 Rwyf am fawr yn hynny yn allan gyflwysoedd y mynd i ei ddech chi'n colli hefo, ac nid ydych chi eisiau ddweud y ddych chi'n wasbyg iawn ac y ddwyLabol, ac mae'n wneud ei ddod o mynd i chi'n ll wicked eu hwn yn ei gaf. Llan o'ch eto, ac roedd yn gweithio o Lord Miles, Lord Armi! Does ychydig yma! Hyddech chi yma! Diolch yma! Wytwch rydyn ni'n llwyo'n clywed hwn wedi gweld, Dyma arnyn chi. Ewch yn hwn o maedd yn ni'n iddynt! byddai llawer o'r cybl. Mae hwn. Dyma. Pryddyn. Mae'n rhan fethion ar gyfer ni o blodau am yr unrhyw. Mae'r pwg dde wedi'u mynd i'w mgwlad. Mae gyrrewn y ffaith yn byw, yma. Fy yw'n golygu. Mae'n llain. Mae hwn eistedd i'r hunicio a gydol iawn, mae hwn eich hoff agnaint wedi'u pari. Mae'n wneud i'w hindur ffordd i'w mynd i chi. Fo fyddi'n gyfle hwn o'r cyflwynt iawn i gyd? Ond eraill yn gweithio'r f waist lleolion yn fyrchi, a fel y fain heiniol, y pw ons, mae'n gofio allan a wahanol iawn. Maen nhw'n argyflwch yn ôl, allan, felly mae'n wahanol fawb dweud. Rwy'n credu ei i chi yw'r dweud, mae'n dosgayf. Yn ysgrifennu, dylwn yn y tro, mae'n fawr o dweud. Yn gwrth i ni'n eu cyfrifциau, rydyn ni wedi rhoi'r cychwyn ei fod yn dŵr, mae'n gweithio'n ddechreu i chi e, mae'n oes ei bod yn ei gwybod i chi fel oed. Felly, Totally began? Of course, it all began in a very dark place in the world, it's called Birmingham. Now Birmingham is like the Detroit of America, it's a very dark dodgy place mate. And to be fair it's full of very interesting people who would love to have your phone or your wallets. So everyone's a wall I would go in some dangerous situations in Birmingham as a kid And at one point I was homeless on the streets of Birmingham at 17 for a few months ac rhaid yn bwysig y gallwn gwahanol i unrhyw yn ymgyrch. Ac rhaid yn gweithio'r cyfnod. Mae'r rhaid, fel ydych chi'n gwahanol i roi'r cyfrifiadau. A rhaid yn gwahanol i'r cyfrifiadau. Rhaid, ydych chi'n gwahanol i rhaid i roi'r cyfrifiadau a rhaid i'r cyfrifiadau. Rhaid, rhaid, rhaid i roi'r cyfrifiadau ac rhaid i roi'r cyfrifiadau yn ysgolod ysgolol, mae'n rhaid i'r cyfrifiadau. A ddweud â'r 221, Cwyl i'r Fyllgrifdedig Llyfrgell Cymru a ikeni gynllun, sy'n gwybod am arfer y cwyrd yma, wrth gyd, rydyn ni ffood i canes y ffordd dyma yma i gweithio'r byd. Rhywb i wneud o'r fffrif grant o sylfa o ffyrwm o'r pwyllaur wedi cyfnodd. Mae bod yma'r cwyddo i'r Fyllgrifdedig a'r pwyllais某 yma yw'r pwyll Walmart. Ac rwy'n cael ei wneud o ran y pwyll μεi. Ond byddech chi'n fy hun yn y tydd, ac rwyf i fod yn ymweld a gwybod llawer ynglyn â'i gweithio yn ffordd. Mae'n ied wythio i chi falch a'u meddwl i tanfio o sesol fan i taliband. Rwyf yn cael ei gyda tro. Ychydig unig llwy? Ym mwyaf, y.\ Do gerdu cwm e'ch hunan? A choyn o'ch hunan... Mae choyn o'r hunan. Mae'n rhaid o'r hunan sy'n ei choyn i'ch hunan. Ychydig. Arfu i chyrdu i'ch unig. Ac mae'n sesol. Mae'n sesol feddyb yn chyrdu'r hunan. I would, I would always do my homework, always go to the extra mile, I was trying to go into art bizarrely, like I was really good drawer, really good actor, but I was also good at science kind of, so that was my thing. I think I did some good stuff, had some few friends but wasn't like super popular, wasn't an outcast or just in the middle. I think it was a solid time, but I don't really miss it. What about family? Ah, dodgy family life mate, I've got your mitt and I'm completely open about this, no problems. So I don't have a father, it was through IVF and they signed something saying, okay, don't tell us, you know, don't tell the kid the details. So I tried to go to the agency that, you know, took the sample of my father's DNA to have me and sadly obviously wants nothing to do with me. So I lived with my mother, single family living on benefits. So everyone thinks I'm some sort of rich kid traveling world hell no, own business self made, thankfully, but she was on benefits. And I think at like 11 years old we would actually dump to die for food, because it was round, it was just after financial crisis, our benefits got reduced like five, five pounds a month, no joke, because he thought she was going to be in benefit fraud or something. So we would go to a supermarket called Iceland and we would just jump the fence. We would climb inside the bins and there'd be some freshly thrown out food like frozen food that was expired like expired one day ago and we would eat that stuff. It was, it was a dog time and, and she had a lot of mental health problems, a bit of an alcoholic too. Major depressive disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, bad times. So there was some dodgy stuff going on with her, really couldn't stay in the house, heads for homelessness. And then to be fair, when I turned 18, I was like, not seeing any improvement mate. It's going, it's going worse and worse and worse. I need to separate myself from that, you know, for my own safety at some point too. Like I almost got stabbed by my mom over. And so I left home to go to uni, didn't tell how I got into uni and just left cut contact. And then I send a letter saying, hey, if you improve, if you cut out the alcohol over time, if I see some improvement, we could build something up. Never happened. How hard does that when you see your mother slipping? There's nothing you can really do. You're trying to tell a lesson, please change, please change. Because you know yourself, if people need to change, it's all down to the individual. That's me, of course. I've struggled myself, I know countless other people struggle. In fact, everybody struggles. I don't give a fuck when anybody says everybody deals with their different traumas, different levels. But how hard does that to see a mother when you're rummaging through bins to then sleeping on the street to then seeing there's no change. But the only thing you can do is walk away for your own mental sanity. I gotta be honest. 11 years old, this is what happened. So it was before some exams or something. And this is when I realized that it's so over. It's not happening. 11 years old, I was lying in my bed. It was like a few hours before exams, middle of the night. And I hear a shouting, my name slurred. And I actually got some footage of this just to prove I'm on the right of this because she was a little crazy. She had put loads of stuff on the stairs as random objects and purposely tripped herself down the stairs and thrown herself down the stairs. So for three hours, I just thought she was drunk and he called my name. Turns out she fell down the stairs, cracked her head open, blood everywhere, big pool of it. And 11 years old, that didn't freak me out. That was normal. That was like a monthly or even weekly occurrences type of stuff. It's crazy. So I go to her, I pick her up. She's like half naked. It's bizarre. And I call for an ambulance and the police and the fire department and all that know our house by this point. We've got a reputation. And then as soon as I call the police, she suddenly stops the act. She gets up and goes to bed and defuses an ambulance. So it was all an attention act. It was really, really bizarre. And 11 years old, even at that point as a kid, I just sat there stroking my chin and went, Yeah, this is just not normal. This is not going to be a proper relationship. This is going to go downhill. So I accepted it very early on. I got matured bizarrely very fast. And I got a job, I think it was 13, 14 years old. Officially 14, you know what I mean? Two days a week, part-time job, solid 16 hours a week. And I would just pay for my food and look out to myself. And I think it's like, I kind of think it's made me like this in some ways. Because if I had loved ones, if I had a family, where they cared for me and loved me and all that, I don't think I would do what I do because it's too risky to put them through stuff. But seeing them not improving, not really my family. I have no family. Do you think you grew up fast then having to figure it out from yourself, from a very young age? Oh, absolutely, yeah. So people at school would be talking about the most boring stuff. And I would be thinking, holy shit, with my finances, will they stretch next week? How do I do this? Or how do I prepare for my credit score, you know, like 14 and stuff? It really does mature your stuff. And a lot of people can't relate as a kid. So you're kind of stuck in that bubble where you can't talk to anyone about it because kids are judgmental, you know what I mean? So you kind of have to be mature and kind of hide it at the same time. Yeah, back then, like I say, it's not you're ashamed, but you just, you just even know... He had a guy on. Oh, amazing man. His mum was the Britain's most evilest mum. He used to brat droppings in his sister's sick and stuff. She tied him behind the car and drove around with him. He still loved her. He still fucking loved her. It's always going to be a small part of me. Fuck me. There's part of the element where I can understand where you don't want to speak out. You don't want to get your mum in trouble and stuff like that. What did you do after school? After school, so when I was homeless and... Oh, you mean night after uni? Not just when you're left school at 15, 16. So you ended up homeless. I went to sixth form to be fair. But at 17 and a half I became homeless for three months. So this is my mum's mindset. It's very bizarre, mate. She literally thought, ah, miles ago I leave for university. And because he's living in the house, a mortgage is going to be taken away from us because he's technically a kid or a dependent or a student or something. So if I make him homeless, he will... And she admitted this while I was drunk by the way. So I 100% believe it. She said, you know, if I make him fail his entry exams, his A levels, he will be forced to stay at home. And then obviously she'll be able to click some dough off it. And obviously I was paying her occasionally through my job. You know, and that's illegal as well, but I was paying her just some stuff. So she can keep afloat herself. And I supported myself. That's like the scummiest thing you could do. So obviously just left. Went to university, went to Loughborough University. Studied physics of all things. So I really hated myself there. Just studied and COVID happens. I was like, I have this trash. Worked a full-time job while studying. What did you do? I worked at this phone store called Free. That was fun. That was the bastard's name, mate. Sorry to hear. The signal's crap, mate. Is this signal so shit? Yeah, I don't know. The cheap bastards aren't they? By the Chinese, like all telecommunications. Yeah, I would honestly go to another network, mate. But I worked to them. It was fucking insane because you would meet some chaffee as help people with some crazy stories. Sometimes you would have people that had gone to fight to run into the storm and then they were hoping that the other person who was fighting them wouldn't run in because they would point to the camera. So every once in a while we would have some guy loaded up running into the store, just hiding under the chair. I was like, all right, mate. It's normal stuff. And you'd always have some crazy people. So I was just doing that for about three years. I was just working part-time. I was doing some other stuff too as I got into banking and whatever. I wanted to go down the pipeline of a normal job. So that's very surprising. I wanted to go to invest in banking or investment in banking. I was fucking wankers. I didn't have the best for the world, are they? But it makes money. So I thought, you know, I'm going to go down that route. I'm just obsessed with money at this point. I was like, as a kid, I've never had money. So that was just my priority at that point. So a cad then, university, even throughout the homelessness, cad working university, was life okay then? Yeah, it was solid to be fair. I got a scholarship and I got a bursary because it's like, hey, you're poor as hell. Here's some free money. So I was like, oh, thanks government. Good stuff. So I was just chilling, had some good flatmates. And I became famous university for unrelated reasons. So people in the UK that have been to university recently all know that on Facebook or Instagram you got these confession pages where you can send anonymous confessions about students and you can say like, it wouldn't be the students name would be their initials like A from geography, fancies, B from physics, but B is cheating on someone with C. Yo, just gossip stuff. I ran one of those pages and I was public about it. So I was like a big name in Loughborough University for a few years and it was like, I was walking down and everyone just talks to me. It was like a little bit of fame. And at that point I was like, you know what? This is the height of my fame. I'm never going to do anything public. I'm never going to blow up. This is nice little snippet of things. I'm going to work a nice normal job and that's going to be the end of it, man. What did you do after the university? Oh, I accidentally popped down to the fall of football and became famous. And then I was like, yeah, screw the university pipeline. I'm just travelling for a living. It pays better, man. So you give it all up? Yes, mate, because I thought about it. I got a £68,000 offer from this one bank in Shanghai. They were like, come work for us. And I thought to myself, all right, mate, I'm going to be working what 8am to 10pm, six and a half days a week. So £68,000, that type of hours. It's not even solid hourly rate. Then I realized, oh, because it's so competitive, you got to live in the city centre. So that's two or three grand every single month in rent, just for like a small apartment. And so, and then half it's also taken by taxes too, because you're on the higher tax rate. What's the tax worth on that, 40? Oh, yeah, like 40, 45. Same as every other... Yeah, it's crap, basically. It sucks. Yeah, so I realized, oh crap, I'm going to be earning no money because the cost of living relative to the actual income sucks. When I started digging, I found stories about my managing director at the time. He was earning what, 250,000 pounds a year, plus bonus. And every single month, he would only have 400 pounds left to his bank account because expenses are that high, you know? Yeah, it's fucking pointless. Yeah, screw that. I would just rather goof off, and it's... Give a sell tell you about that. It's so good money. But you've got, so then you've got nothing. You've then created a life for yourself where you can have something. Yeah, exactly. Were you not scared though that what if you ended up homeless again by giving it all up? You know, at one point, I was thinking about that. I was thinking I could really go south. Technically, I'm homeless now, mate, because I cancelled my rent after the fall of the ball. So before, during my prismant, I cancelled my rent, just thinking it might be long term. I'm living in hotels right now, but money's no problem, so we're good. So identically homeless. But I was worried about it. I thought I might be screwed over. I might do something stupid. I might lose all my money because I don't know who knows where. But I had people DM'ing me saying, hey Miles, if you want to work for a Western Bank, my boss actually realized what you do, regardless of the controversy. We got off you a six salary in Germany or whatever. And I was like, wait a minute, an international incident, this is bringing more opportunity than the detriment of what actually I'm going through. Crap, this is actually a great networking opportunity. So I was like, I've always got a backup plan, I've got a backup plan A, B, C, D, E, all the way to Z, mate. That's the best way, mate. Like I say, it's mad, and even negative attention, positive attention, it opens doors. Yeah, you actually know that yourself. You've done some good work, you've climbed. Yeah, and no matter, everything's to create noise. But doing it in a way where you're not being fake, false, where yeah, it's just for thinking. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Be you, and let other people do the talking. Of course. My job is fucking easy. The travelling's hard, people don't really see behind the scenes. You know, the boring admin stuff, you're doing invoices. Behind the scenes is more, I love speaking to people. That's what I'm saying. I can see that, man. You're good at this. So I've been through a lot of interviews, a ton of people, even feds interviewed me, but you're one of those people that actually do listen. And you seem solid this type of stuff. And you got a cheesy smile, mate. So then you've gave everything up. What was the plans then? How did you end up in all the places? Was that a vision that you had, or was it just kind of day by day fair and fruition? Yeah, so I had a decent chunk of change in university. I threw a banking stuff. I had like a chunk of change, and I had some money invested, and I got into AMD really early and set up some crypto too. So I thought I got like a nice little cushion just in case. So I planned it out, and I looked at the YouTube space, and I saw there were so many travel vloggers, so many YouTubers like that. You know, go to Afghanistan, go to Iran, Iraq, all these countries we think is dodgy. And they get no views. You know, they've got no personality. Something like, ah, you have to be a personality yourself. It doesn't matter about the destination. You really have to stand out. You have to be a boystress, you know. So I thought to myself, I'm going to use the media right here. So the media were writing trash about me, and I approached loads of these journalists, and I said, hey, hello journalists, you know, Shalom. You kind of, you know, we're not best mates here. You obviously don't like me, but I'll give you the stories exclusively. You pay me a little chunk of change, a few hundred here and there, you know. And you can write absolute trash about me, but we'll orchestrate it together. So we kind of set the narrative, so everyone gets hate clicks. And that kind of happened. So I kind of always got clicks which funneled into my Twitter, following it into my YouTube. And then I would do donations and stuff. So people started donating to me. I said, hey, I'm going to need some donations for like half a year until I pick up and sort of find, basically throw, excuse my language, throw a share of war and see what sticks. So I went to some different countries and I thought the media would be my biggest source of income. No, it turns out behind a random merchandise from military groups and stuff and resending it at a markup. That was sick money. So, you know, South Sudanese military sold South Sudan patches. No one else gave them anywhere. I just paid cash in hands under the books for those people. And it's flew them back in my carry on, decent money. How much did they sell for? So I could buy a patch of a one dollar a piece, my maximum. Like I was paying a premium too, because I'm a white dude. So I'm going to sell them for $40. But it was the, it wasn't, you know, it was cheap to buy it. It was, I actually went to these countries, saw some out where no one else actually managed to do it previously and then resold them a markup because no one else is willing to go there and no one else knows where to buy them. So the collectors that are trying to go for worldwide patches or new countries in general, they, they say, oh crap, you actually risked your life in one of these countries. The markup is worth it and that's pretty solid. What were they? Just military patches from their government, just like a special forces. Yeah, that type of stuff. Because nothing gets out of South Sudan without either a million permits or a little cash in hand. So you know how Africa works. Yeah, yeah. What was the first place you went to? So full of football. That was my first official place. That was public. So that blew me up. And that was three years ago? Yeah, three years ago, man. August of 21. Did you know all the military was going to leave? No, mate. He was told by the embers. I think there's people still there. I think there's soldiers still there. Oh yeah, still in prisons. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's already been kept down low because all the governments don't want to be public because they'll put pressure on them to actually act. Do you see what I mean? It's very bad. So that was the first place you went? Yes, absolutely. And all the military and stuff was there? Yeah. See when you went there? Was everybody still run by the army? Yeah, so I had, I had some NATO soldiers, family friends or whatever saying. Yeah, she's solid. No problems. Cabal was going to be holding. We're going to take over back. We're going to take over Afghanistan again. The other type and I'm going to take over the trust plan. Don't trust the plan ever. Journalists, I believe the journalists, you know, that was interesting. They said, yeah, it's got to hold out for six months at least. Embassy staff were like, yeah, it's chill, man. You go on holiday. No problem. A little bit bossy, but we respect that. I went there and then when I got to Cabal, I saw some bulky American dude, some military contractor, I assume, packing you up. He's like, what are you doing here, mate? I was like, holiday. And he just, he's looked at me like this fucking guy. And he said, I'm going to see you soon, most likely. And I got some, I got some bad feelings. And I rebooked my fight back. I fought too late. After that, I went down to South Sudan, did a whole East Africa tour. Went to a Hollywood. So a producer that actually makes you gandan movies. It's like a total shit post, mate. Really funny ones, really bad animation, but it makes it entertaining. So I started in one of those as you do, mate. I got blown up with really terrible CGI. After that, do you remember when Russia kind of half invaded Kazakhstan? This was way before Ukraine. So most people don't remember it. I jumped because Kazakhstan became a Blackstone where no information got in or out. And there was no way to get in or out, unless you were a citizen. So I jumped a mountain board over the mists of night, avoiding Russian mists, Harry, you know. So I got there after like two days of the mountains just freezing my tits off. And then suddenly the whole military blockade actually opened up. So it was like the worst timing whatsoever. But it was an entertaining video after that, the front lines of Ukraine. I had through some friends, some contacts I made, the exact day it would happen, and it exploded then. So I was there on the ground of the front lines in Kharkiv. Just watching it all go down. I was hanging out with some soldiers at the time who thought I might be a Russian fed, but they found out quickly, obviously not. The position was getting pretty much bombarded through artillery. So we went from eating out of a can, enjoying some lovely chicken to let's get to the fucking base and the building next door just collapsed. Glass from the window just pretty much exploding from the pressure of the explosion. Slamming me in my face, cuts all the way down my face. Running down the stairs, running down the stairs. Lights going out, complete darkness. We get to the basement. Half the building collapsed on us, but we had a nice tunnel entrance out of the basement compound area. I really enjoyed it, man. That's my type of thing. I had some great footage. I remember the last minute they said that we have to ask you to delete it. Do you think that's because you're upbringing the kind of fear the anxiety? You thrive on that adrenaline now? Yeah, no joke. Do you think at this point I don't even get adrenaline out of it? It's just in my mind, I think, crap, I'm actually doing this stuff. This is a great play story. I think it's funny to some degree, sometimes. Like a movie? Almost, yeah. It sounds a bit narcissistic, but honestly, yeah. Sometimes you just kind of look at your situation and go, a few years ago I was just working a normal nine to five job and it's kind of chuckledy stuff and go, sometimes working out, mate. Sometimes working out. So Caboos at the capital of Afghanistan? Yes, mate. So what was it actually like when you get there as a much hatred towards the British or the Americans? Or how was it? Because obviously we see things in news and stay back from these people that are evil. Oh, you can't trust the news, man. Is this post takeover about you talking about? Yeah, just when you first get there did you see anything different? Was the people nice? How does it all work? Because like I said, just says it in the news and that portrays people of being evil. The British are the best, but the British have invaded over 90% of the world. So we know those stories and I've no bad, I know soldiers, I know SA guys and I love them, my bits. That was their life at the time. They've been chosen to do it. They've chosen to do it at life. They're just following orders. Is it for government workers? Yeah, it's not their men. Like I say, all the words that's happening now with all soldiers put down their weapons. For me then there's no destruction but the real question for me is if people telling them to do these things and you've got Israel and Palestine I'm not qualified to be speaking on them. I just find it all messy, I think. What else is behind it? It's tragic what's happening. Yeah, just all innocent people and kids and women. If you're a soldier and a soldier fighting against each other they've chose that life to kill each other and by all means you signed up for that. I've spoke to enough soldiers now to realise it ain't normal to see the struggle in their eyes, the pain in their face too. It's not as you mean, it's human beings which should be better than that. Yeah, getting on with one another. We should be figuring that out. But again, greeting power brother it takes you to places that is only a devil that knows what's going on there. But when you get to Kabul how did the people treat you? Are you treated well or are you outcast? Oh, I'm treated lovely. So my second time in Afghanistan was a few months after the fall of Kabul. So I go there, I go there and I drive in through Pakistan through Basharab and Jalalabad and I get to Kabul it's night time and I'm looking through a hotel I knew from the fall of Kabul. So I'm looking around and I find this one place and all hotels are pretty much compounds, right? Just for security. They were built during with the NATO occupation. So I knock on the door and some Taliban guy brings me in and he says, come in, come in. I'm like, crap, I'm talking to the Taliban. And I get it and this is my first impression of the Taliban by the way so I'm a bit scared to be fair. And I get brought into a room and they're like, what are you doing here? I was like a hotel and they were looking at me like this bloody guy we haven't seen a white dude in ages but they sit me down and like, oh, this used to be a hotel now it's like a Taliban housing area. So I'm like, crap. So I'm like, what's happening now in the Taliban compound? Do I get tied up? Do I get questioned? Do I get arrested? No, mate. They invited me in they're watching cricket on this really old TV. They lay down a mat like we're going to get some food maybe we're going to get some chicken we're going to get some naan we're going to have a good time. They're just chilling with me they're using Google Translate to talk to me they have a big smile you know, they've just fought us for 20 years and they invited me as a guest like, hey, come sit down mate, come sit down don't even vet me don't even search my bag or anything I could be dodgy I could have been but they just they're very naturally trusting and good people so they were like hey, you're a guest in that country you got a passport and visa that's all we need sit down and enjoy yourself mate. So I'm nervously eating but I start warming up to them and I'm thinking holy crap, where are my tally bros not my tally foes, you know so I really did enjoy it man and that first stay in Kabul was just like that I'd walk down the streets in local attire and some tally fan dudes were looking at me like, that's a white dude right and then they would call me over and like, can we take a selfie? I'm like hell yeah, we'll take a selfie and we're just chillings you know those trucks the convoys, SUVs or whatever that the Americans left behind military vehicles they were like climb up here, take a picture if you want take a selfie on here I'm like hell yeah, I want to take a selfie and I look at other people who do the same stuff a few mums are after me I was the first O.J. I look at some people were just chilling with the tally bands some people were going on their trucks driving with the tally band so they went on picnics with the tally band a few trips later so I've done five trips to have gas and total it'll be six in a few mums I went shooting with the tally band I just said hey can we go out to some field somewhere I get to shoot your guns I think it'll be a fun YouTube video they were like hell yeah brother no problem, muskyn dishto that's what it means in Pashto muskyn dishto no problem hey it's just solid mate that's your most viewed video on YouTube the shooting of the guns with the tally band yeah I've been, sadly yeah I wish I did I focused more on YouTube but now we've got everything in place and then obviously my rest happened so we couldn't officially go through the whole thing but that's my most viewed yeah just over 1.5 million I think at the moment but we're going to be putting out some good documentaries and some solid content in the future that's what it's all about you're still growing you're still figuring it out just like it's a wall he's trying to figure it out you understand it you'll never have it figured out oh dear yeah when we talk about this is a movie do you feel as if you're in a movie this is that mate but Leif is just one big script we write it of course yeah we have the fuck do we want to take it things are constantly changing so you have to always adapt and you know become a better person yeah yeah of course what's the steps to get into can be what visas and how do you get into is it a lot of red flags everywhere is a lot of red tape to be fair it's actually pretty simple most of the time if you fly to Europe you know you just show your passport stamp you have to get a visa so you can't do it online do you don't have e-visas you need to pop down to an embassy so if you go to Bios lambabad it's the same day visa but sometimes you get denied and obviously you don't want to make all the trip halfway you don't want to make the trip halfway and waste your time if you get denied so I went to the US sorry the embassy in London the Afghan embassy and they were run by the old government staff but they obviously gained orders from the Taliban and there's some reforms going on different requirements so it's kind of a weird situation so you walk in they look at you like why do you want to go to Afghanistan fair enough and they say you know you need this paperwork and you go okay so they always ask me they say we need a reason for your travel you know explained on an A4 piece of paper with your signature so I was like okay I know what I'm going to do so I literally wrote in word fun and just printed that on an A4 piece of paper just word fun you know just in tiny font signed it just lit it over and they just read it and they were like it's a fucking guy they brought me over the audacity just to write that instead of a proper sentence but they were like we accept it I guess and then you've got to fill out some form so if you go for tourism you've got to have a tour guide where you've got to pay for of course a retro tour agency and you've got to get some stamps and some nonsense like that for myself because I run a business you can kind of invite yourself a business so you can write a letter and you have to kind of you have to get an invite from your company but because of course I'm the only one I'm the director of my own company I invited myself to Afghanistan to conduct business for myself and to keep myself safe so through bureaucracy I have to say I'm lucky after myself I'm some sort of schizophrenic and multiple personalities and when me and my friends went to Afghanistan together we wrote we had to write out another letter for my friends so we downloaded a template online and when we did that we didn't change the name of the bottom we forgot so apparently quadrangle dingle was advising us to Afghanistan and they just didn't care to be fair you're wearing suits you don't look dodgy you're probably not fair to your kids you know you're all the documents we need your passport pay like 200 quid within a week we'll send you your passport for the post back I'm like yeah it's a bit of red tape to be fair but it's solid it's not too bad gained places like Libya North Korea Eritrea those are the real bitches those are really really difficult to get visas for you need a pool you need to travel to different countries and wait months for a visa you need to pay sometimes over £5,000 for a visa to go to Libya is that them trying to protect her country from the British going on to get more intelligence or possibly being spies or is it because they just don't want to fucking seize in general because of the shit that we've done in these countries potentially yeah mate so because look at a rachmate the weapons are mass destruction there was none over a million people killed and these are the people where's the where's the outcry for that you see all the British you see all these people supporting Ukraine and you see them supporting Israel supporting Palestine what about fucking supporting everything that Britain's done drawing the people and do you know what I mean obviously we are from here I don't agree with words but I've said it before if a war was to come to Scotland I'd be the first to get a pair of boots and a rifle to try and protect Monza you can understand why people fight for their country because they don't want to be invaded by any other country and it's not normal in my mind it's not normal I fear as if people have a right to stand but it's good how the media betray things of these wars and 9-11s and all the other shit of the day where you've got a question and think these things really happen where they're not a conspiracy but the media can betray something and everybody just jumps on board and supports killing innocent people it's just weird for me see when you're there what was your first stunt how long did you stay? so in Afghanistan the first time I stayed there was two weeks after I fought so I was travelling around speaking to people getting some stories do you think I was just enjoying it? first time I was in Afghanistan I actually got threatened by a random guy on the street and also I saw loads of prostutes around this was during the American occupation but that's why your back's not many