Another Beautiful Day in the Philippines

hey what is up YouTube we have we are going live and it looks like the mic is working well so yeah we'll just give some time for people to hop on I'm going to do myself a favor here

really quick and I'm going to share the link on my social media I'm going to wait to get started until we get our first viewer in here hey Saturn welcome welcome I think this is the first time I'm

seeing you on here and I'll go ahead and get started since you have helped kick us off or helped to kick off the live stream not kick us off but uh yeah just a chill night I had a

great day today it's just been backto back uh meetups with some friends of mine who are helping me to level up and to um ideally build a successful Channel um yeah just uh had a great time today met

up with my new friend uh Chad you may be familiar with uh Chad Foster and he's a individual from Canada and just a really a wealth of information I mean he has shared so much with me and it's

uh it's just been so much fun I'm having so much fun with YouTube and and really Joy connecting with the audience it's the growth has been incredible I mean just in the last month we've had 600 people join

the channel it's mindblowing to me that I would have over 2,000 people that are interested in what I uh potentially interested in what I have to say it's been very humbling and uh just greatly appreciative of all of

the new subscribers and can't thank all of you enough for taking time to uh engage with my content and yeah um I've got several more interviews coming down the pipe chatted with JR of jrc recently um you can

expect that one met a gentleman from Australia who's got an interesting story sat down with him twice one may have to wait until YouTube comes out with their copyrighted music stripper um because I need to be able to

strip the copyright of Music out of that one because we did it in a cafe and uh there was just some copyright music playing in the background and um so the second part of that we did it in

his hotel room and there was no background music fortunately um what else um yeah so talk to Jr uh talk to this uh yeah it's not overrun with xats I mean I'm glad you enjoyed it Saturn you know

I thought it would be so I thought I was walking into a town that was going to quickly wear on me that I wouldn't like that there was so many um xats here that hasn't been my experience are

there a noticeable amount absolutely you're not going to spend time in town to MTI without noticing xats I'm starting to get more and more xats approaching me like every other day uh because they they're seeing me you know

do the rounds on the channels um but I've got a channel right I mean if you're not a public person like myself you are going to have I mean I I see it as they're more the xats are

more normalized here uh people are not going to be shocked to see you uh you're going to have an easier time there's some of things here that I really like that make it convenient right uh so there's a

high level of English uh if you want to have Western foods you can have that with no problem if you want to make expat friends you can do so with no problem is everybody getting along with everybody obviously

not but most people seem to find a group of their own if that's something they're seeking um that being said certainly there's a lot of cool Filipino people I have some Filipino friends here in dumag as well really

kindhearted uh you know just warm friendly people um it I I think of dumag as punching above its weight so around 150k people in the Metro it feels in some ways like I don't know bigger than that is

the right word uh but of course you see tons of content about it online I look at it like easy mode I look at it like tutorial mode I've been in other parts of the Philippines that are harder

to navigate not as much public transit um not as much English uh not as much Western food but you're still very much in the Philippines uh you're still going to be able to interact and spend time with Filipinos

um it's I think sometimes we get this sense that every other person here is an expat I'm imagining maybe like 5% of the population are foreigners um I'm you know I I happen to gravitate toward them because my

channel introduces me to them I also want to interview them and get their perspective but it's worth checking out is it going to be for everybody knows some people they're going to want the big City Vibe they're going

to want to be in a bonap show Global City uh they're going to want to be in a Makati they're going to want to be in a Deva or a SIU but uh for those who want want a

little bit more provincial style lifestyle maybe we don't want to pay the rents in SIU or uh in motti uh you know you can still find reasonably priced accommodation here is it going up in price absolutely um certainly

with the appeal the attraction the conveniences you have here the English um just the vloggers that are bringing a lot of attention to do meete it's not as cheap as it was in the past there's still modest accommodation

um I chatted with JR who runs jrc he said you know he explained to me he's in SIU or SAU and the costs are noticeably less here in dumag You're simply just not paying the same business owners are

simply not paying the same rental price that they're going to pay in SAU uh and that translates to more modest food prices um you know more yeah just more modest pricing in general Transit is going to be a

bit cheaper it's uh dag is reminds me in some ways of uh ausco Peru honestly if I had to compare it to one city in another part of the world there's some elements of it of course now D

is not in the mountains it's it's by the ocean uh but you've got this city that just has a lot of conveniences but also you could just tell it's a cool place like people would a certain percentage of

people that come here are going to want to live here it's just that nice there's you've got the nature uh you've got the city traffic's not too bad uh great food scene for the city of its size I

run into my friends all the time in town so the town's not so big I'm like you know just uh feeling as isolated um as I might in a bigger city hey Chris how are you doing tonight hope

you're doing well uh yeah I could barely laugh I've laughed so much today that I'm like and talked so much today i' let's see how long did I talk today seven or eight hours so I met with uh

some my friends uh Mike and Paul at the coffee shop we T I talked to Paul for like probably 30 45 minutes talked to Mike for another 30 40 minutes um ended up running into my buddy uh I

I'll keep his name private he's not a YouTuber talked with him for an hour ran into another buddy Colin who has been on YouTube he's not a YouTuber he's been on YouTube talked with him for like an hour

and a half ran into chat talked with him for like two and a half hours uh and then finished back up met back up with Colin and um and talked with him for a while longer so definitely losing

my voice a little bit but I just wanted to to connect with everybody on here tonight um please everybody if you can give us a thumbs up it really helps with the algorithm to distribute this video to uh

to new folks that would really benefit from the from engaging with the channel um Saturn says Sabu has several motorbike taxi apps which one does work in Duma move it Maxim joy ride so I haven't tried any of

those Saturn uh you can use grab so uh grab does work um I mostly just try to negotiate with the drivers uh i' pay the local rate I overpaid a little bit when I came down from Valencia to

do mgti but I'm mostly just taking public Trikes and jeepneys I'm at the end of a jeepney route so when I hop on it to go into town I get in the front seat it's rare that I don't

get to ride the front seat and I look at it like I'm a big Foreigner uh I'm wide um I've got broad shoulders even though I'm not the tallest man uh so comfortable riding in the front it's 20

pesos for me to get from here in beong uh to downtown dumag and then when I want to come back from downtown dagate tuong it's like uh 30 pesos because I'm close to the border of daan and so

uh I pay you know like I said 30 pesos to get back um you know back over here um Chris says uh hey oh you got your ears lowered yeah got a great haircut uh got it this done

in town yesterday so I got the haircut done yesterday it was around uh it was about 80 pesos let me look up how much 80 pesos is in US Dollars and a143 so I got this haircut for a143

equivalent and he did a great job it's a little bit messy I know but that's just because I've had a long day and it's been um yeah it's just been a long day running around the city hanging out

with friends um having a ton of coffee man I've been just super caffinated uh I well I started off with an energy drink and chugged out on the way to meet with uh daddy Paul and Uncle Mike and

then uh when I met up with Chad uh had a cup another cup of coffee so I'm having like two three cups of coffee every day and it's uh it's definitely keeping me going because I am burning the

candle at both ends but Sunday will be a chill day so well no Sunday might not be a chill day because I want to do another uh collab with Daddy Paul and that'll probably happen Sunday or Monday um

and then I want to do something with Chad that'll be Monday so probably I'll probably see Paul daddy Paul on Sunday and I'll probably see um I'll probably see Chad on on Monday so Sunday and then Monday like

you like I H you could tell I'm a little bit jumbled up but such a great mov I mean it's just been dumag Getti has been lifechanging for me I already knew I love the Philippines but it's a

it's just a gem of a place I mean I could do so many videos on what I like about I need to do a new thumbnail on that video about doag Getti because thumbnail is so so and I'm

learning that thumbnail is super important you got to capture people's attention and draw people in the fact that it's done almost 5,000 views with that not very good default thumbnail tells me if I change up the thumbnail it's

going to get more traction um not Chris Chris says nice about a buck 50 yeah I mean I pay more than a buck 50 in tip in the US right I mean just to tip the person who's cutting

my hair uh yeah I'm paying far more than that right I mean it's probably been 70 years since you could get a haircut in America for a dollar uh about a150 um um and he said he'd do the

beard for 60 pesos so like a doar and five cents or something like that we got nine viewers on here this is uh this stream is definitely picking up steam everybody if you could give us a thumbs up

it helps to distribute the content to new viewers and uh people could really benefit from the content wow okay Jay so that's a great question what's good Alex so Chris yeah so uh yeah I'll get to your comment

in a second Chris I just want to address Jay's comment so Jay uh which is better Thailand or Philippines I don't believe that oh thanks so much everybody very good on running up the likes so I don't believe

either one is better I look at it like tradeoffs um Philippines I like English I like the nature Thailand of course I love Thai Cuisine I also love the um yeah you know the infrastructure to be transparent the

infrastructure hey Tony good to another Tony so I'm kind of curious I sometimes I want to do a tally to see how many Tony uh and how many mik's and how many Chris's I get on as subscribers on

this channel um but yeah Jay just to answer your question in short I don't see Thailand or Philippines as being better I think there are different places with different advantages I love both could I live in Thailand forever

absolutely changai is one of my favorite cities in the world could I live in the Philippines forever absolutely the level of English the social climate um the the people I mean the people here are just incredible uh so

I would say you know really just doing a deep dive on like what's most important to you um is it infrastructure is it Cuisine uh or is it the English is it the nature both have some of each

but there's definitely some strong suits uh each place has its strong suits and there's different places within those uh countries as well Jay like uh one person may feel like wow you know I'm not a fan of the

big city uh but you know I like a provincial area but if I'm in a provincial area in Thailand I may not have the English um so yeah yeah really really uh you know just very different advantages and

disadvantages of both um Chris says a bad haircut in the US is 25 yeah I've definitely had some terrible haircuts at that price point Chris uh to the point I almost want to learn how to shave my head

if I go back ah [Music] just um yeah Tony uh so this is another uh Tony um so uh Tony and I met I met up with a gentleman named Dexter and Tony Dexter and I ran into ton

