#633: Bad Choices Make Good Stories | Dave Alcock

What is a goddamn wine-faytoni?

Please do not use gendered language. Then why? I'll be arrested! Put in airport jail! Well, you're gonna commit sideways.

It's a big club. And you ain't in it. How bad is you?

“Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States!”

I'm the president of the United States. Jack Mary's Tech There at Tricks. I am sparkly Jackson, Sacramento, Hiem. Stephen Sagaal, sex defender guard. I'm Keith Morris.

He's his moonlight, good job he. I'm Rick James. Yeah, he's sorting through the lives. The high-jackest passport was found blocks from the World Trade Center crash site of they can believe that.

We cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. And uncovering the centuries-long plan for World Domination. What about Cuba? Have it some food. Hey, pop back, honey.

Please. Have you ever been in a Turkish prison? Ah! Where do you come? Wait.

I have said six of my living missiles. To block the seas. Hardware. You fly to me. I think it'd be more fun.

I'd be jumping on a cliff. I'd be too driven by such a foe.

“Oh, you English are so superior, aren't you?”

Thank you, Hammard. And now, macro aggressions. It's an asshole's calling. With your hopes. I don't know who you are.

You're about to get familiar. Charlie Robinson. Hey, whity. Where's your hat? When dropped the blame on Charlie and said it's all Charlie's fault.

He was a retard. I get some goddamn guy already killing me. Welcome to macro aggressions. I'm your host Charlie Robinson. If you are watching us on rumbleband.video.

Vigilante TV. Now back on YouTube. Or you're listening. Whoever podcasts are served. Thanks a million.

We appreciate your amazing and continued support over the years.

You can connect with me. Macroaggressions.io's website. Hopefully you're getting your news. Activistpost.com. I don't know why you wouldn't be.

Well, let's see.

“Our sponsors help to keep this show going.”

Hopefully we won't have World War 3. But if you need horrible food, I got a place for you to go. Augustine Farms, you can check it out. They have the most insane selection of horrible foods I have ever seen in my entire life. Sure, you can get the emergency buckets that last you a couple of months and they've got those.

And you may want to take advantage of that. Or maybe send the couple containers of food to your family out of state. I don't know. But if you're looking to actually eat this food in the apocalypse, then you're probably going to want to have some high quality stuff.

And Augustine Farms has all of that. They have the dehydrated food and so specific. It's down into eggs and dairy, fruits and vegetables, meats and proteins, butter, powder, baking mixes. And then most importantly, they have a cookbook to tell you how to cook it all up.

So if you are interested in horrible foods, you can go click the link down in the show notes. Augustine Farms.com.

promo code is macro that'll save you 10% off of your first order.

So take advantage of that. Also, our friends at Chemical Free Body. They're more than our friends. They're like family now. We've been with me since the very beginning.

I take their products every single day. Not only do I take green 85. I now have the nano tooth paste and nano mouthwash. But that's not what I want to talk to you about. What I want to talk to you about is the water hero because I actually have one.

Oh, I have one. Yes, I do. For those of you just listening, it's a device. It's about six inches long. It's it's turquoise and color.

And it's copper in the inside. And it's not an actual filter. It has crystals. And on the inside of this copper. I don't know.

It looks like a valve. And you run the water through the top. It comes out of the bottom. But not slowly like a filter does. It comes out immediately.

It just goes right through in and out and out the back end. Tim James took one of these with him to Mexico the last two years. He turned Mexican tap water into the water used to make big batches of green 85 that he handed out at the conference every day for five days. I must have had 10 glasses of that.

So if it can turn Mexican tap water into drinkable water, just think what it will do with American tap water. So if you're interested, chemicalfreebody.com forward slash macro, go take a look at the water heroes. Just read up about it.

See what you. It's structured water. It takes your water from H20 to H302. And structures it for you. So I've been obsessed with this device since I got it a couple days ago.

I've swapped out the water. All my cat water dishes. Now have it. Everything in my coffee maker is using it.

Check out the water heroes. All right. Well, now that we got the business out of the way, let's get down to the fun. Please welcome to the show, our good friend.

The host of the third rail, the nature boy.

Dave, all caught. What's up, Dave? Good to see you. How are you? Damn, Charlie.

“How could I not be doing good hanging out, too, man?”

I mean, we just had way too much fun in Mexico for our own good. It's good to see you down there. But let's start with this. I have been evangelical about an archipelago for a while. I don't get, by the way, I don't get paid to do it.

And I don't get paid to be the MC. I do it. It's the Zolvo interior work. I just feel so strongly about it that I tell people, man, I think you'd like it. I think if you came down, you'd like the people there.

I think you'd like the vibe. Definitely talking about things that are interesting. And I worked on you for a while.

And one day, I think you just finally gave up and caved in and went down there.

So can we talk a little bit about me strong arm in you with love, of course, into going to an archipelago? And what that was like for you? Well, you were strong arm in me before you even knew you were strong arm in me, man. Because I was listening to you show I think it was in O3. And I don't know if I had you on at that point yet.

And you were talking about this in archipelago thing. And I love he's that there's not going to be a Molotov cocktail throwing contest there or anything like that. And something stuck in my head. And I couldn't get out, couldn't get it out of my head. It was there.

I'd try to get rid of it and no would come back. So I tried to make in 2003, but just logistically, I was unable to. So my whole plan is come hell or high water, 2004. I'm running away like 24, excuse me, 24. I do miss speaks sometimes.

So if I do, please correct me. And I did, as soon as the tickets went on sale, I bought them. I think it was even before they put your, your product code in there, your macro code into it. And I went there with absolutely no expectations. Zero, none.

I was going to be a clean slate. I guess if you will. So here I come to this, an archipelago. Then the only person I knew and not in person was you. Excuse me.

Didn't know anybody.

So I remember the first night that I walked in.

And this is back when it was at the secret garden. And it's still the secret guard stuff, special place in my heart. Oh, yeah, for sure. To love. Alcohol, alcohol and alcohol.

“The only thing I didn't like were the mosquito bites, but it turned out that you and”

I got those important of I are to just as badly as we did. Alcohol, so it didn't matter in the end. Now we have what I call scurvy legs, man. It's like, I've got just scurvy from our knees on down. Yeah, we must taste delicious.

I don't trust. I looked at other people like me there. And he didn't have any bites on him. Well, he was taste awful. That's it. That's his problem. We're out there keeping the mosquito population alive in Mexico.

You and me with our hotness. Yeah, our green go blood. Yeah. Tribune it to the local population. All right. So I cut you up. Sorry. You've actually 20 or 24.

The first night before. It was, um, it was magical. From the first time I walked in there until I left. Here's what I mean. I'm pretty much an introvert.

