Thank you for shedding more light on this! My family escaped from Laos around this time. I am first generation Laos American in my family. I haven’t been to the country yet. It is nice to see its current state.
Laos is a lovely country. I visited in 2022 and it's one of my favourite countries I've visited. It's chilled, affordable, beautiful and just generally pleasant. Highly recommended.
@DailyBald I see a great deal of footage there from Bomb Harvest ;-), I am the Australian bomb technician that the story was based around. Thanks for shining a light on the problem of UXO contamination in Laos, it really does help!
Finally you come to Laos, you’re welcome. I followed your channel a few years ago. I love your journey. Thank you for sharing the UXO story in Laos to the world. Enjoy your journey.
i was gonna call BS about "hundreds of millions of bombs". you weren't lying. "The operation resulted in 260 million bombs being dropped on Laos". MAN.....
My understanding was they were trying to bomb the Ho chi man (spelling I'm sure), trial. The VC were using that route to get south. Not that it justifies it, only saying
haha so true goes to a country just for a 10 min. video. I'm curious as to what kind of scheduling these travel vloggers use, but I'm pretty sure that he recorded more than this. Who knows how old this video actually is.
I've been to Laos (though only to the capital), it's such a fascinating country. The contrast between it and Thai, large parts of which it shares a language and historic culture with, is huge due to its history of colonisation by the French and later communism separating the neighbours. There's a really interesting little museum in the capital about the bombings and especially about the huge number of artificial limbs produced for people maimed by bombs just dug up on farms and such.
Hi Anyone in laos who loose a limb can enter Thailand with out a passport and get artificial limbs at most northern Thailand hospitals. Sponsored by the Thai royal family
I love this channel. I get a weird nostalgic feeling watching these videos. It’s like seeing what your crazy uncle is up to on Facebook. Except it’s just Ben being pissing about in a faraway land. And I wouldn’t change it for the world
An unfastened helmet is called a hat, and is probably more dangerous than no helmet at all because it will only give you the illusion of protection. On the plus side, it will protect you from falling bricks.
@cessactdm I did listen to that before posting. I believe it is better to take the helmet off than to leave it on unfastened. Other road users will give him more space and he will also take fewer risks. A helmet hat is only good for surviving falling bricks, meteorites and bombs. Good day to you.
I joined with thousands of others in marching against the war during those terrible years, but it was only after the war was over that we began to learn the true horror of all the evil and illegal things the US military machine did in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. When I visited Laos and Cambodia, I was struck by the terrible ongoing tragedy that al of those unexploded bombs continue to bring to present day civilians. The US has a lot to account for, and the first thing Americans must do is acknowledge the awful truths of that war. The next thing Americans and the rest of the world must do is demand that the US send money, equipment, and experts to find and defuse all those unexploded bombs that continue to blow off the legs of farmers and children in the fields of Laos and Cambodia.
США не до этого, они сейчас поставляют и разрешают Украине разбрасывать по городам Донбасса запрещенные незаметные мины-лепестки без механизма самоликвидации, чтобы на них массово подрывались гражданские в том числе и дети
Eisenhower WAS the military industrial complex. he also sent a million men to gulags in Operation Paperclip, and murdered many prisoners of war, through starvation, and exposure.
as a Laotian, most villager up in the north can barely speak Lao and is often illiterate so they wouldn't able to read or speak it, but man, I'd never thought I'd see you in Laos
I live in Thailand. My housemaid is from Laos. She has worked for me for more than 15 years. I employed her to help me with my 2 children after my wife left. My kids have long gone now. I don't really need the maid, but no way will I let here leave! Trustworthy, genuine and a great worker! Goes out of her way to help with all tasks needed to be done. Her family are now here in Thailand. Lovely people for sure!
That's great a relationship where you both benefit from each other, so many genuinely good people in SE Asia. As an American I'm ashamed of what my country has done both there and in Vietnam.
