 Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here bringing you today second edition of the YouTube mail bag where I go through some of the random comments from random people in random places around the world asking random questions about this very random YouTube channel. I mentioned before the YouTube channel will eventually coalesce into more of a consistent format but for now I am exploring different ways of using video to to drive my creativity forward and actually one of the videos that I did recently that probably is where I want to take this channel in the future or what I'm looking to do. I uploaded a video yesterday five ways to live in Israel without going broke and I just kind of took together some stock footage from Pexels. I did a voiceover. I scripted the video and that's the kind of stuff I love the video can do storytelling. I watch a lot of videos like this myself on YouTube and there was definitely a lot of room for improvement in what I did yesterday but it was a lot of fun to do and I want to do more stuff like that. So starting out with a comment about that video from Yuda Kallik. I think that's a Turkish name. I just got back from a layover in Turkey and I've become somewhat somewhat fascinated by Turkey. I'm thinking about learning Turkish but it's such a hard language. It's an agglutinative language and it's not really like any language I've done before but that would be I don't know if it's like a big distraction or actually something I'm going to do but for now I'm just kind of interested in Turkey. So Yuda Kallik writes things in response to my video which again I don't usually say check out my videos specifically but check out this specific video. Even if you're not living in Israel and you just want to know a little bit about the financial reality facing us here and what we're sort of doing or ways because this is not a Israel unique Israel specific problem. It's like a global cost of living problem but it's kind of like exaggerated. I feel like we in Israel are at the margins of the far margins or the leading edge if you prefer that analogy of the cost of living crisis globally that the world has just gotten too expensive. The gap between rich and poor is ever widening and our current society or current form of capitalism not to quote my boss because this is what he talks about but it actually is untenable. So I talk about how expensive Israel is and a few things that I find helpful to basically survive life in this country. So Yuda says the only things cheap in Israel are wine, buses and Gary Neem which are seeds. Sad are beautiful countries apparently run by corrupt monopolies. This needs to change. It's about time. A local Israeli told me there'll be a civil war sooner prices stay the same. It's not unpatriotic to pay high prices. It would be silly to put up with the current situation the way it is. So I just wrote back to Yuda. I agree with every word. It's not. I mean it's a crazy situation here and what frustrates me the most is that every single election campaign that goes on in Israel and there have been a lot of election campaigns this issue does not receive the attention that it merits. I just got back from buying and going out to dinner tonight for Shabbat which is Friday night here in Israel. The host said could you bring us could you bring fruit? So I said okay I'll buy fruit. I'll do a fruit salad. Fruit salad for dessert. So I got back from buying like two bananas, two apples, a little selection of fruit and the bill came to 113 shackles. That's like 30 bucks for like a bag full of fruit and this is in Israel where people think you know Israel well it's the land of fruit and vegetables and at a price it is. So yeah the cost of living here is out of control and I agree. I'm glad to see I joined a Facebook group a few days ago called it's a Hebrew group called the cost of living as a problem or something like that and there's 17,000 people posting you know their receipts from Aldi in Germany or Aldi in Ireland and saying why is butter 50 cent here and we can't get it for less than five dollars. Why does oranges cost ten dollars in Israel in the land or oranges? Why is it cheaper? This is a fact. Why is it cheaper for me to buy olive oil in Ireland than it is to buy it in Israel where there's an olive tree growing one kilometer that way and it went when the supermarket stock imported Spanish and Italian olive oil it's cheaper than Israeli olive oil that doesn't make any sense. Why this country is dominated by oligopolies, monopolies, formerly a protectionist system but we're currently thankfully seeing the government removing red tape. Apparently Carrefour is coming to Israel for those who don't know Carrefour. It's like a French grocery chain and they licensed to a grocery store called Bitan and the big hope I'm very very excited about this is that this is going to reduce the cost of living. So I do actually feel a bit optimistic about things. There is room for hope but salaries are staying the same, expenses are going up, what you have left is getting smaller for a lot of people especially