In other words, when I get into crowds, I know it sounds funny having a podcast. I tend to feel isolated alone. I'm usually the guy that goes out to a club. And while the bands plan, everybody's partying and dancing. I'm out on the patio.

I have a conversation with somebody. Right. Right. So that's kind of how I am.

“And I remember I walked in and was like,”

You're going to get me a Margarita and some tacos. And I sat down next to a perfect stranger. Said, I'm Dave. He said, I'm so, and so this is my wife. So, and so, and we had a fantastic conversation. And I walked away with it with a friend.

I'm like, wow, that's, that's pretty cool. Hope this happens again. It happened over and over and over for the next four days to the point on Thursday, I had to literally go into my little introverted cocoon and just go walk around and have a little bit of Dave time.

I was meeting so many people hearing fantastic stories. Meeting people from all over the world. And there was this common thread or vibe between everybody. And it took me after I got back.

And I can say honestly, it changed my life. It changed. Oh yeah.

“Me at the core, it changed how I view the world.”

And I was from that time on, I was hooked. It's like a crackhead taken his first hit a crack and getting his bell wrong, man. Yeah, it's a nice, it's a nice group of people. So it's nice. It's the reason why it's so like addictive is that you just don't get to opportunities to be around that many like minded people for long stretches of time.

And it's, you start to, even if you're kind of an introvert.

And I always say that when I'm, you know, doing my stuff on stage.

I, you know, like, if you're an introvert, like, I give you permission to come out of your shell and talk to people this week. Because you're going to find that everyone will talk to you. And they're all probably, you know, a lot of them are introverted too. But you find that this is the one place that they allow themselves to, you know,

to kind of come out and come out and put their guard down for a little bit. Talk to, you know, I don't normally do that either. If I go to a party, I'm not like, hey, you know, schmoozing with everybody. I only do that there because I'm like, kind of, it's kind of my job.

I'm kind of like, but, but I also now, at this point, I recognize half the people there. You know, so, so I've either, they've been there over the last couple of years. Or, I don't know, it just, it, it, it feels, the reason why I, I understand when you say it's like taking a hit a crack and like you're,

you're addicted to it because it's like a warm hug. You know, everybody there is, is, is on your wavelength. And so many people are coming from places where their family isn't. They're certainly their government isn't, you know, the, the countries in which they live, their governments treat them poorly.

And so it's nice to just have a little break from that.

And so, so 2024 was your first year, right?

You came down. We had, we had a great time. Go to Max's bar at night and do all that stuff. And in the reason why you and I were chatting about this a couple of weeks ago, and I said, you know, when, when, when, when,

when you and I kind of decided when I do my an archipoko wrap up, which I normally do, as a monologue episode, it's probably better if just you and I do it together. Since you were managing the panel stage, and I was, uh, in seeing the, the main stage, we were sort of going back and forth the whole time, uh, during the event.

So let's talk about this current one.

“What was your impression of it moving to Puerto Vallarta as opposed to aquapoko?”

It's being saying that, you know, we already recognize that secret garden in aquapoko have a special place, but in terms of like ease of getting full, I was going to say ease of getting in and out of, uh, maybe you didn't get out of Puerto Vallarta quite as easily as everybody else did, but theoretically, what was your feeling on Puerto Vallarta over compared to aquapoko?

I think it's a better venue. Overall, from a production standpoint, I mean, completely top-notch, as opposed to an aquapoko where everything was outside, no air conditioning, mosquitoes, eating your feet and everything like that. Now to say it was bad, it just had its limitations.

Here at Puerto Vallarta, it was much more accessible for the public as far as it then you goes,

especially if there's a lot of first timers, which blew my mind when cat did that little pole.

60% probably huh? Yeah. I looked out to the audience, which she did that, and I was just blown away at the mountain of hands out of there, which tells me from a producer standpoint,

this is a much better venue to have it at. It is easier to get in out of getting out with little tricky, but not because of Puerto Vallarta, it's just because a couple governing bodies at the time are having a public conversation.

We'll get to that. We'll definitely get to that. Bad choices make good stories, Charlie. Bad choices make good stories.

“Overall, I think it was a much better venue.”

Kind of what I would also like to see is a venue of that production quality when we can put in a professional stage and have everything, but at like renting a resort, because the one thing that I missed, right? Was having Max's bar,

that one place that everybody could just go and meet afterwards. This year, it was at El Gusto, which was a rock and bar, but it was 15-minute drive. Yeah. There just wasn't the magic there.

Yeah. But as far as what it was in Puerto Vallarta, I think it's the place to be as opposed to Aquapoko. So that's kind of how it was the first two years that I was there,

It was at a big resort that had the Class A production,

you know, convention center component, but also had a hotel where people were all staying at the hotel. So if you needed to charge your phone, you could run up your room and grab your phone charger and come back down. You could just, it was just easier.

Pools were there, restaurants, coffee, gym, beach, all that stuff. It was a more conventionny sort of venue, 2019 and 2020. Then when they went to the secret garden for the last couple of years, it's been more, it's a less, it's a tough venue for convention.

But it actually kind of worked for Anarch Apoco, whereas it wouldn't have worked for any other convention. I don't think secret garden. You couldn't have an IBM convention at secret garden. There's no way this is going to work.

But it strangely kind of worked for Anarch Apoco.

And I think that moving forward,

we had the entire Port of Iarta convention center to ourselves, which is a Class A facility. It's amazing. And we had that whole place. We weren't sharing it with any other shows or anything like that.

So we had the run of the place.

“So let's, well, we got to start with our first night, right?”

We both come in Saturday, main day ceremony starts Sunday night. Events starts Monday, but we come in Saturday. We have production meetings and things like that. But you and I decide we're going to go out to that Gusto Bard, which is kind of like been designated as the spot where everyone's going to meet up.

Part of the reasons the producers friend owns it. But to high school with him and he's like, hey, I got a bar here. If you need anything to be delivered like books, being pre-scent, you gave us a place where we could send things. So let's go to that bar.

Saturday night, shall we Dave? So we show up down at the bar. We, we get in. We start having a couple drinks. Maybe you want to take a turn.

My two favorite phrases that I got from a random, the stage manager down there. Bad choices make good stories. Yes. And the other one is the outcome is none of your business.

“I think both of those fit what happened Saturday night.”

So my friend, Jorow, who I saw as soon as I landed, I was up on the top of the container and he's just walking along the street. Okay, he's Billy Goatman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone knows this is Billy Goatman.

So he was like, hey, man, guys want to go smoke a joint? Well, you know, I had a few drinks to me and I'm like, sure. So we go out and run the club, all of us. You're standing by the door. You're the only smart strategically placed klingo in the whole bunch.

