hey guys uh yeah so the big announcement for this stream is I got a shave and I I know that is probably quite a surprise to uh many of you because you've never seen me without facial hair um
and I don't know I'm thinking about growing it back out as you could see it's already kind of coming back in uh I got it shaved three days ago and I don't know I mean it just feels like
a lot of work if I'm being honest to keep it shaved um to have it to to have be clean shaven and to have it look nice it takes a ton of effort uh but I thought why don't
I see how it looks I haven't had my face shaved in probably five years I think the last time I remember getting it done uh oh wow thank you Joe I appreciate that I think the last time I
got it done I was in Japan um so that was the last time I remember shaving and it um yeah maybe I should keep it shaved you know I'm getting a lot of compliments from uh like a couple
of the Filipinos I've been interested in they're like wow you look way better and they really like it a lot they they say I look a lot uh much more handsome and so certainly that's uh that's something I
value right I value their opinion wow a bunch of people are already hopping on here guys uh please give us a thumbs up it helps with the the uh YouTube algorithm and um yeah feel free to chime in
in the chat I got a good night's sleep last night I slept really well last night I probably slept about 10 hours and so I'm feeling really refreshed this morning and uh happy to answer any questions or thoughts
you have New Year's off to a good start I'm about to uh ink a deal with the first um sponsor of the channel so that's really exciting helps me to bring uh you know honest content to you guys
at least honest from my based on my experiences here uh trying to think I've got some ideas in the tank so after this stream I'm going to go out and film some stuff not exactly sure where I'm trying
to cover new ground here in town trying to show some stuff that uh some of you may have not seen before some different parts of the city uh let me pull up a map here not going to show
the map on screen but just while we have more people kind of filter into the room and uh share their thoughts today I might be going out by the airport uh to do something I haven't really filmed over
by the airport yet um I'm gonna have to film in between the planes taking off but it looks like it might have some interesting kind of buildings to look at uh big squid hey Alex keeping your beard trimmed
and E also takes a lot of time true big squid that's a good point it does take a lot of effort either way um kind of a little bit extreme but one guy I followed for a while Jason
uh feber he actually got it lasered uh got a laser treatment so his doesn't grow in but now I don't know um I don't know if uh I don't know if J I don't know if that that treatment
that Jason got was is permanent or if it um you know if it wears off or what uh not something I'm interested in I don't really want to have lasers on my face uh for cos you know just
for some cosmetic treatment um you know be different if the beard cause some kind of health problem but as far as I know there's there's no uh no health issue uh you know with the beard Buzz MC by
beard is nice and tight and it's not going anywhere it's a deal breaker had it 40 plus years yeah Buzz I mean to me it's like the original reason for shaving was because of the US Army so like
in military service there was this idea you had to be prepared to put on a gas mask and if uh if a guy had a beard or had facial hair then the that would prevent the gas mask from
being flush on the face so as far as I know if anybody has like some knowledge about a different reason as to why men shave uh feel free to put it down in the comments but to me that's
not something I have to worry about I'm not currently in the military uh and so yeah um I see it as just like why should I be you know concerned about a natural part of my body uh it's
you know now on the side of dating women I have T I have had ex-girlfriends that complained about it because they said it scratched their face and uh it uh what's the word it caused their face to break
out if I didn't shave so yeah this guy did a really good job I was expecting to break out I was expecting to have like red spots and he did such a thorough job and I didn't rush um
where in the US and even in Japan I felt they were rushed and uh it caused skin irritation for me and it looks awful you know but he took his time he took like probably a half hour to
shave my face and so uh you know very very minimal discomfort very minimal discomfort um so that was really nice of him he did a good job uh aong barber shop here in Dumaguete they have a couple of
locations and uh the guy's name is BB so I want to give him a shout out in case anybody wants to get a shave or nice haircut they charg I think 90 pesos and you can always contribute a
little extra uh to BB hosia says look younger thank you so much H I appreciate that I think here in the Philippines part of it uh oh wow Navy um Navy beards were allowed uh that's when I grew
on got it Buzz okay well thank you for your service Buzz I appr appreciate your service and um yeah I I don't see you know I know bud Brown has one actually he he rocks it or has rocked
it at times and if there's like a legitimate reason or something like that then uh you know I can understand it dating is big for a lot of guys here right like a lot of guys that come here
to the Philippines uh dating is a top priority for them and so if shaving is going to result to them having better dating success um they're all about it one thing I wanted to toss out there is I
have had some thoughts about spending some time in Indonesia and in Indonesia it's the opposite so beards are actually positively regarded according to my buddy who lives over there he said that it looks it's treated as a blessing
um where here it's more like a curse not quite that bad but here it's definitely kind of not it's not really celebrated um and uh hey Justin good to see you man yeah yeah the uh they put pressure
on me like the two Filipinas I'm really interested in um both of them have indicated to me they would pre because I just ask them Point Blank and they're like you look nice but without the beard you look
more handsome and I'm like okay fine I'll get rid of it and see see what happens um I definitely feel like less scraggly and less kind of haggard looking go out there and woo girls yeah hosha definitely that's
a good call out um oh so there's a lot so yeah I thought this would this would draw us some laughs that's partly why I want to do this live stream is that uh so the light bulb one
of the light bulbs in my ceiling burned out and it's I have high ceilings in here they're they're taller than I can manage to get even standing on a chair which is rare for me because normally I've been
able like you know a lot of places I've lived uh a lot of the places I lived I just put you know grab a chair I stand on the chair I I changed the light bulb but here I
needed a ladder and um so my my uh building manager she provided me with a couple different light bulbs and they don't we tested them out but they it's just not that bright and so um heck I can
let's see here yeah you can see it's it's it's not really uh noticeable and so she said she'd go try to find a better light bulb and uh I thought well we had to Lug this ladder up the
stairs it's pretty heavy it's like a it's a heavy ladder and uh instead of like taking it back down the stairs yesterday just to bring it back up today I thought well why don't we just leave the ladder
in here and it'll be a funny prop in the live stream it looks ridiculous and uh I love it so and I thought yeah I definitely thought I'd get some comments on it because it's um it's just uh
out very out of place if they made you shave I hope they reciprocate yeah no comment Justin uh I can never behave I hope you don't get offended I like oh you know no problem Buzz I and we
all have our own preferences I true it's only fair everyone shaves Philip says more streamline service um Phillip says okay that's a step ladder uh SM says click the like button yeah guys please give us a thumbs up
if you have it in your heart it's free to do so and helps to distribute this uh live stream to more more people um yeah it's it feels different you know one of the reasons I never did shave
uh was that you know I used to living uh I stand on the third or fourth step I like the Amazon Women Critter Hunter I like a woman that's about 6 and 1 half to 7 feet tall and
uh that way it just makes me feel more comfortable and um I feel safe and protected and uh yeah I want I want the tallest Filipino on record as my girlfriend um and uh let's see yeah so oh
yeah so I'm used to in cold places so that's why I always grew a beard is I lived in uh Colorado and then I lived in Northern California and uh it was kind of nice to protect my face
from the wind and uh you know just keep me you know keep my face warm and uh and then here it's really hot so it kind of doesn't really here it's more like kind of hot itchy scratchy Itchy
and Scratchy from Simpsons but uh it's it's like more out of place I might like I might grow it back it's just a lot of trouble right it's a lot of trouble to go every couple weeks or every