Tony and we got to talking and Dexter had to we had to part ways Dexter had some other things to do uh but yeah Tony Tony and I ended up talking for a long time I actually have an

interview with him two uh one that'll get released sooner rather than later I just need to to pull the file onto my computer I've got like three or four interviews in the tank that I've uh recorded that I

just need to get edited um and I finished like I finished one of them this morning so that's the interview with Gio if any of you have seen Gio in the Philippines I sat down with him a few

days ago and we knocked out an interview he interviewed me he's already got that one up I interviewed him that one's up for channel members uh once again just a shout out to all my channel members uh so

different Tony is actually a channel member I want to give him a shout out for supporting he's actually the first member of the channel um feel free to check that out if that's of value to you they get

videos early um we're eventually once we get enough channel members and it makes sense we're going to do members only live streams and I'm going to be creating higher tiers uh so different ways for people to support the

channel to help grow the channel to help give get more value out of the channel I you know one of my ideals is that I could be doing this full-time because I think there's a ton of you guys

in the west that want to move over here or to Latin America I'm also a fan of Latin America uh but you don't know how you don't have enough context you don't have enough information and through the memberships

that could be really valuable once again I've got skill sets I could go back I could do work not a big deal but this is something that I find a lot of meaning in and a lot of enjoyment

in it's uh you could call it my eeky guy I'll go ahead and throw that word in the uh in the description uh but yeah Tony and I had a a great two dinners we had two dinners and

and both were fantastic um Chris says Tony Mike Chris sounds like the members of a90s R&B group yeah I really does Chris it really does big Lance says hi Alex peace from Croco Poland hope you're having a good

time there yes Lance it's uh fantastic time in the Philippines the weather's nice uh the people are nicer the is good the um the line of I didn't say the women are beautiful um it's just a very comfortable

life here it's just a very very comfortable life here it's very relaxed people are respectful people are considerate people have very high EQ here so if I had to brag on the Filipinos I would say they had tend

on average to have a high emotional intelligence they tend to just be very understanding they tend to be very empathetic they are much more often patient with us than we are with them um especially for newcomers I think

longer term expats tend to slow it down but some of the new people I mean I I witness it myself and immigration I really should do a video about that but I witnessed a gentleman who's just you know

fresh off the plane from Canada and just just being just I can tell he wants to be nice but he just can't keep the frustration and he's so unhappy with his life in the west he just can't couldn't

hold it in uh he's barking at his wife like she gets on a call it's loud he screams at her to turn it down it's just I know it's not going good back home guys for a lot of

you and um I I do consider it to be really important to try to help as many people as possible I know some would say oh don't tell don't let the secret out the Secret's out okay everybody a

lot anybody who's online is starting to understand there's more and more people leaving the Western democracies who are not happy with the life there who want to try something different uh and they found their peace and they suspect

they could find their peace and happiness abroad and they want to give it a chance it's not going to work for everybody for many people it's a great fit and for many people they just need to keep doing

Discovery trips and just learning more about the different options and find out uh what's for them because like I said not everywhere is good for everyone it's very individualized um Philippines works great for me may not work great

for you um Jay says both have a walking Street which is better also isn't Thailand safer uh I don't I'm not much of a walking Street guy so not super interested in Walking Street uh no judgment I know

that that's an appeal for a fair amount of expats or foreigners uh but just not not something I'm super into uh Thailand isn't also isn't Thailand saer I think it depends on where you go I think it depends

on the part of the country you're in I think it also depends on the context like uh I'm I I don't uh I haven't noticed the difference I feel fine here in D M maybe different in some other

places I have not felt unsafe in either um either country so maybe just be the it might just be the places I've gone in each country uh but yeah I would say you know just it's comparison is tricky

um comparison is super tricky there's so much Nuance comparison uh location is very important and the individual is very important as well uh Saturn says one concern about working line on line from the Philippines VPN was terrible experience

it used burnt IPS Google was constantly blocking my searches with captures I'm not sure about that I am getting a lot of Flags uh on my YouTube channel so I'm having to read like like log in again and

having to confirm my identity and I don't know I've heard some people say enabl to factor authentication I don't know that that really has anything to do with your bpn though Saturn uh but that's a fair concern um

it's something I need to do some research on please feel free to comment again Saturn if we we chat again uh about that I'll make a note of it um I'll just copy and paste your comment here and

understand that that's something that's relevant uh okay there we go um yeah big Lance uh Chris says big Lance I've heard good things about craco yeah big glance feel free to chime in uh about CCO I do need

to do a stre I need to get learn streamyard because I'd love to have guests in here I'd love to set up something where uh whoever wants to within reason right we don't want to troll jumping in but

it's any subscriber could jump in and have a conversation with me engage me in that way I'm sure some of you would like to chat promote your business uh discuss you know what's working for you what's not working

for you are you in your planning stages all these things are super important and uh I think it'd be a nice way to engage with the audience a bit more um but yeah Big Lance feel free to chime

in if you're you're still enjoying the stream about your time in Poland I know where's West he's in Poland um so he's actually uh philam Filipino American and he's currently living in Poland uh so he felt like southeast

Asia wasn't the uh perfect fit for him but he as far as it seems like uh or sounds it's he's enjoying it uh Chris says or big Lance says Chris yes it's a great place lovely history people food

I've lived in Thailand and Philippines which are great uh for Europe it is one of the best places in my opinion yeah that sounds excellent okay so you have quite a bit of experience Lance with southeast Asia it

sounds like you've been to the two uh very popular ones and um yeah Poland seems really nice hopefully I can get over there at some point hopefully I can make it over there see what it's about experience it

I'll probably come in the summer to be honest Lance maybe the fall or the spring I don't know how much I'm up for Polish Winters after uh being spending so much time in Southeast Asia but uh yeah big

Lance over 20 years in Asia wow okay that sounds really interesting Uh I that would be a great chat I'd love to chat with you sometime on stream I'm not sure if you're open I'm not sure what your

schedule's like Lance but over 20 years in Asia between China Japan Korea Taiwan Vietnam it sounds like you're very experienced much more so than myself uh I think you probably have a lot to share but totally understandable if

not I just it's rare to meet somebody with that much experience in this part of the world you know I think a lot of us uh we've got a few years maybe we're up to eight seven or eight

like Paul or Gio but 20 years is a long time I met one person back in the States that had that much experience and he always had positive things to say he lived between Tokyo and Hong Kong he

got his NBA uh and then just spent his career over there with his wife who who was from uh Nagasaki so his wife is a friend of my grandma and uh she was from Nagasaki big Lance this is

good to hear as Poland is on my travel list yeah Poland seems super interesting it's a common it's a place that seems like on it's on the up and up like it's a economy that's growing quickly I know

that uh you know there's a lot of Outsourcing happening like people are American companies are sending tech jobs to Poland uh so it sounds like a place with a growing middle class well yeah I'm just uh definitely feeling

feeling the effects of being tired I did sleep pretty good last night so I got to sleep at like 3 3:30 I was editing and then I woke up around 10 10:00 No 10 10:45 I got up at

10:45 and kind of P around my uh my studio here actually this place is rented out for next month but the my host family has said I could just rent a room and their main house so they got

a a main house and they got bedrooms and upstairs bedroom that's unoccupied uh so if I decideed to extend my my time in D meete I'm going to be going over to the main house and uh yeah that

that should be that should be nice as well they're so hospitable um yeah it's just been a wonderful wonderful stay here I definitely recommend it I should share a link to the this spot it's like uh 250 after

fees this studio play some in is 250 for a month uh including utilities very good value for money is it the cheapest place in town no it's not the cheapest place in town but it's comfortable the host family

is a very sweet family they've got dogs here so I don't mind leaving my camera or my iPad here you know don't have to worry about it going missing um they've got a long like history of Hosting people

here uh the family is just they're absolute sweethearts they had a birthday party for the granddaughter tonight she turned one years old they're offering me lpia and spaghetti and um just touch big hearts uh Chris so what is

your favorite Haun in dagate um some I'm gonna have to keep private Chris I gotta be honest uh some I'll disclose uh maybe to like channel members like in a kind of a select live stream because some of

the places that I like to frequent have been provided to me by close friends and I want to protect those places because because some of these friends you know they've got big subscriber bases and they have certain places

they like to spend time and if those places get publicized the concern is that people will start showing up there looking to meet them and they'll get you know kind of mobbed and uh you know I just want

to be considerate of that so there's a few places that uh yeah yeah I just I I'll keep you know just kind of on the DL um some places that everybody talks about ground zero coffee I've been there

several times uh Ground Zero you know they've got uh they've got nice coffee they've got I haven't tried their food yet yeah yeah exactly Chris trying to avoid another Ground Zero type situation that's that was really unfortunate actually

met and hung out with Dexter he's a nice guy I mean he's anyway that that was a very regrettable and fortunate situation we don't want to repeat that and then my friends also have some places um that they

keep on the deal for me not that they don't want me there but you got to have somewhere you can go to be on your own I mean in a city like dag Getti easy to navigate you know

you gota you get to be have a bigger falling like I've got 2 2300 subscribers I'm getting recognized every other day now uh sometimes every day like at least getting stopped at least once per day and it's to

the point now when I get to downtown I I look out for people that might recognize me not that I'm like ah please please please pay attention but more like I expect I'm going to get stopped and get

sidetracked into a conversation um somebody's gonna want to sit down with me somebody's going to want to talk with me and it's a it's a unique feeling I'm not going to complain about it I'm not I mean that's

just the trade-off you want to be a public figure you've got to accept people are going to recognize you but sometimes I got stuff to do uh sometimes I got to get to Point from point A to point

