 Ah, so things that I wish that I brought with me. Wish that I brought my nasal strips like across the top of my nose. Do you forget all the little things that you do that make life comfortable? Wish I brought my nasal strips. I wish I brought my alerated cushion. If I just lie flat and my nose steps up, I can't breathe. So I wish I had my alerated cushion. I wish I'd brought my nasal strips. I wish I brought my activator. So if you'd like activator having small spots or tight spots, it's really good for helping to unlock tight muscles. It is about 5.30 AM. So I got up at about 2.30 AM, which was about 7.30 AM California time. So now it's about 5.30 AM. And we're in Kudji, mate. We're in, like, Sydney. Like, I was driving with Jim Balvin. He said, oh, the rush hour. We drove across Sydney during rush hour traffic at 5.30. I said, oh, we got rush hour like LA. And I think that this is like a country town. Like, they've got one lane roads, like a highway is like two lanes in each direction. And this is like the middle of Sydney, mate. I am staying half a mile from the beach. I love this place. It is gorgeous. It's so gorgeous, mate. We're at the kangaroo. So this is Sydney, right? This is the city. There's so many beautiful parks in Sydney. My brother thinks Sydney is the most beautiful city in the world, and I'm not going to argue with him. And here are the gum trees and the wattles and those beautiful birds. And there's, look at these lovely parks and there's a lovely cricket ground. And then you play croquet over here to my left. There's the croquet. And there's lawn balls up ahead. And there's the beach. And I think the central business district is about four miles walk away. So I can walk there. I think that's where the opera house is. I haven't been to the opera house since about 1976. So that was a big deal when I was growing up and having our college, Sydney Opera House. I think it opened about 1975. So I didn't spend much time in Sydney growing up. You call the big city the big smoke in Australia. That's how we roll, the big smoke. So here I am in the big smoke, right? How warm is the water? It's not that warm. So where my brother is in Tannam Sands, it's warm. It's like our temperature, it's like 70 degrees. Like even in the middle of winter, it's 70 degrees. So I think in Sydney, I mean, you can look it up on Google and tell me, what's the water temperature in Sydney right now? I'm gonna guess it's about 55 degrees. So the hearty folks swim year-round in the ocean here in Sydney. And the less hearty they take out their wetsuits. Yeah, this is the Koogee Koogee Croquet Club. Maybe if I play my cards right, I could become a member one day. Maybe they'll blackball me. Got my little standards around here, mate. It's amazing being in a coherent, cohesive society. People feel something in common with each other. And it's like a camaraderie. It's like this is a nation that's largely built off of extended kinship ties. I can't believe I'm in Australia, mate. There's gonna be tops. There's a nice little Jewish community here. I went by Moriah College. And I think Emmanuel, I think it's a Jewish school as well. Sounds reform. I don't know any, I don't know any Froome Jews who would have heard of a Froome meaning Orthodox institution called Emmanuel. It sounds very reformed. Ah, lovely bit of a cricket. Is that clay or is that fake grass? Not sure. Australia loves their sport. There was a yang can move to Australia, game and academic and wrote books about how Australia doesn't take itself seriously. Just wants to distract itself with sport all the time. So yeah, in Australia, they call it sport. They don't call it sports. Ozzers love their sport. We just won the World Cup of 220 cricket. Wasn't even on free to air TV. Boy, I wanna really make sure I don't get run over because the cars are coming on the left. And real estate's so expensive that like many homes, they don't have a car park. So people have to just park on the street. Ah, look at this beautiful cricket ground, mate. It's great hardly anyone's up. So the streets are narrow, often. Just got, yeah, I feel like it's got a provincial feel. Even though it's the biggest city in Australia. Yeah, cricket ground and they play other sports there too. And where those big trees are, those pine trees, that's the ocean, mate. Morning is broken like the first morning. Blackbird is spoken like the first bird. Time to act is now, vote climate, vote one, vote for the greens. So this is the, got to disavow putting the Liberal Party candidate. So the Liberals in Australia, classical Liberals. So they're actually centre right. And they're in a coalition with the National Party. They're governing Australia right now. They're, it's called the Coalition. It's the Conservative Coalition. The National Party is the country party and they tend to be conservative. The Liberals tend to be classical Liberal and Labour, it was so socialist for a while that they would call each other Comrade. But Bob Pork took them up from socialism just kind of like Tony Blair did. And so I think they stopped calling each other Comrade. I assume around 1983 or so. But I think Jim Balden, who picked me up from the airport yesterday. How's the weather? It's beautiful. It's 67 degrees right now. And the weather just kind of varies between about 65 is the low, 75 is the high. That's the weather. Some