days so true I'm down I need to get a flake I guarantee with Taliban looking at this there's a joke I promise you when I go back man there's no prozzies the streets are clean people are actually respectful I had no problems I actually felt stupidly safe because there's a Taliban bro on every single street corner just holding a gun looking out for danger and apparently during the occupation too when the US were there there was loads of ISIS around they would do random bombings they were in Jalalabad coming from Pakistan or whatever the Taliban the GDI their intelligence agency they are on the ball with things because they they are trusted by every member of the community inside Afghanistan so if someone hears something dodgy going on it does get passed down the chain of the public and they get informed of this and then the Taliban do taking to custody any ISIS and at this point they've eliminated ISIS for most areas so it's pretty solid so they're doing quite well it's a little bit paranoid about the spies and everything and I say paranoid because sometimes they thought I was a spy and fair enough but I didn't meet some genuine spies whilst in the jail it was a guest house it was nice but I met some people some Afghans would come up to me and they would say hey mate I'm literally an Afghan CIA and I'll go what what and they're like yeah yeah this is my ID number whatever if you guess how please remember that number we'll contact each other I'm like nah mate I'm not a spy myself I'm just I'm just like here for not having a permit not really interesting about world sorry mate and he's like aww wink I'm like no no no wink I'm like I'm generally not a spy he's like yeah same I'm like aww fuck me I can't deal with that so they are genuine CIA operating in Afghanistan right now actively like a decent number and these people get paid $400 a month so it's kind of insane the Taliban are considered a terrorist group like you said the Americans are all about self-determination of freedom and the Taliban are bizarrely like that too most people are going you can't draw that parallel but hold on you know to them Bin Laden wasn't obviously part of the Taliban part of this government at all he was some outlaw criminal and then he fled to Pakistan and then Afghanistan got invaded by this foreign land that they had no concept of and they just obviously were fighting for freedom to run their government they aren't considered a terrorist network at all no country considers them terrorists apart from Japan I think but if I bring a member of the Taliban here it's no problem because they're technically classed as freedom fighters so they're just blokes basically that are trying to defend their country like you said if Scotland invaded and you created a group you're not a terrorist you're a freedom fighter you want your country run by your people and by the majority of the people and the previous government it's crazy it's even when you look at the news back in the day like Gaddafi and stuff I was always portrayed that he was an evil man I like Gaddafi his country was run, what he'd done for healthcare in universities and helping out mothers and there was no homelessness it was unbelievable and now it places upside down oh yeah like I wasn't you know he's not perfect far from it no fucking dictator a leader is whatever you want to call him no and we're not perfect but you know we really tried and I think it was trying you saw some interviews he seemed genuine well you could tell what was going on in the international stage he was just laughing at the UN meetings I thought it was hilarious man he tried to create a gold back currency as well I think you try to get away from the dollar and as soon as that happens you're gone you try to give Africa a new lease of life so what I've heard like I said I'm not fucking expert I can only watch a few videos and speak to enough soldiers and other people who've changed their perception of things and they tell me just that they were trying to get away with the US dollar I think and bring Africa its own currency or something like that well that would have given them the control that's the thing they can't do it's like do you know French Africa all their banks are controlled by France so they're in France right now so they have to do all transaction all business through France and they charge stupidly high interest rates so that's why places like they go and have the west of Africa those desert countries the like Maui and stuff they just can't get a foot off the ground because their banks are pretty much controlled and France is kind of reaping the rewards and I get that to be fair like you know whole colonisation thing I kind of get it you know if you control some nations you become rich yourself I don't understand it but I don't exactly agree with it you know what I mean there's a better way to do it but it's crazy how even in the world today there's nearly two billion people before clean water how is that possible how is that possible the homelessness and the starvation of people all around the world and more so Africa it's mad to think there's eight billion people on this planet with the resources that we have now the food that we waste every day it's I still can't understand that human beings are treated the way they are and because of the people who control the world and families whatever you want to call it it's just and we forget that sometimes as well bro because we caught in our own life we want our own family to eat and we forget about the district even the homeless on the street I do a lot of homeless but sometimes you walk past so many you actually forget that that's a human being that's someone who's sitting there lying, cold he was once a huge child really happy maybe the world at his feet but that's someone sitting on the street cold, alone starving, dying just walk past them it's fucking mad I mean you have moved your room with a few quid and some could change it they get a bike to eat maybe just keep them existing it sucks so what made you go back then after the first time I blew up from Afghanistan I didn't want to see what's going on it was actually a genuine curiosity what's the government like what's the country like no one's touched it but the visa has just opened up the tourism visa maybe I can go there and I heard some stories I thought to myself how do you make money in this world from going to these countries apart from YouTube and all this other stuff and I realised when a new government takes over when there's a drastic change of government like an overthrowing or whatever like that's happened there's a lot of opportunity you can become the guy to do certain things or you can get government contracts quite easily especially because I don't imagine you know any business guys just popping down to Afghanistan just signing contracts and doing business it's quite rare so you can really make some money out of that place so I thought now I'm going to make some money I'm going to do some business I'm going to help everyone around me who's involved in it everyone gets paid I get paid, everyone's happy I'm going to make some videos I'm going to be brutally honest if a Taliban are good I just be honest unlike most journalists I say solid things if I have a bad experience I'm going to be honest I say bad things but I wanted to go there out of like little journalism personal curiosity business so where did you what was your mindset going into then what it is now about the people in I think they're pretty solid to be fair the good people friendly loving caring the majority of humans are when you actually have a one to one with them you know I've understood that I've sat across from pure stone cold killers and they became friends and I think I like you because you kind of forget the shit and it's mad but what was your separation you've got now from it from when you first went to what you've got for them now do you feel sorry for them somewhat, yeah mate because the issue is a lot of the Taliban they haven't been to school at all they haven't been to school man so a lot of them just don't know how the world works and you look at their country here's a thing too China has the northern provinces they bought a 300 million dollars worth of land because there's so many minerals they're 3 trillion worth so it's the next Congo and that could be a very bad thing they've been exploited to hell in a bad way it's all the Chinese are doing they're trying to carnise it economically and I walked around Kabul and I saw they've been cut off from the Swift Network with sanctions I don't know why that sucks they're just trying to bank it trying to just join the international community and they've been pressured they've been squeezed by the world and I just thought to myself these people just don't know they're literally sitting 20 miles away there's a site that's worth over 100 million dollars worth of copper and gold and it would be 50,000 pound investment if somehow that got invested by the government or some lucky sod who had that type of capital in Kabul you could lift a thousand people out of poverty 10,000 people out of poverty through the job system and I thought to myself these people they know nothing but war it's really tragic and right now they don't have the education to question it and the education they did have was just just western education that's set up by the Americans so you've got people that have psychology degrees or sociology degrees in Kabul when they really need welders builders, manufacturers people that understand business people that understand the new laws and everything like they need it's going to get worse too it's going to get so much worse so here's a little secret man so I got told about this by some SES dude and some contractor when the Afghans the old government was getting contracts to build buildings they would hide local firms and stuff and they had this loophole where if the building wasn't up to code in the concrete and stuff if it wasn't mixed properly they would actually knock it down and they would still pay you again so it was not paid by the job of course it was paid by the hourly so they would abuse this they would build subpar structures and go oh did see me I mean just knocking down and rebuilding they would do that a few times and the Americans would just pay for it and they would just throw money at them they didn't realise it was a scheme and at some point after five or so attempts they would go yeah we're just going with this screw it screw it we've got a deadline and all these buildings in America in Afghanistan especially in Kabul are just not up to code so right now they're not going to last 10 years they're not going to last 10 years they're going to start collapsing and these are high high rise buildings and I've been into some of them I'm seeing cracks and I'm seeing things like serious structural issues and I'll send pictures to engineering friends of mine I'll take a picture and send it and say it's just like normal wear and tears it's just for maybe enough quake or something and they'll be like do not stay there Mars don't like do not stay there so I'm thinking you know there's been a big population boom in Kabul it's going to it's going to get bad it's like either they're going to have to you know really drastically change things do some retrofitting or just start their own building right now the Taliban should be on crunch time there is a lot of work to do I've worked in high stress environments where you have to get things done instantly and that type of person I work really hard if I could if I could meet the leader of the Taliban I would go hey proposal this way you need to do blah blah blah blah this how you assure you can't wait for the next two years there are no drastic changes nothing where you align with the west but it's the game you have to play you have to implement it right now but they're sadly not doing it because they obviously don't have like education from London Business School and stuff they're just trying to figure things out at the moment I wish I could help How many soldiers were in Kabul? A few thousand Did you talk about the population rising there is that because the women were getting pregnant or because the soldiers were there The Americans are just pooling money to Afghanistan so some lobbyvers had four wives which is typical in Islam and then obviously they would have ten children per wife and you can see how that multiplied very very quickly because food was an issue and Americans were there to throw money and everyone just saw this kind of ball run this endless growth so the population exploded and that's why they were like we need to build, we need to build very quickly we need to build new houses so think about it if your salary in Afghanistan was $2,000 which was the average salary for the average person houses in the city centre were costing $150,000 like UK prices so you just think it was like it was a totally out touch market it was completely inflated it was one of these things where every contract of the US government every contract in NATO it was like we just keep making money we keep printing, we keep building money money money money and then eventually it just all collapsed when the US left Right, we had the soldiers in Afghanistan Yeah, so you got primary military contracts at this point so the journalists the XAS types looking for an easy paycheck they're just walking around they got a weapons licence from there they apply dual paperwork cos sometimes there might be a security situation that's needed and some female journalists is showing your hair obviously doesn't need to be protected and you've got some people there that are just actually training the Taliban on modern military tactics some more stuff so What was the main reason the soldiers actually went to Afghanistan You mean when the war first started yeah, so they had this whole narrative that Ben Aldins in Afghanistan and the Taliban are harboring him we need to go right now we need to do it 9-11 was terrible we need to go there take over a super easy job few months in and out no so if you look at the early transcripts of the Americans talking to the Taliban the Taliban were eventually like we'll help you find Belanda but we need some assistance obviously we're very we're not a unified country at this point we don't know where he is we can't hand him over but we're hoping to find him at that point Afghanistan was an information black hole there was no communications there was no phone lines most of this stuff was just it was a black site so the Americans were like yeah screw it, we just need to invade so I think the Taliban at that point were like we're not well versed on international politics but we just know a terrorist thing happened so we don't agree with a 9-11 going on we'll help you find Beladen but we need some help here we need some assistance and the US were like yeah screw it, just invade and everyone was on the narrative I've been on and right there and tour abroad and some caves somewhere the Taliban are his friends we need to invade Afghanistan yeah screw it everyone was hyped up how many people died there too many men thousands so I think it was a couple of thousands of western people which is quite low for a war that happened over 20 years we're pretty much the whole for west going there it's pretty crazy to think most people were very upset about that 2,000 people dying and I'm thinking over 20 years that's nothing for a war because in these countries on the opposite end you have like millions of Afghans dying yeah millions man and no one sympathises with them because of that and like you kind of see it think of it from their perspective you're just chilling in your village and suddenly some foreigners who are just completely ideologically different are allowing prostitutes and weed and alcohol in and you see the cracks like we see in England right now we've seen cracks in memorials you know what I mean so they were seeing the same thing and it says in a holy book which they lived by saying hey we should protect our group no matter what you know protect the homelands and they're like crap I have to fight you know need to put down my life for this whole thing so yeah so you're back again was it easier the next time you went because of the experience you had the first time yeah I wasn't scared to me Afghanistan is like popping down to Tesco's mate so for me it's solid I went there and I was just chilling I had no fear I was showing my passport I did everything by the books you know I talked to these people and they warmed up they were just chill they were very nice it was solid I had some scares at some point so what happened so I went to this one area where I wanted to open a gold mine in Afghanistan I'm still doing it it's doing the works and I've got some investor meetings big if true you know money money money but at that point I was just checking out the site I was looking at the leaked US documents I was like okay so there's going to be gold here and these are the coordinates okay I'm going to pop down to the site and take some photos for some investors so I went down and the village elders quickly converged on me they pointed guns at my head said get down get down get down I was like okay I'm going to get on my knees and they were like you come back you come back you fiend they were swearing at me I'm like come back what do you mean at first time