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Greetings friends and welcome to Afghanistan's most dangerous road where today we are braving a lot of risks,
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Taliban checkpoints, these mountain roads in order to find the white tribe, the lost white tribe of Afghanistan.
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I'm going to go find my cousin in the mountains.
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It's one of the most remote villages in the entire country.
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Yallah Habibi.
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I'm going to Jalalabad today and then we'll go to Padawan in the mountains to meet the white Afghanis.
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White Afghanis?
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Yes, you know the white Afghanis?
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They look like me.
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Hey, bro, what's up?
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What's up?
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What's up?
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What's up?
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Hey, bro.
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Oh my God.
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You look just like, you're the same person.
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Is it your twin?
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No, no twin.
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What?
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You guys look exactly alike.
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It's photocopy.
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Photocopy.
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Photocopy.
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My father is a copy paste.
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Stop doing it.
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You're a good driver?
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You safe?
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Yes, it's a good pair.
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I'm sorry.
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Not hard driver.
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Oh, we have seat belts in this car.
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Oh!
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You don't have a seat belt?
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You don't know what a seat belt is?
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No, no. Three hours?
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Four hours to Jalalabad?
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No, no. Five hours.
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Oh yeah.
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It's so sad.
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Water drink.
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Water drink.
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How are ya?
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Hey, let's get some.
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Oh, I got change.
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Damn, how much was that?
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For four waters it was less than a dollar.
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Less than 50 cents.
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Oh no, it's like a four year old girl washing cars.
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Oh my gosh, ah, it's so sad.
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No, sorry.
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No, thank you.
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Oh, that's so sad.
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It's heartbreaking.
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You just can't.
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No, I'm sorry.
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No, I'm sorry.
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You can't give kids money.
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You can't even see her in front of the car.
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Yeah, you really shouldn't give kids money, man.
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They're not going to go to school.
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Even here, the girls can't go to school once they turn 12.
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So, she's what, 4 years old?
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She's only got 8, maybe at best eight years of education left in her life
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and so you can't disincentivize her parents from sending her out to beg.
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It's really sad.
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So right now we're actually on our way to get a suitcase and then we're re -upping on some September 11th rugs.
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They have a cousin in town here.
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We have September 11 rugs, we have an American flag, we have some nice antique
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Afghan Handmade rags and I'm going to fill the suitcase with as many
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Rugs as I can afford
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This is the best giveaway we've ever done.
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and a bunch of other cool stuff
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So now hi brother.
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How are you?
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How are you really?
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Pretty sure that's the Taliban
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You can't really tell the difference other than they wear like the big headscarves and they're usually like in American cars
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Wow you're so white we have the brothers right you're very white I believe you had my papeler.
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Oh, you get young Taliban uniforms.
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Yo dudes, the Empire's pretty chill.
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Maybe you could like join it or something.
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NYC style.
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With a backwards nine, and obviously the leaning tower of Pisa, and the Roman Colosseum.
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That's the New York style that I know.
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this is how I will smuggle the 9 -11 merch across the border
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I can't imagine US customs is going to be thrilled
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when they see the twin towers falling we're becoming mules in Afghanistan all right
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we're off to smuggle some 9 -11 merch across the border I love you, I love you.
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I love how lippy he gets with...
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Hard driver!
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The traffic cop was slapping the cars.
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Traffic officer.
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You can see where the back of the car, the bumper, the paint has come out because the traffic cop slaps every car that drives by.
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Why does he hit the car?
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Don't stay here
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He just let out the air on that guy's tire
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Bro that guy's driving on a flat tire right now.
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He just let the air out of his tire.
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What the fuck?
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I gotta check in on this
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whoa it's totally flat it's totally flat what happened what happened what the the cop is slapping people's windshields
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and bumpers and trunks and letting the air out of People's tires?
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What the f*, dude?
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Kabul is full of kharn.
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Dumbass.
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Dumbass.
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Alright, so my friends just informed me that the carpet shop is closed today,
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so we're gonna go have to find a 9 -11 carpet shop in the most remote Afghanistan.
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I think it'll be a fun challenge.
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so i think this is like a big crane market where they sell american cranes
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that we left because you know we built billions of dollars of infrastructure here we built roads
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and bridges and schools and uh i guess we just left all these in 2021
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when we abandoned the country these are from america yeah yeah maybe maybe
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we don't really know we just make stuff up here it's small brand american
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and then one of those american work trucks has a taliban flag on it Damn, dude.
