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Around the World in 80 Questions with Moshe Schwartz · None of Your Business Podcast

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  This man has travelled the world.
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  He's been to so many places, not just random places.
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  He's been to the most incredible places.
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  He's been to countries like Iran, he's been to China.
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  He walked the Great Wall of China.
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  He's done things that people can only dream about.
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  Business Oshi. None of Your Business, Michael.
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  It's the None of Your Business podcast hosted by Michael
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  Anoshi. Welcome back everybody to
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  another amazing episode of the None of Your Business podcast.
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  I am really excited about our guests that we're going to have
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  in a couple of minutes here. But first let me ask you guys to
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  Egos we need to. Hear back from you guys.
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  We're taking the feedback seriously.
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  We're implementing it into our podcast like you're going to see
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  here today with a starting off with a lightning round to engage
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  in our conversation. We're loving every second of it.
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  Art of doing that on our podcasts is we do something
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  called a Lightning round where we ask you a bunch of questions
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  and we want you to have like Family Feud style and you got
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  fast money. You know, you got to answer the
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  questions right away. We used to do it at the end of
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  the podcast, but now we moved it to the beginning of the podcast
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  so we can get a little bit of a flavor of what's to come or
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  people can expect. OK, So what I'm going to ask you
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  now nine questions, exactly 9 questions I'm going to ask you
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  and you get 1. None of your business answer.
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  You get one pass. So one of the nine questions, I
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  could say nothing. One on the line you can you can
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  pass. On.
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  OK, so you're gonna answer your questions first, but before I
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  answer them. You can ask them right away
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  whatever comes on top of your head.
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  The 1st and. How am I gonna know which I
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  might want to pick? Let's say the 9th one or the
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  8th. Too late.
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  Don't use it if you don't. Yeah, because, you know, you
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  absolutely. They do have to use one be.
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  Very careful. Use it wisely.
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  Use it wisely. OK.
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  So we're going to start the questions and.
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  I want to add a 10th question at the end, by the way.
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  A 10th question. Yeah, I just thought of
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  something. OK, excellent, Excellent.
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  OK. They're not, they're not such
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  tough questions. They're just questions to really
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  get a little feel for, you know, the things that you're going to
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  be talking. And I already thought of an
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  11th. I'm having so much fun already.
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  OK, this is great. This is great.
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  All right. Nice.
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  You ready? I'm ready.
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  All right, here we go. All right.
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  Question one. If you wouldn't live in America,
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  where else in the world would you live other than Israel?
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  It's a great question. I don't know if I have the
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  answer. It's a great question.
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  I don't know. Oh wow, OK, I guess you have so
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  many. It's a great question.
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  You have too many places. It's 30 places.
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  I will it will save it for the actual for the actual podcast.
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  Which country was the most boring country you visited?
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  Belgium. Belgium.
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  OK, sorry Belgium. Which country had the best
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  looking people? The best looking people.
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  I hope my wife's not listening. Probably Italy.
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  Italy. OK, Sam, that makes sense.
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  OK. How much money was the most
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  expensive trip you ever took? Probably 25,000. 25,000 it's
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  pretty reasonable. It's only 24,000 more than I've
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  ever spent. If you didn't travel as a hobby,
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  what else would your other hobby be?
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  I. Like boating?
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  Boating. And I love convertibles, so I
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  guess anything outdoors with the wind in my face.
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  OK. Well, I'm going to jump into
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  that one other question that I was thinking of, which is what
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  is the most expensive car you ever drove?
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  So I've driven a few expensive cars Bentley GT see the the the
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  fast edition but it was like a crazy one out of 100.
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  OK. Or I've driven a Ferrari as well
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  and. Like drove it fast.
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  Did you actually drive it? You're a rule follower.
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  Did you actually? Did you actually really, really
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  driving? It couldn't because it wasn't my
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  car. You got to be careful, yeah.
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  You can't afford to put a dent in that car, OK?
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  Go ahead, I see. OK, next question, what was the
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  most annoying thing any of the people you've traveled with in
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  the past did? So I went traveling with a
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  friend who was very cheap at one time and I just don't want to
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  give out too much information. But it was a very hot day and we
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  asked for suntan lotion to borrow and he he did not want to
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  give it to us because we're paying him back.
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  And he actually did. I was like, whoa, you're going.
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  To get a seller request at the end of this project.
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  I think that was the holy. That's funny.
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  That's that's brutal. If you could bring one thing on
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  a trip, what was the one thing you kept bringing on your trips?
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  Besides money, clothes and your phone, What would that one thing
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  be that you have to have on your trips?
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  I guess a good attitude and the open outlook.
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  I like that answer. Yeah, I like wool traveling.
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  You know when people go travel a lot, like they're already in a
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  bad mood just by the time they get on the plane, You know,
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  until they actually get their destination.
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  Not me. All right, What's?
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  The What's the weirdest place you ever slept for a night?
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  The weirdest place and in terms of country or just situation?
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  Situation. Yeah.
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  Situation. Like did you fall asleep on the
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  wall of China? I feel like what was it like
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  did? You sleep on a park bench one
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  night somewhere in the. No, but I did.
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  I did say in like airport like like let's say the flight was
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  cancelled or whatever, like. Slept overnight at the airport.
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  And the bed. We've all been there.
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  OK, that or nothing crazy creamy like a euro rail train, but that
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  was supposed to be, it had like a cabin.
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  Meant to sleep there. It was meant to sleep OK.
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  We don't feel bad for you first time, that's the question.
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  Yeah, other than English and other than any language you do
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  speak, what language would you love to speak?
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  I like Italian and French, so it's a hard one between those
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  two in terms of the way the language.
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  Yeah, French was a cool one. I think it sounds really, you
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  know, it sounds like they're smarter than everybody else
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  where they talk with their accents.
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  OK, it's a phenomenal. I love it.
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  Listen, we have lots of ground to cover, so I want to get
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  started. I want to get started and I want
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  to ask you first the following question.
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  When was that moment that you decided I want to travel, I want
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  to go see the world. I'm not content with just my
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  immediate surroundings and I know there's more out there and
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  I and I want to go out there to explore.
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  What was that moment? Did that happen?
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  And what was the 1st place you decided to go to?
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  That first trip, the 1st place you went to?
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  How did that all unfold? Tell us about.
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  You so first, it wasn't a matter being not content.
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  I would say it's a more. It's a more, was more for me of
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  seeing that there's a lot bigger world out there than just the
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  place that I live in. When I really started
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  travelling, I was in school in Israel for a year and she bought
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  and on the way back to America, I'm like, you know what, we're
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  passing through Europe. Let's, let's, let's see a little
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  bit of Europe. And I bought a Euro rail pass
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  where you're able to go to any country that the train goes to
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  in Europe. What's the What's a Euro trail?
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  Explain that if you don't mind. It's basically like a Amtrak or
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  like a local train that you would have, let's say in
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  America. And instead of going like from
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  state to sea that we would have here, it just goes from country
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  to country. So let's say you could take
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  train from Italy to Slovenia or Croatia or Russia or Germany,
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  Holland, and you could just every day you could basically
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  wake up in a different country. And so it's awesome.