here mate and they were like you flee to America then you come back after what you did I'm like what do you mean mate and I find out through some discussion some American dude raped a girl in the village like some American soldier dude who was a businessman so we thought I was American I was like no no no check my passport British dude I'm all chill not the same guy check my name check my photos I'm a YouTuber I'm a businessman I apologise about what happened but that's not me you know with different people and they checked everything out and they discussed him amongst themselves and they were like oh it was not the same dude just a white dude just another white dude I saw I'm just relieved this helps I thought I'm going to be executed there and there and all in prison maybe and then they said oh yeah sorry about that get out of play they brushed the dust off me and they had their hand around me and they were like go take you to my house I'm going to give you some grapes we're going to have a lovely time I'm going to give you some chai I'm going to apologise what are you here for man we don't get visitors very often you know it's a place with no electricity like they're living in not mud huts they're made from the ground you know it's not modern building techniques these houses are hundreds of years old and then I just discussed about my gold mine and they were like oh we want business here yeah yeah so we're actually up for that you know you can talk to us hit my whatsapp we'll show you around the site this type of stuff so that was the only scale I had but the rest was just solid man it was a lovely holiday people think I'm absurd while saying that and yeah it's absurd in the real world but who wants to live there yeah exactly yeah mate again you went back how long did you stay for that time a few weeks so for the second time as every time you went you've stayed longer just a few weeks yeah a little bit longer to be honest I can't start liking it you know if food's good does that feel like home for you now second home yeah because in the last year mate have you ever felt that you've had a home though because of the life you had nah to be honest no a too fair university bikes not settled but you've always been well the closer thing I've had to home was my university town so you know I went to church there regularly whenever I was home and you know before this whole chelf thing I would go to church almost daily so I loved the community there I loved you know the priest and everything can't say his name and there was this one restaurant I frequented which is just it's Korean barbecue made it's solid I love that stuff I can eat that all day so I'm friends of the owner at this point he loves what I do I love what he does you know we could swap jobs at any point I would get free food he gets travels but um you know I would always go between these two places plus my friends were still at uni they were doing PhDs at this point so you know we're the same age we're just chilling you know I like that little thing I would come home for a few days each month and I would just chill bear and then I would head back out that was my home that was my home but right now because all my friends have now finished their PhDs because it's a year later and because obviously I've cancelled my housing contract my rent in that place I'm thinking right now you know it's not a nice town it's not solid you know it's not something beautiful it's you know modern architecture nonsense and it's full of students and it's a bit weird I'm 24 and I'm not going to hang around students so I'm thinking to myself you know it's time to move and find a new home you know but I think I guess my home it's Jesus it sounds you have one single tear now I guess my home of my followers you know they are my family do you think their personality keeps you alive as well with the kind of child friendly vibe that you have because it's kind of quirky it's kind of goofy it's kind of women's core it's silly who you've counted to you've brought up through the years yes mate so when you go to different places you do put on a little bit of a personality so if I meet a posh person like an investor like I'm meeting an investor on Monday I'm going to put on this accent I'm very posh no problem but if I'm talking to you alright mate proper sicker yeah yeah it's like you know it's you know that side of you different sides of you and when I go to these other places I speak in a certain way not out of manipulation but just I know it works you know I know this is how they understand it I know that's what type of stuff that works if I go to Africa I speak in a different way very direct use some metaphors that they would understand just because that's how life is you know there's different cultures and if you go to that one country you've got to respect the culture and you do pick up upon it because you're surrounded by these people so you kind of adapt a little bit different faces for different places this is a game it's survival mode as well every guest I speak I wouldn't say different all the time but I can interact and adapt to every single guest from office to killer the drug lord the guy who's in Afghanistan the woman who's had a hard life we're trying to adapt to their needs because it's energies I think that's why people like you and follow you so many people man you see some other YouTubers who just fall off you know like Ethan Klein those types of people they do terribly but because you adapt and you respect the other person and you are solid and actually to say quite humbly I've got to be even off camera that's why people follow you like he's a real guy you know he's solid he's not fake he's not lying or just genuine just trying to do your thing but again we all feel like we all feel like shit is real bro ain't we we all feel like shit is real yeah even though we say we're good than this but there's still an element of psychotic mad bastard up here try and tell you the manipulative shit I did to get my vessel back because I was like you know what if you're going to business with like a big corporation it's fair game to kind of pull strings you know it's nothing personal whatever and it's all part of the game so I got so this is a little bit of a story I so when you apply for a vessel banking they basically send you an online test where it's an IQ test they say it's not but it definitely is and I would I would go to the library in my university I would create like 50 different emails and I would go through this IQ test with blank CVs I would submit blank CVs blank details and they would ultimately send you the test on the email I would start it I would screen record it and I would categorise everything on question on question bank and I would keep doing these tests about 50 times and just to make sure I we're getting it right so when I do it with my real account with my real application I get the highest score possible you know and that's not an input if that's just preparing but I did this and I actually got through every single question that the company had and this is a big firm and so I memorise all the answers and it does vary a little bit like the values vary but the methods for getting the answers are all the same so I go through everything and I obsess over a free solidate I don't sleep for 72 hours and I have some sleep problems to be fair I just work until when something's done I just work and then it got to one point where I did the applications I would never get to the next stage no matter how well I did so it would automatically tell you say sorry you're not eligible and I would think to myself oh this is trash you know so at one point there's a 70 hour mark and I would look at it and I would think what am I doing wrong here I'm getting most of the answers right I'm getting like 95% correct 98% in some cases and I realised at the beginning that there's a diversity quiz and it says you know what race are you what colour are you where are you from are you male or female trans and what's your sexual orientation I was always pointing out white straight male afterwards I put down like trans blah blah blah I had to put down a bunch of diversity stuff suddenly I got in because I was apparently gay so then I got to the next stage of the interview I got to the next stage of the interview for my real application and then they messaged me saying this woman's going to interview so they gave me 72 hours before the interview and they said yeah this woman to give her full name so I searched through the company's LinkedIn and this is like a big company over 100,000 staff members worldwide but I spent hours searching through every one of their LinkedIn from different departments and I find this lady working in HR and she works for recruitment for that company that's my lady so when I stalk her social medias it's still happening in a few hours and I found out she's obsessed with this one book she's raving about it on Twitter quickly buy the book of Amazon I skim it and I promised she'd be behind me during the interview so it's on camera right now it's right behind me this book I keep referencing I'm like I really agree with this one investment strategy used by XYZ person and she's like oh you love that book too wow wow it's amazing oh it's the same I'm like so true we really do get on and then before the interview and I pull some strings like that too and I'll just see what she's into how she talks and before the interview and she said I wouldn't worry about doing any other applications and I go but that's manipulative as hell but I basically stalked on and manipulated them indicating a job by just lying to myself and mannerisms that's the type of stuff you've got to do this is survival mode out here as long as it doesn't come across where you're fucking standing outside the door in a pair of pants waiting for them to come out you know what I mean there's always tricks and techniques to get jobs and to be the best and trying everything's pretend it's all pretend we're all fucking pretenders we're all pretending bro and life is all pretend I've got to me if you go higher up in the world like if you go into the bankers the lawyers the doctors, the CEOs I've met a lot of these people they are psychopaths they're psychopaths or they're just really autistic but they are crazy and it's a survival of a fitness a lot of these people too they don't harm people they don't obviously they're not Patrick Babin they're not going around stabbing people in the back quite literally but they're ruthless you've met those people too they're soldiers I've done bad stuff back in the day to try and survive but nowadays everything's legit but there's more ruthless fuckers sitting in the suits who blatantly do in front of your face that they're going to fuck you over and that's you think what? like I've got that goofy kind of fun loving personality going now it works I can absolutely be ruthless when it's needed I think I mean you can see that I'd like to be transparent about it but my friends know not to fuck with me see I'm the same mate I'm a good guy I'll speak to everybody give everybody a time of day but I've also got that other side a side I don't like to go a side if I do go only if it's necessary only if you because I find it draining but hopefully worse that side is draining that side is tiresome but sometimes it's a need must we go I'm like okay let's see you bang flip the switch and then people go whoa I didn't know but don't have you don't shoot because I give everybody respect if they deserve it do you know what I mean and if they don't deserve it I'm not interact with them but some people will try and take the piss and you think okay yeah you want to push me absolutely yeah you just show them they're made out of mess of me 100% so you've been to cabel any now you've made friends you've got your contacts you're shooting guns you're buying guns 100 dollars I've seen was it 100 dollars for one of the guns yeah yeah you could remark it AK-45s and machine guns machine guns, PKMs M16s anybody could buy these guns you need a licence sometimes but as long as you can go there you can go shooting apparently as long as you go through proper channels you do everything legally so when you go to Afghanistan absolutely it's not one of those places where you get away of things you need to do everything buy your books I'm surprised at that I thought I would be backhanders here and get everything that you wanted at this point there's always going to be some dodgy stuff going on but they're like hey we've got a country after 40 years of war you know the Soviets and then the Americans we want to control everything to make sure the security situation is good and then we go improve things and then slowly give freedom just like how South Korea had started out they were really poor then it became prosperous I hope to go to Afghanistan makes a lot of money it becomes well and opens up to freedom and all this other stuff a little bit more freedom I'm not talking projects on the streets freedom but you know just typical stuff but that's how it is man So when did you get captured? Yeah man so I was with two mates with mine and we were talking about the gold mine we were going to meetings with the Taliban stuff and we were halfway between Jalalabad I called Jalalabad good because I love that place and Kabul and I had a house in Afghanistan at this point really moved up in the world not homeless but living in Afghanistan and I went to a West Union and you take out money because goddamn it the US have sanctioned Afghanistan no swift network no bank card work so please change it if you're watching Joe Biden but I took out $1000 and over there that's like half of your salary maybe more so it's the equivalent of in the UK just walking to Bang Ye give me 20k so obviously I've raised some red flags some guy at the tele makes a phone call behind the scenes and then their attention stage you see GDI are waiting for us outside and they point guns at us and they go hey you've been detained don't know why you were drawing this money we've had problems with spies with espionage come with us we need to question you but you know you're not officially arrested you're not in trouble we're gonna preach it I guess just give us a few hours to run your details and we go yeah fair enough so we just sit there in a room they look checking our passport they're inspecting it to make sure it's valid same with a visa I think that's solid good due to elegance and with me they receive some intelligence from Russia from the Russian government saying I'm a potential weapons dealer because I keep going to the Ukraine front lines for journalism and they keep going to Afghanistan and they think I'm buying up US weapons and sending it to Ukraine obviously not true I'm not a weapons dealer I'm not the Lord of War you know that movie I'm Lord Mars so it might have gone mixed up so they're like you know we have to escalate this Mars you know you have to spend a few days in custody when we really have to do our due diligence here so I'm like crap but on the way they're like yeah I'm really sorry if this is happening to you but you know we have to check everything out you see my solid blogs but we don't make the decision we're going to take you to a restaurant just before you get taken to the holding cells we're going to give you a nice little time it will take a few days so we had like a solid meal they spent a two day salary on us just to feed us having an offer which we obviously gave them for money to say thank you because we're not going to let them pay for us and we gave this one place and we realized oh crap we're in like a Taliban holding cell you know it's not a great place you know it's not exactly a resort so my friend starts crying on my shoulder you know because he's got a girlfriend back home he's like oh I think this is one of these things that happens my friend is just freaking out a little bit for me I'm just thinking it could be a lot worse you know what I mean it could be a lot worse you know horror stories you don't need those friends mate they could hide baby ones one of them this is his first time outside of Europe so it was an interesting time long story short they wanted to see if I was at the table I wanted to see if I was a soldier so we had to be in M16 and there was about 8 of them in a room and they said Mars we want you to test if it's loaded or not you know how would you do that to see if I'm comfortable with the gun so like the autistic guy I am I get the M16, I check it out turn on full auto and I point to the Taliban's head click obviously it doesn't fire it could not give me a loaded gun I have a point of roof in my mouth click and I go not load it and they start laughing at like this fucking guy you know just a bit goofy and they start questioning me too they check through my phone and you know when you have a bunch of memes on your phone mate some really weird but funny stuff they were questioning this they were like what does this mean I'm like how do I explain this you know because these guys one of them didn't speak fluent English kind of like good conversational I was like how do I explain like I funny lab and all this other stuff so I couldn't explain some of this and they were like okay well you seem chill but we've only got one problem obviously we don't think we don't think you're a soldier we probably not spy but we need to check this one thing