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We're in Senderjan today about 45 minutes drive outside Harat, 120 farmers, men, young, old and female, also receiving 50 kilos of certified wheat seed. I think it's been a really powerful opportunity for me just to see quite how bad the situation is now. It's disastrous. Every farmer we've spoken to has lost almost all of their crop this year. They've sold, they've been forced to sell their livestock. They've got no money at the moment. These seeds are absolutely vital. The consequences are just almost unthinkable. Firstly, we'll see that the hunger that's already biting hard here will just, it'll just get worse and worse and worse. Secondly, there'll be no cash people's pockets to buy food, to buy anything at all. What I'm already hearing now is displacement. Families, other farmers, the whole families are moving into Iran. Another farmer I spoke to, the two of his brothers have already left and gone to Iran because there's no other option at the moment.


The National Economic Council, NEC, has set up a committee to review recommendations by the National Salaries and Wages Commission to cushion the impact of the removal of petrol subsidy. At its first meeting presided over by the vice president, Kashim Shatema, NEC said the committee should review the 702 billionaire recommended as a cost of leaving allowance to civil seven to ease the burden of subsidy removal. The committee, which comprises governors from each geopolitical zone, is chaired by Nasir Idris, governor of Keby state. Bauchi governor, Bala Mohamed, who briefs state house correspondent after the meeting said the commission also recommended 23 billionaire monthly allowance to cushion the effects on workers. Typically on the issue of national salaries, income and wages commission, NEC had received recommendations on the various ways and means that this in the country can use whatever increases that we have in the revenue to mitigate the impact that is going to make on the lives of our workers and all those people involved. And so they recommended and they gave us a scenario recommending that there should be an adjustment, consequential adjustment estimated as 702 billion, to 990 million, eight naira as part of the allowances that should be given as petroleum allowance to all workers and as well as 23 to 45 billion monthly over to cushion the effect workers.


What's up, how are you guys this week another Monday of nonsense down at Frankie's strange meet and I say nonsense because guys I Cannot remember off the top of my head all of the ridiculous That happens to me between the legal stuff the landlord next door My main worker called out this morning, you know, and I'm just discombobulated so We do have a few new products in this week and we did run out of some stuff So I didn't want to as always thank my lovely customers for being so kind and supportive I did forget to print the reviews out this week But you guys had some very kind things to say about the new Apple nut bars Some of you really enjoyed the best burger blend and how we were able to get the product shipped colds of places Like Texas and the West Coast But as always if you ever have a problem with your order if there's anything wrong Please just reach out to me via email and we'll sort it out very quickly So let's see what's going on this week. So since I didn't have one of my guys in here packing orders We're sending out all the West Coast and three-day orders today. So if you guys are local East Coast We'll get everything tomorrow out to be delivered by Wednesday We have quite a bit of non meat orders. So, you know Frankie's strange foods Oregon supplements I mean, this is mostly water kefir and like Apple bars and stuff, but I mean from Thursday, you know post office Like never picks up. So if my UPS rep is watching this video That's what you guys are missing out on two or three times a week We get UPS has this thing called surepost, but I don't know, you know, it's almost like FedEx UPS You know, I mean the two biggest shipping companies their contracts with whatever big businesses they have They don't really seem to care about the small businesses and I'm here getting screwed around About to marry 15 Ukrainian girls and start my own gentlemen's club Don't worry ladies will throw in one or two boys as well for you. I wish that would happen Anyway, now what I'm a little excited about is the steak seasoning I said I've had this idea for a few years now guys. It's just salt pepper mushroom onion garlic nice Minimally inflammatory seasoning you guys could use every single day on steak pork chicken I was putting this on my rice and beans. It's just a really nice versatile all-purpose seasoning Yeah, I put steak on here because you know, that's what we're known for primarily selling beef But this is gonna be available guys on frankiesfreerangemeat.com as well as frankiesfreerangefoods.com all Very high quality organic powders including the mushroom, which is very very very expensive So I guarantee you guys there's nothing as high quality as this on the market But of course, let me know how you guys like this And the salt is back in stock you guys have also been bugging me for months We finally got the protein powder back in stock as well 100% grass-fed grass finish nothing added to it funny story about the protein It's the exact same grass-fed protein we were selling before except because I don't know if my suppliers in the club And they like jerking me around I had to get the same product from a Chinese company So they shipped the product to China Then I had to pay the extra customs fees and their percentage whatever and then get it to me It's just completely ridiculous, and I'm basically just breaking even on the protein now because of that nonsense, but Because we have the protein in stock my guys made plenty of chocolate and vanilla best bars Over the weekend. So we should have those available by the end of this week We also have the hammock in bars in stock as this is just dried ground beef tallow The honey as well as blueberries and some blueberry powder you guys haven't buying a lot of these We have the apple nut bars in the back So really trying to restock on everything on Frankie's free-range foods the flavor jerky is still Marinating so we should have that by the end of this week as well. It's a slightly different formula I'm still trying to you know critique the recipe and improve it a little bit of course It's always gonna be delicious. I'm just trying to make it something really really special We have the plain jerky in stock as well as plenty of Meat granola and one of those reviews I forgot to print out a guy was saying how you know Eight ounces of this stuff is a lot and yeah, I can't eat much of this myself as well It's dried beef guys. So if there's you know seven ounces of dried meat in here That's the equivalent of like almost two pounds of actual beef So when you guys are paying you know $15 for this meat granola think of it as oh, I'm buying You know almost two pounds of meat Unfortunately, we ran out of the beef bacon guys. We don't have any more to slice So I think these these last ten portions or so are already accounted for however We do have plenty of the Iberico pork bacon in stock bone-in prime rib roasts are back I think I showed you guys this last week. I don't know where my guys put it But we also have the I round roast back in stock I'll show the picture on the website right here So we did run out of some ribeye this week So we're gonna try to get all of the orders out and you guys have kind of been buying everything and my meat suppliers Haven't been as reliable these past few weeks. So we're probably gonna start running out of stuff Hopefully not too many different things Yeah We've been playing catch up a little bit on Frankie's range foods this week to try to get everything in stock for you guys and I Honestly, I'm having a hard time keeping up with these orders myself because I have to basically do all of the non meat Businesses on my own and I mean guys. I haven't had a good night's sleep in like three weeks I don't know why I haven't changed anything in my diet. I haven't been taking any new supplements I just I don't have the physical energy or mental energy to be down here for more than a few hours a day And you get the extra stuff done what I didn't notice was the only times I slept well is if like I left This area for a long period of time like when I drove out to Pennsylvania for six hours When I drove to upstate New York for six hours Whenever I leave either my house or the Bronx and then I go home that night I can sleep But other nights no, I don't That doesn't make much sense to me all it does is tell me I got to get the hell out of here So we do have some fresh roast beef and stock and guys I put a lot of time and effort into making this So I do appreciate that you guys enjoy it But it might not be on the website as frequently because we're not we're not selling as much as we did when it was like new and released I Showed you guys at the other week We have the a2 farm cheeses the Gouda the Colby the cheddar 100% grass-fed local those will probably be out of stock within a week or two and then we'll be back to the other cheeses The chicken soup and the collagen broth are fresh made Just today guys available on Frankie's free range foods calm if you guys haven't tried those out I don't really have any updates for you guys on organ supplements outside of that We're just kind of running low on all of the organ powders and that stuff same with Wi-Fi shielding We are running a bit low on all of the t-shirts and underwear, but I don't guys I'm broke I can't afford to I can't afford to restock those businesses for some reason and Just gonna try to stick it out a few more months and see what happens But thank you guys for joining me Hopefully you guys have been enjoying your orders from all the businesses this week If you guys are not familiar you can see all of them on Frank dash to final calm Frankie's free range meat Frankie's free range foods organ supplements Wi-Fi shielding and Frankie's Naturals so as I mentioned earlier guys If you have any issues with the order or any questions just feel free to reach out to me via email to any of those businesses So I'm gonna try to do another hour or so of work today. Hopefully my other worker comes in tomorrow So I don't lose my mind But thanks again guys, and I'll see you for tomorrow


Good to see you're doing good, I'm glad you're here, just wanted to say hi. Good to see you all, thank you all very much for coming out, I see a lot of neighborhoods representing Baltimore and the neighborhood. So we have several citizens signed up to speak this evening. We'll start by recognizing the first person signed up to speak. I will recognize also the next person I can be prepared to come forward with the podium. So we'll start with Grace Rosales. So we'll start with Grace Rosales, followed by a group of women and bullying rights. Attention on a dummy exchange request for a historic landmark. Thank you.