I probably need to go every couple weeks uh maybe even like once a month to get it done and it's like okay so gotta go down there gotta spend you know 30 minutes an hour getting it handled uh
and then I don't know probably 30 minutes getting home or like 15 20 minutes getting home it's kind of far on the other end of town it just uh it's a lot of work but we'll see what happens
uh like thank you so much anui HOSA says Amazon woman you've got the laders yeah I mean I don't know we're pretty far from um let me see I'm gonna google tallest country in the world tallest country in
the world that way I I don't Netherlands okay that's what I was thinking AI says jaaja Santiago is the tallest Filipino woman uh at 6 foot five she was born on January 20th in cabit wow okay look let
me I'm going to try to find her online wow um so she's married wow so she uh she just became a citizen in Japan and she is very tall she is very tall um let's see yeah that's yeah
she's super tall just date two women at one go to compensate yeah they could also do the the they could one could stand on the other's shoulders and they could wear the the uh the coats to kind of
yeah that would be kind of funny I think like another reason like um you don't see beards as much here is I've heard a lot of the uh guys just can't grow them like same in um same in
Japan and uh definitely it's like my part of my South Asian background that I can grow a beard and my beard though is not as impressive as some of my friends who are like 100% Indian uh but yeah
I mean it's I don't know I when I was younger I always wanted to look older and now that I'm getting older I'm like oh maybe now it's time I want to look younger it's um uh they will
card you at the bars now true Lincoln um thank you man you say I'm looking good with the uh without the beard my beard here is similar it kind of looks messy I look homeless yeah it does it
looks Haggard and it's a lot of work to keep it trimmed you know it's pretty much like seems like every few days trying to trim it up and trying to like cut the straggling hairs and it does it
doesn't seem to grow evenly right it doesn't seem like certain parts of it grow faster than others and so it just looks like uh kind of messy but yeah uh I even I don't think your wife would like
that Critter Hunter I don't think judia would uh would support that um by the way uh git HRA feel free to holler me next time you come to town I meant to get back to you yesterday but yesterday
I had a bunch of things come up uh but happy to happy to meet up you know sometime in town at Ground Zero um yeah or or out in D I need to make it I need to come
out to D again um your spot's Awesome by the way guys shout out to Critter Hunter if you're interested in diving definitely worth checking out uh his interviews and his content his channel Critter Hunter he uh he does
something pretty I don't know yeah pretty pretty unique here I think a lot of guys uh here they come and they just chill out but he's really got this interesting active lifestyle where he's getting out in the water
and you know he's doing the stuff that really hooked me on the Philippines for me it wasn't the dating here it wasn't uh I it wasn't like spending time in the cities it was being out in the islands
and or being out on the beaches and being out in the water of course diving is another level beyond what I did but uh it's it's such a beautiful country [Laughter] um uh we actually okay let's see uh
one Filipino standing on another's shoulders I should get to about six uh Drew uh good morning from Ohio us no disrespect to us it's cold Drew that's the challenge by the way Drew I enjoyed that coffee a lot
I went down here uh to lantow Lance house is a restaurant here they do like a breakfast buffet Friday Saturday Sunday when you come out this way Drew uh you know if you make it out this way then
L House's fantastic it's like 300 pesos and they do coffee and hot chocolate and they do like bacon and eggs and pancakes and it's like a it's a pretty serious uh breakfast buffet for the equivalent to about $5
and I go and I have like several cups of coffee uh with that breakfast so it's it's fantastic and um yeah HOSA says just get an electric shaver yeah that's a good idea they use one on my uh
face and I've had one in the US uh but then eventually like mine broke and I I think I brought one I think I brought one with me no no I didn't bring one with me I wanted to
bring one with me but um uh oh thank you so much Drew I really appreciate that I'll definitely go get more coffee thank you drew yeah um the coffee scene here is awesome uh the coffee scene here is
awesome I tempted like one of the things I have thought about is I have thought about going downtown and trying to find a coffee maker to make some more coffee at home because one of the things I do
really part part of it to save time and these are not the healthiest but I I buy these they're cheap that's a part of the reason I buy it and they're probably not yeah they're definitely not healthy but
they have how much caffeine do they have they have like 21 gram of sugar so not good on the sugar Department um it doesn't what does it say it doesn't tell me how much caffeine it just doesn't it
just doesn't tell me how much caffeine is in here uh wow okay so there's there's no telling how much caffeine is in here anyway I prefer uh anyway I prefer regular coffee as long as you don't make fun
of a peeled potato flapping oh we actually need a Filipino in the chat to vouch the new look yeah guys if you know of any Filipinos feel free to introduce them to my channel I think 90 roughly 90%
of my subscribers are men uh but I do have some Filipina subscribers one lady I think she's in Hong Kong um why can I not well sometimes people use different names so so I haven't formally met her I'd
want to formally meet her before I mentioned her name just because that way she can confirm hey that's my name or no that's just what I use on YouTube to protect my ident ID entity we had we did
have a Filipina uh last stream um but yeah that would be very helpful uh Philip as long as you don't make fun of a peeled potato flopping around I would like to learn daa yeah yeah I you know
I think that's something that uh Justin Prides himself on is being um open to older students students that may have uh some limitations right may not uh you know may not feel as confident as some uh in other
uh younger demographics so yeah um let's see here uh get a yeah thank you thank you again Drew and and um yeah I'm definitely going to enjoy uh a coffee there's uh what yeah there's a a place near
me too um there's a lot of places for good coffee I'm kind my mind has been blown by the amount of good cups of coffee I had coffee yesterday at uh Tom and Tom's with Mike and that was
really good it's uh it's a you know it's a really it's a really convenient option if you're downtown um and then if I'm wanting some a quick cup of coffee I'll go to place like closer to uh my
building but yeah uh Justin you had a great live stream yesterday glad to have you spend time with the people wonderful uh Drew says I may need a shaver uh thanks Sur Phil I would say I'm young at
40 but with this new 17-year-old Alex I'm age I I tend to look very young um Critter Hunter looks T how long did it take you to grow the beard Drew uh looking like Fez from That 70s Show
oh yeah no braces here uh no tape on the glasses I could I could do I can breed actually without the glasses um I only recently got glasses back so I had lasic uh nine years ago gosh I
can't believe um I had glasses or Laing nine years ago uh but but um it's um yeah so like last year in Thailand I realized hey I probably need to get glasses because I was things were starting to
look blurry I was starting to get headaches a little bit trying to read signs um I probably could get a touchup on the lasic and they could do a little bit more but I spend so much time on
the computer with editing and reading I'll I'll be uh I'll be a glasses guy probably for the rest of my life um or or have some visual impairment for the rest of my life unless they come out with
some kind of new surgery to change things I thought you was heading back to the US to find work you know I applied to some jobs hosha uh but it's um one to actually uh find a job that
pays the bills is hard right so hosha in the US it's very easy to go get a job at Burger King or McDonald's or warehouse and basically survive right make enough money to to eat um and that's about
it but to actually get a job where you have you're putting away money like what I used to earn in Tech that's a lot harder to find and there's a major risk of going and trying to find one
of those jobs spending a lot of money to do so not finding one of those jobs and then going in the whole financially um so with the inflation with the poor job market it's a pretty gamble it's a
pretty big gamble to do so and with the channel my earnings from the channel are growing a lot faster than I thought that they would uh so if I get to break even financially like month after month after
month then it starts to make more sense to stay and then when I go beyond that um and I'm putting money away every month then it's like a no-brainer because I'm way happier traveling I'm way happier living in
Southeast Asia uh is life here perfect not at all it's not perfect but I know that I'm happier I know that I can just feel it in my body um I'm less stressed uh I just feel um I
