coming down. Like you can do a controlled demolition or you can let it topple over and do more damage. But it's coming down no matter what. Yeah. So, you know, I think he's the better choice for bringing the building down.

Yeah, I agree. But it's coming down. Like, that's what I've been saying. Like, it doesn't, and I think I even told you this. I was like, to be honest, for the Republicans, it might have even been better if he didn't win because it guaranteed a win in four years. If he didn't win because the economy, whoever is in there has to face the fact that we're slipping into a recession. It doesn't matter who's in there. So there's nothing you can do.

You can offset it a little bit, but it's a problem. 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. Yeah, 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.

You think 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 in Lamborghinis and mansions. because you have to work too hard for all of that stuff. So I don't really care about it. Plus I'm getting older now, and it's just like, I don't know.

Well, I know when you were working like 60, 70 hours a week at the tattoo place. Yeah. Like you said, yeah, but I'm not really doing. I'm really just there waiting for people to come in. To me, that's not a real job. Tattooing for me has never been a real, that's why I liked it. That's why I liked it so much. And I put in so many hours at the shop, you know,

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 and tattooing is something I enjoy doing so 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 into my mid-20s at a window company just doing windows outside here in Florida working outside like on construction sites and whatnot 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, but I'm just not a corporate guy. Not only because of my aesthetic, not only because of my, obviously. You're saying prior to this.

Well, I just don't have the demeanor for it. You know, I don't have, I don't feel like I have what it takes to be part of the team. You know what I mean? I'm just not that guy. Just because the way I've grown up, being homeless most of my life, 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, you know, I just feel like that kind of molded me a certain way.

And now I'm 40 years old. We're going to be 40 years old. And I'm just setting my ways, you know. And so I feel like Southeast Asia is kind of more geared towards my demeanor and like, you know, kind of the things that I want out of life and the goals that I have for myself. Well, how did you, what I'm wondering is how did you get there? I mean, you don't just roll over one day and say, here's where I'm going. I mean, what did you see, a TikTok? And then it sent you down a rabbit hole.

Oh, yeah. No, it was a YouTube video. It was, I don't, I wanted, 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 the camera. What's the one guy? 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. It was immediately Thailand. Yeah. Because every time I've mentioned on this, every time I mentioned during a, during an interview like, oh, yeah, yeah. Boziak's going to Thailand.

Somebody in the comments will be like, oh, you know, oh, he ought to go to. and they always have like alternatives. They say Vietnam. 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. And the cost of living is kind of similar, but Philippines is kind of getting a little bit more expensive now because people haven't 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. The U.S., the Philippines has a very large U.S. expat community.

And so, like, every country does, but especially the Philippines does especially. So it kind of drove the price up on the cost of living in the Philippines. So 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 kind of feel like that's more geared towards how I want to spend. and, you know, the second half of my life. You know what we ought to do?

Do you want to look at one of those videos where the guy is showing, like, one of the condos? We can dig one up, yeah, sure, why not? Can you, you want to find one? Like a short one where he just takes the guy up and goes, actually, I mean, like, he'll go on for, like, the 20th floor of a brand new building. Yeah. And it's like $480 to live in a one-bedroom, one bath. 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. Like living in a place down, like a one-bedroom downtown Tampa. It's the square footage is what's really killing you because all the apartments are really nice. Like all of the condos are really nice in certain parts of Bangkok. Now you can go 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.

You know, so a lot of those places are, I say six to 800. But then again, it depends on the square, 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. Like there's no reason for me to use the metric system here. 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. But so like we, I was going to say, we looked at some of these places that were like one bedroom, one bass. And they were maybe a building that was two stories high, maybe three stories high. And there were maybe four or five blocks away from the, from the, you know, from like the beaches downtown. But yeah, they're only two or three story highs.

And maybe they're built in the. in the 90s or 20 years ago. And they look like a regular kind of apartment, right? But those you can get for like 400 bucks a month. But you're right, but it's... The older buildings. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They're older.

They're about two or three stories. Right. You can get those for $250, $300 a month. But if you want to be on a 30th floor... If you want a high-rise luxury condo, you're going to have to spend between $600 and $800 U.S. every month, which, I mean, is dog shit here. You can't get a...

a hotel room for that much. You can't go live at the whole motel six for $800 a month here. Remember the one bedroom I used to live in? Yes. Okay. So that one bedroom, a buddy of mine came over named Troy, had come there to buy a paying from me. And he looked and he looked at my, he went in the building.

It was like, he's like, this apartment's exactly the same size as mine. And I was paying $1,400 a month, $1,500 a month. Yeah. And it was exact same layout as his, but he was in downtown Tampa on like the 15th or 20th floor of one of those places on channel side and I think he was paying 3500 3,500 he goes I'm telling you he is he's I got the same flooring those are the same he's like this is my my layout exactly but he was on like the whatever 15th 20th floor something like that and it was it was it was like 2,000 and change to live there so I know for a one

bedroom one bath a brand new nice one bedroom one bath downtown Tampa three years ago, about three years ago, it was a little, it was like, yeah, 3,200. Yeah, double that now. Yeah. It's because things have gone just astronomically skyrocketed. Let's say 4,000. So you're looking at 4,000 compared to 800. Yeah.

For $4,000 a month, you could live like, that's everything. You could live like high society. They call it high so in Thailand. They call it high so. You could live like high so. You could live like high society. Yeah. Oh, and by the way, the YouTube channel is called Project Banking.

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, 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, Assoc in Ramon.

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. Yeah. It's like being in Manhattan, New York.

Like, there's only like... I was thinking brickle. Imagine working out there every morning. This is luxury. This is a luxury apartment. This isn't... Look at that right next to your bed. You wake up and you just got the view of all the entire city.

Well, that unit, that view was kind of shit, but... 11 million bot, which is like, I don't know. $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. Do this come furnished?

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. Yeah, yeah. It's, I mean, like, in this, and this is like on the higher end.

Yeah. You know. Yeah, I don't know. know how much higher you can get than this unless you just get more square footage. 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. Right. Your square footage is going to be a lot smaller. But you know how much square footage do you need? Yeah, a lot of those condos in Bangkoks are shoeboxes for two or three hundred dollars 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 but if you're using the amenities yes they have an office yeah offices they have co-working spaces where it's like and you know and this is all super high-end shit you know so yeah that's that's that's just like the higher end stuff okay so um so how do you like one well I guess the first question is um how do you figure out how to go there because I'm assuming you just can't like if if you're living in the UK you can't say ah you know what I'm going to go I'm going to go live in America like that's not that easy like well America is everybody has to get a visa before they come here you can't just unless you show up

at the southern border then they just you know you can just come right in but if you come on like an airplane or something like that then you need a visa right um 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 decided 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 bot 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 can restart the, 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. So the plan is you come in for something. 60, but you stay, you pay a little bit, you stay till 90, you leave for a day, you fly back in. Or you can even do border runs where you go to Lali. There's like a whole system where they, there's services where you get on the bus, they drive you to the Lough 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 it just starts, and now you're back there for 60 to 9 days. And then it starts at another 60, 90 days again, yeah. All right, yeah, yeah. But that's, you know, that's, you, if you want to stay in the country long term, that's kind of inconvenient, you know, because you got to do it every 60 and 90 days. You got to leave the country. And that's just going to cost money over time. And, you know, the more of a life you build for yourself over there, like, fuck, you know, next week I got to go and do this thing.