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We spent so much money here, bro.
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And for what?
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The Taliban won.
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Look, there's more.
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Oh, baby.
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I'm smoking.
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I'm smoking.
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Why?
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No smoking.
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Why?
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I want to smoke.
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Every sex is in your job.
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Every sex is in your job, yes.
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Every sex is in the job?
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In your job.
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Every sex is in the job?
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Every sex is in your job.
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Smoking, smoking!
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Yes, smoking!
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Yes, smoking!
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Yes, smoking!
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Hey, brother!
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What's up dude?
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Hi For the gas?
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No brother, sorry I'm so sad, I can't Give him one of the kids
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No brother, no no no
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Do these children, do they go to school?
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No They don't go to school?
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Why not?
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They're homeless They what?
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They're homeless?
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They're homeless Okay, I'll give you something, alright For both of you, here Why are they homeless?
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Why are they homeless?
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The Taliban killed their fathers I already gave you some dude
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I already gave you some.
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I already gave you some.
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Come on.
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Please, please.
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Sorry bro, I'm sorry.
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Oh, it's heartbreaking.
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So you said the price of gas is very expensive now?
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Yes, in Afghanistan, very very expensive.
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$2 .00 to...
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$15 .00.
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Oh, we have a Taliban checkpoint.
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I'm getting used to it now.
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So it's $2 .00 for one liter?
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$2 .15.
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So that means it's around...
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Uh, fuck.
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Yeah, around $7 .50 a gallon, which is way more than we pay in America.
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That's like California prices.
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It's crazy.
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Like, this war affects so many more people than just in America and Iran.
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It's the poor people in Afghanistan that can't afford fuel.
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That's why it costs like $100 to fill up the tank at this SUV.
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Hello, how are you?
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Dutch Express?
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German, German.
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It comes from Germany.
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You are German?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Why does he speak German?
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He lives in Germany.
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14 years living.
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Oh, Mashallah brother.
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Was it good?
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He says this face is Nuristani.
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Yes!
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Come my child, return to Agartha!
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Yes!
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Yes!
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I'm going to meet my brethren, my white brethren.
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Oh f*!
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I didn't trip you!
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You're too clumsy.
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Hard walker, hard walker.
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huh?
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bruh it's a Russian tank oh it's a Russian tank yeah,
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Russian tank one of Afghan's other nemeses that they defeated and the Taliban flag is proudly waving
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to remind you of exactly who was in charge of this country yeah, you wanna get on it? yeah this thing is a beast,
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bro oh my god oh we're on a russian tank in afghanistan there's a there's a careful brother careful bro
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hello american guys
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okay we're not supposed to film
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but behind me is an old american military military base that's obviously been repurposed for the Taliban Apparently,
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Afghanistan still does have issues with insurgencies I think there are some
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Isis skirmishes in the remote mountain regions
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Which is exactly where we're going and we're also going to the border with
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Pakistan and they're bombing each other right now but It's fine so far.
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It's beautiful Ah, hard driver is back.
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Hard driver.
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Professional driver.
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What?
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Whoa.
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So that's like a PSA to drive safely.
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It's a strong reminder.
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That was hard driver.
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You be good driver.
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Not donkey.
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Where did it hurt when you screamed?
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I got fucked, I guess.
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My ass.
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Yes, this in my ass.
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Oh, shit.
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There's the other guy.
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A lot of head -on collisions here.
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As you guys know, I've done some questionable things in my travels.
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Do women die?
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You don't have a seatbelt?
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You don't know what a seatbelt is?
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The reality is accidents happen all the time.
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If you're ever hurt or in an accident, your case could be worth millions.
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There's a reason you don't want me representing you in court.
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I'm a dumbass.
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Just like there's a reason
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Morgan & Morgan is America's largest injury firm.
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They are not dumbasses.
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They have a history of winning with over 35 billion dollars recovered for their clients.
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That's a lot of money, right?
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35 billion?
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Hiring Morgan & Morgan is like hiring an army to go into battle.
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They have over a thousand lawyers and 100 offices nationwide.
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I'm not saying size matters, but it doesn't not matter.
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If you're injured by someone else's negligence, you deserve to be paid.
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I know a large portion of my audience consists of man babies that don't understand the nuances of the legal system.