just feel a lot happier over here I have a community I have friends here I like the weather better here uh yeah that so so let me get caught up a little bit Ground Zero yeah so I saw
Alex walking on the boulevard yesterday he had a whole string of girls following him he was trying to escape but there was no hope yeah I'm already noticing I get a lot more smiling looks from women and a
lot more attention from when when I'm out in town where when I had the beard uh you know there was more skepticism people were like uh I don't know I don't trust it um let's see uh let me
get caught up here okay Billy I prefer to stay in a city with less ax Pats you've been to Deva I haven't been to devour but I don't blame you Billy um there's something for everybody I think here
in the Philippines or something for most people I have a buddy that loves uh Deva he um he enjoys his time down there in Deva he's well he visited there and he said it it's really orderly and it's
really you know there's a lot more rules more traffic enforcement um and he um yeah he just liked it down there uh come on Alex is a five o'clock shadow at 8:30 a.m. this is a few days so
so I I got a shave a few days ago uh J JG um who's the movie star imato thank you Tony I appreciate that that's so kind Tony's been a long time supported the channel guys shout out to
Tony and yeah I I definitely I definitely am enjoying the new new attention that I'm getting for having the shave face and looking a lot sharper and cleaner uh BK means JG or Burger King um yes CB uh
let's I thought it was Ben Affleck little ah thank you Tony that's so nice of you um the first couple days my face felt numb it doesn't feel numb anymore but the first day or two like my face
oh man it felt like I'd gotten like punched in the face or something uh break even in stay yeah CBG that's how I feel is like you know if I get to break even consistently it's uh uh um
all right take care Lincoln we'll see you next time have a nice day man uh you know if I get to break even it's like that's been a longtime goal and really like there's a certain Target amount I
have that would let me travel in perpetuity so where I'm at now I could afford to like slow travel in one city stay like do a month at a time or pick a city like dumag I've been here
over five months now I want to move around more um I like where I'm at I like the Philippines I like Dumaguete it but I want to see I want I'm still in like Adventure Mode still at the
time of my life where I have the energy to run around and to go to different places and explore different places and I want to go see Indonesia I want to go back to Malaysia at some point um
I want to I want to see La like I have some been up there and I want to just get to some of these places I haven't been and so increasing uh you know the value I provide for
people through the channel then those uh those doors will open up and that's a far more enjoyable life than being chained to a desk back home assuming I can even get chained to a desk back home right I
mean like I said a lot of these people that talk about oh there's so many jobs back home no most of the jobs are jobs that nobody wants to do for not enough money to live um it's very
easy to find a bad job it's much harder to find a desirable job uh where you're getting ahead and and uh it's worth the sacrifice where here I get to a modest amount of income uh you know now
I'm I can pay into social right I can send social security check every month I can contribute to my uh retirement accounts like the you know people assume it's automatically a bad financial decision but uh they don't understand
like if you're spending a lot less you don't have to magically increase your spending if your income goes up like you can put the extra anywhere in the world you can save money by living below your means there's
no C there's almost no country where living below your means won't benefit you financially won't allow you to get ahead uh you know Justin's talked to me about how he came here and during the pandemic it was very
stressful because things were shut down it was hard for him to operate his shop but you know he didn't just like quit he didn't just give up he persisted through the challenges and and I think a lot of
people could learn something from his persistence um still deciding SAU Deval may stay six three or may stay three months in each that's a good call Billy um when I was in the Army I had no oh okay
Billy what's your approximate monthly spend in peso for total cost I would say if I average Out Billy here at dag Getti I get by at about 35,000 pesos a month about $600 a month the rent for this
apartment is 8,000 per month um so I spend about 8,000 every month on rent that's about $140 uh it doesn't include airon my airon probably works out to 2K a month so spending like let's say 10,000 per month
on uh rent and electric um I'd say probably another uh 16k 17K on food so 27k and then another I would say probably 8K on incidentals visas uh stuff like this like uh inhaler nose clears my nose um
Electronics Auto electron AO Electronics like let's this cable to charge my uh my iPhone this was I don't know um what's your address Alex that's funny Justin um how do you manage your visa do you do extend every
two months in Immigration I do Billy so I go down to immigration and um I yeah I just extend it myself uh and but as I get closer to the year mark I'm going to be looking at partnering
with uh one of the Visa service providers here in dagate uh one in particular to help me because I'm G to have to do a Visa tra Visa stamp transfer so I renewed my passport and I'm waiting on
that to come back and uh when that comes back then um then I'll have to transfer the stamp to the new passport and I could either go to Manila or I can hire a service for that I'd rather
hire the service because for me to go to Manila it's just it's a lot of stress Manila is very crowded it's most densely populated city in the world I don't know that I want to live in Manila um
and so it um basically I'd have to make a trip to Manila or I could uh partner with the VISA service I'd rather partner with the VISA service and uh and promote uh you know Pro help promote somebody's
business um start a business get some tips from Justin yeah I'm I'm all in on the the digital media uh factor philli I I think that media is a great way to provide value to people entertain people try
to cover topics that aren't you know like a lot of content creators it's the budget videos it's the dating videos and I try to do other things that haven't been covered a ton because like I don't know I
just think those subjects get kind of worn out and they're highly in like independent on the individual right um not to say I'm not going to cover them I like I said I'm about to partner with uh with
a business in one of those categories but I I want to do more variety on here and and try to cover like I said things like psychology or group dynamics um not just the standard uh so let's see
uh we just need one Filipino to rate the new look any Filipinas in the chat please provide your vote let's see um sorry Phil I tried but they fainted when they saw him that's funny uh Ed says Indo
and mijia unrecognizable but looks better hey Jay good to see you way better BET's friend says way better without the beard mate thank you yeah I probably get a lot more um looking younger the Haru was making you
look way older man the beard was hiding your face thank you for saying that and I don't know I guess I just felt self-conscious about like not having a beard and and yeah it it does look um I
get a lot of uh compliments on it Jay as far as not having a beard anymore and maybe I'll have to go every couple weeks and get it like uh shaved off or or go by like a razor
and you know I I grew up without um well like a a positive male role model so I never really learned how to shave properly um nobody ever taught me now you can learn from YouTube but what you
can't have on YouTube is somebody there in person like showing you that you can so you can kind of learn things from YouTube I you know certain things I just don't think you you you know there's consequences to
messing up if you don't have somebody there teaching you how to do things right uh Bud your monthly budget of 30k was pre-beard removal dating bug is about to be BL yeah I'm getting a lot more positive interest
um that's a good budget I know all need to pay more in subbu I believe daau is less but don't have a motorcycle um yeah SAU the main difference I found in the Philippines is uh housing costs like
most other things seem to cost about the same roughly you have more options to spend money in the bigger cities but really it comes the biggest thing in my experience is that it comes down to housing is that
you're going to pay more for housing in like SAU um rather than paying 8K a month like I pay here in dagate I'd expect to pay more like 20K per month in SAU um you made motivated to shave
mine off as well after this coffee I'll do it good call Jay uh Ed says don't leave home without your Visa yeah I'm I'm a little stressed about it but Mike has told me don't worry about it it's
normal everybody's got to renew their passport you let immigration know hey I just had to renew my passport that's why I'm a little bit delayed on getting the uh extension handled and they understand it's uh not you're definitely