And I remember, you know, Jordan fires it up and takes you hits off it. And no sir, it does light stuff in this little cute local girl pops up. And it's like, hey, hey, can I get some? Of course, what's Jorow going to do? He's gone. He's gone. He's gone. I knew you. I saw you. We smoked like an hour ago.

And that immediately got on my radar. As soon as she hit that joint and handed it back to him, she looked really sketchy. And she started to like, like, like, she was going to walk off. And I was like, what am I? I'm like, this chick's no good.

And so I immediately start to like, kind of look around to see what's coming. From here, come the cops. Yeah. And they pulled up the coasted up behind Jordan. I didn't know that I wasn't paying attention to her.

I was kind of like lost to my own world. I didn't even know that you bailed up the stairs. And they coasted up behind old Jorow. And he didn't even know they're there, Charlie. I came up on their motorcycles for their motorcycle.

As turned off off. It came up right riding up on it with him off. That's because I kind of had like out of the corner of my eye. I was looking at her and she walked down. I was like, this chick's no good.

And then I looked to the right and I saw. They come up and I was like, come on, we got to go and like I went straight up that staircase. And there's two like you guys got napped by them. So I went up into the balcony where I could now look down onto the sidewalk and see what was going on. I didn't want to make sure you guys were not not going to get, you know, really taken away.

And what did I see? I saw you guys both had your hands behind your back. I was like, oh shit, they've got them in handcuffs already. It's like, this is crazy. So I watched for about a minute.

And I see you guys finally moving a little bit.

And I realized, oh, you just had your hands behind your back. You didn't actually have them in handcuffs. I was like, okay, this is not as bad. And then I see the wallets come out. And as I go, this is a good sign.

This means there is a path towards freedom.

“And it comes through 1,700 pesos, 2,000 pesos, what's the price?”

For me, it was 1,500 pesos. At the time, I was a double dumbass.

First dumbass for smoking a joint.

I don't know on the street.

“Second dumbass for keeping all my pesos on my money clip.”

So I later found out you only keep 200 on your money clip. So if you get shook down, that's all you have. Yeah. As soon as the cop takes it, he is culpable. I think I don't know.

That's a crap word. So yeah, so I knew that this was going to be a negotiation deal when his buddy walks up. And he said, "We only have one option." And he pointed a Jordan to the 1,000 pesos for you. He pointed the other guy to the 1,000 pesos for you.

And then he pointed to me and went to the 1,000 pesos for you. Then he said in Spanish. "You can pay us now," or "you can pay us at the jail." So that point. And I know a nut Spanish.

I figured out his meat at that point. I'm like, "My spink for lighting up." And I'm like, "Oh good.

“I don't have to worry about spending the night in the Mexican jail.”

The first night I get here because I have to work."

Right? Amongst other things I won't get into. Thoughts I went through my head. So I knew right off the bat. He got 180 in from the other Gringo.

He looked at me, I pulled it out. And I knew I knew the deal. He was like, "Oh, say I do a nut business. Put it under your ID and hand it to the cop." So I did.

And then he looked around for a second. Make sure nobody's looking. They took it. Put it by his chest. Counted the money.

Put it in his pocket. And handing me my ID.

And so he gave me the ID.

“The only thing I said to the cop, the whole time, Charlie.”

We asked me where I was from. I said, "You know, I just ate California." And then the only other thing I said to him was, "Can I go?" And he says, "You can leave." And at that point, I walked up the stairs to the bar.

Defiant. Defiant. Like, yeah, I bought the lawn. What the grass? Oh, they cost me $15,000 pesos.

But hey! Well, to be fair, Dave, we have stood out in the streets of Mexico. And smoke joints before. And nobody has ever hassled us. It turns out that you don't want to do it in Puerto Vallarta, because especially anywhere near

a kind of spring break time, because the cops are especially looking for that. Like, there's not a whole lot they can get you on, but that's the one thing. So it turns out we would have been better to just go up in the balcony and smoke it, which would have been fine. But anyway, that was how we started it off. That's not how you start, how you finish.

But we had to, I mean, a fantastic week. I got one of the things that wound up happening during this week was that they kept, you know, you and I are well taken care of at these events. You know, whatever we want, you know, we sort of have access to. So I would be in the middle of like the day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever day it was.

And it just seemed that halfway through, at some point, somebody from the production team would grab me and say, "Are you available to go to the VIP dinner tonight?" And then I would say, sure. And then, all right, 645. As soon as you jump off stage, jam out there, get in the shuttle and go and you'll be there all night at this place.

So I kept getting into those, those things. I kept going to, in the dinners were like, sometimes they were at the, right out in front of the convention center. Like they set them up out there, which was really nice because the weather's great and they just had live music playing. And so those were great. But on the Wednesday night, I got to go to the Tesla party.

Did you ever do the Tesla machine? I did last year, but I didn't have a chance to do it this year. Yeah, wild, wild thing, man, for those that don't know, it's TZLA.club, this where you can go to the website and find out more about it. It looks like it shouldn't work. Like it looks preposterous.

So I will grant everybody that because it's like these oversized light bulbs and your putty is plasma technology and you're rubbing it on your body. But the, the, the founder of the company grabbed me on, I don't know, he had Monday and he said, "Can you come to the party on Wednesday night at, at the, at our house that we ran it?" I was like, "I'd love to in my invited, like, yeah, absolutely come on, I was okay." So, you, that was the, the Wednesday night and you know, I'm trying to pace myself.

I'm like, I can't hang, you know, I'm drinking every night. I don't drink a ton, but I'm drinking a couple beers. I'm smoking pot the entire time the, all in every night. And so I, and there's only so much I can handle. So this Wednesday, I go to the, this, this VIP party, the, the Tesla club and I go, "Where are we going?"

And there's just, they've got like a mansion on the beach in Perus. Oh, okay, cool. And, but you can't drive your car. You can't take an Uber. You have to go in these vans because it's super private.

They just have a couple of vans will drop you off.

So I get there like seven o'clock at night. I don't leave until two o'clock in the morning. Just to give you an idea, how long? And it starts off. It's like this dinner. It's like a nice dinner. They're out on the, on the backyard.

And these guys are like cooking up. They've got like a taco bar. And these guys are whipping up all kinds. They're making guacamole there. And there's full bar. And it's a VIP thing between like vigilante inciders club, which is the dollar vigilante is like premium members.

“And the Tesla club. So you have to have a Tesla machine.”

You have to bought one of the machines. And be a member of their club. And then you can go to this party. Well, I'm neither. I'm not an owner of the club. And I'm not in the vigilante inciders club. But I'm just, I'm, I get, you're Charlie.

I get, yeah, I'm friend of the show, right? So I come in and, and it's great. And then I'm just, you. Chat chatting up all the people that are there. All the, the insider club people.

