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You got the real Worldwide Murdock the Hillbilly 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.319 vagabond on with you right now? 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.560 I repeat repeat that. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:19.960 For me, The real live Murdoch the Hillbilly Vagabond with 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:21.440 you right now. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:26.760 The real live Murdoch Hillbilly Vagabond. That's you. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:27.399 That's right. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.360 Uh, well, what's your story, Murdoch the Vagabond. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:37.000 Well, that's what's probably mind blowing. Most of it sounds 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:41.560 absolutely unbelievable, but I got pictures to prove it. Just 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.080 pick a region of the world maybe and we can 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:45.400 start there. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:45.920 Or. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.360 Any region of the world. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.640 Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I've pretty much lived everywhere. I've 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.880 a was kind of a crazy hillbilly entrepreneur back in 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:57.280 the day. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.320 Any region of the world, yeah. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.960 Except and I'll go there one day. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:10.040 But yeah, all right, all right. Ireland, Well, the. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.919 Only place in Ireland I've been with Shannon. The green 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.160 grass was super green and the beer was good. That 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.320 was more of a transitory spot heading through, but definitely 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:28.000 a place to visit. Afghanistan, Oh, got well, all over Afghanistan. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.760 I was there early in the Taliban Last Stan Phase three. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.280 Kandahar ran up the bag room quite a lot. It 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:40.080 was hot than cold, lots of dust, of ten months 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.399 of boredom, about ten seconds of terror on occasion. That's 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:44.639 how that usually went down. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.560 Alaska, Yeah, toodn't cold. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.760 That was more of a transitory spot. I played with 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.800 a bunch of things that fly, and there's a lot 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:59.200 of flying folks up there in Alaska. The best memories 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:04.919 there was not too many people and that made me happy. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.720 Uganda, Jambo, Jambo. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.200 I spent more of most of my Africa time on 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.200 the West coast, but I did have a lot of 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.200 Ugandans that work for me, and they do actually speak 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.400 some Swahili and akunamatada is a real saying and it 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.160 means exactly what Disney said. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:37.720 Uh, I can't think of any other places. Oh wait, Greenland. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.880 Well, I've gone through Greenland a few times and it's 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:46.480 not green that's an absolute lie. Iceland's actually the cooler place. Greenland. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.840 It's just rocks and ice. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.400 So what do you do? What's your deal? 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.360 Well, that's the weird thing is I live about four 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.080 simple rules, but the fourth one is why not? And 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.000 that has taken me all over the world. I started 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:09.920 a kind of a gold diamond, aluminum or iron ore 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:15.800 prospecting company in West Africa with some on demand air service. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:20.080 Was also got into air rescue and vip flying there. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.719 Before that, I did air shows and I played with 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.400 war birds, old World War two aircraft, and I've just 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:33.080 just crazy sailed across the Atlantic on a Polish tall 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.880 ship like a pirate ship. Currently live on a sailboat. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.640 And right now I'm just a glorified ambulance driver in 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:40.000 the sky. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.159 You're a glorified ambulance driver in the sky. What is 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:47.000 What does that entail? 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.479 Well, I've got the easy job for poor guys in 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.160 the back. Those are the ones that work. I basically 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.839 just take people that's broken, you know, put band aids 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.560 on them and send them to the booboo box. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:07.680 Huh when did you start traveling? 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.039 Pretty much right out of high school? I was fortunate 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.599 pre nine to eleven, so I'm kind of old. Got 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.160 picked up for the Army high school to flight school program, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.479 but got hurt before finishing and went back to the 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.680 work doing that government to stuff and they sent me 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.320 around the world a few times. Got tired of that, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.240 went into my own contracting, tried to be an entrepreneurial 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:40.880 type and that landed me by sheer luck and hill 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.960 Billy Witt. Met the right people in the right places, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:49.480 and there I went to Africa. Then after that I 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.920 was in the tuna fish business with helicopters in Guadalcanal 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.440 down in the South Pacific. Had a spot in Australia 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.960 that was my support base, and my favorite place was 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.719 Pantape and Micronesia. That was my second base for tuna 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.080 field operation stuff. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.600 And you you did, you had a tuna field operation 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.520 in Pinta Pey, Australia. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.400 Pinta Pey, Micronesia. My support base was down not terribly 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.600 far from Melbourne, Australia. It's just easy to get shipments 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.359 in and out of there. But yeah, yeah, And my 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.440 other place was in Guadalcanal, which is the Solomon Islands. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:34.040 But my territory went from South America, Central America, all 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.919 the way to Indonesia, to Korea up towards Alaska down 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.559 to New Zealand. I've pretty much been to most every 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.320 island nation there is in the Pacific during that period 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.440 of my life. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.640 Montana, what about Montana. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.280 Toune in cold and they got some wicked skeeters that 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.120 you'd never believe. But man, when the skeeter season hits 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.760 up there in that marshy stuff, I ain't about it. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.760 A lot of folks like it up there, just because 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.720 it's sparsely populated. But I have this thing, it is 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.360 absolutely against my religion to walk on water. If I 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.680 can walk on water, I have to seek a latitude 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.320 more inclined to my personal beliefs. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:16.480 Oh. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.840 By the way, I am Jewish by birth, but I'm 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.720 also a duty priest. So that's been pretty handy going 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.960 around the world because I've got to marry a couple 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.840 of folks off you know, and the interesting places. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.160 What do you what do you explain what you mean 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.280 by it's against your religion to walk on water? 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.160 How so well, I figured there was only one guy 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.680 religiously that was good enough to do that. So if 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.360 water becomes solid, it is no longer a climate in 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:48.040 which I can sustain myself. Therefore I seek something much 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.840 more inclined to like Margarita's sunsets, you know, feet on 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:53.280 the beach. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.880 You're saying it, like, is it sacrilegious to walk on 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:00.440 to like walk on ice? 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.680 Just for me, that's real number three. It's only my 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.200 business if I can walk on water, not But if 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.119 I can't stand on solid water, it's too dang cold. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.360 So you started off Jewish and then you became you 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.560 said a dudast priest. What is that? 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.080 Well, No, I was born Jewish. That that's that's kind 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.080 of different. That's that's a whole genetic thing. I was 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.400 never practicing, but I do have a yamaka and I 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.760 can blend down on occasion. But yeah, no, I've been 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.280 through a whole lot of religions trying to find my place. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.599 I've been through that wonderful Latter day Saints. They have 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.719 some real interesting ideas out there. But I might have 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.800 been a little bit too much of a womanizer for 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.079 for their particular inclination, so they didn't want me to 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:43.200 stick around too much. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.720 I thought that I thought that Mormons have like a 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:47.920 lot of wives. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.559 Well that's only one group of them. Uh, strangely enough, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.640 there is a group that is that way. And again 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.240 rule number three, that ain't my business what they do. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.120 They're happy doing that that to them, But I found 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.880 that it is awful dang hard for me to please 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.560 want much less multiple women. So I have attempted and 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.760 was unsuccessful. I've given that laugh. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:16.120 Up alright, So what is a dudast priest? 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.240 Oh, well, dudas priests. We just kind of followed the 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.640 morals and ideas and the ways of the dude, which 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.840 came from a great movie which I shall not name 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.240 just for copyright reasons, but the ideas to be too. 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.559 Oh, this is all from the Big Labet. Are you 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.319 doing a bit right now? No? 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.160 Well, I'm not doing a bit right now. This is 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.199 my actual real life. I'm telling you, I'm probably that 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.680 most interested man in the world. Commercial was modeled after 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.200 me and I just didn't know it. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:55.480 I have a question, go ahead, how did you end up? Like? 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.440 How did you find me on Twitch and call me? 0:09:58.480 --> 0:09:59.360 How did you end up here? 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:05.240 Actually? Enough, my coworker here, uh, probably the most educated 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.920 and talented paramedic in the world. He's a whole lot 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.559 more than that, but he just fixes busted up people 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.720 that I fly him around. But that being said, he 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.640 is an avid follower of you, and we've been talking 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.960 here for almost a year since this new base opened up. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.760 He goes, man, you have got to tell your story 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.520 to the therapy get go. I'm like what, he goes Yeah, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.000 I'm like, well put him on some time and I 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.679 started listening to you myself. I'm like, that's some pretty 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.400 cool stuff you got going on. But I mean, if 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.960 we really want to get up mind blowing. You know, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.400 any one of my numerous stories is mind blowing enough 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.600 and absolutely unbelievable, but I got pictures to prove it. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.320 That's the only reason I probably haven't been burnt at 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:49.720 the stake. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.840 So where are you at in your religious beliefs now? 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:02.680 I am once called a free agent. I've quite literally 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:07.920 lived with every culture of the world. I mean, being American, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.719 the kind of default you grow up in the Christian faithhood. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.080 But I've had a hard time with that in my 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.400 past because I've I've went to numerous from the guys 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.800 you know, ha handling snakes and stuff a little bit 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.840 too crazy for me, even the Mormons, like I was saying, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.320 I spent some time at the Jewish Temple trying to 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.360 find my way. Even I've been through a whole lot 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:36.160 of Ramadans, and our good friends out out in the 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.720 Mid East hung out with them, uh and even craziest 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.959 some pals and Buddhists, And I could really dig the 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.960 Buddhist way because that that kind of fills towards the 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.640 Dudhist priest way. You know, be chill, live within your 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.000 means and don't don't cause harm to others. But I 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.840 just don't know. I can't say one hundred percent where 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.559 I fit in, and until that day comes, I'll just 0:11:58.640 --> 0:11:59.520 kind of be a free agent. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:01.160 What's your name again? 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.559 I'm Mike. My old call sign marmee call sign was Murdoch. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.719 That's that's the crazy. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:14.679 Hell right murder? All right, well I'll call you Mike. Mike. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.560 What's your what's your family friends situation? Who's who's around 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.679 you in your life? Uh? 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:25.560 Uh? 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.760 That that vagabond vagabond? Uh side of me? I stayed 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.640 pretty much on the go. I have a couple of 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.040 good close friends, but otherwise I just have a world 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.560 full of acquaintances, if that makes sense. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:40.079 Where are you now? 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.720 I am currently in a little town in south central Illinois, 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:51.640 and I'm real, real hillbilly from Tennessee. That that's home bases, Tennessee. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.559 And this guy that you are working with now is 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.800 is listens to the podcast and showed you. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.600 This because very religiously surely that's why. After he was 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.040 hearing some of my stories, which again totally unbelievable, he goes, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.280 you have got to talk to the therapy. Get go. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.480 And I just tried call him to you. One hundred 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.000 and fifty two times and finally it came through. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:19.040 So all right, you have just acquaintances because of your 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.400 vagabond life. Let me let me bring something up to you. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:29.000 I want to get your thoughts on it. Going anywhere 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:34.440 in the world, anytime you want, doing whatever you want, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.400 all the time, no restrictions, nobody to tell you what 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.880 you can and can't do, complete and other total freedom. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.720 Is that freedom or loneliness? 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:53.240 It depends if you're comfortable in your loneliness or comfortable 0:13:54.080 --> 0:14:00.520 being solitary and alone, then it's abso loot freedom. I'd 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.760 say humans are born to be somewhat social. I think 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:09.160 we're a little too socialized now with all the social 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.920 media stuff, which I believe is causing problems. But out there, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.079 one of my favorite places is Micronesia. The island nation 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:24.200 of Micronesia, sparsely populated rainforest out on little islands throughout 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:30.360 the Pacific. A government came in another Again, try not 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.600 to get too detailed, because you can connect too many dots. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.080 But a supporting government bought them a bunch of fishing boats, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.240 big commercial fishing boats, and gave them to them and said, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.880 here you go, we want you to fish. Because other 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.600 large nations around you are fishing up your fisheries. He goes, Okay, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.400 that's a good idea. You can make a lot of money, 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.120 a lot of wealth. And they took one boat out 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.440 one time, fished for about three hours, brought it back 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.360 and they all sink. And this government came back and said, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.920 why the heck did you do that? That is ridiculous. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.920 Do you not understand that you could make tons of 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.920 money and sit on the beach and never worry again 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.760 and just watch the sunset? He goes, boss, we do 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.840 that now. And that has pretty much what has led 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:25.280 my life around the world. Is not ever worrying about 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:29.520 acquiring wealth or a grand status. I just live for today, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.560 get out. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.400 Well but well, so back to like the whole like 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:43.880 social aspect of this. Do you not ever feel lonely 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:49.200 or feel as though you want to have a recurring 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.840 network of people in your life or is that something 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:53.880 you've kind of abandoned. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.800 Well, it's never abandoned. I just never considered it. I 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:06.320 considered things more on a functional basis, and life for me, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:13.920 just following my four simple rules was made enough acquaintances 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.640 and friends around the world that I never worried about it. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.440 But I was still perfectly content. I'd spent many months 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.840 totally alone in an African jungle, all by myself, just 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:32.400 waiting on a rescue call and totally supporting myself independently, nothing, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.920 no contact with the outside world other than a really 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:40.120 expensive satellite data uplink, but that's another story. And I 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.600 was absolutely content. I'd say I'm probably the most happy 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.360 sitting on my sailboat, just floating around on my own thoughts. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.520 I know that's probably weird for most, but that's just 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:52.680 how I've always operated. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:54.720 Ca'st how old you are? 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.000 I absolutely I am forty one. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.760 And you've been doing this since you came into high school? 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.679 Yep, yep, pretty much since graduation. I've just had the 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:13.960 travel bug, and simply keeping myself frugal and unattached to 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.000 things has allowed me to go all over. And the 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.719 whole key to that is is never saying, ooh, maybe 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.000 I shouldn't. I never said that as long as it 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.680 was within my means and I wasn't going into debt 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.960 to do it. Why not? Real number four? And I 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:29.840 struck out? 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.399 And how did you? I mean, basic stuff like the 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.159 ability to eat and the ability to sleep in a 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.080 place where you're not in danger. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:46.320 Well, it was very dangerous areas. But another weird quirk, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:51.320 I guess in the psychology, psychiatry, whatever how people work 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.520 is I always presented myself this very friendly but not 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:01.840 too friendly. I'm absolutely not a bad dude by any ways, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.760 but I can call a big bluff so long as 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.720 especially Africa was this way because they're strangely enough, I 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:14.399 was the minority and had very very good friends, but 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.440 there's also some bad actors there, and I just made 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.120 it known that this guy's probably a little too crazy 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.760 to mess with and would not be worth our time. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.080 So that's how I did that. Now, there was some 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.199 dangerous events that happened, and I eventually, due to the 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:35.439 political problems going on in West Africa, decided it's best 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.920 to leave because old Ron Tater Salad said, I don't 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.680 know how many it would take to woop my ass, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.200 but I don't know how many they're going to use 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:43.280 kind of deal. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.280 And who is who is Ron Tater Salad? 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:54.840 Oh he's a comedian Ron White. Yeah, but AnyWho, so 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.760 about and got out of there, pretty much sold out 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.480 of that business. When the po politics started getting real, well, 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:06.359 and that's when I got into the tuna fish. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:13.399 So what uh why then was the thinking, Oh, yeah, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:20.439 so like these places like uh, like like certain parts 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:25.600 of Africa, and like the Afghanistan and uh, you know, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.960 anywhere else that maybe has a reputation of being like dangerous. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:34.520 What have you learned about that danger whether whether or 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.000 not it is it is true to the rumor of itself, 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:39.280 it is not. 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.159 There are places right here in the States that I 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.240 would consider far more dangerous than most of the Third 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.359 World nations I've been to, except for a few that 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.760 are really politically heated right now, Uh, then you just 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:54.919 use common sense. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:55.600 Uh. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.880 But yeah, I had a great time in Africa. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:19:58.480 It was. 