Love your content. Very informative, I've learnt a lot from you. Been following you for 5yrs now. Stay safe and have fun everywhere you may go. May God and Angels be with you at all times 🙏❤
Great Vlog Bald....Never realised the American bombing campaign went on for such a long time...Got this from a quick Google "The U.S. spent $17 million a day to drop the bombs, but contributed just $61 million between 1993 to 2012 to remove them. At the current rate of spending, it will take several thousand years before Lao soil is bomb-free" The double standards in the world...and we wonder why there so much anger and resentment...
@@rzella8022 you should be asking the very first question is why US starting an operation of anti-Communist in Vietnam in the first place while Vietnam and US have no conflict during that times. Destroying the road trail so that North cant arm supply South is purely bs as well, why does the operation called secret war? The Vietnam war is called anti-Communist war, bombing Laos is just to make sure China won't expand their influences toward south and using Laos as buffer zone hence the secret war lasted that long.
Man this is crazy. Just brings to memory just a couple of weeks ago in Japan a bomb from WW2 exploded at a Japan airport. Just think about how long that bomb had been sitting in the ground undiscovered and it still exploded.
What an amazingly forgiving people. I know it's been 70 years since the bombs fell, but I imagine some of the people Bald encountered experienced the horror. Thanks for reminding us of the humanity.
Thank you for this informative video Bald. As an American my heart goes out to the people of Laos. I didn’t know the atrocities that we committed in Laos to this extent. USA, if we haven’t already, we should do something really generous for the people of Laos. Much love!
Good morning/afternoon/evening/ Daily Bald (Ben), love your video vlogs & enjoy watching this channel & your Bald & Bankrupt channel. You always are a gem to watch & I, especially, like your immense & admirable research you do before you go trotting off to distant horizons! Thanks for all the educational information in places I would never get to!! Great works, Ben!! Cheers & keep yourself safe & young at heart!! Have a great evening!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Thank you, Ben. You are my favorite creator on RUclips, and I am overly ecstatic to see an upload on this channel along with your main channel! I hope to see more in the future!
I was just in Laos this summer for a month, it was the most breathtaking experience I have ever had. I have travelled through Thailand, Cambodia , Vietnam and Indonesia but nothing compares to how amazing Laos was. If your reading this go to Laos and it will be one of the best things you ever do
@@TheAnnoyingBoss in the 60s, the US supported the military coup that toppled the first president of Indonesia. The post coup regime, the Soeharto regime, then mass killed more than 1 million Indonesians. The method in which the massacre of left leaning Indonesians was conducted is called 'the Jakarta Method'. the CIA later used the same method to suppress socialist movement in Latin America. the US actions in Indonesia in the 60s had a two-pronged objective. Firstly to suppress communist influence in the region. Secondly, to secure the world's biggest gold mine in West Papua, later controlled by Freeport McMorran, through unholy alliance between the Indonesian dictator, Soeharto, and the CIA, the defender of Capitalism. The horror of the GREED of CAPITALISM.
Awesome video, I visited Laos earlier this year and it was an awesome place. Cool to see you went to Phonsovan, this area is supposedly the second most heavily bombed province in the country. Enjoy and don’t venture too far off the trail! Haha
Glad to see you go to Lao. Most people dont know about it being the most bombed country in the world. My family fled the war in 1975 to come to America. Hope to visit my country one day
Yep, no idea why Backpacker Ben bothers with his channel. Seems to hate travel, never bothers to learn a new language, has zero charisma. Brings Bald's channel down hugely.
You don't need gpt to do that mate. But yes, you could buy why. There's a button to press on a translation to speak what is written. Gpt just sounds like an overcomplication in that situation imo 🤷
@@MrMazza4321 it's alot quicker and more efficient to use the advanced chat mode in gpt. No recording what they're saying then asking it to replay it in another language . It's literally live it just listens and translates in real-time. Search it on RUclips you'll see what I mean
I need to always have CC turned on for Backpacker Ben's girlfriend. I never understand a word she says. RUclips's CC can't understand her most of the time either.
the usa actually stopped bombing laos in 1973, not 1979. the U.S. bombed Laos as part of its strategy to stop the spread of communism, by disrupting North Vietnamese supply routes and supporting anti-communist forces in the region. However, the extensive nature of the bombing had a devastating impact on Laos, with limited strategic success for the U.S. Over 2 million tons of bombs were dropped on Laos, including civilian areas, leaving behind a legacy of unexploded bombs that continue to cause casualties today
Nice to see you Benjamin, love the ending. Thanks for showing some insight to the atrocities committed against the people of Laos. Looking forward to seeing you back in Eastern Europe one of these days.