I'm definitely not the first Foreigner that needed to uh renew a passport um let's see are you looking forward to altcoin season um yeah I am Florida Ken it's been brutal like yeah it's been markets have been brutal
the last since like the start of the year it's not been the most fun um okay Billy what are the major differences between dumag Getti and Sabu which is better for dating I think Sabu is better um I
I think Sabu you just have more options dumag I would say it's the worst place I've been in the Philippines for dating just to be honest uh I think some people may feel differently I know some guys meet
uh a great partner here and I don't doubt that some guys do find success here I've just found it takes a lot more work it takes a lot more planning there's a lot of options of uh like foreigners
and also there's a lot of women here that are here for college and college is a big investment for their families and so they're instructed hey don't date like go to college don't date get your education uh that's
your priority in dumag because dumag is expensive by like local standards um and yeah so so there's a lot of other priorities for women here in dagate besides meeting a boyfriend uh and I would say that's especially the
case if you are looking for something specific if you're look like if you're looking for to just date anybody then you could go anywhere in the Philippines but if you're looking for something specific and you have like uh
certain you know there's certain things you're looking for I think it's going to be easier you're just GNA have more options in subbu it's not that subbu is uh heaven or whatever it's just there's millions of people there
uh so you've got just more options more to choose from um here I found you're having to be like following up a lot you get ghosted uh where SAU not so much one of the one of the two
women that I'm really interested in uh is in subu and I think that says a lot I mean her family is from this island but they all moved up to uh let's see um what's the major different oh
did I see handcuffs on that l oh I hope not Justin I hope not um I I meant to put them away if they're if the handcuffs are still out I meant to put them away you must have
left him here last night Justin uh let's see here as subu is dating for IT Park aala uh subu need a higher budget room rentals are like 20K how do you find a cheap room what makes Duma a
good fit Duma is a good fit because uh I like I like just like running I like having xat friends I like that it's got more of a small town feeling I like like being able to um I
like being able to walk around I like that traffic's not that bad I know some people talk about how awful traffic is here it's probably worse than what it was in the past but it's still I mean compared
to when I lived in like s around San Francisco my time in Los Angeles uh my time in New York it's not that bad um also with d mate like if you're trying to Vlog uh which is a
priority for me you're leveling up a lot faster you make a lot of mistakes but you also have a lot of friends around you that have made a lot of mistakes and you can learn from those mistakes and
just improve a lot faster than if you're on your own SAU nobody Brit is new there britz Adventure I think his name is britz Adventure or something like that and he's new up subu and his channel is taking
off because nobody's up there right and he has the persistence and the personality to get through those early days and he's just got a knack for it I like his channel a lot uh but he's rare right I
mean not everybody can can take off like that so more power to Brit uh let's see SAU has the advantage of the International Airport you can fly direct to several Asian countries that's a good call out Phillip and
I do think eventually like if if the channel grows and it's more substanti I will look at bigger cities because that's just what I'm used to I like toag and a small town is right for me for right
now um but I like some of the things about living in a bigger city right I just like that's just what I'm you know accustomed to Yumi mango says I had to sell my firstborn child to pay rent
in Redwood City yeah Redwood City is astronomical you're right down the street from Atherton and I remember looking at Reynolds and Redwood because I interiew for some jobs around San Jose and uh yeah you're talking like 2,600 a
month for a studio or one-bedroom apartment um very expensive what are some of the crypto altcoins that you hold if you don't mind me at sharing yeah I hold algorand that's the M that's the only one I hold
I went all in on algorand hasn't been my best decision Alan's performance has not been very good I wish I'd spread it around more um you live and you learn uh but yeah that's main one um that I
hold and and it's yeah it's been disappointing to be honest I'm not sure being a girl being easier makes your higher quality uh easier I don't mean easier like to have fun um but uh like there's so dumag
has about 150,000 people let's say half are women 75,000 are women let's say a third or at a appropriate age range 25,000 uh where subbu's got let's see I'm just going to SAU metro area um not metro metro
population 3 let's say 3.2 million so let's say 1.6 million are women um and then 500,000 are age appropriate so 500,000 age appropriate women versus 25,000 and many of the women in subbu too are prenal like the woman
I dated in Sabu um I was the second guy she ever dated she was from bahle and the first guy was uh a Filipino guy in behle and she just moved to Sabu and stayed single while working um
but I agree like it's worth considering uh the mindset you know having a more traditional mindset uh from The Province then it's just a different it's a different attitude you know I dated a woman in kagay deoro I
should say I went on a date with with her and I asked her where she wanted to live in the future and uh this is a city girl right or city woman kagay deoro is one of the larger
cities in IND now and she said I want to move to Australia I want to to be working in Australia and I told her well I'd like to live in Southeast Asia and uh so that's where where we
have different priorities and we parted ways right we had our date uh and so that's a good call out Justin I you know I don't believe in prescriptions I think for some guys they're G to have uh better
success in the city I think for other guys they're going to have better success in the province each guy is different uh each guy is looking for different things um each guy has a different background like I and
I I'll probably sound crazy here I know Ray's an example this of a city guy who is with a woman from the province um some guys that are from the city they might feel like hey you know what
I'm I'm only used to being in the city I would only live in Manila or Sabu and uh I prefer somebody that's got that kind of city background on the other hand those cities are full of people from
or those cities I shouldn't say full those cities do have people from provincial areas that but um they move there for work um they still maintain their values they look at it as a place to go earn money
to help their family but they eventually plan to return to the province I do notice a lot of people that um I I do notice a lot of people that are happy in their relationships and my friend group
their wives are from provincial areas so if I just looked at my friends group certainly I would say that it's um you know it's it's a good idea to at least consider the province um I think that the
provincial areas tend to not be as materialistic as the big cities there tends to be a more realistic expectation of Lifestyle where the woman who grows up in the city she might have a certain expectation of hey I'm
used to taking vacations to Japan or uh Malaysia or Thailand I'm used to dining at the high-end restaurants I'm used to uh having a new car late model car in the driveway where the guy who's come in here
to slow down a bit he's like okay yeah we could figure out a way to earn enough to support that but we're going to be busy all the time we're going to be stressed out all the time we're
going to be trying to live a western lifestyle here uh which I would say most guys not all but most guys don't want to come here and try to recreate a western lifestyle um some do it's probably may
I would if you ask me what percentage of guys come here looking to live a western lifestyle I'd say 20% I'd say maybe one in five uh want to try to live the way they did back home four
and five come here to live differently uh and more so over the long term I think a lot of the guys that stay here and are happy here long term um they adopt some changes and a lot of
guys probably a better way to put it a lot of guys find somewhere in the middle they're not looking to live totally uh Filipino style they're not looking to live totally western style they kind of pick and choose
okay I like this about living Filipino style I like this about living western style I want a car I don't want a late model you know 100,000 or $50,000 vehicle but I don't want to be totally motor bike
uh Reliant and so they find a happy middle ground that uh provides them with some conveniences but is also um practical for the Philippines because you got to think about the inclement weather here uh like do I want
to be trying to get a car wash every day because we're in rainy season and there's mud everywhere that mud splashes on the car and now oh my brand new car and do I want to get a place
