 one gay hangout in Tannam Sands. This is a really gay only place to get together with your fellow gays and engage in consensual activities. So this is Apex Park, number one gay hangout spot in Tannam Sands, just as clear as clear can be. So lots of lots of trees to provide cover for all your favorite gay activities, nice benches, all right. Very nice landscaping. So yeah mate, we're now on Horty Houtrall and this is this is a safe space for you, mate. So just trying to figure out why is Tannam Sands so safe? Why can kids just walk to school or ride their bikes to school with no worries? Why can you take your computer to the beach or your phone to the beach and just leave it on the beach and go have a swim? Just trying to figure all that out. Like what is it about this place that makes us heaven on earth here in rural Queensland, regional Australia. That's what it's called. So Booth Avenue, all right. This is, whoo, this is a name for my granddad Alfred Booth. Now we're going to name a street after my sister, but the city council said he can't have any more family names, but my mother got her own street and my uncles and aunties got their own street. My grandfather, my maternal grandfather Alfred Booth, owned 6,000 acres here. All right, so we're coming up, all right, so we're coming up on rush hour traffic. This is rush hour traffic in Tannam Sands. So Alfred Booth by internal grandfather in 1952, he bought about 6,000 acres here. So he basically bought Tannam Sands and how it's been subdivided. We've got mud and soil nationalism here. Not many places you can go and have streets named after your grandfather and your mother and your uncles and your aunties. And Australia is pretty much a secular country. They do have a ton of private schools, like religious private schools. They live very nice Catholic private schools. St. Francis here in Tannam Sands. So the kids and posh parents tend to send their kids to private schools. So the public schools are pretty fair-denken here. What is it that makes Tannam Sands such a safe space? Why is regional Australia such a safe space? Why is even Sydney a safe space? Because safe spaces have become all the rage in the United States and parts of the United Kingdom for oppressed people of color. And those who aren't heteronormative, all right, they need safe spaces. But what about the rest of us there? And we need a safe space too. So I served on a jury in Inglewood where the accused, the evidence was overwhelming that he'd been driving drunk. But two black women on the jury said, ah, we've got enough young black men in jail so they didn't want a sentence into jail. And reading another news report this week about young black men who committed a home invasion and murdered someone. But several people on the jury wanted to plea it down to just manslaughter instead of murder because there are enough young black men in prison. So this kind of attitude where you allow that bad people to roam free with very little punishment is not going to increase safe spaces. All right. How come people get to have nice things here in Tannam Sands? All right. How come their kids get to ride their bikes to school? People can walk around at night. People can leave their doors open. All right. People don't lock their homes around here. They don't lock their cars, especially no serious crime around here. Compared to America's astronomical rates of crime, this feels like a safe space to me, right? So Steven Spielberg has remade West Side Story. And of course, because it was 2021, the white gang are the bad guys in this new version of West Side Story. So there's another news story where 39-year-old black man knifed to death some white teenage kid. And I know that's why he did it. Like I said, oh, because white gave a syphilis. I think he's talking about the Tuskegee experiment. So whipping up all this racial hatred, this anti-white racial hatred just doesn't seem like a good way to create safe spaces. So people are pretty good citizens around here. Keep their dogs on leashes. Now, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, your dogs tend to be really nice and fluffy and friendly. When you get into regional Australia, like Port Macquarie, people had a lot nastier dogs, right? They had killer dogs. In the eastern suburbs, the posh suburbs of Sydney, you had nice fluffy dogs. So this is Boine Island across Boine River here. So there are two bridges to get into Boine. So I first remember coming up here in 1982. In January, February of 1982, we flew into Brisbane for my sister's wedding, and then I drove out with my brother. He lives up here. And I just love the place. So after high school, I wanted to come here for a year and live. So on the one hand, I love the place. I love the mates that I made. On the other hand, I felt a little weird that I was falling back a year from getting on with my life. So I was a year behind my peers. And I finally got stuck in the college. But I had a great time here. But toward the end, when it turned into wintertime here, like April, May, the smell of the smoke from the fires, from the fireplaces that made me long to be home in Northern California to get on with my life. I just love the opportunity in America and the freedom. They don't have a First Amendment. They have much more freedom of speech, freedom to commit acts