TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast - #459: An 8-Month Taliban Holiday with Lord Miles

Episode Date: November 7, 2023

Marty sits down with Lord Miles to talk about his time in Taliban custody and his plans for further adventures. Lord Miles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/real_lord_miles Miles's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LordMiles 0:00 - Intro 6:03 - How Miles was betrayed 11:18 - 8 month detainment (holiday) 22:32 - End of detainment and Taliban misconceptions 30:23 - Govts and dealing with money 35:14 - Lovely holiday locations 38:01 - Nashville shooter 40:59 - Gold mine 48:27 - Wankers and grifters 54:55 - Next holidays 1:07:23 - BBQ, raw milk and baldmaxxing 1:20:18 - Living for adventure and harassing the system 1:26:04 - Plugs Shoutout to our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠River⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Unchained⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠CrowdHealth⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bitcoin Talent Co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TFTC Merch is Available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Now⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the TFTC Movement: Main ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YT Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Clips ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YT Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Marty Bent: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠

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This is not financial advice. Enjoy this Red Freaks. Tiki! You've had a dynamic where money's become freer than free. You talk about a Fed just gone nuts. All the central banks going nuts. So it's all acting like safe haven. I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins.

In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. Miles, it's good to see you're okay, sir. It's good to be back, honestly. Had a little bit of a lovely holiday. I think we're here to talk about it. What's on you?

when did you go because you were down here in austin i helped you get a car to go down to the border gave you a nice hat here for the film when was that was that right before your trip to afghanistan it was a month or two before i think two as you know i think two months before so it was very close oh yeah no idea what was coming did we no no my wife was very worried about you i was at london man i was more than fine you went from our living room to uh i was showing her a tweet that uh you had been taken hostage by the taliban happens in the best of us you know what i mean one day you're just goofing off in afghanistan trying to open a gold mine the next day you know just held hostage it happens to the best of us well how did that happen

well i just went on a lovely little holiday to afghanistan came with two friends by the way and one of them betrayed me so that's a long story what happened was we were we were opening a gold mine we were doing some uh we were doing some youtube stuff we just started we bought up some taliban merch whilst in kabul but we're driving back from jalalabad and one of my friends are flying out and i have to pay for rent for the house in kabul so i'm kind of a rent sale at this point so sadly don't own a house in kabul because that would be a title of success and uh and then i was like okay well i can't um use bank cards because the atms don't work that sucks man so what i'm gonna do instead i'm gonna send myself some money for western union i mean of course it

got flagged up because it was over a thousand dollars it was about one thousand two hundred dollars i believe and that raised some red flags that's kind of a half a year salary there so it's like if you were drew drew twenty twenty thousand dollars from a bank they'll be like yeah why are doing that though um so at the same time they brought us in questioned us and my best friend at the time called james he told the taliban just not under duress was literally no normal discussion with tea on a sofa hey miles might be a spy what led him to say that have you talked to him since i think he's just retarded man yeah i've spoken since we've met him a few times and actually had like a decent time it's basically i'm gonna keep my distance from a business

perspective but everything else is life friendship is fine anyway and he lives far away so i think it's gonna be one of those things where we just keep in touch by sending each other uh colorful memes every case occasionally when we come across it um and just occasionally run into each other but yeah he he just said it because i think either he fumbled so he he just said um yeah i don't know i think he just panicked maybe he's not the smartest in terms of social skills i think he i think he just panicked before yeah uh throw miles under the bus maybe oh we could deliciously think it's gonna save his own skin but i listened for all your recording and it was like a totally normal conversation he said you know how do you know miles how long have you known him before

uh did you go to the same university together uh anything else you want to tell us about miles oh yeah he uh he uh made me a spy i was like of course i didn't go down well and that's the thing too you know this my friend and i'm sure anyone who's familiar with me knows it i'm lord miles i'm not massad miles you know what i mean i'm not a spy to work in intelligence you must have intelligence and i'm i'm clearly lacking man let's be honest here oh you certainly know how to go on an adventure or two and that was it's not hard man i mean to bet a drunk guy in a town center could definitely go on an adventure same same struggle really but i've got access to passports so i mean this might be the biggest fumble or throwing your friend under the bus

situation i've ever heard of you're getting interrogated by the taliban and you oh i'm win the long term so he apologized after i told him i found out um you know he's very upset i was very guilty the thing is too he didn't sign the exclusivity deal for a gold mine contract and the area we're looking at has confirmed by u.s census data when they did the geological surveys 200 million dollars worth of gold so even you know if he was involved oh you know it could be something good for those that betrayal as well and i basically said if you transcript anything for me in the future i have xyz on you i've got you saying the uh the gamer word you know what i mean a bunch of slurs and stuff uh on audio recording just in case i need it i need to

press the red button the nuclear option so don't screw me over again like i know you did this by mistake potentially but you didn't own up to it until i told you about it uh you know if you try and do anything again i'm not having it your life will be over you'll lose your phd you'll lose your job all this other stuff i like to take uh i like to take no chances with some people yeah well if he's gonna throw you under the bus like that you gotta gotta check your six and make sure you're covered but yes man so you were how would you describe it were you held captive were you held uh were you retained for eight months yeah i was detained i would say uh formally arrested because it was like a formal arrest process he said like you were thinking of this

they went through so loads of questioning for like two or three days and then in the end they concluded okay we thought miles was a weapons dealer between uh afghanistan ukraine because miles keeps going to ukraine uh for it was just for journalism before i was buying up u.s weapons and selling them in ukraine and russian intelligence sent that to the taliban saying hey we'll check this guy out if he comes back and they were like yeah he's definitely a weapons dealer there's no evidence of it doesn't make any sense and then they were like okay uh you know uh what else oh yeah he's he's not a spy so after a while they interrogated me for a few days on that still like miles we know you're a spy uh just sit down um you know tell us tell us what you do

uh show us a few documents and you are actually you'll we'll let you go we don't want to waste resources on you i was like i'm not a spy man and they're like actually miles we know you're a spy 100 we actually want to learn off you uh teach us and then uh you know we'll let you go that's a fair exchange we'll even pay you potentially i'm like no all good i'm not a spy man seriously and then it went to oh we we know you're a spy uh just give up the ad we understand you have to do that the training uh you know otherwise you're gonna be stuck here for years for a legal process but we know you're a spy you might get a way worse uh penalty uh just admit it and say yeah it's part of the game we respect that and we'll let you go uh in like a few months i'm like no spy so in the

end they concluded oh miles isn't a spy he's not a weapons dealer um the only thing they had me on was uh i went to the gold mine sites it was a remote area and it's a mountain i didn't have a permit to go there so that's generally my father who apologize to that uh so i shouldn't have that permit but they were like ah not permit but we gotta do it by the book so minimum sentence we'll give him that minimum sentence and keep it as comfortable as possible six months easy so it's two months of figure out what the hell is going on and then yeah two months of no no two months of paperwork with the british government What was the British government doing on their end while this was all going on?