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So all the more reason you can trust the professionals over at Morgan & Morgan if you get injured.
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That sound good?
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I speak English.
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I don't speak English.
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Yeah, me too.
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And the best part is their fee is free unless they win.
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So they only get paid if you get paid.
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So if your car gets totaled, you get hurt at work, or somebody else's bad decision becomes your very expensive problem, You can check out
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Morgan and Morgan to see
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if you have a claim you can go to for the people comm slash SBA
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Which can also be found in the description for the people comm slash SBA Yeah,
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I think these kids are collecting trash
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And then getting paid for it or something so every few miles see these like trash boys
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They look really dirty probably like six seven years old
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Just picking up trash.
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It's very very sad
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Alright, we just made it to Jalalabad.
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About halfway done with the journey for today.
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Alright, the traffic is so bad.
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We're just gonna log.
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It's so f*ing hot in the car.
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It's like 90 something degrees out.
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We're really close to Pakistan.
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I guess people speak what I do here.
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Pakistani language.
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Alright, yeah.
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It's hot.
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We got the Taliban behind us.
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Are you fine?
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I'm okay.
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How are you?
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I'm so happy.
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You're happy to see me?
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Yes.
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I'm happy to see you brother.
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Afghanistan is treating me well.
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It's a beautiful country.
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Yeah.
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This town is a little crazy, but I like Afghanistan.
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Coming with me.
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Yeah, sure we have time, right?
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Angel.
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Full start.
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Damn, dude.
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I wish we had more time.
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Sorry, I'm a little speechless.
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I'm out of my depth area.
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This is completely different from Kabul and Mazar -e -Sherif.
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It's very very different.
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It's like Pakistan or India.
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It's really brutal.
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Assalamu alaykum.
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How are you?
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What are you doing?
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Oh no camera, okay, sorry.
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Okay, sorry, sorry.
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America.
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America, what is your name?
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My name is Connor.
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Connor.
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Do you like a cancer?
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Yes, I love it. Of course.
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Alright.
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So it's like India, it's like the extremist forms.
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Not the other extremists.
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The forms of India and Pakistan mixed with the other kind of extremism.
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I'm sorry, it's so f*ing hard to think here.
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Oh my god.
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That's intense.
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This town is insane.
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This town is absolutely insane.
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It's too much, bro.
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It's...
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It's like f*ing India levels of intensity with the Taliban walking around with Kalashnikovs.
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Alright, we just got to a pretty lengthy Taliban checkpoint.
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They took my passport, told me to stay in the car.
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What do you mean?
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What do you mean?
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I'm going to go to school and I'm going to go.
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Oh you got my passport?
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Sweet!
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We're not detained
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We are free For the time being
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It's another checkpoint
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Very tight security
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Alright we made it to um Asadabad No brother no please please let me take it
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Let me take it
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No no no no
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Come on no problem
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Okay okay okay
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You did not bring a bag?
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This is your bag?
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This is my bag I don't understand.
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These guys are - we're going on like a five -day road trip, but nobody packed a bag except me.
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I guess I'm the Western princess that needs toothpaste.
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Alright.
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Let's read home.
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Okay.
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Shower?
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No problem.
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They have a shower?
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Bucket shower?
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Bucket shower?
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That's okay.
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That's fine.
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Chai.
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Chai.
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They got the Instagram swings in Afghanistan.
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A girl driving in Kabul?
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Haram!
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Can women drive in Afghan?
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Yes.
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Really?
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Yes.
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Oh, it's not Haram?
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Yes, they have license.
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Oh.
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I love Afghanistan culture.
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Islam is so much love.
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Yes, yes, of course.
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No problems at all.
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Yes.
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American...
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Was that Taliban?
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Yes, it is commander of Taliban.
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So the hostile security called the Taliban command?
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Yes, yes, yes.
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He's general of Taliban.
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Not a police.
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General of Taliban.
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F, dude.
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I thought the day was over.
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Did the outro and everything and a f*in Taliban commander comes to check on me.
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Off to Parun.
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We're asking for directions again.
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Yeah, none of us have data.
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We're so high up in the mountains.
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By the way, Google Maps doesn't even work here
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because Google Maps relies on paved roads and there's no paved roads where we're going.
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We're having some car trouble so the first stop of the day is at the Mechanic.
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So I think Perun is only 30 miles away.
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But it's probably going to take about 9 hours to get there.
