Paul is a fine raconteur in the best tradition of that great 1980/90's Expat generation who are sadly dwindling away now. Glad this channel is recording these stories for posterity.
@@dmbrod What great expat generation? Alcoholic serial bullshitters with terrible oral hygiene whose career highlights include human trafficker and failed drug dealer? What a huge loss for society 🙄
Your best guest by a country mile Pete 👏🏼👏🏼👊👊 Paul’s such a character with undoubtedly more life experience than most people will even get close to. Expat legend 🇹🇭🇹🇭
@@PaulWalliswriter you my friend are one hell of a tale teller! Loved every video you have done with Pete! watched and listened with great intrigue about your life and what you've experienced! RU-vid gold is what you are! I tip my hat to you Mr Wallis! 🙏🏻❤️👍🏻
So good seeing you back in Thailand Pete and I never tire of your interviews with Paul. I am missing Thailand so much and great to get a glimpse of it through your videos.
Retired US ARMY SEAL and US FBA SPECIAL AGENT AIRBORN. Close quarter hand to hand combat VET, TWO Purple Stars and THREE Gold Stars. My father wanted me to become a coal miner like himself and my grandfather, coalmining is the main profession in my father's family. WHEN I joined the US ARMY, he was not happy, long storey short when I returned home from Nam in 66 he would not talk to me , in 67 I returned back to Nam for a second tour. My father never spoke to me again. It was only after my father's death that I had seen a old newspaper clipping of my father's serves as a US Ranger at Omaha Beach, he was the only survivor of his platoon. Dan
always good to hear his stories , Paul has lived a life , Thailand in late 80s was full of adventures n scams as i know personally from my time stuck there after being scammed od of all my travel monies, i had to survive n was lucky to meet guys that helped me pull off things i would never have thought of in Australia but never got locked up n made back home after the best time of my life , as i say NO THRILLs for the cautious
Paul reminds me of my late granddad. Very similar in looks (could have been brothers) and social outlook on the world. Always enjoy his stories.. Thanks!
I saw your appeal for interviewees, and here is my response. I hope you get this and i apologize for the means of delivery. Forgive me, I'm and old fart. Here’s a quick synopsis of my Thai experience: I signed up for US Peace Corps 1n 1963 when I was 19 years old. They assigned me to the National Malaria Eradication Project under the Royal Thai Ministry of Health. In May, 1964 I went to work in an office in Khon Kaen that was responsible for the malaria work in both Khonkaen and Loei Provinces. I worked there until September, 1966. I was lucky in that my boss could say “Goose Morning” and "Hello” but he was the only English speaker in my organization. No one else spoke anything other than Thai or Laotian so I was in a perfect language-learning environment. We had around 300 permanent workers to supervise, plus another 600 sprayers (temporary, picked up for about 4 months each year (May to September). In quick time I learned to say, “Hello,” “Bia Tra Sing, please -- and “Where’s the toilet.” I was there during the beginnings of the US presence in Thailand as a staging place for attacks on Vietnam, and saw much of their development in Korat and Udorn. I visited forces living on the Thai side of the border who routinely flew bombing missions in Laos around Thakaek. I started teaching English to one of the secretaries in my office, as she helped me with Thai language. Well, things happen. We got married and have a couple of kids together. BTW, we were married on the grounds of the Ministry of Health next to the river in a palace that was part of the property the Queen Mother donated to the government to begin a Ministry of Health. My work involved say, 30% paperwork and 70%+ out in the field inspecting our house visitors and the staff that supervised them. More than half my time each month was spent in villages where people had never seen anyone except other Isaan people. There were a few expats in Khonkaen then (aid workers, missionaries, etc) and I’ve got lots of stories about them -- especially the missionaries. Other than my main job I worked with an organization called “School to School” where I was liaison between a local village or group of villages that needed a school and a donor school in the USA that raised funds to build the school. I completed the development of three schools in Khonkaen Province. Also, I started a pig raising Demonstration Project. Smack in the middle of Muang Khonkaen my little project (in my yard!) grew to 10 pigs. Very successful. While in Khonkaen I watched the groundbreaking and saw the first functioning building built at Khonkaen University. I also attended opening ceremonies for the Regional Courts. Khonkaen had a population of 19;,000 when I arrived and had grown to 22,000 when I left. It had two nightclubs. Isaan was all dirt roads except Tanon Mittaphab (Friendship Highway). Loei was a full day away on a dangerous road. The pretty lake you see now in Khonkaen was a swamp then, full of crocodiles. Communication was a challenge: no private telephones in the city. Highest provincial car license plate number did not exceed three digits; there were practically NO private cars in the Northeast. Traffic was trucks, buses and govt vehicles. With my colleagues, when we were not working I hunted, ate gibbons, got close to a tiger, drank monkey blood, explored caves. I had some chances to travel around Thailand, to the north, all over Isaan, Pattaya when it was a beach, At that time I don’t recall that there was even a single bar in the town. ------ I could talk all day/all night about that part of my life. Subsequent to those days I went to University, got jobs. We went back fairly regularly until around 1995 or so. I returned once as a bank executive Board Member of a Thai finance company subsidiary of the bank. Different life!! During the 1960’s my salary was USD75.- per month. In the 1980s I was staying at the Siam Intercontinental or Dusit Thani. ----------------- I have not seen anyone on your channel with my type of experience. It may be that I’m so far off your audience’s norm that it would serve your channel no good to interview me. However, If you are interested please write back. I’m leaving Calgary, Alberta (home) early tomorrow, but I’ll be back in a week. I’m not sure how internet-connected I will be, but as I said I’ll be back home November 1. I look forward to hearing from you. Keep the channel going; it is a treat to watch. You have a good interview style, but I enjoy your Sunday Lives just as much. Keep it up! And Cheers! Thomas Pickering Calgary, Alberta, Canada thomaspickering919@gmail
Love hearing Pauls stories ❤️ I found the idea of having no money and being alone in a foreign country an adrenal rush interesting 😮 I admire the courage to do something like that .
