Paul is a genuine guy. Love the stories as I just a bit younger and traveled SE Asia there and then. I've been shot twice being a doorman at Amsterdams biggest club. First in 1997 later in 2019 just before corona. Went straight back to North Thailand for easy quite life. But had to go back for surgery, recovering now. Anyways be back soon when found a good tennant for my house here. Thank you Pete. Love your interviewing. No rush and good questions. Cheers mate!
Brilliant, Paul is back. I've done a couple of RUclips videos up country in rural Isan (i'm very novice though). Sounds similar to where I go. So many things resonate with what I always experience, in particular tying to get around the village while avoiding the Laew Kaew....The music being blasted out by number 1 in the village through speakers too, often at 5 or 6am. I am literally the only farrang that goes there. It's quite a spectacle when I arrive. Lol. They are salt of the earth people. Most of the village elders are still using the sun and moon for time, there's no Internet and electric is sparse, certainly at night. It's like the UK 100 years ago. I absolutely love it! Another great interview.
I love Paul ! This form of docu - journalism - collating the very interesting stories of the farangs - is historically important , especially Paul who's a real gem of a story teller and a gent . Slainté Pete !
Paul is a great guy. I enjoy hearing all his stories in Thailand. I have done the close your eyes and stick a pin on the map for the next place I would travel. Has worked out well. Great video Pete. Keep bring Paul back, I am sure he has more stories to tell us.
In my case I tend toss a dart at a map or look for a remote place that the chances of encountering another foreigner is about nil. I kept a journal myself for years when I was wandering so I can certainly relate to Paul. I had to struggle myself for weeks when I first arrived here and I can,t say it was enjoyable but it forced me to learn the basics of speaking Thai. No regrets now looking back it made me a better person and made life here much more easy and enjoyable. Witnessed a lot of weird crap here over the years so can relate to Paul's stories.
Hello Pete, Paul is a very good story teller. He reminds of Orson Wells. I felt sorry for Paul, when he was admiring this woman washing. He was most probably waiting for her sarong to fall, but it did not happen. Paul forgot the saying, "what you can see sometimes it is hard to get." Pete I am looking forward to see the video, where you interviewed Lilly expat. Take care my friend. Love your video's.
GREAT TO SEE YOU BACK PAUL 😀 Please keep on appearing on RUclips. You're stories are amazing and inspiring. Thank you - Steve (fellow traveller from years gone by).
Paul is an amazing person and one of the most intelligent man I have ever listened to talking and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR Sharing your life stories and may GOD watch over you for the rest of your life
Hey Pete.love Paul and his life stories wow.paul don't go back to places have changed.just keep the memories.good job Pete.hope more stories from Paul thanks.keep it rollin
"No tarmac roads". I remember when there were no tarmac roads in Patong in the early eighties. There was the beach road, which was just a farm track and Bangla Road, which was just rubble and went up to half of it's present length, and that was it.
Your channel is banger pal! Love your content ! And Paul is an absolute legend! Just amazing! You guys make we wanna make the move to Thailand… believe it or not!? 😂🤣
I was living in Phuket town in the mid 80's. I often went to Nakon Si Thammarat and Thung Song. I thought some of the most beautiful Thai women I had ever seen were from around that area. The facial features and 'bone structure' of the face was completely different from the girls of Northern Thailand. I presume it was from the years of 'Indian' migration into the Southern Thai provinces and of course Malaysia? I enjoyed the area, beautiful rice fields around Pattalung . Nearest night out for Farangs may have been Songkhla. (Many working offshore for Unocal ). Great memories!
I spent 4 months living in the Cardamom Jungle of Cambodia and there was very little English out there - I also began to write, but I learned more Khmer in those months than the rest of my time in Cambodia. Kids taight me the most with reguards to language bc kids dont judge, they are used to correcting and moving on, after schooling we loose some of that.