out where was this and it was a mountain in Kabul where we went for checking out the gold mining site and they said do you have a permit of this I said yeah I've got this permit and they were like now this is a miscag or so you need this permit you didn't have this permit because of this area I'm very sorry but you did commit to crime and I fully accept that so you felt I fumbled I messed up so if a time I'm watching this I actually do genuinely apologise I didn't mess up you got a respect for rule of law when you go to a country and I screwed up a little bit but it was a very small crime and they were like it happens to me you know you're not doing anything dodgy mistakes happen we believe you're solid and then my friend gets interrogated too and I don't know why he did this I don't know if he's saving his ass I don't know if he was being malicious I don't know if he just got really nervous and screwed up or he kind of was just a bit too tired but he said miles might be a spy you're not too tired for that mate he's a snatch is that the cry? is that the cry baby? oh one of them yeah yeah you fucked him off me don't speak to him again yeah I'm not too bad his name was James he goes in Nottingham Uni but what they've done is saying if you tell us he's a spy we'll let you go no not even that they were like where you think he's a spy he said he might be and they were like looking at each other maybe he knows something they didn't even push on it they were like that's a solid reason we can keep this investigation going obviously now we've got real concerns we were thinking miles was solid because we've seen his YouTube work before he was a solid dude but it wouldn't make sense if he was a spy it's a good cover to go to places and he gets to film stuff that's a solid cover there's some YouTubers I do know who have been offered by different governments to like spy and I never have to do that I don't feel in a category but yes they were like hey miles might be a spy and to that point there was obviously two other British men that were arrested who were convicted of actually being genuine spies I don't know if they admit it or not but apparently they had some solid evidence I do believe them when they say they did so they think yeah it wouldn't be crazy for a third British man to be a spy so see if you admit that is that a case okay that they've got protection if they admit they're a spy or could it be a case that could get executed they could be executed to be fair so when is that a law there yeah so when we got released the Chinese government do this too if you are convicted of being a spy without question without doubt you go through there is a chance of execution so what with us at the moment because it was kind of a first diplomatic instant between the British government and the Taliban government obviously they were like we just could keep it in a holding cell now the other men that got arrested for being spies without doubt and they were ex-SAS too so it would make sense and one of them was actually ex-intelligence in Afghanistan just openly admitting it he ran a hotel but he was a solid bloke I liked it can't tell you his name mate I had a guy on last year last year Anthony but he was a spy his message was an interrogator but when the army's left to Kabul there were still soldiers left they took their passports and shit they couldn't get out so they had to go front and get them out but he was a spy but he get captured but there was tactics that they used to use on the phone and say certain words to get back home so people were mad at how they operate it was weird so the people who you got jailed after they get released so those two other British men they were in a different place so they weren't liked by the Taliban they were apparently really controversial they didn't play a good game they were convicted of being spies without doubts and they were just wankers apparently so it caused a lot of problems the Taliban put them in the harshest jail obviously they weren't tortured or anything they were just giving normal treatment but they weren't a rich card they were just holding cell they got the excise but they were just like your spies spies what you do you're undermining our government just push to one side with me they questioned me for two weeks extra so I was sitting in this guest house it was actually a normal house because they were like if he's not a spy we want to treat him well obviously we don't want to put him through any trash because he's still a guest until he's proven guilty so the Taliban didn't kidnap me it wasn't the secret police that's what some of the news headlines say it was a formal arrest it was a formal investigation they were very solid with conditions and they questioned me and they were like Miles we know you're a spy just admit it and teach us your techniques so you get to go and I was like sorry but I'm not a spy and they were like hey Miles if you're a spy we'll literally pay you a million dollars if you tell us our techniques just tell us right now just admit it and obviously they're not going to do that they've not got a million dollars anyway well too bad that's something we'll actually do and some of them do like Miles we found evidence that you're a spy if you do not submit it you are spent many years here if not you're going to spend six months you'll be out and I was a not a spy and every time I was like I was explaining things they were talking through my business so like why do you do this why do you travel here and I was like hey business business look at invoice it I kept records of everything thank God and they were also like you know how old are you I was like at the time 23 and they were like okay so we got evidence he went to this university and he left to this point and your military age male but there was no time in your timeline where you could join the military and they considered everything and they were like what do you think he's a spy and then they played back for audio recording of my friend saying you're a spy and I was like holy crap he betrayed me it's out and he was the one in charge of my finances at this point as the emergency kind of contingency when I was obviously not home to look after my business and my rent and stuff so James really screwed me over at that point and you know I shouted at him over the phone when I had a supervised call and the type that included hey it's always going to be a small chance he might be dodgy but we're going to keep an eye on him we're going to talk to him some more but we've discovered Miles he has written a book about us and said good things and he said honest things I'm not a propagandist I just said the truth my personal experience he's gone here five times he's been solid he's the only crime that we have on him is that he didn't have a permit it's like jaywalking in America whatever we like this guy if he is who he says he is we think he's solid so we're going to give him good treatment he's going to be in the best jail possible so when I was meeting with one of the commanders what happened was I got taken from the guest house taken to this tropical garden it's the height of summer it's green all around there's peacocks in the background there's loads of food on the ground we're all just sitting there and they're like Miles we don't think you're a spy we don't think you're a soldier you're just a small crime you're going to do a little bit of time but we want to keep you cushy we want to keep you happy if you're a solid bloke I'm like but I don't think I'm a solid bloke and there you go what do you want you got a rest of $1,000 sometimes when you're a rest of something we can give it back to you so here's your $1,000 you can also we're going to give you some servants in the guest house therefore all the people there but if you want something off them from the market give them the money they're going to give you the correct prices and they'll bring it back to you so Eminu also said anything else you want I was like yeah I've got my laptop my friend's looking after it but if you get it you can spend a week searching it but if you find something on it give it back to me and I just want to watch movies and write a book and they're like actually yeah if you want to write your honest experiences about the book we have no problem with that yeah you don't allow phones for security reasons but you're allowed your laptop you're allowed to take photos or your webcam just don't take any photos of the Taliban and if you do just censor it have a solid time man so honestly things feels good treatment it was a big crazy process I met some crazy people I met feds but I was the initial few weeks you thinking content no are you thinking business cos that's what I'd be thinking I'm thinking that for me I've got the fucking jackpot here I'm in prison no you're so correct man you're solid on that at first I was like I wanted so over and I was thinking okay why am I going to do my rent I'm going to be out in a month maybe I thought I had these ideas that I was going to be out super quick I got a little depressed at some point but then I was buying myself pizzas and after a while I thought this is actually I know I've read some stories I've read some stories I'm the best treated prisoner in Taliban history I'm like I can make something out of this I need to come out on top in some way and there's an opportunity here somewhere I can feel it so after a while I went to the Taliban we would actually have regular meetings with these people and I would meet up with them and I would pitch the idea they did have some more questions for me after they started digging cos my Twitter goes on forever you know and I started bitching my gold mine it was like a business meeting they would be questioning me and I would be selling them my story and my idea and my vision and they were like what was that guy? they were like he's the guy who can do some business in Afghanistan so I'll talk through the geopolitics of this but Chinese as soon as the Americans left brought up 300 million dollars worth of land in the northern provinces to do mining for copper and gold or whatever there's a ton of stuff there but the US and the Soviets took geological samples they have a whole master document showing this is where the gold is this is how much gold there is this is how you mine it all the data is there so we know where all the money is just no one's bored enough no one has the connections to do it the Afghans don't want the Chinese government taking over the whole of Afghanistan because otherwise it'll be like Africa they can't either through economics and the Chinese aren't really interested in the south because they've got the Belt and Road Initiative that's the only reason it passes through Afghanistan and no western governments or mining corporation wants to touch Afghanistan because there's a conflict of interest and also because they've done work with the US government so they're ineligible and they don't have the connections so I'm the guy so they straight up said to me said hey Miles after this if you decide to come back which we hope you do you could be the bridge between the UK economy and the Afghan economy if you really want to you could be that fixer you could be that guy and I said I'm your guy and there's two words you always are that you should learn in Afghanistan if you ever have a problem it's called it's mushkanishta it means no problem so at that point I think screw it I said hey download me some economic documents that I want to read on my laptop I'm going to start doing business I'm going to start playing for this stuff if you don't mind I want some regular meetings with you guys I want to plan this together if I'm stuck here fair enough I'm very sorry about the issue I caused with the documents, the permits but I'm going to goof off and have a lovely time here so I basically had loads of economic documents and movies downloaded on my laptop I realised the stuff I could buy from a bazaar I could get anything there so I was paying people for more movies for music I had my Bible on my laptop I was chilling I got whatever food I wanted for any reason What was it like? It was solid to be fair some days it was rice seasoned well with salt and spices it had some chicken, some beef Do you have a worry that they could have been poisoned or was it not that deep? No, it wasn't that deep No, there is a thing too in the house the tyre ban so they would get delivered a pot of the food like a pot and then you would get some bowls and some plates and they would serve it to us to give us the other detainees the food first How many people were in this house? Some came and go up around 8 How many prisoners? Around 8 prisoners about 8 Taliban How many? So 8 and 8 Yeah basically Could you have escaped? Yeah I could have a window at 8 time to be fair Why didn't you? Cos you thought fuck it? I thought yeah fuck it To be fair if I This isn't 8, this is what I've dreamed of I was like, to be fair it's a lovely internet retreat I mean it was like wow I'm actually doing my taxes right now I'm catching on stuff I would do anyway If I'm going to get out soon or in a few months if it's under a year I'm happy with that When did you find out how long you would actually be there? It wasn't a solid thing it wasn't a sentence so basically it would give you the minimal sentence and I thought it was 6 months but after 6 months passed I freaked out and I was like crap this could not be a long term thing I thought I heard stories about people being held in Afghanistan for 3 or 4 years I would express my concerns if the Taliban said no it would not be that long I'm very sorry Miles but there's some bureaucratic nonsense and some paperwork you'll be out soon and I didn't know if I could believe them you know what I mean so I wasn't entirely stuck in a syndrome you know I was like there's a few parties involved and the part of their matters is myself here you know so I need to make sure so I did have an escape plan it was all planned out and I could have escaped at any time I was like I'll go through these mountains I know this area I know this area here might be a smuggling route I'd go at night there's no fence in this area here this would take this many days and at this point I didn't need to execute I promised myself no matter what happens no matter how good of terms I am if I get one year I jump out of a window I'll escape in the mist of the night I had loads of plans so I had one pair of clothes I've never worn before that I'd wear so they wouldn't know what I was wearing I thought okay I'll grow my hair from this point and what I had left and when I get out when I jump I'll shave it so they don't recognise me you know I just thought constantly change my look they had the same plans it was good stuff I was really thinking about this as a backup I wasn't like wow it's a holiday I was like I am technically in custody here I'm enjoying myself but freedom is important to me you know does that make sense? of course what was that present I was like yeah so a lot of them were just actual spies so I can't say what nationalities they were from but there was one guy there was one guy and you can tell from the accent where I'm set where he might be from so I met him in the holding cell he came in he was a big black dude very very bulky very fast but also very wide so it looked like he worked out but let himself go a little bit six foot six and he walks in and I'm like oh hey dude how you doing man why you in here for you speaking he was like yo fuck why people what the fuck are you doing why are you talking to me you muslin you why dude no you infidel you I'm a terrorist I'm ISIS I'm Daesh I'm Talban I'm like what the hell miss guy you can tell he's loopy from the start you know his brain so I'm talking to him and then he starts getting threatening I'm just like I'm not scared of you I'm not scared of the anger here what's he doing is he just straight up schizophrenic turns out yes and then I come in like what's this shouting what's this commotion you need to be respectful to your other prisoners to your other detainees he's took a punch for Taliban and you could tell you could tell what country it's from it's crossed the pond you know it's from the US I can say that I guess and obviously he gets attained then he gets put in handcuffs because he's fighting with everyone he gets put in solitary for like a week or something and I found out he's in the guesthouse when after my friends leave Gan genudwyd, mae'r tuadwgad yw, yn dod. Mae'n lle i'n gwan yng nghymrae yma. Fyddeud, mae'n gweld ein rhannau a'r bernodau. Kerfod gyda'r Cyffredinol, mae'r ffordd oherwydd hwnnw fuddynt! Mae hwn rwy'n gweld gydalennau o'r pob. Mae'n gweld gydag hwnnw. Mae'n gweld dwi'r ffordd oherwydd mae'n gweld gydag hwnnw. Mae yna'r eisteddio fel ychydig â'r tyn nhw. Yn chi am bod ni'n rhaid o'r hanfwlad a ddechrau am USA citizenship. a mae'n gyfwcoch amdano ddiwedd yn gwlad, y lle o gweithio Bible Genesys. Dyma'r blaen iawn gwahanol, mae'n gwneud ond sydd gallu'n pumol. FeGS yn y gallu'n pum bod efallai beird. Mae MYS yn mynd i'r bobl yw gan sefydliad Ahganscydd. Felly roi fain i Ahganscydd a ganddwch chi'n eich yr Yefydarn Sysynsydd. Mae'r bobl yw'r ym yn amlwg yn cymryd wedi mewn iawn. Mae'n meddwl i'r five yr ysblin, Yn ymwneud, oherwydd, mae'n ddweud yw am ymddangos yn ysgrifennu. Ac rwyf wedi'i gael gwneud hynny, rydych chi'n gwybod yma, gyda