now that we're seeing the slowdown in the high-tech sector, the layoffs in the high-tech sector. Again to plug my own video if you didn't watch the five ways to survive living in Israel I talked about what high-tech means. I think it's a dumb word but it basically means companies with a technological orientation if you want and the salaries for those companies versus the general economy in Israel are like here and here. I have the figures in that video. Okay question two I'm going to do a few questions together because my most popular YouTube video to date with over 23,000 views or something like that is about a load balancer from TP-Link. You never know when you record a YouTube video whether five people are going to watch it or 23,000 people are going to watch it. If I seem like I know what I'm doing pulling topics I actually don't it's totally random. So the TP-Link videos are really popular about multi-wan internet and putting in a few different ones and folks are also having the problem I had that it doesn't work basically. The TP-Link ER605 connects to your backup one instead of your primary one by itself and you're like what the hell what are you doing this is not what you're supposed to be doing internet router. A firmware update fixed it for me mostly but it still occasionally happened. I have to tell you a secret YouTube folk. I ended up just taking off the backup functionality and now it's like manually operated. Basically after I went to the trouble of spending hours of my life figuring out this elaborate internet system of mobile internet, ISP internet okay how do we balance the internet how do we do failover blah blah blah blah blah just then my ISP got a lot better. So there you go. So now I don't have an internet pro actually I still have an internet problem. My upload speed is basically two megabits per second mbps I always forget if it's megabits or megabytes it makes running this YouTube channel very hard it would be so much easier with a decent internet connection I could upload more stock video to sell those on pond5 I could upload more free stock video to share my video clips with other creators on pexels I would love to do all that but it's just painstaking at the moment because my internet sucks. So please send out a prayer for me that there should fiber optic internet connectivity should come to these shores. Okay functional dyspepsia I'm still struggling with functional dyspepsia someone commented on my interview with Professor Nick Talley who is arguably the world's leading experts in functional dyspepsia forthcoming name change is going to be disorders of gut brain interaction and I think that's a much less stigmatizing name for this condition that it's not it's not thought of as psychosomatic another if you have if you're unlucky enough to also suffer from FD check out my interview with Dr. John Damianos from Yale he is very very smart very engaged young gastro tweeting on twitter very cool guy and he talks a little bit about the treatment modalities anyway peggy spot says are there any herbal treatments for FD with pain every day 15 years later your new ideas seem to be moving slow desperate to get rid of this pain for 21 over two constantly after gallbladder removal and some reflux reflux PPI's don't work so what I said back to this person Peggy is I mean it's not good to know someone else who their digestive system like broke down after gallbladder surgery but there are apparently a lot of us out there I had my gallbladder removed three years ago and my digestion has not worked very well since it's called functional dyspepsia but there are two types and something that Professor tally said in his interview that I thought was pretty telling was currently the medical breakdown is between post-prandial distress syndrome epigastric pain syndrome pds and eps epigastric I need another coffee I think eps epigastric pain syndrome so there's like a pain form of FD where people have you know GI pain that is not explained by any organic medical finding and there's people like me who when we eat or drink we blow it up like my policy is not to use bad language on this YouTube channel but we blow up like elephants or whatever you want to say and I have the latter form I've been taking amy tryptolin for four months now and I see my gastro finally for the first time in a year in about a week and I'm going to have to tell him the amy tryptolin hasn't really helped and I'm putting on weight from the medication and it's frustrating for me the only thing I find so far is low fat diet but to get back to the comment here yeah the pace of drug development is super frustrating like when Dr. Tally said oh you know we see a professor tally we see small intestinal pathology and functional dyspepsia and we're working on treatments it's all great and I thought he was a great he is a great guy he's a great researcher but people like me are like okay uh and when will these drugs be available for me to purchase so that I cannot be bloated all the time so yeah I share in the frustration it's a slow-moving process and etc oh I got a question