Hola, Buenas tardes and welcome back
to Mexico City today is Tuesday
afternoon it's pretty much an average
normal Tuesday afternoon for me I've
been teaching English all weekend
earning some money which is fantastic
and now I'm out and about walking to
somewhere hello which I'll tell you
about in a second so yeah it's quite
grim today quite murky quite cloudy I
must have made since I've been back here
it's been the weather hasn't been great
but that's life and so today I'm heading
down to PARQUE DELTA which is a big
shopping mall close to centro medico
there's a car almost riding on the
pavement yeah because I need to do some
shopping basically because it turns out
when you go to Colombia I didn't know
this the washing machines eat your socks
I literally have no pairs of socks left
it's not good but the main purpose of
this video is to tell you briefly about
to give you an explanation of my new
channel named the Tao of David so I
need a Starbucks or something an iced
coffee this video isn't sponsored by
Starbucks by the way and then I'll tell
you about that okay let's go oh my hair
okay I just want to point something out
while I'm on the way there I used to
live just down the road I'm in Narvarte
this is the first place I stayed at you
remember when I got here the last time I
want to point out the smart parking
thing if anyone thinks that Mexico City
or Mexico in general isn't an advanced
country I've never seen them in London
you know I've seen them in Japan as well
but I might be wrong we might be in
London I haven't been there like two
years so you know it's just an example
of the fact that you know people think
Mexico is a like a third-world country
or something it's not actually it's
significantly more advanced for many
cities in the world trust me right I'm
almost there all right here we are
Parque Delta I found Starbucks wonderful
there is also Moshi Moshi there's a
Cheesecake Factory
there is crepes and waffles so lots of
places to eat in there's like the
shopping there so it's time for
Starbucks. So cheers everyone, iced mocha, this video is not
sponsored by Starbucks I'm covering it
up
I haven't had an iced mocha since I think I
was in Mexico last time yeah Starbucks
not particularly abundant in Colombia
and indeed Cuba obviously oh yeah it's a
bit loud at me I think um I go outside
to talk because the music's in the
background but I'm relaxing right now
I'm chillin I'm back home in Mexico
okay I'm shopping now I just
accidentally went into Zara and saw this
amazing red jacket for basically a
thousand pesos which is quite ironic and
hilarious considering if you saw my
livestream recently I gave two of my
older jackets to my friend Leo in
Medellin and I haven't bought it yet I'm
contemplating it and I bought some socks
that has to be the most thrilling moment
of my channel ever so I'm going to talk
about my channel name now let's find
somewhere to sit down right let's sit
down and talk about the channel name as
before I just like to point out this
video is not sponsored by Oreo in that
looks like it is Oreo if you want to
sponsor my videos you can do okay
so recently my channel name has changed
from first world traveler to the Tao
of David what the hell is this all about
here you cry it might come as a bit of a
surprise for some of you and actually
it's something that I've been thinking
about for quite a while and if you
follow me follow me on instagram you
would just see me talking about it
recently so I'm gonna tell you the story
so in the beginning two years ago I set
up this channel very much as a thing for
me
family friends as a way of documenting a
six-month trip yeah six months two years
later still doing it madness and and
that was basically instead of just
taking photos because I wanted to do
something different to look back on
things like that in the beginning I had
a quite a bit of money I'm not gonna lie
I just sold my flat in London so you can
imagine I had a decent amount and which
basically funded the first year and the
thing first world traveler is a play on
words with first world problems okay so
you know the saying you've probably seen
videos or memes about it where
people from privileged first world
countries complain about trivial stupid
things actually in the grand scheme of
things mean nothing and yeah I was very
arrogant very cocky unlikable I think
when I look back at older videos and I
think it's good that I recognize that
and you probably think so too
don't watch the old videos they're
really bad one of the other things about
that channel name is that as this
channel is grown it's got more of a
global audience I'm conscious that some
people in some countries may not have
the same humor or understanding of
British sarcasm and irony and many
people have the misconception that what
I'm actually saying by thirst or
traveler is making out behind this
arrogant cocky person from a first world
country in the unban and everyone else
that is not the case and it never has
been and that's what I mean about the
likability factor so I think when
viewers tune in to this channel and they
see first of all travelers straight away
they're put off by the fact they think
that I'm this complete asshole which I'm