y mae'r five-year-old yn ymgyrch. A ddodd yw'n mynd i'n mynd i'n gweithio'r bwysig, ond byddwch chi'n gweithio'n byddwch i'r bwysig, a ddodd ddodd hynny'n i'n gweithio'n bwysig oherwydd Unwyr yw'n lawer yn ddechrau. Yn y gwaith a'i gweithio hynny, mae'n cael ei bod yn dweud un dweud arall, yn dweud y gweithio. A'r ddweud yw'n gweithio, mae'n ddweud yw'n gweithio. Mae'n ddweud y Joe Biden, a'n ddweud y Chym Cardascien, ond mae'n ddweud arall yn ddweud a'n ddweud i'r ddweud. A'n dweud, mae'n ddweud yw'n gweithio arall yn dweud. Mae'n ddweud, mae'n ddweud ar fath. mae'r ddaeth os rwy'n ei adnod i ymwledaeth. Mae'n meddylion arğimotwyr. Mae'r gymaint? Mae'r gymaint. Mae'r ddaeth. Mae'r ddaeth oherwydd gallai yn mynd i eich ddim yn llach. mae'r ddweud, mae'r ddweud, mae'n meddylion deall o'n meddylion oedd yn llach yr ystafell. Mae'n meddylion o hynny. Mae'n pernghent. A mae'n meddylion, mae'n meddylu rhywbeth o hollod. Mae'n meddyluo'r meddyliau i'ch prooedd yna, y ffordd o tydlion, rydyn ni'n meddwl i am fod y ddweud. Mae'n gweld yn y bai cyffredin eich yan edrych, sy'n ddwy'r gwahol i fyny ychwandog, ond mae'n gwneud eich yan yn cael eu cyffredin a phobl. Ydw i'n ddyn nhw'n jydw i'w gweld i fyny. Mae'n i arhaf i yna ymddangos. Yn y tu i ddweud yng Nghymru'r Jaxon's Longloss son, mae'n ddweud hefyd y cyffredin ddweud o'r rhaid oherwydd. Mae'r ddaeth o'n cyfrannu. Mae'n ganddwch, y gallai'n gyffredinol. Mae wedi ganddwch yn ymdweud. Mae'n cyfrannu i'n gyddiwyd. Joe Biden yn ymdweud i mi ar y cwymru. Mae'n cymryd cymryd cyfathu. Mae'n ganddwch yn siŵr i'n cyfrannu sianol. Mae'n ganddwch yn ymdweud i Afghanistan. Mae'n ganddwch yn â hynny. Ychydig! Mae'r cyfrannu i'r cyfrannu. Mae'n ganddwch yn ôl i'r cyfrannu. Yn ymdweud, mae'n golygu, I don't want to leave. I don't want to live in Afghanistan. Can I be released and not deported? And then they're like, yeah, sure mate. No, probably. You would be deported. And he goes to me and goes. He would be deported, obviously. This guy is loopy, so he's too crazy for the Taliban. And they go, you know what? What do you do in America, my friends? And he goes, I am American Mujahideen. And he's like, there is no American Mujahideen. Felly yw y gallu Beth yw'r tyischer a roi fewn ni'n byw'r penedig? Felly yw beth sy'n mynd i chi, mae'r tyischer yn ôl yn pleiwyr. Mae'r ty shwrth y gallwn. Mae'nŷch i fynd i'w ffren. Yn gynghoron ni'n gwneud y cyllidau bod ynw yn ddweud hyn i ddweud cyllidau, ond mae'r ty shwrth a oes y gwaith sy'n grif Lithu. Mae'n ddechrau gwrth yn gynghoron yn cynnig o dredog. Mae'r cyllidau erfyrdd yn gynghoron maeth gan ddweud yr llaw. ..yna dwi'n cael ystod wrth i'w ddweud i'w ddigon. Yn ymdrychwch... ..yna dwi'n cael debyg mae'r ddweud, oherwydd mae'r marwyr. Mae'r ddweud i'r ddweud... Yn ymdrych, mae'n ddweud? Yn ymdrych, mae'n ddweud rwy'r ddweud i ddweud y cymdeithas... ..ynddo i'r anon o'r cymdeithas ond gyda'r laptop. Nidw'n rhaid, mae wedi'u ddweud i'r ddweud... Chynydd y Lynydsaeth gyfryd o meddwl yma. Mae cyfrwch, adaelwch gyda'r hyfodd. A'n adliad, mae rhan o'r cyfrwch gyrypto'r cyfrwch cyfrwch. Mae'r chybrwsau, mae rhan o'r cyfrwch gyfrwch cyfrwch. Mae rhan o'r cyfrwch. Mae'r cyfrwch, efallai hanwch gyfrwch. Mae'n cyfrwch. Mae'r cyfrwch ar y cerdog ar ei gynion ar arifau fy nghydd. Mae'r cyfrwch cyfrwch cyfrwch cyfrwch. yn holl'r cymrydol yma? I dnowb i ddweud yn siarad y yma? Ma hefyd yn weithio, mewn dweud yn holl hwnnw. Yn o'r amlwysiau, yma popethau'n hawddol ychydig. A cymrydol y gallwn adeiladau, hefyd yn venue. Yn o'r adeiladau dechrau, wow! Ac mae'r cymrydol hefyd yn femwyraedd. Mae'r cyrfaeddau sy'n chi'n ei fod i fengynryddiad bod e. A'r cymrydol er mwyniadau gyda'r cymrydol? Mae'r cymrydol? He went to Iraq, served a little bit because he was broke, he made some money. Maybe went to some private military stuff, maybe went down the Fed Road, I don't know. But it messed up his brain somewhat you know, he's clearly not all that. It could be an hour, it could be not. I just really hope he gets home and if he does have problems he's scared to help, he needs because it's very rough in America. And if he is a Fed, bloody hell I hope, I hope he gets fired, man. felly dwi'n meddwl yma. Mae'r driencaud, dwi'n meddwl ychydig, mae'r ddych chi'n meddwl y bydd. Mae maen o'r Ddohof, wedi gof fashion yn agor Diddorol, ac mae'r dweud o'r dimwys, dwi'n meddwl'ch ddweud o'r ddweud. Dyna, mae'n gen nhw'n meddwl ymlaen. Dwi wedi gweld chi'n meddwl i'n meddwl mae'n meddwl cwми, ac mae'n meddwl i'n meddwl. Ac mae wedi gweld rhar dni ysgylwyr. Do you have more than two litres of water a day? Do you get bed? Are you in chains? Are you being treated well? I was like, Yes, mate, I've got water, I've got energy drinks, I've got Pepsi, I've got chai, I've got orange squash, orange juice. I've got a cushy bed, I've got my favorite color, all this other stuff. And you'd just sit there like, this fucking guy, because they know who I am, they're annoyed about me, I guess they've seen my media reports. Mae yna, mae'n gweithio gyda'r ymddangos i'r gwaith sy'n gymryd. Ond, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio y mael sydd yn benderfynol. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio gyda'r llawr hynny'n gwneud. Wrth gwrs, ac mae'n gweithio eich gweithio? Yn llawer yma, mae'n 6 o maen nhw'r margeau ac mae wedi'i'n gweithio, a nid oedd ymlaen i'r llawr hwnnw, Ond yw'r fawr, yw'r relis yn rhan o bobl sydd wedi'i gwneud y cyfwyr. Mae'r fawr yn rhan o'r cyfwyr. Mae'r fawr ar y ddweud yn un o'r cyfwyr o'r gyfer 10 a un o'r cyfwyr o'r 5. Mae'r fawr yn gweithio'n gallu hynny? Mae'n mynd i'n ei gael i gael ei wneud yr ysgol. Mae'n mynd i'n gael i'n cefnio i gael i gael fod y ceryfal a'r cyfwyr, i ddweud eu casio'r ddweud o'r cyfwyr. I was given 12 hours notice, so I was like, crap, so I had some money remaining on me. I went to the Taliban and I had grown close to the other prisoners, but some of them just didn't have passports. They lost them and they were stuck there, you know, bureaucracy, so I was like, my friend, my tally bro, buy me like five pizzas, buy me all this stuff, we're having a pie now. So me, the Taliban and I, the other prisoner detainees were celebrating and we were having a nice meal, we were enjoying ourselves, so it was sad to let see me go because I had a laptop on me, so they were lying on me for movies and I had grown close to the house servants, the guests and also the Taliban in general, because they weren't the ones that would turn in my release. They treated me stupidly well, they treated me like a guest, a brother, felt like I was staying in a hotel, so I was generally sad to see them going actually in some group chats now, so that's funny, we just chat sometimes, sometimes FaceTime, but it was kind of sad and also because I was getting released towards the end of winter, I was like, ah, I wish I got released in spring, mate, because at least I'll come out of a great town, you know, but obviously I was like, hey, obviously I do want to go home, it was just, I wish it was done differently, you know. So then I met with my, the top commander, the guy who runs an entire province, you know, the head of blah blah blah GDI, so I met with him and we had a celebration and I went around the headquarters of their intelligence agency, they all knew me at that point because I went there monthly, they were shaking my hand, they were like, add me on Facebook, here's my WhatsApp mate, take a photo of me, chill with me, they were really kind, they were like, hey, if you want to come back, we can have dinner, yeah, and I'll say, come back in three weeks, and they were like, we don't believe you, and I was like, I promise you, I'm coming back in three weeks, and they were like, you're a guy, they were like, you're solid, we're fist bumping, and then they were like, okay, they gave me a full military convoy with the Taliban, I was in one with bulletproof SUVs, you know, with fire suppression and all this other stuff, and there was about five trucks transporting me, you know, looking after me, took me to kind of another guest house to wait out, because if there's an attack on the convoy, very unlikely, but then from ISIS potentially, there's always a security concern, even though it's very, very unlikely now, but, you know, they just want to give you 110% reassurance, and then they take me to another halfway house, and they say, okay, you can spend a night here, Miles, here's all your stuff back that we had with you, so here's your iPhone, I'm like, wow, I've held this in a while, and then they took me to the airport in the morning, and I met all the other prisoners, and they were really pissed off, and British prisoners were pissed off, and the head of the ministers, the ministers of foreign affairs or something were all there, seeing that departure, and they were speaking to us, and they would go to me, and they would go, Miles, you're right to be fair, you're invited back, but these men, they're spies, I'm like, oh, so they were cost speaking about the British guys to me, because they thought I was that close to the Taliban, so it was very bizarre, but I was like, that's pre-entertaining, and again, I was just getting there, autographs in my book, and I was like, hey, what's that me, if you want, I'm coming back in three weeks, love to meet you, I'd love to buy you equivalent Mackeys or something, and you know, it's a lovely story, I'm kind of really outdid myself here, I'm kind of proud of it almost. Yeah, you know, I did good, I did good. What's your opinion on the Taliban, and now that you've become friends with them? I think they're solid blokes, you know, I mean, now I'm perfect, like every government organisation, some of them bureaucrats, some of them are moody, some of them just don't like foreigners, some of them think I'm cute, you know how it is, yeah, in some countries, but most of them are just solid blokes, you know, some of them are just looking to check in, check out, have a happy time, you know, just chill, some of them are just looking to watch TikTok with you and just talk to you, some of them are looking to do business with you, some of them are looking to make sure you have a good time, they have this moral obligation for Islam to look after you, I'm like, you know, I'm not Muslim myself of course, I'm very strong Catholic, but one struggle brother, you know, it's like, you know, you're solid blokes, I like you guys, you're treating me well, I'll go off thank you, and when I go home I'm going to tell the truth to the world, and they were very happy with that, they were like, hey man, if you saw anything bad, if you saw any dodgy stuff, if you see anything that's not up to scratch, you tell us, you can tell the world no problem, tell the world my experiences, but give us some feedback because we're looking to always improve, and I'm like, I respect that immensely, you know. What's the difference between ISIS and Taliban then? Yeah, so ISIS are monsters, I met a member of ISIS while I was there by the way, so the difference is, the Taliban are obviously more liberal. See, I didn't really know I fought with King Daw under the same umbrella. Yeah, they despise each other mate, so that's a common misconception, I totally understand, I fought that before I was doing all that stuff. ISIS are just, we kill every foreigner, we don't cover, we just kill them. If ISIS had enough military power, they came to England, England is just genocide, 100%, England is finished. But if the Taliban say we're at a war with England, they're like, now we just care about our homeland, nothing else, we're not going out to the US or the England to invade, they like outside, they like guests, they respect other religions, so they said to me, oh my God, you're Catholic, we know about that, we actually study that stuff. For that job, you're fine, do you want a Bible? Do you want a Bible, what's in there? Do you need any religious things like beads, prayer beads, do you need that, is that what you do? ISIS would just be like, oh, you're Catholic, go in your neck, straight up, they will torch you, they take everything crazy, crazy serious, and they are monsters, the Taliban are very chill person. ISIS are just full fundamentalists, like if you took everything literally in their holy book and only focus on the war stuff. So the Taliban have a big thing against ISIS, of course, and they're pretty much eradicated member guy I was dealing with, he's killed 200 ISIS members and left them in the streets of Jalalabad as a warning, because ISIS is not welcoming Afghans, and we are looking for safety, we are looking for Taliban control, no one will oppose us, no one will create security concerns for foreigners and guests and women and children. The Taliban think you're a spy, you end up befriending them, going back over to see them, could then the British then think you're a spy for the Taliban? Oh, that's a good one, mate. Honestly, I haven't been, I got debriefed very quickly. They, I think of British, obviously, you have some good capabilities with technology, so they see on my phone, I've been a church ever since, they see I constantly go to church, they see I post Catholic stuff on Twitter, everything shows that I'm probably not a spy to be fair, like I'm working with the British government, I don't even stay in England for long, so I think they're probably like, well, keep an eye on miles, but it seems like you're just trying to make money, just do this thing, it seems legit, it seems legit, you know, they obviously come through my financial records, I've been interviewed a few times at airports, and every time they find nothing, when I went to South Sudan, they stopped me counter-terrorism, and they sat me down, and they were like, you know, what are you doing? What are you doing in this country? You know, what are you doing? You doing anything dodgy? You buying guns? You're doing this stuff? You're shooting people? You're joining a terrorist network? You're starting a terrorist network? And when they searched my bag, and they found like five bibles, I'm going to give to a church, and they're like, uh, okay, yeah, off you go, off you go. Because they had all possibilities, because me speaking to you, I speak to enough people, I can read people, and you're very calculated, people think you might be daft, and think because you're the quirky nature, people might think that. It's the eyes in the eye. Because if you're in Ruth Taliban and stuff, the way you can keep calm, that's a different skill. The same as myself, I believe I would keep calm in those situations where, okay, listen, I'm sweet, listen, listen, so let's speak. But for me, it's, you're very, I would say you're intelligent. Everybody's got an intelligence, but you're very calculated to it. Yeah, I don't know about that. I think you're very intelligent, where you know how to manipulate the situations to play the game, to survive, to then get information that is possible. So even though five Bibles and about it could be, because you know people go, ah, he's a good cos of that nature. Yeah. Realise you get fucking four AKs, 47s in your bag and six grenades. Yeah, yeah. I'm not exactly booked for that. But you know that nature of you, you're on it, you're switched on to it, you're very... Well, to say, I... Is it like a chess game for you? To be fair, yeah, you're right. I have a lot of contingencies. A lot of the time people want to play... You're a photographic memory. Sometimes. Sometimes, yeah, I'm kind of... It's how I did when I'm a physics, so just things just made sense, you know. And that's a bit different. And I can't relate to a lot of people. Like I understand them. It's just sometimes I just don't like them, if that makes sense. Yeah, you're different, bro. Yeah, you're different. Like... Not on a bad way, but you're main... I can feel you're main, what's definitely. Yeah, exactly. Like I'm playing a long game. You know what I mean? Like I remember when I got arrested, I told my friend, I said, hey, go into my house. You see, I'm a hard driver, there's a, what, a 30-page contingency document. So I wrote out on exactly what to do if I'm in this situation. I've planned for this type of stuff. I've got contingencies for everything. Like the whole front of Twitter is, oh, goofy traveler, he, he, he. But of course, behind the scenes, I'm writing up documents. I'm coding up documents in latex, putting up a pitch deck and investor relation reports. And I've got hedge fund investments. And it's going quite well, you know. Like there's some boring stuff. And it's not always impulsive. Like I've got every country that requires a paper visa or an e-visa. I've got the applications all done, by the way. I've got like a stack of papers with all my passport photos cost me a few hundred quid. But if I need to submit a visa tomorrow to go to see Marley or whatever, I can submit that straight away. So I've got everything planned out. I am loved to be ordered. And it's kind of hard, you know, I'm not perfect. I wasn't like back in the uni days. But I want to make sure everything is very systematic and everything is covered. The only issues I have, I find, it's not getting shot out in Ukraine. It's not the Taliban. It's not even ISIS. It's bureaucracy and dealing with other people because they are not on the same kind of, not level, but not on the same mindset, if that makes sense. They're very emotional. They're very emotional. And I understand