Regarding returning back to 'civilisation' - during my time in the Army, I spent 6 months in a place that although we were in a building (with no glass in the windows), there was no running water, so no hot water, and frequent power cuts. Everything was bottled water. We even showered with a makeshift shower bag, suspended by a broom handle. I think it was about 3 or 4 months in that whilst on a patrol I came across a bakery that had just opened. Little to no businesses were open till then. I filled my patrol bag with fresh bread, and when I got back to the base, I handed them out. Every person just smelt it, and inhaled the aroma of fresh bread. When I got back home, the novelty of being able to turn just turn a tap on and get water was odd for quite a while.
at what point did he ramble? I think the opposite, that he didn’t go into enough detail. The guy spent years in a Japanese prison, there are much longer podcasts concerning topics way less traumatic, like a 3 week vacation overseas etc
@@Mamasan8888 Hello AI generated response.....How could I possibly wish him success? 1. Watched the video 2. Wished him success. So now you should see how I wished him success. If you require any more answers to straight forward questions then please don't hesitate to ask them :)
Japanese are very respectful and obey the law. If you are arrested in Japan you are going to jail. The conviction rate in Japan is 98%. Japanese prison is not a nice place to be.
I’d REALLY like to hear about his Cambodia stories 🇰🇭 since I’m planning to visit and possibly relocate or retire there. Definitely spend some time getting to know the country!! Great interview ❤ 👍
Hi Paul yeah I love it and will be going back to Koh Rong where I mainly lived but its not for everyone that's for shore. Kampot and Battambang are good for retirees
OMG Pete - what a craic ! Yer man's a brilliant storyteller and you've outdone yourself again - it's like being back in some dive bar listening to one of Bangkok's immortal characters - brill job.
Hey Pete, I'm a regular follower of your channel and really appreciate your interviewing style and the concept of your show. I've noticed, however, that the quality of some recent interview guests doesn't quite match the standard you usually have. 😋 This is not a generalization, just something I observed. I hope you take this as the constructive criticism it’s intended to be. Aside from that, your work is outstanding, and I look forward to more great content. Hope to run into you in BKK city one day! 🤟 ขอบคุณและโชคดีนะครับ. Cheers from BKK!"
opinions always welcome here on Thairish Times. I've always said Thailand attracts people from all walks of life and that's something I've always incorporated into the channel. Purely going off the data the analytics show views in the last 60 days have increased compared to the previous 60days. That being said not everyone's going to like each interview or series of interviews i.e. a viewer interested in moving to Thailand may not find this video too appealing while I've always been fascinated by prison stories (I read Papillon as a kid and was hooked). I do have some great guests coming on in 2024 so hold tight!
I'll reply to the haters in one go. 1, I stand guilty of ballsing up a few times, reason being I was trying not to swear and its not bloody easy under pressure! 2, I was aware to tone my accent down but thats as good as you will get sorry me owed cocker, you should hear my mates 3 Okinowa, come on ffs think about it before you type! e.g. I once got a taxi to Ko Change and another time a I got a mini bus, one time I got the train down to Ko Samui from Bangkok. you sea were this is going? a little exert from my book might help out..."We spent a couple of days in Naha then we were off on the ferry again, a nice drama free 25 hours to kagoshima mainland Japan where we caught the Bullet train to Tokyo. This was our first experience of high Tec Japan .The Bullet train was amazing. It really felt futuristic. Our trip took us through Hiroshima and although there were no physical signs of the atomic bomb being dropped to be seen it still left me with an eerie feeling just knowing what had happened" Now I'm a big boy and can take all the slagging off with a wry smile, its good for the algorithm. Khap kun mak kap, and Domo arigatou gozaimasu !
Hello mate, I started to find it hard to belive your story after saying that the Yakuza cut there finger of for taking drugs... I'm here to respectfully inform you that is incorrect. They cut the finger to join. There is many videos about this ceremony on RU-vid. Upon reading your response to ballsing up parts of the video I'm more inclined to belive you. We are all humans and make mistakes.
@@Maluma777-yy3do sorry mate but I stand correct on that one, just goggle yubitsume. I probably only asked 2 or 3 and them but all their response's were the same , imitating injecting to their arm.
Great listen. Fascinating story. Wasn't hard to follow at all. I thought Steven painted the picture very well. I think what people have to appreciate is that when you're recounting a situation that occurred over a huge part of your life, in front of a camera for an audience, is that you have to recall the information in real time while trying to filter what you think is most relevant, and explain it in a way that you think people will understand. Once you've done an interview for a media publication, you gain an appreciation of how difficult it can be when you're in the spotlight.
Cheers Peter. I know Steve a little and had been trying to see the episode of Banged Up Abroad he is in for over a year with no luck so good to finally hear the story. I’ve heard a sample of the audio book and I found it to be a good, easy and entertaining listen
in the early 1990s i did a few stints on japanese fsihing boats,alot of what he said was similar to my experiences,the last trip i ever did 1 million dollar wasnt enough to get me back on board,the harsh discipline,the silence,the hard working conditions,it was to much ,most of the crew were born around the 1940s and there entire lives were spent mostly on the boats with one month per year back home,on the plus side i watched alot of japanese tv which was entertaining and educational and the food when we were catching fish was great
Great story & guest. I'm suprised some people struggled to follow along- just have to train your ear to the Lancashire accent, but he enunciated well & talked slowly. Maybe it was a shrewd marketing ploy to encourage people to buy the book 😁
You might be right about the marketing ploy, in fact you are lol my mate said "don't give to much away tell them to read the book" oh yes so the babbling wasn't my fault ha ha! as for people (Americans) not understanding my accent well I honestly think there just being dicks about it.