Historically, “humanity” would be used to describe exactly this kind of thing. (Ie. “Oh the humanity!”) Humanity was in contrast to holiness; the idea being that god is good and humans are inherently prone to evil.
@@capitalist4life Except god is an idea open for discussion and humanity is real and becomes what genetics and life make of it. I would say humanity is prone to doing good despite the hell it was shoved into. We are coping.
A Laos civil war began in 1959, which saw the communist Pathet Lao, supported by North Vietnam and the Soviet Union, fight against the Royal Lao Armed Forces, supported by the United States. After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the Lao People's Revolutionary Party established a one-party socialist republic espousing Marxism-Leninism. North Vietnam had a supply route through eastern Laos called the Ho Chi Minh trail, which they used to supply the communist NVA and Viet Kong in their war against South Vietnam and the South Vietnam Army and U.S. troops. That was why the bombing happened. In an effort to destroy North Vietnam’s military supply route to the south. They were not intentionally bombing innocent villages as many try to claim.
I'm a big history fan but didn t know anything about Laos except the where it was on a map. Thankyou Bald once again for the lesson and the vid. Hope you made a main channel one too lol. Finally daily bald is back! It was first vid on my recommended, the algorithm knows I watch anything bald religiously lol...ffs I ev3n watch Backpecker Ben 😂😂
@@theasianjaywalker4455 Did the bombs discriminate between the rebels and the local population? Wow. Why did this ground-breaking war invention disappear?
@@theasianjaywalker4455 Why do you find it as 'gross'? Do you think the Ho Chi Minh trail was an ACTUAL visible pathway for the rebels? Or was it maybe just a general area, that happened to include many innocent villages, as well? What would logic dictate? If you are unable to ask yourself those pertinent questions, you are propagandised or blandly jingoistic. No anxiety and self-loathing on my part.
People wouldn't have actually democratically voted for the bombing. Politicians may be elected but what they do afterwards isn't democratic. No voting to make sure the elected represent the interests of the people.
Ok Bald us viewers have a request. Replace Backpacker Ben with Alinchik!!! She was up for every adventure and he seems to get queasy at the site of anything non modern!!
Not sure those fence posts are bombs. I'm pretty sure they're drop tanks from the jets. They carry fuel until empty and usually discarded mid flight. Some larger ones are used as boats in Vietnam.
They are carriers for clusterbombs @@TheLordFragger I live here 10 years almost ,they find daily clusters everywhere MAG and UXO lao are the biggest organisations here ,too clear up the bombs ,only around 2 % is cleared after several years they work here Its part of the daily life of the locals
Sorry. Wrong term. CBU. Cluster Bomb unit. Two halves of a clamshell, holding 2-300 cluster bomblets. Ran at an average failure rate back then on 35%. So zillions just lying around waiting to go off. Horrible things. Would be considered a war crime these days as they do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
Finally remembered my password
Bloody amazing haha. This will be a treat
Sounds like a time for a sponsor
It was password or was it drowssap
great 👍
What a coincidence, I'm watching your Albania video now, having your beard trimmed lol....
Unbuckled helmet works the same way as birthday hat
agreed
my first thought lol
I’m here in the Philippines, literally everyone wears a helmet and then does not buckle it 😅😅
Good way to become a vegetable especially at old age.
It's sun protection.
I haven’t seen Daily Bald in like 3 years and yet the YT algorithm still remembers that I love his channel.. GREAT SUCCESS!
omggg is that a borдt reference ?
@@kristiant96 exactly
I like! Is nice.
@@AdventureElliot kind of a racist stereotype but it's all good westerners don't know romanians nor kazakhs that well hehe 😀
Well i wasn't expecting to see you around here
'daily' my ass, get working old man😂
To be fair, he did say maybe😂
The Russians have bought him off or threaten him
Once a day every 2 years.