with the garage okay that's going to be hard to harder to find um I see a lot more car ports here in dumag than I do like fullon garages um Kyle hey Alex good to see you Kyle Kurt
says channeling Gerard Butler at 25 so Thank you Kirk that's really you guys are so kind um hey Guapo May bont you're looking good with the new haircut and shave thank you so much ben I appreciate it I
uh I take for granted that it's very Mo it's very budget friendly to get like to look presentable here I mean back in the US I I would go to the hood in San Francisco I would go to
the tenderloin uh neighborhood which is like uh if anybody's been to San Francisco or knows about San San Francisco and you don't have like like kids around YouTube search when you get a chance tenderloin just to get a
sense of what that neighborhood looks like but I would go there to get a haircut because I could get the haircut for 20 bucks and you know I'd give a a tip um but here like it's like a
couple of bucks and I can give a tip and come out way cheaper so I could go so there I'd try to get a haircut every few months here I could go every six weeks but now I'm looking
at bumping it up to every month well getting a haircut once a month because uh yeah you know it's more budget friendly and and certainly with the videos I think it would make me look uh more professional on
my videos and um yeah um Michael hang in there brother algo will have its day A wise man once said time in the market will always be trying to time the market thank you Michael yeah that's my plan
is to just keep holding on I hope this year does well for it uh if it performs really well this year I'll cash out some of my algo and then just have a big stack of cash to fund
several years of vlogging and try to get the Vlog to where like the income is um is sufficient to to cover uh you know my expenses in the then some right I'd like to start paying into social security
I'd like to contribute to my Roth IRA again I'd like to be able to move around a bit um like I said get back try out Indonesia uh visit Malaysia again it's been five years since I was in
Malaysia and I happen to like Malaysia a lot um I'm not a partyer and so Malaysia is fantastic what's uh what's everybody up to this week think I might have some more caffeine here I know it's like a
midweek well it's it's early week uh back in the US it's late night in Europe or early morning in Europe and then um it's midm morning here in the Philippines I I won't Philip main reason being is um
I'm hesitant to show uh the date one a lot of philippinas are shy uh two I tend to want to protect their privacy uh three there's a lot of reasons three like if I show a Filipina on a
date uh unfortunately some of my audience hates me and will will try to steal her um we'll try to reach out to her we'll try to flirt with her uh try to convince her to leave me um might
insult her um which is dumb if they're in the Philippines because defamation is a major law here if you insult a Filipina especially publicly um then that's like a big no no there's major consequences to that um I
don't do that because I I actually like Filipino people I get along with 99.9% of the Filipinos that I meet uh I find that most of them are very easygoing and very easy to get along with but uh
uh you know some people can be kind of abrasive now if I were to get married which a lot of people told me not to do but if down the line I were to get married I would strongly
consider featuring my significant other uh in the videos but um yeah uh it's tough Philip you you think everybody is is going to be supportive of your relationships um but when I you know when I go on first
dates Justin gets really jealous and um he he tells him stay away from my man and uh and you know he doesn't I'm just giving Justin a hard time I'm just giving Justin a hard time guys uh I
do plan I have have planned out a video talking about dating um Phillip like basically I want to do the video am I gay in the Philippines because I've had quite a few people assume that because I don't
show a lot of women uh that uh you know I am gay here I have no problem with gay people I am not gay um I did a video where I talked about coming here to meet an employee
of mine that I had hired what brought me to the Philippines was that I hired a virtual assistant here and I wanted to meet him in person meet his wife meet his uh children or well child at the
time now he has multiple children and that was what brought me here um in the time of working with him he convinced me that I should consider dating a Filipina um so you know I didn't come here for
uh dating I I came here because there was a business incentive and he worked really hard for me he helped my business reach a lot of success and um yeah and he's just a good guy overall um I
shouldn't even say overall he's just a good guy um I I try to think of people as imperfect and moderate my expectations I have low expectations for other people but he he showed that he's trustworthy I've been this
virtual assistant uh we've known each other for seven years now and he's never he's always been honest with me and and he's helped me a lot uh and I'm not totally like yeah I just it's it's tough Phillip
I I wouldn't maybe it's something I could do for members like maybe some of that content is stuff I could do for channel members I tend to trust uh channel members and and um you know that might be
something to do for channel members is like hey this is me going on a date um uh Kyle says I cut my own hair and shave I haven't paid for a haircut in over 25 years that's a good
idea Kyle that sounds like a way to um a way to definitely to save on budget and time like I knew a doctor back in Nashville and he would cut his hair and shave because he said I just
didn't have time to go to a um a like a like a barber he just wanted to get it done himself and and didn't have time he worked a lot of hours um so yeah nothing wrong with that
Manila says looks youthful thank you so much Manila I appreciate that it's unhappy Monday oh I'm sorry to hear that Phillip um yeah like I said the challenges you'll have in Southeast Asia more often than not um not
always but more often than not will be with other X Pats the local people will typically be easier to get along with um the average me let me reframe that the average local person will typically be easier to
get along with than the average expat I do have expat friends here uh but it's taken me time to cultivate those relationships it's taken me time to sort out I get along with this guy I don't get along
with this guy of course tagete has a reputation for drama um there's also a much uh bigger population here than most other places um most other xack communities like if I were to go to uh a local restaurant
here H well it's changed I think there's more Filipinos now but anyway there's they're much more visible um even for how many there are here I'm not W I'm not going I'm not going to walk to town without
running into at least one xat and I get recognized when I'm out a lot uh fortunately people have been really nice that's been kind of surprise to me but everybody that's come up to me in public has been
really nice um and has told me you know how our content is helpful for people and helps to educate people provide insight for people um so yeah let me let's see here let me try to get caught a
little bit caught up here um plusy will scare off all of the other girls yeah I'm glad you gotta kick out of that Justus um let's see I get my haircuts in Chinatown Oakland 20 bucks she knows what
she's doing yeah that's I that's a great call out Kirk uh and you know I should have done that because I would go across the bridge and go into the city because I was living in Berkeley and I'd
go across the city into the uh and end up in the TL uh like I take the BART to the mid-market station and then walk but Chinatown Oakland would have been closer and faster I could have walked to
Chinatown Oakland from my old office um yeah I there's a lot there's some things I miss about the Bay Area a lot it's one of my favorite places I've ever lived in the world has been the Bay Area
it's uh it's a one-of aind place after haircuts went up to $22 a cut I started to go to the $5 place in the mall last year they went up to eight bucks and now they're at 10 still
cheaper than HC but no break anymore yeah 10 is still a good deal Ben but yeah it's definitely going up I know of people that uh sometimes they'll go to like a barber school like they'll have like a
hair cutting School H where people go learn how to give haircuts um and they'll get it done for cheaper uh philli says yeah I was half joking but I think about the great content and drama might create good
call Philip yeah I mean drama definitely sells like uh people are naturally attracted to wild stuff and you know if they think drama is going on they'll definitely click uh that's what I've had to learn is like spice
it up a bit um you know when I look at YouTube and and the recommendations and the analytics I cater a lot to people who are looking for documentary style content but throwing in some some uh you know
spicy drama not the worst idea I don't want to do a freak Show like I know of some vloggers I'm not going to name them by name but they do what I call a freak Show uh they want