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  I mean, I don't know, of course today.
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  Then it was like 5 or 600, I think $500 and it was like a
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  like a 30 day rail, like a 30 day pass.
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  And you're able to as many countries as you want.
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  Wow. But that direct like a monthly
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  bus. Pass.
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  Yeah. Wow, that's great.
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  And it's awesome. And it really goes through all
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  the different countries. I mean, so that was your, that's
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  how you traveled. That was our.
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  Logistics behind I started it OK then I was like whoa this is
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  really cool I love this you know and.
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  Were you by yourself? That one with a friend, OK.
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  You're on with a friend. OK, OK.
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  So then you came back and then you settled in and then he
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  decided I'm taking a trip, like a real trip planned out.
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  Like you, you, you, you always had it planned to a tee.
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  Like you knew exactly where you were going to go, how long
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  you're going to go for. So tell us about the first trip,
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  a major trip that you took, where you went, what it was
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  like, it was the rundown. 1st I went to Italy, I started off in
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  Rome, I went to the Southern Colosseum, obviously the
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  Vatican, which is actually it's own country.
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  The whole it's called Holy Land. It's, it's actually considered a
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  country at Holy City. I think either, I think it's
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  called Holy City actually. And from the air I went to Pisa,
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  which the Leaning Tower of Pisa and with the Florence and
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  Dennis. And then from the air I took a
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  train to Slovenia and went through Washington and Croatia.
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  So just like a little passing through.
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  What would you do in each of these places?
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  So let's say in Rome I went in the Coliseum.
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  So you went to go see historical?
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  I went to see historical sites where the main the main.
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  The main attraction? And then so the Austria,
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  Germany, and then let's say I went to Germany, so I went to
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  Munich, so I went to concentration camps in Dafao,
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  which is very, you know, which was very.
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  Important. It's very.
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  Very important experience of people realize.
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  What important to do on an organized trip to go to these
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  places in Germany of? Course.
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  And then from there I went to Switzerland.
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  So I saw some of the Alps which were gorgeous and the hungry I
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  went to Budapest and the city King Buda and Pest that's just
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  it's a beautiful. I have a gorgeous parliament
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  over there, just beautiful city. Just walking around is like a
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  very famous St. called Vazi St. and it was just beautiful and
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  that's it. So that was your first, like,
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  experience traveling? Yeah.
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  And Paris. OK, so travel and you got the
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  bug. Yeah, you got the bug, you would
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  say. So traveling.
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  And you realize that this is kind of what I want to do.
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  And then you you just escalated. You took that up, you kept
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  leveling up and you kept going to more places.
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  So what was the first like crazy place that you went to?
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  Crazy you're. In the Middle East, you've been
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  to the Middle East, right? But I mean, I guess you certain
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  people call it crazy. Yeah.
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  I mean, for the year, it's regular day life, just like me,
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  you and I live over here, OK, People that have a day-to-day
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  life over there. So it might be very different
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  than what we're used to. I mean, I've been to, let's say,
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  like I guess in parts of Africa, Zimbabwe, Zombie, Botswana,
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  Namibia and certain parts of South Africa that were, you
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  know, very different than here, which I love because, you know,
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  every day you have your regular day life.
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  So when you travel, for me, I like to see something different
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  that I'm not used to over here. Right.
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  So you went to Africa, right? You went to the jungle?
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  Yeah. Saw all the animals.
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  Yeah. What did you do for food, For
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  kosher food? How did you manage that?
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  So in South Africa there's actually a lot of kosher
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  restaurants in Johannesburg and also in Cape Town.
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  The other parts we just brought with us like soups, noodle soups
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  and different micro like microwave meals.
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  So you just pat Foods? Yeah.
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  Is it ever a challenge to you to travel when it came to food?
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  Because I like to travel so much as much as I like to eat the the
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  travel comes. The travel is a priority over
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  the food. You would sacrifice so.
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  So you went to Africa, OK, I know you've been to the Middle
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  East. Have you been to like Iran?
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  Have you been to Afghanistan? Any of these places?
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  I've been to Afghanistan, which is not in the Middle East.
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  OK, yes, I've been to Afghanistan, Kabul, which is
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  super cool. Kabul.
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  Yeah, OK. Which was I mean.
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  These are not places you can go to today.
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  You can't go to Afghanistan. No, no, today you cannot go.
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  I mean, you could probably go just so it's a lot more, a lot
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  more dangerous. I don't even know if they would
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  let you in because because the Taliban is in charge now in
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  Rule. So I don't know.
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  But when I went, Taliban did not take over.
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  Just the Yeah. So you wore your Yamaha when we
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  were there? No, I didn't.
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  No, you didn't. So you concealed your identity.
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  Right, I mean, right, I wore actually I wore it's called in
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  Pakistan, they call it shall wear Carmese, but in it's in in
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  Afghanistan, they call it like a pedant Tuban.
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  It's like the long gown that they wear, right.
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  So I wore that and they wore a hat, but they they just see
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  supposed to be like. So you blend it in, so you.
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  Wore whatever. Wow, that's that's smart.
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  Nothing. To do about Judaism, just any
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  foreigner is basically a a target is a target exactly
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  nothing to do with you. You want to integrate with the
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  culture by wearing their garments.
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  Very cool with the. Religion just in general they
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  tell you any far where? Did you sleep in Afghanistan?
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  So I actually didn't, I flew it to Dubai to sleep.
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  So I came there in like 6:00 in the morning, so.
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  You you landed first in. Afghanistan, Afghanistan.
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  I was there for the airport. Afghanistan airport What's the
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  airport? What's it called?
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  In Kabul. Oh, so it's Kabul has the
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  airport. OK, Kabul's a city in
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  Afghanistan. It's the capital.
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  It's the capital and basically it was crazy security actually
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  coming, coming over there. I was actually.
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  Really. To get into Afghanistan.
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  Right. While you're actually in the
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  airport, leaving the airport to get into town, there's like
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  gates and like the, the airport is surrounded like by like by
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  fences and things. They, you know, they took
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  security very, very seriously. Of course.
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  And I did have body and armed guards with us.
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  I was there. You did?
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  Yeah, of course. Oh, so you hired private
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  security? Yeah, interested.
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  You didn't just walk around on your own.
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  It's not like that type of Joe. Even though Taliban was not in
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  in they were ruling them. You still had to be very, very
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  cautious where you could go and what you could do.
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  Were you nervous? Or were you with?
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  I was with one other person, one other person and they had two
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  bodyguards, a driver and and the.
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  Tour guide have that was there any time that you were nervous
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  not. There no was.
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  And then where were you? Nervous.
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  So there were times I was nervous, but it was, it was just
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  because it was like a mis, a misunderstanding or
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  miscommunication. It wasn't really because
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  anything, anyone was, for example, bad.
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  So I was in Lebanon. Lebanon, that's a dangerous
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  place. I mean, these are places that
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  are not accessible anymore, right?
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  I mean, you know, for some, but yeah, I guess you know,
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  definitely. I don't know with security, No,
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  Lebanon didn't go with security. Wow and did you dress up the
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  part in Lebanon as? Well, no, not.