I Loved listening to this man story. Only god knows how many more stories he has to tell (like stories about the thai women he met in the 80s,). I would love to know where he ended up staying after a life of travel (I heard outskirts of Bangkok only). Him mentioning about the curious kids in the village touching his body is similar to what I experienced when I took a teaching job in Vietnam in a village 3 hrs away from Ho Chi Minh City in 2017.
Hi, Guys I enjoyed your interview with Paul. Such a fascinating character I could listen to his stories for hours. I was in a situation in Southern Mexico where I got caught up in some dodgy dealings. I will just say it was the import-export business. The boss man held a party in this three-story restaurant and we were on the top floor sitting around a round table. There were 8/10 people partying. From out of nowhere came this guy in a crash helmet he walked up to the boss and shot him twice in the head. His head exploded brain and his skull splattered everywhere including all over me. Pandamonium ensued. Everyone dived under tables I just grabbed my travel partner by the scruff of his collar and dragged him out of the building into our truck and we escaped. My friend could not speak he was in shock but he kept pointing at me. I was covered in the guy's brain. So I stop the truck and on the side of the road stripped and washed myself dumping the clothes and we went on our merry way. Take care. GOD Bless you and yours. M
I could listen to Paul's story's all day propa interesting character he should definitely start a RUclips channel and tell his stories, when he said he got the old guys smashed and some of them never made it home and fell asleep in the paddocks had me in stitches 😆
I was around southern Thailand as a teen travelling alone in the late 80s. I remember seeing quite a few foreigners around. Nothing like now but it wasn't that unusual.
Oh boy. This guy really knows how to tell a story. Sucks you right in. He had an interesting life. It is not the kind of life I would wish for myself, of course, but it certainly was interesting.
Looking forward to this one - I thought that he had done his last interview as he indicated earlier. Apparently not. Having a change of heart is sometimes a good thing :)
Paul's story is very captivating, and he looks like he has been drinking LOTS of Rice Whisky/Lao Kao in his time, bless his heart. About the murder, it brings back a memory when I was a child, living in my old hometown, about a murder. I was quite young then, but old enough to know what's going on. The story is about a class of school teachers from another province came to visit my school teacher neighbor, and they went camping by the river, Pa Sak river to be exact. Anyway, this one young handsome teacher was probably flirting with a young woman from the other side of the river in a village called Song Korn. She was probably has already been spoken for or engaged to some guy from her village already, so, the next morning, the body of that young handsome school teacher was found floating down the river. He has been beaten to death and then thrown into the river. The murderer was never found, but most folks knew who did it. My point to the story is, don't mess with any woman when in the rural area, because some Thai men will kill to defend their honor. I am glad Paul is alive and I am sure he has many more stories to tell. I am glad that he didn't flirt with any rural women, or did he?
Great interview Pete. I’m mesmerised by Paul’s stories . I’m always left with questions like how does one collect tiger piss and two weeks for murder sounds a little lenient but I find Paul believable . Thailand seems like the kind of place anything could happen especially in those days.
1stvtime in Thailand. Pattaya tiger park ( zoo ) stood near tiger enclosure. A tiger came to me, looked at me for a minute, them turned around and kissed about 3ft and hit thre side of my face. Do what I did, but hold a bucket ? ....the zoo keepers seen me and offered a towel. Apparently, this was obvious and not uncommon.
Great video of paul again. I will differ with Paul on one thing, I have traveled to many out of the way Asian places for extended periods and they will always give respect to a foreigner if you respectfully refuse the alcohol they offer, including at a mens-only drinking setting. (You are never obliged to drink it). Applies to thailand and other countries i travelled to decades ago.😀
Just wanted to add: Most of the hitmen, gunmen hired for 'business around Thailand' came from Nakon Si Thammarat. It is well known in Thailand as the Gunmen province!
I had a turkey farm on the edge of the jungle in Koh Samui in 92 before that lived with the Issan and Nakkon si Tamarat construction workers in another hut for around a year. First on seen for the air crash near Chaweng before the police or public.