Oh, they're trying to contact people. So the British government doesn't have a relationship with the Taliban at all. There's no embassy. Even though the EU embassy does have that. But ever since Brexit happened, there's a spy relationship. So they've got like a few Taliban contacts. So we randomly just call WhatsApps and just see how far they can get it. Like, you know, if we can get into, you know, Mawzi's link.

and then i told them i was like oh hey hey uh foreign office how you doing anyway um you know the guy you just spoke to was like the head of foreign intelligence and they're like wait was he we don't have that on file what what what's the guy's name and i'm like oh screw me you know it's bad when they have no idea who they're talking to you can look up a whatsapp name and google it it comes up with that guy so i'm saying like you know i think uh i think i'm gonna be here a little while because anyone who works in government as you can imagine man i think i think you relate here anyone government has no intuition and no uh just common sense at the end of the day yeah it's pretty universal no matter what country you're in what government you're

working with there seems to be a steady level of incompetence yeah once it's a struggle man um so after that happened i was like okay i'm gonna chill but after all the interrogations and stuff i got taken into this tropical garden area in the back of the headquarters and there was peacocks around there was like you know uh you know just a bunch of grass beautiful trees fruit growing everywhere and i sat in the gazebo with uh the commander and there was a tea there was some nuts and like western food i was like nice can i have something it's like of course man it's for you and they go oh we want to keep you comfortable mars we actually want you to do business here we learned who you are turns out half half that guys follow you on twitter because they think you're

chill you're kind of cool like that and i was like thanks man i think you're cool too you know um and they were like actually yeah we like what you do if you want to write a second book which you read your first one just we think that's nice if you want to write a second book you absolutely can we'll give you paper and pens no problem you could be completely honest uh we just want to say you'd be honest 100 throughout i go yeah i can definitely do that uh anything else you want when you're arrested we can give you some stuff all right so you're arrested with a thousand dollars here's a thousand dollars spending money so you just give it to some of the guards or ask to go to the market and get supervised anything you want man and he also said like oh yeah you want um

you want you want your laptop i was like yeah i want my laptop hell yeah that'd be great so i was buying movies from the market on usb stick and i was watching barb the new barbie for taliban titanic rambo 3 80s 90s classic shooters odd everything man every meme movie i had downloaded all this other stuff and the thing is too uh so i didn't tell you where i was staying i was staying in a guest house it wasn't a formal prison because it was like minimum security stuff like a small crime small prison you know it was just a converted house with a locked door it was chill it was quite nicely furnished too for uh for the standards of the place and i was just enjoying myself so in there i was just uh chilling watching movies with the

Taliban had loads of books downloaded they gave me a bible so that's my situation beginning man was there any point where you worried you weren't gonna get out yeah my first phone call to my friend uh he told me my best friend had died you have a one who fumbled and uh lied about me being a spy so he was like oh you he was like you're a friend he i'll keep him nameless but he was like the other guy who's with you he hasn't responded to any of our messages and he just went into a surgery way before and apparently had a falling out which he didn't disclose so he said oh he went into a surgery that was like very urgent and he has died uh like something's happened we haven't heard from him we think he's dead so i'm like oh okay well it's terrible but i was like

i was like i can process that no problem but that's a downer you know turns out he's completely alive so i found that out like you know when i got back that was very interesting so i actually hung out with him today a lovely chap and we keep hanging he's coming back to afghanistan i mean but that was that was very stressful thing oh the other stressful thing too i had like 20 dollars but i haven't paid on my american express at that point so eight months in afghanistan they're like sending emails every single day they even took it to a debt connection agency for 20 dollars and i sent them an email when i got my phone i got supervised they were like emails you can send an email for some financial stuff we understand you're in a business and i was like

hey uh hey american express google my name i'm in taliban prison uh anyway gotta go but uh you know uh give in hold i can afford 20 dollars trust me and the service guy was just laughing the time i was laughing my asses off too um and they were like oh can you send it now i'm like no not really but if i go to western union i can send you for 20 dollars you know uh if you want to be staffed to go out so i was more worried about my credit score no matter what that was my thing too i'm in the globalist mindset man more i'm more worried about my credit score than i was about being held uh cut in custody by the time because i was treated so well it wasn't so so you're treated well they gave you a bible yeah man they said they said uh you know we have no

problems with christians we obviously we would obviously like them to be muslim but like you know fair enough they're like yeah we get christians they're chill um and i was like what about the other religions and he's like they're like ah i'm like yeah yeah i don't like the israelis of jews either and they disperse out laughing and we moaned about atheists too that's a joke you know well that's i mean that's like one of the big questions i have because there was a lot of tweets there was what was that account like the taliban news agency yeah account uh let's just say uh if if you have some brain cells obviously uh i can't tell you my interaction to him but he's obviously not an afghan dude definitely not taliban uh he's not

in afghanistan uh yeah he's obviously a satire account somehow he got verified and news sites So referencing him, I think that's hilarious, man. Props to him. Yeah. Well, people thought it was news. I had people texting me, sending Twitter threads, particularly the one where he announced that it was likely that you were dead. People thought you were dead over here for two or three months.

No, man, I've never been alive, that's the thing. I was like, a few months ago, I was like, yeah, this sucks a little bit. 2001 would obviously be going on adventures and stuff. however i was like however this is bloody lovely i'm like this could be a great story when it gets out oh this goes as a book it's just it's just like an unexpected mandatory adventure yeah i mean that's something too if i ever get bored of normal life if i get so stressed out and so sleep deprived i might go to prison for something on purpose because it seems quite cushy to be fair prison actually is quite nice because think about it no responsibilities

that would cause problems beyond just general shop and self-maintenance and gym uh screen detoxes you could read as much as you want so limited books and stuff a limited social time basically like gym hustle culture uh i don't want to say no women that's like a bonus but at the same time obviously you can't live without them too you hate them but you love them um yeah man uh just prison maxing prison did you get your prison swell on my prison swell yeah man i actually got quite big at one point um all right so i'll send you a photos too but is this live by the way no yeah i was about to say i was gonna go yeah so i'll send wait about that out um i'll send you a photos as you can see right here man i am swole as hell in prison i started doing stances and the

Taliban saw this and they were like oh he's got a little bit of size on him he's doing quite well so some of the lads actually quite lean too because they haven't been in the mountains for two years they're just sitting in the houses uh just walking around delivering things sometimes some guys are going a little bit chubby some dudes are ripped as hell but you know that's that's like exception anywhere so when i bought some weights as well um and the taliban kindly gave me some exercise equipment which did with anyone if you ask if you have minimum security um you can just work out i was working out the taliban in the morning so i was teaching them like hey this is how you do this proper form there's how many you do and there's how many times do it in a day i

mean that's how much you do in a week and it's how you cycle between all this other stuff and at one point one dude actually got pretty jacked from that stuff so i would guess i was training the taliban just not militarily i love how absurd it is dude well that's what i'm trying to get at here is there were these like public whatever's the fake twitter account or whatever maybe like when it first came out i believe there was people saying they were using you as hostage material for leverage and negotiations and obviously you got set free it seems like you're perfectly fine you were treated relatively well i guess number one when did you know that you were going to get out and what was the feeling when you found out and then number two like what are some of the

common misconceptions that people have of the taliban how they operate and yeah of course man uh so first thing is i i was definitely the best tree of prisoner in taliban history i was the first one sorry the when did you know you're going to get out what was that feeling yeah so it was honestly the day before so they came up to me and they were like imoz i pack all stuff when i was like how come like what's going on i'm not being transferred somewhere else it's like no we think you get released we don't we don't have official orders because we're not those guys we're just for grunts but yeah we think you're being released man i'm like oh crap i was like i was freaking out because it was two months over the prescribed six month thing so i was

freaking out thinking ah dear man i'm not gonna be uh you know it's turning into something else whatever and then they're like yeah we still have a paperwork with the british government they just weren't responding to us very quickly so i was like oh bloody hell man you know it's bad when uh when the email uh back and forth is that slow so i packed all my stuff i say goodbye to all the other people in the house and they were chilled i had some like there was some c uh some afghan cia people that introduced themselves to me they were like oh i'm cia i'm like uh okay uh that's cool whatever bye and um some iranian intelligence there was like some smugglers there was one american dude he was crazy as hell that was quite funny uh i'll tell you that story as well and i

got taken to another room and he gave me a military escort at this point too and i got to sit at the back of the truck too so i just i was chilling and then in this room they had like a little party a little bit of feast they handed back my phone and they were like oh yeah uh you know lovely phone you've got you know pleasure to meet you we're taking selfies we're just we're just cheering but like miles we actually hoped you'd get out sooner you know obviously we're not the big big big boss i'm like the big boss we're not the top guy that decides this stuff it's a whole different department for obvious reasons but uh we would have released you as soon as we could very sorry about this but we kept you very comfortable we hope you've been well hope

the situation has been too bad uh you know any feedback for us you know this type of stuff too they were very um caring and they actually did focus on my needs so i was like very happy with that um and then he said yeah tomorrow morning we're going to take you to the airport and then you get to uh that moose i was looking forward to that and what's the next question my friend so you knew you're getting out like what are some of the misconceptions because yeah so everyone thinks everyone thinks if you go to afghanistan or meet the tire band they're going to be to some dudes with a thick eyebrow just staring you down you know death stare and there's going to be some typical music that plays in the background that you see