🤣👍
He is too well off to be bothered.
11 minutes? Man, are you kidding me? We need more of your videos
It's the Daily Bald channel so the videos are always shorter on here
He's turned into a Russian agent
@@Mikeb8134 Even though he massively criticised its leaders and was subsequently banned from entering? Give your head a wobble
Based facts
@@SongBillongHe tried to please both parties, Ukraine and Russia and now he can’t go to both or Belarus. Own fault really, you can’t please everyone.
Thank you for shedding more light on this! My family escaped from Laos around this time.
I am first generation Laos American in my family. I haven’t been to the country yet. It is nice to see its current state.
Excellent work Benjamin.
The carnage visited upon these people is and was appalling.
🙏🩵
As the Americans say 'Friendly fire'??
I've learned more about history from you than anyone else man, thanks Bald. Love you bro.
Mr Bald. Thank you for coming back. These videos help me a lot . Leg end
Laos is a lovely country. I visited in 2022 and it's one of my favourite countries I've visited. It's chilled, affordable, beautiful and just generally pleasant. Highly recommended.
Laos is the quietest country on this planet. If you need to recover some lost sleep, it's the perfect place for a vacation - and I am not joking.
They listen to the rice grow.
@@gagamba9198very funny and original
Norway was very quiet
I really loved my time in Luang Prabang. So chill. Need to return to this place someday.
Not me reading this at 2:50
@DailyBald I see a great deal of footage there from Bomb Harvest ;-), I am the Australian bomb technician that the story was based around. Thanks for shining a light on the problem of UXO contamination in Laos, it really does help!
Oh nice one! An Aussie legend. Don’t tell the producers I nicked the clips without permission 😂
@DailyBald all good mate 😂
@@DailyBald Skype old m8 for an interview on the history/current work, use it on the backend of the laos content
The legend has returned
Finally you come to Laos, you’re welcome. I followed your channel a few years ago. I love your journey. Thank you for sharing the UXO story in Laos to the world. Enjoy your journey.
i was gonna call BS about "hundreds of millions of bombs". you weren't lying. "The operation resulted in 260 million bombs being dropped on Laos". MAN.....
Rules based order right there)))
My understanding was they were trying to bomb the Ho chi man (spelling I'm sure), trial. The VC were using that route to get south.
Not that it justifies it, only saying
580.000 bombing missions 😢.
Not a proud time to be an American.
@@ernstoud 580 thousand.. my god
"Flew all the way to Laos, Dropped its load and returned." Bit like what you're doing then lmao
xD
HHAHAHAH
haha so true goes to a country just for a 10 min. video. I'm curious as to what kind of scheduling these travel vloggers use, but I'm pretty sure that he recorded more than this. Who knows how old this video actually is.
I've been to Laos (though only to the capital), it's such a fascinating country. The contrast between it and Thai, large parts of which it shares a language and historic culture with, is huge due to its history of colonisation by the French and later communism separating the neighbours. There's a really interesting little museum in the capital about the bombings and especially about the huge number of artificial limbs produced for people maimed by bombs just dug up on farms and such.
Hi Anyone in laos who loose a limb can enter Thailand with out a passport and get artificial limbs at most northern Thailand hospitals. Sponsored by the Thai royal family
I love this channel. I get a weird nostalgic feeling watching these videos. It’s like seeing what your crazy uncle is up to on Facebook. Except it’s just Ben being pissing about in a faraway land. And I wouldn’t change it for the world
An unfastened helmet is called a hat, and is probably more dangerous than no helmet at all because it will only give you the illusion of protection. On the plus side, it will protect you from falling bricks.
The US Terrorist Regime went crazy on Laos.
@cessactdm I did listen to that before posting. I believe it is better to take the helmet off than to leave it on unfastened. Other road users will give him more space and he will also take fewer risks. A helmet hat is only good for surviving falling bricks, meteorites and bombs. Good day to you.
It might protect him from falling bombs too
Excellent sun protection.