of journalism in America than Australia. So I'm here for a holiday and it's really easy to just fall in love with the place to go to on a holiday. Right? So what happens when I return to Los Angeles? Well, I feel enormous relief walking into my home. I feel like, ah, it's good to be home. Or I'll be ready to actually complete this move to Sydney. So here are the flying foxes. Why they create a bit of a racket, don't they? How do they sleep? Hopefully they sleep during the day and they fly about and eat at night. How do they sleep with all that racket going on? Look at them all. G'day, mate. Rather pungent odor. So one thing that doesn't create these spaces is a lot of racial tension. So in Australia, there's this lot of racial vilification going on at sporting events when Australia plays other countries or browner countries. So I find that very distasteful. Gotta go on and go to a cricket match and here are the Indian or Pakistani or the dark black or brown players getting racially vilified. That's incredibly common in Australian sporting events. So racial tension and racial vilification does not create safe spaces. I like my freedom of speech, but I just find racial vilification to be safe for. So Penham Sands in regional Australia is not 100% white. It's about 95% white. And I haven't heard any racial vilification. Like, I'm wearing my yarmulke around. And no endosemitism. Haven't encountered any racial vilification. People are much more tolerant and multi-coated than, say, back in the 1970s and days of white Australia. Look at these birds, mate. Isn't this a great place? Lovely walk here. Flying foxes. Here we go. Let's get some information. She's no visitor to Canoe Point. They use this roost to rear their young, rave in the spring, stand till autumn. They come and go in large numbers depending on the availability of food. So they're under threat. It's a crime to kill them. You see a sick or injured flying fox do not handle the animal called the oil society for the prevention of cruelty for animals. So each night the flying fox may fly up to 50 kilometers in search of food. They communicate by sound. You can hear them screeching and squabbling. They cause increase during dawn and dusk. They arrive and depart their camp. Now they produce very strong smell. So the male foxes use it to lock their territory into attractive males. And the flying foxes' mother locates their young this way. So the smell is caused by the bats, not their feces. This feels like a safe space to me, mate. The most important book written about Australia is probably a 1966 book called The Lucky Country by Donald Horn. Now we didn't mean that necessarily in a complementary sense. He meant it in the sense that Australia's been lucky. They've got the resources and the people. And that combination creates a lucky, blessed way of life. So Aussies don't seem to need gurus. I don't see Aussies going in for the wacko conspiracy theories and for the gurus and for the self-help genre at nearly as much as in the States. I think there's a more collectivist society. It's not as individualist as the States. Not as collectivist as Japan. More individualist than the States. Man, really good coverage. I think there's some big cell phone towers near here. I should be walking on the left side of the trail. We drive on the left and we walk on the left here. But on these sorts of trails in America, I find so much trash. Use condoms, beer bottles, dirty diapers in Israel as well. One of the things that most surprised me about Israel was just the enormous amount of trash. Like just littering everywhere. But see almost no trash in tandem sands. It's beautifully kept up, right? What a lovely area. So one thing I noticed being in Australia is how boring the Australian news is. It just feels like nothing is going on. And that does not make for riveting journalism. It does make for a very blessed and lucky way of life. So may you live in interesting times? That's a Chinese curse. It's not a blessing, right? Living in interesting times is usually a curse, not a blessing. And in Australia the news just is not very interesting. So these are mangroves filled up with water during high tide. So the news is really boring. Nothing much seems to be going on. There's overwhelming consensus in politics. Like there was overwhelming consensus with how to deal with COVID. Yeah, there were some outliers. You know, there were some anti-vax nutters. But overwhelmingly Australian supporters who have stayed in federal government now deal with COVID. And so the political battles just seem so trivial. But the news seems so trivial because nothing much happens here. So leading the news the other night was that four kids asphyxiated in a home. Maybe some gas, they don't know exactly a Somali immigrant's home. That was like the top story. The kids dying in a house fire. And one story in New South Wales that day. So the political differences between the Labour Party, the party of the center left and the ruling conservative coalition, fairly small. So in Sydney the liberals want to privatize the bus service, which will mean there'll be fewer buses and that'll be more expensive. So that's perhaps the main political issue in Sydney. So you can eat these. These are figs. Now you have to cut away the spikes, spiky fig. My brother, the nurseryman, he