people find it cold. But I'm in short sleeves, I'm feeling good. And a lot of happen in little restaurants and shops. I mean, could you have a place filled with young people? Now I haven't explored public transport, but public transport in Australia, for some reason, I don't understand. Like in Los Angeles and New York City, writing public transport is widely associated with terror and crime and social dysfunction. But in Australia, writing on public transport is not associated with crime and social dysfunction. Any ordinary person can do it. It's just a perfectly pleasant experience. Just I'm trying to understand what's the difference between Australia and United States. So that Australia has public transport, where people just routinely have a pleasant experience. Oh, another thing about Australia, people work their eight hours, then they're pretty much done. So, and every Australian gets a minimum of a month holiday a year. So, Australian, no country in the world, as far as I know. Yeah, maybe the average needs to be better behaved on mass transit than some of the groups in America. Of course, all sorts of havoc. I don't understand why it's just a complete mystery to me. So yeah, Australians, they work hard, they're solid, but not nearly like Yangs, man. Americans are the hardest working, hardest working of any workforce, I know. And the most productive. And produce the most for how much they pay. So, Australians work eight hours and then they're done. And I don't seem to carry it with them as heavily as many Americans do. They don't have to, yeah, as much for a general social welfare system in America, because in Australia, it's in America. A lot of people don't want to vote for social welfare because it will go to groups that they don't like. They feel there are certain groups that will take disproportionate advantage of social welfare, the dole. So in America, men basically can't get the dole. The dole is what? You know, unemployment. Every other industrialized country, men can get the dole, but you can't get the dole in Australia, so. Oh, in America, so. Oh yeah, whenever you go to a shop, you're supposed to check in. So there's this app, New South Wales Safe, where you check in so that if there's an outbreak. But not many people wearing masks. I mean, some in shops, but not nearly as many people wearing masks outside. There's the beautiful ocean, mate. Did I tell you how happy I am? Like, now you can raise some solid moral objections to my happiness, much of the foundation of my happiness. This is the best place to go to Cartaging. Well, I'll tell you where the best place not to go to Cartaging. Don't do it near the cliffs, all right? Stay away from the cliffs. All right, don't go Cartaging near the cliffs by Sydney Harbour, because about 100 people have been thrown to their deaths for Cartaging in the bushes around Sydney Harbour cliffs. So, I'm really going to try to stay away from Cartaging. So, I didn't want to break the law of running across the street, but if someone else can do it, then I can, oh my God, the ocean, I love the ocean. Australians really into recycling. Bronte, Koogee, Aquatic Reserve, so Celsius here. So, to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, you double it and add 30. So, the lifeguards come on about 7 a.m. Yeah, 76 humidity is going to start raining in about two hours, so beautiful. Not sure I want to walk in the sand. But you can just walk around these cliffs for miles. I mean, look at what a healthy life this is. Like, people are out and getting their exercise. And the clean, clean air off the ocean. Beautiful rainbow flags, right? This is, this is a very tolerant place unless you buy the clothes. Oh, man, I want to be out there in the water. I want to be in the water, but I'm here talking with you with my Daxxon. The Daxx is obviously slang for long pants. So, flash Daxxons, good looking pair of pants. So, I brought my nicest blue jeans, classy blue jeans that like dress blue jeans. Yeah, it looks like they really cleaned up Venice Beach, California. Yeah, I just don't understand. Why isn't Venice Beach in California like this? Because there's no inherent geographic reason why Venice Beach can't be like this. Oh, I haven't seen any homeless in Sydney. God, look at that beautiful ocean. My God, the birds here in Sydney are just to die for, lots of spunky shillers. Just feels like such a healthy way of life here. Why can't Venice be like this? Why can't Santa Monica Beach be like this? I want to go to Venice Beach without armed guards. Bro, that's racist. You don't need armed guards here, mate. I haven't seen any homeless in Sydney. I'm sure I've seen some Chinese people I don't remember them, but I was wondering if Chinese money largely responsible for skyrocketing Sydney real estate. So, Sydney real estate is unbelievable. Like, Sydney's one of the top three most expensive cities in the world and I was thinking that this was in large part because of Chinese money buying real estate, but apparently there are rules preventing foreigners from buying ordinary real estate. But then my mind immediately went to, tell me if this is part of the list, my mind immediately went to, they just circumvent the rules. Like, that's what I would do if I was desperate to get money out of China, I'd find an Aussie and I'd have them be the front man and I'd tell them that if