They're really nice. Just a nice bunch of people. And just kind of go from table to table. And, and, but then there was a moment where they're like, all right, last shuttle leaving at 11 o'clock. And I was like, I need to be on that shuttle.

And I grabbed my bag and I'm just about to go. And I was like, it's 11 o'clock. It's like, Emily Mexico. I can't go to bed.

I know I have to get up super early and do a million things

and be at the venue and go have breakfast with Mike Cobb at the Marriott and crack it on and all the stuff. But I'm like fuck. If I don't stay, I'll regret it. So I go, you know what, I'll, I don't know how I'll get back.

I'll catch another shuttle. I don't have a car. And I don't think there's another shuttle. But fuck it. I'm just gonna stay.

I'm glad I did. Because what that turned into was a conversation that was, that was wild man. It turned, from like about midnight until two in the morning. We were outside around these, on these couches around the table.

Talking about like the, the very real problems that we're facing as a society.

“I'm trying to plot and figure out like, how do we navigate this?”

How do we position ourselves? How do we position other people? People that listen to our shows into, not getting, decimated by what's coming, you know?

And, and so, and this was the group. So imagine this, this group. It was, it was the upper management of dollar vigilance. There's Jeff Burwick, the owner Chris Horlatcher, the CFO in his wife.

Rathy Oliverty from Crypto, vigilante. Founder of that. Garethike in his wife. Stu Peters.

Jake G. TV. Curtis Stone. Cal Washington and me. Sitting around. And I didn't know Jake G. TV.

I was unfamiliar with him. It's familiar with his work. But I wasn't familiar that he was the one doing the work. And he's a super guy. And by the way, I've got to say,

for those of you who have thought some Stu Peters, he's a pretty good guy too. And I have, you know, and he's, you know, he's Alex Jones, so she's an alpha guy. But I've had some really good conversations with Stu.

“And, and I think that surprised me a little bit.”

And that night was one of them. That was this night where we were all sitting around talking. Stu did the least talking. He was just sitting there listening to everybody. It was, it was a very insightful.

It was just one of those things when we all got done. We, we, we all kind of like wandered away from the table. And like we did, they brought another van for it. They brought another like luxury van for us. And it had it just parked out there.

It was put sat there and idled for two hours. While we were just talking. I'm sure the climate alarm is still going nuts over that. But, but, it was one of those things where you was like, I could have paid a million dollars.

It would never, you could never have drawn up an experience like this.

Just sitting around with all those guys and listening to them. And I consider them to be brilliant minds. Like Curtis Stone is a fucking off the charts. Genius. Like you guys, well, don't know that.

He is a brilliant dude. Jeff Burwick, the sober version of Jeff, sees things that nobody else sees. He's, you know, it just, so that moment right there. People of touch say, like, what is it about a narcopoko?

It's sometimes it's the off-campus stuff at night. That really kind of, yeah, as the presentations are amazing and the people are there. But it's kind of like being on a cruise ship. Don't you agree where like if you've been on a four day cruise,

like by day a day one, you're super excited. And you're like, looking at everybody and then by day four, you kind of, you don't know everybody. But say, hey man, what's up? You kind of saw them.

You know, you're familiar friendly with people that you're used to. I mean, that's kind of how it is. But if you don't do the night time stuff. So if you don't go to the dinners and you don't sign, I mean, the ceremonies are super important.

I know because it's changed my life. I can tell you from experience. So I don't know man, that was sort of like, that there were a couple of times where it's like, there were moments where you try to be present and be in the moment.

For me, on stage with David, I go over my shoulder on the big screen. Doing the interview is one of those moments.

And this is now the third year in a row that I've done it.

And every single time I have a mild out of body experience where I try to say, like, be cool. Yeah. Enjoy it. Don't do anything stupid.

And breathe, and just get through all this.

“So what were your moments from the week that really stood out for you?”

Because you were, you know, you came in as like, hey, I'll volunteer and help out. And by the end of it, you were, they signed you up for next year, didn't they? Yeah.

They signed me up for the stage manager. I'm replacing Miranda. Miranda. Getting promoted. She's getting promoted.

She's gotten more jobs in a white Jamaican brother. I swear to God, when she said, oh, the website of this and that and you're the stage manager. Yeah. For those who don't know, if you've ever watched the HBO anarchist series, the six parts series, she's the red headed girl in it that has a lot of troubles.

Well, I'll tell you that it's been, it's been a real treat to get to know her over the years and watch her evolution. Of course, we celebrated. I don't know. You might have been upstairs, but we, we sang happy birthday to her on the stage.

I think on the Wednesday was Tuesday or the Wednesday was,

was her birthday, so she's, boy, she's come a long way, huh? Yeah, she really has. You asked me what my highlights were. I didn't get it. Hardly, well, really didn't get to watch any full presentations downstairs, except hers.

And I had no conception of her backstory. I didn't know the anarchist was about her. I didn't know about what she went through the person she was before she transformed. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was.

I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. I didn't know what her name was. Is that like a Monday night?

No, it was Monday or Tuesday. I know cats said, hey, where haven't VIP dinner. Are you doing anything? Would you like to come? And I'm like, oh, yeah.

Because Charlie, you can attest to this. The chef that they hired for this to cater and make those things was Par excellence. So here I am at this big round table. And the whole middle of the table is just nothing but wine glasses.

I'm like, well, that's a good sign. Not a big wine drinker. But I guess there would be some wine sampling. So they would bring out different types of wine. I sampled a few of them.

And every one of them was just taught notch. And I'm like, wow. And this dinner is half good. Is this wine? This is going to be good.

Bro, it was one of the finest meals I ever had in my life. When they had the sea bass ceviche, you know, as the appetizer.

“Because I think it was a four or five course meal.”

I bit into it, and I'm not a big ceviche fan.

And it was amazing course after course after course was amazing.

And then they brought out a chocolate tomoli. Well, unfortunately, I didn't get to enjoy my chocolate tomoli because I was like, well, I'm going to grab a drink and you know how it is at an archipoko. You walk by, you have a conversation with somebody. Yeah, you hear it.

Yeah, exactly 30 minutes later, you go back to tables cleared. I was like, oh man. But those are just some of the actual highlights of it. But the whole experience is so magical from beginning to end. And it's like a whirlwind.

You know, I showed up there. It was slow. We went there. Goose do I got shook and down. And I thought that was going to be the story of the whole thing.

Getting shook and down by Mexican cops. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we started off on the right pat on the right foot. And I knew it was, once once we could tell it, what there wasn't any major harm. It turned into a funny story right off the bat.

Well, you know that that chef who made that amazing dinner has a restaurant in down in the romantic zone of part of a character called Iku. And we went down there. That was another one of those things like, hey, we want to go to the VIP dinner tonight. I was like, sure, I get on the bus, Gus.