Simple village life but fascinating stories on insights into their culture & thinking Paul’s experience in those days show a kinder & generous side of the villager so different from the stories of the deceitful bargirls villager stories of money grabbing parents & their relatives Paul stories show the good side of the villagers
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Here’s a playlist of all the videos I made with Paul Wallis check them out!!! ruclips.net/p/PL8lk4tQnDinC4IXR48j7dUSUojDzkCzU9
I could listen to Paul’s stories everyday and love them!
Very interesting guy!
Thanks Paul & Pete
we LOVE Paul Wallis
He is a true story teller!
You are a natural interviewer. I love the way you just sit back and let them talk.
Thanks🙏🙏
I shared a special tea with young Paul yesterday. He's a genuine character!
Nice one Jim!
Paul is a genuine guy. Love the stories as I just a bit younger and traveled SE Asia there and then. I've been shot twice being a doorman at Amsterdams biggest club. First in 1997 later in 2019 just before corona. Went straight back to North Thailand for easy quite life. But had to go back for surgery, recovering now. Anyways be back soon when found a good tennant for my house here. Thank you Pete. Love your interviewing. No rush and good questions. Cheers mate!
Jeez Hansie sounds like a dangerous gig. Take it easy
Wow mate! Glad to hear you survived Melkweg (if I’m not getting wrong) in the golden age!🔝🦾👏🔝👏🦾Enjoy life buddy🍀
What's going on in Netherlands? Heard they shoot at farmers there these days.... Clown world
This guy's shtories never dissapoint! I could listen to him for hours!
I could listen to Paul Wallis all day long. Such a captivating story teller. Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks!
Hi Pete discovered your site by accident it's addictive I must say esp listening to this Paul Wallis got some great stories and good delivery
Glad you like the videos buddy. I'll have new interviews with Paul coming in a few weeks
I went through the same thing in a small village outside of Lamphun. They even offered me a wife, a house, and a motorbike what an experience..
Pete, you really bring the best out of Paul....and others by your gentle questioning. Great video.
Thanks Gregory
Great to see Paul back again, brilliant stories 👏 👍
Pauls got the goods about heaps of true stuff. Good on him for talking.
Paul is back again with his interesting stories !!!
Paul is a great storyteller. Another excellent video indeed 👍
Good to see Paul is back. He has some great experiences and is a terrific storyteller! HopIng he does more of these in the future.
Brilliant, Paul is back. I've done a couple of RUclips videos up country in rural Isan (i'm very novice though). Sounds similar to where I go. So many things resonate with what I always experience, in particular tying to get around the village while avoiding the Laew Kaew....The music being blasted out by number 1 in the village through speakers too, often at 5 or 6am.
I am literally the only farrang that goes there. It's quite a spectacle when I arrive. Lol. They are salt of the earth people.
Most of the village elders are still using the sun and moon for time, there's no Internet and electric is sparse, certainly at night. It's like the UK 100 years ago.
I absolutely love it!
Another great interview.
Fantastic, sounds like a great adventure
About time, love this guy, moreeeeee please. 1 hr interviews bro
Interview was too short was bloody enjoying that story, ahhhhhhh 😅😅😅❤❤❤❤❤
I love Paul ! This form of docu - journalism - collating the very interesting stories of the farangs - is historically important , especially Paul who's a real gem of a story teller and a gent . Slainté Pete !
Thanks Paul, hopefully in 100years people will be watching these interviews in awe of how Thailand was and astonished by the people who lived here
Love the return of Paul a real character
Yep yep indeed Noel
Pete, this guy is a legend ! Another great interview with Paul.
Thanks very much
Good one Pete. Paul makes me chuckle when he speaks Thai, sooo good, and I can relate to his story. Another enjoyable vlogging, as always 😊🙏
Hehe i like his Thai mannerisms
thanks for another fantastic interview, love listen Paul talking, had been a wonderfull surprise listening him again.