@cessactdmYeah but there’s no point in putting it on if this strap doesn’t work
I joined with thousands of others in marching against the war during those terrible years, but it was only after the war was over that we began to learn the true horror of all the evil and illegal things the US military machine did in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. When I visited Laos and Cambodia, I was struck by the terrible ongoing tragedy that al of those unexploded bombs continue to bring to present day civilians. The US has a lot to account for, and the first thing Americans must do is acknowledge the awful truths of that war. The next thing Americans and the rest of the world must do is demand that the US send money, equipment, and experts to find and defuse all those unexploded bombs that continue to blow off the legs of farmers and children in the fields of Laos and Cambodia.
США не до этого, они сейчас поставляют и разрешают Украине разбрасывать по городам Донбасса запрещенные незаметные мины-лепестки без механизма самоликвидации, чтобы на них массово подрывались гражданские в том числе и дети
Holy crap! This channel is alive!!!
No longer bankrupt 😅
From the jungles of Laos...
@@guydreamr to the wildlife of Grimsby 😬🦁🐍
Eisenhower was right about the military industrial complex.
Eisenhower WAS the military industrial complex. he also sent a million men to gulags in Operation Paperclip, and murdered many prisoners of war, through starvation, and exposure.
as a Laotian, most villager up in the north can barely speak Lao and is often illiterate so they wouldn't able to read or speak it, but man, I'd never thought I'd see you in Laos
What language do they speak then?
@@YossiRafelson ooga booga language
"Dirty Secrets and Double Life of Bald" is a pretty good video to watch in between :)
@@YossiRafelson there are hundreds of groups who have been migrating around Asia avoiding cleansings for thousands of years.
as a person directly coming from the result of the bombs, i beg to differ.
I visited Laos last year and only went to the main tourist spots, love how Bald shows us the undiscovered parts!
How come you did that?
I live in Thailand. My housemaid is from Laos. She has worked for me for more than 15 years. I employed her to help me with my 2 children after my wife left. My kids have long gone now. I don't really need the maid, but no way will I let here leave! Trustworthy, genuine and a great worker! Goes out of her way to help with all tasks needed to be done. Her family are now here in Thailand. Lovely people for sure!
That's great a relationship where you both benefit from each other, so many genuinely good people in SE Asia. As an American I'm ashamed of what my country has done both there and in Vietnam.
Cheap immigrant labor
@@Dutchmaster707 She needs me more than I need her and I pay her above local Thai rates! She's knows where she's well off!
Love your content. Very informative, I've learnt a lot from you. Been following you for 5yrs now. Stay safe and have fun everywhere you may go. May God and Angels be with you at all times 🙏❤
You're brilliant, Bald, always happy to see you (and Backpacker Ben!)!
Thank you for showing this video of real people in parts of the world we don't really hear about. And informing us of it's history.
Great Vlog Bald....Never realised the American bombing campaign went on for such a long time...Got this from a quick Google
"The U.S. spent $17 million a day to drop the bombs, but contributed just $61 million between 1993 to 2012 to remove them. At the current rate of spending, it will take several thousand years before Lao soil is bomb-free"
The double standards in the world...and we wonder why there so much anger and resentment...
" They went for saving democracy, not for power ". Oh that is why China was their trade partner.
🙏🩵
We're definitely not being told something by the US government; WHY Laos was bombed like that is non-sensical.
@@rzella8022
you should be asking the very first question is why US starting an operation of anti-Communist in Vietnam in the first place while Vietnam and US have no conflict during that times.
Destroying the road trail so that North cant arm supply South is purely bs as well, why does the operation called secret war?
The Vietnam war is called anti-Communist war, bombing Laos is just to make sure China won't expand their influences toward south and using Laos as buffer zone hence the secret war lasted that long.
@@DJs021 Only the cia knows why. Maybe just to destroy/weaken Americans and profit from the Military Industrial Complex.
You taking the time to really take in things people wouldn’t notice keeps me interested.
Man this is crazy. Just brings to memory just a couple of weeks ago in Japan a bomb from WW2 exploded at a Japan airport. Just think about how long that bomb had been sitting in the ground undiscovered and it still exploded.
Backpacker Ben popping out of the ancient jar at the end! Classic!