knows all the things that you can eat and not eat around here. That's great to go for a walk about with my brother. A lovely infrastructure, lovely trails and then there are lots of showers and toilets, drinking fountains, nice benches to sit on, those are cicadas. So I moved out here in June of 1984 just after graduating high school and I stayed here for a year. I loved it and I loved it and I couldn't also loved leaving. I wanted to get on with my life back in the States. So about half of Americans who move here end up moving back to America because they feel too out of it. Now there is the University of Central Queensland in Rockhampton, which is about 120 kilometers away. And University of Central Queensland has facilities in Gladstone, which is about 30 minutes drive away. So as a condition of entry into Queensland from New South Wales, you have to go get a COVID test within five days of entering the state. So Queensland's had very little COVID and very few lockdowns. So a few weeks here, a couple of days there, a couple of days there. And that's it, that occasional small outbreak. So I think for COVID transmission, geography, climate, humidity, I have a lot to deal with it. So this is the rainy season. Summer is the rainy season. So the water temperature here never gets below about 72 degrees. That's the coldest water temperature in tandem. And the highest is in close to 80 degrees. So going for a swim here, it's like immersing yourself in bathwater. How come there's no trash around here, right? How come this is such a safe space? Let's go to the river mouth. What can be learned from this coherent cohesive community where people don't lock their homes and car doors, where there's just a friendly attitude between people, virtually no crime. So one of the things that attracted me to Orthodox Judaism, and I think it's something that attracts a lot of people to religion in America, is that within your religious community, you get to recreate rural values, like the easygoing, friendly connection that people experienced in rural communities where there's high trust and cohesion. You get to recreate in a synagogue or a church. I think that's a major thing that drives people to religion in America. So Americans are incredibly mobile. But by joining a church or synagogue, you get to recreate that homey, friendly, trusting, cohesive, coherent community that people used to have back in rural life. So in some senses, I experienced my conversion to Orthodox Judaism as a bit like returning to tandem sands type of life. Because you're in each other's homes and there's just no trust and positive feelings. And you get a synagogue or someone, you get a church with someone and you see them on a regular basis. And it just feels good. It's like creating your own little tandem sands, but in Beverly Hills. Oh man, I made a mistake. Oh, shouldn't have gone off trail. This is the Boine River, ain't it beautiful? Like the river and the ocean here, it's tranquil like tandem sands. I mean, just keep your eye out for the crocodiles. So there are a few crocodiles around here, but oh man, sinking into this sand. So aside from the crocodiles and the sharks, very peaceful. So even the river is tranquil, but you don't even have any big waves here. I remember one time there was a cyclone. I got very excited. There might be some good waves. So I came out to the beach. I jumped out of the car running down to the beach and a policeman called up and said, you're not allowed to swim now. Little, little cyclone and they didn't, they didn't let you swim. Oh, mate. See all those tankers out to sea, they're all coming in for liquid natural gas, LNG. So there's a big LNG plant here. Oh yeah, Mr. White Mail is like my virtual girlfriend holding my hand before we go to the beach. None you mate. New York City is banning new buildings from using LNG and all sorts of other cities are banning buildings from using LNG, which is not good for Gladstone's economy. So supposedly you're assisting on electricity because it's, it's more friendly form of renewable resources, but I can see about 10 tankers offshore. I don't know if you can make them out, they're going into the Gladstone Harbour. So that's out to sea. And then here we go towards the Gladstone Harbour. So I think more LNG comes out of Gladstone than pretty much any other park. So apparently LNG is not the most green friendly, is that right? So there's talk now that states are going to ban more buildings from using LNG. Then a lot of buses use LNG. They're coming away from the Boine River now, going into Tannam Sands. I wonder if we'll see any bathing beauties. Stiff wind coming off the ocean. Is it destroying the audio quality, the high audio quality, which my streams are renowned. So you may see boys out there. I used to swim out to those boys, where the sharks are. My family has so much history here on my mother's side. And it's kept up through my sister and my brother. Brother lives here. My aunties and uncles come here for Christmas. Other times during the year it's a forward booth family tradition to come to Tannam Sands for Christmas. So it feels good if you're connected to the soil walking along along streets named after your mother when Booth Avenue named after my mother's family. There are still booths in the world I'm connected to. It's a little