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I waited on a council house for 12 years and was delighted with our home. But one of my neighbours didn't like living in the place and basically pulled the curtains and left the house empty for years. She paid the rent but never stayed there. It's such a crying shame and a waste. Another, how can I report someone who's renting their council house while living in the north? Where are you? The asks was at the meeting on wind farms. He's not here. So I can't ask me. Is there not a council policy that any house which has been rented cannot be left vacant for more than six weeks at a time without notifying the council? I'm sure there is, but the problem is is that there are rules and regs there. But the whole conversation really was about people not respecting them. The effect of the killing of Ashlyn Murphy in Irish society has lasted, says the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. I think that's the primary of the death of the, in fact, it is today, isn't it? Today marks the first anniversary of the death of the primary school teacher in County Offlea, which shocked the country. The Justice Minister said tackling gender-based violence is a priority for the government. And I'm interested to speak to Dr. Marie Haynesworth, manager of the Donegal Domestic Violence Services on this. Dr. Marie, my emotions are somewhat mixed on this in that it's still happening. It's still happening. And it happens. And of course, there was, and rightly so, a massive reaction to the awful killing of Ashlyn Murphy. But then, subsequently, there's been other women that have been killed. And the spotlight's not shunned quite as bright. So, whilst the, while some people believe that maybe we have moved forward in this issue, for me, it feels like we're treading water to some extent. Marie, I don't know what your views are, but I'm very interested in them. Yeah, morning, Greg. And thanks for looking at the issue. Yeah, I mean, it's never going to be fixed overnight. That is, that's definitely one thing. And I do agree with that. And we've always, you know, Ireland currently has, I think, it's one woman murdered through domestic circumstances. And Ashlyn's case was slightly different in that it wasn't a domestic case in that sense. But the reality is, you know, when we're looking at safety, the government did step in, but it's full of this. It does react to stuff, and it makes a lot of promises. And it likes, you know, it's kind of like it likes a shiny cover of a book, but it doesn't necessarily fill that book with anything. And that's where we're at at the moment. We've been made a lot of promises about increase coming to the sector, restructuring the organisation. The DSGBV unit, which looks at these issues, is currently on the two floor. This has been moved into justice. But the reality is that it hasn't moved into justice yet. And it's been downsized within Tisla. There's been no additional resources. A staff of staff has not been replaced. So actually, at this moment in time, the resources and kind of oversight of this work is actually less now than it was a year ago. And I know it's in an interim place and I know it's in a process of transition, but it's at a very difficult place. And it could quite easily fall off the radar when we've got all the other issues that government's focusing on, you know, it's looking at hospitals, it's looking at the housing crisis. And it is at a point where we really do need to make sure this doesn't drop off politicians' agendas. And to some extent, those issues you mentioned are also, there's a crossover. There's an interlinking there as well. You see, I just, and I do express my frustration about the press sometimes, because and this is, I'm not attributing asking you to comment on this at all, Mary, but for some time, for me, the media is just feeling more and more like a not of the government in that the justice minister says tackling gender violence is a violence is a priority for the government. She says things are going to change, but we need to see how, when targets are those targets being met, if not, why? You know, it's not, we don't need ministers for observation. What we need is action that actually improves things. And as if you've outlined, there's a strong argument to say that things have actually dis-improved. And I think it's really important whether they want a job in future with the government or not, that these journalists begin to start probing politicians and getting exact answers that they can be held to record on. Yeah, another way they can do that is to do that investigative journalism piece where they actually talk to the services on the ground, because it's no good yes, the government can make promises and, you know, if you went to offices now and spoke to them, they said, this is what's in place, this is what we've allocated so much money, like so much money has been allocated and that was announced at the beginning of December and we all had to put in applications and look for it. And we were told by mid-December that we would be told whether we've got that funding. But this is a month later, we still haven't been told. We still don't know what our annual budget is for this year. We still haven't signed any service level agreement or anything, because nobody knows what the figures are. But we do need the media to follow up with services and make sure that the other side of that story is being validated. You know, if this is what government's saying, where is that happening on the ground? You know, can you talk to services that can prove that? And that's the piece I think that's missing with media. Yeah, and whilst we talk about the awful deaths of women one a month, as you mentioned, and as you rightly pointed out, the death was not necessarily it wasn't a domestic violence incident. This domestic violence is happening all the time and there are in cases where it leads up to that. So it's to, of course, eliminate as much as we possibly can instances of domestic violence give people a pathway out of it make sure that people are responsible for it, are held to account, are heavily punished, so there's a deterrent there. You know, we need to sort of deal with everything that eventually very sadly leaves to the loss of a life. It is. And you know, one of the other areas that we need to put in support for perpetrators, you know, and there are perpetrator programs in the country, but there are non-Indonesian all in the north west and we've been lobbying, well, Sligo would be the nearest one. We've been lobbying for that for a number of years now and justice has always come back to a thing, well, we're doing a review of the program, you know, when we've completed the review we'll get back to you. Now, that review has been undertaken now for I would say three or four years, it's still being undertaken. So there's still nobody willing to make a decision about whether Donny Gold deserves to have a perpetrator program, even though our probation services up here could fill that program, you know, overnight with the number of clients they have. So, you know, we have the infrastructure, we we've raised the issue nationally and for three or four years now we're just being fobbed off. So, you know, there isn't that kind of willingness to follow through completely, like government likes reports and it likes kind of conducting surveys doesn't like following through and actually implementing any action afterwards and this is the bit I'm a bit worried about, you know, lots of promises but not a lot following through at this moment in time. So, just to recap then to finish on Dr Marie in terms of Donny Gold domestic violence services, we are halfway through the first month of this year, just outline where you're at in terms of resources, what information you have about resources will be available what's been promised to you for 2023 or when you might hear of what will be available to you in 2023. So, you can give us sort of an idea of where we're at from a Donny Gold domestic violence services perspective. Well, from our core funding point of view, we are assuming we will get the same funding we got last year. So, you know, our core services are not affected but we have a proposal in which is to expand our accommodation and to work, you know, using more innovative ways of getting accommodation because like it's the key thing about ensuring people's safety is that they have somewhere to move on to and with a housing crisis that isn't necessarily available. So, but we don't know we were told before Christmas whether we'd got that funding. We've also got an allocation in there looking for someone specifically to work as a housing officer. You know, we would like to know that we can go ahead and recruit for that. But they're the things that are kind of stalled now. You know, these are key aspects of the work that we're going to do. So, you know, we don't know where we're going to get that funding. We don't know where we're going to get that funding because the numbers are not going down like numbers have not gone down since COVID started. So it's not like there's the law here or we can just continue as we are. Like we're just going to meet this challenge more and more. Dr. Marie Haynesworth is always thank you so much. Indeed, Dr. Marie's manager of the Donny Gold domestic violence services await 60, 25,000 for these trials to happen. Well, there's a couple of things, the reason why I would say one of them is the fact that to investigate any crime, especially where there's a loss of life, Guardi and investigators have to exhaust every possibility you have to imagine. Say, for instance, let's talk about any particular case just on the most basic level. You know, you will have a defense lawyer or team of lawyers, for example, that their mission is to protect the liberty of their client. So they will try and find any flaws, any loopholes, any gaps in any investigation. So you can imagine then that the Guardi have to take the time that's required to ensure that any gaps are there that are plugged, that any evidence that is there that is gathered, it's backed up, that the of experts that can back that up, you know, when you start thinking on it a little bit like that, you can see how the how the wheels can turn quite slowly. You could also have someone who might make a defense of them not being they're having poor mental health, for example, that could delay things even more so because different experts would have to be brought in and all. So, I mean, I can see how these things take time. As I say, some of those examples I gave are not relating to that case at all. It's just to give some examples. I had numerous instances of where I received adverts related to simple conversations with others. The alternator in my car packed it and before I could take it to a mechanic, I was getting ads for car spare parts.  