Hollywood movies forebodes a bad situation in like one of his countries you know you know what I mean it's like one of the scenes when where a guy in a turban is just staring at someone and then uh yeah we've all seen those scenes like Black Hawk Down and all that now these guys are chill to be fair lads are lads anywhere right you go to Austin you go to New York you go to England you go to Afghanistan lads just hang out goof off and make friends with each other and do silly jokes um i was with a group of them uh in my guest house about staying in and there was like a group of eight taliban i learned all their names i learned a little bit past you they knew some english after a while we just made jokes with each other just try and cheer each other up if

we had a bad day if they had bad days uh at some point to watch movies together every everywhere in the world people are just people at the end of the day and some people are screwed up but the Taliban just actually are the real government now so basically you can just go there and have a decent time and not have to worry they don't mind tourists and foreigners as long as you obviously don't break any law it's probably best to go with a tour guide anyway uh if you're not doing business and the other misconception is uh you know they're very backwards and stuff like this they were on TikTok they were on YouTube they would they would listen to my music a little bit just have curiosity for a few seconds. So we like ABBA and

System of a Down. What else they also like movies to this type of stuff. They just got into like, they're not obviously Westernized fully, which is never gonna happen. But these guys are chill like, it's a whole different world. But it's just people at the end of the day. Why do you think they'll never be fully Westernized? I mean why why it's just western side is just at its like current stage kind of game man like I'm not being funny it's kind of messed up it kind of retarded a little bit silly and

whimsical man like I'm seeing kind of early days of Weimar Germany you know it's like uh I see all this complexity stuff and I I just do you ever see a point where the Taliban would just accept international monetary policy and then uh you know the fucking feds and interest rates and stuff like that i mean i have a mortgage i mean i'm back securities and i'm like no they they i don't think i don't think they see what's going on how complex all the bureaucracy is and all that nonsense infrastructure that just takes up so much uh time and energy just have like a basic system that's peer-to-peer like uh they go keep on with their traditional values and they have little pockets of modern stuff for people that are into that and everyone's happy to be fair um the whole

idea is to they've never got their country back but obviously there is a cia presence there that hire local afghans there's like a pakistani isi so pakistani detergents is there i just there's whole different groups that are there in afghanistan trying to cause them some trouble or at least they aren't invited to be there so we're talking about like okay security first and then freedom's a little bit late and then we gotta loosen it up same with uh south korea when it was first formed it was a it was a rough dictatorship and everyone thought it was gonna fail and then after a while they got everything sorted out they slowly branched out and then became a nice little place yes do you think like you mentioned somebody from the cia was there

pakistani intelligence do you think all these actors see a power vacuum that they want to take advantage of potentially yeah i mean people do try to cross a border uh into afghanistan but they do get caught for example when i was um sitting and having tea with the commanders and having a picnic with them the taliban came out at one point and they uh they said oh someone someone's come here someone's been arrested and i i i see one guy walking through the door he looks he looks like a typical afghan so i start shaking his hand and they go mars no don't shake his hand that's a member of ISIS I'm like oh fuck okay I just shook a member of ISIS's hand like yeah these guys are monsters Miles they're not accepting Afghanistan this guy was trying to

climb over the border from Pakistan we caught him ISIS is no longer a problem in Afghanistan everything we do we control because we hear from people to people so right now we're just trying to sort out our homeland and then we can start branching out into other things and you know seeing how far we could push the freedom thing um but generally yeah it was just it was just like that basically yeah and you want to go back uh yeah in two weeks two weeks what does the uk government say about all this do you have to interact with them a lot because i remember the first time you're on you're describing that they check in with you yeah so when i got from when i get to dubai so i've been on a call like three or four times i think

i called them like well actually i think i called like six times to remind attention so when i get to dubai there's some women waiting for me they're like are you okay are you fine are you safe you'll be okay now it's all good and i understand what you might have said might have been under duress you know and i'm like no i love the holiday too but i'm going back in a few weeks anyway i've been invited by by the afghan by the taliban uh anyway can i fly straight to palestine like i don't want to trip back to england uh can we transfer it to palestine i'll pay for it myself actually and they would say like holy shit he's gone good treatment he talked he talks way into good treatment he has not learned his lesson he's going to keep on going because you can never go

too far 100 and they're like they when they learned of my story they were like actually do that that's kind of impressive we don't want to admit it but whatever this is it could be a good thing so keep on going i'm just i'm just dreading the day they interviewed me at an airport again because when i flew out to romania to meet andrew tate uh i was expected to be screens and you know uh you know finger up the ass or something like that and uh debriefed and talked about for three hours but when that happened man um i i just didn't happen i got to the airport and no one was waiting for me i was like that's weird okay and then he just let me fly and i've been i've flown about four or five times since so it's very bizarre i honestly think um they just don't care

at this point uh i'm dreading the day they do care because if they try and make me do something i don't want to do i'm gonna be very pissed off i'm gonna say no of course but i don't know how they can mess up my life maybe you know if i refuse to do their uh uh stuff i don't know yeah you're a very interesting character lord miles yeah well that's one way to put it to be um yeah man i think i think if we had a psychologist on one day she would she would be like fucking fascinating he's like retarded and like some just spikes of intelligence and he's just really goofy and whimsical and we don't have this sword for this it's a whole new category oh exactly by the way dude you want to save me so uh at one point too you know uh the

taliban were like okay mars you're running about a thousand dollars because i thought i was gonna over six months so i timed it so i started running out towards the end and they're like you can send yourself money and i was like okay well we can't do it through bank accounts because they're all shut off from afghanistan and you can't do for western union because i was just arrested for doing that so let's go raise some red flags uh can't can't do cash because i don't have cash in afghanistan and then i thought crypto and you know what i did i logged into htx that's what I use, I use a few HDX accounts. And I said myself about $2,000, I was going to collect, and then I got released, thankfully, so

perfect timing. I was gonna buy myself like gym equipment, all this other stuff. I've actually started running baiting the place even better. But yeah, man, crypto is just it got sent easily. There's there's fixes and stuff. Like there's some people who just use it to get money in and out of Afghanistan, no problem. And it's always kind of like tolerated, if that makes sense you tolerated by the taliban yeah so it's illegal in afghanistan but i think it's still tolerated so i know some big uh people do use crypto to get money in and out uh but if you

get caught doing something dodgy obviously they throw a crypto charge on there if you are using crypto so it's one of those things of we it's legal but you know just don't just don't mess around you can sell and sell some easy money if needed it's all good so uh i've i found a way to it back into cash uh so i'm very happy right there and i got paid pretty much all my internship for my um podcast in crypto so i'm very happy my friend yeah that's interesting but bitcoin particularly there's um a large sect of muslim bitcoiners who are putting forth that like bitcoin is actually the only sharia compliant monetary system in the world where they would argue that one struggle man one struggle yeah yeah i have no idea about the uh the pillars of islam in