bit like being in Israel, where you walk along ground that was written up in the Bible and a Talmud and 3000 years of Jewish history. How did she get, how did my mom get a street named after her? Well, all my aunties and uncles did too because my eternal grandfather, Alfred Booth, owned all of Tannam Sands. He owned 6000 acres of Tannam Sands. I think he came here in 1952 bought 6000 acres. He basically owned Tannam Sands and he operated a farm that grew pawpaw and mangoes and other fruits. And so he started naming streets after his children. So there's my mother Gwen. She was the oldest and then there's Linda and Doug and Margaret, his wife and Alfred. I think he named the street after himself. How far removed are you from Britain? So my mother's father came out from Britain and then he had a sister back in Britain who had a son, Peter Doos, who came a neuroscientist at Harvard. He was a DEWES. So he has many of the traits from my family. I would just take off on a whim. So I flew to Sydney. I made my decision and checked with my family and booked a flight within a few hours, within about five hours. I checked with my family, booked a flight to Sydney and he would do the same thing. I think Peter Doos, he was neuroscience professor at Harvard and he did a lot of consulting work for Coca-Cola. He just decided on a whim and needed to go to a conference in Acapulco and he lived in Boston by Harvard and he just decided to drive. So he drove the conference in Acapulco in this old car and it broke down along the way. I think in Mexico and he turned to come back to Australia, pack your e-reader and didgeridoo. Yeah, I'm thinking of moving back. So his car broke down on the way to Acapulco in Mexico and because he did all this consulting work for Coca-Cola about the effect of caffeine, he called Coca-Cola and they got his car going. But he would also always pack his food for these long trips. Now like a pound of hummus, just like the Fords. It's like what we like to do. So that was my paternal grandfather's sister's son. So Alfred Booth, my paternal grandfather, he was naming all these streets after his kids and he was about to name one for my sister when the city council intervened and said he can't name any more streets after family. So he said he'd get a lot of streets named after seashells and the like. So gentle seas, gentle shores, that's an island out there and people live there on that island. And the only way to get in and off the island is by boat. So you can buy an island in Queensland for like $300,000. So there are people who bought an island for $300,000 off the Queensland coast and then just moved in there. Oh a good spot for fishing. Oh yeah. So in my month in Australia I've seen one billboard for personal injury lawyers. So in Los Angeles there are hundreds of billboards for personal injury lawyers. But in rural Queensland there are billboards for fishing vacations in this area. So no personal injury lawyers and I haven't seen any billboards for TV shows in rural Queensland or for movies. But a lot of billboards for fishing vacations, snorkeling and scuba diving, the outdoor life. And I went past a restaurant that advertised authentic Aussie cuisine. So what is authentic Aussie cuisine? So is it like big bean sandwiches and meat pies? What exactly is authentic Aussie cuisine? Lamingtons. Fair bread. Oh yeah mate. So yeah past restaurants that advertised authentic Aussie cuisine. So I don't eat out a lot but I'm told that the restaurants have gotten a lot better. One of the benefits of multiculturalism. Anyway so I'm thinking about moving here but I don't want to rush into it so I'm going to fly back to LA in January, step into my home and I'm going to see what I feel like. I feel like enormous relief in relation that I'm home and go to my favorite synagogues and see my friends because it's really easy when you go on vacation to just fall in love with your vacation spot and say oh I'm going to move here. Like you get that vacation high so you can understand why I'm surrounded by all this natural beauty. I think oh I want to move here. And there's a great Jewish community in Sydney so I love the synagogues I've been attending. I love the rabbis I've been meeting. I love the meals I've been enjoying. I love the kosher restaurants and the new mates I'm making and I enjoy going bowling with the Jews in Sydney 10-10 bowling. America, you've been the Indigenous Council so I may have white people in Australia but thinking about joining an Aboriginal tribe so apparently even white people can join an Aboriginal tribe so apparently there are responsibilities that go with it but it's kind of curious why would a white person want to join an Aboriginal tribe and I think the answer is for a sense of identity people are built to or gifts why not. People are built to live in tribes. We evolved to live in tribes. So there are all sorts of evolutionary mismatches. I reckon you'd have an easier chance of finding a wife and yeah maybe. So there are all sorts of evolutionary mismatches where we eat more sugar and fat than we should because we evolved to eat everything we could so we never knew when we'd get our next meal and then if we have an evolutionary mismatch of a great fear of public speaking we evolved this way because for hundreds of thousands millions of years we lived