Thanks Steve, hope retired life is going well. Perhaps we could do something again in the future. I'm sure people would like to know what you've been up to the last 5 months
Paul has some stories Pete . I never understand how some people who put things in other peoples drink can say it will be ok 🤯🤯🤯 they will be fine !!!. He’s had some journeys in his time . He seems very content now . Great interview my Mann
If any of you are thinking of causing harm to yourselves, remember that many good people will be very sad about that if you make such a choice. And it's not a solution. Yeah, life can be hard. Impossibly hard sometimes, it might seem. I struggle with a lot of real pain IRL. But you have to continue. Call a help line, usually the local emergency number and they'll forward you. Be strong.
Looking at this VDO I have experienced pretty much like Paul some crazy encounters in India, Nepal and Thailand I left at 19 years old travelled to Pakistan India Thailand in Malaysia Burma in 1981 etc I was a bit of a Farang Kee Nock! Stayed with a Thai family for 2 years in 85/1986 where I learned to speak Thai The big difference compared to Paul I managed to join the United Nations in 1987 in multiple Humanitarian relief operations and continued discovering the world problems from the Gulf war relief operations to Natural disaster ie Tsunami to Rwanda Genocide to Liberia and Sierra Leone civil war and in DRCongo to demobilization in Mozambique to Lebanon with the Syrian crisis and to irregular migration in Indonesia and 10 years on the Thai Myanmar border with the Myanmar refugees to combatting Human trafficking ! I am now retired in Thailand since 2018 and enjoying Paul story as I see some of the same experience he had while travelling during the Hippie time ! No regrets managed to straighten myself when joining the UN and had great experiences also hard times in so many countries ! I Good old Paul never really switched off neither I am! 5555555!
I don't blame Pete for doing these endless Paul videos because apparently people love them. And how could you not. After all this is a guy that in his own words, amongst other things, sponged off kind poor Thai families for years because he saw their hospitality as weakness, worked for a human trafficking ring to help get the girls abroad where their passports were kept and they didn't get them back until they'd slept with 50-100 men to "pay back their debt". Lovely. Yes a real "character " this guy. We have a different word in Glasgow. It also begins with a c but is a lot shorter.
I heard about a well-known Indian-based cult that ran Yoga lessons and gave out MDMA on Koh Phangan to recruit young Farangs in the late '80s and early '90s. They were after good-looking, well-educated Farangs from rich families; not surprisingly, they didn't want a bar of me.🤣🤣
@@superpiccirillo Well fortunately this is not a question of heresay as all of Paul's interviews are still right here on this channel so people can go back and watch them, listen to him in his own words, and determine which of us is lying. Spoiler alert - it's not me.
I do enjoy Paul's stories & after listening to this one, I'm beginning to wonder if they are just stories, this one sounds a bit like the (Breaking Bad) series that I watched many moons ago but for Paul's adaptation it's (Breaking Wind) the money that this guy was offering Paul sounds a ridiculous amount considering he was just a guy that he had just met, he does sound convincing & he isn't stumbling over his words, but I've heard many a story in bars from guys who come to Thailand, so this guy was possibly over exaggerating, strike me down if I'm wrong, but like I said I do enjoy listening to him, on a serious note, I did notice that his only that tooth that he had, has now gone, I'm hoping that it fell out through natural causes & that he didn't pull it out himself, as I know he had a lot of comments on it's solitary existence in his mouth...........
Even if this is all bull sh** it’s a great story by a great story teller. Paul would have had a great career as a fictional author. IF HIS STORY IS TRUE HE SHOULD WRITE A BIOGRAPHY
Good story teller, although I don't believe a word he says. I've been around to long and done to much here in Thailand to easily see through his fantasy stories.
Wow this guy is a magnet for high level illegal activities. What a character. How much you want to bet the next story will be him talking about some major gun running operation!
I felt like I was listening to a story that he said before 😡 Guy is dithering on about a drug lab asking him if he’s interested. Hold on a minute! Why would someone ask him to come into this business. Utter tripe. Sorry Pete, his James Bond stories are be on belief.
This guy is delusional. The 1st story was complete bullshit. And the next ine, Even 25 years ago, anyone Farang with a 1.5 year over stay was blackballed .
Back then you didn't get the 5-10 year black lists if you were on overstay and went through the airport. If you had 4 years overstay, you had to pay 20k bht max and you were still allowed back in. The bad guys out, good guys in came in about 15 years ago.