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So if my math is right, that means we would be go, the average speed would be 3 miles an hour to get 30 miles,
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which is absolutely preposterous.
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We're going to be stopping all day.
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It's going to be a hell of a long day.
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So why don't we just start it with a little bit of a detail.
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Let's fuck around and find out here.
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Let's see if anybody invites us in for chai.
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America.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I like Afghanistan, man.
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Yeah, let's get some chai.
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Yeah, sure.
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A river forming in the street.
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This is my job.
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Mechanic.
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Yes.
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Hi, how are you?
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I'm fine, Robert.
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Yes, brother.
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What's your name?
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America.
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Yes, Buc -ee's.
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My home.
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Oh, thank you.
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A little fake Red Bull.
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American guys.
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American guys.
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Yes, American guys.
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My brother, my brother.
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Beautiful people in Afghanistan.
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Beautiful people, inside and out.
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The ethnic makeup of Afghanistan is crazy.
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We have this guy over here with the blue eyes and light skin, and this guy is like, he looks like a Moroccan.
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Okay guys, we have to go to Padun.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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All right, we're headed off the main road right now.
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It's going to get bumpy the next nine hours.
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They just stopped by the Taliban and just pulled us over.
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There's a couple guys, one with an AK.
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We have to go back the way we came, go through the checkpoint.
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I guess we missed it.
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They tracked us down.
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All right, they just took my camera.
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He said the woman's checkpoint is not recorded.
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Oh, I didn't.
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I'm okay.
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I did not.
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Oh, yeah, I didn't.
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Okay.
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Can I have my camera back?
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It's a YouTuber's worst nightmare.
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I'd rather be kidnapped than lose the camera yeah
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what no you're joking oh my god jesus christ give me the camera oh my god you asshole oh my god
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You...
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You...
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Very dangerous problem for me.
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Okay.
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No problem.
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I'm sorry.
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No, no. I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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You can imagine my fear, especially knowing that there is an American tourist who is in Taliban prison right now.
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He's been locked up for two years, but these checkpoints, you never know where they are
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or not some of them are kind of hidden away some of them just look like abandoned shops
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but they've like posted up in there the taliban
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so i don't know i don't really know what to think but i am frightened my heart brother man
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What are they saying?
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Hello, hello.
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How are you?
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Are they repairing the road after the flood?
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Yeah, yeah, okay.
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At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 remain missing after devastating flash floods swept through Afghanistan's northeastern Nuristan.
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Hello children.
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The UNICEF backpack, can I see?
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Oh, UNICEF.
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UNICEF.
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Oh, UNICEF, good.
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Wow, so the UNICEF funding made it all the way to the remote villages of Afghanistan.
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UNICEF is very helping for my pupils, for schools, for homeless men, for homeless women also.
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Go study hard guys.
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Do something big with your lives, okay?
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It's only up from here, alright?
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It's only up from here.
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I wish there was something more I could do for the kids here, the homeless kids and the...
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The girls who can't go to school.
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I'm going to look into it.
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And if there's a way that I can set up a fundraiser to donate to girls' schools, I'm going to leave it down in the description.
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If you're seeing this, I figured it out.
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And I won't get in trouble for it.
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And you can go help kids get access to school here in Afghanistan.
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Links in the description, okay?
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it's clinic labratra this is a clinic yeah labratra oh for like
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Like a hospital?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Pharmacy.
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Yeah, sure.
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Can I take a photo?
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Camera?
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How are you?
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I'm good.
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You speak English.
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Yeah.
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Where are you from?
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America.
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America.
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Oh, yeah.
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He's a doctor.
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You're a doctor here.
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Yeah.
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What is the main problem with people in the hospital here?
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Kidney.
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Kidney disease.
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Kidney disease.
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Kidney disease.
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Yeah.
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Coffee.
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Chai.
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Yeah, sure.
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Let's get some chai.
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Let's get some coffee.
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Yeah.
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Thanks, bro.
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What's your name?
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My name is Ataram.
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And your name?
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Ataram. And your?
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Connor.
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Connor.
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Ataram.
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We're going deep.
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Here's my female staff.
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Your female staff.
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So are there female staff inside now?
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Yeah.
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They're in there.
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No camera.
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No camera.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Sorry.
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So you work separate, man and woman.
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Separate.
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Yeah, separate.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And this is the hospital room?