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  At all, Yeah. Because it's a modern country.
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  It's not. People don't wear Lebanon as
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  well. Not religious.
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  Yeah. It's it's actually the most
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  unreligious. What's it called?
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  Arabic state. Yeah.
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  Like in middle. What's it called?
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  Middle East country, basically. There is really.
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  Yeah. I mean, there's Hezbollah and
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  they take things very, very seriously.
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  They take share you're a law seriously.
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  But in terms of, in terms of the regular people that live over
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  there, they're more, they're more, they're more like there's
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  like nightclubs and there's drinking.
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  Like in Qatar, Bahrain, there's no, they don't have any clubs
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  and things like that. Or even Dubai now, it's becoming
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  more moderate and stuff. But when I was here like 12
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  years ago, you were only, let's say, allowed to drink and like
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  certain specific hotel zones added that like me, I was
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  actually there with my wife and we were by, we were by like in
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  Abu Dhabi, by the great, the Grand, the Great Mosque, which
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  is gorgeous. And we were, you know, my arm
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  was around. You're like taking a picture.
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  And then there were police that came over to us and said you're
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  not allowed to do that. So you know no public.
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  Affection. Thank.
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  God, they warned you, by the way, and didn't arrest you.
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  We've heard those stories, you know, happen where people got
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  arrested for something so little, you know?
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  Exactly. And they don't play games.
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  What's your what's your rules with going into mosques or
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  churches? I'm curious, have you?
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  Gone into mosques, I've got the. Mosque, yes, absolutely.
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  So in terms of a Jew, there's no issue going into a mosque at all
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  because they believe in the same God that we believe.
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  Even they call him Allah, we call him Masham, but they don't,
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  they don't believe in it's all man, it's all one they believe
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  in, in one God. So there's no issue in terms of
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  that. Wow, Wow.
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  When you were in Lebanon OR even in Afghanistan, like what did
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  you do there? What was the recreational
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  activity that you did when you went there?
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  So wasn't more as a kid, I always had an interest in the
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  Middle East. I don't know.
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  I don't know exactly why I can't.
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  I don't have one specific thing that I could pinpoint it or you
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  know, say that's the reason I always had AI always had an
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  interest to travel in the Middle East.
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  Maybe just because like as when you're young, you're in school
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  and you learn about the Bible and all these historic events
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  took place over there. I just felt like I had a certain
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  connection exactly to them, even though I was never actually
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  there. I just felt like in that whole
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  area. I just, you know, wanted to be
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  in, you know, let's say like Egypt.
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  You just. You've been to.
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  Egypt. I've been to Egypt.
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  Yes, I've been to Cairo, I've been to the pyramids, and it's
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  one of the most amazing sights that you could probably see in
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  your life. Inside the pyramid.
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  You don't go actually inside, right, You know, but you take a
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  horse. I thought you could take a camel
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  horse or walk around the Sphinx and it's it's a sight that's
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  like, hey, you don't forget. You know, I remember being in
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  Peru and someone mentioning like, this is one of the wonders
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  of the world, right? Have you been missing out on any
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  of the wonders? Actually Machu Picchu.
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  Very good. Thank you.
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  I think that's the only one. That's the only one.
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  Tell us what the other ones are. So the the Great Wall of China.
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  Yep, you've been there. Been there, which is also
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  amazing. Which is.
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  And you walked on the Great Wall.
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  Of yeah, the gradual that that's a wall.
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  So you actually walk because it's actually like a ramp.
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  I mean, it goes for I don't know how many miles or how many
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  steps, but there's it's a very, very large.
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  You can't walk end to end. No, it's impossible.
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  It's more like, I think, I don't know, but there's one place
• 16:33
  called Badali, which is probably about two hours from Beijing and
• 16:35
  that's like the main tourist attraction where like the best
• 16:38
  pictures and the best. So that is that's what were the
• 16:41
  others Taj Mahal in New Delhi and it's actually in Agra.
• 16:45
  Everyone thinks it's in New Delhi, but it's it's an Agra in,
• 16:48
  in, in. So you've been to the.
• 16:49
  Taj Mahal, Yes. OK.
• 16:50
  Is it as pretty as advertising? It is beautiful.
• 16:52
  Yes, it's gorgeous. And they have gorgeous, they
• 16:54
  make it into like a like a place where people can go and do
• 16:57
  things like is there like a like a market over there or is it
• 17:00
  just like. Not really.
• 17:02
  It's, it's more, it's more remote like you know, but there,
• 17:05
  there are things next to it. There's a place called Agra Fort
• 17:08
  which is a very big tourist site right next to it.
• 17:10
  What is the Taj Mahal? What's inside?
• 17:11
  So there's a shrine. It's it's a shrine that someone
• 17:14
  actually built, a mausoleum that someone built for their wife.
• 17:17
  Interesting. Yeah.
• 17:19
  And but it just, it's a gorgeous, it's a gorgeous
• 17:22
  structure in terms of the colors, everything sparkles.
• 17:25
  Nobody lives inside. No, no, no, no.
• 17:26
  There's no like office buildings.
• 17:28
  No, there's no office buildings. It's just like, like a stat, no
• 17:30
  crime. Source.
• 17:30
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, sort of like a Statue of
• 17:32
  Liberty. OK, OK, man, that's that's two.
• 17:34
  OK. The Sphinx are another one.
• 17:37
  The pyramids. The Great Pyramids.
• 17:39
  OK, Giza, That's three. Rather in the world.
• 17:44
  There's officially like 9 I think, right?
• 17:46
  I don't know. I think there's like a little
• 17:47
  less than a dozen 7 Well, there's the new 7 wonders of the
• 17:51
  world the. Natural ones and then there's
• 17:53
  like built like certain buildings.
• 17:54
  I think that people consider it. Oh so.
• 17:56
  So what else? What others?
• 17:58
  What else? Turkey and Greece.
• 17:59
  I've been to Turkey, even to Greece.
• 18:00
  I don't know if any of the I don't know if any of the
• 18:03
  Wanderers are over there, no. Most likely not.
• 18:07
  What else is one of the Wanderers?
• 18:09
  See you you haven't been to Peru yet?
• 18:11
  I have not been true. OK.
• 18:13
  And that's one of the ones you want to go to.
• 18:15
  Right. That is definitely one of the
• 18:16
  ones I want to go. And Petra and Jordan, which I've
• 18:19
  been to, it's basically the there was a dynasty called the
• 18:22
  Nabateen dynasty and they carved out like mountains in the shape
• 18:27
  of houses, which is beautiful. Wow.
• 18:30
  It's in Petra, Jordan. In there, you've been inside.
• 18:32
  I've been inside. Yeah, that you can actually go
• 18:34
  inside and. People live there and no, no,
• 18:35
  no. It's, it's, it's, it's just,
• 18:37
  it's, it's a, it's a historic. Historical size.
• 18:40
  Historical size, right, which I've.
• 18:41
  Been to a village in Turkey. Actually, they have the hotels
• 18:45
  in the mountains. Oh, that's gorgeous.
• 18:47
  So so I think there are actually some because they're they're
• 18:49
  ancient like wonders in this present day.