B and I'm in a hurry and I don't want to be rude I don't want to be inconsiderate but uh I'm trying to still maintain somewhat of a schedule here um but yeah so so Ground Zero of course

that's an obvious one Chris um Robinson's Mall you know I know it's kind of generic but I like Robinson's Mall a lot they've got several good restaurants in there I buy my phone load there so when I need

to buy data for my phone I go there and top up uh I've been shopping I got a uh like a app digital app account I go to the uh department store there to buy socks and some basic

clothes um they've got a pharmacy in there they've got they've got a lot of what you need so sometimes I'll just take the ri I'll take the Jeep me down to Robinson's I'll hop out at Robinson's go in

handle my business they've got uh public Wii there for an hour free and I'll go there and I'll edit um there's a karenderia in there too I like to have lunch I get my keny laow my uh raw

fish you know Japanese people love raw fish uh pumpkin I and then lomia and so I'll have that there um I'll also go in the Robinson's grocery store downstairs grab an energy drink that wakes me up and gets

my day going really uh really convenient so I'd say Ground Zero Robinson's mall is nice um Boulevard I like to go down to the Boulevard and hang out just walk up and down during the heat of the day

it's a so so I mean it's really hot but when the Sun starts setting all the people come out and hang out everybody's meeting up I'm making new friends I'm talking to now um more longer term friends and

uh those are the three that I would say you have a a good chance of making new friends and and their kind of social environments Ground Zero Robinson's and the boulevard um Michael says howdy hey welcome Michael good

to see you you asked me when I'm doing another live stream I was hoping you'd see this pop up and uh that you'd be joining us tonight how are things going in um your area ah pardon me um

Saturn says no solution yet the main point of a VPN for me was to show sites like Amazon I'm still in the US but there suspicious login emails and Google blocking searches with captures defeated the purpose got it

got it yeah I'm not sure uh Saturn um that's unfortunate Michael says I went to Robinson's today and bought a 55 inch TV how are you liking your new new TV Michael by the way uh anybody who hasn't

yet uh had a chance to give us a thumbs up I'm going to plug that a lot in my streams moving forward it helps to distribute uh this stream to new potential viewers once again I know many of

you already have and and hate to bug you there but it's just very very helpful and also in the replay also say mentioning that will'll catch catch some replayers uh Christopher says best meal you've eaten in doag Yeti

so uh Sans Ral huge fan of sans reval they've got pastries and cakes and desserts that's more of what they're known for but I really like their sword I think it's swordfish is it swordfish it's some kind of

fish and they cook it in like this soy sauce and it's got this steak flavor it's delicious they Grill it they serve it with a like a cup of rice and this uh mango chopped up mango and tomato

delicious I've had it several times uh and with friends and it's uh it's so good ah it hits the spot also a fan of Moon Cafe Moon Cafe does a fantastic filet Manon for 430 bot so bot 430

Philippine Pesos around eight bucks 750 something like that and it's really really good they they cook it nicely they serve it with rice or potatoes and a little bit of green veggies so I like to have that too

it's um those two those two spots they are chains but really good also found a Lon Mano place this place that does grilled chicken I should have got some of that before I came home uh but that place

is really really good I like that Leon manok like 135 pesos 250 for half a grilled chicken and one half of a grilled chicken is enough to fill me up it's they don't include sides with it you'd have

to stop and grab some sides if that's something you want but uh yeah Michael says things are good still setting the TV up need to watch a movie or something it will let you know it's Samsung 4K yeah

that sounds like a really nice TV Michael Saturn says comparing air quality in Duma to Sabu which had worst vehicle exhaust fumes yeah naturally that's going to be Sabu Saturn um Sabu is probably the metro population is probably

20x dumag uh and so yeah I would say you know if you're concerned about air quality um dumag Getti is is a better bet now that may change dumag is growing fast there's construction everywhere there's new people coming

in every day but as far as the president goes uh daget is just a much smaller City uh Michael says hey I thought at one point we were friends on Facebook but I tried to look you up to

message you but could couldn't find you Michael let me send you a message now I'm going to go ahead and send you now a message now and uh that way you can you can get it okay cool Michael

I just sent you a message on Facebook and that way uh you know where I'm at feel free to reach out anytime always happy to chat with you um yeah um yeah feel free anybody to add in any

comments um meal too Chris Chris I will say my host family they cook some great food um they've served me some great uh seafood dishes also some eggs um what else I haven't had much American style food I

will say McDonald's pretty good here I think it's some of the better McDonald's um in this part of the world I don't know if it's just that it's more Americanized here in dagate but uh yeah McDonald's really good

one of my buddies goes there for coffee they do like a coffee for 50 pesos and then a free refill so he gets two coffees for 50 pesos two big cofes uh I need to send him a text

actually and try to meet up with them to have some Cofe with them because it's uh yeah I just it's a good good value for money and you get to sit in there air conditioning and people watch and

uh I actually recorded that I need to get that thrown together but that was a good experience air quality is probably best to G Tai or Alfonso areas recently visited there it was great also it's cooler because of

altitude yeah some of the higher altitude spots definitely I feel like anywhere you go are going to have a little bit better air quality I noticed that in shangai when I was there during Burning Season when I went

up to dois suap I could see the layer of um smog uh which is unfortunate um bagio probably has decent air quality you know it's very popular and growing fast but bagio is just known for being at higher

altitude Michael feel free to comment about bagio I'm not sure if you've been up there but maybe you could add some uh some thoughts to bagio I'm not sure if um you've heard much about it but Chris's favorite

sweet treat in dumag so that's a great question this is something that Jr treated me to yesterday man time just flies so by so quickly so it's this like it's almost like halfway between cheesecake and like bread and

it's delicious and they serve it with hot chocolate ah it's it's so good um other sweet treats and dagate the fresh fruit is really good here I mean not exactly you know a baked good or something like that

but the bananas are really good here what else have I tried here um the papaya is really really good here Super Fresh we got papaya trees out in the yard and uh they pull some pull them down and

then they chop them up uh the Coconuts good here too the Buco I like the coconut uh kind of coconut smoothie or coconut milkshake they serve in town they do you know condensed milk and uh and the pulp

and then ice and it's really refreshing on a hot day Saturn says te is too close to volcano any okay got it got it uh Michael says I haven't been there so I don't know yeah that's fair Michael

um I do hope you make it up there at some point if you'd like curious about bagio because it's I know very popular for a lot of foreigners but yeah uh the N mod is really good Chris um

the fruit is really good I had a piece of chocolate cake at SS reval also also that was pretty good Sans Ral does a ton of great desserts you cannot go wrong there they uh specialize in sweet treats

and the their food is good too but if you're wanting dessert recommend Sans Ral uh I need to fast for 10 hours man I've been fasting today Michael I finally broke it tonight with the lomia I working on

losing weight and it's uh fasting has definitely been good for but it it can be a pain right I mean they got some great food where you're at Michael uh up near Manila there's just so many delicious options

but I get it you know if you got your your full exam coming up you got to be careful about that blood work and all the stuff someone over 50 needs to do uh Fair Point Michael for sure

I hope it goes well please uh let us know in an update or like reach out to me let us let me know how maybe not all of us but you can feel free to let me know how

it goes because I know you're probably a little Str you're stressing it you want to make sure all that comes back good and you're you got a clean bill of health and um yeah yeah no you know no

red flags for you I hope I hope you're doing well Michael uh Chris says so your interactions with other expats and Duma have been good yeah it's been almost universally positive the one exception would be when I stopped

by immigration and saw the gentleman losing his uh patents um and that's just a bad look I mean you know I saw him I saw him shout at his wife uh I shouldn't even said anything to him so

he was complaining about he he was comp he was actually not even at immigration so it was a Visa service center I'm not going to name them because I don't want I'm a fan of them I don't want

to I'm not g I'm not here to criticize them this was the expat that was acting bad they were doing they were going above and beyond to be helpful and nice to this guy and this guy is just

being a a [ __ ] I just be clear here this guy is being a [ __ ] he wanted to be nice but he just could didn't have it within him so he starts complaining to the Visa

uh processing service people about his internet he starts complaining about the taxis he's I'm like dude they're handling your your Visa they're not your taxi guide they're not your uh internet guide they don't that's not within their perveance

go complain to somebody else but I finally intervene I'm like hey have you heard of grab but I said it in a more polite way and um oh yeah yeah yeah my son told me about it my son's

been here I'm so important I'm so important just these self-important and Western people uh so terrible just awful um more often than not if you haven't been over here you're much more likely to have an issue with another

expat than you are a Filipino person I haven't had any issues with Filipino people um they've all been wonderful and uh it's the expats that don't bring their common sense don't bring their doubt or skepticism um and you

know they're just they don't do their research and they come over here and they make some dumb mistakes and then all of a sudden it's a Filipino it's your dude um I don't I don't say that lightly either

like before you come halfway around the world you should be doing a lot of research you should be watching videos you should be reading forums you should hire a consult um I'm thinking about opening up consults you but

you should be uh you know you should be investing the time and money to be prepared because people come here and like why is it so hot here you know it's hot because we're in the tropics it's hot

because we're not that far from the equator it's hot because you see this like gorgeous environment it's Lush because of the Heat and the rain it's uh we're not in the Arctic here and so people have just expectations

that are unrealistic and that can be really frustrating Chris um and other than that though universally positive all the YouTubers I've met super nice Paul very nice Mike very nice uh um you know Gio very generous to come

out and meet me even though he and I never really interacted much um who else have I interacted with as far as as uh Al yeah yeah most everybody's been nice though I've had several people approach me in

