Hey peeps! Hey, so I just wanna say first of all, thank you to all my Patreon patrons!
There's about 50 of you guys.
And thank you guys so much for your donations. You guys are helping me pay my rent.
So I can focus more on making Geography Now videos.
Again, that's greatly appreciated. If you'd like to become a patron
go to Patreon.com/GeographyNow
and depending on how much you donate, you can actually have the ability to see behind-the-scenes footage
and that cool stuff.
And also, thank you to all the nativa Bahamian people who helped me out with the Bahamas video.
That was awesome there were like 4 of you guys.
You guys gave me some great information, so thank you for that.
So, in the last update video, I talked about how this update video was gonna be a Q&A video, so that's what we're gonna do.
I'm gonna answer some of your questions.
The 2 most common questions that a lot of you guys asked was
"Paul, what's you nationality? What's your ethnicity?"
And 2, "Paul, what countries do you want to go to?"
So, my ethnicity. I get this a lot.
And first of all, no.
I'm not latino.
I get that a lot. I know that I look a little hispanic, latino, whatever you wanna call it. Actually, I'm not.
I'm actually Hapa.
Which means I'm half Asian.
So, I'm actually half Korean.
and half... a bunch of white stuff.
What countries do I want to go to?
Well, this question is, it's not so much as
what countries as a ll whole do I want to go to, but rather what specific regions and obscure areas of countries do I want to to go.
I really don't care so much about the mainstream popular destinations.
I'm a travel hipster. I'm a "tripster."
For example, I don't really care too much about going to most of Spain - no offense, Spain.
But I would absolutely love to go to La Gomera island, which is part of the Spanish Canary Islands.
Which has this really strange population of people that communicate with each other with this codified language completely comprised out of whistles.
You don't see that anywhere else in the world!
And I wanna go there! I wanna see that!
I have a huge heart for going to Greenland, I absolutely want to go to Greenland, I've been obsessing about that area for a while.
And I know this sounds a little weird, but
the more inaccessible - I know this sounds crazy - the more inaccessible and dangerous a place is, the more I kind of want to go! I'm not even joking!
Like South Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan - I want to see those places.
So yeah, that's basically it.
Places where I could get shot.
raymond fair asks "Paul, what is the last place you'd want to visit? Country, state, or whatever, I don't mind."
This is a good question. Actually -
The last I'd want to visit - and I'm sorry, but it's South Korea.
And I don't have anything against South Korea! I love South Korea! But the thing is -
I've been there 4 times and I lived there for a year and a half.
So I have literally seen every single province of South Korea.
I've been to Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, Chungcheon bok-do, Chungcheon nam-do, I've even been to Jeju-Do Island.
I've seen everything!
And I'm kind of done.
I don't feel like I need to go back.
jjkus2 writes "What do you find to be the most difficult thing to do while making your videos?"
Motion graphics/editing. That takes forever.
And I am not that talented at After Effects, the program.
So if any of you guys wanna help me with that, contact me because that takes up a lot of time.
kyle gallagher writes, "If you had to pick an animal to be, which one would you pick?"
The pangolin! That's my favorite animal!
In fact, if you look at the end of each of the credits of the old videos where I have the old ending,
you can see the pangolin going up and down at the end of the credits.
(some username)
says "What are your cources when speaking about countries?"
"Do you speak with someone from each country? Do you look at the UN or simply Google-search it out?"
Well, that's actually what I want!
I want people who are native of the country of the country that I'm about to do to contact me, so if you are from a country
that I'm about to do, contact me.
Otherwise, yeah, I just do research on the government website of whatever country I'm looking up and a bunch of other sources.
Ruben De Backer writes, "What has been your weirdest job so far?"
That would have to be the one where I dressed up like a hotdog and I
actually was, I was working with this girl and she was kinda cute and I was trying to talk to her a little bit more
but then, we had to do this thing where we were running around a little bit as hotdogs,
and then she completely just like elbowed me in the face!
Accidentally!
And my nose started bleeding, and so that's how I got a bloody nose while dressed up as a hotdog and got payed for it.
Trevor Cold writes, "How many languages do you speak?"
I can understand enough Korean
but I don't really speak it much anymore.
Like if...
...I go to a Korean market around here....
I might use Kroean with the old ladies that work there...
but these days I don't really use it that much.
And I can speak enough French to survive
when I was young my sister taught me some
then I got more interested in learning.
Yeah. That's about it.
"I'm just sharing my opinion -" (dog barks in background)
Hudson!
I'mJustSharingMyOpinion Don'tHateMeForThat writes, "your opinion on koalas?"
Koals are the adorable crackheads of the animal kingdom.
Tap Gear writes, "have you been to Australia?"
No, I wanna go.
Nathan Olds writes, "Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck?"
100 duck-sized horses!
Because have you seen the inside of a bird's mouth?
They have these weird creepy little sharp frilly things. I don't want that coming at me as I'm fighting something!
Okay, ducks are basically aliens!
Finally, one of the questions that was commonly asked was why did I create Geography Now.
To be honest, the reason why is because I was kind of
frustrated that were was no channel on YouTube like it.
So I was like, "why don't I just do it?"
So there you go! Those are some answers to some of your questions.
That was fun! Let's do it again.
Feel free to ask me more questions in the comments if you want.
This week, we're gonna film at the YouTube Space Studios for the first time!
We're gonna do 4 countries.
Covering the next ones: Bahrain, Bangladesh....
Barbados and I think there's one more.
So yeah! We're gonna cover all those countries
and it's gonna be awesome. We're gonna do a lot of behind-the-scenes footage.
That some of you Patreon people can see
not everybody can see all the good behind-the-scenes stuff, so if you're a Patreon patron,
you will be able to see it.
And stay tuned.
It's gonna be awesome.
We're gonna do 4 countries filming in 1 day and hopefully the first one will be up by the end of March,
April 1rst, so on and so forth.
Alright, thank you guys so much for your help and support.
Have a good one. Stay tuned for the next video.