Glad you liked it Gerardo
Pauls life is fascinating! He has so many stories to tell. Please interview him more :)
Terrific! Paul & Pete I always enjoy Paul telling his experiences. Other people are so fascinating! I wish Paul the very best!
Thanks Martin
Great down to earth interviews - better than a good movie - its real!!
Love his stories and Thailand 🇹🇭
Paul is a great guy. I enjoy hearing all his stories in Thailand. I have done the close your eyes and stick a pin on the map for the next place I would travel. Has worked out well. Great video Pete. Keep bring Paul back, I am sure he has more stories to tell us.
Nice, sounds like an interesting way to pick a place to travel to Thomas
Do you guys believe his stories??? He is just faking for the content... Trust me
@@natchateyawan7353 Why would you say that, find nothing extreme or unusual about his stories
Brilliant Paul, Pete can't get enough 🤣well done guys 👏
Hehe Paul knows how to tell a story
wat a great video pete, i like paul stories too
Always enjoy listening to Paul's stories.
Me too
In my case I tend toss a dart at a map or look for a remote place that the chances of encountering another foreigner is about nil. I kept a journal myself for years when I was wandering so I can certainly relate to Paul. I had to struggle myself for weeks when I first arrived here and I can,t say it was enjoyable but it forced me to learn the basics of speaking Thai. No regrets now looking back it made me a better person and made life here much more easy and enjoyable. Witnessed a lot of weird crap here over the years so can relate to Paul's stories.
And again an Interesting Story/Interview Pete. 🙏
Thanks Gert
Good to hear Paul again 👍
Hello Pete, Paul is a very good story teller. He reminds of Orson Wells. I felt sorry for Paul, when he was admiring this woman washing. He was most probably waiting for her sarong to fall, but it did not happen. Paul forgot the saying, "what you can see sometimes it is hard to get." Pete I am looking forward to see the video, where you interviewed Lilly expat. Take care my friend. Love your video's.
Thanks mate. Lilly’s interview is coming soon
GREAT TO SEE YOU BACK PAUL 😀 Please keep on appearing on RUclips. You're stories are amazing and inspiring. Thank you - Steve (fellow traveller from years gone by).
Brilliant Pete, another great interview with an absolute legend! Thank you
Love hearing Paul’s stories.
Glad you liked them
Glad you liked them
KUDOs to this man, to you, to the chill beat at the beginning!
you are very welcome, glad you enjoyed it
good to see Paul back again!
Glad you enjoyed Paul’s return
great interview as always gd job
Great stories. As entertaining as ever. Keep up the great work Pete. More of Paul please if possible!
Thanks Rob
Paul is back!!!!! He needs a spin-off series :)
Oh Paul again yay ! Love your life and how you tell the events of your life. It’s yet an amazing story again. Thanks Paul and Pete.
Paul is an amazing person and one of the most intelligent man I have ever listened to talking and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR Sharing your life stories and may GOD watch over you for the rest of your life
Again very good yarns cheers,Paul onside audio books cheers
Hey Pete.love Paul and his life stories wow.paul don't go back to places have changed.just keep the memories.good job Pete.hope more stories from Paul thanks.keep it rollin
Will do mate
Paul, is a great story teller.
Paul is a legend .
Another great video Pete 🙏
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Fab video Pete thank you for sharing . Is the interview with Lilly expat life out yet I haven’t seen it thank you Pete
Hi Margaret the Lilly interview is out now
Where the hell did you dig him up?? Excellent interview and great stories!
Paule is facinating
What a character, his memory for the small details gives him away buy I still enjoy his stories.
Love you Paul for sharing
"No, never. Not my generation. I've always had access to the internet."
So beautifully blunt. I love you, Pete.