they screwed me over, I'd kill them and their family. I mean, I got to disavow, but I can understand why some people would do that. So, who are we celebrating here? Is this like Anzac Cove? I think this is Anzac Cove. It's the fallen lifesaver. You never took your eyes off the sea. You protected us as home on the beach, across the seas. You fought for our freedom with selflessness and dignity. Two Australians, but one and the same. We will remember you forever. Alan Somerville spoke to her, I think. The fallen lifesaver. Yeah, lifesavers are a big deal in Aussie. Very Aussie thing to do. Yeah, but why is Sydney real estate? So I think the average home price in Sydney is over a million dollars American. While the average home price in Los Angeles County is about 800,000. Why is Sydney real estate so extraordinary? I think the late Chinese money is so tough. How easy is it to get around restrictions on foreign ownership of land in Sydney? I would just think you'd get a problem. Like with minority set-asides, minority business and you'd get minority front-of-the-business. Oh, so I went over to Jim Balden's place and he's got a big screen, like really big, huge. And he was able to pull up YouTube and I was able to watch my most recent videos on his huge big screen. And I couldn't believe the texture quality just from my iPhone. And I couldn't believe my fantastic cinematography, like flying into BG. I was like, whoa, 40, that's some high-quality cinematography, mate. I can't wait to get in the water. So I arrived at 1 p.m. yesterday, but I got delayed by customs for half an hour because my, just a little thing, my Australian passport is 30 years out of date. And so I got a valid American passport, but Americans can't fly here right now because of COVID, COVID. So I just brought proof of my Aussie citizenship, my passport from 1985 to 1990. I had to also show my passport, my last American passport that's now defunct, but the one I traveled with to Australia in 2014, showed my birth certificate. Customs were very nice, but yeah, I got delayed for half an hour and therefore I missed Jim Bowden because everyone else came through and I didn't come through. So he doesn't have a cell phone. So he turned around and went home and I'm like desperately calling him. So then he has to fight back against traffic. So I eventually picked me up at about 3 p.m. So I was just kind of waiting, hanging out for two hours. Now the flight was only four, but it's still hard to sleep on an airplane. And if I lie horizontal, my nose just stuffs up. I didn't get much sleep. So I was just like hanging out at express pickup, waiting for Jim Bowden, getting thirsty or in a tie there or irritable. So recognizing, well, did not want to recognize I was the one primarily responsible because I never got enough today Aussie passport. So I'd be like, I was like, oh, Jim Bowden, you should have a bloody cell phone mate. I wouldn't be in this bother. But the fault was with me, like what was my role? I didn't have an update Aussie passport. Man, I'm the only person I see with a selfie stick. I should explain to people I'm a bloody yank. Like it's not a very Aussie thing to do to walk around with a selfie stick talking to your cell phone. Like it, I haven't seen anyone else do this. So I feel kind of antisocial. Like I'm being about Australian. I've got so many friends near here. Like friends that I don't even remember. You know, I'm not even thinking out consciously. So I posted out on Facebook and Twitter. Like, hey, if you know me, you're in Sydney. Like, look me out, let's meet up. I'm here for a month. Really, really, really, I want to get back to Avondale College where I grew up. My father was the chair of the religion department. Oh, no. Oh, in the pools. No nudity. Nudity used to be a big deal on Aussie beaches. Like about seem like a quarter of the birds went topless, the young ones. But, oh, these are the ladies' baths. Okay, very nice. So it used to be like a quarter of the late young ladies went topless on the beach, but I'm not sure anymore. Okay, here's a dog off the leash. I wonder if that's legal. Nice kids' park behind me. Have to get, how do you think this way, guys? Cudging. Have to get out of the crypto de-trading lifestyle on the sweaty, all over the craps table. Flation, yeah, flation, much cleaner than LA. What an exquisite country. You're moving back, Fran. Yeah, that's what everyone says. Everyone asks me, are you moving back? You're moving back? I kind of understand the appeal. I mean, being in a cohesive, coherent society, I think it's a clean, it's safe. Where is that damn Aussie tree that is invading the US, the eucalyptus? I think this is a, I don't know. Australians like their parks and they like their ocean. Like the same way that Americans feel about their church, Australians feel about their ocean. Like for Aussies, the ocean is a cathedral. The future isn't made in Sydney, bro. Yeah, people get a quote back to me. It's true, like the highest, highest achievers in most fields will believe Australia. Okay, I'm still working on my cinematography skills. You should see these awesome live streams that Jim Bowden thinks are in cinematic quality, right? So I think we're coming up at about 6 a.m. Does that sound right? Sunset 7.39 here. Went to bed at about 9 a.m. Probably got three, four hours sleep. Wish I'd brought those