feels amazing to be outside for the first time since,
like, january. like, because it's been a lockdown.
you smell that? yeah. i can smell that. fresh corona! yeah.
welcome to the edges of earth my name is brock. today i'm with karan. we are in
tamil nadu. and we're going on some type of a
road trip, yeah? yeah. he's basically my neighbor during
lockdown. and he brought me to a beach. we're at a beach. yeah.
this is called 'gushy' beach. 'gushy beach?' which means happy
beach. happy beach? yeah. and it's also called Ariyamaan
Beach. Ariyamaan? yeah. we took a road trip. we're here. we just arrived at the beach, like, now.
and what's the mission for the day? Go with the flow. what time is it?
it's time around..9 o'clock. 9 o'clock and we're gonna go with the flow.
yeah. let's go with the flow. Yeah.
you gonna go touch the water? yeah. tell me if it's cold or warm.
you get right in with your shoes, huh? all right.
I'll take my sandals off, i think. yeah that's..
that's really nice, actually. yes, i want to go swimming. did you bring your
swimsuit?
i wish we would have. wow, it's amazing. it's so clear! i did not think it would
be this clear. dang. we should..we should come back
another day with swimsuits and goggles. do you have
things in here like jellyfish, and shit that'll eat you?
sometimes you can see, but it's it's like dead condition.
it's not alive. oh, it's dead. yeah. okay, so there's dead jellyfish.
sharks? are sharks here? no sharks are gonna eat you?
okay. good.
so, speaking of jellyfish, apparently we found one in the first
3 minutes of walking. are you going to touch it? touch the bottom.
i don't want to die! touch the things that are dangling.
no? oh yeah, that's a big one, huh? yeah. It's huge!
yeah, i think it's dead too. Definitely dead.
karan is like on the titanic.
yeah? will your heart go on?
how long can you hold that pose? no, no!
okay i think we finished at the beach. now we walked into the woods to walk in
the shade. you about broke your foot a minute ago.
that was fun. i don't know, he hit something.
what's interesting is, you.. you've mentioned you are barely sweating. like..
yeah. it is like hot as hell here. i feel like we are literally walking
in hell. and you're not even sweating, and i'm like,
dying. that's so crazy. oh my god. oh wow, a big lizard.
see if i can catch him on camera. do you see him?
so apparently here's the area where everybody sells items.
but due to the pandemic right now, they're all closed? yeah.
do you know when they're supposed to open again? i don't know, but
hope it will go open as soon as possible. yeah. we're back to the bike, what's
happening? and then we go to the pamban bridge. the
what? Pamban bridge. ah, that big bridge? yeah, that's correct. so
i've been to Dhanushkodi once before, with another local. um, yeah.
what was i gonna say? i don't know. but i've been there once before.
so we're halfway across the bridge, and we stopped for a moment.
it's amazing. the water over here is like,
crystal clear blue. and i don't know if you can see behind me, the..
there's like an island.. not an island.. but, like, a..
i don't know. it's.. it's just beautiful. what do you think, do you want to jump?
no i don't want to jump! it'd be fun, jump! a fun fall! can you swim? yeah, i can
swim. 1, 2, 3, jump! oh, wow, did you feel that? yes. oh the
whole bridge just, like, vibrated. yeah. oh, it did it again!
creepy. the whole bridge just.. what are they doing over here, do you know?
they're making a new bridge. oh for the train? A train bridge? for the train bridge.
yeah, so, it's like, amazing up here. there's birds flying,
blue skies, big puffy white clouds, clear water, boats everywhere...
what do you think? I feel so excited. you feel so excited? yeah. yeah?
so excited that you're gonna, like, jump in the water? i don't wanna jump. no? i'm going
to push you down. oh my god. okay, we're ready to go!
we stopped here. you hungry? yes i'm so hungry! yeah, he ate like 5 dates for
breakfast. 5 little dates. awesome. so we stopped.. we got..
what is this? you already ate yours already. you were
really hungry. i haven't tried it yet. what is this? Pudding cake.
Huh? Pudding cake. Ah, pudding cake. okay, okay, okay.
interesting. and we got tea as well, yeah? coffee? tea?
this is tea. how it taste like? It's really good.
How does it taste like? i don't know. the cake? no, no, the tea.
definitely tea. the cake is really good. it's like an angel food cake, but sweeter
than normal. yeah? do you know angel food cake? i don't
know. yeah. all right we had breakfast.. now, do you
have enough energy? yeah i have so much of energy. yeah? so
what's the plan? where are we going now? i forgot. we are going to
Rameswaram. after that we will go to Dhanushkodi. Rameswaram. Dhanushkodi.
yeah. what's the first stop? where will the first stop be?
i think Rameswaram. Rameswaram. yeah. all right.
we're going to rameswaram with tons of energy! so i think we've now entered the
area where tourism begins, because just behind me
there was all sorts of hotels. nice hotels.. on the outskirts.
yeah, i can see the giant temple. what's the name of the big famous
temple up here? Ramanathaswamy. $@5*!$? Ramanathaswamy Temple. Yeah..!
