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hello guys this is doug and i am here in
basra iraq southern iraq it's actually
known as iraq's hottest city we're
basically
in the little triangle corner of iraq
between kuwait and iran we're like 20
minute drive from the iranian border so
very very far south it's very hot here
it's night time now but it's still very
hot whenever the wind blows it feels
like you're taking a hair dryer and
blowing it directly at your face like
the wind is not
a nice thing here you know normally when
it's hot the wind is
a relief it's not that way here the
great thing is we just walked out onto
the streets to find some dinner and the
first food cart that we walked by
without even saying anything to them
uh the man standing at the cart just
held out these water cups
multiple to each of us
and not looking for money just just to
to give to us just out of hospitality so
that was very nice the water that we
just got is not about the hospitality
only but also it's for ashura so they
give away for every person pass by
foreign iraqi
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hamdulillah
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uh
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thank you
one
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wow
ah don't do it
he's sticking his fingers in there
wow
thank you
all right so thank you
said welcome to buster
so we are gonna go in here
and have a little dinner
let's go check it out
here comes the food guys
so we got some falafel here we got
sambusa which if you saw my egypt food
video is basically a middle eastern
samosa similar name probably comes from
the same word
and this is what you said is
so very different from turkish border
it looks much it looks this looks like a
chinese egg roll to me
all right let's dig in first things
first falafel bismillah
hot fried crispy and delicious
let's try the sambusa i have no idea
what's inside here i'm i'm guessing
there's some meat in here maybe let's
try
yeah
i don't think there's meat inside this
there's no meat inside the sambusa right
yeah it's like some kind of greens
it's got some spice to it
not spicy but like flavor spice and it's
really good iraqi burek let's try it
but delicious very very very similar to
the sambusa to me
i think they might have the same uh
filling by the way guys i just walked
down the street to buy a few sodas for
us i had no idea how much it cost like
you know he didn't speak english and i
just handed him a 5 000
dinar note
just a few dollars
and uh he immediately
told me wait wait wait and gave me back
a ton of cash a ton of change which is
definitely not a thing that would happen
in every place and and that's been my
experience uh throughout this trip to
iraq well done guys
good job
but first you need a shave hubby i need
to get this gross thing off my face
it's fine and so do i i've got this neck
beard thing going so we're gonna go get
a shave
yeah i'm so tired
me too still running on about one hour
sleep with 20 minutes in the car so it's
been a weird day amazing day actually
hussein now i'm michael jack
what is this
well uh i just told him that i need
something for my face i have to wait for
a few minutes and then i'll just wash it
it's go time
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the birds are flying all over the place
they just landed on the other barber's
head
oh my gosh
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whoa
what is this thing
is
so i think that was just moisturizer now
we've got this contraption
making some steam
all right i don't know what this thing
is but it says
and hot vapor
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let's see what happens
i'm under a cloth now with the steam
oh that's hot
it's like being in a really hot steam
room
my eyes
wow
okay
that was pretty intense
how about you
oh
how do i look
right here oh baby
oh my god it happened
it's gonna just poop on me and leave
i got it
all right we're all done my face feels
like a blanket
it's so soft
all right here we go
thank you
bye-bye
all right mission accomplished
all righty guys we have made it back to
our hotel
here it is
here in basra i am going to go upstairs
and get a little work done and then get
some sleep which i very much desperately
need and then tomorrow morning nice and
early we are going to be going out and
exploring more of this city which i
already really like a lot so far so i'll
see you in the morning can't wait
bye-bye
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you