And that was the Thursday night one.

“And when we were, when we were on our way down there,”

we were stuck in traffic and we were parked at a red light that was next to the Marina. And there is the biggest yacht I have ever seen in my entire life right there. I was like, God damn, that thing is massive. And I don't think anything of it. Next day, Max Egan is doing his presentation.

And he's like, and it's just like, you know, Zuckerberg's yacht down at the Marina. I was like, oh shit. That was that. That was Zuckerberg's yacht. That makes sense.

Because it was a big, but anyway, we went to that restaurant of his. Yeah. And it was unreal. It was a beautiful, beautiful place. It took us forever to get there in the traffic.

But I had a chance to. Sitting at the next table over is a bit jet length. The president of Lieberland. And, you know, it's not every day that you get the president of a country. Of the newest country in the world to to come to your event.

Well, he's he comes to an archipoko every year. So I got a picture of I was. I was a jet chat in where they were when I was and he took his passport out and put it on the table. So I've got a picture of it.

It's a liberal land across the top diplomatic passport. So he's got his, so I took a picture of that.

“And then one of the things that they did.”

They do a lot of auctions. A lot of charities. And they were raising money for a children's home in part of Iardah.

And also a. Intentional community in Texas.

“And so they'll have these auctions periodically throughout the course of the events.”

But definitely at the VIP dinners because they've got all the people together. Have a bunch of money. And one of the things that they auctioned off was a liberal land citizenship. And my buddy bought it. My buddy got one the auction and got it.

And it comes with. It comes with. Citizenship in. Paraguay residency in Paraguay. I should say so you get a a liberal land passport.

And then you get residency in in Paraguay. So one of the things that happened that was that was really funny. Talk about like just crazy shit that happens at an archipoko.

The first night the first day, Monday, where the day one of the event.

We're at like four o'clock in the afternoon. And there's going to be at seven. When the when the event ends. There's a poker tournament. A thousand dollar buy in poker tournament.

And so the producers, your cat runs up to me and goes. Next time you know, next change over. Make sure to announce that we've got slots for the poker. So I announced that. Okay.

Two hours later. Six o'clock. Cat goes. We got to do one more announcement for the poker. We really need to get the last of these spots sold.

The. Tom walls comes up and finds me. He's the finance minister of. Libre land. And he goes.

I have an offer to sweeten the pot. For tonight's poker. When you go up there and announce it.

There's a bounty on my head.

Anybody who knocks me out in the poker. You don't have to win. You just have to knock me out. You knock me out. You get a passport.

You get citizenship to Libre land. I was like holy shit. Okay. So I'm like. I go running up on stage.

I go. All right. We've sweetened the pot. There's a bounty. Got.

Got. Come on in some in anyway. So it turned out some Canadian guy. We got down to the finals. It was Jeff in the finals.

Jeff plays a ton of poker. But he got he got beat. You got beat by some Canadian guy. I'm not sure who knocked out Tom and got the citizenship. But that was one of the things that's like.

You know that you can't do anywhere else. I'm on stage. And I was like, please. Welcome to the state. Oh, Perez.

Oh, no, no. You get the president of a fucking country to come on. And he's cool. And chipsets. I made him last year.

Actually. I introduced him to the stage last year as well. But didn't really talk to him too much during that. It wasn't until the kids camp. When they had me scheduled to do the presentation at the kids camp about like book

publishing and writing books and things like that. He sat in on it. And he had more questions than any of the kids. And so I became buddies with him from that. And so it's great to see.

See those guys. Year and year out there. They're there. And of course, now we have. Leiber polco, which is happening in Serbia.

This year happens now.

“I think it would be the fourth year of it.”

So I don't think I'm going to be able to make it. I would like to go. But I don't think I'm going to be able to go this year. I'd like you to the. Cat asked me if I wanted to do the stage manager.

I get a lever polco and I said next year for an archipoco. Definit. Leiber polco. I'll get back to you. So the way they have it set up it's on.

It's on the Serbian side. So you've got to go into Serbia and a lot of the events are there. But then. I don't know. It's a it's a whole thing.

I'll tell you what you can get e residency there for 150 bucks. And then that allows you to open a business. And you can open it and run it on their blockchain. And taxes are optional. Really.

Yeah. So there are there are there are. There are memberships have their privileges. And it's nice to hang out with the Leiber polco.

Because the first time I met them was out on Jeff's boat.

And. And they were. And Jeff was flying the Leiber land flag on his boat. And but that boat got sunk in the. In the hurricane.

Oh, yeah.

“I remember saying something about it getting damaged.”

I didn't know they got sunk. Yeah. But you know, Otis was that Otis or was that the the second one. Otis was the one that was in 2000 in the. In the 2023 report.

2024. Yeah. That was when I. Yeah. I was when I was on a 20 23.

Um, you know, the 2024 because another hurricane came in. And this one was from what I remember more rain. It really brought in the rain and didn't it go back out to see recharge. And then come back here. Hurricane in the history of hurricanes to do that.

Yeah. It went. So so. This is the craziest shit.

This is the reason why everybody thinks it's directed energy. Have you ever heard. In your life. And I'm no meteorologist. I just play one on my podcast.

“Of a hurricane coming on shore backing up going offshore.”

Gaining strength and then coming back on shore again for a second time.

I've never heard of that.

And when they looked at the. When they looked at where it hit where that hurricane hit hit. Like I'm not even exaggerating when you look at the pinpoint. At Max's bar. Yeah.

So they say Max's bar. They're not kidding. They're not they're not like saying like. A mile from Max's bar. They're saying if you walked out of his bar straight to the beach.

That's where they put the dot that said that's where the the eye of the hurt. That's where the front edge of the hurricane came through. And it's like, you know, you guys aren't helping us any. Like we already sound like unhinged lunatics talking about our theories. Undirected energy.

You can't hit the anarchist group. And with a hurricane that goes on shore offshore on shore again. And expect us to not have questions about it. That's all I'm saying was like, Otis Otis was the same thing. I that's when it's coined the term unnatural natural disasters.

Because Otis was a tropical storm. What five hours before it hit out way out in the Pacific. And within five hours it turned into a hurricane cat five hurricane. And then took a hard right turn.

“Once again, where did the eye go over Max's house and the venue?”

And then it just sat there. And then it dissipated. What? So you're telling me that a tropical storm of five hours turned into the cat five hurricane. Took a hard right turn.

Hit the shore. Sat there with high winds and not much rain. And it dissipated. But I thought a hurricane's loose strength as they go on. Their storm track, which is across land.

They don't just like disappear. It's not like London fog. Yeah. You know? So yes, it just that started the whole thing about unnatural natural disasters.