in a tribal setting where if you said something wrong in front of your tribe you would have very grave consequences so we evolved to live in a tribe and that's part of why my conversion into what our Judaism just feels so good because we absolutely evolved to live in a tribe. We had to have a small group of mates and this is a bit like tribal life here in Canem Sands. You have your mates, you have your pub, you have your footy club, you have your golfing, you have a piss up with your mates. Like this is a form of tribal life here in Canem Sands. It's like you really get to know people. It's a very coherent cohesive way of life. Like it's just life here is pleasant and easy, lots and lots of jobs here. Economy is booming in Australia particularly if you're a treaty. Gladstone's economy is booming and I'm just going out on the ocean. I'm just having great combos with blokes that I'm meeting. Some are from Gladstone, some are here on holiday. Yeah, teatotaling in Australia is another guy a teatotaler. But it's not that bad mate. I haven't found it much of a problem and I've been lifelong vegetarian so I hear, oh being a vegetarian in Australia that's a no go. Well no worries for me mate. So you used to have a lot more topless beavers on this beach so start with a can and build up your tolerance. Yeah maybe I'll start picking up some bad habits on this trip. Maybe I'll start picking up a few ciggies and have a forex or two maybe a Foster's Lager. Might start drinking and smoking. Might hang around in discos and talk to loose women. Disreputable women, immoral women. Maybe have a dart and a pint. Find a marriage mate in heaven. Isn't this beautiful mate? Safely walk on the beach, have a nice live stream, have a dip, have a pint, have a dart, meet a Sheila, raise some kids, play some cricket, some beach cricket. It's a healthy way of life. Oh and the taste of the water here mate. I just love the taste of the water. I think it just reminds me of my time here. I think I'd miss the big city though. Why are you hiding the homeless in Camus from your viewers? Yeah I've been paid by the Tannins and Tourism Committee. So I think there's like a coffee house for homeless in Brisbane. So I was talking to someone from Brisbane today out in the ocean and he said there may be 500 homeless in Brisbane total. And when I was walking through the central business district in Sydney I saw maybe three or four homeless people. But there are gangs around here, there are graffiti, there are trash, there are violence, there are loud music. Too many dogs. Oh but they're friendly dogs right? Lovely, lovely dogs. They're not like the dogs in Los Angeles. Those killer dogs, rot-whilers. Just trying to understand what's the secret behind this coherent cohesive society with high social trust and friendly, amiable atmosphere and no racial tension and where the news is so boring, where the living is easy, where people get along. This can't quite put my finger on it. Is it the demographics? Is it the geography? Maybe it's the sacred dirt. Maybe it's the sacred dirt here, right? The sacred dirt that just makes for a high trust cohesive society. Demographics 100% right? Oh that's not very sophisticated. I wonder what the New York Times would say. I wonder what Harvard University would say. Oh look at this beautiful beach here, bound towards Tannum. I haven't seen any trash, right? Just walking along, singing a song, side by side. Oh it smells so good, the eucalyptus, the ocean, the flying foxes are nicely pungent, and gorgeous purple butterflies. You know what this place needs though? It needs more Afghan refugees. And it needs a lot more Somalis. I've been here for two days, I haven't seen any Somalis and no Afghans. So I need to liven this place up to some more horticulturalism and diversity in here. Australia's pretty strict racial vilification laws and there's no place to be a journal, pretty strict label laws. Have I had to hide my power levels with my friends and family here? I'm just a simple Jew, mate. Just a simple Jew thinking about making a fresh start in Australia. They knew I'd do some online ventures, just a simple wandering Jew. They might see one or two of my Facebook posts but nobody in my family watches my videos. Maybe it's the most rare occasion when I might send a link to one. Simple wandering Jew, looking to find members of my tribe. Maybe I'll start at a butthouse here in Tannum Sands. I think that's what Tannum Sands needs if it doesn't above it just. Yeah, my family's missing out on my hot takes, mate. My cutting-edge analysis of the the most profound moral, philosophical, political and religious issues of the day. But no, I don't really care that much about my hot takes, mate. But they're very, very good to me. Incredibly hospitable. The only way I was going to swing this financially was to come out here and bludge on my family. The British-Israelite theory is true. Then you opening a local for budge chapter wouldn't make sense. I've got to compliment you. You're writing, there are no grammatical or spelling errors. It's really not quality stuff, mate. All right, please keep off the dunes and help protect this fragile ecosystem. We'll do it. Now, people actually follow the advice here. This feels so good. It feels so healthy. Love the sound of the cicadas, mate. There's fair dinkum