terms of monetary funding was to play that but yeah if it works it works man it's it's open it's free it's it's the whole de-american uh uh de-americanization type thing um i'm not really into that but i understand it it's just it's just nice to have like easy quick money without paying stupidly high taxes and be able to send it wherever he wants yeah the peer-to-peer distributed cash system seems to be a good idea traps a lot of value no yeah but going back to like you're this anomaly traveling the world going to the border here in the u.s afghanistan multiple times snake island plans to go to where seminal island yeah sentinel island darien gap i've been to um front lines of ukraine a few times fall of cabal that was the first big one it's good man it's a

lovely holiday you know the taiwan invites you back to go to tora bora do you know about that place no so that's where the caves where big london was before he fled to pakistan so he was there with pretty much the whole of his coalition uh so there's this huge network of caves but they're not dangerous but it's just like you need a tour guide to show you around because they're caves and they've got some like stuff left behind there uh it's like tables and stuff that have been left to rot but it's a fascinating piece of history so i asked how about it they say sure brother when you come back if you come back god willing we'll take you uh take you to rabura and you get to make the youtube video we'll give you a a small uh you know we'll give you um some

security a convoy we'll take you there for the day we'll make great video you'll have a lovely holiday i'm like hell yeah my friend and they're like we want to give some reassurances that you'll allow back miles here's a certificate and you know that's typical said man what miles is an honorary member of the mujahideen he cannot be stopped search for military checkpoints he cannot be stopped to military checkpoints either uh he cannot be detained without uh authorization from this commander who's authorizing this whole thing if anyone stops miles's mission mission beyond um checking the validity of this document by calling this number um they will be arrested themselves basically it's just like access all areas in afghanistan it's like if you want to do business

here you know that's like you do what you want unless if you just do something very very dodgy as you just do anything dodgy really let's just make life easy for you type of pass they could give me one of those i've been told bloody amazing one of the guys talked about giving me citizenship at some point now you know i'm really tempted to do that man i'm really tempted to get afghan citizenship and go down to a university like a top university like oxford cambridge and then just go to the admissions office and go hey man i'm kind of retarded uh i can't read or write but i am an afghan i'm i'm a minority give me give me a degree let me take a degree out give me a scholarship too actually give me a bursary actually give me

like extra help actually adjust my grades from like a c to a b plus you know what i mean and they'll be like oh we'll give you a phd man you're a minority you know how it is it's like you know we've seen the statistics that some people get in when they shouldn't do the race it's just this cringe man yeah that happens here in the u.s a lot and yeah we had news today that manifesto from the uh the transgender woman i believe who shot up the school in nashville her manifesto leaked at least the first few pages and it's not surprising that they wanted to keep that under the wraps because it's become pretty abundantly clear that uh the brainwashing of the woke elite here in the u.s is what led to that attack if the manifesto is legit which it

seems to be um yeah most manifestos are just copy and pastes and poorly written ones from other manifestos but that that sounds unique so that could be something amazing to read so how much got leaked by the way i think just logandina i think it was like the first three pages of a multi-hundred page manifesto demand so people don't want it it was basically it's basically like white people are bad i want to kill all the white the white children which is terrible it's absolutely disgusting what happened but and it's why people are the best man honestly this person is just kind of retarded yeah no it's scary i mean like on a serious note like the indoctrination of this woke mindset and that's why they wanted to keep the manifesto

under wraps because it's becoming abundantly clear that it is actually affecting people's psychology and how they go and act in the world yeah they only highlight if it's bad stuff to be fair there's this growing understatement most people most people world very doom on this whole situation i look around england the mass immigration stuff and i may do run it you guys doomers on the mexican july air to go slow take over and move up north but honestly we have seen what can change in a few years in history uh you know how whole empires can be overturned societies can be restarted with their lifetime i think we'll see some good changes i'd like hope so so thankfully things i think will be moving in the right direction against these uh demonic

people let's be honest they're uh they're um part of his own mindset and we know who no i agree that's why we focus on bitcoin and uh it is a tool of optimism to build a better future and then on top of that i think the discomfort that people are feeling due to inflation and coming to the understanding that the incumbent financial system is completely borked is beginning to wake people up i think i'm optimistic as well things are pretty scary out there if you look at them through a certain lens but there's also opportunities to make the world a better place and you just have to believe that you can do it and go try to do it that's you can one step at a time people just don't have a grand plan to change the world but just having if you

just head for the right direction some crazy things happen like for example i could have just been pissy during my whole situation taliban detention but i've been invited back to open the gold mine to do business on youtube i made tons of friends i've got a great story i'm best best treated uh detention the prisoner in taliban history like i know it's not a great title to have but it's like it's it's notable it's a lawrence of arabia magazine have some great stories about stuff some people just don't realize you gotta take those baby steps first and uh speak of baby steps too so i have some crypto and i was like actually i want to turn this into a balance on my amazon so i can spend some stuff found a way to get into gift

cards about giving any identity or information and now it's just like you know i've ordered a thousand dollars worth of stuff from amazon i need um just just peer-to-peer just no problem yeah i love crypto man you're right and take it as seriously as you should have after your last show and there's people probably watching that thinking oh you know just crypto yeah i'm gonna listen to it but not actually implement it you need backups man like even backups like crypto is just clear winner uh if you want to be low tax or something a bit low in that uh liquidity is just sell sell order goes through pretty much instantly and send it to a wallet keep it physically on a cold wallet or actually like you know just on an account somewhere on an exchange it's perfect

which is perfect don't get screwed over if you have like a decent exchange like when i was with htx provide no information could just transfer whatever solid even coinbase now i had to use coinbase to get to my get some money to my uh business bank accounts and it just gets withdrawn instantly i'm like holy crap usually we take three to five days sometimes it takes like one day this was five seconds whoa yeah no it's crazy how how good it's getting but the government's recognized that they're gonna try and shut it down the uk actually uh just implemented some laws they're gonna make it very hard for users to send crypto between each other bitcoin between each other um yeah vpn but that's i mean the point i'm trying to get at is

like even you in afghanistan like people don't want a westerner sending money to afghanistan over the traditional rails and the governments will probably get mad if you're doing it over bitcoin i'm sure your transactions may come up in some terrorist financing stats using ip addresses and bitcoin that's flowed to to afghan ip addresses or something like that but i think your use case here of buying gift cards to get access to goods to weights while you're in prison i mean it's a perfect anecdotal data point of yes you can be sending bitcoin into the borders of afghanistan but you're using it to buy good things the crime yeah exactly could be they're like whoa he's buying a gym equipment he's training an army now it's just mi6 headquarters thinking about no the thing

because we actually i'm going through the gold mine and the one bloody thing i'm good at is investments and investment banking in general so i put together i've got a chief i've got a chief chief advisor at the moment and we're approaching pretty much global institutional banks and uh institutional systems i can't name who and obviously some mega corporations and some uh i can't name i'll tell you afterwards by the way but you know you're gonna love this uh when i do tell you um i'm approaching these people and they're just saying okay if we go through these big companies we have a legal power to obviously not get screwed over uh by them saying we're financing the taliban which obviously not

the chinese can get away with it too because they're backed by obviously powerful people so it can it could just be done as long as we make friends of these people and just say yeah we're just doing this to keep afghanistan stable and provide some money in the infrastructure and you guys get gold uh which is the west uh the west wants me to probably open a gold mine in afghanistan due to the fact that china is up north and the whole belt road initiative is like basically it's like african colonization all over again um so the chinese obviously want all the mineral rights um for their manufacturing the u.s is losing the mineral war so honestly there's a of very interested people that want to work with me with the gold mine just because uh it means you

know if we have a 200 million dollars worth of available easily dug up gold uh that's a high grade purity like 16 grams per ton you know it's it's like you know they can they can make problems disappear power big business until if the price of gold pumps like some people think it's gonna sanction people if they have something you they do not like if you just start suddenly you know joining the taliban and threatening the west or whatever but um just doing business there's no problem there's a way around it most times the people that would flag up the alert you become friends and we go oh this is what we're doing we're just setting this up and it's the whole thing uh and this is how useful it could be for stability so let's let it slide

and they generally do this is the way you get peace in the world you just do business good business everybody makes money one way or another whether it's via tax revenue or just pure profits from a

from a business the free market solving peace problems and he's gone he's gonna say what happened there oh dear my bad

we caught everything but the point I was gonna get to on this note with the gold mine is like it would be very funny if Lord Miles creates

peace between Afghan Afghanistan in the west by building a profitable gold mining business That's a good thing, too. The Taliban even said to me, like,