And then there was halane. There was all these other things. And then you start learning about, you know, the Pacific Palicades fires. How come that blue dumpster didn't burn the house burnt? And it's plastic.

Yeah. Let's see here, you know. So not to get off on track on the weather weapons.

But yeah, I mean, a narco boat was something always happens.

Like the first year I was there. It was a cat five hurricane. Two earthquakes during the day. Yeah. And then a U.S. travel advisory against aquapoko didn't stop us.

Didn't stop us. No, that Dave Weiss flatter. Dave is funny. His mirror fell down.

“Like, I think it was 2023 when we were there.”

Mirror in his room fell down after the earthquake. And, and he took a picture of it. And he's like, the workshop. It's still on it to a clock. They're trying to stop it.

We won't allow them to stop our workshops. He's like, he's spun it like he was playing around. Of course, he spun it. It was like the earthquake is trying to silence his discussion of flatter with everybody. Which is funny.

Because you know, Dave is, is, is the star of the show on flatter. And, and he packs the house. And it was, and I've, I've, now I think it's like the fourth year in a row. I've spent time with Dave. And I, you know, I want him to come on the show.

But the problem with it is that his presentation is so visual. In this audience is so audio that it just doesn't work. You know, and so he's like, when you're going to have me on him like, Dude, it's not you. It's, it's, it's, it's not your information.

I'm, I'm down to hear it. It's, it's, it's that I want, I mean, it'd be, it'd be fine if everybody would, I mean, this show goes out in video format for those of you who don't know. But, but not everybody listens to it. I mean, not everybody watches it.

They listen to it. So, and, and I find that out when I'm at places like a Norka Polko when people walk by and they're like, Who are you? And then I talk and they go, Oh, I know who you are.

I never knew what you look like.

Yeah. Well, that, that, that happened with Dan Dick's wife the first year. Yeah. I know you, I know your voice and your life. Yeah, she, yeah, she, she goes there.

I, hey, I know who you, and I look, I go, Dan Dick's, you're Dan Dick's. And I go, I know who your husband is. So, we were kind of doing the same thing at each other. And, and again, it's nice to see them. They were down this year as well.

It's good to have a lot of, like, friends that you see over and over again. I mean, I'll tell you what. If, if, if you get nothing out of a Norka Polko other than just friendships, acquaintances, whatever, that in and of itself is worth it. Like the people that are down there are so chill.

No, you know, you, dinner and drinks and tacos.

And I've had just amazing, I don't know, just an amazing time.

I, for anybody who's feeling like isolated and alone or your family. Thinks your crazy. You've got to find time to, to make it to one of these things. And I know that they're not cheap. And, and I, and I, I fully, understand that it costs money and requires effort. And you got to get on a plane and do all these, these things.

“And it's a pain, but, but what, what are you, what are you waiting for?”

You, these, these are life experiences that are, it's just, you know, that Dave, I, I had a common denominator that I kind of figured out about three days in. And then I mentioned it to the crowd. And I, and I think they sort of understood where I was coming from. I met a lot of people that week that were at a crossroads in their life.

That were feeling like they were ready for something, but they weren't sure what it was. They just knew they needed to be somewhere for that to happen. They were going to meet somebody. They were going to find out about a company. They were going to get hired by Silver Dave, you know, or whatever. They were going to get a job. They were going to move to a different country.

They were going to do something different. They were going to heal themselves. They didn't know how they were going to do it. But they just knew that if they got there, the universe would conspire to make things happen for them. And, and I think that there's a belief that you can do that.

And I'll tell you, man, I have never been anywhere.

We're more synchronicities happen than at a Narkipoko. Every year, the hair on my arm stands up when these things happen. And it happens all the time.

“That's why I, I know that there's criticism of the event.”

And I know it's expensive. And I know that, you know, people are like, you know, what is this thing? Anarchy is, I can't tell my work I'm going to an anarchist conference. Truth is, it's, you know what, Dave, if you were, if you were to tell people that you were going to a health and wellness conference, would that be a lie?

Because it's not really a lie. It is a health and wellness conference. That's what it's, that's what it's kind of turned into at least. I mean, it's at least 50% health and wellness going on, right? Yeah. So, so you whatever it is you have to, you know, get over the stigma of it's an anarchist conference and things like that.

It's not, as I say, it's not Moatov cocktails and burning tires. It's not crypto, bros, uh, when Lambo. It's not any of that. It's like nice people looking to build outside of the system because they recognize the system was designed incorrectly, you know, a design in a way that doesn't benefit them.

Unscrewed children, homeschooling people that are teaching how to, how to get outside of the system. Like, it's solutions based. It's the whole thing is like solutions to all of your problem and all your problems. But a ton of your problems, the solutions are there. Are they not?

They are. There's so many different solutions. Um, learning about cryptocurrency, learning about homesteading. How do you go? Yeah, learning about health.

I mean, you introduced me to Tim James, uh, 2004, changed my life. Because, you know, you're like, oh, I got some, you got to meet Dave. Come on. Follow me. Follow me.

So we walk through this garden. It's great. It always fantastic. I haven't run on Friday. Oh, good.

Friday show.

And, you know, like, I always got this simple green, or, um, simple green.

85. Yeah, 85. Sorry. Sorry, but I do it. But, and you're like, try it.

And I was like, kind of pungent, but. But it'd probably be good, you know, because I changed my diet. So I have, um, it sounds gay, but vegetable and fruit smoothies everyday. That's kind of my own. It's, and then gave all the scoops of that.

I'll be in healthy. I'll do this treat. Gays are healthy.

“Hey, that's why you've ever seen a fat gay, except their community.”

Typically, no, they're all jacked up. Yeah, exactly. But so I was like, okay, but I'm, I'm skeptical. And I was like, okay, I got back. And I'll try this.

So I bought a pack. And put it in there. And within a day or two, I got more energy. Yeah. I've got.

My body is now not starving for nutrients, like it was before. And I wasn't even aware that my body was starving for the nutrients until I started feeding it to it. Yeah. Yeah. Give me energy and I have really, really bad digestive issues.

Had my spleen taken out loud as a kid screwed me for life. That decisions make good stories.

And so once I switched my diet and incorporated the green 85, my stomach problems as long as they stay on that diet are not non-existent.

But rare were before every time I ate with a few exceptions, I would get differing degrees of a stomach ache from just that unsettled feeling to balled up for 24 hours. Feeling like I just ate some crushed glass and washed it down with a big cup of battery acid. Changed that, started eating better than the green 85 was the secret sauce. Because that's kind of the difficult for me to describe the foundation of my smoothed diet everything together. And it fed me more than just a lot of sugars and vitamins.