Whalley pal, I think you coming from Burnley should be ok with the accent ha ha I honestly think there just being internet knobeds saying they can't understand me @@BURNLEY87
banned for life from Japan but maybe if the cannabis laws change you never know. I would love to go back, its an amazing country. I'm ok to go any other country as long as they except that on my record.
@@thestewozshow7042just mark “no” in the application cause 99.9% of countries can’t see your criminal background without a warrant. Just fyi. If it’s in japans system well 🤷♂️ but any other country can’t see it
Why is it always Iranians' in Thailand? I have heard so many stories linked to this country. Taiwan and Nepal are the big hubs - well they were 15 years ago. Nice edit at 16 minutes when he started giving out names 555
Some stories require longer form content to develop context plus i’ve analyzed the stats and they point towards longer videos. There are chapters added to skip to specific parts
You should do something on kanchaburi and tell about the things that happened that people haven't heard of, stories passed down through locals are usually the best
@@ThairishTimes thanks, sometimes talking to locals really pays off,my wife's Burmese and she had some stories about the Japs there from her grandmother, the mess they were in retreating, starving,full of lice, it's something you don't hear about from history books
@@therealnguyen6928 use you brain bro honestly, maybe this was years ago, maybe it was just a random example of a country. Thinking way too deep into something so minuscule.
I have zero sympathy for drug smugglers. That this man did this repeatedly proves he has no right to complain and was not held accountable enough. He deserves 20 years in prison, no parole.
@@thestewozshow7042 i was locked up when i got drunk due to issues with a former jap. fiancée and ended up head butting a manager in a jap. restaurant. i was only locked up for 2 days in a cop shop and 10 days in a detention facility. i cut my head open, and apparently broke 3 of the jap. guys false teeth implants, i paid 65000 yen compo, and a conviction wasnt recorded. whilst locked up a fat yakuza type tried to pick a fight with me ( we were allowed 30 mins exercise on the encaged roof every 3 days) . i had my own cell. i think they were pretty lenient on me as i was fairly young. for tenko, every morning at 6;30 we were supposed to face the barred window of our cell, off an internal corridor, sitting in the seiza position and shout out our number... then we were supposed to exercise to a 30 minute radio program, which in our western culture was something which we,d broadcast to 3 years olds, hence because of the infantile nature i almost never participated, i also usually lent/slumped against the wall during the day, several times the guards came in threatening a lightish sort violence to coerce me, they hit my legs, n i staired them down fiercely with a challenge/threat of violent response. i couldn't believe how harshly i was being treated, the jap. manager guy technically assaulted me first, in my drunken state i believed i was being attacked. i tried to do a hunger strike as a protest for the 1st 4 days of my detainment. but 12 days being locked up DOESNT COMPARE to what you went thru. upon release the greatest impact was the blueness and greatness and wonder of the sky, and being able to move freely, maybe slightly like getting off a boat nd rediscovering your land legs. after this event i spent another 13 years in japan. ALL THE BEST STEVE.
5 years sentence for £5,000 & played russian roulette with life on the chance to get away with the deed cos many did 😮 he can make more money than that in 5 years, not to mention the lives destroyed through the drugs sold. Hard to feel sorry but still pity these men for being so foolish 😳
@@thestewozshow7042 not far from me - Burnley i knew a lad called craig bridges from chesterfield used to do drug runs from Thai to Japan he also was caught in Japan did you know him?
@@BURNLEY87 oh dear I was out of Japan in 2010, its very hard to get any info about people in prison there. The Banged up abroad program took ages to find confirmation about me. They got it from prisoners abroad in the end
Oh. The guy comes from Lancashire. Nice country up there, apparently. And, what is a bricky? A bricky is someone who is tough. Or, according to Jethro Tull, maybe ... Thick as a Brick. (He said one needs balls and stupidity to smuggle drugs.)
@@thestewozshow7042 Thanks for your reply, Man! You have a great sense of humor.... And, your interview was super interesting...too. I have spent most of my life in East Asia. And, I always wondered what it might be like to be locked up in Japan, not that I have ever thought about breaking the law, mind you!
This isn't passing judgement but I ABSOLUTELY have no f-ing sympathy for smart people who make the calculated decision to smuggle drugs in SEA. GO POUND SAND!!!
He deserves everything he got, and more if you ask me. It's hard to believe he has no regrets. Unbelievable. Also, he is so hard to understand, I can't imagine what the book will be like. Well, I can, probably dreadful.
Regarding the accent: Where was this guy born? I always want to know the language accent, and which region or area. Some words he speaks are unintelligible. Even Google Translate is having trouble.
My comment has nothing to with pros and cons of marijuana. The fact is this guy is a criminal an broke the law. You glorify him by giving him air time and thus legitimizing him. No more views for me
This was a great listen. What an amazing story and I'd love to check out the book..I don't understand the complaints in the comments about the guest. People have zero attention spans these days
If this dude is happy to trade one and a half years of his life for £4k tells me everything I need to know about this numpty, just come home get a job and save up to go back 😂😂
I was shocked when he said he only did it for between 4-5 thousand pounds a trip that’s a pittance . They obviously seek out the most desperate people .
I want whatever this guy was on, would be perfect in an office environment just ramble then get no questions back as no one can follow. Seems like a decent bloke though as would be good to have a pint with, life experience...Priceless.