We jokingly remarked that he should do the lottery. That evening he got several ads promoting the national lottery. The number of times this happens puts it outside the scope of coincidence. All right, okay. That is on a more light hearted note. Let's stay with that for a moment. Hi, Greg. You're 100% correct regarding the phone listening or analyzing calls. I also had a conversation with someone about something I had never googled or talked about before. And within a few hours I had ads on Facebook regarding exactly what I was talking about. All I kept thinking was how did that happen? Now for people who believe it happens, they can't be convinced otherwise. For other people, particularly I think those, maybe that work in technology and believe it's not happening, they think we're crazy. The Balabuffet Potholes a text in about yesterday were filled in the afternoon. This time a roller was used. It'll be interesting to see how long fillings last. Pothole repair is not rocket science. Well done to the council and the council workers for getting on that as quickly as they did. And let's hope the use of the roller the use of the roller is helpful there. It was explained last night because of the change in the Irish Prime Minister since Christmas last year, he had been inappropriate to meet Mary Lou McDonald of the opposition party before they had got to meet Leo, so not a snob that comes in from Derrick. Our government is going to British company come here to buy up acres of land for planting trees. Yeah, indeed we discussed that with Minister Charlie McConnell, although I didn't really get it on the record from him and and you know, sometimes you try and ask questions, right? And sometimes the non answers the answer in and of itself but if you don't ask the questions, you don't get the answer. So I'm going to go back to that. I'm going to go back to that. I'm going to go back to those two companies coming in. He says well, we'll discuss this with culture. Hello. I've contacted the ESB several times to get lights fixed on the main dairy to Bunkrana Road at far and outside the red door bar and restaurant. Very dark stretch of busy road and three streetlights arrived for over 15 months. See attached on the D C C website. The two of these are noted. Do you have any questions? Greg, what are your thoughts on several crossings in Balabuffa? It's a disaster waiting to happen with the dark weather. Why have enough traffic light when we have enough traffic like crossings? Well, there's no lights on them. That's the problem. I said on the day they were installed. I had a problem with them, especially on dark wet nights as you're approaching them and someone steps out and they happen to be in the black section. There's no lights on them. This was supposed to be some problem at all. I said from the beginning that I thought they presented an unnecessary danger there. I'm tired saying your phone is like big brother listening to everything you say. It freaks me out at times, says another caller there. Raymond says I could not have written a poem anywhere as good as chat GPT. Can we now possibly get chat GPT to take over the running of the Dublin government since chat GPT is more intelligent and creative than any other humans in government? Think of the billions of millions of people in the world in the world. I'm gone before the government's gone. It's only a matter of time if it's not already happening that a I will be doing links on radio in between music. Hi, Greg, just wondering what has happened to the 10 30 song. Well, what do you think we can break? Did you type that Caroline?  Um, no problem. Let us know. Maybe you prefer to keep the flow of the show going. You know, if you like that little interlude at 10 30, we're democracy here. You know, if even mosque and run polls, we can run polls, too. Do you want the 10 30 track back? I wait 60 60 25 thousand or you're happy with the way things are right now. 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Right, okay. I mean, presumably, obviously, you're familiar with this phrase. Single on vetted males. Normally the way I hear it is a single on vetted males of fighting age. That seems to be a sentence that's used quite regularly. You're calling it out. Are you or what's your view? Well, all I'm saying is I would like to know where people are getting this information. So I are getting it on a post on Facebook that these men are single men. Or are they actually getting the information directly from a reliable source? From what I mean, I can only go by what I've been from speaking to asylum seekers themselves. What they will tell me is that a lot of these men, they're not actually single men. They are actually fathers and husbands. It costs an awful lot of money for them to try and even make the journey to try and get asylum. So what normally happens is that the husband or the father is chosen from that family as A, being the person most likely to survive the journey. And B, they want to see if it's safe for their families before because think about it logically. They're not going to send their kids off on their own. Even though you may want to get the people that you want to get out the most as a kid. So say for instance you're living in Dublin or some other urban area and a coat pulls up and 30 guys get off the bus on their own, whether they're single or not. I don't even know what that means.  So I don't really to prejudge all that being said. And they walk into a hotel in a particular area that's probably already got under pressure for housing, under pressure for school places though that might not be relevant in this case at this time but maybe also the local hospital or the local GP. There's no consultation with the local people. This is not discussed. And then of course there are elements that will suggest that this is going to be a danger to women. There's not a great deal of evidence to support that. But can you forget the people then that they have an agenda that come into an area to try and stir things up. You could understand could you not that local people might go where is our accommodation? Where is our house? Why can't we see a doctor? Why won't we ask if this particular area can take another 30 men. Can you understand then how locals would be concerned about that? I completely understand that people would be concerned about the volume of people increasing in the area especially given the pressures on both the health system and the housing. Absolutely. But my objection is essentially people believing the stuff that they're reading on the internet. If you're following it and I follow it quite a bit and I have friends who work at the scenes and watching what goes on and where these things are coming from this single unvetted mail phrase just really rankles me because people are not thinking and they're repeating it. They're just seeing it on Facebook, seeing it on Twitter. My son is a single unvetted mail. Exactly. My son is a single unvetted mail. He moved over he's left the country and there was no big hue and cry about him moving over. I don't know is it because he's you know because of the same skin colour. Do you think then that the genuine concerns of locals which should be addressed by those that are elected to make these decisions are being weaponised then by people with because you see I think the left or whatever I don't really get into this left-right stuff but those that are labelling anyone who has an objection to this as far right you see I don't think that helps at all either because it means we can't have a civilised conversation with people if you have one view you're left liberal if you have another view you're far right with all the connotations that goes with that label I think people have right across the political spectrum needed maybe as much as they can either disengage with those labels or actually only use them when they are specifically appropriate and I think you would know maybe some of the the cases or individuals that might be talking about. Very very much so and this is the thing so in a lot of those protests and I know you know so for instance on an east wall there was a man who was being interviewed by RTE for example and he was on and being labelled as a concerned resident as the resident of the area what wasn't said was that he was a member of the far-right party and he wasn't doing that so he was getting this all drummed up he was bringing in his far-right party members. But he's also a member of the local community though He is But I don't think that that should be complete if you're going to talk to people I think it should be complete I know you make every effort to make sure that say someone's from a political party you will say yep you're a member of a party or whatever but what I don't and then you see the thing is if people see this as just a community if that's how someone is described and it's not clear that this person is a member of a far-right party but you can make that difference you can make that difference differentiation I don't know you can make that you can see the difference there everyone can see the difference can't they do you know what I mean I think most people can work out the difference and we've always tried to give on this programme space where someone could come on and say look I'm a bit worried about what's happening in my area because we don't have the services for all these people coming in and they're not racist they're not far-right they're not nothing they're just saying you know they've got their own children I just think this division this divisive politics where we call each other different things and I'm not accusing you of this Shanaid we're getting nowhere with it we're just literally getting nowhere with it I don't agree with that much and I mean what you say ordinary people who are just there talking about you know the concern about the pressure on the health system concerned especially now with all the stuff that's going on around Micah and people are homeless absolutely 100% you cannot say a bad word because people are concerned about their families their children and they're looking at that but the focus is wrong the focus shouldn't be on the people who are coming in the focus should be on the people in government who have let us down for decades I worked in a part of London in my late teens early 20s I can't remember what it was and I was people over here think I've got an English accent I worked over there a couple of years but over there I had an Irish accent and it was in a particular bar that I worked in because I worked in pubs and I was called names and one evening I was walking home and the motivation was because I was Irish and maybe because I was white I don't know I'm not going to talk to that I really don't know and then there was shouting outside the complex now I hadn't engaged with anyone I was very naive very shy I hadn't rubbed up anyone in the hard but I'll tell you one thing it was scary it was intimidating it was horrible and very very soon thereafter I moved home because I couldn't take it that's it