nasal strips, nasal wash. Gotta figure out how to elevate my mattress. Noses and stuff up all night. Like, this is just such a pleasant place, right? Good to hear that Aussie accent again. I didn't come while you're talking. Sorry, yank here. Sorry, I'm a tourist. This makes me really happy. Happy to be back home. Happy to be with my sister. Like, happy to be in a place where I speak the language. Kinda. Happy to be in a safe place. I asked, like, Jim Bowden, like, what's the most dangerous park in Sydney? You couldn't even name one. You couldn't even name like a dangerous park in Sydney. Aside from the cottages. Okay, we've got some women's bars. I'm gonna stay away from the women's bars. It's not 72 degrees Fahrenheit. It's about 68 degrees Fahrenheit. And it varies between about 65 Fahrenheit and 75 Fahrenheit. So we're gonna be plunging, perhaps, to 64 degrees tonight. So bundle up. Sydney. Oh, and another thing I love is all the school kids. And the school kids wear uniforms here. Like, in England. It's beautiful. And I just want my heart to see kids in school uniforms. Aussies are fit, mate. They like their exercise. Picking up an atom. It's so expensive here. Like, around Jim Bowden, like, houses sell for a minimum of four million Aussie dollars. Which is right about three, three million Yank dollars. So it's only in Sydney and Melbourne, I think, where real estate is out of control. I think the rest of Australia's fairly reasonable. Like, in Sydney real estate. I think it just exploded like the last 10 years or so. Australia's the best place in the world. Yeah, it's freezing. 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah. But check out the water temperature for me. What's the water temperature in Sydney right now? I'm gonna guess, like, 55 degrees. Something like that. Oh, the water's also 68 degrees. Okay, not bad. So, Sandstone Cliffs. 70.7, wow. Wedding Cake Island. So, 6,000 years ago, a newly flooded coastline of drowned river valleys in former ridges sloping into the sea. Oh yeah, that's right. Elliot Blart's a big believer in getting in the water too. Yeah. Instead of being in the water, I'm here talking with you. You lot. You bunch of drongos. Okay, so do I have any other YouTube viewers in Sydney? Like, who are the other Aussies who watch this show? 68 degrees water temperature. Yeah, that's a nice beach. Yeah, the temperature inside and outside the water is the same. Amazing. How anti-satient am I being walking around with a selfie stick? I don't wanna destroy the social cohesion and high social trust of Australians. San Francisco is 57 now. Yeah, I think L.A. is probably about 59, 60. Yeah, you don't wanna go cottaging around these tests, mate. Might get in a little bit of bother. Do I miss living in Australia? I guess I do a bit. I just can't believe how happy I am right now. I know these things are subjective. Ideally, I'd like to live here like three months a year. But that's my idea. Like, nine months a year in the States and three months a year in Australia. Oh, just the smell of that fresh ocean air. It's just amazing. Not much smoke here, mate. I feel like a kid, man. Just keep seeing and exploring and getting up early and, like, incredibly excited to be alive. Oh, I watched Man in the Arena. First episode. So, I'm Tom Brady. I really like that show. A little bit slick here. So, yeah, good duck go on Tom Brady. And the ocean is just so wholesome. It feels so comfortable in the ocean. I remember I had an American girlfriend who saw me just, like, run out into the ocean and just, like, dive in and she was just impressed with how it is, how much joy I felt in the ocean. So, most of you, like, are over there across the horizon. So, I assume that way to Los Angeles. So, the flight was over 10 hours to Fiji. And then got a 2-3 hour layover in Fiji and a 4-hour flight to Sydney, playing with about 5% for. And this is my first experience with Fiji Airlines. And quite a good experience, very friendly. I noticed that the pilots were of Indian descent. And most of the air hostesses were Polynesian. Judas is on Dutton. Judas Maccabeus. Man, how am I going to compete with that? Boy, I better stop bringing it. So, if I find myself stuff, a high quality content, as I'm showing you these beautiful sights of Sydney, Australia, I thought I could just talk about all the ways that I've changed my mind. I got changed my mind so many times on so many different issues, but I think that'd be a topic I could just talk about for hours, because it just reminds you how a flawed and fallible one is, when you're constantly changing your mind, you're just kind of admitting that you didn't understand something. I don't feel bad about it. Sheila, I told you, I don't feel bad about always changing my mind, but it's also kind of humbling it. You've got to watch out for getting pompous, because it was very likely that two years later, I'm just going to have a completely diametrical opinion. Oh, nice dog park here. I love these sandstone cliffs. Hi, little doggy. Hey, I'm a tourist. But I was born here. Born here. Hi, how are you? Sorry. Cheers. Okay, warning, unexpected large waves, dangerous cliff edge, slippery surfaces, no life-saving service, swimming not advised. Okay, good to know, good to know. So we're going in about 90 minutes. It rains, Sydney gets just as much rain as London, but Sydney comes in