the mall and each of them have been nice too they're not none of them are YouTubers but they've all been nice I would say Chris I'd say probably 95% of my interactions with other expats are have been positive

and are going to be positive the Smart Ones that last year they're grateful they have gratitude hey what's up a foreigner asking questions in the Philippines um check his channel out guys he's uh an interesting dude and he's

uh he's got some great interviews on there his channel style is a little bit different from mine so if you're you know looking for something like me that's not it but uh he's got some great content we missed

him tonight we normally we hang out and uh we missed him tonight but it's all good I know we all have different uh different things going on and uh yeah I'm just giving him a little ribbon little uh

little dig there but uh yeah Chris my interactions with xats have been fantastic here I mean it's it's such a it's such a supportive environment you know I expected to come here and have YouTubers not want to be

supportive not want to engage as much maybe feeling like ah if we help this guy out he's competition we're all different people we all got very different life experiences very different perspectives uh I don't think any of us

have worked in the same Industries I know the only other sales P person with a sales background I've met here has been Paul everybody else has totally different backgrounds uh from myself family of five says durian is the

best Michael says that's the stinky fruit yeah I love durian um I didn't like it at first family of five but I like durian a lot if you any of you want to make my day or make my

you know make my week and we have a Meetup or you just want to like hang out at some point the weight of my heart is with durian in hand if you if you can get some durian then

uh we could definitely have a good conversation black in Thailand how is uh oh Michael says you can easily get blacklisted and sent home if you cause problems here yeah um you got to respect the system You' got

to respect the people that work to make the Philippines a nice place uh I fully support the system the way it is I don't have problems with it and I uh I love it here I mean I I

can't say enough positive things about it it's certainly not I mean if I wanted to change things I just go back home you know that's a much easier solution than coming here oh I'm the smart Foreigner no no

it's uh we're here I say this a lot we are here based on the generosity and the kindness uh and the the goodwi of the Filipino people and we have to respect that just as we'd act uh and

I don't want to get preachy I I don't like even talking about it to my audience too much because I know all you guys are awesome and you have positive attitudes and and you're respectful take care of family

of five we'll see you later um but you're you're wanting to make a positive impact right um and so I I hesitate to even go on about it uh but yeah just so important to be respectful Michael I

I definitely agree with you black and tyin says how is regular guy so I haven't met regular guy I think he actually lives up in Angeles and I've never been to Angeles I may go at some point it's

not top priority for me at the current time but if he comes down to Duma uh yeah I chat with regular guy I know some of my friends have met with him and have chatted with him U theyve

had positive things to say I think he uh tends to be a bit more of an introvert you know so uh I can certainly relate to that although I'm less and less of an introvert as time goes on

here uh in Duma I just I realized back home I'm not an introvert I just don't have anybody to talk to and don't have anybody to relate to very much maybe a few people but I just struggle to

relate to a lot of people uh in the west people are stressed out they're struggling they're trying to pay their bills they're in Grind Mode they don't have the time to invest in relationships like the people do the

people that live here have time to invest in relationships Henry says did you see my invite uh I don't think so Henry did you email it to me um yeah Henry I'm not certain about that feel free to

email to me I'll drop my email in the chat I've created a new email you can uh you can reach out to me Eastern dreamer pH atgmailcom if you have any questions or concerns suggestions I do need to

make a new PayPal under that email address but that should just filter my communications because I've got like five email addresses uh for all different purposes and that just helps me to stay on top of things Gerard says

I saw you were interviewed on tyus times yeah Gerard I I was interviewed on tyus times about six months ago that was when I was living in changai and um yeah it was an interesting conversation for sure Michael

says Barry in the pi was super nice and hosted Venus and I for three days we were planning another visit soon to go see a place where there are a lot of monkeys definitely take pictures Michael I want

to see pictures of the monkeys that you see uh that's good to know I I'll uh I'll keep burying the pi in mind May reach out to him B five says I can stay in the Philippines for two

or three months only still love the us we go to the Philippines every two years and yeah uh well great to chat with you family of five black in Thailand asks have you heard of The dumag Fight Club

okay before I answer that question we've got 14 folks on here anybody who hasn't given us a thumbs up please do so it helps with the algorithm uh black and Thailand have you heard of the dumag Fight Club

yeah that's a really unfortunate circumstance uh black in Thailand I I think it's just a really unfortunate situation that it came to that I don't support that I don't condone that I think that it's uh not something that

I'm GNA ever do I'll tell you that right now I'm not I'm not ever going to do that I'm not going to support that I'm not going to encourage it I think that people should use their words to

sort out disagreements and also use their minds to sort out disagreements it should never have come to that it should never have um never should have happened and uh there's a lot to learn from that let's put it

that way there's a lot for us to learn from that situation the um yeah it was a very negative situation I'm not going to go too much into it because I don't want to drag up old news this

is not a drama Channel um yeah that's that's as far as I'll go as far as chatting about that unfortunate situation but none of my friends have have um had that experience and I haven't had that experience i'

I don't understand anybody that would come here Halfway Around the World to engage in that kind of behavior but yeah feel free uh chime in with any questions or thoughts anybody has uh definitely losing my voice more and

more yeah no worries I hey I get it black in Thailand I totally get it you're not uh in the wrong for bringing it up it was very big news for a while it certainly attracted a lot of

negative attention to the city um but I I think we're past that I'd like to think that we're past that and that such circumstance won't happen again but uh yeah everybody feel free to chime in and uh had

with any thoughts you have did have a couple of interviews last night one at midnight night 1 at 1:00 a.m. um haven't heard back from them if I don't get a call back I'm looking at trying to commit

to a year here in the Philippines to just go all in on vlogging Macau streets hello folks hey welcome maau it's pretty late there how are you doing tonight black in Thailand I'm currently living in Bangkok was thinking

about moving to dumag Getti and that was one of the things that put me off yeah that was one individual who went rogue and is not reflective of the Greater Community he uh has been banned from uh that

establishment and he is uh yeah he doesn't let's just say he doesn't have the greatest reputation in this town uh and for good reason not here to um you know not not here to trample on anyone don't want

to feed into the drama but [Music] what's the best way to put it I think I yeah I think what I've said so far has been sufficient um go for it yeah yeah I I'd agree try it out

black in Thailand you know may not be for you but uh I you know I wouldn't I wouldn't keep that as a as a significant concern everybody's been super kind to me super sweet super generous warm uh friendly

um I have seen I I'm G imagine you're you're African-American or perhaps African British just by your name could be totally wrong I have seen a number of African-American potentially African-American uh individuals around town and it seems like

they get a warm reception I know that uh I'm starting to interact a little bit with Calvin you you may be familiar with Sunshine's shoulders and he's an interesting guy guy he he's yeah he's an interesting guy for

sure um but yeah I I think okay so you're from Ohio okay very cool very cool yeah I I I get the impression that this is just my my impression that the Filipino people are welcoming to all um

they're curious about foreigners they're interested in foreigners they want to uh you know they want to learn about foreigners they don't have this I know in America black and Thailand there's this negative stereotypes about African-Americans and they just

they're they're some people are just not even willing to give African-Americans a chance I don't get that impression here I feel like I don't know I I just feel like it's I understand why so many African-Americans or black

individuals want to go try somewhere else want to go live somewhere else want to um want to feel like they're on equal footing with all the other form foreigners right they're going to look at you as a foreigner

but not as a Perpetual foreigner like if that makes any sense um yeah uh now that Thailand has a dtbv so would you return so I don't think so this is I'm gonna just go ahead and share uh

my perception about Thailand Thailand for me because of the lack of English which I do think is improving because of the lack of English I see the Philippines as being probably my long-term home base assuming that uh I

can meet the requirements of the Visa continue to do so I've fallen in love with this country I liked it a lot last time but this trip has solidified it for me the English being prevalent being able to

talk to anybody I want at any time uh the friendliness of the people the presence of Americans that I relate a lot to uh the convenience it's just I mean it's um oh thank thank you so much a

foreigner asking questions in the Philippines it's uh I really appreciate that that you're you're hopping on here and um yeah Michael said oh uh M but yeah so that's not that's not a critique of thail Thailand uh black

and Thailand I love Thailand Thailand is a beautiful country very modern some of the best food in the world very friendly people I have some wonderful Thai friends there I have some wonderful expat friends there but the lack

of English made me feel a bit lonely at times there were some times where I wanted to talk wanted to engage and it was feeding into this kind of depressive like kind of mindset where I just didn't talk

as much and I'm like I'm an introvert that's why I'm not social that's not the case at all it's that I struggle to communicate effectively because I don't speak Thai if I could learn Thai I think it would

open up a lot of doors in Thailand but the Philippines for me it's uh it's it's my preference um now I'm happy to vacation in Thailand in the future I personally think Thailand is a fantastic place to take

a vacation and that the Philippines is going to be better for me for day-to-day life uh that you're going to have some awesome experiences in Thailand it's Bangkok super fastpaced but that as far as my day-to-day life it's

just less complicated here in the Philippines to be honest with you uh black and Thailand Michael says avoid people like that of course most everyone else will be good friends absolutely agree absolutely agree 95% of expats I've met

here and engaged with have been super nice super friendly super welcoming uh bringing me into the fold very quickly giving me a chance uh when I have little to offer them based on the size of my uh Channel

what's up Mike Jay cool cool yeah he knows uh Mike very cool yeah Mike we I met Mike on a live stream um some months like six months ago I feel like I met Mike and how the time

is flown ah good to see good to see you guys um thanks black and Thailand says that's good to hear thanks for the insurance yeah absolutely um that's just been my perception of course some people who are black

Americans they may have a different experience and I respect and validate their experiences well but from what I can tell they they seem to have a similar sentiment and I and for what it's worth as an Asian American