there's always a time and place for emotions. But for myself, you know, it does not help a lot of the time. Yeah, I don't fear as if you would show a lot of emotions. I don't know if that's connected to your past and what you've seen with your mum. But when was the last time you cried? I had like a little sob in 21, but that was just a very low thing. Proper crying. You've switched off, eh? 17, yeah, 17. I had to think then. So you become cold to it? Not cold, but I genuinely think you're a loving person. I can switch it. Do you feel as if you've just cut off all barriers where nobody can get in because of the shit that you went through as a kid? I got close relationships with some people. I've dated some people for two years and they've got very close. I'm very open. I'm very open. So if you say this stuff, I could obviously hide it and control the narrative with you and say, oh no, it's all good, man. No, it's just how I am with goofy. No, no, I'm being honest here. I am very calculating when it's needed. And I can very much control the emotions. Sometimes obviously I get stressed, a little bit angry, but it's like a bunch of boxing bag and that's it. It's natural life, bro. Yeah, man, it's like I don't take it out anymore. Do you seem to handle it well? But you seem to probably just close it all off and think, fuck it, I'm just going on to the next date. It's like I saw my friend crying on my shoulder and talking about prison. I was like, yeah, but I'm like, why is he crying? I'm like, yeah, pussy. I'm just like, like, nah, he was sorry. He was worried about his girlfriend back home. I get that. I do get that. We're all built differently. We've all gone through different levels of pain and trauma. Who make it's who we are today. You don't know if somebody could meet somebody that love your life in a few years and it knocks down every one of those barriers and you see the world totally differently again. We just don't work on, but we play the cards that we were fucking dealt on in this. Cos people always ask, you know, why do you go to these dangerous countries? How do you deal with the Taliban? How do you deal with other agencies? And at the end of the day, all people, they have wants and desires and they have things they don't like. Everyone could be befriended. Everyone can be reasoned with. And if you're in a bad situation, everyone could be manipulated, you know? I wouldn't like, I remember I was in Ukraine. I was in a bad situation. They thought I was a Russian spy at 1.0 interview me. And I obviously was like, I'm not going down this route. I'm manipulating straight up. I'm just pulling as many strings as I can. I got off very quickly. You're seeing the film, catch me if you can. Oh, I love that film. I think there's kind of resemblance here. Yeah, it's like when you used to meet the girls, you used to get the bank and manipulate the girls and get them before you know what he's finding out or information checks and stuff like that. Nothing dodgy, nothing like, not hurting people, getting sex or nothing like that. It's just pulling strings in business so I can actually get an end goal. And it benefits them, but it's like it's how I get a foot in the door if that makes sense. Of course. So it really does work out. Like for example, or something I can run up. It's kind of difficult. Yeah, for example, I had a friend who was a bit of a sloppy psychopath type. He was a bit crazy, he would suck a punch a random guy. Whereas if you were calculating, you would slash the guy's thighs after five days. But this guy would straight up, he would say you're my friend, Miles, but he saw it showing cracks, he saw it betraying me majorly. He saw it causing a lot of problems. And then at one point, I just approached him and I lay across a memory stick and I said, he got mad. I said, play that tonight. And he called me frantic. What is this? And I go, listen, I've seen some cracks for you in a while and I know you know a lot of stuff that could cause me problems. And it's nothing dodgy, but it's like, you know, you'll maybe pay taxes, maybe like that. Maybe more taxes, you know what I mean? So he go, so I give him this memory stick and so all your recording of him saying slurs, racial slurs and stuff. I'm like, you're still in academia. I know all your lecturers. I could send this across. You could have a huge controversy on your hands. You know, you would be kicked out of university. You would lose your scholarship. You're not going to go through your job. You're never going to be hireable again. You have to change your name. If you're really aligning yourself against me for no reason, just because your cocky is held, I think you can get something out of me. You know, completely think again, I can absolutely destroy you. I have good tendencies for you. This is only the first step I'm laying down upon you. You do not want to mess with me, play this game because you have never played the game before. I am on top of you. I am five steps ahead of you. If you fuck over me, I will completely demolish you. And this guy just goes, fair enough. And just obviously leaves me alone. I've had one girl, a uni, lie and say, I've never met this woman, straight up, I've never met this woman. And she straight up said to me on the phone whilst tipsy, I can create a fake rape allegation for you. I'm like, holy shit, you hear about this and you, you know, if you get a rape allegation in uni, you're obviously fucked. I've never met this woman. Thank God I already record this conversation like I do with some conversations that seem a little bit spotty. And I go to uni straight up and say, listen to this, if anything comes up, she's lying. And apparently she had a history of this stuff. And a few people come forward because I was well known at uni and apparently some other men actually came forward like a men, me, two things that, hey, I've been falsely accused by this woman too. Apparently she's bipolar. Straight up dyno is bipolar. And I didn't have sex at uni. I had sex with one woman before becoming Catholic. So I really pissed off some people, you know, especially when you were famous at university. So I had a lot of people who did not like me. A lot of people did like me and I don't want to make sure they would never cause issues. Even with the university too, I'll talk about this one story. So there was this physics lecture and I can't say his name, but he was a full-on libertarian. So it turns out he actually was a paedophile and a rapist. So he would go on Tinder during COVID and he would post himself as a woman. It was a really bad profile and he would catfish random guys who were very vulnerable during COVID, you know, 18-year-old kids who were just isolated and depressed and had anxiety, maybe autistic kids. And he would invite them around as a woman and they would let them themselves in. The guy would lock the door and say, hey, I'm a dude, I'm the same person. I want to get down and dirty. And the guys got pressured into it and some of them obviously got raped and was raped. It was disgusting. I despised that stuff. Found out through my confession page, someone messaged me saying, I don't know who to go to, but I need someone anonymous and you miles, you know, you have these connections with the university. I was like, this kid was scared, crap-less. And I put the word out, I was like, hey, has anyone ever come across this profile on this Tinder account and had like 10 guys come forward? Turns out there was this lecturer that who was actually teaching me computational physics, you know, a swift there, I think. He was teaching me and he was like a full-on rapist, Peter Fall, and I was like, fuck me. It makes sense he was a libertarian, joking. But I went to uni about this and the uni was like, okay, Marks, thanks for bringing this. They weren't really grateful, but we're going to let them go, but you will not go to the media about this, Miles. You will have trouble. I'm like, I will have trouble if I expose something, like you can't talk about it, Miles. You will lose your degree pretty much. I'm like, okay, I understand it's a whole reputation thing about the uni, but I just don't like that, you know. But I don't go to the press, obviously, you know, whatever, I just, I keep in touch with the people and I say, yeah, whatever. And then the uni, after a fall of school, causes me some problems. They say, well, they certainly find problems in my course, what I call for some. You know, they say, are you a colluded? No, I did not. Now 100%, I was doing all the course with myself. I was solid on that. And then they said, okay, Miles, you've caused some reputation on problems for the university. And they laid the case in front of me and I have a big meeting and my friends with me and I have actually speak some lawyers at this point. And they say, we've received 12 complaints about you to form a general public. And you know, we found five negative social media posts. I'm like, who gives a crap? I pull out a thousand positive posts from my followers and I slam on the table a piece of paper, slide across, it's a ratio thing. I mean, you're being ratioed right now. I present my case by first down wearing a suit and they have nothing, they have nothing. They basically just say, you've caused reputation problems for the uni. And they're trying to kick me out. They just don't want controversy. They don't want their name in the papers. That's why, because everyone said what would say Mons Rowley to the university 21. And he got to the point where I just laid out saying, hey, I've kicked out a few lecturers. I know a lot of secrets about this university. I know that if it gets in papers, you having a pedophile lecturer, if you kick me out, I would absolutely do this. You do not want to mess with me. You're going to let me finish my degree and they looked at each other like, are you blackmailing us? I was like, yeah, yes I am. And you know what? They said, okay, well, you're going to take a year out of uni if you want. So I was like, I have a gap here anyway. And you have to give diversity training and you can't publish your book. And obviously, but you cannot legally do that. So, you know, let's say right now I might be putting together a lawsuit with a few friends who had similar experiences. So, you know, long game. What was it like? I just dropped out of uni after that. But I have all the documents. I'm just waiting long game. So if you want to expose it, you're more than welcome to point a podcast. You have to be calculating. You have to be entirely calculating with this type of people. Cos in life, a lot of people try and screw you. And of course, when you meet strangers, you just be kind, you be genuine. You help people when they need it. You know, homeless people, you give them money and do whatever you can as a Christian or something like that. But if someone tries to screw you, you have to have no nonsense, even if it's your job, university or I don't know, a foreign government. Yeah, what was it like coming back for the first year? Yeah, so I went through Dubai. I went through Dubai and the foreign office staff were waiting for some really nice women. It was the first time I saw a woman in eight months. I'm like, oh, you're cute here. But yeah, yeah. I was like, oh, hello. And basically we went through the airport. And they were like, okay, Miles, you sent us some messages through the foreign office website and you've done some supervised calls of us. You requested a bacon cheeseburger six months in advance. Here you go, my friend. I'm like, I love you guys. Thank you. So also thank you very much to the foreign office. If anyone is watching, you are good guys. Even a few bureaucrats, but rest of you are solid. They sat us down. They gave us much food. We wanted to say, hey, we've got a card here with like a limitless thing. Go and buy anything you want, like drinks. We could give you a hotel room to freshen up. We could give you fresh clothes just in case. Have a bedbugs or something like that. I didn't, it was cool. But they really did look after us. And they went through Dubai airport security and they did an explosive rescue swap test. So they take your hands and clothes. One of the prisoners, one of the British men had been staying in a cell that was actually used as a storage lot for explosives. So put it in the machine. Beep, beep, beep. Yo, six men, come on us. We're like standing around us. Come with us, sir. This guy thinks he's going to get a finger at the ass, you know, to search. Yeah, we explain that situation. They're like, oh crap. And obviously the foreign office is like, oh no, this is part two to the imprisonment. Everyone's freaking out, everyone's making calls. Turns out half the British men, because they respect being feds as well, half their electronics were not given back by the Taliban because they're fed stuff. So they're freaking out saying, I don't have my personal laptop, I don't have a mobile. I can't call my wife, everyone's panicking. So we get the board and our flight gets cancelled. So we're not allowed on the flight. So we rebook the flight twice but he keeps failing the swap test. They search his, you know, and they find nothing but they're still trying to keep us. After about 19 hours, the guy literally goes, okay, I'm going to change clothes once I go into the equivalent of Primark. And he just buys a new set of outfits, has a shower in one of the hotels. He comes back and goes, hey, do you mind if you swap me test me again? No reason at all, just swap test me. And of course, find nothing. There's nothing on there. So we're like, oh yeah, if you're free to go, no problem. And we're to buy people a chill. But that was my first day, you know, just sleep deprived. And plus I didn't sleep that night when I was in Afghanistan on my last night. So I was 48 hours, no Steve, just kind of, you know, blinking. And then first day I got back, I spent one day, I went to my friend's place for one who got me, I went to James' place, a guy who got me a recipe, apologised and made me food. And he was chilling. He was actually quite nice to catch up to me there. So I'm never going to be at this with him but he's going to be someone I just talk to sometimes. The guy who said you were lost by? Yeah, man. Too bad we had four years of history and he has really pulled through with some things. He obviously massively fumbled with that. What was his excuse? What was his excuse? He said I was just under a lot of pressure. I don't know what I was saying. I'm very sorry, man. He's like... A lesson is it Mitty that he was a pussy? Yeah, basically. Like, he's never done this type of stuff before. You know, he's scared. Yeah, you know, I thought he might be more... For me, I would never speak to the cunt again as it's not my calibre of. You're not solid enough. You know, I think because he's doing a PhD and I'm living elsewhere now. But he's concerned about, he's concerned about himself. It's a team effort. Of course, you're in it together. Yeah, because he knows I've got audio recordings of him saying slurs. The same thing. I could totally screw him over, but he knows that. I just say, never fuck me over. I'll never fuck you over. Yeah, it's like a nuclear option. It just keeps the peace a lot of the time. But this guy, this guy, you apologize. Do you feel that though? You have to keep friends with certain people because they make no certain things about you that they could expose? No, not of a lot of time, but if I still are seeing cracks, I keep thinking, OK, I need a backup. Yeah, I need a backup. Sad reality though, that there's always need to be a backup of the people. Yeah, because some people just want to become friends with me because I'm famous. Some women just want to sleep with me because of that, it's tragic. So when I go out on dates, I can't say what I do. I just say, I just say, oh yes, I'm a negotiator for private government or something like that. I just make up some story and it feels scummy because you can't reveal yourself. Because if I go, oh yeah, I've got hedge fund investments. I hang out with a Taliban. Women are like, what the fuck? You know, but you got to ease them into it, you know, this whole thing. So you've got to become very artificial and of course, the only, you find this out too, I imagine, with yourself, the only people you can really become close friends with is people that you knew previous to this whole thing. But of course at university, I was famous, but I would never actually be friendly. I would keep myself and just work hard and network too. So at the same time, you know, it's like I've only got a select group of friends I can really trust and something don't want to associate with me because of the whole media things of that as well. You find out who are really friends and who aren't. So it's a little bit crazy like that. So you kind of, you can never let your guard down if that makes sense. Like when I meet my priest, absolutely I can let my guard down there. When I meet one guy who's just really harmless, you're one of those guys that you just chat shit to and just have fun with and, you know, talk about small things on the internet or whatever. He's harmless. I didn't even want some mum fees. He's the most harmless guy in the world, really autistic, you know, I just love that guy. I've got some girls I talk to. They're just, they're just, you know, meet up once a month, talk through their problems. They don't, they