torrential downpours, while London, it's like a steady pitter-patter of light rain. So I assume, do you walk on the left side in Australia too? I'll have you drive on the left. And maybe you should walk on the left side too. Oh yeah, great place to go out of jing here, mate. Yeah, are those waddles? I think that's a waddle tree. I grew up except the utterance, mate. Cottaging was very severely frowned upon. I was likely equivalent of eating a Big Mac. Very big sin, mate. Survival on the coast. So strong salt-laden winds from the sea bend trees and shrubs into amazing shapes till shoots projecting above the rest of the foliage. So side shoots developed instead of creating a flattened shape on the windward side of the plant. So I'm gonna probably hang out at the Randwick Public Library a lot. So I guess we're in Randwick right now. Yeah, I'd like fucking duck. So Australia's got like three or four universities in the top 100 around the world. So I think the University of New South Wales is Australia's top university. And then Monash I think is also in the top 100, University of Queensland, and maybe Australian National University. I think Australia's got four or five top units. I mean, China's only got two universities in the top 100. Australia's got like five, so a lot of Chinese come here to study. So much of Australia's tertiary education is funded by the exorbitant fees that foreign students pay as you get educated in Australia. So we've got a pretty solid education system. Okay, guys, this area is environmentally sensitive. Some rare coastal plants have been seeds. So you don't see any, haven't seen any social dysfunction on this walk. Oh, look at these, look at these homes. So I bet those, these homes would be, what, 15 million each. So have you seen any antisocial dysfunction on my walkabout today? Haven't seen any. Where are the homeless? Where are the drug addicts? Where are the crimes? Just don't see that. Where are the warring gangs? So apparently there's some big drug mafia feud in Australia right now between Lebanese over the drug trade. So like a father and son having some massive feud in the Sydney drug trade right now. How gracefully I work, so Lord. So I think these Botany Bay, I think it's about five, 10 miles from here. And that's where the first convicts taken off the first settlement was in Australia. Something like Botany Bay around 1776, mainly convicts. And the first thing that everyone did when they got off the ships and landed in Botany Bay is they had a good drink up. Morning. A good drink up. And then they had a mass orgy, disavow. Guys, the endless pursuit of carnal pleasures. It's not a, it's not a root to lasting happiness. It saddens me to think that the first Australians got here, immediately got drunk, then had an orgy. I mean, this is really conduct unbecoming in Australia. But we're a much more sophisticated people now. We've got skyscrapers and telly. We've got high speed internet, we've got wifi. About three or four percent of Australians do get a church, then they're serious about it. They take their religion seriously. Well in America, according to surveys, like 40% go regularly, but most of them don't take it seriously. Australia's a much more secular country than America. But by what measurement, how do you measure how serious this is in case of religion? Because the way you pay Americans do business, it's ferocious. Like there's nothing Christian about the way Americans do business. I think the Australian America about equally mobile. In America, people use religion for status. And they don't do that in Australia. If you're religious, you've thought of as a bit queer. The current Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is the most religious Prime Minister probably in Australian history. Certainly in the last 100 years. So Scott Morrison's a born-again Christian. He's the Prime Minister. He leads the governing and so do coalition of the Liberals and the Nationals. And there's a new book out about it, which I want to read, called The Accidental Prime Minister. And so he goes to an evangelical Christian church in Sierra and Sydney. Australia's capital is in Canberra. It's about two or three hours' drive from Sydney. It's a plain city. It's a little bit like, I think, Brazilia. Like you kind of lacks authentic charm. Sydney's Australia's biggest city. It's got about 5 million residents. I think Melbourne's got about 3 and 1 half million. Australia, yeah, Australia's due to keep growing in a fairly rapid clip. Yeah, I just love their fitness, mate. F***ing fit. Wouldn't you want to get fit out here? Love a good wattle tree, mate. Love the wattle tree. This is what I grew up around. The bested waffle, mate. Let us now praise wattle trees. Ah, so there's a team getting fit. Not getting match fit there. And you're seeing 40 Sydney Blacks character, mate. Where are the homeless? Don't see any homeless. Don't see any drug addicts. Don't see any rival gangs. Saying, where's the crime, 40? How did you not talk to those pumping shoes? I think Aussies think if you're walking around with a selfie stick talking to your iPhone, they're a bit weird, mate. Maybe I need to come out of my cave. I'm out of hiding. Lovely wattle tree. Yeah, where's the graffiti? There's the trash. There's no trash. There's no graffiti. There's no crime and no homeless. Where are the meth addicts? Where