I feel like also like as a non-filipino person that I'm accepted here not the same um but I'm I'm evident very clearly not Filipino so you too I try not to miss this dude's life how flattering um really

quick plug because we just have 11 thumbs up we got 15 watching in here if you could just help us run up the thumbs up helps to distribute the video to more folks uh Michael says by the way

for the new folks I'm from Illinois but live most of my life in Nashville Welcome Ohio yeah so Michael and I got the same in a way you could say Hometown he's from Illinois but I look at him

as an honorary nashvillian and uh yeah that's where we connected really well as I grew up in Nashville lived there until my early 20s and still have a lot of friends back in there uh back there and um

yeah um Gerard says how is the rain out there yeah it rained a lot yesterday man it rained a lot yesterday Gerard I was out with one of my buddies and we had to step into a tea shop

cha time I'll throw a name it's a really great chain I've tried them in AA Mall and SIU and they offer great tea but we went in there to uh avoid the rain and I actually before that I

stepped into a c uh a cafe and just set up my computer I was working on a thumbnail for a video and they were totally cool with it they're like ah you don't have to order anything you can

just sit here until the rain stops so yeah it rained a lot yesterday fortunately today hasn't been bad I haven't noticed any rain there was some wind and it kind of seem like it might rain but didn't happen

uh hey Tony welcome yeah Tony's a channel member thank you so much for helping to support the channel Tony always good to see Tony in here I feel like Tony believed in me before I believed in myself and

I can't thank him enough for the encouragement and for the validation of um yeah of my work to date and and also just encouraged me to keep plugging away at it P covered this topic it's spiking in PH

cuu especially before uh GF moves in I'd ask her to get tested yeah that's a fair point Saturn I don't think there's anything wrong with that I'm I'm a fan of testing I'm a fan of all of that

there's no shame in being careful there's no shame in being careful family five says have your girls tested with tea before you kiss them yeah that's a fair point and family of five my Grandma had that so when

my grandma was a little girl in Japan she got it when she was 10 or 12 years old uh and she thought that was going to be the end of her she went to a hot spring and for

whatever reason the hot spring helped her to get over it um but yeah it's not even necessarily like I know it's some of these things are stigmatized it's uh it's outside of people's control in some cases it was

that way in my grandma's case I think she stepped on a a nail or something like that the Tony says the viewership of the channel is growing welcome to the new viewers yeah we've added 600 subscribers in the

last month and it's just growing rapidly and I think it's going to keep growing because I've worked out some of the Kinks in my interview process I figured out what people are looking for I'm improving my editing I'm

getting feedback feedback is a gift by the way everyone unless it's it's nasty please let me know how I can improve um and you know there's a lot of ways in which I could improve the channel there's a

lot of ways in which I could if I can make a better experience for you please let me know I'm not too good to do any to learn anything I'm not too smart uh you're not going to hurt

my feelings unless you tell me something personal that's not really constructive uh which isn't going to hurt my feelings I'll just you know move on quickly but it's also not going to make the channel better right so if

you want to help them make the channel better let me know what I can do to make it better let me know topics that are interesting to you um you always could support through membership it's always appreciated not

required but [Music] uh yeah Tony I remember when Tony was the only one tuning in on these and I was just like man I can't I can't give up there's like this one dude that actually is intrigued by

this and if I quit I'm gonna let this dude down uh and there's and Tony also in that way provided proof of concept so I figured if one guy cares I could probably find a thousand guys that care

and uh he helped to encourage me to keep moving forward to keep practicing to sharpen up my skill set and then here I've just leveled up dramatically I mean just being surrounded by Youtubers with 50k or 100K oh

wow thank you so much Michael that's so generous thank you so much for joining gold tier um so one of the things I'm going to plug here when we get enough people in my membership we may have I

think four Michael might be number four I'm going to be doing members only live streams where you get personalized attention for me in detail answers to your questions going in depth on them uh we could also discuss some

things you might not want to share with the larger audience maybe have some personal things maybe have some uh you know you got some things you want to dig into maybe you want to talk about uh some kind

of there's just a lot of value in having a small close-nit group where we trust each other where we're you know we don't have any trolls right I mean the beauty of membership is nobody's going to pay me

money to troll me right uh nobody's G to support the channel to troll me so something to keep in mind but thank you so much Michael your your generosity and your support is greatly appreciated I don't take it

for granted it's very humbling that people would find enough value in this content um to to support with their hard-earned uh dollars I mean it's you know I know how hard people have worked for what they have and

uh I honor that support but yeah it was hilarious Tony was like the only one watching and I'm just thinking okay yeah this this guy cares this guy's interested and we got to make it happen we got to

grow this we got to help these guys we got to help share information we got to help build the community we got to keep talking we we got to work through these things we got to validate each other

because a lot of us expats we get a lot of hate back home because we're sometimes looked as as Traders we're sometimes looked at as LBH loser back home um and I wanted just defeat that narrative I I

don't care for that narrative I want to empower and validate you're struggling back home let's talk about it now I'm not a psychologist I'm not a therapist I'm not licensed this isn't counseling but I can relate I know

I can relate from my personal difficulties from my personal experiences I can relate to you I can understand where a lot of you are coming from and it uh that's where the Healing Begins because sometimes guys will go

to a counselor back home they'll think I just need to go to a counselor and it's going to sort out my problems the counselor is going to treat it like an individual problem like there's something wrong with you

no not NE uh not necessarily let me reframe that not necessarily I'm not here to say they're wrong I'm not here to say do or don't do this or that it's more so that I found healing through Community

healing through spending time around guys I can relate to not being like you know I I remember at times people asking me about my family I come out and talk about it oh no that's that's enough that's enough

of that why' you ask if you don't want to know why' you ask well we're just making conversation um well don't ask personal questions and then get upset that the response isn't what you're looking for um because you

get that how are you doing question a lot in the west but they don't really care how you're doing they're just trying to break the ice they're just trying to uh have some kind of filler whatever before you

get into the meat and bones of the conversation and meat and potatoes of the conversation no no no a lot of us have struggled in the west or we are currently struggling in the west or we're going to

be struggling in the west is this the case my case when I go if and when I go back and more and more guys are going to be moving abroad more and more guys are going to and gals

are going to be seeking a life abroad we're at the point now where more and more what I would call normies are looking outside of the West they're looking at Latin America they're looking at southeast Asia uh one

of my closest friends in high school growing up he actually is in Thailand for the first time and he's loving it he's having a blast I've reached out to him a few times just trying to check in on

him see how he's doing and he's just having such a good time he hasn't gotten back to me and so I know it may be it may be when he gets back that we actually have a time uh

we have actually have a chance to catch up on the phone talk about it what did he like what did he not like uh was it what he expected because I think to some extent he was worried when

I went over to Thailand like man he's going halfway around the world what is it like over there and then he's seeing my videos oh man it looks really modern and the food looks really good and the people

look happy and uh and so you know I think that's been great for him now he is a in his situation I don't want to share too much of his personal information uh but he is a committed man

so it's not a situation of of dating um nothing wrong with that but uh yeah once again trying to break stereotypes here trying to break down uh these beliefs that you know don't exactly aren't the most charitable um

black in Thailand uh how is dating in the Philippines compared to Thailand it's you know I don't know what it's hard to say like in Thailand I found it to be good in both countries um I I think

that in Thailand you may struggle with the lack of English right now in Bangkok that's not as much of an issue Padia not as much of an issue uh the more what you call westernized or tourist heavy parts

of Thailand not going to be as much of an issue uh in the Philippines you my personal experience it's it's good here uh I have people trying to set me up all the time with a relationship I have

people trying to basically every day I get asked if I'm single almost every day somebody's if I if I talk with Filipinos um because some days you just I don't run into them or I'm just in a rush

whatever I don't end up having conversation but uh I'm I'm people are often trying to set me up here with a nice woman I hope that helps black and Thailand Saturn says you're not a famous pH vlogger until

Christian Filipina contacts you for a sponsorship yeah I imagine that may happen I'm not opposed to it um maybe when I hit 10K uh then that'll come down the pipeline maybe what if I hit 15K or 20K uh

maybe maybe then but uh yeah I'm very I'm a micro Channel Saturn you know at 2300 Subs I'm very very small uh so I'm I'm not expecting it the success I've had to date has been mindblowing to be

honest with you I'm shocked that there's this many of you that are interested but greatly appreciated forer AFA I I need to start calling him AFA Q ITP um I think it's definitely worth it because Alex is very

smart dude that's really kind of you to say I really appreciate that um I think your bar for smart is a little bit no I I give a foreigner asking questions a hard time because we just we have

a it kind of I don't know how to explain it check out his channel that's the best suggestion he uh yeah yeah check out check out his channel Tony says yes I think you have unique insights interviewing others

like you have done recently be a good way to grow the channel yeah people love interviews Tony for whatever reason um people love interviews some of it is they want the perspective some of it is that they uh

they like seeing people's excitement some of it is that they um they get a different perspective right like they know I love it here it's obvious but to see a stranger being interviewed that can have positive things to

say it uh it's like it's I don't know if it's proof of concept I don't know if it's acknowledgement I don't know what it is exactly but people love interviews and so I'm going to be doing a lot

more interviews because for whatever reason I think it's from my sales background Tony I think working in sales forced me to get good at asking questions um some people feel like I'm a little bit too complimentary but when

it comes to these vloggers I've been watching some of these guys for five years so the chance to meet them is mind-blowing and I know some people would say oh they're not celebrities and they're exciting okay they helped

me to a sense of hope when I was stuck back home and I was lonely and I was unhappy and I was frustrated watching these vloggers uh it gave me the sense that I could make a better life