You know, but so there's, 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, a Thai bot in a Thai bank account. It's, I think the visa itself costs $5,000. 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. The DTV visa is five-year visa. Oh, okay. It's a five-year visa, multiple entries so you can leave the country and come back. And that's like the best option, you know. And then there's like a retirement visa for people who are over the age of 50 or, yeah, I think it's over the age of 50.

You can get the retirement visa where you're just there indefinitely. Can you bring your wife if she's younger than 50? Yes. Yeah, you sure can. And you guys can both get the retirement visa. And then, you know, you have to have like a million bot in the bank, which is only like $30,000, $30,000, $30,000. So every year when you go for your renewal, you have to show them that you, you know,

you are making money and you have money in the bank. So wait, so how much is it you have to have in the bank? Like a million bot or something like that. What's how much is that? It's like $30,000. $30,000. And you came in, you could stay there. I could buy a condo for $100,000 and stay indefinitely.

I got to get rid of coal because it's going to be all stream yard. I don't need Colby anymore. So, boy, the YouTube would take a hit, wouldn't it? The channel would, if I did all stream yard, that'd be over. Yeah, I can't. But what do you need every month? Five, five, ten grand? You just need that one ditty video.

Yeah, one good ditty video. One good ditty video a month. One ditty stream yard. Yeah. So, 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. Right. 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 dollars. Right. Like, what is this? So, you know? So what is it there if you want to go out and go to a Thai restaurant, not even fast food, just go to a Thai restaurant? So what the Western, 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, $0.50, $3 a meal, $4 a meal. Do you get that meal? What do you mean? If you're a U.S. Like, they're going to look at you and know, look at you, you're a round-eye. No, there's not, no, no, no, they don't give us one. Well, sometimes they do farang. It's called their, they call foreigners, uh, farangs, like F-A-R-A-N-G in Thai. So they do have pharynxing. Pale face?

Um, or is that, or is that a compliment? The Thai is 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. Like, I'm not, you know, I'm not saying. What people don't realize. I'm not telling tales outside of school here. Well, what people don't realize, in the United States, what people don't realize is that most countries are, we, you go to that country and live there. And right away, you'd be like, my God, you guys are racist. Like, if you're fat, they'll tell you you're fat.

If you're not attractive, they'll say that. They'll call you. I mean, they're just blatant. 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. So you're going to go. probably initially what, do the 60 to 90 day route, right? You're going to stay for 60, maybe go 90, pay it a little bit, go 90, and then do the loop, figure out what's the easiest thing because you're traveling initially. My plan initially is to come into the country,

do the 90 days, and I want to see all of Thailand. 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 going to check out Puket and all like the surrounding little islands and stuff for that week while I'm there, like crabby and Koso Mui, Kosamette, 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 like it's in so there's a little beachside town called huahin 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 my bearing 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 huahin so I'm going to go there I got like four or five days planned in huahin so I'm going to see that whole little section of Thailand. And then I'm going north to Chang Mai. So like Chang Mai, Chang 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 there and then from there I think I'm coming back to Bangkok

and then I'm going to Patia, Thailand. and I'm going to hang out in Patia 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, like, which route is the best way to go for, like, a long-term visa. What you're saying, between Bangkok and Padilla? No, no, I'm definitely going to live in Bangkok. Oh, why not you? You were looking at Patia. So I grew up in Miami.

Right. I grew up in Miami. I'm used to Miami Beach. And Patia is a beach town. It's a tourist town. You know what I mean? I grew up in a tourist town. Right.

From Miami Beach, you know, 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 Patia and like Pouquet and those places are from like the UK where they get like five days of sunshine all year. Right. Or then or if they come from the U.S., they're like 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 where I, like I've never really lived in like a giant metropolis. You know, outside of like Miami, which is like, I don't know, like that I guess the downtown. area of Miami's got big buildings and shit, but it's not. Yeah, it's like, it's like Tampa. Like, sure, there are spots you can stand in Tampa and see nothing but big, big buildings, but if you walk two blocks, you're out of that. Yeah, there's a very, it's nothing like going to Manhattan or Chicago or, you know, you go there and you're like, this is insanity.

Like even, even, 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. Like it's such a massive city. And the whole city's developed like that. It's skyscrapers. And they've got like three or four different forms of like public transportation. They have like an above ground, which is called the MRT. And they've got like a subway below ground that's called the, I don't remember what that one called. And then they got like the buses. And they've got they've got like our version of, I guess what you would call Uber over there, which is like 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. You know what I mean? Take off to your destination. Like it's just wild, you know? Yeah, it's a whole different system over there. So you were when you were looking into all this, you were concerned about, you were like,

I don't even know if I can get a passport because you were a felon. First you were felon. You were thought that was a concern. But you were able to get your. 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, like when I reported after I got out on bond, they made me bring my passport with me.

All right. And I never got it back. Yeah, yeah. 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 didn't even know if you were able to. I didn't know if I could get one.

Like, I've heard people say like, well, I'm a felon. I can't get a passport. It's like, that's not the case. That's BS. No. I've been to federal prison and I got my passport. no problem. And I've also heard people say that you can't get a passport.

Like if you owe like back taxes to the federal government. And that's true. That is true. And child support. Child support, back taxes. And like I owe a federal. I have a federal judgment against me. But if you're paying your judgment or you're paying like you can have the,

you can be in arrears in taxes. You can be in arrears. But if you're on a payment plan, they'll give you the passport and let you go. It's when you, it's when you owe. owe $5 million or whatever. Let's see you owe $50,000 and you haven't paid in five years. And you're not like, fuck you, I'm not paying. Then they go, oh, no, no, no, no.

Well, then you can't get a passport. Yeah. But you got a passport. They'll hold you hostage here in this country. Right. Right. But you got a passport because you were sweating. You were like, I don't know.

Yeah. Not only did I get it. It came like, like, like, I got it a month or two before I even thought I was going to get it. Yeah, because they tell you three months. They tell you like 30 days or something like that. They said three or four months. Yeah.

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.

How much was the ticket? Because that was. It was about $960 or $8 months ago. It was $960. For a one-way. And that was eight months ago, right? Yeah, about nine months ago. Oh, my God.

Round trip. If you're booking a round-trip ticket to Thailand, you're going to come out of about $1,500. 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's 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 going to be, you know, a track. It's going to be a track. But I'm fully prepared.

What, you have your neck pillow? I have my neck pillow. I have my neck pillow. I've got my iPad. I've got movies downloaded it. I've never seen before, you know, so. Let me think. Here's the thing. Like you're saying, this is permanent.