It's the vehicle.. i thought it was music playing. i thought we were going to see a band in a second.
but it's just.. it's just.. it's just the shocks.
yeah so, compared to when i was here last time,
there's like... it's like a ghost town here. there's like nobody walking around.
no.. hardly any vehicles. hardly any people. hardly any motorbikes...
other than we're passing some right now. but last time, it was so
crowded. if you look at my old footage, it was insane. so,
yeah. definitely the virus has some type of impact on
tourism, for sure!
so we had to cross a border gate. we were stopped by the police. and what did they say?
they won't allow us to go inside the Dhanushkodi. they won't allow us to go
inside. so there's still certain areas that are locked down
because of..the virus. we'll go to some other
places. Okay. which is possible to go inside. i'll follow you!
you stopped and talked to the ladies for a second, what did you ask?
i asked them 'will they allow me, or not?' and she said
they are not allowing allowing us because of the pandemic situation.
she recommended you to..you have to stay here for the next 2 years.
you stay here. that's what she said? yeah! stay here for 2 years?!
so, because we can't enter she recommends that the foreigners...
for you or for me? for you! for me. so she says that i should stay here for 2
years. maybe. it feels like i i've already been
in Tamil Nadu for more than 6 months. what.. almost.. yeah
i'll be starting my 9th month here very soon
in Tamil Nadu. so, yeah. so, if there's anybody who wants to marry
me and i'll stay here for 2 years. send me a message. she wants to marry you. she
wanted to marry me? yeah! let's go! let's go get married!
so right now we're going up and down many different side roads. i think we're
trying to find the beach, yeah? yes of course. yeah so,
since our plans backfired, since they don't allow foreigners into the special
areas, i guess we're just gonna make our own
fun. so, if we follow this pathway
it should take us to the beach. we tried a road over here, and it
turns into nothing. like the road just stops.
so we're trying a second road to see if we can..
see if we can make it to the beach, yeah? we are going to explore some new places
that i have never been there. yeah. maybe we can find some new jellyfish. yes.
yeah? maybe we can find a living jellyfish...
and then you can pick it up. for you!
same thing. we get here and it's a dead end.
so.. yeah.
let me look at google maps
and i can tell you which road we can take. yeah, yeah, yeah.
oh yeah, you got your shades on. what do you call them in india?
for what? your sunglasses you call them... coolers. coolers!
they call them coolers. interesting. our slang term is 'shades'.
so anyway, we're gonna try to go up here?
yeah? go for it. oh, wow, like a ninja. here pull me up, i'm an old man. oh wow!
you pull my... what the hell?! you held my fingertips instead of, like, we would do
something like this. but you, like, oh my god. i thought.. i
thought my fingers were going to fall off!
so maybe if we're lucky we'll see a snake. not possible because of the
summer. yeah but there are.. there's desert snakes. there's no
desert snakes here. well, like three days ago, you were somewhere else,
and in our neighborhood, there was a giant snake, like 12 foot long,
that apparently ate a chicken. crazy! i saw that on instagram. yeah, so, for those of you who
are..yeah... so for those of you who are not following me on instagram, you should
follow because who knows what type of crazy
stories i'm going to share. also my gimbal.. i
charged it last night, but i didn't charge it properly.
so i only had like 20 minutes of battery life. so my gimbal is now dead. so now i
have to film like this. anyway so next video
will be better.
i'm an old man
look both ways! no train? no train? no train.
all right so we checked google maps and i think we found
one road that will take us all the way to the beach. so now we're on
another mini road trip to get there, yeah? yeah. amazing.
let's go
so you can see the beach behind us. it's super beautiful. but
we weren't allowed to film. i guess, i'm learning that because i'm a foreigner in
this area, i'm not supposed to be here.. because i'm
a foreigner in this area. because it's.. the whole virus thing happening. so
therefore, if i film it during this time, then it could be a
problem in the media, or something like that. so,
i guess, don't tell anyone i was here! so we stopped at a temple for a moment.
but, it is also locked. everything is locked.
but check out this big shark. there's like a giant shark
body. and you can probably walk inside it. but, unfortunately,
everything is shut down. are you uploading your latest dance video to tik tok?
no? no. do you dance on tik tok? Never. Never? Never.
oh my god we just about died a second ago.
as we're driving on the motorbike the...
all of a sudden this coconut falls from the sky and nearly hits the motorbike
and bounces past us. like, holy shit! like, if we would have been a little bit..
like, a half a second sooner...and you were just a little bit to the side, it
would have hit one of us in the face! that would have been terrible! oh my god.
you have to be careful. coconut trees are everywhere...
and they can kill you!
so we stopped again for a moment on the
bridge, right where it meets the water. it's just so amazing here.
so beautiful. i wish you could.. i wish you could see it in person. by the
way, my face is really red. i'm like a lobster.
i've been in the sun all morning, and now it's like about 1 o'clock.
we're back. we're at karan's house. we drove all the way back.
my face is like red. you can't see it, there's not a lot of light in here. but
it hurts. and my arms are red. so we stopped to get lunch.
and what.. what is this? curd rice. huh? curd rice. ah, curd rice. so rice and curd
together. and so, it's like pudding
to me. soup.. soup and pudding together. and you said you eat it with your hands. yes.
oh my god. so luckily, he had a spoon for me, thank
goodness. otherwise i would have had to eat it with my hands. eating with
my hands is okay but.. but.. but, not for soup. i don't know.
i don't know how you do it. you have skill! and you get this thing.
yeah they call it lemon pickle. it's pickled lemon. pickle lemon. yeah,
but they call it lemon pickle. interesting. basically, even though today
didn't really work out as planned, we tried to go to one place, they said no.
we tried to go to another place they, said no. and then we just kind of,
drove around and seen some stuff. and then we went to a third place,
and they said no filming. so, shit! everything that we did just turned out
to be difficult. what was your favorite part of
today? Pamban bridge. which one? Pamban bridge. the bridge. ah, the bridge? driving across
the bridge? yeah, i'd say that's that's probably the most beautiful.
i would say the most interesting part of today was
just driving through the traffic... just trying to survive.
like, you... you need..you need like excellent driving skills to not die
while in india, i think. that's how it is for me. maybe it's normal to you.
maybe, oh, this is bollywood calling. yeah? no? he stars in movies. No! He's lying!
anyway, that's it. anything else you want to say before we go?
no? me neither. no. anyway, thanks for watching.
remember, your time is running out, start living! take care.