than the one I had currently and it gave me something I had to work toward and these weren't perfect Guys these aren't Saints somebody was like oh Paul's not a saint oh Mike's not a saint I never said

they were Saints I said they were normal guys who made who turned the negative to a positive and have the storytelling and the how-to guide on how you can make a better life um and and so that's that's

where I want to grow the channel is just to help guys help GS I don't 95% of my audience is guys but for the one in 20 that are ladies I'm happy to help them too I'm an equal

opportunity helper I tend to relate more obviously to single guys in the west but uh you know single ladies are welcome too uh you're compin in dumag Getti why not explore other Islands maybe they will attract you much

more than dumag Getti does yeah I don't I I don't know about that maau I like doag Getti a lot um it's I need to go the channel before I start running around the more you travel the more

expensive it gets the more timec consuming it gets the more tiring it gets the uh it's just a lot more work right I'm having to learn new restaurants I'm having to learn new cities do Transportation like it's it

becomes more and more complex I'm not opposed to going to other places uh but doag Getti I love I don't feel confined at all I mean I'm more excited about doag Getti today than I was a month ago

when I arrived it's more interesting to me today because I don't I I have a community I hop in transit and I go down to the city and I'm immediately interacting with people that I'd have to that would

be a reset if I go to other Islands not opposed to it by the way I do have maau uh to go up to Sabu I need to get down to maliz city in mind now uh but this

is a fantastic base and I'm learning a lot I keep meeting new people by the way because my vlogger friends introduced me to their vlogger friends who have more to teach me uh I I just my schedule is

jam-packed and I know it would Fade Out it would fade down somewhat if I were to leave um so right now daget is working beautifully for me and uh I see it as a fantastic base I know there's

a lot of vloggers here but there's also a lot of Travelers here there's people coming here every day wanting to check it out wanting to see it and so you have this network effect it's almost like Silicon Valley

where Silicon Valley uh people were like why I live in Silicon Valley there's all these techies well if you're in Tech that's like the best place to that's one of the best places in the world if not the

best to be you're going to be surrounded by Engineers salespeople oper uh Ops people operations people lawyers all the types of people that work in that industry and to some extent dag Getti has a similar benefit it's a

network effect if you want to learn about vlogging if you want to meet other vloggers if you want to level up you want people to push you to your aame I've done more here in a month than I

did in a year in Thailand not a slight against Thailand but when you're on your own it's just not the same for me to watch some vog uh some Vlog online how to make a good you video I'd

rather sit down with one of my vlogger friends that's got 50k subs 30k subs uh even five or 10K Subs that is going to sit down and tell me this is what you need to do here's some feedback

this is what you're doing wrong this is what you could do better this is what you're good at this is what you're not good at that feedback loop is causing me to level up way faster than I would

in almost anywhere else in the country and I love this country there's a lot to see there's a lot to do but I want to level up I want to be forced to rise the occasion I want to

be forced to do things better and there's no better way to do that than to have people are surrounding you like come on man you can do it like you're the no excuses you know you want accountability I

want accountability I want to have to face them and and oh yeah man this thumnail wasn't that great or H yeah this video didn't do that good why do you think my video didn't do good what about it

was not as good what about it was good how can we do better how what did I do wrong I'm constantly able to evaluate here in this kind of feedback loop maau streets of what I did wrong where

if I went to say a provincial area and I was surrounded uh by local Filipinos they're so sweet and kind they're not going to want to to uh crap on my video they're not going to want to tell

me man the thumbnail sucks or man you know they're just such good kind-hearted warm people that uh they're not willing to be like dude you suck you know and I need to hear that sometimes that's I mean that's

what's going to help me get better and eventually I'm not going to suck uh just like if I was trying to play basketball New York City would be an awesome option right um you want to be in a

place where you're surrounded by people that are doing what you want to be doing uh Tony said and by the way guys I'm gonna have to pause to pull out my laptop charger let me do that actually right

now because I don't [Music] one second everybody I could show you a little bit of my apartment there we go okay we got the charger plugged in ah okay very good so yeah um Saturn says do you see

it as a red flag when a local tries to set you up with a date what it motivates them to do that not a red flag at all Saturn so they believe everybody should be in a relationship here

it's a very romantic country the Philippines very very romantic country you hear love songs in public all the time you see couples in public all the time holding hands flirting with each other uh you see pregnant ladies all

the time um most people have uh children here it's a young country so the average age is like 28 and that's skewed upwards by Manila if you took out Manila it' probably be even younger um so not a

red flag at all you do need to vet people regardless of who it is whoever you're getting set up with vet them you know ask questions get a sense of of who they are um don't think oh I

I met my wife tonight no like you got to be patient there's no substitute for time here uh so no people people just they believe everybody should be in a relationship here they believe everybody should have a chance

at love and so it's very common uh for people to want to set you up and to introduce you to a single person that they know uh they think that you know it could be love it could be

um it could be the of a bright future maybe not you know maybe it doesn't work out but uh yeah uh Tony says not sure how long ago it was but I first found your channel when searching for

living in Cusco videos you did went on could I live in Cusco and being introverted in Cusco and I was told thank you so much Tony yeah Cusco is super high up there I actually had a guy today

ask me about Cusco Tony and I was telling him uh if it weren't for me being and just loving southeast Asia Cusco would be possibly the top of my list as far as places to live Cusco is an

incredible City it is beautiful it is interesting it's uh got a lot of interesting foreigners it's it's just this I could say a lot of nice things about Cusco I still love Cusco um but this guy asked me

do you feel still feel the same way about Cusco I said totally oh yeah totally I mean it's a t it's a Timeless City it's got hundreds of years of History it's going to be there far after I'm

gone from this world I'd love to visit there again I don't know if it's going to be anytime T soon Tony but it's uh Cusco is a very special place it attracts people from all over the world when

I was in Cusco I had friends from India from Belgium from gosh Venezuela from colia from did I meet any Argentine I don't think I me met any argentines um yeah people from all over the world are attracted

to Cusco very very cool City Frugal Wanderer is an introvert as well might be good for you two to do a video discussion on introversion and exping yeah happy to chat with Frugal wander um if you can ask

him to just reach out on my uh on my email Tony if you can I really uh I need to reach out to him I need to just like I've just got so many so many things that I

want to do but if you could help to set that up Tony like I'd be happy to chat with him I'd be happy to do a live stream with him or recorded live discussion because uh because uh yeah

Frugal wander has interesting conversation he's also talked about trauma healing and exp patting another good microt topic yeah totally uh totally agree as far as uh healing I think xout life goes hand inand with healing you're able to

get away from the source of your trauma you're able to get into a new paradigm nobody knows who you are nobody recognizes you nobody wants to stop you from hitting escape velocity right I mean sometimes people who haven't

heal don't want others to heal unfortunately and and we've got to be able to we've got to be willing to pursue our own happiness even if other people don't want us to be happiness is up to the individual

um what might make one person happy is not what would make another person happy happy and so I think it's just definitely important for everybody to pursue their own happiness for everybody to figure out what they want out

of life where they want to live um Philippines ain't for everybody I think it's great for a lot of people but it ain't for everybody there's uh some people are not going to like the weather some people are

uh they're going to miss the infrastructure somewhere else some people they I don't know there's some people expats that don't speak English right there's some expats from Japan that they're like hey I don't want to learn English so

I want to speak Japanese uh so I want to be in a place with a lot of like Thailand has a 100,000 Japanese so uh they're able to get together in communities and speak Japanese have Japanese food um

nothing wrong with that I think what every everybody should be pursuing is their own happiness Michael says Venus and I need to visit Duma sometime in the near future yeah Michael if you make it down here I'd love

to meet up it would be super cool I think you guys would uh really enjoy dag Getti I love it I mean I totally get the hype I didn't get it at first the first couple days I'm like

what's the big deal and then I'm like oh wow okay I get it now you're you've got all these small you've got all these wonderful small town Vibes with a lot of conveniences that you'd find in a bigger

city you've got your modern shopping mall you've got your Banks you've got your Acres you've got your grocery store you've got your department store um you've got your kind of your Boulevard where you can exercise and go up

and down the boulevard all day long interact with and meet other people you've got the potential to meet friends and make new friends there's uh of course for guys that want to date there's single women here in Duma

it's um it's just such a cool V uh such a cool Vibe they for asking questions in the Philippines they have great discounts at Costco that's why it's one yeah it's it's just a couple letters removed from Costco

that's such a good good catching that absolutely Michael Johnson says haahha yeah so true um I never thought about Cusco and Costco that's you the first person to pick up on that a foreigner asking questions it's uh it's

so true that they're very close together and I love both of them I love Cusco the city in Peru and I love Costco the uh the whole the warehouse retailer in the US I love Costco pizza that's if

you were to ask me what I miss most about the US besides my friends it's Costco I miss the Costco food court I miss going to Costco and getting like big containers of blueberries and strawberries I miss uh

yeah I miss getting a slice of pizza and a soda for a couple of bucks um pizza's a Primo item here soda's also coming at a premium so yeah Costco that membership I definitely use it a lot uh

especially in California because Pizza is very pricey in California I pay like seven eight bucks for two small slices or go to Costco and get a Big Slice for $2 but yeah kind of adding to um to conversation

about introversion uh I think it's somewhat atypic I don't want to say atypical but I think it's not necessar what a lot of people consider I think a lot of people think I become an expat because I'm at

a point where I'm financially able to focus on a social life but there's a lot of places you can go where you can kind of just like be on your own and nobody's going to bother you um there's

this misconception that expats are they've got a Target on their forehead wherever they go in the world no most people just like want the same things they want to spend time with their family they want a job that

has meaning um they want access to health care they want food that they like they're not looking to bother other people they've got people are caught up in their own stuff doesn't mean all expats are safe everywhere absolutely