to show they want to make the audience like Heckle or not Heckle but like um you know look at the freaks look at how messed up their lives are uh look at these these Nutters in Southeast Asia and
I just don't I I get called too serious or like I don't smile or laugh enough but like I do want to normalize it a bit and um yeah my hey good hey good to see you Mike uh
yeah everybody check out Mike's Channel he uh he does a great Channel him and his wife Janet have um yeah have lovely content and they're good friends as well I'm always happy to to give them a call out
check them out if you're not already familiar I think there's a lot of overlap uh in our audiences but I'm sure some of you haven't uh hav haven't become familiar and he he covers a lot he's very very
thorough and um and now he's branching into storytelling and I find his stories to be really interesting and yeah uh let's see here um do joh Michael says do you plan on returning to the US before you head
out to other Southeast Asian country I don't know why I feel nervous I just saw Mike yesterday but I'm like oh um Hollywood I call Mike Hollywood Mike and um that's because I I mentioned to a friend hey
you know you should meet Mike at some point he said I don't know Mike's got a pretty big Channel and uh I might be uh uh intimidating or something like that so ever since then I started calling Mike
um let's see um let's see um me get caught up here yeah so Michael I'd like to check out Indonesia at some point and um because yeah Indonesia I haven't yet been to Indonesia and it um it's appealing
to me for sure Michael I will be back within the next three weeks to live permanently I'm back in the US just organizing and obtaining the things that I need for my return I'm sure our P will cross
at some point that sounds fantastic Michael I know you're in ha what a beautiful state I haven't yet been there uh but it's you know it's a very yeah it's a very interesting State Simon looking good buddy keep
up keep that look thank you so much Simon I appreciate it everybody's been very complimentary about the uh the shave I'm pretty good at the Shaving part but I'll leave the haircut to the pros uh KK says I
love the um I love Berkeley despite the politics yeah it's pretty chaotic in Berkeley uh Critter Hunter drama cells but people are getting tired of the countless dating advice channels yeah I agree Critter and um you know it
just gets a bit uh yeah it just gets a bit out of hand um good morning I love doing a freak Show that's funny Mike um yeah I still need to keep it classy but funny could be interesting
to see if you have Dating Game you know I Philip I don't really feel like people need game here in the Philippines I see and D meetti any way I often see kind of nerdy looking dudes with Gorgeous
Filipinas um guys that may feel very uncomfortable trying to date back home and here they're with like really Nic looking ladies so I feel like here you don't really have to I mean back home it feels like a
job interview and you're trying to finesse people and here there's a lot of nice women that they're just looking for a nice guy where the back home the nice guy is regarded with contempt mockery um what a bum
and you or what a you know a schmuck or something like that here the woman's like wow he's like a nice guy and he uh he's he's a decent man like maybe uh you know maybe I'll I'll give
him a CH or I'll give him a chance you know they're they're more receptive to that the guy that has his stuff together um and yeah uh well you know that's just what what um that's unfortunate that Heidi
feels that way um you I've never said anything negative about uh them I I wish them the best um but I thank you for the heads up on that relay I I'll definitely be keeping that in mind uh
you know I some people don't like me talking about expat psychology they've got some some things going on and they don't want people to discuss some of these issues because uh if you're I'm not I'm not this isn't
about them specifically this is just generally a tangent if you're uh a person with issues and a lot of expats have issues uh especially I don't know there's a lot of us that have issues we some of us
that are predatory we don't want people talking about these things uh because if you're looking to Target people you're looking to manipulate to scam to take advantage you don't want people discussing the signs to look out for you
don't want people discussing um you know I've had people get really upset and say you're very judgmental and I'm thinking well you need if you're an expat you need to be judgmental uh to some extent and more specifically
you need to have discernment because there's no um there's no safety in it over here if you make a you know a bad decision um it's very easy to get yourself entangled in some I mean and I that's
why I suggest checking out Mike's Channel if you haven't is he talks about a guy named uh Bob he talks about a guy named Bob and how Bob has found himself in this mess and how Bob got into
that mess and it's kind of innocuous you know like it's kind of uh very basic how a person might get into uh a mess here I find it's much easier to get yourself into a mess than it is
to get yourself out of a mess because people think I just act like I do back in America and there's no problem no people here are way more polite way more considerate um they're they're easier going you know
they're not uh they're not confrontational they're not looking to escalate um in the way that Americans some Americans they they thrive on uh conflict they want conflict they they're bored if they're not involved in some kind of drama
um they they want that right they want to be stressed out they I don't know if they want as much as like they're just programming to be that way um and yeah uh looking fresh thank you R I
appreciate that uh take your first day to Bali um and let's see cars I like the new look Alex when will you be getting a new passport I'm hoping like in a week or two cars I've heard some
people say the turnaround on new passports is four or five weeks and I sent mine in day before Christmas I mailed it to the Manila Embassy I assume it got there uh day after uh day after Christmas and
I've they told me 8 to 10 weeks but I've had friends say it took them four or five weeks I'm hoping it comes by the end of January uh and that by January this would be by ideal situation
cars and that by end of January I get it back um and I can take it to a Visa service to um to to transfer the stamp to the new passport and let's see um yeah transfer the stamp
to the new passport and then get the extension done um to uh to be in compliance right because when you get a new passport you have to transfer your stamp from your um from your old passport to your
new passport uh um Critter thank you so much this is a very kind comment from from Justin this time next year when Alex has 880,000 subs every hater changes their tune and tells people they knew him since the
beginning yeah I imagine people will come around you know when the the channel is a lot bigger uh and the channel is growing steadily it's the growth has been very steady month over month um you know I I
think part of it too is just like my focus is on providing value and value for me comes in a different form than what maybe some other people are looking for like uh yeah I I'm trying to seek
out stuff that hasn't been talked about as much and um I think playing the long game is where I'll succeed and uh trying to you know try not to go for a quick little this and that um that
is called The Narcissist drama is their energy source yeah they can't help it you know these these cluster B people that um they they thrive on on drama they uh it's a thrill to them they can't handle the
calm uh you know the calm vibe in the Philippines Philippines very chill and and people are just relaxed they're having a good time in my experience maybe some other people have a different experience but in my experience people
here are very easygoing and it's something I love about this country uh is just how much I laugh and joke around and um it's uh yeah uh you know you're getting successful when the trolls start coming out and
maybe you experienced some of that yeah true philli it's true like you're you're uh you're definitely going to attract trolls as you grow I don't consider myself a big Channel at all like I see channels that are far
further along uh people like Mike or Paul or Chad or Justin uh and I know they they have their own trolls which is dumb to me but it technically helps with the algorithm to some extent like it shows
YouTube engagement um so they're the trolls are like technically helping the people they hate get paid uh I draw Alex all the time I need the views yeah Mike Mike's trying to find the latest and greatest big hit
story and uh and so when when people lose interest he's got to come on here and and give me a hard time um yeah Mike does a drama Channel if you haven't if you didn't know M Mike does
a drama Channel he hangs out with this guy named Bob that's in and out of jail and yeah um anyway I'm teasing Mike a little bit guys uh less drama or nonsense might mean slower Subs but also means
a higher quality audience more monetization opportunities yeah Critter I agree with that you know it's not going to be a runaway boom overnight massive uh Channel but uh the audience is going to be higher quality you know it's