And the game plan is to get there and start making videos. 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, tour here 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.

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, you know, I don't want, like I said, I don't want to live through a camera lens. But no, yeah, it's going to be permanent. Like, I don't plan on coming back.

I mean, unless apartments, you know, unless the real estate here goes, hits the shitter, and I can come back here and live for, relatively nothing, which that's never going to happen. I mean, things are only going to continue to get more and more and more expensive. It's not going to get down to Bangkok prices. No, it'll never get down to, like you said, yeah. Back to the 90s.

So, so, I keep waiting for Colby to chime in. So, all right, so my, so you're thinking, go there. You're thinking start a YouTube channel because right now there's a bunch of YouTube channels that do this thing. 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. But you don't have anything on Bangkok.

Like you're revamping your YouTube channel. Yeah, I guess you could say that. Unless you're going to start interviewing people. I'm not starting from scratch. Well, I understand, but I'm saying. With zero subscribers, that's bananas. Dude, going over there with just starting a channel from nothing, dude, that's quite 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 uh and i've got like i said 13 000 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 and the channel will grow so what is the demographic what is what is what is what are those youtube videos going to be uh 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 life. I would do some videos. I would do some videos on just like, because to me,

like this is what it costs me to live in Thailand. But that's, I've watched so many videos and I've gotten one guy was like, I can't live here for under $3,500 a month. And I watched another video where one guy was surviving on like $850 a month and living just fine. So it all depends on the individual and like 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. Right, right. 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, I mean, that's how it goes over there. What's, yeah, like, what are some pitfalls that people have fallen into, like, moving to Thailand? Oh, there's a lot of negatives. Yeah, like, so 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. Is that what the other videos the guys say? Oh, there's so many videos. Like, listen, the whole dating and like women's scene over there is treacherous. Right. Like, 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.

Like 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. You have 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 is 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 the fuck off after like three years. And there's nothing they can do because because I know we were watching a video.

Like the guy was like he, he thinks the girl's 100% in love with him. And he buys a business for, he can't own the business. No. So he gets, so he puts it in her name, but it's okay. They're in love. And then her brings her family in to help work the business. And then the business starts doing well. He builds a house for her and him.

Yeah. And then one day she starts kind of picking fights. 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 has happened to him three different times with three different girls. Like he'll build him a house, marry him, build him a house. He bought, looking, this one girl, he built their parents a house, bought land, 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 like you can't go there and just buy a start of business and all that and a lot of people

gripe about all of this but I tend to 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 would 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 Yeah, well I was going to say slowly in the US But yeah, that's how I think it should be in the US But yeah, in the UK they've lost it's over They're done That whole country's gone It's gone. The Indians and all the foreigners came in

they just, it's it. Allow them to vote, allow them to be prime minister. Yeah, they took over the plea. They changed all the laws in their own favor. They took all the expensive land. You know, 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, so that's, even if, even if the native-born, 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 set in 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 Thai are just going to not let that happen over there because Thailand, like I said, it wouldn't be Thailand. So 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, my money, only with my life and my future, you know. You know, it's just, it is what it is.

You know, like I said, I got the visa. I got, 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, worst job I've ever had in my entire life. Listen, if any of you out there have ever, are thinking about doing DoorDash, just don't do it. just don't do it it's bullshit um let's see well i mean it's bullshit for a full-time job but

there are some people that will fit like two hours in here yeah if you want to just make 20 or 30 bucks here or there like if you need an extra $50 or something yeah that's great you know it's a great opportunity but trying to do it full-time it's a joke yeah i saw this clip just last night someone doing door dash and uh he's living in his car doing door dash i watch that guy too he's actually makes more money off social media. He's like, I made this much money off DoorDash today, but really, I made $4,500 off YouTube, TikTok, whatever.

I made $62 off TikTok, or I made $110 on Instagram. I made, and he adds it all up. And he's trying to save up like 50, 60 grand. He's going to start building a tiny home. 60,000 to buy it. Yeah, he lives in his car. He DoorDash is 12 hours a day.

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Yeah. 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. 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 like the lower your points go the shittier orders you'll get you know what I mean so like if you like just so an order so let's say

you an order comes up and it's for like four dollars 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 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, 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 order for like 20 bucks, dude, that just made my day. 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 driving probably 3,000 miles, like 1,500 miles a week, 1,600 miles a week. Because I was driving from, I would go out at like 8, 9 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 7 days a week. So I'm driving 15, 1,600 miles a week for $320, $450. Come on, dude. It's frustrating as fuck. You know, and then like sometimes you can't find the address.

You'll pull into an apartment complex. And the building, 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. So now you're driving around this apartment complex for 30 fucking minutes trying to deliver for a $4. Wendy's or, dude, it's horse shit. It's absolute horse shit. And it just, and then, and then the road ragers, like, dude, people here in Florida, unbelievable, unbelievable.

They don't let you merge. They cut you off. They speed, like speed, like the speed limit here in Florida, it's just a recommendation. Right. It's just a suggestion. Nobody, nobody goes. So if the speed limit, say, what's it out here on 56? 55, 55, 50, 45?

I don't know what it is because nobody drives it. 55, I think. No, I think it'll, 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, 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 got to deal with that all day long. And it's just one thing after another, after another. Like 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 got to get on the phone with customer service. I got to 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's 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 to 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. So moving to another country, how much are you packing? How much are you bringing with you?

How much can you bring with you? Yeah. 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. Is there a max amount you can bring? And you could 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 have to check every single one of those bags, and they all have to be under 50 pounds, I think, 40 pounds. Day one. To get them out of the airport. Day one, like what's your plane landing? You land in Thailand. Like, what's the first thing you're doing?

Where are you going? 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.

What about cell service? And what about, yeah, like for your cell phone? Does your phone number switch over? 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. 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. No, like as soon as I get 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 of the airport, which is extremely common for people who just show up there and have never been there before. You know, and like I'm just, you know, go to the hotel, check in, you know, which is up on Kauson Road, which Kauson 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. And I decided to stay there because I wanted to kind of get 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 depends on how I feel when I get there if I'm not jet lag I'm just going to go out probably all night in film because they're they're 12 hours ahead of us so night p.m. there is a.m. 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 probably stay up all night for the first couple days until I get it the equilibrium you know

kind of back in check. What about the other YouTubers, the ones we always watch? 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 really, 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 a chip tooth. He doesn't give a shit. Is this the one that was chased by the kids? No, no, that's MASHTAG Brady. He made this video. He made the mistake of giving these little kids some money. And boy, let me tell you, next thing you know, there's 20 of them, just stalking him, just chasing him through the streets. He's running.

He hopped on like a little tuk-took, and they were chasing the tuk-took down, jumping on the back of it holding on to the tuk-took. Yeah, it was wild. But that was India. It wasn't like a block either, bro. He went like a long, he went like a mile or so. No, it was like a 15-minute ride. Yeah. And they were still there.

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, right? The guy you were just, the-Mashag. Yeah. So there's a channel called MASHTag Brady, which is he goes all over the world. But I first started watching him in Thailand.