not I can be but generally I'm quite
nice I hope you agree with me but you
know going forward you know I'm fast
forward I mean in terms of two years
later I think I'm very different and I'm
gonna put a message a comment from the
last video the return to CDMX video
that someone said in terms of that I
have changed a lot and I'm really glad
that people have noticed that I've
noticed that in myself and if you're
Mexican viewer and you haven't seen my
videos I did in Cuba I strongly suggest
that you watch them because that was a
time when I went through a bit of a
change emotionally and especially how I
saw travel and that in terms of
appreciating and being more humble and
respectful and understanding
people that people are different in
different countries and people have
different things in terms of the economy
what they have in terms of work the
amount they can earn what they're able
to do and it really opened my eyes and
it's something that and I guess I've
always known that you know I'm not new
to travel but I think for a long time
because I've been this first world
traveler it kind of went to the back of
my head and now that I'm very much in a
place one working in order to continue
traveling I live on a budget very much
I'm not I'm not skint I'm not broke I'm
not brassic no I'm reasonably
comfortable with money right now but at
the same time I will always be a budget
traveler you know I'll be a budget
backpacker for the rest of my life and
as a result of all that Cuba Colombia
everything that happened in Colombia and
you know living with someone with
Venezuela who's had a very tough time it
really opened my eyes to a lot of things
and reminded me a lot of things and as a
result I'm not a first world traveler
anymore
part of me is but I've changed a lot
so the Tao of David, Tao is basically
Taoism a Chinese religion a lot of
people will say that Tower doesn't mean
anything but actually you could say that
it means journey roots way path so
basically like the path of David and I
wanted to put my name in there for a
reason because I think this channel is
always a view of this channel has always
been that it's been about the location
and in 10 things to do in Shanghai
whatever but I want it to be more about
me and my journey not just about travel
but about living in countries working in
countries being a digital nomad
and sustaining long-term travel the the
good times the bad time to go one thing
that is going to not change about this
channel is the honesty the sarcasm the
humor the dark humor sometimes yeah and
I will always be honest so one thing I
want people to understand is that travel
isn't always perfect you know this is my
life this is what I do effectively and
think about your life not every day your
life is perfect sometimes you're
depressed sometimes you're pissed off
you're annoyed you have bad days and if
you look back at a video I did a lot of
time in Mexico but why hack a video
which receives so much hatred but
actually I think it's one of the best
videos are done because it shows the
absolute honest boring mundane side of
travel which which can happen and that
was the absolute point of that video and
that's what I still want to show that
it's not all roses sometimes it's really
difficult to hopefully make people
realize that if you want to pursue this
kind of life and this journey working
online traveling long-term but it isn't
always good sometimes it's crap
sometimes it's absolute I'm gonna say
another bad word but I won't yeah so
that's that's what it's about okay the
Tao of David my journey I hope that
you know what I really hope is that
viewers will subscribe and watch this
channel a lot more because of me not
just because of a destination you know I
would love it if Mexican viewers would
watch my Japan videos and watch my
digital Nomad videos and but I
appreciate that you know if you're from
Mexico you're gonna watch Mexico videos
that's that's one of the perils of being
a travel youtuber because it often feels
like I have to start all over again when
I get to a new country and build a new
audience and
yeah so that's it that's the channel
name I hope it clears it up yeah if
you've got any questions please let me
know in the description below but saying
that first world terrible tableau will
always be a part of me I will still be
saying good day first of all travelers
welcome back at the beginning of videos
and because it's a it's a thing that
I've always done yeah so that's that I'm
gonna get out of this shop in turn an
hour before I absolutely just torn their
bank balance and buy Oreos lovely okay
and before I go home as a big thank you
to everyone who has commented on the
last video it's really made me feel at
home all the positive comments etc so
thank you very much thank you for all
the recommendations as well there's so
many recommendations which brings me on
to my final point so tomorrow is Nikolas
Wednesday then it's Thursday which I
want to main filming days of the week so
I have two days filming coming up I'm
going to two areas that I've never been
to Mexico see I'm very excited I hope
you're excited too so stay tuned for
that later in the week thanks for
watching and I will catch you later