not you've got to have some caution you've got to have some You' got to keep your wits about you you got to understand I'm not in Kansas anymore uh but most people are not going to run into issues

as xats we hear about the extreme cases we hear about the worst case scenarios because it's not entertaining to hear uh Michael Johnson the expat had an uneventful day relaxing with his wife they went shopping and had a

nice meal nobody's uh you know nobody's oh wow it's just such a normal experience nobody's gonna hear Alex the xat uh went out for a nice dinner and Cusco strolled around the streets had uh had an ice cream

saw some friends and chatted for 20 minutes and then went back home that's just simply not that exciting I actually feel like my my life over here is in the Philippines it is more exciting but some of the

places I've spent time just not that exciting it's it's a calm life it's a relaxed life it's not this hustle bustle grind that I have back home I feel like life back home is more dangerous life back home

is more stressful life back home is more boring where I'm trying to do things to stimulate my mind because all the excitement and risk has been just regulated out of the experience it's just such a western Society is

just so risk averse you don't see you don't have the spontaneity that you have in the Philippines I go out into downtown D MTI I have no idea what I'm going to see I have no idea what I'm

going to experience the other night I'm walking along the Boulevard and I step away and there's a guy that's just pulled up a truck uh full of grapes he's just got this truck like just piles and piles of

grapes and I'm like this is this would never happen in America you're not parking a truck full of grap like first off the cops are going to come up and ask you what are you doing do you have

a permit to sell grapes here no okay you need to get out of here if you don't get out of here you're gonna be fine if you don't uh stop after the fine we're gonna handcuff you that's not

going to happen here so you you walk down the street and there's a guy and then there's another guy that's like walking around he's got like a basket full of fruit on his head and he's like hey do

you want some fruit I got some fruit you want you know not going to see that back home there's just people are just too risk diverse and too busy uh and you just can't you don't have that spontaneity

um I walk down this uh down the Boulevard in dag Getti I have no idea who I'm going to run into I ran into a ton of vloggers who just happen to be down there not even always filming

just like I'm hanging out just came down to see who's out here it's every day I'm running into random people and uh making new friends and my Social Circle is growing rapidly but uh yeah Michael I think you'd

really enjoy it Michael says I'm a bit introverted until I have a couple Jack and cokes and then I open up I'm the same way but with coffee Michael I'm pretty introverted but I get some caffeine in me

I pound an energy drink or I knock back a couple of cups of coffee and I'm ready to go today I had a cup of coffee at like 5:00 pm and I'm still feeling it it's it's midnight but

I'll I'll be tired after the stream I still going to work on some stuff got a lot to do had a long two three hour conversation with Chad today and he was just like dude you've got it you

just need to you just got to move forward you just got to do X like this is these are the things you need to be working on if you want to build this into something that has the potential

to bring you a full-time income uh didn't tell me not to go back you know if I like I said if I get the right opportunity back home it would make sense to um you know to go back

and add some money to the cash but like if I don't you know what do I have to lose um let's see Alex what's the worst encounter you've had with another xad if you've ever had a bad encounter

with one uh yeah that's an easy one an immigration uh a couple days ago that guy yelling at his wife that was not fun but the the worst one was probably in Thailand I was at mym gym I'm

not going to name the gym but I was at my gym and this older expat starts cursing out this younger guy uh the younger guy happened to like start using this piece of exercise equipment that the older expat

I don't know he was having a break from using that one well he comes in he starts cursing this guy out and then goes over to the TI gy saff and is can you believe what he did and

I didn't see anything that would warrant that kind of overreaction I think he's just like cranky maybe he didn't get enough sleep uh maybe he you know he's having some kind of issue whatever it may be and the

taii gym staff member just kind of shrugs he's like what do you want me to do about it like are you hurt you're not hurt okay then what are you complaining about when he took my equipment he he

used the equipment I was using like he wasn't crying but I'm just basically calling him a crybaby because he's he's screaming and cursing and everybody like stops their workout to look over like what are you doing dude um

so that was probably the worst encounter I've had with one I ignored the guy uh after I figured out he was just like OV exaggerating and he was making something out of nothing that he wasn't hurt you know

if you're not hurt just just grow a thicker skin I mean you're going to live overseas you need to have a thick skin you don't need to be starting an argument with some guy in the gym you know

it's as far as what I could tell he could have just Shrugged and just like ah whatever guy needs to use the equipment who cares um I didn't see anything and I I'd seen that guy that guy had

never been rude to me um that guy had never been disrespectful to me never tried to take a piece of equipment I think this guy just probably wanted some attention and uh he wanted to get it so badly

he was willing to to throw a hisy fit about it and uh he always looked upset every time I'd see him I worked out at that gym for about six months every time I'd see him he just had

this like Angry look on his face I'm like dude you're not in the right place if you have that attitude but you get some guys that they get stuck over here they don't want to live over here uh

in Southeast Asia or Latin America or Eastern Europe wherever they're at uh but due to financial reasons they're stuck and so they don't actually like the place I love these places that I go uh is the cost of

living a factor yes but even if it was expensive I'd still come here I just wouldn't spend as I would just wouldn't be able to afford to spend as much time here to me the cost of living is

icing on the cake I love the culture the culture and the people are the two things that keep me coming back I learned so much from these people I every day a Filipino person teaches me something new they're

helping me to expand my mind they're helping me to see things from a different perspective uh they're just really wonderful people and I feel very similarly about Thailand the way that taies are just insightful and interesting and and

um lighthearted uh it's it's wonderful but yeah I hope that answers your question a foreigner asking questions in the Philippines uh very fortunate that I've had very few bad encounters with other expats um 95% of my interactions with

other expats has been positive uh another one that was kind of weird was imp Paia I had an xat tried to cut me in line at the gr at the 7-Eleven I'm like no you're not doing that dude

that's not how this work works I'm not waiting on you um but that wasn't it didn't escalate from there I just you know just didn't tolerate it and that was just where that ended uh what else yeah that

was really it um ballute ballot ballot uh I hear them walk up and down the street selling balute but I swear I'll never want to eat that Mike was telling me should do a a video with Janet H

shout out to Janet and Mike by the way I should do a video trying ballute with Janet I'm not sure man like it's pretty out there I'm pretty open-minded about food I've eaten some weird things abroad but to

me I'd rather just have eggs like I'd rather just have some fried eggs or some scrambled eggs I had some awesome scrambled eggs in kigan um but yeah Filipinos cook eggs so well I'd rather just have it cooked

uh on like a sandwich or cooked with some rice or cooked on their own with a cup of coffee I feel like I don't need to eat Balo like as far as like texture goes or flavor goes it's

I I think it's unlikely for it to be so awesome that I'm like I'd rather have this than just your standard egg here the eggs here delicious and flavorful and nutritious I you know I get it you know

people grow up on it they it's an acquired taste they really like the flavor they like the texture they like they feel like Balo is something really special and they enjoy it more power to them um if if

we're not as into ball Michael we're doing them a favor because there's more more ballot for them Michael says your channel is going to do well I followed for a while and I see the differences in content and

it's gotten better I'll help in any way I can thank you so much Michael that's so generous so kind um I've had one bad experience with an exp from Kenya I'll tell you about it once sometime I found

out later he's part of some scammer group in bakur uh yeah we can chat about that uh [Music] offline uh Michael yeah happy to chat with you about that um I could recognize why you wouldn't go down that

want to go down that tangent in this stream a for asking questions I think you fit in well over here thank you so much man I feel the same way about you I think you fit in very well

over here too it's uh it's a privilege you know it's a privilege it's an honor um I just feel so blessed and so fortunate and so much gratitude that the people welcome me and the people are sweet to

me I've come such a long way from when I first arrived here on my first visit five years ago I was like why are these people so nice why are they so nice why are they being so nice

why are they I remember walking down the road in cigan and all these people were in their front yards and they just wave and smile at me and I'm like this is St I'm on another planet here like

I've never experienced anything like this in my life I feel like a celebrity and uh now I get it like that they're just happy like they're happy with their lives and they're happy to see a foreigner happy in

their country that has love for their country admiration for the resilience of the people it's a it's such a special place I love the Philippines so much and um I love it more and more every day how about

Tahoe I'd try it i' definitely try it it looks like a really good dessert I I searched it up on Wikipedia it's a silken tofu and Sago Pearl and uh I think Chad actually had something like that today

um whenever we had we met up at Cafe we met up at Cafe filomina it's attached to this hotel I don't let me look at uh let me actually I'll just pull it up I can because I actually

recorded a video bethl guest house so Cafe filina is part of bethl guest house uh pansit and Pala let me look up pal I like Panet oh yeah yeah I'm all about the noodles I I would eat a

ton of noodles fan of pans it I think I've tried Pal book and yeah two thumbs up two thumbs up love Filipino food my favorite dish is Kenny laa so if you to ask me Alex what is your

favorite dish here in the Philippines Kenny is number one it's raw fish with uh lime juice vinegar uh Ginger um sometimes they'll throw like onion or they put these peppers in it uh tomato at where I I like

to get my keny laau and it's so good I could eat it every single day it it to me it's like poke or Ceviche fish Citrus juice pepper onion tomato I could eat it every day in fact fact

when I was in cigan five years ago I ate it like three or four days in a row delicious such good eatting um Michael says and we'll probably wind down in about 15 minutes guys my voice is starting

to go and I've got another interview tomorrow oh yeah I've got to get up early tomorrow um I totally forgot I've got to get up well yeah I probably got to get up early tomorrow and I gotta get

up no no it's it's Saturday I think I I I have I can sleep in tomorrow Sunday I got to get up early I just saw the day change to Saturday so I got a little bit panicked there

but uh yeah Michael says wait until you find your girl you'll get it so much more and how much they love and care for you just be sure you find the right one I still can't believe I'm here

and have what I have now yeah it's a start contrast isn't it Michael compared to being back home uh feeling lonely feeling isolated to having someone that really cares about you someone that loves you who wants the best

for you it's a world of difference um yeah I definitely agree Michael penit Canton yeah cantones style noodles that's oh man it's so good I need to there's a a place in town I want to try called chune

long it's a Chinese restaurant I've heard uh it's pretty good the reviews are pretty good and I'll probably try it um maybe early next week uh Saturn says since you have a sales background what is your opinion on