Miles, you've got to do some business here. That's really appreciated. We've not really had too much, to be fair, of interest from the West, which we do want. Afghanistan's opened with foreign investment. They're actually very eager for this stuff, and they're very accommodating, which I found during my situation, even though I shouldn't have obviously just been treated like a normal prisoner. But they were like, yeah we can help you out and um to be fair it could honestly create some peace because that's how you set up stuff so we're gonna set up a fund as well for the people of afghanistan to help out with infrastructure and stuff i can't go into too much detail but it's bridge but it's breach

building things like the americans went to that instantly so i bombed some stuff i'm like yeah it's kind of a badass thing to do but at the same time it didn't have the best long-term outcome if i was part of you know um the uh the u.s government in 2001 i would just like hey i'll give a billion dollars to the warlord who brings me bin laden and whoever does we'll just stick him in a prison in afghanistan with joint supervision between the taliban and you know uh our side and then as well we can then we could uh rebuild the country a little bit we'll help you guys out we'll give you some direction we'll find common ground and that's i guess that's what i'm trying to do man like you know we just kind of understood each other in the end and i just said like yeah

i want struggle to fail i want a gold mine you guys want a foreign investment uh i am famous so i publicly advertise that afghanistan is open for business if i find that the gold mine goes smoothly uh win-win no problem man yeah you think there's a world in which everybody can do business with each other get along peacefully just leave each other alone no otherwise we would have

obviously we have oh I owe you the XYZ and it will be mental banking because there's that much trust hell no it's always going to be constant wars and it's good for my business too so I get to pop down to those places yeah it's just going to be a bunch of wankers just fighting over things

and old alliances falling apart and just things changing. We've seen Ukraine just pop off, even though Russia and Ukraine are brothers, two thousand five factors. It's just really silly, isn't it? Same with Azerbaijan, Armenia. What was it? Ethiopia and Egypt.

Yeah, same old scenarios. What do you think about- Azerbaijan stuff got swept under the rug pretty quickly. Yeah, they just don't know what's going on, man, because most people don't give a shit. most people can't even point to azerbaijan or maine or armenia on a map if i tell someone i've told a few americans too that oh there's a country called georgia no it's just a state i'm like look at the state you look at the state of your mental capacity city woman

like it's not just a state like what are you talking about it's a country clearly like uh it was like you never heard of georgia never heard like you know it's easiest place to banking in this area of the world non-crs until january 2024 you know you get you set up a bank account day literally day one and have a card printed at the same day that's great situation for like diversification and plus like it's a famous xyz blah blah blah i've never heard these places so showing it off showing a place on a map you never heard of now the news couldn't pull it off man and plus those two three money made in ukraine and gaza they only they only care about what moment they can make better margins because they're a bunch of uh wankers yeah well that's i

mean that's another meme that's going around twitter this week i'm not sure if you saw but mr beast putting those water wells i think he built like 100 water wells in africa and the meme is like the un has been in africa trying to quote unquote make these people people's lives better for 76 years and have produced zero water wells and yet this youtube star just goes and creates a hundred wells and in a week and going back to like just do business and interact with these people in a way people of government i honestly just think it's a huge money laundering scheme 100 man the money just disappears yeah we seem to be uh cost breakdowns for some military equipment abroad during some wars like for example a uh i think like a a helicopter in iraq was quoted

of having a bolt, like it's a normal bolt that would cost $20,000 and a hammer for one part cost, I think it was like $900 for the hammer. Yeah. So it was like, you know, it's like, yeah, clearly it's just money laundering, man. Like I don't, I don't blame them, but it's just comically obvious, you know? I mean, at least, at least try and put some effort into your grift, you know? Yeah. It's comically obvious and And also frustrating because they can launder as much money as possible, but you can't Venmo your friend $600 without having to report it to the IRS. Oh, yeah. No, that's terrible. I've seen that happen too.

Have you had to deal with PayPal recently as well? I have not. I have not used PayPal in some time. Yeah, man. I've used it sometimes just to kind of get money to my bank. It's the only way that I can work it out. I sold this one item I had a while back. It was $2,000. i got for it personally like some old it was like a book i collected it was like first edition so i sold it um i said oh it's gonna be on hold for 14 days i need to provide uh proof of purchase for the item that you had and you need to take a photograph of it they need to scan your face i'm

like fuck off you know what i mean like if i wanted to do some dodgy stuff for money i would just hand it physically you know what i mean like i don't think we do for paypal my dude you guys are not liable like during when it first came out you just send money and then it's received i mean it's like it's it's a stupid amount they'll call you up and go oh why is it and you go um not drugs and they go okay no problem that was a better world man that was that's why i used paypal because it actually worked it was a payment pal you know it's your friend but no oh they just won't release my money sometimes they've only released it and then ah it's just bs man why should i have to work with that it's more effort than it's worth

everybody's guilty until proven innocent these days i'm so tired of people being treated like that man um it's like that all around the world um at least with the taiwan they were just like you know they they treated me well um and as she said yeah i was we we don't think you are but we have to check you have to do our due diligence blah blah blah in the west they just shout at you and go oh um terrorists they've been just like imprisoning you for 60 days or something yeah these are our stories in america dude yeah it's uh it's pretty disconcerting and as they lose control of the financial system they'll only clamp down harder and harder i mean the cbdc who knows that they'll be able to roll it out

successfully but that is the ultimate guilty until proven innocent technology right there yeah when they when they create the digital dollar i hope it flops man i hope they make it flop somehow they're setting the the the wheels in motion with that they got fed now here christine lagarde over in europe came out announced the digital euro is in the preparation phase so they're going to try it rolling out but i have hope we need to make fun of these people i like i like physical euro i actually hate euros it's an ugly currency but it's it's real you know it's i can hold it you know what i mean it's like all good yeah it's monopoly money though yeah no no i'll show you monopoly money uh this is monopoly money right here

that's monopoly money that's a thousand dollars right now i was counting beforehand for my next holiday so um that's all declared you know that's stuff i had years ago this is just my savings i've kept over the years 100 i've added up um wink but where is your next holiday what do you want to do next and also what i'm going to do so you know the taliban merch i buy and resell it's like really good so i'm gonna buy the crappiest car i can maybe six for six hundred dollars i'm gonna like write my patreon members um you know usernames on the actual car and stuff in sharpie we're put like anime body pillows inside and stickers and stuff fill the car with room taliban merch she can't ship this stuff out and if you take on a plane with you you're limited by how much

baggage and weight and volume and all that nonsense so i'm with those right all the way to england we've we've got a few routes one of those going through pakistan then technically getting a uh like a shipping boat to oman and then oman to uh yemen then yelbit yemen saudi arabia saudi arabia iraq iraq azerbaijan and armenia and georgia and all these other places like i might also pop through iran if i have to there's a chance you go through turkmenistan but it's a bit of logistical pain i'd need to go to the embassy to figure stuff out but it's gonna be a great little holiday i'm gonna film the entire thing high quality after that i'm going to be uh daring gap have you heard of that man it's in central america correct yes man you're spot on