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Yeah, laboratory.
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Okay.
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Old computer.
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Computer, take this n* clothes off.
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Oh, thank you, brother.
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Thank you so much, brother.
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Main problem in this area, money problem.
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Money problem.
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Money problem.
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Do the children go to school here?
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Yeah.
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Here.
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Oh, there's the school.
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A little dangerous, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh my god, it's scary bro.
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It's scary.
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What does that mean?
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Not speak English.
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You can see, this looks like a landslide.
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What do you guys think?
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Hey bro, stay in school.
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Oh my god.
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Oh my god.
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Brother, what the f*?
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So we're getting really high up in the mountains.
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Very remote and I just saw this sign.
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The UNICEF, European Union, Organization of Human Welfare,
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UNICEF School Child Protection support the most vulnerable children and their families through the provision of integrated,
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age -appropriate, and gender transformative child protection interventions in Kunar.
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So I guess it's like a school here where they're trying to protect the kids.
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Oh, we can go in the school?
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Yeah.
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Salaam, salaam.
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Salaam, salaam.
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Salaam.
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Salaam.
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Salaam.
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Salaam.
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Salaam.
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Salaam.
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A free hospital?
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Yeah.
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Oh, there we go.
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It was given by Germany.
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I guess Germany is funding this hospital in Afghanistan.
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That's really nice.
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Okay, 2020.
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December 31st, 2020.
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So right before the U .S withdrew.
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I wonder if they're still getting funding for this kind of hospital.
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This is open?
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Yeah.
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I can take pictures?
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No. Oh, you have to show your permit.
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I guess you have to show his permit.
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I don't know.
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You know what, I'm gonna leave a link in the description to donate to UNICEF
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because it seems like they're doing good stuff here.
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Sorry, it's heartbreaking.
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Seems like they're helping people here.
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So I'm gonna leave a link in the description to donate.
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Yes, okay.
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Yes I'm gonna leave a link in the description to donate Because I just
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Just don't know what to do this there's so much innocent human suffering.
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People that didn't ask to be born here.
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People that can't go to school.
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People that can't get the medicine they need. So, please.
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Donate.
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I'm gonna give a thousand bucks.
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Give what you can.
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The saddest part is people are just used to this.
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This is their reality.
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The guys I'm with, they're not.
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They don't bat an eyelash at any of the stuff we're seeing.
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This is just their home.
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They live here.
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They've lived here for their whole lives.
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And I'm only here for eight or nine days.
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They've been here decades.
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And there's just weather to it.
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It's like a callus that builds up over time.
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And me, I guess, I just have it so well off in my country.
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We're so safe and it's clean and people have health care for the most part.
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and I don't know man just feeling shaken up
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Taliban flags all over this one I'm not sure what it is probably
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Taliban hey bud hey you stay in school okay study hard hey brother yeah I'm from Georgia America Yes, you ever been to Buc -ee's?
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Texas, Arizona, New York You are my father I am your father
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You are my brother
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Oh my father
622
Makes you kinda weird incest situation going on His father lives in Texas Oh, his father lives in Texas Oh, why don't you live in Texas?
623
Why not?
624
Come on, come on Salaam Alekou Hey guys, how you doing Taliban?
625
Asalaam, hey This might be the last you guys hear of me.
626
Oh, a little Koloshnikov.
627
How are you, sir?
628
How are you, sir? From America.
629
How are you?
630
How are you? Can I see inside?
631
No, no, oh yeah, probably for the best.
632
Thank you.
633
Thank you.
634
Okay guys, stay in school, seriously.
635
Learn how to work a computer.
636
Don't work hard labor.
637
See you guys.
638
So no matter how remote you get in Afghanistan, there's always going to be the Taliban checkpoints.
639
Very bizarre situation.
640
But we are getting gas right now, guys.
641
Can you believe there's gas in here?
642
I'm surprised there's gas here.
643
Afghanistan is one of the most shocking,
644
bewildering, heartbreaking, exciting, fun place I've ever traveled.
645
So it looks like he's pumping it with a generator.
646
He pumps it from there and it's a generator that brings it all the way to the rear of the car.
647
And for some reason in Afghanistan it's at the very bottom.
648
And then it looks like it goes into this gas thing.
649
This is gas.
650
There it is.
651
So it goes from these tanks through the pump through the back of the car somehow through here.
652
Oh and here's the gauge.