are the heroin addicts? Where are the opioid addicts? Where's the character? All right, where's the grit? It's so weird. Yeah, where's the rap blurring in the background? Where's the social dysfunction? Just like the coherent, friendly, cohesive society. There's no air of menace. What kind of country is this where you can walk down the street without being afraid? What kind of country is this where people feel like they're in it together? Where are the open borders? Well, here's the challenge. Yeah, where are the seedy cannabis shops? Now, here's the challenge with a much more homogeneous society is that multicultural expressions such as wearing a yarmulke is a little more discouraged. So you're gonna wear a yarmulke in Sydney. Now, you're invariably gonna get verbally assaulted. So for the first time in about 20 years, I'm not wearing my yarmulke in public. Yeah, where are the Atrecia Street performers? So maybe I'm betraying my people. But I just heard enough stories from Orthodox Jews living in Sydney about all the verbal assaults and physical assaults that get wearing the keeper. So I decided not to wear my keeper out. First time in about 20 years. Feels weird, man. I feel naked. Yeah, where's the guys that enroll in roller skates playing guitar? Like where are the people on roller skates menacing everyone else? Where are the bikers? Endangering, running over people. Oh, where are the bird scooters? I didn't see any bird scooters. Oh, this is about my knowledge. Where are the taco stands on the sidewalk? Where are the fresh fruit stands by illegal immigrants? My God, to be able to walk down the street and feel safe and at ease. God, I love Sydney. This is amazing. People can go to the beach here. Yeah, no tacky hand posters on light stands. It's going to be easier to come out. People can just feel safe and walk around here, like even at night. Alone. Booming through Walker streets alone and feel safe in Sydney. In Australia, most people speak with a pretty similar accent. So the prime minister and the garbage man usually will speak with about the same accent, like a very egalitarian society. Like it's the best place in the world to be an average bloke. Yeah, there's much more of a sense that we're in it together here in Aussie. Let's take a different path. And they're pretty serious about their border patrol. You try to enter Australia illegally on a boat. You'll never be allowed into Australia. Where are the tents surrounded by trash? Yes, where are the tent cities? Sorry. There are no tent cities here. I haven't met anyone yet who appears to be mapped out of their mind. Now, I guess the Bogans live in western Sydney. So Bogans like working class Aussies. What's that prison island called? Tasmania? So I just read a book, the second book by Sam Kinyonez on the opioid epidemic. It's called The Least of Us. And I didn't realize that our homeless problem was primarily the fault of drug addiction. Well, I did kind of realize that, but just the particular qualities of the conventional meth thing is taken off. I didn't realize. So apparently meth, you haven't seen one car with missing tires sitting on blocks. Not one. Where are the cars with missing tires? So apparently one side effect of the new meth. There's the new left, the new right. And there's the new meth. So one side effect of the new meth is that it turns people into hoarders. Nice to see pay phones, yeah. Oh, let me just say worth a T-Mobile. As I understand it, I've got unlimited calls and no extra charge. Like just for $5 a day. Unlimited call, $5 a day. Yeah, where's the graffiti? Luke must be on a movie set. Look at these beautiful, clean streets. Yeah, so meth addicts left a hoard and then they lose their mind, right? And I guess at least the Schizophrenia. So anyway, it sounds like the sudden explosion in America's homeless problem, particularly in LA and California and the West Coast, is related to the new meth. And apparently according to Sam Kinyones in his new book, The Least of Us, there are no longer many recreational drug users because both cocaine and heroin and opioids are laced with fentanyl. Yeah, there should be at least one street worker. How far is the Bondi Beach? That's, yeah, I want to find out. I want to get to Bondi and Manley Beach. So I'm thinking, I'm pretty sure it's like 5 to 8 miles. Like the Central Business District is walkable. I can walk to the CBD. I want to get home and get some brekkie refuel for a day of live streaming. So yeah, apparently you wouldn't believe this, but drug dealers tend not to be the most meticulous in their mixing of the fentanyl with the cocaine and the heroin. So they use this blender. And the blender isn't actually very... Well, it's early May. It's like 6.30 in the morning. But apparently the blenders don't provide very accurate distribution of the fentanyl. Do Aussies love their cops, their law enforcement? Aussies I don't think are as polarized about the coppers. So there's a great veneration of... of crims. They're kind of romanticized in Australia. Do I cross here? Let's cross here. Overall, things in Australia are not as polarized. Like when... when Australians talk politics, they can be, you know, brutally blunt. But they're not at each other's throats like the Yanks. So on abortion, for example. Abortion is not some hot button issue in Australia. And like the culture war is