• 18:52
  So I don't know if there's like different things and I, I
• 18:54
  believe it's a Chrysler Redeemer and Brazil and Rio de Janeiro is
• 18:58
  one as well, which I live there. Yes, I've been there.
• 19:00
  Brazil's a dangerous place. And there are slums, there are
• 19:03
  neighborhoods that are bad like any country, but in general.
• 19:06
  Anytime you're in South America, you know, like all bets are off,
• 19:09
  like, you know, anything can happen, so.
• 19:11
  Wherever you go, you just can't keep.
• 19:12
  You got to just keep. You got to just, you know, be
• 19:15
  aware of your surroundings and don't go to the wrong
• 19:17
  neighborhoods and just stay out of trouble and.
• 19:20
  You should what? Was the weather like in Brazil?
• 19:21
  It was beautiful. Is it beautiful all year round?
• 19:24
  I don't know. I think they have the opposite.
• 19:25
  They have the opposite of us and they're like in the other side,
• 19:27
  like sort of like South Africa. They have their winter, we have
• 19:30
  our summer. But where the crisis Redeemer is
• 19:33
  in Rio de Janeiro, it's one of the most gorgeous views.
• 19:37
  It's called Sugarloaf Mountain, and it is the most spectacular
• 19:41
  views that you'll see. Wow.
• 19:43
  What parts of the world have you traveled when you felt like,
• 19:45
  wow, these guys have a talent that the world needs to speak
• 19:48
  about? Like, you know, something unique
• 19:50
  about the people in the culture that they do things so
• 19:53
  amazingly. Like you have to speak about it.
• 19:55
  Italy in terms of the most gorgeous, beautiful places and
• 19:59
  so much to see in a small country, I would say Italy has
• 20:03
  such a vast variety in terms of from the South, let's say a
• 20:06
  Malfi coast, you have places like Pasitano and Sorrento where
• 20:10
  has like. Like mountains carved out, like
• 20:13
  houses on the mountains, which are gorgeous with like the
• 20:16
  beach, with the beaches in the background with gorgeous blue
• 20:19
  water. And then you have so much
• 20:21
  history in terms of Pompeii. You have the Coliseum, which is
• 20:27
  amazing. You have just so much going on
• 20:30
  in Italy as well in terms of a small country that I think is
• 20:33
  amazing. You know, yeah.
• 20:34
  And the I guess Italy is your top pick because?
• 20:37
  It's just it's, it's, it's also in terms of kosher food, there's
• 20:40
  a. Lot of options of kosher.
• 20:41
  There's good culture. Tons of kosher food.
• 20:45
  Has there been a place where the you know, you're saying that,
• 20:47
  you know, once you're there with the culture and you know, people
• 20:49
  are nice, but is there a place where there's just, it's just
• 20:51
  ugly. It's just like the people you
• 20:53
  feel it when you when you step down, just like.
• 20:55
  Listen to this, but I'm not coming back here again.
• 20:58
  So again, it could be just a bad day and I I, I hate to say this.
• 21:03
  Because the ambassador of the country is not listening.
• 21:05
  No, no, not bad. Just because you know it could.
• 21:07
  Be bad exactly from the start of your business podcast because no
• 21:12
  one from India can listen to the none of your business.
• 21:13
  Podcast There were parts of India that I did not like and.
• 21:16
  How did I guess? How did you know that?
• 21:18
  I just didn't like it wasn't necessarily the people, it was
• 21:20
  just let's say like the government, like just it was
• 21:22
  stupid things. But for me it was just annoying.
• 21:24
  For example, like I had a flight and it was delayed for like 7 or
• 21:28
  8 hours and they wouldn't let us out of the airport.
• 21:31
  Like if I would have let, if I would have left the airport, you
• 21:33
  forfeit your whole entire ticket.
• 21:35
  Wow. No.
• 21:37
  That was just like, I'm like I'm here for another 7 hours, let me
• 21:39
  at least get out. I will go to town and see more
• 21:41
  like, no, you can't do that. You can't leave.
• 21:43
  Nope. They cannot.
• 21:44
  Leave the airport. Right.
• 21:45
  I guess for security measures. So I guess kudos to them.
• 21:48
  For me, as a traveler, I did not enjoy that.
• 21:51
  I'm just curious, in the United States, have you travelled the
• 21:53
  States? I've been to some places, maybe
• 21:55
  like 25 states, but I feel like I could always do that now that
• 21:57
  I don't. I think America is the most
• 21:59
  beautiful country and an amazing place.
• 22:01
  I I just feel like I could do that later on.
• 22:03
  Right now my passion is to have more countries as opposed.
• 22:06
  To that is a that is a good. Point, Michael, if you're going
• 22:08
  from state to state America, the differences aren't so
• 22:11
  discernible, saying it's all very similar again if some of
• 22:14
  them have certain different highlights.
• 22:16
  But golden country to country, of course world changes.
• 22:19
  Of course. Everything changes, the people
• 22:21
  change, the culture change, the landscape changes everything
• 22:23
  around the language. Changes.
• 22:25
  I'm a big animal lover. What country has some of the
• 22:28
  most unique animals? So unique animals.
• 22:31
  I mean, definitely in South America you have Jaguars, which
• 22:34
  you don't have anywhere else in the world.
• 22:35
  Cool. Have you seen?
• 22:36
  Jaguars. I haven't, but I'm just just in
• 22:38
  general, yeah. I mean, I've seen the zoos, but
• 22:41
  not in not in the Amazon or whatever, but going to going to
• 22:45
  any, any, any, any safari. You know, I went to Cho.
• 22:49
  We park in Botswana. We had elephant crossing in the
• 22:52
  road. And that's something I think
• 22:53
  about from time to time. It was like, wow, over here we
• 22:56
  have deer, which is pretty cool. Over there was actually
• 22:58
  elephants crossing the street, you know, like a few blocks away
• 23:02
  from. Traffic because there's an
• 23:04
  elephant. Crossing, yeah.
• 23:04
  I mean, not much traffic going around, but yeah, it was pretty,
• 23:07
  pretty cool. I mean, but when you go over
• 23:09
  there, you see the most, you know, lions which are only
• 23:12
  technically in Africa. I mean, there's mountain lions
• 23:14
  here locally, but no. I'm curious.
• 23:17
  You have a nice watch on, right? It seems like you're a good
• 23:19
  you're you're a watch guy, right?
• 23:20
  You like you like nice watches. Do you wear that when you travel
• 23:23
  to these places? No, no, you're conscious about
• 23:26
  this. You're.
• 23:27
  It depends. Weird though.
• 23:28
  OK, where I'm where I'm going to go to like a regular like a
• 23:31
  place I don't have to worry about safety in any bit I do
• 23:34
  take it otherwise I. I want to talk about from the
• 23:36
  questions that we asked you earlier, you know, did you get
• 23:40
  through this question about any friends that you made traveling
• 23:43
  around the world? Any friends that you made that
• 23:45
  you can say like, you know what, yeah, I'm still in touch with
• 23:47
  that person or I can't wait to go back to spend time there.
• 23:51
  So not really. I made a lot of friends.
• 23:53
  There's some certain people are saying in Thailand I met
• 23:55
  someone. No, actually to Thailand.