So his Thailand series when he was in Thailand is when I first started watching his channel. 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 they're you know he writes 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 and he's the guy we watched him there's there's different spectrums of the YouTubers that are over there there's like there's guys like keys who does like very very well you know manuscripted crafted put together videos that just that present themselves well and they're they're fun to watch.

And then you got like on the other end of the spectrum, you've got guys like Wayno who just like, you know, is a maniac. Dude, just an absolute maniac. Says ridiculous, hilarious. No, that's that's MASH tag Brady. Yeah, you're thinking a MASH tag. Okay.

Yeah, you're thinking a MASH tag's an absolute maniac. Yeah. 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, Blackout Drunk in Amsterdam, blackout drunk in Bangkok, blackout drunk. And he does. He gets complete, he's on the ground, he's peuked,

and 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, he went on, like, the other day he was in Germany, I believe, where they do, like,

the big Christmas thing. Because, like, in Cologne, Germany or, 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 walk up there. He's waiting for his turn in line.

The guy swinging is like, is that moushtag? Mastag! It's insane how noticeable and recognizable this guy is everywhere he goes. But, you know, 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 a party animal like that anymore. You know, I party for like two decades pretty much. and now I'm like into my 40s.

I don't drink. You know, I'm not going to be out at the strip clubs every night and all that shit. Like 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'm just, I just want to live a normal life, to be honest with you. You know, 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. Plus electric, plus water, plus food. cable plus food 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 uh insurance insurance you know yeah car insurance and if you want to if you want to date or have a girlfriend that's going to be an extra three 400 dollars every single month for whatever you know miscellaneous uh and for me um i'm just too lazy to do all of that over here and i'm being completely honest like i just you know i am i'm being completely honest like i'm not i don't have the

skills to bring in those that big income here in the united states you know because unfortunately for me if i want to earn a lot of money here i'm going to have to work really hard physically you know that's just my option you know like i don't have a phd i didn't go to college i mean i went to college but i got a graphic i got my degree in graphic design right which i'm not even using you know because all those guys all those jobs got shipped over to india and you know now they 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 and you got a bunch of people from India working for you yeah exactly and then you're outsourcing it to India so it's just like you know what do we doing here um yeah all the guys

I know that are making big money on editing or outsourcing it to somewhere else they're managing it here so it looks like you're the one doing everything but you're really just managing a bunch of guys that are in in another country yeah and listen I love it here in America you know I'm not leaving because I don't like it here. I love it here in America. I mean, if I've had it my way, I'd get me a trailer home, a goddamn muscle car and a bass boat on a couple acres. And honestly, that's all I really need. But even that is outside of what I feel like I can accomplish here. You know, I'd be 55, 60 years old before I would even be able to have that. And that's, you know, that's not really wanting a whole lot. You know what I mean?

Well, I was going to say, and at the rate things are going up, that may never be possible. exactly as I mean unless the economy crashes and everything takes a nose dive and then how do you make a living here yeah I'm I'm American you know I like 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 I mean no because I never leave the house yeah but you never leave the house but it's like say I want to go somewhere on vacation say I want to just go to like 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 large cities anymore in America.

You can't just, if I want to go out at 3 o'clock in the morning and just go run errands and go do shit, I got to worry about getting robbed. I got to worry about becoming the victim of a violent crime if I leave my house after 10 p.m. Any, 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. What's the crime situation in Bangkok or Thailand?

There's crime. Like, I'm not going to say there isn't any crime. You know, people get murdered and stuff over there, but it's like, you don't have to really worry about it. Like, there's, 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 like robbing them you're done you're cooked you're going to prison for a long time that's a one time crime you had to do that once yeah so so like so like so i'm going to say something petty crime there's a lot of it right pick pockets you know what i mean like people like like you can leave your shit out and like nobody's going to take it like it's not bad like some of those other countries like you go to like they'll just ride by on a scooter and snatch your hand snatch your phone out of your hand like if you go to the philippines that that can happen to you. Like a lot of the places over here, like Dominican Republic, where's another country where you go? Like, 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? 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 don't really worry about that, but I hear you. 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.

So I mean, and that's fine. You know, to each throne, everybody's kind of on their own path, you know, choosing, making their own decisions. But it's like, you know, 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's, it's safe. Women don't have to worry about getting mugged and, you know, 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. Right.

Statistically, there's less of a probability of it happens. Like, no place is crime-free. There's going to be crime everywhere. People are going to be murdering and stealing and robin and carjack and everywhere you go. But in Southeast Asia, it's just not on the scale of what it is here, you know? So what do you think about just, like, right now, what you think you're going to be able to live for? a month. Like, I know you've done the... If I was... So, 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, you know? And that's... 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. Right. 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 gonna be like splitting the bills Like straight down the middle because she She has a tie wage. She makes tie money which they only make like Five or six hundred dollars The average tie over there only makes maybe Five, six hundred dollars, seven hundred dollars US a month

Right for everything You know so I wouldn't Obviously I'm not gonna ask her to split all the bills down the middle with me. But since I am going to, we're going to be living together and sharing, like, she's going to share in 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 because, you know, so I'm also going to get a lot of advantages like that. Kind of like restaurants. Or if she goes grocery shopping. 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, 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. $1,000 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 did you meet her?

So, so that, that YouTube channel that I watch, Thai Talk with Tan. Yeah. And that's how he does it when he introduces. So I watched that YouTube channel a lot. And he, 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 had Tinder. Obviously, they have it everywhere. But there's an equivalent, there's a Thai equivalent to Tinder.

called Ty 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. Right. You know? But over there, it's like, I look, I signed up for the account, and I swear to God, I woke up because our nights there, their daytime. So when I woke up the next morning, so they were up all day. I had probably 50 matches. And over, of all of all those 50 matches, every single one of them messaged me,

which is you don't get that here, like on the dating sites here. Now, here, you're, if you get a match, you have to message first. If you put out 40, you know, introductions. or text, whatever, whatever they call it. One. Yeah, you might get one or two. One might respond and then you talk to her for two hours and then they just don't want to talk to you anymore. Like, it's a joke here.

It's an absolute joke. So 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, 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 Thai, I'm not going to say every Thai girl, but a lot of, that's why a lot of Thai women date foreigners exclusively is for the financial benefit. 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. Right. But so like I said, I just wanted to see what the dating pool was. I mean, I know I'm not ugly.

Yeah, I was just going to say, you still, actually that is, it would, it doesn't matter if you go over there. That is what would happen. You get a lot of tail. Just because you're an American or because they know your potential to make money vastly outranks the males in that country. Yeah. And let me just say, it doesn't matter what you live. look like when you go. I mean, it definitely helps. Oh, sure. 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. The problem is these guys get these chicks that they convince them. Like, you're,

you're a, you're five foot eight, 50, 60 pounds overweight, bald. You got a gut. You got, yeah. Bad teeth. Yeah. You're all fucked up and you're dating a chick. And this chick who's, you know, a 10 and you're dating her and within a week, she's convinced you she has head over heels in love with you. And you fall in love with her.