I've got 90 nutrients and then things. Two, another auxiliary benefit is that at night when I go to cook dinner, you know, because I cook a regular dinner, I wasn't as hungry and I ate.

That was amazing because, you know, here's an example, I used to make like half pound hamburgers.

Well, now I make third pound hamburgers and sometimes have a hard time finishing it. So there's, and this is not a picture everybody for Granny 5, but back to that story, I met Tim, changed my life, met Max Egan, I've met Jeff, I've met these amazing people. And the reason why I go back every year is not for the presentations, all of the presentations are top notch. So Lucian's base, the whole thing that he said, it's for the people, bro. It's for people like you meeting and in person, and when you meet somebody in person as opposed to over the internet, it changes the relationship.

And not only what I meet you, but I'm meeting people from all over the world, we're fascinating stories.

“Just, my mind is blown sometimes about what their life is like.”

And where they've come from and how did you get here? I asked that a lot because we have so many movies. It's a place. It's such an internationally, I understand we're international, we're in Mexico, and I don't expect it to all be Americans, but how many Australians did you meet? Like, wanting? I mean, 30, they're everywhere. Canadians everywhere. You did an Portuguese, police, Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Latvia, yeah, Dubai. We have a bunch of people left. I was messaging with one of the guys that I was at the, at the, at the, one of the dinners with, I didn't know him, but he went, he did that three week, Egypt trip with Jeff and Christophe.

He tells the deck and everything. He was on that trip with them. So I was sitting next to him at, at one of the dinners, you know, they have the, the assigned seating, so I got seated next to him, super guy. And we exchange phone numbers and, and then, and instead kind of in touch throughout the conference, see each other around. But then when it ended, I was watching, there's just online, and I saw Burwick had an interview with that guy who had left our conference. So he didn't, you know, after the, the bombings happened, then, then he left the conference and went to Dubai and was reporting from Dubai that hotel next day was getting hit with missiles.

So I messaging him like, holy shit man, you've gone from one place into the other. He's like, yeah, it's really scary. So hopefully he's, he's okay, but, but yeah, but there are a lot of people from Dubai is, is my point. There are a lot of people from all over the world that come to that conference. And so it's, it's just a, it's a great international little melting pot for, for everybody.

“I think it's something that everybody should do. We're not everybody. I think that a, for a lot of people that just use that term need to go experience.”

And, you know, it is expensive. If you just, especially if you buy in the VIP tag, check it, or the whole big, put you up in a thing, you know. But a way to save money is the volunteer. Yeah. Just go there and I, I don't, you get a VIP ticket and not sure what it is, but it's a few hundred bucks. I think you work 20 to 30 hours, so you're working during the week.

But the most important thing is you're there. You're at the event and you're meeting people.

You're meeting people that are like minded. You can actually have a conversation about, say, COVID when COVID was going on. And about the dangers of the vaccine. So I hope I don't get your cancer there, but you can believe it out, because you're on YouTube. I don't like, I feel good, but I hear that ship of sales.

“Exactly. That's why I don't even deal with YouTube.”

But, you know, and not have to have that either blank or I'd stare like, "What do you mean, Lexi?

Because those are the two biggest reactions I got here that the, or the applause come out and you become the world's worst SOB for trying to tell somebody you're being deceived.

But then again, as Mark Twain says, "Easy to see the man that it is to tell him he's been deceived." That doesn't exist there. You can have his open conversations or you can talk about geoengineering. Right? And then about the persistent aerosols spraying or whatever they call it. And nobody's going to look at your crazy, in fact, they're going to look at it. Yeah, I understand. And a lot of times with the volunteers, this last time because they were stationed, they would have one.

They were stationed in the morning shift backstage with me. And then in the afternoon, they'd rotate out a new person in.

And so, you know, I really, my job was the beginning and the end in of the presentation.

So in the middle, I had time to chit chat with them backstage and talk about things. Or run around doing things. And I would inevitably run across volunteers that would make sure that they're checking wristbands, make sure that people were. So I would just, "Hey, what's going on? How are you doing? Where'd you come from?" And bullshit with everybody. The volunteers are fantastic. That's a great way for people to get there and do it on a budget.

“And, and, and, and, and experience that. Yeah, I think people should experience it.”

Let's wrap up with this. Let's talk about how you, how you, how your trip ended.

Because, you know, the thing about we were talking about hurricanes and earthquakes and all of that.

And, and, and, and of course, the event ends on a Friday. Well, the, an archipoko ends on a Friday. Saturday and Sunday are still events going on is the dollar vigilante in the crypto vigilante summits. Those are Saturday and Sundays at the convention center. So I leave Saturday. Curtis Stone was scheduled to leave Sunday, but he needed to get out at a day early. So he rescheduled and he and I jumped on it in an Uber Saturday afternoon and went to the airport and then just hung out.

And waited for our flights and chitchat and talked. And that's part of the reason why I say to dudes off the charts. You know, he's off the charts.

“And, and if you need a homestead, you need to go to freedom farmers, holy shit.”

Like, what he's doing over there is mind blowing. So, we, we didn't realize that we were like on the last chopper out of Saigon. You were getting no idea that that was going that that was going to kick off. And so I get home and I come exhausted from a week. Like, I'm physically exhausted too. But I didn't realize how like emotionally drained. I was, too. I don't normally get emotionally drained. But I was after that. It was like, like Saturday night was was a, I slept well. But I woke up Sunday morning and it was chaos going on.

And I wake up to, I get on the telegram group chat between all the, the speakers group chat. And that's when I see what's happening and Max Egan posted picture. A picture of him standing with his holding his, you know, he's standing with a burning car over his shoulder. That's, you know, and I'm laughing because that is the exact place that Curtis and I were standing when we were putting our bags into the Uber. And in front of the hotel, that's where you stand when they were, you know, and so the picture of Max was like, that was the last place I was standing before I got in the car and we went to the airport.

And it's funny that the next morning he's standing in that same spot.

“But it's very different because there is now a car that's on fire behind him. And so what was your experience like with all that?”

Well, my whole thing is Saturday I was off, right? And some friends of mine, a bunch of them were going to go north about 45 minutes to this absolutely beautiful beach down, called say, Value. Value. Value. And Charlie, if you're going to make the most beautiful postcard, the most beautiful beach down in Mexican coast, this would be it.

So it had tacos and salient. It is a beautiful place. It is fan is the surfers paradise. Yeah, so it was just going to be a day trip. They were like, hey, we're going up there for a few days. We've got a taxi. You want to tag along. I was like, I'll go up there and take a taxi back, get on, get back, get packed up, get on my, you know, get the airport on Sunday. Take off. Have a great week. So didn't take me long to realize what this is day trip, ain't going to be a day trip. I'm spinning the night.