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:04.960 It was wonderful, great people. The number of times I 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.320 would have a bad situation, I feel was far less 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:13.520 than me being in a rough part of our own country. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.200 And you know, other than it being the Third World 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.320 and not having Walmart and Sacksmith Avenue down the road 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.199 or go to a McDonald's taco bell, you kind of 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:28.080 got to learn how to survive on their means and 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.600 their economy. But other than that, it was it was 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:38.879 a great experience there. All over the Philippines was great. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:43.600 Australia New Zealand, even up North Canada, going into the Arctic, 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.960 all over Europe, you name it. I even lived in 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.080 downtown Paris for a while, but I really didn't like that. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.800 It was cool to visit for like a week. I 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.800 stayed way too long and it just became annoying. And 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.400 I understand why the folks in Paris get annoyed, because 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.600 it's way too many darn tourists. They're just buggy to death. 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:12.600 So after having traveled everywhere in the worlds and having 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:17.080 like meeting all these people and doing all these things, 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:20.919 do you are you bored? Are you like I already 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.960 did everything and talked to everyone, and it sounds like 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:25.920 you've one hundred percent completed the game. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.000 Strangely enough, I was just talking with us, all of 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.480 my crew, because what I'm doing is pretty much in 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:39.280 game of helicopter flying, and like, aren't you bored? I'm like, 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.439 now you know again, I'm not a manly man, but 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.040 I got way too many holes punched in the man car. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.600 I just really enjoy today. I'm also a cancer survivor. 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.639 I almost died of cancer three years ago, ironically, from 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:59.199 toxic exposure in Iraq, and that really changed my perspective. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:03.159 I was already a very outgoing and adventurous person. But 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:05.520 after that, you know, and pretty much look at God 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.399 in the face, and with the doctors and staff and 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.399 nurse all telling you you need to make your peace 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:14.640 with everything, I'm like, no, no, I'm going to walk 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.480 out of here in about two weeks and I'm gonna 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:19.679 get back to it. And they're like, that's that's a 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.760 great attitude. I'm like, no, that's exactly what I'm going 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:24.879 to do. And I did, and I walked out of 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:27.280 there and got back to flying. You know, that was 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.000 a bit of a hard thing to do post cancer, 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:32.879 but was able to do it and still kicking it. 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:38.080 And I really legitimately enjoy every day. I tour around 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.560 on a motorcycle. We even have my own little YouTube channel. 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:43.240 I'm not going to plug myself for nothing. But I 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:47.440 travel all over the country doing what I do, ride 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.800 my little motorcycle and camp in the woods, or if 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.879 I'm tired, I find a hotel and everywhere I stop, 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:56.800 I try to meet new people and hear their story. 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:00.960 And that's what really drives me, is to just the 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:06.320 sheer adventure of everything. It's not trying to gain wealth. 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:12.000 They're building empire. My most valuable stuff is my experiences 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:15.400 and my memories, and maybe one day or a movie 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.000 will be made about it. But otherwise I'm just content 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:23.080 to be the hillbilly Vagabond and just kind of tour 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.119 around and say, Hi. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.680 Is your YouTube channel called the Hillbilly Vagabond. 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.000 No, it's Murdoch the Hillbilly Vagabond. That's the YouTube channel. 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.600 But again, I'm not trying to plug my I'm legitimately 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.879 just wanting to talk to you because my good buddy 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.159 here that follows you religiously is just been blowing me 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:45.240 up for at least six months to make this phone call. 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:50.080 So, Murdoch with the cancer thing, so you have all 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:51.960 these doctors and nurses look you in the face and 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:54.679 tell you that you need to make your peace with God, 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:57.600 and you know that you're going to die. And then 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.720 you said, no, that's not what's happening. I'm going to 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:03.000 walk out it for in two weeks. And you said 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.320 it very confidently. What what's going on there? What gave 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.159 you so much confidence in that moment. 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:12.560 Let's go back to an earlier question, you know, where 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.200 you were asking me, how how did all of this come. 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:20.439 And I honestly believe there's something too speaking into existence 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:24.800 or willing it to be, because I don't dwell on 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:29.199