So it's between Colombia and Panama, and it's a dense jungle that's 80 miles long, really mountainous. There's a bunch of terrorists in there called FARCs, and they're basically drugs. Smugglers are always high as hell. They live in the jungle. You know, stress is high. Their blood is boiling. So they see a bunch of refugees going through the Darien Gap, which a lot do. a lot of refugees like indians uh you know pakistanis that could want to go to the u.s

when the other people really they can't get visas for mexico to go yeah we know what you're doing so you have to get visas for colombia or whatever and when you just walk on foot through a darien gap that's why 15 of people end to die because they're not prepared for this they just know it's jungle like oh we gotta cross the jungle that's no problem um but it's tough man it's a tough walk uh it's very humid too and of course you've got uh snakes that can kill you with one bite you've actually got native uncontacted tribes in there potentially uh flash flooding happens um diseases so if you get malaria or if you're just kicked out by some exotic disease you're screwed there's there's no way to get out basically but the uh the tour guide who takes the um the illegal migrants

uh will just leave you and there you do find bodies occasionally there are heads on spikes too and if you're a woman going there uh you just get raped by the fuck if they find you so it's like a one in ten thing but it's it's horrific what do you what do you want to get out of this trip you just want to document walking through it or yeah man so i'm going to be pablo escobar's brother we want to do a vice doll documentary thing so i've been playing this for months man actually a year at this point but you know afghanistan holiday interrupted it and then turns out boulder bankrupt fuck hell this guy he's going before me and that was my idea first but i'm going to do a better video than him 100 percent uh so i'm going to get a handgun from

pablo escuadro's brother i'm going to go through the daring gap i'm going to film the whole thing speak to people get like a nice story and then because we're entering panama illegally we go chill in panama a little bit you know just get a tan enjoy some drinks he he he and then do the whole thing again in reverse and there's no one going down there's no one going south so after i'll be the first person technically doing reverse it's like four days of a jungle really dense jungle by the way um and if that's if you keep keeping a good pace if you get lost you're screwed uh there's no the vegetation is so dense satellite phone doesn't work gps doesn't work um yeah there's i guess compass maybe but too bad it's bulky in some areas so

if you just don't know the exact route you're screwed do you know the exact route or are you just going to try and yeah i do it's actually a solid footpath too because so many migrants come through i heard every single day about 500 migrants go through from different areas um so that's how many people are going to the US border every single day as well pretty much um minimum so that's the numbers that are being reported I know the route but it's like it's a jungle there's no distinguishing features if you get lost you're screwed like if you get disorientated you're screwed if you break a leg dead uh you have to crawl through 60 miles which you could do but then there's snakes on the ground in the middle of the night you get bitten by something

there's like very tropical animals um you can just be mugged by the fog and they'll take everything away from you sometimes even clothes if you're wearing anything nice so obviously i'll go humbling quite light so now he's a camera guy and obviously he's gonna use his camera so i have to use mine so if i get taken i'm like oh oh you saw a disclaimer i'm not responsible he he um what do you what are you bringing your backpack on that trip do you even bring one yeah man so the good thing is the back pass could be very light i'm not gonna i'm gonna bring a hammock with one of those enclosed net mosquito nets so i can just hang it up between two trees most people sleep on the ground now you get bitten on there's rats you get you know

snakes potentially suspended in the air that's really compact really light we can take it anywhere water filtration systems of course tons of uh food and supplements medicine first aid kids um i'll have a few mean things that's why i want to a few goofy things i can take with me uh what else um some some hidden money uh in a concealed water bottle some money the panama too i guess my phone as well obviously uh battery packs of course uh just and oh yeah loads of clean stocks by the way so we got passed through the jungle uh every case um jungle um river occasionally it's very deep so you do get wet and you get trench foot and you can have a lot of problems so you need to keep your feet dry a lot of stuff for that too um disinfectant of course

uh you know just some spare clothes it's actually gonna be quite easy um buy a compass of course too uh turns out the compass app you can't rely on 100% for your global navigations when there's no charging stations in the uh daring gap but um a little bit of everything man but it'll be easier a new thing because no sleeping bag no hat no tent no mat it's just gonna be stuffed into a nice bag which should be good because if it's so hot you want to keep it light you're welcome to come and put together your own thing as well i'm gonna join you tell the wife and kids i'll be back i'm gonna do a 10-day trip to the daring gap yeah just say oh honey i'm going on a um a hike uh to panama city oh that's lovely panama city oh that's quite nice i don't know much about panama but it's

like beautiful skyscrapers on google images but technically going through darien gap i can't believe you're doing this a hundred percent you know before this uh before we came on ladies and gentlemen a hundred percent you said miles i want to come on the darien gap trip right now sign me up um i don't care about my wife and children i need to go on this adventure right now so i appreciate the spirit man it's really uh appreciate it's really respectable i do admire that you got to feel every once in a while so you got to take a little trip to the darien gap oh man i felt enough for a lifetime it's a roller coaster of emotions but it's so much easier than dealing with like the bureaucracy of things and plus i will have to deal with women on the trip

women very rarely make the trip because they basically take us sex prisoners so it's not really worth it for them so it's like it's like a woman retreat tech retreats in the tropical jungle i might get a lovely tan let's see lovely holiday lovely holiday it's better than england it's better than england man like i go for shop i see some inflation they that they won't accept xyz card i can't pay them the cash in half the place i go to i'll do some you fill out this form so and um do this stuff on excel and all this other nonsense hell no um goofing off in war zones of a daring gap and i got a bunch of colombians um get pissing themselves and throwing at the mouse in my comments saying what would you do voluntarily it's horrible i'm like

i'm gonna have a good time i can guarantee it like if i get captured by a fox i'm gonna probably walk out as friends uh i'm just gonna say my they're my best buddies they've invited me back to the coke factory hidden in the jungle anytime you want you know it's gonna be one of those situations um i cannot be i should not be underestimated i'm gonna have a lovely time i'll bring you back something nice like a like a cool rock or a leaf i'll take a leaf i'll take a from the daring gap if you're offering amazing actually yeah that's what i might do for um my followers as well i might just get like a little one gram of dirt like a vial and then just ship that out for like 10 15 20 dollars as a collectible because you know it's like it's

like bella delphine's bath water just get some uh cool collectible because no one else's gonna get everyone wants a piece of the daring gap but no one wants to go to the daring gap you know i mean that's why we watch documentaries we want to understand the place and have a feel for it and to be fair if i um if i grab a bunch of leaves and epoxy them together uh into like a little into a little display that could be really cool man or even polaroid photos and sign them and say number one of 500 and polaroid costs what one dollar frame them a frame would be four dollars and shipping is five dollars so let's say ten dollars total and we sell them for thirty five dollars each and then that means twenty five dollars profit you sell 500 better being you

got some good money right there physical nfts yeah so true man uh speaking of physical nfts i am have you told you about my service i offer the um the stone tablet thing nah or yeah well you'll you'll put somebody's message and leave it where you go yeah man so i've got i've hopefully got someone lined up with a daring gap pays well bloody hell um so i'll just say hey your name will be found there in like what 10 000 years time like it's it's a jungle everywhere else you go in the world um you know no one's gonna know your name in a thousand years time but one day that gets found up and they rediscover you because books aren't gonna be around it disintegrates um i guess the internet's going to evolve into something else and where the

data gets lost like most of the old internet's lost already so i'm not sure if the new stuff will stick around um like most most youtubers nowadays too like the the old original ones you know maybe forgotten about by most people um stuff like that really you you want your name to be uttered in 10 000 years time and if you got screw you money why not so i'm going to stick my name on there a message and a qr code so obviously that's going to be still around in a thousand years time with the links still working and um yeah it's gonna take you a daring gap man it's gonna be solid clients happy i'm happy what a life man you're just taking trips to to make sure people are remembered into eternity it's uh it's actually my land hopefully i get