for I got a comment a few comments from a friend of mine called ken k gordon 4546 uh wrote me a few comments he says the airport in istanbul looks incredibly nice this is I did a vlog when I was on my way between cork and Jerusalem Israel and Ireland um yeah they actually put a new airport into istanbul a few years ago and uh they it's not it's the biggest airport in the world um and it is really really nice did you know the turkish airlines connect more countries and any other airline if you didn't know that but after you fly them you will know that because they tell you every five minutes but it's actually a really good airline and uh ken says that small airports have their advantages well cork might lack in destinations it makes up with easy access and no long queues that's actually true so I I grew up in cork Ireland where I just came back from for a week and people don't know how you like special that airport is it's so easy you like show up you go through security uh there's like a security checkpoint for like the takes a minute to get through and then there's like four different gates and that's it it's such an easy airport um but nevertheless flying between Israel and Ireland is a nightmare it took me 21 hours to get between cork and Jerusalem it's literally quicker for me to get to new york than it is to visit cork now the reason is I flew to Dublin and the reason I flew to Dublin was because tickets to cork were like five or six hundred dollars more expensive but yeah you've to get the bus on my way back I got a bus to Dublin I flew to Istanbul then there was a layover in Istanbul then finally Israel but then Israel only gets you to Tel Aviv and then from Tel Aviv I need to get a bus to bus or train or taxi to Jerusalem so yeah it's very tiring and it was on Airbus 320 I don't want people to feel sorry for me to make it I'd like I'm I'm I'm presenting myself as a pity case because I know that flying is a luxury even though I think to visit family it's sometimes more like a necessity arguably but it's becoming progressively more unpleasant this was this was like the smallest airplane seat and I was just switched in watching a weird Turkish drama about a dervish monastery for five hours I also learned something interesting people may not know one of my life aspirations is to is to pass a private pilot's license I mean fascinated by airplanes since I was a little kid and I couldn't work it out on this flight between Israel and Ireland from Dublin to Istanbul they used an Airbus 320 which is kind of like comparable to a Boeing 737 it's a small narrowbody airplane and then from Istanbul to so that's a five hour flight roughly four hours four and a half hours maybe and then from Istanbul to Tel Aviv I got on and I was like what the hell this is an Airbus 330 Airbus 330 is a big wide-body Airbus it's the biggest Airbus in Turkish's fleet and back in the day it's what Erlingus used to fly between Ireland and the US for long-haul flights so I said this doesn't make any sense for a four hour flight they're using a half a packed Airbus 320 and then for the short leg they're using a half full Airbus 330 so I post on Reddit and I said Redis people of Redis can you explain why this might be the case guess what the answer is I'm going to give a three second countdown cargo air cargo so I only learned recently that all commercial flights essentially in the world have passengers their bags and they also are moving cargo so there's obviously people have probably seen cargo airplanes at airport DHL have planes a lot of airlines have their own cargo subsidiaries like Turkish has a airline called Turkish Airlines cargo but all these commercial flights are also carrying some cargo so that when someone said that it clicked with me because Dublin and Dublin and Turkey probably not a huge volume of trade I'm only guessing here Turkey and Israel I think Turkey is one of our biggest trading partners so much stuff and if you go to a grocery store in Israel comes from Turkey because it's just almost next door there's Syria and Lebanon before Turkey but you know there's we're at a state of war with those countries so it's like the closest neighbor not at not that we're not at war with besides Cyprus in the north and so a lot of stuff in Israel comes via Turkey it's a big supply chain so that I thought that was really interesting in other words Turkish were using a big Airbus 330 on this route because it was more like a cargo flight with some passengers than a passenger flight with some cargo and that's only my guess work but I think the people on reddit are right and you might not find that interesting but you got it thank you guys for watching another mailbag mailbag number two in my youtube channel if you find this interesting informative let me know in the comments um I might tag people saying you were in the mailbag you were one of the mailbag people thank you guys for watching more videos coming soon to this youtube channel if you do want to get more videos from me subscribe to the channel and share it with your friends and jump on your head have a nice day