and then when I hear families in these and there are kids involved as well and there's Irish people what we've went through us where shouting go home or get them out or send them home that's not who we are we were the victims of that in the past we were that's not who we are and I don't think it's representative of us as a society either I really don't and I don't think so either all I'm asking for is that people stop and think before when they read something on Facebook, when they read something on Twitter just stop and think where is this actually coming from is this accurate, is this factual because there are poor people and there are children in those places where and just going by reports there are very very horrible things being said and there are small kids who come through and women as well and even then I mean I don't care who you are, a man, woman or a child, there's going to be trauma there and you arrive into a country after trying to seek asylum from a war zone, whether it's like from a war zone or threats to your life and you gave the example but you gave the example then of the effort say someone from Syria has to do to come here to try and really get a better life for their family but there are individuals that can't get into England anymore right? Economic migrants and the government accepts this as well by the way that rip up their documentation on their way here they can board a flight with documentation but they rip it up because they think they've got a better chance of staying here the state does need to and I think Leal Veracar committed to it last night tidy this whole area up so the public discourse will be easier then and again that is the role of government it's not shouting at a refugee won't change that but a lot of this is government policy and inaction that's led us to where we're at precisely and this is exactly what I'm saying the target is wrong the target shouldn't be the people who are coming and even those as we turn to economic migrants we're a nation of economic migrants I mean how many people do we know who's gone to America and just stayed after a holiday and stayed there we are a nation of economic migrants well in relation to that there are more Irish people living in Australia sorry there's less Irish people more Irish people living in Australia than there are homeless people in Australia right so someone in Australia could say oh well get the Irish out and house the Australians now someone could say to me ah but the Irish are over there working and it's different because that's not what it's like in Ireland over 10,000 Ukrainian refugees are now working in Ireland many working in the care system in the health service system filling employment gaps so it is kind of the same and more and more of them are going to work I just think we need to remember our history what we're doing right now all those remember was it 55,000 undocumented Irish in America they can't come home because they won't be able to get back into America because they don't have the proper documentation so we need to remember where we're at where we've come from but also call on the government to where there are genuine problems and concerns for them to be addressed are for instance migrants being put into rich areas of Dublin or is it only areas where there are particular issues with housing and what have you or people have less disposable income this also does have to be discussionated doesn't it for complete equity and fairness I think everything needs to be on the table but it does need to be done with the correct people I mean what needs to happen is that this all has to go to our public reps that's where it should be going they're the people who are elected who we elected to represent us and our views on the door standing outside and weaponizing much loved songs to turn them into racist meaning outside of accommodations where there are men, women and children and they're listening to that is not the way to go you're talking about people working people working from Ireland and countries all over the world the asylum seekers here are not allowed to work maybe that's something that should be they are after six months I think after six months they are but I do take your point to be addressed listen and I get it I don't I think I can think from all different ways which I'm sure you can as well but my word, if everyone who didn't look like Ireland looked like 30 years ago let me put it like that went home our health service would be destroyed our care service this country would be in an awful lot of bother and there aren't enough Irish away to come back perhaps either by the way and some people choose to go to experience life in a different way and a phrase that I want of course because it's another place for them to come back it's just really important that we all actually think for ourselves that we get our information from different sources because everyone, regardless of what could bandit the sheeple view around and none of us want to be sheeple and make your own decisions to make sure that we're not cannon fodder for other people or whatever everyone should think for themselves do the research, get their own stats that's my concern and it's not to say and I want to be very clear about this I'm not here saying that everyone who says anything about the situation with concerns about anybody coming into the area is far right or a member of our right group everything is there are instigators in those communities there are instigators online and they are very much far right actors and just be careful who you're listening to and what you're reading and sharing because what you're doing is you're giving them power just giving them power just think for yourself stop and ask yourself is this factual, where is it coming from alright Sinead yep I get you it's always been my concern about the far right growth in Ireland anywhere in the world or left or far anything anything that's in any way extreme in any particular direction but people make up their own minds Sinead thanks for your time oh wait 60, 25,000 whatsapps and texts to that number call 07491 the caller says that lady makes some very good points about the male travelling alone in the hopes of getting their family out why I hadn't heard before which is what the debate is all about however you only have to see what happened in Sweden and Germany to see what quite a lot of males do I have family in Germany and their lives have completely changed since the influx of immigrants to their area so definitely I think locals have the right to have their say without name calling but was that an immigration policy or was that the same as what we're seeing here right now anyway listen that's where we have to leave it on the programme today Michaela Clarke is in around the north west after the news at 12 but for me Greg Hughes and the team enjoy the rest of your Thursday have a good one if you're looking to reinforce your leadership skills ATU are offering level 9 executive masters in leadership and innovation for private and public sector managers starting in January take the next step in your career and call 9186206 or email donald.hanigan at atu.ie


Whoa, what is this small box that I'm trapped in? Well, this is what it looked like before widescreen high definition video and in keeping with the style of what you're about to see I Decided to go old-school Okay, if you follow my channel, you've probably heard me talk about my epic bike ride from Honduras to Boulder But you haven't seen much footage of it. Well, it's finally time to change that This is 16 years in the making. You know, I just watched Batman Begins recently and I thought to myself I need to make my own origin story now I'm not a superhero but this is the adventure that inspired my love of bike touring and Documenting adventures with a video camera now. Why did it take me so long to make this? Well, I did create a short five-minute summary video of the ride back in 2006 It was actually the very first video I ever made and it surprisingly aired on the travel channel and it was this experience that instigated my passion for telling stories and documenting travel adventures I Planned on making a full documentary of the ride But I moved on to other projects and never went back to all the hours of footage Well, because of the pandemic I've had a lot more time at home than usual and a couple weeks ago I got inspired to find that old dusty footage and take a look I gotta say it's been a blast revisiting all those amazing memories Looking back at baby Ryan is pretty funny That ride from Honduras to Boulder is when I fell in love with traveling at 15 miles an hour with meeting amazing people and Realizing that there's a lot of magic out there Now I had no idea what I was getting into when I started the journey back in September 2005 But I was ready for adventure and I wanted to take the long way home after two Incredible years as a p-score volunteer and check it out This is the actual camera that I used to film the journey an old Sony Handicamp and guess what kids it took tapes. This thing is not digital Total workhorse. I loved this camera. Check out this old artifact This is the actual map that I used to navigate all the way home There was no GPS back then. I definitely did not have a cell phone so it was this map and Honestly, it was just talking to locals everywhere and asking for directions all the way home to Boulder, Colorado And this right here is the bike the Trek 8000 that I bought second hand when I was down in Honduras This is the one that I rode all the way home. It's a mountain bike It's not a touring bike, but it did the job. I would still ride it But I busted the frame right there pretty badly cracked right in half No, it's just a decoration. Okay, one last thing before we get started I want to warn families with kids who usually watch my videos as a rule I try my best not to say swear words because I know that a lot of little people watch my channel But for this film I left them in. There's not a ton just a little but they're in there I wanted to keep this edit raw a true look into every emotion that I was going through There's also some documentation of interesting roadkill and some parasites It's nothing your kids haven't seen in your average violent video game But I just want to put the warning out there. This is definitely PG-13 It has a lot of humor of 25 year old best buddies on the adventure of a lifetime Okay, it is time. Are you ready to watch babyface Ryan? Let's do it Hello, we're here. It is a couple days before the big ride and we're gonna try out The little trailer the kids are very excited about this Vamos a probar la cartilla verdad niños? Simón! Bueno, aquí estamos Cargados con las niñas. We got the girls here We're ready to go and try out to see if this cart works.  