going to be people I I actually get along with people I respect people that have something valuable to contribute to the conversation um I don't I don't want to run the freak Show I don't want to do the
um Jerry Springer type of content like oh wow and then you know or like pro wrestling Vibes the these types of this type of content could be very entertaining but I don't know how much value that it provides
and yeah I just don't know how much value it really provides in the long term I think drama gets boring after a while I think that that's why we see certain drama channels um you know losing traction and
um just struggling to stay uh you struggling to stay relevant like it's um let's see um limay says you look your age now Alex much better prefer you clean shaven cheers thank you limay uh some create problems where
there are no problems making noise when quiet is needed I don't mind being in public or in a group as long as I can come and go go as I please I agree Kyle and I think we all
have to learn to be happy alone well I should say I think it's a superpower to be happy alone um also I think uh being here I have more opportunities for socializing so on any given day if I
want to go hang out with people I can typically what stops me from socializing on any given day is not opportunities like Justin hit me up yesterday and day before that he was in town from D it's uh
having other obligations right I have um more and more pressure being put on my schedule and uh yeah um with the new look the women will be all over you that's funny thank you Frank I appreciate it um
one more thing about drama I I'm going for a totally different audience like I a lot of a lot of these kind of dramatic trolls or whatever try to tack me I'm like guys you're like irrelevant you're you're
catering to a totally different group I'm I'm looking more for this type of people that are um what's the word um I'm just looking for totally different people um let's see did you shave MV says you uh you
did you shave for a Filipina uh somewhat yeah MV I did um a couple of Filipinos I've been interested in um yeah it's uh it's um yeah I mean it's it's uh sorry I lost my train of thought
I'm I'm um I'm just my mind is kind of racing right now uh yeah so ultimately I did shave I had a couple of Filipinas I've been seeing uh yes that's not uh I'm bringing them over that's not
I'm I'm uh this and that um it it's I'm getting to know them through conversation and through talking about different things I look at it like you know there's no reason oh I'm gonna I'm gonna fall in love
with the first woman I meet I I don't believe in rushing things um and yeah I mean mvy I I met p i met Filipina p and she said it looks good um let's see uh I think beard
would look good on you again if you style it a different way not too thick not too thin um not the FED yeah um that's a good point and not the F I'm not gonna you know I'm not
gonna give him the any attention you know I yeah I'm just not going to give him any attention I um I wish him the best you know I I wish him the best um I pulled it oh hey
Doug so Doug is a subscriber I actually met Doug recently uh we met up at Robinson's I showed him this uh Korean food uh stall there in Robinson's and uh we got to meet and uh talk for a
bit uh and he's uh he's moved up to tayai now so fantastic Doug I'm glad to hear that his lease in in manilo is coming to an end so uh yeah great to see you on here Doug I
hope you're enjoying your time there and Tey time MV I have a beard myself and have had multiple Filipinos tell me they were interested in me because of it not in spite of it just depends on how you
groom it that's a good point Envy um yeah so I met Filipina P back in September and I asked her about it and she said it looks good um so that was that was a kind compliment and uh
yeah that was that was a nice thing for her to say and and you know some uh some Filipinos do like it um for me it was kind of hard figure out how to style it and make it
look good car says Drama asking for money and telling grown men what to do is the triatic equation equals unsubscribed I agree cars uh for me it's I'm just G to come out and say it like grown men
should not be involved in drama um it's not yeah yeah it just like it's yeah that uh and I don't I also don't believe in um asking for uh I I don't believe in ebegging I think that you
have as a sales with as a person with a sales background yeah you've got to ask for the sale you've got to uh make things sustainable from a business standpoint um there's a difference between asking for the sale
and uh um ebegging right uh you know ebegging is is harassing your audience or viewers to give money give money give money um I look at it like if I was doing this solely for financial reasons I'd go
do something else because this is by no means as lucrative as some of the opportunities I've had in the US and opportunities I could probably put together in the US given enough time [Music] um and I don't I
try to steer away from advice because I think Insight is helpful um where you get into advice is where you start to tell people to do things that um are may not work out for them and then they've
got you to blame oh he told me to just go to this city and I don't like this city or he told me to to date a woman with this and background or whatever and um you know this
and that um let's see um Filipinos hate beards uh it's scratches up their face yeah it's um that's a fair point I've dated American women too Frank that said that like uh white women that that told me that
like hey I don't like the beard not because I don't think it looks good but because it it you know it's abrasive and it um it scratches up their face uh yeah so I'm not I'm not doing that
here Ben um it's a funny call out uh they don't like unkempt beards put some beard oil on it trim it that's a good call out Envy you know your experience may be different and uh there's Filipina is
a nationality or Filipino Filipina is a nationality it's not an ethnicity so uh you know many different Filipinos have many different preferences um different things they're into same with Thai women there's a presumption uh they're all looking for
like the American movie star that's not the case like one of my thae friends she said specifically she would prefer to date uh an Asian man um so there's like I said I think there's somebody out there for
everybody there's four billion women on the planet um let's say a billion of those four billion women are within a normal age range and uh and single you know there's there maybe that person isn't in the United States
right but maybe they're in the Philippines or maybe they're in Thailand uh maybe they're in Indonesia maybe they're in um you know there are many different countries where where there's some nice people to meet and to um to
date Critter says I don't know who's been trolling you but have you ever been trolled by a winner winners aren't concerned with negative things of others and are helpful to F fellow man I agree uh Justin I I
don't worry about it too much and what what inevitably ends up happening is that it boosts me because like uh anybody doing free marketing for me is like helping the channel grow if they're even if they're talking bad
some of those people that are watching will come and check out the channel and then they'll like what they see uh and they'll like what they're you know what I'm talking about and they'll subscribe to channel so like
uh you know I I I've had U Justin you remind me I had a coworker at one time I'll try to be vague about this as possible always oh I'm a movie critic I'm a movie critic I judge
movies you think this movie star that got paid $12 million to make this movie or $8 million to make this movie cares what you think about it no he went and did his job or she went and did
her job got a big paycheck and then moved on with their life you spending all your time trying to critique or to judge them talk about what you think about it how this is the worst movie ever you're
working for them like they're living in your head rentree you're working for them uh and so yeah I agree with you Justin I I wish people the best I truly do uh but the drama is not prod providing
value uh getting into it with trolls doesn't provide value um there are legitimate critiques I separate legitimate critique from trolling trolling is just looking to do damage stir up drama to be harmful legitimate critique I do get legitimate
critiques like I was my content was way too fast I was pulling out all the spaces trying to save people time but it became hard to listen to and so people had to actually slow the content down so
now I've learned hey don't pull out every single little space uh because it's unpleasant to listen to that was a fair critique um another critique I had shave like your beard isn't that great looking and so I I
went and got a shave and now I'm getting a lot of compliments on having a shaved face and um I may stick with it you know I'm getting like a lot more compliments than not um probably eight out
of 10 people are telling me you look better without the facial hair um since you're fairly young do you prefer dating Filipinas about the same age or younger uh I I think Philip the the so I'm 32 now
the best dating experiences I've had have been in the I've heard half your age plus 7even years right so uh that for me that would be 23 24 25 range um the the two that I've been chatting with