It's like, bro, what do you? Like, don't you understand what's happening here? And they don't. Oh, man, I don't. You don't understand. I thought she loved me. He's like, bro. Yeah, listen.

These guys. Yeah, 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. Yeah. That's just 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. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then when that guy leaves the country or whatever, they'll talk them in to 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 will have like 15 guys sending her money. Like on a good day, sending her money from out from out of the country because he's,

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 sort of like, fuck everything and I'm just going to move to Thailand. You might figure it out. 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 U.K., or the U.S., and they're just sending them money every month. Because what is it? $300? I was going to say, you send 300 bucks back to them. That's 10,000 bots. Yeah, to them, that's a ton of money.

That's a ton of money. For you, it's 300 bucks. And the Ties live cheaply. Like, so Ties will pay 10, 20,000 bought a month for rent. Right. You know, maybe sometimes less than that, 8, 10, 15. So you're sending her money. You're paying her rent.

You're buying her all her meals. Plus she's got other guys. If she's got three or four of you, if she's got four of you. Oh, living good. Yeah. Their nails are done all the time. They're going out to eat. They got the latest iPhone.

And they've got whatever guy is currently there, they're working on. He's spending five, six hundred bucks, maybe $1,000 a month. Oh, yeah. He's there for that month. Oh, it's like a whole, it's like a whole ordeal. Yeah. And I'm so glad I've like learned about that. What was the guy's channel that reads the?

Tie talk with Dan. Tie talk. Yeah, tie talk with Dan. We'll have to leave a link 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. The bar girls over there, you will never find a good bar bar girl. They're just going to take all your money. That's what they do. Any woman working in like freelancing or anything like that, which is prostitution

is basically what it is. I mean, these girls are prostitutes. And I hate to use that word because that word here in America is, you know, associated with a stigma to it. Very, the underbelly of the worst of the worst of society. And it's like, but you don't understand the economy over here. Like, there's no opportunity for these women in Thailand.

Like, 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, you know, come and hook up with these foreigners and get paid? It just is what it is. You know, like I understand it. You know, it's not like here in America where, where bitch, you can go work at Walmart. You know what I mean? You're not going to make a whole.

hundred grand a year. Bitch, you can go work at Walmart. You don't got to go sell pussy. You know what I mean? It's like over there, they don't have Walmarts and dollar trees and dollar stores and gas. You know what I mean?

It's like different economy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can work here. You can get a job as a bartender or as a waitress. And you might have to have a roommate or two, but you can live. You can still pay for a, get a cheap car, cheap insurance, or take the boss or what. And you can still, you can still pay. You're not going to live great.

But the bottom of the barrel here is still way better than than the bottom of of the barrel over there. Oh, there's slums. So, so, so. Oh, yeah, we saw the slums. Bangkok is a city of,

of vast, you know, like high society, but then you've got people living in, like, has and has not. You have,

you have a whole part of society in Thailand that lives in, like, slums, like, tin shacks. Yeah. Like, not even,

like, proper housing. Like, just some shit they found and, like, nailed together to live inside of, you know what I mean? Like,

there's like a train coming through this little, I watched this thing where there was a train coming through this little town or this little like slum and their houses were built maybe the width of this table away from the train track. 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 the, listen, from living homeless here in America and starving to death, I could go live in 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. Bad. No. No. Anyway.

So. I think the language is, I don't think we talked about like the language. What's the percentage of people that speak English? They don't. They don't be a language barrier. So Thailand, the Thai don't speak English over there at all. Like as like a society. Yeah.

So there are Thai people that do speak good English, but it's normally ties who were raised in families who could afford to send them to, like, university. So like my girlfriend, who I'm 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 she doesn't, her pronunciation isn't dead on. Obviously, like she's a native speaker, but she gets the new one, the new one.

nuances and like the sarcasm and the jokes and yeah her English is just as good as you are over she can hold a full conversation but that's not typical of your average Thai person in Thailand they just don't but listen he'll walk around with her on speakerphone talking to her and he goes into the kitchen the other day and he's getting I you know some ice to get some water he puts it at the thing in and you hear the you know the ice dropping and she goes what's that what's that and he goes get nice she's like what and he goes and he goes I'm getting ice and he shows her. He's like, I'm getting ice out of the... She said the refrigerator makes ice.

Like, wow! Yeah, so like our kitchens over here, like they don't have, they call them Western kitchens. Right. So if you see a kitchen like this in a house or a condo in Thailand, it's called a Western kitchen. Right. 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, their refrigerators over there. 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. You know what I mean? Like they're they're they're 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. You know what I mean? Yeah so the language is pretty wild uh 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. What is the, where you can use a translator. Yeah, and I got Google Translate, which, right. And I got chat GPT, 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,

then back to me. But it's not like you can go to, like you're walking through France and you turn around and like, you know, 30, 40% of the population speaks English. Not like you can sit there and go, does anybody speak English? and somebody's going to stop it. Yeah, yeah, I speak in. 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. Now, people just don't. And there's different dialects. And where people, like, if you go to Northern Thailand, they speak different Thai than southern Thailand. Right. You know, so obviously I'm probably going to go to school when I get over there, just so I can learn the language well and, you know,

and understand it well, because it'll probably take me twice as long if I don't go to school to learn the language. Right. You know, and I think maybe I can get a Thai. 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, you know, I'm really going to be focusing on my YouTube channel because, I mean... What you renamed it? It was Boziac. It was Bozziak 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 what my name of my website or my name of my YouTube channel is.

So it's just my name, John Boziac. 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 Boziac. 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. You know? Oh, you're right. Yeah.

Mispell it in the, the keyword search. I mean, there's no, we looked up, there's almost no Boziacs out there. There's none. Yeah. 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. Boziac. B-L-S-E-A-K. Never mind. That's besides the point. So my, yeah, John Boziac. And I'm just going to be basically vlogging my everyday experiences in Thailand.

You know, and while I'm vlogging, you know, this is how much I paid for this. this is how much I paid for that. You know, this is how you do this. This is how you do that. This is how you get around. 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, LOW, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines. I would try and hook up with some of the other guys that have, you know what I'm saying? like at least meet them so you can build a Lisa like a a group you know you're talking about the YouTubers that are already there. Yeah, the other YouTubers because they'll they they have the, you know, they have the lay of the land and they've been there for a while and they know what works and what doesn't work and then you know you can have a little community of like kind of like, you know, Julian, Danny, Wade, you know what I'm saying? Like there's a group of little YouTubers even though we're not even the same place. 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. They're just not interested for some reason. Like, you know, I don't know why. Maybe like, maybe because the kind of content that I make, they don't want their channel associated with. Like, people, motherfuckers are just weird.