I got all my important things got my huckleberry fin Motorcycle diaries hmm kind of similar to what I'm doing. I'm a shetty. Let's see if it's really in there Oh, yeah, that's a real one. It's a real machete I've got two things a peanut butter there and jelly and power bars tools flags pumps journals bags Lots of stuff. It's pretty cool.  Oh, it's casa casa tan bonita Adios me family. I might sound jolly and excited But leaving Esperanza was one of the hardest days of my life Tears streamed down my face as I pedaled away from my family It hurt so bad to say goodbye to all my kids They were my life for two years I was like an older brother to an entire barrio of ninos and I didn't know when I'd see them again I'd never dedicated myself so fully to anything before I was proud of my work as a Peace Corps volunteer And although my heart was aching. I was excited for the adventure ahead of me I Feel good. I've said my goodbyes I've shed at my tears. I got my goodbyes good my hugs everything. I'm ready to roll Ready to start the adventure. Let's go This is Ryan's view of the bike. Oh, yeah a little bit bouncy It is quite beautiful in this valley Okay, I've been going downhill for about 30 kilometers that have barely even touched my pedal But now I have to head that way Up and over those mountains There's the last road sign I will see for my life from the Meaning I've gone 67 kilometers This is the main tegus San Pedro highway and now is where I'm gonna have to deal with traffic because the other road There was barely any traffic There's my rig looking good Pero yo voy a ir en bicicleta esa bicicleta aquí Si si Porque es una buena pintura no Si verdad Si está bien verdad buena aventura no Prez meses para llegar Justo para la navidad Si Prez meses No no no mucha prisa y es mejor es mejor en bicicleta que avión Si más seguro si All the jungly jungle tropical green lush beautiful Salud a la camera have this function erectile after three months of riding on this bicycle My ass hurts, baby. Oh look how happy they are. I'm in Puerto Cortez at a beautiful star mark Texaco I just bought a nice fierce blue boat Gatorade good thing about these Texaco's got great music all day long blasting Front-page news every day. There's always a dead guy on the cover of Honduran newspapers I'm sitting here waiting for my My last Honduran Baleada's coming out of this Commodore right here Imagine they'll be pretty good. We're in Omoa. Everything is going great Gracias. My last Baleada's here in Honduras. It's pretty exciting Kind of sad at the same time. This is this is my staple food for the past two years We got tortillas. We've got beans. We've got some eggs. It's pretty much a bean burrito So we call it in America, but in Honduras, it's a Baleada Sunday on a Latin American Beach, man. It is packed with people Como están Hablas Inglés Wow very good. Estos no son para comer son para pescar después Cheque. I'm Bonnie Chappan. I'm a health volunteer with Peace Corps So you planted all of these flowers you said? Yeah, that's Jurassic Park style So what do you do mostly as a volunteer here? I started working with midwives. Okay, my first job, but then I've also done a lot of HIV AIDS work Well, thanks for showing me your little garden. Your house is very beautiful and thanks for letting me stay here 6 30 a.m. My earliest start leaving Omoa Shooting to get across the border That way is Guatemala And that's the thing we got some roadkill there Pero pero pero pero pero pero pero Isn't this a sad sight? Two doggies having some happy, humpy time and they get stuck together Aquí estamos en la frontera de Guatemala y Honduras y aquí estoy con algunos hermanos de Honduras, verdad? Y que es lo que hacen aquí en la frontera? No, pero nosotros los ganamos la vista, la vida, cambiando dinero que sale por la empira Que es lo que es lo más bueno de Honduras? Primero punto, las mujeres, gente tenemos buenas costas muy bonitas Y nuestras playas, nuestras islas a por seis barro, a tantos Bueno, paisan Y que tal la gente? Oh, la gente muy buena allá por allá de Honduras You know, Gavalesh, America, Honduras And you take in one of these pastures in your heart, buddy Si, las voy a llamar a la USA, hombre In Guatemala, there seem to be lots of bananas Bananas everywhere, come on, here, I'll show you Bananas, bananas, bananas, bananas, bananas Now I'm at the port, getting ready to get a boat to Belize Adios amigos, adios Guatemala It's a video camera, you can talk How's it going? Talk some Creole for the camera You understand that? No, I don't understand but it's cool Tell me what you're doing in Creole Okay I don't make flour, I tell you Alright Is this a Belizean specialty? Belizean eat bread You understand what I'm doing?  I appreciate that, everybody else thinks I'm crazy Some people think Oh, that's good I think if you want to do it, it's okay Alright, thank you for the support, I appreciate that Because whatever you want in life, well go ahead and do it Some other people would say, well you're crazy I know you're crazy, but that's what you want to do Exactly, I like that For those jungle mountains is Guatemala Here we have some Mennonites In the jungles of Belize We're at the house of Wilbert What are you making? And what is your name? My name is Maria Oh, very pretty name So what is life like here in this little village? How many people live here? 300 people? Okay And what do most people do for work? Farming? We're going downhill here Maybe not a great idea to hold the camera while I'm going downhill But hey, maybe it's not a great idea to ride my bike to America Just kidding The sounds of the Belize rainforest at night time Alright, so where are we? What's your name? Your fat brother Sure is rainy here Today was a long day, about 85 miles I got rained on the entire time I think the clouds are actually following me Waiting till I got dry And then raining on me again Just at the moment I would get dry And now I'm in some little village In the middle of nowhere That had to hike my bike across the marshland to get to But it was cool And it's worth it Now I'm dry on a veranda Almost to Corazal Which means almost to Mexico baby Sounds so good, I just want to go This is where I'm staying tonight The Julia's guest house And it's cheap, that's why I chose it I'm in room number two This is my room It's pretty big actually I have room for my bike and all my stuff And that's my light bulb right there I've got nice cardboard wood walls And I actually have a fan which is nice Here I am Leaving saying hello to Mexico And North America So I've just crossed the border into Mexico I'm now here, I'm feeling good The people are already very welcoming The road as you can see is Brand new And I've got a huge shoulder all to myself Wouldn't mommy be happy to see this road Or boy is safe I don't really know where I'm going to sleep today But we'll find a nice spot Okay, I'm here in the Yucatan Peninsula My day one, things are going great And then this falls off And it won't go back on, this is my pedal And it makes it a little bit hard to ride my bike When I can't use my pedal Oh man, why did this have to happen? I guess it's all part of the adventure though So we'll see what we can do Hola amigos, ¿Cómo están? ¿También? Cheque, cheque That's one pedal There's the other pedal I think I'm going to ride like this See how it works We'll see Hola amigos, ¿Cómo están? ¿Dónde estamos? Francisco Villa Francisco Villa Y ustedes me rescataron, muchas gracias ¿Y qué hace usted aquí? Yo aquí Trabajo en el campo Haciendo carbón, cortando leña Sembrando chile, maíz, frijoles That's where I'm going to sleep tonight Under that little hut, right on the highway With these nice people Hola, perrito It's quiet out here, isn't it? Came from that way All the way down that little road And I'm going all the way down that road My pedal combination seems to be working It's a relief because I was pretty damn worried This is where we got going here We got one of these I found some big Mayan ruins Right off the highway I had to pay to get into these ones This is an official spot It's pretty impressive There are no tourists here Which is a lot different than most of the Main sites I've been to Here in Latin America There's always tons of tourists everywhere I am the only one here today Which is kind of cool You can see this big guy Got towers back there It's kind of cool, man More mosquitoes But it's good, I like it It's really cloudy and rainy and crappy And I have 55 miles to go Oh my god I'll make it baby I'll make it With a smile on my face I will make it Okay, today is a rough day I've already gone 50 miles And it's only 11 40 in the morning It's cloudy and drizzly And rainy The road is narrow There's lots of truckers But I just stopped at this nice restaurant A restaurant Restaurant 223 That means 223 kilometers Away from Via Hermosa And that's where I'm going And I want to do it in 2 days So today I'm going to go another 50 miles In order to get there in 2 days Because I got my little friend Jeff waiting for me And I'm already going to be late So Here's to another 50 miles In the afternoon This is the color the skies have been all the way Since Belize And I've been told it's because of hurricanes I'm soaking wet 84.86 miles Here's my bell Still working And here's me Still rocking baby Alright, I'm going to put the camera away I bless the rains Down in Mexico It doesn't help love it I'm still getting wet This is what it looks like in this direction Wow Fucking shit I'm a little cranky, a little emotional A little tender A little tender I might bust it any moment Woke up in Via Hermosa this morning The ugliest fucking city I've ever been in I thought that maybe I'd take today easy Going as far as I can Because I want to get to the beach I am sick of the fucking Gold Coast of Mexico I'm sick of the weather All I want to do Is meet Jeff And chill out on the beach I've been going strong here For two weeks now And I need a break It is 4.30 I'm still on the road I'm still rocking and rolling I'm on the odometer here I will show you so you can see Look at that This is where I'll be staying tonight Beside a house on a highway Found a nice guy to let me stay There's all my stuff The only problem is there's no roof So hopefully it doesn't rain much Hello Maximino How are you? How are you? You are my savior today Because he rescued me from the road And what are you doing here? Working on the block This guy has big muscles Yes, he's fat Yes, show the strength And it's a good business It's more or less not a business But for the past Interesting And you made all these blocks today? Yes This is a very big moment I've finally gotten on my highway 185 That means I'm heading towards the Pacific Ocean baby That means I'm heading towards Jeff I woke up to rain this morning It scared me a little bit But it hasn't been rainy since Things are going great I'm in this cute little town Just did some internet Had some good tamales Had some good conversation I'm feeling a lot better today than I was yesterday So here we are And I'm loving this ride baby Ryan loves downhill Who loves downhill Ryan does Ladies and gentlemen Just as I had thought I turned