• 23:57
  Yeah, Well, that's an interesting place.
• 23:58
  Thailand. Wow.
• 24:00
  So Thailand is like. But I feel like Thailand is very
• 24:04
  Everyone in Israel finishes, the army goes to Thailand.
• 24:06
  Yeah. It's like, yeah.
• 24:07
  Americans, it's more exotic and there's a.
• 24:09
  Huge Chabad presence here. Great Shabbos program.
• 24:12
  The biggest pace off seizures in the world?
• 24:15
  There's about 1800 people. Whoa, what cap?
• 24:18
  That I didn't even know. In publishing ma Yeah,
• 24:21
  interesting. One of the biggest?
• 24:22
  What's going on? Because it's cheap, so Israelis
• 24:24
  travel there usually. I like Michael said after the
• 24:27
  Army and in general it's very cheap and a lot of fun and just
• 24:31
  great vibes all around. It's just like there's so much
• 24:33
  stuff to do with in Thailand. And actually by a Friday night
• 24:36
  dinner, I met somebody that I actually keep up with.
• 24:39
  He's actually like a French producer, and I keep up with
• 24:43
  him, you know, like, from time to time, just say what's up,
• 24:45
  like, how are you? Let me text you.
• 24:46
  Yeah, we're not very close, but there are people, you know, I
• 24:49
  met a lot of cool people, you know, around, but I don't
• 24:52
  necessarily keep up with anyone specifically or feel like I want
• 24:54
  to go back to that place to meet that person.
• 24:57
  But in general, I have acquired friends in a lot of different
• 25:00
  places. What is your?
• 25:00
  Favorite trip of all time that you did?
• 25:04
  So again, it's it's every place you go to or everything had a
• 25:08
  unique story or a unique experience.
• 25:13
  I don't know if I have, I don't know if I have like a favorite
• 25:16
  place or a favorite trip that I went to.
• 25:18
  Every place that I went to had a different uniqueness to it.
• 25:22
  I have to tell you, there are a few travelers that I've started
• 25:24
  to follow. There's someone named Ezra
• 25:25
  Badonski and then Benny Bennett. And if you've heard of these
• 25:28
  guys and they travel and they record their travels and it's
• 25:32
  amazing and they say the same thing.
• 25:33
  It's just impossible to pick one big.
• 25:35
  The world is just so big and we want to just keep.
• 25:38
  So many cool places, yeah. Yeah.
• 25:39
  So it'd be hard to, you know, pick a few favorites, right?
• 25:43
  Interesting. And from all the places that
• 25:45
  you've been to, have you ever had like any scary things happen
• 25:49
  to you? Like any, like I know maybe you
• 25:51
  got sick in a place and you have to go to their hospital and like
• 25:54
  you know, you've been to a lot of third world countries.
• 25:55
  Right, right. So when I came to Lebanon, I did
• 25:58
  not have Israel on my on my on my passport.
• 26:00
  OK, now I knew it's you're not allowed to have it and I did not
• 26:04
  come there with it. And person by the security looks
• 26:07
  at me for like a few minutes. He looks at my passport really,
• 26:09
  really slow. He doesn't ask me.
• 26:11
  He tells me he's like, you weren't Israel.
• 26:13
  He tells me look at him and he said look at my passport, I know
• 26:19
  the laws. You're not going to come to
• 26:20
  Lebanon with an Israeli stamp. And I do not have more.
• 26:24
  So I'm not sure what the issue is.
• 26:25
  And they said if I went there, you see how many countries I've
• 26:27
  been to, I have nothing to do with Israel.
• 26:30
  If I went there, I went to like any other country, but I do not
• 26:32
  have it on my passport. It's like, wait one minute.
• 26:35
  I said, OK, no problem. So just like that.
• 26:36
  It was just like a little like hippie, like I don't know what's
• 26:38
  going to be or whatever. And he comes back after a few
• 26:41
  minutes. He's like, OK, he's like we take
• 26:43
  special security measure with you.
• 26:46
  I'm like, OK, he's like, I take picture from your passport.
• 26:49
  I said no problem, That sounds reasonable, right, Very
• 26:51
  reasonable. I was like, OK, so good, I'm
• 26:53
  good. I could go.
• 26:54
  He's like, sure. And that's it.
• 26:56
  So just it was like a few minutes and not of the unknown.
• 26:59
  But while I once I once I pass through the actual, you know,
• 27:03
  getting in, you mean. You didn't have a drone
• 27:05
  following you the entire time. I don't know.
• 27:07
  Very fast. You know, we shouldn't take it
• 27:09
  for granted. That's the only country in the
• 27:13
  world where you could rely on some type of reasonable
• 27:17
  government that's not going to like, prosecute you unjustly.
• 27:22
  And I'm talking about an extreme level.
• 27:24
  Obviously, there's always, you know, local politics, things
• 27:26
  like that. But like, if you go to any other
• 27:28
  country in the world, all bets are off.
• 27:30
  Like, you don't know what they're capable of.
• 27:32
  They could do anything. But in this country, we're very
• 27:34
  fortunate that we don't have this kind of horror stories.
• 27:37
  We don't have to worry about an official pulling out his garden
• 27:40
  and just shooting you and and for no reason.
• 27:43
  And they can get away with it. Like over here.
• 27:44
  There's some like there's we are not just a like democratic
• 27:49
  country. We are a civilized moral country
• 27:52
  and the rest of the world isn't say.
• 27:54
  Iran, the people that live over the air are dying for peace with
• 27:58
  Israel and America they love, are they?
• 28:01
  Of course, most of all, I would say 80% of the country want that
• 28:06
  they. Wait a second.
• 28:07
  Wow. You're saying you're saying
• 28:08
  something now that I don't know if I agree with it, that I hope
• 28:10
  you're right. You're telling me if you would
• 28:12
  poll Palestine, Iran, Iraq, the people, just the people, and you
• 28:18
  ask them, are you OK with what your government is currently
• 28:21
  doing, what they stand for and what their mission statement is?
• 28:25
  Or do you wish this would all be eradicated and you could just
• 28:28
  live in peace and harmony, not just with Israel, but with the
• 28:30
  rest of the world and let everybody do their thing?
• 28:33
  And you're going to do your thing.
• 28:34
  I was going to bother each other.
• 28:35
  What do you think the the people would come back with?
• 28:37
  So I think the poll would be people who weren't obviously
• 28:40
  were brainwashed as a kid to hate or anything they Western
• 28:43
  civilization and culture. I think they would say no, that
• 28:46
  they're not OK with their government stance and
• 28:49
  everything, and they would. And yes, they stand for peace.
• 28:51
  They stand for peace. I would say most of the people.
• 28:53
  But you just said if they weren't brainwashed, right?
• 28:55
  But they have been already. A lot of all they do in their
• 28:58
  systems is teach them about the rest of the world is evil.
• 29:02
  Everything needs to be Sharia law.
• 29:03
  There's only one God. And we got to make sure that
• 29:05
  we're sending that message and spreading it across the globe at
• 29:07
  all costs, whether it's murder, whether it's becoming martyrs,
• 29:10
  whatever. That's what they've been
• 29:10
  talking. About.