People are just weird as hell. So they would be cool to be able to hang out with some of these guys and film content. But I'm not, I'm not banking on it because just from what I've heard, they don't really, they don't really like to collaborate with other people. people. I still make an attempt. Because I think this is what- Help conscript their, their subscribers and your easy content and their easy content. And I think there's a, how do you say this, the opposite of having the abundance mindset, 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. And obviously, I don't know that, but I'm assuming that's how, like, a lot of the mind-frame is with these guys over there. No, there's, there's, there's, you know, those people that, uh, think if you're, if you're getting a piece of pie, you're taking it from my potential pie. But the truth is, there's tons of pie. There's just too many people.

There's such a big demographic and like, my demographic may not be your demographic. Like, 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. Well, 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. How many videos you plan on putting out a week? You're just going to wing it? 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 and traveling and stuff. So I'm going to put on a lot of content. So, like the first 90 days, I'm just going to completely saturate with content. But then when I get back to Bangkok and I kind of want to, like, I'm going to have to figure out like, okay, now I'm out of vacation mode. Because at 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 a daily routine, wake up, gym, film. You know, then I'm having to, obviously I'm going to have to have some kind of hobby while I'm over there.

So, you know, 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, you know, video series. And then... What about Patreon? 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, you know, content, you know, having conversations. So what I want to do is 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, the, you know, whoever, whoever, all of those interviews I'm going to have exclusively on Patreon itself. Yeah. Yeah, if you could get a couple of bar girls that speak good English to do, they could probably tell you some insane stories. So it would almost be different than Dan, Dan, then. Tie Talk with Dan. Then it'd be different than Dan. Dan. It'd be different than his channel because he's reading.

Well, he's just reading stories of, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you're getting it straight from the horse's mouth. This is what the chick is saying. You know they're going to twist it. Apparently a lot of them don't like going on camera. That's why I want to have it exclusively for Patreon. Oh, yeah, because then it's not going to catch up with them.

Yeah, yeah, 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. All right. What's that? Guys who are just like, they go over there and you'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, oh show. Yeah, yeah. I've played it for one of his videos for you. This dude's a, this dude's maniac. Where's a ski mask won't show his face. And he like, he's got a problem. He has some kind of hidden camera. Like he cakes in there with him 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 And he says he has a problem like he knows he's got a problem Like he's out 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 patia 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 what about uh i was going to say and you know on patreon you can you can say whatever you want there's you can have nudity i can have them chicks in there topless interviewing them if i want you know what i mean what's good i was gonna say is like literally if it's 10 bucks and you get you know you get 50 guys for 10 bucks that's

500 bucks bro that's your rent you see what i'm saying i'm I'm saying, if you build it up and you get, you know, people paying $10, that's, that's, it's amazing how far the U.S. dollar goes once you actually leave the United States. It's absolute insanity. Yeah, I wonder how long it would take to get that many patrons. And I'm going to, 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 for, and I'm going to, 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. But that way they kind of know what they got. 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. Yeah. A decent little studio,

just somewhere to set up a couple of cameras. and some mics and shit. Yeah. $150 a month, maybe $200 a month, the U.S. over there, so. Especially, yeah, you get a place with no windows.

It'd be a plus. Yeah. Get a room with no windows. Yeah. Just in like an office building somewhere. No Loddney mode. Even if it was, it's almost like the soft white underbelly,

even if you could hear people outside yelling or sirens or what does it matter? I'm in Bangkok. What do you expect? I'm in Bangkok. There's, there's, there's, you can hear prostitutes outside.

Like, kind of like the, you can hear prostitutes outside. I'm saying, you know, The soft white underbelly thing, when you're on Skid Row, you know, you were there. You hear people are driving by. People are yelling.

They're fighting. There's, there's sirens. There's, you hear everything. Like, before I went on soft white underbelly, I thought he, that was like a soundtrack. Like, he added that for, you know what I'm saying? Then once you get down there, it's right on 6th Street. Yeah. And what do they call that?

Skid Row. Yeah. 12 feet away, you know, I'm, whatever, I'm 10 feet away from the door. A foot outside of there, there's crackhead screaming and hollering, getting any scream. And you can hear sirens. And I remember what I was doing. He was like, okay, he's like, wait, wait, wait, because we heard a siren. I was like, I was like, oh, I thought you wanted that in the background.

I thought that's why you were down here. He's like, yeah, usually, but not in this case. It's not for you. And we waited for this thing to go by. And then he was like, or this ambulance or something. And he was like, okay, go ahead. Yeah. And I thought.

And I even told him on the thing. I said, you know, when I watched the first couple of these things, I thought you actually, that was like sound effects. I thought I was going to get Rob pulling up. Oh, yeah. I pulled up in a rental car. I got out. I had all my jewelry on and shit. And you're down there.

I'm Skid Row. It's rough. I was like, holy fuck. I'm looking around for the address. I'm like, this can't be right. There's no way. The GPS took me to the wrong neighborhood. No, he picked me up because he said the Uber, he said a lot of Uber drivers don't want to, aren't going to want to drop you off.

Yeah. He was like, he was like. Dude, the Uber drivers won't even go down there. That's how crazy it is. Mark is, was he 6-2, 6-3? Yeah. He's tall. He's tall, lanky.

He was driving a BMW. You know, the little compact BMW two-door, that's what he was driving. Yeah. It looks like a, like a clown-mobile. Yeah, the clown car. He pulled up, he's like, you know, hey, Matt, come on in. I was like, this car is too small for me. 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 like on the floor and he just laid down on the floor like this. He was just interviewed. Yeah. Same thing. Same thing.

He just laid down. He looks to everyone. while he's laying back. Yeah, he doesn't give a shit. Mark's cool. Yeah, so Softly Underbelly was a thing. That's what I'm saying. Like, you could rent a place in the middle of,

in a shithole area for next to nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, 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, you know, 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, like, I'm going to get filmed over there. When you do, like, Aaron.

I'm going to try my best to just show, just what a normal life is like when you live. in Thailand. Do you know how good the Wi-Fi is? Like if you could do lives? Some of the best on the planet. Apparently they have some of the fastest internet speeds on Earth. I'm sure if you're downtown, if you where you want to go. Like obviously I'm going to live in like one of those

nice buildings that have high speed. Yeah. So the live streams but see the live streams are going to be hard to do because of the time difference. Oh yeah. So like I'm just say I'm live streaming at like midnight it's going to be noon over here. So if I'm If I'm live streaming like 8 o'clock in the morning, it'll be 8 o'clock at night over here.

So I might be able to get like a day, I can be it'll be a day live stream, but it'll be watching it at night over here. Yeah, that would be like. Probably a little bit better that way, right? Aaron Smith Levy, he does the stuff on Scientology. He was, he started his YouTube off by doing, he said he made it a goal like I am doing one live a week. Well, YouTube really pushes the lives. Right. He said, I think maybe he said I'm going to do two lives a week.

And he said, I started. He said, I'm going to make, no matter what, even if I just get on there. He said, he was like, nobody there. Nobody there. And I just read a book for an hour. Because that's what I'm going to do. Like, I made that as my goal, just to talk about Scientology. That was it.