to the corner And there it is baby The Pacific Ocean I've been waiting for this for so long Hello, good afternoon How are you? Good and you? And what do you sell? I sell a lot And what do you think of my trip To the United States on a bike? It's very tough Yes, tough but it's a good adventure Yes And I can meet good people like you Tomato Tomato Boy Boy Short Short, who's short? He's short And what do you do here with your free time? Playing Playing? I turned the corner and who do I find? What are you doing here Jeff? I just thought I would take a little vacation Bring my bike down to Your bike? I'm thinking I found this rascally dudes Or just happened to run into Wow, what are the chances? I went in the Googleplex if you ask me Yeah man I'm very grateful that Jeff came all the way Down to Mexico And met me He is one of my absolute best friends And my only friend Who I knew that I could call on to join me And not think that this adventure Was a crazy idea Jeff is one of those guys Who is always down for a good time And we always manage To get ourselves into trouble The good kind of trouble Life's pretty good right now I might be eating my words here In the next couple of months But for right now life is actually No life will always be good It will just get a little bit harder There's my beach ladies and gentlemen I'm trying to sleep quietly Jeff is still sleeping It's about 7.30 On October 13th And life is good I just went swimming And so stage one of the ride I think it's come to an end All the way back to America It's going to be amazing Puerto Escondido October 14th, 2005 How you feeling Jeff? I took a little nap and I'm feeling great now Still a little groggy though We don't want that So just shake it off buddy How's the legs feeling? It was our first day riding together How are these babies doing huh? They did good today We're thinking that maybe Ryan has got this 100 mile a day thing going on here So today We get here And Ryan says I feel great That was a nice easy little jaunt in the woods And I'm thinking yeah Me too I'm going to take a nap And so I'm thinking that Ryan's in better shape than me at this point And we should go ahead and film this belly Alright Maxi Poo You see that belly? It's not going to be here for very long We're going to take care of that aren't we? Like you see how it jiggles just a little bit Like you can hit it from the back Good morning Jeffrey That's your camera I'm tree view How are you baby? Good What are you doing here? Fishing Fishing? Fishing This is your house right? Yes this is my house And the ceiling is waterproof No it's not It's just water So Vicente your brother Is going to the US today Yes he's going to the US And why isn't he going with me? Because it would be very long Yeah a lot of time right? And it's his first time Really? Yes And why is he going to the US? Because here Life is more difficult It's more difficult and they say That it's better there That's why The money Because there are a lot of people here working there And there's almost no work But you're worried about your brother then? We didn't want him to leave See Hi Jeff What's up today?    Very good Very good What are we going to do today? We're going to fix the rail That broke Is this one? Very good Champion of Mexico How long have you had this workshop? Ten years Ten years really? And why do you like cycling? Because it's for you Yes That's what I say It's part of my body Once again we get trapped in a nice beach We're going to leave today We're going to go somewhere Where are we going to put the camera? Right here It doesn't get much of us Look at us, look at these muscles we have We've just become such big strong gentlemen I'm going to see my body It's too big for you It might knock you over backwards Yes we are so sexy now Look at this We are all tan We are so tan and we are so oily You hear that sound That's the sound of a tortilla Right there baby We're going to go film some tortillas being made The first kilo out of that Machine today And I'm pretty excited about that Let's try them out One kilo, seven pesos Fresh out of the machine Oh man that is so good That is pure Mexico baby Pure corn, tortilla Let's see another good bite There goes Jeffrey It smells Mexico is this sort of rich fragrance of burning trash and meat And meat And meat Just an amazing smell A combination of smells that are in the air around every major town That's how you know you're in Central America You smell that Look, you want to talk to a guy Tell him your name is Chaparro It's fun Okay so it's evening It's about 6pm here and beautiful See what's in Ajo and I tell Jeff to walk down to the pier and sit there While I'm sitting there I notice that my wounds are bleeding a lot more I've had these wounds for a while now We don't really know what they are I'm sitting there and I'm looking that it's bleeding And then I see that there's a little something poking its head in and out of the hole So I have something living in these little wounds I don't think it can focus that close Yeah it can actually Is that little white thing in there Come on buddy, stick your head out So you go in, come out There it went There's come back out We don't know what that is But we're going to pull on it Both holes are showing evidence of little worms Giving birth So now we know that they weren't just mosquito bites There's something a little bit more He knows we're trying to get him Yeah he does, he's a little freaked out What are you doing with that? I'm sticking this and sticking it in the hole in my arm And it goes in pretty deep Deeper than I thought it would So let's see if we can get this It's just like a mosquito bite But this thing goes in a good It goes pretty far in there Oh god this is gross Whatever is in there doesn't want to come out Not yet at least So this is how beautiful it is on this Friday or Wednesday afternoon And Jeff what do you have in your hand?  So yeah we're thinking that might be the case Oh yeah Somebody's coming out tonight Somebody wants to come out to daddy It might take a while we'll get back to you Mr. Camera Alright so I'm feeling a little dizzy this kind of stuff is usually a little bit hard on me We didn't succeed the rum didn't seem to pull it out I'm sticking this in and out of there but those worms don't want to come out yet There's still some growing to do It's night here in Siwataneho We need to enjoy the beauty of it not to sit here and pull worms out of my arms It's kind of gross It's a downer Alright Hi Jeff how you doing? I'm doing super Ryan Yeah and why's that? Well I'm sitting on the beach again It's the last beach that we're going to go to for the rest of this trip So we decided that we'd indulge and we got ourselves some guinea coladas here Our first mixed drinks of the trip Okay this is a big moment It's October 29th it's Logan's birthday We have just gotten off Highway 200 the coastal highway and we are heading inland and we're going to be inland for the rest of the ride and we've just walked our bikes through the toll station because we're not allowed to be on the toll roads We're heading for Dia de los Muertos There's the billboard right there We're going to Potscuado 240 kilometers away Yeah boy! And we're going to camp right here alongside the road right next to this big cactus We've got this nice hill to block us from the highway Deadly looking gigantic wasp that will not leave my hand of ours Look how big that thing is Everybody who knows me knows that I'm a wuss around these kind of things So I don't really I don't quite know what to do here to get to get going because he won't leave I think he's sucking all the sweat off my bike We've got the Denver Broncos on our very own TV baby They just whooped Philadelphia's butt and Jeff and I have found a love shack We have a peacock on the door Jeff's in there bathing with hot water mirrors all around huge king size bed and another bed for the kitties We're going to eat some avocados That's right we're out Jeff just took a nice shower how are you feeling buddy Oh God hot water dudes that's the first time in two and a half weeks I'm happy for you haven't done it in two and a half years Dude just get ready itches your skin Hi Jeff Hi The truck and revelers Dia de los Muertos November 1st 2005 We saw the sign We saw the road sign and it said World Capital of Strawberries Look at this we just got some strawberries and cream Jeff do you like that I love strawberries and here we are World Capital of Strawberries What are we doing eating strawberries We're eating strawberries we just got one of these Fortune is the name of the game here on this ride Burn the calories and eat them up again We look pretty good we just took showers Yep we look good man Cheetos Olympics Let's see if we can do it ladies and gentlemen One Two To the top he's throwing them somewhere He's throwing them to Cheeto heaven We just spent about a half an hour eating some good chili rainos right Jeff And guess what The Cheeto Olympics are still going on Check in right now He's got good form He's stepping back Getting a good grip on the bag One, two, three Oh that's the best one yet He is the champion Cheeto thrower Okay this is a big Friday night I'm here I almost forgot to do this I went to the market today Got a little piece of meat I don't eat this meat because I'm vegetarian This meat is for bot fly We're going to see if we can tape it on my arm here One of these damn bumps And get the bot fly to come out Into the meat Because it loves the meat So we're going to give it the meat treatment tonight See what happens Give it the meat Got all those cool houses on the hill I'll get out of the way And we're floating in the sky Mariyachi Mariyachi Hello Mr. Corona how are you Family size Corona Enough beer for one We worked hard to get here Yeah we did And now we're here and we are very happy that we're here Yeah we are Hey look it's Japanese eating again We're on a fruit platter And we're hanging out at a posh restaurant here In downtown Guanajuato Guanajuato We're just kind of really absorbing it Taking it all in Bikes go faster than cars Here we are in the bike shop Getting my bike fixed once again Tonight we find ourselves In the driving We're parking In this garage Of the town mayor's office Hello friends how are you Good Where are we What's the name of this town Punta How tall Excellent Here we are Zacateca State It's turned into desert man We're going up to 2,500 kilometers or 2,500 meters Above sea level today We've already climbed a big mountain Just come back down one I think we're going to have to go back up another one Somewhere around here So we made it to Zacateca A little bit of uphill riding 2,500 meters We might actually be a little bit higher In a second We're just camping out here in Zacateca It's just normal camping out Don't mind us We're just going to throw our tents on top of your roof There's the best view of the entire city Oh yeah We'll just throw our tents up here Oh yes look where we are We're on top Of a very tall