YouTubers promoting with no experience you can get a decent paying SDR or bdr sales job um you know I think there there salese selling right I mean there's Youtubers with a sales background and they're bringing their sales skills

to YouTube and they're only going to tell you the positive they want to sell the dream telling somebody hey this ain't going to work out a lot of people that want to buy into a delusion they want to

buy into mystical or magical thinking they don't want to hear that they don't want to hear you need some experience I got a great sales jobr job after one year experience but this was also the Hayday when there

was tons of free money floating around um very easy back then I think you need more experience now to start to get a decent paying job you do need to get your foot in the door you do need

to start out with some kind of SDR or bdr job uh I think one of my subscribers he's not on here but he actually got his first bdr job after I gave him some tips and suggestions um he's

I'm not going to comment on his pay I think that's for unfriendly stoic is uh his name on here that's something for him to discuss uh in further detail but you know no experience is It's Tricky do they

have any sales experience have they they sold cars uh have they sold have they sold cars have they sold I don't know real estate do they have any sales experience because some people might say oh I don't have

any Tech sales experience but I've sold farming equipment whatever it may be if they have complex sales experience they're probably going to be able to talk their way into more comp but it's a grind you know it's really

a grind and you have to be prepared for that grind to be prepared to work long hours and to do repetitive calling and emailing um I had two interviews yesterday and both were serious I mean they're like we

need output we need to generate pipeline we need to bring in new business are you capable of doing that and uh if you're not this isn't the place for you Philippine culinary is a mixture of Spanish Chinese and

local Spanish and Chinese won't recognize their foods and they see them here in the Philippines it's a fair point Mel black in Thailand are you doing YouTube full-time yeah so black in Thailand I got laid off for my

tech sales job last summer booked a oneway fight to Thailand spent a year in Thailand went to Vietnam for a month and then came here I am basically going all in on YouTube right now somewhat if I get

an offer for a good sales job back home that pays me what I'm worth I'm going to have to fly back and take it back get as much money together as I can save as much as I can

uh and then come back over but since I don't have a job right now I like to be putting all my time into YouTube to Growing that skill set because there's basically I'm moving in the direction of doing

YouTube full-time I having to do it not having I enjoy it like I love it I love this so much I love talking to people I love getting to know people it's a I started doing it as a

hobby I didn't ever start out thinking I'm going to make money at this I thought ah it'll be cool I started off when I've got into YouTube I my goal was to be a programmer I was taking programming

classes I was studying programming I wanted to do programming and YouTube was just going to be something I did for fun as I've gotten better at YouTube I've met more people into it that are into it um I've

become connected with the broader Community I've learned from people like this uh yeah there Foreigner asking questions in the Philippines they really helped me to level up um it's risky right uh if I was at I don't know

if I had a, Dollar in the bank I wouldn't be I would be booking a flight back but because I've got a bit of a Runway I'm not going to disclose exactly where I'm at financially because I've got

a bit of a Runway okay I spend a year over here it doesn't take off it doesn't pay my bills who cares I can go back to my old career I can start a new career it's I look

at it like life is too short to only ever do the totally responsible thing I try to balance being responsible with enjoying my life um because I'm only going to be in my 30s once or I'm only going

to be 31 once I turned 32 in less than a month and uh the best times in my life have been abroad not just cuz I'm not working a traditional job because it's just stimulating it's exciting it's fun

I would like to do YouTube full-time if I'm being honest black in Thailand I would like to build up my channel into a full-time income uh because the amount of money I need in the Philippines is much less

than what I need back home and when the income grows beyond that that's just money in the bank I'm not I'm not saying yeah I want just for the sake of discussion I want 2K a month from YouTube

because I can live on 2K a month it's more like I could live on, 1500 and Bank 500 a month and then if I I go above that whatever I go beyond that I just keep banking it because

one day YouTube might go away may get tired of it for whatever reason I decide it's not for me um you know I look at it like there's there's two things to conceptualize uh the money situation you've got

your input and you've got your outgoing how much do you make and how much do you spend and there's two ways to fix the equation or to improve the equation in your paper make more and spend less that

goes for anywhere in the world so if you can make more and spend less regardless of where you're at like let me let me frame it this way let's say I'm making 5,000 a month in the US not

what I'm making in the US not what I've made but just for the sake of discussion but I spend $4,999 I'm not doing as well as a person who makes 2,000 but spends 1,500 one person's bank Bing a

dollar a month spreading water one person is banking 500 a month and uh yeah so that's kind of the the way to conceptualize it in the US I can only lower my expenses so much uh if I need

to commute for a job I'm not getting rid of my car if I need to um have a fast internet connection I'm not doing anything less than highspeed internet uh if I've got to if I've got to pay

rent I'm not getting away with $200 a month rents in the um in the US I don't have family to rely on so my Baseline minimum rent in America is a thousand a month I could live on a

thousand a month here I'm not suggesting you do that I'm not suggesting the audience try to do that but I'm just saying that's not a possibility in the US if I try to live on a grand a month

in the US I'm living in my car if I try to live on a, a month here I've got modest rent I may have a place with a fan like I do here uh but it's not going to

be it's not it's just not comparable um and so if I get up to say a 2,000 a month income still living in my car in the United States or renting a tiny room in a bad area probably

still living in my car here I'm living comfortably and I'm banking a grand a month just hypothetical um so there's two ways to improve the situation one make more money two spend less money and that goes for anywhere

in the world whether you're in the UK or United States you're in Southeast Asia Latin America I do have a a a meeting set up for Monday with uh a woman who is part of a a remote jobs

company I've been familiar with them for several years now she's based in medine and uh she's going to help discuss some potential uh jobs that I could online jobs that I could do uh in terms of I think

in software sales and the income's not going to be what I could make in the US but I don't need the same amount of money um so this might be my key fingers crossed would I take a lower

paying offer here uh I'd consider it I'd think about it I'm not saying yes I'm not saying no but it would depend on the the money and it would depend on uh the requirements uh I'll take your Michael

it's a Savory soup uh I'll Michael when are you coming to Duma Venus and I may start a small channel in the future about our life and how I retired early live on dividends and Investments what do you

think that would be interesting Michael I'd love to see a small Channel with you and your wife um uh Venus it would be um or girlfriend I'm not I I shouldn't pry but uh yeah I mean I'd watch

I'd love to watch it it would be really cool to see more about I mean I've interacted with you plenty of times and we've had some great conversations but there's so there's so much so many interesting things about

your life Michael that uh it would take a while to kind of unpack it and so yeah it'd be cool to see that uh Michael the stew is delicious it's in Portugal Spain and Thailand too I don't know

if I've tried it or not uh but yeah I got about five minutes left of my voice here guys thanks so much for for being with us for this this uh two-hour live stream not sure when I visit

Duma but I'll I'd love to meet up with some folks I'll definitely let everyone know yeah that sounds awesome Michael uh Dave says wow you are live now so you are a night owl uh good to see you

yeah good to see you too Dave let me go to your channel I know we've I feel like we've interacted before Oh maybe um okay yeah yeah anyway good to see you good to see you on here Dave

uh black and Thailand says that's inspiring good luck buddy you have a new subscriber good look looking forward to seeing your channel grow and reaching your goals thank you so much black at Thailand welcome to the channel I

greatly appreciate your subscription a foreigner asking questions in the Philippines looking forward to seeing you Michael yeah that would be an interesting collab for like um yeah we have such a great Community here um so yeah anybody have

any kind of last questions or thoughts we're going to wind down in the next few minutes here my voice is almost gone I definitely want to give it some rest and Recovery uh because I'm sure I'll be at

it tomorrow I'm sure I'll be down there on the boulevard chatting with people um back to the VPN issue trying to pretend to an employer you're in the US and you're in the Philippines isn't going to work right

I don't recommend it Saturn uh I think it's too risky some guys will tell you that they've figured it out they haven't had issues more power to him I'm a cautious guy I lean toward transparency um trying to

be honest uh I personally think it's not a good idea because maybe it works for three months right no issues well three and a half months in your V your power goes out your VPN drops whatever happens and

now all of a sudden you got a red flag uh I would be more transparent you may look into contract work you know you might find a way to offer your services as a contractor and say hey uh

I'm not I'm not in the US right I believe in transparency some people may feel differently uh but yeah I I think just being honest about it and um you know that's the long-term uh the longterm kind of

approach uh some would say it's bad because some would say oh that's going to encourage Outsourcing I think if you're good you can justify a solid price point for your services uh what's up landed in SIU SAU 11

days ago heading to dumon holler at me vanico um holler me sh send me an email or um comments in one of my videos uh if I'm still here in dumo I'm down to meet up I was thinking

about going to Sabu next week now I'm thinking about staying I've got another like apartment situation here in Duma that I could stay in uh I wasn't sure if that was going to be available I won't be in

this room I think I'll be in the main house but uh yeah Duma is great I mean it just it's so easy here uh Michael says cool I'll hit you up great oh what a cool connection I'm so

glad to connect Michael at a forer asking question questions the Philippines two great guys by the way Alex my dude take see you tomorrow another great life take care hit the likes for the algorithm yes anybody watching this

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