So luckily, I found a little hostel with a room and it was literally two twin beds, no air conditioner, but a noisy fan and a window.

I have to get up early in the morning so that the chickens grow. I got to go down and get my phone from my buddies there. Being big, get a taxi cab back, pack the whole logistics was going through my hand. And that's why I did got up in the morning, grab a cup of coffee, walk my buddies being big on the phone, went to the square, the town square, and tried to get a ride on Diddy.

I know that sounds like it's a taxi ride shared down there called Diddy and Diddy took me home, million nights.

Oh boy. I don't want to talk about that. Oh, hey, I didn't have that. I didn't participate in the baby all by that. Thank God. Thank God. So I've, there's no driver's area. I don't know. Maybe they haven't started in the town yet. Yeah. So I'm right by where all the taxi's are, finally walk over. Hey, how much to, you know, the container in the port of our to guide quote me a price is to let's go. So we're driving through the mountains in about a half way there. He just hands me his cell phone with all the pictures of what's going on and his Spanish text. I didn't read it.

“And the only thing said to me is Moe Malo, port of our to see. I looked at my response with El cartel. See El cartel. I said, he's like Moe Malo, not okay.”

And for some reason, I was completely a piece. I didn't stress. I just repeated a phrase that I had said many times during the week.

Gee, when this gun turned out, but that is the theme. What's the theme for an archipoko? I wonder how this is going to turn out. And the outcome is none of your business. And the outcome is none of your business. Exactly. So we got into town in no sooner to get them town on the main road. There's a burnt up car surrounded by military on the what they were, but they're armed to the teeth on racers edge. So I was like, and you could see in the distance, you know, in like the romantic zone, I'll centro the fires. Well, we got to the tangerine.

You know, and I'm talking to people. They're looking at the local news because they speak Spanish. Some are from there and this and that. I pretty much after a few hours figured out, okay, the beef is not between the tourists or the locals. The beef is between the cartel and the government. In other words, it was two governing bodies having a public conversation. Pretty much what it was. The car, the government says, yeah, we're taking out your leader. And the cartel's response was, you might run the government, but we run the streets. And we're going to show you that.

So it was a ghost town. About three o'clock. I was exhaust like you Charlie. I was exhaustive from work, you know, sleeping emotionally trained.

“And I pretty much said, well, I'm in no danger, right?”

So I literally at three o'clock in the afternoon laid down. I woke up at 10 o'clock next day. All right. Well, there's a few cars on the road now. All right. Then later on the afternoon that evening everything started opening back up. We've got some rock and tacos in the neighborhood there. A little talk or, you know, the market was opened up. So we got a couple beers. And then it was okay. How do I get home? So I call the airline. And they said, well, the earliest we can get you out is next Sunday.

And I'm like, okay, book it. So I have a plan B. I have an exit already booked. And then it was, how do I get out of here? Because I'm supposed to be the work tomorrow.

“Right. And so that's why I did. I went online. I found a flight on Viva Airlines from Port of Ireland to Tijuana with a low over in Guadalajara.”

And luckily, I've been to Guadalajara airport before, but if you haven't ever been to Mexican airport, especially Guadalajara. And you don't speak Spanish or read Spanish. Have fun. Yeah. Have fun. But luckily that was in the case. So my whole plan was okay. I'm going to get a flight to TJ. I'm going to do the express border crossing. Then I'm going to take a shuttle to San Diego. And at San Diego, I had a 10 o'clock flight out.

I'm going to land at midnight in Sacramento. I'm going to be home by 1 o'clock, sleeping in my own bed. So that's why I did Thursday came. Got up. Got to took off. Everything was smooth. This silk Charlie. I mean, I'm like, oh, I've been blessed. So I make it to San Diego Airport at 5 o'clock. And I said, do you have an earlier flight? And she says, oh, yeah, we do. I was like, it's delayed, but it'll leave at 7 o'clock. I said, if you got seats, she says, there's four left I got you on it.

I'm thinking, you know, the heavens have finally opened up and paid me for everything I've gone through in this great escape and everything I've done.

Oh, that, that, that, that, that, that. So I went and I got my first good beer because my doll is not good beer, but it's drinkable if it's cold. Finish didn't walk to the gate 30 minutes before boarding time.

I go up to the lady and I said, where's the flight from to Sacramento taking off. She says, sir, that flight has been canceled.

Oh, God damn it. Dude, I'll be, and at that point before she said that, I was like, so chill. And my emotional stress level, I was like the big Lebowski man, you know.

“And so as she said that, my inner stress level went to I'm going to rip somebody's, I think, face off.”

Because I was exhausted, like, are you kidding me? So I go over to the customer service desk and the guy is like, sorry, I can get you out of 10, 15. Um, but now since so you're going to put me up for the night, right? And I'm expecting, like, a motel six. I, as long as there's a bed and I could take a hot shower, which was something that I didn't really get a chance to do much in Mexico. So, and they said, oh, well, I said, yeah, I saw me, if there's no, I sent you a text that we sent you a text that's on there.

And I have an old phone and I just do not do phones. And I got a lot, I was about ready to rip somebody's head off and he's like, no, no, no, relax. I'll get it. And he said, this is our most popular resort. It's the Sheridan on the Marina. It's a four star. Nice.

“And that I went back to the Big Lebowski bro. I'm like, really?”

So what you're telling me is that you're going to give me a ride to a four star hotel, put me up in a four star hotel room. Pride me back and then give me out of here at 1015. He's like, yes, sir. And at that point, I said, book it. And sure enough, man, I went to the hotel room and it was nice. Even had a private balcony overlooking the Marina. I'm like, oh, good night's sleep. I went down the lobby with the sports bar.

I had way overpriced dinner and drank, but I don't care. Of course it's. At least if cars weren't exploding in the parking lot on fire, right? They were the other hotels. You didn't see like pickup trips with a guy in in six in the shingan about five guys behind been stacked empty. Yeah, it was not that.

And I finally made it home.

Next day, got home about noon about one o'clock and then collapsed dude. Absolutely collapsed for about two days. I was doing nothing. Yeah, my house was already clean before I left. Thank God. So I didn't have to come home to a messy house and the rest is history, man. Bad choices make good stories and the outcome is not your business.

Bad choices make good stories. I think that's going to be the name of this one.

What do you have cooking for third rail?

Um, I have ten jeans on this Friday. Next Friday, I have a barri on there. And then I think we can reach out to some friends from Narcopoco and roll from there. You can find it. It's a live show. So it broadcast live every Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific 8 p.m. Eastern on the third rail with nature boy, to get yourself some of what he's serving up over there.

“If you want to connect with me, macrovressions.io is the place to do that.”

Thanks everybody. Talk to you again soon. [Music]