653
And gas is very expensive right now thanks to my country waging a war in the Middle East.
654
Once again it's probably going to be about $100 or like $50, $60.
655
Actually, I'm not sure if we're gonna fill it out, but each gas stop I've been giving him $100 so
656
Yeah, the war affects everybody all around the world
657
Thank you brother.
658
Thank you brother.
659
I'm seeing a lot of these signs UN migration Afghanistan humanitarian fund
660
It looks like that's the UN.
661
Yeah, UN.
662
Okay, so Afghanistan is getting a good bit of help.
663
I'm really hoping that they're still getting help with the current situation.
664
Hey buddy, you in school?
665
Hello.
666
How are you?
667
Asalaam.
668
I'm not scared.
669
I'm not scary.
670
Hey brother.
671
Hey, hey, hey.
672
What's up?
673
Bro, look at where we are.
674
Does this look like Afghanistan to you?
675
Zindabad, Afghanistan.
676
Off to school children.
677
You go study now.
678
Study your computer programming so one day you can live in Sweden or something.
679
He said he's too tired to drive so I'm driving now.
680
I don't know how this is gonna go.
681
We're asking for instructions.
682
It's pretty scary.
683
The brakes are not the best.
684
I should probably buckle up.
685
Yeah, let's buckle up.
686
Make the mother happy.
687
Hello.
688
It's a UN well.
689
Yes, I am driving and smoking and vlogging all at once.
690
It's probably not the best idea, but I am very nervous.
691
I need to smoke.
692
Thank God.
693
There's a freaking landslide, so I can't keep driving.
694
I'm about to have a freaking heart attack.
695
Looks like there's a bit of a pile up in the road.
696
They're obviously clearing.
697
I don't even know if you can hear me.
698
They're clearing the road, or trying to, and it looks like maybe a landslide has happened.
699
But look man, look how idyllic.
700
The clean stream.
701
Nah, it's too loud.
702
No idea how long this stop is gonna be, but it came at just the right time because I'm panicking.
703
But I am relaxed by the nature, I must say.
704
It's perfect.
705
One hour?
706
One hour.
707
Okay.
708
Alright, we're just gonna start walking along the cliff if we don't get sideswiped by a boulder.
709
Look at this road.
710
We got like four hours left. From China?
711
China Afghani.
712
Oh, cool.
713
There's a lot - oh my god!
714
Where's the dungeon?
715
Of course it's f*ing - Jesus!
716
Jesus Christ!
717
What's that?
718
Why am I trying to have a family?
719
Holy f* He's saying hello.
720
With his uh, jackhammer.
721
Okay.
722
Dude, f.
723
I'm getting the f* out of here.
724
F, bruh.
725
How is he working up there?
726
Look at the boulder that just came down.
727
Yeah, yeah.
728
Oh my god.
729
Safety?
730
Safety?
731
Anchwandai.
732
Anchwandai!
733
Anchwandai!
734
This smoke break brought to you by a near -death experience.
735
There's no better way to celebrate a near -death experience than by getting one step closer to the grave.
736
My smoke.
737
It's not.
738
It looks like an old UNICEF aid station and flying the Taliban flag.
739
There's a woman just sitting in a car.
740
Meanwhile all the men are walking around.
741
Is this woman homeless here?
742
No, it's not half car.
743
It's walking this way.
744
Can I give her some money?
745
Is that bad?
746
No, no problem.
747
I can give her some money?
748
No problem.
749
Yeah, yeah, that's fine.
750
You're not a little.
751
You're not a little.
752
You're not a little.
753
You're not a little.
754
She's not speaking.
755
No, no. Okay, no problem.
756
She's not speaking.
757
We were just talking about her.
758
All of us.
759
She was just sitting there silently with her rough looking kids.
760
She's clearly in need of some kind and couldn't speak up for herself.
761
But we have a healthy and sustainable life here.
762
So that's good American face
763
Are you Afghani?
764
Yeah You look so like
765
Your face is like European That's crazy
766
You could be my brother
767
What is your job?
768
I'm a doctor
769
You're a doctor?
770
I'm a doctor
771
Okay, so maybe if we crash on the road you can you can fix me you can save me
772
I think America is more beautiful
773
Yes, that's right.
774
No, I am Christian Christian, are you Muslim?
775
Alhamdulillah And
776
this is the last one.
777
What?
778
What?