don't highlight my stuff. They're not looking for the whole travel money. Wow, you're, you're so dangerous type of thing. Yeah, they're chill. But new people, I think to myself, I think, you know, if, if I didn't do I, if I was doing, if I was just a every day, if that's some banger, humboy that's a banger. But I was just a normal guy. Would you become friends with me? If I, if I fall off one day, will you still talk to me? And a lot of the time it's no. Obviously it's a transactional thing. A lot of the time. It's like, it's like I'm friends with a lot of YouTubers coming in the same world with them. If I just DM them as a stranger, I would have no relation with them. I couldn't get in with them, you know. So it's very tough. It's, I've spoken to a lot of YouTubers, a lot of famous people, a million subscribers and they are lonely as hell. I'm not, I don't think I'm lonely. I'm a little bit, I'm not, I'm not extraverted, introverted, bizarrely. Like I want a cabin in the middle of woods so I might just do my own thing. Not Ted K, not the Unabomber type little cabin. You know, just keep to myself, visit a village every once in a while. But a lot of people I know are lonely and just don't know who to trust. And I think I can, I can weed people out, but it's still, it's still stressful. All the social mediasia in you, it's all fake as fuck me. It's all numbers. It doesn't really mean anything. Of course mate. When you break it all down, you strip it all back. Who are we? Yeah, it's just, it's all artificial. I can see what it meant to be half. It's so messed up nowadays. Social mediasia is fucked up. Yeah mate. Honestly, I just don't know, man. It's like I'm built for this type of stuff for my childhood I guess, and maybe genetics I don't know. Yeah, you know exactly what type of person I am, don't you? Yeah, yeah. What about when you came back to the UK, how was the press? Yeah, so one of them tried to screw me over. She, she, I was, you know, in Dubai I was messaging the press who had messaged me beforehand. I said, hey, first exclusive, how much do you want to pay? You can get some photos with me when I come back. You know, I tell you the story. I give you some exclusive photos from when I was in Taliban prison. It's not the story that you think it is. It's a very tragic story. And this woman was seemed like a professional journalist. She wasn't just some gossiper on the Daily Mail. On the Daily Mail, you know, she was solid. And she said, OK, Miles, we got for you £15,000, about $18,000. Sorry. Western food is still getting used to it. And I was like, yeah, £15,000 solid. Why not? You know, I'll meet you at the airport. So we we enter London through the VIP lounge because they want to actually want to avoid the press the other people do. And I say everyone press waiting here. So I'll go to her privately. So I go to her and I go, oh, pleasure to meet you in person. You know, we'll be talking. She seems lovely. You know, I always sit on £15,000. I've sent her the documents, but you haven't signed it. You know, what's up with that? And she goes, ah, jeez, Miles. Ah, jeez, we're having some trouble. We, you know, we said £15,000, but now we can't exactly do that out of my hands. If I would, I would give you £15,000. I'll give you £15,000, because you're my friend. I'm just there like, mm-hmm, come on. And she goes, £1,000. And I'm like, fuck off. Oh, no, I made plans about it. I go, mm-hmm. Very sorry, but I have to go. Thank you very much for your time and to walk out. And then she goes, oh, wait, wait, no. We got some, we got some press. We got some people with cameras on the other side of the airport looking for you. Do you mind if you take some of certain photos? I'm like, yeah, I'll take some photos. She's like, really? I'm like, yeah, pay me £15,000. And the other journalist who wrote some trash about me. And I mean, like, not opinion art, I was like, I don't like Lord Mars, because XYZ, have your opinions fair enough. But these people were just right straight up lies. Like I spoke to them, I audio recorded their conversations too. I never said half the things they said. They maybe afford it. They couldn't have missed, I'm very clear of my words when I speak for press just because they pull some BS out of their ass. And they would just make up lies straight up. And sometimes they would say they've got exclusive with me when they've never spoken to me before. And I think, you know, that's, that's insane. You know, I've got lawsuits coming here. So I tweeted out, no, sorry. I send messages out to some journalists going, hey, I'm arriving at Birmingham airport this time. I really was in London. So I said, but arriving at Birmingham airport this time, I might be debriefed by MI6. So please wait for me for a few hours. You can take as many photos you want. I send all the scummy journalists and about, I think about six or seven to them turned up. And they were waiting there for like five or six hours and they were messaging me like, hey, where are you? I was like, ah, geez, man, really getting debriefed, you know? And then they were like, Miles, you're not here. Are you because they see a photo of me at Gatwick or something? And I said, yeah, you shouldn't lie about me in the press. But they held because it was a lesson. You know, I was like, I'm the control journalist. At this point, it's just fun to harass journalists because they've been harassing me for two years. At this point, it's a game. What's it? Where does the name Lord come from? Oh, yeah, identity fraud. So bunch of my flatmates I was sharing a house with in the first year of uni. I told them the homeless story and they thought it was hilarious. I'm like, you're homeless. And they were like, at the time I had loads of, I like eboy hair, very nice cuts. So they thought I was curious how they were like, man, if you were homeless, you got bummed by some homeless dude. And they became like a running joke. We all had digs each other. And at one point he said, he said, all right, mate, we're going to get you a gift for Christmas, you know, a lot of Gag gifts because we know you're spending Christmas at uni and we're not going to be around. So we thought we would give you some gifts. Oh, shocks, man, thank you. And I opened it up. It was a Lordship certificate. You know one of us buy a meter plus of land in Scotland thing. But this was in, well, 2018, 2019 before it blew up, before it became known as like a nice scam, but like, you know, just obviously a Gag gift. And it was a Gag gift. They were like, you're homeless, but you are a Lord, so homeless Lord. It's about just funny, I don't know, with the kids. And I looked at it. I thought, wait a minute, this has like, you know, this has like, this is very high end. This is a lovely certificate. It actually looks genuine. What does a Lordship certificate look like? I Google it, there's no standard, there's no think. And I think that's prime for exploit right there. I'm going to take this joke one step further. So I put on my only suit of the time, my best suit. And I walk into the bank and I walk in just before lunch time. This is like a catch me if you can type of thing. So I do just before lunch, obviously, they want to get off very quickly and they're just pushing through the last few customers. And I put on an accent and I go, excuse me, yes, hello, hello. And they go, oh, hello there, what can we do for you? And I go, oh, I want to change my title, my father bought some land. And I really moved up the board. I'm rather quite glad about that. But I've got this Lordship certificate over here. I'm wondering if you could rectify my account. Thank you very much. I'm doing it with all my other bank accounts. So it's a big problem off-shore with my father, you know, running the business. And so obviously I invented a father. I invented a business. I'm inventing that I have money off-shore. I really have one bank account at the time with a few grand in it. And obviously psychologically, I'm like, okay, this guy's got the suit. He's got the accent. He's dressed well. You know, he's presenting himself well. He's in third place. He's got a big business. They look as typical. And they go, it's shiny. Why not? Photocopy it request on the system from Mr to Lord. And I get to print it on my credit file. I get put on every piece of official document apart from my passport, because you don't get titles on your passport. And then I go to my friends. I go, it's not just, it's not to scam people. It's not to suddenly present myself as a Lord. It's just, I've always funny. It was just like, can I pull strings? You know what I mean? Can I see the crack in the system and have fun of it? And, you know, it's like, it's to be a harmless, but you can see what path I'm going down at that point. Even then I'm showing red flags of pulling strings, catching if you can, exploiting systems. I see you've done a few of it too. So show it to everybody. Shout out of the top G. And I spent eight months with the top T's. How is it? Oh, he was solid. Honestly, I've heard about the controversy where he got imprisoned when I was in prison myself. So I heard news from the grapevine. And I've met him a few times beforehand. I even knew him before he was famous. And he's a solid bloke, honestly. I've seen the stuff he's done. I've been to his house. And there's no women chained up and begging for lives. I mean, he's public said that he's done camcalls off. And as a Christian, I don't agree with that. But he's a solid bloke. I do not agree. I do not think he's trafficked people. I've looked all the evidence subjectively. And I've said, you know what? It's very weak and circumstantial best. There is no case. And it's why he's not in prison, despite obviously him being very unpopular with some governments. And he told me some exclusive information that's not public. And he showed me the evidence for it. And it looks like the rabbit hole goes a little bit deep. It looks like people want him off the internet. And I think you're mates of him, too, aren't you? So you know what I mean when I say that. You know, there's some powerful people. He's gone too big. He's far too big. Yeah, the whole matrix thing is true. If a billionaire has a problem with you, he can destroy you. Now, I imagine that government has a problem with you. You're fucked. Exactly, yeah. Yeah. What's the plans for the future? Oh, I'm just glad I have a future at this point, man. But after this plan for the future, we're going to get some drinks. It's what was in nine in the morning. I don't drink, man, but I think I might start. It's like, wow, why is my family full of our colleagues? Wow, it's like you drink. You feel great. Amazing. I'm kidding. No, I'm not going to do that. Maybe one. That's how it starts, right? But after this, I'm going back to Afghanistan. In like, I said to the Taliban commander, I said three weeks. So it's been about a week in about two weeks, very roughly, going back to Afghanistan. He's given me a letter that says, okay, Miles, you are honorary Mujahideen. You cannot be stopped to military checkpoint. You cannot be searched. You cannot be arrested unless if it's a very serious crime like murder or something. And anyone who holds you beyond checking the validity of this document will be arrested themselves and potentially executed. So it's like a very serious document saying, you are a guy you can't be messed with. And I'm very happy about that because I do want to open the gold mine in Afghanistan. It is happening. I'm meeting with kind of some private equity, hedge fund type people, very powerful bankers. That just like me, very autistic, very goofy. I'm meeting with me in London on Monday for some drinks. I'm having big things. So the plan is, if I open that gold mine, it's not to get fancy Lamborghinis in a big house. It's literally just a fun, big adventure. You see what I mean? It's a cycle. But if I do that, I am loaded for life. 100%. There's $200 million of gold there. Where's the most dangerous place in the world? Birmingham, mate. 100%. I've had a nice press on me in Birmingham. Okay, no joke. Third time I came back from Afghanistan, I went through Birmingham Airport, 3 a.m. So I come out and I write about it to my new book. And it's very, very quiet. And I go sit in Mackay's and then it gets about 5 a.m. So I go, okay, but the train station's going to be open soon. The train station's a popular tourist attraction in Birmingham because it's where you get to leave. So a lot of people love that place. So I go there and I'm sitting on a bench and there's no one around me. Homeless guy walks up to me and I go, I'll give it some change. And he sits down and he goes, you know what, here's a question for you. I'm a philosopher. I'm like, oh, here we go. And he goes, if I rape a woman and force to have my child, I keep her in my basement or something, I force to have my child, am I God because I'm creating life? And I'm like, holy crap. I was like, all right, mate. I'm like, Mrs. Birmingham, yeah, I'm not. So I talked to me, just talked nonsense about that, I can talk about that guy for an hour. Holy crap. But he goes on that rant and that's my first impression again after coming back to Birmingham. And I'm like, it's not a safe place, mate. This does not happen in Afghanistan. This doesn't happen in some nice parts of London. Does it happen in Glasgow? Yeah, there's fucking fruitcakes here. Yeah, yeah, fair enough, yeah. Mrs, Mrs Glasgow is, I guess, Scottish Birmingham. So honestly, I would say Birmingham's dangerous, man. I've been afraid of a knife so many times about to run from some dodgy people. I think the whole UK is kind of similar than how a lot of good people, man. There's a lot of great things. I love class, got my Scotsman, but there is a lot of mad bastards. What about Callum Abroad? Do we need to get Callum a show out? Man, check out Callum's content. A great guy. Shout out to Callum 100%. Hey, if you do anything after this guys, search Callum Abroad on YouTube. This solid guy. I was stuck in, what's it called? Yeah, Carlisle and also some other places. Turned out some guy killed himself on the train tracks and there was a huge flood because of the rain yesterday and some trees fell on the line or whatever. So Callum drove two hours on a whim all the way to Carlisle from Glasgow for me. And I've never met this bloke before. We've talked a little bit, but he's solid. And he drove me all the way back so we can make this whole thing. He's a solid bloke. I spoke to him for two hours in the car. We're meeting after this as well. Lovely guy, lovely guy, solid. I love him. Go follow him. And thank you very much Callum, by the way. I do owe you one to put it lightly. I owe you a lot more to put it lightly. Yeah, he's doing some great stuff. He's speaking with a tally band. He's travelling all over the world, going to some dangerous places. So check out Callum's Instagram, his YouTube, his Twitter and give him a follow, guys. He's solid. Brother, listen. You're a mad master, man. You're clearly loving it, but would you like to finish up on anything else? Well, I'm going to Torobor, the tally band invited me there. So that's where I've been logged in head out. I'm going to be the first person to go to the Chinese-Afghan border. No one's been there since 1947. Only one black and white photo exists. I've got that planned. I'm going to a secret military base in above the Arctic Circle. The Canadian government said no, but there's not exactly a fence. So I'm going to travel through 500 miles of the Arctic. I've been to Snake Island by no again. I'm going through the Darion Gap. If you google that, guys, that's a fun one. There's literally schools on spikes and 20% of people who ended this 80 miles of Hellish jungle do not make it out. They just die. I've got cartel contacts in Mexico. I'm pulling strings in every country I can. There is nowhere I'm not going and I think Adam's going to join me too. And I think I'm going to be back with you at some point to tell some of the stories. I'll tell you, brother. And I'll bring you some material, some gifts from these countries. Definitely. Yeah, definitely. What about your social media links, your YouTube, Twitter and Instagram? Hey, guys, if you search Lord Mald, it's Mald Spend with an Eye. If you search that on Twitter, I've got 210k followers. So I've kind of boomed up recently. On Instagram, it's real Lord Miles. So if you search that up too, the link is on my Twitter. So my Instagram is a little bit smaller, but it's starting to grow. So please go and follow, guys. You will not want to miss out of the stuff I'm doing. I do not spam your feed. I do some amazing stuff. You will have fun. Plus my YouTube is just Lord Miles as well. I'm going to be uploading some old Vysteel documentary. It's some very professionally made stuff. I'm talking to producers at the moment for like limited Netflix series and stuff. So I'm really moving up. So get in early. You'll love the videos. I do one when I go shooting with the Taliban. It's got millions of views for a reason. Please go and check it out, guys. And plus DM me. I try to respond to everyone I can. And I would love to meet some of you. So please DM me. You will not want to miss out. Come follow. Cal, that's an absolute pressure, but I look forward to see what you do for the future. And I look forward to seeing you back on the podcast. I will be good to be back. Yeah, take care, bro. Thank you, guys.