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okay guys hello from the beautiful city
of aura brett-o in Brazil I'm here
drinking a nice strong cup of Brazilian
coffee on this Sunday morning the birds
are chirping you can see the old
colonial style buildings behind us and
I'm trying something new today I have a
guest here on the new Travel Show
his name is Josh Josh hello or just to
give you guys a bit of context we're
traveling together josh reached out to
me he's the reason I'm in Brazil right
now the man the legend why do you tell
us a bit about why I'm here and how this
all came together
sure yeah first my name is Josh here in
Brazil everybody calls me Jules black
special greeting to all the Brazilians
out there when she had those espressos a
rose to the bank yeah I recently started
this little tour company called epic
Brazil tours and I've been a fan of
Dan's channel for a long time and I
reached out to him see if he'd be
interested in coming on a little trial
tour and see how it goes and hopefully
he's been having a great time so far
yeah we're about almost two weeks into
the trip now naari is also here she's
behind the camera right now but yeah
it's been it's been an incredible couple
weeks I I didn't really know what to
expect for Brazil in some ways I never
know what to expect for any country but
I think Brazil has been especially
mind-blowing because I mean I knew about
the Amazon and I knew about the beaches
I knew about some things but like the
scene like what's behind us which you
guys can hopefully see definitely not
what I thought of when I pictured Brazil
when you say this is like not really
what people think of yeah exactly yeah
ohto pret so this entire region around
Minas Gerais which is the
it's the historical mining districts of
Brazil the history here is absolutely
amazing goes back to the 1700s early
1700s this particular town that we're in
it was for a period of about a hundred
years the largest city in all of the
Americas just to give you an idea at the
time New York Boston and Philadelphia
put together how to population smaller
than this town so I I came here in 2016
on a spur-of-the-moment trip and I just
fell in love with this place and it kind
of planted the seed that one day I would
maybe bring people here just for fun and
kind of what happened was earlier this
year bridge the Brazilian government
changed its visa policy so now it's
really easy for Americans and Canadians
Australians Japanese citizens before
needed a visa and I used to be quite
expensive too yeah I was like 160
dollars just to get the visa on top of
the hassle of applying having to go to
an embassy or having to pay somebody to
go to an embassy it was horrible hassle
to get a visa and now you can come
visa-free and Brazil is just a country
with amazing potential it's it's still
very much off the beaten path and yeah
yeah by the way guys obviously this is
like sort of a new format for me
you're probably if you're wondering like
why is Dan holding is phone up like that
it's to try and get a secondary audio
source this kind of helps capture the
voices if you do like this style of
interview let me know leave a comment
what you think I thought it'd be cool to
you know interview some interesting
travelers and people as we're going to
these places and since we're here in
Brazil traveling with Josh I thought no
better way to start the Josh but let's
move back a bit from my Inari's
experience here like what inspired you
to start this tour company and yeah
where did that come from
sure
so a little bit of my background I was
born in the United States lived in the
United States until I was 11 years old
and then my family moved to Brazil and I
was a big event in my life and adapting
to Brazil I at the time I spoke nothing
of the local language here which is
Brazilian Portuguese yeah it was a
complete new culture for me but after
about a year or so like I started to
integrate more and got fluent in the
language and over the following years up
until the age of 17 my entire life was
here in Brazil and and in some ways I
you know I feel Brazilian at heart I
really love this country a lot since
that time I had gone back to the states
I went to college in the US I've been
working in the US and I would come to
Brazil at least once a year mmm I just
absolutely love it here and I had this
kind of this long-term dream of maybe
one day I would start a tour company to
bring people here and this year the
Brazilian government made a huge change
with the visa policy and I decided to
kind of take the plunge and start this
little company here called epic Brazil
tours and we're right in the beginning
stages right now yeah that's that's
awesome guys and I just want to be clear
about one thing this this video series
it's not like exactly an ad for the
company but Josh was the reason we came
down here so as much as possible I want
you guys to let to know that I have
total creative freedom over what is
being said in fact this video is my idea
because I just want you guys to get to
know Josh and sort of understand the
reason that I'm here Josh obviously is
starting to this new business took a big
leap of faith so and so far we've had a
great experience so if anyone's
considering going to Brazil all the
information for the company and the
website and stuff will be in the
description of all the videos for the
Brazil series one last question before
we kind of wrap this up because you're
in a unique situation kind of living
part of your life from Brazil apart in
the United States what would you say is
the biggest difference between those two
cultures or those two like ways of life
I would say the value system is quite
different in some ways you know America
is kind of the center of the business
world you know it's very kind of in some
ways money focused for better for worse
and you know the American dream is to
have the nice big house and have a great
job and but it's largely revolved around
money and well that's that's good and
that's one dream I would say the
Brazilian dream is quite different and
Brazilians are much more focused on on
the simple life on family on free time
on kind of enjoying the small things in
life and I really like I really love
that about Brazil of course Brazil has a
lot of problems as does every single
country in the world but the good of
Brazil definitely over shines the the
issues that the country faces and when
you look at the value system I would say
that's what what really strikes me as
being the largest difference pretty cool
stuff
anyway guys I hope you've enjoyed this
episode of the new Travel Show I'm gonna
leave you with a few shots of this
beautiful town here because you can't
see it right now but there's an
absolutely gorgeous Church behind us and
there's no shortage of cool-looking
buildings in our Bret though that's for
sure yeah totally agree so then Josh
thanks for coming on thanks for inviting
us here and can't wait to showcase
Brazil yeah got more coming all right
guys
hope you've enjoyed this as always i'm
dad from the new travel see you next
time
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