 Hola, my friends. This is the behind-the-scenes video for May 2017 and the Pacific leg of the journey has now come to an end I am back in upstate New York after visiting four countries New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Thailand having interesting conversations and all of them This is probably gonna be the least exciting behind-the-scenes video that I've posted so far because while I was in Thailand I got food poisoning which meant I was Inside let's say for the majority of my time there Next upcoming I've got a trip to Panama I'll be taking also be moving to South Carolina and we still got some east coast travels that we're gonna do But the probably the craziest part of the journey has officially closed So thanks you guys consistently for your support and I hope you enjoy these videos All right, so this video is me standing outside a Buddhist temple and I arrived just in time to hear them chant I actually got to go inside here and just sit for probably a solid half hour Maybe even an hour as people came in local Thai people to pay their respects pay their dues and listen to the monks Go through their chanting ritual That statue you're looking at is gigantic and there's a bunch of them So this temple that you're looking at is called the Grand Palace in Bangkok It is the most ornate buildings. I've ever seen in my life just building after building of Insanely intricate Architecture apparently this is where the king hangs out spends a lot of his time and again I just couldn't help but notice how many man hours must have gone into building this complex. It's just insane Now in contrast to the serene nature of some of these Buddhist temples one of the last nights I was there. I did go out to one of the night markets, which is packed wall-to-wall with people All kinds of crazy food You're looking at a picture now of some fried insects. No, thank you Last thing I want to mention about Thailand is One part of the culture I mentioned a little in the last behind-the-scenes video is it's very kind of strict and authoritarian Hierarchical and there are pictures of the king Everywhere they are obsessed with their royal monarchy And in fact, they have some of the most extreme Lese majesty laws in the world, which is where if you insult or disparage the king They can arrest you for like 10 years sometimes even more. So after Thailand was done. That was it My flight back had a one night layover in Hong Kong So I got to I got to walk around a little bit of Hong Kong just for a few hours And this is a clip of me in the airport after my journey walking up to the airline terminal going back To Newark. It was a bittersweet moment and then I'm back home Not as glamorous being in upstate New York But it has been nice to be able to sit down in one place and get some work done. That's been piling up I am sending out sign copies of square one the foundations of knowledge Too much of people some academics that met my travels Patreon supporters So yeah, I've been waiting for several months to send them out and I know people been waiting for them So This is the most special and advanced Setup for podcast in history. Check it out. This is a water cooler with a handle, which means Translated roughly. This is how tall people can sit down Have a conversation Microphone about to have my conversation with Stephen Hicks. Look at that. This would be very uncomfortable, wouldn't it? Well, I have a solution which is Come on, that's pretty impressive That's all for this video guys Again, I appreciate your support if there's something that you'd like to see Send me a message on Patreon or shoot me an email and I'll try to incorporate it in the next behind-the-scenes video See you guys next month