• 29:11
  But I believe it's only the extreme extremes that actually
• 29:14
  do believe that. I believe the day-to-day people,
• 29:17
  yes, go to any person. I ran you.
• 29:19
  Know why I have a hard time believing it?
• 29:21
  Because at a certain junction, if the majority of the people
• 29:24
  truly had a certain will, at a certain point there would be a
• 29:28
  tactic to overthrow the government.
• 29:29
  I think that's to take them. Wouldn't they try that look in
• 29:32
  the last year and a half, what's going on with protests?
• 29:34
  Iran woman that took off their their their face that their head
• 29:39
  scarfed Exactly And they came to protest and they got killed or
• 29:42
  whatever the case is, they got jailed.
• 29:44
  No, I understand that, but I that's because I don't think
• 29:46
  it's the majority of the country.
• 29:48
  People are just scared to stand up, even if they actually
• 29:50
  believe in it. Just there is.
• 29:52
  I think something that's eye opening or was eye eye opening
• 29:55
  to me is the fact that there's over 2 billion Muslims in the
• 29:59
  world. So if you take a small
• 30:00
  percentage of it, that's the extreme.
• 30:02
  That's still millions of people. And that's what we're hearing a
• 30:06
  lot of the media and that's what.
• 30:07
  We hear a lot in general, not the majority, though.
• 30:09
  It's really not the majority. And it's a lot of people know
• 30:12
  that we have to, you know, I feel very sorry for.
• 30:14
  I bought a car. I bought a car recently from a
• 30:16
  guy who was an Iranian. I'm an Iranian, an Iranian who
• 30:19
  his mother still lives in Iran. And he says that he's proud, and
• 30:24
  his people are proud that they protect the burial site of some
• 30:28
  of the holiest Jews that were ever alive.
• 30:30
  Have you been there? I have not been there but
• 30:31
  Mordecai Nester is buried in Hamadan and it's on my top 10.
• 30:36
  So you haven't been to? Didn't mean to correct you in
• 30:38
  the first few. You were in Iraq.
• 30:40
  Then I was not been to Iraq. And oh, Iraq, yeah, that's close
• 30:44
  enough. Yeah.
• 30:44
  That's why I'm like, yeah. Definitely in proximity.
• 30:47
  OK, OK, that's fast. Iraq.
• 30:48
  What's Iraq like? So it was cool.
• 30:50
  I actually only went to the northern part.
• 30:51
  I didn't go to Baghdad at that point.
• 30:52
  Today I would go to Baghdad, but I only went to Kurdistan.
• 30:56
  Was Saddam Hussein at the time? No, No.
• 30:58
  He was already out of power. Only I went in 2019.
• 31:00
  OK, so I only went to the Kurdistan fire, which is Erbil,
• 31:05
  that's the capital of the Kurdistan fire.
• 31:07
  And it was cool. I was only there for literally
• 31:10
  like 1/2 a day so. Where haven't you gone to yet?
• 31:12
  What's what's on your bucket list?
• 31:13
  Right, he said that. Well, again, the top ten lists,
• 31:16
  right? You said there's, there's Iran.
• 31:17
  Iran, right? It's Peru.
• 31:19
  Peru. But it's not.
• 31:20
  I don't know if it's my top. I would I want to go there my my
• 31:23
  mind, but it's not like what's. Next for you.
• 31:25
  So I want to go to, I really want to go to Guatemala.
• 31:28
  OK, that's very doable. Which is very doable, very
• 31:30
  close. That's what it is.
• 31:31
  Active volcano. That's active volcano.
• 31:34
  So that's really what piques my interest.
• 31:36
  Active volcano. Like you actually see lava
• 31:38
  spewing out of a mountain at night.
• 31:40
  That only happens a certain amount of time, certain period
• 31:42
  of time. Right now it's actually active,
• 31:44
  so. Everywhere it's different.
• 31:45
  We were. I was in Iceland few years ago
• 31:47
  and I hiked 4 hours and saw an active volcano and it was
• 31:50
  beautiful. And I have to tell you I watched
• 31:52
  people who paid for a helicopter trip to go over and hover.
• 31:55
  I was like no, I wasn't jealous of them.
• 31:57
  I was like what are you doing? It's it's so different when you
• 32:01
  get up to get so up close and personal.
• 32:02
  Not just that, it's from like 1000 feet away.
• 32:05
  The concept of hiking and getting into it and then seeing
• 32:08
  the erupting volcano. But I did take a helicopter over
• 32:11
  grand canyons and I definitely see the appeal to and it's
• 32:14
  something that. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely a
• 32:16
  good visual, Yeah. This the view that you'd get in
• 32:19
  there, it's not comparable, just the hiking and and looking at
• 32:22
  the mountain from that vantage point.
• 32:24
  You know, you know, you, you've met so many people.
• 32:26
  You I'm sure you've thought about this before.
• 32:28
  Like I know you have a lot of useless, right?
• 32:30
  You come from a wonderful family.
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  I think your great, great fan grandfather was the call RA, if
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  I'm not mistaken, right? You like that one?
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  We know this for a reason. So, well, the reason why I'm
• 32:39
  asking is, you know it, you know, besides him, if there was
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  one person that you can actually sit and have lunch with and put
• 32:44
  on the garb and feel like you're in the culture and you know, you
• 32:47
  know, be a part of it, that's a great question.
• 32:49
  Alive, dead past, future. Who would that be and why?
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  One person. Just one person you get to have
• 32:54
  lunch with. Shoot.
• 32:55
  That's it. This is a tough.
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  I thought the first two questions were hard.
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  Definitely there's. Too many people.
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  Give us some. Doesn't have to be just one.
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  Give us a couple. Well, what's running through
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  your head? Yeah, Gandhi.
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  Yeah, and the other thinking more like Moses type, this is
• 33:10
  true. And shit.
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  OK, Moses. Yeah, you know, kudos to Gandhi.
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  Yeah, what would you ask Moses if you said?
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  Just ask him how it was. How was your trip?
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  How? How was it to speak to God?
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  How was it? What did?
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  We all like to know, right? Just, you know, just that time,
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  that era, what was the light? Not a bit more realistic,
• 33:29
  please. Something a little bit more down
• 33:30
  to earth, you know? Oh, it gets maybe Leonardo
• 33:33
  DiCaprio, just because he's like my favorite old actor.
• 33:35
  Oh, he's a good one. I liked all of his movies.
• 33:38
  Too. Why would you ask Leonardo
• 33:39
  DiCaprio? Just to chill with him, you
• 33:41
  know, I just want to see what he's really, really.
• 33:43
  Like, just want to hang out with him for the day, see if he's
• 33:45
  that same person that you've seen on screen.
• 33:47
  I'd probably pick some type of athlete 'cause I'm very shallow
• 33:49
  minded like that. I'd probably pick like, you
• 33:51
  know, Michael Jordan or something, or like, I don't
• 33:53
  know, Tiger Woods, you know, pick their brain for a few
• 33:55
  minutes. Who traveled the world?
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  Who's that person that you look up to, that you say to yourself,
• 33:59
  you know what? Wow, that person has traveled
• 34:02
  cultured. Right.