building Make sure you don't fall off the edge Yeah That's the one rule We can't get too drunk Yes because the edge is right here It's pretty big Pretty far It freaks me out to see me go near there Okay this is the tent This is Jeff That is death Here we are We are sitting on the roof Enjoying the sky And the sounds of the Churches on a nice Sunday morning Riding our bikes Riding our bikes back to Boulder We're loving it Life is good Life is beautiful Lots of avocados Looking at the clouds Watching them float on by Kind of like what we do on our bikes That's right we float on by On a cushion of air On our tires So we've gone Let's see I've gone about How far have I gone About 300 miles 2500 maybe That's pretty damn far And Jeff's gone 1200 or so Looking on the map We have lots of straight roads In front of us Very straight Heading north now we are on the road to Boulder Before we were just Dicking around in Mexico Now we're moving Yeah we're moving north mom Don't worry The heavens above Believe it or not It's the same sky as Over Boulder Same sun And it helps to actually ride your bike there Because when you get in a plane You go through this warp This time warp You get in this capsule And then you get zipped to somewhere else And you reappear And you're not even sure if you're on the same planet That you never went through any warp Because it's painstaking the whole way Yeah we don't go warp speed on the bikes No there's zero warp Maybe I've gone warp speed once Can you warp somewhere? I've gone warp speed once Going down a big mountain Mexico That's right baby This is no ordinary gas station It is also a zoo We have peacocks running around here Look at the wild peacock He walks behind the bush Trying to get away from the evil mapkin Hello little buddy Show the public how you do this here First we like to take our gloves off Yeah And you slather a little bit And get a good amount on there Sometimes This is the front way Today we've been riding Forever This is the never ending day It's already five o'clock And we don't know where we're going to end up We're looking for a city called Cuenca May We think it exists We hope that it exists We're really really hungry Our legs are a little bit tired But man it is beautiful Out here in the desert The Surrey Hi Jeff I had some good dreams But about one o'clock in the desert I had some good dreams But about one o'clock in the desert I had some good dreams But about one o'clock in the morning Maybe twelve o'clock at night These damn roosters started up And I spent the next five hours Just wishing I had a shot So I could go murder them all Oh Jeff Quakers don't talk like that Talks for fighting And run a hotel at the same time You would think that your guests Would complain about all the roosters Only Americans complain Mexicans love noise Why'd you wake my friend Jeff up? Hmm? Why'd you wake Jeff up? And what's the name of your hotel? Hotel Cuenca May Hotel Cuenca May in Durango, Mexico I got those vitamins Oh yeah?  Yeah this is the devil Now we do this So they can stand up When they fall down It's got your best one This one has been going in three times And how much money can you make doing this? It depends on You spend a lot of money on it Yeah? It's heavy Sport Yeah?  We won at 60,000 pesos on derby Really?  It's pretty even It goes like this And then it is ready To fight It goes around here Are there rules on these? How long they can be And how sharp they can be There is a scale Where it has three points You cannot pass that You agree with the other guy One line or two lines Or higher It all depends who you agree with You think the roosters know That they have this killer weapon Oh yeah, they know it This is the Grand Derby And that's in Toronto Absolutely I brought this soap all the way from Honduras It's good Honduran soap Is that the only thing you're carrying That really is from Honduras? The only thing I have left from Honduras Is this soap It's going to last you though It's going to last you pretty good Stinky, sweaty socks Be gone With six scorpions on it I don't know So here we are another day Another can of beans Let's see Today we got the good can It's the La Sierra 35% more For the same price We've got our avocados over here We've got some tomatoes It's November 17th And we're leaving Cuenque Oh it's a sad day Say goodbye to such a nice little town We thought we were going to stay one night But we stayed two Hey look It's Jeff So on this year bike trip we've had plenty of time to think Because we have lots of alone time Out in the middle of nowhere And it's fun to be able to think about All childhood memories Think about our parents and grandparents And it's really We're pretty lucky to be able to do this Reminisce about all the good things about life And also get excited about the things that are In front of us We're going to keep on making good memories there Jeff, we are That's the plan We're only 27, 26 years old I figure we've got a lot of life Out ahead of us And if it's anywhere as good As life's been so far We're going to be old men With really happy memories In the desert There is no water Except for right here It's holy water That's right, it's holy water In that case Can you splash a little bit on my helmet? We're going to put some holy water on the bot flies Holy water on the bot flies Thanks man It's either going to infect them severely Or get rid of them We've been riding for a couple thousand miles Our legs are doing great Our arms are getting a little weak I'm going to show you how to do Some arm exercises while riding the bike Oh yeah One and two and three and four And you get your arms built up Lickety-splickety And it's good for the pectorals too It's real good for the pectorals Today is the first day We've been messed with On the toll roads Up until now we've got everywhere we've ever wanted to go On these toll roads But today Two times we got stopped and denied From getting on the toll roads So we did something about it Jeff, show the public what we've done This is what we've done about it See, if you look at this It's nice, it's laminated What Mexicans want Is an official document And that's what we made This is official It has the Mexican flag The American flag The mission security force Pulled all these good things off the internet Thank God for internet Pictures of us riding together As you will see us when we're coming into the cassette It says cruising Crossing the Republican bike Jeff Giffen, Ryan Van Duzer Approved by the American and Mexican embassy Oh yeah Please do not charge them on the highways They are raising money for Orphans It's not totally a lie Ryan is selling some shirts I'm raising money He's going to contribute all the money to his kids They may not be Orphans But they are kids They're poor And we are giving them some money So this is not totally a lie No, not at all The whole approved by the embassy thing Yeah, that's a lie It was quiet out here What happened? Jeff, are you peeing again? The desolate road The desolate part of the country All I can hear is the sound of my flags Nobody We've been passed by like five cars And we've been riding for half an hour We were staying tonight Friday This town is not even on the map Or didn't have a sign for this town It's called Las Marías Hey little puppy Hey little puppy Hey buddy, how you doing? How you doing puppy? How are you? Fine Thanks a lot for the food And all of you are great people I know This is really Really quite amazing What we're doing here We get a little uncomfortable every now and then We get a little tired We get a little cranky But overall baby This is quite amazing We're loving it, right Jeff? Another day On the lonely road Hey adios This is a big moment here Bienvenidos a Chihuahua The big state This is our last Mexican state To the normal person, that is a gas station sign But to me It means cookies All I see are cookies When I see that sign Cookies All these donuts look so good We got them all day long This is our favorite right here at La Sierra We're always eating this All the way from Oaxaca North This is the brand we choose Our favorite La Sierra beans, this is what we live on About two cans of these a day baby And about a hundred farts too Yeah, we get a little party after this Muchos pedos This is good, this is a good bean So if you guys ever come to Mexico Get La Sierra beans I weigh down Mountains of Chihuahua We are on the side of the road 50 kilometers away from Chihuahua I left Esperanza Over two months ago And today I get my first flat tire Whammy That's pretty amazing that it's gone this far That's actually a flatty not a whammy Yeah, that's a flatty right there We made it to Chihuahua Chihuahua Chihuahua Chihuahua A few months ago I got my haircut And it's really long right here And just shaggy and I don't like it So we're going to go in here In Chihuahua Get my haircut so I look nice For Thanksgiving which is tomorrow Look at that nice tan line On the side of Ryan's face Isn't that sexy? I think she's doing a bang up job Chooser flirting with the barber That's right It's Thanksgiving And look what we did We got two big beers Happy Thanksgiving to you We got a TV We're going to watch some football later We got two big pizzas Yummy And we got one of these Kaguama In honor of Thanksgiving I haven't had a beer in a long time So I'm on antibiotics right now As well So hey cheers to Thanksgiving We love life We're thankful for life We're thankful for all the good things that have come our way And will come our way And many many more This is the big morning This is the biggest shopping day of the year Friday the day after Thanksgiving And I just had a solid poop I just wanted to share that with everybody Out there It's more like soft serve ice cream You can check it out right there I've had diarrhea for far too long Every morning I've been waking up And exploding POOP POOM Barrier Hopefully we're going in the right direction This is a new acquisition here This is a wool hat Cause it's cold up here in the north It's Sunday And it's windy We're going to see how this This wind effects us out here on the desert We woke up and it was Just all rowdy windy All around us here in Chihuahua We've been here for four days This is the first windy day Looks like the wind has caused an accident And there's a giant backup When I see stuff like this It makes me Want to ride extra careful Because Accidents do happen We've seen about 15 police cars Tons of ambulances It's got to be something big up here It's so windy that we're riding On this dirt road here On the highway We keep getting blown off the highway It's just not very safe This is just not very fun Right now Okay Today is the first day And the elements Have beat us We cannot go any further This wind is way too strong It's kicking up sand and dust We can't even stay on the road We're getting dirt in our teeth Dirt in our eyes The sand is whipping against our arms So we made a whopping 40 kilometers Today we were hoping to go at 120 Luckily We found a nice farm to