And he said, so he started that. And he's like, you know, and it got more, you know, first one was 30 people or 20 people, whatever. And, you know, it kept doing it and doing. He said, after a month, I thought, this isn't that hard. And people are paying attention. He goes, you know what I'm going to start doing. I'm going to see if I can do five a week, one a day, every week. And so he went from like two to like four, then from four to I'm going to do one every day.

And now he does like three a day. Yeah. I know a lot of the guys I watch, this guy I watch, she's in Denang, Vietnam, one of the guys I watch. And he does live pretty much every day. Right. He'll do a lot. And if you've got 13, if you have 13,000 subs and you do a live, it's going to at least present it to half those subs. Like, hey, this guy you're subscribed to is doing a live.

Yeah. So that might be something you could think about anyway. Yeah. Once I figure out, once I get into like a routine. over there and I figure out my day-to-day life is that I think I'll be able to plan the lives. And with the lives, people can donate. Right, yeah, buy me a coffee kind of thing or whatever it is.

No, it can be, what is it, five? They can do super chats. Yeah, yeah, super chats. Yeah, so if you're streaming, like. And they also have like a members-only section of YouTube. Yeah, it's kind of like Patreon, yeah. You know, our fear with that is, what if something happens? All eggs and one basket.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, like I said, I'm just 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 overwhelming. 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, you know? Yeah, yeah. 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, like putting all my eggs in that basket. You're going to pick up a moitai? That's a big thing. I could, yeah. I could do moitai. And it's something I've been thinking about, but I was something else I was thinking about is like, if I do moitai, I want to go hard. Like, I want

to have like legitimate fights and all that. And like I'm worried about getting injured. Yeah. At my age, like getting like a breaking a wrist or like a femur or like a leg, you know, like a shin or something at 40. Dude, I'm going to be out. I'm going to be down and out for six or eight weeks. Yeah.

You can't be another. Dude, I don't, I don't, yeah, I don't want the injuries. I don't want to get the injuries. That's the only, that's my only thing with Moytai. Like, I want to do it. And like 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? Like, what good is.

learning all this martial arts if you're not going to use it. You know, so I'm going to want to fight and I'm going to, I'm eventually going to get injured because it happens to everybody when you fight Muay. Moy Thai, Maitai's a rough sport over there. I mean, you get kicked right in the side of the head. It's like boxing. It's like boxing. It's like boxing. It's like boxing and boxing put together. Yeah, no, I'm all right.

You're getting kicked in the chin. You're kicked in the side of the head. You're taking. It's rough. There was this clip of this kid. He's like 14 years old. He's like, if this video gets 100,000 views, I'll do the top comment. And the top comment was go to move to Thailand and become a fight or whatever.

And it went super viral. And he never went. But there was a bunch of kids. They started fighting in Thailand at nine or ten years old is when they get into Moy Thai. And there was a bunch of teenagers that since this guy didn't go, they're like, if I can raise this much money, I will go. And then they raise, like, people give them money and then they never go. It's like a whole little thing.

It's like a little subculture of people trying to move to time. Thailand to become 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 know if that's a route I'm going to go. That could be the backup plan.

Yeah, no, 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, you know, I have a Thai girlfriend so she can open a tattoo shop and I can go there and so I can go there. And so I can tattoo. Like if I always, I always have that to fall back on.

You know, but like 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. I was going to say, you'll be, you'll be doing a. I speak the language impeccably. You'll be, you'll be, um, oh God, you'll be tattooing a little. Bangkok 2000 and 25 tattoos and all these little

he would come back from from tattooing and be like I'd be like oh well you tattooed today and he'd be like I did two he'd be like yeah I did two butterflies and 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 he's like that 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 if like if everything else fails I can teach English and I'll have to live like a local because I won't you know they'll pay me a tie

tie 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 would 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? Everybody's on scooters. 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 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. How fucking bad does it have to be? 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 and Thailand it is chaos plus they drive on the left side of the road over there the steering wheels on the right side of the car so I don't need I couldn't be able to drive a car over there even if I could afford one because the driving's up there

could drive on the left side of the road I mean I could do it if I'm just driving straight down one side like yeah but like navigating like yeah they don't really pay attention to the the lanes they don't really to the stop signs. Dude, navigating a kind of...

They're doing this, like, constantly weaving in and out from each other. 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, you know, but I'm 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. I'm going to have to learn. It goes everywhere. And 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. Don't you already have a bunch of kids? But I haven't been able to raise them the way I want. You know what I want? 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. 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 a 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 A 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 and 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 40 to hopefully 80. Nobody's really living past 80 these days. But 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 the preservatives. Kennedy's going to take care of... You ain't lying. JFK is coming in there. RFK, I'm sorry. RFK. I do have a question. I heard he's going to take it.

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

Don't even think about reaching for that aspartime. Why does he want to take? Why does he want to take fluoride out of all the water? What's the problem with fluoride? 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 who 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 remember. Yeah. Liver function, you know, it's 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. Yeah.

But over a given, over a given amount of time, all of the shit that's in our food, food supply over here is causing the cancers, the carcinoma, the fucking... Why are they saying that they put fluoride in our... Like, what's the... Why put it at all? What is the benefit of putting fluoride in the water? It's for the teeth. Is it for a teeth? Right?

Americans have pretty good teeth. Probably. I was gonna say, is it like... I never dove down this rabbit hole? I didn't dive down this rabbit... We need to check... I don't think so. No. No, they don't...

None. They've never seen floor. Oh, that's another thing. And you can't drink the water in Bangkok and Thailand. Did he have to do bottled water? Bottle 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.

Like I haven't dove down, I haven't dove down that rabbit hole on the white, the whole fluoride thing. So I don't know enough about it. I'm going to look into it now. But, yeah. Oh, God. What is it in idiocracy? Brondo.

Brando. Brando. It's got electrolytes. It's got electrolytes. That's kind of high. kill it out of fluoride like we don't even know why it's in the water supply so yeah so 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 or even having a stroke or a heart attack and then you're You're lucky if you make it to your 80s and you're in a walker. You're not getting around very well. You're being kept alive basically just because of the medication, medicine, because of modern medicine is keeping you on that live, not just because you're just, you're naturally going to live in a lot.

Yeah, take you up, pull the plug and the medications and all of your internal organs and everything shut down, brain, cognitiveity goes away, your muscle 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. 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, like I'm just going to get healthy, focus on just being healthy, having some kind of workout regimen, eating healthy, you know, living healthy. And eventually, like I said, I want to have a family, kids, a wife, everything. This is the question actually from my wife. It's funny. We're talking, we wake up in the morning and we're talking about this podcast and she asked me, she's like, is Matt going to miss him? I was like, I don't know. I'm going to ask him.

Listen, you know what's so funny? is I have so many people that have come here and met Boziac and will say stuff, but they'll ask about him. How's he doing? I'm like, what do you keep that? Like, what is going on? And then, like, Tyler, he said, like, when the hurricane came through, Tyler texted me, he said, are, is, he came through?