are 24 and 26 um and it just uh you know that's a good range for me I I find younger than 24 like in the say 20 to 24 range there's just not the same level of maturity there's
not as much shared culture um they're not as chilled out you know they're they're more higher energy where for me I'm I'm more chilled out I'm still in some ways high energy but I'm not looking to be out
on the town I'm past my partying phase I'm not looking to go out and party hard I like going to bed early every night um so I would say that 24 to 26 range has been a good fit
for me now um now when I was here five years ago I was uh interested 22 23 24 because I was 27 right so when you're 27 dating woman in her um early 20s that's that's probably a a
good fit uh but for me I would just you know I'd probably struggle to relate a bit more to them at this point and uh have different priorities than I had back then um for what it's worth I
think you look better without the beer thank you Doug I appreciate that I respect that you don't ebeg I can't stand vloggers who are quick to beg for money and not offering anything in return yeah I I don't
like ebegging either to me um if I was not if I was at the point where I needed to eag I would just need to go back home that's the time if you're in such rough Financial shape uh
you need to eag and rattle um rattle the coin jar or whatever it's time to go back home it's time to earn some more money time to save up uh time to plan your next trip um the economic
opportunities are far more lucrative back in the US than they are over here and uh yeah since you're uh let's see I uh I live in SF Filipinos run da City that's a Filipino Town um somebody had asked
if I had been to Daily City I that that may have gotten comment may have gotten deleted um oh MV I think you can get a new passport mail from yeah so they are going to mail it uh
here they just need to call me when it's um on the way uh I have spent time in Daily City so I think that comment might have gotten delayed uh oh okay I see relay s signings yeah I've
been to Daily City actually I was in Daily City to try the robot made Creator Burger uh this was a coup a few years ago and uh they have a restaurant there this was three years ago ago no
two years ago and they have a restaurant there that does robot made hamburgers um I really like that robot made hamburger they they did a good job with it now it's not totally robot made but it was a
good experience I like Daily City I had some I had a some co-workers uh living in Daily City as well um stri sand effect yeah exactly MV um my Opa grandfather used to say there's a cork for every
bottle I agree Kyle I definitely agree um especially if you're willing to travel outside of your home country which I assume most of the guys uh that subscribe to my channel they are willing and they're interested I mean
dating is one of the many reasons to go abroad I think it's it's not the only reason for me I like culture I like um the travel uh aspect I like seeing new places seeing new things meeting interesting
people it's uh it's a lot of fun um the woman you're chatting with did you meet them online or just out in Duma I just met him uh well so a couple things uh and relay says high five
yeah high five Frank um I love San Francisco by the way gorgeous City my favorite American city by far and I was so blessed to live in close proximity over there in the East Bay and I spent I'd
come to San Francisco just about every weekend for uh years and it's just I love the architecture I love the weather I love the culture I like how I can go to three different neighborhoods and have three different
cultural experiences I remember I'd go to Chinatown there'd be a China Chinatown parade and then I'd go to North Beach and have a slice of pizza and then I'd go to Dolores Park Park and um and relax in
the park looking at the skyline and finish and grab a burrito and then hop on the train and go home I took that for granted uh because I was working a lot and very busy but I that's such
a beautiful city and it's um it's uh it's one of a kind you know it's like uh it's San Francisco and the Barry in general is like the Milan uh or the London of today's era where it's like
maybe even the Rome of today's era in terms of global influence uh with the tech industry and and like just a create I love California um but the Bay Area is is really incredible I'm uh yeah um so
yeah so MV to answer your question did I meet the women online or just out in DTI so one of the two women I met her aunt here in dumag Getti uh I just started talking to her this
was they were having something on the boulevard some kind of party or something like that and uh they um so I just like walked up to her and started talking to her and she said you know you should
meet my niece well both my two nieces and so she connected me with her nieces um one I gravitated toward a bit more than the other the other was a bit more shy and uh she and I get
along like got along great and and so we actually met in person a month or two ago she came down here for her uncle's wedding her uncle uh is um works for the Philippines National Police and uh and
so she came down for for that wedding and they uh you know she had a great time but she wanted to meet up with me and we uh we went and had some coffee and talked for a while
and she's a really lovely lady um but she lives in Sabu and I'm not quite ready to move to Sabu I'm not opposed to it in the future but for right now dag Getti is a better fit uh
and yeah um I hope that answers your question Oh The Other Woman I'm talking to a friend of mine introduced me to her here in dagate uh and so that was um that was good uh but I like
I said I'm not in a rush um and I do think online dating can have some some positives like I said I've got a sponsor uh in that category I need to just sign the contract actually and start
plugging them uh because I think there's a lot of value in online dating especially for guys who are back in the US that they're not here and in person it's a fantastic way at the very least to get
to know the culture um get a sense for the lifestyles over here learn about the different uh parts of the country learn about um your options for for some guys they're uh they have certain specifications and getting a
sense is that a possibility can I meet uh people like that or uh women like that and um yeah ah so you did your passport renewal through the embassy in manella yeah Ben so I I mailed it up
there actually I uh I printed the paperwork out I paid the fee I put it all in an envelope and then I went down to LBC and LBC helped me send it to Manila and so I should get
a call from LBC and just pay for the return delivery cash on on delivery so when they bring the um when they bring the new passport to me then I should be able to just pay for that return
and that saves me from having to go up there immediately um I still may need to go up there uh to transfer the stamp but [Music] um yeah I just uh I I I sent in the uh renewal
to um to Manila um one sec guys I have uh a KN somebody at the door I'll be right it'll take me just a minute oh thank you sir yes sir did I sign oh [Music] is a is
it a passport oh okay Embassy okay thank you once extra I'll get the payment really okay guys so that's my passport uh my passport just arrived and so I need to get the payment together I'm thrilled about this
I was not expecting it to be so quick uh go USA thank you USA for being oh no I've gotta well I got it actually so they want 251 pesos for this Return of the passport I got it
right here guys so I'm GNA go pay that sorry okay I was wrong guys 258 [Music] guys I I apologize for that I did not expect to get my new passport in so um let's uh okay so oh
no well I hope it's the new passport um let me uh let's see here okay um so this is what it looks like guys I got to cover up the address uh but yeah you can see we'll see
I'm I'm nervous I'm hoping it it's not something like application rejected or i' I've filled something out incorrectly um I'm just uh you guys can't tell I get a little bit paranoid sometimes about some of these um oh
this is oh no oh man the photo didn't oh that stinks I've got to use a new photo that's not good so that's really disappointing so I made a mistake there um so what happens is they oh man
guys I probably got to go soon to go deal with this um yeah I'm a I'm kind of I need to make some phone calls so they gave me a blurry photo I got a photo made here in
dumag and they gave me a blurry photo uh it's not sharp it's not clear and so actually they rejected my um my application and uh I have to get a new photo for that um that's really stressful um
yeah so guys I'll probably have to uh drop here soon and um and go deal with that that's really uh frustrating maybe I should just go to Manila and try to do this in person um yeah that's really
stressful um yeah guys uh I'm I'm gonna go ahead and drop because I need to uh oh you didn't subu consulate Critter so maybe if I make a trip up to Sabu um that's a good call out um
thank you Justin I I appreciate the heads up on that um well thanks so much guys uh I appreciate it I'm gonna go ahead and wrap this stream up because I need to go get on this and um
I'll uh I'll catch up with you guys soon I'll provide an update so sorry about that um but I'll get it sorted out take care everybody