not really a hot button issue in Australia. Police, that's such a hot button issue in Australia. I'm trying to think. Like, about that many hot button issues, there aren't that big of a difference between the governing conservative coalition and the Labour Party. So Aussies love their coffees. So Aussies have started drinking a lot less beer since I lived here in 1984. They drink less beer, drink more wine, a lot more coffee. So there's been an explosion in coffee shops. The prostitution is legal in parts of Australia. God forbid. God forbid. Oh, a Mexican with a mission. Now, this is one thing that Australia is severely lacking as Mexicans. Like, I think that's why I feel so ill at ease here. Because they're just... they just aren't enough Mexicans. But thank God there's Mexican with a mission. That looks like a great place. Yeah, so coffee shops are really taking over in Australia. Country used to be much more of tea drinkers like UK. But now they've taken up the coffee. So along with economic free market policies of the past 40 years, there's an accompanying increase in coffee drinking in Australia. And even becoming coffee snobs. Now, generally Aussies are egalitarian, but maybe not so much when it comes to their coffee. I haven't seen one homeless person yet. I haven't seen one ranting, screaming method or loser. Like, very little trash on the streets. So look at all these wonderful espresso bars. Restaurants, kombucha bar. Oh my God. probiotics, raw organic. This is flash. Very nice little store here. But every time you go in a store, you're supposed to check in with the New South Wales Safe App. Oh, there aren't any dodgy massage parlours that I see. Yeah, hardly any guns. Australia's got pretty strict gun control. So I haven't exchanged my money yet. So I gotta make my way to the Commonwealth Bank to turn my Yank dollars into Aussie currency. We came by here about 45 minutes ago. Gum on sidewalk, bros. Not much gum on sidewalk, but yeah, a little bit. I brought my favorite chewing gum with me. So I brought like a change of undies, change of socks, like 15 packs of my favorite chewing gum. And I brought like eight crystal light lemonades. So for crystal light lemonade, and I've brought about 20 crystal light orange, classic orange. New York needs gum control. But you can walk around with your kids, right? Your kids can leave house and they can walk to school and you don't have to accompany them. I might have bought a little bit of Madatnil too. Why do you think I'm so cheffy and cheery with very little sleep? Yeah, you don't quite have the shopping variety in doing America. But they've got Amazon working in Australia. So I'm going to order me some nasal strips to open up my nostrils at night. Yeah, one of the first things I did when I got up at 2.30 this morning, got online, like, sit up my Australian account. Oh, so we've got an electric vehicle charging session. So we've got a whole green political movement here. Waiting for you to take a bunch of mushrooms and do a walk about the outback. Do Aussies work like Americans or do they take more time off? They take far more time off. Every Aussie gets a minimum of a month off a year. They don't work nearly as... Americans work more hours and are more productive and are more cost efficient as far as being workers than anywhere else in the world. So Americans have kept wages low because they've had unrestricted immigration. So you basically decide what wage rate is going to be by how much immigration you allow. So because Australia is comparatively restricting immigration, they've got really relatively high wages. Boy, I've got to be careful crossing the street. These cars come at unexpected angles. Oh, all these roundabouts. You don't have roundabouts nearly as much in the States. It's one thing that takes some getting used to. I would not like to be driving here. It'd be a shock to my system. Can't work out which way the cars are coming. Okay, I'm finding my way home. Who says you can't go home again? Yeah. Nice bit of tennis in the morning. Get the blood flowing. Yeah, minimum four weeks off the year in Australia. Best place in the world to be an average bloke. I haven't heard one harsh word since I've been in Australia, right? I haven't heard anyone like screaming obscenities at me. This is Brook Street. So there's a synagogue on Brook Street. Yeah, where are the massive potholes? We've got a nice little orthodoxy community. Yeah, nice clean solid sidewalks. It's not like LA where you've got tree roots busting up through the sidewalks. So one thing that Yanks say about Aussies and Kiwis, and also about many members of the working class in America, is that they work much harder once they're off work. So when they're at work, many Aussies, many Kiwis, probably many Brits and probably many working class Americans do like as little as possible when they're at work, and then they charge time to do their crafts, to do their hobbies. That's where they put their efforts. And there have been times where I haven't put as much effort into my day job as I have into my vlogging or my live streaming. So Australians tend to work very hard at their recreation of their Barbies and their sport. They don't drink as much alcohol as they used to, but they still drink more alcohol than Americans. So Aussie beer has about twice as much alcohol in it as American beer. So there's