He's like, is everything okay? And I said, yeah, everything's fine. He said, is Boziac safe? He was, make sure to take care of Boziac. He was at all costs. And he's done this multiple times just out of the blue. He's like, is Boziac okay? Yeah.

I'm like, yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. It's probably a little bit different without me here, spewing my nonsense all the time. Yeah, Jess has already said. She's like, I'm kind of going to miss him. I'm a good roommate.

Yeah. Very good roommate. I'm very hard to come by people like me. Yeah, there's no, there's never any dirty dishes. There's never any. he's got his cupboard and he's got his place in the pantry he's got his cupboard

he takes everything out he makes everything he puts his side he'll somebody he'll eat and then he puts washers every single thing and puts everything back up so he can have a whole meal

you come downstairs and you only know that he had a meal because you can smell you know what I'm saying you're like oh he must have made something you know I don't like leaving messes I don't like inconveniencing other people and I don't know how or why I got that way

I just don't 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. It's like 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 loud. Like I don't make loud noises. I don't bring anybody.

I don't bring like, hate that when you live with somebody and they're always bringing weird people to the house. And you're like, dude, I get it. Like we're sharing. But it's like, dude, you're always bringing people over here. Dude, I don't like that. So I don't do it. We'll be down here and hear him laughing.

But he's like, he'll be watching like cat videos or something on TikTok and he'll be like, ha ha ha. Dude, I spend an uncomfortable amount of time alone. So I have to have fun. And so we'll be watching TV and we'll both look at each other and look up and just start laughing sometimes. Yeah, I clean up after myself. I'm quiet.

I don't bring anybody to the house. In institutions, like you get used to taking everything out, doing everything you're doing, putting it all back. Stuff gets, if you leave something on your locker, it could get stolen. Not that it would, because sometimes they'll fuck. They'll really beat the piss out of somebody in prison if they catch them stealing. But people do. Yeah. But the guards will take it.

Or the guards will try. Or your bunk, you'll be like, what are you doing, bro? Yeah. Like, you can't leave this shit out. Like, you're going to get our, you're going to get our, get a shook down. So you just get, you also get used to that. I've developed, I think I've developed OCD over, just, from all the stents of incarceration and all the programs I've been in. I think that's why I have

the OCD that I have. So, you know, I'm not one of those people who are just going to leave shit laying around everywhere. Like, I fold my dirty clothes. Right. 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. So I probably when I was incarcerated, was probably washing my hands 40, 50 times a day. And I was about to say,

you don't really do that anymore. And then I just thought about it and I thought, bro, you wash your hand. I was at my, my sister's last night. We were there for two hours. I washed my hand four times. Just because I picked something up, I cut up something. I put it down and I thought I should wash my hand. Like I immediately felt like I should watch. It's silverware. It's fine. But there's a bunch of people cutting stuff up and I immediately walked in, washed my hands real quick. No, I don't even think, I don't even think that there's anything on the spoon or whatever, but mentally, I thought to myself, there's so many people here, I should wash my hands.

I don't think anybody has anything, but you just, you get that point. And I was just, because I was just about saying, yeah, I don't do that anymore. I thought, what the fuck are you talking about, bro? Last night, you wash your hand at least four or five times when you were at your sisters. I do the same thing. I've washed my hand. Today, I probably wash my hands at least four or five times this morning alone. Sometimes if I'm just walking through the kitchen, I'll stop and wash my hands.

If I'm just walking through the kitchen, like I don't mean, you just stop it. I don't think you notice. I don't, you know, like, we might not. It's just something you do subconsciously, yeah. But if you hung out with me long enough, you'd probably start realizing like, bro, you've washed your hands three times. He's a hand washer. Like, what are you doing?

He's a hand washer. Yeah, it's like. Yeah, it's weird. Like, grab the door handle. I don't feel like anything's wrong with me, but if it's, it's probably not normal behavior. It's probably good behavior, really. Yeah, I think everybody that's kind of been here, well, most people have been through here have been in prison,

but like it's very clean. They all say that. And I look at this place and I think it's chaos. But how many people when we come here and said, wow, your place is so well. We're going to so clean. I'm thinking to myself,

where do you live? Yeah. I mean, there's not, granted, we don't have anything really out. Like, there's no,

well, there's no kids here either. Yeah. And that's what will fuck your place up our kids. There's no real clutter. The only clutter is directly related to the equipment. And it's a lot of wire. but there's not wires that aren't plugged into something.

Like it's all has its place. Kids and animals will fuck your shit up. Yeah. Yeah. Their problem. They're my, I guess my, my,

my nephew's daughter was there last night at, uh, Thanksgiving dinner. And I mean, listen, I don't, it was like, there was like four or five all,

there's at least three or four adults just trying to kind of wrangle her. You know what I'm saying? She's picking up everything and sticking doing drawings. stuff. They must have yanked five pins out of her hand. Just you grab when she knows exactly. Let me just start drawing. Like my God, that's a full-time job, bro. Yeah, it's fun. So yeah. No, I think that's, I think that's it, man. You know, I'm just, you know, I think this is the best thing for me. You know, just a single guy. I'm not married. You know what I mean? Like, I don't have any, like a lot of responsibilities. So what do we say? We'll see how this plays out in time. watching this in six months going, I really seem confident. I'm answering collect calls from a Thai jail. Listen, you've got to get sung.

One thing I can guarantee is I probably, 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 maybe things go over there. If they want to see me, then I'll send them a plane ticket.

If they want to come over, you know, I have no problem to send them a plane ticket to come to Thailand. But I'm not. I have no plan whatsoever ever coming back to the United States. Like I said, I love it here. Like I said, I don't hate the United States. I love it here. I love the wilderness. I love, you know, 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 then at least experience it for a little while. Right. You know? I can see that. All right.

So by the time we post this, we're not posting this until your first video is live. When this video, it gets posted, I'll already be over there. I'll already be in Thailand. Yeah. And so we want everybody to do what? Go to my YouTube channel and subscribe. Right. You know, if you feel like

if you feel like the content that I make is valuable. I was just saying, you're curious. You're interesting. Because think about it. By the time people watch this, they can go in the description box, hit the link, boom,

go over there. You might have eight or nine videos already. 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, okay, because I know the gap in what we're spending here and over there is so crazy. And I think that, you know, everywhere I go, I'm like, this is how much I paid.

This is how much it costs in U.S. dollars. You become one of those irritating people that take a photograph of their food every time they... But that would be cool. Do you just pull out your phone and just do a little video of the food? Like, bro, this is what I got. I got a thing of rice. I got this. I got this.

Oh, I'm going to do full-on restaurant reviews. Right. Yeah. And then when you, if you go back and do a video, then you can show like, hey, this is what I got. This is how much it was. I'm not, listen, I'm not a big drug guy. Like, 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 tell you what, like I know I don't look like I eat a lot, but I love food. Yeah, it 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 that they make little donuts and candies and cookies and treats. And, oh, I'm going to have a lot of fun. Hell, who knows, I might be two, 300 pounds for I can come next year.

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