• 34:03
  Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, in our circles.
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  I don't. Know I mentioned 2 already
• 34:06
  earlier that are in our circles. Yeah, they travel, they document
• 34:09
  everything goes up every every week.
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  He's the guy. Drew Binsky, He's actually the.
• 34:13
  He's been to every single country.
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  Every every single How many have you been to at 60?
• 34:19
  560 a. 195 countries. Wow. 195, that's a lot of us to
• 34:23
  want. It includes Jay-Z, yeah.
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  That's pretty. So you've been.
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  To about 1/3 of the of the world we've seen.
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  I guess that's fascinating. Wow.
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  Definitely, definitely you've. Been to Australia?
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  I've been to Australia. What's that like?
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  So it's very far. It's.
• 34:42
  Like is it worth the trip though?
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  I've always thought about it. It's nice.
• 34:46
  It's if you have a lot of time, it's worth it.
• 34:48
  But like just to go and come, it's like you leave here on the
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  Sunday, you get there like Wednesday.
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  Wow. Between the 24 hours to get
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  there and then the it's like 16 hours straight from California,
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  from New York. It's a.
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  It's a. It's a nightmare fly.
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  It's a very, very long play. I would.
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  I want to make it like, by the way, really, I feel like it does
• 35:08
  their own thing in general, like Australia, do they even have a
• 35:10
  military Australia? Like like we're like we're,
• 35:13
  we're there's Australia during World War 2.
• 35:15
  Like what? What did they play role in all
• 35:16
  this? Or were they like in their own
• 35:17
  part in the world, minding their own business and they were
• 35:20
  jumping with the Kangaroos. I feel like they're doing their
• 35:22
  own thing out there. They were like the country
• 35:24
  looking around the table. Interesting.
• 35:27
  Interesting. So we get involved it.
• 35:28
  Actually started off as a as a British prison.
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  That's how it started off. You kidding?
• 35:34
  What is that? That was the UK, it was owned by
• 35:36
  the UK and they said. By the Britons.
• 35:39
  The Brits, they owned everything at one point.
• 35:41
  They did. Yeah, they.
• 35:41
  Did all over the place. Yeah.
• 35:43
  The British Empire was massive, yes, right.
• 35:45
  They controlled so much of the world.
• 35:47
  Hong Kong. I mean even India.
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  Have you been to Hong Kong? I've been to Hong Kong, yeah.
• 35:53
  In Hong Kong, that's probably really fascinating.
• 35:55
  It's very fast a. Lot of people have been to Hong.
• 35:56
  Yeah, it's it's. Probably so exactly.
• 35:58
  It's very heavy would. You say it's like New York City,
• 36:00
  like like Times Square, all over the place.
• 36:02
  Certain parts, the whole city, definitely certain parts,
• 36:04
  definitely that that rush feel and.
• 36:07
  I'm curious, in your travels, what is the most advanced
• 36:10
  country you've ever been to and what is the least advanced
• 36:13
  country I've been to? So the most advanced, I would
• 36:16
  say definitely, probably United Arab Emirates, just because it's
• 36:20
  technically whatever they do is the biggest and best.
• 36:22
  True. And I mean in Dubai, every,
• 36:25
  every building that they do, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest and
• 36:28
  how quickly. They've built it is so
• 36:29
  fascinating. It's definitely the most
• 36:31
  probably, I would say probably the one the more advanced.
• 36:34
  Country and you slept in that seven star hotel I did in in
• 36:38
  Dubai. Right, it's called the Burj
• 36:39
  Khalifa. The what's it called?
• 36:41
  The Burj Khalifa. Burj Khalifa And what does it
• 36:43
  cost the night? I'm sorry.
• 36:44
  The Burj Khalifa is a building. It's called the Burj Al Arab.
• 36:47
  OK, OK. Burj Al Arab I'm happy that we
• 36:49
  it was straightened that out. So.
• 36:51
  So how much does that cost for the night?
• 36:53
  I don't know but every night, but a lot of nights the cheapest
• 36:56
  room is like $2200. 20. Two wow, that's a lot of points.
• 37:00
  That's the cheapest. They take points, yeah.
• 37:02
  That's the cheapest room. OK.
• 37:03
  And like, what's the rooms like? Like what is it?
• 37:04
  They're crazy. They're like two floor suite.
• 37:07
  Every room is a two floor suite minimum.
• 37:09
  Yes, in the bridge, yes, and a lot of gold, a lot of blue, a
• 37:13
  lot of Trump would make a room. That's what it would be like.
• 37:17
  He has hotels. So.
• 37:18
  But I mean to say, it's just very, very glitzy, very not
• 37:21
  contemporary, not modern. Everything is very, very, very,
• 37:25
  a lot of very exactly. A lot of blue, a lot of gold, a
• 37:27
  lot of red. You've been to Oman?
• 37:29
  Yeah, I've been to Omar. That's a dangerous place.
• 37:32
  Is it? There was at one point a lot of
• 37:35
  civil wars over there, like there were, there were like
• 37:37
  gunfights. It's right next to the Yemen, so
• 37:41
  yeah. Yemen is not a very free.
• 37:42
  Place right now, it's a little bit, definitely a civil war
• 37:45
  going on there with the booties and stuff, but during the world,
• 37:48
  yeah, I was in Muscat. I was just, you know, city.
• 37:51
  Actually, do me a favor, give us some travel tips, how to travel
• 37:56
  in a savvy way. You know what?
• 37:58
  What are some of the things you learned over the course of your
• 38:00
  travels that can maybe help someone you know, travel better,
• 38:04
  travel lighter or travel more efficiently?
• 38:06
  You know, give us tips some. I'd like to start that question
• 38:09
  with saying if I have, you know a budget of going one place this
• 38:12
  year and it's a normal but. It's also a great question.
• 38:14
  Right. Like how do I start?
• 38:15
  Where? Where?
• 38:15
  Where's a good place to start? Yeah.
• 38:17
  So I, I guess every single per, it's a very personal question
• 38:22
  for that. It's very individualized for
• 38:24
  that person because every person has something else that they
• 38:27
  like. Before an avatar for someone
• 38:28
  that doesn't want to get too intense, what would be your
• 38:30
  recommendation? This.
• 38:31
  Morning do you want to have fun? Do you want to go to We're?
• 38:33
  Done with Miami. What's next?
• 38:35
  That's all. That's the question.
• 38:36
  Just make a place. What's what's that?
• 38:37
  Do you want to go somewhere you know a creative place you want
• 38:40
  to? Anywhere in the Caribbean's a
• 38:42
  lot of fun OK OK Nick is a great place here all all over the
• 38:46
  Caribbean OK, not much to do with the air, but just a lot of
• 38:49
  fun that's more from. Relaxing, right?
• 38:51
  So you're looking for sightseeing?
• 38:52
  Yeah, sightseeing and to go and, you know, do something.
• 38:55
  Embed yourself in a culture like, you know what I mean?
• 38:56
  Like that's. Yeah, I guess that's what it is,
• 38:58
  yeah. Well, the certain parts in
• 39:02
  Mexico have a lot of culture and a lot of history to it.