Aussie staying. How is it American beer like love in a canoe? It's so effing close to water. Oh, there's a beautiful gum tree. Oh, a first bit of graffiti. This is... Yeah, no cars driving a bar with mariachi music. There are the tyre burnings in the street. So this is like a lawn balls club. And there's a gym. Yep, so people working out at the gym. Is that a cockaburra? Do they have cockaburras in Sydney? I think I hear a cockaburra. I so want to hug this gum tree. Is this... I don't want to make a spectacle of myself. But I need to hug a gum tree, mate. It feels so good to be home. So good to be home. Australia, Australia, we love you. We love you. Fair dinkum gum tree. I remember the more religious days I wouldn't touch women. And so instead I'd like hug a lot of trees. I feel like hugging a good old gum tree. Yeah, I could make a loincloth with this bar. At one point when I was a kid I wanted to be like the George Washington Carver of Australians and find like 99 different foods with eucalyptus. I totally fail. I don't think you can make foods with eucalyptus. So just like George Washington Carver did with the peanut, I wanted to do with the gum tree. I was not proud. I am a tree hugger. I feel so good, mate. Have you hugged a tree today? I'm a bit sus on hugging people sometimes. But I do enjoy hugging a good gum tree. Okay, wonder if I'm lost. Can't go home again. So this is the park I came through when it was dark. Yeah, I miss the Doppler effect mariachi. Flaring out of cars, later the ground. Australia doesn't have much of that. Australia just doesn't have enough Mexicans. That's I think Australia's greatest shortcoming. Not enough Africans. It's not enough diversity, mate. Like everyone here is like white. How boring is that? Like there's no vibrancy. Found a basketball court. A basketball basket coming up here. So she had some hoops. I'm a tourist. You've been a tourist for two years, mate? Good on you, mate. I was born and raised here, but I live in the States now. It's amazing to be able to walk the streets and not feel afraid. It's amazing to be able to walk the streets and not feel afraid in a big city. Like there's no menace here. It's just like a cohesive, clean, friendly, safe place. I'm live on YouTube, so cheers, mate. We'll do some hooping later. Is that regulation height? It seems a little tall. I feel like that's about six inches tall. Definitely could not dunk on this. Beautiful dogs. Oh, that's something that Sydney's lacking. I haven't seen any... What are the really dangerous types of dogs? The dangerous... I haven't seen any dangerous dogs. Even the dogs in Sydney are friendly. Yeah, we need some live cricket streams. Live from the SCG. And we'll sing Jerusalem. And did those feet... Pitbulls! I see no pitbulls in Sydney. And what's the other really vicious type of dog? I haven't seen any vicious dogs in Sydney. I haven't seen any dingos. And did those feet... In ancient times... Walk over England's boss with his brain. And did the whole... Davenants, yeah. No, Davenants, either. Did the holy lamb of God... Hmm, hmm, hmm... And was Jerusalem... Hmm, hmm, hmm... Rotwielers. I haven't seen any Rotwielers either. No Rotwielers, no pitbulls. And did those feet... Surely we've built Jerusalem. Many Americans think of America as the chosen country. Perhaps the most important book written about Australia is called The Lucky Country. It was written by Donald Horn, who was editor of The Bulletin, which is an Australian news magazine. The Lucky Country book came out in 1966. Michael Kinsley quoted it. Michael Kinsley went to Australia for a couple of weeks in circa 1986 and wrote about it for one of the glasses, I think, Vanity Fair. He kept quoting Donald Horn's The Lucky Country. So Michael Kinsley said the only negative thing he heard in Australia was he got caught in the surf and bloodied his nose and he came out of the surf, like, leading profusely from his nose and some Aussie said, get back in the water, you're bleeding all over the beach. He says that was the only negative thing that you heard in his two weeks in Australia. He said that Australians are forthright. The service isn't as cringy and over-the-top as in America. But yeah, just letting your bloody nose in the surf. Get back in the water, you're bleeding all over the beach, mate. This is the middle of the big city. Here how quiet it is. Oh, I love the star Jasmine. Yeah, where are the babies standing by themselves with parents and where did they be found? Oh, I haven't seen any sign saying, homeless veteran, please give me money, or now I've got kids, please give me money. Where are the squeegee men? Like at intersections. Australia in their class distinction, Australia in their drug addiction. Everybody's got a chip on their shoulder. The kinks. And to think that America also had this kind of cohesion. Like Steve Sayles says in the 1950s, you didn't need to lock your car or your home in the San Fernando Valley. So we gave it all up, but at least we managed to lower wage rates. So that's the one good thing. All right, all together now. I've been to cities that never closed down. From Rio to New York to Old London Town. But wherever I go, there's one thing I know. I still call Australia home. All of the sons and daughters right around the world. I still call Australia. I still call Australia. I still call Australia home.