I’m Never Going Back to Afghanistan (unless I get drafted)

You see what I'm getting at? And let's just talk about YouTube, the general culture of making travel content online, right? So everybody grows up.

Everybody knows.

Afghanistan, Pakistan, these countries, Saudi Arabia, they were behind the attacks on September 11th, right? People know that.

You grow up hearing that.

I was in the second grade when 9-11 happened.

I know, right? That's the world we grew up in.

The only memories I have of flying on an airplane are getting my ass searched by TSA.

This is the world that we have inherited thanks to these fuckers, right? And so it's hard to break out of that cultural conditioning, right? That's what everybody thinks when they think of these countries, for better or worse, that is how they are perceived on the global stage.

Now,

we could have a different conversation.

Do they deserve that reputation? Does the average person agree with these sick fucks who kill innocent people and, you know, say it's in the name of their God? That's a different conversation.

But the truth is, this is the reputation they have around the world, right? It's just how it is.

And I tell it like it is, right? Remember that, guys? Now streaming on kick.com, where you can say slurs.

No.

Everyone knows this is the reputation.

So when you go to these countries, okay, now let's talk about YouTube.

The incentive of YouTube is to go as a YouTube creator, right? What makes more interesting content? Going to a country and being like, hey guys, the story you've been told, the story you've heard for 25 years straight is the correct story.

I'm here to verify it.

I am the thousandth person to agree with CBS News, ABC News, MSNBC, CNN, Fox.

That's not an exciting point of view to have.

Kind of the essence of what makes YouTube exciting and fresh and contrarian is the fact that what I'm doing right now, I just fired up a camera and this is going to go live within an hour, right? That's the beauty of it.

There's no. HR department, there is no, I mean, although YouTube is slowly becoming like the mainstream, you have, you know, producers of channels, you have fixers, you have translators, you have HR.

If you're working with brands, which I'm not on the podcast channel, the truth is the big money, it's clean money.

It's washed, right? If you want a big brand deal from a name brand company that everybody knows, you have to be squeaky fucking clean, right? You have to play it by the book.

You can't tow any kind of line.