SOLO Bald ✅
11 Minute video Bald ✅
Back to the good old days ✅
What an amazingly forgiving people. I know it's been 70 years since the bombs fell, but I imagine some of the people Bald encountered experienced the horror. Thanks for reminding us of the humanity.
Amazing Episode. People in Laos seem so friendly swell what a peaceful tribe
Great to see you again.
Thank you for this informative video Bald. As an American my heart goes out to the people of Laos. I didn’t know the atrocities that we committed in Laos to this extent. USA, if we haven’t already, we should do something really generous for the people of Laos. Much love!
It's hard to admit you didn't know something...but , this has been common knowledge for ages. Schools are awful.
@@ButterFadeGolf In American schools, the atrocities we commit against the world are never taught. What we did to the natives is rarely even taught.
Just in Laos? 😂 Damn, it wonders me how naive people can be...
There are still 80 million cluster bombs to be cleared ...did the Americans get a $hit ? NO
Good morning/afternoon/evening/ Daily Bald (Ben), love your video vlogs & enjoy watching this channel & your Bald & Bankrupt channel. You always are a gem to watch & I, especially, like your immense & admirable research you do before you go trotting off to distant horizons! Thanks for all the educational information in places I would never get to!! Great works, Ben!! Cheers & keep yourself safe & young at heart!! Have a great evening!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Best blogger on RUclips really enjoyed this even though only a short video
Very very good video!
Daily Is back!!! Nice
They were transporting supply’s through the “Min trail “, in Laos. Also a rebel group in Laos linked up with the North V.
I kinda like the 2 year waiting period. Really makes you appreciate the times we've had with Bald
Why even make this comment when you watch him on his main channel? Plantform.
as a laotian been watching your vids a lot, didn't expect you to be in Laos. welcome man
Went to Laos this year, such an amazing country!
Thank you, Ben. You are my favorite creator on RUclips, and I am overly ecstatic to see an upload on this channel along with your main channel! I hope to see more in the future!
7:35 Can you keep it down ? And they get even louder 😂 I think it’s personal 😂😂😂
Your blogs just get better and better. Humor, bit of history beautiful cinematography...I love the green and always mysterious countries.
The “bomb fence” are fuel containers the air force used as extra jerrycans.
glad to have you back. love the content.
Laos is my favourite country on Earth - so sad the damage done 😞
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I was just in Laos this summer for a month, it was the most breathtaking experience I have ever had. I have travelled through Thailand, Cambodia , Vietnam and Indonesia but nothing compares to how amazing Laos was. If your reading this go to Laos and it will be one of the best things you ever do
Nice mate! Good to see you upload to this channel again....dont forget the password again ;)
I am an old American and carry with me an immense guilt for what we did to those people. We had no right and history proved us wrong. Dishonorable.
You are responsible for this? Im a young american and i had nothing to do with this.
Its very sad, LAOS is a beautiful country and America went there to destroy it ,killing many innocent women and childrens.😪😪😪😪
Check out War Is A Racket by Smedley Butler Cmdt. USMC.
War is a drug. USA the addict
@@TheAnnoyingBoss in the 60s, the US supported the military coup that toppled the first president of Indonesia. The post coup regime, the Soeharto regime, then mass killed more than 1 million Indonesians. The method in which the massacre of left leaning Indonesians was conducted is called 'the Jakarta Method'. the CIA later used the same method to suppress socialist movement in Latin America.
the US actions in Indonesia in the 60s had a two-pronged objective. Firstly to suppress communist influence in the region. Secondly, to secure the world's biggest gold mine in West Papua, later controlled by Freeport McMorran, through unholy alliance between the Indonesian dictator, Soeharto, and the CIA, the defender of Capitalism.
The horror of the GREED of CAPITALISM.
Awesome video, I visited Laos earlier this year and it was an awesome place. Cool to see you went to Phonsovan, this area is supposedly the second most heavily bombed province in the country. Enjoy and don’t venture too far off the trail! Haha
You flippin had me glued when I saw that bomb fence, gosh imagine that! Greetings from Cape Town RSA, love your content!!