Haha straight to the point
... another awesome stuff, Pete. All thanks to Paul.this is his best episode.just love the ham sandwich part...and the drinking part..ha3.cheers.
"No tarmac roads".
I remember when there were no tarmac roads in Patong in the early eighties.
There was the beach road, which was just a farm track and Bangla Road, which was just rubble and went up to half of it's present length, and that was it.
Glad to see the man the myth the legend back.
Thanks guys. Amazing to listen to you two talk. I live in Chiang Mai now and listening to your stories reaffirms to me why I moved to Thailand.
Thank you for sharing your stories.
And thank you for watching
Love Paul's stories very interesting times, good stuff Pete :D
Cheers bud, glad you liked it
Mine oh mine... Incredible life story, Paul...
When are you playing the Lilly video ? Looking forward to it 💕
Lilly’s video is coming in a couple of days. It’s gonna be a long one
Love these stories
Your channel is banger pal! Love your content ! And Paul is an absolute legend! Just amazing! You guys make we wanna make the move to Thailand… believe it or not!? 😂🤣
Love the stories!
I was living in Phuket town in the mid 80's. I often went to Nakon Si Thammarat and Thung Song. I thought some of the most beautiful Thai women I had ever seen were from around that area. The facial features and 'bone structure' of the face was completely different from the girls of Northern Thailand. I presume it was from the years of 'Indian' migration into the Southern Thai provinces and of course Malaysia? I enjoyed the area, beautiful rice fields around Pattalung . Nearest night out for Farangs may have been Songkhla. (Many working offshore for Unocal ). Great memories!
Indian?
I spent 4 months living in the Cardamom Jungle of Cambodia and there was very little English out there - I also began to write, but I learned more Khmer in those months than the rest of my time in Cambodia. Kids taight me the most with reguards to language bc kids dont judge, they are used to correcting and moving on, after schooling we loose some of that.
Very interesting story cheers
I Loved listening to this man story. Only god knows how many more stories he has to tell (like stories about the thai women he met in the 80s,). I would love to know where he ended up staying after a life of travel (I heard outskirts of Bangkok only). Him mentioning about the curious kids in the village touching his body is similar to what I experienced when I took a teaching job in Vietnam in a village 3 hrs away from Ho Chi Minh City in 2017.
There could be something similar to what you mentioned with Paul at a future date
There could be something similar to what you mentioned with Paul at a future date
There could be something similar to what you mentioned with Paul at a future date
Hi, Guys I enjoyed your interview with Paul. Such a fascinating character I could listen to his stories for hours. I was in a situation in Southern Mexico where I got caught up in some dodgy dealings. I will just say it was the import-export business. The boss man held a party in this three-story restaurant and we were on the top floor sitting around a round table. There were 8/10 people partying. From out of nowhere came this guy in a crash helmet he walked up to the boss and shot him twice in the head. His head exploded brain and his skull splattered everywhere including all over me. Pandamonium ensued. Everyone dived under tables I just grabbed my travel partner by the scruff of his collar and dragged him out of the building into our truck and we escaped. My friend could not speak he was in shock but he kept pointing at me. I was covered in the guy's brain. So I stop the truck and on the side of the road stripped and washed myself dumping the clothes and we went on our merry way.
Take care. GOD Bless you and yours. M
You need to write a book mate
@@ThairishTimes Or at least put it in some videos. I will think on this
I could listen to Paul's story's all day propa interesting character he should definitely start a RUclips channel and tell his stories, when he said he got the old guys smashed and some of them never made it home and fell asleep in the paddocks had me in stitches 😆
Good easy listen but taking his stories with a big pinch of salt these days.
I think Paul's full of shit.
@@Murray2278 I think you're probably right.
A street full of salt water pools amount of salt.
Who cares he makes it up, there fantastic stories, and he is a master story teller. 👍
....and isn't it great to hear these stories whether they are fabricated or not? I for one welcome this.
hes a great story teller
I was around southern Thailand as a teen travelling alone in the late 80s. I remember seeing quite a few foreigners around. Nothing like now but it wasn't that unusual.