• 39:04
  I mean we've. All been to Mexico.
• 39:06
  Right, but even like 2 hours away from from Cancun I.
• 39:08
  Don't know one of these exotic far away places.
• 39:10
  Something like Toms River. A lot of culture there.
• 39:15
  Exotic, definitely. I would say going to Indonesia,
• 39:20
  to Bali. Oh, OK, That's something that's
• 39:23
  like, whoa, because people actually believe.
• 39:26
  I mean, there's Buddhist over there and they actually, you see
• 39:29
  them bringing like sacrifices to, to, to Buddha.
• 39:33
  They bring like fruits and things like that.
• 39:35
  And there's temples, let's say, even in India.
• 39:37
  So I'm saying in terms of culture, like something that's
• 39:39
  different like from 1000 years ago, people that worship the sun
• 39:42
  and believe in different things. That's definitely up there.
• 39:45
  I mean in in general Indonesia is a Muslim country but Bali is
• 39:49
  considered more more Buddhist. It's very attainable to go
• 39:53
  there. It's not such.
• 39:54
  Difficult in terms of, attenible in terms of money wise in terms
• 39:59
  of, in terms of. Anyone just go travel there?
• 40:03
  Yeah. I would say Thailand probably
• 40:05
  because maybe just in terms of cheapness, because everything's
• 40:07
  very affordable over there. Hotels are great and they're
• 40:10
  very cheap, right? It is very.
• 40:12
  Have like sections of Thailand that are more modern and they
• 40:14
  have. Like, yeah, yeah.
• 40:16
  Interesting. So it was made for a nice
• 40:17
  vacation. Definitely great vacation.
• 40:19
  They have gorgeous beaches as well.
• 40:20
  Also nice beaches. Beautiful one.
• 40:22
  That's a safe place to be. Very safe.
• 40:25
  And they have kosher food there. All over, Yeah, all over.
• 40:27
  Not all over. In the main cities and Paquette,
• 40:29
  there's kosher like restaurants and there's kebab house and
• 40:32
  there's like a like like a corporated restaurant.
• 40:35
  OK. They have like.
• 40:37
  Supermarkets there like more. No, not, not kosher wise.
• 40:40
  I mean, for anyone who's, let's say, looking at something
• 40:42
  different than Miami, I like getting back to your question, I
• 40:44
  would say Panama is a very good choice.
• 40:46
  OK, we're actually we. Were here, yeah.
• 40:48
  There. So it's it's 18 kosher
• 40:50
  restaurants here. Yeah, Panama's got to be one of
• 40:52
  the hubs of course of. Food right now, definitely.
• 40:53
  It's absurd. Every other day another place
• 40:55
  pops up. And very affordable.
• 40:57
  Very affordable and delicious. Amazing and the cutest monkeys.
• 41:00
  Good restaurants. Thank you are the cutest
• 41:02
  monkeys. And on the monkey jungle, the
• 41:04
  monkey jungle, the only issue with it, there's no if you like
• 41:06
  beaches, no beach in town you have to go 2 hours.
• 41:09
  Right, right. You got to get a little
• 41:10
  helicopter rides like an hour. Well, in terms of city wise and
• 41:13
  culture and love Pan. Wow.
• 41:15
  Before we let you go, first of all, that was an amazing,
• 41:17
  amazing journey that we took together.
• 41:20
  You know, I'm living vicariously through you for the past hour
• 41:23
  and I can't wait for more. I can't wait for more 2 hour
• 41:25
  discussions outside events. One of the things that we'd like
• 41:29
  to do here on the None of Your Business podcasts is we'd like
• 41:30
  to ask you to think about it for a minute and pick someone that
• 41:34
  you think would be a good match for us and to come onto our
• 41:37
  podcast to bring value and someone we can learn from.
• 41:40
  Is there anyone particularly that you have in mind that?
• 41:42
  You. Yes, we're putting you on the
• 41:43
  spot. And we'd like to ask you to call
• 41:45
  that person now. Could not.
• 41:47
  Speaker yes, absolutely. That's the way we do it here.
• 41:51
  It. Doesn't always work for us, by
• 41:53
  the way, but when it works, I feel like the audience has
• 41:55
  something to look forward. To.
• 41:57
  Totally. And you think they should do it
• 41:58
  as well? You totally throw it.
• 41:59
  What are you thinking of I? Think it My brother in law's
• 42:01
  name is Mordechai Weinberger. Mordechai Weinberger Yes, the
• 42:04
  therapist. Mordecai therapist that lives in
• 42:06
  Lakewood. Lives in Lakewood.
• 42:07
  He has a he has a place in Muncie called Serenity Health
• 42:13
  where it's for mental health. He comes like twice or three
• 42:16
  times a week. So he so he leads Serenity
• 42:19
  Health, which is one of our partner Neil Zellman's company.
• 42:22
  It's correct. And they yes.
• 42:24
  And they actually just started a version of the podcast together
• 42:28
  with Nachi called Pause talking about mental health and
• 42:32
  challenges and and really going on a journey that is going to be
• 42:36
  very exciting. So I'm excited for you to call
• 42:39
  him. You can let him know that one of
• 42:40
  his ex patients, Michael Greenfield, is sitting in front
• 42:44
  of you. I've used him a couple of times
• 42:45
  for therapy sessions and he is on the money.
• 42:49
  Well, look. At this, yeah, but he was your
• 42:51
  therapy. Yes, I used them two times.
• 42:53
  He was. Honestly, he was a little too
• 42:54
  similar to me in many ways, so it didn't really work, but I
• 42:58
  loved his energy and I loved what he has to say.
• 43:00
  Get him on the horn right now. Let's do it.
• 43:02
  Let's do this. OK.
• 43:06
  How are you, you know, we're, we're on the podcast and we
• 43:10
  asked him to pick one person who he would pick that would bring
• 43:15
  value to this podcast. He didn't even have to think
• 43:18
  about it for a second. And.
• 43:21
  It was you, by the way, nothing like my special.
• 43:27
  So part of their question is they want to know who could
• 43:30
  bring something to the table. So obviously I thought about
• 43:33
  you. Are you ready to come on our
• 43:35
  podcasts? You've been chosen.
• 43:38
  Yeah, sure, Michael. The answer to actually, I just
• 43:40
  don't. I honestly don't go in like
• 43:42
  like. Amazing.
• 43:43
  We'll fit you in. Thank you, love you, thank you
• 43:46
  very much. We appreciate you being here.
• 43:48
  And I look forward to all the journeys that we hear about
• 43:51
  together with all of us. And may we all continue to take
• 43:54
  journeys all the way to Jerusalem.
• 43:56
  Mashiach. Well, it's a nice idea, Michael.
• 43:59
  I'll say my We should probably do more podcasts so we can catch
• 44:02
  together. We don't have to do things we
• 44:05
  gotta. I could do Mike.
• 44:06
  No, no. Today, if you want, if you want
• 44:08
  time for machine, you wanna, you know, catch up podcast gotta be
• 44:10
  behind mics and cameras. Yeah, yes.
• 44:13
  I gotta get a different hobby that you could have me here
• 44:14
  again.