stay at These guys are cold, they're going to let us camp out back This is where we're going to sleep Right here We've got some other protection here How are you feeling Jeff? I'm good Alright Just glad that we're going to have a nice place To set up our tents Out of the wind a little bit It is now Monday morning And it's a totally different world Let's see what way the wind is blowing today Oh, there's no wind at all I think we're going to be cruising today Look at my flags Not even blowing It is wonderful So here I am In a town on the map It's called El Sueco Which means the Swede How fitting I wouldn't call it a town It's more of a gas station And a restaurant But this is where we are They're going to let us stay in their room with them Because it is freezing cold and windy They're letting me make my own burrito Another burrito Another burrito I'm just going to slap that on there Okay, so it's the next morning Diego, thanks for letting us stay At your Sueco You're the best man in the world You guys come whenever Thank you The morning light on our way to Juarez Hey look, it's Jeff taking a photo Hi Jeff taking a photo How you doing? You look bundled up man, what's the deal? It's just a little bit cold It's great light You look good, you look real nice This is our last little glimpse of Mexico We're going to have about 4 hours of it But it's going to be over soon And then New Mexico is going to look totally different I'm sure Yeah Here we are in the desert outside of Juarez Eating our last meal Jeff, what are you eating there? Wow, that's pretty good The sand dunes outside Juarez I was told this is where they filmed Conan Jeff, we have about 15 kilometers left in Mexico What do you think? Oh, I think the Mexico has been Excellent so far And this gives us only 15 more kilometers To protect Mexico There's only 15 more kilometers To potentially get hit by a Jesus loving bus driver Yeah If that does not happen Then lock on some metal That has been one heck of a good trip through Mexico That's right baby, here we go I'm going to go change in these pesos For some American dollars It's time to go home So I just turned in that money And I got myself 20, 40, 51 Dollars in two cents Wow, that's more money I'm so excited Let's go cross the border Mexico You're going to miss the fruit, Ryan I'm going to miss those fruit guys Adios amigos Adios Adios Adios Alright, now we're on the street Where does this street go, Ryan? We are going to El Paso, Texas You can see it straight ahead There we are Taking the bridge There's the Rio Grande baby Adios amigos There's El Paso There's Mexico So this sucker just got me into the states No problem, the guy barely even looked at it He said, how long have you been traveling? And I said two months, he says, holy shit A nice big black guy, he said we couldn't film So I'm trying to reenact what he just said He was so cool, he was so chill Welcome back to America, he said Alright, I've been waiting a long time for this moment Two months It's time to put the American flag on the flagpole We've got Honduras We've got Guatemala We've got Belize We've got Mexico America, America I'm back This is pretty exciting We have Simpsons back in English Homer speaking The language he's supposed to speak Not dubbed into Spanish So Jeff and I did a lot of shopping today We just rode our bikes all around El Paso And we got some great stuff Like check out these Nice long tights baby Those are just sexy Sexy And then I got something even more sexy Look at this sweatshirt I found this one in the hunting section Ryan has a Don't Hit Me sweatshirt now It's a Don't Hit Me sweatshirt It couldn't be any more orange, any more fluorescent This goes outside all the everything else So everybody sees me Then I went to a sporting goods store Got a little sleeping bag It's polar fleece baby Also socks And then I got some stretchy gloves to stay warm Then I got some wool socks And I got these nice red pants At a Goodwill And I got this new army shirt Also $2 Ryan just exploded the second one I just Ladies and gentlemen On the wall, it's like stuck on the wall There we have the blot fly I think it's the dead blot fly Ooh, grody That just flew out of my arm It went everywhere Wow We rode by this place And it said $4 all you can eat pizza So here we are, tons of video games Plate full of pizza We're pretty psyched All you can eat baby, yeah Oh, it is beautiful ladies and gentlemen If only every Saturday morning Could be like this You're gonna stop It's not windy enough for you Ah, there you go Keep going Bye Jeff And crowned by good Brotherhood It doesn't get any more America than this American flag and cotton fields Here we have Jeff In thermal hot springs here And truth or consequences New Mexico, Jeff, how's the water? It's getting warmer and warmer To the point where I can't even sit in it For a little while We've been looking for hot springs Ever since Aguascalientes In Mexico And now we find they got some Inside my tent here In truth or consequences Camped out right next to the Rio Grande There's Jeff all hidden in his bamboo forest That's right man Wake up Jefferey The sun's getting very low on the horizon It's been windy Windy windy and cold Cold Since noon and We're pretty tired This is one of the more tough Days we've had Definitely the coldest day A biting cold That just rips at us all day long And here we are On I-25 Who would have thought that we'd be riding our bikes On I-25 What does the I stand for? Interstate Usually you can't ride on those But here you can We love New Mexico But back behind that the colder air is going to push on in And we actually have a chance for A step colder than what we've seen so far Alright so it's Pretty damn cold out here We've got a wind chill of less than 10 degrees And it's about 20 degrees Total we're here in Socorro Albuquerque heading to Albuquerque No we're in Socorro New Mexico heading to Albuquerque And we're pretty excited We had a nice warm hotel room We slept well we had a good big buffet breakfast So we're ready to rock and roll Today was the first day I mentioned to Jeff that This isn't very fun This is not fun But is it fun now?  Okay well let's see we're starting on the feet We've got the We've got wool socks We've got biking shoes We've got these nice new warm neoprene booties And we've got the neck warm right here This is going to keep my nose warm When we're riding How you feeling Nikolai are you excited about calling with us today?  I think you guys are nuts though I'm going to go back in the warm house And cuddle under a blanket Oh that sounds good But it's a beautiful day It is a beautiful day sunny Albuquerque day We still have all of our digits That's right how you feeling? I feel cold but I feel good I'm frozen But you know what? I'd rather drink frozen water than be a worker That's right Wave to the camera Jeff Oh that's nice Hello My name is Ryan I've been riding my bike for a long time And tomorrow we ride Into Colorado I've been looking forward to going back to Colorado for a long time now I think I'm ready I think it was a good decision to ride my bike home I would not have been able to make the transition From any Peace Corps Going straight back into Colorado So it was good two months to Clear my mind and ride my bike And have a good time Oh yeah Welcome to colorful Colorado Wow The Rocky Mountains Oh man You know we're in Colorado now So there we go Ryan baby Welcome home Jeff and Ryan Oh yes it feels good Snowy Colorado We're about 30 miles outside of Pueblo Here we are In the front range We just came over a hill And there's downtown Denver Right down now It's an amazing feeling We can actually feel Boulder There's Red Rocks We've been fighting head on Freezing cold winds for about I don't know how long it seems like forever But today has been The most brutal Real day so far I've been listening to some Metallica Getting pumped up Getting pumped up for the last Day of riding in Boulder Pretty excited We got Jeff We got Ben Boyer from Boulder High School And we've got Ethan Van Duzer from Colorado joining us today On our last ride We're ecstatic We're happy And so what made you want to come on this ride This morning The Duzer inspiration Jeff and Duzer They're my heroes I want to be there to lead them in Pull them that last leg Sweet thank you my friend And Ethan you had to wake up Extra early to be here this morning I just had to be here I couldn't miss it And it's worth getting up for Alright Even the cold Here we have Coming up the hill We got Jeff and we got Ethan Oh yeah We knew we were following the right road the whole time So Jeff You're about 12 miles out of Boulder How do you feel Oh my god I'm just thinking about All the wonderful relaxing I'm gonna do I'm gonna get home and all the friends And the socializing And basically I'm just really looking forward To doing nothing for a couple weeks Yeah that sounds good Who would have thought That I would make it all the way to Boulder From Esperanza Good to see you Good to see you We are about To get our first glimpse of Boulder Our Boulder All the most important Are you doing Santa Claus I'm out here with such a good boy He's been out doing good things all year long It's better than riding your bike Who would have thought that I'd actually make it this far Wow It feels pretty amazing 30 seconds away from my house Take one left turn Boom To Boulder Famous last words And you know what I did right when I walked Into my mom's house I did something that I had been dreaming About doing For over two years I took a hot bath And it felt so good And yes Well now what do I do is this This is what I do I create videos I share my adventure stories To challenge yourselves And I am so incredibly Grateful for that experience Riding home from Honduras to Boulder I think back on those memories All the time And all the lessons I learned And the wonderful people I met And I use a lot of that in my everyday life And my adventures that I go on today That adventure kicked Off everything And if you're curious If I've been back to see my kids in Honduras I've been back four times Since I left in 2005 And the kids are no longer kids They are young adults And they are all doing really Really well And with Facebook and email today I still stay in touch with them And they send me photos It's wonderful that we're still connected Because those two years in Honduras Were really impactful years On my life So I really hope you enjoyed This film It was a blast to put together And finally share it with you And stay tuned for more One of these days I'll be able to head out there again Once this pandemic stuff settles down And travel opens up a little bit more freely And I promise Maybe I'll shoot it in HD this time Or even 4K No more of this 4, 3 little box stuff That is history Thanks for watching this video Thanks for watching all of my videos Best my channel is Nothing Without You And I wish I could give you all a big abrazo And yeah Stay tuned for more And don't forget Get off that couch