Oh boy. This guy really knows how to tell a story. Sucks you right in. He had an interesting life. It is not the kind of life I would wish for myself, of course, but it certainly was interesting.
Absolutely! My thoughts exactly
Looking forward to this one - I thought that he had done his last interview as he indicated earlier. Apparently not. Having a change of heart is sometimes a good thing :)
Paul's story is very captivating, and he looks like he has been drinking LOTS of Rice Whisky/Lao Kao in his time, bless his heart. About the murder, it brings back a memory when I was a child, living in my old hometown, about a murder. I was quite young then, but old enough to know what's going on. The story is about a class of school teachers from another province came to visit my school teacher neighbor, and they went camping by the river, Pa Sak river to be exact.
Anyway, this one young handsome teacher was probably flirting with a young woman from the other side of the river in a village called Song Korn. She was probably has already been spoken for or engaged to some guy from her village already, so, the next morning, the body of that young handsome school teacher was found floating down the river. He has been beaten to death and then thrown into the river. The murderer was never found, but most folks knew who did it. My point to the story is, don't mess with any woman when in the rural area, because some Thai men will kill to defend their honor.
I am glad Paul is alive and I am sure he has many more stories to tell. I am glad that he didn't flirt with any rural women, or did he?
Wow that’s a sad story and terrible that the murderer never faces justice
Great story teller
Paul is the best story teller farang.
Glad you liked it
Great interview Pete. I’m mesmerised by Paul’s stories . I’m always left with questions like how does one collect tiger piss and two weeks for murder sounds a little lenient but I find Paul believable . Thailand seems like the kind of place anything could happen especially in those days.
Lol yeah how would one collect that 😂😂
1stvtime in Thailand. Pattaya tiger park ( zoo ) stood near tiger enclosure. A tiger came to me, looked at me for a minute, them turned around and kissed about 3ft and hit thre side of my face. Do what I did, but hold a bucket ? ....the zoo keepers seen me and offered a towel. Apparently, this was obvious and not uncommon.
He is absolutely amazing.
More great stories from Paul.
Absolutely Mick
I think the saying "I've seen it all" really DOES apply to Paul in Thailand. What's he not done or seen? lol I could listen to him all day long.
Haha yeah exactly
“Flashing LED lights” 🤣😂
if ya know… Ya know!!
Great video of paul again.
I will differ with Paul on one thing, I have traveled to many out of the way Asian places for extended periods and they will always give respect to a foreigner if you respectfully refuse the alcohol they offer, including at a mens-only drinking setting. (You are never obliged to drink it). Applies to thailand and other countries i travelled to decades ago.😀
Paul stories anytime
Cool👍🏼👍🏼
Very interesting, but why did you not ask him about dating local girls in the village back then, I wonder if it was possible at all?
I have a new interview with him where he goes into detail about the relationships he’s had in Thailand. Coming really soon
Interesting likable guy
26:20 Great words of wisdom. This is why I never do any housework.
The perfect excuse 😂😂😂
Just wanted to add: Most of the hitmen, gunmen hired for 'business around Thailand' came from Nakon Si Thammarat. It is well known in Thailand as the Gunmen province!
Paul made me lauh & smile while lstening to him.
I had a turkey farm on the edge of the jungle in Koh Samui in 92 before that lived with the Issan and Nakkon si Tamarat construction workers in another hut for around a year. First on seen for the air crash near Chaweng before the police or public.
this guy is a legend
Should have kept him to his word. Please say never again once more.
Simple village life but fascinating stories on insights into their culture & thinking Paul’s experience in those days show a kinder & generous side of the villager so different from the stories of the deceitful bargirls villager stories of money grabbing parents & their relatives Paul stories show the good side of the villagers
Such a character Paul Wallis ;-)
😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