Omg!!! I miss your content. You helped me thru pandemic hahha
Didn't even realize this was daily bald. Always quality content.
3:58 bald out of context
funny
8:51
Hello Benjamin
Great vlog, good to hear historical info. 👏🏼👏🏼
Wait this channel is still being used? Awesome 😊
Welcome back !
Daily Bald has returned, I just fell to my knees.
Glad to see you go to Lao. Most people dont know about it being the most bombed country in the world. My family fled the war in 1975 to come to America. Hope to visit my country one day
I only clicked because it said solo,then he pops out.
That guy would complain about winning the lottery.
Yeah he's pretty irritating at times
Yep, no idea why Backpacker Ben bothers with his channel. Seems to hate travel, never bothers to learn a new language, has zero charisma. Brings Bald's channel down hugely.
So weird seeing this pop up after literally just being in Luang Prabang for the light festival.....
You should use the live translate feature in Chatgpts new advanced voice chat Ben, its amazing. especially if people you meet cant read
You don't need gpt to do that mate. But yes, you could buy why. There's a button to press on a translation to speak what is written. Gpt just sounds like an overcomplication in that situation imo 🤷
Does it still rely on the phone to properly identify what they’re saying? A western phone might not have the best software to support rural Laotian
@@MrMazza4321 it's alot quicker and more efficient to use the advanced chat mode in gpt. No recording what they're saying then asking it to replay it in another language . It's literally live it just listens and translates in real-time. Search it on RUclips you'll see what I mean
you seem like a charachter that chatgpt made... with that pfp and that name and way of typing
I need to always have CC turned on for Backpacker Ben's girlfriend. I never understand a word she says. RUclips's CC can't understand her most of the time either.
great stuff bald, as usual
The short period I spent in Laos was incredible. This makes me want to go back. Great vid Bald!
He’s back!!!! Finally a good thing to come outta 2024
Funny enough I checked this channel 3 hours ago thinking: "will Bald ever post anything here??"
Don't thank me;)
Never thought I would see another Daily Bald video.
Timmy and Bald posting back to back days.. name a better combo 👌
Where can I find timmys videos please?
@@bedfo7944 on his channel
@@bedfo7944 on his channel maybe?
@@bedfo7944 timmy carter
Love Balds videos. So informative and entertaining all in one.
the usa actually stopped bombing laos in 1973, not 1979. the U.S. bombed Laos as part of its strategy to stop the spread of communism, by disrupting North Vietnamese supply routes and supporting anti-communist forces in the region. However, the extensive nature of the bombing had a devastating impact on Laos, with limited strategic success for the U.S. Over 2 million tons of bombs were dropped on Laos, including civilian areas, leaving behind a legacy of unexploded bombs that continue to cause casualties today
Man how I’ve missed this content. Always great to
See you upload
Very sad to think of all those bombs destroying people's lives.
Always sporting the Ralph! Bald knows quality.
Bald: shows a guy repairing a pothole in the street, "they're still rebuilding now" lmao
look at this *soviet* pothole
Glad you’re back on this channel mate!!
Nice to see you Benjamin, love the ending. Thanks for showing some insight to the atrocities committed against the people of Laos. Looking forward to seeing you back in Eastern Europe one of these days.
Great vid as always
Thanks. Perhaps the most educational and straightforward video you ever made.we call ourselves human but there is no humanity in us.
There is. Its just that when you have too much money that it drains your humanity dry and you still want more.
Historically, “humanity” would be used to describe exactly this kind of thing.
(Ie. “Oh the humanity!”)
Humanity was in contrast to holiness; the idea being that god is good and humans are inherently prone to evil.
@@capitalist4life Except god is an idea open for discussion and humanity is real and becomes what genetics and life make of it.
I would say humanity is prone to doing good despite the hell it was shoved into. We are coping.
Unique video Bald.
Safety first: Proceeds to put on his helmet (doesn't strap it 🤦♂)
I love your videos btw!😊
Did you not hear the strap doesn’t lock up?
Its a Bald move
Hello great video information Mr Bald
11:15m Oh God, he's back. 11:20 - Video's over thankfully.