779
What?
780
What?
781
Very good.
782
You know what Afghanistan is now?
783
It's a place where YouTubers go.
784
Oh my god.
785
Oh, I can put it on?
786
Safety's on?
787
Safety on.
788
Holy sh -
789
youtubers can dress up with the taliban
790
and take photos al -wak -bar come to afghanistan and they have kalishchakot they have the guns you know
791
actually i could stop a car i could be like hey stop and it's fun
792
Brother.
793
Holy f*.
794
Here we are.
795
We finally made it to Nudistand.
796
After 18 hours in the car, we are here.
797
There's pavement in Nuristan.
798
After the most dangerous road I've ever been on in my whole life.
799
Holy sh, by the way.
800
Have you guys had that view this whole time?
801
Oh my god.
802
I gotta...
803
I gotta kiss the crowd.
804
The road is my habibi.
805
Oh my god.
806
I'm from America.
807
Hey brother.
808
We kind of look similar.
809
That's my brother.
810
We kind of look the same actually.
811
Connor, he's your brother?
812
I know.
813
Doesn't he look just like me?
814
So you can see here where they're making a brand new road.
815
The huge, devastating landslide hit this place about one or two months ago.
816
And it looks like they're very quickly rebuilding.
817
Children cricket.
818
Oh, is it for the Olympics?
819
Not complete.
820
Inshallah.
821
Inshallah, Inshallah.
822
The Kabul Olympics, 2094.
823
Salaam, brother.
824
Salaam, alaikum.
825
Oh, you got young Justin Bieber in the cut.
826
Oh, I'm shakalala.
827
I'm shakalala.
828
No, no. Shakalala.
829
Are you Muslim?
830
No, Christian.
831
Are you Muslim?
832
Alhamdulillah.
833
Alhamdulillah.
834
Yes, brother.
835
What is your dream?
836
My dream and kick it in My brother oh my god he's so white
837
As a white man I need to teach this young boy about sunscreen
838
because in Afghanistan they don't use it you need sunscreen bro your sunburns
839
It's alright he's shy he needs sunscreen though They don't know how to treat their white people.
840
They don't make sunscreen up here.
841
I should have come with...
842
Next time I come to Padua, I want to bring like a thousand liters of sunscreen for the white people.
843
Afghanistan, Zindabad!
844
Zindabad!
845
Zindabad!
846
Zindabad!
847
Zindabad!
848
Zindabad!
849
Zindabad!
850
Okay, see you guys.
851
Yes!
852
With sunscreen for the whites.
853
Yes!
854
Yes!
855
Yes!
856
Yes!
857
I am so incredibly happy to be here.
858
There's this famous hotel, well famous, I mean it's amongst Afghanistan backpackers called the Spooj Mai.
859
And I had heard that it was destroyed in the flood, but that local just verified it's gone.
860
So the hotel is?
861
Yeah, hotel Spooj Mai.
862
Alright, here's the Spooj Mai, or what's left of it.
863
Oh wow.
864
Holy fk, it's broken.
865
Oh my goodness.
866
Right.
867
Holy f*.
868
Oh, there's no windows.
869
Oh, they're broken.
870
It's amazing.
871
There's for sure some mold in that room.
872
That one's maybe not good.
873
This one, I think is there a problem.
874
There's a problem in there, yeah.
875
I don't think they're ready to host people yet.
876
I think we're going hotel shopping in the rubble of Padun There's another one up here apparently
877
Hotels in Afghanistan I gotta say are pretty rough
878
No Wi -Fi, no showers, bucket showers, squat toilets
879
But it's the price you pay to be in one of the most adventurous countries on the planet
880
No way Damn the water must have come up so high that's like 5 feet off the ground
881
This hotel?
882
Oh nice This is nice yeah
883
Looks good Show up
884
They have a shower?
885
Shower and a toilet
886
Toilet Oh, this is our hotel.
887
This is it.
888
Okay, okay.
889
This is it.
890
Yeah, this is it.
891
How do I do it?
892
Very good.
893
The best hotel in Padun.
894
The best hotel in Padun.
895
Two hotel rooms.
896
This is the hotel room.
897
I'll tell you something.
898
I'll tell you something.
899
I'll tell you something.
900
This room is a hundred dollars, which.. for the value, I can't say is very good.
901
But it is the nicest thing you could find in town.
902
So feast your eyes.