remembered too and plus i'm making good money like i think i think you know what this is like my friend you know when you work in a really good job but it's one of those high power jobs where you gotta work in the city center so that means you gotta live in the city center because you gotta be up at the crack of dawn and you gotta get home really late so you can't commute and because you live in the city center your heart your your money goes on rent and obviously half of it has gone to taxes too so after that you're left to piss all and obviously everything's expensive in the city center too so you basically your relative cost of living for the city just sucks despite all the work you're doing so i feel like um right now i'm earning really good money

and i'm not pissing it away because i'm going to be hey man sorry about that it's all good hey man uh did you hear anything i said did it get recorded yeah yeah i heard most of it and i was gonna say yeah yeah so for some reason my screen just freezes and then i just can't get anything back up that's that's strange my bad it's all good i was gonna say you're certainly getting the most out of your time which most people can't say we'll do something in person when we're um when we're back by the way that's a good use of my time because i love being in the studio if guys don't know off off camera this guy's a real g and the place he's set up is amazing beautiful office and there's some lovely restaurants nearby so that's the main reason

that you know i'm getting that texas food yum yum yeah well let's go get some barbecue the next time you're here yeah man oh i mean i got some like barbecue from england just does not compare man your stuff oh yeah i would move to austin or some some part of texas just for the barbecue man hey the weather's amazing it's nice and sunny all the time um you know it's better than la you got some right-wing people some based free-thinking people who like cryptocurrency and all these other topics to just a generally nice pleasant place to live it's better in England that's all I can say

it's certainly hotter here than it is in England definitely freer definitely freer here as well in Texas yeah true it's like saying it's like saying you know one bathroom

or bowel movement was better than the other it's still a bowel movement to the end of the day it's still shit you know what i mean it's like it's like oh once it was better than the other i'm like i guess and still it's all like something i flushed out the toilet you know england's england freedom is cooked but if you guys went back to the 70s and told people what's going on today who would ever be pissed off you know i saw this meme going around too it would do it it was like a 70s video uh of a newscaster going around and there was a recent law saying you are where

sea belt he can't drink and drive basically so we're speaking to some like texans and the guy goes i work 12 hours a day and i come home i can't even drink any suds in my own car right home one or two beers ain't no bad it probably makes relaxed and this goes to a woman just like with a baby in her seat like you gotta wear a sea belt when you're driving you can't drink alcohol when you're driving next thing you know we're becoming a communist country i'm like i'll send you afterwards if you want i've seen this like i'm actually like so true because in afghanistan no like i said before previously no seat belt you don't need a driver license no car insurance you just settle it on the side of the road with that person maybe a place evolved if you would need

um yeah i think it's settled between people just no bullshit and some fake industry is based on actual actuary sciences they don't know that nonsense half is just made up um it's the slow creep of the nanny state you start with the seat belts and then it ends up with you not being able to send money to your friends because of what you said on twitter i think at some point we'll space but we need to make one planet where it's just like ted cape hill where it's just nature you can just do whatever you want and whatever you want to get on the space shuttle back home if you really had enough of it um we need one place where it's just i did there's governments but like minimal regulation basically we have that here in the united states it's called amish

country this is uh yeah that experiment yeah but the amish got told off for sending raw milk and that wasn't a thing like 150 years ago was it well funny funny you say that milk raw milk is just milk it's just milk it's normal to use that word raw like it's uncooked it's unclean but it's just normal milk uh i guess we have filtered milk that's why pasteurized that's what it's called yeah exactly yeah it sounds like a nice word like pasteurized but i think people who have lactose intolerant for milk or like pasteurized milk it's because you got taken away all the natural stuff out of this like i've tried that stuff oh it's so good man and from a cow no chemicals too like no hormones and uh eastern blockers and steroids and all that other stuff that's what we have here

the saturday farmers market we go to downtown we get our our raw milk from richardson farms shout out to richardson farms here in in texas you can still get it yeah they just won't sell it in stores you have to go to the farmer and get it wink wink behind the deal deal you know Yeah. Well, it's legal. It's legal in places like New Jersey, but here in Texas, you can buy raw milk. Yeah, man. I want to supply breast milk as well. I've tried it probably when I was a kid, like one-year-old, pre-one-year-old. I want to go back to the struggle. Back to the struggle? Back to the teat? Yeah, man. I wouldn't mind it. I would just be like, yeah, good milk. It's very sweet. Why not? and plus i think if i get a wife and she becomes pregnant man i'm gonna be like

oh god give me give me a cup give me a cup on i don't know if you're gonna want that i don't think it tastes like the uh the raw cow milk though that you're used to all right i can mix it in i can make a nice hot chocolate to be fair there's there's gotta be recipes out there i mean these women kind of even the centers that's a bit silly so it's like you know there's gotta be something out there for it yeah you've got logan our producer uh laughing out loud behind the uh behind the monitor here how come logan what are your thoughts on raw milk it i i thought i didn't like milk until i had raw milk okay yeah yeah good man honestly same too as well it's like um you know like semi-skinned milk like they take out even more milk from the

milk for fat that's the only good thing it needs to add sugar i mean it's like the all the others of a powdered milk and oh they got soya milk it's ridiculous this is this is the government the food pyramid saying fat's bad sugar's good here's your skin you know what i eat most day most things nowadays like i'm i'm back in the gym and i'm putting on decent muscle and size and i'm going to unveil it one day when i'm at a stage i'm comfortable and happy with it but most of the time i just drink milk protein shakes and like you know some fruit juices whatever and then just yogurt just yogurt with protein powder and then also just just meat just tons of meat like eggs eggs tons of eggs too and then the occasional piece of bread and stuff i

i'm trying to keep lean so i'm not always fully on carbs but bloody hell man like that's a good but that's a great diet right there and milk is a huge part of it man oh milk beef and eggs scrammy season that's how you bulk up yeah man i think there was a document from ancient times showing oh yeah the um the chinese peasants uh eat gruel and wheat and it kind of rots their teeth and makes them you know retarded basically because you get that grain grain you know it makes you cloudy it's like when you have a go into a food coma from eating so much carbs you just mess with your brain you don't think clearly and i said when the mongolians came into obviously superior superior in every way they're um you know they were very muscular uh they were taller well

nourished their teeth were fine um and more intelligent just because they ate milk eggs uh yogurt um and meat like it's slightly different of course but like it's a general sentiment you know maybe you shouldn't eat uh you know 10 packets of doritos and then complain on twitter without the cost of living crisis yeah don't follow the usda food pyramid because it'll have you fat dumb man it's literally a pyramid scheme literally literally oh man yeah it's so dumb man like um i don't get the whole idea of pyramid uh food pyramid we had this in england too and even back then i thought it was stupid i was like why should i eat loads of carbs that's terrible that's how that's how you get really fat in your brain just gets a bit

silly like i understand some of it is nice but you don't need carbohydrate your body can produce it itself like it's a tough switch to make and you crave that stuff but bloody hell man oh it's ridiculous yeah i mean it's led to uh an obesity and diabetes epidemic here in the united states and people still don't understand that it's a large part of the health crisis that exists in this country we're fat dumb and woefully out of shape yeah i mean there are a certain class of americans who are just very fit bodybuilders you know those chad types that uh most people want to be but then they realize oh i'm fat as fuck i mean never change it to so they start contrasting in the world because i imagine when you go on x and instagram mate you come across you know those

uh right wing meme edits showing it is how you work out yeah that stuff the vitality yeah the vitality and then it's left wing stuff where it's like oh i learned about uh diet culture it disgusts me because acceptance all sizes they look for profile pictures it always confirms their opinion you know i mean they're really they're really not great looking to put it lightly and uh you kind of just go yeah ugly people are ugly because they're ugly on the inside a lot of time yeah and that's actually going back to like optimism for the future that's something that makes me optimistic as well is that clown world's gotten to such a state where they're trying to force this on you uh everything is beautiful but we're humans and beauty i believe

is objective you can look at something and have a natural reaction to it and i think people are beginning oh you're two miles oh thanks babe oh you know i'm i'm your favorite egg good man it's like are you so you're going to be uh are you officially accepting baldness is that why you shaved your head yeah man so i'm i'm creating a new channel it's called bolder bankrupt i'm joking um so you know i was thinking about his name no i i like for kind of a bold look i i was on a bus today on public transport speaking to someone and then i had this blonde girl just looking at me and she was dead cute and she was smiling she was eyes were darting away but then she'd look at me again stare and smile and i was like this bold look actually does quite well

like i get small talk now because unless if you have a full lush head of hair you know thinning hairs looks terrible on everyone if you pull off a bold look so you need a tan you need to be lean of course I bought a tiny bed by the way so there's a tiny bed downstairs it just came today it was like $500 and it's got like 200 hours left on the bulbs that'll take up $150 to replace all the bulbs nice and easy it's a it's Philips too so it's like a proper model like from a few years ago solid so I'm gonna use that for like one hour a day so I'm just gonna look max and I'm gonna look completely different and hopefully I should like not like the guy from