ozzy. Why are Anglos so of the Earth's too bludging off of family? That's what they're there for, because Anglo culture is very individualistic. So bludging off family, that's never one way, all right? So when you're bludging off family, you are accepting a reciprocal bond. Your family can bludge off you, and that your family can make demands on you. So Anglo culture tends to be very individualistic. Like Southern European, most everyone else is much more family oriented, but everything comes with a price. And so when you bludge off your family, they can then build the resident Talmud scholar. They should be proud to ask you. They have asked me about, oh, what's the, what's the Jewish prayer for traveling to feel art hadaric? And, you know, what's the Jewish blessing for eating this food or this meal? You know, what brotha should you be saying now? Very high quality toilets here in Tinnum Sands. This is canoe point. Really good quality stuff. Nice little showers here. There's the drinking fountain though. How well off we go in this excellent adventure. God, yes. Oh, it's so humbling being here because everyone I was mates with when I lived here at 18 to 19, they've all done much better than me in life. They've all been married, had kids, they're in beautiful homes, their kids graduated from university, they've got a good superannuation. A lot of drugs you might need are hard to obtain without prescription. What you mean, Medaffinil? I hear that you can order Medaffinil overseas. Very convenient. So I don't need any prescription medication. Yeah, Medaffinil, you can just get overseas. What are you saying that the Aussie post is a gray area? You're saying that Aussie post that they, they interfere with your Medaffinil deliveries from India? I mean, I can't believe that the Aussie post would do that. It'd just be too time consuming. Customs might see that, not Aussie post. Yeah, but I can't imagine that customs would, would, I think it's just too time consuming. But I've got to have my Medaffinil, mate. That's, that's scary. I love getting up in the morning anytime I wake up, just pop that Medaffinil. This makes me happy. That when I was sick, I went off it for like 10 days. So I noticed that with Medaffinil, I, it kind of blunts my emotions. So I'm not as emotionally volatile on Medaffinil. And I become much more abstract and enthusiastic about ideas and a little less creative. I'm a Daffinil, but I get lost more in ideas on Medaffinil and abstractions. So probably blunts empathy a little bit. So I've been walking along these paths since 1982. First time that I remember being in Tannam Sands, then it here for a year and 84, 85. I came out here in 1989, 1990 when I was really sick with chronic fatigue syndrome. Thank God for the beef organ capsules. I can now say goodbye to a life of chronic fatigue. Now I can swim for hours every day, no worries. Oh yeah, I take, I take about 500 milligrams to 1000 milligrams of magnesium every night. It helps with sleep. It's kind of a muscle relaxant. Oh, you want to go for a botanic walk or track the floods at high tide? I hope there's no cottaging going on. So we don't have any high cliffs in Sydney. So they're not, they're not throwing people off of cliffs here for expressing the love that they're not speak its name. We'll see if there's any, any love that they're not speak its name on this botanical trail. Oh, really good high quality cell phone service here. I've been streaming for 50 minutes and stream hasn't cut out and there's 5g here. What have you noticed about the demographics of Sydney and the area you're in? So the eastern suburbs, Sydney seems to be 80% white and about 9, 18% Asian. And then the area that I'm in, regional Australia seems to be more than 95% white and about 4% Asian and then about 1% indigenous or Pacific Islander. Oh, the age distribution. So it seems pretty even. Like there are a lot of kids that are like beautiful schools here in Tannam Sands and Sydney. There are a lot of youngies, a lot of hutties, a lot of bathing beauties out on the beaches. So it seems like a pretty even age distribution. That's what I'm noticing. So people around here are reproducing, flourishing schools. Now real estate prices have exploded in the capital cities. So you would think that that would have a negative effect on affordable family formation. But luckily we can just import immigrants to keep us young because they're so vital and lively. Ah, the birth rates at 1.7. Okay. So yeah, particularly in the capital city is very expensive. Oh, now I'm getting bitten by some things. Sandflies. So very daunting to raise kids in the capital cities because the real estate is so expensive. I feel like the government doesn't, man, I'm getting bitten to death here. I feel like the government doesn't care about housing affordability. They just import more eager wage slaves. Well, if housing prices go up, that's got to mean increases in equity for homeowners. So there's got to be a lot of positive sides. So there's lots of affordable housing. It's just not in the cities. So people just have to move outside the cities or downsize and settle for a smaller place. Oh man, I'm getting bitten to death here. This trail better take me back to where there aren't so many bitey things. So Australia's had 27 years of economic growth prior to