Finally someone who thinks like me :D
Just thought you used the wrong channel to post. Glad to see the "Daily" getting some love again 🥳
A Laos civil war began in 1959, which saw the communist Pathet Lao, supported by North Vietnam and the Soviet Union, fight against the Royal Lao Armed Forces, supported by the United States. After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the Lao People's Revolutionary Party established a one-party socialist republic espousing Marxism-Leninism.
North Vietnam had a supply route through eastern Laos called the Ho Chi Minh trail, which they used to supply the communist NVA and Viet Kong in their war against South Vietnam and the South Vietnam Army and U.S. troops. That was why the bombing happened. In an effort to destroy North Vietnam’s military supply route to the south. They were not intentionally bombing innocent villages as many try to claim.
Yeah. Bald is full of shit on this subject
Ненамерено бомбили? А что США вообще делало во Вьетнаме и Лаосе, они для США были угрозой? Лол
VISIT LAOS! It’s Thailand 20 years ago and is so much fun. Great people and a great adventure.
I'm a big history fan but didn t know anything about Laos except the where it was on a map. Thankyou Bald once again for the lesson and the vid. Hope you made a main channel one too lol. Finally daily bald is back! It was first vid on my recommended, the algorithm knows I watch anything bald religiously lol...ffs I ev3n watch Backpecker Ben 😂😂
Now you know who the real global terrorist really is. We’ve have all been lied to. Thank God Russia is keeping them at bay
Does he clarify his opening lesson by letting you know it was Vietnamese communist rebels who were being bombed after they invaded Laos?
@@theasianjaywalker4455 Did the bombs discriminate between the rebels and the local population? Wow. Why did this ground-breaking war invention disappear?
@@theasianjaywalker4455 You are describing your own comment. Well done.
@@theasianjaywalker4455 Why do you find it as 'gross'? Do you think the Ho Chi Minh trail was an ACTUAL visible pathway for the rebels? Or was it maybe just a general area, that happened to include many innocent villages, as well? What would logic dictate? If you are unable to ask yourself those pertinent questions, you are propagandised or blandly jingoistic.
No anxiety and self-loathing on my part.
ALWAS phenomenal content
It’s disgusting what we’ve done in the name of democracy
Not all in Laos at that time were innocent.
Yeah discusting how many Americans are in graves so people can judge freely.
@@fishbrains29 Indiscriminate carpet bombing of every visible village over most of the country makes that argument pretty weak.
And multiple times
People wouldn't have actually democratically voted for the bombing. Politicians may be elected but what they do afterwards isn't democratic. No voting to make sure the elected represent the interests of the people.
Hmm much wow, great video brother!
Very interesting! Never knew about the horror they faced during that time!
Also you were funny af in this video.
love the intro. love the Daily Bald.
Ok Bald us viewers have a request. Replace Backpacker Ben with Alinchik!!! She was up for every adventure and he seems to get queasy at the site of anything non modern!!
She is easy on the eyes.
pretty sure she's staying away from him
Alinchik!
Haha😂 Bloody Ben pop'n up!!! U guys are hilarious!! Thanks mates
Not sure those fence posts are bombs. I'm pretty sure they're drop tanks from the jets. They carry fuel until empty and usually discarded mid flight. Some larger ones are used as boats in Vietnam.
Yep you are dead on, 370 gallons tanks from an F-4 Phantom II during Operation Barrel Roll most likely.
Could also be a carrier for cluster munitions. But who knows.
They are carriers for clusterbombs @@TheLordFragger
I live here 10 years almost ,they find daily clusters everywhere
MAG and UXO lao are the biggest organisations here ,too clear up the bombs ,only around 2 % is cleared after several years they work here
Its part of the daily life of the locals
@@TheLordFragger Yes. BLU's (bomb launch unit)
Sorry. Wrong term. CBU. Cluster Bomb unit. Two halves of a clamshell, holding 2-300 cluster bomblets. Ran at an average failure rate back then on 35%. So zillions just lying around waiting to go off. Horrible things. Would be considered a war crime these days as they do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
I wish this was an hour long video! Keep them coming Mr Bald