American X but uh and all I if I grow up a goatee I look like a budget water white you know what I mean but um I'm just hoping I can look decent I mean at some point maybe get a hair transplant just to see if I want to grow it out it could be an option yeah it's like yeah if I become rich I'll just like if I become rich the first thing I'm doing is I'm moving my um appendix I remove my appendix i get like a full check i have my uh what's called i have my tonsils removed i want my wisdom teeth removed if i become too rich overnight i would just do a bunch of medical stuff i think it's cool uh just in case and then um there's a point to that too and then afterwards too i would uh just get the hair transplant so yeah it's an option i just want the best one why not because

you know it just looks good at the end of the day if you do have it and it's just women like the idea of that rough head you know i mean like the bristle almost they do as somebody with a receding hairline and thinning hair i will be joining you at some point with the bald look my story your hair was fine man what happened stress or no it's just getting older yeah i guess you how old are you now actually asking i'm only 32 so you're doing more than fine man i'm 24 and my hair's all gone so you made it quite far compared to me well it's all the stress of being in england man uh that's that's the real struggle well i may have the hair but you have the adventures which uh i'm a bit envious of yeah man um yeah pretty much just goofy ass guy

risks his life every single month in a different country doesn't do any business for eight months that's that's like that's solid life now i'm kidding now um honestly i do love the adventures i live for it i can't imagine going back to something else right now like i'm being invited to speak at universities and i'm putting together huge goldmine deals and this business is blowing up and we're making buy style documentaries i'm like i i can't imagine knowing like you know two or three thousand dollars a month in england working at nine to five and coming home miserable and keeping the same routine and small talk like oh do you see they uh they updated the water cooler now but you can you have mango spring uh added to it like oh oh i want to try this new uh ready meal

like shut the fuck up i just don't want to do better stuff excuse my language but uh i don't i don't understand how people exist like that you know i met those people and it just feels like that there's something's lacking some sort of ambition i think that's the ambition i built america i think the adventurous british people which were the best pure ones left england to found an even better England called America. And that's why America is so great today. God bless America for that. And now

England's cooked because all the great adventurers have left and the ones who are still there have been strangled a little bit, I imagine. And then there's me. I just don't know where I fall. I have its own category. But yeah. Well, people may not want to do exactly what you're doing in terms of going to Afghanistan,

but at the very least, at the very least, that silent majority out there that does work the nine to five and they have that that burning screaming voice in their minds is saying you're not supposed to do this you're not supposed to do this they're taught you got to do this and i think you're an example of like no not necessarily may not be the same exact life that you expect but there's some adventure you've been you've been programmed by the media like everyone has but you know you go to this country you just instantly blow up like you know there's a sniper guy just you know hiding out right outside the

airport you take one step out white dude cock and then bang and head explodes no it's just a normal place like uh people live there it's every day there's markets and stuff there's like people watch anime in private homes whatever it's weird but most people don't understand this they think and life is in crazy danger i understand if you've got other obligations but it's like it's embarrassing as an american that you can't go to a place with balls and actually you know get your way out there fumble your way into something great it's a very cooked mindset where you're just hiding and like oh i can't go to that part of the world why not it's the world god gave us uh you know god gave us the world to explore it and do what we want of it so i'm

like explore and spread the word of christ where i can and that's some other stuff yeah yeah and you're you're confirming a suspicion that i've had for a while which is that the media the government particularly here in the west tries to scare people on purpose to not let them go experience it for themselves and create their own uh thoughts and perspectives oh yeah do you want me to tell you a secret i'll tell you a secret i'd like a secret um so as soon as the fall of couple happened right at the beginning. I knew all the journalists to go try and vandalize me and I thought, yeah, you know, I'm going to go planter and get paid. So I called them up and I was like, hey, can I tell you a story and frame it in such a way where it just seems very stupid and whatever

and leave out key details. And then you pay me because it's such an absurd story, you know, a few hundred dollars here and there. And then obviously it gets published and some boomers get pissed off but the young ones think that's funny get sent to my twitter and social media and then buy my merch and they all become followers that's what i've been doing with journalists i call them up i go ring ring shalom my friend how you doing dude anyway got a new story there yeah i did some business in afghanistan no i'll just say idiot tourist goes to afghanistan almost dies yeah exactly yeah that's perfect yeah just include my twitter boom boom boom and then and then the person misinformed and missing out to the general public it's just a money-making scheme and it's

just everyone's clicks everyone's attention i just want to goof off and then just buy a house in argentina and flee there to disappear just like my german great grandfather growth hack use the media to growth hack yeah and just have fun harassing the media yeah it is that we need to make fun of these power structures where it's the media the politicians the bankers exactly it's a clown world you just gotta have some fun there like um once once as well i just walked into my i was walking past and i had like a few grand in this one account i've got a few bank accounts of course like you should and one of them was just like it has like well i feel it's like four or five thousand dollars in it was like you know just one of my backup ones for

something and it's walked in there i did like their service at one point like a few weeks ago so it's walked in said hey i want to withdraw my money and then and then i did and then i shut my account and then i walked to the next day and deposited it and then took out just to annoy the tellers i did that like three or four times until they just got really fed up with me and i think that was funny man you can just mess with institutions all the time there's so much you can abuse so many systems you can have fun with yeah i need more of it miles we're way over time i know it's getting late where you are no it's all good man i'll say um anything for you babe i'll make time for you thank you i appreciate that i'm very happy to see that you're alive

well thriving happy it's at least like i mean i think i've never been better i guess it was kind of good for me almost um it gave me kind of a break and some time to think about what i've learned i've learned i should always double down and always do crazier stuff so yeah i think if anything it made me more like this but um next time as well when i'm in texas we'll do something in person we'll grab a drink uh because i need i need a drink after this whole deal um but i've just gone through beforehand you know eight months play hell and then all this other stuff too it'll be good man and also do you mind if i plug my socials no not at all yeah lads if you're watching this and you've gone this far well done on your endurance against my uh rambling and if

you would love to follow my adventures trust me it's gonna be going down the history it's a documentaries it's very absurd goofing off and you will be missing out if you do not have a look at it i'm lord miles i pull off the impossible all the time the last great british explorer google lord miles search on twitter or slash x instagram youtube ifunny all these other platforms and you'll be along for your adventure i promise you won't regret it and if you want to do some business with me you can email me the contacts are all in the description it's all good man i'm looking forward to it i'm looking forward to hearing from you and get receiving your likes or maybe your hate messages i actually encourages encourage haters to uh come after me it's like

I doxed myself on purpose, you know. They never turn on my door when they say, you know, hey, I'm going off topic again. But keep on goofing off and going on adventures, dude. We're going to link to all that in the show notes. Lord Miles, one of a kind. A modern day adventurer. Thank you for joining us again.

Thank you for having me. All right. Peace and love, freaks. Diggy. Thank you.