COVID, was unprecedented in the industrial world. But much of that is based on selling raw materials to China. A lot of boomers are putting their equity into investment profit. Oh man, I'm getting bitten to death. Let me out of here. Oh Jesus. I'm getting bitten to death here. Get me out of here, man. Oh, what was that horror movie that was made on a really low budget? Like out in the bush about 15 years ago. I think you're watching the beginnings of a horror movie here. So if you're tuning in hoping for a porn flick, I think this genre has turned into a horror movie. I'm getting bitten to death. The Blair Witch Project. I think that's what's happening, mate. Oh, I ain't gotten bitten at all. Now I had to take this bloody botanical trail and I'm getting bitten to death. Didn't put on any Muzzy repellent. That's Muzzy not Muzzy. God forbid, God forbid. Oh, hope I don't run into any snakes. Not really fun to snakes. Okay, let me out of here. Let me out of here. I'm so delicious. All these insects are biting me, feeding on my skin. Get me out of here. Get me back to where the living's easy. There aren't so many insects. Yeah, it's filmed by Tim Pool's base camp in West Virginia. Get me out of here. Take me home, Country Road, to the place where I belong. West Virginia, mountain barma. Take me home, Country Road. I should have been home yesterday. Where am I? I'm lost. I'm in the outback. I think maybe I should start preparing my camp for the night. Maybe have a fresh go in the morning. If I stay out here, I'm going to get eaten alive. I've never been on this trail before. Taking me to places I've never been before and making me scream your name. Canem Sands. Don't notice anyone on this trail. It's deserted. Just going to end up in a scene like Deliverance. Where is the banjo player? If you see any banjo players, please let me know because I'm not in the mood for a banjo right now. I'm going to get away from them mozzies. Man, I thought I was all down with a botanical trail, but in retrospect, here I'm going to skip the old botanical trails. Too many insects. Look at this lovely infrastructure, mate. Maybe I can just set up an Alexander Technique practice in Sydney. Those Alexander Technique dollars just start rolling in. I regret that excursion. I had a big online dispute with Sydney Alexander Technique teacher 10 years ago. Well, thanks to the Alexander Technique, we learned to release this unnecessary tension. So we don't hold on to feuds, right? So she'll be right, mate. No worries, right? I don't think anyone's going to hold on to that little bit of online unpleasantness from 10 years ago. I might have said some things about the Patrick McDonald approach to the Alexander Technique. How are the sheelers? Yes, some nice sheelers, but none of them seem to be Jewish or even Orthodox Jewish. That's a bit of a worry, but I'm here to light the sparks. You know, someone's probably never said a brokha right here. So yeah, uncouth sheelers. I had a doctor in Brisbane about 30 years ago. He warned me about catching diseases when I come up to Gladstone area, but I'm not going to be engaging in any immoral behavior. So I'm a very respectable man. I've got family and relies here. They don't want to hear about me engaging in disreputable and immoral behavior with uncouth immoral women with low standards. I've got to protect the Ford family name, mate. We're a very respectable family. What would my dear old dad say he heard about me engaging in any disreputable behavior? Ah, this is a lovely gum tree, mate. Look at this. It's springtime. All the animals are doing it. It's about summertime, mate. I think in a week it'll be summer. So Los Angeles is enduring storm after storm. I'm living the good life here in Tannum. I told my family I came out here to eat mangoes and watch the cricket. So last I knew we were absolutely thrashing the palms in the ashes. So the match is going on in Adelaide right now. It's the day-night match. I started at two o'clock this hour ago. Last time in Australia was one for 29. So Harris keeps giving up his wicket very easily. So maybe he needs to be rested for a few matches. Did people watch cricket or is it just an excuse to get drunk? No, it's lovely background. You can watch the cricket. It's just very relaxing and you can fall asleep and wake up an hour or two later and nothing much has happened. It's just a really nice thing to have on in the background of a bar or when your mates are over. What do I think of Hassan the Twitch streamer being banned for saying the C word? Oh the C word is the cracker word? Yeah, I think that's ridiculous. So I am more of a free speech dude. No, I'm not a big fan of racial vilification either. But being banned for saying cracker, that's crazy. Oh, cracker isn't offensive. Who cares about being called a cracker? Why can't we all just get along? So I just had one swim today. Fueled up on a lunch of mango, vanilla ice cream. Okay, so you're for white people saying the N word. It's all contextual, right? So in a certain context these words can be fighting words, but in other contexts they're friendly words, right? So there's no objective meaning outside of a context, right? So in a certain context we're throwing around the N word or the C word is perfectly fine. And then there are other contexts where these are fighting words. That