903
This has been such a great experience, brother.
904
Thank you so much.
905
It's been great, man.
906
Me and Shehzab were just laughing, looking through the camera roll today.
907
And the Taliban just showed up.
908
So here's your nightly reminder to not relax when you get to your hotel in Afghanistan.
909
Oh, although I'm sure it's fine.
910
They're just trying to protect me, but you know, it's like
911
They're just they want it.
912
They want you to know that they know
913
That they're here, you know what I mean, so There's always that just looming in the background, you know, so
914
Guess I'll go talk to a Taliban commander get ready with me today
915
We're gonna meet with the Taliban commander and hopefully not end up in prison
916
your travel it's wonderful okay oh i love afghanistan what did you joke my job i make uh t -shirts yeah
917
you are not muslim no christian
918
but i like i like islam i love muslim people
919
we respect every people of the religion thank you sir yeah christian maybe
920
or some we don't care and you i think you
921
You are also vlogger or YouTuber?
922
Yeah, making videos.
923
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
924
Okay, can we see the channel?
925
Yeah, sure, sure.
926
If I check it out, it doesn't make any problems.
927
Oh, you liked it?
928
Yeah, no problem.
929
Thank you, sir.
930
Like and subscribe.
931
But you are looking handsome with beard, not without beard.
932
I look handsome with beard?
933
Yes.
934
Oh!
935
I think you are looking good with beard.
936
You are from America?
937
Yes, sir, yes.
938
Georgia.
939
The Georgia people are some gang war people maybe.
940
Atlanta.
941
Atlanta.
942
There's some problems in Atlanta.
943
Yeah.
944
In our rules of law is not allowing to capture the military maybe.
945
Yeah.
946
Oh yeah.
947
Yeah.
948
That was an accident.
949
Yes.
950
Law rules of Afghanistan.
951
Not very difficult for you.
952
Thank you brother.
953
today was beyond intense i saw so much human suffering so much needless suffering
954
kids working the road was terrifying um i think
955
i i bit off a little more than i could chew wanted to make a fun video
956
and we did have fun at certain times uh
957
but i think the lasting impression I have of Afghanistan is… Have a good day, my fk!
958
Small brain, America!
959
Oh, almighty!
960
Fuck, man!
961
I fking love Texas Roadhouse.
962
Bye -bye!
963
Hey, buddy!
964
Welcome to the end of the video.
965
Well, if you're not already sick of me, you can watch the extended cut version right now over on Patreon .com slash SmallBrainAmerican.
966
There's over 70 videos over there and most of them are twice the length of the YouTube version.
967
So I'll see you over there
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Afghanistan is Hell on Earth”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: afghanistan, brother, taliban. This video has 965 sentences and 5714 words to shadow. The speech runs for 48:32. The speaker talks at a steady 118 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 159 of its 965 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| remote adjective | /ɹəˈməʊt̞/ | At a distance; disconnected. |
| donate verb | /ˈdoʊˌneɪt/ | To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| beard noun | /bɪɹd/ | Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. |
| kidney noun | /ˈkɪdni/ | An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine. |
| tire verb | /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ | To become sleepy or weary. |
| heartbreaking adjective | That causes great grief, anguish or distress. | |
| belt noun | /ˈbɛlt/ | A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| flood noun | /flʌd/ | An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. |
| twin noun | /twɪn/ | Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. |
| pump noun | /pʌmp/ | A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. |
| bucket noun | /ˈbʌkɪt/ | A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. |
| rug noun | /ˈɹʌɡ/ | A partial covering for a floor. |
| walker noun | /ˈwɔkɚ/ | The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| check in on verb | To pay a visit in order to monitor the health, security or safety of (someone or something). | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| come down verb | To descend, fall down, collapse. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| fill up verb | To make (something) completely full. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You don't have a seat belt?
- You don't know what a seat belt is?
- You don't have a seatbelt?
- You don't know what a seatbelt is?
- You're happy to see me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've ever done · has come · I've done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be thrilled · is closed · been repurposed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 212 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: brethren /ˈbɹɛðɹən/, ethnic /ˈɛθ.nɪk/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thrill /θɹɪl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: trash /tɹæʃ/, shock /ʃɔk/, wash /wɑʃ/, flash /flæʃ/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/
- Long words — get the stress right: generator /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, laboratory /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/, eligible /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like remote, donate, scary.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.