everything's about context. There's no no meaning outside of context. Everything's about the relationship. Yeah, I know you're being facetious, but I like to get pompous. Remember I asked this Sheila who's been staying with me, my parents' house, and I asked her how would she compare me and my dad? Her answer was why your dad's not as pompous. Where are they playing cricket? Sydney or Melbourne? They're playing cricket in Adelaide, mate. They're drinking wine and they're playing cricket in Adelaide, South Australia. So it's a five-march test series and we won the first one at the Garber and Brisbane. Oh, good day, Jim. How are you, mate? So yeah, I'm having a beaut time here in Queensland, but I do think we need more Afghan and Somali refugees here to liven things up. It's just all too quiet and trusting and cohesive here, mate. Yeah, COVID approach. Yeah, I just need to show them that not only did I get two vaccine shots, I also got the Pfizer booster shot. Good day, mate. How are you? How you going? Good, mate. How are you? How are you, mate? How's it going? How's it going? Hey, come on, listen to your owner. I'm a bit of a bad man. Take care, mate. A lovely walk about here, mate. Even the dogs are friendly. Yeah, what's life like without heightened threat levels? It's just very relaxing. Even the beach is plastered and friendly here. It's good to walk around a place where your family's got roots. so many years of roots we have here just a feeling of being at home in the world I've been to cities that never shut down from New York to Rio to old London town I still call Australia home so some amazing purple butterflies earlier today no snakes yet only one seen a koala bear in the wild I think I've seen any kangaroos on this trip I can see a lot of warnings out there kangaroos like when you're driving really don't want to hit one and spoil the whole front of your car so I'm keeping up my subscriptions come on Luke you must miss LA tell the truth mate Compton is empty without Luke actually I'm not missing LA yet now I may not realize it till I'm back there but just feeling really happy here just seems like fair dinkum I used to live that's how I look at these flying foxes coming here eating mangoes every meal some lovely vanilla ice cream strawberries just having a grand time getting a bit of sun at my Aussie hat just need those corks keep off the muzzies yeah the flying foxes are protected but I don't like about them they eat the mangoes mate keep you they just keep their paws and their dirty little teeth off my mangoes and I got to Sydney Jim Bowden picked me up took me back to his place right by the harbor gave me two big fat tripping delicious mangoes that was a real Aussie welcome and I saw some cookaburras in Sydney so oh so the Sun comes up about 440 a.m. here no daylight savings in Queensland Sun comes up about 440 a.m. but the birds they start singing about 4 a.m. and I had to close the blinds last night because the moon was so bright but yeah the birds get going about 4 a.m. luckily though I got my mid-Athenael to power me up in the morning still talking to my sponsors still arranging those calls I'm sure I say spiritually connected I have to spend about an hour or so on 12-step materials or work every morning get spiritually centered I go out and talk of my day and then feel really vulnerable being here any meat pie Westerns you can recommend I'd vegetarian mate don't eat any meat pies there's just kind of vulnerable being here seeing all my mates and family in rallies we were all so far ahead I'll party would I vote for here I'm in Tenham Sands central Queensland about 30 minutes drive from Gladstone so probably vote for the nationals get on the meat mate it's hard I believe in eating meat I think being vegetarian is really unhealthy but it's hard to overcome my lifelong vegetarian programming so intellectually I'm pro-meat I just can't get it get it in my mouth and down my gullet so yeah I guess I'd vote nationals or one nation maybe one nation's for that anti-vax craziness so maybe I can't vote for one nation yeah I guess I'd vote nationals cause here I'll vote for the Liberal Party which is the center right party vote for the Conservative Coalition but not really much if between the Conservative Coalition and Labor so in Australia the news is really boring because the quality of life is so high when the news is exciting the quality of life I'm voting for Craig Kelly now mate that anti-vax nutter like the anti-vax anti-lockdown nonsense Australia did a really good job containing the coronavirus and it's pro-vaccination pro-lockdown policies probably had something to do with it I'm really discouraged to see how this right politics leads to conspiracy theories and you know believing all these anti-vax nonsense like I'm noticing that the the alt-right tends to be anti-vax and tends to be pro-ridiculous QAnon conspiracy theories now conspiracy theories aren't nearly as big in Australia as they are in in America because Australians have mateship and so they don't have to go searching for meaning Australia Americans don't have as much mateship it's more individualistic society so Australia's more communitarian and cohesive and so when you have your mate you don't need to go in for conspiracy theories but oh I think that's the end of my gimbal battery bye bye